The Heiress's Game

As the family affairs office car turned into Suiyuan, Zhou Xiaoyun rolled down the window a crack, letting in the fresh air, which carried the crisp scent of bamboo leaves and freshly turned soil.

She had assumed that the second young lady would choose the two properties provided by the Gu family—a serviced apartment in the city center and a townhouse in the suburbs, both ready-made and move-in ready.

As a result, the second young lady moved to Suiyuan, the land that Su Wanning had previously bought.

"This place is really hard to find," she muttered.

After the car drove in, Zhou Xiaoyun's mouth opened slightly.

It wasn't the kind of garden villa that a wealthy heiress should live in, as she had imagined—there were no European-style columns, no fountains or sculptures, and no lawns trimmed into geometric shapes.

A gravel path winds its way from the doorway into the distance, flanked by wild shrubs and a few old persimmon trees.

On a gentle slope in the distance, there are more than a dozen osmanthus trees. The trunks are not very thick, but the canopies have already formed a continuous expanse. The osmanthus flowers are in full bloom, and their fragrance can be smelled even through the car window.

In the distance are wetlands, where several egrets stand in the shallow water. They are not afraid when they see the car coming and slowly flap their wings.

The main building is a gray-white modern building, two stories high, with large floor-to-ceiling windows partially covered by wooden latticework, blending into the surrounding bamboo groves and tree shadows.

Zhou Xiaoyun got out of the passenger seat and quickly did some mental calculations: the land, combined with the current housing prices, has now increased in value by more than ten times.

"When Miss Su bought this land back then, who could have imagined it would be worth this much now?" she said to Sister Zhao in a low voice.

Sister Zhao took the car keys out, picked up her briefcase, and simply said, "It's good that you bought it early."

They were greeted by a housekeeper surnamed He, who was in her forties, wearing a plain cotton and linen shirt, and spoke in a calm and unhurried manner.

She led the two through the connecting corridor on the side of the main house to a small, separate tea room.

The tea room has floor-to-ceiling windows on three sides. On the tea table are three cups of freshly brewed osmanthus oolong tea, with a small golden osmanthus flower floating on the rim of each cup.

Gu Yunjin leaned back in the rattan chair, holding an orange cat in her arms. The cat lazily curled up on her lap, its tail dangling slowly from the gap in the armrest of the rattan chair.

"Please sit down. This is Osmanthus Oolong tea. We grew the osmanthus ourselves and dried it ourselves." Her tone was casual, as if she were entertaining an old classmate.

Zhou Xiaoyun opened the kraft paper file bag and laid out the five resumes in numerical order on the coffee table.

Each resume had a sticky note in the upper right corner indicating its education, work experience, language skills, and background check status. Gu Yunjin didn't look at the resumes immediately.

She first refilled their tea, and then started flipping through the teacups one by one, beginning with the first one.

I flipped through it very carefully, reading every page of each document, occasionally pausing for a few seconds on a particular detail.

When she saw the fourth one, her fingers stopped.

Li Chunjing, 26 years old, holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. She has three years of experience as an assistant in the general manager's office at a well-known internet company.

English major has passed the Level 8 English proficiency test and holds a PMP certificate.

Before leaving the company, I was responsible for the entire process of departmental projects independently.

The calendar itself is written extremely cleanly and concisely, without using any exaggerated vocabulary, and each experience clearly points to a quantifiable result.

Gu Yunjin pulled this resume out separately and placed it on top.

Sister Zhao glanced at the resume, and her lips twitched slightly.

"Second Miss, this Li Chunjing—we discovered during our background check that she is currently involved in a civil lawsuit."

She sued her mother and sister for misappropriating her personal savings; the amount was not large, just over a few hundred thousand yuan.

The case is still pending and has not yet gone to trial, but the defendant is her immediate family member, so I marked the background check notes section of this resume with a yellow label.

When conducting background checks on personal assistants, we are usually quite cautious when dealing with legal disputes involving immediate family members.

"Furthermore, her direct supervisor at her previous company wrote in a letter of recommendation, 'Her ability to deliver results exceeds all my expectations for someone her age.'"

Gu Yunjin placed the resume on top of the five, pressing the edges of the paper down with her hands.

"Notify her to come for the final interview."