Trying to find a chance for herself, Su Banxia walked over to Pei Shaoze and said, "President Pei, I have something at home. Can someone else handle the evening social engagement?"
"What is it?"
Pei Shaoze looked down at the documents he was reviewing, his expression dark.
Su Banxia spoke up, "I'm a mother. Working late every day, my two children barely see me—it's really not good enough. Besides, I've already handled all the company matters. For events like this social engagement, you..."
Pei Shaoze set down the contract in his hand, straightened up, and leaned back, his tall, jade-like figure reclining as he coldly looked at her. "You really want to be a qualified mother?"
Su Banxia nodded.
In return, Pei Shaoze let out a cold laugh. "Su Banxia, when you chose work in the first place, you should have realized that work and family can't both be balanced. Let's not even mention that you're not just my secretary but also my personal assistant. Based on your current attitude toward work, do you think you have the right to negotiate terms with me here? You want to be a qualified mother? Fine!"
He raised his hand coldly, his long fingers pointing toward the office door. "Leave a resignation letter, walk out that door, and from now on, you can focus on being a good mom!"
After a pause, he added one more word, not loud but especially forceful, "Please!"
Su Banxia had never known that someone could make cold-blooded ruthlessness sound so理所当然.
After a long moment, she couldn't help but laugh, suppressing all the dissatisfaction and anger inside her as she looked at him. "President Pei, where is the evening social engagement, and what time is it?"
At her reaction, Pei Shaoze frowned slightly but didn't say much.
He simply stated flatly, "I'll send you the information later."
Glancing at her clothes, he spoke again with a hint of disdain, "Go home and change. I don't want to take a village woman to a social engagement."
Village woman?
Su Banxia could only laugh dryly...
Following his orders, Su Banxia finished preparing her tasks and went home to change clothes.
As she left the office, she remembered the big bouquet of roses Yan Xin had given her at noon. Thinking that her apartment seemed pretty empty with no special decorations, and these roses seemed useless here, she decided to take them home to liven up the atmosphere.
With that thought, she picked up the roses and prepared to leave the office.
But before she had taken a few steps, Pei Shaoze called out to her, "What? Don't want to share the sweetness of these roses with me?"
Su Banxia found it a bit baffling. He was a big CEO—did he lack things like this?
To avoid angering him, Su Banxia softened her tone and said, "These roses are in the way here. I want to take them home since I need to buy flowers for the house anyway."
That was the truth.
But Pei Shaoze seemed determined to make things difficult for her, coldly saying, "They're not in the way. Such beautiful roses are rare—they're nice to look at."
Since he put it that way, Su Banxia couldn't say anything more.
She decided not to overthink it, put down the roses, and left.
After Su Banxia left, Pei Shaoze looked at the big bunch of red roses, finding them more and more displeasing. So when he went out, he directly carried the bouquet with him.
Not far from the company building, there was a trash pile. After tossing the big bunch of red roses into it, Pei Shaoze's mood improved considerably.
When the front desk lady came out and saw their big CEO smiling at a bouquet of roses on the trash pile, she was momentarily stunned.
Rarely encountering the CEO alone, the front desk lady stepped forward to greet him. "Hello, President!"
Even though it was just a greeting, her face was already red. After all, she had never spoken to Pei Shaoze before!
Pei Shaoze hummed in acknowledgment and turned to leave.
After a few steps, he stopped and looked back at the secretary. "Tomorrow morning, notify the logistics department to put some roses in all the offices. White ones, not red!"
Without waiting for the front desk lady to respond, he got into his car and drove off.
The front desk lady was a bit confused. What was the CEO thinking?......
......
Su Banxia went home, changed clothes, and barely had time to talk to the kids before she had to leave.
Guoguo had been eagerly waiting for Su Banxia to come home, but she had to leave without even saying a word.
The little one pouted pitifully and said, "Mommy, what time will you be back? Me and big brother will wait for you."
Su Banxia hugged her, kissed her cheek, and said, "Mommy will try to come back early. Be good, Guoguo, and listen to your brother, okay?"
Knowing she couldn't keep her mommy, Guoguo could only nod and looked at Su Hao pitifully. "Big brother!"
The little one was unbeatable when playing the sympathy card.
Su Hao looked at Su Banxia, crossed his arms, and stared at her seriously. "Are you planning to keep us waiting like this forever?"
Su Banxia had a bunch of explanations ready in her mind, but at that moment, she didn't know how to explain.
Seeing she didn't speak, Su Hao just said, "Come back early."
Then he took Guoguo's hand and said, "You need to do your homework."
Su Banxia didn't know what to say. She sighed and looked at the two kids apologetically. "My darlings, Mommy promises to try to come home as early as possible!"
Time was running out. If she was late, knowing Pei Shaoze's temperament, she had no idea how he would mock her.
When Su Banxia arrived at the address Pei Shaoze had given her, she went straight to the restaurant.
When she reached the restaurant building, Pei Shaoze hadn't arrived yet, so she had to wait outside for him. After all, she was just a secretary—it wouldn't be appropriate to go in alone.
After sending Pei Shaoze a text message, Su Banxia waited outside.
Half an hour later.
Su Banxia's legs were numb. She wondered if she should call Pei Shaoze to ask.
But then, the door of a black Maybach in the parking lot suddenly opened. Su Banxia looked over and saw someone getting out of the car.
When she saw who it was, she felt like cursing.
Pei Shaoze!
Was this guy crazy?
He had clearly arrived early but deliberately made her stand there waiting. It was really... extremely excessive!
Pei Shaoze got out of the car, didn't look at her, and went straight into the restaurant.
Su Banxia followed behind him, so angry she could kill him.
But after standing for so long, her feet were numb, so she walked with a limp.
Following Pei Shaoze into the private room, Su Banxia briefly greeted the people from the partner company and then sat down next to Pei Shaoze.
Although it was called a social engagement, the success or failure of it was entirely in Pei Shaoze's hands.
Simply put, this kind of social engagement didn't really require Pei Shaoze to show up at all.
But Su Banxia really couldn't understand what Pei Shaoze was doing here.
Was he bored eating alone and wanted to find a group of people to have fun with?
When the partner company saw Pei Shaoze, they were overjoyed, but it seemed his purpose for coming wasn't to discuss the deal but to... drink!
So, the scene that followed was Pei Shaoze drinking nonstop, while the partner company, not knowing what was going on, didn't dare bring up the deal and nervously kept toasting him.
It went on until late at night, and Pei Shaoze had indeed drunk quite a lot.
Su Banxia didn't care about him; her only thought was how to get home as soon as possible to be with the kids.
In the end, Pei Shaoze drank heavily, got completely drunk, woke up, drank again, and got drunk again.
Afterward, several people from the partner company also got drunk, one by one collapsing on the table like corpses.
Those from the other side who weren't drunk started to get anxious and tried to ask Su Banxia for help.
Su Banxia wasn't blind; she knew what was going on. She looked at Pei Shaoze, who was pretty much done, and then at the partner company people. "It's getting late. You all should head back first."
The partner company people said worriedly, "Miss Su, what about the contract..."
"Come to Dingsheng tomorrow afternoon. I'll arrange for President Yan to sign the contract with you."
Hearing this, the partner company people helped the drunk ones leave.
Looking at Pei Shaoze slumped over the table, Su Banxia rubbed her forehead. When had this man become so fond of drinking?
"President Pei!"
She tried calling him a few times, but Pei Shaoze didn't move at all.
He seemed to be completely drunk.