Push Me Away When I Come, Don't Hold Me Back When I Leave - Chapter 121

Chapter 121: Ye Han’s Sichuan Opera Face-Changing

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Although it was a cocktail party, Xia Ruoming didn’t drink a drop of alcohol there, after all, she didn’t want to find a designated driver, and she certainly didn’t want someone to hold her and say things like ‘let me take you home’.

After the party ended, Xia Ruoming didn’t know what happened to those second-generation rich kids, nor was she interested in collecting little notes from certain “socialites.”

However, a few days later, she saw news online about Li’s family business assets shrinking by half.

Xia Ruoming wasn’t particularly surprised. From the moment she saw Li Bokan actively provoke Ye Han, she already knew Li Bokan’s fate. That crazy woman had no concept of sympathy or mercy for those who crossed her path, anyone who had any unpleasant encounters with her never met a good end.

In the following days, Xia Ruoming lived a life of morning training with Qin Wuyue, who was like a Jeep alien, coming home to laze on the sofa, enjoying breakfast made by Xiao Qinghan and dinner made by Chu Suhe, occasionally taking Chu Suhe along to inspect renovation progress. It somewhat resembled her previous life’s ame streaming title of living a slow life after retirement.

The 20-plus days of military training quickly came to an end. Two days before the training ended, Xia Ruoming’s new cafe also completed its renovation. She planned to name this cafe 【Stellaris】, a game she loved in her previous life, and the entire cafe was designed as a fusion of romantic and sci-fi styles.

According to the timeline, Stellaris should be under development now, and she wondered if Paradox would give her trouble.

On the last day of military training, Xia Ruoming returned to campus and saw those new students who had thoroughly cursed their instructors’ entire family registers during training actually seemed a bit reluctant to leave, which made her want to laugh.

Perhaps her innate emotional cognition was different from others, she would never develop this kind of Stockholm syndrome, nor would she feel attached to military training, which was pure torture. Actually, her daily training with Qin Wuyue was much more intense than military training, not to mention the daily sparring matches that were as intense as semi-professional boxing matches. That kind of high-intensity practice was particularly draining mentally, but it was out of her own will, so she enjoyed it and didn’t feel it was painful or torturous. She felt neither physically tired nor mentally drained, but rather satisfied.

But military training for her was, Xia Ruoming would never feel that kind of pure obedience training was enjoyable; just one day would make her feel like her will had been completely worn down.

Xia Ruoming’s Raspberry project finally made progress, and it should be completely finished a few days after military training ended. Since all the underlying code was “borrowed” by Xia Ruoming working overtime, the project progressed particularly fast. Both the PC client and App development were basically complete, even getting ahead of the Tomato Novel she valued more.

But Xia Ruoming didn’t care about project progress issues. What worried her most now was actually personnel issues. Once Raspberry officially launched, these few people would definitely not be enough if they wanted to expand and strengthen the business, expansion was inevitably necessary. And she had already discovered that Xiao Qinghan was definitely not a suitable candidate for the part-time HR Director position.

During this time, she had re-listed and re-sorted all the people she knew in her previous life, but couldn’t find anyone suitable to be HR Director or Executive Director.

These people either had mismatched professional backgrounds or some minor character flaws, Xia Ruoming couldn’t possibly entrust important matters to such people.

What gave her the biggest headache was that the only person she could trust… was Ye Han.

Ye Han’s capabilities were beyond question, she had seen plenty of how strong this crazy woman was in her previous life. Even after becoming Jiang Ruhua’s mistress, she would occasionally hear about how Ye Han, after breaking ties with the Ye family, had built her empire from scratch and commanded great influence. Going from a top lawyer to a self-made boss was no joke, and this was even with the Ye family intentionally suppressing her.

However, people don’t get nicknames without reason. That melancholic and unstable second young lady wasn’t just for show. Although Ye Han seemed to be getting along well with her on the surface now, that crazy personality might make her turn against her over something. Being more narcissistic, what if Ye Han developed feelings for her after spending time together?

Moreover, she had previously planned to have Ye Han manage her legal affairs. If Ye Han wasn’t available, there didn’t seem to be any other candidates for the legal department. If she really wanted to bring in Ye Han, would she have to take on both roles?

Xia Ruoming had been struggling with this matter for several days and still hadn’t come up with a particularly good solution.

Leaning against the shade watching the military training review ceremony, Xia Ruoming narrowed her eyes and, after much hesitation, wrote down “Ye Xue” in her phone’s notepad. The “silent eldest daughter” might be a good choice, compared to her sister, although Ye Xue’s abilities were somewhat inferior, she was more diplomatic and worldly.

That said, Ye Xue’s quiet and reserved personality also seemed to be a potential issue…

After writing down Ye Han’s name in the notepad as well, Xia Ruoming hesitated for a long time between the two names before finally calling Xiao Qinghan.

Not long after Xiao Qinghan’s phone rang, Ye Han’s phone also rang.

“Hello? Who is this? I’m not buying, what kind of sales ad dares to call this young lady, how many heads do you have? Huh? Looking for work? Do I look like someone who needs a job?” After answering the phone, before Xiao Qinghan could say much, Ye Han directly launched into her usual prank response to telemarketers. If it had been a regular sales call, they would have thought the person on the other end was too insufferable and already hung up.

But Ye Han guessed wrong, Xiao Qinghan wasn’t a telemarketer, and she also didn’t know how Xiao Qinghan got her number.

Xia Ruoming’s original intention was to have Xiao Qinghan first sound out Ye Han’s thoughts, but… obviously she hadn’t made it clear, and Xiao Qinghan didn’t understand either. After hearing Ye Han’s words, Xiao Qinghan directly sold out Xia Ruoming, revealing to Ye Han that it was Xia Ruoming who sent her.

“What? Xia Ruoming is inviting me to manage legal affairs or be the Executive Director? Where’s your company address… okay, okay! I’ll be there in 5 minutes!”

It must be said that Ye Han had mastered the Sichuan Opera aspect, without any practice, she could rival face-changing masters who had performed on stage for 20 years. Ye Han, who had just been using insufferable speech to prank Xiao Qinghan, immediately changed her tune when she heard it was Xia Ruoming inviting her.

Anyway, she had nothing else to do, and it would be good to exercise her abilities, plus she could get closer to Xia Ruoming as a bonus.

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AN: Adding a setting here, because in her previous life, Xia Ruoming had developed games using Jiang Ruhua’s money, she had actually researched a lot about software. This was originally planned to be mentioned in the later flashback chapter, but there would be some logical issues without bringing up this setting, so mentioning it first.