"Let's go for dinner first," Mu Junze said as he walked over to Meng Nianchu, helped her up, and wrapped his large hand around her waist. Applying a bit of force, he made her lean on him as they walked out.
The employees in the company had already gone home. As soon as they stepped out of the office, it was completely dark and empty.
After getting into Mu Junze's car, Meng Nianchu stared out of the window.
Mu Junze said, "I've already sent someone to the US to investigate the aunt who was in charge of watching Meng Rong back then. I'll let you know as soon as there's news."
"She really did come back to China," Meng Nianchu murmured. Her temples throbbed painfully. She gently massaged them as memories of the past came rushing back.
Suddenly, she remembered something. In the past, Meng Rong framed Meng's father and mother, causing them to be in a car accident and die. Now, even though the situation had changed a bit, Meng's father and mother were in a car accident again. Meng's father's voice was maliciously damaged, and he couldn't speak.
It seemed that all the things had suddenly overlapped with the past. After all the hard work, nothing had actually changed.
Realizing this, Meng Nianchu was filled with anger and frustration. It was really careless of her not to completely cut off Meng Rong's way back when she sent her to the US!
But the things had already happened, and it was useless to regret. The most important thing now was to be more vigilant against Meng Rong and prevent her from causing more trouble.
Meng Nianchu let out a long breath. "Let Mom and Dad stay at Shangting for the next few days."
"Okay."
The company had just been taken over by Meng Nianchu, and there were many things for her to handle one by one. Every day, her nerves were on edge, and she made sure that every report she handed out was flawless.
After all the current projects were finally implemented, Meng Nianchu had the idea of a new product launch. However, all the designers in the company were currently working on cooperation projects with other companies and didn't have the time to design new styles.
Helplessly, Meng Nianchu posted an advertisement for recruiting designers in the company.
In the afternoon, a little girl dressed simply and neatly walked into the office.
The receptionist said, "This girl said she's here for the job interview."
Hearing this, Meng Nianchu looked up, motioned for the receptionist to leave, and said to the little girl with a smile, "Come and sit down."
Watching the little girl sit down on the chair, Meng Nianchu put down the company materials, crossed her hands on the table, and said, "Let me make this clear first. If you decide to join this company, you have to be prepared to work hard and overtime. If your designs are good, you'll get a good salary."
"This is my design drawings," the little girl said and directly took out several design drawings and handed them to Meng Nianchu.
Meng Nianchu picked them up and started looking through them.
The little girl said calmly, "The first few design drawings are drafts I made when I graduated from college. The last two were drawn in the past month. I've been trying a new style recently, so I came for this job interview."
"What design work have you done after college?"
"Yes, but I quit for some reasons."
When Meng Nianchu finished looking at the last design drawing, admiration flashed in her eyes. She curled the corners of her mouth into a smile and looked at the little girl. "Not bad."
"However, your latest two design drawings are too exaggerated. They're beautiful, but they're not suitable for offline store sales. I hope the clothes designed are bold yet implicit, exaggerated but not unacceptable. The clothes you design are for sale, not for display in the store as ornaments."
"Understood," the little girl nodded seriously.
Meng Nianchu really liked this kind of girl who didn't talk much but had a good attitude. Without further ado, she threw a book of the company's design drawings from recent years at her. "Take this and have a look first. Maybe there's something you can learn from it. Go downstairs to go through the entry formalities later. You'll need to start work tomorrow morning."
"Okay."
"Then go out first."
The little girl picked up her design notebook and strode out of the office.
Meng Nianchu glanced at the design drawings the little girl had forgotten to take.
It seemed that the time for the new product launch could be advanced a bit.
The fact that Linda was actually Meng Rong, who was sent to the US by Meng's father a year ago, had been on the hot search for two years, and the heat still showed no sign of dissipating.
Besides completing her work tasks meticulously, Meng Nianchu also had to spare some energy to be vigilant against what Linda might do.
In just two days, her face had obviously become thinner.
The little girl Li Xiao, whom Meng Nianchu had newly recruited into the company, was very creative. In just a day and a half, she had designed the drafts of three new products.
The three designs were in different styles but unexpectedly beautiful.
Meng Nianchu praised her as a natural genius in this field. She also began to attach more importance to this little girl.
When a company changes its heir, it always needs to attend a large - scale business gathering. Meng Nianchu was no exception. When she received the invitation, she gave another invitation to Li Xiao and asked her to go with her. She hoped Li Xiao could communicate more with well - known designers.
She didn't need to worry about Mu Junze. With Mu Junze's status, which company's gathering wouldn't deliberately invite him?
Sure enough, when Mu Junze came to pick her up that evening, Meng Nianchu told him about this, and Mu Junze said he would also go that day.
Hearing this, Meng Nianchu felt relieved.
On the day of the gathering, Meng Nianchu dressed up very mature and intellectual. She walked into the gathering hall on Mu Junze's arm. Everyone who saw them was stunned.
No one had expected Meng Nianchu to make such a rapid career transformation.
When Meng Nianchu was an actress in the entertainment industry and went to gatherings with Mu Junze, she mostly dressed like a gentle fairy. Although she was very beautiful, standing beside Mu Junze, they were just a handsome man and a beautiful woman.
But now, Meng Nianchu exuded a powerful queen - like aura. With her red lips and fair skin, every move of hers was full of sharpness.
Standing beside Mu Junze, they were like two equally powerful peaks, and their auras matched.
Their appearance instantly made the atmosphere in the hall tense. Everyone looked at each other and then quickly averted their eyes, pretending not to see them and sipping their champagne.
There was also Uncle Wang, who had been a sworn enemy of Meng's father. He walked over provocatively, glanced at Meng Nianchu from side to side, and said disdainfully, "You little girl. Your father really trusted you to manage the company! What can you do with your small frame? You used to be in the entertainment industry. Do you know anything about design?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Mu Junze's sharp gaze landed on him.
Uncle Wang swallowed hard and then softened his tone. "Anyway, I'm much older than you. Your father couldn't compete with me in the projects back then. If you have any questions about design, you can come and ask me."
The pressure from Mu Junze became even more overwhelming. Uncle Wang got scared and turned around to go elsewhere. As he walked away, he threw out a sentence, "I don't have the patience to mess with a little girl like you."