Return: My Hell and Heaven
Chapter 19: Obstruction (2)
Inside and outside the temporary meeting room, there was complete silence.
When they snapped out of it, all the hastily summoned “interviewers” stood up in a fluster and called out “President Qin,” then turned to look at Luan Qiaoqing in the center.
Naturally, they all remembered the first thing Luan Qiaoqing emphasized during yesterday’s team meeting: the existence, process, and results of this interview must absolutely be kept completely secret from Qin Lou.
But now Qin Lou was already standing outside the door. And anyone with keen eyes could see that Qin Lou’s emotions were very unstable at this momentā
He stared unblinkingly at the sole interviewee in the room, the veins on the back of his hand gripping the doorframe bulging from excessive force, causing his arm to tremble slightly.
His handsome face twisted with overly complex emotions.
Everyone, including Luan Qiaoqing, was on edge, unsure when Qin Lou might erupt into madness. Surprisingly, Qin Lou’s hand leaning against the door slowly loosened.
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“Is this President Qin? It’s a pleasureā¦ to meet you.” The woman didn’t retreat, walking straight to the meeting room door and stopping. Then she extended her slender, fair hand towards Qin Lou.
Song Shu smiled faintly, tilting her head slightly as a strand of hair slid down from her temple. “President Qin, hello. I am Qin Qing, the assistant compliance officer sent by Junsheng Law Firm.”
After this statement, the HR staff peering from the cubicles outside the meeting room and the interviewers inside almost simultaneously gasped in shock.
Inside the cubicle, someone discussed in a low voice with a shocked expression: “I’m not seeing things, right?”
“For many years, I’ve never seen anyone brave enough to face the big demon directly in hell, and she even dares to reach out to President Qin at this time?”
“Yeah, there are hardly any heroes who dare to do such a thing on ordinary days.”
“Brave, isn’t she afraid her hand will be crushed?”
“Am I the only one who thinks she’s acting flirtatiously, like trying to seduce our President Qin?”
“Is she insane to make a move now?”
“The Demon King wouldn’t just throw her down the building, would he?”
“Don’t say things like that. That could be fatal.”
Qin Lou slightly raised his eyelids.
His bloodshot eyes stared intently at the hand, white and smooth. There wasn’t a single scar on it, as if it had never experienced any pain, nor had it borne any marks from the passage of time.
There was a faint resemblance in the facial features, but the expressions and smiles were completely different.
It was like they were entirely two different people.
Qin Lou slowly released his grip on the door frame, reached out, and completely enveloped the woman’s small, delicate hand, then suddenly tightened his grip.
“Helloā¦ Qin Qing.”
The people in the room exchanged uneasy glances.
The way he shook hands clearly didn’t conform to the basic etiquette of a handshake between a man and a woman in a social setting, but the Demon King didn’t seem like he was about to erupt.
Finally, someone dared to step forward cautiously and spoke, “President Qin, we are here to interview Miss Qin from Junsheng Law Firm. It’s about time, could youā¦?”
Qin Lou’s gaze remained fixed on the woman’s face, not shifting even an inch.
His voice was hoarse, “Interview?”
“Yes, President Qin, just a regular interview.”
“What kind of regular interview requires mobilizing more than three departments and forming an ad hoc team?”
“!”
The center figure, Luan Qiaoqing, visibly changed color upon hearing this, casting an angry glance at those beside herāevidently, someone had leaked information.
The assistant outside the meeting room smartly closed the door. Song Shu’s hand remained tightly held in the person’s palm, unable to escape.
Song Shu’s expression remained unchanged as she leaned forward with a smile, “If you’re interested, President Qin, you can observe the interview. As an assistant compliance officer, I should bear these pressuresāotherwise, you might not trust me to join your company, right?”
“ā¦Assistant compliance officer?” Qin Lou lowered his eyes, still not releasing the woman’s hand. “What position is that?”
Amidst the eerie gazes in the room, Song Shu smiled calmly. “Compliance officer, assistant compliance officer. ‘pliance’ refers to the compliance and enforcement of laws or government policies and orders by a companyāin other words, my duty is to review the company’s systems and operations to ensure legal compliance. For instance, Vio Capital needs to comply with anti-money laundering laws, and furthermoreā¦”
Song Shu paused here.
Then she gently withdrew her hand from Qin Lou’s grasp, her smile unchanged.
“Furthermore, in matters of personnel hiring, there’s anti-discrimination and anti-workplace harassment.”
“ā!”
At this unequivocal final statement, the faces of everyone in the meeting room changed simultaneously.
A few seconds later, someone chuckled awkwardly, “Let’s quickly find a chair for President Qin.” He stepped forward to defuse the tension, “Miss Qin just returned from overseas, she’s quite fond of jokes. President Qin, why don’t you sit down and observe Miss Qin’s performance in the interview?”
“Overseas.”
Qin Lou’s gaze seemed distant for a moment, then he lowered his eyes, a suppressed and hoarse laugh emerging as if squeezed out from his chest.
“Quiteā¦ far away.”
Song Shu’s smile remained unchanged, as if she hadn’t heard. She smiled, turned slightly, and gently withdrew her hand, which had been squeezed to a deep red. Calmly and composedly, she looked at Luan Qiaoqing, “Director Luan, may my interview begin?”
Luan Qiaoqing’s expression was complex. “Yesā¦ you may sit down.”
Song Shu turned around.
In that moment when she turned her back on Qin Lou, a hint of uncontrollable sadness and desolation flickered in her eyes, but she quickly suppressed it.
āShe had to be cautious and vigilant at all times when Qin Lou was around, not showing the slightest flaw.
Becauseā¦ he was the person in this world who knew her best.
Perhaps even better than herself.
After Song Shu took her seat, Qin Lou’s gaze finally withdrew from her slowly. He stiffly walked to the center of the interviewer’s seat and stopped beside Luan Qiaoqing.
“I’ll conduct this interview myself.”
“ā¦”
Luan Qiaoqing’s face changed, and she was about to resist, but when her gaze met the man’s dark, brooding eyes, she instinctively retreated.
She hesitated, “Okay.”
Luan Qiaoqing turned around and picked up the documents on the table, gesturing for the person beside her to move away. But before that person could react, Qin Lou’s voice rang out again.
“You, leave.”
Luan Qiaoqing froze. She turned her head, “No, sheā”
“Leave.”
“ā¦”
Luan Qiaoqing clenched her fingers tightly, turned back to glare at the woman in the interview chair, then angrily turned and left, her high heels clicking loudly.
The meeting room door slammed shut.
Song Shu’s smile remained unchanged, but deep inside, she let out a sigh.
Qin Lou’s actions, regardless of any other consequences they might bring, had seemingly stabilized the level of resentment Luan Qiaoqing held against herself. This was a double-edged sword; on one sharp edge, every additional “enemy” required more caution, while on the other, everyone in the Qin family knew the depth of Luan Qiaoqing’s feelings towards herself, so Luan Qiaoqing’s hostility towards her could also serve as one of her layers of disguiseā¦
Song Shu silently calculated in her mind; it was a habit she had developed over the years of living independently.
Across the long table, the interviewers resumed their seats. The two unlucky colleagues on either side of Qin Lou were naturally nervous and uneasy, feeling like they were sitting on pins and needles.
Luan Qiaoqing’s intentions had already been made clear through a team meeting yesterdayāabsolutely no entry for this Qin Qing into the company.
However, in today’s hellish setting, Qin Lou suddenly appeared in the interview room with this applicant, clearly indicating a close relationship, yet he did not explicitly express a definite intention to keep her in the companyānowadays at Vio Capital, if Qin Lou wanted to keep an employee, aside from the board of directors, no one could object.
So the interviewers could only speculate about the thoughts of the big demon while carefully adjusting their questions to Song Shu.
Considering the recent clash between Song Shu and Qin Lou, the difficulty of the interview questions had clearly been lowered. Song Shu found it much easier to answer than she had anticipated.
Fifteen minutes later, the interviewer on Qin Lou’s left received a signal from his colleagues. He sighed inwardly and carefully observed Qin Lou’s expression before speaking up, “President Qin, do you have any questions?”
“ā¦ “
Qin Lou’s gaze lifted from the personal resume of “Qin Qing” in front of him, which was almost stared through.
After staring at the woman sitting opposite him with a gentle smile for a long time, he suddenly smiled, a terrifyingly mad emotion shining through his eyes.
“Miss Qin, are you single?”
Sansukini: I love eccentric characters.
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