Inside the office.
Li Yangyang stood by the window, gently pulling open the blinds with one hand as she watched Lu Chengwen outside and made a phone call.
"Hello, Shen'er."
"What's wrong, President Li?" Zhang Shen'er asked.
"Who exactly is this Cheng Wen?"
Zhang Shen'er paused, then laughed. "He's Cheng Wen! Who else could he be?"
"Something's off about him!"
"What's off about him?"
"He... His views on the business landscape and his grasp of timing when making business decisions are ridiculously accurate! He's nothing like an ordinary young man struggling at the bottom!"
"Oh."
"And there's more! He dares to walk up and talk to anyone. Not only does he dare to talk, he dares to say anything! Do you know? Right in front of President Chen, he called her... Anyway, it was an extremely flippant, even somewhat insulting term!"
Zhang Shen'er held back a laugh.
Back in college, Lu Chengwen and Chen Mengyun had been two oddballs.
Lu Chengwen was odd enough, but Chen Mengyun was even stranger.
Lu Chengwen had a long list of misdeeds and a notorious reputation. He also liked any pretty girl he came across.
Chen Mengyun was even more bizarre: she liked Lu Chengwen!
But Chen Mengyun was such an enigma that no one even knew what to make of her.
You could say she was bad, but she excelled in both character and academics, came from a wealthy family, had aristocratic roots, and was cultured and well-mannered.
She was sincere and warm toward friends, eager to help classmates, respectful and polite to teachers and the principal, and even courteous to ordinary maintenance workers and cleaners.
She was beautiful too, a perfect first-love, campus-belle-level beauty.
There wasn't a single flaw to be found in her, yet she liked Lu Chengwen!
And it was