A Beauty's Invitation (3)

Pei Shao was sweating profusely under the stares of the two beauties, but he had no choice but to put on a calm facade. Unfortunately, his acting was terrible, so "calm as usual" became "expressionless."

Castle, is your price really reliable? Deep down, the regretful Pei Shao had already asked Castle several times. If Castle's price was wrong, he would probably be packing up and leaving today.

"Are you questioning my ability?" Castle asked in a displeased tone.

"No... absolutely not!" Pei Shao wondered if bringing Castle to work had been a mistake.

"Good. Keep repeating what I say, and you'll definitely keep your pathetic job." Castle continued in the same unfriendly tone.

Thus, Lin Meijing and Su Yating watched as the sweating Pei Shao slowly raised his head and said with a mournful face, "This figure was decided by Mercedes-Benz's marketing headquarters three minutes ago. I happen to know a friend who called and told me!"

"Only senior management insiders could know such an exact quote, and you just happen to know a friend? How could someone of your status possibly know that kind of friend? If you want to lie, at least prepare a draft first! And you want to run a magazine looking like this? Let me show you what an exact quote really is!" Su Yating laughed sweetly, smugly pulled out her phone, and called one of her friends on the spot.

I thought you had some brains, but why are you actually this stupid? Now we're done for! Su Yating is going to laugh us to death! Lin Meijing stared at Pei Shao, inwardly crying out in despair, her face filled with dejection as though she were on the verge of tears. To put it bluntly, she also believed that Pei Shao had made up the figures on the spot to get her out of trouble. But she thought he was obviously a newcomer with no experience, so he did not know that car quotes could only be accurate to the hundreds at most. If they were any more precise, people would see through the lie!

"Hehe!" While her friend was helping Su Yating inquire about the information, she smiled smugly, looking as though she were waiting to see Lin Meijing make a fool of herself.

A few minutes later, Su Yating's acquaintance hurriedly called her back.

"Hehe! Sister Meijing, the exact quote is here!" Su Yating waved her phone at Lin Meijing as though showing off. The amusement in her eyes made Lin Meijing wish she could crawl into a crack in the ground. In this world, nothing was more embarrassing than lying for the sake of saving face, only to be exposed on the spot.

"Hello... Old Chen? Ah... right. Isn't that quote too ridiculous? Hehe! Accurate down to the single digit? Wouldn't that make his friend the president of Mercedes-Benz? Hahaha! That's too funny! My stomach hurts from laughing!" Holding the phone, Su Yating doubled over with laughter in Lin Meijing's office.

Pei Shao, I hate you! Lin Meijing's face flushed scarlet with embarrassment, yet she could only endure Su Yating's mockery. In the end, she shot Pei Shao a fierce glare, but the grievance filling her chest nearly brought tears to her eyes.

But just then, whatever Old Chen said on the other end of the line caused the smile on Su Yating's face to freeze abruptly. Her incessant giggling also came to a sudden stop.

Lin Meijing looked at Su Yating in astonishment and found that her expression was like someone who had just discovered she had eaten a... no, half a cockroach!

"Yes, that's right." After Su Yating's laughter stopped, Old Chen's angry voice came clearly through the phone to Lin Meijing's ears. "But my old friend said they'll definitely investigate thoroughly! They'll find out exactly who leaked the company secrets. Once they find that person, no matter how high their position is, they'll be fired! By the way, what's the name of that kid you mentioned? Tell me his name and see if we can find any clues. Hello? Hello?"

Hearing Old Chen's words, Lin Meijing's expression suddenly became exceedingly strange.

Su Yating noticed Lin Meijing's half-smiling face, and a deep blush instantly appeared across her pretty cheeks. She did not even have the presence of mind to answer Boss Jiang before hanging up in a fluster. She had boasted too much just now, but now her own friend had proven the other party's information to be true! This time, she had utterly lost face!

"What? He... he was right?" Lin Meijing was both shocked and delighted.

This time, she was truly stunned. Just who was this guy? He had actually gotten Mercedes-Benz's senior executives to risk losing their jobs by telling him such top-secret information! No, he had probably guessed it! But even his guess had been so accurate! It was unbelievable!

Lin Meijing and Su Yating both stared incredulously at Pei Shao, who had nearly lowered his head to the tabletop.

"Huh? I-I was right?" Pei Shao suddenly noticed that the two girls were looking at him strangely, and he was instantly dumbfounded as well.

Seeing Su Yating's furious, embarrassed, and resentful expression, Lin Meijing felt all her pent-up frustration vent away in an instant. At that moment, Pei Shao looked indescribably pleasing to her eyes, and she almost wanted to grab him and plant a hard kiss on him.

What am I thinking? He's your subordinate, and he's even two years younger than you! As soon as the thought arose, Lin Meijing immediately felt her face heat up.

Even so, she was so excited that she nearly slapped Pei Shao hard on the shoulder and shouted, "Yes, yes! You were right! Where did you find such a friend? He's unbelievably capable!"

"Hah... haha!" Pei Shao could only keep laughing foolishly. Otherwise, was he supposed to tell Lin Meijing that his friend was a Transformer?

"Lin Meijing, don't celebrate too soon." Seeing Lin Meijing and Pei Shao laughing together, the furious Su Yating could not help desperately pouring cold water over them. "So what if you guessed the quote right? Besides, without suitable analysis software, what use is an exact quote sheet even if you have one?" As she spoke, Su Yating gradually regained her haughty, smug expression, and her chin lifted again.

"Oh! You don't need to worry about that." Although Lin Meijing knew Su Yating was telling the truth, she had just won a major victory and naturally would not let Su Yating turn things around so easily.

After all, an excellent piece of analysis software often cost more than a hundred thousand yuan in annual licensing fees. How could a tiny private magazine like Lin Meijing's, with only two employees, possibly afford that?

"Hmph, so that's all it is. This must be the so-called approach of bluffing your way through interviews and guessing your way through data!" Feeling that she had regained some face, Su Yating smiled smugly and walked out.