Hypocritical, Shameless, and Brazen

According to the thoughts of most people present, now that the boss Song Guangyuan had made the final decision, Liu Shang could only accept the assignment happily, and Yang Xu's objective was thus achieved.

However, to everyone's surprise, Liu Shang smiled at Song Guangyuan, "President Song, as I said, my purpose for coming today is to secure a position with a salary of 4,000 yuan."

"I am also confident that my contributions are more than enough to meet the requirements of this position."

"Therefore, we can also make a bet: if I fail to meet the requirements of this position in my future work, the company can let me go at any time without owing me a penny!"

Seeing that Liu Shang directly refused his proposal in front of so many people, Song Guangyuan was slightly displeased. This Liu Shang was somewhat overestimating himself and lacked foresight!

If it weren't for the consideration of Xu Tiande and Manager Zhong, did he really think that a salary of 4,000 yuan was so easy to get?

Moreover, he was just a part-time student!

However, at this moment, Liu Shang had put Song Guangyuan in a difficult position, caught between Xu Tiande and Manager Zhong on one side, and the company's management staff on the other.

Meanwhile, Xu Tiande and Manager Zhong were cursing Chen Xu for meddling while secretly worrying about Liu Shang.

After all, Liu Shang was still a freshman, just a kid, with no workplace experience, and he didn't understand the conflicts of interest and power struggles between people.

Seeing Liu Shang openly refuse Song Guangyuan and insist on his desired salary, Song Jia, who had been secretly watching from the doorway, couldn't help but feel happy.

"Liu Shang! Well done!"

"Since my dad and the others won't give you the salary you want, then leave here."

"To work and establish yourself in a company, having skills alone is not enough!"

"Look at the way Chen Xu and the others look at you and their expressions; they will definitely cause trouble for you and bully you in the future."

"It's a good thing you're leaving, otherwise, I'd be burning incense to Buddha. If Tan Feng and the others found out about this, I wouldn't be able to explain it clearly!"

Just as the atmosphere in the conference room grew increasingly tense, a young man at the far end of the conference table, with a laptop and projector in front of him, broke the silence with a smile.

"Heh heh, President Song, Manager Zhong, General Manager Xu, Manager Chen, I think everyone shouldn't be troubled by Liu Shang's salary issue."

"Speaking of which, Liu Shang is my junior. I even want to keep such an ambitious child and mentor him wholeheartedly to help him grow."

"However, what Deputy Manager Chen said is not wrong. Directly setting Liu Shang's salary at 4,000 yuan does not quite align with our company's salary system."

"For example, I also graduated from Fengcheng Oil University. I've been working for nearly ten years and am now an engineer, but my salary is only 4,000 yuan."

"Since Liu Shang has been saying that he believes he matches this position, I have a question for him regarding a problem in actual production on-site."

"If Liu Shang can answer it correctly, I think Deputy Manager Chen and all of us shouldn't have any objections for the time being, right?"

Following Ma Yuan's words, Chen Xu and others who were dissatisfied with Liu Shang all agreed, expressing their support for Ma Yuan's third test for Liu Shang.

This Ma Yuan also graduated from Fengcheng Oil University. He had been with the company for several years and held an engineer position, currently serving as Xu Tiande's assistant.

He had seen Xu Tiande dote on Liu Shang, and even claimed to have no one under him in order to compete for Liu Shang with Manager Zhong?!

This statement deeply stimulated Ma Yuan's self-esteem and intensified Ma Yuan's feelings about Liu Shang's proposal.

Therefore, he stepped forward at this opportunity, intending to make things difficult for Liu Shang while alleviating the tension for boss Song Guangyuan and pleasing the technical deputy manager Chen Xu and others.

However, these were all his own fantasies. In reality, his actions had already drawn considerable antipathy and ridicule from many people.

From Song Guangyuan's and the company's perspective, Ma Yuan's actions had only exacerbated the current conflict and caused further disharmony within the company.

And from Xu Tiande and Manager Zhong's perspective, this Ma Yuan was even more detestable than Chen Xu!

You claim to be Liu Shang's senior brother and want to help him grow, yet you turn around and hit Liu Shang with a stick.

Isn't that too hypocritical and despicable!

Furthermore, you graduated ten years ago, and you're using practical on-site experience to test a freshman student. Are you really not ashamed?

Actually, in the heart of the old professor Xu Tiande, he had once genuinely regarded Ma Yuan as a promising talent and was determined to cultivate him.

Much like how he was treating Liu Shang now.

However, this Ma Yuan was truly overly ambitious and had high aspirations but low practical skills. Not only did he fail to do his work and learn techniques diligently, but he also focused his main energy on trivial cleverness.

This caused Xu Tiande to completely give up on him, and he then focused on finding a new successor like Liu Shang to train.

And in the eyes of Chen Xu and the others, Ma Yuan, a graduate from Oil University with a formal education, was no different from another Liu Shang.

Ma Yuan harbored hostility towards the younger and more promising Liu Shang. Didn't the older group, including Chen Xu, also harbor hostility towards Ma Yuan, who had a better background and was younger?

So when Ma Yuan jumped out to court disaster and embarrass himself, even though Chen Xu and the others cheered him on, they were inwardly waiting to watch a good show.

At this moment, Song Jia, who had been secretly watching from the doorway, furiously cursed Ma Yuan in her mind: Hypocritical! Shameless! Unscrupulous!

This Ma Yuan was eleven years older than her, and this guy was so conceited that he harbored unrealistic fantasies of becoming Song Guangyuan's son-in-law and the successor to Huahai.

Many times, in conversations with Song Jia, he tried to please her and frantically displayed his so-called mature charm and experience that differed from students on campus.

But little did he know that his petty tricks couldn't even pass muster with Song Jia herself.

Song Guangyuan had only this one precious daughter. Although he wasn't overly demanding in her studies, he spared no effort in cultivating Song Jia in other areas, especially in her vision and knowledge.

Although Song Jia appeared to be willful and unconventional on the surface, her vision, maturity, and judgment of external affairs were far superior to those of ordinary girls.

Therefore, the more Ma Yuan acted this way, the more pretentious and disgusting Song Jia found him.

Now, Ma Yuan was using his self-righteous cleverness to make things difficult for Liu Shang, who was just a freshman, while speaking such hypocritical words. This truly infuriated Song Jia.

Subconsciously, at this moment, Song Jia, also a freshman, felt a sense of empathy with Liu Shang, or at least stood on the same side.