Becoming a Confidence Coach to an Arrogant Director - Chapter 36
Chapter 36: An Abuse of Power
In the next few days, the two of them seemed to have made the hospital their home. With the little core machine Yuan’s meticulous care, Director Gu’s body slowly recovered.
She was not a person who valued fame and fortune. Before, her sense of responsibility outweighed her sense of duty. In addition, she had a difficult life since childhood and didn’t have any particularly good friends, so she could only use work to numb herself.
Compared to others, she had the most contact with Pei He and Ji Xiu. Originally, she had a place for them in her heart, but after one after another, she didn’t have much to care about anymore. She just wanted to have a few carefree and happy days with her little core machine. As for being sidelined, she was indifferent.
After being discharged from the hospital, Director Gu didn’t go to the company directly. Instead, she took her Yi Yi home. She had originally wanted to go on a trip with her, but she had just recovered from a serious illness and couldn’t handle the hassle. Besides, her core machine was also firmly against it.
The two of them ate, drank, and slept on the sofa and in bed as soon as they got home.
While her sister was in the hospital, the little core machine Yuan had a plumber come to the house to change the shower to a bathtub. Now, it was like a small hot spring. Director Gu would soak in it several times a day. It wasn’t that she liked soaking in hot springs so much. It was just that the machine, ever since it activated the emotional experience mode, was just too good at it.
An hour ago, she was pressed down like cotton again. She found it hard to breathe, her eyes were teary and misty, and after their intimate entanglement, she couldn’t help but… well.
At this moment, in this pool of warm water, the air was misty. Director Gu was lying in it, being served comfortably by the machine. Occasionally, a few flirtatious words would make her ears turn red.
After a long time, the Encourager Yuan had just hugged her Director Gu and laid her on the sofa. The phone on the coffee table rang again after countless missed calls.
Director Gu lazily took the phone and glanced at it. There were several missed voice calls, all from Li Cheng and Guagua taking turns calling her. She casually handed the phone to the person next to her.
“Here, these are your worthless friends!”
The little core machine Yuan knew that her Director Gu was socially anxious. She casually pulled her onto her lap, swiped to answer the call, and put it on speakerphone.
Guagua’s voice on the other end was a little nervous.
“Director, Director Gu, are you feeling better? Is it a good time to talk on the phone?”
When the sister heard the young man’s flustered voice on the other end, she guessed that there was a problem with the server or something. As a workaholic, she immediately put on her Director Gu persona.
“Speak!”
“Something happened in the R&D department, Director Gu. Brother Liao and Da Bing got into a fight. Then, Boss Pei called them in to talk. After they came out, Da Bing is now packing up and leaving. We tried to talk him out of it, but he wouldn’t listen. He looks very angry.”
Director Gu paused for a second and responded calmly.
“Okay, I understand!”
After she hung up the phone, her beautiful eyes suddenly turned cold. The Encourager Yuan’s black and bright lychee eyes twinkled.
“What should we do, Sister?”
“Go to the company!”
Even though she didn’t fight for power, she would never be so weak as to do nothing when her subordinates were being bullied.
Before Double Eleven, all the backend developers were incited by Liao Shu to resign. Only Da Bing was there, silently filling in the gaps. Director Gu, who was usually cold, assertive, and strict and didn’t like to talk to people much, remembered every bit of kindness she received from others.
When she received Li Cheng’s call just now, she had already made a decision. She was not giving up her position as Director Gu!
The Encourager Yuan seemed to understand her heart. She hugged her Director Gu a little tighter and rubbed her core machine chin back and forth on her neck.
“No matter what you do, Sister, I’ll support you!”
Director Gu was encouraged by her sweet words. Her heart felt both tingly and warm.
The Encourager Yuan carefully put her back on the sofa. While Director Gu wasn’t paying attention, she pecked her on the cheek and quickly ran into the bedroom.
“I’ll go get clothes for you to change into, Sister!”
Director Gu’s face was cold, and her mood was a little complicated. She touched the spot on her face where she had been kissed. The unhappiness she felt after taking the call was instantly gone.
Yuan Yishan put the clothes on her one by one and knelt on the floor to put on her shoes.
She also changed into a more refreshing skin. When the two of them went downstairs, Director Gu’s legs were still weak. She had just recovered from a long day of being tossed around.
…
In the R&D office, Liao Shu was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back at everyone’s workstations, like a foreman. He would point out other people’s code from time to time.
Director Gu didn’t wear high heels today, so there wasn’t much noise as she walked. When they arrived at the office area, Brother Liao was again instructing the young fan who had previously toasted her.
“What you wrote is definitely not going to work. Can you use your brain a little? When you need to use the key and value of a Map, can’t you use the entrySet method to iterate? You idiot!”
In the middle of his cursing, Director Gu had already walked behind them. She stood there with her arms crossed, her gaze so cold it could kill someone.
Some of the other guys on the side also noticed Director Gu’s presence out of the corner of their eyes. They, who usually enjoyed watching the drama, quietly pulled their gazes back to the editor on their computer screens, holding their breath and not daring to make a sound.
Brother Liao was still ranting.
“The stuff you wrote looks like a pile of sh1t. Is this something a human can read? Holy sh1t!”
At this moment, Director Gu, who had been silently observing for a long time, parted her lips, her tone icy.
“Aren’t you already reading it?”
The little core machine Yuan on the other side almost couldn’t hold back her laughter. The usually elegant and poised Director Gu was clearly saying that he was not human in a serious way.
Liao Shu was suddenly pulled back from his arrogant and smug state. He shivered all over. Then, as if he had thought of a backer, he quickly stabilized his mind.
He pushed up his black-rimmed glasses and called out to Director Gu in a fake manner. His words carried a sense of superiority, as if he were the boss’s direct toady.
“While you were away, Boss Pei asked me to look after the entire tech department. His code is a bit messy, and I’m afraid it will be difficult to maintain later on, so…”
Being stared at intensely by Director Gu’s phoenix eyes, Brother Liao still stopped halfway through his sentence.
Director Gu only picked out one key point from his pile of nonsense and raised her eyebrow, retorting.
“The entire tech department?”
Brother Liao realized his mistake and lowered his head deeply.
Director Gu paused for a second, her words sharp.
“I didn’t know Boss Pei had such big ambitions!”
She called him by his first name. The words “big ambitions” were not very insulting but were extremely humiliating. Most of the other developers who were silently reading their code started to gloat.
The Encourager Yuan, who was watching the show, was like a troublemaker. As she ran to her workstation, she looked at Da Bing’s empty workstation and asked in a silvery voice.
“Hey, why is Brother Da Bing’s workstation empty? Is he on leave too?”
The people in the room were pretending to be focused on their work, and no one paid attention to her. She then pretended to be innocent and muttered in a low voice.
“Hmph, no one is paying attention to me!”
After feeling wronged, she turned her gaze to Brother Liao, who was awkwardly digging his toes into the ground. Her silvery voice became even more unrestrained.
“Brother Liao, is Brother Da Bing on leave?”
Liao Shu: …
— She’s doing this on purpose. This person is definitely doing this on purpose. The two of them must be in cahoots, definitely!
Brother Liao, who was deliberately being put on the spot by the little darling, forced a laugh. The fat on his face jiggled, and he spoke with some difficulty.
“He, he resigned!”
Immediately after, Director Gu said bluntly.
“Why did he resign?”
This woman looked like an ice sculpture. When she was being assertive, even his top boss was afraid of her. He, a lickspittle, naturally didn’t dare to act recklessly when his master wasn’t around.
The fat squeezed his eyes. Brother Liao smiled nervously and organized his words awkwardly.
“Well, his work was not done well, and I said a few things to him. He was not very happy, so he…”
“So, you let him resign?”
“Personnel changes? Boss Pei is also too busy to care about them, so he left them all to you to handle?”
“No, Boss Pei personally…”
“He personally let him go?”
Director Gu lowered her voice, questioning him aggressively. Brother Liao lowered his head and looked at the floor, not daring to make a sound.
Her gaze did not move. The air was suddenly silent.
Time passed second by second. The person being questioned clenched his fists tighter and tighter. His toes were so awkward that they were almost digging a hole in his socks. And the woman in front of him, with her assertive gaze, seemed to be continuously sizing him up.
Once, twice, three times…
“Oh! Director Gu is back?”
Suddenly, someone, who knows who, switched sides and brought the boss over.
His tone was kind and friendly. He also followed Director Gu’s gaze and looked at Liao Shu.
“What’s going on here? Is it that Shu didn’t arrange the tasks well recently, so he’s being lectured by Director Gu as soon as he came?”
His words were humorous and witty. His acting as a peacemaker was even more exquisite than Yuan Yishan, a machine.
Director Gu retracted her gaze, glanced at him without a change in expression, and spoke calmly.
“Where is Luo Bingchen?”
Even though she was being sidelined and the core management power of the tech department had been quietly transferred to someone else’s hands, she had nothing to fear. She still held 30% of the shares of this awful company.
Boss Pei was also a clever man. How could he tear her face off on the spot? He still had a gentle and refined face. In front of the developers, he smiled good-naturedly and explained bit by bit.
“So Director Gu is angry about this? That kid and Shu had a bit of a conflict just now. His emotions were a little unstable, so he probably went back first. I’ll personally contact this little rascal later. Young people these days all have their own personalities!”
After explaining, he quickly changed the subject with the authority of his position as the boss.
“I have a lot of things on my hands recently. Since you’re here, let’s quickly discuss the next work arrangements. I’ll wait for you in my office. You can get yourself ready and come over!”
…
With Boss Pei’s timely rescue, Brother Liao finally escaped a disaster. When he saw Director Gu leave, he was so angry that he slammed the keyboard, making a loud sound. The little developers next to him shivered.
The Encourager Yuan, as if nothing had happened, used her unique job responsibilities to go to Brother Liao and earnestly try to persuade him.
She got some water and carefully handed it to the person who was throwing a tantrum. She also maliciously tuned her electronic voice to be sweet and sugary.
“Brother Liao, don’t be angry! Come on, have some water to calm down!”
Brother Liao was in a fit of rage and had the urge to flip the water cup over. But in front of everyone, he couldn’t lose his image and take his anger out on a little girl. At this moment, he felt a thousand bugs crawling inside him.
The Encourager Yuan, who was being annoying, comforted him for a while and then ran to Li Cheng and Guagua’s workstations, bothering them so they couldn’t work. She was the most talkative person in the entire office.
“I haven’t been at the company for so long. Brother Li Cheng didn’t even miss me or call to check on me. Hmph, I don’t love you anymore!”
“Little darling, you have to be honest. Look at your phone. Didn’t I send you messages and voice calls?”
At that time, her phone had been blown up by Li Cheng and Guagua, but no one answered. The two guys only dared to call Director Gu as a last resort.
To a certain extent, these two were very loyal. Although they were a bit harsh on Da Bing, when their brother was in trouble, only they dared to step in.
The Encourager Yuan looked at her phone and was left speechless. She pouted her small mouth, blinked her eyes, and started to talk nonsense again.
“My phone was on silent, so I didn’t hear it! Since Brother Li Cheng misses me so much, why didn’t you talk to me in a very friendly way when I came in just now?”
Li Cheng: …
— Forget it. I’ll just coax her since she’s so pretty.
He showed his handsome little canine teeth and said in a playful tone.
“Wasn’t I busy just now, Brother? Besides, Director Gu was here just now. Could I have given you a hug and a kiss and lifted you…”
Little Cheng’s words were cut short. The Encourager Yuan followed his gaze and saw that Director Gu was staring at them with a deadly look. She had clearly been there for a while.
At this moment, she, a machine, also had a slightly stiff, pretty core machine face. Their eyes met. Director Gu’s voice was low.
“Come to my office!”