Becoming a Confidence Coach to an Arrogant Director - Chapter 37
Chapter 37: A Stolen Kiss
In Director Gu’s office, the dedicated Encourager Yuan was desperately pulling on Director Gu’s sleeve, whining and begging for forgiveness.
“I’m sorry, Sister. Yi Yi was wrong. Yi Yi will never dare to do it again!”
The unmoved Director Gu pointed to the wall next to them.
“Go stand there. When you’ve thought it through, come back!”
The little core machine Yuan, to save her owner’s face, immediately ran over obediently and faced the wall, reflecting on her actions.
She would turn her head from time to time, acting silly and secretly glancing in the direction of the director’s desk.
At this moment, the cold and poised Little Gu had her eyes lowered, her long eyelashes slightly covering her eyes. Her slender fingers were tapping on the phone screen, looking very serious.
The Encourager Yuan deliberately stretched her neck as much as possible to make the other person notice her naughtiness.
Director Gu was unmoved.
The little darling had no choice but to use her sweet and soft electronic voice to get her attention.
“Sister, who are you sending a message to?”
Director Gu still ignored her and continued to do her own thing. The Encourager Yuan couldn’t help but feel curious and glanced at her user’s status on her control panel.
At this moment, her Director Gu was holding her phone and sending a friend request to her subordinate, Da Bing.
The content in the request note was deleted and added, added and deleted, and changed many times.
After the request was successfully sent, while waiting for the other party to accept it, she subconsciously tapped the back of her phone.
She was so assertive when she was scolding people, but now she was so nervous just to add a subordinate’s friend. The naughty core machine Yuan couldn’t help but want to tease her sister.
“Sister, what are you doing? You look very nervous!”
Director Gu was too reserved to talk to her little core machine.
Ding, the Encourager Yuan’s control panel showed that Da Bing had accepted Director Gu’s friend request.
Director Gu glanced at the notification and hesitated, not knowing how to start the conversation.
The Encourager Yuan started to get smug. She knew that someone would have to ask for her help later.
However, that didn’t happen. After about 30 seconds of hesitation, Director Gu typed four characters and a punctuation mark into the message box.
— Are you free?
After a long time, the other side only replied with one character.
— Okay
Then, Director Gu sent a location near the West Lake.
The Encourager Yuan’s heart suddenly ached.
— Sister actually asked Brother Da Bing to meet at the West Lake? How could they meet at a place like the West Lake?
As her pretty porcelain-like face was filled with sadness, Director Gu quietly walked over, pulled her core machine’s curly hair, and threw her a car key.
The little one’s mouth instantly broke into a happy smile.
…
At the Lou Wai Lou restaurant by the West Lake, on a four-person table by the window, the programmer in a plaid shirt was awkwardly sitting on the opposite side, scrolling through his phone, looking out of place in the high-end restaurant.
“Hi, Brother Da Bing. I didn’t expect you to arrive before us!”
The arrival of the Encourager Yuan and Director Gu broke the silence in the air.
The two of them sat down on the opposite side.
The plaid-shirted Da Bing slightly raised his head and then shyly lowered his neck, his gaze returning to his phone.
The waiter came over enthusiastically. Director Gu had already ordered everything she wanted to eat when she made the reservation.
During the serving of the dishes, only the Encourager Yuan, a machine, was actively trying to liven up the atmosphere.
“Is Brother Da Bing’s place close to here? Did it take a long time to get here?”
The person on the opposite side didn’t even look up and just mumbled, “Mm.”
“It’s okay!”
He seemed unwilling to talk to her.
The Encourager Yuan asked two more questions and then stopped making a fool of herself.
The air fell into a short silence.
“Hello, all your dishes are here. Please enjoy your meal!”
The waiter checked the menu and left.
“Wow, so much good food. Hurry and eat. I’m starving!”
While the two of them were being reserved, the Encourager Yuan had already started eating with her chopsticks. While she said she was starving, she thoughtfully put the delicious food she had picked up into her sister’s bowl.
“Brother Da Bing, hurry and eat! This restaurant is so good. Sister searched for a long time to find it!”
With her encouragement, the plaid-shirted person on the opposite side stiffly picked up his chopsticks and just picked up something from the plate closest to him.
The Encourager Yuan, trying to create a good atmosphere, stared at the food in front of her, about to take a big bite. However, her Director Gu quietly took the chopsticks from her hand and put all the food from the little one’s bowl into her own.
Da Bing, who noticed the subtle movement from the corner of his eye, paused for a few seconds and hid his curiosity.
At this moment, Director Gu moved the Longjing shrimp, which she thought was the most delicious, a little closer to him and spoke calmly.
“Do you… want to come back?”
Facing her question, the plaid-shirted person was silent for a while and then shook his head.
Director Gu, who received the answer, also nodded in agreement.
“Then, is there any company you want to go to?”
The plaid shirt guy shook his head again. This resignation was so unexpected for him. He really hadn’t planned where to go in the short term.
“What about Zhongxun?”
When Director Gu said the company’s name, the two people at the table were both surprised.
Then, Yuan Yishan realized that Zhongxun’s main business was actually e-commerce. After becoming a leader in the e-commerce industry, it started to diversify. She had been in the AI department for too long and had forgotten what her own company originally did.
Excluding the time difference, Yuan Yishan carefully recalled the current evaluation standards of Zhongxun Group’s tech department in her electronic brain and compared them with Da Bing’s usual technical abilities.
Going to Zhongxun seemed possible, but there was still a small gap if he wanted to get into a good department.
As she was thinking, she saw the big fool on the opposite side shaking his head in rejection.
Director Gu glanced at the person opposite her, her calm tone a little assertive.
“Do you have any concerns?”
The other person paused for a second before slowly speaking his worries.
“Technically, I might not be good enough!”
Director Gu, who was a woman of her word, faced her extremely unconfident subordinate. After a few seconds of silence, she made the decision for him.
“Prepare your resume. These next few days, work hard to understand the underlying principles of the framework. If you don’t understand anything, ask me, okay?”
She was already prepared to personally tutor him. After working for so many years, she had never taken on any apprentices, but she had casually picked up such a clumsy fool.
“But…”
The simpleton was clearly still worried. He was afraid that Director Gu was too busy and that he was too stupid to be taught.
The sharp Director Gu saw through his thoughts with just one glance and retorted aggressively.
“What? You don’t think I can teach you?”
The young man finally shut up and nodded, extremely embarrassed.
After taking on an apprentice, Director Gu took the opportunity during dinner to send him a copy of the materials she had previously organized. She also started to research Zhongxun Group’s hiring standards.
But in fact, the little core machine Yuan next to her was an internal employee of Zhongxun, and a very senior one at that. It was just that this person didn’t show off in front of her sister, so Little Gu, who was in the dark, could only research it herself.
The plaid shirt guy on the opposite side held it in for a long time. He wanted to say something several times but didn’t have the courage to say thank you until the end. Fortunately, Director Gu was a colder person than him and didn’t care about these things.
Yuan Sheng Electronics was not a good place. Instead of letting him stay there and see those people’s faces, it was better to respect his choice and give him a better place to go.
She saw all the little things her subordinates had done for her and would help them however she could.
…
Lou Wai Lou was right next to the West Lake. When dinner was over, the night was just right. The lights in all directions slowly lit up. It was not a holiday, and there were only a few people on the bridge.
After parting with Da Bing, the Encourager Yuan insisted on taking her Director Gu to the Broken Bridge to play the “shake to find people” game on her phone.
Director Gu, in her suit and tie, was dragged by her to a stone pillar.
The Encourager Yuan operated her work phone. Her face bloomed with a smile. Her cheerful electronic voice was very lively.
“Hurry, hurry, Sister! Open up ‘People Nearby.’ I’ll say ‘start,’ and you’ll shake as hard as you can!”
Director Gu said, “I’m not playing this childish game with you!”
But she quickly found “People Nearby” on her phone, her eyes fixed on the “shake” button.
The Encourager Yuan had just shouted “ready,” when a few crisp clicking sounds came from her core machine panel.
Director Gu was shaking her phone like crazy, afraid of missing her favorite person.
“Hey, hey, Sister! I haven’t even said ‘start’ yet. Why are you shaking so fast?”
As the clicking sounds stopped, a lot of unfamiliar usernames appeared on the list. Director Gu’s eyes drooped slightly, and she was very disappointed.
She looked up at her core machine, her face showing an unhappy little emoji, as if she was asking the other person if they could shake again.
The Encourager Yuan looked at Director Gu’s sad face. Her heart was melting. In front of the few pedestrians, she pounced on her and pecked her on the cheek.
Director Gu was caught off guard and stood frozen at the head of the bridge under the moonlight, staring at this cute creature.
The Encourager Yuan, a machine, suddenly had an impulse surge in her heart at this moment: If she confessed to her Director Gu in this kind of situation…
“Ma’am, do you want to take a boat? Half price!”
The electronic voice was about to speak, but she was interrupted by a boatman who was trying to get customers. Yuan Yishan swallowed the promises she was about to make.
She was just a machine now, with no money, and she didn’t even have a formal identity in this world. Confessing to her so rashly would be too careless. What if the system had another bug in a few days? After thinking about it, she decided against it…
“No need!”
Director Gu saw that her little core machine’s thoughts were offline. She calmly dismissed the middle-aged boatman who had so rudely interrupted them.
The boatman walked away dejectedly.
She took a step forward, opened her arms, and hugged the machine. Her tone was icy cold.
“What are you thinking about?”
The quick-witted Little Yuan’s melancholic eyes instantly became clear. Her sparkling core machine pupils twinkled in the night. Her electronic voice was sweet and sugary.
“I’m thinking, the moon is so beautiful tonight, Sister. You should give me some kind of reward!”
With that, she pulled her into her arms. Her pair of core machine paws crawled around Director Gu’s waist.
In broad daylight, how could Director Gu endure this? She quickly pushed her away, her face red, and she stammered a warning.
“You… you’re not allowed to move around on me!”
The little core machine Yuan, who was pushed away, pouted her mouth, and her little feet stomped on the ground.
“I don’t care, I don’t care. I want to stick to my sister and touch her!”
The unreasonable and sugary electronic voice attracted the strange looks of the few passersby. Director Gu felt her face getting hot. She quickly stepped forward and covered the core machine Yuan’s mouth, stopping her in a low voice.
“Stop messing around. There are so many people here!”
The core machine Yuan, whose mouth was covered, made a mumbling sound. She finally managed to force out a complete sentence.
“Kiss me, and I’ll stop!”
Because she had to rush to say it, her voice sounded exceptionally crisp and clear.
Director Gu cautiously glanced at the people around her. They all seemed to be doing their own things again. She was afraid that this person would be endlessly annoying, so she took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention. She leaned in, quickly kissed her porcelain-like face, and then retreated.
The Encourager Yuan looked at the light pink color that bloomed on Director Gu’s face on the control panel. She smiled with satisfaction.
This feeling was truly subtle. The moment of messing around and being unreasonable was more interesting than any other time she was being open and honest…