Becoming a Confidence Coach to an Arrogant Director - Chapter 40

Chapter 40: Director Gu’s Surveillance Mechanism

After the authorization on the rooftop, the Encourager Yuan and her user were walking downstairs. At the corner, they ran into a few guys smoking in the hallway. They were gossiping about the company’s executives. When they saw the two of them, they all looked a little flustered.

One of the guys, with quick hands and eyes, put out his cigarette and looked timid.

“Director… Director Gu!”

Director Gu’s eyes were cold. She gave a perfunctory nod in response.

“Let’s go, guys!”

The Encourager Yuan said goodbye and followed behind her Director Gu.

She remembered the brother who had just given a polite but perfunctory greeting. In the needs meeting, when he heard that her sister’s power had been diminished, this guy, in cooperation with Liao Shu, had cheered so happily.

The Encourager Yuan went back to the R&D area, and Director Gu went back to the director’s office.

Now, the R&D department was divided into two teams. Brother Liao’s team was super busy, while Director Gu’s subordinates were bored to death.

But the good thing was that they didn’t interfere with each other. No matter how long Liao Shu’s reach was, he wouldn’t dare to easily offend Director Gu for the time being. So the guys were still very dignified workers at the moment.

The Encourager Yuan was having fun with Li Cheng and Guagua.

Director Gu’s team had no new projects to do for the time being. The guys were in the technical preliminary research phase. And as for the two newbies, Li Cheng and Guagua, if there were no demands pushing them, they would never take the initiative to learn. They would slack off as much as possible, not seeking to improve, just like lazy fish.

“So, Brother Li Cheng, can you teach me how to write frontend code now?”

At the little darling’s enthusiastic request, Brother Li Cheng looked around a few times. He didn’t find any dangerous people. He guessed that Director Gu wouldn’t come out unexpectedly, so he crooked his finger.

The Encourager Yuan quickly moved a small stool over and sat down, craning her neck to look at Li Cheng’s computer.

His screen was still on something that girls shouldn’t see. When he saw Yuan Yishan’s gaze, he quickly switched the screen to a section of pitch-black code.

The Encourager Yuan found him cute and deliberately teased him in a sweet voice.

“Brother Li Cheng, which tag are you going to start with?”

Li Cheng looked around again cautiously and asked in a low voice.

“How is Director Gu doing? Did you comfort her? Is she very sad right now?”

Yuan Yishan was surprised that this young man was quite thoughtful.

Li Cheng looked around again and then turned his gaze to Guagua next to him.

“Although Guagua and I are not good, we will always support Director Gu. And her little fanboy too. We all support her and cheer her on. You have to put in a good word for us to her later, okay?”

Although he said this, he was actually trying to get Little Yuan to pass a message to Director Gu, telling her not to be disappointed because of this. The brothers would always be on the same side as her.

Seeing how they were, the Encourager Yuan was happy for her Director Gu. She stood up from the small stool, leaned over to Brother Li Cheng’s ear, and teased him.

“Brother Li Cheng, I think you’re more suitable for the position of Encourager than I am!”

Little Cheng rarely had close contact with a girl. He was surrounded by the little darling’s gentle breath. His ears and neck started to feel itchy. He quickly put his finger in his ear and gently pushed her away.

“That, little darling, a-as the ancients said, men and women should not touch!”

Yuan Yishan had never seen such a cute person. Compared to the reserved programmers in the real world, this guy was too easy to bully. She couldn’t help but want to tease him again.

Suddenly, her phone vibrated in her pocket.

— Come to my office!

Suddenly receiving a message from Director Gu, Little Yuan had a faint premonition. Her sister seemed to have her own surveillance mechanism, just like her. Otherwise, how could she get caught in the act every time she did something?

…

In the director’s office, Director Gu had a cold face.

“What are you doing during work hours?”

The Encourager Yuan confessed without being asked. Seeing that her brother wasn’t there, she quickly found a scapegoat.

“Sister, Brother Li Cheng was the one who seduced me first!”

Director Gu’s phoenix eyes slightly lifted at the corners. She raised an eyebrow.

“Oh? Is that so?”

Li Cheng in the office sneezed very timely.

The little core machine Yuan continued to babble.

“Brother Li Cheng said to tell you, Sister, that although his and Guagua’s technical skills are not good, they will always support you. And your little fanboy also always supports you!”

Director Gu’s heart was as clear as a mirror about what they were doing. At this time, her words were a little more scrutinizing.

“And what else? What else did he say?”

“He also said…”

Yuan Yishan thought for a moment: He also said that the ancients said men and women should not touch. Besides that, he didn’t seem to say anything else.

“Nothing else, Sister. He just said these things to comfort you and to say that they are your solid support.”

The more the cunning core machine Yuan didn’t tell her the truth, the more Director Gu wanted to ask something. Her heart was sour for a while, and her words were a little more jealous.

“Then why did you lean over to him?”

“I told him that Brother Li Cheng is more suitable for the position of Encourager than I am!”

While she was confessing, she was also curious. Could this little girl have her own informant in the office? How could she always be caught in the act so timely?

The two of them lingered in the office for a while. In the end, with the Encourager Yuan’s various comfortable services, Director Gu was satisfied and forgave her for whispering in someone else’s ear just now. She also warned her not to harass male colleagues during work hours in the future.

…

When Little Yuan returned to the R&D area, she didn’t even dare to linger at Li Cheng’s workstation and went straight back to her seat.

She couldn’t make anyone angry anymore. Activating the emotional experience mode also consumed performance. Her machine needed to be saved for her future business ventures with her Director Gu.

Yuan Yishan was racking her brains at her workstation, but she couldn’t pinpoint who the informant was. She scratched her core machine’s curly hair and boredly clicked around on her computer screen.

Hey! After all that trouble just now, what is her Director Gu doing now?

Thinking of how she had bullied her sister just now, Little Yuan couldn’t help but want to activate the detection mode and scan. But her performance was too low, and her body was still hot. It was not suitable for big movements. The smart core machine immediately thought of another way.

The company computers are connected to cameras. She should be able to hack into them and pull up the surveillance records of the director’s office, right?

No sooner said than done. Yuan Yishan tapped her screen twice and opened the camera surveillance of the director’s office.

In the surveillance video, Director Gu was hesitantly typing a string of words into the browser’s search bar, deleting them, and typing them again. Then, she stared at the search button, eager to try it.

The Encourager Yuan’s mouth turned up.

A few minutes later, she saw her Director Gu seriously reading the search results on the browser screen, one by one, her lips moving as she read.

Yuan Yishan’s smile reached the back of her head.

“Heh, little one, do you understand what 0 and 1 are now? You’re still being obediently tamed by me, calling me Yi Yi?”

As the Encourager Yuan was being secretly smug, she looked up, and the screen in the surveillance video was covered by another image.

Director Gu, with her long hair, sat up straight at her desk, her face dark, staring at her computer screen.

On the screen was a cute person with a bright, smiling face.

Yuan Yishan: Ah… this!

Director Gu saw that their eyes met and made a gesture towards the surveillance camera.

“What are you looking at? If you keep looking, I’ll pull out your chip!”

The Encourager Yuan closed the surveillance camera screen. Her core machine face instantly wilted, and she was very nervous all day.

— How did she think of using the surveillance camera? It turns out that everything I’ve done has been clearly monitored from beginning to end. Life from now on is going to be a lot less fun.

At the same time, she was still racking her brain, thinking about how she, the “1,” could avoid being punished by kneeling on the keyboard when they got home tonight.

…

Less than a minute before it was time to leave work, Brother Liao’s project team was still frantically writing code. Director Gu’s subordinates were already impatiently packing their backpacks, ready to leave.

The brothers had been waiting to get off work for an entire day, and their hearts were a little anxious. As soon as the dismissal bell rang, they left faster than the others.

Director Gu, who also had nothing to do and had been looking at search records all day, grabbed her bag and went to the R&D office area to find someone as soon as the time came.

The Encourager Yuan knew she had done something wrong and was very well-behaved at this moment. She eagerly went up to her, carrying her bag, holding the elevator door, and providing service that was nothing short of attentive.

All the way to the park garage, Director Gu had a cold face and didn’t talk to her.

For the first time, Yuan Yishan couldn’t detect her sister’s attitude. She was panicking and quickly searched in her core machine’s electronic brain: How to coax a girl when she’s angry.

A list of things popped up.

Her core machine’s pupils quickly spun a few times. She chose a solution she approved of and started to entice her little by little.

“Sister, are we going home or…?”

Director Gu looked at her sideways and didn’t give any instructions.

“Do you want to go shopping, Sister? Girls all like to go shopping with their close girlfriends. How about I take you to all the major malls and buy you new clothes and bags?”

Director Gu continued to stare at her, as if questioning with her eyes: Do you have money to buy me new clothes and bags?

The Encourager Yuan wisely shut her mouth and started the car.

Suddenly, Director Gu gave an order.

“The phone store near Longxiang Bridge!”

With the little darling’s previous reminder, she suddenly realized that her Yi Yi was still using her company work phone. She hadn’t even had time to buy her a nice phone.

The Encourager Yuan drove steadily. To liven up the atmosphere, she turned on her Yi Shan navigation.

“Turn left at the traffic light ahead. Please drive slowly!”

“Turn left, please drive slowly!”

“It’s rush hour, and the road is a little busy. Please drive carefully.”

…

Director Gu listened to the refreshing and sweet electronic voice. She was in a good mood but still kept a serious face.

Every workday, there was always a section of the road that was terribly congested at this time. During the traffic jam, Yuan Yishan quickly used her core machine’s paws to touch Director Gu’s face.

Director Gu was a good citizen and obeyed traffic rules. She warned her in a cold voice.

“Focus on driving!”

The Encourager Yuan put her core machine’s paws back on the steering wheel and seriously looked at the road ahead.

Traffic jams during rush hour were originally very annoying, but now, being stuck in a car with the person she liked, it didn’t seem so bad.

The little core machine was humming a tune, and Director Gu closed her eyes to rest, listening to her lullaby.

After passing the congested area, the car drove smoothly and parked in the underground parking lot of a mall near Longxiang Bridge.

This area was full of official authorized electronic product experience stores. Director Gu took her little core machine into the most reputable one and chose two of the latest models, as well as a couple’s phone case.

She had just paid at the checkout and hadn’t had time to switch to the new phones when Boss Pei’s call came in.

“Sister, are you off work already?”

“Yeah.”

Director Gu replied coldly. The tone on the other end of the phone was good, but the way he spoke sounded a little urgent.

“Are you free to come over now?”

Director Gu slightly frowned and looked at her core machine.

The Encourager Yuan had a smug look on her face. Director Gu also curled her lips and gave him a reply.