Wang Yali said with a laugh, “Director Li, I’m here for a serious matter.”
“What serious matter?” Li Qianfan asked.
“Look at you, being the boss for so long, and our company hasn’t even had a welcome ceremony or anything. How about we organize a team building event tonight?” Wang Yali suggested.
Li Qianfan didn’t even think before planning to refuse, as he was not at all interested in team building events.
But then Li Qianfan thought again, wasn’t this a good opportunity to get closer to Chen Pingping?
If he could get Chen Pingping drunk at the team building event, then couldn’t he… Thinking of this, a smile curled at the corner of Li Qianfan’s mouth.
“We can skip the welcome part, but this team building event you mentioned is indeed necessary. I’ve been in our company for quite some time, and you and Li Lang are the ones I interact with most. I barely know the other middle and senior management, and this is indeed not good,” Li Qianfan said.
“Then it’s settled. Tonight, we’ll go out for a meal and get to know each other,” Wang Yali said with a beaming smile.
Afterward, Wang Yali asked, “Director Li, how should we draw up the list of participants for the team building event?”
“It’s not so easy to organize if there’s too many people. Let’s see, Li Lang and I, plus you, and then add two deputy managers and one manager from each department… How many is that?” Li Qianfan inquired.
Counting on her fingers, Wang Yali replied, “Our company has a total of eight departments, including HR, Finance, Marketing, Logistics, Security, R&D, Production, etc. With one manager and two deputy managers from each, that’s twenty-four people.”
“With the three of us, that’s twenty-seven people in total.”
“Still a bit too many,” Li Qianfan noted.
“Well, it’s a company team building after all, twenty-seven people isn’t too many,” Wang Yali remarked.
After a moment of contemplation, Li Qianfan said, “Exclude the deputy managers from each department, but don’t leave out Zhou Yue.”
“So that would be the managers of eight departments plus the three of us, and the deputy manager of the finance department, Zhou Yue, making a total of twelve people,” Wang Yali said.
“Add Chen Pingping from HR as well,” Li Qianfan added.
Wang Yali’s expression turned strange, her eyes carrying a bit of resentment, “Director Li, I won’t say anything about adding Zhou Yue, the deputy manager of Finance, but who is this Chen Pingping? Why add her? She’s not even a deputy manager, just a minor clerk.”
“Just do as I say,” Li Qianfan commanded.
“You have to give me a reason, right?” Wang Yali pressed.
“I need to give you a reason to do what I ask?” Li Qianfan glared as he spoke.
“I just want a reason. Director Li, come clean, do you have something going on with that Chen Pingping?”
Full of jealousy, Wang Yali spoke, and she even reached towards Li Qianfan’s lower body.
“What’s my relationship with her got to do with you talking behind my back?”
Without any courtesy, Li Qianfan pulled Wang Yali into his embrace, grabbed her sensitive spot, and with a bit of force caused Wang Yali to cry out in pain.
“Director Li, don’t be so rough… It’s really painful… I feel like I’m going to die of pain…”
“I think you’re just itching for a lesson!”
Li Qianfan pushed Wang Yali down on the couch and began to assert himself forcefully upon her.
Despite Wang Yali’s pained expression, Li Qianfan knew this wretched woman was enjoying it!
After all, the body’s reaction is the most honest, and whether it was pain or pleasure, how could Li Qianfan not tell the difference?
After a fierce session, Li Qianfan got Wang Yali completely under his control, no longer daring to express any dissatisfaction.
HR Department’s collective office.
Chen Pingping heard her phone ring and picked it up to answer the call.
After she hung up, a look of confusion appeared on Chen Pingping’s face.
The female colleague next to her, Wu Xiaoling, immediately leaned in and asked, “Pingping, who was that calling? It wasn’t Director Li, was it?”
“No, it wasn’t him; it was his secretary, Wang Yali,” said Chen Pingping.
“What does Director Li’s secretary want calling you for?” Wu Xiaoling asked again.
Several other female colleagues around them also overheard and curiously turned their gaze towards Chen Pingping.
Chen Pingping explained, “Secretary Wang said that our company is having a small team-building event tonight. She told me not to leave after work and to attend the event.”
“A company team-building? I hate those kinds of events the most.”
“Exactly!”
“Paying to attend such dinner gatherings is so pointless.”
“Who wants to drink with the leadership!”
“Exactly!”
“I’d rather die than go.”
The few female colleagues around started to complain one after another.
Chen Pingping then added, “Secretary Wang said on the phone that only Director Li, Vice President Li, and the managers from each department were going to attend the team-building event, she didn’t mention anyone else.”
Upon hearing this, all the female colleagues around felt extremely embarrassed, wishing they could find a crack in the floor to crawl into.
Just moments ago, they were saying how they didn’t want to attend the company team-building, but as it turns out, only the high-level leaders are qualified to attend, and they as the lower-level employees are simply not eligible to go.
Nobody had even invited them!
Out of curiosity, Wu Xiaoling asked, “Then what’s the deal with Secretary Wang inviting you? Since only the department managers are qualified to attend this team-building and even the deputy managers are not eligible, why did you get an invite?”
“Maybe it’s because I know Director Li; we were classmates,” Chen Pingping explained.
Wu Xiaoling’s eyes twinkled, then she lowered her voice and said, “Pingping, could you take me along to the event? I would really like to go.”
“This… that wouldn’t be appropriate, I don’t know if we’re allowed to bring someone along,” said Chen Pingping, somewhat embarrassed.
“Just ask, you have such a good relationship with Director Li. If you say you’re bringing a friend, he’ll surely agree. I overheard him calling you ‘class rep’ in the restroom that day, he’s so nice to you, he would definitely not refuse a request from you.”
“Besides, it’s not safe for you to go there alone. All the managers in our company are men. Imagine, a woman dining with so many men, do you think that’s appropriate? If you bring me along, at the very least, I could keep you company!”
Wu Xiaoling’s flattery caused Chen Pingping to feel somewhat elated.
And indeed, Wu Xiaoling’s words seemed to make some sense.
Thus, Chen Pingping said, “Okay, I’ll speak to him now.”
Chen Pingping left the HR department’s communal office and went to a corner of the hallway to call Li Qianfan.
“What? You want to bring a friend? Who?” Li Qianfan asked puzzledly on the phone.
Chen Pingping explained, “It’s a colleague from our department, named Wu Xiaoling. She looks after me a lot and we get along very well.”
“Pingping, that’s not appropriate. You’re my classmate, which is why I made an exception by letting Wang Yali invite you, but if you bring someone else, that really wouldn’t be justified,” Li Qianfan said earnestly.
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