After My Rebirth Chapter 4: The Yin and Yang

Chapter 4: The Yin and Yang

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

Li Sinian’s office was supposed to have a separate microwave oven, but since he never used to take his meals seriously, the microwave oven was moved out of his office to make room for his files. Now…

Li Sinian looked at the pile of papers on the table, not knowing how to feel. Alas, work affects his food. Li Sinian had to take his lunchbox and go downstairs to the common microwave oven to heat up his lunch.

It was mealtime, and many employees were waiting in line in front of the microwave oven to heat up their lunch. Li Sinian did not like to use privilege to pressure people, so he went to the end of the line.

The employees at the front of the line were talking about the latest gossip that happened in the company today – the morning meeting. Of course, the main content of the gossip was him.

After being late for work, the workaholic Vice President Li was extremely perfunctory in the meeting, causing President Li to almost lose his temper on the spot.

“This is also the Vice President Li, if we were ordinary employees, I’m afraid we would be fired.”

“Alas, the rich generation is good.”

“I think Vice President Li is okay since he is the most desperate. President Li’s youngest son has not yet graduated from college, and already has ten percent of the company’s shares. That is really the pride of the sky.”

“In fact, I think Vice President Li is quite poor, you see how hard he works, but hearing what Secretary Chen said, President Li is not going to give him any shares.”

The employees in the front were discussing fervently, and Li Sinian was listening while looking down to play a puzzle game.

Suddenly, the noise in his ears stopped abruptly, and Li Sinian noticed, looked up, and found that the people in front of him had lowered their heads somehow, and everyone shut up and lowered their heads to play with their phones in a disciplined manner.

Oh, I guess someone saw him. Li Sinian also ignored them and continued to join the lowers.

The queue soon reached him. Li Sinian put the lunch box into the microwave, and a minute later, the lunch was ready with a ding. Turning on the microwave, the aroma of food instantly filled the room.

In fact, all food had more or less a smell, and other people’s lunches also gave off an aroma, but Li Sinian’s lunch seemed to smell especially good, and the smell alone could make people’s appetite move.

A few employees who were close to Li Sinian were lucky enough to see Li Sinian’s meal, and the appetite that was aroused by the smell was magnified several times when they saw the color of the food with their own eyes. Some people couldn’t hold back and their stomachs rumbled out.

Li Sinian looked back at him and the man who made the sound scratched his head in embarrassment and asked, “Vice President Li, did your housekeeper make your lunch? It looks so fragrant.”

“No.” Li Sinian replied, “I made it myself.”

The man’s eyes widened instantly, “You made it yourself?

The female employee next to him also came over, “My God, this skill, you can go to open a store!”

“It really smells good, if Vice President Li goes to open a store, other restaurants may have no way to live.”

Li Sinian gave a light laugh, “Thank you for the compliment.” He picked up the heated box lunch, “Lunch break is just one hour, everyone go eat, don’t gather here.”

“Okay, okay!”

Seeing Li Sinian leave, the staff breathed a sigh of relief in unison.

“I was scared to death, I totally didn’t notice Vice President Li was there just now.”

“Me too! But there was no danger, I thought Vice President Li would be angry for sure.”

“I don’t have much contact with Vice President Li, I thought he was the fierce kind, but I didn’t expect him to be so nice.”

“No, no, no, he’s fierce! Especially President Li’s eccentricity, he can’t listen to this kind of topic, I’ve seen him fire an intern because of this before!”

“I also, a few brief contacts a few times, I think he is so hostile.”

“Then just now…”

“Hiss – I don’t know, but he was really gentle just now… Turned sexier?”

Li Sinian carried the hot lunch back to the office, and after a beautiful meal, the lunch break was over. Just after putting away the dishes, Secretary Chen knocked on his office door and told him that Li Cheng was waiting for him.

Li Sinian knew he couldn’t escape, so he didn’t put up any more excuses and followed Secretary Chen.

An hour’s lunch break made Li Cheng look a lot calmer, but looking at each other, Li Sinian still saw the anger in Li Cheng’s eyes. Li Sinian couldn’t stop shaking his head in his heart.

Oh, really, why do you always make yourself so angry? It hurts your body to be angry, you are so old, you don’t even know how to take care of your health.

Li Cheng sized up Li Sinian from head to toe, not letting go of every inch, and the more he looked, the more dislike and anger in his eyes increased. After staring at Li Sinian for a while, he withdrew his gaze and dropped to the desk in front of him. Li Cheng threw the file on the desk to Li Sinian’s feet, “I’ll give you a chance to make up for it. This is the cooperation with ChuanHe Construction, you go talk to them. Do it as soon as possible, you are given half a month.”

Li Sinian picked up the document, he did not open it to read the specific content, but gently tilted his head and asked Li Cheng with true feelings, “Talk to them? Did I do something wrong?”

Visible to the naked eye, Li Cheng’s breathing became heavy, and the anger in his eyes increased. “Look at your performance in the meeting today! Do you think I didn’t see it? Everyone was in a meeting, what were you doing? You were playing with your phone with your head down, and that’s not called passing? Oh, also, think about yourself. What time did you come in the morning? 9:40! Why shouldn’t you make up for it?!”

“Ah… That’s too much?” Li Sinian did not take Li Cheng’s anger into consideration at all, instead, he looked as if he was on the line so he did not have to, “Okay, okay, if you say it’s to make-up for it, it’s to make-up for it.”

Li Cheng’s breathing rate got faster.

Li Sinian looked down and flipped through the folder. The business he was negotiating with was ChuanHe Construction and it was the same order that got him relegated to the countryside in his last life. Calculating the time was indeed about the same, quite good, he was going to continue to follow the wrong path of his previous life so that he could get a leisurely idyllic life right away.

Li Cheng finally adjusted his emotions through constant deep breathing, “Li Sinian, didn’t you say yesterday that you wanted to live in an old house in the countryside? I tell you, I only give you two weeks, if you can’t get the cooperation with ChuanHe within two weeks, I will meet your request to go to the countryside, and you will never come back in your life!”

Li Sinian’s eyes lit up as he was reading the documents, and he looked up at him with a surprised look, “Really? I can go to the countryside, if I don’t get a deal in two weeks?”

Li Cheng took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and raised his hand to the door, “Get out! Get out of here!”

Li Sinian slyly took the documents and got out.

Back in his office, Li Sinian opened the file and took a cursory glance at it. He had wanted to make the same mistake he had made in his previous life and get the right to experience a leisurely idyllic life, but what Li Cheng had just said would be much easier if he failed to close the business deal with ChuanHe within two weeks.

The former would require a lot of effort to understand the business that he had almost forgotten about, while the latter would only require time to stall and let go of himself. And he didn’t doubt for a second that Li Cheng was threatening him. No one knew Li Cheng’s eccentricities better than he did, and if it was said to Li Wenxing, it could have been a threat, to him, it was a promise.

Li Sinian couldn’t help but be happy at the thought of living a healthy and free idyllic life soon. But there was one more point to note.

The leisurely idyllic life needed money. Although he himself also had a lot of savings, in order to be a salted fish and be more comfortable in the future, he needed to not leave the Li family in the next few days or to get a little more money.

With this in mind, Li Sinian asked his assistant to contact ChuanHe Construction, and asked him to book a hotel banquet for the person in charge there.

In the next few days, Li Sinian took the person in charge of Chuanhe Construction around to have some fun, so that he could get some money out of the hospitality. The assistant, surnamed Liu, full name Liu Xue, was a very competent woman who did things thoroughly. She followed Li Sinian for two years. Her love of work was no less than Li Sinian’s. Today the whole day was not scheduled to work, resulting in her being in a state of fear.

Usually at this time, the vice president of the family had long arranged a large amount of work for her, but this morning she was idle. Was the vice president going to fire her?

Just when Liu Xue desperately recalled what she had done in the last few days that was not to Li Sinian’s liking, it finally came to life.

Contact the person in charge to arrange a hotel? Well, for her, this work was simply child’s play, she had ten minutes to deal with it!

Liu Xue did a good job and got back to Li Sinian. Li Sinian listened and nodded, “Thank you for the hard work. Go down to rest.”

Saying that, he continued to pick up the game and began to play.

Liu Xue waited for a minute in the same place, did not wait for work again, she could not help but ask, “Li Sinian, what else do you want me to do?”

“Hmm? Nothing.” Li Sinian played the game, there was a time limit, he was afraid of losing, so he did not look up, “you go down to rest.”

Liu Xue sniffed, seemed to have figured out what was going on and her face became ugly.

A whole day just for a little work, she finished and he said she worked hard? Was he trying to say that these two years she had worked hard, and could not be used in the future?

“Vice President Li! Are you going to fire me?” Liu Xue was not a squirming person, there were any ideas, on the premise that there was no harm, she would certainly ask.

Just as a game ended, Li Sinian looked up with a confused face, “Huh? No ah.”

Liu Xue looked flustered, “Then why didn’t you give me a job and say it was hard work?”

“Uh…” Li Sinian thought for a moment and probably understood Liu Xue’s thought process.

Liu Xue was the same as he was in his previous life, work was life. She did not know about his rebirth, naturally she did not know why his mentality shifted overnight. In her opinion, he just suddenly did not arrange work for her, thinking she was to be fired was quite normal.

Li Sinian put on a smile and tried to look as gentle as possible. He said, “I don’t want to fire you, but I really don’t have a job for you, I will definitely ask you to do something, like just now. You’ve been with me for two years, don’t you know what kind of person I am? If I wanted to fire you, I would have told you straightforwardly instead of behaving vaguely for you to guess.”

Not to mention anything else, let’s say Li Sinian didn’t like to be abrasive, Liu Xue understood that. Although she did not understand why Li Sinian did not have work to hand over to her today, hearing him say so, she hung her heart down, “Then vice president, I’ll go out first if there’s really nothing.”

Li Sinian nodded, “Go ahead, don’t work too hard, your body is most important, rest and relax if you don’t have work.”

Liu Xue left, Li Sinian slightly planned how to entertain the people of Chuanhe Construction. As soon as it hit five o’clock, he immediately took the briefcase and empty lunch box home.

He arrived home, cooked for an hour, and could eat a normal meal in time for dinner.

Well, the first day of healthy living felt great.

 

 

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