Transmigrated & Triumphant: Defying Destiny's Chosen One-Chapter 683 - 12: The Continuation of the Family Line

So much happened today, Secretary Liu still hadn’t figured out what he should say even as he walked through the door.

Just then, his wife came out of the bathroom and looked at him, puzzled, "Why are you back so early?"

Secretary Liu thought for a moment in a daze and told the truth, "Oh... I, I got laid off today."

What?

His wife was dumbfounded—laid off?!

Her husband was only in his thirties, not even at the midlife crisis stage, so how could he be laid off early? 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

She panicked: "What, what should we do then?"

The child’s tuition, the parents’ retirement money, the mortgage... none of these could be cut down.

But seeing her husband looking so exhausted, she ultimately didn’t say anything, and instead comforted him, "It’s okay, take the opportunity to rest, no rush to find a job."

Seeing her like this, Secretary Liu sighed inwardly and quickly added, "No worries, no worries, there’s severance pay, over 200,000."

Over 200,000, with a bit of frugality, would be enough for the mortgage for a while, and during this period, he could find a new company.

Thinking of this, his gaze unconsciously shifted to Tianyu, and he cursed fiercely, "Pah! What a lousy company, what vision?!"

"They laid you off? You worked like a workhorse every day, I don’t believe they can find someone else to work for the same pay after you’re gone!"

"One person doing the work of ten, trash company, bound to go bankrupt sooner or later!"

"And that bastard Xie Rongzhao, only knows to exploit you alone..."

The cursing was filled with genuine emotion and passion.

However, turning her head, she found her husband standing at the door, shoes not even changed, looking dumbfounded.

The wife was shocked, thinking it couldn’t be; her husband just hadn’t changed jobs since graduation, he seemed a bit stiff, but not to the point of being devastated by getting laid off?!

She didn’t expect the other party to look up and suddenly laugh foolishly.

"Wife."

Secretary Liu said, still a bit in a daze, "On the way back, Hanqi Intelligence asked if I wanted to work for them, with an annual salary of 3 million. Do you think I should agree?"

Agree or not?

Agree or not?

His wife grabbed a rose at hand and hit him over the head with it:

"You say agree or not?! They offer you 500,000 and you worked like a workhorse, they offer you 3 million and you still ask me? You should have agreed right away!"

Petals scattered all over the ground, and as Secretary Liu hurried to dodge with "Wow wow," the couple exchanged a glance and suddenly both chuckled.

...

Meanwhile, Xie Rongzhao, who had suddenly lost his secretary and hadn’t had the time to find a replacement, was simmering with suppressed anger.

The HR department was also useless; with the secretary handing over the work and admin couldn’t even come up with a suitable person? Was this how things were properly handled?!

The new interns in the office were still humming and hawing through overtime, taking over the various tasks Secretary Liu had organized before leaving.

And for tonight’s gathering, as a president, he actually had to arrange it himself!

Especially since it was with such a fickle woman like Hai Yu!

Xie Rongzhao was extremely frustrated, but having to swallow his pride, he had no choice but to fix his demeanor, prepare himself, and let the driver take him to the prearranged hotel.

However, he forgot one thing; holding onto his status, he said he valued it, but his actions spoke otherwise.

In and out the door, the departure time got pushed later and later.

And in Beijing, whether you’re in a car worth a hundred thousand or ten million, when there’s a traffic jam, it’s all the same.

So after he had berated the driver enough to make him want to quit by the next day, they arrived at the hotel half an hour later than planned.

Hai Yu sat there, casually looking at a tablet in her hands. When she saw him, she raised an eyebrow, a casual charm naturally exuding.

"President Xie is here? Sit."

She raised her chin, her tone no different from those partners Xie Rongzhao had seen at business dinners.

It’s just that those partners usually acted this way towards people of no status. Here was Miss Hai, who was likely to become his wife, treating him, her future husband, in this manner, clearly showing she wasn’t a suitable match.

But even so, a true man can bend and stretch, and Xie Rongzhao could only grit his teeth silently and endure.