Huangfu Shaohua coldly said to the still recovering Song Jiaping, "I have something to say to you. Come to my office."
After speaking, he entered his office first.
Song Jiaping took a breath and then followed him into his office.
The other people in the department couldn't understand what was going on between them, or what grudge they held.
However, seeing Song Jiaping's valiant effort to save a life, everyone developed a better impression of him and no longer disliked him.
As soon as the office door closed, Huangfu Shaohua, still very angry, said, "What exactly did you say to Mengyao when you divorced her! Last night, she turned on the gas in the flower room at home to commit suicide..."
"What! Is she alright? How is she?" Song Jiaping asked with great anxiety.
Huangfu Shaohua rubbed his face, which was still sore from Song Jiaping's blow, and deliberately didn't answer him immediately. "Why are you so nervous? You have no relationship with her anymore."
Song Jiaping walked up to him and asked, "Is she alright or not?"
"She's fine." Huangfu Shaohua sat down and said slowly, "She's been rescued and is out of danger."
Song Jiaping relaxed, finally understanding why he had acted so impulsively and hit him first.
"What could I have said? I just told her that I lied to her and that we weren't suited for each other. Perhaps she was too dependent on me before and couldn't accept it for a while."
Huangfu Shaohua stared into his eyes and asked, "You didn't do anything to her, did you?"
Song Jiaping immediately replied, "No. Since we got married when she was unconscious, I certainly wouldn't take advantage of her."
With his assurance, Huangfu Shaohua felt a bit more at ease. "That's good. Then there's nothing else. I'll help her pull herself together."
"Which hospital is she in?" Song Jiaping couldn't help but ask.
"You don't need to know that. When you break up, you break up cleanly." Huangfu Shaohua didn't want to tell him.
As he was leaving, his secretary, Sheng Zhuzhu, suddenly pushed the door open, holding two freshly boiled eggs, and brushed past him.
He noticed that this secretary clearly had feelings for Huangfu Shaohua, but he didn't want to meddle in other people's personal affairs.
Sheng Zhuzhu solicitously tried to offer the eggs to Huangfu Shaohua for his face, saying, "Shaohua, aren't you going to fire this kind of person yet? How dare he lay a hand on you, and so forcefully..."
Huangfu Shaohua pushed away the eggs she offered and said impatiently, "If you have no work-related matters, you can leave."
"Brother Shaohua, there are only the two of us in the office now, what are you afraid of? Auntie asked me to be your secretary so that I could take care of you." Sheng Zhuzhu still insisted on applying the eggs to his face.
Huangfu Shaohua dodged directly and said, "This is a workplace. If you don't leave, I'll fire you."
"Brother Shaohua, do you think I care about this job? If it weren't for my mom and Auntie asking me to..."
"If you don't like working here, you can resign," Huangfu Shaohua said impolitely. "What my mother and your mother mean does not represent my intentions."
Sheng Zhuzhu, annoyed, placed the eggs on his desk and asked, "Then what do you mean?"
"In the company, I only discuss business. As for personal matters, we can talk about them privately." Huangfu Shaohua indifferently turned on the computer on his desk.
Sheng Zhuzhu stomped her foot and said, "Fine, I'll wait for you after work tonight." Then, she turned and left angrily.
Huangfu Shaohua shook his head helplessly. He had no feelings for Sheng Zhuzhu.
However, because his mother and Sheng Zhuzhu's mother were very close friends, they had let the two of them play together since childhood and desperately wanted to set them up.
But Huangfu Shaohua disliked spoiled rich girls who threw tantrums and acted childishly. They only cared about their own affairs, completely disregarded others' feelings, and couldn't understand others' difficulties or the hardships of the world.
Dating or marrying such a girl would make him feel exhausted.
He had clearly expressed his feelings to his mother, but his mother always thought he was too picky and insisted on arranging for Sheng Zhuzhu to be his secretary, hoping they would have more opportunities to interact.
He could only maintain a distant attitude at the company to prevent Sheng Zhuzhu from finding opportunities to approach him.
Not long after, his mother called him on his office landline.
"You got into a fight with that Song Jiaping and got injured. Is it serious?"
"Mom, don't listen to gossip. I was just standing up for Mengyao. Song Jiaping is also injured, but they are all superficial wounds, nothing serious." Huangfu Shaohua knew that Sheng Zhuzhu must have complained to his mother.
Wu Xiufang said worriedly, "Your father asked you to teach that kid a lesson, and you actually used your fists. He's your subordinate, couldn't you have used some other methods?"
"I wouldn't use those underhanded tricks," Huangfu Shaohua said disdainfully. "Regarding his and Mengyao's matter, I want to resolve it as an older brother."
Wu Xiufang felt her son was stubborn and said helplessly, "Don't fight anymore. Use your brain more when dealing with things. Learn from Zhuzhu, who isolated Song Jiaping without him even realizing it."
Huangfu Shaohua didn't quite understand. "What do you mean by isolating Song Jiaping? How come I don't know about that?"
"Never mind, you don't need to worry about this. Zhuzhu will handle it for you..."
"Mom, what exactly has that Zhuzhu been doing in my department? I can't have a secretary like this. Hurry up and have her resign voluntarily," Huangfu Shaohua said, irate.
If this continued, his mother and Zhuzhu could completely sideline him, and what was the point of him being a department manager?
Wu Xiufang said, "You're still talking. I had to persuade Zhuzhu and her mother for a long time to get her to agree to be your secretary. For her education, being a secretary is beneath her talents. She's so devoted to you, you should seize the opportunity..."
"If you want to seize it, you seize it. If she doesn't resign from my department, you can be the department manager, and I quit!" Huangfu Shaohua, unable to bear it any longer, directly threw in the towel.
"I really don't understand what's wrong with Zhuzhu. She has the education and the looks. Why can't you be more proactive? And you're throwing a tantrum at me!"
"I'm going to tell Dad right now that I can't be the department manager anymore." Huangfu Shaohua was serious about resigning.
Wu Xiufang also became anxious and said, "You brat, how dare you! I'm doing this for your own good. You only know how to argue with me. You haven't even brought a girlfriend home, and you're not young anymore..."
"I already have someone I like. Don't worry about my affairs anymore." Huangfu Shaohua interrupted her abruptly.
Wu Xiufang on the other end of the phone paused slightly and then reacted immediately, asking, "Who is that person? How did you meet her? What does her family do?"
"I have other things to attend to here, so I can't talk anymore. I'll make things clear with Sheng Zhuzhu tonight, so you don't have to worry anymore." After saying that, he hung up the phone forcefully.
He knew that things were far from settled with Daisy, but if he didn't say this, his mother and Sheng Zhuzhu's mother, who were trying to set them up, wouldn't back down.
After work, when most of the department staff had left, Sheng Zhuzhu was indeed still waiting for him.
As soon as Sheng Zhuzhu saw him, she smiled and said, "Brother Shaohua, I've booked a restaurant. Let's go for dinner first."
Huangfu Shaohua frowned as he looked at her and said in a deep voice, "Hmm."
Seeing that he hadn't refused, Sheng Zhuzhu was already very happy.