When more people came to work, he called his secretary into his office, opened the door, and severely reprimanded her, telling her not to let the cleaning staff into his office anymore.
His secretary came to work early and was inexplicably scolded by the boss. She was extremely unhappy and deliberately rallied others in the group to throw waste paper all over the floor.
The intention was to make Xi Xianya clean continuously. Everyone felt that nothing good happened when she arrived on the top floor, and they ostracized her.
For Xi Xianya, besides cleaning, she also had to buy milk tea, make copies, and shred paper. As a cleaner and a general helper, she was doing all the miscellaneous tasks on the entire top floor by herself.
After everyone else had left work, she was still cleaning and felt exhausted.
But she wanted to wait until everyone was gone so she could enter Qin Tianyi's office again. She had to find some useful documents for Zhao Jianhua as quickly as possible.
Otherwise, Zhao Jianhua would stop providing her mother with money for medical treatment and would not tell her the truth about the company's bankruptcy.
After confirming that everyone had left, she quietly sneaked into Qin Tianyi's office again.
In the morning, while cleaning, she had only glanced at the documents on Qin Tianyi's desk. Now, using the light from her phone's flashlight, she rummaged through the drawers under the desk and found documents related to the bidding plan for the online platform.
She quickly took photos of each page and saved them to her phone's album. She then searched through all the files in the office, but the safe remained locked.
However, she remembered seeing bidding documents in Xiao Anjing's office, but couldn't find them in Qin Tianyi's office.
Just as she was restoring the files one by one, someone suddenly knocked on the door from the outside.
"Mr. Qin, are you still here?"
Xi Xianya was startled by a man's voice. She quickly turned off her phone's flashlight and held a rag, pretending to be cleaning.
Ai Yifeng outside the door felt something was wrong. He had clearly seen a light inside earlier, but it had suddenly gone out, and it seemed like someone else was there.
Could a thief have entered Qin Tianyi's office?
He immediately pushed the door open and rushed in, only to see a girl in a cleaning uniform cleaning.
Because the lights in the outer office area were still on, there were no lights in the office.
This cleaner happened to be standing in a backlit position, so he couldn't see her face clearly. He asked vigilantly, "Where is Mr. Qin? Why aren't you turning on the lights while cleaning? Can you even see like this?"
Xi Xianya turned to face the person and said, "Manager Ai, I was just using my phone's flashlight. Thinking of saving electricity for the company, I didn't turn on the lights."
She recognized Ai Yifeng. When she worked at the front desk, she saw him coming and going often and knew he was the manager of the network department, but they had never spoken.
Ai Yifeng had already seen her face clearly and thought she looked a bit familiar, but he didn't know who she was. He turned on the lights in the office, and it suddenly became bright.
"You're this frugal? What if you accidentally break something?"
Xi Xianya quickly said, "I understand. I'll be careful in the future."
She had heard other front desk colleagues discuss that this Manager Ai was a typical STEM guy. He often worked on network projects in other places, expanding markets, and rarely returned to the group headquarters.
Although he was quite handsome, he spoke directly and never joked with female colleagues.
If others didn't initiate conversations with him, he would basically not say a word of idle chat within the group, except for work-related matters.
Because of his personality, he was quite valued by Qin Tianyi.
Whenever he returned to headquarters, he only got close to Qin Tianyi and Xiao Anjing, considered a favorite of the boss.
Ai Yifeng stared at her and asked, "Are you a cleaner for the group?"
"Yes." Xi Xianya pointed to the work badge in front of her uniform and said, "I was just transferred here from the front desk today."
Ai Yifeng's eyes were fixed on her work badge, and he read her name, "Xi Xianya? I think I have some impression."
Xi Xianya felt uncomfortable under his gaze and quickly covered her work badge, saying shyly, "Manager Ai, have you seen enough?"
Ai Yifeng realized he shouldn't stare at her work badge for too long and quickly withdrew his gaze, asking, "Where is Mr. Qin?"
"He has already left work. If you have anything, please come back tomorrow," Xi Xianya replied naturally.
Ai Yifeng said "Oh," and was about to leave, but he still felt uneasy and said to Xi Xianya, "Don't clean alone inside. It's time to go home."
Xi Xianya said "Oh" and had to walk out of Qin Tianyi's office with him, unsure if she had put everything back in its place.
After coming out, Ai Yifeng decisively locked Qin Tianyi's office, fearing that someone else might enter. After all, this was the president's office, containing a lot of business secrets, and any leakage would be disastrous.
Xi Xianya watched Ai Yifeng leave the top floor. The door was locked, and she could no longer enter Qin Tianyi's office.
She also packed her things and went home, thinking about sending the photographed plan to Zhao Jianhua that evening. Perhaps then she wouldn't have to come to Aoxiang to work anymore.
After Ai Yifeng returned to his own office, he felt it was necessary to call Tianyi and inform him.
He dialed Tianyi's mobile number, and Tianyi answered shortly after.
"Mr. Qin, I just went to your office on the top floor to find you, but you weren't there."
Qin Tianyi had just finished dinner and was walking towards the study room with his phone in hand, saying, "Yes, I got off work early today and came home. Are you still at the company? What do you need me for?"
"I've been thinking about the bidding plan again and feel there's a part that needs to be changed. I originally wanted to discuss it with you. Since you're already home, let's talk about it tomorrow."
"Okay, then I'll listen to your new ideas tomorrow."
"Oh, and one more thing. When I went to your office, although you weren't there, I met a cleaner in the office named Xi Xianya..."
"Oh, yes, she's the new cleaner on the top floor." Tianyi knew clearly that Xi Xianya was impatient and had acted again.
"Since she is indeed the cleaner on the top floor, then I have nothing else." Ai Yifeng prepared to hang up.
Tianyi quickly said, "Yifeng, wait. There's something I want to tell you first."
"What is it?"
"The inside story of the Huangfu Group's bidding this time is a bit complicated. The bid may not be decided based on technology." Tianyi wanted him to be mentally prepared. "Do you understand what I mean?"
"You mean they might not choose the bidder with the best proposal," Ai Yifeng said.
"Yes, that's exactly what I mean. So, if our group doesn't win the bid, don't think it's because your proposal wasn't good enough."
Ai Yifeng laughed on the phone and said, "Don't worry, I'm not that fragile. Whether the other party has insider information or is bidding seriously, as long as we've done our best, it's okay if we don't win the bid. If we can't do this project, there will be another one."
Tianyi said happily, "It's good that you think that way. We need to be prepared for everything."
"Understood. Take care of Susu and the children." With that, he hung up and also packed his things, preparing to leave work.