Bringing Along a Ball and Hiding from Foreign Devils Chapter 17.1

Translated by Amaryllideae, Edited by Ahzinal

❤️ Thank you so much for the ko-fis Anon!!!

On Monday morning, Ren Zhouyuan just arrived at the company when the manager of personnel came to the door.

After listening to what the manager had said for a long time, Ren Zhouyuan finally figured out why the other person was looking for him. He was going to be transferred to the position of a.s.sistant to the president?!

“No, Manager He,” Ren Zhouyuan was a little confused, and his body subconsciously leaned forward. “I am just a ma.n.u.script writer. How could I become the a.s.sistant to the president?”

a.s.sistant to the president is a position similar to Rowen's, but Rowen's position is the president's secretary. He is about to take the a.s.sistant t.i.tle. To be honest, it was difficult for him to tell the difference between the secretary's and a.s.sistant's roles. But he knew that becoming a.s.sistant to the president meant he will have to always face Leonid in the future. No matter if he remembers him before or not, if he often hangs around Leonid in the future, it was hard to predict whether one day the other party will remember that unspeakable event.

Manager He smiled and responded: “The a.s.sistants of this type deal with a large amount of paperwork. Your ability is sufficient, and it's very convenient that you know Russian. Also, consider the promotional ma.n.u.scripts you are currently publis.h.i.+ng. If you are closer to the company's decision-makers, maybe you will get better a.s.signments, and the content you write will be better. Moreover…” Manager He smiled again. “Your salary will double after the transfer. Isn't it a happy event?”

Ren Zhouyuan saw that he would not accept any expression of refusal. He also knew that this matter was not a decision he could make. The people above have already settled things. It would not help him to focus more efforts here.

After being rea.s.signed to another post, Ren Zhouyuan had not had time to consider whether he should resign; someone had already came to help him move things to the office at the top.

After Ren Zhouyuan had reluctantly said goodbye to Kong Fei, he followed the manager to his new office.

Leonid's office area is located on the top floor of the entire office building. Ren Zhouyuan was only coming up here for the third time. Because the first two times he was too nervous, he had so many things in his heart that he didn't get to take a good look at the place until now. Ren Zhouyuan discovered that, except for Leonid's office, the outside office area only had Rowen's place and the new office he was about to move into.

That is to say, on this whole floor, it would usually only be him, Leonid, and Rowen.

Rowen, seeing he had come up, came over from his seat. After saying h.e.l.lo to him, he acted like an acquaintance who had known him for a long time. “Welcome, I guess there are new people in this place now. In the future, if there is anything you don't understand, you can ask me.” He winked at Ren Zhouyuan. “If I am out, you should go straight to find the boss. He would be very happy to answer all of your questions for you.”

Ren Zhouyuan smiled. It seemed Rowen's smile was contagious.

Rowen's plan didn't seem to just be say h.e.l.lo then leave. He also pulled a chair and sat beside the desk of Ren Zhouyuan. The whole person, like a boneless soft snake, lazily chatted with him.

Ren Zhouyuan had never seen anyone who acted so familiar with him as fast as Rowen. However, since he thinks that they were going to see each other a lot in the future, he didn't act cold or indifferent. Instead, Rowen would ask him a question and he would answer; listening a lot and saying little.

Rowen was also very curious about Ren Zhouyuan. Leonid has kept this person in mind for so many years. Just this is enough to make him curious, so he unconsciously said a lot.

He saw that Ren Zhouyuan's responses to his words were flat, so he thought a little before saying, "I don't know if you are familiar with Russians. In the future, you will always have to face a Russian boss. It is better to understand more."

Ren Zhouyuan heard him and raised his eyebrows. “Secretary Luo, have you been with the boss for a long time now?”

Rowen waved his hand: “Don't call me Secretary Luo, just call me Rowen.” He thought about it and said: “I have known him for five or six years. I basically can't even remember anymore. Don't worry about Leonid's facial paralysis. In fact, there is not much to it. It is very comfortable to work with him, so you should not be too nervous.”

Ren Zhouyuan nodded. He didn't know what the average secretary was like, but it was indeed hard to see someone like Rowe. No matter how good of a boss Leonid was, it is estimated that even he would not let such a… non-prestigious guy walk in front of him.

Ren Zhouyuan suspects that Rowen is particularly capable at his work, capable enough to make people ignore his shortcomings, or that there is someone powerful backing him, and his relations.h.i.+p with Leonid is not just something normal. Thinking about this, it even changed the way he looked at him.

Rowen didn't know what Ren Zhouyuan was thinking. He just strongly pushed the topic to be about Leonid. “I don't know if you have heard of the Russians' love and loyalty to their family. I have seen it with my own eyes. It is not a normal kind of scary!”

Ren Zhouyuan was organizing his things while p.r.i.c.king up his ears to listen to him.

“The boss, he has a brother. His brother has long been married. His wife is a very beautiful, big beauty. After the marriage, she even gave birth to a fat and healthy baby boy. Their family of three is the type that people would look upon with envy and hate.”

“But the most hateful thing is not their outwards appearance, but the way his brother pampers his wife and son!” Rowen said with saliva flying, slapping the table, and looking particularly angry. “Before, when I was just learning Russian, I heard that Russians have a special attachment to their family after marriage; but it's only after seeing it yourself that you know it's not just any kind of attachment! Alexis was a workaholic before marriage, someone who could work for 24 hours, but after marriage, he always went on time to work. He didn't stay even a minute after work, because he said that his time outside his work was his wife and son's.”

Ren Zhouyuan listened to his words and changed the person Rowen was talking about to have Leonid's face. He didn't know why but there was a sense of longing. In one corner of his heart, there was even an envy that he himself couldn't detect.

“It is really scary to be loved by Russians. It is a continuous sense of suffocation every minute of the day. They feel that the household is their responsibility. Please, who in this time period would talk about responsibility or what not.”