Spoiled by the CEO after amnesia!-Chapter 84 - 82: The Vampire Who Deducts Wages

"The CEO’s office is the room at the very end." A polite assistant said.

Jiayi replied, "Thank you." Then, clutching the documents tightly, she walked toward the CEO’s office door.

When she reached the door, she hesitated for a moment.

After returning to the country, due to some backlog of work, she had gone to her apartment alone after getting off the plane, while Huo Zhenyang had returned to the company and had not been back to the apartment for several days.

Today was the first time she was seeing him.

Why was her little heart pounding so nervously?

No, it definitely wasn’t because she was excited to see him.

It must be because of nerves about the new environment.

Finally, she calmed down and knocked gently on the door, "President, I’ve brought the bidding report."

"Come in." The familiar voice was cool, steady, indifferent, and very authoritative.

She twisted the doorknob and entered.

The spacious and bright floor-to-ceiling windows offered an unobstructed view of the city’s grand scenery.

Behind the embossed gold walnut desk, Huo Zhenyang’s silhouette was tall and robust in a suit, his handsome profile relaxing at the sight of the girl entering, his eyes lifting slightly with a smile that was not quite a smile.

"President, this is the bid prepared by the secretarial department, please take a look. If there’s nothing else, I’ll go back to work."

"Is that how your supervisor taught you to deliver documents? Seems like I need to have a good talk with your supervisor," Huo Zhenyang said, arms raised, cushioning his head behind them, lazy yet teasing.

Just like a little rabbit, quick to run away.

Several days without seeing each other, and she thinks she can just slip away under his watch?

Jiayi bit her lip, thinking what kind of game was he playing now—just a document delivery, drop it off and that’s it, what else did he want?

She was just a newly hired secretary, responsible for running errands and doing odd jobs; surely he couldn’t expect her to report the contents of the documents, right?!

Although her mind was full of complaints about him, her mouth was still respectful: "Then may I ask if the President has any other instructions?"

"At least, you should first give a general overview of the document to your supervisor," the man’s voice still carried a teasing tone.

Doesn’t he have eyes to read it himself?

Is he blind or illiterate that he needs someone else to read for him?

Jiayi almost rolled her eyes to the back of her head, but she could only slowly approach, pick up the bidding document, open the first page, and start reading.

It was a real estate bidding document with many professional terms and quite a few lengthy sets of data. Jiayi had never encountered anything like it before, and of course, she was not familiar at the beginning and stumbled through it.

Huo Zhenyang frowned incessantly as he listened. If it had been any other secretary or assistant, and they had read it like this, he would have exploded in rage by now, throwing the document in their face and telling them to get out.

In business matters, he was always utterly unsparing.

But with this little one in front of him, he unexpectedly had an abundance of patience.

He even interrupted her midway to correct her pronunciation of a few bidding terms.

As Jiayi read, she also had to be taught and corrected, her cheeks turning red with embarrassment as she silently pouted—knowing full well she was not familiar with it, he shouldn’t have made her read.

At last, she had finished giving a rough overview of the document.

She let out a sigh of relief and put down the document, "President, is that all?"

He lifted his lips unsympathetically, "With your business skills, at least half of your salary for this month should be deducted."

Jiayi was shocked, "Are you... joking?"

Huo Zhenyang shrugged, "In business, I never joke. Later, I’ll make an internal call to the HR accounting department."

Jiayi was confused, wasn’t this capitalist behavior? Too despicable!

This time, a big part of her willingness to join the headquarters was to finally get the salary she could hold in her hands.

At JJ, she was basically working for free, unable to even get her hands on a salary card.

But during her first two days at headquarters, under Huo Zhenyang’s instruction, George gave her the salary card, saying that her monthly salary would be credited to her bank account from now on, and she could keep it herself.

She guessed that Huo Zhenyang must have grown "fond" of her, thinking she would no longer run around, so he felt reassured.

When she joined JJ, she always made a fuss about wanting to find her family. But now, finding her family was temporarily difficult, and she hadn’t mentioned it much, so Huo Zhenyang also felt assured letting her manage some money.

No matter how one is raised, having money is, of course, good.

But now, this despicable man intended to dock half a month’s salary just because she had read a document wrong?

She was a newcomer, just started working, her monthly salary was already the lowest wage standard, and now it’s going to be cut?

"I’ve just joined the group for less than half a day, it’s very normal not to be familiar with the business yet, aren’t you being too harsh?" she couldn’t help protesting.

Even a landlord wasn’t as exploitative as this.

Seeing her lose her temper, Huo Zhenyang said indifferently, "In the workplace, yelling and gesticulating at your direct superior, not even using the correct form of address, I’ll consider the remaining salary and how much more needs to be deducted."

"..." Her eyes widened in disbelief.

Is this man even human? He must be a vampire, right?

Speaking of which, he gave her the salary card, allowing her to control it freely, but in the end, he still looked for opportunities to deduct it all!

She was fuming, her fair little face turning red.

It seemed this man was truly ruthless in business, not giving face to anyone.

If he found more faults, her first month’s salary could very well go down the drain!

"Deducting salary is a minor matter. The purpose is to make you aware of your shortcomings at work, so you can improve your business skills. Otherwise, you will never progress," he stated emphatically.

Deducting salary is a minor matter?

Such words could only be spoken by someone like him, who was pampered and lofty, who never had to worry about money!

But all she could do was temporarily swallow her pride, "Okay, President, if there’s nothing else, then I’ll leave now."

"That’s more like a secretary’s attitude. You may go," Huo Zhenyang said with slightly narrowed eyes, closing the bidding report and quietly observing her. Her face could barely conceal the disappointment and dejection.

Having received permission to leave, she was about to head towards the door but then remembered something. She hesitated, "Walking towards the main door, her hand just lifted, about to touch the handrail, she heard the man’s voice from behind, authoritarian and indisputable as always:

"After you finish your work, go to the restaurant on the thirtieth floor for lunch."

The restaurant on the thirtieth floor? That’s the restaurant for the company’s upper management.

The regular staff restaurant is on the twenty-fifth floor.

Jiayi hesitated, not wanting to stand out from the others for fear of gossip.

Besides, when she had come up to deliver documents in place of Yue Lan, she had noticed the looks Yue Lan and two others had given her very clearly.

She did not want to make enemies in a new environment and turned back to say, "There’s no need, President, I’ve already made plans to have lunch with En’en."

Huo Zhenyang’s eyebrows twitched slightly as he said indifferently, "No problem, you can invite her along and come up to eat."