Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 380 - 343: Interview, Awkwardness 1

Bai Sixian felt truly upset.

Her father had raised her to adulthood, and yet she left him for love, not having fulfilled her filial duties for over twenty years.

She couldn’t do much for her father, yet he constantly thought of her...

"I knew you have a kind heart. Originally, I didn’t want to help your brother. Look at me, at my age, he comes to find me when there’s a problem... But your son-in-law has spoken up to help, and if I do nothing... it wouldn’t be right, would it?"

Bai Sixian shook her head, "You’re already at the age where you should be enjoying life, you shouldn’t have to worry about these things."

"Right, even Dad feels that way. Come, let’s go down and give your brother a hard time!"

Bai Fengmao pulled Bai Sixian’s hand, smiling as they went downstairs.

Bai Sixian’s heart was a mixture of emotions, both sour and sweet.

Thinking about it, having such a father, a husband like Su Chengji, a daughter like Xiao Meng, and a son-in-law like Yin Shixiu...

It’s a good stroke of luck.

Yin Shixiu and Su Xiaomeng’s family stayed on Jiuling Mountain until the fifth day before descending.

After coming down from the mountain, Yin Shixiu immediately started arranging the collaborative project on new energy vehicles.

Although Yin Group had invested in many projects, this was their first venture into the automotive industry.

Internally, the company also needed to make personnel adjustments to create a team to follow up on this project.

Meanwhile, Su Xiaomeng began adjusting herself to prepare for the Bath interview.

The Bath interview was roughly divided into four parts:

introduction, presentation, sight translation, and questions from the interviewers.

The only parts Xiao Meng could control were the introduction and the presentation, but ironically, the most heavily weighted parts were the latter two.

Yin Shixiu was very busy recently, and Xiao Meng knew that, but she still clung to Yin Shixiu for presentation practice.

"You’ve repeated it five or six times, aren’t you thirsty?"

Yin Shixiu leaned against the headboard, looking at Su Xiaomeng, who was sitting cross-legged in front of him, seriously reciting her prepared script and seemingly ready to go through it once more.

"I’m not familiar with it, I always get stuck at a point... I’m practically stupid!"

Su Xiaomeng angrily pounded the bed.

"Recite it again tomorrow, don’t rush."

"The interview is the day after tomorrow, how can I not be anxious?"

Su Xiaomeng picked up the water by the bed, took a big gulp, and took a deep breath, "One more time, listen closely, I’m telling you, if anything goes wrong during the interview, it’s all your fault."

"Wife, you can’t be so unreasonable."

"Are you listening or not?"

"... Listening."

Besides the presentation practice, she also practiced sight translation many times, but the results were never ideal.

The Chinese to English translation was okay, but the English to Chinese was always unsatisfactory.

Thus, on the day of the interview, Xiao Meng was still filled with trepidation.

Yin Shixiu looked at her, puzzled, and asked, "You’ve prepared for so long, what do you have to worry about? Have some confidence in yourself, okay?"

Su Xiaomeng sat in the car, glanced at him, said nothing, and just muttered, "How can you understand the unease of a poor student suddenly turning into a top student..."

After muttering, she closed her eyes, refusing to say another word, fearing she wouldn’t be able to unleash her full potential during the interview.

Yin Shixiu knew she was nervous and didn’t disturb her further as the car pulled into Beijing University’s parking lot.

The interview was held in the sight translation room at Beijing University.

It was said that out of those who passed the written test, there were eighty people in total, and only half would pass this interview.

As they got out of the car, Yin Shixiu carried her bag, intending to accompany her. Su Xiaomeng grabbed her bag quickly, drew a line between them with her hand, and said, "Stop, Mr. Yin, you can retreat now."

Yin Shixiu raised an eyebrow, "Aren’t you nervous? Don’t want me to accompany you?"

"With you by my side, I’ll be even more nervous, okay!"

Su Xiaomeng hurriedly said.

Yin Shixiu touched his nose, "Are you sure?"

"I’m a hundred percent sure! Isn’t the company really busy recently? You should hurry back to work, and when it’s over, I’ll call a cab home."

Su Xiaomeng said as she waved both hands to shoo him away.

Yin Shixiu just felt a bit embarrassed as a husband being dismissed like this by his wife.

"Okay, okay, off you go."

Yin Shixiu looked at her, sighed lightly, stepped forward to hug her waist and said, "Relax a bit, don’t be too nervous. The interviewers’ details are public, the one you’re most worried about, the one with the Indian accent, isn’t participating, right?"

"You’ve prepared very well, just perform normally."

"Mm."

"I’ll just stroll around the campus, call me when it’s over."

"... Mm."

"Then... off you go."

Yin Shixiu released her, and Su Xiaomeng’s anxious heart slowly calmed down...

She looked at Yin Shixiu, the sunlight was right above his head, its warmth penetrated his eyes, giving her strength and confidence.

She turned, stood tall, and walked forward with large strides! Be brave, be confident, treat the interviewers like stones! Yes!

Come to think of it, clothing is neat enough, hair is tied neatly, pen is brought, ID card is brought, interview notification... the interview notification... Did I bring it?

In the second before, Yin Shixiu watched Su Xiaomeng confidently walk forward, and in the next second, he saw someone running back like the wind without any image!

She bent over, gasping for breath, "Inter... interview notification! Left... left on the seat!"

Yin Shixiu opened the car door, the interview notification was indeed left on the car...

He took it out and passed it to her. Su Xiaomeng grabbed it and ran to the teaching building, looking a bit flustered.

Yin Shixiu chuckled lightly, it seemed more like Su Xiaomeng.

A bit rash, not very reassuring, yet... always surprising everyone.

Yin Shixiu glanced at his watch, looked around the Beijing University campus, ready to stroll around, and turned around only to encounter... a familiar face.

"Arthur!"

Walking towards Yin Shixiu was a British man about as tall as Yin Shixiu.

High nose bridge, blue eyes, white skin...

His figure was tall and fit, and the grey coat reaching his knee bend accentuated his aristocratic aura.

"Eric..."

The man’s full name was Eric Windsor, a native of... London.

The two had known each other since high school, and later got into the same university, same major.

Then they started a business together...

But how did their relationship fall apart...

Hmm, Yin Shixiu thought about it, it seemed to start when he stole Eric’s girlfriend...

But then, it seems she got stolen back again?

Too young back then, as the years passed, really hard to recall.

However... he didn’t forget that Eric was quite petty, inheriting the stubborn and rigid traits of a Londoner unreservedly.

Counting it up, in the past ten years, they had only met two or three times at most.

Even though Bill was Eric’s uncle, during the project talks between Yin Group and Bill Company, Eric never showed up.

"Fancy seeing you! You really haven’t changed a bit."

Eric had exceptional language skills, fluent in Chinese, English, and French, and could speak seven or eight languages.

Speaking Chinese at that moment sounded perfectly natural, without any awkwardness of foreigners pronouncing it.

"You do look a lot older."

Yin Shixiu chuckled lightly, reached out his hand, and they shook hands.

"Haha, you still just can’t say anything good!"

"Why are you at Beijing University?"

Yin Shixiu had a bad feeling.

"Arthur, your wife is here for the interview, didn’t you check who the interviewers are?"

Indeed, a bad feeling...

"The admissions project for Bath in China is managed by me, I came to China to handle some matters, and coincidentally, an interviewer was absent, so I stepped in."

"Why aren’t you speaking?"

"Feels like there’s nothing worth saying."

"Shouldn’t you be trying to butter me up, isn’t your wife one of the students being interviewed?"

Yin Shixiu chuckled lightly, "Her abilities speak for themselves, she doesn’t need me to pull strings."

"Oh? You’re quite confident, aren’t you."

Eric stroked his chin and laughed, "I didn’t come in vain then, excited to see what kind of young lady she is to have caught you under her spell so quickly."

"Under her spell..."

"Yeah, under her spell. How’s that, Arthur, isn’t my Chinese becoming more native?"

"Aren’t you almost late?"

Yin Shixiu showed him his watch.

"Oh, indeed, but... no rush, Su Xiaomeng seems to be placed around number forty something?"

"Eric."

"Hm?"

"Be fair, don’t give her a hard time."

Yin Shixiu sighed.

Eric patted his shoulder, "Relax, your wife, I surely won’t give her a hard time."

Watching Eric’s departing figure, Yin Shixiu leaned against the car...

This is... awkward.

It’s true, people should never be too arrogant at any time, back then impulsive youth only goes forth without thinking. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Offending people was commonplace.

Now, here comes the reckoning.

Even if Su Xiaomeng fails the interview, he wouldn’t feel too bad, as all efforts that could be made have been made.

But this girl has been trying hard recently, as she would put it...

Just transformed from being a study slacker to a study master...

If she finds out her failure is due to his personal vendetta with the interviewer...

The thought made Yin Shixiu’s scalp tingle.

But now, even with intention, he lacks the energy to fix it.

How could it be Eric?

Su Xiaomeng registered and went to the waiting room.

There were a total of three waiting rooms, with seats designated according to the examination numbers.

Xiao Meng was in the second classroom, as she stepped in, she was overwhelmed with an intense... academic atmosphere.

Who wasn’t holding a stack of documents, flipping and memorizing even at the last moment.

Su Xiaomeng instinctively touched her bag...

Evidently, she hadn’t brought any revision materials, just a presentation script.

This was awkward...

Feeling tense due to the atmosphere, Xiao Meng found a seat.

Sitting on her right was a genteel-looking boy with notably thick glasses, seemingly two years older than her.