Sheng Yan shrank back quickly after getting a glare from her and closed the office door. Only then did Feng Qing finally get a chance to drink the water she had been longing for since morning.
Feng Qing quickly finished her breakfast, tidied up the desk by herself, and then returned to her desk to call Assistant Qi on the internal line.
"I'm going to the shopping mall this morning. Come with me when you're free."
"Sure."
Feng Qing quickly hung up the phone and started looking through the documents again. She was gradually getting familiar with the company's affairs. Normally, she didn't need help. But since this was her first time going to the shopping mall, she still needed Assistant Qi to accompany her. Assistant Qi would tell her some specific details.
"The situation of the shopping mall doesn't seem good?" Feng Qing and Assistant Qi showed up at the shopping mall. They strolled in front of each store like ordinary shoppers, observing the situation of each store.
It wasn't a weekday today, but the small number of customers was really abnormal. Even though Feng Qing didn't know the previous situation of the shopping mall, she could tell there was a problem just by looking.
Assistant Qi knew this couldn't be hidden and had to tell the truth. "It wasn't like this in previous years. The situation of the shopping mall has been much worse since the Jinyue Business District opened for business a year ago."
Feng Qing knew about the Jinyue Business District. It was not far from the shopping mall, so it was inevitable that the customer flow would be dispersed. But there must be other reasons.
"If this is your final answer, I'll be very disappointed in you."
Assistant Qi felt a bit embarrassed. "The Marketing Department is partly responsible."
"Probably not just that." Feng Qing carefully observed and compared the situation of each store. After making a mental note, she returned to the company.
As soon as she got back to the company, Feng Qing asked the Marketing Department and the Off - line Operation Department to submit reports. After carefully comparing the specific information of the products in the shopping mall, she had an idea in mind.
When Sheng Yan came back in the afternoon, he saw Feng Qing still looking at something. As soon as he entered the office, he sprawled on the reception sofa. Watching Feng Qing work seriously, he just laughed beside her.
Feng Qing endured it again and again. Finally, after rolling her eyes, she spoke up. "Can you stop making noise?"
Sheng Yan turned over on the sofa, propped his head up, and looked at Feng Qing teasingly. "Silence is never a necessary condition for work. If you can only work in a quiet environment, you're not a good leader."
After hearing his teasing, Feng Qing stared into Sheng Yan's eyes expressionlessly. "I'm not annoyed by the noise, I'm annoyed by you."
"You said you wanted to be an assistant during the interview. Now that your wish has come true, is this how you work?"
She had never worked before, but this time she was really shocked. There was actually an assistant who was more high - profile than the boss. How could the boss be working diligently while the assistant was lying around leisurely?
After hearing what she said, Sheng Yan immediately got up from the sofa. He was dissatisfied with Feng Qing's evaluation of him. "I just came back from the factory. I've been working hard, but you make me sound like I'm good for nothing. Do you really think I'm some idle rich kid?"
After hearing what he said, Feng Qing stopped what she was doing, propped her chin up, and looked at Sheng Yan seriously. She even nodded seriously as if she was listening.
It seemed like she was listening to Sheng Yan seriously, but in Sheng Yan's eyes, she was being sarcastic.
She just knew how to annoy him!
"Of course I know you're capable. So tell me, is the low customer flow in the shopping mall related to the Jinyue Business District?"
Sheng Yan suddenly laughed. He wondered why she was so full of resentment. So this was where she was waiting for him.
The Jinyue Business District was actually promoted and established by him when his elder brother was recuperating last year. He used to be a businessman. In the same position as Feng Qing, all he could think about was annexation.
"One should do one's job well in one's position. Isn't the success of the Jinyue Business District a proof of my ability?" Sheng Yan shrugged his shoulders, feeling proud of his successful past without any intention of shirking.
Feng Qing nodded, very much in agreement with him. She said meaningfully, "One should do one's job well in one's position. Now that you're in Fengxing, your past achievements in Shengshi don't count as your real ability. If you really want to show more convincing achievements, that's your real skill."
Sheng Yan looked at her business - like expression and the kind of mercilessness unique to a businessman. He thought Feng Qing had really grown a lot recently.
"Looks like I have to use my own spear to pierce my own shield now?" Sheng Yan asked Feng Qing rhetorically and laughed under her cold gaze.
By now, he couldn't even get angry at her mercilessness. He was already very used to her coldness.
"I'll follow your decision."
At first, Feng Qing wanted to improve the situation of the shopping mall in her own way. But every time she was annoyed by the noise made by Sheng Yan, she suddenly realized that an important step in improving the shopping mall was to compete with the Jinyue Business District.
But she had never done in - depth research on the Jinyue Business District. Naturally, she couldn't compare with the person who initiated it. She trusted Sheng Yan and believed that he wouldn't show favoritism just because the Jinyue Business District was his own creation.
And the result was really good, even better than she expected. The shopping mall first sorted out its own problems and made improvements, and then started to compete externally. The effect was really good.
Innovation is the core competitiveness of an enterprise.
For some time, most of the company's employees had been busy with the shopping mall issue and sacrificed a lot of their personal time. After all the innovations were on the right track, Feng Qing gave the employees a paid vacation.
Considering that Assistant Qi and Sheng Yan weren't in those departments, Feng Qing also asked Assistant Qi and Sheng Yan to go on a team - building activity with the Marketing Department.
Feng Qing wasn't the kind of person who liked to play around with others. So instead of joining the department's team - building activities, she preferred to go to the hospital to accompany her father.
However, Sheng Yan was really mean. He deliberately went to the hospital saying he was there to report work, but actually told Feng Shengyang that Feng Qing was unsociable.
"You can't be like this. Both Xiao Qi and Xiao Sheng are going. You might as well go with them."
Sheng Yan had contributed a lot to the improvement of the shopping mall's situation. Just because of this one thing, Sheng Yan had passed the assessment with Feng Shengyang. Now Feng Shengyang thought very highly of Sheng Yan and was completely on Sheng Yan's side.
Feng Qing endured the urge to roll her eyes at Sheng Yan in front of her father. She still said to her father, "Dad, I finally have some free time to spend more time with you, but you're not happy about it."
"You should go out to relax and have fun when you're free. What's the point of staying with an old man like me?"
"The chairman is right." Sheng Yan stood beside them. While 'flattering' Feng Shengyang, he didn't forget to tell on Feng Qing. "Moreover, the general manager has been living in the company recently. The company has almost become her home."
Since he joined the company, Feng Qing had lived in the company for twenty - five days out of a month. He hardly ever saw Feng Qing go back to her own home. That lounge in the company had really become her home in Luocheng.
Feng Qing glared at him. "You're the only one who talks."
Such things shouldn't have been known by her father. Her father would worry if he knew. She was afraid that Assistant Qi would tell her father about this when reporting work, so she specifically told Assistant Qi not to. Who would have thought that Assistant Qi didn't say anything, but Sheng Yan did.
She shouldn't have let Sheng Yan go to the hospital to see her father!
After repeated persuasion from Feng Shengyang, Feng Qing finally relented and decided to go on the team - building activity with them.
The day before the team - building activity, since they would be away for a few days, Feng Qing was going back to her home to pack her things.
Assistant Qi suddenly asked her, "Do you want to drive there by yourself?"
Sheng Yan was also there. Seeing Assistant Qi's suggestion, he immediately felt a sense of alarm. He also stepped forward in front of Feng Qing and volunteered, "Let me do it. I'll drive."