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The Ideal City

This is a work of fiction

Ep13

Chen.

Hi, Mr. Wang.

Chen,

stay at the office and wait for me.

I'll be back soon.

I need to tell you something.

I'm not in the office right now.

Su Xiao resigned.

We're holding a farewell party for her.

Who resigned?

Su Xiao.

Listen to me.

Just call me Donglin next time.

Follow my lead, okay?

Let's drink. Cheers.

Come on. Cheers.

But it's not sincere if you drink this.

Don't leave, Su Xiao.

I don't want you to go.

We can still see

each other a lot in the future.

You didn't tell me first.

I didn't even make preparations.

Here's a gift for you.

I really like it.

But I like you more.

That's why I trust you with it.

Then you're trusting the wrong person.

It's so cute. Thank you.

Let me tell you,

I have

cleared all the obstacles

on your path to promotion.

From now on, it's all on you.

Thank you, director.

Here. Cheers.

Here's to you.

People like Su Xiao

won't get promoted.

So never learn it from her.

Never, ever do that.

OK.

Come on.

Stop drinking.

Drink some water.

No water.

Come one.

Su Xiao, I have something to say.

I'm really grateful to you indeed.

Thank you for speaking for me.

I've always wanted to find a chance

to invite you to dinner.

Before I can find a chance, you're leaving.

But as the saying goes,

"Man struggles upwards."

TC Construction isn't good enough

for you.

If you ever need my help

in the future,

please don't hesitate to tell me.

I will definitely help you.

I've talked enough.

Here's to you.

Here's to you. Thanks.

Here's to you again.

Don't drink too much.

I'm okay.

No more left.

I'll find some and toast later.

Stay here.

Waiter. Waiter.

Get me some more alcohol.

Waiter.

Mr. Wang.

Why are you here?

Why didn't you tell us in advance?

Why didn't tell me before resigning?

I thought highly of you for nothing, Su Xiao.

Mr. Wang,

Su Xiao has her own

career pursuit.

Also,

she already found a new job.

Really?

What's your new job?

Is it better than what we offer?

I said long ago that you will

be promoted

to the manager of

the business contract department.

Open the wine.

Here, Mr. Wang.

From now on,

I will entrust you with the business contract

department.

Make yourself shine.

OK. I'll take the task.

Keep singing.

Come on. Keep singing.

Come on. Let's sing.

Let's sing.

Come on.

Come on.

No, sir.

Do you see the bus station?

Drive forward.

We'll wait for you by the road.

OK. Thank you.

It's so cold.

But I'm so happy.

Honestly,

I'm still astonished.

I don't know what challenge

is waiting for me in the future.

I don't know what challenge

you will face.

But,

can you give me back

my toy?

I won't. You already gifted it to me.

Why would I return it to you?

But that's my favorite toy.

If you don't give it back,

I'll wish you bad luck.

What bad luck?

I wish that you'll shine every day and love

TC Construction so much that you can't leave.

Good, then.

I won't ever have to worry

about missing the coffee

you make in a new company.

I'll make all your coffee in the future.

Zone A.

A blue SUV.

Be quick.

Mr. Wang.

Why didn't you tell me

that Su Xiao was resigning?

It's the company's rule

that if a manager resigns,

only the department manager's approval is needed.

I didn't know that you care so much.

If I did,

I would have informed you long ago.

Why did you approve when she

said that she would resign?

But she already found a new job.

Should I have said no?

Also, no matter how talented she is,

if she

doesn't want to stay in the company,

nothing helps, right?

Hello, I'm Wang.

Are you Mr. Wang with the number

ending in 1818?

Yes, I am.

I'm your designated driver.

OK.

Don't rush.

OK.

Alright, then.

Let's call it a day.

But Mr. Wang,

you can't suddenly promote her

just to keep her here.

In the future,

what if everyone

does that?

Also,

what should I tell Lu Zhengming?

He's been working hard for so many years.

He devoted so much to our company.

When such a loyal employee

isn't promoted,

the influence is very bad.

I was a bit impulsive indeed.

But I totally didn't mean to promote

Su Xiao out of nowhere.

I asked for many people's opinions.

Also, I did

call you, didn't I?

Dong Hong, the manager of the business department,

said that Su Xiao is a pioneering person

and that Lu Zhengming isn't good enough.

I didn't have time to talk to you.

Su Xiao resigned all of a sudden.

I was in such a hurry

that I announced the promotion.

But...

Did Dong Hong and the others really

think that Su Xiao fits the role?

Alright.

If it's the people's opinion,

that's for the best.

Alright.

I'll go back now.

You've worked hard.

Have an early night.

Alright, then.

Have an early night, too.

Slow down.

Slow down.

Come on.

Let me open the door.

OK.

Slow down.

OK.

Travel safe.

Hello.

Bro.

What's wrong with you?

What did you promise me?

Bro.

Take it easy.

Listen to me.

That day,

the manager asked me about it.

In the beginning, I praised

Zhengming so much.

But I felt that Mr. Wang

looked more and more gloomy.

I thought that I can't praise him.

It was obvious that Mr. Wang had made up his mind.

I can't go against him, bro.

I'm not like you.

You're childhood friends with him.

You've known each other for decades.

He may humor you sometimes.

But will he humor me even just a little bit?

Bro, in my opinion,

you didn't do it well.

Mr. Wang likes Su Xiao.

That's almost written on his face.

He wanted to promote Su Xiao,

but also didn't want to put you in a difficult situation.

That's why he was stalling.

He wanted you to bring it up

but you didn't.

Instead, you named Zhengming.

Bro, listen.

It doesn't matter who is promoted.

It matters if you cross Mr. Wang.

You know nothing.

Why don't I know anything, bro?

Actually,

the manager of the business contract

department is just a position.

everyone else is

trained by you in the whole department.

Can't you deal with one difficult person?

You're right.

Bro, then talk to Mr. Wang

properly.

You're childhood friends.

That's so precious.

Don't distant him

because of trivia.

Alright. I know.

Mr. Wang.

Chen.

Why didn't you drive?

My mother-in-law is getting a follow-up check.

My wife took the car.

Buy a new one, then.

Tell me if you need money.

Thank you, then.

Come on.

We've been friends for so long.

Mr. Wang,

I thought about it last night.

I think you're right.

The business contract department

does need

a pioneering manager.

I'm glad that you understand.

It's not that I didn't value

your opinion in promoting Su Xiao.

Also, I didn't mean to

interfere with your management.

Su Xiao has

a big disadvantage.

She can't manage.

You need to tutor her.

Rest assured, Mr. Wang.

Trust me with that.

Of course, I trust you.

Okay, I see.

I'll bring it to you later on.

I still have something to do.

Xu Xiao.

Director.

Come here.

Do you know how to fill it in?

Yes.

Take it back and fill it in.

I have talked to people

from the HR department.

Once you hand in the promotion form,

they will appoint you immediately.

Thank you, Director Chen.

It's alright.

Honestly, Mr. Wang appointed me

all of a sudden.

Yesterday, I was just baffled.

I'm glad that you

can stay.

You'll be in charge of

the business contract department.

It'll save me some trouble.

What's wrong, Director Chen?

I'm alright.

Fill in the form now.

What's wrong? Tell me.

Do you remember

yesterday's candidate?

What's the matter?

He's so funny.

Bankrupted?

Oh my god.

That's so horrible.

That's it.

Okay.

Bye-bye.

This is Su Xiao's promotion form.

I told you to find an assistant for the president.

How's it going?

But hasn't Mr. Xu came back?

Why do you care if he is back or not?

Do as you're told.

What about Mr. Xu?

I see.

I need to attend a meeting.

Contact headhunters

as soon as possible.

You must find me a candidate by Saturday.

Right.

We're running out of fresh milk

in the tea room's fridge.

Tell the administration department to get more soon.

Check this report for me.

Just a moment.

It's been such a long while since

I drank tea made by you, President.

Come on.

Do you think

that I made kungfu tea for you?

This is all you get.

It's good.

Taste it. What do you think?

I especially got the water from

Longhua Mountain.

Longhua Mountain?

It's so good.

But I don't know if it can

make my mind pure.

If only I can get land

around there

and build some Chinese style villas.

People will be mad about it.

You only think about buying land.

Lin Xiaoming, VP of Yinghai Group and GM of its Real Estate Company

I can't do anything else, President.

We started late

and really don't have enough land reserve.

Think about the land reserve

of those real estate companies.

They have over 100 million square meters.

We don't even have 10 million.

If things go on like this,

we will only be further behind.

There's no unused land

available in central Shanghai.

Outside central Shanghai,

we can't compete with nation enterprises.

Every time I think about it,

I can't sleep.

How about your research on

the market outside Shanghai?

I've made some progress.

But in the early stages,

we need...

Come on.

You only meet me for two reasons.

It's either land or money.

Only you understand me, President.

But Gao Jin doesn't understand me.

The annualized rate of return of

an intercompany loan is 11 percent.

With this interest rate,

I might as well go to a bank.

But Gao Jin

complies with market rules.

He's in charge of the department of investment and finance now.

He has an annual target, too.

that's not the same.

The real estate company is

the true son of the group.

The true son has to pay the same rate as others

when asking for a loan from the father.

Do you think it's reasonable, President?

I'll talk to Gao Jin tomorrow.

I was waiting for that.

President,

it's time for the meeting.

Let's go, Xiaomin.

Let's attend the meeting.

OK.

Recently, my blood pressure

is fine.

But over here,

my heart beats weirdly.

Sometimes,

it causes palpitation.

Mr. Tong, let's switch seats.

Have a seat.

Why are you not seated, Wang Yang?

I just arrived, President.

We're all brothers.

It's normal that we argue.

However,

don't let it damage our trust.

I understand, President.

I call a meeting today mainly

to announce the result of

the inner audit of TK Construction

and the punishment on Xu Feng for his actions

against the rules during

the auditing.

Let's begin, Zhiping.

Xu Zhiping, Chief Financial Manager of Yinghai Group

First, I will announce the result

of the audit of TK Construction.

Du Yongbo, manager of the business contract department

of TK Construction

seriously violated the rules.

He stepped over the bottom line.

Because we are in desperate times,

we decided to fire him and ask him

to refund the 200 thousand RMB he misappropriated.

Lilin.

What do you want to say?

I was careless in management

and added to your trouble.

I'm glad that you realize your

mistakes.

I won't punish you this time.

If it happens again,

I will double the punishment.

Thank you for your magnanimity, President.

Go on, Zhiping.

Next, I'll talk about

the result of Xu Feng acting against the rules.

Speaking about this,

I have to reflect on myself first.

I've always been in charge of auditing.

Xu Feng led the team for the first time.

As a department manager,

I didn't give

him proper guidance

and didn't supervise him.

The result is that he leaked

TK Construction's data to Su Xiao

from TC Construction during the auditing.

It resulted in the two companies' dispute

in a bid on a globally leading project.

I hereby

apologize to Manager Huang from TK Construction

and Mr. Wang

from TC Construction.

Xu,

what does it have to do with you?

Don't take the blame.

Xu,

it has nothing to do with you.

Sit down, everyone.

Although it's an internal audit,

we have to severely punish Xu Feng

for acting against the rules.

I finished.

I have two ideas

for your reference.

We all know

the story of Xu Feng

leaking the data.

To be honest,

even if he showed me

the income statement,

I wouldn't figure out

TK Construction's

profit margin.

That's the first.

Second,

I think that Xu Feng did

meritorious deeds when auditing

TK Construction.

He found evidence

of Du Yongbo misappropriating.

If we erase his credit

just because of

an honest mistake,

we will be unfair in my mind.

Also, it will be a bad example.

If so, every competent employee

will fear to do something wrong

in the future and only

think about protecting personal interests.

Right?

What do you mean, Xiaomin?

Do you mean that

in the future, we can disobey

the rules of the group

and do whatever we want?

Huang,

I meant that he made achievements

as well as mistakes.

What do you think then?

How should we punish him?

I'm not thinking about anything.

I'm just judging on its merits.

We have to decide together

how to punish him, right?

I just wanted to say

don't sentence him

because of one mistake.

What do you think, President?

Xu Feng

has been my assistant

for four years.

Honestly, I depend on him.

But he has made a mistake.

He shouldn't keep

being the assistant

of the president.

I think

this is the biggest punishment for him.

Good then. I still need a manager

in the property department.

President,

just hand him over to me.

I'll train him.

Lilin,

are you willing to offer Xu Feng

a chance to correct his mistakes?

Come on, President.

I obey all decisions made

by leaders in the group.

It's a warning to punish individuals,

not a purpose.

The purpose of an internal audit

is to make managers

of companies like us

to reflect upon ourselves.

When our company is making rapid developments,

have we developed the system?

Have we developed a corresponding mindset?

Judging from the result of the internal audit,

we need to go back

and make up for our defects.

Donglin, help me carry it.

But I'm playing games.

Help me.

You can play games later on.

I'm about to clear.

Dear beauty,

ask someone else for help.

Su Xiao,

you have so many materials.

Thank you, Du Juan.

This is so great.

From now on,

I don't have to listen

to the flushing ever again.

Your ambitions are so low.

Come on. Let me do it.

About the guy I mentioned...

I know.

...you have to take care of him.

You're right.

Director Xia.

Mr. Xu.

What do you want?

The president wants to see you.

Me?

Give a thief rope enough and he will hang himself.

I heard that you want to see me, President.

You're here.

When I was young,

I watched a lot of

martial arts films.

I liked them a lot at that time.

I thought that I should

be like those heroes

and become a lone ranger.

Then, I started a business

and understood

the truth is that many hands

make light work.

The strength of one man is limited.

Only with the strength of a group of people

can we do something big.

Look.

These people were in Yinghai

when we started the business.

This is your uncle.

He was very fat.

He likes chatting and boasting.

When we had dinner together,

only he talked from beginning to end.

He's like that, indeed.

When I was a kid, I really liked

him visiting.

It was lively with him present.

Sit down.

At that time, the eight of us

were called

buddha's eight warrior attendants.

To win the bid on the Shenyang project,

the eight of us took turns in it.

Your uncle

played the role of a Hong Kong businessman

and bought

a fake gold chain weighing over half a kilo.

When he

wore it and sweat, his neck became yellow.

He needed to wipe it.

I laugh whenever I think about that.

In the end,

we won the bid.

The seven of us negotiated

and decided to buy a real one

for your uncle.

A real gold chain.

Finally, I know how he

got his gold chain.

That was our first project.

We didn't have experience

and didn't make much money.

We used half

the profit to buy him that gold chain.

Your uncle cried.

That was the first time I saw him cry.

It was also the only time.

Time

is really weird.

Sometimes, we only remember

that it's uncomfortable

when the upper teeth knock against the lower teeth.

We forget

the times when they work together.

The biggest advantage of your uncle

is that he's not well educated.

He isn't bound by restrictions

and doesn't play by the rules.

So, he always has

some unexpected ideas.

His biggest disadvantage

is also not being well-educated.

He usually doesn't follow the rules.

When you're restrained by the rules, you can't succeed.

When you don't follow the rules,

you can't succeed, either.

You're different.

You're one of the few people

I've seen who can

combine education with real life.

You think too highly of me, President.

I'm not.

Join the group.

I hope that you can join the group.

For now,

get some experience by being the deputy chief

financial manager.

President.

There's no rush.

Don't hesitate to reply.

I know how much

TK Construction has changed since you

joined it.

I also know very well

how much trouble you caused

to Xu Feng's auditing.

Go back

and have a good talk with your uncle.

What does he want from you?

Does he want to settle with you?

Speak. Why are you looking at me?

I am so worried.

Take it easy.

Let me clear my mind, okay?

He had a conversation with me today

for three purposes.

The first one is to talk about the old days.

He showed me the pictures of you guys

from the past

and told me how you got

the gold chain.

It means that

he is nostalgic.

He remembers the good old days

when you started the business together.

The second purpose is to warn us.

He knows exactly

what we did.

The third purpose...

You are doing that again.

What's the third purpose?

I still don't understand what he means.

He told me to join the group and become

the deputy chief financial manager.

Xiao, congratulations

on being promoted.

Thanks, Hongmei.

Another.

Don't drink too much.

Don't end up hugging Xiao Ming

and won't let go just like last time.

Don't mention his name.

He is too deceitful and cunning.

He used me as a tool

against Xu Feng.

Although he used you in the beginning,

he did help you later on.

He made a phone call

and immediately changed

your situation at TC Construction.

Right?

But why did you

change your mind in the end?

Anyways, there I was.

I can only take the bull by the horns.

I might as well stay

and see if I can

fight my way.

You made the right choice to stay.

It's the same wherever you go.

We don't the right

to pick a boss.

Right?

We can only adapt to that.

Yeah.

For example, Chen Siming

is annoying to me indeed.

But Lu Zhengming is grateful

to Chen for his encouragement.

That day, Mr. Wang was

so eager to keep me in the company

that he didn't hesitate to put

Chen Siming on the spot in front of everyone.

He must be sincere.

So, I'll just bite the bullet

and take the job.

This is your style indeed, Xiao.

I can't.

Are you alright?

I'm fine.

Don't lie to me.

Do you know it?

My first impression of you

came from a dinner party held by

the student union in our faculty.

I thought that you

look so quiet.

How did you manage to drink so much?

Just so so.

Are you alright?

I'm okay.

Right.

Zhou Jun and you

met at that party.

Xiao,

there's one thing

that I've been thinking about.

I think

that I should tell you.

Tell me.

Maybe Zhou Jun will have a wedding.

Why do you need to think about that?

He has nothing to do with me now.

Right. My Xiao

will find a better partner for sure.

Right.

What's wrong?

Thank you, Bei.

Because of you, I feel that Shanghai

isn't a concrete jungle

and I don't feel lonely.

Stay with me forever.

Okay?

You dumb.

Let's stay together all our lives,

okay?

Du,

I'm here.

Am I handsome?

You're very handsome.

But you still have to work hard.

Don't be snooty.

Otherwise, others will say

that you're good for nothing except for being handsome.

Other people are all experienced.

Only your life is defined by

nothing else but the word handsome.

You've been enduring

the handsomeness which is too heavy for someone at your age.

It's so tiring.

You can really talk.

A message from Xia Ming

Congrats on the promotion!

Thanks

You should thank you properly

Rubbish.

Because you haven't complimented me

enough.

Morning, Du Juan.

You look so pretty today.

Good morning, Manager Su.

Are you wearing lipstick today?

Do I look good?

Yes.

Where are they?