When all eyes were on me, the damn “inferiority complex and timidity” instantly made me lower my head again!
I didn't know why, but growing up, I was particularly afraid of being in public and being stared at.
Timid, unconfident, wanting to run away, unable to even speak.
“Oh, he is a new employee of our company. Uncle Lau, his words were wrong, please don’t mind.”
Clara hurriedly said in a roundabout way.
“Heh, I am happy that this boy defended you!”
Director Lau patted me on the shoulder and said with a smile in his eyes.
“By the way, you really don’t know the Stone Family?
That can't be right. “General Grey.” is the Stone Family's exclusive secret formula!”
Not being very good at lying, but never admitting it for my own safety, I finally had to keep my head down and my mouth tight, saying.
“I really don't know them. I found this formula for dyeing cloth unintentionally in a college lab.”
Although he still had some doubts, he didn't ask further, but turned to Clara and said.
“He is a talent, so Clara, keep this talent. And it is possible that in the future you will be able to continue the glory of your mother.”
“Uncle, I got it.”
She smiled and asked coyly.
“The... funds, when will they arrive?
Without money, the workers couldn't start work.
“Hey, I had it ready for you. It will be transferred to you in the morning! The economic summit is held in the weekend, so you have five days. It is a long time, right?”
As he said that, Director Lau instructed again.
“Don't make any more mistakes. The day before the summit, the costumes must be delivered in required quality and quantity, understood?”
“Yes.”
After that, Director Lau left with his men, and Clara sent them to the door. Then she said to the secretary, “Nancy, go out and close the door.”
Later, the two of us left in the conference room. She smoothed her hair and walked towards me.
I stood up and looked at her with eyes full of panic. Once, I had imagined countless times the scene of reunion with her, but I didn’t expect it would be in this conference room at the time of her company's crisis.
I looked at her. Those unbearable memories came flooding back to me!
‘Girl, do you know that if it weren't for you, I would have slit my wrists back in my sophomore year of high school, that if it weren't for you, I would have had a mental breakdown when I was put into prison by my parents, and that if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to write the article that changed my fate while I was in prison! You are a light in my life and all I have!’
We looked at each other. I looked at her with mixed emotions, and she didn't blink, sizing me up.
But suddenly, she seemed to think of something, and my heart fluttered. Did she finally remember who I was?
“You were sent by the second shareholder, weren't you?!”
She asked me with wide eyes and a slight tremor in her body.
“What? What second shareholder?” I was baffled by her.
“Stop pretending!”
Her face instantly became cold and she said angrily,
“There's no one else at all but the second shareholder!
Did he ask you use this cloth-dyeing formula technology to take a stake in the company, and then he will be in charge of the company?”
I looked at her with a dumbfounded look on my face while she snorted smugly.
“Then I tell you, your purpose has been achieved. The company is in a life-and-death situation, and in order to keep the “Blue Butterfly”, to keep my mother's factory, I'll let him take charge of the company! Go and tell him now, Now!”
To her, I was just an insignificant poor boy back then, but she was a life saver to me!
“Don't cry, be good!”
She patted me gently on the back and bit her lip happily as she said
“I went to your high school and inquired about you. Only after I knew that you did get into the University of Business and Economics did I feel completely at ease. You were competitive. I just encouraged you with a few words, but you did it. How have you been doing these years? You have graduated over a year ago, right?”
I shook my head and but later nodded. I didn't know how to tell her about it that I'd had a bad time and spent five years in prison, but at the moment, what would she think of me if I told her about these experiences?
What woman would keep a man like me around?
So I lied and said I was doing well and I had gone to college.
And I asked her why she didn't go to the provincial University of Business and Economics.
She pursed her lips and smile, saying that she did well on her entrance exams and could go to a better school outside the province, which was why she didn't choose the provincial schoo. She apologized to me, saying that the words she wrote back then were just meant to encourage me.
I got it. How could a beautiful, brilliant woman like her give up a better opportunity to pursue her education for a promise to a poor boy?
But that was not important. What was important was that she inspired me and helped me.
“What about you? How did you find me here?”
She asked me to sit down and got me a glass of water.
“I inquired through a friend who said you seemed to be in trouble, so I came over in a hurry.”
Holding my glass of water, I said blushing.
“So you came all the way out here just to help me?”
She looked at me suspiciously, and there was something special in her eyes.
My purpose in coming over was, indeed, to repay her, but beyond repayment, I actually held an unrealistic fantasy. Even though that fantasy might never come true, I would be content just to be close enough to talk to her.
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