Chapter 11 - This is President Du's assistant

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A few hours later, Callum was stuck in a meeting with his sworn/adopted brother, President Du XiAn "DX", and the rest of the directors of Du Corporation. It was an important meeting as it involved the direction of the business within the country for the rest of the financial year.

Previously, Callum's role in the management of Du Corporation was minimum. This year, Callum was brought in officially as "Director Shenlong" who would now be overseeing the management of 50% of the local companies that were under Du Corporation.

Callum sighed inwardly while he maintained a calm face.

About two to three years ago, after the news broke out that Luo Yin, son of the late Vice President Luo and Guang Ying's half brother, was not only one of those who r*ped DX's wife when she was a teenager but also a serial rapist, the Luo Family's reputation took a hit and was completely tarnished.

Guang Yin, who was the person in charge of Luo Corporation back then, tried his best to save the company that his grandfather built. However, despite his effort, he only managed to delay the time of its destruction.

To save the company from going bankrupt, Guang Ying decided to hand over the management of Luo Corporation to DX.

And ever since the Luo Corporation that belonged to Guang Ying's family was taken over by Du Conglomerate [1], Callum figured he had to work harder to keep his "wife" in the lifestyle that he was accustomed to.

Thus, despite having his own company, Callum had asked DX for a position. The main reason was that despite having his own IT company, Callum's profit per year was barely enough to maintain his own lavish lifestyle much less Guang Ying's lifestyle. Thus, he had largely handed over the management of his own company to Zi Yan while he earned some extra cash on the side.

Of course, after some groveling and begging, DX had given Callum the position. However, Callum was to work together with An Xin, DX's sister-in-law. In addition, Callum and An Xin had to write a progress report once a month which was to be sent to Han Ye for scrutiny. This was something that bothered Callum slightly.

Callum glanced at Han Ye who was sitting behind DX and he grumbled inwardly. "What kind of arrangement is this? Even though I'm the President's brother, I still have to report to a mere secretary?"

Yet he knew. He knew that Han Ye was no mere secretary. Based on the man's experience and the firsthand knowledge that he gained from working side-by-side with DX, Han Ye was more than capable to take on a better title. In fact, Han Ye was even better than half of the directors who were in the room right now.

However, Han Ye had refused to accept another title. Even when DX offered, Han Ye stated that he enjoyed working with DX and that he wanted to remain as his secretary.

With a roll of his eyes, Callum stared at Han Ye, who had a serious expression on his face, and thought, "Don't think I don't know this. My brother pays you more than what he's paying me right now!"

While he was feeling disgruntled, he accidentally released his killer's intent. As if Han Ye knew what he was thinking about, he looked up and glanced around. Thank God Callum managed to avert his eyes!

Callum sighed and cleared his mind. He thought, "I shouldn't think of unnecessary things like that..."

As he was listening to the finance director, Ki Hong, drone on about the increased of their annual profit, Callum felt like shooting himself in the head. He preferred to talk to Ki Hong when the latter was drunk, but not when he was sober.

"Man, that guy can really talk..."

There was a strong urge to yawn but that glare from his brother caused him to sit up straight immediately.

However, a few minutes later, he started to lose focus again.

"Let's move on the next quarter… During the last quarter of the previous financial year, Du Conglomerate, as a whole, earned 15% profit…"

Callum stared at the finance director as he willed for the time to pass by faster. As he was trying to use his "magic", he felt his phone vibrating inside his pocket.

When he took it out and saw the unknown number, he immediately hit "Do Not Answer" on his phone. In this kind of meeting, unless it was Guang Ying or his mother-in-law, he would rarely answer anyone's call. He would even ignore his own grandfather's call.

After another call from the same unknown number, which he continued to ignore, he then proceeded to turn off his phone. Once he did that, he then turned his focus to the charts that the financial director was talking about.

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Han Ye was sitting behind DX as he continued to field the emails from various companies who wanted to cooperate with a company under Du Conglomerate, or from media companies who wanted to interview DX, or just downright s.e.x.u.a.lly harassing emails from crazy women who wanted to have DX's babies.

When he felt a sudden chill running down his spine, he shivered and looked up. However, he did not notice anything amiss. Thus, he looked back at his laptop again and read one of the emails.

The content of the email was:

[Dear, President Du XiAn,

I know you have a wife, but how adding another person to your life? I would like you to O my X until my X - ]

At that point, Han Ye just clicked on the "x" button at the right-hand corner and deleted the email. He could understand women's obsession with DX previously since the latter was a bachelor. What he could not understand was why these women were so relentless even after DX was married.

Even though the news was considered outdated, but there was still the video of DX threatening the world that he would not sit by if they maligned his wife. There was also the video of DX standing by his wife's side while she told the world her story.

It was his way of declaring his love for his wife, and anyone with eyes could see that those two were deeply in love with each other. That man's office was decorated with pictures of his wife and children!

"Well, wan2XOu, too bad for you. He's not going to read your email…" thought Han Ye.

Within the next hour of meeting, Han Ye, who had been working for his boss for more than a decade, expertly deleted the hundreds of such useless emails and sorted out the other emails according to their importance.

Suddenly, he felt his phone vibrating. When he looked at it, he frowned when he saw the unknown numbers. He searched through his memory bank but he could not recall whose number it was.

He had always diligently saved all the numbers of everyone that he met or those that DX told him to save.

With a sigh, he stood up. Since most people called him to get to his boss, including their company's important business partners, he could not ignore the unknown caller. He whispered to DX, "I'll answer the call outside."

DX gave him a quick cold glance. He then nodded before he turned back to listen to Ki Hong wrapping up his part of the report.

After he received the approval, Han Ye then quickly got out of the meeting room and answered the call.

"Hello, this is President Du's assistant."

An unknown woman's voice came through the phone. "Hi, this is… Erm, this is Xiao Lei…"

"Xiao Lei?" thought Han Ye as he listened to the timid voice. Whether it was his personal life or his professional life, he did not know anyone named Xiao Lei.

When she did not hear a response, Xiao Lei spoke again, "Erm… I tried to call your - Wait, did you just say President Du? Isn't your boss Director Shenlong?"

"Are you looking for Director Shenlong? He's in a meeting at the moment…"

"Erm, yeah. Can you help me tell him… Tell him that I'm interested."

"May I know what this is about?" asked Han Ye.

"Him and his… partner would know about it. I sent him a message earlier, but there was no response."

"Alright then. I'll tell him about it. Should I ask him to call you back at this number?"

"Yes, please."

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