Not an assistant but a boss.
Huo Zhixiao asked too suddenly, and Ding Yinan was stunned for a long time before uncertainly asking, “Are you asking me to manage your studio?”
“Hmm,” Huo Zhixiao said.
Ding Yinan lowered his eyes and did not answer immediately.
Huo Zhixiao probably thought that Ding Yinan was not happy and said, “I knew your principle is to separate work from life…”
“No,” Ding Yinan shook his head and interrupted Huo Zhixiao, “I was wondering if I had this ability.”
When it came to principles, that was subjective unwillingness.
But if it mentioned ability, it was subjectively willing but objectively uncertain.
Ding Yinan’s meaning was very clear; he didn’t even need to say “I do” to let Huo Zhixiao know what he was thinking.
“I believed in you,” Huo Zhixiao smiled and said, “You are the most powerful assistant I have ever encountered.”
It was better to be your own boss than to work for someone else. Ding Yinan made up his mind, raised his eyebrows, and said, “Don’t blame me if you went bankrupt.”
Huo Zhixiao leaned forward and bit Ding Yinan’s lips, saying, “Did you forget the saying ‘to marry a chicken is follow the chicken, to marry a dog is to follow the dog’?”
Just resigned from work, and about to resign from another work.
Ding Yinan was also very helpless; frequent job-hopping was a taboo in the workplace. He could already predict that when Yuan Feng heard the news, his face would definitely not look very good.
Early the next morning, Ding Yinan arrived at Yuan Feng’s studio ahead of the other members. At this time, Yuan Feng had just woken up and came downstairs with a bird’s nest on his head. He looked at Ding Yinan with a face plastered with a facial mask and asked, “You want to resign?”
“Yes,” Ding Yinan nodded and said, “I don’t think I am suitable for this job.”
“No way,” Yuan Feng scratched the back of his head, “Did I say too much yesterday?”
“No, you were right; it was my own problem,” Ding Yinan said, “I wasn’t really that passionate.”
“Passion is something…” Yuan Feng conceded, “It’s not impossible to cultivate it.”
“It’s hard,” Ding Yinan shook his head lightly and said, “I thought a lot last night. Before, I was passionate about work because life was monotonous and unattractive to me. But now my life has changed, and it caused a change in my mentality.”
“Change?” Yuan Feng listened to Ding Yinan’s words and began to let go of the idea of dissuading him and chatted with him.
“Yes,” Ding Yinan said, “There is someone who could make me change my principles.”
Yuan Feng was also a sensible person, and he could understand clearly.
“I see,” he said, “Are you planning to focus on your family now?”
Not exactly, but not by much. Ding Yinan and Huo Zhixiao were far from being a “family,” but he was still willing to focus on their relationship.
“You could say that,” Ding Yinan said.
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“Then you are really not suitable to work here,” Yuan Feng smiled, “Look at Xiao Li, after working for two months, his girlfriend ran away with someone.”
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Coming down from Yuan Feng’s studio, Ding Yinan got into an off-road vehicle parked by the side of the road.
Huo Zhixiao started the car and asked, “Was everything settled?”
“Yeah,” Ding Yinan pulled on his seat belt and said in a relaxed tone, “I am unemployed now.”
“How could you be called unemployed?” Huo Zhixiao said, “You are my boss now.”
The studio of the two was still in its infancy, and everyone knew that this boss position was not very valuable. When Ding Yinan heard Huo Zhixiao calling him the boss, he just felt comfortable hearing it.
Half an hour later, their vehicle stopped under another office building in the city center, and Ding Yinan followed Huo Zhixiao to the accounting company that had signed the agency contract.
The procedures for changing the legal representative were very complicated. Huo Zhixiao was still the legal representative of Huo Zhixiao’s studio, but the position of “general manager” of the company’s top leader had been changed to Ding Yinan.
Originally, Huo Zhixiao held 100% of the studio’s shares, but now Ding Yinan held 51%, and Huo Zhixiao held 49%.
Ding Yinan had become a real boss, but the only thing that gave him a real feeling was the five company seals in his hand. Other than that, nothing had changed. The husband and wife didn’t even have a decent storefront.
“I recently saw several A-grade office buildings for rent,” Huo Zhixiao said, “The cost of decoration is relatively high.”
Now the studio had only accepted an order of 300,000 yuan, which was not enough to decorate the office. Of course, it was not impossible to use additional money for decoration, but too much initial investment would lead to higher business risks.
Ding Yinan thought for a while and said, “Why don’t we use my home as an office at the start stage?”
The decoration of his house was simple, and it was a commercial and residential apartment, so it wouldn’t be difficult to transform it into an office.
“It’s a little small, but it’s better than nothing,” Ding Yinan said.
“Are you willing to invest in your house?” Huo Zhixiao looked a little surprised. “If that’s so, you won’t have a ‘natal family’ anymore.”
Last night Ding Yinan had been tortured by Huo Zhixiao until very late, and in the end, he had been forced to have several dry orgasms. He had screamed until his voice became hoarse, but Huo Zhixiao hadn’t let him go, only to be washed away with the two and a half minutes of humiliation. Later, he had said angrily that he wanted to go back to his “natal home,” but he really hadn’t had the strength, so Huo Zhixiao had pushed him back on the bed.
“Why wouldn’t I want to?” Ding Yinan pretended not to hear this “humiliating word” and said solemnly, “I am the boss.”
If he was his own boss, then of course he had to invest as much as he should.
Since Huo Zhixiao was the backbone of the studio, Ding Yinan had to take care of the logistics.
After saying this, Huo Zhixiao didn’t respond anymore, but slightly curled the corners of his lips, looking at Ding Yinan and smiling.
“What are you looking at?” Ding Yinan asked uncomfortably.
“It’s nothing. I just realized…” Huo Zhixiao said, the smile in his eyes grew stronger, “My wife seems to love me very much.”
Ding Yinan didn’t like to be teased; he frowned awkwardly and said, “Cut it out.”
Huo Zhixiao also knew Ding Yinan’s temperament, so he didn’t continue to be playful, but asked, “Today I’m going to confirm the plan with Lin Guo. Will you come with me?”
Ding Yinan originally didn’t want to have any contact with Lin Guo, but after thinking about it, this was his job, and letting Lin Guo know about their relationship in advance could avoid a lot of trouble, so he said “yes.”
Ding Yinan and Huo Zhixiao traveled three places in a single day, then went to Lin Guo’s apartment in the suburbs.
This apartment was only about 80 square meters, and the decoration was quite ordinary. It didn’t look like a place where a big star lived. But on the other hand, Lin Guo’s rapid rise to fame in the past few years must have earned him a lot of money, and he had directly exchanged a small 80-square-meter house for a 300-square-meter mansion.
“You bring your secretary again?”
Lin Guo opened the door, and at the first glance, he passed Huo Zhixiao and looked directly at Ding Yinan who was standing behind.
“He’s not a secretary,” Huo Zhixiao said, “He’s…”
“Your wife,” Lin Guo interrupted Huo Zhixiao, turned around, and walked in, “Come in.”
Normally, after welcoming guests into the house, the host would take them to the living room first. But Lin Guo was very strange. He went straight back to the bedroom. When he came out again, all the jewelry on his body had been removed, and the sexy off-shoulder T-shirt had been replaced with unsightly home clothes.
Ding Yinan suddenly found Lin Guo really interesting.
He had obviously dressed up deliberately, but when he saw Huo Zhixiao bringing his family, he changed clothes without any interest, and didn’t bother to maintain his appearance.
It was like saying, “You don’t deserve me to dress up so well.”
However, he didn’t intend to hide it at all, as if afraid that others wouldn’t see his disdain. He didn’t know whether to say that he had low EQ or was too straightforward.
“I found some references for the minimalist style.”
Huo Zhixiao placed the laptop on the coffee table, pointing the screen at Lin Guo.
“If you like any of them, let me know, and I’ll try to balance functionality with your preferences.”
Lin Guo pressed the left and right keys to look for a while, picked out a few examples that he thought were good, and mentioned a few examples that he thought were ugly. Generally speaking, Lin Guo didn’t have much thought about interior design and relied on his visual preferences.
“After the design plan is finalized, I won’t have to worry about it, right?” Lin Guo asked.
“I have a construction team and a material supplier that I often work with. If you don’t have time, just leave it to me,” Huo Zhixiao said.
Designers could get some kickbacks on materials, and some owners didn’t want to waste money, so they preferred to go to the building materials market themselves. But some owners didn’t mind spending more money to save themselves the trouble, and it was obvious that Lin Guo was this type of customer.
When they were talking about the construction period, Huo Zhixiao suddenly received a call.
Ding Yinan hadn’t intended to eavesdrop, but when Huo Zhixiao got up with the phone, he happened to catch a glimpse of the name “Huo Xun” displayed on the screen.
“I need to take this call,” Huo Zhixiao said.
Soon, Ding Yinan and Lin Guo were left alone in the room. The atmosphere was obviously not right, so Ding Yinan took the initiative to say, “About the design…”
“Whose employee were you?” Lin Guo interrupted Ding Yinan with his head tilted, his eyes full of inquiry, “Did Mr. Yuan allow you to run around like that?”
“I had resigned from Mr. Yuan’s side,” Ding Yinan said, “I am now a member of Master Huo’s studio.”
“That’s it.” Lin Guo propped his hand on the armrest of the sofa and looked at Ding Yinan with his chin, “I was curious what kind of ability you had to make such a man so devoted to you?”
This was not a problem at first glance, but if you took a closer look, you would find it a bit offensive. Because what Lin Guo meant was obviously: I don’t see any advantages in you.
Ding Yinan didn’t answer, and Lin Guo said again, “I’ve seen a lot of good-looking men in the circle, and let me remind you, there was no man like him who didn’t care.”
Hearing those words, Ding Yinan was not angry but felt funny and helpless.
“You say that because you didn’t understand him,” Ding Yinan said calmly, “And you didn’t understand me either.”
The conversations of smart people came to an end—you didn’t know me, you didn’t know how capable I was, so it was normal that you couldn’t understand.
Lin Guo raised his eyebrows lightly, as if he had suddenly changed his mind about Ding Yinan.
At that time, Huo Zhixiao came back from the door, and the topic returned to work again.
By the time Ding Yinan and Huo Zhixiao left Lin Guo’s house, it was almost five o’clock in the afternoon.
Ding Yinan kept pretending nothing was wrong, but as soon as he left Lin Guo’s house, he couldn’t help but ask Huo Zhixiao, “What did Mr. Huo want from you?”
Huo Zhixiao seemed to have just remembered such a thing and said, “My dad had been paying attention to me.”
“What did you mean?” Ding Yinan asked.
“Someone told him that the shareholder of the studio had changed,” Huo Zhixiao said, “He came to ask me why you became the major shareholder of my studio.”
Ding Yinan’s pupils trembled subconsciously for a second, thinking that if Huo Xun found out about this, then the father and son would have a falling out?
But seeing that Huo Zhixiao didn’t respond, he felt strange again and asked, “How did you answer?”
“I said you were investing in technology,” Huo Zhixiao said, “He knew that I needed you as an assistant to work well, so I said that in order to get you back, I gave up 51% of the company’s shares.”
This?
Ding Yinan couldn’t believe it: “Mr. Huo believed it?”
“Yeah,” Huo Zhixiao shrugged indifferently, “He always thought I was joking, no matter what nonsense I did, he would think it was normal.”
Thinking about it, it was also true. Huo Zhixiao’s temperament was originally powerful and unconstrained style. Huo Xun certainly wouldn’t find it strange that he used his own studio to make a fuss.
Even thinking about it on the bright side, Huo Xun did not interfere with Huo Zhixiao’s decision, which showed that he was now standing by and watching, which was even better.
Ding Yinan breathed a sigh of relief, he couldn’t help but feel scared in his heart. However, Huo Zhixiao hooked his neck without hesitation and said sternly, “And you are a technology investor.”
“How could I?” Ding Yinan was a complete layman in architectural design. How could he have any skills?
“Think about it,” Huo Zhixiao said in a low voice, “Didn’t you just use your ‘technique’ to let my XX ‘enter’ your ‘shares’?”
Ding Yinan: “…”
Well, he could already imagine that when Huo Xun knows the truth about the “technology investment,” he would probably be furious.
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I just love huo zhixiao dirty talking XD
51% shares – that’s love and commitment!
Thanks for the chapter 💞
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