CHAPTER 1278: CHAPTER 480: SECRETARY JIN APPROACHING YAN CITY_3

She wanted to leave, but her feet seemed nailed to the ground, unable to move.

Her ears perked up unconsciously.

The sounds inside the room gradually became intense, Xu Qing’s panting intermingled with intermittent pleas for mercy, intertwined with Tang Song’s voice.

Breathing became gradually rapid.

Shen Yuyan bit her lower lip, a complex and shameful emotion surging in her heart.

She quickly walked into the bathroom, turned on the faucet, and splashed cold water on her cheeks.

Looking at herself in the mirror.

The greed for Tang Song, the ridicule and disdain from others, the swelling desire, her best friend Xu Qing...

Everything seemed like an invisible thread, winding around her heart.

A whisper seemed to echo in her ear:

"Don’t you want to sleep with him? Don’t you like him?"

"Girlfriend, Shen Yuyan, you could also be his girlfriend; he desires you. With your capabilities and temperament, you could do much better than Qingqing."

"Calm down, calm down..."

"Why are you being so reserved? You can completely guide Qingqing to become your assistant; she trusts you the most. You could even have her help you please Tang Song; you could gain more than Lin Muxue."

"You clearly can do it..."

...

"Shut up!" The embarrassed and angry voice echoed in the bathroom.

Shen Yuyan suddenly turned off the faucet, her hands bracing against the edge of the sink, her fingertips slightly pale from the exertion.

In the mirror, her cheeks were still unnaturally flushed, her eyes filled with a mix of shame, desire, and a barely noticeable anger.

She had always prided herself on being calm and rational, and courageous enough to confront her darker side.

In the past, managing the "school beauty" image, attacking rivals, acquiring customers, giving roadshows, she had done many disgraceful things.

But in her view, these were essential experiences on the path to success.

However, once it involved Xu Qing, she would have inexplicable entanglements.

Because she clearly understood her own nature.

If she truly managed to get close to Tang Song, she would certainly want to get more, even using her best friend as a tool.

Exploiting and guiding Qingqing to make moves that aligned with her own interests.

Their friendship was bound to become distorted.

Human nature is complex, and she was no exception.

...

Simply brushed her teeth, put on makeup.

Shen Yuyan changed into a professional attire, glanced at the still-closed door of the secondary bedroom, grabbed her bag, and headed out.

She walked out the residential gate, took a taxi directly to the commercial building where Youjie Housekeeping was located.

The elevator slowly stopped on the 3rd floor.

At the moment of stepping out of the elevator, Shen Yuyan’s silent face bloomed with a confident and radiant smile.

She walked into the entrance of Youjie Housekeeping.

"Good morning, President Shen."

"President Shen."

"Morning!"

Just walked into the general manager’s office.

"Knock, knock, knock—" The sound of knocking suddenly sounded.

Immediately after, Wang Ning walked in, full of excitement, "Yuyan!"

"What’s wrong?" Shen Yuyan looked up at him.

Wang Ning said full of confidence, "What you mentioned to me before, about integrating Lime3.0 from Qingning Technology into our platform, I’ve already made some progress!"

"Oh? What progress?"

"On the testing server, I’ve integrated our original smart customer service system with the Lime3.0’s large model API, whether in terms of costs or intelligence, it surpasses the third-party services we used before."

Shen Yuyan’s eyes brightened, "When’s the earliest we can implement it?"

"Uh..." Wang Ning said somewhat awkwardly, "To truly enter the production mode, we still need to feed data, train models, followed by functionality development, testing, and optimization; it’ll take about two months."

"That long?"

"No choice, our technical department only has three people, we can’t handle it."

Shen Yuyan pondered for a moment and said, "Once the second investment from Win-win Technology is in, we can hire one more technician specifically for this task."

Wang Ning pondered for a moment and said quietly, "Yuyan, the financing is almost done, shouldn’t we give our management team a raise? Me and Meixia are fine, but I’m afraid others might have opinions."

"We’ll discuss this later, no hurry."

Wang Ning opened his mouth to speak, but ultimately said nothing, "Alright, I’ll get busy then."

Watching Wang Ning’s figure disappear.

Shen Yuyan furrowed her brows slightly.

She certainly understood the employees’ thoughts, the company’s successful financing, if no welfare or salary increase occurs, it’s indeed difficult to satisfy.

But now the company’s situation is not optimistic, the second investment not being received yet, she remains uneasy.

Past 10 o’clock in the morning.

"Buzz buzz buzz—" The phone vibrated.

[Ren Mingyuan: "Yuyan, the ’Investor Night Smart Future’ event is quite important, counting as the start of Win-win Technology’s C+ round. Chairman Wang has a very good impression of you and sees great potential in Youjie Housekeeping, which is why he invited you, cherish this opportunity."]

Shen Yuyan typed a reply: "Okay, President Ren, if I have time, I’ll definitely go."

[Ren Mingyuan: "Alright, let’s contact again then."]

Exited the chat interface, Shen Yuyan’s gaze flickered slightly.

She naturally could guess some of Ren Mingyuan’s meaning, but she had no mind to cater to him right now, nor any thoughts for Wang Yubo, the rich second generation.

Her current goals were very clear, to complete the VAM Agreement, secure the second 3 million yuan funding, get Youjie Housekeeping on track, obtain the "Yanzhao Youth Entrepreneurship Support Plan" award.

Then... align with Tang Song and switch tracks.

The current Youjie Housekeeping project, to her, is more like a project to prove herself.