Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 209 - 206: A Word Spoken in Earnest Proves Prophetic
Chapter 209: Chapter 206: A Word Spoken in Earnest Proves Prophetic
"Come on, hand over the resume so Miss can take a look," Yan Yan commanded like a big Boss, and her mom really didn’t hesitate and immediately complied.
Soon, Yan Yan got Ye Mo’s resume and felt a bit stuck.
Seeing the words "Italian" on the resume, she put on a CEO’s air and decided, "Hmm, this person has a language foundation. It would be most suitable to send him to the sales branch in Italy."
This conversation was originally just a joke between mother and daughter.
No one expected Yan Yan’s words to "prove prophetic."
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The day after Ye Mo returned to the company to resign, Qin Shaohua was introduced to his brother’s company by Yan Dabang.
The former sales manager of Yanlu Machinery, who thought his position was surely doomed, didn’t expect Qin Shaohua to be the one leaving.
This unexpected surprise ignited an unprecedented enthusiasm for work in the foreign trade department manager.
In just a couple of days, he led Ye Mo to complete his first foreign trade order, and it was a big one.
A lot happened in between, but ultimately, while Yan Yan had not yet finished her first year, Ye Mo had gone to Yanlu Machinery’s branch in Italy and from then on became unstoppable, quickly growing into the head of the Italian branch.
Because of Ye Mo’s rapid promotion, rumors began circulating that it was all orchestrated by "Little Boss" Yan Yan.
The rumor detailed that Ye Mo was originally going to be fired, but Lu Bingran personally said it was because his daughter thought Ye Mo had potential in sales that he was kept on.
Another rumor said that the foreign trade department manager’s "connected" Ye Mo visited the boss’s office one day and the next helped the manager oust Qin Shaohua, securing his own position.
Even the foreign trade department manager didn’t know whether this rumor was true or not.
Where there are people, there’s gossip.
In fact, after that "prophecy," Yan Yan had barely seen Ye Mo.
If it weren’t for occasionally hearing these rumors, she probably would have forgotten the name Ye Mo entirely.
The first interaction Yan Yan had with Ye Mo, he was timidly telling Lu Bingran about his intention to resign, both naive and lacking presence.
This time when they spoke on the phone, he had the air of a serf who turned the tables.
It didn’t seem like it was the same person speaking at all.
To say that Yan Yan immediately recognized Ye Mo had a knack for sales could be considered close to the truth.
But to say she immediately detected Ye Mo’s repressive charm was definitely an exaggeration.
Yan Yan’s completely new understanding of Ye Mo came solely from this recent phone call.
The whole "dude" thing, whether from Ye Mo’s content of speech or his demeanor back then, was not something that could be detected with the naked eye.
If it weren’t for the fact that Ye Mo didn’t object when Yan Yan called out his name on the phone, she would have even doubted whether the person she was speaking to now and the person she met in her mom’s office were the same.
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"Do you mean to say you just couldn’t forget my talent after taking one more look at me in the crowd?" Ye Mo smoothly continued the topic about Yan Yan recognizing his gift.
"If being reserved counts as a talent, then you certainly would have been talented from the start.
I’ve got a question, does the exhibition we’re going to require an invitation?" Yan Yan felt that if she continued chatting with this reborn sales guru, she wouldn’t know where it would end, so she directly asked about pressing matters.
As for the ’You’ question, since Ye Mo waxed more eloquent, Yan Yan just decided to ignore it.
Ye Mo’s current speaking style could only be handled with a cold approach.
"No need, we have exhibitor passes, why would we need invitations?" Ye Mo also dropped his joking tone.
"Would I need an invitation if I have friends going there to watch?" Yan Yan asked Ye Mo.
"If they need to enter and exit anytime, then an exhibitor pass would definitely be more convenient. How many friends are you talking about?" Ye Mo asked Yan Yan.
"Aha, so you do have the word ’you’ in your dictionary after all. Should be just one," Yan Yan could confirm only Lei Pili, who volunteered eagerly, was interested in going since it wasn’t a fun exhibition that would interest the general public.
"Just one? That’s easy then, I’ll arrange a few extra exhibitor passes, just find me when you need them," Ye Mo quickly offered a solution.
"That’s great, thank you," Yan Yan usually was a bit polite to strangers.
"Why are you thanking me? I should be thanking you, wait until you come to Milan, I’ll treat you to dinner," Ye Mo upgraded to using ’You’ four times in one breath.
"How did you get there again? With the way you speak, I wouldn’t dare to have dinner with you, I’d feel like I’d age to seventy or eighty just by eating a meal.
You’re in Italy anyway, and you don’t need to use Chinese for sales, right?
Just popping ’you’ in every sentence, it feels weird.
I feel uncomfortable just from a phone call, sitting down to eat together, I definitely wouldn’t be able to take it," Yan Yan didn’t expect her simple thanks to generate so many formal titles.
"My bad, my bad, I got excited and treated Little Boss like a regular customer.
When dining, I’ll definitely strictly vet every word that comes out of my mouth. fгeewebnovёl.com
Anything related to ’you’, I’ll just swallow it back.
Would Miss Yan be happy with this?" Ye Mo finally switched to a different title before things spiraled out of control.
"Hard to say if I’m satisfied now, but if you keep spewing out more ’You’s, I might be too scared to go to Milan," the mechanical exhibition wasn’t a must-go for Yan Yan.
Yan Yan agreed to attend primarily because of her father.
Yan Dabang, the tech enthusiast, loved mechanical exhibitions the most. Since Yan Yan would return to the country after Italy to join her grandparents for Lantern Festival, Yan Dabang himself couldn’t make it to Italy, thus he specifically asked his daughter to check it out if possible.
Over the past year, Yan Dabang, now retired, had even more time to research patents.
The current standard of European shoe-making machinery was undoubtedly one of Yan Dabang’s primary concerns.
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note 1:
A word spoken in earnest proves prophetic (chen, falling tone); this idiom refers to a prophecy coming true, though it usually signifies negative ones, hence the need for quotation marks.
Could Xiao Mo’s new assistant manager, with the pseudonym ’Brother Follows’, be pressing for obscure character annotations—is that what’s meant today?
