Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 77 - 74: Male Public Relations and Male Secretary

"I think the hardest role in the world is being your ’Old Sister.’

Not only am I called old, but I also have to always take the blame and be your shield.

You tell me, was I out of my mind when I inexplicably ’donated’ a meal ticket to you?" Yan Yan said with regret.

"A meal ticket bought a brother, what’s there to complain about? Even trafficked kids don’t cost this much." Jiao Zhifei was quite dissatisfied.

"The way you are, who would even think of kidnapping you? That would be pure folly," Yan Yan was the first to disbelieve.

"You think you are better, huh? Haven’t you seen that the unopened love letters at my house could almost pile up into a mountain?" Jiao Zhifei bragged about his high school glory days.

"With those little tricks of yours, probably only you remember them by now. The girls from Second High probably don’t even remember ever doing such silly things," Yan Yan continued to tease.

"What do you mean tricks; this is your brother’s limitless charm, okay?" Jiao Zhifei strongly disagreed with Yan Yan’s assessment.

"Just you, with limitless charm? If it’s limitless, why don’t you bring a sister-in-law for me to meet?" Yan Yan didn’t like seeing Jiao Zhifei show off.

Jiao Zhifei was actually quite "mature and steady" in the eyes of most people, only revealing his immature and show-off "little brother" nature when bickering with Yan Yan.

"Your sister-in-law, haven’t you been seeing her every day since the first day of junior high? I even sent your sister-in-law to Xiamen to study with you, but what about you? Leaving without a word, completely disregarding your sister-in-law’s life or death," Jiao Zhifei managed to put another hat on Yan Yan.

"Assigning me a new blame, you’ve really gotten more capable," Yan Yan always felt more helpless regarding her "little brother."

"That’s right, the little brother is doing well, and the Old Sister gets to bask in the light," Jiao Zhifei looked righteously proud.

"You, who are a year older than me, always act like a younger brother. Don’t you feel embarrassed?" Yan Yan asked with a laugh.

"With the Old Sister treating me to meals, even if I get fat, it’s happy fat. With the Old Sister covering for me, even if my face turns red, it’s still happy red," Jiao Zhifei argued convincingly.

"Why did you think of working in Shenzhen?" Yan Yan felt that changing the subject was more reliable.

"Because they hired me as a CEO’s secretary," Jiao Zhifei answered without hesitation.

"You, a guy, going to be a secretary for another man, what were you thinking?" Yan Yan asked, quite perplexed.

"What’s wrong with being a secretary? I was even thinking of working as a male public relations officer at Boya and Ogilvy," Jiao Zhifei mentioned another career he was interested in.

Boya and Ogilvy are considered the best two PR firms globally.

Seeing the words ’public relations,’ many people might jump to conclusions.

Public relations? Isn’t that supposed to be a job for women?

But in reality, good PR firms often recruit both men and women.

Whether it’s for a major event like the U.S. presidential elections or clearing a third-tier star’s scandal, these are standard tasks for PR workers.

It’s just that Boya and Ogilvy in the United States are quite different from their branches in other countries, including China.

Even within China, the capabilities of staff differ by office location.

The offices in Beijing and Shanghai are more professional than those in other areas.

Apart from differences in the abilities of the staff recruited by different offices, it also relates to the various customer groups that each local office serves. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

In short, in China, if you want the support of a top-tier PR team, no matter where your company is located, it’s best to look for PR firms in Beijing or Shanghai.

Matching the quality of services is the price.

The fees for PR services in these two places are also significantly higher than in other regions.

"Were you accepted by Boya and Ogilvy? When you came back from France, hadn’t their campus recruitment ended?" Yan Yan previously didn’t know which offers Jiao Zhifei had received.

"Campus recruiting is over, so just go for social recruiting. As long as there are vacancies, there’s always a way to get in," Zhifei outlined his unique job-seeking approach.

"My awesome brother, only someone who plays by his own rules like you could think of methods normal people wouldn’t," Yan Yan reached a conclusion.

"Do you have to beat around the bush to say your own brother isn’t normal?" Zhifei was displeased with Yan Yan’s conclusion.

"Alright, alright, you’re the most normal, okay? Then why aren’t you ’normal’ enough to follow your true calling and shine as a male PR officer?" Yan Yan still had some doubts.

"Multinationals are so yesterday. Now, only BAT can truly be called a fresh graduate’s dream," Zhifei naturally had his own considerations (note 1).

"By saying that, where do you put Huawei’s face?" Yan Yan brought up another major company in Shenzhen.

"Why would a liberal arts student like me go to Huawei?" Zhifei asked, quite puzzled.

"You could continue pursuing your dream of being a PR guy in their Public Relations department," Yan Yan’s reply was stern and righteous.

"If I were really going to do PR, I’d of course go to Boya or Ogilvy in Shanghai," Zhifei retorted with a glance at Yan Yan.

"I think, everyone around me is a monster holding so many offers. Don’t you choke on them?" When Yan Yan complimented, it was all but flattering.

"My teeth are good, I don’t choke," Zhifei ignored Yan Yan’s jab.

"If you were always looking for jobs in Shanghai, why did you finally decide to go to Shenzhen Vanke?" Yan Yan was curious about Zhifei’s final choice.

"Because I think, being a male secretary sounds more interesting than a male public relations officer." Jiao always had his quirky reasons.

"Is that even acceptable?" Yan Yan was speechless.

"Of course... it’s not," Zhifei deliberately paused before he admitted the impossibility.

"So, what’s the real reason?" Yan Yan continued to probe.

"When I went for an interview at Vanke, I met someone who was really like-minded.

He was planning to work at Vanke’s property management. He asked me what I thought about property management.

I said, a good property management should have its own cafeteria in the community.

That way, there wouldn’t be kids like me who eat takeout all day at home.

The interviewer got excited and even said that Vanke wanted to introduce cooking robots in the future.

I think, Vanke has a lot of interesting people, which suits me, so I went there," Zhifei gave a very detailed response.

"Your reason is too random. Are you going to work with that interviewer you just mentioned?" Yan Yan asked.

"Secretary to the president, of course, I’ll work with the president, why would I work with the interviewer? However, the president’s office has a bunch of secretaries, so even if the president goes out, I might not be taken along," Zhifei explained his role as a "secretary."

"What kind of logic is that?" Yan Yan felt nearly defeated by Zhifei’s bizarre rationales.

"I don’t have any logic, didn’t you also say, what does your brother, a liberal arts student, need logic for?" Zhifei retorted.

Back in high school, whenever classmates criticized Zhifei’s logic, Yan Yan would traditionally respond with this phrase.

However, she didn’t know when Zhifei had heard this phrase.

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note 1:

BAT stands for Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent combined.

In 2011, these three companies seemed to be advancing together, but by 2017, Baidu couldn’t keep up with the pace of Alibaba and Tencent’s development.