Blackening starts from the golden years

In the evening, Andy walked out of the Shengxuan Group building after get off work and saw Yuan Xudong waiting by her car. She was surprised:
"How did you come?"

"I'm here to pick up my girlfriend from get off work."

Yuan Xudong smiled.

Looking at him, Andy forced a smile and asked softly:

"You know it all?"

"Oh, I see."

Looking at Andy with a gloomy face, Yuan Xudong said softly:

"Let's go, let's go back and talk about it."

"okay."

After saying that, Andy opened the car door, Yuan Xudong drove, and she sat in the passenger seat. Glancing at her, Yuan Xudong took a bottle of mineral water from the car, unscrewed the cap and handed it to her. Reaching out to take the mineral water, Andy said softly:

"Thank you."

Then, she drank half a bottle of mineral water in one breath. Looking at her, Yuan Xudong said with concern:

"are you OK?"

Hearing this, Andy looked at him and smiled:
"Well, I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me, I'm not that fragile."

"it is good."

Yuan Xudong smiled and drove back to Ode to Joy community.

After returning to Andy's house, Yuan Xudong closed the door, hugged her in his arms, and kissed her tempting red lips. At this time, Andy also responded to him very enthusiastically, her arms tightly hooked around his neck, allowing him to take whatever he wanted.

Yuan Xudong kissed Andy wildly and carried her into her bedroom. What happened next was a natural progression.

……

The next morning, Yuan Xudong sent the ruddy-faced Andy to the downstairs of Shengxuan Group. After watching her walk in, he turned around and left to work at Zhongxin Securities.

In the morning, Liu Siming's family members, dressed in mourning clothes and holding his portrait, came to the lobby on the first floor of Shengxuan Group and cried. They also brought reporters with them, attracting everyone's attention.

Staff from Shengxuan Group came and went, some sympathized, some didn't care. Andy knew about this, came down from upstairs, and prepared to meet with Liu Siming's family to resolve the matter.

On the way, Tan Zongming stopped her and said:

"Andy, you can't go."

Looking at him, Andy said calmly:
"Old Tan, Liu Siming's matter has something to do with me. I have to give them an explanation."

"What do you want to tell me?"

Looking at Andy, Tan Zongming said:
"Did your strong pressure cause him to fall into a coma and die suddenly, or was it due to the fault of the company's work system? Andy, you are too kind and too inexperienced in this area. If you go there now, it will only make the family members lose control of their emotions, and they may even vent their anger on you."

"But it's already like this, I can't just do nothing."

"Andy, blind compassion will lead people astray. The more complicated things are, the more you should protect yourself. Trust me, go back to the office, and let me handle this matter. Wait for me in the office."

After saying that, Tan Zongming turned and left to deal with the affairs of Liu Siming's family. Watching his leaving back, Andy was very moved. Tan Zongming was her good friend and helped her a lot. Andy was not completely ignorant of Tan Zongming's feelings for her. It was a pity that the flower had feelings but the water was ruthless. Andy only regarded him as a good friend.

Tan Zongming is rich, has extensive connections, has a good background, is rational and restrained. He should be the kind of man that all women like. But Andy is different. She doesn't care whether the other person has money or a good background. She only needs a man who can truly touch her heart.

Yuan Xudong is a bad man, very fickle and shameless, and Andy fell for him easily. The goddess looks high and mighty, but what she needs is not the dog-like care from a man, but the wolf-like conquest.

Andy returned to the office to work. After Tan Zongming finished dealing with Liu Siming's family matters, he came to Andy's office and talked to her about this matter.

Looking at Andy who was sitting behind her desk and looked a little tired, Tan Zongming pulled a chair over. He sat in front of Andy's desk and looked at her and said:

"Andy, I don't think you have done anything wrong in your work. As for Liu Siming's matter, the company has already explained everything it should. I have just discussed with the board of directors. The company will give a sum of money to compensate his family, but this is only out of moral obligation, not because of guilt."

“But other colleagues…”

Andy was still a little worried, so Tan Zongming interrupted her and said:

"I have called other colleagues to a meeting. I took the initiative to propose that the company pay for a psychologist to pay attention to the family life and mental health of each employee, provide them with regular counseling, and strictly control overtime hours, so that they try not to work overtime. But guess what they said?"

"How to say?"

"Some people think it's ridiculous, some people think it violates their privacy. Everyone disagrees with the company hiring a psychologist. They also say that even if the company hired a special psychologist, they would not ask the psychologist to pay attention to their family and mental health, because no one likes to expose their family situation to others, not even a psychologist. Moreover, no one thinks that their mental health is unhealthy, and there is no need to see a psychologist. If you go to a psychologist when you are not sick, isn't that a sign of illness?"

Tan Zongming said with a smile. Hearing him say that, Andy couldn't help but smile. Looking at her, Tan Zongming continued:

"More importantly, everyone agreed that Liu Siming's case was just an isolated incident, an accident, and there was absolutely no need to change the company's existing rules because of it."

"Did they really say that?"

"Of course it's true. They also said that this news was most likely leaked to the reporter by the family members on purpose. Their family members came to the company just to make a big fuss and get more financial compensation. This is understandable. After all, the Liu family's situation is indeed not very good.

Now that they have lost their mainstay, if they don't get more compensation from the company, it will be hard for them to survive. So, the company agreed to give them some compensation out of moral obligation, and the Liu family stopped making trouble. After all, their goal is just to get some money, not to really target you or our company."

Hearing Tan Zongming say this, Andy was stunned for a moment. She had heard the sad cries of the Liu family in the lobby on the first floor before. Was it just for money? Didn't they want her or the company to apologize and take responsibility?
Looking at Tan Zongming, Andy asked the questions in his mind.

Looking at her, Tan Zongming smiled and said:

"It's true that the Liu family is sad, but life has to go on. They have elderly parents and young children to support, and they have a huge mortgage to pay for. They have also lost Liu Siming, the only breadwinner who can make money. Under such circumstances, it goes without saying which is more important, an apology or money.

Without money, life can't go on, how can we consider other things? Besides, Liu Siming's incident was just an accident, and the Liu family knew it very well. The company promised to compensate them, and they were already grateful, so how could they dare to make trouble again? "

Hearing this, Andy seemed to be lost in thought. Apart from some hardships in her childhood, she had always lived a good life. With her investments, her annual income was in the tens of millions. Naturally, she could not really understand the difficulties in the lives of ordinary people.

Looking at her, Tan Zongming continued:

"They also asked me to tell you that you have always been fair in your work. There is no need to blame yourself, and there is no need to change the company's charter for such an individual case. Others may misunderstand you and attack you, but you have been in the company for so long, and everyone can see your character and ability. So when encountering this kind of thing, of course they will choose to support you."

After listening to Tan Zongming's words, Andy's mood became much brighter, and a smile appeared on his face. He said:

"I didn't expect that. I thought they would have a lot of opinions about me, but I didn't expect that they would stand on my side."

"Andy, remember, this is your home, and all the employees in the company, including me, are your family."

"Thank you, Lao Tan, thank you."

Andy laughed, and then she said seriously:

"By the way, I've already finished the Red Star merger plan. I'll email it to you later. Once this happens, it's not convenient for me to go negotiate with them in person, so I'll have to ask you to do it."

"Don't worry, this is just a test anyway. The real confrontation will have to wait until after the New Year. The holiday is coming soon. What are your plans?"

"I'm going on vacation."

"Wei Guoqiang called me several times recently, asking about your plans for the New Year, but I turned them away."

Seeing Andy's unhappy expression, Tan Zongming smiled and said:

"Okay, let's stop talking. As a friend, I only have one request for you. Don't force yourself to do anything, and don't carry everything on your own."

"No, after going through so many things I realized that I am not as fragile as I thought, but I am not that strong either."

Looking at Tan Zongming, Andy smiled and said:
"I feel lucky to have a good friend like you who always helps me solve problems." "I am really happy to hear you say that."

Looking at Andy, Tan Zongming smiled and said:
"I'm leaving, you go about your business."

"it is good."

After watching Tan Zongming leave the office, Andy picked up the phone on the table and sent a WeChat voice message to Yuan Xudong. She smiled and said:
"Yuan Xudong, I want to travel to Sanya, Hainan. Will you accompany me?"

……

A few days later, public opinion on the Internet began to reverse. This was naturally not a spontaneous behavior of netizens, but Shengxuan Group began to conduct public relations. The so-called hot searches, as long as someone is willing to spend money, or there are forces behind them, a dog can be on the hot searches.

After receiving compensation from the company, Liu Siming's family stopped accepting interviews with reporters. The Internet began to speak out one-sidedly for Shengxuan Group and Andy. Facts have proved that public opinion is a bitch. It has no stance. It is wrong. It has always had only one stance, which is to speak out for power and money.

Almost all employees of Shengxuan Group spoke for Andy and the company online. After reading the comments online, Andy was very happy. She felt that everyone supported her, but what she didn’t know was that most people didn’t like her. She worked seriously, was very strict with herself, and always considered the interests of the company, but everyone was just an employee. What was the relationship between the company’s interests and ordinary employees who received a fixed salary?
Who really treats the company as their own home?
As for Liu Siming's death, no one actually cares. He is dead and will be forgotten in a couple of days. Those who should go to work go to work, and those who should work overtime work overtime. Who has the time and energy to care about other people's affairs?
No matter it is Andy or Liu Siming, most of the employees of Shengxuan Group don’t care. The reason why they speak out for the company and Andy online is naturally because Tan Zongming expressed his attitude to the company’s senior leaders, and then the senior leaders expressed their attitude to the middle-level leaders, and it was passed down layer by layer, and finally to the ordinary employees below. Do their attitudes matter?
They all expressed their attitudes "voluntarily".

In the past few days, a big incident happened in Zhongxin Securities. Several interns jointly reported that Yuan Xudong gave Guan Juer, Michelle, and Nana backdoors so that they could stay in the company, saying that the company's intern selection was unfair.

In the end, the interns who jointly reported the incident were directly fired by the company. Guan Juer and Nana passed the company's year-end assessment and stayed, but Michelle, who was not interested in working, failed the assessment. This result was the company's response to those interns. One can only say that those interns are not suitable for the financial circle, or that they felt they could not pass the company's year-end assessment, so they wanted to unite all the interns to cause trouble and force the company to compromise. One can only say that they overestimated their own abilities.

Most of the interns ignored the initiator of the report. The company decided to fire all those who signed the report letter. What they didn't know was that Nana was fine, but Guan Juer's parents both worked in a bank and had extensive connections. They were able to arrange Guan Juer, an intern who graduated from an ordinary university, directly into a Fortune 500 company as an intern. How could she not pass the internship?
Among this group of interns, Guan Juer has the lowest academic qualifications but the strongest background. Excluding Yuan Xudong, her parents are very powerful and have worked in the banking system for decades. If Guan Juer didn't want to be controlled by her mother all the time, would she have followed her parents' arrangements, taken the civil service exam, and worked in a bank in the future to contribute to the country? Wouldn't that be great?
When Guan Juer has a child in the future, she will let him work in the banking system through his own efforts. In this way, there will be three generations of banking people in the family, and the torch will be passed on.

Of course, Guan Juer is still young and immature now. She always feels that she is the daughter of an ordinary family, just like Fan Shengmei and Qiu Yingying. Sometimes she worries that she will not pass the company's assessment. It can only be said that her parents protected her too well and did not tell her about the unspoken rules behind the scenes.

I can only say that without a good family environment, it is impossible to raise a girl like Guan Juer.

……

A week later, Sanya, Hainan.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, Andy was lying on a lounge chair wearing a white swimsuit and a pair of big sunglasses. Yuan Xudong came over. He was wearing a pair of large flowered shorts and his upper body was bare. He walked to Andy's side, stretched out his hand to pull her up from the lounge chair, held her in his arms and smiled:
"Come on, let's go swimming."

As he said that, he carried Andy to the swimming pool next to him and jumped in.

In the swimming pool, Yuan Xudong hugged Andy and kissed her red lips. Andy responded to him very enthusiastically. Her arms were tightly around his neck. The water in the swimming pool was rippling. Yuan Xudong lifted Andy's hips up underwater. Andy took the opportunity to straddle his waist, with her pair of snow-white beautiful legs wrapped around his waist underwater.

Not far away was the endless sea, with seagulls circling under the blue sky and white clouds. The sea breeze blew gently, carrying the scent of the sea. Listening to the sound of the waves, Yuan Xudong and Andy couldn't help but feel lustful.

……

After spending a few days with Andy in Sanya, Hainan, Yuan Xudong flew to Guan Juer's hometown of Wuxi as New Year's Eve was approaching.

On the night of New Year's Eve, Yuan Xudong and Guan Juer stayed in her bedroom. Looking at Guan Juer at home, he pressed her on her bed and kissed her pink lips. Guan Juer also responded to him enthusiastically. Because Guan's father and mother were still outside, the two of them didn't dare to do anything else but kiss.

After the New Year’s Eve dinner, Mr. Guan and Mrs. Guan each gave Yuan Xudong and Guan Juer a red envelope. After watching the Spring Festival Gala for a while, they went to the room to rest, allowing Yuan Xudong and Guan Juer to have some time alone.

After exchanging a glance with Guan Juer, Yuan Xudong took her hand and whispered:
"Shall we go for a walk outside?"

"Ah."

Guan Juer nodded slightly and went outside for a stroll. When she came back, Dad Guan and Mom Guan were both asleep. Yuan Xudong couldn't help but hold Guan Juer in his arms and went to her room.

In the bedroom, Yuan Xudong hugged Guan Juer and pressed her down on the bed, looking at her with a wicked smile:

"Keep your voice down."

After saying this, he leaned forward.

After staying at Guan Juer's house for two days, on the third day of the New Year, Yuan Xudong flew to Qiu Yingying's hometown, Yancheng. After staying at Qiu Yingying's house for two days, he went to Fan Shengmei's hometown, Nantong. Two days later, he returned to Shanghai and went to Qu Xiaoxiao's house.

After the New Year, everyone started working and life returned to its former peace. In the following months, after Yuan Xudong's soft and hard persuasion, Andy moved into his house in Grand Hyatt Mansion. Later, Qu Xiaoxiao also moved in. The five girls from Ode to Joy all lived in his golden house.

Yuan Xudong also has two apartments near the company. One is occupied by Michelle and Nana, and the other is occupied by another female intern he supports. Yuan Xudong has a total of eight girlfriends.

A year later, Fan Shengmei's father passed away, and Andy's grandfather He Yunli also passed away. Before he died, he wanted to see Andy, but Andy refused. Wei Guoqiang probably had no feelings for Andy, but he and Andy's grandfather He Yunli had lived together for decades and had a deep relationship. He came to beg Andy several times, hoping that she could go to the hospital to see her grandfather so that the old man could leave with peace of mind.

Andy refused. In the end, He Yunli never saw his granddaughter Andy until his death, and left this world with regret and remorse.

According to the old man's will, all his property was left to Andy, including an apartment in Beijing, two apartments in Shanghai, and all the antiques, calligraphy and paintings he collected throughout his life, all of which were priceless treasures, including a green jade Pixiu, six-eyed Dzi beads, a Ming Dynasty Xuande furnace, etc.

In addition, there were all his works, bank deposits, stocks and securities, etc., with a value calculated in billions, which he asked Wei Guoqiang to hand over to Andy.

Wei Guoqiang did not covet He Yunli's inheritance. Even though he was very angry at Andy for not going to see her grandfather for the last time, he still gave all the inheritance to Andy. As long as Andy signed, this huge fortune would be hers.

At the beginning, Andy did not want He Yunli's inheritance, but Wei Guoqiang's wife found out about it. She initially thought that Andy was Wei Guoqiang's lover, but later found out that she was Wei Guoqiang's daughter and He Yunli's granddaughter. But no matter what Andy's identity was, she could not bear to see Andy take all of He Yunli's inheritance alone. She felt that a part of it should be hers.

However, He Yunli's will was written very clearly, and she had no way to deal with it from a legal perspective, so she came to Andy's company to make trouble and slapped Andy in public. It was this slap that made Andy choose to accept He Yunli's inheritance.

In the end, Wei Guoqiang divorced his wife, and Andy got all the property of her grandfather He Yunli.

According to Andy, she was going to donate this huge fortune, but Yuan Xudong stopped her because in his opinion, the so-called charity was shit. She donated one million, but nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand five hundred was swallowed up by others, and only five hundred yuan was left for the charity fund. It was ridiculous. It would be better for her to directly help the people in need she met.

After listening to Yuan Xudong's advice, Andy also learned more about it. As expected, there were too many shady dealings in those charitable foundations. For example, the average annual salary was hundreds of thousands, and all the donations from kind-hearted people were used to pay their salaries. Charity was a legal money-making scam.

In the end, Andy no longer mentioned donating this huge inheritance. Seeing that Yuan Xudong liked He Yunli's collection of antiques, calligraphy and paintings and his works, she gave them all to him.

Yuan Xudong was very happy. He really liked these antiques, calligraphy and paintings and He Yunli's works. These things were the inheritance and heritage of a family. Currency would depreciate, but these would continue to appreciate in value and were also very collectible.

If Andy really donated all these, no one knows who would get the money in the end. Yuan Xudong thinks it is better to keep good things in one's own family. Even if you donated 1 trillion yuan, when the day comes when you are down and out and you get sick and go to the hospital and want to move to a better ward, maybe people will tell you, sorry, your level is not high enough.

Half a year later, Guan Juer, Fan Shengmei, Qiu Yingying, Michelle and Nana were all pregnant. Yuan Xudong took them to a hospital for prenatal check-ups at different times. The doctors and nurses all knew him. Fortunately, Yuan Xudong was thick-skinned. He felt that he was making a contribution to the country. Having more children means more consumption, right?
Yuan Xudong's life was quite happy, but the Qu family had a hard time. The Xu Group collapsed, and a series of companies in the real estate industry suffered misfortune. The Qu company was one of them. The company's capital chain was broken, and the project funds owed to Qu company could not be collected. Qu company also had no money to pay the project funds owed to others, and even the wages of migrant workers were in arrears.

Those migrant workers who maliciously demanded their wages made Qu's father very angry. To make matters worse, his son Qu Lianjie spent a lot of money in Macau and lost 100 million in one night, all of which was borrowed money and embezzled public funds.

There was no other way. If Qu's father wanted to save his son, he could only raise money to help him clean up his mess. He wanted to use the family's money, but was horrified to find that the Qu family was just an empty shell and all the assets had been transferred away by Qu Xiaoxiao's mother. Qu's father was shocked and angry and confronted her face to face. Qu's mother was very straightforward and directly exposed the fact that he had an affair with a female college student.

She would rather Qu's father sue her in court and she go to jail than hand over the money. She wants to leave the money to her daughter, Qu Xiaoxiao.

Qu's mother saw very clearly that in the current environment, Qu's company was finished. If all the family money was used to fill Qu Lianjie's hole, then their family would be finished. Once they returned to the time before liberation, she could not let her daughter live a hard life without money. Therefore, she would rather go to jail herself than give the money to Qu's father.

Qu's mother and father fell out. In the face of money, both of them showed their ugly faces. The mutual support they had in the past was completely gone. This made it difficult for Qu Xiaoxiao to accept it for a while. Her parents were such people?
What made Qu Xiaoxiao even more sad was that Qu's father directly thought she was her mother's accomplice. But in fact, Qu Xiaoxiao really didn't know about this matter. She explained, but Qu's father didn't believe it at all. He cursed Qu's mother and Qu Xiaoxiao madly and said that he would go to court to sue them. He must get all the money of the Qu family back.

Looking at her father, Qu Xiaoxiao felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife. Her father used to love her so much, but what happened to him now?
Is it that he was before, his true self, or is it that he is now, his true self?

In the face of money, Qu's father became completely hysterical. Finally, Qu Xiaoxiao persuaded her mother to hand over all the money. She didn't want her mother to go to jail, and she also wanted to prove that she did not secretly transfer the Qu family's property with her mother.

In the end, Qu's mother took out all the money, divorced Qu's father, divided the property, and the Qu family broke up.

Later, Qu's mother left a sum of money for Qu Xiaoxiao, and she used the remaining money to find a young boyfriend, and Qu's father officially lived with the female college student he had supported. As for Qu Lianjie, he was eventually sent to jail for embezzling the company's funds. It turned out that Qu's father finally hesitated. He did not save Qu Lianjie, but chose to have another son with his girlfriend.

This was something that neither Qu Xiaoxiao nor Qu Lianjie had expected. They could only say that it was all because of money.

Later, all of Qu's mother's money was cheated away by her boyfriend. Fortunately, she left most of the money to Qu Xiaoxiao. After the man ran away, she no longer had any other thoughts and lived a peaceful life. Qu Xiaoxiao gave her a living allowance every month, which was enough for her to live a good life.

As for Qu's father, he found out that he was cuckolded. He spent money to support that young and beautiful female college student, but that female college student actually had a boyfriend outside and she spent money to support that man. This made Qu's father very angry. He bought this woman a house and a car, brand-name clothes, jewelry, etc., and this is how she treated him?
In the end, all Qu's efforts were in vain. He suddenly found that he had lost everything: his home, his company, his wife, his children, and his girlfriend ran away with her boyfriend. All he had left was a villa and more than 20 million yuan in savings in his card.

Two years later, with Qu Xiaoxiao's efforts, her parents remarried. No one mentioned the past anymore and the Qu family was complete again. However, although the broken mirror was mended, the rift could never be eliminated.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, eighty years have passed. Yuan Xudong closed his eyes peacefully and left this world.

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