Chapter 155: The Reluctance to Give Up
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Mathilde's email received an email from a headhunter. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info She always gets these emails, which usually say a few jobs and ask if she's interested in trying them out. In order to take care of her frail mother and younger siblings who are still in school, she has to wear many hats, while keeping an eye out for jobs that pay better, and is ready to change jobs.
Her mother had divorced her alcoholic father, and all three children had gone with her mother. But her mother's physical condition can only work part-time jobs and her income is limited, so most of the pressure is on Mathilde's shoulders. For this reason, she had to work harder to make money and do everything she could to maintain the family.
That's why her email is always full of emails with job opportunities.
She has to read every email carefully, and she doesn't want to miss a job opportunity.
So she clicked on the email.
In the email, they told Mathilde that there was a job offer, and they thought that the conditions offered by the other party were a good fit for Mathilde, and that she could try it. But she didn't say what kind of job it was, nor did she say what conditions she met, she just left a phone call.
Mathilde jotted down the phone number and continued to look at the other emails. If she sees a job that she is interested in and feels that she is okay, she writes down the contact number.
After reading all the unread emails, she called one phone after another to ask for specific information about her work.
I made several phone calls, some were disappointed after asking about the specific requirements and treatment, and some were able to try.
Mathilde was calling backwards, recording a row of phone numbers, and she called from the bottom up. The last one is the number that was written down in the first place.
Mathilde habitually dialed the number, and a voice rang out from there: "Hello......"
After listening to Mathilde's inquiry, he said, "Yes, we did get a job assignment here. The other party wanted to find a personal assistant for a sports star, and we found out that you have a record of teaching French to players on your resume, and we think you should know more about sports, so we sent you an email......"
"Sports stars?" Mathilde asked. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a sports star, and she was a little surprised. In fact, she didn't know much about sports except for Chu Zhongtian, and she still knows a lot about football games, let alone other sports.
As soon as she thought of this, she retreated in her heart.
"Hmm. We are sorry, but the client requests confidentiality. β
Mathilde understands this, and now that the media is pervasive, the news is also a good target for the media to hype. However, she didn't plan to ask who the other party was.
"But I don't know anything about sports...... Mathilde decided she wasn't fit for the job, so she excused herself.
"But your resume shows that you've taught football players for a long time."
"That's football, not sports......"
"I can tell you that this client is a football star." The man on the phone chuckled.
Hey? Mathilde was stunned for a moment.
"So, we thought you could give it a try. The salary is not low. The man on the other end of the line continued. If you are interested, we can give you the other person's phone number and you tell him that we recommended you to go. β
Mathilde's attention was all drawn to the "football star", and she vaguely agreed. When she came back to her senses, she realized that she had jotted down her phone number on a piece of paper.
Do you want to hit it?
She looked at the string of numbers and was fascinated.
She hasn't watched football since she left Metz, not even his games. She did it for the sake of the one in her heart. So far, it's been a success, and basically she doesn't think about him anymore.
But today's "football star" on the phone has awakened dusty memories again. As soon as the other party said "football", what popped up in her mind was his name and face. And when she thought of his name and face, she felt a warmth in her heart, which made her feel comfortable.
I didn't expect that because of her past with him, it would bring her a job opportunity.
β»β»β» Since becoming an agent, Merry's phone has been ringing more and more often. However, it has been very frequent recently, because the job postings he has widely distributed have finally received feedback.
Many applicants called to inquire about the details. Merry wouldn't reveal Chu's name until the final candidate was confirmed, so he just told those people that a football star needed to recruit a personal assistant, and then went through the job requirements and asked him some questions to see if the other party was suitable.
If there is a suitable one, write it down, and after the phone call, choose a time to gather all those who have passed the first level for an interview. He was pressed for time, so a centralized interview was the best option.
However, because of the high requirements, there are less than five candidates who have been able to make it to the interview list so far, and Merry is a little disappointed. It seems that finding this personal assistant is a long-term thing, and I have to wear many hats during this time. His wife had complained countless times, but fortunately she had just come home to spend Christmas with her, which temporarily alleviated the family crisis. But this is not a long-term solution, because my wife's birthday is coming in a little more than a month...... He then focused on the biographies and profiles of the candidates. If the headhunter has a suitable candidate, he will be sent a simple resume, and if the person is favored by Merry and is on the interview list, then he will ask the headhunter for a detailed resume.
Just as he was looking at the resumes, the fax machine next to him rang, and a fax was sent.
When he picked it up, he saw that it was another rookie's resume.
Flipping through the cover, a person's photo catches first.
The woman in the black-and-white photo made Merry feel a little familiar, but the fax was not very clear, and he couldn't recognize who it was for a while.
Look at the name next to it - Delphin. Mathilde. Mia.
The first names are all similar, but the last one is different. The man he knew was named Bourzheva, not Mia. "Delphine" and "Mathilde" are the most frequently used female names in France, and it is not uncommon to call them a lot.
It just looks like it...... Looking further down, the work resume column is very simple.
Hey?
Merry was stunned for a moment.
In the work experience of this "Mathilde", there is also a language teacher for the players...... What a coincidence.
β»β»β» Mathilde thought about it for a long time, and decided to call the client, and after the phone number was the name of the person, Mr. Merry.
Hey? Mathilde was a little surprised.
It was the same last name as someone she knew...... Her heart pounded suddenly.
If the person and the person she knows are the same person, does that mean...... Will he be the football star?
β»β»β» Just as Merry was lamenting that there was such a coincidence in the world, the fax machine rang again, this time not by fax, but by telephone.
"Hello, I'm Merry."
"Hello, I'm Delphi. Mathilde. Mia ......"
Merry was intrigued by the female candidate, who had a different surname than the one she once knew, and who had a similar experience, especially her experience as a language teacher for the players.
So after a brief politeness, he asked him directly the question he was interested in.
"Miss Mia, you said you used to be a language teacher for a football player, can I ask where you did it?"
"Uh, yes...... Mace. In order not to think of him again, Mathilde did not even go back to Mace, and now that she mentioned it again, it was inevitable to think of him.
Mr. Merry's heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't care about being polite, and asked, "May I ask which player you are a language teacher for?" It doesn't need to be kept secret, right? β
"Yes. ...... to a Chinese player" She was interrupted by a burst of laughter.
The laughter soon ended, and Merry apologized to Mathilde: "I'm sorry, Miss Mia, maybe I should call you Delphin. Mathilde. Miss Bourgeva? β
Mathilde is a smart person, and after hearing what the other party said, the faint guess in her mind was finally confirmed.
Bourjeva was the last name she had used, the last name of her alcoholic father. Out of disgust for her alcoholic father, she never wanted to be called Bourgeva, and called herself Delphine to the outside world. Mathilde, automatically omitted the last name. Later, when the divorce was successful, she immediately changed her surname to follow her mother's surname, and her mother's surname was Mia, a German woman's surname, because her mother was German, and she taught Chu Zhongtian German from her mother.
"James. Mr. Merry? She asked tentatively.
"It's me, Miss Mathilde. To be honest, this title is more familiar, haha! I really didn't expect us to meet again in this way. Merry was suddenly in a better mood because he had found a suitable personal assistant.
Judging from her work history, Mathilde has done a lot of work, and being a personal assistant is to be comprehensive, and those jobs have been excellent in all aspects of her ability. In terms of her ability to work, Merry felt that Mathilde had no problem.
In the invisible requirements, Mathilde is even more fine, she has been a language teacher for Chu Zhongtian for more than a year, and the relationship between the two is very good, and she knows Chu Zhongtian very well.
This is simply the perfect fit.
"I ...... I didn't expect ...... either" Mathilde smiled a little forcefully, for she didn't know if she should be happy at this time.
It went around and around again. I thought that I had made up my mind to leave him, and if I deliberately distanced myself, I would never have anything to do with him in the future, but I didn't expect that a job opportunity would lead him and myself again.
This world is so small, this fate will really joke with itself...... "Now things will be easy to do, I'll tell you directly, maybe you have already guessed." Chu has more and more things going on now, and I can't be busy anymore by myself. So after consulting with him, we decided to find a personal assistant to take over my current assignment so that I could go from being a full-service nanny back to being an agent. And those advertisements, interviews, announcements on shows, itinerary plans...... and other messy things, he needs a personal assistant to help him arrange and take care of them. After all, he is no longer a simple football star, he even has a business kingdom in the United States, and he needs to worry about a lot of things, so I hope to find a personal assistant who can take some work off his shoulders and take care of him by the way. When we set the conditions, in addition to the hardware in terms of work ability and professionalism, there were also software requirements, that is, this person had better like Chu Zhongtian, so that the cooperation would be better. To be honest, there are many people who can meet the needs of hardware, but the ...... of software There are very few, and I've been looking for more than two months now, and you've only found five people. If it weren't for your presence, I don't know when I'd be able to find it. Chu has very high requirements for the people around him, and one of them is that he must be trustworthy, whether it is when he asks me to be his agent, or Xu to be his agent in China, it is the same - we first got to know each other, and then slowly got to know each other in contact, and finally determined this kind of working relationship. As his personal assistant, I am closer to Chu than Xu and I, and sometimes I even have to eat and live with him, so if I don't trust someone enough, I won't be at ease......" Merry began to gush about the requirements and importance of the job.
"So if I could, I'd love to be able to find people with whom I had contact and who had a good relationship. But there are too few such people. It's good that you're here, haha! β
In fact, when Merry said that "this person had better like Chu Zhongtian", Mathilde began to wander. She doesn't just like that person...... "...... All in all, I think this job is a good fit for you. What are your thoughts, Miss Mathilde? β
Merry's words returned to Mathilde's ears, and she came to her senses, but she didn't know how to answer.
She actually didn't want to have anything to do with that person anymore, because she had already made up her mind to leave. But in the past few years, she has deliberately distanced herself, doesn't it actually mean that in her heart, she has never forgotten that person? Otherwise, why deliberately avoid it?
It's been more than two years since she was separated, but now that she thinks about it, she finds that those years still have an aftertaste in her heart.
When she left Mace, she thought about it but couldn't get it. Now it's reluctant to give up, and the scenes of the past are replayed in her mind, and finally they are entangled together, and there is no longer any scene or when.
"I ...... Mr. Merry, can you let me think about it? Mathilde finally replied with difficulty.
"No problem, I'll wait for your call, you can go directly to my phone, because I can't run around with a fax machine, right? Ha! You know my mobile number, right? β
"Well, in fact, my phone was stolen, and my phone number is gone...... in fact, it was not that the phone was stolen, but that she gave up the card she used before, changed her phone number, changed her surname, and changed her new identity, just to cut off the past and say goodbye to the reluctant and unobtainable feelings.
"Okay, no problem, I'll send you my mobile number. Then I'll wait for your reply, Miss Mathilde. Besides, I think you are really suitable for this profession, and the pay is very good. You know, Chu is always generous to the people around him. β
Merry knew about Mathilde's family situation and that she needed a lot of money, so "good pay" was very attractive to Mathilde. Her change of surname must also have something to do with family reasons, "Mia" should be her mother's last name, and it seems that they finally got rid of that not very good man.
β»β»β»Meri guessed well.
The good pay was very devastating to Mathilde, she did need a lot of money now, the tuition of her younger siblings, the living expenses of the family of four, and the money for her mother's medical treatment, for which she did not even have the money to buy herself nice clothes. Now she is back to the rustic dress she had when she first met Chu Zhongtian.
She is not a beauty in the first place, and if she doesn't dress up, she won't be able to look at it...... But the current problem cannot be solved by "good treatment".
Accepting this job means going back and facing the old emotions and the cruel reality that you are not destined to succeed. I know that I can't get it, but I still have to look forward to it every day, I can see that person every day, hear his voice, and contact him, but I must suppress the emotions that sprout in my heart all the time**.
It's a real ordeal.
If you think about it but can't get it, what can you do with your life? The reluctance to give up is just concerned with the past.
That night, Mathilde typed Chu Zhongtian's name into a search engine for the first time. When Chu Zhongtian's news and photos appeared on the computer screen in front of her, it was like a burst embankment, and the thoughts that had accumulated for several years poured out, washing her to the ground, and finally being surrounded by clusters, becoming an island in the ocean.
When the water stopped and the wind calmed down, Mathilde took out her cell phone and asked to call Merry.
She figured it out.
Since you miss him so much, go to him so that you can see him every day. She has to face her heart bravely, she doesn't care if anything happens in the future, maybe she will never have a chance, but she still has to face it. Escape is not a way, maybe you can let go of it when you face it.
The call went through.
"Mr. Merry? I've thought it through, and I'm willing to accept the job. β
Merry laughed, "That's great. I think Chu will also be happy to see his old friend again. β
Will he be happy to see himself again? Won't you be bothered by this?
Mathilde's heart was filled with nervousness and anticipation, and he was uneasy.
(To be continued)