Chapter 18: A Chance Encounter at the Gym
Wednesday evening, in the heart of Sydney city.
After a busy day, Cong Rong and a few colleagues found a Chinese hot pot restaurant to have dinner together. A group of six people, some Asians, some whites, and Arabs, six colleagues, men and women, sat together, eating hot pot and chatting about gossip.
“Did you guys know? The company is planning to take a big case next year. I heard from our CEO. According to the CEO, our company is preparing to take on a big project next year. Tom, an Australian colleague, suddenly and mysteriously said to everyone in the room.
“Yeah, I also heard it. A tier 1 piano manufacturer approached us last month. Their contract with Legend Marketing expires soon. They are now actively looking for a marketing agency to be their new partner. (yes, I've heard that, too.) It should be a well-known piano manufacturer who came to the door last month. Their contract with Legend Marketing, which they now work with, is about to expire. They are now in the process of selecting other marketing companies as new partners. Muhammad, a colleague from Arabia, followed suit.
“Anything happened to Legend Marketing? Why they are looking for a new partner? (Did Legendary Marketing Happen?) Why don't you renew your contract with it? Zoe, a young white Australian female colleague, asked stupidly.
“Don’t ask why, Zoe! Remember that you are working for Maxine now. It is a good thing for our company, you know. And you really don’t know what happened to Legend Marketing early this year? It was such a big news for the whole industry. Are you for real working in the marketing industry? (Zoe, you better stop worrying about other people!) You know, you're working for Maxi right now. It's good for us that they're looking for new partners. Moreover, in the first half of this year, such a big thing happened in legendary marketing, you didn't even know it? This was a big event in the industry at the time. I said, do you work in this industry? After Lamai, a female colleague from Thailand, finished speaking, she looked at Zoe next to her with some disdain.
Zoe glanced at the female colleague who was not very polite, but did not say anything, but looked at Cong Rong with an aggrieved and somewhat expectant gaze.
“The chairman of Legend Marketing had an accident and passed away early this year. Since then, they suffered a lot and lost some key relationships and clients. But I am not sure if the tier 1 piano manufacturer that you were talking about is one of their clients. If it is the case, I think we all will soon find out. Let’s hope for the best, shall we? (The chairman of Legendary Marketing had an accident earlier this year and sadly passed away.) Since then, Legend has suffered heavy losses and lost several major customers. However, I'm not sure that the well-known piano manufacturer you are talking about is one of their big customers. However, if it turns out as we expected, we will soon find out. Either way, let's hope that everything will turn out for the better! After Cong Rong made a brief speech, she didn't say more, but invited everyone to toast together.
Most of the colleagues present are not senior executives of the company, except for Cong Rong, not many of them have been in the company for more than 2 years. Therefore, they didn't know that Cong Rong had worked at Legend Marketing before coming to Maxi, and she didn't want to explain more.
After eating the hot pot lively, the colleagues were ready to part ways and go back to their respective homes. Cong Rong and a Chinese female colleague decided to go to the gym near the company to exercise and digest the greasy stomach that they had just eaten.
As soon as they entered the gym, Cong Rong saw a man in front of them who was training his shoulders and arms with equipment, he was Xiao Zhengyun.
The moment Cong Rong saw Xiao Zhengyun, her heartbeat began to speed up. However, she still pretended to be calm and walked in front of Xiao Zhengyun with her companion, and waved at him to say hello.
Xiao Zhengyun was practicing vigorously, grinning and pulling an iron rod with both hands, and the other end of the rod was connected with a thirty-kilogram weight. When he saw Cong Rong, he was pleasantly surprised, immediately threw away the pole, took off the wireless headphones on his ears, and stood up from the seat of a lat pulldown machine at the same time.
"Hello, Cong Rong! What a coincidence! You can also come to the gym to work out at this time! Xiao Zhengyun said as he wiped the sweat on his face with a towel around his neck.
"My colleague and I just ate some greasy hot pot and thought about walking on the treadmill and digesting it." Cong Rong pretended to be calm and said, but she straightened her waist a little unconfidently, and subconsciously sucked her lower abdomen.
Cong Rong was about to pull her colleague out of the instrument area, but her colleague looked at Xiao Zhengyun standing in front of them with some confusion and said, "Why do I think I've seen you somewhere?" It seems to be on the personal website of the piano prince Li Baiyun. She looked at Xiao Zhengyun again, thought for a while, and suddenly pointed at him and said, "Oh, I remember, I saw you on Li Baiyun's website, and a photo of you and him was placed on it, and the background of the photo was a grand piano." I log on to that site from time to time, and I can't be wrong. ”
The more Anne, a Chinese female colleague, talked about it, the more excited she became, and she turned on the camera in her phone to take a photo with Xiao Zhengyun. Cong Rong didn't know where she got the courage, and suddenly snatched Anne's mobile phone and said seriously, "Anne, don't make another mistake, you see you scared my cousin." After Cong Rong finished speaking, she glanced at Xiao Zhengyun, who had an innocent expression on the side, and continued, "He is my distant cousin, who came to Sydney to do business." How could you possibly take a photo with your Prince Charming Li Baiyun. Besides, Li Baiyun is a celebrity, and he has taken photos with many people, how can you remember it, it must be a mistake. ”
Anne wanted to say something, but before she could open her mouth, she was pulled forward by Cong Rong. Cong Rong pulled her, and turned back to Xiao Zhengyun and said, "Cousin, let's not bother you first, you exercise hard." Let's go to the other side, bye-bye! ”
Xiao Zhengyun looked at the strange expression on Cong Rong's face, then waved at them and said, "Goodbye, cousin!" ”
20 minutes later, Cong Rong was already sweating profusely on the treadmill at a speed of "5" and a slope of "15", and her colleague Anne next to her was still holding her mobile phone, staring at the group photo on Li Baiyun's website, and muttered, "Cong Rong, look, the handsome man standing next to Li Baiyun in the group photo is really too similar to your cousin!" What does your cousin do? Is it a little star or a little model in China? ”
"What? Do you like it? Didn't you swear that Li Baiyun would not marry? Why do you fall in love with Li Baiyun's fans now? Moreover, not a true fan yet. Or a similar-looking imposter fan. Cong Rong continued to work the treadmill while talking to her colleague Anne.
"If I could be with such a handsome fake fan, I definitely wouldn't mind." Anne said as she secretly looked at the direction where Xiao Zhengyun had just made the instrument, and said nymphomaniacly.
"Don't think about it, he's married and has two children." Cong Rong was afraid that her colleagues would bother Xiao Zhengyun again, so she quickly made up a lie to dispel the idea of this nymphomaniac. However, when she finished saying this, a strange thought popped up in her mind. Cong Rong suddenly wanted to know if Xiao Zhengyun already had a girlfriend, and even, as she joked with her colleagues, she already had a beloved wife and children around her knees.
Cong Rong also followed the attention of her colleague Anne and looked over. However, Xiao Zhengyun has disappeared.