“Sir, do you have an appointment? You can’t go in without an appointment,” the receptionist said coldly.
Lin Bai said, “I just talked to President Shen. He asked me to come over.”
The receptionist looked at Lin Bai from head to toe. It was obvious that she did not believe what Lin Bai said.
However, she still maintained her professionalism and asked, “Then could I trouble you to tell me your name, Sir? I’ll check the appointment log here.”
“Lin Bai.”
The receptionist typed a few times on the keyboard before saying, “I’m sorry, Mr. Lin. I can’t find your appointment records here.”
Lin Bai said, “You can ask President Shen directly. He invited me here for a face-to-face talk.”
The receptionist was a little impatient.
“People say that every day. How can I disturb president Shen every time?”
“President Shen is very busy. He doesn’t have time to see other people. Please go back.”
Lin Bai almost laughed in anger.
“If what others say is not true, does it mean that I’m lying too?”
“You didn’t even ask for confirmation before chasing me away. Aren’t you afraid of affecting the company’s business? Aren’t you afraid that your boss will fire you?”
The receptionist became more and more impatient.
“Sir, if you don’t have an appointment, please leave. Otherwise, I’ll have to call security.”
Recently, there had been too many people trying to sneak into the company with all kinds of reasons.
At the beginning, she had been accommodating, but in the end, those people were all here to cause trouble.
As a result, she was criticized very badly after the incident, and her salary was docked by a large amount.
She was just a receptionist, how could she tell who the visitors were?
Hence, later on, she simply decided to forbid all visitors who hadn’t made an appointment in advance, from going up to the office, so as to save herself trouble.
Lin Bai had no choice but to call Shen Wanqing in front of the receptionist.
As soon as the call was connected, Lin Bai spoke sneeringly.
“President Shen, I’m already at your company. The receptionist won’t let me go up. Please talk to her for me.”
After saying that, he handed his cell phone to the receptionist.
The receptionist felt that something was amiss.
Although there were people who had used similar excuses to try to sneak into the company, no one had ever dared to call CEO Shen directly like Lin Bai.
It seemed that what this gentleman said before was true.
The receptionist was already regretting it in her heart.
Under Lin Bai’s gaze, she braced herself to take the phone and said timidly, “CEO Shen…”
Shen Wanqing did not waste any time and said directly, “Let him come up.”
“Yes, yes, yes. I’ll bring Mr. Lin upstairs now.”
After hanging up the phone, the receptionist apologized with a smile on her face.
“Mr. Lin, I’m sorry for what happened just now. Please don’t take it to heart.”
Lin Bai sneered and said, “There’s an old saying that it’s hard to avoid the annoying employees even though it’d be easy to meet the boss. I didn’t understand it previously, but now I finally understand what it means.”
The receptionist was very embarrassed by the sarcasm. She forced a smile and didn’t know what to say.
Lin Bai didn’t want to waste any more time with her. He didn’t even look at her anymore. He strode into the elevator and went straight to Shen Wanqing’s office on the top floor.
When he was in the elevator, Lin Bai noticed a detail. The 4th, 13th, and 14th floors were not available in this building.
The 3rd floor was directly below the 5th floor, and the 12th floor was directly below the 15th floor.
As far as Lin Bai knew, this building was the property of Qingcheng Group, not a rented building.
That also meant that the boss of Qingcheng Group, Chen Wanqing, was a very superstitious person.
Otherwise, he would not have deliberately skipped those floors with so-called inauspicious numbers..