WARNING! Tsundere President

The next morning, right after Zhaoyang rummaged through her handbag just to stop the alarm on her phone, she put on her usual widow-dark suit along with some basic makeup before getting herself properly seated in her apartment. She was waiting. She could feel that an interview might be coming anytime soon.

On second thought, time was the greatest cost to her at the moment. She must not be idly waiting for something to happen. She then took off her coat and headed to the kitchen to make herself some snacks.

“Alright, Zhaoyang, let’s do this.” And there Zhaoyang was, mixing in all sorts of ingredients she got from the supermarket. 500 grams of flour, 300 grams of sugar, 4 egg yolks with the egg whites beaten up to be folded in, she tried following the random recipe she found online but she found the weighing process was unnecessary.

In the midst of a messy kitchen table, she rested on her chair, gasping in relief as she looked at the oven. “Almost done.” But right before she put on her gloves, she shuddered as her phone vibrated vigorously in her pocket.

She took off her baking gloves and picked up the call, “Hello?”

“Greetings, is this Miss Lu Zhaoyang?” The voice was gentle.

“Yes, I am.” Zhaoyang nearly tripped herself as she turned to have a glance at the oven. Her biscuits were almost ready as with her job interview too! Such miraculous coincidence!

“Miss Lu, I am from the HR of Ge Yu Corporation. Are you available for a face-to-face interview tomorrow at 9?”

“YES! I am…” She tried controlling her joy. She could not believe it. She got an interview offer on the very first day.

“Okay, see you there then. Goodbye.”

After hanging up, Lu Zhaoyang replaced her phone and put on the gloves to take the tray out of the oven. Her biscuits were in the shape of teddy bears. It was cutesy but it did not taste as good as the ones made by her mother however.

“Well, better than nothing I guess,” muttered she as she poured herself some tea. Within the next few hours, three companies called her and she arranged the interviews apart from each other.

She should not put all of her eggs in the same basket after all.

She changed into her pajamas at night after showering and headed to sleep right after. The day after, she dunked her biscuits in hot cocoa before she put on her dress. It was a satisfying discovery that her biscuits actually tasted better with a hot drink. Pumped, she took a Uber to Ge Yu Corp. first.

Ge Yu Corp. was a rather standard middle-sized company which anyone could grasp a handful of its kind on the first page of Google search. It should not be that hard for her to at least pass the interview.

“Good morning, how may I help you?”

“I was invited to an interview session with the company.”

“Oh, yes. Are you Miss Lu? The President will be waiting for you inside the meeting room at the 12th floor. The elevator is right behind the reception.”

She was applying for the same old position she had before—the president’s secretary. Therefore it was justifiable that she was going to show herself not at the HR department but at the meeting room.

She expected a one man show inside the room, like an alpha at one far end of the marble meeting table but it was not quite what she imagined as she pushed the door open.

The president was nowhere to be found. Instead, the heads of different departments were there, asking her a few really basic questions that she nearly did an eye roll before them as she wondered if they actually read her resume. It was a smooth exchange nonetheless.

They seemed rather pleased towards her responses.

In the midst of awkward silence, right when she wondered if she flunked her interview, the lady with the name Yuan Li picked up her mobile phone and just spoke without even unlocking it, “How do you think, sir?”

She appeared to be pretty high up in the hierarchy of this company.

That was when Zhaoyang realized that the president had been listening to their conversation over the phone!

“Alright,” said Yuan Li calmly as she hung up, before reaching out her friendly hand towards Zhaoyang, “Miss Lu, we are pleased to inform you that you have passed the interview. You are ready to work as his Personal Assistant anytime now. Congratulations!”

Zhaoyang held her hand and shook very sluggishly in bewilderment, “Uh… Personal Assistant? I applied for a secretary position, didn’t I?”

“Well, for your information, the president found your performance to be fairly superior while he’s lacking a personal assistant. With your solid experience being the head secretary in Thunderbolt Corp. before, you can definitely tackle the tasks perfectly.” She smiled, “Now you’re at a higher position than all of us. I hope that we will have a pleasant working experience together!”

“Umm…okay? Sure?” Zhaoyang was still processing the sudden change of events. She remained skeptical of the fact that she got hired without any further discussion among the administration.

What a president . She thought.

Well, at least she got a position with a fair job scope and benefits. It looked like there was no longer a need to attend other interviews.

“Special Assistant Lu, allow me to show you around the place while I brief you the full job scope of your position,” invited Yuan Li as she opened the door for her.

“You don’t have to be so formal. We will be colleagues from now on,” said Zhaoyang as she followed Yuan Li.

“It’s alright. The president requested me to show you our company after all.”

She brought Zhaoyang directly to the President’s office. It was a very wide wooden door classily crafted in ancient Victorian style.

The office was spacious, even more so when there was only a desktop at the center towards a large window where a few potted plants stood.

There was nothing else.