The chairman of Zongheng Group fell and broke two ribs and the ulna of his right arm. During his hospitalization, the group’s performance declined. The chairman was so angry that he lectured the executives in the ward for more than two hours. Zongheng Group immediately took action from top to bottom to strengthen its work style and strive to pull up the declining performance within a quarter. During the annual employee rating and assessment period, the employees are full of energy and are more competitive than ever. The manager of the internal publicity department told his subordinates that the internal publicity department, the planning department, and the advertising department will participate in an internal mock bidding to plan a promotion campaign for the company’s new tea beverage. As an ordinary specialist in the internal publicity department of a large comprehensive group, Wu Xiuya was assigned to be in charge of this promotion.
Wu Xiuya has a lively and intelligent face. Most people would be wary of someone with this appearance, but no one would have thought that she is actually a people-pleaser. She wants to be recognized by everyone, so she tries hard to please them, but the more she pleases, the less self she has, thus forming a vicious cycle. A lot of work that does not belong to her is thrown to her. Once, she was busy interviewing Mr. Qin who was inspecting the logistics branch, but her colleague Ma Chao called and insisted that she order food for Manager Hu and the editor-in-chief of the Evening News. Wu Xiuya had no choice but to take time out to order food. Finally, because she didn’t answer the deliveryman’s call during the interview, it indirectly caused the editor-in-chief of the Evening News and Manager Hu to be hungry for several hours, and she ended up being scolded by Manager Hu.
Wu Xiuya’s boyfriend, Zheng Hao, is a young man with outstanding performance in the marketing department and has been the company’s sales champion for three consecutive years. Zheng Hao left a deep impression on the chairman and became the youngest deputy director of the marketing department. Everyone in the group felt that he was expected to rise all the way to become the youngest vice president. On this day, colleague Xiaoli asked Wu Xiuya to complete a complicated form and mentioned that she should go to the newly opened hot pot restaurant for dinner. Wu Xiuya reluctantly agreed, but when she finished the form and went to the hot pot restaurant after work, she found that Xiaoli and the others had already eaten and didn’t call her to eat when they got off work. They were still gossiping behind her back that Zheng Hao’s mother and Manager Hu were best friends, indirectly attributing Wu Xiuya’s efforts to the result of nepotism.
But the more this happened, the more Wu Xiuya wanted to prove herself. She also had moments of self-centeredness and indifference. That was in 2005, when she moved to Ningxi City from Shenzhen with her mother. Her mother was a typical example of sacrificing for the family, giving up her job as a deputy manager of a shopping mall to move with her husband. Wu Xiuya knew that her father’s position was getting higher and higher, but her mother could no longer find a decent job. After Wu Xiuya moved to Ningxi City, she transferred to the Seventh Middle School, and the head teacher arranged for her to sit next to the class monitor, Shi Ye. Because she couldn’t find the pants she wanted to wear on the first day, she wore a red dress to school, but she was considered by her classmates to be scheming and wanting to show off. Another classmate directly ordered her not to wear a skirt tomorrow and not to sit next to Shi Ye.
At that time, Wu Xiuya was not to be trifled with. She refused directly and wanted to wear a skirt to school the next day, but she had to wear trousers because the skirt had already been put in the washing machine. Fang Lu also wore a red dress in order to steal the limelight, but she found that Wu Xiuya was not wearing it, which made her look a bit silly. Wu Xiuya was also good at playing basketball and joined the boys’ basketball team, which made her relationship with Shi Ye closer and made Fang Lu even more jealous. A group of people started spreading rumors about Wu Xiuya, saying that she transferred because she had done something wrong in her previous school. Not only that, Fang Lu also deliberately did not inform her that the meeting place had been changed, so that the school bully Mao Biao would block Wu Xiuya. Shi Ye, who came in a hurry, started a fight with Mao Biao and others.
The ambulance took the injured students away. This incident had a great impact on the school. Wu’s father severely reprimanded Xiuya and slapped her. Wu Xiuya admitted that she was not wrong, and Wu’s father was furious and went to the room to smash all the basketball related things. The dean of students ordered Wu Xiuya to write a self-criticism and asked his son Shi Ye to change seats on the grounds that his current position affected his studies. Shi Ye did as he was told, but this embarrassed Wu Xiuya. During the break exercise, Wu Xiuya was asked to read the self-criticism on the radio. Taking advantage of the teacher leaving the broadcasting room, Wu Xiuya locked the door directly, took the microphone and told the whole truth. She felt good after saying it, but she didn’t expect that Shi Ye and the head teacher, Teacher Mu, were indirectly hurt by her true words.
Sixteen-year-old Wu Xiuya decided to hide her true self, not to let herself or others be hurt by her true words. She told herself to think more about others when she was angry. As the years passed, Wu Xiuya went further and further on this road of forbearance, gradually losing herself and becoming what she is now.
