My Virtual Girlfriend-Chapter 367: The Deaf-Mute Girl

Chen Yan was indeed a big shot who had just attended the Peninsula Club, making every move of his particularly attention-grabbing.

Moreover, his age was about the same as or even younger than most of the second-generation rich, which drew even more attention.

Therefore, both the wealthy and the second-generation rich were paying attention to this matter.

In some private gatherings, the topic of Chen Yan negotiating with Headline Technology was undeniably the hottest topic.

However, most people held a pessimistic attitude.

After all, with the increasingly clear news of Headline Technology’s financing, everyone became aware of Headline’s strategy for this financing round: overseas.

Thus, Chen Yan’s venture capital firm stood no chance.

Furthermore, Meng Xue was not incapable—in fact, during her years at Wutong Group, she had proven her competence.

With her capabilities failing to clinch a deal and the other party setting the preconditions, it was extraordinarily difficult for Chen Yan to succeed.

With these factors in mind, the consensus was largely pessimistic.

In the upper circles on Qin Island, while Chen Yan’s personal involvement caused an uproar, Qin Hang’s plane was slowly descending at Tiandu Airport.

If it had been anyone else traveling for business, they would probably have had to fend for themselves.

But let’s not forget, Chen Yan had a branch office in Tiandu.

Therefore, before boarding the plane, Chen Yan had called Song Chuang. As he landed, Song Chuang and a girl with a doll-like face, looking very cute and cheerful, were holding a sign at the arrival gate.

For this trip, Chen Yan came with the mindset to strike fast and get things done quickly, so he traveled light, bringing nothing.

Upon seeing Song Chuang, Chen Yan smiled and waved his hand, then walked out of the arrival gate.

Song Chuang and the cute girl came forward to greet him.

Upon seeing Chen Yan, Song Chuang hugged him warmly and then said with a smile, "Mr. Chen, your visit was so sudden, I almost couldn’t make it, stuck in the third ring road traffic."

Chen Yan smiled and patted his shoulder, asking, "Is Tiandu always this congested?"

Song Chuang replied, "Absolutely! I now get off work at 10 p.m just to avoid the rush hour."

Chen Yan chuckled at Song Chuang’s comments.

After the pleasantries, while leading Chen Yan outside, Song Chuang introduced the girl beside him, "Her name is Jiang Xiaoyun. She works with us, takes care of administration, and is a very optimistic girl."

Chen Yan looked at the girl and smilingly stretched out his hand, saying, "Nice to meet you."

Jiang Xiaoyun quickly clasped the sign she was holding, then bowed and shook hands with Chen Yan, her face displaying a bright smile.

After shaking hands with Jiang Xiaoyun, Chen Yan’s impression of her was... this girl was a bit strange. Despite looking very cheerful, she did not speak a word.

Just then, Song Chuang laughingly said, "Xiao Yun is a deaf-mute girl. She was born with vocal cord issues, so she cannot speak, but she can hear."

"But, she does not have the usual introversion or inferiority complex many deaf-mute girls have. Instead, she is very sunny."

"When she applied for the job, she performed excellently. Furthermore, since you once said to hire based on talent regardless of the financial aspect, I hired her for our company."

"This time, when she heard you were coming to Tiandu, she insisted on coming along to meet you in person and to thank you."

Chen Yan was taken aback by Song Chuang’s words.

The amount of information in those words was somewhat overwhelming.

He calmly sorted through the information Song Chuang had revealed, which essentially amounted to:

You said I could spend as I wished, so when I met this deaf-mute girl, I felt she was so pitiful, and I hired her.

I hadn’t dared tell you before, fearing you might think it too frivolous. Now that you are here in Tiandu, it seemed wrong to keep hiding it, so I thought it best to introduce her to you.

Look how pitiable yet adorable she is; please don’t dismiss her.

As for the other embellished content Song Chuang added, Chen Yan disregarded it.

In fact, he felt that the girl hadn’t really credited her employment to him, nor had she originally intended to come meet him—it was Song Chuang who had brought her over to show him.

She was truly grateful to Song Chuang, not himself.

While Chen Yan was pondering this, the doll-faced girl before him blinked her big adorable eyes, excitedly pulled out a stack of sticky notes and a pen from her pocket.

She held the sticky notes towards Chen Yan, held the pen backwards, with the back facing her, and wrote a line, "Thank you, Mr. Chen! When I was hired, Mr. Song said that if it weren’t for you, he wouldn’t have dared to hire me!"

"If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have such a great opportunity, such a good job."

"Thank you, really, thank you!"

The girl’s handwriting was elegant and beautiful, though slightly rough due to her excitement.

After finishing, she once again bowed earnestly to Chen Yan.

When she raised her head, her lively eyes shone brightly, looking at Chen Yan as if seeing her idol.

Chen Yan was momentarily stunned. Then he smiled and said, "No worries. It must have been your capabilities that impressed Mr. Song after all."

’Well, whatever. Since I can earn some cashback, it’s good to have such a cute girl stay in the company.’

Seeing Chen Yan and Jiang Xiaoyun getting along well, Song Chuang breathed a sigh of relief on the side.

He regarded himself as dedicated in the company, never doing anything that harmed the company’s interests and always considering the company’s benefit.

Except this time... choosing Jiang Xiaoyun had indeed been influenced by his personal feelings.

At the time, he was genuinely moved by this optimistic girl and wanted to give her a chance.

After hiring Jiang Xiaoyun, Song Chuang learned that after graduating from college, she had submitted dozens of resumes, but whenever she went for an interview, once the companies realized she was deaf-mute, they immediately rejected her.

After all, who would want to hire a disabled person in their company?

Especially a deaf-mute, who couldn’t even communicate normally—who would willingly employ her?

Perhaps precisely because of this, Jiang Xiaoyun performed exceptionally well in the company, no worse than anyone else.

Although she couldn’t speak, her work wasn’t affected at all. On the contrary, because she was particularly adorable and sunny, she was very popular among the company’s staff.

As for what he and Chen Yan discussed, it was also true.

After all... hiring a deaf-mute in the company, given Song Chuang’s shrewdness, certainly required keeping a backup plan, ahem...

So, the three of them chatted along the way... well, Chen Yan and Song Chuang talked, while Jiang Xiaoyun listened, as they went to the parking lot.

Jiang Xiaoyun was indeed very diligent and sunny.

Reaching the parking lot, she hopped to the car side and promptly opened the doors for Chen Yan and Song Chuang.

After the two men got into the car, she then closed the door and went to the trunk to store away the sign Chen Yan had used at the airport and returned to the driver’s seat to start the car.

Perhaps because Jiang Xiaoyun couldn’t speak, although there were clearly three people in the car, Chen Yan and Song Chuang felt even more at ease.

During the ride, Chen Yan and Song Chuang discussed the business Chen Yan intended to handle in Tiandu.

But when hearing Chen Yan planned to negotiate with Headline Technology to seek financing, Song Chuang furrowed his brows, then stroked his chin, deep in thought.

After a moment, he raised his head and said, "Mr. Chen... you might not be very familiar with Headline Technology or its owner."

He carefully chose his words before continuing, "How should I put it? This company is quite famous in the Tiandu circle because their owner is not on his first entrepreneurship."

"He has actually founded and run companies twice before. Each time, after the company was doing well, he would abandon it or sell it off."

"Especially with the second company, he had reached the number one market share. But he still chose to leave it."

"I had the fortune to meet him once, and from what others have said about him, he doesn’t seem much like a businessman, more like an adventurer."

"He doesn’t like to discuss topics like company financing or going public. Instead, he prefers to explore the unknown or talk about the development of technology."

"So... if you plan to secure this round of financing through a direct conversation with him, it might not be very realistic."

Hearing Song Chuang’s words, Chen Yan was surprised.

He didn’t expect that Song Chuang knew so much about the owner of Headline, something Meng Xue had never mentioned before.

But on reflection, Meng Xue was just the vice-president of his new subsidiary, and Song Chuang had not known her before. For Song Chuang to meet Meng Xue in Tiandu, help arrange her hotel, and other details was already showing great courtesy to a brother company. Of course, he wouldn’t have proactively talked about this kind of information.

After all, not to mention he had no obligation—regardless of whether he was not close with Meng Xue, doing so much might make others feel he overstepped.

So, it was normal for him to only share this information with Chen Yan now.