Snare of Love
Chapter 214 Sudden Encounter

Victoria went about as usual in the morning, she waited for Jayden to leave before leaving herself, so as to avoid the awkwardness when meeting each other. After all, their current statuses were weird.

They weren't considered strangers, because they had met each other before; but even if they were considered close friends, they hadn't met many times, and didn't understand the personality of the other party.

Living under the same roof, they hadn't even had breakfast together before.

Because Jayden would never have breakfast at home. As for night time, she would already be resting when he came back.

One left home early and came back late, another was intentionally avoiding the other, hence the both of them never got to meet at all.

Once she reached her office, Victoria went about as usual, working on the most trivial tasks. But because of her willingness to learn, she had a lot of understanding of the company's products. She followed her boss's instructions as per usual, printing out the documents required for the meeting.

A total of 20 copies were required, and she stood in front of the printer waiting patiently.

When the documents were ready, she clipped each copy up, and brought them to the meeting room, and placed them accordingly on everyone's seats.

At this moment, the meeting room door was pushed open, Victoria had not finished placing the documents. Mr. Brown took a look at the documents arranged neatly on the meeting table, and the seats that were placed neatly. He turned to look at Victoria who was just placing the final document on the seat, it was a new face, "Are you new?"

He had never seen Victoria before.

Before Victoria could say anything else, her boss answered for her, "Yes, she's been here for only two months."

Mr. Brown was wearing a black suit, but it couldn't hide the fact that he had gained weight, he was in his forties, there was excess fat on his face, and on his nose perched a pair of golden-rimmed glasses. Although he wasn't good-looking, but he looked righteous.

He nodded, "Look, this is what work should be like, regardless of what your position is, and what you are doing, you have to do it properly, and make sure everything is in place. This is the right work attitude." The suck-ups behind him immediately agreed.

Although Victoria was new to the work field, she understood the social rules. Everyone here was a talent, she was just a small clerk, she shouldn't talk much. With soft steps, she retreated quietly through the back door.

“Hold on.” Mr. Brown suddenly noticed her actions and called out to her, he lifted his chin, “Which school did you graduate from, where were you working previously?

"Graduated from HQ University, this is my first job." Victoria replied honestly.

Mr. Brown's expression paused for a second, a little unbelievable, "A top university graduate?"

He was a little confused, she was a graduate from a top university, even if it was her first job, it shouldn't have been in the position of a clerk.

"Why are you willing to work this job?" Mr. Brown asked curiously.

She was a top university graduate.

"Even though I am a top university graduate, but I don't have real-life work experience. I think there is nothing bad about this job. Through printing out documents every day, I got exposed to the company's core operations, I've learned a lot from it."

"Tell me, what have you learned?" Mr. Brown asked again.

He was curious on what she had learned.

Victoria told him about the products that she had been exposed to in the company, she had researched the information online. The company she was at manufactures punching machines, compressors, ultrasounds and other types of heavy machinery.

These machineries were usually sold to the most industrial-heavy cities in the country, just that the competition now was quite big.

Technology was getting more and more progressive, the machinery from the last generation were slowly getting eliminated, only machineries that were more cost-effective would be used by the boss. "Up till today, there were 30 years since our inception, in these 30 years, we were once glorious. When someone talks about heavy machinery, the first company people would think of is WX Machinery. But with time passing, there're more manufacturers in the market, and this has a huge impact on the market. To get that back, or to regain our glory, it is not through sales, it is through innovation."

"You are just a clerk, what do you know?" Her boss frowned, unhappy with her long-winded answer.

Mr. Brown on the other hand nodded his head approvingly, "Join in the meeting with us today."

"She is just a small clerk, our meeting today is to discuss the future direction of our company, with her position I don't think it's suitable for her to join."

"As long as she's a company staff, she will be qualified to join, I think what she said makes sense, and it was very well said. Our annual sales have been dropping, each year worse than the previous. The reasons you guys have been providing me are that market is bad, that the market is soft, that's why sales can't go up. Have you looked at the root of the problem?" When talking Mr. Brown looked at Victoria, "I think what she said makes a lot of sense, for the company to always be leading, and to stay glorious, we have to innovate..."

“But innovation requires lots of time, money and energy..."

"I think the company can afford this, I've done a survey, we have accumulated some wealth from our previous glory years, it would be enough to support our current restructuring. If we remain unchanged, we will be eliminated from the market." Victoria once again offered her opinion. She had no intention of contradicting this guy, but she couldn't accept his opinion.

"The environment is changing, if we don't move forward we will be left behind. Only by innovation can we stand strong on the market, and stay at the pinnacle of the pyramid."

"You're just a clerk, what do you know..."

"Well said." Mr. Brown took a glance at those that were opposing her, his face heavy, "If you think that she as a clerk is not qualified to stay in this meeting, then I'll announce that she will now be WX Machinery's vice-president, responsible for WX Machinery's direction from now on."

In fact what Victoria had said was exactly what Mr. Brown had intended to do. He was surprised that a clerk would have done so much homework, he can see her seriousness towards the job. He admired this type of person.

Indeed, she was from a top university, her thinking was active.

The antiques in the company were unwilling to restructure. Without restructuring, the company would only get worse, and die in the end.

For his restructuring, he needed someone to stand in front of him, and this woman had come in at the right time.

Everyone felt confused, they felt as if there was a problem with their hearing.

"Mr. Brown..."

"No need to say anything else, I've decided."

"I'm afraid I can't live up to that position." Victoria didn't want to show off, "I was just expressing my opinion..."

"It's not everyone that can voice out this opinion." Mr. Brown cut her off, "I dare to hire you, why do you not dare to do it? Do you only want to be a clerk?" Victoria thought about her family condition. She didn't want to only be a clerk, for the Forbis family to stand up again, she had to be strong once again. Her father was no longer with her, she had no more support, she had to depend on herself.

Without long at work, she had learned a lot.

Even though her family business was on textiles, but management and sales had similarities, and of course she was willing to learn more.

“Thanks for your trust in me, I will do my best.” Victoria replied solemnly.

"You must have seen the documents for the meeting this time, you will head it." Mr. Brown sat down.

All the old men in the company glared at Victoria, unhappy to have lost.

"A little girl, what would she know?"

"You are getting less and less reliable." Some accused Mr. Brown of being careless in his management, "How can you simply appoint a clerk as vice-president? What are you thinking?"

"I am the legal representative of the company, I am the largest shareholder, I am also the executive director. If you are unhappy about it, you guys sit on my position first before trying to educate me."

With Mr. Brown's words, the opposition got smaller.

Who let them be not as strong as him?

Who let him be the company's controlling person?

Even if they disagreed, there was no use.

They could only bite the bullet and accept it, sitting down on their seats and accept this 'accidental' meeting.

In the beginning, Victoria was slightly afraid. She had done a detailed market research, so naturally she felt confident. After that, the more she talked, the more excited she got. Using her logic and her market analysis, she shut the mouths of those that questioned her.

When the meeting ended, Mr. Brown invited Victoria for dinner together.

Victoria was naturally unwilling, she had to go back early. After all, she wasn't a full free-spirit. She refused, "I have something else."

“You don't have to overthink, it's just a meal, I am very satisfied with your performance today, I won't waste much of your time." Victoria still felt unwilling, "I really have something going on."

"Then you tell me what's going on for you, I'll help you with it." Mr. Brown's attitude was firm.

Victoria had no choice, she was still working for the company, she couldn't afford to offend him, so she nodded her head and agreed.

To avoid having any interactions with Mr. Brown, Victoria sat on the back passenger seat.

Mr. Brown made fun of her, "Do you think I'm a bad person?"

Victoria shook her head, "No..."

“No worries, my face is quite ugly, but my heart is not..."

Victoria laughed, and very quickly the car stopped at a high-class Western restaurant, Mr. Brown opened her door gentlemanly.

"No need, I can do that." Victoria was very uncomfortable.

Mr. Brown could tell that Victoria was very reserved, so he didn't insist. He walked in front, and Victoria followed him into the restaurant.

"You've helped me a lot today." Both of them sat on a table by the window, Mr. Brown passed the menu to Victoria, "Order whatever you like, treat it as me repaying you."

Victoria wanted to refuse, but it was difficult to reject Mr. Brown's generosity, and so she could only take the menu from him.

At this moment, at the entrance of the restaurant, walked in a few silhouettes. The first one was Jayden. He had now taken over the company for not long, he had also gotten married with the Harris family, hence he was now the most watched figure in City B.

"Mr. Nelson." Mr. Brown stood up and greeted him.

Jayden's gaze fell on her.