woman wearing irish linen shirt

I smiled meaningfully, as if I didn't care at all.Under the dining table, I wiped my hands on the napkin.

It's all sweat.My heart is beating so fast.

Seeing that I didn't answer, Miss Pan raised her eyebrows slightly.She still had that vague smile on her face, but her hand was back on the spoon, and she took a sip of the vegetable.At this time, she stopped looking at me and just looked at her staple food.

What's so good about curry, it's vegetarian!No matter how delicious it is, where can it go?

Not knowing where my frustration came from, I said, "Don't laugh at me—I've never had this vegetarian meat. Do you think it's delicious?"

Miss Pender had a smile on her face: "It doesn't taste bad. Well, I don't know how it tastes to ordinary people, I often eat this kind of food at home, and you know I went to America when I was a teenager ..."

"It smells like childhood." I said for her.

"That's right." She put down her spoon. "Would you like a piece of vegetarian lamb?"

"Thank you." I shook my head. "I've also heard of some vegetarian products made of soybeans. The more common one is tofu vegetarian meat. When Beyond Meat launched last year, artificial meat became a trend again."

"Actually," Miss Pender leaned forward slightly, looking at me, "it's hard to say whether plant-based meat is considered 'artificial meat'. I think artificial meat in the true sense is different."

I was a little distracted, and it took me a long time to realize what Miss Pande just said, and quickly turned back from the nonsense soybean topic, and asked her: "Suppose we already have animal protein artificial meat suitable for commercial mass production— — Do you think artificial meat is meat?"

She just wiped her mouth, listened to my words, put her index finger on her lower lip lightly.

"Yao?" I suddenly heard her calling me.

"Huh? Oh—" I took a breath and said with a smile, "I'm sorry. Uh, your lips—" I quickly added "tick" after "lips" to avoid ambiguity, "lipstick is really Looks good. May I know the shade?"

"I'm not sure if it's the color you saw, you know, I might have eaten it," she tapped her lips again, then looked down to find a lip pencil and gave it to me, "It's this one. "

NARS's bettina, an unpopular color number, I have never heard of it.At this moment, I have a very shallow impression of the color of her lips when I first met her, so I can only brag about her: "It's a little different from the current one, but it really suits you. You know, in When you’re on holiday you like lighter makeup and the lipstick color can sometimes set the tone for the whole look. I remember when I was just learning how to do makeup I always liked blood red…”

She and I looked at each other, and we both smiled.

"I do like a lighter color when I'm not working. This one has been on me lately, thanks for noticing." She looked at me.I'm a blind cat and I met a dead mouse, so I didn't dare to answer. I just laughed, and Miss Pande said again: "But you should be very suitable for blood red or burgundy red lipstick."

"Not at all." I waved my hand a little embarrassedly.

It's actually ok, but too hee.Lipstick numbers are still very easy to change people's temperament, such as this bettina, which is very straight.

I didn't think so when I applied it on her mouth, maybe it has something to do with race.

I didn't dare to let myself think about it anymore, and said, "I'm sorry. We were talking about artificial meat, right? What do you think?"

"I didn't answer just now." She tilted her head, "I'm asking, do you think artificial diamonds are diamonds?"

"Forget it."

"What about artificial humans?"

I looked at her, is this talking about philosophy?I said: "From the current technical conditions, it is still difficult to achieve the same structure between artificial human and human. I don't think it can be equated with human beings."

"So it's about the structure." Her hand lingered on her ear, her index finger touched the earring lightly, and she still looked at me like that.

I was a little uncomfortable and said, "The ship of Theseus will always be the ship of Theseus. To me it is."

"Then the answer is 'yes', artificial meat is meat." Miss Pender responded.

"Is this your point of view, or mine that you summed up for me?" I frowned slightly.

"Both." She blinked, moved her hands away from her ears, and sat upright.

Subconsciously, I sat up straighter, when Miss Pender asked, "How do you think about it?"

Finally circled back.

"I have some doubts," I said as if I was facing an enemy, but put one hand on the table and rested my chin, "Why me?"

"It's not necessarily you." Her eyes were still smiling, but her hands were clasped together, and her expression changed.

We pretended to be happy, but both of us knew the situation had changed.

I said, "Aren't you afraid that I'll follow the clues to find other candidates, while dealing with you, and at the same time pack them all up to Li Song?"

"Do you know?"

"I don't know." I met her eyes, "If you were me, would you?"

"You don't look like an opportunist on both sides." She backed away slightly.

"I'm not," I said, "but I'm not in the habit of giving people free services either, especially—considering you set me up first. Using me to win over Kevin would be a good idea...but how would I know this time? Not your second inning?"

Miss Pender wasn't annoyed at all.Instead, she looked at me with interest and said, "That's what I like about you."

"Thank you. You praised me before." I felt a big stone in my heart, and I was right, she really knew that the pen was for Kevin to see.I've been thinking about this for a week.

But why...

"There are some differences. Back then I liked your intelligence," her gesture seemed to be speaking of love. "Now, I like your prudence."

"And you don't seem at all sorry for using me."

"Yao, that's not how accounts are calculated." Miss Pan De said, "You lie first. Besides, I've helped you...Kevin and the others are much more friendly to you now."

So it seems that BCG knows very well about the false prosperity between our two departments!

I forced a smile: "Yes, thank you also, Kevin thinks I am very close to you."

Miss Pender flicked her hair: "Isn't it good to make it real? Of course you and I can get close."

I was at a loss for words, and reluctantly said: "False cannot become true."

Her teasing look appeared again, and she said: "I thought we had reached an agreement. Artificial meat is meat—why can't it be real between us?"

Well, this time she definitely said it so ambiguously on purpose.I suppressed my panic, pretended to be a normal person, and only said: "It depends on the structure. Plant meat is not artificial meat."

She smiled slightly: "Can I hear your price?"

"I want a separate contract." I said, "After one year in the subsidiary, I will get all the shares, including the current contract."

Our company gives a quarter of the shares negotiated at the beginning every year, and distributes it in four years; in addition, part of the annual year-end bonus is also a share, which is also given in this form.Now the company's stock price is very high, but it cannot be cashed out. It is not worthwhile for people to be tied here for four years.

It is also very difficult to be cruel. At our level, most of the salary is in stocks. Even if we know it is a bad check, it is difficult to give up.The so-called sunk cost is not a cost, but who can be a completely rational person?

Miss Pender obviously understood what I was thinking.I thought she might not be able to make up her mind about this matter, but she definitely said: "It's reasonable. I think it should be able to help you get this condition."

I immediately added: "Twice."

She was a little surprised, and didn't answer immediately. After two or three seconds, she said slowly: "I know it's rude to ask, but... how many shares is that?"

I smiled: "A lot."

She fell into my rhythm.

Miss Pender said: "I can't say anything about doubling your stake, but some tilt at the appropriate level shouldn't be a problem."

She should have a number in mind.What number did the group give her?It would be great if I could ask it out, and many things could surface with a push like this.But Miss Pan De will never reveal it. If I ask more questions, I may lose everything.Thinking of this, I immediately gave up the temptation and said, "You can't promise me any position, can you?"

"Unfortunately, I don't think that's within my remit."

"It doesn't matter." I kept smiling, "If what I just said can't be realized by then, or the position is different from what I expected..."

Miss Pender answered, "I will ensure that your interests are maximized."

I looked at her and laughed: "I want to enter BCG Singapore."

Unprepared, Miss Pan was stunned for a moment, and said, "Considering your qualifications, I can't arrange a suitable position for you. And this is not something I can decide on my own. I'm not saying that you are not qualified, just We really rarely look outside for candidates for mid-to-senior positions.”

She was very serious.I've thought about whether she will fool me, and if so, how I will fight back; I don't want her to be so sincere, and to me, it's in my favor.

What kind of person is Miss Pender?

Generally speaking, I am more likely to start as a consultant. The salaries of several top consulting companies are very transparent. The consultants of BCG Singapore get about 18 new. If I express my willingness to accept it, Ms. Pande will definitely not believe it; the project The manager is only about 24, not to mention whether this number is attractive enough, it doesn't matter - what matters is what Miss Pan De thinks.

Instead of being the person in charge of the group's core business post, go to BCG as a project manager... She is too smart, this can't fool her.

"I will handle the interview by myself. If I get stuck in the front, I won't complain or anything." I paused for a moment and said, "I'm not interested in going to the project. I heard that you have been recruiting data talents as a support department Principal, do you think I'm still qualified?"

Miss Pender looked at me sharply.But her kindness quickly downplayed everything, and she just said slightly apologetically: "Of course I'm very happy. But you know, it's going to take quite a bit of process and some discussion, so I can't make any commitments right now— —”

"I don't need it." I smiled and said.