novelxo Chapter 1561
Joel's spittle flew and his hands trembled. He didn't notice that Julien's face darkened at every word he said. By the time he finished speaking, Julien's face was gloomy like charcoal! After Joel finished speaking, he looked at Julien with a smile and said, "Mr. Kyle, that was the situation back then."
Julien spit two words at Joel with a cold expression, "Piss off!"
Joel was dumbfounded!
Alas, it had been his boss who demanded this explanation, and now that Joel told the truth, he was being scolded so terribly! As a subordinate, he felt extremely aggrieved. Julien said, "Scram. Don't let me see you again."
Joel felt wronged and said, "Mr. Kyle, I am your special assistant. My job is to be responsible for your work and schedule. If you ask me to leave, how can I carry on with my work?"
Julien said, "Go and get the administrative department to arrange a new job for you. If you don't want to do it, then just go home and accompany your wife."
Joel was worried and asked, "Sir, what have I done wrong?"
Julien thought inwardly, "Joel, your only mistake is that you were showing off your happy marriage to me! And I am a single man, suffering from loneliness!" Clearly, he wanted to teach Joel a lesson for speaking so waywardly!
Joel then continued, "Mr. Kyle, Vanessa really didn't mean that she didn't want to register the marriage with you. Perhaps she would prefer to have a ceremony before getting registered. After all, there's a difference in your identities. It's possible that she feels rather insecure about this marriage."
Initially, Joel's reason for helping Julien with his love life was to get a promotion and salary raise. The president finally got himself such a beautiful fiancee, and hence, would delightfully agree to a raise for Joel. At this crucial moment, the cheeky Joel once again used Vanessa's name to save himself, hoping that she would get him out of sticky situations like before.
"Go immediately and organize a few proposal ideas. Give them to me. If I succeed in at my marriage proposal, I'll ignore what just happened." As expected, Vanessa became Joel's savior again. He decided to go home and take photos of Vanessa and put them at home in the evening. In the future, if anything went wrong, he would pay his respects to Vanessa. Maybe everything could be solved then.
Joel left Julien's office and immediately found a few excellent employees from the planning department to organize a big event. When everyone was waiting for him to announce what the event was, Joel said, "The proposal plan."
One of the event planners said with dissatisfaction, "We've done tons of events here at Rovio, but when have we ever planned marriage proposals? Please don't pull my leg!"
Joel asked, "What if I say that it's Mr. Kyle's proposal plan?"
All the planning staff fell quiet. They felt that it was a special honor to be able to participate in the president's marriage proposal!
Realizing that the employees had given their silent consent, Joel paused for a while to keep them eager, before saying, "Julien wants to officially propose to Vanessa, but he did not mention any other requests. However, I know that he only cares about Vanessa agreeing to his proposal. If that happens, all of us involved in planning the proposal would easily get promotions and raises. On the contrary, if Vanessa turns him down, we would most likely be fired."
Joel was not abusing his status as the president's special assistant to threaten the other staff. But actually, he had almost lost his job earlier, and had used Vanessa to keep himself safe. However, he knew that he wouldn't be as lucky the next time...
The president didn't make any requests regarding the proposal, and hence, that posed the biggest challenge in their project. All of the planning department employees got to work immediately, as they did not have any experience planning such an event and quickly surfed the net for some proposal ideas.
After watching some videos, they all agreed that those ideas were rather cheesy. Their haughty big boss certainly would not like it, so everyone brainstormed a plan together. However, despite being experts at event planning usually, this task truly gave them a headache...
At this moment, everyone cast their eyes towards Joel again. "Joel, Mr. Kyle wants to propose to Vanessa but he doesn't know what she would like, so he wants us to plan it. In actuality, what we need is just her approval of the plan!"
Joel understood what they were implying. "Give me a moment! I'm going to ask Vanessa what kind of proposal she would fancy, and I'll update you all!" he announced. Alas, he felt lucky to have Vanessa to save him again!
He then returned to the secretarial office to look for Vanessa, but she was not there. After asking around, he found out that she had been summoned by Julien to his office.
As Vanessa was in Julien's office, Joel did not dare to enter and had to wait at the door. After a long time, the door finally opened, but it was Julien who exited, and not Vanessa. Joel was about to greet him, bu he immediately changed his mind and wanted to make an escape.
Julien caught him just in time. "Joel, go fetch Vanessa's mug and bring her some water."
"What's wrong with Vanessa?" Joel craned his neck to check out the situation in the office, but Julien was blocking the door. Joel couldn't see anything, so he merely replied, "Alright, I'll do that right away." Joel thought that he would surely get a chance to see Vanessa when he brought the water over, but Julien took the mug over and said, "Go and work on the matter I have instructed! Don't show up in front of me for trivial matters. It's so annoying to see you hovering around."
Actually, Julien was jealous.
He was jealous that someone like Joel could have a wife who was so loving in their relationship! However, as the mighty president of Rovio, Julien could not handle his woman at all!
In the past, Julien never expected to be envious of Joel... Hence, he felt rather upset at the moment.
Unable to meet Vanessa, Joel gloomily returned to the Planning Department. "I'm sorry. Vanessa was called away by Mr. Kyle. I did not even get a chance to see her! Well, all of you would have to rack your brains to think of an idea now."
The planning director, Roger, then asked, "Joel, from your understanding of Vanessa, is she the kind of girl who fancies lavish, luxurious displays? Or is she fond of simple, understated, and elegant designs?" Joel said, "Vanessa is an easygoing girl. She's usually quite laid back and loves Mr. Kyle wholeheartedly. This time, she's primarily upset with Mr. Kyle for not officially proposing to her, but only asked for her to get their marriage registered straightaway."
Then, Roger clapped his hands, as if a lightbulb had switched on in his mind. "Based on what you said, it's not because Vanessa does not agree to the marriage, but rather, our mighty Mr. Kyle did not catch on to the fact that girls prefer a romantic, official marriage proposal before being asked to register their marriage! Indeed, if I were a girl, I would also think the same. Alas, Mr. Kyle is superior to many men out there, so perhaps he should be given some leeway..."
Joel glanced Roger and rolled his eyes. "Stop fantasizing, a man as amazing as Mr. Kyle would never take a fancy to you..."