Capítulo 1363: Chapter 1362: Stranger
Ling Zhengwei was genuinely a bit caught off guard. Coming in early in the morning, he still wasn’t clear about what was happening, yet he muddled through a promotion. Now, feeling the different gazes from the workshop director and the section chief, Ling Zhengwei wasn’t sure if his heart was excited or something else.
After taking the team leader’s uniform to change out of his old work clothes, the whole person indeed looked a bit different.
The old colleagues saw that Ling Zhengwei had returned and, moreover, had changed into a team leader’s management uniform, and they immediately came over to offer cigarettes.
Clearly, these old colleagues began to feel that Ling Zhengwei’s identity was different from theirs, that he was their leader now, and they might need to rely on him in the future.
Ling Zhengwei accepted the cigarettes from these old colleagues and said, “Get on with your work, let’s talk about anything after work.”
One couldn’t just act as they pleased during work hours just because they were familiar with him.
The old colleagues could only return to their work, while Ling Zhengwei sat in the chair watching them toil. However, smoking was not allowed in the workshop, and as a team leader now, he certainly couldn’t be the one to break the rules.
Ling Zhengwei just sat there watching, and when he got tired of sitting, he occasionally got up to give some pointers to the old colleagues’ work.
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Zhou Xiaolan hadn’t finished her breakfast yet when she noticed something different on Ling Zhengwei’s side. Initially, she thought it was something serious, yet after finishing breakfast and returning to the office, she learned from other colleagues that her ex-husband, that Ling Zhengwei, had actually been promoted.
He had risen from the most ordinary, hard-working bottom level employee to a team leader, with salary and benefits increased by a notch, and crucially, he didn’t have to work as hard as before.
Zhou Xiaolan was just an ordinary employee in the office, not any kind of manager, but because she belonged to the clerical staff, she typically didn’t have to deal with greasy things, and her work was relatively easy. So, in the past, her job superiority far surpassed Ling Zhengwei’s.
But now, Ling Zhengwei was actually promoted, suddenly rising from a bottom-level employee to a team leader, which meant he began to manage dozens of employees and no longer had to work in the same way.
For some reason, Zhou Xiaolan felt a bit strange, after all, she knew best about Ling Zhengwei’s situation after working here for twenty to thirty years, with no money and no connections, yet he was promoted now.
“Xiaolan, your ex-husband got promoted, are you happy?” a female colleague asked.
“What does his promotion have to do with me?” Zhou Xiaolan said expressionlessly.
“That’s not right. Logically, if there are still feelings for an ex-husband, the ex-wife should be happy when he gets promoted, but if there is no affection and even animosity, then the ex-wife should feel quite disappointed!”
“He and I are just strangers now, whatever happens to him, I can’t possibly care.” Zhou Xiaolan replied.
If not for her daughter Ling Fei, she might really not even remember who her ex-husband was. Often, women can be very decisive, especially when deeply hurt.
Zhou Xiaolan now also wouldn’t change because of a little change in Ling Zhengwei’s status.
The female colleague smiled and didn’t say anything more.
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Ning Le was undergoing a full body examination at a major hospital and went through the procedures to stay in the hospital for further tests, waiting for the examination results to come out.
He didn’t dare to notify anyone, including his parents. If they knew, it would mean that many from the Ning Family would know, and if many from the Ning Family knew, then that meant the whole circle in Jinling City would know.
Previously, due to his body odor, he was often called ‘Mr. Fox’, a nickname he couldn’t shake off for a long time.
In such circumstances, Ning Le felt embarrassed in front of many people. Later, gradually, when the body odor was no longer detectable, he wasn’t called ‘Mr. Fox’ in front of others anymore.
But this situation left him with a shadow.
Now, there was only a young beautiful woman accompanying him here.
“Young Master Ning, I’ll go get some food for you.”
“Go ahead!”
After the young beautiful woman left, Ning Le also knew that these women around him were more or less there because of his money and status. However, having interacted, there was still a little affection. But Ning Le changed women like changing clothes, and he couldn’t possibly develop any deep feelings for a piece of clothing, at most just wearing it for a while longer and then discarding it.
Now Ning Le was worried about the condition of his hair.
If he ends up balding before turning thirty, would he dare to go out and meet people in the future?
The young beautiful woman brought back a packed meal for Ning Le, and after eating a bit, Ning Le looked at her and said, “Don’t tell anyone about this, including your girlfriends!”
“I understand, Young Master Ning.”
The young woman said.
“As long as you understand, stay with me during this time, I won’t treat you poorly.”
Ning Le still said that way.
However, now he wasn’t in the mood to do anything with the young woman, what he wanted to know was what was going on with his hair? If it really all fell out, what would he do?
Ning Le and the young woman stayed in that private ward for the night, and the next day, a female nurse came knocking, asking Ning Le to take his excrement and urine for further examination.
After cooperating with the examination, Ning Le returned to the ward and could only continue waiting for the results.
However, last night, he didn’t dare to touch his hair, and now he found that the entire bed was covered with clumps of his fallen hair, very obvious.
“Quick, give me the mirror from your bag.”
The young woman herself had lost some hair, but that was under normal circumstances. Now, seeing Ning Le’s hair loss made the young woman feel scared.
In a hurry, the young woman handed the mirror to Ning Le, and looking at it, he felt like he had lost at least a layer of hair, about one-fifth.
His hair on the top didn’t seem to show much change just yet, but he was well aware of the situation. At this rate, it wouldn’t take a week for it all to fall out, and that would really be bad.
While Ning Le was thinking about this, his phone rang — an unfamiliar fixed-line number. After answering, a voice said, “Mr. Ning, I am the attending physician from the Dermatology Department, your hair examination report is out, would you like to come over for a consultation?”
“Is it out? How’s my hair?”
“It’s unclear over the phone, you should come and discuss it in person.”
After hanging up with the attending physician, Ning Le knew he had to go over to the Dermatology Hospital since they specialized in treating hair loss.