Chapter 454: Chapter 453 Habits (2)
 

Bo Yan came from the Bo Family, and for the scions of an aristocratic family, the most important lesson was: interpersonal relationships.

Interpersonal relationships cover how to interact with people in your circle, and also include, how to communicate with your leaders, your collaborators, partners, and how to deal with other parties involved. Of course, it’s best to become a leader, learning how to communicate with your team members.

This isn’t about unequal personal relationships; quite the contrary, it’s a required lesson to ensure that your projects, your studies, and work are completed more smoothly. A successful leader doesn’t make you fawn or belittle others, nor does it involve abusing or looking down on team members. On the contrary, you should enable your team members to maximize their initiative while also looking after their interests and creating opportunities for them as well as for yourself.

Bo Yan felt that sooner or later, Xia Siyu and Qin Baizhou would clash. Not because of his relationships, nor because Xia Siyu disliked Qin Baizhou, but because they fundamentally disagreed in their philosophies. Qin Baizhou was an excellent businessman who valued efficiency in everything. Anything not related to profit and efficiency was deemed unsuccessful in his eyes.

But Xia Siyu was an actress, aspiring to art and leaving a mark in history. Art is precisely what cannot be tethered to efficiency and profit. Some movies, even if they fail at the box office, are ridiculed by countless critics and audiences, and win no awards, may still be recognized for their value many years later.

In ordinary circumstances, there’s nothing wrong with valuing profit and efficiency, and he was also against wasteful efforts. However, if something was valuable and worth his effort to nurture, Bo Yan would agree, but Qin Baizhou might not.

Although Xia Siyu had not considered going independent yet, sooner or later, she and Qin Baizhou would inevitably part ways. She would need to start rallying forces around her that would follow her lead, and Wei Jingjing and Little Tang were among them.

“Control what now? Is Wei Jingjing under me?” Although it’s common in the entertainment industry for artists to treat their assistants like nonentities, she had never seen Wei Jingjing as a servant. Even if she were a servant, that too is a legitimate profession that is paid to do a job. Is it necessary to act so superior?

“Sorry, I misspoke. What I mean is, you can unite those you can unite. If there are changes in the future, she will stand by you,” Bo Yan apologized quickly. “I know that what actually upset you wasn’t me showing our relationship in front of her, but rather—the exposure of personal privacy, which displeased you.”

Xia Siyu fumed, “If you knew, why did you say it!” Even if it were absolutely necessary to tell someone, it should be her talking to Wei Jingjing, not him. They weren’t boyfriend and girlfriend now, just F-buddies. What right did he have to meddle in her affairs?

Bo Yan gently sucked at her neck, his voice as soft as his suckling, “I know there are things you don’t want to tell anyone. I also know that although we’re doing the most intimate things, there are things you don’t want to say to me, so I won’t ask. But I still hope that you and I can be different from those casual F-buddies.”

What, just a mere physical relationship, and he wants it to yield the results of a boyfriend-girlfriend situation? Xia Siyu was a bit displeased.

Even if you do want to be boyfriend and girlfriend, do you think it’s appropriate to get straight to the point without much conversation?