"Nice to meet you again, Mr. Yang, and Mr.-"
He stopped his greeting and looked at the other person beside them that was in Mr. Yang's office.
He was the only one beside them in the office, so he was probably his new manager that Mr. Yang was talking about on the phone.
"Mr. Luciel, he is Richard; he will be your manager from now on." Mr. Yang introduced the middle-aged man sitting on one of the sofas.
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Luciel," Richard said while looking at him with a smile.
He was obviously just smiling, but Luciel could see that he was actually looking at him carefully.
Richard was probably scrutinizing him to have a better idea of how to do his job.
"Nice to meet you too, Mr. Richard," Luciel also said while looking at Richard.
He looked at Richard's steady bearing, and he was sure that Richard was at least capable.
After greeting each other, all of them went and sat on the sofas.
Yang and Richard were sitting together in front of him while he was sitting alone.
"Mr. Luciel, Yang has already briefed me about your situation," Richard said directly.
Well, if Richard was going to be his manager, he should at least know the circumstances of his own artist so that he could properly deal with some situations if needed.
"I see, that's good," Luciel said with understanding while sitting relaxedly on the sofa.
Luciel didn't dwell on it and instead asked, "So do you already have a job for me?"
"Yes, I already have a job ready for you, which we could do soon," Richard said.
"What is it?"
"It is an advertisement for Y company. You will be advertising some of their men's wear.
Y company had always been our partner, so the company had a lot of modeling resources from them.
Y company wasn't one of the top brands in the country, but their clothing is still popular among young people, so it's still good to be one of their models.
This is the contract sample we have with them.
If you don't have any problems with it. I will finalize the contract with them," Richard said while taking the contract agreement of the Y company regarding the advertisement shooting and gave it to him.
Luciel read the contract as fast as he could and saw that he only needed to shoot a few clothes from their summer series.
The payment also wasn't bad, so he didn't have any problem with it. It would only take a few hours to do it, so he really doesn't have any problem with it.
"Okay, please arrange it a few days later."
He still needed to have a few days of rest to be more familiar with the environment he was currently in before he could go out and stay around a lot of people.
"Okay, Mr. Luciel," Mr. Richard said with a smile without any complaints.
"Mr. Richard, you don't need to be too polite with me; you could just call me Luciel."
They will probably work with each other for a long time, so Richard really doesn't have to be too polite with him.
It would also cause less trouble if his manager wasn't that polite with him. If they go out and work later and Richard will still act that politely with him, then it would just cause trouble, which would just be a waste of energy dealing with it.
"Okay, then, Luciel, you can also just call me by my name."
"It is good to work with you, Richard. Please take care of me from now on."
"Likewise," Richard said with a sincere smile.
"So, do I have something else to do? If not, I will be going now," Luciel said.
"You don't have any more schedule today, Mr. Luciel," Mr. Yang said.
"Okay, then I will be going now. See you later," Luciel promptly said goodbye and went out of Mr. Yang's office.
After getting down and sitting in the car, he asked Mr. Rick to take him to a place without a lot of people and then closed his eyes to relax.
"Sir Luciel, we are already here," Mr. Rick said after a while.
Luciel got out of the car and entered the garden, guided by the staff at the entrance.
Mr. Rick said that the coffee garden here isn't that famous, so there won't be a lot of people.
They have a very good ambiance and environment, so it's a good place to relax.
Luciel ordered a coffee and sat down inside one of the gazebos.
The gazebo was surrounded by different flowers, and he could also see other places in the garden that were also planted with different flowers and other plants.
He asked Mr. Rick to go to a quiet place because he needed to relax.
A while ago, when they were in the elevator, he chose to go to the side because he wasn't comfortable having people on his back.
When Mr. Yang walked near him and approached him at the end when he was guiding him out of the office, he nearly attacked because Mr. Yang was standing near his back.
It seemed that his defense mechanism was still working properly.
He had been betrayed many times in the last seven years, be it by some of his friends or those he had just met.
That's why he was uncomfortable having people near him in a place he couldn't see.
Actually, almost all the people he knew were uncomfortable having someone near their back because they just weren't sure when a dagger or anything would suddenly launch at them.
In the past seven years, he has experienced a lot of such situations and seen a lot of them happen to other people.
That's why his defense mechanism could always be triggered when there are people standing behind him in very close range.
It was never wrong to be vigilant of people approaching them at places they couldn't see properly.