"Good morning, Director Ye."
"Good morning, Director Ye."
"Hello, Director Ye!"
In the elevator, many employees greeted Ye Shuang, stealing curious glances at him. He was the only executive who didn't use the dedicated leadership elevator. He seemed unconcerned with such formalities and even enjoyed chatting about various departmental matters in the elevator, including gossip.
"Di-Director Ye, can I report a certain leader?" Just as Ye Shuang was chatting casually, a petite bespectacled girl beside him gathered her courage and spoke up.
"Hmm? Report?" Hearing this, Ye Shuang smiled slightly. "Why are you telling me this?"
The girl with glasses blushed and said softly, "You are a fair leader. Everyone says you're the Chief Elder of the Enforcement Hall, someone who can correct the unhealthy practices within the group."
"Chief Elder of the Enforcement Hall?" Ye Shuang couldn't help but stroke his chin. Didn't they used to call him the Golden Horn and Silver Horn Kings? These folks are quite quick at coming up with nicknames.
Ye Shuang looked at the young girl and asked meaningfully, "Aren't you afraid?"
"I'm not afraid!"
Ye Shuang gave Jiang Xinxin an approving glance and then said, "Come with me to my office."
"O-okay!"
After getting off the elevator, the bespectacled girl seemed a bit timid, following behind Ye Shuang hesitantly. People from various departments who noticed this thought she had done something wrong and was about to be disciplined by Ye Shuang.
"Phew."
Upon arriving at his office, Ye Shuang put his things away. The bespectacled girl looked around curiously.
[Character: Jiang Xinxin
A girl with some quirks, but a strong sense of justice. Although timid, she is willing to stand up for others.]
Withdrawing his gaze, Ye Shuang sat in his armchair. "Come, have a seat and tell me about it."
"That's alright, I'll stand."
"Fine. Who do you want to report?" Ye Shuang asked.
"Lan Tian from the HR department!"
Ye Shuang thought for a moment and said, "I don't know him. What's his position?"
"He's... he's a division head in Human Resources. He's been laying off our people arbitrarily!" Jiang Xinxin clenched her fists. "We're from the program maintenance department. He colluded with the new executive in our department to force our team lead out!"
Hearing this, Ye Shuang raised an eyebrow. "Optimization?"
"Yes, 'optimized'." Jiang Xinxin hesitated. "I know big companies often 'optimize' older programmers... but our team lead shouldn't have gone. He worked diligently in the group for twenty years and was the absolute soul of our team."
Perhaps seeing that Ye Shuang remained silent, just watching her quietly, she quickly continued,
"The servers we maintain were always our team lead's responsibility. They rarely had issues. But Lan Tian used our 'low workload' as a reason to 'optimize' our team lead."
"How could he do that? Lan Tian doesn't understand at all. The fact that the servers and data we maintain have no problems shows our capability. Who decides a programmer's fate based on workload? As long as there are no bugs and development proceeds smoothly, isn't that enough?" Jiang Xinxin continued,
"Moreover, the projects we're responsible for have never had any issues. Our clients are satisfied with us."
"And then, our team lead came back from vacation and was called into his office and 'optimized' as soon as he returned."
After listening to the whole story, Ye Shuang roughly understood what had happened.
But with so many departments under his purview, he didn't have the energy to handle every single matter personally.
"Where is your team lead now?" Ye Shuang asked one more question.
"He's already left... and then..." Jiang Xinxin now seemed hesitant. "A few days ago, the servers happened to have some problems."
"Coincidentally, no one could maintain them. Lan Tian hired two new programmers to fix it, but they still couldn't resolve it..."
"Several major clients we've been working with for a long time directly terminated their contracts."
"This matter has been suppressed."
Ye Shuang twitched the corner of his mouth. There really were a lot of fools under his command. Did they just cut into a major artery with this layoff?
"I understand the situation. You can go back to work now."
"Okay."
After Jiang Xinxin left, Ye Shuang called Zhang Kui, the Human Resources Director, since that guy named Lan Tian was under her. There was no need for him to summon that person directly.
"Director Ye, go ahead." Zhang Kui's voice came from the other end of the line. This CHO, who was usually unyielding, was surprisingly obedient in front of Ye Shuang.
"A young lady just came to see me..."
Ye Shuang recounted the entire incident from start to finish. Zhang Kui was taken aback for a moment, but this wasn't the first time something like this had happened. Previously, an HR person had "optimized" a programmer, causing the servers for a game project's launch to crash for a full day and night with no one able to fix it, leading to a massive loss of users.
"I will investigate this thoroughly later. Please give me some time... Director Ye, I'm currently interviewing new candidates, you see..."
"Alright, thank you for your hard work. I'll hang up now." Before Ye Shuang finished, he paused.
"You're interviewing candidates?"
"Yes, I dedicate one-third of my time to talent recruitment. Only by collaborating with smart people can the group go further." Zhang Kui paused and continued,
"Most companies spend 2% of their effort on recruiting talent and then 75% of their effort dealing with the mistakes made from those poor hires."
"I hope to minimize hiring errors to avoid wasting the group's resources."
Zhang Kui was indeed quite responsible, making Ye Shuang nod in agreement. "I'll come too."
"Director Ye, you're coming too?"
"Yes, I happen to have time now." Ye Shuang didn't have much to do this morning. After all, tasks like external negotiations for cooperation were handled by Chen Qin and various departments. His main job was essentially maintaining the smooth operation of the group.
It felt a bit like Chen Qin was the emperor managing state affairs, while he was the empress managing the inner palace.
Zhang Kui quickly sent Ye Shuang the address and floor for the interviews.
Ye Shuang, accompanied by his assistant Kou Kou, took the elevator to that office.
The first round of interviews was already underway. Many people sat on chairs outside, all having passed the resume screening for the initial interview.
However, among those waiting in line, Ye Shuang spotted a familiar face—
A short-haired girl dressed in professional attire, wearing frameless glasses, a professional pleated skirt, and black pantyhose underneath.
Ye Shuang exclaimed in surprise, "An Shiyu?"
The short-haired girl, who had been sitting with her legs crossed playing on her phone, looked up. Noticing it was Ye Shuang, she pushed up her glasses and spoke in a strange tone, "Oh, sir, you've mistaken me for someone else."
"I am An Siyi. Konnichiwa."
Ye Shuang: "..."
Many other candidates cast curious glances their way. Ye Shuang withdrew his gaze from An Shiyu, pinched the bridge of his nose as if he had a headache, and walked into the office.
No wonder Zhang Kui was conducting the interviews personally.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
