E-Ladies: Navigating the Wired World
Chapter 194: Returning to Reality as Vacation Ends

Chapter 194: Chapter 194: Returning to Reality as Vacation Ends

Happy times really fly by, I feel like there were still so many places in Hong Kong I didn’t get to visit, yet the vacation ended just like that.

I always thought that traveling was physically demanding, but now it seems that free traveling isn’t tiring at all, perhaps it was because of the love I found, Zhou Xueyin felt that this vacation was the most beautiful memory in her life.

However, even the most beautiful dreams have a moment of awakening. The instant she stepped out of Beijing Airport and the cold air rushed into her nostrils, Zhou Xueyin instantly woke up.

Tomorrow, it would be time to return to the norm and start a new round of endeavors.

After getting home, Li Jiniang, Kang Siyin, and Yao Shanshan really didn’t want to move at all. The five hours on the plane were more tiring than anything, and all they wanted at the moment was to fall into a deep sleep.

"Hey hey hey! Pack up the luggage first!" Zhou Xueyin was tired too, but seeing several cumbersome suitcases lying around the room, she still urged the three people.

"Rest... tired..." The three of them almost said in unison with vehemence.

"Tired or not, you must tidy up! You three are so prone to procrastination, if you don’t tidy up the suitcases now, they could be left for a year. No! The suitcases could be left until the next trip! Hurry, hurry up!" Zhou Xueyin went around waking them up to tidy everything together.

Indeed, just as she said, the procrastination of these three was incurable. When packing their suitcases before the trip, Yao Shanshan only then noticed a sweater dress her mother had stuffed into her suitcase.

The packing took all night, they had originally planned to check the forum after packing, but neither time nor energy allowed her to do that. After washing up, she went to bed and fell asleep immediately.

The next day after arriving at the company, Zhou Xueyin noticed an extra row of seats and before she could ask, Zhang Yongzhong called her into his office, "Xiaozhou, I acted first and reported later this time, haha."

"Hm? What mischief have you caused now?" Zhou Xueyin frowned.

"Did you see that row outside?" Zhang Yongzhong hinted with his eyes.

"What are you up to?" Zhou Xueyin had an ominous feeling.

"Don’t get agitated, don’t get agitated, I don’t want to do anything, but, you see, the activity on our forum has declined quite a bit..." Zhang Yongzhong’s statement was a bit exaggerated, the activity had declined, but it wasn’t severe.

"Speak up! Get to the point!" Zhou Xueyin urged him.

"Don’t rush, that row of people I hired to run forum games, users can spend points to purchase the games, and then earn points within those games, how about that?" Zhang Yongzhong looked at Zhou Xueyin expectantly.

"And how effective has that been?" She had to admit, this unorthodox move was something she hadn’t thought of herself.

"It’s only been a couple of days since it started, the effect is okay... you can go and see for yourself later." He was keeping her in suspense, generally, if he daringly spoke like this, it meant the results were significant, otherwise, Zhang Yongzhong wouldn’t dare to use such a provoking tone.

After leaving the office, Zhou Xueyin sat at her own workstation, turned on the computer, and started processing the emails that she couldn’t handle during the vacation.

"Ms. Zhou, good morning! Was Hong Kong fun?" Everyone who came to work greeted her, and Zhou Xueyin distributed the gifts she had brought from Hong Kong to them.

However, the new male employees seemed to ignore Zhou Xueyin as if they didn’t recognize her as their leader.

Whatever, let them be, first check the data, then handle customer emails...

Zhou Xueyin arranged her tasks, she had taken a week off, and work had piled up like a mountain, there was no time to bother with anything else.

[Yinyin, you’re finally back! We’ve almost been squeezed to death by that idiot!] Liu He sent a message to Zhou Xueyin.

[I knew it! This way, I’ll handle the emails first, then I’ll join you to get up to speed!] Zhou Xueyin already knew that during the week she was away, Zhang Yongzhong must have been throwing his weight around.

She quickly browsed through the emails, first deleting the spam advertisements and then filtering out non-urgent ones like work summaries, before checking the customer request emails based on their importance.

Just replying to emails had taken up the entire morning, although she had planned to have lunch with Xiaojing, it seemed there was no time now.

[Xiaojing, I can’t have lunch with you at noon, please bring something up for me...Whatever you’re having is fine.] Zhou Xueyin left a message and began reading the work summary emails that had come in.

She thought they would be nothing more than tedious daily reports of what tasks were done today.

Yet, surprisingly, they were all about sending petty reports against Zhang Yongzhong...

What did this guy do to be so disliked? Why was everyone cursing him?

Zhou Xueyin first opened Liu He’s: That idiot requires us to stay until 8 p.m. every day, but he himself goes downstairs to eat at 6:30 p.m. and returns at 7:50 p.m. If he sees anyone’s seat empty, the next day they must give him 50 yuan, claiming it is for team building fees.

If you don’t want to work overtime, you must have a valid reason. Excuses like family issues or having to attend class don’t count! It’s simply bullying!

Moreover, he messed up something, and Chen Yitian’s Kuchi auto parts broke the contract with us. He even claimed it was the other party’s fault, refused to refund the payment, and it was almost taken to court, but Liu Ruidong smoothed things over.

Then there’s this new group of guys who come and go with him every day, also leaving at 6:30 p.m. and returning at 7:50 p.m.

During the day they do nothing but play games, chat on QQ, browse forums, and only start working just before it’s time to leave, staying very late to do so.

The mini-games they claimed to have developed themselves were actually just snatched from other websites, then decompiled and uploaded online.

And they were all those borderline pornographic games, completely lowering the standard of our forum!

But our complaints were useless. After all, the traffic was growing, and activity was indeed increasing...

Zhou Xueyin was fuming as she read Liu He’s report.

It had only been a few days! She had just gone out for a week and he dared to brazenly mess with the forum like this.

She had truly underestimated his capacity for destruction...

Zhou Xueyin opened the mini-games page, the screen full of eye-scorching images, a series of vulgar photos that were unbearable to look at, no different from a porn site.

Close, close, close! She didn’t even seek anyone’s approval and immediately shut down the entrance to the site. She even considered deleting this page and the related data from the server completely.

But, just to be safe and out of respect for others’ "laborious output," Zhou Xueyin decided to confront Zhang Yongzhong face to face before deciding on its fate.

However, that afternoon, Zhang Yongzhong didn’t show up in the office for no apparent reason, and none of the guys he had recruited knew where he had gone.

Forget it, it’s not too late to ask when he comes back...

"My god! Who the hell, who shut down the link to the mini-games on the forum?" someone seemingly in charge suddenly stood up and started shouting.

"I did it! Got a problem?" Zhou Xueyin also stood up, glaring at the man cursing profusely.

"Who the hell are you? Who gave you the damn right to mess with the mini-games page!" The man pointed at Zhou Xueyin rudely and demanded.

"Who am I? Hey? Good question! I am the general manager of this company!" Zhou Xueyin glared back.