First of all, I owe everyone an apology. Today's chapter was posted late.
But there's no need for everyone to scold me as punishment, because I've already received it.
My perfect attendance bonus is gone.
A childhood friend of mine returned from the military a few days ago—the kind who retired on September 1st. As his friend, I went out to meet him and have a meal. Since it had been so long since we'd seen each other, everyone had a great time hanging out. As a result, I used up the leave slip I had originally planned to save for going home during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Then, with the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, things at the company started getting busy. Some issues came up too, and sometimes I had to deal with data in the middle of the night. But thankfully, because of that, I had a perfectly legitimate excuse to skip work during the day.
But I was still busy. Extremely busy.
I barely slept last night, then had to get up and keep going after only four hours of sleep during the day. After getting off work this afternoon, I fought through my drowsiness, struggled for ages, and spent four hours finally finishing the chapter.
It wasn't because I had such a conscience. At the end of the day, I just didn't want to lose my perfect attendance bonus.
I work in the internet industry. The internet industry has no heart.
Compared to those top-tier programmers who earn tens of thousands a month, I work myself to death for barely eight thousand yuan a month. Life isn't exactly comfortable, and I'm still carrying a mortgage of nearly five thousand yuan every month.
This book has flopped badly, but the manuscript fees plus the attendance bonus come to a