"Because you were a beneficiary of connections too."
"I wasn't."
When Wu Juying called Li Juan a beneficiary of connections, Li Juan instinctively tried to argue, but she could not continue after only half a sentence.
She was so young, yet she had been put in charge of this project. More than half the people in the project team were older than her and had worked longer than she had. Why had she been made team leader?
The reason Li Juan had instinctively argued was that she had interned under Great God Ni since her university summer breaks. Technically, she was better than everyone else in the group, and that was where her confidence came from.
After all, ever since Li Juan had started university, Li Ye had drilled the idea that "technology is productivity" into her head. As a result, Li Juan valued technical personnel more than most people did. In her mind, technical staff deserved to be relied upon far more than those connection-backed freeloaders.
But after what Wu Juying had just said, she no longer felt so sure of that reasoning.
Those two software experts borrowed from the technical department today were no worse than Li Juan! Why were their ranks lower than hers? Why were they less "highly valued" than Li Juan?
Just a few days ago, a middle-aged colleague in Li Juan's group had some family business to attend to and brought a leave slip for her to sign. Li Juan could clearly sense his inner conflict at the time, and it left her feeling awkward too.
But rules were rules. She was his superior; she naturally stood a head above him.
And then there was the time during passing the new year when Li Ye had taken her to visit Pan Xiaoying's home. Wasn't