The five employees were already seated around the office round table in the first-floor lobby.
Ji Li's eyes were half-closed, as if he were conserving his energy—or perhaps quietly pondering something.
Tong Guan and Chang Nian whispered to each other, their eyes occasionally drifting toward Fang Shenyan's left hand holding a cigarette.
Yu Guo sat at the corner of the table, constantly fiddling with his phone. It looked like he was bringing old viewers into his new livestream room.
Fang Shenyan smoked beside Ji Li, his eyes lowered as he waited quietly.
Only one newcomer would arrive this time, a Replenishment Person. That was not the important part. What made the employees tense was the latest mission that would come after the newcomer joined.
None of the five present were ordinary people. They had long realized that this mission would be the Promotion Mission for reaching a Two-Star Hotel.
Its difficulty would likely be unprecedented.
Tong Guan and Chang Nian, especially, understood this deeply. They could be considered the people most familiar with Two-Star Hotel promotion missions.
Even Tong Guan's face, which had never shown nervousness, carried a trace of gravity.
Second by second, time passed. Amid the increasingly oppressive atmosphere, Yu Guo suddenly let out a cry, drawing everyone's attention.
But he immediately gave a strange laugh and began shouting livestream catchphrases and greetings for viewers, earning a round of eye-rolls.
Just then, a blazing white light abruptly appeared in the center of the lobby. It clashed sharply with the golden hotel, yet its aura was exactly the same.
This was the hotel's doing.
Following the white light was a somewhat hurried, flustered figure. Her frame was slender and delicate; she appeared to be a woman.
None of the other male employees made any move to greet her. Seeing