"This is way too unfair, Lu Lin."
"Why wasn't I picked? I'm an Emperor Venerable, for heaven's sake, yet I couldn't even pass the interview for a junior position at my own company's branch."
On the night the interview results came out, Jingzhe complained to Lu Lin at the Barbecue Shop, exasperated.
"Can't be helped. I don't know either."
Lu Lin spread his hands.
"Impossible. You definitely know. There were three interviewers, and the one who made the final decision was a woman. Maybe she was trying to hint at something."
Jingzhe winked at Lu Lin.
"Hint at what?"
Lu Lin pretended not to understand.
In fact, at the interview, the female interviewer hadn't merely hinted at anything. She'd made an excuse to send the other two interviewers away, then boldly confessed her feelings to Lu Lin.
Lu Lin had fought back his nausea and rejected her again and again. He'd thought he would fail the interview this time too, but to his surprise, she still let him join the company.
And so Lu Lin began a life of coasting along at the branch.
Every day, that female interviewer brought Lu Lin all kinds of delicious food. Whenever she had the chance, she'd arrange for the two of them to go on business trips together.
Lu Lin knew little about the progress of the investigation, but he felt as if he'd put on a whole lot of weight.
Then one day, three years later, Lu Lin somehow became the supervisor's right-hand man. Only then did he witness the extraordinary talent Three Swords Network's employees had for lining their own pockets.
Four-point-two billion.
That was the staggering sum involved in the first small project Lu Lin took part in.
In the end, he received four hundred million, while the female supervisor