For those in Zelandia who had always followed Li Wei, the "board meetings" their dragon lord invariably convened before every slumber and after every awakening had become almost a standing tradition.
Although Zelandia's board also met once a year, whether in strategic significance or in the attitude people brought to it, the two were worlds apart.
A meeting when the boss was present and a meeting when the boss was absent were two entirely different occasions, okay?!
Every such meeting, along with the future development plans and guidelines laid out there, had an immensely profound impact on Zelandia's future and on everyone's lives, affecting the direct interests of at least several million people across the North.
Likewise, if someone could offer a constructive proposal at such a meeting, stand out, and earn the dragon lord's favor, it would be no different from ascending to the heavens in a single step.
And a book of unknown authorship, Garvin's Promotion Record—The Man Behind the Dragon, had always circulated widely among Zelandia's employees.
Many employees even revered it as a sacred workplace textbook for Zelandia, keeping it by their beds and paging through it before sleep to review the gains and losses, lessons and experience of that day's work, using it to spur their fighting spirit.
As they understood it, Garvin George—the former deputy minister of Zelandia, acting chairman and head of publicity for Jade God Toy Development Co., and now a Water-Drawing City councilman as well as regional manager of the Alchemical Bicycle branch—had, before joining Zelandia, been nothing more than a "scumbag" who had come to the Underdark seeking "opportunities," only to wipe out and become a Drow woman's mount beneath her skirts and a photographer for action films.
After winding his way into Zelandia, he had merely relied on his