Motivation and Results Orientation

The financial institution Tao Yan had previously worked for, the data analysis company he had founded himself, and several businesses under Huo Baichuan's name all operated the same way. Using charitable causes and public welfare campaigns to bolster a company's reputation was something every established business had long mastered.

But the charitable cause Tao Yan had suddenly proposed at this moment, though outwardly wrapped in a strong pursuit of profit, made Huo Baichuan—who knew Tao Yan's personality well—faintly sense that Tao Yan was probably not as "fame-seeking" or "profit-driven" as he appeared.

Avoiding Huo Baichuan's probing gaze, Tao Yan expressionlessly asked the old director, "This is a decision that benefits everyone. You may as well consider it."

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After dying from overwork, Huo Jiu transmigrated into a vicious cannon-fodder character in an old-school Mary Sue harem novel.

According to the original plot, after his alcoholic father died, Huo Jiu would be taken to his new home by his biological mother, who had married into a wealthy family. He would become the male lead's older stepbrother.

Then, out of jealousy for everything the male lead had, he would meticulously scheme against him. He would even dream of stealing the male lead's fated lover. Until his schemes were exposed, he was driven out by his furious stepfather, brutally retaliated against by the male lead's admirers, and ultimately died a miserable death.

The newly transmigrated Huo Jiu: Thanks, but I have no interest in playing along with the plot.

As a workaholic who believed in "if it won't kill me, I'll work myself to death,"

Huo Jiu upheld the spirit of a model worker and diligently built his own business empire.

When he came back to his senses, Huo Jiu was surprised to find that he had already worked the original plot into complete shambles.

Motivation and Results Orientation

Director Shang looked Tao Yan over with slight surprise. Clearly, he had not expected Tao Yan to say something like that.

However, Tao Yan's words truly moved Director Shang. Since this case had been cracked, the deeper their investigation went and the more victims they rescued, the more keenly they felt their own inadequacy and helplessness. Every victim they saved meant that a family somewhere had already been shattered years ago. While arranging for the victims, the police also tried to locate their parents and relatives, hoping to restore a complete family to them. But as Director Shang had said before, searching for a needle in the vast sea was hardly an easy task.

Bad people did not feel guilty for doing bad things, but good people often felt guilty because they lacked the ability to save more people. Yet with limited funds, resources, manpower, and energy, the police could not possibly devote their entire force to helping victims find their parents. They had more cases to solve and more people to protect.

Just then, Tao Yan proposed setting up a missing-person assistance website as a civilian volunteer. Though he did not know exactly what the website could do, Director Shang instinctively trusted Tao Yan somewhat. He believed that perhaps these two children really could accomplish what even adults like them could not.

"Could you explain it in detail?" the old director asked.

Tao Yan glanced at the little heads in the crowd gazing up at the movie screen and smiled faintly. "Of course."

People's Square was crowded and noisy, with a movie playing as well, making it clearly unsuitable for a discussion. Director Shang simply took the two children back to the police station, where they could talk quietly.

Tao Yan had come up with the idea on the spur of the moment. But given his professional competence, drafting a proposal in a short time and explaining the project clearly to Director Shang was not particularly difficult.

"Although I haven't paid much attention to this area, based on what I've learned these past few days, the only ways families of missing people currently have to find them are probably reporting it to the police and posting missing-person notices."

Tao Yan organized his thoughts and slowly said, "But police resources are limited, and they can't devote too much to any one case. As for posting missing-person notices, their exposure is limited and can only cover a very small area. Moreover, the audience reached and the amount of time the notices remain in circulation are both unstable. Ordinary people do not have much time or energy to keep paying attention to matters unrelated to their own lives. And after being exposed to wind and sun for a long time, photocopied notices can hardly remain clear, making identification more difficult. Replacing them frequently would also raise the cost of searching."

Director Shang slowly nodded, strongly agreeing with Tao Yan. "So the website you want to establish can solve these problems?"

"Perhaps it can't solve the problem at its root. But at the very least, we can provide a platform that draws more people's attention to this issue, mobilizes the public, and gets more people involved."

Tao Yan said, "In my vision, the website could be divided into three sections. One would be a family reunion section, where we could register and post photos and information about missing people online so their families could identify and claim them. At the same time, family members could post detailed information about their missing relatives online and call on internet users to help search for them. Besides trafficked children, many adult women and elderly people with dementia also face the risk of being abducted or going missing. Based on the needs of those seeking help, we could further divide this into child assistance and family assistance, as well as long-term and short-term requests. We could make reasonable use of the golden rescue window and try our best to prevent missing people from falling into danger because help came too late."

"Besides that, we could establish a section to help homeless children. I've discovered that after many traffickers abduct victims, they do not sell them. Instead, they beat the victims into disability and throw them onto the streets to beg. Such groups generally choose to stay in large cities with better economic development, because residents there have better living conditions and more money to spare. Their financial means allow them to show more sympathy and give alms to those pitiful children, without realizing that their kindness may very well be exploited by traffickers. I think we can recruit more photography enthusiasts online to take pictures of children begging on the streets and then report them to the police—if they are afraid to call the police for various reasons, they can also upload the photos to our website, and the website can make the report. If it is confirmed that these children are indeed victims abducted by traffickers, we can then register and handle their cases according to the procedures of the family reunion section."