Sitting in her dim room, Kyudai Li stared at the forum in front of her, lost in a daze.
She had turned her device's brightness down very low. The page she had opened was one of the forum's more popular roundup posts, documenting the Alt Conglomerate's rise over the past few months.
Even now, it all felt unreal to Kyudai Li... It wasn't as though she had never managed a project at a company before, but that had only been a small-to-medium enterprise. Her role there could have been called important, but it could just as easily have been called insignificant. Otherwise, her opinions wouldn't have been brushed aside so easily toward the end of the project.
That was precisely why she felt more than a little disbelief when the Alt Conglomerate, now at the height of its influence in District 25, suddenly invited her to join and take charge of such an important project.
Recalling what Jonas had told her that day, Kyudai Li couldn't help blushing slightly. She lay down on her side on the floor, curled up a little, and squirmed as she let out a silly giggle.
-Mr. Jonas said he believed in me...
In fact, since her last failure, this was the first time anyone had said anything like that to her...
When people received encouragement at their lowest point, they often developed special feelings for the person who offered them a helping hand.
But Miss Kyudai Li's extreme inferiority complex suppressed those feelings. Combined with her previous admiration, guilt, and various other emotions, it brought about a very subtle change in her attitude toward Jonas.
It resembled the insecure affection Iris had initially felt for Jonas-or perhaps it was even more self-effacing. It also set the already sensitive girl overthinking.
*-I agreed, but it's