For the Star Sea Merchant Alliance branch on Azure Star,
today should have been an utterly ordinary day.
And for the alliance employee responsible for tallying new Dao Hearing Stone members, that should have been even more true.
"Ah..."
Cheng Zhining sat inside the bright, spotless building, his gaze sweeping over the colleagues nearby, each attending to their duties in perfect order.
He could not help feeling a little stifled.
It was not because he was dissatisfied with his life.
For someone who had muddled along at the bottom of the alliance for most of his life before attaining this position, this stable post was already comfortable enough.
What stifled him was that, while his current life was indeed complete,
compared to the chaotic first half of his life, where fighting and killing were commonplace, it lacked a little excitement.
Cheng Zhining longed for a new change.
If headquarters could recognize true talent and directly promote me to general manager of this branch, how wonderful would that be...
He sighed inwardly, but his thoughts had already drifted far away.
One had to know that the general manager of the Azure Star branch was a figure of star-region stature.
An employee like him had no chance whatsoever of even serving tea and water to such a person, much less catching a distant glimpse.
If someone like that merely let a little resource slip through their fingers, it would be enough for him to reap tremendous benefits.
Let alone receiving an exceptional promotion.
Forget it, forget it.
Cheng Zhining quickly cast that unrealistic fantasy from his mind.
Compared to the distant and unattainable position of general manager,
being able to rise to become a supervisor in this building during his lifetime was already like smoke rising from his ancestors' graves.
He redirected