"You mean I worked hard for three months in the last world, and the wages I earned there can't be carried over, so my final salary is only three thousand?"
The girl's long chestnut curly hair cascaded like seaweed down her back. Her skin was as pink and fair as newly bloomed cherry blossoms, and her makeup was a simple, "plain boiled water" style. Her professional office attire somehow gave off the pure, innocent vibe of a fresh graduate entering the workplace.
Despite her innocent and harmless appearance, she glared angrily at the colleague responsible for payroll, slapping a hand on the table as if to say, "If you don't give me a reasonable explanation, I'm not leaving."
The colleague adjusted his glasses, completely unfazed by Su Zhiyi's attitude.
He picked up the evaluation form for Su Zhiyi's previous world and said matter-of-factly, "Su Zhiyi, your mission was to pretend to be a rich person with connections who got into the company through back channels."
"The first part went smoothly enough—people at the company believed you were a connected hire."
"But then, because you couldn't stand the team leader, you splashed a cup of hot water in his face in front of everyone during a group meeting."
"The leader held a grudge, conducted a background check, found out you were actually from a rural area and not a connected hire, and teamed up with others to force you out of the company. That's how you got exposed."
"Your mission wasn't completed, right?"
He looked up from the evaluation form and stared fixedly at Su Zhiyi.
"Active exposure deducts 20%. Too many people in the company knowing you're not rich deducts 40%. Mission incomplete deducts 40%..."
He rattled off, "There are also some miscellaneous deduction points. Actually, you owe the Quick Time Travel Bureau eight percentage points. The boss saw how hard you worked and gave you three thousand as a subsidy. So your final salary is three thousand. Any objections?"
Su Zhiyi bit her lower lip, her eyes filled with resentment and unwillingness. "That bald old man had it coming! Who could resist splashing him?"
Seeing that her colleague remained unmoved, she had to compromise.
"Fine, fine. Three thousand it is. I'll work hard in the next world."
The payroll colleague was like a block of wood—completely unromantic, never flexible with any coworker, strict about deductions and additions, and never ambiguous about salaries.
"Okay, if there are no objections, your three thousand will be transferred to your card this afternoon."
"Got it." Su Zhiyi clutched her salary card and said discontentedly, "You don't have to emphasize the three thousand!"
Her colleague made an OK gesture and said nothing more.
That's right, Su Zhiyi was an employee of the Quick Time Travel Bureau.
Other colleagues usually had missions like "slap the face of a villainous supporting character" or "rise from grassroots to dominate"—common tasks that, with the help of a system, could be completed smoothly as long as they worked diligently.
But her mission was strange—it seemed hard, but in reality, it was never easy.
Her mission was—
Pretend to be a rich person.
In her last world, a normal real world, she was born in a rural village, the only college student from there. Later, she got an internship at a big company and pretended to be a relative of the boss with connections, a rich person.
But the leader of her project team was no human—a complete piece of trash.
At first, when the team leader learned she was a connected hire, he was wary of her status and didn't cause trouble. However, he bullied another female intern who joined the project team with her.
That girl endured for over a month, couldn't take it anymore, wrote her resignation letter while crying, and said goodbye to Su Zhiyi, the only one who cared about her.
Su Zhiyi couldn't stand the leader's arrogance. During a meeting, she directly splashed a cup of boiling hot water in his face, cursed him out thoroughly in front of everyone, and then stormed off.
She wrote a scathing resignation letter, criticizing the company's workplace bullying, and emailed it directly to the company's boss without any roundabout tactics.
Later, before the boss could act, the vengeful leader did a private background check, discovered she wasn't a connected hire, and joined forces with other sycophants to force her out, spreading rumors that she was just a poor countryside girl.
Pfft!
So what if she was born in the countryside? She only regretted not seeing that bastard leader's ending before leaving that world.
Leaving aside the jerk leader, she had to admit that her early disguise as a connected hire in the last world was pretty good.
She deliberately got close to the company's boss. When people saw how close she was to him, they all assumed she was a connected hire, and no one bothered to check her real identity.
The boss was handsome, young and promising, six feet two inches tall, eight-pack abs, a deep and sexy voice, calm personality, and a pure virgin. Getting close to him at the company helped her maintain her "rich person" image in front of other colleagues.
Unfortunately, the boss was a bit too pure—she never managed to sleep with him before she was exposed and left that world.
One of life's great regrets.
"By the way, what happened to that jerk... that team leader Li Weipeng from my last world?" Su Zhiyi still asked out of curiosity.
The colleague found the record sheet for Su Zhiyi's previous world and said, "After the boss saw your email, he flew into a rage, fired him, and blacklisted him from the industry."
"And that intern who joined the company with me?"
"She was made permanent and is now a high-level manager."
"And my boss?"
"Him?" The colleague flipped two pages. "After you left that world, he searched for you for a long time but never found any trace. He ended up living alone for the rest of his life."
"..." Su Zhiyi propped her chin and murmured, "Wasn't he in love with me? He wouldn't sleep with me in three months—what was he playing at with all that modesty?"
The last world was in the past. She planned to review it carefully before heading to the next.
Su Zhiyi was about to leave.
Just then, another colleague walked over, beaming with pride.
She bypassed Su Zhiyi and said to the payroll colleague, "I completed my last world's mission successfully! How much is my salary this time?"
The colleague pulled out her evaluation form from the previous world and nodded approvingly. "Well done. Efficiency improved too—you finished a whole month earlier than the world before. But pay attention to quality and try to spend money on useful things. I noticed you spent 30% of your funds on male models."