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Chapter 410. Finance Department

"came back."

As Chi Piao approached the finance department, she saw a woman wearing a scarecrow headdress and a white suit emerge from inside. She and her partner stepped aside, bowed with their hands behind their backs, and said:
"Your Excellency the Financier."

Their response was a crisp, bright metallic clang.

As the financier raised his hand, several simply designed gold bracelets on his wrist gently tapped against each other, producing a pleasant sound.

Her tone was calm yet firm:
"You've worked hard, the task was completed very well. Go and rest, there are new plans to be implemented tomorrow."

The sound of high heels tapping on the marble floor rang out, unhurried and gentle, each step striking the silence of the corridor.

The financier walked forward, his shadow flowing behind him—a dozen or so men in black from the finance department followed him silently like a night tide.

Those people were dressed in crisp uniforms, their faces hidden behind black masks, only the heavy sound of their boots creating a suppressed rhythm.

As the most powerful organization in the entire Rose Group, the [Rose Finance Department] combines financial and executive authority.

The staff here use the common social title of "accountant," but are further divided into two categories—

One type is financial experts, who are extremely knowledgeable and responsible for accounting.

One type is those who are illiterate in finance but are skilled in combat and responsible for offline accounting.

Chi Piao is the latter. She is a full-time offline accountant. She joined the department less than a year ago and quickly became a first-level accountant thanks to her 100% success rate in completing tasks. She is the only one in the entire finance department to have such a rapid promotion.

After the financier left, Chi Piao subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

That person had such a powerful aura that she could feel considerable pressure just by passing by.

The boy who was traveling with me turned his head and asked:

"We have a mission this afternoon. Shall we go to the restaurant now?"

Sunlight streamed slanted through the window, illuminating the boy's slender figure. He wore a black mask, and round-framed glasses perched on his high-bridged nose; he had a refined and clean appearance—this was the task partner she was assigned to after joining the department.

This person is also a first-level accountant like her, but he joined the department earlier, so according to the rules here, she has to call him "senior".

The senior colleague was a minor, and on his first day in the department, Chi Piao celebrated his eighteenth birthday.

If this age were in other factions in the world of talent, it would be time to pack up and retire.

However, President Jun of Rose Group has exceptionally advanced ideas.

She believed that eighteen was the golden age when young and strong could be exploited. So, the senior colleague continued to come to work the day after her coming-of-age ceremony.

After Xu Huan passed away, she left all the fixed assets and the contract she had signed with Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals to Chi Piao, thus ending her ties with the company. Later, Chi Xia, the strategist, gave her a letter of recommendation.

That was done in the name of Parallel Family, recommending her to the finance department of Rose Group.

Although the signature reads "Parallel Home," according to Chi Xia, this was actually Xu Huan's request for the transaction.

He had previously offended a financier during his downfall because of the strategist conference, and now the two were sharply hostile to each other. The financier would definitely reject the letter of recommendation he wrote, so he had no choice but to use the transfer of the rights to Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals as a bargaining chip to get the parallel writer to write this letter.

Chi Piao couldn't understand a lot of what Chi Xia was saying.

All she knew was that her former boss had passed away, and that before he died, he had remembered to secure a future for himself.

Despite being just superiors and subordinates, in a place like Black Eye Pharmaceuticals, there's never much sentimentality between bosses and subordinates.

Subordinates are either dogs that bite or knives that are easy to use, but they are never living, breathing human beings.

But Xu Huan always remembered her. In his eyes, she was never an animal or a tool, but someone who deserved to be treated seriously and whose future should be considered.

Chi Piao stared at the letter of recommendation in her hand, and then thought of Xu Huan's obituary. Her eyes welled up with tears, and she was so sad that she almost cried.

In my memory, that day was also gloomy, the air was so thick that it was hard to breathe, and everything was immersed in a lingering dull pain.

What happened afterward was rather uneventful. She took the letter of recommendation and her resume and sent them to the Rose Group.

The letter of recommendation, signed "Parallelist," quickly attracted attention and was passed all the way to the financier.

Chi Piao was an outstanding war expert, and with the strong recommendation of a famous person, he was soon brought under the command of the finance department.

After that, it was all about assigning partners and going on missions day and night.

Chi Piao paused after hearing her partner's words, then said:

"I want to eat too, let's go together."

The two walked out of the finance department office in silence, without exchanging any words.

This is a common occurrence in wartime. After all, Chi Piao doesn't have much literary knowledge and can't come up with any topics, and her partner isn't much more cultured either.

The Rose Group will provide educational resources, but this education is limited to practical skills and does not include academic subjects. Therefore, it is still a question whether her senior partner is as well-educated as she is.

As for why the boy was wearing glasses—it might be because he spends too much time on his phone, or it might be something he was born with; in any case, it has nothing to do with being a top student.

Because neither of them was particularly literate and both were rather dull, their footsteps were barely audible along the way.

Today I'll wrap up the first volume of the supporting characters' past. Tomorrow I'll update three times to push forward the plot lines, as the old world's storyline is progressing too slowly.