The Self-Cultivation of a Reborn Massage Therapist

Chapter 357 Unexpected Effects

The day after a hangover, it's not recommended to engage in strenuous mental work.

The significant impact on physical and brain functions leads to decreased efficiency, impaired judgment, and exacerbated discomfort.

Moreover, the vast majority of the R&D staff at this new company are not overweight.

Because the brain consumes a considerable amount of energy. Daily life accounts for about 20-30% of the body's energy consumption, which is roughly the same as the muscle power required for daily activities.

Due to long hours of mental work, even with a huge appetite, eating four meals a day, snacks, and hot pot, some people still become as thin as sticks, and some even need to keep glucose in their hands to drink.

However, Yu Xiaoning cannot make too harsh demands on these valuable top talents. He coaxes and protects them, carefully providing them with the best environment.

Zhao Xiaochui's hands did not stop.

The heat circulated around the Baihui acupoint, and Wen Kang's tightly furrowed brows unconsciously relaxed slightly.

Immediately, Zhao Xiaochui's hand moved down and grabbed Wen Kang's ankle.

Internal energy massage.

Massage with your thumb.

The Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian.

Taichong acupoint.

The primary acupoints of the Liver Meridian are crucial for relieving stagnation of Liver Qi and calming Liver Fire. When alcohol enters the body, it primarily damages the Liver. The headaches and irritability associated with hangovers originate from this point.

Zhao Xiaochui slowly applied force with his thumb, and the spiraling energy began to penetrate, resolving the brain problem. This minor ailment didn't require the heat flow.

"Ugh..." Wen Kang's body tensed up instantly, and a strong soreness, numbness, and swelling sensation shot from the instep to the top of his head, causing him to twitch violently.

"Don't resist this feeling," Zhao Xiaochui carefully guided Wen Kang's breathing, "Go with it, take a deep breath. When you feel air in your chest, exhale it, and then remember this frequency."

Wen Kang subconsciously did as instructed. After a deep breath, the throbbing pain that had been lingering in his head miraculously dissipated along with the soreness in his feet, and his vision seemed to clear up a bit.

Zhao Xiao-Chui maintained the pressure and continued to instruct, "Don't drink coffee or strong tea today. And if you ever have a hangover, remember to press this spot with this frequency and pressure..."

On the other side of the room, Yu Xiaoning and two specially hired health consultants were quietly observing everything.

Zhao Xiaochui's actions were quite remarkable. Wen Kang's tense body gradually relaxed, but Yu Xiaoning saw a middle-aged man trapped between a monotonous life and high-pressure work.

Alcohol was simply a life preserver he could grab at any time.

"A typical compensatory behavior," the expert beside me succinctly offered the academic definition.

Prohibition and lecturing are the least effective management methods. Yu Xiaoning is well aware that the real solution is to provide a better and more sophisticated form of addiction.

"You need a fitness club that will leave you completely exhausted. Rock climbing, boxing, table tennis, badminton, or tennis—sweat instead of alcohol."

Experts also offered advice.

“Lifestyle aesthetics projects are also acceptable. Flower arranging, tea tasting, baking—use refined dopamine to cover up the cheap numbness.”

Yu Xiaoning nodded slightly, agreeing with the suggestions. As a new entrepreneur, she was also learning.

She had also read many management books considered classics, but those theories were not applicable to the current situation.

But those theories were born in the era of large-scale industrial production, aiming to manage standardized workers and pursuing efficiency on the production line. However, her employees were talented individuals who relied on their intellect and creativity; their output could not be quantified, and their performance could not be constrained by rigid systems. Yu Xiaoning knew that there were never eternally advanced methods in management, only methods that were suitable or unsuitable.

What's more, she also has Zhao Xiaochui.

Yu Xiaoning experienced it firsthand. Zhao Xiaochui's magic didn't give her any new knowledge, but it made her mind exceptionally clear, connecting all the points she couldn't understand before.

So when Wen Kang got up from the massage bed, Yu Xiaoning couldn't wait to step forward and ask:
"How about it?"

At this moment, Wen Kang's eyes shone with an alarming brightness, and the wrinkles on his brow caused by long hours of desk work smoothed out. He nodded emphatically to Yu Xiaoning:
"Mr. Yu, you were too conservative in describing the effects of the massage to the big boss."

"Oh?!" Yu Xiaoning immediately perked up and asked expectantly, "Why?"

“We shouldn’t use linear thinking to fit a nonlinear mutation,” Wen Kang suddenly said, referring to his expertise, “but rather build a piecewise hybrid model…”

"You mean..." Yu Xiaoning knew Wen Kang's work very well, "that there has been progress in simulating the instantaneous peak power consumption generated when switching between different voltage domains!"

Wen Kang nodded heavily: "President Yu, I need to get back to the team as soon as possible."

“No!” Yu Xiaoning rejected Wen Kang’s suggestion. Almost without hesitation, she picked up her phone and dialed the internal line: “Notify all members of Wen Kang’s team to immediately drop everything and come to the number three lounge.”

Less than five minutes later, five or six men appeared at the door of the lounge, looking bewildered and annoyed at being disturbed. They all exuded a strong tech geek vibe, with sunken eyes, messy hair, and wearing various t-shirts.

"President Yu, the project is at a critical juncture..." the leader couldn't help but speak, his tone tinged with anxiety.

Yu Xiaoning didn't explain; she simply pointed to Wen Kang beside her.

All eyes were on their leader.

Meeting the questioning gazes of his team members, Wen Kang said mysteriously, "Don't ask any questions, just go in. Fifteen minutes. You'll thank me."

Zhao Xiaochui, standing to the side, changed the sheets with a blank expression and gestured "please" to the second man at the door.

He was now like an emotionless massage machine, offering no questions, no conversation, only covering the other person's sore and swollen eyes with his magical right hand after they lay down.

Let's begin eye exercises.

The fingertips gently press on the temples, Jingming acupoint, and Sibai acupoint, with just the right amount of pressure. But what truly works is the warm, soothing sensation that follows.

He's giving these geniuses a cheat code!
The second, the third… Zhao Xiaochui worked like an assembly line, repeating the same actions. And every engineer who got up from under his supervision wore the same expression, a mixture of shock and sudden realization.

As the last engineer left the break room, Yu Xiaoning had already dialed his second internal phone call.

Half an hour later, in the small conference room next to lounge number three.

The atmosphere was almost boiling. Not only Wen Kang's team was in the conference room, but also the heads of all departments of the entire EDA project had been urgently summoned here.

In the early days of the company, the staff was incomplete. Their previous work was divergent, and they were all exploring and trying things out in their own fields. These attempts may have contradicted each other and could not be integrated, resulting in a lot of wasted resources and time.

Wen Kang's team wasn't prioritized for a direct assault because they were responsible for the most fundamental, critical, and also the most difficult and complex part of the entire project—the core algorithm. If this part went wrong, all the work of other departments would have to be redone.

Yu Xiaoning's original plan was to wait until other peripheral areas had yielded results before integrating all resources and spending a year or even longer to tackle this tough challenge.

But now, everything has changed.

(End of this chapter)