In name only: The land of Handong, I shall rule its fate.

The short holiday has just ended.

Wu Chunlin returned with his secretary, Xiao Ye, looking quite dashing and triumphant, as if he had ridden a swift horse in the spring breeze and seen all the flowers of Chang'an in a single day.

"Junior, did you miss me?"

Wu Chunlin asked with a grin.

"Where did you go?"

Lin Zhiyuan shrugged and pushed the old man away in an annoyed manner. Ever since the "Be Arrogant, College Student!" incident, he had no idea what the other man had been up to.

"secret!"

Wu Chunlin smiled mysteriously and said, "But I can tell you two words: it's a sure thing."

"have to!"

Lin Zhiyuan sat back in his chair, seemingly satisfied with the assessment, and saw no need for further questioning. "Comrade Zuo Tao did a good job while you were away. There's no need for him to come back if you stay any longer."

"You are heartless! You are ungrateful!"

Wu Chunlin's smile froze instantly. Maya, his left foot had stepped out, but his right foot hadn't. His hometown was about to be stolen.

How can this be allowed!

"Comrade Zuo Tao still needs more experience. In my experience, he may not be able to handle the situation in Handong."

Wu Chunlin said righteously, "That's why I rushed back this time to help you solve problems and stabilize the rear."

Are you sure?

Lin Zhiyuan raised his eyebrows and smiled meaningfully.

Jingle Bell!

The landline rang.

"Okay, I understand."

"It's tough... please be patient..."

Lin Zhiyuan answered the phone, and after hearing what the other person said, he seemed quite adept at handling the report.

A bad premonition suddenly welled up in Wu Chunlin's heart. His whole body tensed up, as if he had sprung up from a spring, and he thought about slipping away.

"Minister Chunlin, it's time to help solve this problem."

Lin Zhiyuan spoke up in time.

Instantly, the other person's body stiffened, turning around rigidly as if frozen in place, a painful yet numb smile appearing on their face. They should know what it is.

"Looks like I guessed it."

Lin Zhiyuan patted his shoulder and laughed, "Senior, you can't be a deserter. After all, you made a solemn promise to them. Otherwise, you'll hurt their feelings."

"Lin Zhiyuan, you bastard."

Wu Chunlin instantly lost his composure, jumped up, grabbed Lin Zhiyuan by the neck, and shook him violently. "I've been gone for so long, and you insisted on leaving this mess until now, didn't you?"

After half an hour.

The black sedan smoothly drove into an industrial park, and Lin Zhiyuan and Wu Chunlin got out of the car together.

People were already waiting.

They immediately led the two to the rest area, where a group of young people in work clothes sat dejectedly on the ground, and their cries of grievance could be faintly heard.

"Executive Director Lin, Minister Wu, you've seen the situation yourself, we really have no other choice."

The person in charge said with difficulty, "We know these are precious talents, the future technical talents, but what they are learning in school now does not match the actual needs."

"Give them time, but the market and customers won't give us more time; give them room to try and fail, and more opportunities to grow, and this is the result."

"Why…"

The person in charge sighed deeply.

"Don't worry! I assure you, Minister Chunlin, everything will be fine. Minister Chunlin is here to solve the problem."

Lin Zhiyuan reassured him, "Leave this to us."

"good!"

The person in charge walked away, turning back every few steps.

"I'll solve the problem, and you're going to solve me, right?"

Wu Chunlin grumbled and rolled his eyes in annoyance before quickly walking towards the crowd.

tread!tread!tread!

The sound of leather shoes on the floor was neither too loud nor too soft, not enough to startle anyone, but enough to alert them to their arrival.

"you…"

A young man turned around at the sound, about to say something, but upon seeing who it was, he sprang to his feet and sat up abruptly. He nudged his companion, who was still lost in despair, with a slightly flustered expression, like a mischievous student who had met the head of moral education.

"Hello, Minister Wu! Hello, Executive Director Lin!"

Xiao Nian called out softly, and the others stood up as well.

In the middle of the crowd were two girls with tears streaming down their faces. They looked like twin flowers blooming among a group of green leaves, but they were covered with dew in the morning.

"Hello, little girls!"

Wu Chunlin secretly rejoiced, and put on a perfectly gentle smile, neither abrupt nor deliberate, "Students, don't be nervous, please sit down."

"Just do it the same as before."

"Director Lin and I heard you were having some trouble, so we came to check on you. Is there anything we can do to help?"

"Why are Li Xinyu and Wang Ke crying? You two look like you're about to break."

Wu Chunlin sat down a step and a half away, a distance that was neither too close nor too far, yet it instantly shortened the distance between their hearts.

"Minister Wu, I...I've messed up."

Li Xinyu said, her voice trembling with sobs, "There was a new production line that needed to be debugged. My supervisor asked me to be in charge of the simplest IO single-point test, which mainly involved signal verification and circuit continuity checks. I messed up such a simple task."

"You haven't learned it?"

Wu Chunlin looked bewildered by his lack of knowledge; what did a liberal arts student from over twenty years ago know about engineering?

"I've studied it."

Li Xinyu shook her head. "My teachers taught me at school, and my mentor also guided me through several sessions. This time, the equipment was a bit different. I did it once under my mentor's supervision and thought it was fine, so I assumed I was capable."

"But once Master leaves..."

"When I'm working alone, my mind goes blank and I can't figure it out. I don't dare to ask directly. I secretly call others for help, but I get flustered on the phone and make more and more mistakes."

"This caused forced output, the system bypassed program interlocks, safety signals, and the cylinders acted directly without warning, pressing the material, switching to the tooling, and eventually damaging the sensors. Luckily, no workers operated it during the debugging phase, otherwise I..."

Li Xinyu nervously twisted the hem of her clothes, "It's all my fault, and I've dragged everyone else into being criticized too."

"Minister Wu, could you please put in a good word for the students? I will take full responsibility for this; it was all my fault."

If all her classmates fail their internships and are sent back because of her, she doesn't know how she will face these classmates who have taken such good care of her.

"No, I proposed the revised plan."

Several classmates immediately spoke up, "I'll take responsibility."

Wu Chunlin raised his hand to calm the students who were becoming agitated due to tension and fear, and looked at them. "So today's events originated from this?"

Everyone looked conflicted, wanting to say something but unsure what to say.

"I'll say it!"

Wang Ke raised his hand and said, "Minister Wu, I've found that I can't adapt to the current work environment at all. Apart from knowing a bunch of professional terms and theories, I'm completely useless."

"Here."

"I feel worse than a piece of trash."