My younger brothers are so fierce!!! I'm clearly the eldest brother!

Yuehua Group, top-floor conference room.

Bai Xin stood in front of the projection screen, with a dense and suffocating string of quarterly data behind him.

"...The core chip adaptation progress in the third quarter is two versions behind. Can someone explain this to me?"

The conference room was completely silent. Several technical leaders lowered their heads, not daring to utter a sound.

"Pfft..."

In the midst of the quiet, a burst of laughter suddenly rang out in the conference room, instantly drawing everyone's attention.

Product Director Lin Zhaozhao lowered her head, covered her mouth with her hand, and tried her best to suppress her laughter, her shoulders shaking.

She had been scrolling through her phone before the meeting started and happened to come across a clip of the live stream titled "My Slow-Paced Rural Life with You".

Marketing accounts start their posts with a barrage of attacks—

Yuehua Group's aloof special assistant, Bai Xin, has had his childhood embarrassing history exposed: a confirmed socially awkward little old man! He stood at the door of a peer's house for half an hour, too afraid to knock, and finally sat alone on the doorstep to show off a whole plate of osmanthus cake, so full that he couldn't eat dinner that night...

I brought all the pastries back, sat on the doorstep and ate them all. The little kid said he wouldn't play with other little kids anymore, and I forgot about the version update...

Lin Zhaozhao found it funnier the more she thought about it, and just now she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Director Lin."

Bai Xin pressed the laser pointer onto the table and said in a calm voice, "You're laughing so happily, it seems you have a lot of insights into chip adaptation solutions."

Lin Zhaozhao: "..." Damn it, I shouldn't have been checking my phone before the meeting. I've embarrassed myself at the company.

Lin Zhaozhao stood up with a stiff upper lip, cleared her throat amidst the sympathetic glances of her other colleagues in the conference room,

Lin Zhaozhao picked up the tablet, her eyes quickly scanning the data on it. She keenly noticed several anomalies in the data, and her mind raced.

"Ahem, I do have a few ideas about this chip adaptation solution... Uh... The root cause of the adaptation delay is mainly due to changes in the upstream IP licensing terms... A parallel verification solution can be adopted... The risk mitigation plan includes the following..."

"...That's roughly it." After Lin Zhaozhao finished speaking, she glanced cautiously at Bai Xin, feeling uneasy. What the hell had she just rambled on about?

Bai Xin nodded expressionlessly, inwardly marveling at how worthy he was of being recruited with a million-dollar annual salary. "The idea is excellent. You can refine the plan yourself and put it on my desk tomorrow morning."

Lin Zhaozhao nodded reluctantly, "...Yes." This isn't her job, you know! What are those technical supervisors doing?!

After Lin Zhaozhao sat down, her friend next to her quietly gave her a thumbs up, her expression saying, "You're awesome!"

Lin Zhaozhao twitched her lips. Isn't it said that girls who smile a lot are lucky? She just smiled, and what did she get in return was working overtime that night?

The meeting lasted for more than an hour, during which Lin Zhaozhao managed to calm herself down.

Seeing everyone packing up and leaving the meeting room, Lin Zhaozhao dawdled with her friends and lagged behind, waiting until only they and Bai Xin were left in the meeting room.

Lin Zhaozhao gave a smug smile. "Heh heh, a gentleman takes revenge, but ten years is too late."

Lin Zhaozhao leaned close to Bai Xin, raised her voice, and whispered into his face, "Assistant Bai, you were just so incredibly cute when you were little! You'd stand outside someone's door for half an hour, too scared to open it, then bring home the pastries you were going to share, sit on the doorstep, and play with them all, saying you wouldn't play with little kids~"

Bai Xin paused in organizing the documents. How could Lin Zhaozhao know about these things? What did Ms. Cheng say in the live broadcast?

Bai Xin panicked, but forced a calm expression. "Lin Zhaozhao, for the production line survey in Southeast Asia, headquarters needs to send someone to be stationed there for three months?"

Holy crap! Bai Xin wants to send her to Southeast Asia! A wise man doesn't fight a losing battle; a discerning person knows when to yield.

Lin Zhaozhao raised her hands in surrender, pulling her smirking friend back, "Assistant Bai, sorry to bother you."

Stepping out of the conference room, Lin Zhaozhao pretended to close the door, counted to ten, and then suddenly flung it open. "Assistant Bai, so you're socially awkward, huh?"

Bai Xin was anxiously taking out his phone to check the situation when Lin Zhaozhao's shout startled him so much that he almost dropped his phone.

"Get out." Bai Xin gritted his teeth and said, embarrassed and annoyed.

"Okay." Lin Zhaozhao knew when to stop, turned around and ran towards the elevator. She straightened her clothes and resumed her persona as a highly intelligent female elite. She had a lot of people under her, and she couldn't let her image collapse!

The meeting room fell completely silent.

Bai Xin sat there, took two deep breaths, picked up his phone and continued searching for information. As soon as he clicked search, a bunch of videos popped up. Bai Xin clicked on the one with the most views.

In the video, Cheng Yunqin smiles with her eyes crinkling, holding Jiang Guanqing's hand and saying, "...That was the first time Bai Xin had ever mentioned someone to his family on his own initiative."

Jiang Guanqing lowered her head, revealing a section of her fair, reddish nape. "Aunt Cheng, Bai Xin is very good. He takes good care of me."

Bai Xin abruptly turned off the screen and slammed the phone face down on the conference table.

The words "Bai Xin is very good" seemed to be a demonic sound, playing on repeat in my ears, and the image in my mind lingered. The redness slowly climbed from my neck to my face and then to my ears.

Several minutes later, Bai Xin reopened his phone and tapped the comments section with trembling fingertips.

The next second, the phone was slammed face down on the table again, and Bai Xin raised his hand to cover his eyes.

It’s over.

His stable and reliable assistant persona, which he had maintained for nearly ten years, was shattered to pieces. President Jiang even learned about his awful behavior when he was a child.

His fans were all eager for drama, what kind of reaction could he possibly have? And it was his own mother who blurted out his secrets!!!

I want to go back immediately and sink all the production crew's live-streaming equipment into the pond...

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After checking several times and confirming that the photographer really hadn't followed, Nam Yoon-ah walked along the bluestone path towards the village ancestral hall.

The square in front of the ancestral hall is very large, and villagers often gather there to chat. If she happens to meet someone, she can casually mention the candidate for the Flower Goddess. If she doesn't meet anyone, she can take the opportunity to check the stage and determine the location where she needs to take action.

When they were still some distance from the ancestral hall, Nam Yoon-ah heard the chatter.

Upon closer inspection, several gray-haired women were gathered around an eight-immortal table in the square in front of the ancestral hall, picking apricot blossoms and gossiping.

Seeing that Nam Yoon-ah looked unfamiliar, she curiously looked over.

"Whose daughter are you? I don't think I've seen you before."

An older woman gently patted the person next to her, saying, "This is a big star who's here to record a show."

An auntie in a maroon jacket held Nan Yun'er's hand, smiling so broadly her eyes disappeared. "Please sit down, please sit down. Try the pumpkin seeds that Auntie just roasted."