From humble beginnings to the pinnacle of life

Su Qing rushed back from outside, clearly having overheard most of our conversation at the door.

The moment she pushed the door open, her eyes were filled with anger, and her tone was urgent and furious: "What do you mean? We were doing a perfectly good job at this station, and suddenly you're telling us we can't operate anymore?"

"You heard everything?" I asked, looking at her.

Su Qing instantly became agitated, her voice rising several decibels: "I'm asking you what exactly happened! We were doing so well, why are you just taking it all back like that? For the past two weeks, I've been running around under the scorching sun every day, meeting with merchants, negotiating deals, and doing promotions, working until dark every day. What does all my effort amount to? Was it all for nothing?"

I looked at her and gently comforted her, "Calm down. I'm more frustrated than anyone else, but we're just an agent. It's clearly stated in the contract with headquarters that they can unilaterally terminate the contract at any time, and there's nothing we can do about it."

"Terminate the contract anytime? Is there no rule anymore? Isn't this just bullying others?"

After saying that, she turned and stormed out, gritting her teeth, "I can't stand this! I'm going to headquarters right now to settle accounts with them! They deserve an explanation!"

Seeing this, I quickly stood up and reached out to stop her: "Don't go, it's no use. I've already signed and confirmed it, everything is settled."

Su Qing looked at me in disbelief, her eyes filled with disappointment and speechlessness:

"Are you stupid?! Why did you sign such an unfair contract? Even if they try to take it back, we'll fight to the death until they give us a reasonable explanation!"

"That's right, Brother Lin!" Luo Peng immediately chimed in, "We can definitely keep going against them, we absolutely can't just give up like this!"

Looking at the unwilling expressions on everyone's faces, I felt both depressed and bitter. I lowered my head, took a deep drag on my cigarette, and stubbed it out in the ashtray.

I finally looked up at everyone and blurted out the most frustrating truth: "I had no choice but to sign; they set me up."

"Just now in Mr. Gao's office, his female secretary took advantage of my inattention and suddenly sat on me, deliberately unbuttoned her collar and messed up her hair, and then acted out shouting and screaming, pretending that I was harassing her."

"What?!"

Su Qing's pupils shrank sharply, and she exclaimed in surprise, her face filled with disbelief.

Luo Peng was speechless for a moment, his face filled with shock.

My cousin let out a heavy sigh, his eyes filled with anger.

I shrugged, feeling utterly helpless, and said, "I was determined not to sign it. But they've already installed surveillance cameras in their office, just waiting for me to fall into their trap. If they cut out the beginning and end of the video, I'll be unable to defend myself, and the charge of attempted rape will be pinned on me, ruining my life."

The room fell completely silent after those words were spoken.

Everyone fell silent.

We are all adults, and we all know how insidious this honey trap and surveillance frame-up method is.

Once trapped, there's no room for explanation; it's a sure-fire dead end.

Su Qing trembled with anger, gritting her teeth as she pressed, "Who is that person? Who is so ruthless?"

"I don't know his full name, I only know that his surname is Gao and he is the operations director of Speedata Express," I replied in a deep voice.

Su Qing's face instantly turned ashen, and she couldn't help but curse angrily, "They're utterly despicable! To seize our hard-earned results, they'd resort to such underhanded tactics; they have absolutely no bottom line!"

I shook my head slightly and sighed wearily, "Forget it, it's too late to say anything now. I've already signed the papers, and this website has nothing to do with us anymore."

My cousin remained silent for a long time before finally asking, "So what do we do next? Are we still going to deliver the orders this afternoon?"

Luo Peng spoke up first, his voice filled with irritation: "The papers have already been signed, the sites aren't even ours anymore, what's the point of us working on this! It's a complete waste of effort!"

That makes sense. Although we have worked hard to build up our reputation in this area, and users trust us.

But since the documents have already been signed, we're not even considered permanent employees anymore, let alone temporary workers, so naturally we don't need to do it anymore.

I shook my head and said, "No need to send it off. People from headquarters will come over to take over and handle things. These matters are no longer our concern."

"This is absolutely fucking ridiculous!"

Luo Peng was still furious and slammed his fist hard on the table.

"These capitalists are ruthless! They treat us ordinary people like beasts of burden!"

Su Qing also said indignantly, "This is outrageous! It's blatant robbery of other people's hard work!"

I raised my hand to stop everyone's anger and said with self-reproach, "Alright, stop complaining. This is my fault. I was too naive and trusted others too easily, falling into their trap step by step, and dragging everyone down with me."

My cousin sighed and comforted me, "Yezi, don't say that. These kinds of things happen to anyone."

I shook my head, suppressing the bitterness in my heart, and said, "Let's not talk about this anymore. I'll tally up this month's wages later and distribute them to everyone in full. You should also organize the backlog of orders you have on hand and make a proper record for easy handover later."

Everyone went off to do their own work, but their enthusiasm was clearly not as high as before.

I sat alone in front of the computer, staring blankly at the salary statistics on the screen.

Even now, it still feels incredibly unreal, like a short but magnificent dream.

It's like I just had a dream this month.

For the past month, I've risked everything, betting all my savings and time, thinking I've finally found a chance to turn things around.

I stayed up all night studying operations, traveled all over the area to acquire customers, refined my service reputation, and built a team system, putting in all the effort I could.

In the end, however, the dream was shattered and all the efforts were in vain.

A promising turnaround turned into nothing.

Who could accept this?

My heart was filled with endless resentment, but I was completely helpless.

Perhaps this is the inescapable fate of ordinary people.

I took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the frustration and irritability in my heart.

I quickly composed myself, put all distracting thoughts aside, and stared at the computer screen, focusing intently on calculating everyone's salaries for the month.

I had already calculated everyone's salary according to the standard monthly salary.

But in the past two weeks, the site has been flooded with orders. Everyone worked hard and no one slacked off or complained, which helped me support the entire site's performance.

Out of compassion, I overturned the fixed monthly salary calculation and recalculated the salary based on the highest order volume commission.

After calculating, I thought for a moment, gritted my teeth, and gave each of the brothers present an extra thousand yuan subsidy.

I know this amount of money isn't much; compared to all the sleepless nights and hardships everyone has endured this past month, it's nothing.

But right now my abilities are limited, this is the only compensation I can offer, and it's my last bit of goodwill as the leader.

Next, I checked and tallied all the income and expenditure records of the site for the entire month.

Looking at the final balance, I felt a mix of emotions.

Even after deductions and losses from initial investments, the site still managed to save over 30,000 yuan in net profit this month.

This is enough to prove that my operational approach and customer acquisition model are completely sound.

Especially in the latter half, the number of orders surged day by day, the reputation became more and more stable, the customer base became more and more fixed, and the site fully entered the track of stable profitability.

But it is precisely because they do so well and are so dazzling that they attract envy.

The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it.