But now there's no money in my pocket, and someone doesn't take care of meals, so I'm forced to return to my old line of work, right?

At least it's a Fortune 500 company, barely enough to keep body and soul together...

Seeing his pitiful look, Lin Haitang couldn't help but laugh.

But then she thought of Yan Weiwei at home...

She turned the steering wheel, taking a small road.

"Hmm? This doesn't look like the road to my company?" Meng Lang suddenly became cautious. "Hey hey! You're not planning on taking me to the civil affairs bureau without giving me a chance to explain, are you?"

My world line has collapsed; is the emotional line going to collapse, too?

The last episode didn't mention such an emergency, right?

Lin Haitang rolled her eyes at him.

"I admit I was impulsive at the time, but I'm not someone who shirks responsibility."

"You scared me; there's nothing between me and Gao Yuan, purely work-related..."

"Of course, I know there's nothing between you and Gao Yuan."

"Then why are you still..."

Lin Haitang didn't answer but suddenly stopped at an intersection, rolling down the window, and shouted to a street vendor.

"Boss, one soy milk and fried dough stick, one basket of dumplings~"

"Okay, coming right up!"

Soon, breakfast was handed to Meng Lang, and the car slowly started again.

"This breakfast stall has good taste and clean food."

Meng Lang looked at the breakfast in his hand, glanced at Lin Haitang, who was driving as if nothing happened, and immediately laughed.

This guy... still has such a subdued way of expressing feelings...

Both tacitly chose not to delve into the matter of the morning.

When Meng Lang was about to get out of the car, Lin Haitang suddenly sighed softly.

"Maybe you were right before. Sometimes life is full of various dilemmas. Sometimes who you choose... doesn't matter..."

"Uh..."

Watching the small electric moped merging into traffic, Meng Lang stood under the Huaxia Life sign, dazed for quite a while.

What does she mean by this?

"Pa!" Until a big hand patted his shoulder, bringing him out of his daze.

Turning around, he saw Uncle Zhang bizarrely staring at him.

Glimpsing at the Idol Mini driving away farther, his gaze became even stranger.

"It's been such a short while, and you stopped using the Porsche, and now you're riding a Baby Bus?"

The recent economic situation is not good, but class falling...

This fast?

Meng Lang: "..."

How is it a Baby Bus, looking down on my Idol?

It's a renowned international brand now, isn't it!

...

"Pa!" The thermos cup was slammed onto the table.

"Come on, who was the girl who just brought you here, and what is your relationship with her?"

Uncle Zhang leaned back, scrutinizing Meng Lang, whom he hadn't seen for a while.

Just the previous scene already had him imagining seven or eighty episodes of a TV drama in his mind.

The plot doesn't matter, the male lead is just a jerk!

"If I said it's my newly recovered wife, Uncle Zhang, would you believe me?"

"I wouldn't believe your nonsense!"

Meng Lang helplessly stuffed a dumpling into his mouth. "See, you wouldn't believe it even if I told you, so why should I bother explaining?"

This life is full of ups and downs and occasionally tumultuous.

The changes happening to him seem not only bizarre to outsiders but increasingly absurd...

There's been so much hollow explanation that Meng Lang has become a bit resigned.

"Kid, stop beating around the bush! That girl with the Porsche last time, such a nice person, and you actually... what can I even say!"

Uncle Zhang pointed at Meng Lang, a look of bitter disappointment on his face.

Meng Lang rolled his eyes.

"Uncle Zhang, who was it that told me that cars are just a mode of transportation, and life should be walked steadily on foot..."

Uncle Zhang choked on his own platitude, eyes wide.

"It's true to walk steadily, but I wouldn't oppose you speeding up on life's path!

Your ancestors already said it: Fish is what I desire, bear paw is also what I desire; if both cannot be had, choosing bear paw instead of fish!

Solving major life issues while reducing twenty years of struggle, is that disgraceful?"

"It's not disgraceful. Honestly, that person you saw, at least saves me many twenty years of struggle..."

"Uh..."

The sentence left Uncle Zhang dumbfounded.

What's the meaning? The someone driving a Baby Bus is worth more than the one driving a Porsche?

This low-key?

Meng Lang indicated that he still undersold it. Lin Haitang might not have much money in her balance account, but just the dowry on her household registration, a few Yan Weiwei bundled together is just pocket change.

Not to mention she gifted him a treasure girl, Xiao Yu, with immeasurable potential...

"Pa!" "Then it shouldn't be that way!"

Who would have thought Uncle Zhang got even angrier after hearing this, slapping the table this time.

"I originally thought you acted on impulse, but unexpectedly, you are blinded by profit, do you think you're fair to that previous girl?

Oh! You pick whoever lets you struggle less?

Mr. Meng would break your leg if he knew!"

"Uh... Uncle Zhang, can't you think positively about me?

Can't I be committed in love, not corrupted by wealth, not moved by poverty, withstand layers of tests and temptations, not dwell on the past, not fear the future, remain unperturbed, not confused in emotions, always as one excellent youth?"

"Just because you add more prefixes, you're an excellent youth?"

"Even if I add more prefixes, I don't stack as many hats as you do..."

The two stared at each other, Meng Lang looking helpless.

"I say, Uncle Zhang, we reunited after a long time, can't we talk about something happy?"

"No happy topics, only some that might bother you, want to hear?"

Uncle Zhang sipped his tea irritably, finally remembering the main topic.

"What's the matter?"

"Our company has some internal changes recently, so if you want to hang around doing nothing every day, it might not be that easy anymore."

"Why?" Meng Lang asked curiously.

"Well... the policy just came down, our company here in Su City is going to pilot the Xinchuang Project, but this time it's a bit different from before.

The system is very user-friendly, but the attendance system is impeccable.

Fingerprints, 3D photos, none of them work...

The company's been in an uproar lately.

So, if you want to loaf around in the company, you'll probably have to clock in every day..."

"Uh... Is the system called 'Tianshu ERP'?"

"Oh, you already know?"

"Haha!"

Meng Lang didn't expect it to be the "trouble" caused by his own product.

Mr. Hu and the others moved fast; has the Tianshu ERP system pilot already spread to Su City?

No, it should be that it focused coverage on Su City.

Given that Baiyeji is headquartered here, it's comparable to BYD being everywhere in Yangcheng City; it's a local enterprise, who else would you support?

Unexpectedly, the spring wind of reform he started was the first to reform himself...

As a disguise solely for concealing identity, clocking in daily is, of course, a total waste of time.

But for him as the behind-the-scenes system developer, would attendance be an issue?

"Don't worry, Uncle Zhang, just clocking in, no big deal~"

Seemingly thinking of something, Meng Lang asked another question.

"No impact on you, right?"

Uncle Zhang chuckled, "Not much impact on me, but for some people, it's quite significant..."

Seeing Meng Lang perplexed, Uncle Zhang laughed and explained.

"Remember that manager parachuted in, Manager Sun?"

Meng Lang thought for a moment, "Met once, heard from Ma Qiao, he's the type that inflates performance through false enrollment using long insurance and short-term manipulation?"

"Yes! When the tide recedes, you discover who's swimming naked; after experiencing the system's power, they transferred without saying a word the next day.

Meng Lang immediately burst out laughing.

"Hah! Really decisive... Where did they transfer to?"

"Pretty remote, somewhere far from the emperor.

Uh... seems to be...

Heilong Province, Nenjiang?"

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