The old employees of the three major projects didn’t know how long it had been since they were last scolded by Director Lin.

To say they weren’t nervous about being scolded would be a lie.

But perhaps because it had been so long since they last saw him, and after being managed by an incompetent director for five whole months, getting scolded this time actually made them feel surprisingly relieved.

…That’s right, it should be the fierce Director Lin leading them on projects!

This meeting lasted a long time.

Lin Chen landed at 2:00 PM.

The meeting didn’t end until 7:00 PM.

A man in a suit quietly entered the conference room at 5:00 PM, sat closest to the door, and listened quietly to the entire meeting.

Finally, the meeting ended. Everyone took their tasks and left to work overtime. Only then did the man in the suit finally stand up, close the conference room door again, and stride towards Lin Chen at the front center of the room.

The man in the suit opened his arms, teary-eyed, and gave Lin Chen a big hug: “Ah Chen, you’re finally back!!”

“Where have you been these five months?? Not a single word from you. Do you know how worried we were! We… we thought… thought something happened to you. We even called the police, but even the police couldn’t find you!”

The man in the suit kept talking.

Lin Chen had just come out of work mode. He quietly gazed at his friend in front of him, realizing once again that he had truly returned to his original world.

He sighed softly, politely hugged him back lightly, then separated.

Lin Chen: “It’s hard to explain; I encountered some force majeure.”

“Let’s not talk about that. Explain to me first, what happened to these projects? What’s with the new director named Wang? And where’s Xiao Zhao? He was the successor I trained. He understands my style and is familiar with my clients. If he were in charge, the situation couldn’t have collapsed to this point!”

“Or have you finally become senile and can’t even see through Director Wang’s incompetence? …CEO Sun?”

CEO Sun smiled bitterly and slumped into a chair: “Don’t even mention it! Sigh, was it that I didn’t want to use Xiao Zhao? But Xiao Zhao isn’t you after all. You could resist the high-salary olive branch from Huasheng Group, but Xiao Zhao couldn’t!”

“Back then, right after your disappearance was confirmed, Huasheng Group poached Xiao Zhao with a sky-high price! …A base annual salary of three million with no responsibilities! Given to someone who had never officially been a sales director, just to cut off our backup!”

“I had no choice but to promote from below and recruit from outside. But you know their group has strong backing and financial strength. As soon as we found someone, they poached them. They poached at least seven or eight people!”

CEO Sun sighed deeply: “It wasn’t until later that Director Chen recommended the current Director Wang that we barely managed to maintain things. But his ability is indeed inferior to yours. Those core clients you worked so hard to secure back then… Sigh!”

“Ah Chen, it’s good that you’re back. I know your dream is to travel around the world, but right now, Xingchen Company really can’t do without you…”

Lin Chen: “.”

Base salary of three million?

Lin Chen was silent for a moment before he could barely recall the normal base salary in the normal market.

…After being brainwashed by the wealthy mindset for five years, he almost forgot the price of a normal corporate slave!

But recalling was one thing.

Lin Chen coldly interrupted CEO Sun: “Stop. Save the useless words. The urgent task is to determine the goal. Just one sentence: do you want to snatch these three projects back? If yes, how much cost are you willing to invest?”

Lin Chen raised an eyebrow: “If nothing else, for the sake of your financial support when I was in school, as long as you want to snatch these three projects back, I will definitely find a way to get them back for you.”

CEO Sun intuitively felt there was more to these words.

But at this moment, he didn’t have time to think carefully. Hearing “want to snatch or not,” he slapped his thigh hard and said fiercely: “Snatch, of course we have to snatch!”

“As long as you personally manage it, no matter how much money is needed, even if I have to kowtow to investors, I must get this money for you!”

“As long as you can win the projects back, I will triple the project bonus for you alone!”

Lin Chen thought to himself, Forget triple, even thirty times, would it amount to a fraction of his beautiful ten-digit savings?

Lin Chen smiled: “Very good.”

Lin Chen: “Then, now, please immediately notify all management above mid-level related to the projects to have a meeting in an hour. Expected meeting duration is four hours. Please ask everyone to be prepared for overtime.”

…

So on the first day, meetings, overtime.

The mid-level and above management meeting lasted until twelve o’clock, and more than half of the managers were scolded severely. After the meeting ended, the core high-level meeting followed immediately.

At 3:00 AM, went home, disliked the dust on the bed, Lin Chen packed his clothes, went out to get a hotel room, frantically caught up on project progress, and arranged work for the next few days.

At 5:00 AM, went to sleep.

The second day, visited clients, overtime.

8:00, visited Client A, played chess with him all morning, successfully persuaded Client A to postpone signing the contract with Huasheng Group.

12:00, rushed to a restaurant to dine with Client B, and spent the afternoon skydiving and drag racing with Client B, successfully persuading Client B to delay a certain project decision.

18:00, rushed to a food stall to dine with Client C, rarely drank alcohol, successfully persuaded Client C to introduce him to the person in charge of a specific company project.

20:30, visited Client D’s home, tasted tea and admired flowers with him all night, successfully persuading Client D to restart a certain company project. Client D tried to invite him to stay over, but he politely refused.

1:00, reported the day’s harvest to the CEO and discussed it.

1:30, returned to the hotel, organized materials, analyzed clients, and adjusted the next day’s work plan.

3:00, went to sleep.

The third day, visited clients, moved back into the office, overtime.

The fourth day, visited clients, overtime.

The fifth day, friendly confrontation with the relevant project leader of Huasheng Group, overtime.

The sixth day, held a meeting, listened to phase reports, sorted out client situations, aligned project strategies, adjusted resource allocation, unified follow-up work plans, discovered a very well-performing management staff, notified him to visit clients with him starting tomorrow, overtime.

The seventh day, gave other subordinates a break, Lin Chen continued to visit clients, overtime.

The eighth day, ninth day… all overtime.

The twelfth day, all clients clarified their intentions and were willing to choose Xingchen Company again. The situation reversed, and Huasheng Group angrily threw an olive branch of 30 million responsibility-free guaranteed annual salary to Lin Chen!

Lin Chen ignored it and continued to visit clients that night, strengthening connections, overtime.

The thirteenth day, Huasheng Group launched a counterattack, Xingchen Company responded successfully and successfully advanced the signing progress of various projects.

The fourteenth day, all contracts were signed, and the three major projects completely returned to Xingchen!

CEO Sun worked overtime with Lin Chen’s rhythm for half a month, his heart crying for help, and he was in a trance.

CEO Sun held Lin Chen’s hand tightly, sincerely, admiringly, and moved, with tears streaming down his face: “Ah Chen, Ah Chen, it has to be you! Our Xingchen’s ace general can only be you!”

Lin Chen raised his chin slightly: “I worked continuously overtime for half a month as soon as I came back. Next, I demand a seven-day vacation. Does CEO Sun have any objections?”

CEO Sun: “No objections, no objections! Who dares to stop the ace general from taking a vacation?! Go ahead, no salary deduction, no need to go through the leave process on OA, to save the finance department from causing trouble when checking your salary later.”

Lin Chen: “Very good, then bye-bye, I’m going on vacation. Oh, right, I found a decent person in the team last week. Let him try to take over part of my work this week.”

CEO Sun keenly noticed: “Do you plan to train him as your successor? …To be honest, Ah Chen, I feel that no matter who it is, no one is as suitable for this position as you! If you have any requests regarding treatment, just mention them. As long as it’s not busy, giving you half a year off for travel annually is fine!”

Lin Chen sneered: “Do you know where I’ve been these five months? Overworked, in a coma in the hospital for five months! Look, the coma made me younger.”

CEO Sun: “?”

CEO Sun was shocked: “In a coma for five months? Real or fake! What was the reason? Did you have surgery? How was the result? Is your body okay? How about I give you more time off, you go rest well. Do you need me to contact a foreign sanatorium for you?!”

Lin Chen: “Oh, no need for recuperation. The doctor said the best prescription is resignation… Wait, why are you pulling me? I didn’t say I’m resigning now! Just telling you the possibility of my resignation. Before that, find my backup early so I can check for you while I’m here.”

CEO Sun wouldn’t listen, extremely anxious.

He coaxed and persuaded, sitting in Lin Chen’s house for three hours, but couldn’t convince Lin Chen.

Instead, he was gently and friendly kicked out of the house by Lin Chen on the grounds that “it’s late.”

Only then could Lin Chen finally rest completely.

He sighed deeply, took a casual shower, changed into pajamas, and lay directly on the bedroom bed.

When all the busyness faded.

Some voices that didn’t belong to this world came from the void into his ears from far away.

For example, on the third day, he heard:

“Qi Wendong, let me tell you, the laboratory I invested in a few years ago has really produced results now. The new drug they developed has achieved very good results on subjects! …Sigh, it’s a pity you were born at the wrong time, why were you born so early…”

For example, on the seventh day, he heard again:

“Brother, Xiao Ji is here again. Recently, our company is collaborating with Xiuyi’s museum. For this collaboration, I specially composed three new pieces of jewelry music. Old rules, bring them to Brother first…”

On the tenth day, he also heard:

“Shuyun, tell you some good news. Our game is officially online, and the response is very good! This is all Shuyun’s credit. Everything mentioned in the ‘Pie Drawing Diary’, Brother has put in. The players like it very much. What a pity… if you could see this scene, you would definitely be very happy, right? …”

He also heard Ah Shao’s panicked voice:

“Mom, why hasn’t Brother Ah Heng replied to my messages for a full half month?! Mom, could something have happened to Brother in the sanatorium? I must go see Brother!”

These voices mixed messily into a ball, drifting lightly and distantly into his ears.

But the voice with the highest frequency, occupying most of his listening time, was still that sad and suppressed voice, almost on the verge of crying:

“Little Uncle… Little Uncle… Little Uncle…”

“…Where did you go?”

This voice was very stubborn.

From morning to night to early morning, it whispered incessantly in his ear.

“Little Uncle.”

“Little Uncle.”

One after another.

Lin Chen listened silently, listened, and sighed softly.

He tried calling the system in his heart a few more times, but got no response.

…Was the binding relationship dissolved?

Lin Chen was a little worried.

With no system answering him, he could only wait patiently until the fifteenth day.

The fifteenth day, vacation.

Lin Chen finally had time to pick strawberries, buy strawberries, and eat strawberries.

When he was about to finish a basket of strawberries, a familiar, energetic yet panickedly crying young boy’s voice suddenly popped into his mind.

Young boy’s voice: “Waaah! Host! When the system woke up, it found you were gone and thought you didn’t want the system anymore! Waaah Host, the system finally found you!!”

Lin Chen paused in his strawberry eating, looking down at the time. 2:00 PM.

Lin Chen finished the strawberry leisurely. Just as the system was about to cry even more miserably, he spoke slowly.

Lin Chen: “Two o’clock, not bad. It seems the first thing you did after waking up was to find me.”

“However—”

Lin Chen’s expression changed, and he sneered: “After causing such a big trouble, you dare to come find me?!”