Chapter 407: New Tasks for the Lady Boss

After returning from Wanzhong Mall, it was already evening. A trial notice drafted by Lu Feiyu had been sent to the branch managers’ emails.

As it was a direct order from the boss, everyone responded immediately, logging into the system, entering their basic information, and joining their respective business groups as the document instructed.

Employees were categorized into P series, with P1 for marketing specialists and junior programmers, while management belonged to the M series, with M1 as branch managers.

By about ten o’clock at night, most branches had completed their logins and grouping.

Jiang Qin had also returned to the dormitory by then, logged into the system, and watched as each branch appeared orderly on the list, his eyebrows slightly raised, feeling a slight thrill.

This feeling was like being engrossed in a game, having worked hard at it, and then one day you remember you have a backpack, open it, and realize just how wealthy you’ve become.

“Tomorrow afternoon, take a break, and organize a department meal.”

Jiang Qin created a new task in the system and sent it to all the business groups through the internal management system.

Soon after the message was dispatched, managers of the five business groups had all confirmed receipt, and the branch managers’ task lists were refreshed.

Su Nai, Wei Lanlan, Tan Qing, Dong Wenhao… an array of name IDs without avatars lit up, as if responding to the command from all corners.

Employees praised the boss for his generosity, with Jiang Qin exclaiming how powerful it is to have a system.

I too, am a reborn with a system now!

Too bad it doesn’t ding.

Following that, the initial version of the internal management system started its routine trial.

This trial task was to get employees accustomed to this new work mode quickly, preparing for the fast home-stealing strategy in the teaming phase later using the internet to fix the sluggishness due to too much on the plate and to ensure instructions could be executed swiftly and precisely.

Simply put, once the internal system matures, the scattered branches will combine into one massive entity.

Another aspect of the trial task was to identify issues through real use, to set a direction for later optimizations.

However, since the security tests had not yet been conducted and some hidden bugs had not been discovered, it wasn’t used for any crucial core operations yet, just to simulate future work scenarios.

Consequently, the system’s task area became very lively.

Tan Qing submitted a task: “Boss, business is good in Shanghai, the food festival has ended, Xitian has launched half-price coupons, other ranked businesses will discount within a week.”

Jiang Qin confirmed: “Read.”

Wei Lanlan submitted a task: “Boss, the weather is really nice today, I plan to take a stroll in the park across from the Chamber of Commerce.”

Jiang Qin confirmed: “Sitting too long is bad for the spine, try to walk more.”

Lu Feiyu submitted a task: “Boss, are we giving out mooncakes for Mid-Autumn Festival? I want the ones with egg yolks.”

Jiang Qin confirmed: “Read, get out.”

Dong Wenhao submitted a task: “Boss, the list of top 100 bloggers this period is confirmed, please sign off. The preheat for the food festival in Kyoto University Town is underway.”

Jiang Qin confirmed: “Good, no insiders online, send some colorful pictures to see.”

Dong Wenhao submitted a task file.

Jiang Qin confirmed: “Damn, Wenhao, are you serious? Got more of these pictures or saving them for the New Year?”

Lu Xuemei submitted a task file: “Photos from the food festival scene.”

Jiang Qin confirmed: “Thanks, Xuemei.”

Jiang Qin to Su Nai: “Found a bug, Xuemei sent me a photo file, but the beautiful pictures from Dong Wenhao show as lost.”

Su Nai confirmed the task: “What beautiful pictures? Send to see.”

Jiang Qin with high-level privileges terminated this task and archived the task library.

Su Nai to Dong Wenhao initiated a business handover: “What beautiful pictures did you send to the boss, let me see?”

“……”

The group-buying internal management system isn’t a chat software, but everyone used the task list’s comment feature to banter incessantly.

However, play aside, managers and supervisors of all levels realized after trying the management system that all future tasks could be streamlined, fully visualized, and automated.

Especially when the merchandise management system is launched, with permissions integrated into the internal management system, then all group-buying operations will be unified; their connectivity, efficiency, and response speed will be much quicker than those relying on telephone marketing.

The appearance of this management system is actually thanks to Ye Ziqing.

Jiang Qin still remembers what the deputy director of the university, Zhang Mingan, mentioned during a tech university exhibition about the old deal-buying website.

As the scale grew and business expanded, the number of employees at the old deal site increased rapidly, to the point where Ye Ziqing wasn’t even aware of how many employees there were, yet the cost of human resources soared geometrically.

Deal-buying websites in the future will serve more cities, and the internal management systems will be more tailored and precise, which is the foundation for success and the groundwork for a towering building.

“It’s stable, other sites must be so afraid, just thinking about it makes me worry for them.”

Jiang Qin closed the task area and suddenly discovered in the team section, Feng Nanshu’s account—her role listed as ‘lady boss’, and her avatar had been changed to her favorite orange cat.

【Create a new task for Feng Nanshu—eat breakfast nicely tomorrow.】

Jiang Qin, feeling quite bored, issued the task to the little rich girl and then sat there, leg shaking, waiting for Feng Nanshu’s confirmation.

But he waited until late at night, while Old Ren and Wang Linlin had already entered the “baby, good night, you hang up first, or should you hang up first?” phase, yet the task hadn’t been confirmed.

That was also normal; there wasn’t much fun in the system, probably the little rich girl just logged in, changed the avatar, and then shut it down.

“Time to wash up and sleep.”

“……”

The next day dawned brilliantly, with a powerful aura as if demanding respect the weather after the start of autumn was no longer hot but slightly cool.

Cao Guangyu was already out of bed early, browsing the morning news not because he was studious, but to gather more bragging material, aiming to solidify his identity as a rich second generation with authenticity.

Meanwhile, Jiang Qin did an hour of calisthenics on the balcony, then logged into the system planning to try out some features he hadn’t explored yesterday.

Honestly, for someone who is a boss, having the utmost control is quite thrilling; even doing nothing, just watching those tasks being passed around can be quite satisfying.

However, what Jiang Qin didn’t expect was that the moment he logged into the main page, his task list flashed up a slew of notifications.

【Feng Nanshu confirmed task: Eat nicely tomorrow.】

【Feng Nanshu submitted task: I have eaten breakfast nicely already.】

【Feng Nanshu created a new task for Jiang Qin—You must also eat breakfast nicely.】

【Feng Nanshu created a new task for Jiang Qin—When you have time, take the little rich girl to see the mighty.】

【Feng Nanshu created a new task for Jiang Qin—When you have time, take Feng Nanshu for a walk.】

【……】

Jiang Qin found himself smiling as he clicked through the task list, confirming each one. After closing the webpage, he paused for a long while before he couldn’t resist reopening it, setting the tasks’ priority to the highest.

Meanwhile, the QQ group for Room 208 was bustling, with many usually silent members starting to chat online early in the morning.

Lu Xuemei: “I logged into the system early this morning and found the lady boss had assigned me a task, reminding me to eat breakfast nicely. Do you know how warm that is? It wasn’t until that moment that I understood what the highest form of romance is.”

Su Nai: “I received it too, the lady boss is a good person.”

Dong Wenhao: “Work hard, definitely don’t let down the lady boss’s expectations.”

Watching the messages in the QQ group, Jiang Qin couldn’t help but pout, thinking the little rich girl must have sent a copy to them too, look how pleased they are, so pathetic.

Just then, Old Cao suddenly let out a scream from behind: “Damn, Old Jiang, come look at this news.”

“What news? Am I on TV again?”

“No, it’s fatal news!”

Cao Guangyu let go of his mouse, clearing the view for Jiang Qin, then covered his neck with both hands, his eyes filled with panic.

Jiang Qin released his mouse, stood up to his bed, and saw that Cao Guangyu was browsing the Zhihu campus’s Tonight Headlines section, and when his eyes landed on the news content, he too held his breath for a moment.

The news reported that a college student, while being intimate with his girlfriend, suffered from a blood clot entering his heart arteries due to the girlfriend sucking too hard near the carotid artery, and he was urgently hospitalized.

Reading this, Jiang Qin squinted his eyes unconsciously covering his own neck.

Tonight’s Headlines still belonged to Zhihu campus, and although the news mainly concerned students, neither Jiang Qin nor Cao Guangyu expected it to hit so close to home.

Cao Guangyu held his breath until he couldn’t anymore, then regained his senses, looked at Jiang Qin tremblingly: “Old Jiang, are you scared?”

“Scared my arse, I didn’t do any sucking.”

“Then how did you get that?”

Jiang Qin glanced at him: “Skin ailment.”

Cao Guangyu chuckled: “Is Feng Nanshu the pathogen?”

“Get lost, did you use Crest this morning? Your breath is annoyingly fresh.”

“Old Jiang, don’t pretend, your eyes are telling me you’re panicking too.”

Jiang Qin smiled breezily: “I’m just scared you’ll croak, Old Cao. Think about it if you croak, then who will invite our dorm to dinner in the future?”

“??????”

Without a sound, Jiang Qin returned to his seat, tapping his fingers on the desk a couple of times, thinking, don’t really croak, we’ve just started living better since coming back to life, heading towards moderate prosperity.

Boss Jiang picked up his glass, took a sip, and thought to himself that for survival, some people would do anything, it’s called the will to live.