At the start, I tricked the school beauty, and ended up with twins?

Chairman's office of Ideal Paradise.

Yu Xiaochuan and Cai Hui stood in front of Gu Yu with their heads lowered, like two children who had done something wrong.

Gu Yu was comforting them.

"It's alright. It's not your fault that the contract wasn't signed this time. Moreover, I think what you did was right. If we had cooperated with them, it would have made them feel like Ideal Paradise was taking advantage of them."

"In terms of upholding the company's reputation, you have already done well enough," Gu Yu said with a smile.

"But this was the first time Old Cai and I went out to negotiate a cooperation, and to fail on our first attempt is truly embarrassing for the company," Yu Xiaochuan said, despite Gu Yu's reassurances, he still felt uneasy at heart.

He couldn't get over this hurdle, having not achieved victory in his first battle.

Cai Hui too was clenching his fists with an expression of unwillingness.

The two of them had hoped to bring back good news on their first venture out, to prove their capabilities.

They had not expected Yi Net's Fire Thunder Department to be so arrogant and proud.

In fact, the contract could have been signed, but it was just as Gu Yu had said.

If it had been signed, it would only have made the other side think that Ideal Paradise was aspiring to associate with Yi Net, and the company's reputation would have been suppressed by them.

Other companies might have endured it because collaborating with a company like Yi Net would undoubtedly bring many benefits.

But as employees of Ideal Paradise, they never felt that their company was small.

They saw it as a pioneer of new working models, a leader!

Besides, with the current capital Ideal Paradise had, it was entirely unnecessary to be subject to any person or company.

If it weren't for the current shortage of employees, which had led to development gaps in various aspects, the company would not need to seek partnerships.

Of course, it was also because the company's recruitment policy was to prefer a shortage over mediocrity that so far, aside from the IT development department being fully staffed, other departments were basically empty.

Otherwise, given the salary and benefits offered by Ideal Paradise on recruitment websites, the threshold would have been overwhelmed long ago.

The deterrent for job applicants was neither education nor ability, but rather some questions that are not simple yet not difficult to answer.

Questions about corporate culture: "What is your ideal? Why do you want to join Ideal Paradise? If you join us, how will you achieve your ideals?"

Questions about work attitude: "Do you like working overtime? Have you studied labor law? What if your boss deducts your salary?"

Just these two types of questions alone could eliminate ninety percent of the applicants.

Because most people would lie to get a job, saying they were willing to work overtime, that if their wages were deducted, it must be because they had done something wrong…

As soon as they uttered such falsehoods, they were already eliminated from the recruitment process.

Who would have thought that Ideal Paradise could be a company so humane that it couldn't possibly be any more humane!

When the water in the lake is black, people are often unwilling to believe that there could be white fish inside it.

It was for this reason that Yu Xiaochuan and Cai Hui were so frustrated.

Ideal Paradise hadn't done anything wrong, so why should they be derided unprovoked by the Fire Thunder Department?

"There are not many who succeed on the first try anyway. Besides, it's not your problem. In my eyes, you have already succeeded."

"At least compared to so-called interests, you have prioritized the company's reputation."

"Let those who look down on us do so, one day we will become an entity they have to look up to!"

Gu Yu stood up and stuffed a stack of documents into Yu Xiaochuan's arms.

Yu Xiaochuan looked at the documents in his arms, puzzled; he didn't know what they were.

"These are operation plans and some planning documents that I asked Zheng Shou, the manager of Shengda Game's operation department, for. You can have a look and learn from them when you're free," Gu Yu explained.

Just then, he saw his second brother, Yu Shutong, walk up to his office door and knock.

"Alright, one failure doesn't count for much; I believe in you all,"

Gu Yu smiled at an emotionally touched Yu Xiaochuan.

Although his junior colleague was actually two years older than him, he always found himself comforting this junior.

Is this the plight of being a superior?

Even if the other person is older, one still has to act more mature than them.

"Then I'll go study," Yu Xiaochuan nodded, then left the office with Cai Hui.

He didn't know when, but he had come to rely on his junior as his mainstay, and he hardly ever questioned any of Gu Yu's decisions.

Approaching the office door, they saw Yu Shutong come in and greeted him with cheerful laughter.

After watching Yu Xiaochuan and Cai Hui leave, Yu Shutong closed the office door.

He strode over to Gu Yu and seemed to think for a while before saying, "Laosi, I have something I need to discuss with you."

"Hm? Brother, you're saying there's something in the development department that needs my input? Didn't we agree that I wouldn't get involved in any of the development department's business?"

Gu Yu settled back into his chair, pushed his laptop aside, and looked at his brother with a chuckle.

When they had set up the department, they had agreed that aside from the major strategic decisions, Gu Yu would be a hands-off manager.

Was it actually something significant that Brother had come to talk to him about today?

"You're quite the nonchalant manager, aren't you? Our development department has been crazy busy lately."

Yu Shutong unceremoniously picked up a teacup and poured himself a cup of tea.

He took a gentle sip and looked quite content.

"Tsk tsk, what exquisite tea! You're living the good life — I'm almost tempted to switch places with you!"

Yu Shutong smacked his lips; even though he hadn't learned to appreciate tea, he could tell that the tea in the cup was definitely top-notch!

Gu Yu's eyebrows rose slightly: "Should Beef Ridge Cinnamon Tea that costs a hundred thousand per half a kilo be anything but excellent?"

He had just brewed the tea and hadn't yet had a chance to taste it himself!

Instead, his brother had become the first connoisseur of these tea leaves. Stay tuned to empire

"Pfft—"

Yu Shutong managed to swallow half a mouthful of tea while the other half sprayed out.

After spraying it, he felt bad for wasting it and wanted to lick it off the table.

"My goodness, if it's spat out, just drink it!"

Luckily, Gu Yu managed to stop him in time.

Joking aside, if the staff outside the office saw Brother behaving like this, they might think he was some kind of weirdo!

"I remember you're not much of a tea drinker, right? How come you're willing to buy such good tea leaves to drink? Don't tell me you've become extravagant now that you've got some money and have started to enjoy yourself?"

Yu Shutong looked at Gu Yu with skepticism.

He didn't want Gu Yu to become extravagant just because he had money; after all, people often start to decline by indulging themselves.

He wouldn't say a word if it were any other boss, but Gu Yu was his brother, and he wouldn't care about preserving a boss's dignity.

"Not at all; I didn't buy this tea — it was a gift from Honey Jar Ice City!"

Seeing his brother's suspicion, Gu Yu waved his hands quickly to explain.

"A gift?"

Yu Shutong was really puzzled.

Wasn't Honey Jar Ice City a milk tea shop? And they sent Gu Yu tea leaves?

Could it be because Laosi was their campus spokesperson? But even that wouldn't justify drinking such fine tea, would it?

He figured that only the boss of Honey Jar Ice City would be willing to give away or enjoy tea leaves of this caliber.