Xing Tao

Monday morning, at sunrise, the young man, standing at about one meter seventy, carried a briefcase and walked lifelessly down the street, unaware of what he was thinking.

"What a mess!" The young man was at a loss for words. "It's not fair to slap our company boss and throw me into a world without knowing when or where! And to top it off, I'm still a damn employee!? Could they be any more ruthless?!"

The young man turned twenty-one this year, and his name in this life was Xing Tao. He had finished his university studies a year ago. Both his parents were miserable employees, and he had died in an accident the year before his time-traveling journey.

Xing Tao had also been a miserable employee in his previous life. Because he couldn't flatter, he was regularly reprimanded by his superior during a year of work, and the reprimands grew increasingly coarse. Eventually, unable to bear it anymore, he slapped his superior and quit on the spot.

As he left the company building, he didn't know what had happened. It was as if someone had hit him on the back of the head with a hammer, and then he lost consciousness. When he woke up, he found himself transported to another world.

Fortunately, the world he was transported to was a modern society, with a highly developed insurance industry. Thanks to his parents' life insurance, Xing Tao had a good year.

"Xing Tao... this name..." Xing Tao sighed. "It's strange, Chinese culture, Western culture, Japanese culture, and other cultures are mixed here, and there's all sorts of high technology. And these crappy city names - Z, such random names, I wonder who chose them!"

Through the memories of this body, Xing Tao learned that there were twenty-six cities in this world, with very simple names, just the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet. These twenty-six cities were broad in scope, encompassing not only urban areas but also suburban areas with vast expanses of mountains, forests, and farms, so each city was huge.

"Regardless, don't dwell on it anymore; anyway, I'm just a simple employee, I better get to work quickly, or I'll be late." Xing Tao calmed his emotions, his eyes beginning to sparkle as he quickly headed towards his company.

Xing Tao graduated from a city's economics and management university. The company he worked for was a medium-sized construction company, with tremendous work pressure and often requiring overtime. The previous owner of this body had collapsed at home from overwork, and died because of it.

However, the salary after taxes from this job was acceptable for Xing Tao, and with the house his parents had left him, his expenses were not excessive; he could even save a little money each month.

Once at the company, Xing Tao sat at his desk, watching the data scrolling on the computer screen, his hands moving quickly on the keyboard, controlling the mouse to perform statistical analyses in SPSS.

Originally, Xing Tao knew nothing about accounting; he had studied art and drawing before crossing over. However, after his arrival, he spent two weekend days assimilating the memories of the former owner of this body.

A day passed quickly.

At dusk, Xing Tao blinked, lazily stretched his limbs, then looked up at the others in the office. The workday was coming to an end, but there was still a lot of work to be done; the quarterly reports needed to be ready soon. He rubbed his sore neck and looked at the cactus near the monitor before diving back into his work.

"What a miserable job!" Xing Tao sighed inwardly. "It's even more exhausting than the miserable illustrator job I had in my previous life. Should I consider changing jobs later!?"

At that moment, light footsteps were heard outside the door, then slowed down in front of the door. After a moment of silence, a young woman appeared at the door. Xing Tao couldn't take his eyes off her.

With long eyelashes, a cute face, and casual attire - a form-fitting T-shirt and a knee-length black skirt with high-heeled sandals - she had both natural elegance and subtle charm. What drew the most attention was her large, blinking eyes, like an adorable doll.

"Yayi, you're here!!" Xing Tao looked at the young girl with a warm smile.

This girl's name was Bai Niao Yayi; she also lived near Xing Tao and could be said to be his childhood friend. Xing Tao knew well this girl's feelings, but due to work, studies, and their personalities, the former owner of this body had never addressed the matter clearly before.

"This former body owner is really an idiot!" Xing Tao inwardly scorned his predecessor. "He left such a beautiful and kind girl free like this, isn't he afraid she'll be taken away!?"

"Anyway, now it's my turn!" Xing Tao thought shamelessly.

In fact, Xing Tao knew that the former owner of this body had some insecurities. He was only one meter seventy, and Yayi was three centimeters taller than him, even without her shoes. Moreover, his appearance was rather ordinary, while Yayi had been a goddess since childhood, adored by many men. Now, she was even a prominent figure in front of superiors; a raise and promotion were not a problem.

A man shorter than a woman naturally would feel a kind of inferiority in his relationship with her.

"You might be inferior, but I'm not! What does height have to do with it!" Xing Tao thought to himself. "Former owner, rest in peace; I will definitely conquer Yayi!"