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

The original plan for the technical exchange trip to Mihayou Company was set for two weeks, yet it ended just after ten days.

It wasn't because Yu Shutong and his colleagues made any major mistakes, but because the person in charge of the Yuan Shen game development team at Mihayou genuinely couldn't dare to keep these guys in the studio any longer.

In just eight days, aside from the core development technology of Yuan Shen that they managed to keep under strict guard, all other technologies were basically picked clean by Yu Shutong and the others through their accelerated learning!

The tech gurus of the development team, such as Duan Feilong, became friendly with people like Yu Shutong. From the initial reluctance and technology-hoarding to eventually sharing all they knew...

The manager of the Yuan Shen development team feared that if this continued, it wouldn't be only the technology that was lost; Yu Shutong might even take his people with him!

So, they hastily found a reason to "politely" send Yu Shutong and his colleagues away, claiming, "The game needs a major update, and the project is on a tight schedule."

The hosts, adhering to the courtesy of hospitality, initially planned to treat the twenty members of Yu Shutong's group well for the remaining four days.

However, they hadn't expected that each of these twenty people was a King of Competition among Kings of Competition, wholly indifferent to Mihayou's warm hospitality.

They chartered a coach overnight and hurried back to their company.

The next day, with a cheerful thought of slacking off for the day, Gu Yu just walked through the company's main entrance when he saw the development department already packed with people, which wiped his good mood away instantly.

"Damn! When did this bunch get back? How come I didn't hear a thing!"

Gu Yu cursed under his breath.

With the return of these colleagues from their learning exchange, his easy earnings from Check-in Points were also gone.

Twenty people on a learning trip, each contributing ten Check-in Points to him per day, allowing him to earn an easy two hundred a day.

In ten days, he had comfortably racked up two thousand Check-in Points.

That was enough to exchange for one-fifth of an Era Beauty Pill!

Unfortunately, those days were gone never to return, as with his colleagues back, they would probably have to work overtime every day.

And with overtime, natural Check-in Points would be gone as well.

"Chairman!"

An employee spotted the sighing Gu Yu at the doorway and greeted him with a smile.

As one voice rose, everyone looked up.

Gu Yu raised his palm, about to respond half-heartedly, but then he suddenly noticed that each one of these people was sporting a set of prominent dark circles under their eyes!

"Good grief, you've all turned into pandas after just ten days out?"

Gu Yu couldn't hold it in any longer.

They all looked as if they had been refugees for ten days and nights, starving and sleep-deprived; he would believe it!

With hair like bird nests and dark circles under their eyes, even though they were smiling and greeting him, their eyes were lifeless.

They were clearly mentally overexerted.

"Huh?" The employee who first greeted Gu Yu showed a bewildered look, drooling unconsciously from the corner of his mouth without even noticing.

The past few days of sleepless focus had left them entirely unaware of their current appearance.

Watching their dazed expressions, Gu Yu didn't laugh; instead, he felt a twinge of heartache.

Was all this strenuous effort necessary?

The company didn't even have a system for terminating the lowest performers!

His heart was heavy with mixed feelings, but he was also moved. Regardless of the underlying motives, this transformation was for the company's more rapid development.

But this kind of sentiment was exactly what he wished to avoid!

He wanted everyone to be healthy, rather than waking up one morning to the news that employee Mo had died suddenly from overwork.

If such a tragedy were to occur, Gu Yu had no doubt he would disband Ideal Paradise.

The company is called Ideal Paradise, not "Stimulating Battlefield." Striving for ideals is indeed right, but what's the use of ideals if you die before they're realized?

Seeing the puzzled looks on everyone's faces, Gu Yu took out his phone and snapped a photo of the crowd, then used the device to project it onto the large screen in the center of the hall.

Every person's worn-out state was laid bare for all to see.

"Look at yourselves, how can you keep working like this? Am I a black brick kiln owner? I don't deduct your pay for taking sick leave, do I? What, you want to die suddenly and cash out the company's employee insurance?"

"Hey! You're quite the schemers, aren't you? The company assets are sixty million, and the death benefit for employee insurance is three million per person. There are twenty of you, just right, isn't it?"

Gu Yu said with a dark expression.

It's fine to push yourselves now and then, after all, even if they overwork, these guys still return to school or go home to recharge, and their bodies won't collapse.

But now, seeing this group swaying as they stood, Gu Yu really worried that the next moment, one of them would fall and not be able to get up again.

"..."

The crowd silently looked at their own images on the big screen.

They had just come back, seemingly prepared to present their accomplishments to Gu Yu, even ready to be praised by him in front of the whole company.

They didn't expect to be criticized first thing in the morning.

But they also knew why Gu Yu was angry.

The stuff Gu Yu said about scamming the company's insurance money was just a pretext—the real issue was his concern for their health.

They really did feel that they had reached their limits. Over ten days, they rarely got more than four and a half hours of sleep per night.

They had concentrated all their energy and intellect on learning new technologies.

If it weren't for the excitement of acquiring new knowledge, they would have given up long ago.

Just last night, upon returning to the company, instead of going home, they immediately held a departmental meeting to integrate the technologies they learned at Mihayou into the department's tech pool.

After a night of work, most of them only took a short nap.

At dawn, they were back at their computers, continuing with the previous projects.

They truly cherished the opportunity to work at Ideal Paradise and were even afraid that they might get laid off for not trying hard enough.

Every one of them was determined to do their best, to outdo themselves!

They couldn't let down the company's investment in them nor Gu Yu's expectations.

But now, Gu Yu's criticism was a wake-up call.

Only with a healthy body can one continue to create value for the company; once the body breaks down, everything else falls apart.

"The twenty of you, start your vacation now, and don't come back until you've slept a full twenty-four hours," ordered Gu Yu.

Gu Yu opened the doors to the company and made a inviting gesture towards the crowd.

If this culture of sacrificing health for increased work efficiency wasn't addressed, then Ideal Paradise's so-called anti-exploitation stance would become a joke.

A company that can't even ensure its employees' rest, what right does it have to criticize those blood-sucking capitalists?

"Chairman, we know we were wrong..."

Bo Jia walked up to Gu Yu with a pained expression, then bowed his head in apology.

Gu Yu shook his head: "You haven't wronged me, nor the company, only yourselves for being irresponsible."

"If you continue like this, I will consider firing you, disbanding the development department. A person who can't even take care of their own body, how can they talk about ideals?"

"And you, Bo Jia, you have indeed disappointed me a little. I asked you to properly supervise everyone! But you yourself..." Gu Yu sighed deeply, not wanting to say any more.