Chapter One Hundred Fifty-One: The Man Called Yan Jin (2/2)

As she listened to the young girls screaming their hearts out on the other end of the phone, Spreading Fire’s chief editor immediately realized that a legend was about to be born. She immediately instructed her confidants to put down all their tasks at hand and head straight to YL’s headquarters to get a interview right and publish rights to YL cooperation.

Even Yan Jin himself had not expected such a commotion to happen. If he had known, he would never have agreed to let his picture get published.

He was an extremely handsome, young entrepreneur, aged 24, coming from a wealthy family, and full of talents. In addition, the picture had unconsciously created an aloof image that was eventually confirmed in the follow-up interview.

Overnight, all men and women from eighteen to thirty-eight years old fell in love.

As compared to young, harmless and innocent puppies who made up the entertainment industry, how could they resist the tyrannical chairman?

The oppressive chairman trope instantly spread throughout every social media.

Initially, as a company that had finally made their public appearance, YL was considered to be a half-entrepreneurship initiative that regardless of reputation and salary could not be compared to other companies aside from SI, who was capable of easily destroying any companies who would outshine them.

In fact, YL had not moved to S city back then and was situated in a very isolated location. It was very inconvenient to travel to work and without company lodging, and many people were unwilling to join YL. Those who joined were people who had been rejected from better companies or university students who had just graduated and came to YL to gain experience and add it to their resumes.

However, when Yan Jin’s photograph became widely spread due to social media, the number of people who interviewed for YL increased by tenfold.

Tenfold.

There was once where a reporter who interviewed a young lady who drove a Porsche everyday, lived in H City, and had three private properties under her name. The reporter asked her why would she drive a over a hundred kilometers to YL every day to work. The toll fee she would need to pay everyday was more than her basic salary in YL. If you added the cost of petrol, even her bonus would be used up for her daily travelling. Such a job seemed too illogical for a person with her qualifications which could easily get her a much closer company.

That young lady rolled her eyes at the reporter, dismissive of such a stupid question.

“Oh please, is there a need to be logical to be a fan?”

The same sentence reflected the heartfelt words of many of YL’s employees.

Those young adults who didn’t worry about their quality of life, yet felt emotionally empty. They were desperate for an idol who would satisfy their psychological aspect. Yan Jin just happened to appear at the right time and the right place.

One of the twenty-five year old female employees who gave up her life of waking up naturally every morning and counting her cash till her fingers cramped described the change she experienced after one month of employment at YL. She could look at the chairman’s photograph everyday and still eat her plain white rice happily, something that in turn made her lose ten kilograms in a month. She didn’t even need an alarm to wake her up every morning because she would wake up from her dreams smiling.

This didn’t include those ambitious people whose main goal was to marry into the Yan family. However, most of the employees who were interviewed all commented that it didn’t matter whether Yan Jin would get married. So long as Yan Jin remain at YL, they would never leave.

There were even a few representative characters among them who they had placed their hopes on. One of those characters was Secretary Fang who gathered every scandal and rumor of Yan Jin and disseminated them to a group chat that consisted of fangirls and fanboys.

As for how scary this group chat was, let’s put it this way, without Yan Jin’s knowledge, he “had” already dated two girlfriends and one boyfriend.

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Of course, half of these employees who came for Yan Jin were young ladies. There were young men who just graduated from universities as well, just lesser in numbers. These people basically treated Yan Jin as an idol they loved and (probably) did not have any special feelings for him.

Some of them came from families where they did not need to fret about getting a job or living poorly for their entire lives. But, for the sake of beating all odds, they joined YL just to see their idol, reported to work diligently everyday, and even requested to work overtime. This was because when an employee worked more than a certain amount of hours in a month, they would personally receive a fruit basket from Yan Jin as a reward.

Back to the current topic – how tragic it was at YL for those two months.

It was not the first time that Yan Jin took leave from work. Just last year, he had cleared all his leave that had accumulated for the past ten years and even threw YL into an extremely chaotic situation at one point.

However, March 6th was the darkest day that all YL employees would never forget.

Due to health reasons, YL’s chairman officially announced that he would be resigning from his position. There was no specific date of him resuming his post and in the meanwhile, Shao Yue would take full charge as a substitute chairman.

When some of these fan-employees whose daily motivation to work was to enjoy their chairman’s presence heard about this announcement, when they imagined that Yan Jin was in a coma like in books – they fainted.

In a single day, the ambulance came to YL three times.