Operating costs are settled on a cycle, so there was no way to deduct too many points in that area.
The fastest route was complaints from stakeholders. The moment someone filed a complaint, points would be deducted!
And if public opinion revealed that the school’s actions were harming the Yu Group’s interests, she would be eliminated immediately!
She planned to personally stir things up.
These children were so naïve. They had no idea how this old, scheming, vicious school trustee was persecuting them.
Without changing expression, she went to the serving window and got herself a meal.
She had to admit, perhaps because the staff were being paid so well, even the dishes looked much more refined today.
She could somewhat understand why upscale cake shops always hired handsome men and beautiful women as servers and delivery workers.
They really did make you hungrier.
Carrying her tray, she found an empty seat in the corner and plopped herself down beside several first-year high school girls who were chattering away.
Yu Xiaxing was only twenty years old to begin with, and her large, round eyes made her look even younger. Sitting among a group of high school students, she fit in perfectly.
Putting on a worried expression, she lowered her voice and joined the conversation.
“Girls, don’t you think something about this is off? The new school trustee just arrived and immediately pulled this stunt. It’s definitely going to affect our studies.”
“And those employees must be paid a fortune! The school’s money should be spent on improving the quality of teaching, not on this useless nonsense!”
The girls looked at her suspiciously.
“Which class are you in? I’ve never seen you before.”
“I’m a new transfer student. It’s not important.”
Yu Xiaxing brushed the question aside and continued fanning the flames.
“With the school trustee carrying on like this, I’ll be thinking about the security guard’s abs during class and the cafeteria guy’s jawline after class. How am I supposed to concentrate on my homework?”
“I told my parents about this just now. They were furious and said this was misleading students. They’re already planning to join forces with other parents and protest at the school!”
“You should all hurry up and complain to your parents too! This school trustee is absolutely shameless!”
She had expected them to sympathize.
Who would have thought that the short-haired girl sitting across from her would slam down her chopsticks the moment she finished speaking and glare at her angrily?
“Are you sick?”
Yu Xiaxing blinked. “Huh?”
A girl wearing glasses said, “The cafeteria auntie used to play favorites. Whenever boys came to buy glutinous rice cakes, she’d give them a huge portion, but when girls came, she’d give us tiny ones. When we complained, she actually said she was helping us lose weight!”
“Now the handsome guys and beautiful girls are not only steady-handed, they have great attitudes too, and they treat everyone equally!”
“Exactly! I heard the new school trustee is really young. She clearly knows how to see things from the students’ perspective!”
“If you can’t control your own thoughts, why blame the school for hiring a handsome security guard? By that logic, handsome male actors shouldn’t be allowed to appear on TV dramas either, right? The moment they show up, they’ll distract you from studying?”
Yu Xiaxing: “…”
There was no reasoning with children.
Fine. She would complain to the parents herself.
Yu Xiaxing quickly shoveled down the rest of her meal and returned to the office.
She immediately created a fake parent account.
After spending some effort getting through the verification process, she successfully infiltrated Saint Virtue Academy’s “Elite Parents’ Group.”
Seizing the right moment, she sent a message under the name Dian Dian’s Mom, overflowing with righteous indignation.
“Parents, please listen to me! I only found out today that the school has replaced all the cafeteria and security staff with handsome men and beautiful women!”
“They’re all dressed up and strutting around. What kind of image is that? Our children are here to study, not watch a talent show!”
“This new school trustee is completely out of control. She’s thrown away all shame just to create a gimmick!”
“Is everyone free tomorrow? Let’s go to the school together and make a scene!”
After the message was sent, the group fell silent for several seconds.
Yu Xiaxing cradled her phone smugly, waiting to witness the spectacular scene of everyone answering her call.
The first person to speak up was the vice president of the parents’ committee—but instead of joining in to curse the school trustee, she said:
“Please calm down, fellow parent. To be honest, I was pretty angry when I first heard about this yesterday too.”
“But today, my daughter told me that the cafeteria auntie used to target girls so badly that she would refuse to eat at school. She had to spend time going somewhere else for food or order unhealthy takeout.”
“But today, she ate happily at school and saved half an hour. Whether she uses that half hour to study or rest, it’s still a worthwhile gain!”
Another parent immediately chimed in.
“Exactly! My son is the same!”
“As for the impact on their studies—could it be that the school trustee is using visual fatigue to discourage students who can’t control themselves? If they see handsome men and beautiful women every day, they’ll get used to it. After a while, they won’t feel anything at all.”
“I was cursing the school trustee just yesterday too, but after seeing things today, I have to admit she understands marketing. She really has elevated the school’s image from the moment she arrived.”
“And the old security guards were never responsible. Every time I dropped my child off, they were standing around smoking, and the school did nothing about it.”
“But the new security guard is so polite. He even comes forward to open the door for students.”
Yu Xiaxing stared at the screen, where every message was in agreement and full of praise. Her fingers began to tremble.
What was wrong with these parents?
Where were their principles?
Where were their standards?
Where were the complaints???
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At the same time, Yu Xiaxing’s older brothers and sisters were also having professional teams analyze everything she had done.
As expected, they had underestimated this little sister of theirs.
Enrollment rates were connected to the quality of the student body, and the students currently at the school were not exactly high achievers.
Knowing that there was no way to raise the graduation rate immediately, she had found another path.
She had done the most important thing of all: upgraded the school’s brand by improving its most basic public image and gradually transforming it into a high-end institution.
It was a risky move, but the results were excellent.
It seemed she was determined to turn that mess of a school into a premium academy.
They would have to speed things up too.
They couldn’t afford to lose to their little sister.
Everyone felt a sense of urgency.
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Meanwhile, Yu Xiaxing—the very person they believed was using brilliant tactics—was sprawled across the sofa in the school trustee’s office, staring blankly at the ceiling.
She had failed before even getting started!!!
Her phone suddenly lit up with a new message.
It was from Grandpa.
“Xingxing, you’ve done a great job. I checked the latest public-opinion monitoring report, and your side has shown the biggest improvement. Keep it up. You have a good chance of winning the operational reward for the first stage of the task, as well as next month’s first-place reward.”
The task rewards could only be used to invest in the school.
But the first-place monthly reward came with a personal bonus of one million yuan, plus a one-percent stake.
Yu Xiaxing wasn’t excited in the slightest.
The bonuses were accumulated month by month and would only be paid out after the competition ended.
By then, the true heiress would already have returned!
In her previous life, it wasn’t as though she hadn’t shamelessly begged the true heiress to give her the shares and bonuses she had earned. She had desperately needed the money to pay for her medical treatment.
But the true heiress and her lawyer had shown her no mercy.
The will stipulated that the Yu family’s money could only go to the Yu family’s blood descendants. Since she wasn’t related to the Yu family by blood, she wasn’t allowed to take a single cent!
Yu Xiaxing drew a deep breath.
Pull yourself together!
Before the true heiress returned, she had to hurry up, collect her severance pay, and run!
She first replied to Grandpa:
“I’m so happy, Grandpa~ I’ll keep working hard!”
She rose from the sofa, her fighting spirit fully restored.
Work hard!
Bring the school down!
Where should she start next?
Because of the assessment committee, she couldn’t fire those handsome men and beautiful women without them actually making a mistake, so that would have to wait.
Besides, their salaries were so high that once the month-end profits were calculated, they might not even cover the costs.
She was only a little annoyed that the parents hadn’t immediately come to complain.
After all, having parents file complaints, stir up a wave of outrage across the internet, or take the matter to the education authorities was the quickest way to get her eliminated.
Yu Xiaxing held up a pair of binoculars and looked out through the office window, scouring the area for somewhere she could cause trouble.
Suddenly, her gaze fixed on a small grove not far from the building.
Opportunity knocks!
This time, I’m definitely going to infuriate those parents!
Yu Xiaxing immediately turned around and dashed out, pounding down the stairs toward the grove!
