Jiang Youli took out the massage essential oil she had formulated using rare medicinal herbs and gently poured it onto Qi Huan's legs. She then explained, "This is my first time trying snake massage therapy. The main idea is to induce a sense of fear, which instantly causes the pores to open up, allowing the medicinal ingredients to be better absorbed into the skin. Plus, Xiaolv and Xiaobai can understand my instructions, so the effect will be much better than hiring a human masseur."
Qi Huan glanced at the two snakes coiled around his feet and quickly looked away. Suppressing his discomfort, he replied with a complex expression, "...Mm."
After a while, Jiang Youli asked, "How does it feel?"
Qi Huan tried his best not to look at the two small snakes wrapped around his legs and said calmly, "A bit cold, and a little tingly... How long will the massage take?"
"Half an hour every day."
Qi Huan: "...Alright."
Noticing that Xiaolv was a bit distracted, Jiang Youli reminded it, "Xiaolv, don't slack off."
Xiaolv looked up at Qi Huan and reluctantly continued to wrap its body around his legs.
Qi Huan closed his eyes. Whatever. As long as his legs could be cured, anything was fine.
Taking advantage of this half-hour massage, Jiang Youli went to the adjacent room to rest for a while.
Seeing this, Xiaolv raised its head and stared at Qi Huan's face above.
Qi Huan raised an eyebrow. "Hmm?"
It was a pity that Xiaolv couldn't speak, otherwise it really wanted to tell this man that originally, following its master, its only job was to slack off and look cute. Now, because of this human male, it had to work!
It was exhausting for a snake!
Naturally, Qi Huan had no idea what this little green snake meant by staring straight at him, but he knew it could understand human language, so he just smiled at it and began to introduce himself.
"Hello, Xiaolv. My name is Qi Huan."
Xiaolv froze for a moment, then quickly turned its head away, refusing to look at this human male, only muttering in its heart.
No wonder he was liked by its master; there was something about his smile!
It had only taken one glance just now, and it actually started feeling dizzy!
If the master looked at him every day, naturally she wouldn't be able to resist!
An hour later—
Jiang Youli finished resting and came out of the adjacent room, only to see Xiaolv lying lazily on the sofa.
Xiaobai, meanwhile, was slithering around the office.
"Let's go."
Xiaobai hurriedly slithered down from the air conditioner, while Xiaolv got up lazily and slowly crawled into the bag on its own.
Jiang Youli picked up her bag and said to Qi Huan, "I'm heading to the company."
"What do you want to eat for lunch tomorrow?" Qi Huan looked up from the computer on his desk and asked.
Jiang Youli said, "Anything is fine. I'm not picky."
Qi Huan smiled. "Alright."
...
Returning to Starlight Entertainment, Jiang Youli was just about to push open the glass doors and enter when she heard employees from various departments discussing:
"Did you guys get the email?"
"You got it too?!"
"I got it! Gale Entertainment offered me double the salary I make here to jump ship to them."
"Me too."
"Damn, does that mean Gale Entertainment sent invitations to all of us? Is it a scam? Why would they send it to everyone?"
"Haven't you heard? Our new Boss Jiang seems to have offended the Long family, a top wealthy family in Jing City. The Long family is preparing to sanction her, and now they plan to make an example out of Starlight Entertainment."
"Ah, so if the company really gets sanctioned, won't we lose our jobs?"
"Exactly."
"It seems the Long family is sparing no expense to get back at our new Boss Jiang, trying to poach everyone in our entire company!"
"So what do we do? What do you guys think, are you planning to jump ship? Gale Entertainment is a well-established entertainment company too, so they shouldn't be setting a trap, right?"
Once this question was thrown out, everyone fell silent.
After a long while, someone finally spoke up: "Do you really think capitalists run charities, offering such high salaries? They just want to trick us into going over. Once they dismantle Starlight Entertainment, they'll burn the bridge after crossing it and find an excuse to fire everyone who jumped ship. That would truly be a total loss."
"That may be true, but it's still better than staying here waiting for bankruptcy and unemployment. Going over there, we can at least make some quick cash, and maybe if we perform well, we'll be able to stay."
"Anyway, I've decided to jump ship. During the meeting this morning, the promises this new Boss Jiang made were just too unrealistic. I don't believe she has any real skills. You guys do what you want."
The others fell silent once more.
"Boss Jiang, why are you standing here?" Secretary Yang's voice rang out.
The employees instantly felt nervous and hurriedly buried their heads in their keyboards. Could she have heard their entire discussion just now?
But soon, the employees who were already considering jumping ship had a change of heart. So what if she heard? They were planning to leave anyway.
Jiang Youli smiled. "It's nothing. Just eavesdropping."
Secretary Yang let out an "Ah."
Jiang Youli pushed the door open and walked in, sweeping her gaze over all the employees present in the office. "Whoever wants to resign can hand their resignation application directly to Xiao Yang today."
After saying that, she didn't say anything more and went straight back to her office.
Only then did Secretary Yang notice that the expressions on many of the staff's faces in the office were not quite right.
"You guys want to resign?"
No one answered.
Xiao Li from the PR department asked, "Secretary Yang, did you receive the email from Gale Entertainment?"
Secretary Yang finally realized that she wasn't the only one who had received the high-salary poaching email from Gale Entertainment.
She also understood the employees' concerns. With the temptation of such a high salary, coupled with the uncertain future of Starlight Entertainment, now that they had a chance to jump ship, it wasn't her place to persuade them otherwise. She just said seriously, "Just do as Boss Jiang said. If you want to resign, hand your resignation applications to me today."
Xiao Li from the PR department said, "What about you, Secretary Yang?"
Secretary Yang replied, "I'm not resigning. If Gale Entertainment is willing to come up with such a money-losing tactic to deal with our Starlight Entertainment, I doubt I'd ever get a bite of the pie they're promising. I'd rather stick with the pie here at Starlight Entertainment."
She hadn't even taken her afternoon nap today; she had spent the whole time reading up on this new Boss Jiang's background.
There was quite a lot of news about the new Boss Jiang online, and reading about the face-slapping moments in various situations made her blood boil with excitement.
She had decided to bet her future on this new Boss Jiang!
...
Back in her office, Jiang Youli went to look up the entertainment company, Gale Entertainment.
Gale Entertainment was indeed a very experienced, veteran entertainment company in Jing City. Most importantly, Yu Linglong, the daughter of the company's chairman, was Long Yuan's fiancee, and also a highly popular A-list young actress in the current entertainment industry.
Because her family was wealthy, entering the entertainment industry to act was purely a personal interest. Her completely natural and unburdened acting skills had earned her praise from numerous media outlets.
Things like being full of spirit, having no idol baggage, having a true and genuine temperament...
The Yu family, just like the Jiang family, was a second-tier wealthy family. The fact that Yu Linglong could marry into the top-tier wealthy Long family had her fans boasting that it was entirely due to Yu Linglong's immense personal charm that she won the favor of Young Master Long from the top-tier wealthy family.
This Yu Linglong, much like Jiang Yonghe, had participated in the selection for the talented ladies of the Jing circle. It was just that in the end, her votes within the circle were slightly inferior to Jiang Yonghe's, making her only the second most talented lady in the Jing circle.
Jiang Youli smiled. Based on the current situation, she had already guessed the Long family's next move.
Soon enough, word would spread online that Yu Linglong had been personally selected by Lili Yuanshang, the original author of The Ambition of Qingyun, to play the female lead role of Jiang Yunxian.
After that, Dafeng Entertainment's stock prices would rise accordingly.
