I can dream about my own death.

Chen Wensheng turned on his computer and began his day's work.

Although he was recognized as an outstanding employee, he was not immediately promoted or moved to a higher floor.

According to company policy, employee job adjustments are scheduled for the 1st and 16th of each month.

Setting a centralized timeframe for employee job adjustments allows departments with changes to prepare accordingly, enabling the entire company to operate more systematically and efficiently.

Today is January 4th, and he won't be able to move to another floor to work until the 16th.

This means that he will have to work on this floor for the next twelve days.

He logged into his work email, downloaded the copy he needed to optimize for the day, and then opened one of them.

[The Flying Rod Mystery. Question: Multiple surveillance cameras captured mysterious "flying rods" moving extremely fast and resembling clubs, sparking speculation about extraterrestrial spacecraft. Truth: The cameras were simply using low frame rates, causing the flying insects to appear as long, trailing shadows when played back in slow motion.]

Chen Wensheng slowly exhaled and complained, "Using a long science video to tell netizens that this image was formed by an insect flying across the lens?"

In order to attract public attention, 749 Media will deliberately create mystery and lure netizens in to exploit them.

Chen Wensheng's job was simply to optimize the copy, so he had to suppress his disgust and write the content before the answer was revealed in an outrageous direction, almost explicitly stating that this "flying rod" was an alien spacecraft.

After a long, cryptic explanation, the truth was finally revealed: the "flying rod" was actually a low-speed camera capturing the movement of an insect. The camera's low resolution resulted in a blurry image, leading people to mistakenly believe it was an alien spacecraft.

There are quite a few similar copywriting examples, which may be particularly interesting and attractive to unsuspecting netizens.

But for someone like him who can see the ending directly, that's an insult to intelligence, a form of mental pollution, and utterly disgusting.

After processing two or three similar documents, Chen Wensheng felt that his intelligence had been thoroughly tested and humiliated.

"call!"

Chen Wensheng leaned back in his office chair, looking utterly dejected.

Li Hong, a colleague at the next table, jokingly said, "Wensheng, you've been doing this copywriting optimization job for over a year now, and it seems you haven't fully adapted yet."

Chen Wensheng leaned back in his office chair, turned his head toward Li Hong, and complained, "These documents are too outrageous. Some are extremely difficult, and I've been researching them until I'm bald; others are too simple, seriously insulting my intelligence."

"We at 749 Media are a company that produces popular science content, but where in this world can we find so much interesting content that needs popular science? In order to continuously produce popular science videos, we can only make simple things sound complicated and then 'reveal the truth'," Li Hong explained with a smile.

"Sigh! Oh well, I'll just have to endure it for another ten days or so, and then I can leave this position and find another job," Chen Wensheng sighed.

"Let me tell you an interesting anecdote from unofficial history."

"sure."

Li Hong organized her thoughts briefly before beginning, "In the Kingdom of Yelang, there was a young minister named Li Heng. He was exceptionally talented, but he was never given the king's due recognition. So, Li Heng conceived the idea of ​​leaving Yelang to seek a better position in another vassal state. One night, while drunk, Li Heng revealed this idea. This reached the king's ears. The king knew Li Heng was talented, but feared he would rise too quickly and that no one in the court could check his abilities, which was why he hadn't promoted him. To keep Li Heng, the king devised a very underhanded method. Do you know what it was?"

Chen Wensheng was listening with great interest when Li Hong deliberately stopped him and said impatiently, "Sister Li, don't try to imitate copywriting by deliberately withholding the truth when you get to the most crucial point. That kind of thing is truly disgusting."

"I'm used to it, I'm used to it, it's an occupational hazard."

Li Hong gave an awkward laugh and continued speaking.

"On the second day at court, the king promoted Li Heng, but only by a small rank."

This official position originally belonged to another official named Wang Xueyi.

Wang Xueyi had always looked down on Li Heng, believing that Li Heng was only good at composing poems and had no real talent or ability to govern the country.

In the imperial court, Wang Xueyi angrily berated Li Heng in front of all the civil and military officials, saying that Li Heng was a fame-seeking person, that Li Heng was incompetent and not qualified for the new position, and so on, and said a lot of nasty things.

The king deliberately feigned a troubled expression, intentionally escalating the conflict between the two.

Li Heng originally wanted to leave Yelang Kingdom, but after being scolded by Wang Xueyi, he immediately lost the idea of ​​leaving.

If he leaves Yelang Kingdom at this time, wouldn't that be equivalent to Li Heng being afraid of Wang Xueyi? Wouldn't that be equivalent to admitting that Li Heng really has no real talent or learning?

Even if Li Heng leaves Yelang Kingdom, he will never be able to hold his head high because of this incident.

Li Heng was furious and immediately asked the king to give him the official position, promising to make outstanding achievements in the new post.

The king, going along with the trend, gave Li Heng this official position, saying it was an opportunity for Li Heng to showcase his talents.

Afterwards, he rewarded Wang Xueyi, who had been cursing Li Heng, with some gold and silver, thus appeasing Wang Xueyi.

In this way, the king, through this method, did not promote Li Heng to a high-ranking position, but kept Li Heng firmly in the Yelang Kingdom.

Tell me, isn't this king clever or not?

Chen Wensheng sighed, "The king of Yelang really knows how to use the art of rulership; he's too good at manipulating people's hearts."

Then, Chen Wensheng realized something was wrong and immediately added, "No, Sister Li, you're too mean. You made up this story based on my experience, didn't you?"

"No!" Li Hong immediately shook her head in denial.

"Sister Li, to be honest, this morning I really considered quitting my job and becoming an outdoor streamer. But when I got to the company, I found out I got promoted. Then Cao Bingyi jumped out and started mocking me, saying I didn't work hard and that I just got lucky, which made me feel really bad. I was thinking, if I really quit, wouldn't Cao Bingyi take my place and get promoted? Wouldn't that play right into Cao Bingyi's hands? Wouldn't that give Cao Bingyi what he wanted? So, no matter what, I can't quit, otherwise it will make me feel awful." Chen Wensheng didn't hide anything from Li Hong and told her his true thoughts.

"This is outrageous!" Li Hong exclaimed, her eyes wide. "But I really didn't make up a story. Come and look at my computer; I still have this anecdote on my computer."

Chen Wensheng smiled and shook his head: "Sister Li, we've been colleagues for so long, don't I know your character? You don't need to prove anything to me."

Halfway through his sentence, Chen Wensheng straightened up, picked up his phone from the table, opened the ordering app, and asked while looking at the screen, "Sister Li, what flavor of milk tea would you like?"

"Original flavor bubble tea."

When Li Hong said this, her face showed an extremely complicated expression, and it was clear at a glance that she was preoccupied.

However, Chen Wensheng was so engrossed in looking down at his phone and ordering milk tea that he didn't notice her momentary unease.