Sleazy, Flirty, and Shameless: You Call Him a Workplace Rookie?

[Reborn + Workplace + Relaxed Daily Life + Playing the Fool to Catch the Tiger + Promotion in a State-Owned Enterprise + Period Novel + Ensemble Cast with Multiple Female Leads]

Liu Xuan was reborn.

When he opened his eyes, it was April 2004. He gave up on going into business and instead joined the Xinhua state-owned enterprise, starting out as a low-level dispatcher.

On his first day at work, he learned that his mentor had spent a year being yelled at by the deputy manager. Why? The drivers refused to go out, so the vehicle assignment forms couldn't be sent through. He followed procedure and called them, but when he couldn't get them moving, he got so anxious he almost cried.

Liu Xuan took two packs of premium Zhonghua cigarettes to the vehicle team.

Two packs of cigarettes and a 200-yuan hotel receipt, and the problem was solved.

His coworkers said he was a smooth talker, and his superiors said he was a slacker. He didn't care. His experience from his previous life in private companies, drinking with clients, outmaneuvering suppliers, and playing word games with the tax authorities, gave him an overwhelming advantage in a 2004 state-owned enterprise.

The mature beauty in the finance department, Zhang Xiaomei, called him a "little bastard," but stamped his expense claims faster than anyone else.

His icy colleague Guo Qin rolled her eyes at him. He shrugged. How could sparrows understand the ambitions of a swan?

Deputy Manager Li scolded people every day, while Liu Xuan carried his bags and arranged his car with everything in perfect order.

The workplace belongs to the state, but connections belong to you.

Use public funds to get things done for yourself, and turn company resources into stepping stones for promotion.

Others laughed at him for being too frivolous. He laughed because they couldn't see through him.

In the state-owned enterprises of this era, some people worked their whole lives and remained ordinary clerks, while others could sit in a leader's office after just two and a half years.

Liu Xuan chose the latter path.