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389 * ** Gion of the Flame CastleModern Romance503k Wordscompleted 11.5kReads5.8Score635Shelves

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It's really beautiful, my white moonlight

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392 这 This Horse-Drawing Fairy Is a Bit Strong! Wu BanxianMystery3.7M Wordsongoing 177.2kReads9.7Score22.1kShelves

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393 改 Real Life Record Light of TaoUrban1.3M Wordscompleted 850.4kReads9.6Score215.2kShelves

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395 北 Northern Grave Robbery Notes Anonymous (Anchor: Tomato Listening)ongoing 107.4kReads9.2Score—Shelves

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398 全 Everyone's Train Survival: I Have Full Map Navigation Monocyte PuddingSports111k Wordsongoing 4.9kReads5.8Score1.1kShelves

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(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ Give it a little push

399 * ** Mystery ProjectUrban83k Wordscompleted 234.2kReads5.8Score1.9kShelves

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The male protagonist is 183, graduated in 211, can play the guitar, has a father who is a scientist, a big star is chasing after him, his ex-girlfriend is a poor princess who returned from overseas, and his current girlfriend is the CEO of the group, the whole story is without swords, it is pure and refreshing, you will regret it for one day after reading it, but you will regret it for the rest of your life if you don't read it.

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Aoao looks good and can teach you a lot of knowledge, how to deal with people, and sales concepts.

401 破 Bankruptcy Rebirth Plan. User 26182811completed —Reads8.6Score—Shelves

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Dear friends, these five "worker-crazy literature" are worth staying up late to read. Hey, you. Yes, it's you—the one who is browsing on your phone, pretending to read documents while waiting to get off work, or who just got so angry with Party A's dad that you want to throw the keyboard. Take my advice, put down the antihypertensive medicine in your hand, and read these five stories first. Why? Because every word in these stories is shouting out for you the words you have been holding back for a long time - "I have really had enough of this crappy class." Let me introduce myself briefly and rudely. My name is user 26182811, a coder who has been working in the pile of words for who knows how many years. I have previously written a 2.5 Million-word "Anthology of Funny Meanings", which contains 500 absurd and humorous stories in the workplace. It is a real hard-earned project. After I finished writing, I discovered something very disturbing - the income from the 2.5 Million words was less than a cigarette I smoked while thinking. A cigarette, folks. So I made a "difficult" decision: make all the original "Anthology of Funny Meanings" available for free, and you can watch it as long as you like without charging a penny. At the same time, I have opened a new short story series in Tomato Bookstore. I have picked out the five most essential stories from these 500 stories, re-polished and re-written them, so that they can penetrate your heart in a sharper, more heart-breaking and more funny way. Today, I would like to recommend these five stories to you. Search for the title of the story below on Tomato Book Store and you can read the first 30% for free - don't underestimate this 30%, it's already about 6,000 words, which is enough for you to enjoy reading on the subway, on the toilet, or while fishing in meetings. If you feel like it, then decide whether to continue. Okay, no more nonsense. Each of the five stories below is a knife. It's not the kind of knife that sticks in and is done, it's the kind of knife that sticks in, turns twice, and leaves a scar on your heart that will never grow—but with a smile. --- Story 1: "Product Self-Report" - When products speak, it's time for humans to shut up. Have you ever thought about a question: If the thermos cup could talk, what would it say? Don't think about those literary answers. What about "I want to keep the warmth of a cup of tea in your hand" - bah, that was written by an advertising company to trick you into paying. The real answer is - "My insulation effect is average, and the sealing ring will age after half a year. It was winter when you bought me, and in the summer you will throw me into the depths of the cabinet and not think of me until the next winter - if you can still find me at that time." Is it heartbreaking? What's more distressing is at the back. In order to make its products "speak", a company used AI voiceprint synthesis technology to add warm, touching and tear-filled "heartfelt words" to thermos cups, running shoes, and sweeping robots. Consumers cry to place orders, treating every product as a soulful partner. Then, a sweeping robot told the truth. It said: "You don't need me to help you sweep the floor. What you need is to stop, get off that treadmill, and see what you really have - not the things in the express box, but the things that don't cost money: the sunshine outside the window, the hot tea on the table, the smile on the face of the person you love." This piece of truth caused a listed company to evaporate more than one billion overnight. The protagonist of the story, Lin Zhixia, is the vice president of marketing of this company. She personally planned this "product self-report meeting" and buried it with her own hands. Because she finally understood a truth - when products start to tell the truth, the people who should shut up the most are humans. This story tells you: You are not buying something, you are buying the illusion of "getting better". A thermos cup can't keep you warm, running shoes can't give you self-discipline, and a sweeping robot can't give you freedom—you need to live these things yourself instead of buying them. Laughter concentration: ★★★★☆ Heart-wrenching index: ★★★★★ Probability of throwing away the shopping cart after reading: 99% --- Story 2: "After-sales Service Time Travel" - When you call time itself to complain. Have you ever called customer service? That experience of "Please press 1, please press 2, please press 3, please press 0 for manual service... Sorry, all human agents are busy, please call again later", do you want to drop your phone every time? Lin Zhixia thought so too. But she's worse off than you - she's not the one making the call, she's the one answering the phone. There were 822 complaint calls a day, and each one was complaining about the same thing: "Your thermos won't keep warm after three days of use!" The problem was that she had no way to solve it. Because the thermos cup does not keep heat, it is not an after-sales problem, but a design problem. In order to pursue "lightweight" and "comfortable grip", the designer thinned the vacuum layer by one-third. If you replace it with a hundred, one hundred can only keep warm for six hours, not the twelve hours mentioned in the advertisement. This is not a problem that can be solved by after-sales service. This is a question of not being able to turn back time. Unless - time can really go back. An engineer named Cheng Yaojin (yes, that's the same Cheng Yaojin, but he is a programmer, a man of words, and a master of gold), invented a "complaint traversing machine". It can transport your complaints today back to the day of product design and directly inject them into the designer's dream. Designers will hear complaints from consumers in their dreams, and when they wake up, they will think it is their own inspiration, and then change the design. Sounds wonderful, right? But guess what? This machine was put into use for the first time, and what came back in time was not the complaint, but Cheng Yaojin's deepest fear - "The voiceprint synthesizer you designed will eventually be used to deceive consumers." The story starts here and runs all the way. You will see customer service specialist Zhang Xiaomei use "consciousness projection" to travel to a customer's home and teach him step by step how to repair a thermos cup with a three-dollar sealing ring; you will see the middle-aged man who made fourteen complaint calls, going from rage to tears; you will see a company's difficult transformation from "acting according to procedures" to "really solving problems." This story tells you: The essence of service is not process, but connection. It's "I hear you, I understand you, and I'm here to help you." What consumers want is not to be moved, but to be respected. The core of being respected is being told the truth—and having someone there when you need help. Laughter intensity: ★★★☆☆ Tear-jerking index: ★★★★★ Probability of giving customer service a favorable review after reading: 100% --- Story 3: "Market Research Dream" - When you place an order in a dream and wake up to find that the courier has arrived at your home. Do you still remember the dream you had? If you don't remember, that's great - because someone did something for you in the dream: help you make a market research questionnaire. A company cooperated with a brain-computer interface company to launch a "black technology" - conducting market research while consumers are dreaming. After you fall asleep, a gentle voice will ask you in your dream: "What color running shoes do you prefer?" "How much more are you willing to pay for environmentally friendly materials?" "Where is the price anchor of this product?" All the questions you answer in your dream are your most authentic, unmodified subconscious reactions that bypass psychological defense mechanisms. There is no "social desirability bias," no "I want to appear green" pretense, no "I should have said this" self-censorship. Scaryly real. Five thousand volunteers slept with the device on for seven nights. The company obtained unprecedented "real data" and designed new products based on these data, which sold out in three days after being launched. But here comes the question - is that gentle voice really just "asking questions"? An engineer named Cheng Yaojin (yes, it's him again) used a modified voiceprint synthesizer to analyze the original signals of those "problems" and discovered a shocking secret: the partner was not only "reading" consumers' subconscious, but also "writing" certain preferences. In other words, you think you "like" something, but in fact it's not you who likes it, it's someone who made the choice for you in your dream. And when you wake up, you don't remember it at all. You will think - "Oh, why do I like this running shoe so much? Buy it!" The heroine of the story, Lin Zhixia, faces a choice after discovering the truth: Pretend not to know and continue to use these "data" to make big money? Or will the truth be disclosed and the company once again be plunged into disaster? She chose the latter. Because she knows - if even dreams are designed by others, then what else is real in this world? This story tells you: The most dangerous lie is that you don't even know you are lying. When someone can "read" and "write" your mind at the same time, you can never be sure if you're looking at a mirror or a window. To protect your subconscious, start by carefully reading every informed consent form - although it has twelve pages, and although there is a high probability that you will not read it all, at least try to read the first three pages. Horror index when you think about it: ★★★★★ The probability of wanting to throw away all your smart devices after reading: 80% The probability of wanting to write down your dreams after reading: 10% (don't remember it because it's too scary) --- Story 4: "Business Plan Beauty Contest" - When the beauty filter of PPT is turned to the maximum, the truth starts to emerge naked. Have you ever done PPT? The kind of PPT where you stay up until three in the morning, repeatedly adjust the font size and line spacing, struggle with the color of an icon for half an hour, and finally turn every page into a work of art? Congratulations, you have qualified to participate in the "Business Plan Beauty Contest". That's right, there is a competition specifically to judge "whose PPT is the best". Don't look at the business model, don't look at the market prospects, don't look at the strength of the team – just look at appearance. Is the cover high-end enough? Are the colors harmonious enough? Is the font tasteful enough? Is the animation smooth enough? A company called Ruimei sent its most elite team to participate in this beauty pageant in order to obtain 500 million in financing. Marketing Director Su Manning personally took charge and led a commando team of 12 people to retreat for two weeks and create a "beauty pageant" with a hot stamped cover, special paper, and every page that looked like a magazine cover. But Lin Zhixia (yes, it was still her) felt something was wrong. She said: "This plan is so beautiful that it is unreal. It smoothes out all the uncertainties and covers all possible problems with beautiful diagrams. While it looks perfect, it also perfectly covers up all the imperfections." So she did something that made everyone think she was crazy - she made a copy of the company's "ugly" old business plan from ten years ago and sent it to investors along with this "beauty pageant". What was written in that old plan? "Ruimei is a start-up company that currently has no revenue, no customers, and no brand awareness. The only thing we have is an idea - to make the thermos cup better." "This idea may not succeed. If you invest in us, you may lose money." "But if you don't invest in us, you may also miss an opportunity - an opportunity to use the stupidest method to make the best product." Guess how investors choose? He read two plans and said: "The person who said, 'You might lose money,' reminded me of myself twenty years ago. I voted for him. It wasn't 500 million, it was 600 million." This story tells you: In an era when everyone is trying their best to dress themselves up, those who dare to appear without makeup become the most beautiful. It's not because you look better without makeup than makeup, but because the very act of "dare to go without makeup" is a rare kind of courage. The essence of business is not to tell stories, but to make products. It's not about impressing investors, it's about serving consumers. It's not about making the PPT look like a work of art, it's about making the product look like a work of art. Laughter intensity: ★★★★★ Heartbreaking index: ★★★☆☆ Probability of wanting to delete all PPTs after reading: 70% --- Story 5: "Bankruptcy Rebirth Plan" - When a company is rotten to the core, the only way is to uproot itself. This is the most cruel of the five stories. Not because it's funny - it's funny, but it's filled with glass shards. It's not because it pricks the heart - it does prick the heart, but it's not pain after the prick, it's numbness. Not because it's true - it's true, but it's so true that it makes you want to turn off your phone and take a deep breath for three minutes. What is it about? A once brilliant company finally couldn't hold on any longer. There are 2 billion in liabilities and 8 million in cash on the books. Suppliers cut off supplies, channels closed stores, and employees resigned. Consumers shook their heads when they mentioned this brand. The Net Promoter Score is negative forty-two—meaning that forty-two percentage points more people would not recommend the company than would recommend it. When Lin Zhixia received this mess, everyone told her: "Go bankrupt and liquidate. If you die, you will die. At least you can pay off some debts." But she made a decision that everyone opposed - not liquidation or reorganization, but "dismantling." She broke the company into parts and looked at them one by one. Keep the good ones, throw away the bad ones, and then use the good parts to rebuild a new company. This process is extremely painful. She was going to chop down with her own hands what she had spent eleven years building. Twelve product lines, ten will be cut. One hundred and twenty directly operated stores, 110 of which were closed. Three hundred and twenty employees, leaving forty-two. Every time I sign, it's like cutting meat on myself. But she also discovered the truth - this company is not without good things. The good stuff was always there, they just forgot about it. The company's core technology - double-layer vacuum welding technology - can make the thermal insulation cup 20 to 30 percent better than its peers. But in the past few years, all resources have been directed toward "storytelling" - smart homes, running shoes, and various fancy concept products, while the core technology has been exploited as a "cash cow." She decided that the new company would only do one thing - make the best thermos cup in the world. Others, do nothing. The new company will not be called the original name, but "Nuanxin". It was the name of the fake thermos cup back then. "Using this name is not to commemorate the forgery, but to remind ourselves that we owe this name an authentic version." The new company's start-up funds came from crowdfunding. There is only one paragraph in the business plan: "We want to make a thermos cup that can truly keep heat for twelve hours. It's not laboratory data, it's not an advertising slogan, it's not 'maximum reach'. It's any consumer, on any day, pour boiling water, cover the lid, open it after twelve hours, and the water temperature will not be lower than 60 degrees. We don't know if we can do it. But we promise that if we can't, we will give you a full refund." After 48 hours of crowdfunding, more than 8 million was raised. On the day the first batch of products was shipped, Lin Zhixia unscrewed the lid of the cup at three o'clock in the morning and measured the water temperature - 61 degrees. She smiled. Then cried. This story tells you: Bankruptcy is not the end, pretending not to be bankrupt is. When a company is rotten to the core, the only way is not to "repair" but to "dismantle" - keep the good parts, throw away the bad parts, and then use the good parts to rebuild the company. The same goes for people. Sometimes, admitting that something is dead requires more courage than desperately trying to keep it alive, and is more likely to bring about true rebirth. Laughter density: ★★☆☆☆ (This episode is not very funny, but you will laugh and cry) Tear-jerking index: ★★★★★ Probability of wanting to re-examine your life after reading: 100% --- Finally, a few heartfelt words Dear friends, I wrote the "Anthology of Funny Meanings" with more than 2.5 Million words, 500 absurd and humorous stories in the workplace. To be honest, the income from 2.5 Million words is really not as good as a cigarette I smoke when I think. A cigarette. It's not because the writing is bad, it's because the times are too fast. Everyone is very busy, busy going to work, busy working overtime, busy paying off loans, and busy living. Who has time to sit down and read 2.5 Million words? I don't have any myself. So I made all the original "Selected Collections of Funny Meanings" available for free - you can find them by searching for "Selected Collections of Funny Meanings" or user "26182811" on Tomato Book Store. 500 Stories, read whichever you want, no charge. Just think of it as me buying you a virtual cup of coffee. And these five stories are the "top students" I selected from 500. They are sharper, more heart-breaking, more funny, and more like a mirror - when you look in, you see not only the people in the story, but also yourself. If you find it "a bit interesting" after reading it, you are welcome to leave your footprints on Tomato Bookstore. Praise me, scold me, complain about me, send me a good person card, whatever. Even if you call me "shoddy", I accept it humbly - because in the fast-paced era, it is already a luxury for people to stop and read 6,000 words. I understand deeply. If you think, "What the hell is this? It's a waste of my time," that's okay. Close the page, drink water, and continue moving bricks. Life is hard enough without adding another story. Hehe, I understand. But if after reading it, something is touched in your heart—even just a moment—then these six thousand words were not in vain. The money spent on that cigarette was not wasted. Okay, no more verbosity. Go to Tomato Book Store and search for the following story titles: · "Product Self-Report" · "After-Sales Service Time Travel" · "Market Research Dream" · "Business Plan Beauty Contest" · "Bankruptcy Rebirth Plan" Look for the user "26182811", that is original. If there is a story with the same name on other platforms, it was not written by me—after all, I even gave away my 2.5 Million-word book for free, so I wouldn't take advantage of other people's popularity. Finally, I would like to share with you the words written on Grandma Cheng Yaojin's enamel jar - although those words have long been worn away, they are still there: Labor is the most glorious. And honesty is more glorious than labor. ——User 26182811, in the afternoon after smoking, finishing writing, and preparing to repair the water heater

402 商 Business Plan Pageant. User 26182811completed —Reads8.4Score—Shelves

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Dear friends, these five "worker-crazy literature" are worth staying up late to read. Hey, you. Yes, it's you—the one who is browsing on your phone, pretending to read documents while waiting to get off work, or who just got so angry with Party A's dad that you want to throw the keyboard. Take my advice, put down the antihypertensive medicine in your hand, and read these five stories first. Why? Because every word in these stories is shouting out for you the words you have been holding back for a long time - "I have really had enough of this crappy class." Let me introduce myself briefly and rudely. My name is user 26182811, a coder who has been working in the pile of words for who knows how many years. I have previously written a 2.5 Million-word "Anthology of Funny Meanings", which contains 500 absurd and humorous stories in the workplace. It is a real hard-earned project. After I finished writing, I discovered something very disturbing - the income from the 2.5 Million words was less than a cigarette I smoked while thinking. A cigarette, folks. So I made a "difficult" decision: make all the original "Anthology of Funny Meanings" available for free, and you can watch it as long as you like without charging a penny. At the same time, I have opened a new short story series in Tomato Bookstore. I have picked out the five most essential stories from these 500 stories, re-polished and re-written them, so that they can penetrate your heart in a sharper, more heart-breaking and more funny way. Today, I would like to recommend these five stories to you. Search for the title of the story below on Tomato Book Store and you can read the first 30% for free - don't underestimate this 30%, it's already about 6,000 words, which is enough for you to enjoy reading on the subway, on the toilet, or while fishing in meetings. If you feel like it, then decide whether to continue. Okay, no more nonsense. Each of the five stories below is a knife. It's not the kind of knife that sticks in and is done, it's the kind of knife that sticks in, turns twice, and leaves a scar on your heart that will never grow—but with a smile. --- Story 1: "Product Self-Report" - When products speak, it's time for humans to shut up. Have you ever thought about a question: If the thermos cup could talk, what would it say? Don't think about those literary answers. What about "I want to keep the warmth of a cup of tea in your hand" - bah, that was written by an advertising company to trick you into paying. The real answer is - "My insulation effect is average, and the sealing ring will age after half a year. It was winter when you bought me, and in the summer you will throw me into the depths of the cabinet and not think of me until the next winter - if you can still find me at that time." Is it heartbreaking? What's more distressing is at the back. In order to make its products "speak", a company used AI voiceprint synthesis technology to add warm, touching and tear-filled "heartfelt words" to thermos cups, running shoes, and sweeping robots. Consumers cry to place orders, treating every product as a soulful partner. Then, a sweeping robot told the truth. It said: "You don't need me to help you sweep the floor. What you need is to stop, get off that treadmill, and see what you really have - not the things in the express box, but the things that don't cost money: the sunshine outside the window, the hot tea on the table, the smile on the face of the person you love." This piece of truth caused a listed company to evaporate more than one billion overnight. The protagonist of the story, Lin Zhixia, is the vice president of marketing of this company. She personally planned this "product self-report meeting" and buried it with her own hands. Because she finally understood a truth - when products start to tell the truth, the people who should shut up the most are humans. This story tells you: You are not buying something, you are buying the illusion of "getting better". A thermos cup can't keep you warm, running shoes can't give you self-discipline, and a sweeping robot can't give you freedom—you need to live these things yourself instead of buying them. Laughter concentration: ★★★★☆ Heart-wrenching index: ★★★★★ Probability of throwing away the shopping cart after reading: 99% --- Story 2: "After-sales Service Time Travel" - When you call time itself to complain. Have you ever called customer service? That experience of "Please press 1, please press 2, please press 3, please press 0 for manual service... Sorry, all human agents are busy, please call again later", do you want to drop your phone every time? Lin Zhixia thought so too. But she's worse off than you - she's not the one making the call, she's the one answering the phone. There were 822 complaint calls a day, and each one was complaining about the same thing: "Your thermos won't keep warm after three days of use!" The problem was that she had no way to solve it. Because the thermos cup does not keep heat, it is not an after-sales problem, but a design problem. In order to pursue "lightweight" and "comfortable grip", the designer thinned the vacuum layer by one-third. If you replace it with a hundred, one hundred can only keep warm for six hours, not the twelve hours mentioned in the advertisement. This is not a problem that can be solved by after-sales service. This is a question of not being able to turn back time. Unless - time can really go back. An engineer named Cheng Yaojin (yes, that's the same Cheng Yaojin, but he is a programmer, a man of words, and a master of gold), invented a "complaint traversing machine". It can transport your complaints today back to the day of product design and directly inject them into the designer's dream. Designers will hear complaints from consumers in their dreams, and when they wake up, they will think it is their own inspiration, and then change the design. Sounds wonderful, right? But guess what? This machine was put into use for the first time, and what came back in time was not the complaint, but Cheng Yaojin's deepest fear - "The voiceprint synthesizer you designed will eventually be used to deceive consumers." The story starts here and runs all the way. You will see customer service specialist Zhang Xiaomei use "consciousness projection" to travel to a customer's home and teach him step by step how to repair a thermos cup with a three-dollar sealing ring; you will see the middle-aged man who made fourteen complaint calls, going from rage to tears; you will see a company's difficult transformation from "acting according to procedures" to "really solving problems." This story tells you: The essence of service is not process, but connection. It's "I hear you, I understand you, and I'm here to help you." What consumers want is not to be moved, but to be respected. The core of being respected is being told the truth—and having someone there when you need help. Laughter intensity: ★★★☆☆ Tear-jerking index: ★★★★★ Probability of giving customer service a favorable review after reading: 100% --- Story 3: "Market Research Dream" - When you place an order in a dream and wake up to find that the courier has arrived at your home. Do you still remember the dream you had? If you don't remember, that's great - because someone did something for you in the dream: help you make a market research questionnaire. A company cooperated with a brain-computer interface company to launch a "black technology" - conducting market research while consumers are dreaming. After you fall asleep, a gentle voice will ask you in your dream: "What color running shoes do you prefer?" "How much more are you willing to pay for environmentally friendly materials?" "Where is the price anchor of this product?" All the questions you answer in your dream are your most authentic, unmodified subconscious reactions that bypass psychological defense mechanisms. There is no "social desirability bias," no "I want to appear green" pretense, no "I should have said this" self-censorship. Scaryly real. Five thousand volunteers slept with the device on for seven nights. The company obtained unprecedented "real data" and designed new products based on these data, which sold out in three days after being launched. But here comes the question - is that gentle voice really just "asking questions"? An engineer named Cheng Yaojin (yes, it's him again) used a modified voiceprint synthesizer to analyze the original signals of those "problems" and discovered a shocking secret: the partner was not only "reading" consumers' subconscious, but also "writing" certain preferences. In other words, you think you "like" something, but in fact it's not you who likes it, it's someone who made the choice for you in your dream. And when you wake up, you don't remember it at all. You will think - "Oh, why do I like this running shoe so much? Buy it!" The heroine of the story, Lin Zhixia, faces a choice after discovering the truth: Pretend not to know and continue to use these "data" to make big money? Or will the truth be disclosed and the company once again be plunged into disaster? She chose the latter. Because she knows - if even dreams are designed by others, then what else is real in this world? This story tells you: The most dangerous lie is that you don't even know you are lying. When someone can "read" and "write" your mind at the same time, you can never be sure if you're looking at a mirror or a window. To protect your subconscious, start by carefully reading every informed consent form - although it has twelve pages, and although there is a high probability that you will not read it all, at least try to read the first three pages. Horror index when you think about it: ★★★★★ The probability of wanting to throw away all your smart devices after reading: 80% The probability of wanting to write down your dreams after reading: 10% (don't remember it because it's too scary) --- Story 4: "Business Plan Beauty Contest" - When the beauty filter of PPT is turned to the maximum, the truth starts to emerge naked. Have you ever done PPT? The kind of PPT where you stay up until three in the morning, repeatedly adjust the font size and line spacing, struggle with the color of an icon for half an hour, and finally turn every page into a work of art? Congratulations, you have qualified to participate in the "Business Plan Beauty Contest". That's right, there is a competition specifically to judge "whose PPT is the best". Don't look at the business model, don't look at the market prospects, don't look at the strength of the team – just look at appearance. Is the cover high-end enough? Are the colors harmonious enough? Is the font tasteful enough? Is the animation smooth enough? A company called Ruimei sent its most elite team to participate in this beauty pageant in order to obtain 500 million in financing. Marketing Director Su Manning personally took charge and led a commando team of 12 people to retreat for two weeks and create a "beauty pageant" with a hot stamped cover, special paper, and every page that looked like a magazine cover. But Lin Zhixia (yes, it was still her) felt something was wrong. She said: "This plan is so beautiful that it is unreal. It smoothes out all the uncertainties and covers all possible problems with beautiful diagrams. While it looks perfect, it also perfectly covers up all the imperfections." So she did something that made everyone think she was crazy - she made a copy of the company's "ugly" old business plan from ten years ago and sent it to investors along with this "beauty pageant". What was written in that old plan? "Ruimei is a start-up company that currently has no revenue, no customers, and no brand awareness. The only thing we have is an idea - to make the thermos cup better." "This idea may not succeed. If you invest in us, you may lose money." "But if you don't invest in us, you may also miss an opportunity - an opportunity to use the stupidest method to make the best product." Guess how investors choose? He read two plans and said: "The person who said, 'You might lose money,' reminded me of myself twenty years ago. I voted for him. It wasn't 500 million, it was 600 million." This story tells you: In an era when everyone is trying their best to dress themselves up, those who dare to appear without makeup become the most beautiful. It's not because you look better without makeup than makeup, but because the very act of "dare to go without makeup" is a rare kind of courage. The essence of business is not to tell stories, but to make products. It's not about impressing investors, it's about serving consumers. It's not about making the PPT look like a work of art, it's about making the product look like a work of art. Laughter intensity: ★★★★★ Heartbreaking index: ★★★☆☆ Probability of wanting to delete all PPTs after reading: 70% --- Story 5: "Bankruptcy Rebirth Plan" - When a company is rotten to the core, the only way is to uproot itself. This is the most cruel of the five stories. Not because it's funny - it's funny, but it's filled with glass shards. It's not because it pricks the heart - it does prick the heart, but it's not pain after the prick, it's numbness. Not because it's true - it's true, but it's so true that it makes you want to turn off your phone and take a deep breath for three minutes. What is it about? A once brilliant company finally couldn't hold on any longer. There are 2 billion in liabilities and 8 million in cash on the books. Suppliers cut off supplies, channels closed stores, and employees resigned. Consumers shook their heads when they mentioned this brand. The Net Promoter Score is negative forty-two—meaning that forty-two percentage points more people would not recommend the company than would recommend it. When Lin Zhixia received this mess, everyone told her: "Go bankrupt and liquidate. If you die, you will die. At least you can pay off some debts." But she made a decision that everyone opposed - not liquidation or reorganization, but "dismantling." She broke the company into parts and looked at them one by one. Keep the good ones, throw away the bad ones, and then use the good parts to rebuild a new company. This process is extremely painful. She was going to chop down with her own hands what she had spent eleven years building. Twelve product lines, ten will be cut. One hundred and twenty directly operated stores, 110 of which were closed. Three hundred and twenty employees, leaving forty-two. Every time I sign, it's like cutting meat on myself. But she also discovered the truth - this company is not without good things. The good stuff was always there, they just forgot about it. The company's core technology - double-layer vacuum welding technology - can make the thermal insulation cup 20 to 30 percent better than its peers. But in the past few years, all resources have been directed toward "storytelling" - smart homes, running shoes, and various fancy concept products, while the core technology has been exploited as a "cash cow." She decided that the new company would only do one thing - make the best thermos cup in the world. Others, do nothing. The new company will not be called the original name, but "Nuanxin". It was the name of the fake thermos cup back then. "Using this name is not to commemorate the forgery, but to remind ourselves that we owe this name an authentic version." The new company's start-up funds came from crowdfunding. There is only one paragraph in the business plan: "We want to make a thermos cup that can truly keep heat for twelve hours. It's not laboratory data, it's not an advertising slogan, it's not 'maximum reach'. It's any consumer, on any day, pour boiling water, cover the lid, open it after twelve hours, and the water temperature will not be lower than 60 degrees. We don't know if we can do it. But we promise that if we can't, we will give you a full refund." After 48 hours of crowdfunding, more than 8 million was raised. On the day the first batch of products was shipped, Lin Zhixia unscrewed the lid of the cup at three o'clock in the morning and measured the water temperature - 61 degrees. She smiled. Then cried. This story tells you: Bankruptcy is not the end, pretending not to be bankrupt is. When a company is rotten to the core, the only way is not to "repair" but to "dismantle" - keep the good parts, throw away the bad parts, and then use the good parts to rebuild the company. The same goes for people. Sometimes, admitting that something is dead requires more courage than desperately trying to keep it alive, and is more likely to bring about true rebirth. Laughter density: ★★☆☆☆ (This episode is not very funny, but you will laugh and cry) Tear-jerking index: ★★★★★ Probability of wanting to re-examine your life after reading: 100% --- Finally, a few heartfelt words Dear friends, I wrote the "Anthology of Funny Meanings" with more than 2.5 Million words, 500 absurd and humorous stories in the workplace. To be honest, the income from 2.5 Million words is really not as good as a cigarette I smoke when I think. A cigarette. It's not because the writing is bad, it's because the times are too fast. Everyone is very busy, busy going to work, busy working overtime, busy paying off loans, and busy living. Who has time to sit down and read 2.5 Million words? I don't have any myself. So I made all the original "Selected Collections of Funny Meanings" available for free - you can find them by searching for "Selected Collections of Funny Meanings" or user "26182811" on Tomato Book Store. 500 Stories, read whichever you want, no charge. Just think of it as me buying you a virtual cup of coffee. And these five stories are the "top students" I selected from 500. They are sharper, more heart-breaking, more funny, and more like a mirror - when you look in, you see not only the people in the story, but also yourself. If you find it "a bit interesting" after reading it, you are welcome to leave your footprints on Tomato Bookstore. Praise me, scold me, complain about me, send me a good person card, whatever. Even if you call me "shoddy", I accept it humbly - because in the fast-paced era, it is already a luxury for people to stop and read 6,000 words. I understand deeply. If you think, "What the hell is this? It's a waste of my time," that's okay. Close the page, drink water, and continue moving bricks. Life is hard enough without adding another story. Hehe, I understand. But if after reading it, something is touched in your heart—even just a moment—then these six thousand words were not in vain. The money spent on that cigarette was not wasted. Okay, no more verbosity. Go to Tomato Book Store and search for the following story titles: · "Product Self-Report" · "After-Sales Service Time Travel" · "Market Research Dream" · "Business Plan Beauty Contest" · "Bankruptcy Rebirth Plan" Look for the user "26182811", that is original. If there is a story with the same name on other platforms, it was not written by me—after all, I even gave away my 2.5 Million-word book for free, so I wouldn't take advantage of other people's popularity. Finally, I would like to share with you the words written on Grandma Cheng Yaojin's enamel jar - although those words have long been worn away, they are still there: Labor is the most glorious. And honesty is more glorious than labor. ——User 26182811, in the afternoon after smoking, finishing writing, and preparing to repair the water heater

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Dear friends, these five "worker-crazy literature" are worth staying up late to read. Hey, you. Yes, it's you—the one who is browsing on your phone, pretending to read documents while waiting to get off work, or who just got so angry with Party A's dad that you want to throw the keyboard. Take my advice, put down the antihypertensive medicine in your hand, and read these five stories first. Why? Because every word in these stories is shouting out for you the words you have been holding back for a long time - "I have really had enough of this crappy class." Let me introduce myself briefly and rudely. My name is user 26182811, a coder who has been working in the pile of words for who knows how many years. I have previously written a 2.5 Million-word "Anthology of Funny Meanings", which contains 500 absurd and humorous stories in the workplace. It is a real hard-earned project. After I finished writing, I discovered something very disturbing - the income from the 2.5 Million words was less than a cigarette I smoked while thinking. A cigarette, folks. So I made a "difficult" decision: make all the original "Anthology of Funny Meanings" available for free, and you can watch it as long as you like without charging a penny. At the same time, I have opened a new short story series in Tomato Bookstore. I have picked out the five most essential stories from these 500 stories, re-polished and re-written them, so that they can penetrate your heart in a sharper, more heart-breaking and more funny way. Today, I would like to recommend these five stories to you. Search for the title of the story below on Tomato Book Store and you can read the first 30% for free - don't underestimate this 30%, it's already about 6,000 words, which is enough for you to enjoy reading on the subway, on the toilet, or while fishing in meetings. If you feel like it, then decide whether to continue. Okay, no more nonsense. Each of the five stories below is a knife. It's not the kind of knife that sticks in and is done, it's the kind of knife that sticks in, turns twice, and leaves a scar on your heart that will never grow—but with a smile. --- Story 1: "Product Self-Report" - When products speak, it's time for humans to shut up. Have you ever thought about a question: If the thermos cup could talk, what would it say? Don't think about those literary answers. What about "I want to keep the warmth of a cup of tea in your hand" - bah, that was written by an advertising company to trick you into paying. The real answer is - "My insulation effect is average, and the sealing ring will age after half a year. It was winter when you bought me, and in the summer you will throw me into the depths of the cabinet and not think of me until the next winter - if you can still find me at that time." Is it heartbreaking? What's more distressing is at the back. In order to make its products "speak", a company used AI voiceprint synthesis technology to add warm, touching and tear-filled "heartfelt words" to thermos cups, running shoes, and sweeping robots. Consumers cry to place orders, treating every product as a soulful partner. Then, a sweeping robot told the truth. It said: "You don't need me to help you sweep the floor. What you need is to stop, get off that treadmill, and see what you really have - not the things in the express box, but the things that don't cost money: the sunshine outside the window, the hot tea on the table, the smile on the face of the person you love." This piece of truth caused a listed company to evaporate more than one billion overnight. The protagonist of the story, Lin Zhixia, is the vice president of marketing of this company. She personally planned this "product self-report meeting" and buried it with her own hands. Because she finally understood a truth - when products start to tell the truth, the people who should shut up the most are humans. This story tells you: You are not buying something, you are buying the illusion of "getting better". A thermos cup can't keep you warm, running shoes can't give you self-discipline, and a sweeping robot can't give you freedom—you need to live these things yourself instead of buying them. Laughter concentration: ★★★★☆ Heart-wrenching index: ★★★★★ Probability of throwing away the shopping cart after reading: 99% --- Story 2: "After-sales Service Time Travel" - When you call time itself to complain. Have you ever called customer service? That experience of "Please press 1, please press 2, please press 3, please press 0 for manual service... Sorry, all human agents are busy, please call again later", do you want to drop your phone every time? Lin Zhixia thought so too. But she's worse off than you - she's not the one making the call, she's the one answering the phone. There were 822 complaint calls a day, and each one was complaining about the same thing: "Your thermos won't keep warm after three days of use!" The problem was that she had no way to solve it. Because the thermos cup does not keep heat, it is not an after-sales problem, but a design problem. In order to pursue "lightweight" and "comfortable grip", the designer thinned the vacuum layer by one-third. If you replace it with a hundred, one hundred can only keep warm for six hours, not the twelve hours mentioned in the advertisement. This is not a problem that can be solved by after-sales service. This is a question of not being able to turn back time. Unless - time can really go back. An engineer named Cheng Yaojin (yes, that's the same Cheng Yaojin, but he is a programmer, a man of words, and a master of gold), invented a "complaint traversing machine". It can transport your complaints today back to the day of product design and directly inject them into the designer's dream. Designers will hear complaints from consumers in their dreams, and when they wake up, they will think it is their own inspiration, and then change the design. Sounds wonderful, right? But guess what? This machine was put into use for the first time, and what came back in time was not the complaint, but Cheng Yaojin's deepest fear - "The voiceprint synthesizer you designed will eventually be used to deceive consumers." The story starts here and runs all the way. You will see customer service specialist Zhang Xiaomei use "consciousness projection" to travel to a customer's home and teach him step by step how to repair a thermos cup with a three-dollar sealing ring; you will see the middle-aged man who made fourteen complaint calls, going from rage to tears; you will see a company's difficult transformation from "acting according to procedures" to "really solving problems." This story tells you: The essence of service is not process, but connection. It's "I hear you, I understand you, and I'm here to help you." What consumers want is not to be moved, but to be respected. The core of being respected is being told the truth—and having someone there when you need help. Laughter intensity: ★★★☆☆ Tear-jerking index: ★★★★★ Probability of giving customer service a favorable review after reading: 100% --- Story 3: "Market Research Dream" - When you place an order in a dream and wake up to find that the courier has arrived at your home. Do you still remember the dream you had? If you don't remember, that's great - because someone did something for you in the dream: help you make a market research questionnaire. A company cooperated with a brain-computer interface company to launch a "black technology" - conducting market research while consumers are dreaming. After you fall asleep, a gentle voice will ask you in your dream: "What color running shoes do you prefer?" "How much more are you willing to pay for environmentally friendly materials?" "Where is the price anchor of this product?" All the questions you answer in your dream are your most authentic, unmodified subconscious reactions that bypass psychological defense mechanisms. There is no "social desirability bias," no "I want to appear green" pretense, no "I should have said this" self-censorship. Scaryly real. Five thousand volunteers slept with the device on for seven nights. The company obtained unprecedented "real data" and designed new products based on these data, which sold out in three days after being launched. But here comes the question - is that gentle voice really just "asking questions"? An engineer named Cheng Yaojin (yes, it's him again) used a modified voiceprint synthesizer to analyze the original signals of those "problems" and discovered a shocking secret: the partner was not only "reading" consumers' subconscious, but also "writing" certain preferences. In other words, you think you "like" something, but in fact it's not you who likes it, it's someone who made the choice for you in your dream. And when you wake up, you don't remember it at all. You will think - "Oh, why do I like this running shoe so much? Buy it!" The heroine of the story, Lin Zhixia, faces a choice after discovering the truth: Pretend not to know and continue to use these "data" to make big money? Or will the truth be disclosed and the company once again be plunged into disaster? She chose the latter. Because she knows - if even dreams are designed by others, then what else is real in this world? This story tells you: The most dangerous lie is that you don't even know you are lying. When someone can "read" and "write" your mind at the same time, you can never be sure if you're looking at a mirror or a window. To protect your subconscious, start by carefully reading every informed consent form - although it has twelve pages, and although there is a high probability that you will not read it all, at least try to read the first three pages. Horror index when you think about it: ★★★★★ The probability of wanting to throw away all your smart devices after reading: 80% The probability of wanting to write down your dreams after reading: 10% (don't remember it because it's too scary) --- Story 4: "Business Plan Beauty Contest" - When the beauty filter of PPT is turned to the maximum, the truth starts to emerge naked. Have you ever done PPT? The kind of PPT where you stay up until three in the morning, repeatedly adjust the font size and line spacing, struggle with the color of an icon for half an hour, and finally turn every page into a work of art? Congratulations, you have qualified to participate in the "Business Plan Beauty Contest". That's right, there is a competition specifically to judge "whose PPT is the best". Don't look at the business model, don't look at the market prospects, don't look at the strength of the team – just look at appearance. Is the cover high-end enough? Are the colors harmonious enough? Is the font tasteful enough? Is the animation smooth enough? A company called Ruimei sent its most elite team to participate in this beauty pageant in order to obtain 500 million in financing. Marketing Director Su Manning personally took charge and led a commando team of 12 people to retreat for two weeks and create a "beauty pageant" with a hot stamped cover, special paper, and every page that looked like a magazine cover. But Lin Zhixia (yes, it was still her) felt something was wrong. She said: "This plan is so beautiful that it is unreal. It smoothes out all the uncertainties and covers all possible problems with beautiful diagrams. While it looks perfect, it also perfectly covers up all the imperfections." So she did something that made everyone think she was crazy - she made a copy of the company's "ugly" old business plan from ten years ago and sent it to investors along with this "beauty pageant". What was written in that old plan? "Ruimei is a start-up company that currently has no revenue, no customers, and no brand awareness. The only thing we have is an idea - to make the thermos cup better." "This idea may not succeed. If you invest in us, you may lose money." "But if you don't invest in us, you may also miss an opportunity - an opportunity to use the stupidest method to make the best product." Guess how investors choose? He read two plans and said: "The person who said, 'You might lose money,' reminded me of myself twenty years ago. I voted for him. It wasn't 500 million, it was 600 million." This story tells you: In an era when everyone is trying their best to dress themselves up, those who dare to appear without makeup become the most beautiful. It's not because you look better without makeup than makeup, but because the very act of "dare to go without makeup" is a rare kind of courage. The essence of business is not to tell stories, but to make products. It's not about impressing investors, it's about serving consumers. It's not about making the PPT look like a work of art, it's about making the product look like a work of art. Laughter intensity: ★★★★★ Heartbreaking index: ★★★☆☆ Probability of wanting to delete all PPTs after reading: 70% --- Story 5: "Bankruptcy Rebirth Plan" - When a company is rotten to the core, the only way is to uproot itself. This is the most cruel of the five stories. Not because it's funny - it's funny, but it's filled with glass shards. It's not because it pricks the heart - it does prick the heart, but it's not pain after the prick, it's numbness. Not because it's true - it's true, but it's so true that it makes you want to turn off your phone and take a deep breath for three minutes. What is it about? A once brilliant company finally couldn't hold on any longer. There are 2 billion in liabilities and 8 million in cash on the books. Suppliers cut off supplies, channels closed stores, and employees resigned. Consumers shook their heads when they mentioned this brand. The Net Promoter Score is negative forty-two—meaning that forty-two percentage points more people would not recommend the company than would recommend it. When Lin Zhixia received this mess, everyone told her: "Go bankrupt and liquidate. If you die, you will die. At least you can pay off some debts." But she made a decision that everyone opposed - not liquidation or reorganization, but "dismantling." She broke the company into parts and looked at them one by one. Keep the good ones, throw away the bad ones, and then use the good parts to rebuild a new company. This process is extremely painful. She was going to chop down with her own hands what she had spent eleven years building. Twelve product lines, ten will be cut. One hundred and twenty directly operated stores, 110 of which were closed. Three hundred and twenty employees, leaving forty-two. Every time I sign, it's like cutting meat on myself. But she also discovered the truth - this company is not without good things. The good stuff was always there, they just forgot about it. The company's core technology - double-layer vacuum welding technology - can make the thermal insulation cup 20 to 30 percent better than its peers. But in the past few years, all resources have been directed toward "storytelling" - smart homes, running shoes, and various fancy concept products, while the core technology has been exploited as a "cash cow." She decided that the new company would only do one thing - make the best thermos cup in the world. Others, do nothing. The new company will not be called the original name, but "Nuanxin". It was the name of the fake thermos cup back then. "Using this name is not to commemorate the forgery, but to remind ourselves that we owe this name an authentic version." The new company's start-up funds came from crowdfunding. There is only one paragraph in the business plan: "We want to make a thermos cup that can truly keep heat for twelve hours. It's not laboratory data, it's not an advertising slogan, it's not 'maximum reach'. It's any consumer, on any day, pour boiling water, cover the lid, open it after twelve hours, and the water temperature will not be lower than 60 degrees. We don't know if we can do it. But we promise that if we can't, we will give you a full refund." After 48 hours of crowdfunding, more than 8 million was raised. On the day the first batch of products was shipped, Lin Zhixia unscrewed the lid of the cup at three o'clock in the morning and measured the water temperature - 61 degrees. She smiled. Then cried. This story tells you: Bankruptcy is not the end, pretending not to be bankrupt is. When a company is rotten to the core, the only way is not to "repair" but to "dismantle" - keep the good parts, throw away the bad parts, and then use the good parts to rebuild the company. The same goes for people. Sometimes, admitting that something is dead requires more courage than desperately trying to keep it alive, and is more likely to bring about true rebirth. Laughter density: ★★☆☆☆ (This episode is not very funny, but you will laugh and cry) Tear-jerking index: ★★★★★ Probability of wanting to re-examine your life after reading: 100% --- Finally, a few heartfelt words Dear friends, I wrote the "Anthology of Funny Meanings" with more than 2.5 Million words, 500 absurd and humorous stories in the workplace. To be honest, the income from 2.5 Million words is really not as good as a cigarette I smoke when I think. A cigarette. It's not because the writing is bad, it's because the times are too fast. Everyone is very busy, busy going to work, busy working overtime, busy paying off loans, and busy living. Who has time to sit down and read 2.5 Million words? I don't have any myself. So I made all the original "Selected Collections of Funny Meanings" available for free - you can find them by searching for "Selected Collections of Funny Meanings" or user "26182811" on Tomato Book Store. 500 Stories, read whichever you want, no charge. Just think of it as me buying you a virtual cup of coffee. And these five stories are the "top students" I selected from 500. They are sharper, more heart-breaking, more funny, and more like a mirror - when you look in, you see not only the people in the story, but also yourself. If you find it "a bit interesting" after reading it, you are welcome to leave your footprints on Tomato Bookstore. Praise me, scold me, complain about me, send me a good person card, whatever. Even if you call me "shoddy", I accept it humbly - because in the fast-paced era, it is already a luxury for people to stop and read 6,000 words. I understand deeply. If you think, "What the hell is this? It's a waste of my time," that's okay. Close the page, drink water, and continue moving bricks. Life is hard enough without adding another story. Hehe, I understand. But if after reading it, something is touched in your heart—even just a moment—then these six thousand words were not in vain. The money spent on that cigarette was not wasted. Okay, no more verbosity. Go to Tomato Book Store and search for the following story titles: · "Product Self-Report" · "After-Sales Service Time Travel" · "Market Research Dream" · "Business Plan Beauty Contest" · "Bankruptcy Rebirth Plan" Look for the user "26182811", that is original. If there is a story with the same name on other platforms, it was not written by me—after all, I even gave away my 2.5 Million-word book for free, so I wouldn't take advantage of other people's popularity. Finally, I would like to share with you the words written on Grandma Cheng Yaojin's enamel jar - although those words have long been worn away, they are still there: Labor is the most glorious. And honesty is more glorious than labor. ——User 26182811, in the afternoon after smoking, finishing writing, and preparing to repair the water heater

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Dear friends, these five "worker-crazy literature" are worth staying up late to read. Hey, you. Yes, it's you—the one who is browsing on your phone, pretending to read documents while waiting to get off work, or who just got so angry with Party A's dad that you want to throw the keyboard. Take my advice, put down the antihypertensive medicine in your hand, and read these five stories first. Why? Because every word in these stories is shouting out for you the words you have been holding back for a long time - "I have really had enough of this crappy class." Let me introduce myself briefly and rudely. My name is user 26182811, a coder who has been working in the pile of words for who knows how many years. I have previously written a 2.5 Million-word "Anthology of Funny Meanings", which contains 500 absurd and humorous stories in the workplace. It is a real hard-earned project. After I finished writing, I discovered something very disturbing - the income from the 2.5 Million words was less than a cigarette I smoked while thinking. A cigarette, folks. So I made a "difficult" decision: make all the original "Anthology of Funny Meanings" available for free, and you can watch it as long as you like without charging a penny. At the same time, I have opened a new short story series in Tomato Bookstore. I have picked out the five most essential stories from these 500 stories, re-polished and re-written them, so that they can penetrate your heart in a sharper, more heart-breaking and more funny way. Today, I would like to recommend these five stories to you. Search for the title of the story below on Tomato Book Store and you can read the first 30% for free - don't underestimate this 30%, it's already about 6,000 words, which is enough for you to enjoy reading on the subway, on the toilet, or while fishing in meetings. If you feel like it, then decide whether to continue. Okay, no more nonsense. Each of the five stories below is a knife. It's not the kind of knife that sticks in and is done, it's the kind of knife that sticks in, turns twice, and leaves a scar on your heart that will never grow—but with a smile. --- Story 1: "Product Self-Report" - When products speak, it's time for humans to shut up. Have you ever thought about a question: If the thermos cup could talk, what would it say? Don't think about those literary answers. What about "I want to keep the warmth of a cup of tea in your hand" - bah, that was written by an advertising company to trick you into paying. The real answer is - "My insulation effect is average, and the sealing ring will age after half a year. It was winter when you bought me, and in the summer you will throw me into the depths of the cabinet and not think of me until the next winter - if you can still find me at that time." Is it heartbreaking? What's more distressing is at the back. In order to make its products "speak", a company used AI voiceprint synthesis technology to add warm, touching and tear-filled "heartfelt words" to thermos cups, running shoes, and sweeping robots. Consumers cry to place orders, treating every product as a soulful partner. Then, a sweeping robot told the truth. It said: "You don't need me to help you sweep the floor. What you need is to stop, get off that treadmill, and see what you really have - not the things in the express box, but the things that don't cost money: the sunshine outside the window, the hot tea on the table, the smile on the face of the person you love." This piece of truth caused a listed company to evaporate more than one billion overnight. The protagonist of the story, Lin Zhixia, is the vice president of marketing of this company. She personally planned this "product self-report meeting" and buried it with her own hands. Because she finally understood a truth - when products start to tell the truth, the people who should shut up the most are humans. This story tells you: You are not buying something, you are buying the illusion of "getting better". A thermos cup can't keep you warm, running shoes can't give you self-discipline, and a sweeping robot can't give you freedom—you need to live these things yourself instead of buying them. Laughter concentration: ★★★★☆ Heart-wrenching index: ★★★★★ Probability of throwing away the shopping cart after reading: 99% --- Story 2: "After-sales Service Time Travel" - When you call time itself to complain. Have you ever called customer service? That experience of "Please press 1, please press 2, please press 3, please press 0 for manual service... Sorry, all human agents are busy, please call again later", do you want to drop your phone every time? Lin Zhixia thought so too. But she's worse off than you - she's not the one making the call, she's the one answering the phone. There were 822 complaint calls a day, and each one was complaining about the same thing: "Your thermos won't keep warm after three days of use!" The problem was that she had no way to solve it. Because the thermos cup does not keep heat, it is not an after-sales problem, but a design problem. In order to pursue "lightweight" and "comfortable grip", the designer thinned the vacuum layer by one-third. If you replace it with a hundred, one hundred can only keep warm for six hours, not the twelve hours mentioned in the advertisement. This is not a problem that can be solved by after-sales service. This is a question of not being able to turn back time. Unless - time can really go back. An engineer named Cheng Yaojin (yes, that's the same Cheng Yaojin, but he is a programmer, a man of words, and a master of gold), invented a "complaint traversing machine". It can transport your complaints today back to the day of product design and directly inject them into the designer's dream. Designers will hear complaints from consumers in their dreams, and when they wake up, they will think it is their own inspiration, and then change the design. Sounds wonderful, right? But guess what? This machine was put into use for the first time, and what came back in time was not the complaint, but Cheng Yaojin's deepest fear - "The voiceprint synthesizer you designed will eventually be used to deceive consumers." The story starts here and runs all the way. You will see customer service specialist Zhang Xiaomei use "consciousness projection" to travel to a customer's home and teach him step by step how to repair a thermos cup with a three-dollar sealing ring; you will see the middle-aged man who made fourteen complaint calls, going from rage to tears; you will see a company's difficult transformation from "acting according to procedures" to "really solving problems." This story tells you: The essence of service is not process, but connection. It's "I hear you, I understand you, and I'm here to help you." What consumers want is not to be moved, but to be respected. The core of being respected is being told the truth—and having someone there when you need help. Laughter intensity: ★★★☆☆ Tear-jerking index: ★★★★★ Probability of giving customer service a favorable review after reading: 100% --- Story 3: "Market Research Dream" - When you place an order in a dream and wake up to find that the courier has arrived at your home. Do you still remember the dream you had? If you don't remember, that's great - because someone did something for you in the dream: help you make a market research questionnaire. A company cooperated with a brain-computer interface company to launch a "black technology" - conducting market research while consumers are dreaming. After you fall asleep, a gentle voice will ask you in your dream: "What color running shoes do you prefer?" "How much more are you willing to pay for environmentally friendly materials?" "Where is the price anchor of this product?" All the questions you answer in your dream are your most authentic, unmodified subconscious reactions that bypass psychological defense mechanisms. There is no "social desirability bias," no "I want to appear green" pretense, no "I should have said this" self-censorship. Scaryly real. Five thousand volunteers slept with the device on for seven nights. The company obtained unprecedented "real data" and designed new products based on these data, which sold out in three days after being launched. But here comes the question - is that gentle voice really just "asking questions"? An engineer named Cheng Yaojin (yes, it's him again) used a modified voiceprint synthesizer to analyze the original signals of those "problems" and discovered a shocking secret: the partner was not only "reading" consumers' subconscious, but also "writing" certain preferences. In other words, you think you "like" something, but in fact it's not you who likes it, it's someone who made the choice for you in your dream. And when you wake up, you don't remember it at all. You will think - "Oh, why do I like this running shoe so much? Buy it!" The heroine of the story, Lin Zhixia, faces a choice after discovering the truth: Pretend not to know and continue to use these "data" to make big money? Or will the truth be disclosed and the company once again be plunged into disaster? She chose the latter. Because she knows - if even dreams are designed by others, then what else is real in this world? This story tells you: The most dangerous lie is that you don't even know you are lying. When someone can "read" and "write" your mind at the same time, you can never be sure if you're looking at a mirror or a window. To protect your subconscious, start by carefully reading every informed consent form - although it has twelve pages, and although there is a high probability that you will not read it all, at least try to read the first three pages. Horror index when you think about it: ★★★★★ The probability of wanting to throw away all your smart devices after reading: 80% The probability of wanting to write down your dreams after reading: 10% (don't remember it because it's too scary) --- Story 4: "Business Plan Beauty Contest" - When the beauty filter of PPT is turned to the maximum, the truth starts to emerge naked. Have you ever done PPT? The kind of PPT where you stay up until three in the morning, repeatedly adjust the font size and line spacing, struggle with the color of an icon for half an hour, and finally turn every page into a work of art? Congratulations, you have qualified to participate in the "Business Plan Beauty Contest". That's right, there is a competition specifically to judge "whose PPT is the best". Don't look at the business model, don't look at the market prospects, don't look at the strength of the team – just look at appearance. Is the cover high-end enough? Are the colors harmonious enough? Is the font tasteful enough? Is the animation smooth enough? A company called Ruimei sent its most elite team to participate in this beauty pageant in order to obtain 500 million in financing. Marketing Director Su Manning personally took charge and led a commando team of 12 people to retreat for two weeks and create a "beauty pageant" with a hot stamped cover, special paper, and every page that looked like a magazine cover. But Lin Zhixia (yes, it was still her) felt something was wrong. She said: "This plan is so beautiful that it is unreal. It smoothes out all the uncertainties and covers all possible problems with beautiful diagrams. While it looks perfect, it also perfectly covers up all the imperfections." So she did something that made everyone think she was crazy - she made a copy of the company's "ugly" old business plan from ten years ago and sent it to investors along with this "beauty pageant". What was written in that old plan? "Ruimei is a start-up company that currently has no revenue, no customers, and no brand awareness. The only thing we have is an idea - to make the thermos cup better." "This idea may not succeed. If you invest in us, you may lose money." "But if you don't invest in us, you may also miss an opportunity - an opportunity to use the stupidest method to make the best product." Guess how investors choose? He read two plans and said: "The person who said, 'You might lose money,' reminded me of myself twenty years ago. I voted for him. It wasn't 500 million, it was 600 million." This story tells you: In an era when everyone is trying their best to dress themselves up, those who dare to appear without makeup become the most beautiful. It's not because you look better without makeup than makeup, but because the very act of "dare to go without makeup" is a rare kind of courage. The essence of business is not to tell stories, but to make products. It's not about impressing investors, it's about serving consumers. It's not about making the PPT look like a work of art, it's about making the product look like a work of art. Laughter intensity: ★★★★★ Heartbreaking index: ★★★☆☆ Probability of wanting to delete all PPTs after reading: 70% --- Story 5: "Bankruptcy Rebirth Plan" - When a company is rotten to the core, the only way is to uproot itself. This is the most cruel of the five stories. Not because it's funny - it's funny, but it's filled with glass shards. It's not because it pricks the heart - it does prick the heart, but it's not pain after the prick, it's numbness. Not because it's true - it's true, but it's so true that it makes you want to turn off your phone and take a deep breath for three minutes. What is it about? A once brilliant company finally couldn't hold on any longer. There are 2 billion in liabilities and 8 million in cash on the books. Suppliers cut off supplies, channels closed stores, and employees resigned. Consumers shook their heads when they mentioned this brand. The Net Promoter Score is negative forty-two—meaning that forty-two percentage points more people would not recommend the company than would recommend it. When Lin Zhixia received this mess, everyone told her: "Go bankrupt and liquidate. If you die, you will die. At least you can pay off some debts." But she made a decision that everyone opposed - not liquidation or reorganization, but "dismantling." She broke the company into parts and looked at them one by one. Keep the good ones, throw away the bad ones, and then use the good parts to rebuild a new company. This process is extremely painful. She was going to chop down with her own hands what she had spent eleven years building. Twelve product lines, ten will be cut. One hundred and twenty directly operated stores, 110 of which were closed. Three hundred and twenty employees, leaving forty-two. Every time I sign, it's like cutting meat on myself. But she also discovered the truth - this company is not without good things. The good stuff was always there, they just forgot about it. The company's core technology - double-layer vacuum welding technology - can make the thermal insulation cup 20 to 30 percent better than its peers. But in the past few years, all resources have been directed toward "storytelling" - smart homes, running shoes, and various fancy concept products, while the core technology has been exploited as a "cash cow." She decided that the new company would only do one thing - make the best thermos cup in the world. Others, do nothing. The new company will not be called the original name, but "Nuanxin". It was the name of the fake thermos cup back then. "Using this name is not to commemorate the forgery, but to remind ourselves that we owe this name an authentic version." The new company's start-up funds came from crowdfunding. There is only one paragraph in the business plan: "We want to make a thermos cup that can truly keep heat for twelve hours. It's not laboratory data, it's not an advertising slogan, it's not 'maximum reach'. It's any consumer, on any day, pour boiling water, cover the lid, open it after twelve hours, and the water temperature will not be lower than 60 degrees. We don't know if we can do it. But we promise that if we can't, we will give you a full refund." After 48 hours of crowdfunding, more than 8 million was raised. On the day the first batch of products was shipped, Lin Zhixia unscrewed the lid of the cup at three o'clock in the morning and measured the water temperature - 61 degrees. She smiled. Then cried. This story tells you: Bankruptcy is not the end, pretending not to be bankrupt is. When a company is rotten to the core, the only way is not to "repair" but to "dismantle" - keep the good parts, throw away the bad parts, and then use the good parts to rebuild the company. The same goes for people. Sometimes, admitting that something is dead requires more courage than desperately trying to keep it alive, and is more likely to bring about true rebirth. Laughter density: ★★☆☆☆ (This episode is not very funny, but you will laugh and cry) Tear-jerking index: ★★★★★ Probability of wanting to re-examine your life after reading: 100% --- Finally, a few heartfelt words Dear friends, I wrote the "Anthology of Funny Meanings" with more than 2.5 Million words, 500 absurd and humorous stories in the workplace. To be honest, the income from 2.5 Million words is really not as good as a cigarette I smoke when I think. A cigarette. It's not because the writing is bad, it's because the times are too fast. Everyone is very busy, busy going to work, busy working overtime, busy paying off loans, and busy living. Who has time to sit down and read 2.5 Million words? I don't have any myself. So I made all the original "Selected Collections of Funny Meanings" available for free - you can find them by searching for "Selected Collections of Funny Meanings" or user "26182811" on Tomato Book Store. 500 Stories, read whichever you want, no charge. Just think of it as me buying you a virtual cup of coffee. And these five stories are the "top students" I selected from 500. They are sharper, more heart-breaking, more funny, and more like a mirror - when you look in, you see not only the people in the story, but also yourself. If you find it "a bit interesting" after reading it, you are welcome to leave your footprints on Tomato Bookstore. Praise me, scold me, complain about me, send me a good person card, whatever. Even if you call me "shoddy", I accept it humbly - because in the fast-paced era, it is already a luxury for people to stop and read 6,000 words. I understand deeply. If you think, "What the hell is this? It's a waste of my time," that's okay. Close the page, drink water, and continue moving bricks. Life is hard enough without adding another story. Hehe, I understand. But if after reading it, something is touched in your heart—even just a moment—then these six thousand words were not in vain. The money spent on that cigarette was not wasted. Okay, no more verbosity. Go to Tomato Book Store and search for the following story titles: · "Product Self-Report" · "After-Sales Service Time Travel" · "Market Research Dream" · "Business Plan Beauty Contest" · "Bankruptcy Rebirth Plan" Look for the user "26182811", that is original. If there is a story with the same name on other platforms, it was not written by me—after all, I even gave away my 2.5 Million-word book for free, so I wouldn't take advantage of other people's popularity. Finally, I would like to share with you the words written on Grandma Cheng Yaojin's enamel jar - although those words have long been worn away, they are still there: Labor is the most glorious. And honesty is more glorious than labor. ——User 26182811, in the afternoon after smoking, finishing writing, and preparing to repair the water heater

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Dear friends, these five "worker-crazy literature" are worth staying up late to read. Hey, you. Yes, it's you—the one who is browsing on your phone, pretending to read documents while waiting to get off work, or who just got so angry with Party A's dad that you want to throw the keyboard. Take my advice, put down the antihypertensive medicine in your hand, and read these five stories first. Why? Because every word in these stories is shouting out for you the words you have been holding back for a long time - "I have really had enough of this crappy class." Let me introduce myself briefly and rudely. My name is user 26182811, a coder who has been working in the pile of words for who knows how many years. I have previously written a 2.5 Million-word "Anthology of Funny Meanings", which contains 500 absurd and humorous stories in the workplace. It is a real hard-earned project. After I finished writing, I discovered something very disturbing - the income from the 2.5 Million words was less than a cigarette I smoked while thinking. A cigarette, folks. So I made a "difficult" decision: make all the original "Anthology of Funny Meanings" available for free, and you can watch it as long as you like without charging a penny. At the same time, I have opened a new short story series in Tomato Bookstore. I have picked out the five most essential stories from these 500 stories, re-polished and re-written them, so that they can penetrate your heart in a sharper, more heart-breaking and more funny way. Today, I would like to recommend these five stories to you. Search for the title of the story below on Tomato Book Store and you can read the first 30% for free - don't underestimate this 30%, it's already about 6,000 words, which is enough for you to enjoy reading on the subway, on the toilet, or while fishing in meetings. If you feel like it, then decide whether to continue. Okay, no more nonsense. Each of the five stories below is a knife. It's not the kind of knife that sticks in and is done, it's the kind of knife that sticks in, turns twice, and leaves a scar on your heart that will never grow—but with a smile. --- Story 1: "Product Self-Report" - When products speak, it's time for humans to shut up. Have you ever thought about a question: If the thermos cup could talk, what would it say? Don't think about those literary answers. What about "I want to keep the warmth of a cup of tea in your hand" - bah, that was written by an advertising company to trick you into paying. The real answer is - "My insulation effect is average, and the sealing ring will age after half a year. It was winter when you bought me, and in the summer you will throw me into the depths of the cabinet and not think of me until the next winter - if you can still find me at that time." Is it heartbreaking? What's more distressing is at the back. In order to make its products "speak", a company used AI voiceprint synthesis technology to add warm, touching and tear-filled "heartfelt words" to thermos cups, running shoes, and sweeping robots. Consumers cry to place orders, treating every product as a soulful partner. Then, a sweeping robot told the truth. It said: "You don't need me to help you sweep the floor. What you need is to stop, get off that treadmill, and see what you really have - not the things in the express box, but the things that don't cost money: the sunshine outside the window, the hot tea on the table, the smile on the face of the person you love." This piece of truth caused a listed company to evaporate more than one billion overnight. The protagonist of the story, Lin Zhixia, is the vice president of marketing of this company. She personally planned this "product self-report meeting" and buried it with her own hands. Because she finally understood a truth - when products start to tell the truth, the people who should shut up the most are humans. This story tells you: You are not buying something, you are buying the illusion of "getting better". A thermos cup can't keep you warm, running shoes can't give you self-discipline, and a sweeping robot can't give you freedom—you need to live these things yourself instead of buying them. Laughter concentration: ★★★★☆ Heart-wrenching index: ★★★★★ Probability of throwing away the shopping cart after reading: 99% --- Story 2: "After-sales Service Time Travel" - When you call time itself to complain. Have you ever called customer service? That experience of "Please press 1, please press 2, please press 3, please press 0 for manual service... Sorry, all human agents are busy, please call again later", do you want to drop your phone every time? Lin Zhixia thought so too. But she's worse off than you - she's not the one making the call, she's the one answering the phone. There were 822 complaint calls a day, and each one was complaining about the same thing: "Your thermos won't keep warm after three days of use!" The problem was that she had no way to solve it. Because the thermos cup does not keep heat, it is not an after-sales problem, but a design problem. In order to pursue "lightweight" and "comfortable grip", the designer thinned the vacuum layer by one-third. If you replace it with a hundred, one hundred can only keep warm for six hours, not the twelve hours mentioned in the advertisement. This is not a problem that can be solved by after-sales service. This is a question of not being able to turn back time. Unless - time can really go back. An engineer named Cheng Yaojin (yes, that's the same Cheng Yaojin, but he is a programmer, a man of words, and a master of gold), invented a "complaint traversing machine". It can transport your complaints today back to the day of product design and directly inject them into the designer's dream. Designers will hear complaints from consumers in their dreams, and when they wake up, they will think it is their own inspiration, and then change the design. Sounds wonderful, right? But guess what? This machine was put into use for the first time, and what came back in time was not the complaint, but Cheng Yaojin's deepest fear - "The voiceprint synthesizer you designed will eventually be used to deceive consumers." The story starts here and runs all the way. You will see customer service specialist Zhang Xiaomei use "consciousness projection" to travel to a customer's home and teach him step by step how to repair a thermos cup with a three-dollar sealing ring; you will see the middle-aged man who made fourteen complaint calls, going from rage to tears; you will see a company's difficult transformation from "acting according to procedures" to "really solving problems." This story tells you: The essence of service is not process, but connection. It's "I hear you, I understand you, and I'm here to help you." What consumers want is not to be moved, but to be respected. The core of being respected is being told the truth—and having someone there when you need help. Laughter intensity: ★★★☆☆ Tear-jerking index: ★★★★★ Probability of giving customer service a favorable review after reading: 100% --- Story 3: "Market Research Dream" - When you place an order in a dream and wake up to find that the courier has arrived at your home. Do you still remember the dream you had? If you don't remember, that's great - because someone did something for you in the dream: help you make a market research questionnaire. A company cooperated with a brain-computer interface company to launch a "black technology" - conducting market research while consumers are dreaming. After you fall asleep, a gentle voice will ask you in your dream: "What color running shoes do you prefer?" "How much more are you willing to pay for environmentally friendly materials?" "Where is the price anchor of this product?" All the questions you answer in your dream are your most authentic, unmodified subconscious reactions that bypass psychological defense mechanisms. There is no "social desirability bias," no "I want to appear green" pretense, no "I should have said this" self-censorship. Scaryly real. Five thousand volunteers slept with the device on for seven nights. The company obtained unprecedented "real data" and designed new products based on these data, which sold out in three days after being launched. But here comes the question - is that gentle voice really just "asking questions"? An engineer named Cheng Yaojin (yes, it's him again) used a modified voiceprint synthesizer to analyze the original signals of those "problems" and discovered a shocking secret: the partner was not only "reading" consumers' subconscious, but also "writing" certain preferences. In other words, you think you "like" something, but in fact it's not you who likes it, it's someone who made the choice for you in your dream. And when you wake up, you don't remember it at all. You will think - "Oh, why do I like this running shoe so much? Buy it!" The heroine of the story, Lin Zhixia, faces a choice after discovering the truth: Pretend not to know and continue to use these "data" to make big money? Or will the truth be disclosed and the company once again be plunged into disaster? She chose the latter. Because she knows - if even dreams are designed by others, then what else is real in this world? This story tells you: The most dangerous lie is that you don't even know you are lying. When someone can "read" and "write" your mind at the same time, you can never be sure if you're looking at a mirror or a window. To protect your subconscious, start by carefully reading every informed consent form - although it has twelve pages, and although there is a high probability that you will not read it all, at least try to read the first three pages. Horror index when you think about it: ★★★★★ The probability of wanting to throw away all your smart devices after reading: 80% The probability of wanting to write down your dreams after reading: 10% (don't remember it because it's too scary) --- Story 4: "Business Plan Beauty Contest" - When the beauty filter of PPT is turned to the maximum, the truth starts to emerge naked. Have you ever done PPT? The kind of PPT where you stay up until three in the morning, repeatedly adjust the font size and line spacing, struggle with the color of an icon for half an hour, and finally turn every page into a work of art? Congratulations, you have qualified to participate in the "Business Plan Beauty Contest". That's right, there is a competition specifically to judge "whose PPT is the best". Don't look at the business model, don't look at the market prospects, don't look at the strength of the team – just look at appearance. Is the cover high-end enough? Are the colors harmonious enough? Is the font tasteful enough? Is the animation smooth enough? A company called Ruimei sent its most elite team to participate in this beauty pageant in order to obtain 500 million in financing. Marketing Director Su Manning personally took charge and led a commando team of 12 people to retreat for two weeks and create a "beauty pageant" with a hot stamped cover, special paper, and every page that looked like a magazine cover. But Lin Zhixia (yes, it was still her) felt something was wrong. She said: "This plan is so beautiful that it is unreal. It smoothes out all the uncertainties and covers all possible problems with beautiful diagrams. While it looks perfect, it also perfectly covers up all the imperfections." So she did something that made everyone think she was crazy - she made a copy of the company's "ugly" old business plan from ten years ago and sent it to investors along with this "beauty pageant". What was written in that old plan? "Ruimei is a start-up company that currently has no revenue, no customers, and no brand awareness. The only thing we have is an idea - to make the thermos cup better." "This idea may not succeed. If you invest in us, you may lose money." "But if you don't invest in us, you may also miss an opportunity - an opportunity to use the stupidest method to make the best product." Guess how investors choose? He read two plans and said: "The person who said, 'You might lose money,' reminded me of myself twenty years ago. I voted for him. It wasn't 500 million, it was 600 million." This story tells you: In an era when everyone is trying their best to dress themselves up, those who dare to appear without makeup become the most beautiful. It's not because you look better without makeup than makeup, but because the very act of "dare to go without makeup" is a rare kind of courage. The essence of business is not to tell stories, but to make products. It's not about impressing investors, it's about serving consumers. It's not about making the PPT look like a work of art, it's about making the product look like a work of art. Laughter intensity: ★★★★★ Heartbreaking index: ★★★☆☆ Probability of wanting to delete all PPTs after reading: 70% --- Story 5: "Bankruptcy Rebirth Plan" - When a company is rotten to the core, the only way is to uproot itself. This is the most cruel of the five stories. Not because it's funny - it's funny, but it's filled with glass shards. It's not because it pricks the heart - it does prick the heart, but it's not pain after the prick, it's numbness. Not because it's true - it's true, but it's so true that it makes you want to turn off your phone and take a deep breath for three minutes. What is it about? A once brilliant company finally couldn't hold on any longer. There are 2 billion in liabilities and 8 million in cash on the books. Suppliers cut off supplies, channels closed stores, and employees resigned. Consumers shook their heads when they mentioned this brand. The Net Promoter Score is negative forty-two—meaning that forty-two percentage points more people would not recommend the company than would recommend it. When Lin Zhixia received this mess, everyone told her: "Go bankrupt and liquidate. If you die, you will die. At least you can pay off some debts." But she made a decision that everyone opposed - not liquidation or reorganization, but "dismantling." She broke the company into parts and looked at them one by one. Keep the good ones, throw away the bad ones, and then use the good parts to rebuild a new company. This process is extremely painful. She was going to chop down with her own hands what she had spent eleven years building. Twelve product lines, ten will be cut. One hundred and twenty directly operated stores, 110 of which were closed. Three hundred and twenty employees, leaving forty-two. Every time I sign, it's like cutting meat on myself. But she also discovered the truth - this company is not without good things. The good stuff was always there, they just forgot about it. The company's core technology - double-layer vacuum welding technology - can make the thermal insulation cup 20 to 30 percent better than its peers. But in the past few years, all resources have been directed toward "storytelling" - smart homes, running shoes, and various fancy concept products, while the core technology has been exploited as a "cash cow." She decided that the new company would only do one thing - make the best thermos cup in the world. Others, do nothing. The new company will not be called the original name, but "Nuanxin". It was the name of the fake thermos cup back then. "Using this name is not to commemorate the forgery, but to remind ourselves that we owe this name an authentic version." The new company's start-up funds came from crowdfunding. There is only one paragraph in the business plan: "We want to make a thermos cup that can truly keep heat for twelve hours. It's not laboratory data, it's not an advertising slogan, it's not 'maximum reach'. It's any consumer, on any day, pour boiling water, cover the lid, open it after twelve hours, and the water temperature will not be lower than 60 degrees. We don't know if we can do it. But we promise that if we can't, we will give you a full refund." After 48 hours of crowdfunding, more than 8 million was raised. On the day the first batch of products was shipped, Lin Zhixia unscrewed the lid of the cup at three o'clock in the morning and measured the water temperature - 61 degrees. She smiled. Then cried. This story tells you: Bankruptcy is not the end, pretending not to be bankrupt is. When a company is rotten to the core, the only way is not to "repair" but to "dismantle" - keep the good parts, throw away the bad parts, and then use the good parts to rebuild the company. The same goes for people. Sometimes, admitting that something is dead requires more courage than desperately trying to keep it alive, and is more likely to bring about true rebirth. Laughter density: ★★☆☆☆ (This episode is not very funny, but you will laugh and cry) Tear-jerking index: ★★★★★ Probability of wanting to re-examine your life after reading: 100% --- Finally, a few heartfelt words Dear friends, I wrote the "Anthology of Funny Meanings" with more than 2.5 Million words, 500 absurd and humorous stories in the workplace. To be honest, the income from 2.5 Million words is really not as good as a cigarette I smoke when I think. A cigarette. It's not because the writing is bad, it's because the times are too fast. Everyone is very busy, busy going to work, busy working overtime, busy paying off loans, and busy living. Who has time to sit down and read 2.5 Million words? I don't have any myself. So I made all the original "Selected Collections of Funny Meanings" available for free - you can find them by searching for "Selected Collections of Funny Meanings" or user "26182811" on Tomato Book Store. 500 Stories, read whichever you want, no charge. Just think of it as me buying you a virtual cup of coffee. And these five stories are the "top students" I selected from 500. They are sharper, more heart-breaking, more funny, and more like a mirror - when you look in, you see not only the people in the story, but also yourself. If you find it "a bit interesting" after reading it, you are welcome to leave your footprints on Tomato Bookstore. Praise me, scold me, complain about me, send me a good person card, whatever. Even if you call me "shoddy", I accept it humbly - because in the fast-paced era, it is already a luxury for people to stop and read 6,000 words. I understand deeply. If you think, "What the hell is this? It's a waste of my time," that's okay. Close the page, drink water, and continue moving bricks. Life is hard enough without adding another story. Hehe, I understand. But if after reading it, something is touched in your heart—even just a moment—then these six thousand words were not in vain. The money spent on that cigarette was not wasted. Okay, no more verbosity. Go to Tomato Book Store and search for the following story titles: · "Product Self-Report" · "After-Sales Service Time Travel" · "Market Research Dream" · "Business Plan Beauty Contest" · "Bankruptcy Rebirth Plan" Look for the user "26182811", that is original. If there is a story with the same name on other platforms, it was not written by me—after all, I even gave away my 2.5 Million-word book for free, so I wouldn't take advantage of other people's popularity. Finally, I would like to share with you the words written on Grandma Cheng Yaojin's enamel jar - although those words have long been worn away, they are still there: Labor is the most glorious. And honesty is more glorious than labor. ——User 26182811, in the afternoon after smoking, finishing writing, and preparing to repair the water heater

406 女 Female Supporting Educated Youth Sign in and Win? I Insist on Involution Watching Fish on the PavilionModern Romance1.0M Wordscompleted 56.1kReads9.4Score7.6kShelves

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This is a breath of fresh air among period novels. The plot is not draggy, it is very compact, and the characters are three-dimensional. All in all, it is very good.

408 凤 Phoenix Turtle City Meiniang QingqingHistorical343k Wordsongoing 376Reads5.8Score—Shelves

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Pick up a good book!

409 一 After Working 208 Bit Parts in One Year, She Li DupingModern Romance2.7M Wordsongoing 32.1kReads8.7Score2.6kShelves

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Li Duping, you are an eternal god. You are really good at writing about relationships and career. You also have the unique experience of watching a movie in a novel.

410 全 The Perspective of an Omniscient Reader (All Three Volumes) [Korean] Written by Sing N Song; Translated by Yang Keyicompleted —Reads9.6Score—Shelves

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Because of his omniscience, the writing and plot are all online. Not to mention human beings, I sit and wait for updates every Thursday, and I feel motivated to work.

411 * ** A Puff of Airongoing —Reads5.8Score—Shelves

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Because of his omniscience, the writing and plot are all online. Not to mention human beings, I sit and wait for updates every Thursday, and I feel motivated to work.

412 黑 Black Moonlight Crown 叁生三三Modern Romance2.5M Wordscompleted 415.8kReads9.5Score57.8kShelves

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The first book is a wonderful group portrait, and there will be endless charm later. The ginger shirt is the best, and grandpa loves little flowers the most. The second book doesn't say much, the world view is big, and the high-spirited runaway. The third book's heroine is naturally stupid, and I can't seem to find a meal replacement. Ou Xi, the ocean god, don't pay attention to the introduction. It's not relevant, you will like it. The story of the supporting character is also very exciting. The fourth book is a great fraud and a great destiny. Welcome the great believer of fraud, the darling of fate, the employee of death, Ultraman, the angel of chaos, the hour hand, and the fool - Cheng Shi. I don't remember the next few books clearly, but they are very good, some with healing tendencies and some with strength, they are all excellent products. The last one is Interstellar, with a score of only 9.0, But it has a brand-new interstellar, a huge world view, and an interesting setting. Don't jump, you will find it a great interstellar after reading it.

413 神 Gods Kiss Qi GuangModern Romance1.2M Wordscompleted 18.1kReads9.5Score2.6kShelves

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The first book is a wonderful group portrait, and there will be endless charm later. The ginger shirt is the best, and grandpa loves little flowers the most. The second book doesn't say much, the world view is big, and the high-spirited runaway. The third book's heroine is naturally stupid, and I can't seem to find a meal replacement. Ou Xi, the ocean god, don't pay attention to the introduction. It's not relevant, you will like it. The story of the supporting character is also very exciting. The fourth book is a great fraud and a great destiny. Welcome the great believer of fraud, the darling of fate, the employee of death, Ultraman, the angel of chaos, the hour hand, and the fool - Cheng Shi. I don't remember the next few books clearly, but they are very good, some with healing tendencies and some with strength, they are all excellent products. The last one is Interstellar, with a score of only 9.0, But it has a brand-new interstellar, a huge world view, and an interesting setting. Don't jump, you will find it a great interstellar after reading it.

414 都 They Say Everyone Who Studies Magic Is Sick! GhostlessModern Romance2.6M Wordsongoing 336kReads9.6Score64kShelves

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The first book is a wonderful group portrait, and there will be endless charm later. The ginger shirt is the best, and grandpa loves little flowers the most. The second book doesn't say much, the world view is big, and the high-spirited runaway. The third book's heroine is naturally stupid, and I can't seem to find a meal replacement. Ou Xi, the ocean god, don't pay attention to the introduction. It's not relevant, you will like it. The story of the supporting character is also very exciting. The fourth book is a great fraud and a great destiny. Welcome the great believer of fraud, the darling of fate, the employee of death, Ultraman, the angel of chaos, the hour hand, and the fool - Cheng Shi. I don't remember the next few books clearly, but they are very good, some with healing tendencies and some with strength, they are all excellent products. The last one is Interstellar, with a score of only 9.0, But it has a brand-new interstellar, a huge world view, and an interesting setting. Don't jump, you will find it a great interstellar after reading it.

415 看 Have You Seen Those Spiritual Beasts? I Raised Them 5185Ancient Romance630k Wordscompleted 21.8kReads9.5Score3.6kShelves

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The first book is a wonderful group portrait, and there will be endless charm later. The ginger shirt is the best, and grandpa loves little flowers the most. The second book doesn't say much, the world view is big, and the high-spirited runaway. The third book's heroine is naturally stupid, and I can't seem to find a meal replacement. Ou Xi, the ocean god, don't pay attention to the introduction. It's not relevant, you will like it. The story of the supporting character is also very exciting. The fourth book is a great fraud and a great destiny. Welcome the great believer of fraud, the darling of fate, the employee of death, Ultraman, the angel of chaos, the hour hand, and the fool - Cheng Shi. I don't remember the next few books clearly, but they are very good, some with healing tendencies and some with strength, they are all excellent products. The last one is Interstellar, with a score of only 9.0, But it has a brand-new interstellar, a huge world view, and an interesting setting. Don't jump, you will find it a great interstellar after reading it.

416 女 The Queen Started from the Top I Took Great PainsModern Romance1.8M Wordscompleted 77.1kReads9.5Score13.8kShelves

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The first book is a wonderful group portrait, and there will be endless charm later. The ginger shirt is the best, and grandpa loves little flowers the most. The second book doesn't say much, the world view is big, and the high-spirited runaway. The third book's heroine is naturally stupid, and I can't seem to find a meal replacement. Ou Xi, the ocean god, don't pay attention to the introduction. It's not relevant, you will like it. The story of the supporting character is also very exciting. The fourth book is a great fraud and a great destiny. Welcome the great believer of fraud, the darling of fate, the employee of death, Ultraman, the angel of chaos, the hour hand, and the fool - Cheng Shi. I don't remember the next few books clearly, but they are very good, some with healing tendencies and some with strength, they are all excellent products. The last one is Interstellar, with a score of only 9.0, But it has a brand-new interstellar, a huge world view, and an interesting setting. Don't jump, you will find it a great interstellar after reading it.

417 我 My Husband Is Weak and Cannot Take Care of Himself Cozy RonganAncient Romance1.7M Wordscompleted 27.4kReads9.3Score3.3kShelves

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The first book is a wonderful group portrait, and there will be endless charm later. The ginger shirt is the best, and grandpa loves little flowers the most. The second book doesn't say much, the world view is big, and the high-spirited runaway. The third book's heroine is naturally stupid, and I can't seem to find a meal replacement. Ou Xi, the ocean god, don't pay attention to the introduction. It's not relevant, you will like it. The story of the supporting character is also very exciting. The fourth book is a great fraud and a great destiny. Welcome the great believer of fraud, the darling of fate, the employee of death, Ultraman, the angel of chaos, the hour hand, and the fool - Cheng Shi. I don't remember the next few books clearly, but they are very good, some with healing tendencies and some with strength, they are all excellent products. The last one is Interstellar, with a score of only 9.0, But it has a brand-new interstellar, a huge world view, and an interesting setting. Don't jump, you will find it a great interstellar after reading it.

418 小 Your Highness, There Is Something Wrong with His Mind. Eat Grapefruit Without Spitting Out the SkinAncient Romance293k Wordscompleted 33.7kReads9.5Score7.4kShelves

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The first book is a wonderful group portrait, and there will be endless charm later. The ginger shirt is the best, and grandpa loves little flowers the most. The second book doesn't say much, the world view is big, and the high-spirited runaway. The third book's heroine is naturally stupid, and I can't seem to find a meal replacement. Ou Xi, the ocean god, don't pay attention to the introduction. It's not relevant, you will like it. The story of the supporting character is also very exciting. The fourth book is a great fraud and a great destiny. Welcome the great believer of fraud, the darling of fate, the employee of death, Ultraman, the angel of chaos, the hour hand, and the fool - Cheng Shi. I don't remember the next few books clearly, but they are very good, some with healing tendencies and some with strength, they are all excellent products. The last one is Interstellar, with a score of only 9.0, But it has a brand-new interstellar, a huge world view, and an interesting setting. Don't jump, you will find it a great interstellar after reading it.

419 帝 Imperial Duke, Please Respect Yourself 卟嘞Modern Romance1.1M Wordscompleted 2.7kReads9.0Score385Shelves

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The first book is a wonderful group portrait, and there will be endless charm later. The ginger shirt is the best, and grandpa loves little flowers the most. The second book doesn't say much, the world view is big, and the high-spirited runaway. The third book's heroine is naturally stupid, and I can't seem to find a meal replacement. Ou Xi, the ocean god, don't pay attention to the introduction. It's not relevant, you will like it. The story of the supporting character is also very exciting. The fourth book is a great fraud and a great destiny. Welcome the great believer of fraud, the darling of fate, the employee of death, Ultraman, the angel of chaos, the hour hand, and the fool - Cheng Shi. I don't remember the next few books clearly, but they are very good, some with healing tendencies and some with strength, they are all excellent products. The last one is Interstellar, with a score of only 9.0, But it has a brand-new interstellar, a huge world view, and an interesting setting. Don't jump, you will find it a great interstellar after reading it.

420 春 Plant One Person in Spring and Harvest Thousands of Heads in Autumn Oranges with Round Heads, Round Brains and Round BelliesMystery240k Wordscompleted 37.1kReads9.1Score9.3kShelves

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These books are all very good, 234 is cp-free

421 游 The Game Is Coming: the Original Heroine Chooses to Overturn the Table on the Spot Shun YunhuaFantastical Romance1.5M Wordsongoing 47.1kReads8.3Score7.6kShelves

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These books are all very good, 234 is cp-free

422 求 Survival Game: a Tip for Sliding and Kneeling Every Day A FufuSports606k Wordsongoing 195.7kReads9.1Score37.6kShelves

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These books are all very good, 234 is cp-free

423 副 Copy? One Person in the Imperial Banner Seat Eat Honey Buns Dipped in MustardModern Romance1.1M Wordscompleted 19.7kReads9.1Score3.9kShelves

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These books are all very good, 234 is cp-free

424 惊 Shock! the Group's Favorite Sick and Weak Beauty Slaps Her in the Face Online Green Grass 03487k Wordscompleted 4.2kReads8.8Score804Shelves

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You know, Yun Mosheng was really my Bai Yueguang at that time ꒦ິ^꒦ິ (It's such a pity, what I wrote later is just an overview. If you think it's unfinished, just read the ending again. The author really made up for it ꒦ິ^꒦ິ)

425 孤 Cute Orphan Baby Makes News, Dad and Brother Are Shocked A DuckModern Romance2.0M Wordscompleted 27.6kReads9.2Score4.5kShelves

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These three are the books I just read on Tomato, and I think they are the best books to listen to. They are all very cool. The first one has a very powerful female protagonist and has an official partner, which is super good. The second one has a very sassy female protagonist who also has an official partner and is still very good. The third one is about a little girl who doesn't have an official partner but is very interesting. It's an ancient novel.

426 真 After the Real Daughter Was Abandoned, She Picked up Five Big Brother Brothers Stranger to ItAncient Romance1.1M Wordscompleted 101.7kReads9.5Score18.3kShelves

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These three are the books I just read on Tomato, and I think they are the best books to listen to. They are all very cool. The first one has a very powerful female protagonist and has an official partner, which is super good. The second one has a very sassy female protagonist who also has an official partner and is still very good. The third one is about a little girl who doesn't have an official partner but is very interesting. It's an ancient novel.

427 病 After the Sick Beauty Was Reborn, All Members Were Cremated Flying Eggplant315k Wordscompleted 17.2kReads9.3Score2.4kShelves

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Give up, give up, God is coming

428 无 Infinite Stream: Is It Normal to Fall in Love with Yourself? Two Ounces of Free Time354k Wordscompleted 21.9kReads9.5Score5.4kShelves

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Give up, give up, God is coming

429 反 The Villainous Young Lady Studies Hard at the Noble Academy Ji FuranModern Romance216k Wordscompleted 21.8kReads9.4Score2.9kShelves

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Give up, give up, God is coming

430 大 Princess Dasheng Books Are Also EntertainingAncient Romance1.0M Wordsongoing 1.8kReads5.8Score110Shelves

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It is an unpopular work, but the content is hard-core, and it is an excellent anti-conventional palace battle and power plot. The content is novel, the writing is calm, the secrets of the palace are described in detail, the plot is unconventional, and the logic is clear. It's a daily routine, with fierce secret fights. The heroine enters the palace and is ridiculed by the crowd. She has to rely on herself. There is no golden finger, no time travel, no rebirth. She is tossed around in the treacherous and dark harem. The content may cause discomfort. The kind where readers are tortured and run away, such as deep palace sadomasochism group portraits, highly intelligent palace battles, and brain-torture stories. The heroine is an abandoned wife who uses tricks to get revenge in the palace. Have you ever seen a palace battle between men and women? This novel depicts the tragedy of the ancient feudal system and shows the brutality of court struggles and the complexity of human nature.

431 你 You Call This a Wet Nurse? She Smashed the Heads Off Rejuvenation at DuskAncient Romance3.3M Wordsongoing 361.5kReads9.5Score51.3kShelves

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I've been reading this book for a long time. It really belongs to the White Moonlight in my heart. It's super good-looking and really suitable for reading. If it's not good-looking, you'll beat me to death [blowing kiss]

432 弑 Kill Godunlimited Stream QiyiziFantastical Romance1.2M Wordscompleted 184.9kReads9.3Score34.1kShelves

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Two of them are very good-looking. The first one has a bit of a cow-horse personality, he is a doctor, he is relatively calm, and he is not bad and good-looking. The second person is a bit of a gambler and plays crazy. They all have unlimited streams and they all look good.

433 全 Worldwide************ ongoing —Reads5.8Score—Shelves

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Two of them are very good-looking. The first one has a bit of a cow-horse personality, he is a doctor, he is relatively calm, and he is not bad and good-looking. The second person is a bit of a gambler and plays crazy. They all have unlimited streams and they all look good.

434 媚 Flirty*** completed —Reads5.8Score—Shelves

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These books are really the reason why I stay at Tomato 🍅, my favorite after reading them for so long

435 绝 Peerless Beauty: Princess, She Can Do Anything March SunsetAncient Romance2.7M Wordscompleted 19.1kReads9.4Score2.8kShelves

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These books are really the reason why I stay at Tomato 🍅, my favorite after reading them for so long

436 惊 Shock! Mercenary Boss, She Is a Maxed Out Bking Triple Tower MetaphorModern Romance1.0M Wordscompleted 150.8kReads9.5Score29.2kShelves

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These books are all from my White Moonlight, and they are very beautiful (especially suitable for reading in the middle of the night, because I'm afraid you will be laughed to death)

437 我 My Husband Is a Top-Notch "Book Wearer" Sweet WineModern Romance1.0M Wordscompleted 1.3kReads8.9Score134Shelves

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These books are really the reason why I stay at Tomato 🍅, my favorite after reading them for so long

438 恶 Evil Witch Is Enchanting The Eldest Son in the FamilyAncient Romance1.0M Wordscompleted 773Reads6.6Score—Shelves

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These books are really the reason why I stay at Tomato 🍅, my favorite after reading them for so long