A Book You Will Regret If You Don't Read It, Worth Tens of Thousands of Dollars

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Dear friends, please stay! Whether you're scrolling through your phone on the subway, catching fish on your lunch break, or just lying in bed getting ready to fall asleep, give me five minutes—no, three minutes is enough. I am going to give you five stories about Amway, five stories that will make you laugh until you slap your thighs, and then make you suddenly fall silent after laughing. How long has it been since you read a book that made you laugh and cry in front of the screen late at night? How long has it been since you met an author who can write about the absurdities that you experience every day but never dare to talk about in the workplace, making it as chilling as a horror movie and as hilarious as a comedy? If your answer is "a long time" or "never", then you are in luck today. Our own author, Mr. Fu Shuiheng, uses five independent but interrelated stories to build a workplace universe you have never seen before. In this universe, the thirteenth floor of the office building hides a secret entrance to the Dream Management Bureau, there is a door in the underground parking lot that you pass by every day but never see, and a meeting that never ends may be taking place in your office. Let's talk about the first article first – "Guide to Escape from the Dead Loop". Have you ever had that kind of meeting? Everyone sat together, talking the exact same nonsense in different terms, from nine in the morning to two in the afternoon, and the conclusion of the discussion was exactly the same as three hours ago. Do you think this is just an ordinary meeting going off topic? No, in Mr. Fu Shuiheng's writings, this is a real and literal "death loop". The protagonist Lin Yuanzhou found that he and all his colleagues were trapped in an infinitely repeated meeting. What they said, the actions they made, and even the frequency of nodding were all accurately replicating themselves in the previous round. The way to break this cycle is not a high-tech weapon or a magic spell, but a piece of chocolate. Yes, you read that right - during a suffocatingly serious general manager meeting, a piece of chocolate was stuffed into the leader's mouth. This scene is so absurd that it makes people laugh to tears, but after laughing, you will find that the true meaning of that piece of chocolate is - breaking the rules, even in the funniest way, is 10,000 times better than being trapped in the rules forever. The passage Lin Yuanzhou wrote in his notebook at the end of the story will make you suddenly see clearly what is happening in the conference room around you when your laughter stops. The second article - "Periodic Anxiety Clock". Every October, when the lingering heat of the National Day holiday has not yet dissipated, did you feel the air suddenly change the moment you walked into the office? Everyone's pace gets faster, the sound of the printer gets louder, the coffee consumption in the pantry doubles, and you don't have to do anything, just breathe that air and your heart starts to beat faster. Mr. Fu Shuiheng calls this the "anxiety clock" - an alarm clock hidden in your body that rings on time every October. Lin Yuanzhou spent six years and reviewed more than a thousand days of records before discovering that the clock had been spinning for twenty years. What's even more absurd is that everyone regards this clock as a natural law - just like flowers bloom in spring and leaves fall in autumn, anxiety in October and pine in January, it is natural and natural. But is it really justified? When Lao Zhou took out his physical examination report from five years ago and found that his blood pressure soared on time every October and dropped on time every January, that report was more horrifying than any horror movie. The cruelest part of this story is that after reading it, you will find that you also have a clock like this, but you have never given it a name. The third article - "Repeating Dream Management Bureau". Have you ever had the same dream over and over again? I dream that I am looking for something, but I can never find it; I dream that I am running, but I can never run; I dream that I have to take an exam, and I can never finish the paper. Mr. Fu Shuiheng tells you - you are not alone. In this office building, there are one hundred and seventy-nine people having the same dream as you. What's even more incredible is that on the fourteenth floor of the office building that you have never noticed, there is an agency that specializes in managing these recurring dreams. The staff there work every day to see what other people have dreamed. When Lin Yuanzhou opened the gray door for the first time and saw dozens of dream managers typing on the keyboards of the dream images flowing on the screen, the sense of absurdity would make you wonder if the author locked Kafka and Vonnegut in a room and asked them to co-write this novel. But what really silences you is the moment when the dream manager Shen Mian reveals the answer - the root cause of all those dreams of "cannot find the conference room" is not elsewhere, but that you cannot find the meaning of your work in reality. You're not lost in your dream, you're lost while you're awake. The words hanging on the wall of Shen Mian's office - "Wake up is a dream". After reading this story, you will chew on these four words over and over again, and the more you chew, the more flavorful they become. Chapter 4 - "Historical Cycle Observatory". If the first three articles are dissecting your company, this one is dissecting the entire human society. Lin Yuanzhou received a mysterious express delivery, with the sender writing "Historical Cycle Observatory". He followed the address and found a secret agency hidden deep in the parking lot. The station manager was a gray-haired old man who told him that this observatory had existed since 1988. They only did one thing - observe repeated patterns in collective human behavior. Thirty-six years and thousands of case reports, they discovered a cruel truth: whether it is an economic crisis, an industry bubble, a company's reform failure, or an individual's career bottleneck, they are all happening repeatedly with a strikingly similar rhythm. What's even more cruel is that the reforms that attempt to break the cycle will eventually turn into a new cycle. Chen, the station leader, opened the reform files from fifteen years ago and pointed to those cases that had once been filled with enthusiasm and then quietly returned to the starting point. His tone was as calm as if he was reading the weather forecast. That kind of calm is more frightening than any scream. At the end of the story, Lin Yuanzhou saw his colleagues complaining about the food in the cafeteria as usual in the tea room. He did not record this in his observation log. The aftertaste of this ending will linger long after you close your phone - some repetitions are not worth breaking, and some cycles need to be preserved. Real wisdom is not to fight against all inertia, but to know when to take action and when to let go. Part Five - "Breakthrough Plan Day After Day". This is the lightest and heaviest of the five articles. It's light enough that you can drink soy milk and laugh until you finish reading it, but heavy enough that after reading it, you'll realize that the way you tear the bag of soy milk powder every morning is a procedure that has been trained for six years. After Lin Yuanzhou broke the meeting cycle, slowed down the anxiety clock, and interfered with the collective dream, he suddenly discovered the most hidden enemy - his own life every day was becoming a sophisticated copy machine. I go out at 7:20, arrive at the company at 7:50, take the same elevator, drink the same coffee, and have the same physiological reaction at the same time. He decided to do an experiment: change one small thing in his daily life every day. Go out fifteen minutes late, skip your afternoon cup of coffee, use your left hand to hold chopsticks, and walk an untraveled road after get off work. These changes were too small to be worth mentioning, but the discomfort they brought was so great that it made his palms sweat. The best thing about this story is that it doesn't have any villains or thrilling confrontations. The biggest enemy is the biological clock in your own body that has been trained for six years. And when Lin Yuanzhou casually asked the girl at the front desk, "Have you ever counted how many times you have to tear the soy milk powder bag," the entire company began a silent, spontaneous "daily breakthrough" that spread to everyone. At the end of the "Daily Breakthrough Sharing Session" held on the terrace, Lao Zhou said that he went to learn the drum set for 20 minutes, Director Li brought the rowing machine to the terrace for live demonstration, and the girl at the front desk announced that her three-step bag tearing method was "officially retired" - these pictures will make you laugh with tears, put down your phone, and start thinking about one small thing you can change tomorrow. You can read these five stories separately, each one is a complete independent chapter. But you can also read them in conjunction, because Lin Yuanzhou's path to awakening runs through the whole story - from discovering cycles, to breaking cycles, to observing cycles, to discovering that "breaking the cycle itself will become a cycle", and finally returning to the most daily life, learning to coexist with the cycle in an easy way. This is a growth path from "fighting the world" to "understanding yourself". Now knock on the blackboard and highlight the key points - these five stories that will make you laugh, cry and reflect have been launched simultaneously on the following platforms: Tomato Bookstore, Tomato Music, Toutiao Express Edition, Toutiao, Danhua, and Changdu Free Novels. If you search for the story title on any platform, you can find it! Yes, right now, open any reading APP on your mobile phone and search for any name among "Dead Loop Escape Guide", "Periodic Anxiety Clock", "Repeating Dream Management Bureau", "Historical Cycle Observatory" and "Day After Day Breakthrough Plan", you will immediately enter this absurd and real workplace world written by Mr. Fu Shuiheng. Finally, please allow me, on behalf of all those who have read this, laughed and been silent, to say a word to our own author Mr. Fu Shuiheng - Sir, your creative charge has been sounded! Each of these five stories made us laugh and feel hurt on the subway, and each one made us stare at the ceiling and think for a long time after closing our phones late at night. Your story is not a sermon from above, it is the reality that happens around you and me - we have all experienced those meetings, those anxieties, those recurring dreams, and those day-to-day routines. But you use an absurd and humorous pen to cut open these things that we all take for granted, reveal the truth inside, and then tell us: Don't be afraid, it's not scary when you see it clearly. The ending of your story is particularly impressive - not a happy ending, not a sermon, but a moment for people to calm down and re-examine themselves. Those endings keep us awake and allow us to chew on them in our hearts long after the laughter fades. Sir, please keep writing! We need more stories like this - down-to-earth, close-to-life, absurd humor that makes people wake up while laughing. We will follow you as much as you write. What kind of cycle will Lin Yuanzhou encounter in your novel? What other secrets are behind that gray door? We have moved the small bench and are waiting for your new chapter. Finally, I sincerely thank everyone who has read this. Thank you for your time, thank you for your patience, and thank you for your willingness to calm down and read a few stories about "circulation" in an era of information explosion. Every click, every search, and every share you make is the greatest support for Mr. Fu Shuiheng. Your reading is a blessing to the old man's works and a blessing to the old man. It is also the strongest motivation to continue writing this series of stories. Okay, that's all I have to say. The rest is left to your fingers - open Tomato Bookstore, open today's headlines, open Danhua, open Frequently Read free novels, and search for the names of these stories. I'm waiting for you in the comment area, tell me which story is your favorite, which character reminds you of yourself, and which ending keeps you awake for a long time late at night. Search quickly! Go now! The old gentleman is still writing, and we are still reading. The story is not over yet, the cycle is waiting to be broken, let's do it together.

617 不 Don't Eavesdrop on Me Yin ZaishuiAncient Romance925k WordsCompleted 116.4kReads9.4Score23.6kShelves

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After reading this, I just want to say, how could the ancients be so good at falling in love? I really can't learn it.