Clocking In at a Hellish Job [Infinite]

[Arc 8 is complete and ready to read] Reader’s guide: Controversial remarks may be deleted. Updates this month on Saturdays and Sundays, before midnight. 60% advance reader lock. Zhao Yingjun works at a heartless, unscrupulous company where the pressure is enough to make even a ghost quit, but she’s stuck there for three whole years. Every day, she listens to her coworkers complain about one thing or another, expressionlessly treating it all as background noise. Coworker A: “My neck hurts so much. Junjun, can you give it a rub?” Zhao Yingjun uses her powerful fingers, strengthened by years of typing, to give her a thorough massage. But she doesn’t notice that after she walks away, her coworker thanks her with her head facing backward. On her way to print a document, she casually kicks a little stone out of her path, thinking the cleaning staff have really been slacking if there are rocks in an office building like this. She doesn’t notice that the stone is black and white, just like an eyeball. Behind her, Coworker B groans: “This crappy job has made me so blind I can’t see a thing!” Zhao Yingjun is usually steady as a rock, with the air of someone who’s been working for eight hundred years, but she has her breaking points, too. For example, when work gets stressful, she often imagines pulling out her own intestines. But when she turns around, she finds her coworker stuffing his protruding intestines back inside, blood pouring from the hole in his stomach. Zhao Yingjun thinks, I really should quit this awful job. The stress is making me hallucinate. Not long afterward, Zhao Yingjun gets a business trip assignment: inspect an amusement park with poor performance. She diligently disguises herself as an ordinary visitor. During her inspection, she finds all sorts of problems. The carousel spins too fast, unacceptable. The roller coaster’s facilities are worn out, far too dangerous… That day, the infamous one-way trip dungeon, Bloodcurdling Park, sees every player survive for the first time. According to the players’ forum, some big shot led them in clearing the dungeon, fighting all the way to the dungeon lord. The lord was so terrified he bowed and scraped like a bootlicker when the boss came to inspect. After that, Bloodcurdling Park dropped the word “Bloodcurdling” and became a real amusement park. It did get a strange new name, though: Handsome Park. And as Zhao Yingjun goes on more and more business trips, the dungeon bosses, all eager to curry favor, spread her name throughout the world. The horror dungeons gradually turn into a map of Handsome Park. Screenshot from 2024.3.14 Please add the upcoming novel, The Overworked Heroine Decides to Lie Flat, to your reading list. Follow the announcement link. The overworked Gu Yu dies from working overtime and transmigrates into an old-fashioned novel, but she decides to lie flat. The book’s male lead, Wen Zhenghan, is a gloomy, controlling obsessive. As executive chairman, he leaves his enormous company unmanaged and spends all day fixating on the tiny corner of the heroine’s life. The heroine chats with someone, and he gets upset. The heroine is unreachable for half an hour, and he goes mad. The heroine works overtime until midnight, and he prepares a room with chains and cameras covering every angle. A normal heroine can’t accept such an oppressive life. In the end, the two destroy each other, and the story ends in tragedy. But Gu Yu is a homebody, and her eyes light up at the thought of a spacious apartment, ultra-fast Wi-Fi, a personal housekeeper, and more money than she could ever spend. Most importantly, she no longer has to maintain fake friendships with her coworkers. She’ll never have to socialize again. An introvert’s dream! And the male lead, Wen Zhenghan, is a hopeless romantic. He’s content as long as he can keep track of her at all times. Gu Yu looks at his impossibly handsome, otherworldly face and nods. Sounds good. And so Gu Yu gets the life she’s always wanted, while Wen Zhenghan finds a place to set his heart. He asks the servants for updates on Gu Yu a dozen times a day, and every time, they give him the same answer: At home! After things have gone on like this for three months, Wen Zhenghan finally can’t take it anymore and says to Gu Yu, “Why don’t you go out for a bit?” Gu Yu munches on snacks. “But I… munch munch munch… haven’t finished… munch munch munch… my new game… munch munch munch… my comics… munch munch munch… my TV shows… munch munch munch…” Wen Zhenghan snatches the snacks away and orders her, “Starting today, you have to go out at least once a week!” Gu Yu is on the verge of tears. Theme: Retire early.