Addicted: Book Two - The Raging Flames of Passion

Chapter 1 - An Overturned Life!

Translator: Sae

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In a flash, eight years passed by.

Eight years ago, all the childhood friends who would never hold back anything and stuck with Gu Hai, became strangers in the blink of an eye. Once when Gu Hai went abroad, he incidentally came across Li Shuo who had immigrated to Canada long ago. As he discussed his life abroad and other various details, Li Shuo could not help but sigh and lament on how life was before.

"You know, I really missed those youthful days in the Imperial City and envy the fact that you could celebrate New Year by visiting. What wouldn't I do to eat a bowl of authentic hotpot right now."

"You can go back any time." Gu Hai had said somewhat indifferent at his predicament.

Li Shuo sighed with sorrow yet again, "I don't have a home there anymore. If I return, I'll just be a migrant worker without residency."

"Even if your home is gone, the people are still there."

As if not hearing what Gu Hai had advised, Li Shuo suddenly recalled something, "Oh, that's right! Where's Bai Luo Yin now?"

"I don't know." Gu Hai said, veiling his unspoken emotions safely within the depths of his chest, "He should also be abroad."

"He should be?"

"Yeah."

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This is a private high-tech enterprise, situated in Beijing's Zhōngguāncūn High Tech Development Zone, known for electronic shops and bookstores. Its primary profession is to supply the military and civilians' electronic industries with a high-level system integration services as well as a variety of communications equipment. Although many companies like this could be found everywhere in Zhōngguāncūn, this company has its own unique administrative style that has continuously enable it to receive much public attention, especially in the industry.

In this company, aside from the president, everyone else ranging from top level senior management leaders to the lower-level employees were all women, furthermore, their features can only be described as having only one main ingredient, beauty.

Normally in this kind of industry, female workers would not occupy such a dominant position, but this president has a severe sexual discrimination, that is, specifically discriminating against males. As a result, the company's annual recruitment fair naturally attracted beautiful women from all around the country.

However, the company's selection system to search for the best of the best is very strict and said to be arduous journey. The ladies that came to apply for employment must be beautiful, be a science graduate, have higher education such as holding a Master's or Doctoral degree and most importantly ingrained with a phenomenal intelligence. In addition, they must be single. Their future spouse must be an individual linked with the business' operations. As the prior notion implied, they are highly encouraged to court and date their clients as much as possible.

Since women in this field are scarce at the moment, this company's recruitment policy will undoubtedly compete in a rigorously pursue of all the female science graduates in the capital and bring them together under one umbrella. This would, inadvertently, eliminate all those older male science graduates.

Therefore, during the company's annual meeting, with one president confronting hundreds of beautiful women, the scene resembled that of a crown prince selecting an imperial concubine.