章 2: [ You Have Gained The Harem Cultivation System ]
According to a Harvard Business Review Study, a CEO worked an average of 50 hours per week. 75% of all the meetings were planned in advance, while 25% were spontaneous. Most of their time was spent on face to face meetings. On average, they got 7 hours of sleep per day.
Yang Li had finally caught a bit of reprieve as he sat in his office. The next few hours would be spent on paperwork, which was far better than working with a group, because as much as he wished to become more sociable… it still drained him a lot.
His life could have been called tedious.
And yet he was actually grateful for this and so he continued to do his work, burying himself in it. He was working on the fifteenth document when the sounds of something crashing in his room made him look up, only to see a strange creature lying down on the floor. It looked like a panda, but no panda was small. He rubbed his eyes for a moment and half wondered if the stress was actually getting to him.
But it was in that moment that the panda flew to his face and grinned, "Congratulations!"
Yang Li stared at it for a second before looking back at his paperwork. The thought of scheduling a psych evaluation flashed through his mind. This one was quite a realistic hallucination.
"Hey! Look at me! Why are you ignoring this magnificent creature?!" the voice continued to babble on.
He wouldn't give it attention and then it would go away—that was surely the plan. Or perhaps he needed a nap? He rubbed his face and let out a sigh. He would have to cut back on coffee as well.
"That's it! Mister Yang Li, if you don't pay attention—your stocks are going to collapse!"
He blinked and looked at the panda. As a product of his warped mind, Yang Li knew that he shouldn't talk to it, and yet, he clicked his tongue. Perhaps this was his subconscious fears getting to him? "That is impossible. Nothing short of an economic collapse could trigger my stocks to plummet. Fluctuations may occur, but that's normal."
"You know what, if seeing me doesn't convince you—System will!" The panda raised a paw and smacked him across the face.
The world spun, and with a dull ache, he realised that he was on the floor half a minute later. The sound of a door opening followed a moment later.
His secretary rushed towards him in concern."Mister Li, are you okay? What happened—are you alright, Mister Li?"
He rubbed his forehead and nodded, "I'm fine, don't worry. Just a little accident." He glanced at her and frowned. "Right, by chance, did you see a floating panda?"
"Er… you may have hit your head too hard, Mister Li." His secretary, Ying Yue He, gave him a sheepish smile. And that was in spite of the panda creature now laying on top of her head.
Yang Li nodded and pulled himself up to his feet, "That appears to be the case, thank you for your concern. You can head back to your post."
He fixed his chair and returned back to his seat. One of the things that he was somewhat worried about was gossip spreading—it was too embarrassing if people learned that he had fallen off his chair.
"Oh, are you sure we shouldn't call for a medic?" Ying Yue He asked with a concerned look. She held her hands together and fiddled with her thumbs, "Or someone who knows first aid, I think Jenny knows some?"
The CEO shook his head and at last flashed her a smile, "I'm fine, thank you for the concern." It always seemed to work whenever he requested things for a smile—and it worked a lot faster when he did it on women. Men? Not so much.
Once the sound of the door closed, he let his smile drop and eyed the panda floating in the air. He didn't want to talk with it when others couldn't see it. And if it wasn't going to talk to him either—well, Yang Li was willing to adapt to the strangeness of this event.
It didn't hinder him at all—
[ If You Do Not Accept and Follow The System, Your Company Will Collapse ]
A screen floated in front of him as well as he heard someone announce the words written on it. The voice was disembodied and flat which was a stark difference to Panda who had yelled at him awhile ago. And somehow this time, he felt a wave of energy pressuring around him as the panda continued to give him the silent treatment.
Whether it had been from the voice or the panda, somehow it didn't matter.
This was… he may have read something similar to this situation when he was younger. And yet it still didn't make sense on why he was chosen or why this 'System' had to be so cruel. Wouldn't it have been better to stake his life on this instead? He wasn't the only one affected if the company collapsed.
He narrowed his gaze at the Panda, "If my company collapsed—I can always rebuild it from scratch." There had been his concerns with the other stakeholders in his company but there was also another thing that weighed heavily in his mind. It made him realize that all his hard work throughout the decade would all be for nothing.
"Hah! I'd like to see you try when the Heavens are against you!" The Panda jabbed a paw at him and laughed. It was so tiny and yet the laughter was so malicious and yet the pressure in his room grew heavier.
It could have been a Panda Devil for all Yang Li could know. But he still couldn't give up, he nodded, "That sounds like a challenge."
"Listen here, CEO Li—when the System says 'collapse' it means burned into ashes. You're never going to recover from that disastrous fall and you can't expect yourself to be a Phoenix to rise from such ashes either. Your name, effort and years will all go down the drain and people like your Secretary will lose her job—but hey, maybe she'll work in another company but you'll be the only one who'd suffer until you die."
Threats. Words that promised him of something dangerous if he didn't agree… he balled his hand into fist before nodding at last, "Fine, I will accept."
A grin formed on the Panda's face as the tension in the room quickly disappeared. A new screen soon appeared in front of him.
[ Congratulations! You've Gained The Harem Cultivation System! ]
Yang Li sighed and rubbed his forehead. What kind of nonsense was he hearing and reading right now? "I am familiar with the word Cultivation and System but what is this Harem included in it? The System doesn't make any sense and I am a bit surprised that you have not 'transported' me into another world."
The Panda rested its fluffy face on a paw, "Let the System explain it to you."
It was now a wonder on why the Panda was still here then but he asked for the meaning of Harem Cultivation.
[ Each Girl You Add Into Your Harem Gives You Charisma Points To Become A Cultivator ]
There were a lot of questions that spun in his mind but right now he would only ask one thing. "...And why do I need to become a Cultivator?" The ridiculousness of all of this still made him wonder if he was dreaming.
[ To Entertain The Celestial Heavens Of Course! ]
章 3: The Arrival of His First Quest
The CEO took it well.
Yang Li was after all forced to adapt into the situation but it did not change who he was as an individual. He did not do things without putting all his efforts into it—but he would do it after business hours. Such a thing like this couldn't delay the fact that he had to finish checking the papers left in his office.
"W-Why are you still sitting around?!" The Panda pointed a paw at him in the face. "You've already got the First Quest already and there's a deadline! I thought you didn't want your Company to collapse!"
He swatted the creature carefully away from his laptop screen and gave it a look, "I work well under pressure but I do not multitask." Yang Li explained until he paused and glanced at the door. Nobody visited his office until it was urgent but the chances of him being caught talking to himself was something he didn't wish to experience.
Thankfully the Panda had shut up and crossed its arms. It seemed to have mumbled something underneath its breath but Yang Li left it alone as it floated elsewhere in the office.
The CEO hummed quietly to himself and continued on with his work for the next few hours in silence. It was almost as if he hadn't actually made an agreement to accept the System, but every now and then, he glanced at the sofa and saw that the Panda was still there.
He could only wonder why it still stayed here but there was no time for that.
Yang Li sighed inwardly as he finalized the last portion of his work for the day, those that he couldn't finish today were placed in a virtual memo in his laptop and had been arranged in their importance and urgency. Finally he also started on the last thing he needed to do before he left the office.
The sound of his printer whirred softly in the background.
Once it was done, the CEO switched off his laptop and stood up from his seat. He went over and picked up the documents that he printed.
"Are you finally done?!" The Panda suddenly asked in an aghast tone. When he turned to look for it, he found that the miniature creature had been lying back on the armrest of the couch before it raised his head to look at him. "Thank the heavens that you're finally done!" It sprang up to its feet and then floated towards him. "What do you have there?"
Yang Li flipped the first piece of document towards the Panda:
Step by Step Guide to Cultivation 101
> Qi Condensation
> Foundation Establishment
> Core Formation
> Nascent Soul
"I printed out information that I could get over the internet." Yang Li told the Panda, it snatched the paper from his hand. He lightly smiled, "It's much better to do some research before I dive into this 'world of cultivation' after all, do you not agree?"
"T-This is… you pesky humans with all of that technology." It was the Panda who grumbled but it looked like he was seeing a floating document in front of him. "You can't trust everything you read on the internet!"
He raised a brow at the comment and nodded, "That's true, but I feel that this may be helpful to me in some way." Yang Li actually felt a bit pleased with this development, after all, he was learning new things. It made him feel a bit young. "I need to brush up on my understanding of this cultivation, albeit this is the first time I've encountered 'Harem Cultivation'... are you sure that this is not what they call a 'Dual Cultivation'?"
The Panda returned the paper and gave him a narrowed look, "Of course it's different! Geez, you humans think you've seen and read everything! All those papers you've printed are useless—go on and read the task again and actually start doing them!"
Yang Li glanced at the papers he held onto and then paused as he recalled another important thing that was said about Systems. He didn't need any verbal commands unlike with the Panda creature, which was actually a relief. It was time to test if that was true, directing his thoughts together, he formed a question.
'Is it possible to cultivate under normal methods?'
[ Cultivating Normally At Host's Age Is Already Useless. Only The Path of Harem Cultivation Will Help the Host Soar Through the Heavens. ]
Yang Li grimaced at the remark. He wasn't actually that old… but he wasn't a newborn child either. He shifted through the papers he had and reached the part that he wanted. It took him a minute before he nodded, "Indeed, it says here that the perfect time to cultivate is around toddler age up to eight years old due to them having the Inborn Qi."
"What?" The Panda gave him a look.
Yang Li smiled lightly, "Isn't it common sense to look for many sources of information? What the System has said is confirmed by this document. It's safe to say that it's somewhat accurate."
"How dare you! How can you doubt the Infallible System?!" The Panda-like creature which was supposed to be black and white looked different. The creature was red in anger at this moment and looked like it was seconds away from exploding like a bomb. But thankfully, it didn't seem to use its previous strength to 'pressure' his surroundings.
The creature's words made him raise a brow, "I never explicitly said that, have I?"
"Y-You—have your last laugh!" The Panda fumed in the air. "You're just some know-it-all guy that the heavens want to crush! I'll watch you fail your first task and go find some other person who'll understand the blessing of the System!"
"Doesn't your words sound a bit contradictory right now?" Yang Li tilted his head, "If the heavens wanted to crush me then why did they give me a System in the first place?"
"Argh, just go ahead and check your first quest already—Time is ticking!"
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