Jasper Leung felt like he was going crazy. A certain job ad kept on popping up whenever he used the internet. He upgraded his ad-blocker but it was useless. All of the other ads were blocked except for that one specific and persistent job ad. He thought that perhaps his devices had been infected with some kind of computer virus so he brought all of them to a repair shop but the technician couldn’t find anything wrong with them. In the end, he could only bring them back home and hope for the best that the job ad would eventually disappear on its own soon.
It didn’t.
The job ad kept on stalking him—that was what it felt like. It started to freak him out a little.
Fed up, he borrowed a friend’s phone in the hopes of being able to use the internet in peace. At first, it worked. The ad didn’t show up at all. He was ecstatic.
About half an hour later, however, the ad popped up again. He showed it to his friend and complained about the stalker-ish job ad, but his friend only laughed at him.
"It think that maybe you’ve become too stressed out lately after being fired from your dream job and not being able to find a new job until now," his friend told him while patting his back, trying to comfort him. "Don’t worry, bro. This is only a temporary challenge in your life. I’m sure that you’ll eventually find a good job, maybe something even better than what you briefly had at Jin Corporation. You have a degree, for goodness’ sake! Yes, that Romeo Young is powerful but he shouldn’t be that powerful. If he was, then he should be the owner of his own successful multinational company like CEO Jin Liwei and not just a branch boss. Romeo Young—that pig—can’t possibly continue blacklisting you everywhere forever. His influence can only reach so far. He’s not even on the same level as CEO Jin who you admire so much."
Jasper sighed but nodded in complete agreement with his friend’s words. He also thought the same way. And also, maybe his friend was right—that he was too stressed out right now after being fired and blacklisted that he had somewhat become paranoid about a job ad stalking him everywhere.
Then his friend commented, "This job ad looks interesting. Why don’t you try applying for it?"
Jasper snorted. "It’s a scam."
"How do you know?"
"The pay is too good to be true. Even Jin Corporation doesn’t pay that high for that position."
His friend frowned and checked the job description again. "Really? This pay is high? Bro, did your salary expectation also took a hit when you got fired and blacklisted? I may not be in the Public Relations field like you but I still know that the listed salary in this job ad is reasonable."
"Huh?" Jasper took the phone and looked at the salary section. His eyes widened when he saw the completely new figure. "I’m pretty sure that the listed salary was different from this one when I checked the job description before. It was ridiculously high. They must have changed it."
"Or maybe you misread it. You had just been fired that time. Sometimes your brain doesn’t do its job properly when you’re too stressed or feeling bummed. Hey, it happens."
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