Rebirth at the Start: This Fate is Too Explosive!

Chapter 163 Zhang Yi prepares to drink "Dichlorvos"

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Ye Fan's plan for the stock market had also matured, and a professional team needed to be assembled to operate it.

Red Bean Capital's expansion has only just begun, and the personnel shortage, especially for key positions, is particularly prominent.

The group of experienced "veterans" that Liu Ruyan had previously recruited were all quite capable and supported the basic operations during the initial stage of the startup.

However, a suitable candidate has yet to be found for an efficient, strategically visionary HR manager who can handle the company's rapid expansion.

This gave Ye Fan quite a headache, as human resources is the lifeblood of a company, and this position is too crucial.

Just as his fingers were unconsciously tapping on the brand-new desk, pondering a solution, a name flashed into his mind like lightning—Zhang Yi!

In his past life, Zhang Yi was one of his most capable assistants.

She has followed him since the company's inception, overcoming numerous obstacles and weathering countless storms. Her abilities are beyond question: professional, meticulous, and with exceptional execution skills.

More importantly, Ye Fan had no doubt about her loyalty, which had been tested countless times in his previous life.

Having been reborn, he believes that Zhang Yi's core qualities will not change—just like Xiao Ji, Li Yifeng, and even Xian Zuling, their "core" is still clearly discernible in this life.

Speaking of Zhang Yi, her resume can be described as a "workplace adventure" full of dark humor.

She had started her first business with great enthusiasm, only to suffer a crushing defeat. To make matters worse, her husband also chose to leave her at this time. The double blow left her utterly despondent, and in a moment of impulsiveness, she chose to jump off a building.

However, fate played a cruel joke on her—she didn't die.

This "failed" suicide attempt inexplicably gave her the illusion that "heaven has not forsaken me," which aroused her fighting spirit.

They regrouped and started their second business venture.

It failed again...

After the second failure, despair returned.

She recalled the scene of wrist-cutting in a TV series and felt that it was more "quiet and elegant".

So she mustered her courage and made the cut... but the excruciating pain instantly brought her back to her senses! So this is how painful it is to cut your wrist! And she clearly didn't have the "skill" to do it; the wound was deep but not fatal.

I suffered pain for more than half a month for nothing, and before I could pay off the debts from my business, I had a new scar.

Unwilling to give up, Zhang Yi started her third business! The ending... seemed to be a kind of fateful cycle, with the third attempt also ending in failure.

This time, despair completely consumed her.

She chose to end it all again, with a clear goal—to jump off a building.

She climbed to the rooftop of a high-end office building, ready to say goodbye to this world forever.

Fate is truly wondrous.

That night happened to be the day Ye Fan had just rented the office in that office building.

He went to the rooftop to smoke and get some fresh air, and bumped into Zhang Yi, who was standing on the edge of the rooftop with a resolute expression.

Ye Fan's first thought was, "Good grief! I just paid five years' rent today, what's with you dying on my roof? Not only is it bad luck, but it'll also cause a ton of trouble!"

Ye Fan, with his silver tongue and the core argument of "don't cause me trouble," managed to persuade Zhang Yi to come down from the edge of the rooftop.

And so, Zhang Yi, who had nowhere else to turn, became Ye Fan's company's first employee.

As it turns out, Zhang Yi's abilities are exceptional.

While luck certainly played a part in her previous failures, the core issues lay in the lack of sufficient start-up capital and resources, as well as the flawed choice of entrepreneurial direction.

Once she entered a mature platform, her management skills, talent for recognizing and employing people, and strong execution ability came in handy, and she quickly became Ye Fan's indispensable right-hand woman.

Ye Fan quickly recalled the timeline Zhang Yi had described in her past life. Based on her current point in time... she should be in the stage where she failed in her first business venture, was abandoned by her husband, and was in despair, preparing for her first suicide attempt!

Thinking of this, Ye Fan did not hesitate at all and immediately took out his phone from his pocket.

He thought of her phone number from her past life and tentatively dialed a string of numbers.

......

the other side.

Zhang Yi's world turned completely dark.

The hundreds of thousands of yuan in debt incurred due to the failed business were like heavy shackles, while her husband's resolute abandonment was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Life seemed to be swallowed by a thick fog, with not a glimmer of light in sight, and the desire to live was crushed. A vast emptiness and a sense of despair enveloped her tightly.

She walked into a pesticide shop filled with a pungent smell, looking completely lost.

"Give me a bottle of pesticide." The voice was dry and flat.

The shop owner, without looking up, asked, "Which one do you want? What's it for?"

"Whatever." She just wanted to end all of this as quickly as possible.

The boss casually grabbed a bottle of "Dichlorvos" from the shelf and handed it to her.

Zhang Yi didn't even look at it, tossed down a 50-yuan note, clutched the cold liquid that symbolized the end, and turned to leave.

Back in her cold home, she sat on the sofa, staring at the bottle of poison for a long, long time.

Outside the window, traffic flows and the world keeps turning as usual, but here, time seems to stand still.

Finally, with trembling hands, she unscrewed the deadly bottle cap.

A strong, pungent odor instantly filled the air, making her eyes water.

Just as she mustered her last bit of courage and prepared to tilt her head back and gulp it down.

"Ring ring ring—!!!" The cell phone on the coffee table suddenly rang loudly! The sharp ringtone sounded particularly jarring in the deathly silent room.

"Damn, who is it?" Zhang Yi was so startled by the sudden voice that her hand trembled and she almost dropped the medicine bottle.

A surge of immense frustration and resentment welled up inside me. Couldn't even death bring me peace?

"You'd better have something important to say! Otherwise I'll do..." she practically roared as she pressed the answer button.

"Hello? Ms. Zhang Yi? This is Ye Fan from Red Bean Capital. We greatly admire your abilities and would like to invite you to serve as our group's Human Resources Director. The annual salary... well, it starts at least at 500,000 RMB. We can discuss the details in person..."

"what?"

Zhang Yi was completely stunned! She barely heard what was said after that; her mind was buzzing, and only the words "annual salary of 500,000" were swirling around in her head.

She glanced down at the open container of pesticide on the table; its pungent smell still reminded her of her earlier resolve. Then she looked at the unfamiliar number on her phone screen.

A tremendous sense of absurdity and a faint but undeniable spark of hope simultaneously exploded in her heart!

Screw DDT! Screw despair!

Almost instinctively, she grabbed the bottle and threw it hard into the nearby trash can, making a loud "thud".

"Okay! I'm coming right away!" she practically shouted into the phone, her voice trembling with relief and a near-frenzied excitement.