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"They even used this as leverage to force him to risk his life to cut down that 'beautiful pine' tree during the Chinese New Year."
"This kind of pure capitalist treats his employees like donkeys, squeezing every last drop of blood from them."
"You're telling me now that he's Bald Qiang's 'protector'?"
"What did he protect Bald Qiang for?"
"If I protect him, can I be at ease, serving him like a slave for the rest of my life, for free?"
He felt that his own system, full of realistic gray logic, was completely shattered at this moment by the unreasonable final revelation of the heavens.
"...This is unreasonable."
"It's unreasonable from any perspective."
"That Boss Li, from beginning to end, only regarded Bald Qiang as a cheap 'tool' that could be exploited at will."
“There is absolutely no positive emotional connection between them that can be called ‘friendship’ or ‘protection’.”
Yukino Yukinoshita wore a cold, logical expression. She couldn't understand what was hidden in this, what deeper connection she didn't know.
"Eh?"
"But...but..."
"Isn't that Boss Li a really, really bad person?"
"He always bullies Mr. Baldy and doesn't pay him his salary."
"How could he possibly be Mr. Baldy's protector?"
"I...I don't understand at all..."
Yui Yuigahama wore an expression full of confusion and bewilderment.
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The World of The King's Avatar
"Boss Li?"
"puff--"
"Give me a break."
"That skinflint Li, who won't even pay a few hundred yuan in wages and is ridiculously stingy?"
"Is he Bald Qiang's protector?"
0.3
"Damn, this is ten thousand times more outrageous than saying I'm a spy sent by Tyranny."
Huang Shaotian looked at the sky and revealed an expression that was so absurd it was as if he was about to burst from laughing.
"Yes."
"This guy only did one thing from beginning to end."
"That is, to use every means possible and at the lowest cost to extract the greatest profit from Bald Qiang."
"If he is the protector, then all capitalists in the world would be living bodhisattvas."
Ye Xiu slowly exhaled a smoke ring, revealing an expression full of amusement, as if he were watching the most clumsy comedy.
"So."
"This sky is getting more and more interesting."
"It always seems to like redefining the words 'friend' and 'enemy' in a way that none of us can understand."
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The World of Boonie Bears
"...Mr. Li...?"
"He...he's my...protector?"
Looking at the two familiar words on the sky, words filled with oppression and exploitation, Bald Qiang revealed an expression even more shocked, absurd, and unacceptable than when he saw that he had been sentenced to death.
"Are you...are you kidding me?"
"That damned, wicked Zhou Bapi, who treated me like a donkey, forced me to cut down trees every day, constantly deducted my wages, wouldn't let me go home for the New Year, and wished I lived in the forest working for him 24/7..."
"He...he could be my protector?"
On Bald Qiang's face was written the words "disbelief" in big, question-mark-filled letters.
"I...I, Bald Qiang, jumped off the highest peak of Bear Ridge and died."
"And I absolutely, absolutely will not believe that bastard Boss Li would be my protector!"
The 64th character, Bald Qiang, earns a monthly salary of 1,000 yuan, but Boss Li spends over a million yuan on him!
[The total price Mr. Li paid to subsidize Bald Qiang's household expenses has been exposed.]
[The items included were various household appliances and tools provided by Boss Li to help Bald Qiang catch the bear and to maintain his basic daily life.]
[Note: This statistic only includes items that were subsidized by Mr. Li and subsequently completely destroyed in the ensuing chaos.]
[The first item, daily household subsidies, has the following detailed list of damaged items.]
[One green tent, one yellow tent, another green tent, one small cold storage room, one small greenhouse, one air conditioner, and one automatic thermostat.]
Based on the lowest market price, the total value of the subsidies for all the above-mentioned everyday furniture is approximately 210,000 yuan.
It's worth mentioning that Bald Qiang's monthly salary is only 1,000 yuan.
The world of Doraemon
"...Doraemon."
"Twenty-one thousand."
"That Boss Li actually gave Uncle Bald Qiang a furniture subsidy worth 210,000 yuan?"
Nobita stared at the enormous number on the sky, his face showing utter shock.
"Uncle Bald Qiang works hard all month cutting down trees, and his salary is only one thousand yuan..."
"Then... then wouldn't he have to work for almost twenty years without eating or drinking to earn that 210,000?"
He simply couldn't comprehend the enormous wealth gap that this represented.
"Yes, Nobita."
"This is so weird."
Doraemon also showed an expression full of confusion and doubt.
"Didn't we all clearly see before that the guy named Boss Li refused to pay Bald Qiang's salary for a mere few hundred yuan for a train ticket home?"
"He is so stingy and so miserly."
"How could they possibly be so generous as to subsidize Bald Qiang with such expensive household appliances and tools worth 210,000 yuan?"
"This...this doesn't make any sense at all."
"There must be some enormous secret here that we don't know about."
It felt that this seemingly simple Mr. Li's behavior was full of huge contradictions that could not be explained by normal logic.
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The world of "My Youth 07 Love Story Is Wrong As Expected"
"what……"
"I knew it; things were definitely not that simple."
"Two hundred and one thousand?"
"Do you really think that pure capitalist who has treated Bald Qiang like a donkey from beginning to end would be so kind as to take out his own money to subsidize him with 210,000 yuan to improve his life?"
"Don't be naive."
"This is not a 'subsidy' at all."
Looking at the seemingly "well-intentioned" subsidy list on the sky, Hachiman Hikigaya revealed a dead fish-like expression full of sarcasm and "just as I expected."
"Hachigaya's words were as harsh as ever."
"But it is indeed the only answer that can reasonably explain this matter and is closest to the truth."
Yukino Yukinoshita revealed a cold, disdainful expression.
"The furniture and appliances on those so-called 'subsidy' lists."
"It's very likely that these are just second-hand, old, and obsolete pieces of equipment from Mr. Li's own company, equipment that has long been obsolete due to technological limitations and is about to be disposed of as industrial waste."
"He was just throwing this 'garbage' into the dump anyway."
"In a high-sounding name that is full of 'goodwill' and called 'subsidy'."
"The 'charity' was given to that cheap lumberjack who was obedient to him, uneducated, and could be easily fooled."
"In this way, he can save a lot of money on the cost of disposing of the company's industrial waste."
"It will also make that Bald Qiang grateful to him, so that he will be even more devoted to him and work for him."
"It's a perfect, inhumane scheme that kills two birds with one stone, full of the dirty wisdom of capitalists."
Yukino felt a deep disgust for this kind of hypocritical behavior, which disguised ruthless exploitation in such a "heartwarming" way.
"Eh?"
"Is...is that so?"
"But...but even if it's an old thing that the boss doesn't want anymore."
"That still helped Mr. Baldy to some extent..."
"It's better than... having nothing at all, isn't it..."
Yui Yuigahama wore an incredibly complex expression, feeling that what Yukinoshita and Hikigaya said seemed to make a lot of sense, but also that the bald-headed Qiang who lived alone in the forest was really too pitiful.
[Secondly, the exact number of pieces of furniture destroyed inside the cabin where Bald Qiang lives.]
[This includes eleven televisions, eight refrigerators, three toilets, eight wardrobes, nine quilts, and sixteen pillows.]
[Twenty-four spoons, eight ladles, nine wooden cabinets, eighteen plates, ten bowls, eleven wooden tables, and eleven wooden chairs.]
[Eleven microwave ovens, ten single sofas, four teapots, eleven teacups, and twelve iron cups.]
[Several glasses, six non-electric kettles, one electric kettle, seven heaters, eight landline phones, three radios, and two mirrors.]
Three mahogany chests, three mahogany chairs, and five mahogany tables.
Other damaged furniture included: a round wooden barrel, a wooden ladder, a fly swatter, twenty-one plastic chairs, a large iron pot, a kettle, two multi-seater sofas, three large wooden warehouse doors, one ordinary wooden door, an alarm clock, a tube of toothpaste, a toothbrush, a vacuum cleaner, and a broom.
[One laptop computer for internet access only, one old-fashioned laptop computer, one regular laptop computer, three black mice with cables, one safe, several glasses, two coffee machines, and three electric heaters.]
One rolling pin, one high-powered fan, and two electric fans.
[Two small fans, one air conditioner, and four children's rocking cars.]
The total value of all the damaged items, calculated at the lowest market price, is 600,000 yuan.
The World of The King's Avatar
"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap."
"Eleven television sets?"
Eight refrigerators?
Three toilets?
"And... there are four more children's rocking cars?"
Huang Shaotian looked at the ridiculously long and mundane list of damaged furniture on the screen and revealed an expression that was both shocked and slightly gloating.
"His house...is it a lumberjack's cabin or some kind of large appliance recycling center?"
"How can there be so many, such an exaggerated number of things?"