[Who are you?]
Gu Xiyu sat in the taxi and stared at these three words for a while.
He knew that he was carrying a newly developed, super-intelligent system that had never been used by other staff, but he never thought that the system would be so intelligent that he would need to go through a self-introduction as if making friends.
Gu Xiyu was in a daze for a long time before answering in his mind: “I am the mission executer this time, Gu Xiyu.”
After a while, the mechanical sound of the system rang out again: [What is the mission?]
“?” Gu Xiyu almost suspected that the system was joking with him.
However, his system went silent after that question.
He replied with a complicated mood: “To stop the target from destroying the world, and if necessary, eliminate him.”
After waiting for a long time, the intelligent system finally responded.
[….So that’s how it is.]
‘What???’
Are all the systems the Bureau assigns to mission executors this… intelligent? They have evolved to the point where the executor needs to explain the mission?
Seeing that the system didn’t speak anymore, Gu Xiyu had no choice but to ask: “Regarding the target, do you have any more information you can give me?”
After a while: [No.]
It was not an unexpected answer at all!
Transmigration was the biggest golden finger that the Bureau could provide. Except for the things that exceed the bottom line of the world law, otherwise, the missions would not have much difficulty.
Gu Xiyu looked down at the phone in his palm. The navigation interface showed that he was still more than an hour away from his home in this world.
An automatic notification suddenly rang out in his mind.
[The target’s danger value increased by +5. The current danger value is 70.]
Gu Xiyu’s finger dragging the map on the screen paused: “What happened?”
The cold answer came after a few seconds.
[Don’t know.]
“…”
It was early in the morning when Gu Xiyu arrived home. After paying the fare with his mobile phone, he found that his remaining balance was only 2.8 yuan.
“You say you’ve been socializing all day long, but in fact, what else have you done except find women and drink? How could I have been blind and married you!”
As soon as he sent off the taxi driver, Gu Xiyu heard a woman shouting from the villa before him.
He checked the villa’s number and silently walked towards the door. The door was not closed tightly, and the light from the crack illuminated a line on the path.
As soon as Gu Xiyu opened the door and stepped in, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a dark object rushing in his direction. Even though he reacted quickly and turned sideways to avoid it, the corner of his forehead was still scratched.
The dragon-shaped ashtray fell to the ground and smashed into pieces. The angry woman on the sofa suddenly stopped yelling and looked up in his direction, her black shoulder-length hair swaying with her movements.
She quickly retracted her gaze and continued to point at the drunk man on the sofa, yelling: “Gu Xun, you speak! You are destroying the company, but you still go out to drink and spend money all day. Are you really waiting to declare bankruptcy?!”
Gu Xun frowned and pushed her hand away, then stumbled to his feet. After a hiccup, he said intermittently, “Why are you anxious? If I said I went out to deal with things, I must have gone to deal with it. It is just that the second son of the Chen family is too difficult to deal with. It took me several days to finally get him to agree to help our family…”
When the woman heard the words, her face looked a little better: “Chen Jin is so stingy, how could he help us for no reason? You make it clear, what conditions did you use to persuade him?”
Gu Xun suddenly chuckled. He casually raised his hand and nodded at the woman in front of him: “Hey, you should be thankful for having a baby son that Chen Jin can admire.”
“You also know that he is a huge joke. He made a huge mess a while ago that almost made the headlines, which made his father so anxious that he threatened to take away all the properties he gave him if he didn’t find a reliable partner to marry. This second young master Chen came out of the closet publicly when he was young, so he definitely won’t be able to marry those rich young ladies. Those who stay with him now are men who are not influential and are only staring at the Chen family’s properties. Even some young masters are bent, they only love to have fun, how many are willing to come out to the public?”
“It just so happens that he is very anxious now, so I somehow finally managed to recommend him our Ah Yu. The second young master checked Ah Yu’s background and knew that he was still clean. Ah Yu’s pureness and handsomeness suited his liking. For the sake of our little friendship, he said that as long as we are willing to help him with his father’s condition, he is willing to help our company unconditionally.”
“Think about it, if Chen Jin really got a marriage certificate with Ah Yu, he will be our son-in-law by then. Would we still be worried about not being able to find a backer?”
The woman didn’t think this condition was absurd. She just subconsciously ignored it and looked at Gu Xiyu, who was about to go upstairs.
Gu Xun followed her sight and saw Gu Xiyu, who had just returned, and his misty eyes suddenly lit up. He waved at him and said, “Ah Yu, you came back just in time. Dad will tell you some good news.”
“Chen Jin is the second youngest of the wealthy Chen family in this city. His father gave him several large companies, including shares in some major foreign companies. Dad thinks he is reliable, and as far as I know, he seemed to have a good impression of you… Isn’t same-sex marriage legal now? Dad thought that such a good partner was hard to find, so I decided to arrange this marriage for you.”
Gu Xun said this without blinking his eyes. He seemed to treat others as deaf when he was drunk; he didn’t listen to what his wife, Xu Caiting, said to him, and he didn’t ask whether his son liked men or not.
He even patted Gu Xiyu on the shoulder: “There is no need to do a complicated wedding banquet. Dad has made an appointment with him. In a few days, you can directly go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get the certificate.”
Xu Caiting, standing behind Gu Xun, had a worried expression on her face.
Her son’s temper has never been very good. He must have heard everything Gu Xun told her just now. Would he still agree in this situation?
The more she thought about it, the more troubled her expression became. She rubbed her thumb against her mouth for a long time, determined to use hard means to make Gu Xiyu compromise if he didn’t agree. She then heard a calm voice saying, “Okay.”
Xu Caiting looked at Gu Xiyu with surprise. Even Gu Xun hesitated for a moment.
But Gu Xun was drunk, so he didn’t think further and was happy to say: “Good, good, you are indeed Dad’s good son!”
“I’m going upstairs first. You can tell me the exact time and place.” Gu Xiyu nodded at them and calmly disappeared at the corner of the stairs.
Xu Caiting stared at the stairs for a long time and finally exhaled slowly.
Unexpectedly, things went so smoothly. It seemed that throwing him out for a while tempered his temperament to that of an adult.
Gu Xiyu found his room, closed the door, and stood by the door for a long time without moving.
A yellow Shiba Inu toy was squatting in the corner behind the door. The dog with its tongue out seemed to have a mechanical spring installed under its head as it was swaying towards him.
It was said that the bodies the bureau arranges for mission executors are the most suitable at the moment of transmigration. At first, he didn’t understand why he would get an identity that was neither too ordinary nor so special.
But he understood it now.
This was just a mission world. He didn’t care what kind of identity he had or whom he was going to marry.
His goal was very clear, he had to complete the missions set by the bureau
Gu Xiyu locked the door with a click and took out the business card and USB flash drive from his trouser pocket.
There was a laptop lying on the unorganized desk. He walked over and opened its cover, only to find the screen cracked like a cobweb. He stared at the laptop that seemed to have been violently smashed and wordlessly pressed the power button.
Even if it was plugged in, he still couldn’t turn on the laptop, even after several attempts. In the end, he could only open the drawer and throw in the things he was holding.
Gu Xiyu rummaged in the room for a while and, after getting some life information about the original owner, went to take a bath with his exhausted body. He dug out a bandage and pasted it to the scratched corner of his forehead.
[System.]
At night, his thoughts were still a bit active and energetic.
Lei Lina and Ji Chen’s blind date was set for tomorrow. If the other party wanted to marry, wouldn’t he recognize him at a glance?
There was silence in his mind. Gu Xiyu thought it hadn’t heard him, so he called out patiently, [System?]
A few minutes later, he received a response.
[…]
Before he could say what he wanted to say, the emotionless voice sounded again.
[The system is going to sleep. Let’s talk tomorrow.]
Gu Xiyu: [?]
What???
[Automated reply: Hello, your cute little smart system is temporarily offline!]
Gu Xiyu: “…”
For the first time, he felt like complaining about a system.
Feeling shocked, incredulous, and slightly angry, Gu Xiyu strangely began to feel a little drowsy.
Forget it! It doesn’t matter.
….
When he woke up the next day, there was no one in the house. The leftover breakfast was scattered on the dining table, all of which was already cold. Gu Xiyu didn’t even look at it. He put on the long coat he found in the closet and went out.
The blind date was arranged at a restaurant in the city center.
There was only Gu Xiyu sitting at the table, and the waiter in a red and white uniform was packing up the empty plates in front of him.
He idly swiped the news page on his phone and said to the waiter before he left: “Please give me another piece of grilled fish.”
“Okay.” The waiter smiled and left.
The mobile phone’s notification sound suddenly rang out.
[Little Sheep: That is the restaurant that we decided on. He and I agreed to meet at noon.]
[Little Sheep: Has he arrived yet? He has no sense of punctuality, right…]
Gu Xiyu didn’t reply again. The waiter brought his grilled fish to the table, and he took a knife and fork to eat leisurely.
On the side of the road, opposite the street from the restaurant, a black car was discreetly parked among the rows of cars.
Ji Chen was sitting in the back seat, his fingers tapping continuously on the laptop keyboard. There were a few unfolded papers next to him, with dense English characters on them.
Jin Ke, in the driver’s seat, was in deep contemplation on the meaning of life.
As Ji Chen’s personal assistant, he was the person who knew Ji Chen’s life best, including the fact that he had an appointment with the daughter of the Lei family at noon. His boss always kept his promises and punctuality. But now, it was already past 1 p.m., but he was still working in the car, showing no intention of getting out of it to go to the appointment at all.
Jin Ke even suspected that the daughter of the Lei family, who could not wait for anyone, might have stormed out of the restaurant as early as half an hour ago.
There was an important meeting at the company headquarters at two o’clock. How long did his boss plan to stay here?
“Give me the phone.” The person in the back seat of the car suddenly spoke in a low and intimidating voice.
Jin Ke quickly handed Ji Chen his mobile phone.
After directing his mobile phone to the car window and taking a photo, Ji Chen threw it back to him: “Help me check out the person in the photo, we can go back to the company.”
Jin Ke lowered his head, and in the blurry photo, he saw a boy sitting by the window of a certain restaurant. The photo happened to capture the scene when the boy was looking at the crowd of cars out the window, so Jin Ke could vaguely make out the boy’s fair and handsome features.
The people under Ji Chen have always been quick, and the next day, Gu Xiyu’s latest information was delivered to him.
“…. Judging from his student records, although his personality and temperament are not so good, his private life is not too chaotic. His family background is fairly clean. He worked in the Liyang Group and got in through his personal connections, but was dismissed because of poor business ability. His father’s company was schemed by a partner a while ago, and it hasn’t yet recovered after a major financial crisis. The company’s situation is very bad.”
“Because of this incident, his father, Gu Xun, contacted the Chen family. The head of the Chen family recently pressed his second son, Chen Jin, to find someone easy to control and with a clean background to get married, so Gu Xun pushed his son to him. Chen Jin seems to have accepted. The day after tomorrow, Gu Xiyu will go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a certificate. Tsk, he is really selling himself for glory.” Jin Ke flipped through the documents in his hand and confirmed that everything was ready before putting them on the desk and letting Ji Chen look at them in person.
Ji Chen moved his consciousness and turned on the magical panel that was suddenly bound to him and that only he could see. The conversation that ended in the middle of the night was still there.
An incomprehensible smile quickly glided under Ji Chen’s deep eyes.
He didn’t comment on Gu Xiyu’s personality, but his temper seemed… really bad.
“The second young master of the Chen family is a middle-aged man in his forties. His private life is not proper, and his parents are really pushing him to get married.”
After Jin Ke finished talking, he remembered something: “Speaking of which, Fengming Group also received his job application not long ago. It’s just that his education, qualifications, and experience did not meet our minimum admission requirements, so the Human Resources Department directly rejected him. ”
He had just mentioned it, but he didn’t expect that Ji Chen would not look up after receiving Gu Xiyu’s information: “Let Human Resources Department send me his resume. I will approve it personally.”
Jin Ke was stunned. Just as he was about to answer, his cell phone rang suddenly.
At Ji Chen’s signal, he connected the phone.
After hanging up the call, Jin Ke said to Ji Chen sadly: “Boss, Madam Ji has already received news of your refusal to marry the daughter of the Lei family. You rejecting her arrangement is causing her anxiety, and someone called to inquire about the situation. They said that if you are not satisfied with the daughter of the Lei family, they can immediately arrange another partner for you.”
He asked cautiously: “How does boss plan to reply to the people of the Ji family?”
Ji Chen focused his gaze on the fair boy in the file. After tapping his index finger on the smooth table a few times, he closed the folder and said, “Just tell them that I already have a candidate in my heart. If they are worried about the other party’s background affecting their Ji family’s name, just send them his information.”
“Okay.” Jin Ke nodded. He then felt something was wrong and asked for confirmation, “Boss, whose information will be sent?”
Ji Chen sat on the chair and looked at him with a smile. He turned the folder in front of him 180 degrees and pushed it in Jin Ke’s direction.
“His.”
