Gu Xiyu had finished three individual meal sets in the restaurant, but Ji Chen still hadn’t yet shown up.
He called the waiter to pay the bill, only for the waiter to say: “Sir, you can leave directly if you are full. The bill for your table has been settled.”
“Has been settled?”
The waiter replied politely: “A gentleman with the surname Ji told us that he will be responsible for all your expenses in this restaurant today.”
Gu Xiyu didn’t have much money left in his mobile payment software. Worried that he would have no money to pay, he deliberately brought all the cash he could find at home.
He confirmed with the waiter: “It means that no matter how many things I order today, that Mr. Ji will clear the bill for me?”
“Correct.”
A few minutes later, Gu Xiyu ordered all the different set meals on the menu and said: “Please pack all of these, thank you.”
Waiter: “……..Okay.”
Of course, Gu Xiyu couldn’t eat it himself. He gave most of the lunch boxes to the sanitation workers, who were busy all day by the roadside, as well as to an old gentleman who happened to be collecting papers.
The old man, who was leaning over to pick up the papers, looked at him excitedly: “Thank you, young man, you must be a very good child.”
Gu Xiyu said warmly: “Don’t thank me, it was a gentleman named Ji Chen who treated this.”
He had been working in the bureau for so long, but no one had ever ditched him.
Ji Chen was the first!
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“Pre… President Ji, my Chen family recently received a construction cooperation case. There should not be any commercial conflicts with Fengming, you…”
Chen Jin had just ended a party with a group of friends and happily came out of the nightclub with two enchanting boys in his arms. However, before he could take them to the room to enjoy a midnight pleasure, he was forcibly taken away by a group of people in black who suddenly appeared. After a severe beating, they dragged the dizzy man to their boss, the current president of the Fengming Group.
The man in the chair watched him without saying anything. He had a faint smile on his lips, and he seemed to be in a good mood.
Sweat dripped from under Chen Jin’s blue-dyed hair. He knelt on the floor in confusion and was so nervous that he forgot the pain when under the other person’s gaze.
He thought for a long time but still couldn’t figure out how or when he had provoked Ji Chen.
Jin Ke on the side smiled warmly: “Second young master Chen, don’t be nervous. President Ji invited you over to just discuss something with you.”
Chen Jin rubbed his aching arms. He was wondering if this looked like an invitation to discuss something???
Jin Ke put a piece of information in front of him: “I heard that the Second Young Master will get a marriage certificate with this person soon.”
Chen Jin glanced at it and immediately understood everything.
Wasn’t this Gu Xiyu, Gu Xun’s son?
·.
It’s better to wear a gray suit. Its brand is of high quality, and it’ll give the second young master Chen a better impression of you.”
On the day Chen Jin agreed to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to collect the certificate, Gu Xun and Xu Caiting looked even more excited than Gu Xiyu. They came to his room early in the morning to help him prepare.
Gu Xun took out the key to the only car left at home: “I’ll lend you the car for a day today. Remember to serve him well, do what he says, and don’t try to use your brain!”
Xu Caiting gently pulled Gu Xun’s arm and whispered to him: “Should we first confirm that he has received the certificate before going to see Boss Yang?”
“How can we do that?” Gu Xun frowned. “Boss Yang is notoriously impatient. Many people can’t meet him even if they want. This time, he is willing to take a look at our plan thanks young master Chen, I must hold this big thigh firmly!”
“Ah Yu is in his twenties. I think he should be able to distinguish the importance of things. He will never do anything that disappoints us, right?” Although Gu Xun said this to Xu Caiting, his eyes fell on Gu Xiyu.
Gu Xiyu took the key in his hand and replied calmly: “Don’t worry, I will do what you have instructed me to do.”
Gu Xun had forehead wrinkles due to worrying. After he spoke a few words in a harmonious and kind voice, he took Xu Caiting and hurried out to take a taxi. Gu Xiyu changed his clothes as requested by the couple and set off an hour earlier, planning to take the laptop for repair before going to the Civil Affairs Bureau.
“You must have slammed it into the ground ninety-nine times to achieve this level of damage? I can try to repair it for you, but there is a high probability that it can’t be repaired. Even if it isn’t repaired, you’ll still have to pay the same amount. Are you sure you want to repair this?” The owner of the repair shop repeatedly checked the laptop that seemed to have been run over by a car in a complicated mood.
Gu Xiyu did not reply. He took out the banknotes from his pocket and directly paid the fee.
He checked his bank account last night. There was a deposit of more than a few thousand yuan in it, which should be enough until he finds a job.
This laptop was the personal possession of the original owner. There might be some useful information in it, so he had to try repairing it no matter what. If the contents can be retained, he might still know the reason why the original owner was hunted down and whether it really had something to do with the target.
The information provided by the system shows that there is no intersection between the original body and the target, which is unreasonable. If the person who wanted to kill him was not the target, things seemed to be more complicated.
After confirming everything with the shopkeeper, Gu Xiyu picked up the phone and entered the address of the Civil Affairs Bureau in the navigation. He then left the repair shop.
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“This is definitely the best photo I have ever taken in my life!”
“What …? I think they deliberately made me fat, and I feel like the makeup wasn’t done well…”
“It’s enough to have you and me in the pic…..”
In front of the Civil Affairs Bureau, a pair of young lovers who had just obtained the marriage certificate passed Gu Xiyu while flirting.
He stood incongruously among the crowds of people coming and going in pairs, and the screen on his phone was showing the chat history between him and Gu Xun. He stared at the time above and the address of the Civil Affairs Bureau and checked them back and forth several times before confirming that Gu Xun hadn’t even given him Chen Jin’s contact information.
Gu Xiyu didn’t care about this matter, but this family seemed to be even more casual with their son.
It may also be because they felt that he should know how Chen Jin looked.
He was just about to go on the internet for some photos when a pair of black leather shoes suddenly appeared before his eyes.
“Gu Xiyu?” Before he could see the person’s appearance, the other party’s low voice came to his ears.
To use a simple and blunt word to describe it, it was quite an “aggressive” voice.
Gu Xiyu raised his head.
Chen Jin’s appearance was unexpectedly very different from what he had imagined. According to Gu Xun’s description, the other party was a middle-aged man who was aging fast, and loved to drink and have fun. But the man in front of him was in a neat suit, had neatly combed hair, and was meticulously dressed; he looked to be in his early thirties.
His facial features were so exquisite and handsome that Gu Xiyu couldn’t connect him to the person that Gu Xun had described for a while.
He has been in a high position for many years, so he could clearly feel that this person gave off an aura that screamed ‘superiority’.
“Mr. Chen Jin?” Gu Xiyu quickly regained his composure and spoke tentatively.
The man’s brows seemed to be raised slightly. He glanced at the watch on his wrist and said to him: “Let’s go, I have a meeting later, so let’s not waste time.”
The registration procedure was very simple. Gu Xiyu only concentrated on what the staff explained, without any resistance from beginning to end.
Ji Chen’s gaze flicked over Gu Xiyu’s emotionless eyes and stayed on his lighter pupils for an additional second before turning towards his lips.
Sure enough, he was a person of low sentiment.
“Congratulations to the two of you for officially becoming legal partners. I wish you happiness and wealth, and a long life together!” The girl who helped them with the registration process was very enthusiastic. She talked to them with bright eyes, and Gu Xiyu couldn’t tell whether the light pink on her cheeks was made using blush or if she was blushing.
“Thank you.” Gu Xiyu smiled at her.
He took the marriage certificate handed to him by the staff, and opened it to check whether there was extra information in it before putting it away. This indifferent attitude made people feel that he would have gotten a certificate today even if it was with a pig.
After sending off Gu Xiyu and Ji Chen, the staff at the counter couldn’t help but pat the desk of the colleague next to him and exclaimed: “Sister, did you see them? They should be the most handsome pair of husbands I have ever dealt with! ”
“They’re really eye-catching and a good match.”
The senior colleague glanced at the backs of the two people and added in a low voice: “It would have been better if their relationship was better.”
…………………….
“Then I’ll go back first. You can contact me again if you need anything.” Gu Xiyu walked out of the Civil Affairs Bureau with the man beside him. He clicked on the contact interface and saved the man’s name with just a “C” as in “Chen Jin.”
The man suddenly gave him a bunch of keys and a note: “The key and address of the new apartment.”
Gu Xiyu’s eyes were blank for a moment, and the man who was slightly taller than him said calmly: “Of course, you need a new house when you get married.”
After separating from the man, Gu Xiyu sat in the car without saying a word for ten minutes.
He glanced at the little red notebook he had casually thrown into the passenger seat. He moved his fingers, but just as he was about to reach for it, a phone call suddenly came in.
After the call was connected, Xu Caiting’s anxious voice rang out: “Quick, come to the People’s Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Your father had a car accident!”
When Gu Xiyu hurried to the hospital ward, he was still outside when he heard Gu Xun and Xu Caiting yelling at each other.
“…Why are you ordering me? No, I have to meet Boss Yang!”
Xu Caiting cursed and said, “Why do you have to meet? You have fractured your leg. Are you even able to get out of bed?? And you still want to meet some boss !!!”
“Still, I must inform him about how it was the driver’s fault!”
“Wasn’t it because you were urging the driver to go faster and forced him to run through the red light? This is good, you almost went to heaven even faster!!!”
The appearance of Gu Xiyu temporarily interrupted the quarrel between the two. When Xu Caiting saw him, the first thing she asked was: “Have you obtained the certificates for you and the second young master Chen?”
He touched his pocket but then remembered that the certificate was still in the car: “I got it.”
Gu Xun and Xu Caiting had a small car accident on their way to meet the boss. The car they were riding ran through a red light and accidentally collided with a turning car. The front of the car hit the place where Gu Xun was sitting, so although Gu Xun’s leg got broken, Xu Caiting was okay.
Gu Xiyu glanced at his casted leg. This level of injury won’t get better in just a few months.
Xu Caiting was a little relieved by the answer, but her face didn’t look good: “Your brother was killed not long after you were born, and now your dad was injured when you got married. Sure enough, you were born as a jinx.”
Gu Xiyu was startled.
It turned out that this was the case.
Xu Caiting became more irritable as she spoke: “Just hurry up and pay your father’s medical bills.”
Gu Xun’s face on the bed was not as bad as Xu Caiting’s face. Instead, he looked at Gu Xiyu like a savior: “Ah Yu, help your dad. Tell second young master Chen about today’s affairs and ask him to help me apologize to Boss Yang…”
Gu Xiyu silently paid for Gu Xun’s medical expenses but never went back to the ward.
The atmosphere inside was a bit suffocating, which reminded him of unpleasant things.
He drove the car to an unfamiliar place, and wandered the streets nearby, trying to integrate himself into the crowd. He used the hundreds of yuan left in his pocket to buy a lot of food that seemed appetizing. But he only carried it around without eating.
When he was passing by an alley, he saw a big yellowish-black dog lying on the side of a big blue-gray colored trash can, with most of its head buried in the trash can. After kicking the bucket a few times with its legs in the air, it dragged a bag of garbage out of it and threw it on the ground.
The other two medium-sized dogs that had been rummaging around heard the sound and surrounded it. A few cats followed behind them, one of which seemed to be only a few months old. It was meowing as it ran.
The meat that fell out of the bag was rotten and smelly. The big dog lowered its head and sniffed but did not move its mouth, it even pushed the kitten that was bringing its head closer.
Gu Xiyu walked into the alley. Several cats and dogs that were scared away by him were attracted by the food he put on the ground and started eating. The white cat with a lot of gray fur on its body plunged into the warm coat he had just taken off, flicking its tail comfortably.
He looked at the big dog rubbing against his palm, his eyes curled shallowly.
Even the weak and small creatures in the small world were working hard to survive.
[It is detected that the target has lost the possibility of marrying the daughter of the Lei family. The host’s first mission has been completed, and the target’s current risk value is 60.]
The automatic notification from the system came suddenly, and Gu Xiyu frowned suspiciously.
He tried to find Ji Chen but to no avail. He even wondered if the other party had noticed something and didn’t show up on purpose, so he was ready to fight him.
Unexpectedly, the task was suddenly completed?
[The target will secretly sign an equity transfer contract with a shareholder of a foreign company called PAP in a month. The host needs to prevent this from happening.]
The system quickly released the second main task based on the background data.
[PAP was established by an overseas Chinese family decades ago. It focuses on the production and sales of cosmetics and is now an international first-line brand. This company was framed by opponents two years ago, which caused its sales to drop. Although it was finally investigated and the truth was cleared, the stock market price still fell sharply. In order to obtain 20% of the shares, the target sent a highly capable R&D team to PAP to develop a new series of products. The product quality was very high, and the market also responded very well. The new sub-products have been launched continuously, and they have always been the top three in sales of the same type of product.]
[The protagonist of this world, the nephew of the target, Ji Zixuan, who was training in the Ji family’s foreign branch, should have received this honor. There is also an elite-level R&D team under Ji Zixuan, but the target’s vision is aggressive. All the members he entered into the team are top candidates with extremely high talents and strong capabilities. After PAP’s assessment at the time, they finally chose the target’s team, causing Ji Zixuan to miss this opportunity.]
[The target has also acquired many shares of PAP intermittently over the years. Once the contract is successfully signed this time, he will become the largest shareholder of PAP, which means he has the power to take over the board of directors. With the help of PAP, it will be easier for the target to destroy the Ji Group that the protagonist will take over later. So the host must find a way to reduce the risk value by 20 points.]
Gu Xiyu read the mission description roughly. In summary, he either had to find a way to reach Fengming headquarters and contact Ji Chen, hinder his cooperation with PAP, or directly become a superior member of PAP to cancel the contract.
To be honest, he didn’t understand why the Lord God sent him over.
He was best at fighting, so he thought he’d have to fight the target for three hundred rounds the moment they met, fighting and using their strength till one of them was dead.
However, he now had to get involved in business, and what was more irritating was that he couldn’t directly eliminate the target and end the mission with a single strike.
Just as he was feeling distressed about this, a sound came from the phone again. It was different from the sound of an incoming message.
It was a message notification of new mail in the mailbox app.
Gu Xiyu hadn’t unlocked the phone yet, but he could see part of the title through the push notification.
[Congratulations! You have been successfully accepted by Fengming Group (Head Office)…]
Fengming Group?
Wasn’t that Ji Chen’s company?
His finger hesitated on the screen for a long time before clicking on it.
It was a letter of employment from the Human Resource Department of Fengming Headquarters ! !
He’s feeding dogs and cats 😭💜