TVLMS 5

[Do you know Fu Nian? If possible, can I get some information on him.]

Ji Chen was working overtime in the study at the Ji family mansion when he received Gu Xiyu’s request.

Information about the person named Fu Nian quickly appeared on the panel. He only had time to see the words “second male lead” before the information was automatically sent to Gu Xiyu and it turned into a blue frame.

Fu Nian? The young master of Y country’s Fu family?

He and Ji Zixuan have a pretty good relationship. The two graduated from the same university, and they often appeared together on various social occasions.

Why did Gu Xiyu suddenly ask about him?

“Hurry up, are all the rooms cleaned up?”

The door of the study room was open by a crack, and Ji Chen could hear the sudden busy movements outside the room. There was a constant slamming of doors, people running back and forth and talking in the corridor, as if something exciting was going on.

“The car is already outside!”

“Yeah, the kitchen has already started on the most luxurious meal. I just saw Sister Liu helping the old lady go downstairs. She was missing this grandson every day, and now she is finally going downstairs to receive him.”

“I recall that when the young master was going abroad, he was only as high as my shoulders. He should be a mature, stable, and handsome man now, right?”

Ji Chen was not infected by the joy of people outside the room. He rubbed his temples and moved the chair back a little bit. Without clearing up the computer interface filled with various windows, he got up and walked to the window.

A black car was parked downstairs. The rear boot was opened high, and the people of the house could be seen moving a lot of things out of it.

Two people stood in front of the car, one tall and the other short. The short one was an old lady in her sixties or seventies, wearing a dark purple fleece dress and a cloak. Even in the cold wind, she personally came out to meet the youth, who was more than one head taller than her.

The two embraced In harmony for a long time. The youth released the old lady in his arms, his serious face looking softer.

Ji Chen watched the warm scene downstairs silently. The door of the study was pushed open after two light knocks, and the old butler walked to his desk with a cup of coffee.

Hot steam was rising from the cup.

The butler sighed and spoke with an elderly voice: “It’s not good to stay up too late. Rest early when you finish your work.”

Ji Chen’s line of sight was still downstairs. He hadn’t yet dismissed the system panel that only he could see, and he was looking at the grey input bar labeled “command.” He had studied for a long time but still hadn’t mastered how to use it.

“Someone asked me today if I have ever committed murder or arson.” He spoke suddenly.

The old butler looked at him with helpless eyes.

The old lady downstairs, who was beaming with happiness, came back to the house accompanied by her beloved grandson. Ji Chen chuckled quietly and said in an emotionless tone: “At that time, I actually thought that what he asked was quite reasonable.”

The original owner had deliberately hidden the diary under the bed.

Gu Xiyu had already discovered some ordinary diaries in his room, so he didn’t expect that there would be a special one. But after he went through it, he somehow understood why the original owner had hidden it.

His diary was about a certain boy, and it was none other than Fu Nian. Fu Nian transferred to his class when the original owner had just entered the third year of high school. He was also the person who changed the direction of the original owner’s life.

Fu Nian was a very brilliant student, and in the early stages of the diary, the original owner’s words were full of disgust when describing the other party. It was not until the annual basketball competition that they accidentally became friends. Fu Nian encouraged and guided the depraved original owner, who then decided to start working hard. He changed from a student the teachers had given up on, to a hard-working student, and he managed to pass the university entrance examination.

The original owner and Fu Nian separated after graduating from high school and occasionally contacted each other by mobile phone.

The original owner’s feelings for Fu Nian did not fade after graduation, and they were mentioned in this diary from time to time. But he had relatively low self-esteem from childhood, so Fu Nian was like a distant moonlight to him, and he only intended to keep his feelings hidden. Moreover, at that time, the legality of same-sex marriage in this world was still under debate and gay relationships were not common. It was even more impossible for the original owner to speak out.

Gu Xiyu finished reading the diary and fell silent.

To a certain extent… his marriage to “Chen Jin” was not a bad choice.

This was when he asked the system for Fu Nian’s information. Unexpectedly, it was quite fast this time, and the information was sent without a word.

He saw “second male lead” written next to Fu Nian’s name, and his mood instantly became more complicated.

Fortunately, Fu Nian didn’t know about the original owner’s feelings, otherwise, it would have been a big headache.

[Fu Nian is the same age as Ji Zixuan as well as the original owner. Although he grew up in country Y, he speaks Chinese fluently. He studied in China for a while in middle school, and then returned to country Y to continue his studies after graduation. He is the second male lead of this world, the youngest son of the Fu family of Y country. He had a relationship with the female protagonist in middle school, and later met Ji Zixuan in college. The two people have similar views, interests, and talents, and the Fu family happens to be an international partner with the Ji Group, so the two became good friends who will help each other.]

[His personal information and detailed background……]

Gu Xiyu read Fu Nian’s information with satisfaction, and said to the system, “Thank you.”

[…] The intelligent system was as cold as ever.

After a few seconds, an automatic notification popped up.

[It has been detected that the target’s risk value has increased. The current risk value is 70. Please pay attention to it, host.]

Gu Xiyu: “?”

He stared at the increasing number with pursed lips and said to the system: “The target is quite annoying.”

The system echoed: [I think so too.]

Then a few seconds later, there was another automatic notification.

[The target’s risk value has increased by +5. The current risk value is 75. Please pay attention to it, host.]

“….”

Gu Xiyu went to the Fengming Headquarters early the next morning.

He was wondering if he would have a chance to meet the target and at least see what he looked like at present, only for his hopes to be dashed when he saw the female staff at the front desk politely rejecting a middle-aged man wearing a gray suit with a big belly.

The man was wearing a pair of glasses that made him look simple and honest. It was unknown whether it was because of the excessive heating in the building or other reasons, but sweat kept forming on his forehead.

He took out a dark blue handkerchief, wiped off his sweat, and asked unwillingly: “Then when will your President Ji come back?”

The staff maintained a generous and elegant smile: “President Ji went on a temporary business trip, and we can’t determine his return date for the time being. It could be as little as a few days or as long as half a month. I’m very sorry.”

Gu Xiyu was startled when he heard the words.

Ji Chen went abroad?

The man walked back and forth a few steps and finally took out the business card holder in his arms: “This is my business card, if President Ji returns…”

Before he finished speaking, his hand shook and all the cards in the holder fell to the floor.

Gu Xiyu walked up to help him pick up the business cards on the ground, and took a glance.

Tianhai Group, Li Changyuan.

“Thank you.” The man named Li Changyuan took the cards from Gu Xiyu without even looking at him. After handing a card to the front desk staff, he left with an unhappy expression.

“Tianhai Group? I heard that the cooperation between them and our company went bad a while back. They really lack honesty. Are they taking our Fengming for some money bank? It seems that it may be true…”

The girl sitting at the front desk murmured to the person who had just received the business card without raising her head. The person holding the business card patted her gently and then smiled at Gu Xiyu: “Hello sir, is there anything I can help you with?”

Gu Xiyu took out the printed document: “They just notified me that my interview was successful and asked me to come to work today.”

After that, he was taken to the HR department on the third floor to fill out the entry form and register.

Two people were sitting at the registration table, a man and a woman. The woman turned to him with the phone in one hand and searched on the computer with the other. She spoke to the caller with a very polite and respectful attitude.

“This is your work permit. Fill out this form, and you can take it to the twelfth floor. I will call the people there to explain the situation.” The man snapped the work permit next to the entry form.

Gu Xiyu glanced at the work card on the man’s chest, which read the words “Chen Han.”

“Your name is Gu Xiyu? You look so good-looking. The crazy women on the twelfth floor will be so happy. They were still complaining yesterday, yelling about why a new person was suddenly hired. I guess they’ll all be face-slapped today, hehehe.” Chen Han leaned against the table with one hand on his chin as he read what Gu Xiyu was filling out on the form. His voice was not too low, and it overshadowed the voice of the female colleague on the call.

When he saw that Gu Xiyu had checked the “married” option, he exclaimed in shock: “Wait, did you choose the wrong option?”

“No, I didn’t choose wrong.” Gu Xiyu replied warmly.

Chen Han’s eyes were a little bit more regretful: “Those crazy women will probably experience the ups and downs of life today. You got married at a young age, your partner must be very good, right?”

The tip of the pen writing on the paper paused for a while.

Gu Xiyu thought of something, then he smiled and replied without looking up: “He’s not anything special, I’m just doing charity.”

When the female colleague next to Chen Han hung up the phone, Gu Xiyu had already walked away. The man was holding the entry form filled out by Gu Xiyu and was praising him for his good handwriting. He glanced at his colleague, who had a greatly relieved expression, and teased: “Who was that? People who don’t know might think you just finished bargaining with Yama.”

*Yama is the King of the Underworld.

“It was President Ji!” The female colleague raised her hand and touched her high ponytail, then said in a low voice, “Wasn’t a spy from Tianhai discovered in the Program Department a while ago? We have to be very careful from now on, President Ji even had me check the information of the people who joined the company recently.”

“Eh? Didn’t President Ji go on a business trip?”

“Nobody dares to slack off even if President Ji is on a trip. Just because he is not here…”

Gu Xiyu did not know the content of the conversation between the two employees of the human resources department. When he left the department with his work permit, he met a young man at the elevator entrance. There was a similar card hanging from his neck. He saw Gu Xiyu and suddenly smiled, then raised his hand to say hello: “Hi!”

Under Gu Xiyu’s blank gaze, the system sent a short message.

[He Rong, the original owner’s classmate from both middle school and high school. Because he was timid and weak, the original owner often threatened him into doing his homework and running errands. It was not until the last year of high school that the original owner apologized and the relationship between the two people eased.]

Another evil debt from the original owner.

“Long time no see, He Rong.” Gu Xiyu’s attitude was fairly natural, “Are you working here too?”

“Yeah, I tried after graduation, but I didn’t expect to really be accepted. I didn’t expect you to also…” He Rong glanced at Gu Xiyu’s work permit and gave him a friendly smile.

“Well, I officially joined today.”

The elevator door opened with a “ding.” He Rong walked in, pressed the button “9,” and asked him, “Which floor are you going to?”

“Twelve, thank you.” He didn’t know how well the original body got along with this person. Gu Xiyu only saw the person showing a flattered expression after hearing him say thank you.

The meeting between middle school classmates who hadn’t seen each other for many years was awkward. Gu Xiyu was not good at talking, and he was afraid of accidentally revealing something, so he didn’t say much.

The elevator soon arrived on the ninth floor. He Rong stood outside the door, waved to him before the elevator door closed, and said energetically: “If you have time, we can eat lunch together. The food in the company cafeteria is super delicious.”

Gu Xiyu nodded slightly: “Okay.”

He Rong kept staring until the elevator doors closed, and the number at the top continued to move up again. He Rong put away the bright smile on his lips, his eyes becoming dark and guilty.

After a while, he took out the phone from his pocket and sent a text message to a contact.

[He really came to Fengming.]

The office on the 12th floor was the writing department, and the majority of the staff was female. Even the supervisor who came to meet Gu Xiyu was a mature and capable woman.

Her attitude toward him was neither warm nor cold. The colleagues in the office seemed to have been warned in advance, so most people just glanced at him when he came in. The keyboards in front of them kept crackling, and it sounded like they were very busy.

“This is your desk. You should know how to make reports, right? You can just take care of that before getting off work.” The supervisor led him to the empty table in the corner and pointed to a pile of documents as high as a short ruler. Then she went back to her office after a few brief explanations.

Gu Xiyu flipped the documents a few times, the pile of financial figures inside just made him a headache.

Although he loves numbers, he preferred those in a system code.

On the first day of work, Gu Xiyu worked overtime. The colleagues in the office were very enthusiastic, especially the younger girls, their eyes were shining when they talked to him, which was very different from the people in the bureau, whose expression after seeing him most of the time was awe.

They also taught him things that seemed very basic to them, but he had no clue about.

Fortunately, his comprehension speed was very fast. Except for being slow because he was unfamiliar with things, everything else was fine.

The biggest problem probably was that he finally joined Fengming, but he hadn’t had a chance to meet Ji Chen.

“When will Ji Chen come back?” Gu Xiyu asked the system as he lay on the bed in the guest room of the apartment. The clingy cat pawed at the door of the room for a long time before he finally let it in, and it was now lying comfortably beside him and purring.

His workload has been quite heavy these days, and he usually works until late at night. “Chen Jin” had asked him to help feed the cat every day, and because he had to go to work the next day, he simply decided to temporarily stay in the apartment.

[It should be soon.] The system’s answer was very perfunctory.

Gu Xiyu suspected that the executors failed their missions not because the missions could not be completed, but because they didn’t even get a chance to start.

In the blink of an eye, it was the day he had to meet “Chen Jin’s” family.

After eating breakfast, Gu Xiyu got dressed and leaned on the sofa in the living room, looking down at the time on his phone.

08:59.

There is one minute left to the appointment time. Chen Jin hasn’t been back in the past few days and has not given him any follow-up notice. He didn’t know whether the other party had forgotten this matter, or not.

When it was nine o’clock, there was a sound of the door being opened in the hallway.

The white cat, with its tail raised high, trotted over to greet its owner.

The other party was wearing dark-colored clothes once again, and there were several white snowflakes on his warm coat.

“Let’s go.” “Chen Jin” seemed quite satisfied with his punctuality, he picked up the cat and called him to go out.

Gu Xiyu sat in the front passenger seat of the black car, and had a sudden thought as he fastened his seat belt–

Fortunately, he was wearing a white cotton coat today. Otherwise, the two of them sitting together would not look as if they were going to see the family. On the contrary, they would be more like messengers from the underworld who had come to collect their souls.

The Chen family home was much bigger than Gu Xiyu thought.

The car drove for a few more minutes after entering the gate before he could see the house—so such mansions actually existed.

When he got out of the car, an old butler, who was about 50 or 60 years old, walked out of the mansion, which looked like it had a long history. He bowed respectfully to the man who got out of the driver’s seat and called out: “Fifth Young Master.”

Gu Xiyu paused when he looked at the mansion.

‘But didn’t Gu Xun say that “Chen Jin” was the second young master of the Chen family?’

“The old madam has been waiting for you for a long time.” When the old butler was talking, his eyes were also looking at Gu Xiyu. The more he looked at Gu Xiyu, the more surprised he became, and there was even a hint of relief in his eyes.

The phone in his pocket suddenly rang. Gu Xiyu picked up the call as he followed “Chen Jin” into the house.

Xu Caiting’s angry voice rang ou immediately rang out: “Gu Xiyu, you have become very capable, haven’t you? How dare you lie to me and your father?!”

Gu Xiyu frowned: “What did I lie to you about?”

“Your father and I went to see second young master Chen just now. He said he didn’t marry you, and he even punched your father. The cooperation with Boss Yang also failed! Gu Xiyu, you were born to bring down our family, right?!”

Gu Xiyu subconsciously glanced at the back of the person in front of him, and replied: “I didn’t lie to you, he and I are at the Chen family house right now, we’re going to see his family.”

Xu Caiting on the other end of the phone paused, and seemed to be even more angry: “We just came out of the Chen house, why didn’t we see you?!”

Before Gu Xiyu could figure things out, Xu Caiting continued: “Also, I just found your marriage certificate that fell under the passenger seat. The name of your spouse is not that of Second Young Master Chen at all. It is Ji Chen! Do you still want to lie to me?!”

When Xu Caiting’s words came to Gu Xiyu’s ears, he happened to be following the man to the living room.

He maintained the posture of holding the phone, and as soon as he looked up, he saw a man who looked exactly like Ji Zixuan, the protagonist of this world, sitting on the chair in the living room. Next to him was an old lady in her seventies, who stood up with his support.

The voice on the phone suddenly became chaotic, Gu Xun’s agitated voice was also added to it, but Gu Xiyu couldn’t hear a word anymore.

He hung up the call. The hand holding the phone slowly dropped to his side, but his other hand was suddenly held by the man in front of him.

The temperature of the other party’s hand dispelled the coldness of his, and Gu Xiyu felt someone touch his cheek. The instigator did not immediately raise his lowered head but instead said to him in an unprecedentedly gentle tone: “ Xiyu, that’s my mother; call her mom.”

There was no change in Gu Xiyu’s expression, but he was about to crush the phone in his hand.