The car stopped in front of the Gu family villa. Ji Chen didn’t turn it off; he just put it into gear and didn’t move.
“We’ll discuss everything about the wedding later. As for the party next week… I will try to send a customized suit to your home as soon as possible, otherwise, people might think I abducted you from some small village,” said Ji Chen, who had just received his five million inheritance.
Gu Xiyu pursed his lips: “Thank you, but I don’t need your suit, and I really don’t want to attend your high-profile party.”
He was not a high-profile person, nor did he want to hold the wedding of the century with the “target” that has troubled the Bureau for a long time. As for the party Lin Fangru mentioned, he didn’t know anything related to it, so he was even more disinterested. The system hadn’t mentioned any special incidents that would take place there, so going there will only make him owe Ji Chen a set of clothes.
Ji Chen said again: “Your white moonlight Fu Nian will be there too; are you really not going?”
Gu Xiyu was still hesitating; after all, spending time with the target was a good way of getting to know him more.
But when he heard Fu Nian’s name, his rejection suddenly became firmer, though Ji Chen’s attitude made him a little puzzled: “You want me to go in the hope of catching me committing adultery in front of everyone, then it would be easy for you to divorce me and get out of this mess?”
Ji Chen didn’t deny it. His eyes didn’t have a glimmer of guilt, but he still said: “No! How could that be?”
Gu Xiyu got out of the car and slammed the door without even saying goodbye.
What was ridiculous was that the system’s automatic notification suddenly popped up just when he had reached the door to the house.
[The target’s risk value is -1, and the current risk value is 78.]
Gu Xiyu: “…”
Sure enough, only abnormal people could understand the target’s way of thinking.
If it weren’t for the fact that the world would collapse if the risk value reached 100, he would have forced Ji Chen to reach the full risk value and eliminated him.
As soon as Gu Xiyu walked into the house, the two people on the sofa looked over at the same time.
Gu Xun’s leg made it inconvenient to move, so he could only wave at him excitedly. On the contrary, Xu Caiting changed her harsh attitude from yesterday and spoke with a soft tone that Gu Xiyu had never heard before: “Xiyu, you are back? We called you so many times; why didn’t you answer?”
Gu Xiyu replied: “I was busy yesterday and didn’t pay attention. When I got up in the morning, my phone had already run out of battery.”
The imagined violent scene did not happen.
Not only did Xu Caiting not reprimand him as before, but she even patted him on the shoulder with relief and said, “Were you with Mr. Ji? That’s good; I understand. I don’t blame you.”
Gu Xiyu looked at Xu Caiting’s expression; she looked as if he had done something extraordinary, and he was a little puzzled.
Maybe Xu Caiting also knew that people from large families were hard to deal with.
After that, Xu Caiting dragged him to the living room and sat down. Gu Xun’s smile was as bright as the brightest star in the corner: “Ah Yu, we both saw your marriage certificate. The name “Ji Chen” is written on the certificate…is it the President of Fengming?”
“Yes.” Gu Xiyu replied.
Gu Xun’s smile became brighter: “Why didn’t you mention it? Also, you promised to go and get a certificate with Chen Jin that day, why did you end up marrying President Ji?”
Gu Xiyu, who had gotten the script inexplicably, could only say things accordingly: “I didn’t know his true identity when I first met him. I had just quarreled with him a while ago, so I didn’t refuse your request to marry someone else at that time. Later, he learned about it, so he went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to stop me and force me to get a certificate with him.”
Strictly speaking, he was indeed forced.
“Hey, you should have told us earlier about this. How could we parents break up our son’s good marriage.” Gu Xun said cheerfully. Seeing that Gu Xiyu had no response, he added tentatively, “Since you and President Ji are together, then we must meet our son-in-law. How about you make an appointment with him?”
Gu Xiyu: “I will tell him.” Whether he will agree or not is another matter.
Xu Caiting covered her mouth and chuckled, “You are his lover. If he says he’s busy, you’ll just have to act coquettish with him a few times. If that doesn’t work, just give him “that” a few more times and he will definitely agree.”
?
Give him “that” a few more times, what?
Gu Xiyu couldn’t understand the weird smile on Xu Caiting’s face. He saw them immersed in the emotions of ‘President of Fengming turned out to be my son-in-law!’, so he went back upstairs by himself.
A trip to the Ji house was even more exhausting than a trip to kill a beast.
Ding!
Mike Electronics Repair: [The laptop is repaired, but it can barely be turned on. Its previous hard disk has been damaged severely, and it needs a replacement.]
As soon as Gu Xiyu’s phone was charged and powered on, he saw a message from the owner of the repair shop.
He sent a message back: [Is all the information on it gone? ]
The owner only replied to him a few minutes later.
Mike Electronics Maintenance: [I’m sorry, I really tried my best, it’s already a miracle that it could start with this level of damage. But if you use cloud computing, you may still have a chance to get the information back! ]
This was the original owner’s laptop, and Gu Xiyu didn’t plan to throw it: [Ok, I’ll get it in a few days. ]
He transferred the money from the hard drive to the repair shop’s owner. When he exited the chat interface, he happened to see the person whose name was saved as ‘Chen Jin’, whose profile picture was a grown-ass white cat with blue eyes.
Gu Xiyu replaced the name with ‘Big Devil’. He stared at the two words. The corners of his lips curled upwards before sending a message to the other party: “My parents said they want to see you.”
Ji Chen may have still been driving and did not reply to him. He didn’t care either; he put his phone aside after the message was sent over.
Gu Xiyu took out all the things related to the original owner and Fu Nian that he could find. He read all the diaries especially carefully.
[What are you doing?] The “system” suddenly asked.
He answered truthfully: “I’m looking for the diary related to Fu Nian.”
The system was silent for a while, and then asked, [Why are you looking for things related to him?]
“To avoid being ignorant about things that had happened between us the next time we meet.”
[Oh.] A few seconds later, the cold voice rang out again, [I thought you wanted to reminisce about your old relationship with him.]
Gu Xiyu flipped through the diary and said, “It’s not me who likes him.”
[Really?]
Gu Xiyu: “?”
The system went silent, and an automatic notification rang out not long after.
[The target’s risk value is -1, and the current risk value is 77.]
Gu Xiyu’s actions paused for a moment, wondering what had made Ji Chen happy.
Before sleeping, he lay on the bed and called up the system panel, looking at the bright red number beside the target’s risk value.
According to the special tasks and the speed at which Ji Chen’s risk value was decreasing, how much longer will he have to do this mission?
A small pop-up window suddenly popped up on the panel.
{You can trigger and randomly unlock the side tasks recommended by the main system after calculation! }
{There will be a time limit for these side missions, but there will be no penalty if they are not completed. However, completing side tasks within the time limit will reduce the risk value by “at most” 20 points!}
Gu Xiyu stared at the words “at most,” always feeling that it was a pit, but he still accepted it with the mentality of trying.
[Randomly triggered side mission:]
[During the banquet for business magnates next Sunday, this world’s heroine, Lei Xixi (currently named Cheng Qianqian) will be schemed against by Lei Lina, who has already noticed that she is the true daughter of the Lei family. She wants to use the opportunity to destroy Cheng Qianqian’s reputation and then fail to meet her biological father. She will drug Cheng Qianqian’s drink, and the mission target will be the designated object of this scheme. If this plan is successful, the reputation of the mission target and the heroine will be affected, which will become one of the major points of conflict in the later emotional lives of the protagonist and the heroine.]
[Completing this side mission will not only help the heroine escape the catastrophe, but it will also allow the target to escape the danger. Although it is impossible to reduce the threat posed by the target to the male protagonist, data calculations show that it will be able to reduce the risk value by up to 10 points. Is the host willing to accept the task? ]
Gu Xiyu hesitated, but after seeing the heroine’s name, he still chose to accept it.
It was indeed a pity that the one chance to ruin Ji Chen’s reputation would be prevented, but the heroine’s reputation was also on the line, and he was not willing to sacrifice others to ruin the target.
After accepting the side mission, there was a countdown the size of a thumb in the lower-left corner, and the end time was exactly 11:59 p.m. on Sunday.
Ding!
A notification for a message suddenly came from the mobile phone.
[Big Devil: My recent schedule is a bit full. I’ll only be free after the banquet. ]
Ji Chen had finally responded to the message Gu Xiyu had sent during the day.
Gu Xiyu casually gave him an emoji: [[OK]]
He glanced at the countdown on the panel and remembered what he had said to Ji Chen this afternoon. He stared at the top of the screen for a long time before typing a few more words.
Gu Xiyu: [The suit you were talking about this afternoon…]
Big Devil:[?]
Gu Xiyu: […Remember to send it to me before the party.]
The phone in his hand vibrates after ten seconds, and the new message was a GIF.
The white cat in the animated picture was lying on the sofa, looking graceful and majestic. Its slightly squinted eyes and the leisurely swinging tail behind it made it look domineering.
Big Devil: [Didn’t you say that someone was going to scheme against you? You are so eager to attend the party with me, aren’t you afraid of your enemy’s schemes?]
Gu Xiyu: [Ji Chen, do you want me to go or not? ]
On the other side, Ji Chen in the apartment was holding his mobile phone and looking at the panel that could disappear or appear with just a thought.
Their conversation was still at the question mark raised by Gu Xiyu when he sent the word [Really?] He bowed his head and typed a few words: [I will send the suit.]
He didn’t know why Gu Xiyu suddenly changed his mind, but refusing might arouse the other party’s suspicion.
He clicked into the chat interface with Jin Ke: [Try to schedule the meeting with Mr. Andrei before the banquet; the sooner the better.]
—————-
When Gu Xiyu got the laptop back, he immediately put in the USB flash drive to check its contents.
There was only one folder, but it was encrypted.
He tried several numbers that might be the password, but they all failed.
His intelligent system was still ignorant about everything.
It never knew anything, to begin with.
When Ji Chen sent the light gray suit, it was Xu Caiting who accepted it for him.
She exclaimed in amazement: “It costs more than a million!”
Gu Xiyu: “…”
Are prices in this world so terrible? A set of clothes costs more than a million?
Ever since Gu Xun and Xu Caiting confirmed that his marriage partner was Ji Chen, the atmosphere at home was as happy as the New Year. He hadn’t been given a cold eye in days.
Gu Xun: “Don’t worry, our son-in-law is Fengming’s president! Although Fengming is not as good as the Ji family’s company, which has a background of nearly a hundred years, Dad believes that Ji Chen’s future achievements will definitely surpass the Ji Group.”
Gu Xiyu only wondered how disappointed Gu Xun would be since he would never let that happen.
Gu Xun: “I believe our dear son-in-law will definitely not let our Gu family go bankrupt!”
Gu Xiyu remembered that Ji Chen told Lin Fangru he would never interfere with matters having to do with the Gu family.
Gu Xun looked as if the company’s problems had been solved, so even if he tapped on Gu Xun’s shoulder to explain, the other party wouldn’t believe him. So he just gave up.
~
On the day of the party, Ji Chen personally drove to the Gu villa to pick him up. He happened to arrive when Xu Caiting had accompanied Gu Xun to the hospital for a check-up, so he successfully avoided a messy incident.
As soon as Gu Xiyu got in the car, Ji Chen said in a deep and affectionate tone: “Baby, this suit looks so good on you.”
Gu Xiyu almost got out of the car and slammed the door in Ji Chen’s face.
Before he could make a move, Ji Chen pointed to a certain part of the car and whispered: “Bug…for eavesdropping.”
Gu Xiyu: “…”
