Chapter 28
Chi Huan: !
Wu Tong: !!!
Chi Huan nonchalantly used her toe to close the file and bent down to pick it up.
“Ah, ha ha, sorry about that. I wasn’t looking, and I blew your file onto the floor.”
Wu Tong’s heart was in his throat. He quickly grabbed it.
“Hahaha, it’s nothing, nothing. It’s just a file, it won’t break.”
He quickly looked down, saw that the exposed page didn’t contain sensitive content, and breathed a sigh of relief. He hastily shoved it to the secretary and put his hand on Chi Huan’s shoulder to steer her outside.
—Actively sending off the plague god.
After a series of mutual refusals—I insist on paying, no, no, I insist, I have to go home, dinner’s ready—they exchanged commercial smiles and said goodbye.
The moment they turned their backs, they both simultaneously wiped cold sweat from their brows.
“Holy cow, that was close! I almost exposed the secret of my private dealings with that person! But does secretly helping my former boss’s ex-girlfriend count as stealing my own sister-in-law? Will I get my hands and feet chopped off or something… Forget it. If it wasn’t discovered, it didn’t happen…”
“Good heavens, I am just utterly flabbergasted. Is Lu You already preparing her counterattack? I almost stumbled upon the female lead’s secret! Will they secretly murder me to keep the secret? But I reacted so quickly, they shouldn’t know I know about this…”
“I’m such a genius!”
Chi Huan took out a pair of sunglasses from the storage compartment and put them on. The oncoming wind made her long hair fly wildly.
The weather was beautiful and sunny. What a lovely day.
Sitting beside her, Chi Sheng, who had a mouth full of hair, said expressionlessly: “If you don’t move your hair, tomorrow will be the anniversary of your death.”
Chi Huan silently took a hair tie from the assorted collection Chi Sheng kept in the passenger seat and tied her hair into a ponytail.
“Tsk, I finally managed to pry half a day of freedom from your mother’s clutches, and now, it’s all wasted.”
Chi Sheng looked annoyed.
Chi Huan didn’t take it to heart.
She had been transmigrated for a month and hadn’t met her uncle much.
Chi Sheng had only bothered to visit her once while she was hospitalized—driving his expensive car, he showed up to freeload a meal.
And he had laughed maniacally at the poop plushie Chi Huan used to hide her phone.
The sound was so awful that even the little nurse across the hall poked her head in to tell them to be quiet.
During his five-minute, continuous “hahahahahahahaha,” Chi Huan’s initial nervousness about meeting other Chi family members evaporated.
Right. If her own mother can’t tell the difference, how could her uncle, whom she sees only a few times a year, recognize her?
After witnessing her strangely harmonious chemistry with this group of people from the Chi family, Chi Huan felt a wave of doubt for the first time.
What criteria did the System use to choose the person to execute the mission in this book?
Chi Huan: “System, can you tell me again the story of how you chose me from so many people?”
【I measured the IQ in a specific area and then chose…】
Chi Huan: “Stop. No need to say more. I understand!”
The System was slightly surprised: 【You have a measure of self-awareness.】
Chi Huan said confidently: “I didn’t expect that at the tender age of twenty-two, I had already reached the IQ peak of the entire university city!”
The System thought for two seconds and didn’t correct her.
After all, confidence is not a bad thing.
It certainly wasn’t because it didn’t want to talk to an idiot.
“I took off as soon as I heard you were there. How could you still cling to me?” Chi Sheng complained irritably.
Chi Huan: “That is the grace of destiny!”
Honestly, if Chi Sheng hadn’t left at that exact moment, she might not have even seen him.
Chi Sheng refused to admit his own bad luck. He insisted it was because his car wasn’t discreet enough.
“I’m changing the car tomorrow!”
Change it! I’m getting a Bugatti tomorrow! We’re not short on money anyway!
Chi Sheng was selecting the family of his next lover, while Chi Huan, after rubbing her hands everywhere, focused on the main issue.
Chi Huan asked casually: “By the way, Uncle, why did you come here?”
In this weather, at this time, shouldn’t Chi Sheng be lounging in his warm bed, enjoying his life as a wealthy playboy?
For some reason, Chi Huan recalled the two elevator trips—one down, one up.
…Wait a minute.
When Wu Tong invited her to his office, he was clearly unsuspecting, meaning he didn’t know the file was in his office yet.
Only after they went in did the secretary say a distinguished guest had visited, causing Wu Tong’s anxiety.
And Chi Sheng happened to be leaving right then!
So…
Was that file actually delivered by Chi Sheng to Wu Tong?
Chi Huan found the whole thing bizarre.
Chi Sheng, a famous playboy, would botch nine and a half out of ten tasks, with the remaining half being rescued by the elites.
Yet he woke up early, skipping his lie-in, to find Wu Tong…
In an instant, countless plots of wealthy families scheming for inheritance flashed through Chi Huan’s mind.
The more she thought, the colder her heart became.
And she was currently sitting in his car.
…And she was the one who voluntarily called, begged, and whined for five full minutes just to get in.
Chi Huan was deeply shocked by her own lack of common sense.
And Wu Tong!
Secretly hooking up with her ex-girlfriend and giving her money for no reason! Who would believe he didn’t have ulterior motives?
I knew it! Why would that guy, a perfectly fine rich second generation, suddenly need money so badly that he ran off to deliver takeout!
So that’s why he was broke!
Chi Huan couldn’t believe she let this person, who clearly harbored ill intentions toward Lu You, deliver food to her twice in the middle of the night!
Chi Huan’s heart was doubly chilled.
“Oh, that? Your mother asked me to come.”
Chi Sheng casually turned the steering wheel, entering a less crowded road.
“Huh?”
Chi Huan hadn’t expected this answer. She was completely bewildered: “My mother?”
Chi Sheng said: “Yeah, I messed up the last task your mom gave me, right? Now I’m atoning for my mistake by doing this.”
Chi Huan said: “Last time?”
Chi Sheng said: “Yeah, your white moonlight went abroad, right? Your mom saw you pining after her, so she asked me to investigate. And boy, was I shocked! That Mu family girl looked serious and pure, but after three years abroad, hey, she’s back for a second round of love!”
He turned and looked at Chi Huan with contempt: “And look at you. You couldn’t even manage a stand-in trope and got dumped. What good are you?”
Just as Chi Huan was about to retort, she caught sight of a car ahead suddenly changing lanes. It looked like the two cars were about to collide.
“…Watch the road!”
In a flash, a shiver swept up from her heart. Chi Huan instinctively gripped the car handle, her entire body covered in goosebumps that were practically holding hands and dancing the tango.
The two cars came within a dangerously close distance. Chi Huan didn’t dare to look directly at the impending bloody scene and tightly closed her eyes.
The car body shook sharply, but the expected abrupt stop didn’t happen. She felt her body lurch violently to one side, and then the car resumed its smooth journey.
Chi Sheng scoffed.
“Look at that cowardice!”
Chi Huan tremblingly opened her eyes, just in time to see Chi Sheng holding the steering wheel with one hand and flipping a middle finger at the car behind them with the other.
Their car was a convertible, ensuring the gesture was perfectly visible to the person behind.
Chi Huan, whose heart rate was erratic from the shock, slowly raised a shaky thumb to him.
“Excellent driving skills, young man!”
Chi Sheng adjusted his sunglasses dashingly.
“Of course. If I hadn’t been waiting to get my license back then, who do you think would have been the ace driver of Mount Akina?”
“…So why did my mom actually send you to Wu Tong’s house?”
Chi Sheng countered: “So why do you care so much about this?”
Nonsense! It concerns my ex-girlfriend! How can I not care?
Chi Sheng couldn’t hear Chi Huan’s internal grumbling, so he was genuinely curious.
“Don’t you usually avoid group affairs like the plague? You try to stay out of it as much as possible, right?”
System: Identity Warning! OOC Warning!
Chi Huan’s forehead dripped with sweat: “Because…”
Chi Sheng: “Because?”
Chi Huan’s head was steaming: “Because… Wu Tong!”
?
Chi Sheng couldn’t turn his head, so he used his body language to express his confusion: What the hell are you talking about?
Chi Huan avoided his grabbing hand, coughed twice, and began her performance.
She first posed a question to Chi Sheng. “You’ve met Wu Tong, haven’t you? What kind of person do you think he is?”
Chi Sheng didn’t hesitate: “An idiot.”
Chi Huan wanted to agree. As she nodded, she felt a strange sensation.
She couldn’t describe exactly what it was, but if Rong Qing were here…
Rong Qing’s answer would be—
The pot calling the kettle black, Six of one and half a dozen of the other, You’re the same level of idiot, Why attack each other, Why do you even have the audacity to laugh at others
…
Chi Huan wiped her face and put on a determined expression: “So you see, even Wu Tong, another heir, is working hard. What right do I have to be lazy!”
Fine.
Chi Sheng chose to believe her.
He explained: “You and your little girlfriend broke up, right? Your mom thought… emmm, she should compensate her? I don’t know what she was thinking, but she wanted me to deliver a sum of money to the girl as a breakup fee.”
“But that girl is stubborn! She wouldn’t take it! Hey, I don’t get it. Is money infectious? Just give it to me!”
Chi Sheng sighed. Having a large sum of money he couldn’t deliver, nor could he in good conscience keep it—it was torture.
“Since she wouldn’t take it, your mom had to investigate. She found out the girl wants to start an internet company or something… sigh, I don’t understand that stuff. Anyway, your mom thought long and hard and decided to act as a pimp… oh, no, build a connection, to funnel the money to your ex-girlfriend through Wu Tong’s family.”
Rong Qing would do that?
Chi Huan felt her perception of Rong Qing was completely flipped.
Both secretly investigating Mu Yi…
And cleaning up after her breakup.
She felt complicated emotions for a moment.
If Rong Qing knew she wasn’t actually her daughter…
Having been transmigrated for so long, Chi Huan thought of one thing for the first time.
“System, where is the original Chi Huan?”
—And why did the System choose her for this mission?
【Dead.】
“Dead?”
【You should know that this world’s world line underwent a major change.】
Chi Huan knew this.
【This change caused ‘Chi Huan,’ one of the main protagonists in the book, to fall and become the female lead’s stepping stone.】
Chi Huan’s heart sank.
The System’s tone was calm, speaking without emotion, as if discussing the weather.
【As one of the protagonists, ‘Chi Huan’ received a large amount of the world’s spiritual energy and developed a soul. The world line change required a reset. She was unwilling to lose everything and attempted to fight the entire world.】
Chi Huan felt her voice tremble: “And then?”
【She was crushed by the world.】
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