*

"If we want to reply, how should we reply?" Pei Wu asked again.

“From your superior’s perspective, you have already achieved your purpose of expressing your condolences, so there is indeed no need for a further reply,” Shen Yu’nan replied.

"..." Pei Wu slightly furrowed her brows, then looked up at Shen Yu Nan before continuing, "If it weren't from the perspective of a superior, but from the perspective of a romantic relationship, how should one respond?"

Shen Yu Nan's eyebrows and eyes were obscured by his slightly long hair, making it difficult to discern his expression.

He parted his thin lips slightly and said slowly, "I don't quite understand what you mean."

After considering her words carefully, Pei Wu replied, "It simply means a woman who wants to pursue a man."

Upon hearing Pei Wu's words, Shen Yu Nan's heart skipped a beat. He habitually pursed his lips and cast a questioning look at Pei Wu, his expression slightly tense.

"You mean you want to pursue Secretary Chen?"

"That's the idea. So, if you were in that situation, how would you respond to such a question? If you kill the conversation, there's no way to continue. Search the database to see what the best response would be."

Since Shen Yu Nan left the company, Pei Wu's system has become much quieter, probably because she hasn't met with him. The last task she left for Pei Wu was to help Shen Yu Nan get rid of the predicament of being controlled by the Shen family.

"..." After hearing what the other person said, Shen Yu Nan fell into deep thought. He looked up at Pei Wu, but at this moment, he felt that the face in front of him, which was so familiar that he hated it... felt somewhat unfamiliar. It was still the same face, but he just felt that something was different.

"yes."

After responding, Shen Yu Nan recalled Pei Wu's strange behavior before he left Diana. For no apparent reason, he remembered the thermos cup filled with brown sugar water, the hand warmers, and the scene of her bringing him painkillers.

Then, he casually asked Pei Wu, "Do you like Secretary Shen?"

"..." Pei Wu didn't reply, but just chuckled lightly, then lowered her head to pick at the noodles in her bowl.

The noodles in the bowl were slowly steaming, and the gentle steam made it difficult for Shen Yu Nan to see Pei Wu's face clearly.

Even while eating instant noodles, Pei Wu's movements were extremely refined, something Shen Yu Nan had never seen in the original owner of the game.

The person in front of me is completely different from the original Miss Pei.

Shen Yu'nan's suspicions grew even stronger. He habitually pursed his lips before speaking.

"Why don't you try ignoring Secretary Shen for two days? Once you stop contacting him, he'll come looking for you instead. Most men are like that; if you keep chasing after them, Secretary Shen will just get annoyed."

After a long while, Shen Yu'nan finally revealed his method.

This seemed like a good excuse, but Shen Yu'nan secretly didn't want Pei Wu to come looking for him again.

"really?"

"Yes, that's how my data is fed back to me."

*

After dinner, Shen Yu'nan indeed didn't receive any more messages from Pei Wu. Instead, he received a document from the system titled '100 Rules for a Qualified and Virtuous Husband.'

The moment Shen Yunan's brows furrowed, before he could even communicate with the system, he heard Pei Wu knocking on his door.

Feeling agitated, Shen Yu Nan spoke almost subconsciously, his tone quite unfriendly.

"What's up?"

As soon as Shen Yuhuan spoke, the system immediately issued a warning: "Warning! A qualified husband should use polite language appropriately when speaking to his wife."

Before Shen Yu'nan could even refute the system's unreasonable wording, he immediately asked, "You...you need something?"

"I've prepared a cell phone and SIM card for you and left them at your door. Remember to take them; you'll need them for work."

"yes."

Shen Yunan stood there motionless for a long time until there was no sound at the door before finally opening it.

Pei Wu's figure was no longer visible in the long corridor. The phone that Pei Wu had prepared was placed at the door. The plastic film on the phone's packaging box gleamed under the corridor light. The doubt in his heart prompted him to raise his eyelids and glance at the second floor where Pei Wu lived.

After a few seconds, he looked away and bent down to pick up the phone from the ground.

The phone was a brand new model that had just been released, a stark contrast to Shen Yu Nan's own phone that he had used for many years. Shen Yu Nan wasn't vain, but Pei Wu's actions were indeed a solution to his current predicament.

Nowadays, mobile phones are all designed with dual SIM cards. Shen Yu Nan only needs to put his original SIM card into this phone so that he doesn't have to hide anymore and can openly take out the phone to use it.

The next morning, Pei Wu, who was used to waking up early, was doing aerobic exercise.

She specially planned an exercise area next to the huge floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, where she could exercise while feeling the rising sunlight outside the window, which she found most pleasant.

Shen Yu Nan was always an early riser, but he didn't expect Pei Wu to get up even earlier than him. At this time, Pei Wu was already preparing to finish her morning exercise.

"morning."

With outsiders present, Pei Wu deliberately didn't wear yoga clothes, but only simple trousers and a long-sleeved shirt. As she spoke, she was wiping the sweat from her forehead with a towel hanging around her neck.

Pei Wu's skin was very fair, with a slight flush from exercising, and the sweat on her forehead gave her an aura of health.

"...morning."

Shen Yu Nan never imagined that he would have such a scene with Pei Wu.

Although Pei Wu's cooking skills are not good, especially for dishes that require cooking over a fire, she can still make healthy, low-calorie breakfasts that don't require cooking. For example, this morning she prepared the simplest boiled corn and eggs, along with seasonal fruits and a cup of hot milk. The milk was bought from the supermarket and just needed to be heated in a glass in the microwave.

Naturally, this morning, she also prepared a set for her humanoid robot.

During breakfast, Pei Wu only asked one question: "Is your phone working well?"

After Shen Yu'nan replied with "Very good", there was no further communication between the two.

Then, the two of them went to the company in the same car as before. Pei Wu was driving. Ever since the thought of 'whether the woman in front of him had also had her inner core replaced like his own' sprouted in Shen Yu Nan's mind, it had become uncontrollable.

Neither regular exercise nor a healthy diet could possibly be what Shen Yu Nan knew so well about Miss Pei.

Miss Pei is a heavy drinker and a frequenter of nightclubs. She has a lot of men in her phone whose names she remembers and those whose names she doesn't. However, she doesn't have any healthy lifestyle habits such as regular exercise or a healthy diet. Even though she is packaged as an elegant socialite in the eyes of outsiders, no one knows Miss Pei's shameful ways better than Shen Yu'nan.