Chapter 44: Manual Customer Service Brother Huai

Ji Shian cleared his throat and asked in a cautious tone, "Who are you? How do you know my name?"

The other party's voice was cold and indifferent, and he spoke with the arrogance of a superior: "Qin Yinghuai, the president of Qin Corporation. If you continue to pay me, I can give you an advance. The condition is that you play a character."

Ji Shian smiled and said, "Okay, Mr. Qin, when will we sign the contract?"

There was a pause, and a slightly distorted voice couldn't hide the anticipation. "Whenever I'm free, I'll pick you up."

Ji Shian's crazy coughing reminds him of his character.

Qin Yinghuai pursed his lips. "Stop talking nonsense and send me the address. Also, it's best not to have any unnecessary thoughts while working."

The system scratched its head in bewilderment. [Did I miss an episode?] How did it suddenly get here?

The plot monitoring screen beside it scrolled rapidly, and it watched helplessly as a large paragraph of text was added on it, stunned: Damn, they can even add to the original book's settings.

How many hidden surprises are there that it doesn’t know about?

After Qin Yinghuai hung up the phone, the system came to her side and said in a rippling voice, "Host~"

Ji Shian shook the quilt, watching it roll around and gurgle. Once he was done with it, he explained, "If you hit a bottleneck while thinking about a problem, try changing your perspective."

The system sat up, feeling dizzy. [Explain in detail, explain in detail.]

Ji Shian went over it in his mind and followed the logic: "Plot power also has its own underlying logic. Its core purpose is to gain the power to support the world. The novel is more like a framework, or rather, the novel itself is a simple and efficient tool for it—a crude way to collect energy. From a certain perspective, its starting point is to benefit the world, so perhaps it would be more accurate to call it world power."

The system seemed to understand. [So some loopholes aren't because you're quick to exploit them, but because it simply hasn't tried to close them, fearing you'll become desperate.] Because it still wanted to use Ji Shi'an to work for it.

Ji Shian's forehead twitched, and he raised his hand to fold up the quilt, pressing the ball of light underneath: "Which side are you on?"

The system slid down quickly: [Sorry!] [Cat bowed its head and stepped forward]

Glancing at it, then looking away, Ji Shian continued, "I used to always separate the 'reality' we symbolize from the original novel's plot. This mindset has become even stronger since I learned that Huai and I were only chosen 'accidentally'."

"But what if it jumps out and observes the whole thing?" Ji Shian's eyes flashed. "I get a warning when I'm chatting with Brother Huai on Fetion. Does this mean it's actually been 'monitoring' our every move?"

The system shuddered at what it said, and a chill ran down its spine.

"It noticed your presence but didn't intervene because you could bring it benefits. It superimposed an unexpected world to scare me when I was trying to escape as a warning, because it still needed me to generate energy."

The system was stunned. After thinking about this line of thought, it felt somewhat reasonable, but there was still a problem: [There's something that doesn't make sense. Don't forget about the defection system. It's here to steal energy, and to the world power, it's a thief and an enemy. But I haven't seen it either—]

As it spoke, it opened its newly installed electronic eyes wide as it thought of something. Ji Shian nodded, "Later, Brother Huai had someone check and re-simulate the conditions of the car accident. This kind of accident is not something that can be controlled by human power. After repeated simulations, the conclusion was that Brother Huai was lucky. But after studying it, including his rapid recovery from the wound, it seems more like the intervention of a world power."

The world's power is both petty and generous. As long as its fundamental interests are not affected, it will tolerate you infinitely. However, if you attempt to harm its fundamental interests, it will show no mercy.

The system hugged itself in fear, originally thinking that it was a higher-dimensional being, but was suddenly shocked and told that its every move was actually controlled by another life.

A chill permeated every character in my body, and the system screamed: [Help!]

"Don't worry, it won't make you sick." Ji Shian stuffed the general into the freshly opened potato chips and said calmly, "After all, our interests are the same. We all need the world to function normally. Besides, we can't rule out the possibility of it reaching a consensus with the Book Administration Headquarters."

As she spoke, she thought of the setting that the original novel had suddenly added based on her actions - the heroine couldn't let go of the hero, so she chose to pretend to have amnesia and go back to test him.

Ji Shian sorted out his thoughts and unraveled them: "It adopted my creative ideas, so the underlying logic of the rapid energy output should be that we are in love with each other but have encountered various obstacles in our relationship, whether they are accidental or man-made, it doesn't matter."

"The power of the world is born from the original plot. It has some ability to interfere with the original plot, but it cannot escape the shackles of the original plot. It is free and not free, and so are the people in this world. Just like Huai Ge and I, sometimes we are trapped in the shell of our characters, and sometimes we are bold enough to be ourselves."

The phone beside her suddenly vibrated. She stopped talking and glanced at it. The message reminded her that she had just ordered two cups of milk tea.

Ji Shian: Account hacking?

The next moment, two cups of warm milk tea appeared out of thin air in front of her, with straws thoughtfully inserted. She moved them in front of Ji Shian and the system, shaking them as if silently expressing her praise.

The system was startled. Ji Shian pinched his arm to force himself to calm down and reached out to take it. The system also subconsciously reached for the cup, but missed and dove headfirst into the soft quilt.

system:?

The next moment, the cup was thrown, and the liquid spilled from the straw onto the ground, leaving clear words - [You understand me!]

Ji Shian was almost shaking like a sieve, relying on his strong willpower to support himself. Many words slipped to his lips and passed around, and finally he just said: "Please next time, don't use my bank card to give me rewards, okay?"

In a place she couldn't see or touch, the world consciousness twisted into a pretzel with joy, and after countless days, someone finally understood it.

The cup of milk tea belonging to the system shook again, and a word appeared on the ground - [OK]

The system finally came to its senses and rushed over, howling: [Don't use my milk tea to write on the ground!]

Ji Shian sat upright, facing the "power" with neither servility nor arrogance, and made a request: "Please clean the floor before you leave."

Then I watched the tissue float to the ground, twisting and wiping.

Okay, that’s it, this world that subverts cognition.

Ji Shian rolled off the bed weakly and decided to take it upon himself to stop the strange scene from continuing.

Before falling asleep, she half-remembered something and, with her eyes closed, reached for her phone on the bedside table. She half-opened her eyes and typed with one hand. She briefly reported on the important things she had accomplished tonight, then closed her eyes and fell asleep.

The next morning, Ji Shian, his head covered in shaggy lion fur, stood in front of the mirror, purring. He wiped the water from his lips with a face towel and casually swiped open his phone screen, his entire body trembling.

The screen remained unchanged from last night. Looking at the overwhelming number of "Withdrawn" messages flooding his chat box with Qin Yinghuai, Ji Shian swallowed hard.

Swipe down to the bottom with your fingertips.

[Huai Ge - Customer Service]: Forget it, just call me when you wake up.

He looked at the time and it was 3:52 in the morning. Ji Shian's eyes went dark and he dreamed of "Come to my office the next day at work."

Before making the call, Ji Shian silently changed the note to [Category 10 Typhoon].

The call was connected quickly, and the other party's slightly tired voice came from the receiver, "Shi An?"

I really didn't sleep all night. Ji Shian was panicking and whimpered softly, "Aww."

When he really answered the phone, Qin Yinghuai didn't know what to say. He leaned back on the sofa, shielding his eyes with his arms, and cried out again with a rolling throat.

Ji Shian: "Ouch."

Qin Yinghuai was so angry that he laughed: "You are scared now, weren't you very brave last night?" She even dared to fight with an existence that was beyond the ordinary people's cognition.

"I'm mainly worried that you might get sick from being angry." Ji Shian bit his lip and quickly explained in a low voice, "There have been rumors recently that you've already been buried."

Qin Yinghuai sneered, "You're overthinking it. I still have to keep an eye on you and be careful not to capsize."

Ji Shian whimpered. The weather forecast was too low, it would have to be at least level 17.

Qin Yinghuai pinched his brows with his fingers, still afraid of frightening others. He deliberately softened his cold and hard voice, not daring to ask too much of others: "Next time, at least tell me before you do it, okay?"

Even if he couldn't stop the person, at least he could stay by their side.

Ji Shian felt a tingling sensation on his back and became even more frightened. He immediately signed a military order and repeatedly promised that he would not make a similar mistake again.

Qin Yinghuai didn't expect that the reverse operation would actually achieve the desired effect. After a pause, his voice returned to normal: "So can we chat and meet normally now?"

Before falling in love, the person is always in front of you, but after falling in love, you have to report to him/her before you want to say anything.

Ji Shian flipped through the plot progress and said, "Well, after all, I am a stand-in now, and I want to provide you with a 360-degree imitation experience without any blind spots."

Qin Yinghuai humbly requested, "Don't imitate her courage. Be sure to give me a heads-up before you do anything."

Ji Shian shyly declined, "These are all innate abilities, but I will pay attention."

Ji Shian had to go to work soon. Qin Yinghuai said he was on vacation, but he was actually working from home. They were busy in the morning and couldn't chat much, so he hung up the phone in a hurry.

Then, after gently seeing off the thirteenth boss he had "accidentally met" today, Ji Shian showed a smile that looked like he wanted to kill someone.

She has gone to the entertainment industry to hide away, and this group of people want to find out information and poach her. Can they please respect her current career?

Ji Shian coldly rejected the fourteenth president's invitation to dinner, put on a hat, a coat, and a mask, fiddled with piles of business cards with his fingers in his pockets, and hid in the corner to watch Ji Dongran's performance with a vicissitudes of life.

Fortunately, Ji Dongran was only making an emergency cameo appearance this time and could leave after filming was finished today, otherwise she would have had to move to another place by carrying the train overnight.

"Assistant Ji! I didn't expect to see you here!"

Ji Shian couldn't help but sigh at the unfamiliar voice and familiar lines. He stood up and greeted the person with good professionalism, "Unfortunately, quite a few people should know I'm here by now."

After sending him off, she looked up at the sky helplessly: "Thank you, Sister Ji, for your tolerance. And this crew's confidentiality measures are really rubbish. Just a boss can be let in."