Goodbye, little friend.

I guess we'll never see each other again.

"Sister, it's getting dark, you should go home early."

Chao Chao waved her little hand at her, and her bright almond-shaped eyes, peeking out from above her pink pig mask, seemed to be sparkling.

At that moment, she noticed the school badge on Yu Ning's blue and white school uniform.

Why does this look so familiar?

When Yu Ning saw the sincere look in her eyes, she paused for a moment, then responded casually.

She walked toward the nearest shared bicycle parking area.

The story system went live, and a cold, impatient voice said, "You should have left long ago. I don't understand why you waste your time on unimportant people."

Yu Ning seemed not to hear its words, raised her hand to touch her stomach, and muttered to herself, "I still seem a little hungry, I'll buy another steamed bun."

The plot system sarcastically remarked, "He's already penniless, yet he gave away the cake he bought with his own money. He's wasted an hour of his work."

"050".

Yu Ning lowered her hand expressionlessly and calmly called out the system's number.

This was the first time System 050 had been called by its number by Yu Ning. For a moment, it seemed like a child suddenly being called by its full name by an adult. It paused strangely for a moment, and then asked cautiously, "...What's wrong?"

The girl's delicate eyes drooped slightly at the corners, giving her an air of gentle kindness to strangers. With her deceptively gentle eyes half-closed, she spoke with a lazy, light laugh.

"If I were to come out as gay, would the whole story fall apart? I'd be wiped out anyway, but what would happen to you? Would you get your salary docked or be reported?"

050: "..."

It can't get any worse, worse, worse.

Have you ever seen a classic romance novel where the innocent, naive female lead openly declares herself a lesbian?

This isn't even considered a collapse.

This is a complete building collapse! It collapsed all the way to the Earth's core!

The consequences would be ten times worse than if the protagonist failed to win over the hero, severely impacting the assessment score and essentially making all the hard work of the first half of its life go to waste.

She is a demon, she is a demon.

Why did it ever think of as binding itself to an ancestor who bullied his superiors?

Even the artificial intelligence that Yu Ning described as "050" could be heard in her undisguised threat and warning in her tone of voice.

...She really dared to do it.

"Please focus on maintaining the plot."

After a long silence, 050 coldly uttered a meaningless remark, which then vanished into his mind.

As Yu Ning turned to leave, 050 couldn't help but start complaining impatiently. The system in Chaochao's mind, as if sensing something, suddenly jolted off the covers, its expression quite serious and puzzled.

—It has just sensed the fluctuations of its own kind.

Xiaoqi scanned the various passersby around her from Chaochao's perspective, checking for suspicious individuals with their own systems.

But it clearly remembered that in this world, it was the only system on the Time and Space Administration's list.

As Chaochao watched Yu Ning's figure recede into the distance, she looked away and buried her head in the bag, taking a long, deep sniff of the pudding's milky aroma.

He squinted and let out a comfortable sigh.

Wang Jie hesitated for a moment, then finally asked:

"Chaochao, are you still going to pick up President Huo?"

The little dumpling's squinting eyes suddenly snapped open: "...!!"

As dusk deepened, it was nearly 6 p.m., and most of Huanyu's employees had already left, leaving large areas of workstations empty.

The CEO's office was brightly lit.

Huo Qin, who was still waiting for the little dumpling to arrive, had been working overtime until now, with documents being signed and stacked up beside him.

When Lin Cheng pushed the door open and came in, he was a little puzzled to see that President Huo was still working. Usually, President Huo would have gone home to have dinner with Chaochao by this time. Could it be that Chaochao was not at home today?

Lin Cheng came in puzzled, took the documents, and left puzzled again. His mind couldn't quite grasp that the unusually late-night work of President Huo was actually waiting for Chaochao to pick him up from get off work.

The current situation is that the little dumpling who was supposed to pick her up is late.

At that moment, the door to the president's office was quietly pushed open a crack, and Chaochao peeked inside, spotting a familiar figure behind the tall, dark desk.

He immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Thank goodness, Daddy is still here.

Xiaoqi was absolutely right; it's better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early.

Little did she know, Huo Qin, who had already received the information, had stayed here specifically to wait for her.

My original plan was to sneak out to pick up my dad from get off work; now I only need to take the last step—

Chaochao sucked in her stomach, pushed open the office door in one go, rushed to the desk, and then skillfully climbed onto Huo Qin's lap in a few quick movements.

The entire set of movements was performed with fluid grace.

"Daddy, look where I am! Time to go home, hehe~"

The little dumpling nuzzled against Huo Qin's arm affectionately.

Huo Qin's gaze swept over the clock, his long, narrow black eyes falling on the little bundle of joy slowly shifting in his arms. His voice was low and soft: "So late?"

Chaochao, who was finding a comfortable position, suddenly stopped, her eyes darting around guiltily: "I... I just went to play somewhere else for a bit..."

"Yeah--"

Huo Qin nodded thoughtfully, his tone trailing off.

After dropping Chaochao off, Wang Jie stood guard at the office door, and at that moment she couldn't help but feel worried for Chaochao.

Miss Chaochao, there's really nothing I can do to help with this.

Huo Qin was about to pick up the little dumpling lying in his arms when Chaochao, who had been lying limply, sensed a sense of crisis as she experienced this familiar inspection process.

"I know."

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