"As for me, I can now be considered a half-civil servant, the kind that receives a salary from the state." Ye Rong found that after she had said the thing, it was easier for her to say the following words. What made her happy was that she was not banned by the system.

Ye Rong's expression relaxed a lot. She looked directly into the boy's eyes, which were like a dry well. She took a deep breath and continued, "I know what you will experience in the future, and how can I let you experience it again? So I came to you and participated in this program to get in touch with you, and then protect you as a friend to avoid being kidnapped. After leaving the program, I found that you seemed to be different from what I remembered, and soon realized that this might be your second time back to this time point, so I roughly guessed what you might want to do next, so I followed you to Chenpu."

Yan Xin: “…”

There was too much information in her words, but she was not too surprised. The Muse cruise ship ran aground, the timing of the Yu country warship "passing by" was too good, and when she was on the boat in the Nanlongdona River, she was forcibly taken away by Yu Lun and his group. She did not panic at all, but was very calm and certain that nothing would happen. She was either blindly confident or had something to rely on.

Later, the arrival of the Yuguo Armed Police Special Forces confirmed that it was the latter.

"I can't watch you go further and further down a path of despair knowing what will happen." Ye Rong's tone was very calm when she said this, but her eyes were firm. "I can't tell anyone about [Rebirth], so I can only do my best to protect you. Let's just say it's my responsibility as a semi-public official."

Yan Xin looked at her calmly, his emotions unclear.

Ye Rong: “…”

Ye Rong suddenly remembered something and said, "Yu Lun's special identity and his connection to the Nanzhou border massacre have long attracted the attention of the country. Yan Wenyao's relationship with Yu Lun in Beilang has also attracted national attention. After an in-depth investigation, it was found that Yan Wenyao had committed illegal acts. After the evidence was conclusive, he was arrested."

"Yan Wenyao was arrested, but you are fine. Given your adoptive father's temper, he will definitely do something extreme to you. I can only suggest that the police pay attention to them to prevent them from making a big mistake in the end." Ye Rong's tone was not heavy, but it was powerful: "Whether it's Yan Wenyao or your adoptive father, their actions have touched the bottom line of the law, and they should accept the punishment of the law for their actions."

Yan Xin: “…”

Yan Xin looked at her in silence, his emotions undetectable.

"I'm so sad..." Ye Rong looked at the boy in front of her and paused. She felt that he called her "sister" so sweetly and obediently as if it happened in her previous life. Thinking of this, Ye Rong smiled, looked into the boy's eyes, and said softly: "You are fundamentally different from them. You can have a wider and brighter road. I am willing to escort you."

-

At the same time, Nanzhou NSI Department.

The monitoring team suddenly discovered that there was something wrong with Yan Xin's favorability light ball. The favorability light ball was still lit, but the numbers inside suddenly disappeared! This had happened before, so they became alert and reported it immediately.

"Minister, we detected that the number in Yan Xin's favorability light ball has disappeared!"

Minister Liang and the observer, who were communicating with several colleagues from the field team who were following to protect Ye Rong, looked up when they heard the words. Minister Liang asked, "Is Yan Yuxin's favorability light ball still on?"

"It's on, but the numbers have disappeared...or are invisible," the monitoring team replied.

Minister Liang and the observer looked at each other, and Minister Liang said: "With Ye Rong by her side, it is unlikely that Yan Yuxin will get into trouble. Besides, outside the room is the field team responsible for protecting Ye Rong... I think it should be related to the sudden interruption signal three minutes ago."

"It is unlikely that Miss Ye Rong took the initiative to turn off the invisible headphones." Minister Liang looked at the door displayed on the curved screen. Ye Rong had been in for 18 minutes. They could hear the conversation between Ye Rong and Yan Xin until three minutes ago. The signal seemed to be suddenly interrupted. There was no noise of being forcibly cut off, as if the signal was suddenly cut off. Minister Liang said: "Perhaps it is because their conversation touched the system mechanism and we cannot hear it, so the signal was interrupted."

Although we couldn't hear the conversation between Ye Rong and Yan Xin due to the signal interruption, we can roughly guess what the two people's next conversation would be based on Ye Rong's last sentence: "Actually, the reason why I participated in this program is because of you."

"If the content of the conversation between the two people next may touch upon the mechanism of the system, then it can also explain the subtle abnormality of Yan Yuxin." The observer suddenly said: "We have not yet found the cause of Yan Yuxin's 'anxiety attack'. Moreover, since his attack, both his behavior and personality have changed a lot. He often has a very uneasy feeling. Miss Ye Rong seems to know something about the cause of Yan Yuxin's 'anxiety attack', but due to the limitations of the system, she cannot say it out loud."

The field team asked, "Should we interrupt their solitude next?"

Minister Liang was silent for a moment and shook his head: "Wait and see what happens."

After that, Minister Liang turned to look at the observer who was in deep thought: "What do you think of their next conversation?"

"Through the first two missions, I found that Miss Ye Rong is actually a very perceptive person. In many cases, she doesn't need to do anything deliberately. She can find the most suitable response method in the shortest time according to the other party's reaction." The observer said: "She has strong emotional ability, and she knows Yan Yuxin better than we do in some ways. This conversation may bring about a qualitative change in the relationship between the two. Yan Yuxin's favorability will increase rapidly, or it will stop here forever."

Everyone in the control room was stunned when they heard this.

Yan Yuxin's favorability stops here forever, which means Ye Rong's mission has failed, and she will die after the time runs out.

Especially knowing that Ye Rong had prepared for failure shortly after this mission, it was a bit hard to bear and sad to know that she might really die.

The girl is only 19 years old. She has gone from being indifferent to having a sense of belonging. Her trust and love for them are very pure. She regards herself as a part of this place and is willing to take the initiative to assume responsibilities.

They watched her grow up along the way, and their feelings for her grew deeper without them noticing.

However, it’s not time to give up yet.

At least the little girl won't give up so easily.

In a moment, everyone quickly pulled themselves out of their emotions and focused more on the work at hand.

Minister Liang said, "So what do you think of Yan Xin?"

"He is a very contradictory person." The observer sighed. "His biological family is terrible. His adoptive father is hostile to him. He has never had a normal relationship. He doesn't know what love is. But he was smart since he was a child and knew how to use teachers and classmates to protect himself. Even if teachers and classmates really like him, he will regard it as an 'equivalent exchange' and maintain it well, because no one taught him what normal emotional maintenance looks like."

Observer: "Yan Yuxin's nature of being kind to others is equal exchange. He is good at observing people's words and expressions and knows clearly what others want from him. Miss Ye Rong has no expectation of filling up Yan Yuxin's favorability in her heart, and has subconsciously given up. Therefore, her kindness to Yan Yuxin has turned into a sense of responsibility and simple liking. These feelings are unfamiliar to Yan Yuxin."

"Miss Ye Rong's all-round care and selfless kindness touched him, and thus lit up Yan Yuxin's favorability light ball. The paradox is that he also resists this kind of unconditional and unrequited dedication, which can be seen from the fact that Beilang's favorability increased by 12 in one day, and his favorability never changed after he came back." The observer looked a little heavy, looking at Yan Yuxin's favorability light ball without seeing the number, and continued: "The sudden increase in favorability cannot be visualized in Yan Yuxin, but he can feel it emotionally. To him, Miss Ye Rong's all-round care and selfless kindness are like a sudden mistake in the program, and Yan Yuxin himself subconsciously corrected this mistake. This may be the reason why the number on Yan Yuxin's favorability light ball is abnormal."

There was silence in the control room.

"Based on the time when Yan Yuxin's favorability light ball showed abnormality, it is probably related to the content of this conversation." At this time, Minister Liang said, "Miss Ye Rong is very sensitive to other people's emotions. It may take some time for her to notice this. We can trust her."

At this time, Ye Rong didn't know that there was something wrong with Yan Xin's favorability light ball, but she could clearly feel the boy's emotional ups and downs. His eyes, as still as a dry well, were looking at her steadily with a complicated expression.

He asked, “So what do you get?”

"………" Ye Rong was stunned for a moment, not because of his question, but because this was his focus at this moment.

What could she get? Ye Rong thought about it, and when she lit up Yan Xin's favorability light ball, she got x5 material coins and x1 one-time lottery ticket, so it can't be said that she got nothing.

But that's not the problem.

Earlier in the swimming pool, when she promised him that she would push him to the surface as long as she was not completely incapacitated, he had a similar expression on his face, as if he was holding back something, but before she could discern the emotion behind it, he had covered it up without leaving a trace.

Ye Rong was sure that it was not touching, but a more complex and difficult to identify emotion, such as the look in the boy's eyes when he looked at her.

Is it to ask what she can get from being nice to him, or what she wants to get from him by being nice to him?

Ye Rong was stunned, and suddenly remembered the meeting at the Nanzhou NSI headquarters after the early recording of the program. The observer once said that Yan Xin was very good at observing people's words and expressions and easily got others' likes. For every person he came into contact with, he could understand what the other person wanted from him, what kind of expectations they had of him, and what they wanted to exchange with him.

——"For him, everything is an equal exchange. In order to make it more convenient for himself, he also likes such exchanges and will respond to the other party in an equal manner."

Equivalent exchange.

Ye Rong felt that the sticky part of his body suddenly loosened.

Yan Yuxin was used to equal exchange, but she gave up on raising Yan Yuxin's favorability to 100 shortly after the mission. All she had left for Yan Yuxin was to treat him well and do her best to pull him out of the "game state" before time ran out.

"………" Ye Rong, who suddenly understood something, let out a breath slowly. It seemed that her doing this blindly made Yan Yuxin, who was good at observing people's words and expressions, feel confused and resistant.

No wonder Yan Yuxin's favorability towards her remained frozen for half a month after she came back from Beilang. She only agreed casually when he said she would call her if she felt unwell, and she didn't take it to heart at all.

He probably really didn't want to see her.

If he hadn't been angry about the arrest and imprisonment of Yan Yanghui and his wife, and Yan Xin also suspected that she might be reborn because of this, and he didn't want her to block his path to revenge and return to the show to "settle accounts" with her, Yan Xin might have continued to avoid her.

Maybe he was beginning to regret returning to the show.

But! She wasn't just being nice to him without a reason, she actually had a goal! She had an ideal! She also had to raise Yan Yuxin's favorability to 100!

It’s super inspiring when Xianyu works hard, okay!

After thinking about it, Ye Rong felt a sense of clarity as if she had been enlightened, and she also felt an indescribable helplessness and heartache in her heart.

She exhaled slowly, looked at the boy in front of her seriously, and said softly: "I can get something very precious, which only you can give. It is very important to me."

Yan Xin's eyes moved slightly as he looked at her.

Seeing this, Ye Rong smiled softly: "I want to get along well with you, and hope that I can be someone you can trust. What I want is too abstract, and you may find it absurd, but it is indeed the beginning and reason for our encounter."

The girl in front of him had clear eyes, as if there was a galaxy hidden in them, bright and warm. She smiled and said to him very seriously and solemnly:

"I want you to like me."