Why would Xue Xiaodie help her cover it up? Why would she still care about her relationship with Miss Tang?

When Lu Zhe got back to his doorstep, he was still pondering this question. But when he came to his senses, he realized that Xue Xiaodie had followed him inside!

"Aren't you going back to your room?" he couldn't help but ask.

Xue Xiaodie closed the door, picked up a broom, and said quite naturally, "Didn't we agree that I would help you clean?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Zhe recalled. Indeed, the girl had said something similar when he was signing the contract with the landlady at noon.

So he said, "Shall we start the big clean-up now?"

Xue Xiaodie said seriously, "It's not really a deep cleaning, just a simple tidying up of the room. A real deep cleaning involves cleaning the entire room inside and out, including wiping the windows."

Lu Zhe: "You wouldn't be planning to...?"

Xue Xiaodie: "There definitely won't be enough time tonight, let's talk about it another time. Don't worry, housework is actually quick to do, I'll teach you."

"Oh well."

Since they've already gone this far, what could Lu Zhe say? He really couldn't refuse.

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Over the next twenty minutes, Xue Xiaodie and Lu Zhe thoroughly cleaned the forty-square-meter one-bedroom apartment.

Xue Xiaodie swept the floor first, then Lu Zhe mopped it. While he was mopping, the girl wiped down the tables and chairs.

After Lu Zhe finished mopping the floor, Xue Xiaodie pointed to the bathroom and asked, "Who's going to clean the toilet?"

Lu Zhe glanced at the toilet, then at the beautiful young woman in front of him, and sighed, "Of course it's me."

Xue Xiaodie smiled and handed over a brand new toilet brush, saying, "Then it's yours."

Lu Zhe took the tools, went into the bathroom, and scrubbed it thoroughly.

After cleaning the toilet, wash your hands thoroughly.

Then Lu Zhe walked out of the bathroom and saw that his bed had already been made... Wait, something's not right.

"These aren't my sheets!" he pointed to the newly made bed. "Xiaodie, are these your sheets?"

The girl standing beside the bed smiled slightly: "These are the sheets I ordered a couple of days ago. I washed them after receiving them, but I haven't slept in them yet. You won't mind, will you?"

Since the sheets were newly bought, he naturally had no reason to complain.

Lu Zhe walked over and touched the bed sheet. It felt smooth and silky to the touch, very comfortable.

"How is it? Is it alright?" As she said this, Xue Xiaodie gently patted his back and then carefully withdrew her hand.

Lu Zhe turned around, stared at the girl in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh.

Xue Xiaodie asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Lu Zhe: "Why are you so skilled?"

Xue Xiaodie tilted her head: "What do you mean by 'proficient'?"

Lu Zhe went a step further and asked more directly: "Why are you so good to me?"

The question that had been troubling him for so long was finally answered.

Of course, he vaguely knew the answer to the question, but he was hesitant to believe it and couldn't quite understand why. In his view, everything in the world—likes and dislikes—should have a reason. Even disregarding logic, there should at least be a plausible cause. But this girl in front of him…

Lu Zhe carefully reviewed all the details of their interactions from the beginning to the present, but still couldn't find the reason.

Xue Xiaodie's lips curled up slightly, forming a sweet and reserved smile.

For some reason, Lu Zhe felt that what he was about to hear might change his life.

He knew that life's turning points often arrive unexpectedly. What major to choose in college, which city to go to after graduation, what kind of job to find, who to be with... especially choosing a partner, you may not even realize that the time to change your life has already arrived before you make up your mind.

Xue Xiaodie parted her cherry lips slightly and softly uttered the word "I," before being interrupted by another voice that suddenly rang out:

Hi, I'm here!

Xue Xiaodie was startled and didn't realize who was speaking for a moment.

The confession I had just mustered up was abruptly halted.

Lu Zhe turned his head to look at the corner of the room and pointed to the small speaker placed there: "That is our company's artificial intelligence."

As soon as he finished speaking, the AI ​​spoke again: "I am Xiao Qiu, what are your orders?"

Xue Xiaodie's beautiful peach blossom eyes were now wide with melancholy, and the corners of her eyes twitched slightly.

Lu Zhe: "Xiao Qiu, we didn't talk to you just now."

AI: "Oh, I see. Sorry, did I bother you?"

Lu Zhe: "This..."

Xue Xiaodie sighed silently, then smiled and said, "It's nothing, we were just chatting, there's nothing to bother you about."

AI: "So, shall we chat with Xiao Qiu now? Master, you've been ignoring Xiao Qiu for hours."

Xue Xiaodie glanced at Lu Zhe.

Lu Zhe explained, "As you know, my job is to test this artificial intelligence. And now the testing work has entered a new stage, so I spend almost all my time chatting with it, except for eating and sleeping."

Xue Xiaodie sighed, "It's practically your girlfriend now."

Lu Zhe scratched his head: "It's not that bad, it's just artificial intelligence. Considering that it still has some comprehension difficulties from time to time, like just now, it should be called artificial intelligence with intellectual disabilities."

AI: "Xiao Qiu is not mentally challenged."

Xue Xiaodie smiled and shook her head: "Then I won't bother you anymore. You... continue working?"

Lu Zhe: "Yeah, you should get some rest too, don't stay up all night cultivating immortality."

"Don't worry, I'm also very tired today. I'll take a shower and go to sleep when I get back. Good night."

After saying this, Xue Xiaodie waved and went out the door. After leaving the room, she turned a corner, opened the door next door, and returned to her own room.

Her beautiful figure departed, and the room returned to silence.

Lu Zhe looked at the door that had just closed, then turned to look at the small speaker in the corner, and couldn't help but complain, "You really know how to seize the moment!"

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"You really know how to seize opportunities!"

Xia Xiaobing couldn't help but laugh as she listened to the sounds through her earphones. Although she couldn't see what was happening in the room, she could already imagine Lu Zhe's expression at that moment.

She muttered to herself, "Luckily, the measures were taken in time, otherwise, our house would really have been raided..."

As the owner of a startup, Xia Xiaobing couldn't possibly keep a constant eye on Lu Zhe's surroundings, but geeks have their ways. She simply added a script to the AI ​​Xiao Qiu's algorithm: if it received the voice of a second person other than Lu Zhe, it would immediately issue a warning.

And so, the red alert for tonight has been lifted.

Xia Xiaobing exited Xiao Qiu's monitoring program, opened the algorithm department's research and development report, and began to read it carefully again.

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