I'm ready.

"Beep, clocking in right on time at the last second!" Yang Cheng rushed in, taking three steps in two, but before his feet even touched the ground, a pair of righteous hands covered his mouth and pushed him down into his seat.

Lin Yehuan barely managed to open his eyelids, buried his head back in his arms, and it took him two minutes to fully wake up.

"You guys really stayed here until 2 AM?" Yang Cheng noticed that the morning grumpiness on their faces had dissipated before remembering that Zhao Lei had asked him to buy two extra breakfasts. As he handed them over, he gossiped, "Are you two raccoons?"

"Stop making sarcastic remarks," Xu Yin said. He had woken up early and finished his day's experiments before anyone else was around. He then sat comfortably in front of his computer, munching on bread. "They accomplished in one night what you would take a year and a half to achieve."

Yang Cheng retracted his clenched teeth: "No, really?"

"Is there some kind of magic at two in the morning? Teach me some tricks."

Lin Yehuan mechanically chewed on the lotus leaf bun, which he had specially added all the side dishes to and was bigger than a human face: "Brother, if you want to learn, I can actually give you a good suggestion."

"I'd like to hear the details." Yang Cheng spun around in front of the computer and went over.

"Find your true love," Lin Yehuan said mysteriously, rubbing his sore cheeks. "Everything will go smoothly after that."

"You still believe in metaphysics?"

"You've been doing experiments for so long and you still don't believe in metaphysics?"

"Wow, that's so philosophical!"

"I suddenly know why I can't succeed." Yang Cheng tapped his left foot on the ground and teleported himself back to his workstation. "Senior sister, for my graduation project, please just say 'yes, I do'."

Xu Yin glanced behind him and reluctantly replied softly, "No~"

"Why not?"

"Thump"

Cheng Xiao generously sponsored his first chestnut of autumn from behind, saying, "Come find me when you come down later."

"You two, please explain what happened last night."

[Task complete, business model successfully unlocked]

Lin Yehuan's mind was in complete chaos. He didn't quite understand what the system was doing. Only after leaving the office and carefully reviewing the information did he realize that the reward for this task was a pharmaceutical company.

…………

Wait, a pharmaceutical company? Lin Yehuan opened the website again to confirm that it was a pharmaceutical company 90% owned by Lu Xingzhi...

That's right, that's how system documents are written.

What about all that brainstorming and racking her brains for a business idea? Is this how you torture me when your broken system can't come up with a solution?

Lu Xingzhi remained silent.

So, why exactly?

A seemingly impressive task was solved almost effortlessly, and the protagonist, who started out as a lively character, became increasingly insignificant as he leveled up.

Lin Yehuan's mind went blank again. After all that effort, the male lead's perfection level only increased by 0.001%. Isn't this just another example of a gimmick?

What exactly went wrong?!

The quest "Starting from Scratch" has been unlocked. Please help the male protagonist complete the quest.

What should I say? Lin Yehuan raised an eyebrow. What could she possibly say? "Have you heard? You suddenly have a company out of nowhere!"

Anyone with a normal hearing would have called the police by now, right?

"Well," Lin Yehuan muttered to himself for a long time before deciding to give it a try, "if, I mean if, you suddenly had a company now..."

"Really?" Lu Xingzhi's eyes sparkled, revealing a kind of clear naiveté that was unusual on his face. "That would be wonderful."

Fine, after going through so much, she should have known long ago that the male protagonist created according to theoretical textbooks wasn't a normal person.

"Aren't you even a little curious about its origin?"

“It doesn’t matter,” Lu Xingzhi said, his head suddenly lowering unnaturally as he seemed lost in thought, avoiding eye contact with her. “It’s not like I’ll die.”

"Huh? What did you say?"

“I said, I am ready, no matter what the future holds, no matter how absurd it may be, I am ready.”

His behavior was somewhat abnormal, no, extremely abnormal.

He started behaving very strangely the night the experiment succeeded.

Lin Yehuan initially categorized this as a stage of success, or the sense of accomplishment he felt after finally receiving Cheng Xiao's recognition after being hit hard for a whole year.

Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that the psychological damage caused by experiencing too many bizarre things could also be a factor.

But no matter what, he seems a bit too energetic...

Lin Yehuan looked away from the computer screen and stole a glance at him chatting animatedly with people from Xinghui Pharmaceutical in the next office.

It was still a conversation with emotions, but without any overly aggressive tendencies!

"I've never seen anything like this before," Lin Yehuan thought. "But this is also a good omen. At this rate, it won't be long before we can finish the task and return to our original world."

Looking at it this way, she's actually quite amazing. She managed to complete the mission even with such a nonsensical plot from this broken system. She's practically a god!

"Ye Zi, Ye Zi?" Xu Pengpeng saw her tilting her head and spacing out, and even blindly typing a bunch of illogical Martian characters on the document, so she couldn't help but call out to her, "Are you alright?"

Lin Yehuan shook his head, then suddenly remembered something: How could I have forgotten about you!

After all that mess with Shao Xi and Li Zheng, Lin Yehuan didn't dare to force Xu Pengpeng to wake up and return to her original world by targeting Gu Ye, but maybe he could use some magic attacks... hehe.

Xu Pengpeng felt uneasy under her gaze and turned away, preparing to slip away.

"Pengpeng, I have a very important task for you."

Xu Pengpeng stood sideways in the doorway, regretting not having slipped away a few seconds earlier. She pointed at herself in confusion: "Important business? Me?"

"Little Black".

"Woof!"

"Good dog," Lin Yehuan squatted down to pet the dog's head, and after playing with it for a while, he stood up and continued, "Xiao Hei has been chasing us since school. Now that we have extra space, you can take care of it full-time from now on."

Xiao Hei wasn't very big, and it had been spayed/neutered and vaccinated. Apart from being extremely affectionate and always wanting to approach and circle around anyone it saw, it had almost no flaws. Therefore, Lin Yehuan wasn't worried that this 1.73-meter-tall, robust woman would be threatened by a small dog that was less than half the height of her calf.

Xu Pengpeng stood ramrod straight, clutching the dog leash that had been forcibly shoved into her hand by a certain evil woman, trying her best to keep as far away from Xiao Hei as possible.

"I refuse!"

"Resistance is futile."

"You've really gone too far, Lin Yehuan!" Xu Pengpeng was so startled by the approaching Xiao Hei that she broke into a breakdance. "You corrupt official, I'm going to report you to my uncle!"

What a wonderful thing! Magic attacks are indeed very effective! Lin Yehuan silently chuckled to himself. Hurry up, hurry up, you need to go back to the original world first to find Master Qingtang.

Watching the heartwarming scene of Xu Pengpeng and Xiao Hei playing happily, Lin Yehuan smiled with satisfaction, turned around and went back to his office to work like a slave, just as he ran into Lu Xingzhi seeing off two directors from Xinghui Pharmaceutical.

She was meeting these two people for the first time, but their figures were very familiar. One was tall and thin like a bamboo pole, and the other was plump and chubby. Lin Yehuan couldn't help but sigh that it was indeed a company under the Xingchen Group, and even their temperaments were consistent.

"Mr. Lu, please wait, we'll be leaving now." The pregnant director's voice was booming, and could be heard clearly even through the doorway.

Lu Xingzhi didn't stand on ceremony with them and stood still to watch them leave through the gate.

"A petty person who has gotten his way," the skinny guy said, taking advantage of his weak voice. He didn't even bother to pretend anymore. He had barely stepped out and the automatic door was still open when he started cursing, "So what if he has a good father? Who knows where they got this drug from?"

Lin Yehuan was completely obscured by the fat man's coronal membrane, and no one noticed the "little man" just a few steps away. To be honest, she was indeed a little guilty, since the medicine had been intercepted from Xinghui Pharmaceuticals. But she couldn't blame them; after all, those people's fathers didn't have any sensible sons.

“I think they’re just using this as a gimmick to scam us,” the fat man replied cautiously, walking away for a while before continuing. “Anyway, our new drug won’t be out of the market for long. If they can’t produce it by then, we’ll have to repay them for their previous ‘kindness’.”

Lin Yehuan watched the two people get into the car before returning indoors, where he saw the man still standing in the lobby.

Just from the last mission point, the system popped up a bunch of rewards, including almost everything related to her career path, making all the days she struggled before seem like she was just asking for trouble.

Lu Xingzhi was wearing a black suit and stood there with one hand in his pocket. Perhaps because he had always worn shirts and trousers since he was a child, he looked more like a corporate slave from an anime than a salesman you could find anywhere on the street.

Like a human mannequin, Lin Yehuan's thoughts instantly returned to three months ago, when Gu Ye and Xu Pengpeng were still traveling together. Before these messy tasks and ideas came up, the two of them had enjoyed a few days of leisure, strolling around the commercial street, chased by dark clouds all the way from north to south, and finally took shelter in a clothing store before the rain started to pour.

With their shoes wet and their carefully styled hair disheveled by the rain, Lin Yehuan felt embarrassed to go inside. The two of them stood behind the glass door, looking up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, watching the rain grow from light to heavy, from fine silver threads to the crackling of soybeans, and then it even started to hail. Lu Xingzhi was in this position at that time.

"Wow, these two models are so pretty!" Two little girls hid under the eaves and peered through the door. "So beautiful!"

"Model Princess and Model Prince!"

While the two children were instructing each other on how to pose, Lin Yehuan glanced down to confirm that they were indeed talking about them, and held her breath, not daring to move: "Don't move."

A soft voice drifted by, and Lu Xingzhi was shocked that she could also do ventriloquism, but his body instantly stiffened, not daring to shatter the child's innocence. The sky began to clear, and the sunlight was a bit dazzling.

“This doesn’t look like a model…” the little girl with braided pigtails said to her companion as she turned to the side.

Another child looked up for a moment and said, "It doesn't seem like it."

"How embarrassing."

"They couldn't have heard us, could they..."

"I hope they won't be angry if I say that."

"Sorry, sister, we didn't mean to be bad!" The two children bowed, held hands, and ran off.

The sky began to darken; it looked like it was going to rain again.

Lin Yehuan originally intended to walk straight back to the office, but then took a detour and stopped in front of him: "Stop acting cool, model brother."

"It's still 10 PM, let's hurry back to school."