Chapter 54: The World of the Rich 25: Soul Binding
"What’s wrong with you?"
Shen Ci's doubtful tone brought Chu Sicheng back to his thoughts, which had been distracted by another notification from the main system.
He didn't seem to be in a good mood, but his eyebrows were subconsciously curved, and his tone was as flirtatious and ambiguous as ever.
"Nothing, I was just wondering if you heard it wrong, Boss."
"What did you hear wrong?"
Shen Ci frowned, obviously not understanding the meaning of Chu Sicheng's words.
Shen Ci wanted to continue searching his mind for the memory of being on the same boat with Chu Sicheng, but before the memory gears in his brain could start turning, the boy standing next to him grabbed his wrist and interrupted his thoughts:
"Regarding that sentence just now, considering our relationship, I shouldn't have been talking about the boat, but... the bed."
Shen Ci: “…”
Why is this guy who hasn't even graduated from college yet so comfortable with relationships than him?!
The warm breath sprayed on the earlobe, coupled with the boy's ambiguous tone, almost instantly dyed Shen Ci's ears red.
"...Can't you be serious?!"
At this moment, Shen Ci had already forgotten the slight strangeness in his subconscious mind, and glanced at Chu Sicheng helplessly.
The latter still maintains his innocent appearance,
"Am I not always serious?"
After all, in front of his financial sponsor, his behavior was what it meant to take his work seriously.
Shen Ci: “…”
He was too lazy to argue with the boy any more, and more importantly, he didn't want to show the intimate appearance of the two of them to outsiders.
Besides, they have more important things to deal with now.
"Have you decided what to do with him?" Chen Ci gestured to Chu Sicheng to look at Zhou Luoluo, who was sitting in the corner with his head down and not saying a word, not knowing what he was thinking.
Chu Sicheng followed Shen Ci's line of sight, only took a glance, then retracted his gaze and said lightly:
"It's okay, it's been taken care of."
"So what are your plans next?"
Shen Ci asked: "Do you need me to take you back to school?"
"I don't have classes today."
Chu Sicheng had no interest in going to school. Rather than sitting in class and listening to the teacher explain some knowledge points that he had heard countless times, he would rather stay with Shen Ci and carefully confirm the specific recovery of the man's memory.
So, with his eyes flickering, Chu Sicheng came to Chen Ci and said with a smile:
"Why don't you take me to your company, boss? I've heard from my seniors that Shen's company has the fastest internet and it's a lot of fun playing games there."
Shen Ci: “…”
So, did he have a canary or an emperor cat?
He had never seen any other canary enjoy life as much as his canary. Seeing him, it was not cautious at all, but seemed very relaxed and at ease. It even started to tell him directly that it went to the company to play games instead of accompanying him.
When did he give the other person the illusion that he had a good temper?
This cat has actually become so spoiled that it becomes arrogant to this extent.
Shen Ci was a little confused, but he nodded honestly.
"Okay, I have a meeting this morning. Please wait for me in my office. I'll take you to dinner after the meeting."
As he spoke, he recalled the time when he added Chu Sicheng's contact information last night. The other party's old phone was stuck and almost crashed. He paused and added,
"I'll have my assistant deliver the phone later. Remember to open the door for him."
“Okay, boss!”
Seeing Shen Ci put aside that inexplicably familiar feeling, the smile in Chu Sicheng's eyes finally became more sincere.
However, just as he turned around and prepared to leave with Shen Ci, Li Yanze's hoarse voice suddenly sounded behind him.
"If it weren't for Zhou Luoluo's incident, you wouldn't have left me, and our relationship would have been fine, right?"
Chu Sicheng paused slightly, looked back, smiled at Li Yanze, and then, in the other's expectant eyes, whispered:
“No ifs.”
Although the plot line of this world was indeed influenced by Zhou Luoluo, in the final analysis, it was Li Yanze himself who was unlucky in his relationship.
So, you can’t blame others, and there are no ifs.
Because from the very beginning, Li Yanze did not respect Song Le'an. He did not put Song Le'an on an equal footing with himself, so how could he talk about having a good relationship with him.
After Chu Sicheng finished speaking, without looking at Li Yanze's gloomy face, he turned around and left the hospital with Shen Ci.
After they left, when Li Yanze was staring at the closing elevator door in a daze, Zhou Luoluo, who had been huddled in the corner and his life or death was unknown, suddenly groaned in pain.
He opened his eyes and found himself in an unfamiliar corridor with a man sitting in a wheelchair with his back to him.
Zhou Luoluo narrowed his eyes, looked at the profile of the wheelchair man, and said uncertainly:
"Yan...Yan Ze?"
Li Yanze glanced back at him upon hearing the sound, "Awake?"
"Well...but..."
Zhou Luoluo slowly stood up from the ground, looking around with a confused look in his eyes.
"Why am I here?"
Shouldn't he be abroad?
I just met a new boyfriend last night. We were supposed to go to the bar together tonight, but when I woke up, he was back in China?
Out of a common thought shared by everyone with amnesia, Zhou Luoluo quickly pulled out his phone to check the time.
"October of the 25th year?!"
Hadn't he just been abroad for a short time at this point?
Why are you back suddenly?
What on earth happened in the meantime?!
Zhou Luoluo's mind was blank and he could only put his hope on Li Yanze, who he saw as soon as he opened his eyes.
"Yan Ze, can you tell me what happened? I remember I went abroad, how come I came back after sleeping?"
Li Yanze raised his eyebrows when he heard this. He didn't know whether the other party was really scared by Song Le'an and lost his memory, or was just pretending. He just sneered and said:
"You came back on your own. As for why you came back, you should ask yourself."
"But--"
"Okay, I have things to do, so I'll go back first. If you still have questions, the neurology department is on the third floor."
Li Yanze said this, reached out to control the wheelchair and prepared to leave.
However, just after the wheelchair slid forward one meter, he seemed to suddenly remember something and turned back to Zhou Luoluo and said:
"By the way, you should still remember the Zhou family's bankruptcy, right?"
Zhou Luoluo: “???”
He doesn't know!
According to the timeline in his mind, the Zhou family should have gone bankrupt two years later!
Regarding this doubt, Li Yanze was kind enough to help him answer it.
"Perhaps you forgot that the first thing you did after returning to China was to find the Li family and provide them with a series of plans and weaknesses for the Zhou family's future. You then joined forces with the Li family to bring down the Zhou family."
Zhou Luoluo: “…”
Is he such a stupid person?
Li Yanze raised his eyebrows and remained silent.
The main reason was that Zhou Luoluo at that time had not yet realized that his inner thoughts could be heard by others, so when he went to the Li family to find Li Yanze, some people with ulterior motives heard some of his inner mumblings.
There are no friends in the business world. Since Zhou Luoluo offers the cake with both hands, there is no reason for Li to not eat it.
This was probably the punishment for him using his inner voice to frame others later on.
Li Yanze ignored Zhou Luoluo, who was distraught after hearing that the Zhou family went bankrupt because of him, and turned around and left the hospital.
However, when he stood outside the hospital gate, for a moment, he suddenly didn't know where to go.
Under the golden sunlight, the boy who would always run towards him with a bouquet of sunflowers and a smile as soon as he was discharged from the hospital was nowhere to be seen.
He won't be coming back.
Never...
At this moment, Li Yanze's heart, which was being filled up little by little by the boy, was suddenly grabbed by an invisible big hand and torn apart.
From then on, his heart became empty again.
[Ding! The heartbreaking value has increased by 50%, bringing the total heartbreaking value to 150%. Congratulations to the host for completing the extra task. As a reward, the host will receive an additional skill extraction opportunity after completing the main quest. Please check and use it.]
Skill extraction?
Chu Sicheng, who was lying on the big bed in the lounge, suddenly looked up.
As an old employee of the Space-Time Administration, he is very familiar with this. The time-pause skill he used before was drawn from the skill card pool.
However, he had only drawn from the villain group's skill card pool before, and had never seen the protagonist group's card pool, and he didn't know if there was any difference between it and the villain group.
Chu Sicheng has always been a person who would not leave questions until the next day.
So, before the system sent the skill extraction opportunity to his taskbar, he immediately opened the taskbar and clicked to use it.
The next second, a white light flashed, and when the light gradually dissipated, a golden turntable appeared in front of Chu Sicheng.
It was divided into tiny fan-shaped pieces by thin silver lines, as if afraid that the extractor would see the skill names clearly.
Fortunately, Chu Sicheng was an avid fan of blind drawing and did not care about the disgusting design of the turntable. He just grabbed the edge and started spinning it.
The red pointer passed by one golden skill after another, and finally stopped in a fan-shaped grid with purple light.
"Purple?"
Chu Sicheng raised his eyebrows unconsciously.
Isn’t this the highest level reward in the skill card pool?
He had never drawn one when he was in the villain group before, so how come he was so lucky this time?
Could this be a trap set for him by the turntable?
Chu Sicheng had some conspiracy theories, but he still honestly clicked to receive the message.
As the purple light faded, Chu Sicheng finally saw the name of the skill he had drawn.
[Soul Binding Skill]: You can designate one person to be soul-bound with you, increasing the chance of meeting them in the small world and, to a certain extent, improving the favorability of the first encounter.
It is mainly used for multiple taskers to collaborate and enter a designated world that requires amnesia.
Disadvantages: The skill binding effect will be deepened or weakened according to the degree of emotional contact between the taskers, and the binding method also requires in-depth communication, so it is more recommended for couples to use.
…
Chu Sicheng didn't understand anything else, but this level of emotional contact and in-depth communication...
Is it really what he thinks?
His eyelashes trembled slightly twice, and just when Chu Sicheng wanted to further confirm what the emotional contact meant, someone suddenly patted his back from behind.
Chu Sicheng subconsciously turned his head and immediately met a pair of eyes as bright as stars.
"What are you thinking about?" the owner of the eyes asked him.
Then, perhaps because the purple light was too charming, or because the contact was too deep, Chu Sicheng blinked his eyes. The next second, he blurted out a thoughtless sentence.
"Want to... do it?"
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