Chapter 33 Chapter 33 Come Here
When Ji Siyun and Song Youning rushed to the hospital, the doctor had already covered Grandma Ji with a white cloth.
He walked up to Ji Siyun, patted Ji Siyun's shoulder with a serious expression, and said to him, "My condolences. Say goodbye to the patient."
All the equipment had been removed, and the ward seemed empty. Without the sound of the equipment, the room was eerily quiet. Song Youning saw that Ji Siyun's face was pale, but his expression was extremely cold.
He walked into the ward slowly, and Song Youning followed behind him. Although the lights in the ward were brighter than in the corridor, she felt that Ji Siyun was walking towards darkness step by step.
There is no one who loves him anymore in this world.
The distance of just a few meters seemed to take a long time. When he stood beside the bed, the dark sky outside the window suddenly brightened.
"Bang--"
Brilliant fireworks exploded in the sky, lighting up the night sky like day.
New Year is here.
Song Youning couldn't help but look at Ji Siyun. The young man stared at Grandma Ji who was covered by a white cloth with his dark eyes, his expression so calm that it was a little scary.
The colorful fireworks outside the window illuminated the ward. On such a lively and festive day, Ji Siyun lost his last relative.
They had no living relatives to pay their respects. Before she died, Grandma Ji said she wanted to return to her roots, so on the first day of the new year, Ji Siyun took her ashes and returned to the mountains where they came from.
It took five days to go back and forth.
The quarrel that had not yet started that night was interrupted like this, and the anger in Song Youning's heart had long disappeared.
After all, she and Ji Siyun both have their own purposes. There is no right or wrong, only winning or losing.
If she wants to win, she must lose to Ji Siyun.
"Aunt Chen, are you sure he's coming back today?"
After waiting at home until nine o'clock in the evening, Ji Siyun still hadn't arrived, and Song Youning couldn't help but ask.
Aunt Chen looked out and muttered, "Old Tang went out this afternoon saying he was going to pick up Young Master Ji. Why hasn't he come back yet?"
As they were talking, car lights flashed outside the door. Aunt Chen clapped her hands and said, "Hey! You're back!"
Song Youning didn't want to appear as if she was waiting for Ji Siyun, so she quickly sat back on the sofa and pretended to be watching TV.
After a while, someone came in from the door. Song Youning was thinking about how to pretend to talk to Ji Siyun casually, when Aunt Chen was surprised. "Old Tang, why are you alone? Where is Master Ji?"
Song Youning quickly turned around and looked back. Uncle Tang had already closed the door, and Ji Siyun was indeed not there.
"Master Ji said he had something to take care of. I came back after sending him to the company."
"You came back by yourself?" Aunt Chen's eyes widened. "Why didn't you wait for Master Ji to come back together?"
Uncle Tang rubbed his head awkwardly: "He said he's working overtime at the company tonight and won't be back, so I don't have to wait for him."
The two men looked at Song Youning standing aside. She was standing there with her hands in her pockets and expressionless, but they felt that dark energy was emanating from her body and she didn't even dare to breathe.
Song Youning clenched his hands in his pockets.
He went to the company right after getting off the plane. Great, great, he is worthy of being the male lead, he is so career-oriented.
She just waited for him at home for a few hours, it didn't matter.
It was not until she turned around and went upstairs that Aunt Chen and Uncle Tang breathed a sigh of relief.
"Did you see the lady's expression?"
"That's so scary. Will Master Ji make the young lady angry again?"
…
Since New Year's Eve, Song Youning has not been able to see Ji Siyun.
If Ji Siyun's first day back was for work, then he must have been deliberately avoiding Song Youning by staying in the company from morning till night for the next half month.
It was still dark when the alarm on the phone next to the bed rang. Song Youning opened his eyes, jumped out of bed, and ran downstairs.
Aunt Chen looked at Song Youning running down from upstairs in surprise, "Miss, why are you up so early today?"
"Where is Ji Siyun?" Song Youning didn't have time to chat with her and asked directly.
"Master Ji?" Aunt Chen was puzzled. "Master Ji left home very early."
Song Youning looked at the dishes that Aunt Chen had just finished eating. Just as she was about to ask more, Aunt Chen said, "This is what Master ate. Master Ji left without having breakfast these days."
"Miss, do you want to have breakfast now?"
Song Youning, who had set the alarm to get up early, still failed to catch anyone. She shook her head, ignored Aunt Chen who looked puzzled behind her, and turned back to her room.
I turned off my ringing phone and prepared to go back to bed for a nap, but then I realized my lips were a little sore.
Looking in the mirror, she saw that her lips, which were originally pink, were now bright red for some reason, and her plump lips were slightly swollen. She touched them gently, and the skin under her hand felt numb and a little painful.
"Are you angry?" Song Youning frowned.
But rather than feeling a sore throat, it felt more like something had gnawed on me.
The round almond-shaped eyes in the mirror were spitting out anger - what else could it be? It must have been bitten by a dog!
She hadn't said anything excessive that night, so was Ji Siyun really so stingy? He'd actually avoided her for half a month!
After taking a deep breath, Song Youning warned himself not to panic. The more times like this, the more he couldn't show weakness, otherwise he would lose the initiative.
She went back to bed and lay down.
It would be nice if she could check the progress bar, at least she would have an idea.
It's all because of the rubbish system, it's useless, even if I save some energy, it can't be used many times.
“Zizi——”
There was a sudden sound of electricity in Song Youning's brain, which had been silent for a long time, and he opened his eyes abruptly.
"Host! I heard you scolding me as soon as I came back!"
Song Youning remained calm: "No, you heard wrong."
"Really? But I clearly heard..."
"You must have heard wrong. It's been two years! Are you finally willing to go online?"
"The speed of time flowing where I am is different from that of the host's world. I have rushed back as quickly as possible..."
Song Youning didn't care about that and interrupted him mercilessly: "Stop talking nonsense. Have you figured out what I asked you to investigate?"
"Alright, alright, host, I made a mistake." The system's voice sounded a little embarrassed. "That's not actually the progress bar for the task."
After hearing its words, Song Youning, who had been worried that one day she would be stabbed when the progress reached 100%, finally felt relieved.
She said she hadn't done anything yet, so how could the task be completed to such a high degree?
Song Youning closed his eyes leisurely, his tone becoming gentle: "So what is it? Malice value? Darkness degree?"
The electronic sound in his head suddenly became quiet, and there was no sound for a long time. Song Youning almost thought it was offline again, until he heard the cautious voice of the system.
"Neither... Actually... It's the character's likeability..."
The eyes that had just been closed suddenly opened as wide as they could go. Song Youning sat up straight on the bed. She took a deep breath and forced a stiff smile.
"Say it again, I didn't hear you clearly."
The system's voice became weaker: "Host, what we see is the male protagonist's like or dislike for you..."
"The '+' you saw earlier represents favorability. This means that if we want to complete the mission, we actually need to strive to reach a negative value..."
Like and dislike value...favorability value...hehe...
"It's sick, this world is sick." Song Youning murmured, "Ji Siyun is sick too, everyone is sick."
"Host, don't be discouraged. We still have two years. We'll definitely be able to do it!" The system tried to comfort her. "I'm stable now and won't be disconnected easily. Let me see how much the male protagonist's favorability has dropped after your unremitting efforts over the past two years."
Song Youning stroked his forehead sadly.
The system screamed in my ears: "Ah! What's going on! How come the male protagonist's favorability towards the host has increased to 95%! "
"Host! What have you done?!"
Another five percent increase?
Song Youning said weakly: "What can I do? I didn't do anything."
At one point, she even thought she was going to die, and she showed her affection to Ji Siyun frequently. Who knew that the system that swore it couldn't be love value would come true.
The system also remembered what it had said, and said awkwardly, "It's okay, it's okay. Host, you are so powerful, you will definitely be able to handle it."
Song Youning held his forehead with both hands, unable to explain his current mood.
The so-called favorability, to put it bluntly, means that Ji Siyun likes her.
Those things he did and those words he said before... were not what she thought, but because, he liked her?
Ji Siyun likes her? Why? In the past two years, she did take into account the "progress bar" she thought was good to him, but she was "Song Youning" who had abused him for eight years!
She sat on the bed, her mind racing, her brow furrowed, and she didn't move. The system thought she was devastated and tried to comfort her, "Host, don't be discouraged. Think positively. At least your life is not in danger for the time being."
Song Youning pondered for a long time. Just as the system program was running frantically to calculate how to arouse her emotions, she suddenly lay back, covered herself with the quilt and closed her eyes to rest.
"Host?"
"Shut up, I need to rest." Song Youning didn't need the system's comfort at all. He calmed down quickly, "Call me at ten o'clock."
The system, which was inexplicably treated as an alarm clock, made an obedient "oh" sound and fell silent.
…
Ji Siyun had just finished his morning meeting and his assistant was reading the itinerary to him.
"I have an appointment with Mingyang's representative to discuss cooperation at 2 pm, and a meeting with Zhihe at 4 pm..."
"Mr. Ji." Secretary He was standing outside Ji Siyun's office. Seeing that he had finished the meeting, he hurried forward and said, "Ms. Song is in your office."
Ji Siyun paused, his dark eyes looking towards the closed door. His pale face tensed. He raised his hand to signal his assistant to be quiet, biting his lip lightly. His voice was low, "How long has she been here?"
"Miss Song will be here at eleven o'clock."
It was eleven o'clock. Song Youning had been waiting for almost two hours since he started the meeting at ten o'clock.
Ji Siyun turned his head and said to his assistant, "Postpone the meeting for two hours."
"Oh... Oh! Okay."
Song Youning lay on Ji Siyun's office chair, seemingly bored and dazed from waiting for someone, but in fact he was chatting with the system in a random manner.
"Host, you asked me to wake you up just to bring lunch to the hero?"
Song Youning: Yes.
"It doesn't matter how much he likes you. You can only go home if he succeeds in taking revenge on you."
Song Youning: I know.
"Then why did you do this for him..."
The door was opened. Song Youning no longer paid attention to the system. She stood up straight and looked at Ji Siyun who walked in calmly.
The young man was wearing a well-fitting suit. His distinct black and white eyes looked away unnaturally when they met her gaze, and his rosy lips were tightly pursed - he was very nervous.
Song Youning sat upright in the chair and hooked his finger at him.
"come over."
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