Two people
The next morning, just as dawn was breaking.
【What?! You're going on a date?!】The system, anticipating that the host might oversleep, rushed back early in the morning to act as an alarm clock.
When he returned, he saw that Qu Shiyao had not only gotten up, but had even changed her clothes and was doing her makeup in front of the mirror.
Just as it was about to marvel at how self-disciplined its host was today, it heard Qu Shiyao casually mention taking a day off to go on a date, which startled it so much that it almost forgot all the information it had gathered last night.
"What's all the fuss about? Is there a problem?" Qu Shiyao held the eyebrow pencil and steadily outlined the shape of her eyebrows without even trembling.
The system carefully observed Qu Shiyao's expression and asked uncertainly, "Host... do you remember what you said yesterday?"
Qu Shiyao finished drawing her eyebrows, examined them carefully, and then picked up the powder puff with satisfaction. While gently patting her cheeks, she replied, "Remember, my thoughts and decisions have not changed."
[Since nothing has changed, why are you going on a date at this crucial juncture, host?] The system was practically smoking with anxiety.
Even if you're worried about Yi Yu's safety, shouldn't the most urgent thing be to seize every moment to create a high-quality storyline and try to boost the rating? It simply couldn't understand why time was so tight.
Could it be that the host feels the chances of getting a 9.5 are slim, so he's decided to give up and provide end-of-life care, accompanying Yi Yu through her final happy moments?
The more the system thought about it, the more it realized it made sense, and a wave of sorrow washed over it. A deep sadness permeated the entire system, and it let out a long sigh: "Alas, it's just too difficult..."
Qu Shiyao paused in her actions, glancing at the system beside her that was shaking its head and sighing. She felt that if she didn't explain, this silly system would conjure up an eighty-episode melodrama in its own mind.
“I carefully read through the recent reader comments last night,” she said, putting down her powder puff and starting to fix her bangs.
"Many people have mentioned that they feel Yi Yu has too little screen time, his romantic storyline is weak, he's like a plot device, and he lacks the sweet atmosphere of romance..."
【Ah? Oh! I see!】The system suddenly realized, and then a sense of embarrassment and guilt welled up inside it.
It actually wronged its host! The host was clearly working hard for the mission and the score! Ugh! It's such a useless host!
By this time, Qu Shiyao had finished tidying up, patted her skirt, twirled in front of the mirror, and checked the overall effect.
Only then did the system have time to carefully examine its host's full appearance, and what it saw almost made its jaw drop: [Host! When did you learn to put on makeup?! And so well?!]
Qu Shiyao in front of me is simply unbelievably beautiful!
Her already outstanding features were made even more exquisite and radiant by the perfect makeup. She was wearing the well-tailored dress that she had bought with Shi Qingqing and Zhuang Rou'er, which accentuated her beautiful figure.
Especially her eyes, deep and lively, as if hooked, making people fall into them without realizing it.
Qu Shiyao paused, rolled her eyes, and said irritably, "What kind of nonsense is this? Who spread the rumor that I can't do makeup?"
That bit of ethereal aura was instantly destroyed by her eye roll.
【...That mosaic you drew at the bar before...and the way you were so sarcastic when you commented on Lin Weiwei and the others' makeup...】The system weakly listed the evidence.
Qu Shiyao was silent for a moment, unable to understand the logic behind it.
"Who would show their true face in a place like a bar? Especially since we're there to cause trouble! As for judging them..."
She said matter-of-factly, "I'm telling the truth. Shouldn't I point out if the makeup isn't suitable?"
She squinted at the system, her eyes filled with threat, clearly warning the system to think twice before speaking, as if it were powerful enough for her to dismantle.
The system shuddered in fright and quickly explained:
[This really isn't my fault! Host, you mentioned before that you grew up in a martial arts school and are also a grueling office worker. I figured with those two labels combined, it's not surprising that you don't know how to do makeup!]
“Standardizations!” Qu Shiyao picked up her bag and started packing her essentials, casually adding, “My dad taught me how to do makeup!”
System: [???] Sorry, it simply cannot imagine a burly martial arts school owner teaching his daughter how to do makeup while holding a makeup brush...
It seems that its real stereotype is about the host's father!
"Ding-dong—!"
The doorbell rang crisply.
Qu Shiyao picked up her bag, knowing that Yi Yu had arrived.
She opened the door and saw Yi Yu standing outside.
Today he was wearing a trendy casual outfit, and his hair was clearly styled, giving him a more refreshing and handsome youthful look than usual.
The moment Yi Yu saw Qu Shiyao, his eyes widened and he froze on the spot, as if he had been frozen in place, only able to stare blankly at her.
The system immediately popped up, hands on hips, pointing at Yi Yu: "Look at you, so pathetic! Never seen a beautiful woman before?"
Despite knowing that its host might have its own plans, it still couldn't bring itself to like the fish.
Who knows how much of his feelings for his host are influenced by the will of this world?
The two ultimately chose Yi Yu's small electric scooter as their mode of transportation.
Along the way, the system kept muttering in Qu Shiyao's mind: "[This guy has no class at all! His girlfriend is dressed like a fairy, and he's just riding a little electric scooter? He should at least rent a car! Not romantic at all!]"
The result earned it a cold glare from Qu Shiyao, who warned it in its mind: "Don't you have anything to do today? Did you complete the task I gave you last night? Did the data get transmitted? What's the situation on the main system's end?"
A series of problems came crashing down, shattering the system into pieces.
Is the host finding it in the way?
[I think I can do the missions while...] The system still wanted to struggle a bit.
But under Qu Shiyao's gaze, its voice grew softer and softer.
Finally, a feeling of grievance and resentment welled up inside it. It snorted and stormed off to continue doing its thing.
Upon arriving at the largest shopping mall in the city center, Qu Shiyao and Yi Yu's appearance instantly attracted a lot of attention.
The two are both good-looking and look very pleasing to the eye when they stand together. Some people even whispered and speculated that they might be new idols that some entertainment company was preparing to launch.
"Yi Yu, shall we go see a movie? It seems like they're showing a new film that's been getting a lot of hype lately in the third-floor cinema." Qu Shiyao looked up at the huge promotional poster hanging in the atrium and immediately decided on the first stop for their date.
“Great! I know that movie!” Yi Yu followed her gaze and, realizing he knew something about it, immediately began to enthusiastically introduce it:
"I heard the director is from China..."
The two walked side by side toward the movie theater on the third floor, chatting and laughing.
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Meanwhile, in the assistant's office on the 66th floor of the Si Group building.
"So boring!" Jin Yuxi let out her Nth wail of the day, slumped on her desk like a salted fish that had lost its dreams, listlessly counting the strands of her hair.
"Tsk!" Lin Weiwei was annoyed by her noise and glared at her irritably.
"Aren't you annoying? If you have nothing better to do, go outside and yell a few times, and give everyone a performance of atavism!"
"Weiwei! You have no heart!" Jin Yuxi clutched her chest, feigning a heartbroken expression, her eyes brimming with tears as she accused him.
"Can you bear to see my image ruined and my name infamous for eternity?"
"Heh." Lin Weiwei expressed her attitude with two cold words.
Jin Yuxi seemed to have suffered a fatal blow. She suddenly rushed to the window, raised her hands high, and shouted angrily out the window:
"Heavens above! Earth below! Shiyao, why did you take leave?! While you're gone, Weiwei bullies me relentlessly! My life is so miserable!!!"
Lin Weiwei's head was buzzing from the noise, and her temples were throbbing.
Seeing that Lin Weiwei was on the verge of exploding, Wang Qian had no choice but to remind Jin Yuxi: "Yuxi, if you're really bored, you can take a leave of absence to go see Shiyao."
Jin Yuxi's eyes lit up, but then, as if remembering something, she slumped to the ground like a deflated balloon.
“It won’t work… We have to report to General Manager Si or Assistant Wen when we ask for leave, but they’ve both vanished today. They’re not in the office and they’re not replying to our messages.”
“Speaking of being nowhere to be seen,” Zhang Li said, taking off one earphone and pointing to Su Wanwan’s luxurious and spacious workstation, which was now empty.
"Hasn't this person also been missing since this morning?"
At this moment, several people began to wonder: could these people disappearing at the same time be part of some big show?
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Meanwhile, Su Wanwan, who was being thought about by her colleagues, was experiencing the most inexplicable date of her life.
Last night, Su's father called her back to the old house. He first asked her about her recent situation in a feigned manner, and then focused on the progress of her relationship with Si Cheng.
Finally, they began to criticize her for having friends who didn't know the rules and were not respectable.
Su Wanwan sat elegantly on the sofa the whole time, looking down at her newly done manicure, occasionally uttering "hmm" or "oh," but it was unclear how much of it she actually heard.
Seeing that she was so unyielding, Su's father was furious. Finally, he suppressed his anger and ordered her to have a date with Si Cheng the next day.
So, she is now walking side by side with Si Cheng in a large shopping mall.
"Brother Cheng, I'm a little tired and want to rest for a bit," Su Wanwan said softly, rubbing her slightly sore wrists.
However, Si Cheng seemed not to hear, his gaze fixed on a certain direction, his expression focused.
Su Wanwan followed his gaze and looked around. People were coming and going, but she didn't notice anything special.
She gently tugged at Si Cheng's sleeve and called out again, "Brother Cheng?"
"Huh?" Si Cheng suddenly snapped out of his daze, looked at her, and abruptly asked, "Want to go see a movie?"
Although Su Wanwan found his suggestion inexplicable, she maintained her composure and nodded.
After buying tickets and entering the theater, Su Wanwan thought that Si Cheng was interested in this movie recently and was planning to find some related topics to talk about, but she found that he was absent-minded throughout the whole movie, and his eyes kept glancing at a corner of the theater.
She looked in that direction and saw that there weren't many people watching movies on a weekday; there were only a few couples' backs to her, nothing particularly special about them.
As the movie ended, Su Wanwan was still pondering where to go next when Si Cheng suddenly stood up and said succinctly, "Let's go?"
"Where do we go next?" Su Wanwan gracefully stood up and looked up to ask.
Si Cheng didn't answer. Instead, he walked straight out of the cinema, stopped in the atrium of the mall, looked around, and then turned and entered a high-class luxury coffee shop.
Throughout the entire process, Su Wanwan's opinion was not sought at all.
Su Wanwan didn't care much; what she was more curious about was what Si Cheng was up to today.
After sitting down, Su Wanwan thought that Si Cheng would talk to her about something serious, or at least chat for a bit, but she found that his attention was not on her at all, and he kept looking outside through the floor-to-ceiling window.
Su Wanwan also looked across the street, and apart from a milk tea shop with a long queue, there was nothing special about it.
Suddenly, Si Cheng put down his almost untouched coffee, turned to Su Wanwan and said, "Shall we continue?"
Su Wanwan: "?" Continue what? She was completely out of sync with his train of thought.
But out of consideration for the manners of a lady from a respectable family, she nodded in agreement and stood up.
What followed was a series of nonsensical actions:
Entering a high-end clothing store, Su Wanwan had only picked up a piece of clothing and looked at it for less than two minutes when Si Cheng gestured for her to leave.
Then, inexplicably, they walked outside the mall. Si Cheng casually bought a rose from a roadside flower cart and handed it to her. Before she could react, he walked straight to the parking lot and gestured for her to get in the car.
The car started, and Si Cheng sat in the driver's seat, but his gaze kept involuntarily glancing at the left rearview mirror.
Su Wanwan was too lazy to guess what he was looking at.
She keenly sensed that Si Cheng's condition was very strange today, but the reason was still uncertain.
As a well-mannered young lady, she also has her own principles and will not easily ask questions.
And so, they drove to the zoo and took a quick look around.
Then they were taken to an amusement park and experienced several thrilling rides.
After getting off the roller coaster, Su Wanwan's face was a little pale. She took out an exquisite silk handkerchief from her limited edition handbag and gently wiped the cold sweat from her forehead.
"Let's try this." Si Cheng, without asking her opinion again, pointed directly to the side.
Su Wanwan's anger was already rising, and she thought that if he dared to drag her to play those dangerous activities again, she would definitely slap him.
What the hell! Am I already feeling uncomfortable not seeing my aunt?!
But when she realized that Sicheng was referring to the slowly rotating Ferris wheel, her anger subsided slightly.
This is acceptable.
She nodded.
Inside the enclosed Ferris wheel cabins, the atmosphere was so silent it was almost stagnant.
Su Wanwan was too lazy to start a conversation, while Si Cheng was clearly preoccupied.
After one round, the two stepped out of the sedan chair.
Su Wanwan thought this torturous date was finally over. She looked at Si Cheng, but was surprised to find that his face had turned gloomy and terrifying in an instant, with veins bulging on his forehead and his knuckles turning white as he clenched his fists.
She frowned and followed Si Cheng's gaze, which was practically spitting fire—
Finally, we saw the root cause of Sicheng's absent-mindedness and abnormal behavior today.
Not far away, Qu Shiyao and her boyfriend Yi Yu were standing together. The two seemed to have just finished sharing a sweet ice cream and were now kissing naturally, oblivious to everyone around them.
Su Wanwan looked at Si Cheng's expression, which was burning with jealousy and almost ferocious, and chuckled silently.
So that's what it was all about.
What a waste of time.
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