Chapter 51...I do propose.
Jiang Chen sat on the chair in the flower shop for a long time in a daze, digesting his emotions alone.
The clerk came up and called her many times before she came back to her senses, but she still looked absent-minded.
She picked up her bag, told the clerk that she could leave work on time, and hurried out of the store.
She didn't hear the clerk calling her from behind, saying loudly that she had left her phone on the counter and didn't take it with her.
Jiang Chen did not go home.
As she walked forward, the background behind her kept changing, with swaying tree shadows and people coming and going.
Until the sunset stopped at her feet and then disappeared without a trace.
The dim street light fell on her right hand. She stepped on her own shadow and realized that she had walked too far.
She still didn't stop and continued walking aimlessly along the river she had been to before.
The wind blew on her face, carrying the unique fishy smell of the river water. The faint tingling sensation made her realize that she was still alive. Her mind was still working, and she was still anticipating the worst-case scenario.
Jiang Chen stood by the river, looking at the shimmering river water illuminated by the lights, which was rushing downstream rapidly.
Spectacular, beautiful and magnificent.
She suddenly didn't want to think about anything, at least for that second.
Her first reaction was to take out her cell phone, take a picture of the scene, and share it with Xiao Ji.
Jiang Chen rummaged through her bag over and over again but couldn't find her cell phone.
She turned it over again several times in disbelief.
Suddenly realized that her phone was missing?
No wonder it seemed like a long time had passed without receiving any calls from Xiao Ji.
She thought that the AI, which usually called her almost every hour, had changed its nature. It turned out that her phone was lost.
At the same time, the cell phones in the store kept vibrating. As soon as the light went dark, another call started.
The ringing didn't give the phone any time to rest. The screen was on almost the entire time, and the caller ID on it was always the same - "Xiao Ji".
The flower shop's smart door unlocks and opens.
A figure rushed in so quickly that even the surveillance camera could hardly capture it clearly.
Xiao Ji picked up the phone that was still playing the incoming call on the counter and gently called Jiang Chen's name.
But there was no response, and no one was in the flower shop.
It unlocked Jiang Chen's phone and called the florist's employee.
Xiaoji is involved in the flower shop business, but all he does is select products at home and communicate with the store online.
Jiang Chen was very afraid that it would go out, as others would see its head and cause criticism, which would have an impact on it.
So basically outsiders have never seen Xiao Ji's true appearance, or even seen it very rarely.
The only time it had the chance to see outsiders was when a courier arrived, but that was only through the peephole. It really had no need to communicate with others, so it just let Jiang Chen go.
"Hello? Boss, what's going on?"
Shop assistants rarely receive calls from their bosses after get off work, and they answer the phone quickly, thinking it's an emergency.
"Excuse me, where did Jiang Chen go?"
Xiao Ji didn't have time for any small talk and asked directly.
When the clerk heard the male voice, he immediately removed the receiver, thinking it was some kind of prank. After confirming it was the boss's number, he still hesitated and asked, "What do you want to see her for?"
"……Proposal."
The speed at which Xiaoji's internal parts operated was getting slower and slower, as if it couldn't cope with the rapid changes in its simulated emotions.
But when it said these two words, the cold screen head tilted slightly, and its serious expression softened for a moment.
Xiao Ji specially changed into a high-end suit that he had just bought online tonight.
It also cooked a candlelight dinner by itself, using only the freshest ingredients.
She also personally selected the diamond and polished the ring. She also prepared a plain ring for herself and wanted Jiang Chen to wear it for her. Both rings were engraved with the letters representing their names.
Xiao Ji had made careful arrangements, preparing everything according to what Jiang Chen might like. He thought that tonight he could naturally enter what humans call the most intimate palace between two people.
But she seemed to have a premonition and started to lose contact at night. She called her one after another, but the phone always hung up automatically after the ringing stopped.
Xiao Ji paced back and forth at home, looking at the night view, and gradually became out of breath. He gave up following Jiang Chen's instructions to stay at home and walked out of the house.
But it didn't expect that there was no trace of Jiang Chen in the flower shop. It could only ask people around her and call the clerk using her cell phone.
The clerk on the other end of the phone was dumbfounded as if she had eaten something big. She thought about it and realized that the boss's phone was placed in the flower shop, and the flower shop seemed to have installed the most advanced anti-theft system from the beginning, so the person on the other end did not look like a thief.
She then said, "The boss wasn't in a good mood this afternoon. She left her phone in the store and then left. She should have gone home, right?"
Xiao Ji didn't need to explain Jiang Chen's movements to her, it just asked.
"That's the direction she went?"
"left."
There is a good subway entrance and bus stop right in front of the flower shop.
It determined Jiang Chen's possible mode of travel.
"Is she on the subway or the bus?"
"It should be walking."
"Thanks."
After Xiao Ji thanked him, he put Jiang Chen's phone in his pocket, keeping it close to its artificial skin.
It kept calculating the paths it could take to the left in its mind, and then based on Jiang Chen's walking speed, it roughly divided the range and inferred several of the best possible locations.
It was actually blaming itself for not being fast enough, and hating itself for caring about its promise to Jiang Chen to stay at home, when her safety was obviously the most important.
Xiao Ji carefully checked each place one by one.
The battery loses power several times faster than usual, its efficiency is forced to slow down, and then it is forcibly brought up again.
Finally, it found a figure that looked very similar to Jiang Chen on the sparsely populated riverside.
She was looking around for something, and without stopping, she was walking towards home.
After determining that it was Jiang Chen, Xiao Ji ran up to her without hesitation and held her in his arms.
Jiang Chenmei didn't react immediately. When she was suddenly hugged tightly, she was so shocked that her pupils shrank suddenly. She thought she had met some strange person.
When she could feel the reassuring and familiar scent coming from her nose, she slowly put her arms around the AI opposite her and relaxed: "Xiao Ji? Why are you here?"
She was sure it wouldn't be concealed, and it was most likely that the parts were simply very old and hadn't been discovered.
So she hasn't figured out how to tell Xiao Ji the bad news.
What's more, it doesn't like Chen Yinchuan very much, so it is extremely difficult to persuade it to cooperate with this matter.
Xiao Ji turned off the screen, just like a human closing their eyes helplessly.
"You never come home and you never answer my calls."
"I'm sorry, I left my phone in the store. It was already late when I found it. I wanted to borrow someone's phone, but I didn't see anyone on the way. I'm sorry to have worried you."
Jiang Chen slightly pulled away from Xiao Ji's embrace, wanting to look into its eyes and apologize to it, but the next second, his neck was pressed hard on the back, and he was pressed into its arms, unable to move.
"I shouldn't have agreed to your request."
Xiao Ji's voice was muffled, and his forehead rested on her shoulder.
The slightly angry words made Jiang Chen laugh out loud. The gloomy mood that had been in his heart for the whole day was dispelled by Xiao Ji's few words.
Xiao Ji left a bite mark on the back of her neck in dissatisfaction: "You're still laughing."
Jiang Chen restrained his smile a little and answered it seriously.
"What request? You're not allowed to leave the house? But you know if you do, many AI technology companies might be interested in you. I personally don't have the ability to protect you, and you wouldn't like me asking Yao Jinling and Chen Yinchuan for help, right?"
"wrong."
"If you stay home with me for the rest of your life and do nothing, I'll take care of you just as I did that month."
"But I don't want you to feel bad. I want you to be able to achieve whatever you want."
Xiao Ji loosened his grip on Jiang Chen a little.
She grabbed its hands and let it put them down. Just as she was about to look up at it, it immediately lowered its head and looked at her seriously the next second.
She never needs to look up or work hard to get everything from it.
"Because Xiaoji is the best Xiaoji."
Jiang Chen stepped back a little and used the dim street light to see what Xiao Ji was wearing.
The expensive suit was specially ironed and there was not even a wrinkle on it.
It doesn't look like he's out to find someone, but more like he's going to get married.
But I have to say, its body is perfect for any clothes. Its shoulders are broad and its waist is narrow, and the strength in its waist and abdomen seems to be endless and astonishingly large...
She admired his attire without hiding her gaze, and poked the collar of his suit with her fingertips. "Xiao Ji, did you come out to see me wearing such an exquisite suit?"
Xiao Ji lowered his head, took Jiang Chen's fingertips that were on his suit into his mouth, and moved his tongue down, gently sweeping across her fingertips: "No, I came here to propose."
The river water beside them hit the surrounding walls again and again, as if urging them on, or perhaps coming to witness it.
It took her other hand and slowly placed a plain ring in the center of her hot palm.
"Xiao Chen, can you put it on me?"
Jiang Chen's fingertips rubbed back and forth on the ring body, and as he touched the uneven inner circle, a "c" and a "g" slowly became complete.
Does a ring represent the same meaning in the human world and the AI world?
She was puzzled.
But she quickly realized that the ring still did not represent anything even in the human world. It could only represent the moment when the ring was put on.
They have had countless moments like this.
Jiang Chen stared at it, his breathing very unstable due to the huge fluctuations in his mood.
She wondered if she would be willing to put a ring on it today if it could break down tomorrow due to parts.
She wanted to, she wanted to.
Just like those old lines in TV dramas, no matter poverty or wealth, no matter illness or pain, they are willing to stay with each other.
But is it willing?
Xiao Ji's panic continued to grow as time passed, until it expanded to the point where its internal system reminded it that the emotional simulation had reached its maximum critical value and could not rise any higher.
"Please keep me by your side, Xiao Chen."
Xiao Ji almost coaxed and tricked Jiang Chen into putting the ring on it.
Its fingers seem to be Yao Jinmu's greatest invention, with a slender and white ring finger.
She pushed the prepared ring up little by little. The small ring tied the two different species together, making them inseparable.
The river is lapping and my heart is pounding.
"Where's mine?" Jiang Chen asked.
Xiao Ji raised her hand as if she was holding a treasure. The ring, which had been wiped countless times, reflected a beautiful light under such a dim light.
It was standing in the backlight, and Jiang Chen couldn't see its face clearly.
The cold ring had been in its palm for too long and had been warmed up.
As if it was in slow motion, the speed at which it pushed into the ring kept slowing down.
Until the end.
It lowered its head and placed its lips over the ring on her finger.
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