12. Building relationships
Chu Xiao sneezed.
She didn't expect so many people to be thinking about her lately, and thought it was because she caught a cold after the intense couples' activity last night.
"This weak body is truly useless!"
The original owner's body was unfairly blamed.
After giving the original owner's body a thorough dressing-down as usual, Chu Xiao felt much better and began to immerse himself in his work.
Chu Xiao never forgot her ultimate goal—to try to return to the real world.
After all, Chu Xiao has a smooth life in the real world and has everything he wants, but in the novel world, there are a lot of troubles. No one would stay in the novel world.
She believed that since the system could bring her from the real world, it must have a way to take her back.
She couldn't believe that such a powerful system, capable of taking people through time and space, could be killed by a pancake spatula.
It must be that taking her back to the system would come at a huge cost, and the system was unwilling to accept it, so it took the opportunity to run away.
Therefore, Chu Xiao's recent goals, besides losing weight, are to build his own power and find the system.
However, building up a force requires a lot of money. Considering the heroine's charming face, she has no intention of getting involved with the heroine's pancake group. So recently, Chu Xiao has been working hard to start her own business.
Chu Xiao noticed the wealthy people's obsessive pursuit of diamonds in the novel's world.
Not to mention the diamond-encrusted gowns worn by ladies at banquets, any mid-to-high-end nightclub will have customers sporting ten dazzling diamond rings.
Thinking back to the later part of the original novel, Jian Bing's punishment for Jian Fei was sending her sister to mine in the Black Continent, and the pancake spatula she used to slap the system away was also inlaid with blood diamonds.
With such a strong connection to the mining industry, she couldn't help but set her sights on diamond mines in the African continent.
At 2:30 pm, in Jian Fei's study, decorated in the same opulent style as her father's, she found herself in a magnificent room.
Sunlight streamed through the gold-threaded curtains, casting dappled shadows on the mahogany conference table.
Several assistants responsible for handling all matters related to Jian Fei's assets are giving a serious report.
"Based on the source of the plastic from the pancake shovel blood diamond, the diamond was mined in Sera, Azerbaijan, at Norris Company's mine in the Lacey region," Assistant Liu, whose hair was thinning, explained succinctly as he flipped through the information in his notebook.
“We’ve noticed that Norris’s 50-year mining rights in Sera are about to expire,” added Assistant Zhang, who was dressed in a sharp suit.
He paused for a moment, then continued his report: "The initial communication with Ping An Security Company went smoothly, but further cooperation will require you, Boss, to personally discuss it with General Manager An."
"It seems the plan has great potential." Chu Xiao put down the documents he had finished reviewing.
She sat upright in the leather chair, picked up a celadon porcelain cup, and took a sip of the steaming Da Hong Pao tea: "Now all that's missing is an official endorsement. What are your thoughts?"
The assistants looked at each other.
Faced with their increasingly domineering boss, they dared not utter a word.
Chu Xiao's sharp, eagle-like eyes were fixed on these highly paid elite assistants.
She doesn't pay these people such high salaries every month for nothing!
The assistants lowered their heads, sweating profusely.
The fifty-square-meter study was so quiet that the only sound could be the spinning of the gold needle pendulum.
After a moment of silence, seeing that she was the only one who hadn't spoken, the beautiful and capable female assistant, Assistant Xia, mustered her courage and stepped forward.
“We found that Zhao Yi, the vice president of Wanheng, is a loyal fan of Jian’s Pancake’s diamond-level secret recipe—the classic family recipe pancake. He has his personal assistant buy up limited quantities of the classic family recipe pancakes almost every day.”
Assistant Xia glanced up at her boss's expressionless face and cautiously suggested, "We think it would be good to take Miss to visit President Zhao privately, and let her personally make her best family recipe pancakes for him. This would greatly improve the relationship between the two parties and increase the probability of cooperation."
"..."
Chu Xiao didn't know what to say for a moment, and unconsciously twirled the blood diamond on her left thumb.
In the past, when she tried to build relationships with people, she would cater to their preferences, but usually, "preferential treatment" meant either money or sex. Here, it was actually eating pancakes!
The female protagonist's pancakes are practically a mind-altering drug in this world; they have absolutely no scientific basis.
Thinking of how Jian Bing melted the heart of the cold-faced CEO, who had been frozen for over twenty years, with her excellent pancake-making skills, and captivated six outstanding young men, Chu Xiao felt relieved.
That's why she's the female lead! The main characters are all non-scientific beings.
Bring it! You absolutely must bring it!
Whether the collaboration succeeds or fails depends on how unscientific Jian Bing's pancakes are.
...
Chu Xiao has always been a man of action.
Since she could use the female lead's help, she immediately called her.
Completely disregarding the fact that the female lead and the original owner of the body had a bad relationship in the original work, he even threatened the female lead on the day he transmigrated.
"I'll love you even if I die, I won't be happy if I don't love you to the fullest!" A loud and passionate song came from the phone, it was Jian Bing's outgoing call ringtone.
Chu Xiao was a little surprised that the gentle and delicate female lead actually liked such a passionate song.
Thinking about the female lead's love-struck mind, she understood.
Being love-struck means "I'll love you even if I die," and this song really touched the female lead's heart.
"Hello, what's up?" Jian Bing's soft voice came through the phone.
"Are you free lately? Can you do me a favor?" Chu Xiao leaned back relaxed on the leather sofa, enjoying the beauty's soft Wu dialect, and got straight to the point.
"Sorry, I'm busy lately." Thinking of her younger sister who always loved to cause trouble for her since they were little, Jian Bing didn't want to help.
Chu Xiao was already mentally prepared, so she softened her voice and said, "Beautiful, lovely, elegant, and kind sister, please help me!"
Jian Bing blushed and her heart raced as she was praised.
Good heavens! This little sister, who always calls herself by her own name with a sour face, actually started calling me "older sister"!
They actually praised her, even though she always speaks so sarcastically!
It's like the sun has risen in the west!
Jianbing has been lacking love since childhood. Although she seems to hate her younger sister now, it's because her sister always picks fights and never wants to get along with her peacefully.
Now, if her younger sister just bows her head and softens her tone, she forgets all the unpleasantness from the past and becomes quite smug.
It feels so good to be needed by my sister; it feels like being part of the family.
“Okay, I’m free anytime.” Jian Bing agreed without asking what it was about.
"Thanks, sis! I'll contact you later." Chu Xiao gave a silent kiss and hung up the phone.
She knew the female lead was easy to talk to, but she didn't expect her to be this easy to talk to!
If a former nemesis can be ordered around to do work just by saying a few nice words, isn't the female lead afraid of being taken advantage of?
Although Chu Xiao would never cheat anyone, if the original owner of this body called, she would definitely have ill intentions.
This female lead is incredibly dim-witted; no wonder the system insisted on finding someone to replace her.
At Tiansheng Yipin, Yu Chun was still diligently keeping watch.
"We suggest the host change their target for seduction!"
"We suggest the host change their target for seduction!"
"We suggest the host change their target for seduction!"
The system's emotionless suggestions echoed repeatedly in Chun's mind.
Talking to the host consumes almost no energy. In order to get revenge on Chu Xiao, the system has activated the harassment mode for Yu Chun, making it necessary for Yu Chun to deal with Chu Xiao.
Yu Chun was extremely annoyed by the system.
The image of their passionate embrace that night flashed before my eyes.
Warm breaths mingled between their lips and teeth, traveling downwards... The image in their minds finally settled on Chu Xiao's sharp and domineering black eyes.
He licked his rosy lips.
Changing the target of seduction doesn't seem so hard to accept...
Yu Chun almost agreed.
But his family's classic spicy hot pot is ready.
Generally speaking, Yu Chun doesn't like to think.
But when he was a child, his family didn't allow him to eat much mala tang (a spicy hot pot dish), so he often had to outwit his elders to get his hands on it.
This fostered his habit of mentally preparing himself before eating spicy hot pot.
Smelling the enticing aroma of Lao Yu's secret-recipe red oil soup base, he took a deep breath and began to ponder the purpose of the system.
Since the system doesn't require him to change the task by issuing a task, it means that changing the task object is not mandatory.
How he completes the task is up to him.
Therefore, the system's desire for him to change the task object is due to the system's own will.
So why would the system want him to change the task object?
Is it really, as it claims, to increase the probability of mission completion?
But when he devised the seduction plan for Jian Bing, the system didn't offer any suggestions.
This system is usually very aloof, only answering one out of ten questions.
The fact that they're harassing him so unusually today, just to get him to change his mission target, is definitely a trap.
Although he didn't know what kind of trap it was, he absolutely couldn't agree!
Yu Chun firmly refused: "No, no, no!"
He covered his ears and waved his hand like he was shooing away flies: "No man in the industry would even look at Jian Fei, that fat girl. If I tried to seduce her, I'd be laughed to death by everyone in the industry. It's too embarrassing! I won't do it!"
Yu Chun found a seemingly perfect reason.
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