Chapter 56

It was late October, and the weather was getting colder.

Chai Xiaoyu finally chose hot pot, considering Xingshi's dazzling appearance and the fact that someone asked for his and Fu Xiuning's WeChat last time they had dinner together, and even booked a private room. Xingshi

asked him in advance if he could bring Fu Xiuning, and Chai Xiaoyu readily agreed.

On Saturday evening, the three of them arrived at the hot pot restaurant.

Chai Xiaoyu asked for their opinions while ordering dishes, and when he heard Xingshi ask him what kind of job he was looking for, he told him the truth.

Xingshi pretended to be surprised: "Artist assistant? Then why don't you come to us? I introduced you last time. My brother is the boss of June Culture."

Chai Xiaoyu felt warm in his heart and smiled happily: "I'm grown up now. How can I rely on you for everything like before? I feel embarrassed. I found this job by chance this time. I'll give it a try first. If I really can't make it in the future, I'll shamelessly come to you."

Xingshi said: "Okay."

He asked: "You still have studies to complete in school, right?"

Chai Xiaoyu said: "Yes, I told the company about my situation. I will take a leave if I have something to do."

Xingshi encouraged: "Work hard. There is still a lot of room for career change for artist assistants."

Chai Xiaoyu nodded vigorously: "Don't worry, boss, I will."

Xingshi didn't say anything else and the topic ended for the time being. Chai

Xiaoyu said, "I'll go get you some side dishes. What do you want to eat?"

Fu Xiuning stood up and said, "Just take your own, I'll take his."

He looked at Xingshi, "Anything else?"

Xingshi said, "I'll go with you."

Fu Xiuning held his shoulders and pinched his face, "No, I'll do it."

Chai Xiaoyu saw all this and asked the system, "What is their relationship?"

The system said, "Their chat records are normal. I only know that Fu Xiuning cares about him a lot. As for whether they are together or not, I don't know."

It asked nervously, "If they are a couple, will this affect your determination to save people?"

Chai Xiaoyu said, "No."

The system breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good, honey, you are a good person."

Chai Xiaoyu smiled bitterly, "I'm just an ordinary person."

And what he did was the choice an ordinary person would make when faced with this matter.

At first, the system came to him and asked him if he had a chance to save someone, would he do it? The other person was a stranger who had nothing to do with him and lived in another city.

His answer was: save.

Then the system told him the details.

He then learned that Xing Shi was involved, and that the person he had to save had a connection with him when he was a child.

At the same time, he also learned that "saving people" was not what he thought, that the other person would have an accident at some point in the future, and he would need to rush to the scene to stop it, but a more complex spiritual salvation.

He still chose to save, but he was very unconfident and didn't know if he could succeed.

The system retorted: "How can you be an ordinary person? Those who can be selected by us are not ordinary. Honey, you can do it!"

Chai Xiaoyu sighed helplessly: "I hope so."

He followed Fu Xiuning out of the private room, and went to the small food counter one after the other. He glanced at the people around him and couldn't help feeling a little nervous.

He and Xingshi have been playing together since childhood. He would feel more comfortable with Xingshi, but when he was alone with Fu Xiuning, he was not so good. After all, this was no longer the big brother who would patiently take them to play.

Fu Xiuning soon noticed that he had become reserved, and was not surprised.

Normal people will be afraid at first when facing an anti-social person, even if they have decided to save someone.

He added several seasonings specified by Xingshi and asked, "Have you ever traveled to the seaside with Sui Sui when you were a child?"

Chai Xiaoyu: "!"

System: "!!!"

Their plan was to wait until the relationship between the two sides was a little better, and then "accidentally" let Fu Xiuning find out that they had met before.

Because there was a certain foundation of friendship, Fu Xiuning might have some impulse, which would make it easier for them to get closer and prepare for future rescues.

But being discovered the second time they met, Fu Xiuning probably wouldn't take it to heart now.

Chai Xiaoyu was caught off guard, his hand loosened, and the spoon fell.

The system hurriedly said: "Hold steady, your expression should be natural! We practiced in front of the mirror for so long, you can kiss me!"

Chai Xiaoyu pretended to recall and tried to make his tone natural: "I've been there once."

Fu Xiuning ignored his slight stiffness and looked at him: "Were you very fat when you were a child?"

Chai Xiaoyu's heart was pounding, and he said in surprise: "Yes, how did you know?"

Fu Xiuning said: "I met Suishun and I at the beach when we were children. I remember that the children around him always called him the eldest, so I wanted to ask if it was you."

He raised his mouth: "I haven't seen you for many years. You are not as fat as before."

In late autumn, his windbreaker was placed in the private room, and he was wearing a white shirt with a sense of design. It was elegant and noble under the lights. He had attracted a lot of attention in the moment he came here.

Not to mention that the smile on his mouth at this time added a bit of friendliness, and anyone who saw him would have a good impression.

But Chai Xiaoyu was still nervous.

Fortunately, the daily expression management training did have some effect. He barely controlled his expression and asked in surprise: "You...you are the person from that year?"

Fu Xiuning said: "Well, Suisui doesn't know about this yet. I want to find a suitable opportunity to give him a surprise. Don't let me know later."

Chai Xiaoyu smiled and said: "Okay."

He asked the system: "Should I take this opportunity to get closer to him?"

The system said: "It's better not to. As I said before, Fu Xiuning has experienced too many things and is always entangled by various people. If we deliberately get close to him, it will have the opposite effect. We can only do it through Xingshi."

Chai Xiaoyu thought it made sense and asked: "Then what should I do?"

The system suggested: "You can show a little surprise and try to recall a few sentences."

Chai Xiaoyu thought for a moment and said to Fu Xiuning, "I still remember that I was scared to tears by the lizard, and it was you who saved me."

Fu Xiuning began to mix another bowl of condiments and asked gently, "Are you still afraid now?"

Chai Xiaoyu's tense nerves relaxed inexplicably.

Perhaps it was because of the filter from his childhood, and being cared for so much, he always felt that this was the big brother in the past.

His expression eased, and this time his smile was real: "I'm not afraid anymore, I've grown up."

Fu Xiuning nodded gently: "That's good."

He looked at him: "Sui Sui's younger brother is my younger brother. Add him on WeChat later. If you don't want to bother him in the future, you can contact me directly."

Chai Xiaoyu said, "Okay, thank you, brother."

Fu Xiuning said "hmm" and walked back with two bowls of condiments.

Chai Xiaoyu followed him, and couldn't wait to say to the system: "Does this mean that our relationship has improved?"

The system said: "The favorability value is still -8, dear."

Chai Xiaoyu asked: "...Will your program be delayed or not refreshed?"

The system said: "No, dear, our favorability value program is updated in real time, and there will be no bugs."

Chai Xiaoyu gave up, but was not discouraged. After all, this was only their second meeting, and there would be many more opportunities in the future.

The two returned to the private room and found that the dishes had been served.

Xingshi was putting food into the pot, and when he saw them come in, he waved.

The hot pot was quickly cooked, and the three of them ate and talked.

Most of what Chai Xiaoyu could talk about with Xingshi were things in the past, and the other was the current situation of those younger brothers back then.

Xingshi could not remember much, but fortunately he had studied the information of the "original owner" carefully, and because of his previous dreams, he could match some of the information and barely answered the other party's words.

Fu Xiuning listened quietly for a while, and seeing that they were always talking about other people, he brought the topic back to the topic: "You said that he has been a celebrity in the school since he was a child. How celebrity is he?"

Chai Xiaoyu said: "Almost all the girls in the grade like him, and they give him all kinds of snacks every day."

Fu Xiuning glanced at Xingshi and continued to ask: "Anything else?"

Chai Xiaoyu said: "There were also people who wrote love letters to him. They were only in elementary school at that time."

He added: "But he didn't want the snacks and love letters. He was very cool in school and ignored everyone except those who were close to him. Some of them were given to us when he was not around, so he shared them with us."

Fu Xiuning said: "Other boys would be unhappy with him, right?"

Chai Xiaoyu said, "That's true, but my boss is smart, and we have a group of younger brothers, so we have never suffered any loss."

He said and remembered something: "But there were times when our younger brothers were useless, that is, when he danced at the cultural and artistic performance, he was so handsome that those boys wanted to make friends with him and learn from him. We couldn't stop them. I still have photos of him on the stage at home."

Fu Xiuning asked, "Do you have other photos?"

Chai Xiaoyu said, "Yes, there are also photos of him wearing a dinosaur costume in kindergarten, so cute."

Fu Xiuning said with satisfaction, "Send them all to me."

Chai Xiaoyu smiled and said, "Okay, brother."

【Ding Di】

【Current Favorability Value: -7】

Chai Xiaoyu: “!”

System: “!!!”

The system said excitedly: “That’s great, dear. Please talk more about Xingshi.”

Chai Xiaoyu also saw hope and asked: “He can give me extra points because of Xingshi. If his concern for Xingshi overshadows the darkness in his heart, does this mean that... I, the boss, can actually save him?”

The system said patiently: “I have already explained it, dear. Fu Xiuning’s antisocial personality is already formed. It takes a lot of energy to bring him back.”

Chai Xiaoyu said: “So since he has someone he cares about, he has hope of getting better.”

The system said: “But it is also possible that he wants to drag people into the abyss with him. Let’s maintain a good relationship with Xingshi and wait and see.” Chai

Xiaoyu said: “Okay.”

Xingshi noticed his momentary excitement and guessed that it might be a change in his favorability value. He glanced at the people around him.

Fu Xiuning picked up his favorite dishes and put them on his plate.

Xingshi then buried his head in his meal.

Fu Xiuning looked at him, then looked away and continued to ask questions. After he had gotten all the interesting things about Xingshi's past out of him, he had no interest in talking about anything else.

Chai Xiaoyu then started chatting with Xingshi again, curious about how he was doing at Z University.

Xingshi had just replied with two sentences when Fu Xiuning looked over at him.

"I met Xiaohui the day before yesterday, and she asked about you, asking me why I didn't find more announcements for you," he said. "She said she had watched your variety shows and MVs several times."

Xiaohui is the president of the Z University Student Union, and she would feed Xingshi snacks whenever they met.

Xingshi had a good impression of her and said, "Tell her I will try to be more diligent."

Fu Xiuning said, "She also said that she would invite you to have a meal before you become famous."

Xingshi smiled and said, "You can have a meal even if you become famous."

Fu Xiuning replied softly and picked up some food for him again.

Chai Xiaoyu waited for them to finish talking, and found that they could not continue the previous topic, so he started another one.

Unfortunately, they only talked for a few sentences this time, and Fu Xiuning took over the conversation in a natural tone, turning his head to chat with Xingshi.

He himself did not feel it, but the system saw it clearly.

It was not until the bill was settled and the system watched the two people get in the car and leave that it analyzed for the host.

"He doesn't seem to want you to have too much contact with Xingshi. If you chat with Xingshi for a few more sentences, he will interrupt you and divert Xingshi's attention to him," it said. "He added you on WeChat and asked you to find him when you have something to do. It's probably because he doesn't want you to always look for Xingshi. He gave you a -8 when you first met. It's probably related to this. He doesn't like others to take away Xingshi's attention."

Chai Xiaoyu understood very well: "Possessiveness."

The system said: "Yes."

Chai Xiaoyu said frankly: "This kind of emotion is quite normal, it's not that bad. Although he has possessiveness, according to the information you provided, my boss usually goes to school and trains normally. He is not locked up and not allowed to go out, or suffers any harm."

The system said: "If the situation gets more serious, it may not be certain. The most worrying thing is that Xingshi will be controlled by him mentally without realizing it, and then he will take the initiative to cut off all contact with the outside world."

It cited several examples, which made Chai Xiaoyu nervous.

He said, "I told him to warn him, why did you stop me?"

The system explained, "I told him, dear, because you haven't seen each other for several years, Xingshi will not believe you and will think you are spreading rumors. If you quarrel, it will be difficult for you to get close to them again."

Chai Xiaoyu thought for a while and said, "What if I tell his father about this and let him intervene?"

The system said, "No, the intelligence shows that Director He trusts Fu Xiuning very much, otherwise he would not have sent Xingshi to the city. "Leave it to him to take care of. If you go and say that rashly, Director He won't believe you."

It comforted, "Don't worry, I'm just talking about the worst outcome. It may not come true. I'll keep an eye on it for you. Let's try to get in touch with Xingshi more often. Whether it's getting close to Fu Xiuning through him or building a good relationship so that he can help save Fu Xiuning, it will be beneficial."

Chai Xiaoyu was convinced: "Okay."

After the system mobilized his enthusiasm, it gently encouraged him and restored its calm.

On the other hand, Xingshi did not go back to the company for training, but followed his brother back home.

After changing his shoes, he did not take a shower for the time being, but threw the two people's mobile phones back into the room and came out to look at each other.

He is not blind. He can see that his brother has been looking for topics tonight.

He asked, "Did you do it on purpose?"

Fu Xiuning said with a gentle expression, "Hmm?"

Xingshi raised his eyebrows, "You know what I'm talking about."

Fu Xiuning never thought of hiding it from him. He took his hand and walked to the sofa to sit down, saying, "I don't like him approaching you for ulterior motives."

Xingshi said, "Just for this?"

Fu Xiuning said, "I'll take care

of it." Xingshi said, "You know I won't care."

Fu Xiuning said, "I know, but I don't want to."

Xingshi looked at him.

Fu Xiuning said, "Don't do anything dangerous."

Xingshi finally agreed.

He got up to take a shower, and at this time he heard a familiar voice in his head. 99 woke up.

It had been dormant for three days, and there was no movement during that time. Xingshi even suspected that it had been destroyed by him. Later, he used energy to detect it, and then he was relieved.

At this moment, he heard it make a sound, and he carefully checked it again to confirm that everything was normal.

99 followed him to check, and sighed for the second time after waking up.

Shangshangqian looked at it silently.

Xingshi continued to walk to the bedroom.

One person and two systems remained silent.

After a few seconds, 99 couldn't help it first: "Is there no one who cares about me!"

Shangshangqian asked: "Have you recovered your memory?"

99 sighed for the third time: "Well, you guessed it."

Xingshi and Shangshangqian thought at the same time: It's easy to guess.

The former asked: "What did you dream about?"

99 said sadly: "I dreamed that I used to be the same as Fu Xiuning, and my identity was a target for strategy."

Xingshi and Shangshangqian were surprised.

Shangshangqian and Houlaijushang are both hosts, and this is the first target for strategy.

Shang Shang Qian said, "You?"

99 heard doubt in this short word and said, "It's just me! I've been very lucky since I was a child, is there a problem!"

Shang Shang Qian thought that it had mistakenly tied to Xing Shi and was speechless.

Seeing that it was silent, 99 continued to be sad: "The main system is too abominable, sending those hosts and systems to attack me and deceive my feelings, I... I actually believed them so easily!"

Xing Shi and Shang Shang Qian were silent again. How to say it, it was not surprising at all.

99 cried for a while, waited for a few seconds and couldn't help it again: "Don't you comfort me!"

Shang Shang Qian asked: "Tell me the truth?"

99 was choked several times, so he shut up and called Xing Shi.

Xingshi said: "It's okay, it's all over."

99 felt wronged: "But I'm so sad, I gave my true feelings."

Xingshi said: "We'll help you get revenge."

99 said: "Well, anything else?"

Xingshi said: "Revenge is the best comfort."

99 said: "But I'm still very sad, you say a few more words to comfort me."

Xingshi said: "How about you drink more hot water?"

99: "?"

The best sign: "..."

One person and two unities were quiet for five seconds.

99 just felt sad and cried again.

What sin did it commit? It was deceived in life and had to meet these two heartless bastards after death!