The bad ending of the stand-in novel (XVIII)
"Jiang Yuan?"
Gu Zhi guessed the person on the other end of the phone in a second. The other party's tone was calm. Gu Zhi thought of the person he called Mr. Shen, and sneered and said, "It's you, you climbed into the Shen family's bed so quickly? Let me guess it's Shen Shi or Shen Yining? Why didn't I realize that you don't care about men and women before?"
The external speaker was turned up to the maximum, and Gu Zhi's despicable words reached the ears of everyone on Jiang Yuan's side. Facing Gu Zhi's insult, Jiang Yuan calmly replied: "Mr. Gu, you can't judge by your own standards."
"Jiang Yuan, what do you mean?" Gu Zhi felt that there was something else in the other party's words.
"It's meaningless. You are impotent and advocate Platonic love. If sleeping on a bed provided by someone else is called bed climbing, then I can't help it."
“…”
“…”
“…”
???!!!!!!
Jiang Yuan dropped an atomic bomb in a calm tone, and everyone fell silent.
Shen Yining looked like he didn't care, but in fact, his eyes behind the sunglasses widened, his eyebrows raised, and he felt a surge of joy in his heart: Oh wow!
There were a group of men in black around, some lowered their heads, some looked up at the sky, and some lay on the ground pretending to be dead.
Is this something we working people can listen to? The rich are really complicated.
Gu Zhi: "Jiang Yuan, you don't have to provoke me with this kind of thing. We are Plato because I once wanted to cherish you, but now you have disappointed me so much."
Jiang Yuan said "Oh" and didn't refute.
Sometimes not answering is actually an answer.
People who like to watch the show are very good at reading comprehension. Jiang Yuan's shocking revelations alone are enough to arouse people's imagination. What's more, Jiang Yuan now looks indifferent. In the eyes of others, he inexplicably has a kind of tolerance towards his ex, "Whatever you say is what it is." This makes Gu Zhi's counterattack seem more like an effort to save his own face.
Gu Zhi slowed down his tone, "For the sake of our past friendship, if you come back now and behave yourself, maybe I will forgive you."
Jiang Yuan: "No need, Mr. Gu, we have no relationship, only a deal. From the beginning, I was just responsible for the work of a substitute."
Every word Jiang Yuan said was revealing. Gu Zhi was so obsessed with Jiang Yuan, so the Shen family naturally investigated him. They only knew that Gu Zhi was just playing around, but they didn't expect him to use a stand-in. They also didn't expect the stand-in would dare to say anything, and they didn't expect him to be so difficult to control.
Shen Yining sent people to move the car and clean up the outside of the hospital. Shen Shi was reluctant to be pushed away and stared at the hospital. Shen Yining had no choice but to send him back to the hospital and increase his protection. She signaled Jiang Yuan to continue the call while she took a break from her busy schedule to eat some melons.
Gu Zhi: "I know you are talking in anger. The phone you took has a location, and you are still in the hospital. Are you lying to me?"
Gu Zhi’s thinking is inexplicably simple.
After all, most of his subordinates contacted him through his secretary and special assistant, and no one was bold enough to come to him directly. Gu Zhi subconsciously thought that Jiang Yuan had used some means to get his subordinates' mobile phones.
Gu Zhi: "Stop it. No one will believe you if you say this. They will just think you are ignorant. Stand-in is not a good word. If you come back, I promise to continue to take care of your family. Jiang Yuan, I suggest you give up. I know you have woken up. Think about it carefully. The world is on my side after all."
“…”
Gu Zhi was telling the truth. After awakening, he had experienced many reincarnations and knew clearly that the world revolved around him. He believed that Jiang Yuan knew this truth. The other party sighed softly. When Gu Zhi thought that the other party was going to compromise, the answer he got was, "Idiot."
“…”
Gu Zhi thought he had heard wrongly, "What did you say?"
Jiang Yuan replied calmly: "I said you are an idiot."
"How dare you scold me?!" Gu Zhi was in disbelief, and then alert, "No, Jiang Yuan wouldn't say that to me! You are not Jiang Yuan, who are you? Why is there another outsider occupying Jiang Yuan's body? Get out of his body!"
Gu Zhi's words sounded like insanity to others.
After hearing this, Shen Yining and the subordinates passing by glanced at Jiang Yuan and began to sympathize with him for getting along with such a lunatic.
Jiang Yuan: "Boss Gu, are you mentally ill again? I am Jiang Yuan, there is no outsider, and I can curse people. The reason why I didn't curse you before is very simple, because we signed a contract, you are the boss and I am the subordinate, and subordinates usually don't dare to curse their bosses before leaving."
"What do you mean? Jiang Yuan and I are not over yet."
"Hello, our contract has long expired. I fulfilled my request to be your substitute, but you did not fulfill your promise to save my family. In addition, I have already repaid you the total of 2.43 million yuan that you spent on my family during this period. I even paid you too much, but you took it without reminding me. Please return it to me. The total is 300,005,008 yuan, which is rounded to 300,000 yuan. Please return it to me."
Jiang Yuan was like a ruthless debt collection machine, emphasizing the need to pay back the money several times. Gu Zhi was speechless, "You want 300,000 yuan, you really haven't seen the market, it turns out to be a substitute, Shen Shi would never do this."
Jiang Yuan: "Well, I am different from Mr. Shen, so I will pay you back, and Mr. Gu, I didn't lie to you, I am here with Mr. Shen."
"Don't struggle so hard, Jiang Yuan. You lie without thinking." Gu Zhi was halfway through laughing when he heard a faint female voice coming from the other end of the phone, "Hehe, hello, Mr. Gu."
"...Ah, hello, Mr. Shen." If it were true, Gu Zhi would not panic. With Shen Shi, he would be able to swallow up the Shen family sooner or later.
However, Jiang Yuan stabbed him in the back the next second, "Hello, Mr. Gu, our call has always been on external speaker."
Gu Zhi: “…………”
Gu Zhi took a breath and asked, "Jiang Yuan, where are you now?"
"As you can see, it's at Shen's Hospital." Gu Zhi was about to say that even if it was exposed, Jiang Yuan said, "It's at the advanced payment counter in the hospital lobby."
So now they are in the spotlight.
Jiang Yuanshi particularly emphasized the word "senior", meaning that those who helped pay the fees were subordinates of prominent people. With Shen Yining around, they didn't dare to take pictures, but Jiang Yuan's call and Gu Zhi's self-introduction would become the dessert on the dinner table even if Gu Zhi blocked the news.
After all, rumors spread the fastest and are the hardest to suppress.
"Jiang Yuan, you are crazy!"
Jiang Yuan didn't answer, but handed the phone to Shen Yining who was pointing at him. Shen Yining's tone was full of smiles, "I think it's you, Mr. Gu, who's gone crazy. You're planning to target our Shen family. You like my brother so much, but you took the trouble to find someone to destroy my brother's thesis, causing him to be unable to return to the country for several years. What on earth are you thinking?"
"Do you really like Bai Yueguang, or are you just looking for an excuse to play the role of a substitute? But unfortunately, I don't think you are very good at playing it. Why did the group of people on the Gu board of directors nominate you to take the stage?"
"Boss Chen, you really don't care about your brother's face by talking about your family's ugly deeds in public." Gu Zhi didn't answer, but just pushed back. It was a pity that Shen Yining didn't care about face.
"My brother is not ashamed, you are the one who is ashamed. In the final analysis, my brother's experience is all due to you, and it is his bad luck to be favored by you. The Shen family cares least about face. At this time, face cannot be eaten, and there is no need to have it. But you, Mr. Gu, can't even get a substitute Bai Yueguang, and you are impotent. Can you still save your face?"
Gu Zhi:………………
"Beep, beep, beep--" the sound of the phone being hung up echoed in my ears.
Jiang Yuanshi listened quietly to the sound of Gu Zhi's defense being broken.
Shen Yining threw the phone to his subordinates, took the wet wipes to wipe his hands, and said to Jiang Yuan: "Okay, there is nothing to do with Mr. Jiang here. I can still distinguish between good and bad. My brother is in the old place before, please take care of him. As for your family, these are Shen Shi's business and have nothing to do with me."
Jiang Yuan thanked Shen Yining and turned to leave.
Shen Yining snorted, left the crowd, and sighed as he walked, "Why are all the handsome guys gay these days?"
*
Jiang Yuanshi returned to the ward floor. Many eyes fell on him along the way. Jiang Yuanshi apologized to Jiang Yuan in his heart. Jiang Yuan didn't have to be exposed in the crowd, but now he had no choice but to do this.
Jiang Yuanshi returned to the room, glanced at the lifeless Shen Shi, opened the door inside the ward, and saw that the two people lying inside had normal heartbeats. The sound of the electrocardiogram made him feel relieved for the first time.
"Mission accomplished." The system's voice sounded in Jiang Yuanshi's mind, "Hello host, we have integrated all the NPCs around Gu Zhi who are similar to Bai Yueguang's stand-in according to your requirements."
"Ah, you're back? There really are people here, thank you. Are there many people?" Jiang Yuanshi reacted, and the system replied, "Not many, thirteen in total."
The system projects pictures onto the wall through a projector. There are thirteen faces, ranging in age from young to old, spanning Gu Zhi's life.
"The one with the highest similarity is currently Secretary Zhou, and the one with the lowest similarity is this unnamed NPC with 66%. He was a little boy sent by another boss to Gu Zhi at a banquet, and was later thrown out by Gu Zhi. However, there were bruises on his neck due to fingerprints."
How much do you like to strangle people?
But the minimum similarity is on the passing line. Jiang Yuanshi doesn't understand why so many similar NPCs are created? The protagonist doesn't have a common face.
Jiang Yuanshi made a bold guess: "Mr. System, is it possible that these NPCs are the shells of the protagonists eliminated from the failed world?"
The system gave a negative answer: "This guess is not true. Energy is needed to form the character's appearance. If the mission fails, the host or carrier in the shell will be emptied, but it will not be redone. The estimated cost is exceeded."
Jiang Yuanshi was not disappointed even though he guessed wrong: "Okay."
This time it was the system that asked: "Host, what happened during the time the system was away?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "Can't you watch the replay?"
The system thought for a moment and said, "Wait a moment, let me enter Shen Shi's body."
Shen Shi's body moved, his limbs flying around like a puppet, and finally he turned his head and stared at Jiang Yuanshi.
Jiang Yuanshi: …………
How is this different from a horror movie?
Shen Shi's brows were knitted tighter and tighter, and finally his whole body was empty, as if he had frozen.
"Um...are you okay?" Jiang Yuanshi asked. He shouldn't have done anything out of the ordinary.
But unfortunately, the system began to collapse when Jiang Yuanshi used Jiang Yuan's face to say that Gu Zhi was impotent. When Shen Yining learned the truth that Gu Zhi used Jiang Yuan and Shen Shiji as substitutes for Bai Yueguang, the system began to get nervous, fearing that an NPC who suddenly appeared would kill Jiang Yuanshi.
Finally, Shen Yining waved his hand, not caring at all, and even had a feeling of matchmaking. The system became numb, the CPU was overloaded, and it burned up.
Forget it. There is no prompt that the mission failed. Just let the other party go. I can’t stop him anyway.
The system replied in my mind: "I'm fine."
These three short words seemed to express the system's lifetime exhaustion.
System: "What are you going to do next?"
Jiang Yuanshi thought for a moment and said, "Let me apply to you first."
The system has a bad feeling.
Jiang Yuanshi: "I am going to be a hostage."
The confused system: "What hostages?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "Oh... that's not right. It's not a hostage. Gu Zhi is going to catch the informant. I plan to play that role."
System: "You promised not to endanger the lives of the protagonists, including Jiang Yuan."
Jiang Yuanshi nodded, his eyes clear, and pointed at himself:
"Yes, so it's me, Jiang Yuanshi."
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