Don't be idle.
It's too late.
The gentle, warm wind suddenly turned fierce, carrying pebbles from the roadside that lashed at people's faces. The moon disappeared completely, and a massive army of dark clouds made a sudden appearance, poised to strike.
It seemed that every time he realized something, it was already too late to undo it. Lin Yehuan simply didn't try to dodge, but instead braced himself with his hands on either side of his body, closed his eyes, and waited for the downpour to begin.
It might not be rain, it might be snow, it might be hail, or even a pie—who can say for sure? You'll know what it is when it hits your face.
Oh, wearing a shirt today is quite a novel idea.
Lin Yehuan was just about to touch the shirt that had fallen from the sky to see if it was cotton or linen or 100% polyester when he felt himself being lightly pulled up from the steps.
“Let’s go,” Lu Xingzhi said, supporting himself with one hand on his clothes and gently putting his arm around her with the other. “Your health is more important, you melancholy boy.”
The rain was fine and heavy. The two of them had taken a long and winding road to get there, but they hadn't gone very far. They jogged a few steps and arrived at the eaves.
"Your shirt... is it waterproof?" Lin Yehuan touched the tops of their heads, not believing it at all. "What kind of high-tech stuff is this?"
"It seems... it's always been like this?" Lu Xingzhi also shook the shirt he had taken off, but there wasn't a drop of water on it.
The two huddled together to examine the shirt, handing it out and then taking it back in.
Is it wet?
"No."
Lin Yehuan took it, held it above his head, and looked at it under the light.
[System vulnerability detected, now fixed]
Rainwater fell unexpectedly from their shirts, and the two men truly experienced what it felt like to be doused with cold water.
"Pfft...cough cough...cough cough"
"Is this also magic?"
Lin Yehuan wiped his face, struggling to open his eyes, which were still sore from the sudden shock, and replied with a question that seemed like a question but was actually a statement: "Do you think it looks like it?"
Lu Xingzhi shook his head, unsure whether he wanted to shake off the remaining water from his hair or to answer Lin Yehuan's question. Relatively speaking, he preferred to believe that ghosts existed in this world.
For professional matters, you should find professionals.
Coincidentally, Lu Buxiu and Lu Xingming were too busy to go home these past few days, and with the start of school approaching, Gu Ye and Xu Pengpeng just decided to stay here and not move around.
It would seem strange not to invite these two exorcism masters to witness it.
Xu Pengpeng had just dried her hair and was about to go to sleep when Lin Yehuan pulled her up and made her take another cold shower. Unwilling to give up, she climbed the stairs to call for the only survivor.
When Gu Ye was pulled up, he restrained himself from cursing. After seeing who was standing at the door, he patiently styled his hair perfectly, completely unaware that the other three had wet hair from childbirth. After hearing Lin Yehuan's description, he questioned, "Aren't you two staunch materialists? How come you're even more superstitious than me!"
Lu Xingzhi didn't say much, but shook his shirt twice in front of him like a bull.
"What are you doing? Using a red cloth for bullfighting, can't you be a little more professional?"
"Fine, I'd rather knock you flying no matter what you bring."
Lu Xingzhi remained silent, tossing his shirt over the eaves and letting it flutter in the wind for a full two minutes before bringing it back inside.
Gu Ye looked it over from top to bottom, left to right, and it really was watertight. He took it with a puzzle in his mind.
Lu Xingzhi gestured for him to lift it up and take a look.
Gu Ye was skeptical, his eyes constantly scanning the faces of the other three people, slowly raising his arm higher and higher.
"Pfft... ptooey," Gu Ye was especially soaked by the rain. He glanced to both sides, not wanting to cause a scene, and tried to pull Zou Xingzhi aside to settle things privately.
He was stopped by the towel that Xu Pengpeng handed him.
"Alright, stop being so dramatic." Lu Xingzhi patted Gu Ye on the shoulder. "You're always cooped up in your room. I'll show you a couple of magic tricks, and you're getting all worked up."
"Do you know that you've been too serious lately and have gone out of character?"
Gu Ye was furious and retorted in a low voice, "Can't you guys be reasonable? Who told me that I can't leave the room until I finish the survey?"
"They also deprived me of the right to enter the kitchen."
"Isn't it too much to cook meals according to my picky eating list every day?"
"Hey, these are all Auntie's exact words. We've just made sure they're accurate and thoughtfully included a tone-conveying mode."
"Besides, don't you have any idea what kind of food you cook every day? Who would guess that there are things you don't like to eat?"
Gu Ye was teased by Lu Xingzhi for a few days after he returned to normal, and unsurprisingly, he quite enjoyed the feeling, even though he was just stating the facts.
"Stop with the nonsense," since the conversation had gotten to this point, Lin Yehuan decided to completely change the subject. "The data reports, are they ready?"
"How about we play in the water for a while?"
Lu Xingzhi rejected his proposal and took the shirt back.
The day after Gu Ye returned, Lu Xingzhi made up his mind. Although he didn't have any coins in his pocket, he still didn't miss the opportunity to make him work for free. He also received instructions from Aunt Gu that it would be unreasonable not to squeeze him for what he wanted.
Three or four days have passed; we need to put some pressure on him.
"No, is this right?" Gu Ye was surrounded by the two women in a C-shape, feeling like he was being interrogated. He felt like a tiger fallen into a pit, bullied by dogs, or a person enslaved when starving. His two older sisters had managed everything at home perfectly, and he hadn't suffered any losses or faced any objections during his twenty years of playing around. How come he suddenly became universally disliked after his twentieth birthday, getting advised to study everywhere he went? "How did you two become my big bosses?"
"Watch your attitude, Xiao Gu." Lu Xingzhi immediately adopted a haughty tone upon hearing this. "Also, she's the big boss."
Lin Yehuan didn't know whether to agree or not, but among this group of people, she was the only one who could afford to contribute money. Although it was far from enough, it was much better than nothing. Besides, even the system, which was so sensitive, hadn't objected, so she naturally accepted the title without any qualms.
Gu Ye shrugged, indicating that he had just finished more than half of it.
"Halfway through? Is the survey complete?"
"No, I just created a new folder."
"Then you're still not picky enough when it comes to food."
Xu Pengpeng was standing three meters away, secretly laughing, when Lin Yehuan caught her red-handed.
"You can't escape either. Do you remember the task I gave you?"
Xu Pengpeng's upturned lips instantly vanished, and she said plaintively, "I...remember..."
"I've already prepared the good news and spent a lot of money to find out Teacher Cheng's daily routine. I'll post it first thing tomorrow morning."
——
"So...the situation..."
Xu Pengpeng came out with a huge afro, the most careless she had ever been about her appearance since she was a child.
“As you can see,” Xu Pengpeng deliberately lowered her head to show Lin Yehuan her bombarded hairstyle, “it’s been blown up.”
"Didn't you two talk before the holiday? He was very welcoming of you coming to the lab back then, how could he change his mind so quickly?"
Xu Pengpeng grabbed a piece of bread and stuffed her mouth full: "It's not because of anything else."
"My senior gave me two email addresses, but I didn't ask clearly and sent the email to his 'important matters' email address."
"…………"
"Is there absolutely no hope?" Lin Yehuan took a sip of milk, trying to clear his head and think of other solutions.
"Not really, I haven't dared to click in to see, afraid that I'll read it but won't know what to reply."
"come on."
"come on!"
We must stay strong!
"Yes, I'm ready."
After finishing breakfast, the four of them sat around the desk, standing very close together, as if afraid that someone would suffer less emotional distress. They opened their inbox with trepidation.
Title: Please reply immediately after reading!!! Otherwise, please do not disturb!!!
"Can't he just talk normally?" Gu Ye wanted to run away after reading the title, but was forcibly pulled back. "I'm having the uncanny valley effect. This is too creepy."
The other three people seemed less stressed. Compared to talking to him face-to-face, the exclamation marks seemed less unbearable.
Especially since Lu Xingzhi has a father who doesn't argue or talk much, he even feels a sense of warmth towards him.
Lin Yehuan took a sip of water and opened the email.
It's a very short sentence; all the words in it don't even add up to the number of exclamation marks.
"Don't you guys even use your brains before you act?! I understand what you mean (two lines of exclamation marks omitted). You can come to my office for a detailed discussion after the semester starts (one line of exclamation marks omitted). Please reply to this email address (three lines of exclamation marks omitted)."
Finally, another email address was attached.
"Has no one removed the exclamation mark from his keyboard all these years?"
“There’s a legend about it,” Xu Pengpeng wiped away a bead of sweat, “According to unofficial historical records, his office drawer was filled with nothing but throat lozenges and exclamation mark keycaps…”
“I don’t believe it,” Lin Yehuan wrote in his reply and clicked send. “How could anyone dare to get so close to his desk? Don’t you have ears?”
"You're right."
"Tsk"
"hiss"
"Um……"
"If you really have nothing to say, then go do your work, okay? Don't just sit around doing nothing." Lin Yehuan felt that it was hard for people to restrain themselves once they had money. He was now unhappy with anyone who wasn't doing anything, and he had gone from being an oppressed person to the capitalist he used to hate the most.
Gu Ye tried to stall for time, but after thinking about eating onions and carrots for three days in a row, he obediently went upstairs to start the research.
As for Lu Xingzhi, he is very proactive, but we must be wary of him doing more harm than good.
As for Xu Pengpeng, since she can't return to her original world, she shouldn't just sit around doing nothing.
Lin Yehuan thought for a moment and asked her to organize all the relevant documents. Maybe if she got too busy with this, she wouldn't want to think about anything else.
"Remember to back everything up to this." Lin Yehuan specially prepared a USB drive, just in case she suddenly left one day and all the data was lost, then it would be a disaster.
After all three of them had settled their work, Lin Yehuan, as the big boss, began to study the bunch of unfair terms that the system had displayed that day, preparing to find some loopholes for unforeseen circumstances.
[You have no right to interfere with any of the male lead's independent decisions.]
[Your company has an obligation to fulfill the male protagonist's vision and requirements to the greatest extent possible.]
If he asks me to make all the decisions...
Lin Yehuan took a pen and wrote this down, then continued to look through the notes. After half a day, he had gained a lot.
As we all know, there is an old saying that "the more you say, the more mistakes you make." The more rules a system sets, the more self-contradictory there will be. We must implement the important and usable rules before it is upgraded and fixed.
[Before the male lead reaches 100% perfection, the progress of the romance is not affected by the level of affection. After the male lead reaches 100% perfection, the accumulated affection will be converted into a fixed amount.]
[Affection points are effective regardless of whether they are factored into relationship progress or popularity.]
Before they knew it, Lu Xingzhi's favorability rating had reached over three thousand, and the favorability rating of his friends had even exceeded ten thousand.
Artificial intelligence ultimately can't compete with college students who are obsessed with getting a diploma, so it doesn't seem so difficult after all...
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