Father is kind and son is filial
Lin Yehuan easily carried him into the house, but still couldn't avoid bumping him into the door and the corner of the wall when he turned around. If he was asleep just now, he should be completely unconscious now.
However, there's no need to worry too much. Lin Yehuan brought up the system information panel. His health value is still very high. He fell asleep because his health value increased too quickly and too rapidly, causing his adrenaline to surge beyond the limits that his original health condition could withstand. So he fell asleep as soon as he wanted.
“Even though this is your home,” Lin Yehuan pulled out a new blanket to cover him and lay down on the bed himself, “you should still be more down-to-earth in your daily life.”
Lu Xingzhi was woken up by the cold. He had slept soundly all night in the gap between the bed and the wardrobe. In the morning, when he turned over, he touched the wardrobe, which was icy cold from the air conditioner. Even though he was wearing a thin nightgown, he was still jolted awake by the cold.
Last night felt like a dream. I was vaguely awakened by some sound, and it felt like I was floating on clouds, as if I had climbed a staircase for a long time, or as if I were walking on clouds on a ladder to heaven, without any effort.
Just when he thought he was about to misstep and wake up, he found himself standing in front of a door. His vision cleared for a moment, and the gates of heaven opened for him. A mysterious force surged into his weight, forcing him to bow down and collapse. Only now did he realize that he might not be dreaming but sleepwalking, and that he had unknowingly fallen asleep in Lin Yehuan's room. He tiptoed to open the door, intending to sneak back inside.
Lu Buxiu happened to be standing in the same spot as yesterday, his wide-open eyes meeting Lu Xingzhi's sleepy eyes.
Lu Xingzhi felt more than just cold; his whole body was chilled.
Lu Buxiu beckoned to him, and he had no choice but to quietly close the door and respectfully accompany that ticking time bomb downstairs, bracing himself for a scolding.
Explanation is impossible. From childhood to adulthood, the sentence Lu Xingzhi remembers most clearly is:
"The word 'I don't repair roads' doesn't exist in my dictionary. No matter the reason, it's just shirking responsibility!"
Sure enough, he remembered every word perfectly; even the old man's speaking rhythm and the frequency of his brow twitching when he was angry hadn't changed.
"Don't know? What do you mean you don't know what happened? Are you trying to say you were sleepwalking?"
"What if I say yes?" Lu Xingzhi didn't know why he would always argue with him when they talked since he was a child. It was probably because they would only have a conversation about him when he did something wrong.
But today, he didn't want to be as tough as before. If he didn't believe it, he didn't believe it; if he didn't listen, he didn't listen. There was no point in explaining.
Well, the main problem is that this explanation really sounds like making excuses.
Lu Buxiu was there, rambling on and on, singing the same old tune he had sung more than a decade ago. However, Lu Xingzhi no longer sang harmonies for him, leaving him to sing a solo, which made him seem rather lonely.
"Are you unwilling to take responsibility for others? Let me tell you, the word 'irresponsible' doesn't exist in my dictionary."
"Dad, you..."
"Don't call me Dad. You're not even a son in my dictionary."
"Why don't you buy a genuine Xinhua Dictionary and look it up?" Lu Xingzhi was so angry he almost laughed out loud. He glanced at the time, having decided to hold back. He was going to the company after another half hour of chanting; he wouldn't let anything disrupt his decades-long routine. In the end, it would naturally all blow over...
Unexpectedly, his mouth became increasingly uncooperative. For every sentence the other person said, he would respond with three sentences. The two of them started performing a crosstalk routine in the study early in the morning.
Lu Buxiu heard too many things that Lu Xingzhi had never said before. He felt that his partner was secretly innovating behind his back, leaving him to live off his past achievements. He was so angry that he kept clapping his hands.
Lin Yehuan was awakened by the system's warning sound. After the warning sound, Lu Buxiu's clapperboard was blown to her ears by the cold air from the air conditioner. The soundproof room was thus manipulated by the system through code. No matter how much Lin Yehuan wanted to stay in bed, she still got up. It wasn't that she had a change of heart, but that if she delayed any longer, Lu Xingzhi would probably drop the progress bar again.
[Male protagonist's patience +20, stress resistance +10]
Hmm? It seems there's no major problem even though she's not here. Lin Yehuan sat down again and opened the system's event log to see what had happened outside.
[Due to your mishandling of the unexpected situation last night, the character Lu Buxiu has questioned the male protagonist's personality. This needs to be resolved personally.]
Lin Yehuan almost fell into the trap again, but luckily he slept for a few more hours and is now very clear-headed, so he won't be fooled by its nonsensical logic a second time.
He picked up a glass of water from the desk to moisten his throat and said, "It was clearly because you guys misused the new features and didn't establish a complete system for health values that he fainted."
"Besides, do you think I have the ability to climb five floors in the middle of the night and take him back?" She seemed to actually be able to. Last night, she picked up Lu Xingzhi with ease, so much so that she used too much force and gave him a serious head injury.
Lin Yehuan glanced at the progress bar for unlocking the Lu Xingzhi language system. It had reached 90% after yesterday's crash, so it shouldn't have any impact... right...?
The system reported another error and stopped recording external information.
Lin Yehuan reasonably suspected that it was an attempt to evade responsibility, but out of conscience and curiosity, he decided to go down and see what was going on.
The study door was closed tightly, and not a sound could be heard.
Lin Yehuan, remembering why he had been woken up, complained to the system panel, "Don't you think your logic is a bit ridiculous?!"
The system obediently opened the door a crack, and Lin Yehuan peered through the crack to eavesdrop. He could barely see Lu Buxiu and Lu Xingzhi sitting face to face on either side of the table, with Lu Buxiu constantly taking notes.
“Wait a minute,” Lu Buxiu was still writing furiously, “you haven’t forgotten what you just said, have you?”
"If you write any slower, you'll really forget everything."
What did he say? Lin Yehuan tried to wait for the system to have a change of heart and give her a hint, but there was no response. It seemed that she could only guess.
Could it be that in those two minutes she wasted, the two of them broke up?
That shouldn't be the case.
Lin Yehuan quickly refuted this conclusion, offering two reasons for her rebuttal:
First, when Lu Xingzhi was being stubborn, it was because his intelligence and language system development were unbalanced. After careful calculation, she found that his current intelligence was within the range where language system development would not cause any problems if it was kept above 70%. Therefore, it was definitely not because he said anything excessive.
Secondly, she came downstairs very quickly. According to the typical CEO romance novel structure of "the son is unfilial and the father drives him away, but he can't bear to see him repent, they part ways with great pain, a dramatic turn of events, and the father and son become loving and filial," their few minutes of writing were clearly not enough for the author to pad out the word count.
"What...what was your first sentence again?" Lu Buxiu finally stopped writing, adjusted his slipping reading glasses, and looked at Lu Xingzhi.
“Dad, you…” Lu Xingzhi obediently began to repeat himself from the beginning.
“Not that sentence,” Lu Buxiu interrupted him again at the same point. “The next sentence.”
Lin Yehuan was so engrossed in her work that she was completely unaware that someone was watching her intently from behind.
“I said,” Lu Xingzhi cleared his throat, trying to keep his tone normal, “why don’t you buy a genuine Xinhua Dictionary to look it up?”
"Buy a dictionary," Lu Buxiu muttered, repeating his words as he began to scribble in his notebook, "parentheses, sarcastic tone, enclosed in parentheses."
“I haven’t heard this before. I’ll reply when I’ve thought about it,” Lu Buxiu continued. “The next line…”
"So innocent, so childlike, so humorous." Lin Yehuan was stunned by this abstract performance and didn't know what to say, so he said "good" three times.
I think so too.
The sudden sound startled all three of them. Lu Xingming, who was discovered, did not hide but went in openly and greeted Lu Buxiu.
Lin Yehuan looked helpless. "Big brother, can you please consider my feelings? You guys are all so loving and respectful, but what am I? The door-peeping king?"
Unexpectedly, Lu Xingzhi spoke first.
"Ye Huan"
Lin Yehuan was taken aback, his mind racing as he tried to figure out how to cover up the fact that he had been eavesdropping.
"Are you about to go have breakfast? You came specifically to remind us."
The restaurant was located at the end of the corridor, around the corner. Lin Yehuan glanced at it from afar and saw that it was already set up; it was indeed breakfast time. He smiled and nodded.
"Dad, it's seven o'clock. You should have breakfast. I'll finish organizing it and give it to you tonight. You can review it after you're done with your work."
[Male protagonist's language system is 100% unlocked, character completeness is improved, and character design perfection is enhanced]
[Completing the "Fatherly Love and Filial Piety" mission increases the male protagonist's character completeness.]
I told you to get some sleep. Lin Yehuan shrugged. What's the point of rushing around all day? You might as well get a good night's sleep. Maybe things will be resolved inexplicably when you wake up.
Of course, this special case does not apply to all tasks. For example, Lin Yehuan's task of starting a company remained untouched even after sleeping for two days. It seems she has figured out a pattern.
In short, after reviewing and calculating each task, as long as she can get started, no matter what method she uses, as long as she can get the progress to over 70%, the rest can develop on its own.
With this calculation, everything becomes much easier. As for starting a company, all she needs to do is create a product with a super selling point that is difficult to replace in the short term, and then create a few million as seed money out of thin air, and that's it.
It's done? Give me a break.
After finishing her calculations, Lin Yehuan flopped back onto the bed. As the male lead's level of maturity increased, her freedom of movement gradually increased. She was no longer confined to the rigidly constructed perfect persona she had created before. She could lie down and sleep whenever she wanted, anytime, anywhere.
If only her path to making money could be opened up so easily.
The start-up fund must be earned by oneself and cannot rely on any donations or gifts.
All matters had to be discussed with Lu Xingzhi, but Lu Xingzhi was subject to system interference, and he was unable to provide any useful advice or support until she completed these two tasks.
So much so that Lu Xingzhi still thinks she brought this up on a whim. Why is it that when she's joking about preparing for a startup competition, she comes up with ideas that seem high-level but are actually vague and impractical?
This is too difficult, I'd better go to sleep.
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