Chapter 217
Chapter 217
“You’re actually a Faceless Ghost!”
The older man stared at Yun Youyou in amazement. “I thought ghosts like that existed only in movies. I never expected the Game to have them too. You must be a new variety.”
Yun Youyou said, “You have to keep my secret.”
“Don’t worry. I absolutely won’t tell anyone.”
The older man patted his chest and promised.
He looked up at the sky.
“I won’t keep talking to you. I’m old now. I don’t have as much energy as young people.”
“You’re overthinking it. We young people don’t have much energy either.”
Yun Youyou yawned, her entire body looking lazy.
The older man clasped his hands behind his back and scoffed softly.
“You’re the flowers of the motherland, the morning sun at seven or eight. Can’t you show a little spirit?”
Yun Youyou said, “Then I’m the motherland’s sleeping lotus.”
The older man: “……”
She looked more like a datura to him. She was poisonous as hell.
Time always passed especially quickly inside an Instance.
It felt as though she had only just lain down before she had to get up and work as an NPC again.
At the last meeting, the Company had given Yun Youyou a notebook.
She planned to use it as a diary.
The diary would be titled: My Days as a Beast of Burden.
Yun Youyou raised her pen and wrote the first word.
Date: September 12. (Note: I have no idea what the actual date is, but this is today’s date in the Instance.)
Weather: Sunny.
Yun Youyou suddenly stopped her pen.
She remembered that diaries were supposed to be written at the end of the day.
Only elementary school students on summer vacation wrote all sixty days of their diaries on the first day.
She had been nonhuman for so long that even her memory had deteriorated.
Yun Youyou patted her fish brain and closed the notebook again.
Almost the moment she entered the office, Yun Youyou noticed Xiao Yanxi avoiding her gaze.
He deliberately kept his head down and didn’t dare glance in Yun Youyou’s direction at all.
“What are you looking at so carefully?”
Yun Youyou wandered over to Xiao Yanxi and studied him suspiciously.
Xiao Yanxi’s gaze darted away.
“Nothing.”
Yun Youyou said, “Tell me. What shameful things did you do under my name last night?”
“Shameful things? How could I possibly do anything shameful?!”
Xiao Yanxi rose from his seat and moved farther away from Yun Youyou.
His mouth was more stubborn than a rock in a cesspit.
Yun Youyou folded her arms and gave him a cold glance. “Man, your body is far more honest than your mouth.”
Xiao Yanxi smiled ingratiatingly.
“I really didn’t do anything. I only did a few push-ups. If you don’t believe me, ask the older man! He can testify for me!”
“What is it? What do you need me to testify about?”
The older man pushed open the door and entered.
The first thing he saw was Yun Youyou standing in the middle while Xiao Yanxi cowered in a corner.
“Xiao Yanxi, did you do something to that young lady?”
The older man seized the opportunity, delighted to have an excuse to curse Xiao Yanxi out.
For once, Xiao Yanxi didn’t fire back.
He said helplessly, “I truly didn’t do anything. Why can’t any of you believe me for once?”
The older man didn’t believe his nonsense for a second.
“You’d better not have done anything. I’m warning you, Yun Youyou isn’t some helpless young woman.”
He remembered Yun Youyou’s insane push-up performance the night before and couldn’t help twitching the corner of his mouth.
“She can do hundreds of push-ups an hour. You’d better not get any crooked ideas!”
Yun Youyou was genuinely surprised to hear that.
So Xiao Yanxi truly had spent last night doing push-ups?
Instead of attending to business, he had disguised himself as her just to do push-ups in front of the older man and the Player?
He had too much time on his hands!
With the older man providing testimony, Xiao Yanxi straightened his back.
“See? I told you I wasn’t lying.”
The older man didn’t understand what they were discussing.
“What lying?”
Afraid he might reveal something he shouldn’t, Xiao Yanxi hurried forward and pushed him toward the door.
“All right, all right. There’s nothing for you here. You aren’t welcome either, so hurry up and leave.”
The older man’s attention was successfully diverted.
“If you don’t welcome me, I don’t want to come! You think I care about this doghouse of yours?”
Their voices gradually drifted into the distance.
Yun Youyou still felt that things couldn’t be so simple.
But she had no evidence, so she could only set the matter aside for now.
At noon.
Yun Youyou went to find Jiang Mixue for lunch.
Jiang Mixue hadn’t finished work yet.
She told Yun Youyou to come inside and sit for a while.
Sometimes fate worked in the strangest ways.
The moment Yun Youyou went inside, she ran into Fu Yiming emerging from a conference room.
His tall frame and handsome face stood out dramatically among a crowd of short, potbellied men.
Fu Yiming sensed someone watching him.
When he looked up, his gaze met Yun Youyou’s.
“You can go ahead.”
He handed the documents in his hands to the assistant beside him and walked toward Yun Youyou.
This plot and this appearance were straight out of a romantic drama.
Especially the first thing Fu Yiming said.
“Perfect timing. I have a gift for you.”
The moment he spoke, even his usually placid eyes seemed much more affectionate.
It wasn’t that Yun Youyou wanted to overthink things. Fu Yiming’s words were simply too misleading.
They inspired one of life’s three great delusions: Does he like me?
Yun Youyou merely found it strange.
“A gift? For me?”
It wasn’t some bizarre prank gift, was it?
But Fu Yiming didn’t look like someone who played pranks.
“That’s right. I prepared it especially for you.”
Not only had Fu Yiming prepared a gift for Yun Youyou, he had prepared it especially for her.
Those two extra words completely changed its meaning.
Yun Youyou began to look forward to it.
“So what is the gift?”
Fu Yiming smiled mysteriously. “You’ll definitely like it. It’s in my office.”
The two walked toward the office, one behind the other.
When they opened the door to the president’s office, Jiang Mixue was organizing things nearby.
Seeing Yun Youyou follow Fu Yiming inside, she had no idea what was happening.
Fu Yiming had no intention of hiding it from anyone.
He took a box from a cabinet.
“It’s a little heavy. Be careful when you take it.”
Yun Youyou thought: How heavy could it be?
She took the box.
Yun Youyou nearly dropped it on her foot.
She did her utmost to control the way her face twisted.
Holy shit. It was really heavy!
Fu Yiming reached out to steady it and said with a smile, “You’ll definitely like this gift.”
Yun Youyou tried to maintain the polite smile of someone receiving a present.
Even though her arms were about to snap and she was grinding her teeth to pieces.
“What’s inside?”
Fu Yiming said, “Dumbbells. I bought the heaviest ones especially for you. You did so many push-ups last night that I assume you love working out. It’s an excellent habit, and I hope you continue.”
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