Chapter 218
Chapter 218
Fu Yiming lowered his eyes to her.
“Do you like it?”
Yun Youyou forced a smile. “I do. I absolutely love it.”
The amusement in Fu Yiming’s eyes deepened.
“I knew you would.”
Yun Youyou was almost unable to keep smiling.
The pair of dumbbells was simply too heavy.
In a good mood, Fu Yiming waved a generous hand and let Yun Youyou and Jiang Mixue leave for lunch early.
Fu Group treated its employees much better than the older man’s Company did.
After all, many Players worked here. To keep them from starving to death, the Company had even established an employee cafeteria.
Unlike the older man’s Company, where the cafeteria was basically decorative.
Yun Youyou came over at the same time every day to freeload on lunch.
She had arrived early, so there weren’t many people in the cafeteria.
The tables were covered with all kinds of stir-fries and prepared dishes. Even the desserts were fresh from the oven.
Yun Youyou took her favorite ice-cream cone.
The moment she turned around, she ran into the Security Captain from before.
“Well, if it isn’t Xiao Yun!”
The Security Captain was extremely enthusiastic when he saw Yun Youyou.
Yun Youyou held her cone awkwardly.
“I heard you went to another Company? What a shame. Sending security talent like you elsewhere is such a waste!”
The Security Captain’s eyes were full of regret.
In a rare display of modesty, Yun Youyou humbled herself.
“Not at all. I still have far to go compared with you!”
The Security Captain said, “Oh, you mustn’t say that! Even President Fu personally praised you!”
“Especially that brilliant speech you gave last time. Your argument about ketchup and batons has become incredibly famous. Every security guard within a hundred miles has heard about it.”
“……”
Yun Youyou: Excellent. Her humiliation had spread for a hundred miles.
The name Yun Youyou truly carried too much baggage.
Perhaps one day, she should change her name and start a new life.
Jiang Mixue waited at the table for ages, but Yun Youyou never returned.
Why had getting an ice-cream cone taken so long?
Had the ice-cream machine kidnapped her?
She stood to look for Yun Youyou.
“What took you so…”
Jiang Mixue saw Yun Youyou standing in a corner, though she couldn’t tell what she was doing.
Only when Yun Youyou turned did Jiang Mixue notice another person standing across from her.
The moment Yun Youyou saw Jiang Mixue, she looked as though she had found her savior.
“Oh! Did Secretary Jiang need me for something?”
As she spoke, she signaled frantically with her eyes and brows.
Jiang Mixue received the signal and answered naturally, “I do need you for something, but…”
She glanced at the Security Captain and said tactfully, “Since you’re busy right now, I’ll wait until later…”
Before she could finish, the Security Captain spoke.
“No, no, no! I don’t have anything important. Your business matters more. I’ll be going. Hurry and get to work. Don’t mind me!”
The Security Captain naturally knew that Jiang Mixue was President Fu’s Secretary.
She was much more powerful than a mere Security Captain like him.
Before leaving, the Security Captain even gave Yun Youyou an encouraging gesture.
The huge man tried his best to make a cute expression.
“You’ve got this! Let’s go! The security team will always welcome you!”
“……”
He really was a good security guard and a good Captain.
Jiang Mixue and Yun Youyou sat in a corner by the window.
Outside were blue skies and white clouds, with airplanes occasionally streaking overhead.
The Game’s scenery truly was incredibly realistic.
If they hadn’t known the truth, anyone would have believed this was a real world.
Jiang Mixue took a sip of cola.
She sighed comfortably.
“Yes. That’s the taste.”
“I loved it when I was alive. Now that I’m dead, I miss it even more.”
Yun Youyou speared a piece of meat and put it in her mouth. She said casually, “You’re still drinking it after you died. What’s there to miss?”
Jiang Mixue smiled.
“That’s true.”
After a pause, she suddenly sighed. “Sometimes, I’m actually quite grateful to the Game. Death happens in an instant. There’s nothing frightening about it. But being trapped forever in darkness, sleeping inside a coffin, would be truly unbearable.”
Yun Youyou raised her eyes to the window.
“It gave us another way to exist.”
Jiang Mixue said, “Work is exhausting, there are plenty of idiotic Players and coworkers, and sometimes our ghostly lives are in danger, but a lot of the time, I still feel alive.”
[Did you hear that? I treat all of you so well. How can you shamelessly ask me for wages?]
The surroundings were quiet.
The Game’s electronic voice sounded abruptly inside Yun Youyou’s mind.
Yun Youyou said, “Give you one compliment and you immediately get full of yourself, huh?”
[I’m not full. You are.]
Yun Youyou retorted like an elementary school brat, “Right back at you.”
The Game: […Childish.]
The Game was as irritating as ever and constantly tried to remind her it existed.
But Yun Youyou had previously asked the Red-haired Trendy Guy and the others, and she had also asked Jiang Mixue.
They all said the Game basically never communicated with them.
With Yun Youyou, the Game behaved like an intelligent AI ready to interact at any moment.
With everyone else, it was more like an automated system.
Yun Youyou crossed one leg over the other and asked without warning, “You aren’t secretly in love with me, are you?”
The Game said, [You think you don’t have enough work?]
Yun Youyou said, “Then tell me how I died.”
The Game said, [Too talkative.]
Yun Youyou didn’t hear clearly. “What?”
The Game said coldly, [Villains die from talking too much.]
Yun Youyou was shocked.
“I’m a villain?”
The Game asked in return, [If you aren’t a villain, then what are you?]
Yun Youyou declared shamelessly, “Me? I’m obviously the female lead!”
The Game: […What female lead is as shameless as you?]
Yun Youyou said, “I have the aura for it. If I’m not the female lead, who is?”
The Game had no answer.
Yun Youyou seemed to sense something. “You simply don’t want to tell me, do you?”
The Game said, [If you want the truth, find it yourself.]
Yun Youyou said, “Then let me leave the Instance.”
After those words, the Game disappeared.
No matter how Yun Youyou called it, she received no answer.
“What’s wrong?”
Jiang Mixue looked up and found that Yun Youyou, who had been happily eating an ice-cream cone, had turned into a miserable little gourd in the blink of an eye.
Yun Youyou gazed at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle.
“Sigh. I don’t even know how I died.”
Jiang Mixue lowered her head and peeled a lychee.
“What good would knowing do? It’s better not to know. At least you can hold on to the thought that you might still be alive.”
Once she finished peeling the lychee, she casually stuffed it into Yun Youyou’s mouth.
One of Yun Youyou’s cheeks puffed out.
“Fine. From this day forward, I’ll be a living ghost inside the Game!”
Jiang Mixue poked her soft cheek.
“You’re more like a living treasure!”
The moment lunch ended, Yun Youyou was summoned away by a deadly barrage of calls from the older man.
“What’s so urgent?”