Chapter 10

When he was an intern in this book, the studio had no water, electricity or heater, and Yu Tang relied on his integrity to maintain a high enthusiasm for work, never even asking for half a day of leave to rest.

Who would have thought that the circuit breaker would have such a big impact on the progress of the main plot line.

“There are no related restrictions on the plot. You can fix it in the background.” The system looked through the rules. “You just need to spend a few experience points.”

“Spend.” Yu Tang took out the money. “Add an air conditioner cleaning.”

Sui Si once said that he wanted Yu Tang to move into his house before the divorce. According to the character’s design in the plot, Yu Tang had no reason to reject it.

Since he had to move over, he might as well pack up in advance to be more comfortable.

The system acted very quickly; it had already called up the system of Sui Si’s house to adjust the data. It just saw the scene of Yu Tang with his sleeves rolled up wringing the cleaning rag in the middle of winter in the warehouse. It split a data stream and cleaned the windows in passing. It also repaired the wife, which had been down for more than half a year.

“Host, this also has monitoring.”

The system studied the favorability rating device for a whole night, finding many new functions. “Do you want to see the scene of the protagonists gongs and shou on the bed?”

Yu Tang, “…”

System, “…”

“It won’t be blocked.” The system said, “They didn’t do anything that needed to be censored.”

Holding the pillow, Yu Tang sat up and pulled out the surveillance video of the protagonists gong and shou when they were not in bed.

The favorability between Sui Si and Ke Ming stopped at 87. Even the two points obtained during Ke Ming’s birthday was in vain, directly hitting the lowest value in half a year.

Yu Tang was still not clear about what happened and examined the surveillance from the beginning at double speed.

After he got out of the car, Sui Si returned home and gave Ke Ming the gift.

W&P is a top-notch exclusive luxury fashion brand. The limited edition of each season won’t ever be repeated. Without connections, no matter how much you have, you won’t necessarily be able to obtain it.

Sui Si never paid attention to these things. Seeing that Ke Ming liked the prepared gift, he felt relieved and went to the kitchen to cook together with Ke Ming.

Ke Ming wash;t very good at cooking, the foam of the noodles he cooked splashed out and accidentally short-circuited and burnt the circuit breaker.

Sui Si also encountered several power outages; protecting Ke Ming, he turned on the emergency lights in time. Afraid that Ke Ming scalded his hand, Sui Si half-dragged, half-coaxed him to the edge of the sink.

……

The system moved closer to watch it together. Flashing a red light, it just happened to obstruct Sui Si’s face. “Host, the protagonist shou has been together with you in the same orphanage, why doesn’t he know how to cook?”

“The money of the orphanage was not enough. Only a few could study while the rest learned crafts.”

Yu Tang was still evaluating the change of affection between the gong and shou. He pulled the system away and gave it a bubble gum. “I had just joined the job at that time and didn’t understand the rules of the tool-man. I accidentally ranked first in the entire orphanage, nearly throwing the plotline into chaos.”

The system started the job a bit later than him, and hadn’t heard about this. It was very novel. “Can the plot automatically correct itself even after such an accident?”

Yu Tang thought about it and nodded. “It can.”

On the night of that day, Ke Ming carried all the milk candy that he had accumulated and found Yu Tang.

Those candies were given by the brothers ¹not really brothers, but just young menwho came to volunteer. The little Yu Tang hid in a corner, his courage was small and he didn’t dare to speak with people, never going to them to ask for candies.

Ke Ming was good-looking and often heard the volunteers talking about the outside world. He is the most knowledgeable in the orphanage, knowing things that the rest don’t.

Ke Ming gave all those candies to Yu Tang, and told him that if he learned a craft, he will be able to earn money sooner, which will allow him to buy such a big pile of candy.

Yu Tang hid in the corner and, one by one, stuffed the whole candy in his mouth.

Yu Tang had never eaten candies before. It was so sweet that he had to drink water all the time, but he couldn’t get enough of it and didn’t want to eat the meal at all.

Ke Ming took him to secretly enter the principal’s office and change his ranking to the place after Ke Ming in the list.

Earning money earlier to buy a big pile of this kind of candy and give it to the brothers that came to volunteer.

“…It’s so annoying.”

Yu Tang dragged the progress bar and finished watching the past events with a soft filter and sad BGM, lamenting. “May there be no more white rabbits²not sure if it is relevant but the candy given to Yu Tang is also called White Rabbit candy in the world.”

The system asked, “Host, Ke Ming snatched your opportunity to go to school, aren’t you sad?”

“You’ve just started your internship and already messed up the plot.” Yu Tang asked in return. “Now there is a chance: as long as you eat all the candy, you won’t be deducted the bonus of that quarter. Would you have time to feel sad?”

System, “…”

When he was strolling with the other systems, he had heard that although the internship period of the employee was used to increase their familiarity with the process of the work, it was different from the official work. They will be stripped of their original memory to conduct a comprehensive immersive training.

Without their original memory, many newcomers will gradually forget who they actually are and get stuck in their extremely realistic life experience, unable to distinguish illusion from reality.

But its host was different.

Its host doesn’t even remember the name of the main character, only thinking about work, bonuses and vacation in his heart.

The system also wanted bonuses and vacation, and was very happy. It asked while flashing a red light, “But host, since you’re from the same orphanage, why didn’t Ke Ming recognize you this time?”

Yu Tang stared at the screen, dragging the progress bar back and forth, engrossed in searching for the area that have gone wrong. “He did recognize me.”

The system was astonished. “When?”

“Five years ago, when I just arrived.” Yu Tang said, “He avoided the others to come find me, and made me promised to act like I didn’t know him and he would help me turn off the electric shock device.”

System, “?”

“And also promised to give me a million.”

Yu Tang finished watching the three hours of recording but couldn’t find any problem, so he clicked in another section. “Back then, I really wanted that million, but the character setting didn’t allow me. Moreover, during the internship period, the objects of the real world couldn’t be exchanged into experience points…”

That was, after all, a million. Even if he couldn’t spend it, it was also quite satisfying putting it in his savings account.

Yu Tang was unwilling to give up and persevered in his attempt for a week, but he was still defeated by the restrictions of the supervision department. He found Ke Ming and, with a flushed face, returned the money with determination.

When Yu Tang went to Ke Ming to return that one million, he was in a rare synchronization with the character’s setting—his whole heart was bleeding with a “pitter-patter”.

The system also doesn’t understand why Ke Ming treated Yu Tang like this. He was flipping through the Research on Human Conduct, when it abruptly flashed a small red light. “Host, Sui Si went to the studio!”

“We are now official members; the restrictions were also relaxed a lot. We can also directly exchange experience points at 1:1.” Yu Tang was still planning. “Maybe I can still find a suitable reason to look for Ke Ming and ask for the one million…What?”

In a single movement, he turned around and got up from the bed, dressed up and looked at the time in passing.

“Half past five in the morning.” Yu Tang couldn’t figure it out. “Do all the Movie Emperors nowadays go to work so early?”

The system was downloading <<Guide of the Black Lotus³Black Lotus refers to people who appears to be difficult to get close to and get along, but they are actually kind-hearted. The opposite of this is the White Lotus, who acts all pure and innocent but they are extremely insidious and cunning inside>>, and there was not a lot of memory left. When it was bumped into, some code became garbled. “A day’s plan begins in the morning…” ⁴ It’s part of the saying A year’s plan begins in spring, a day’s plan begins in the morning, meaning that spring and morning are critical moment for people to start doing things, so they should seize the time (according to the internet)

Yu Tang didn’t have time to recite texts, so he stuffed the system in his sea of consciousness and rushed out of the public bathhouse.

Sui Si leaned on the seat, with one hand on the steering wheel, and slowly rubbed his temples with his eyes closed.

After a night of silence, the sky had just brightened when Ke Ming was taken by his assistant to return to his own residence.

He closed his eyes. One moment it was Ke Ming, who never argues, fights, or causes a ruckus, silently looking at him with his enduring gaze. The next moment it was Yu Tang’s figure in the surveillance footage.

Sui Si couldn’t lie down anymore. He didn’t call the driver and drove himself to the studio. However, once the car was parked downstairs of the studio, for some reason, he didn’t have the courage to go up.

Sui Si sat for a while. He took out his mobile phone and dialed the studio’s number.

No one picked it up.

Sui Si frowned, and tried to call two more times.

It still didn’t go through; the unanswered beep sounded repeatedly. Sui Si held his phone, and the image of that night suddenly flashed in his mind.

The ice-cold water under the bridge, the cold person, and in his phone were all the future arrangements, as well as Yu Tang’s psychological evaluation report.

Yu Tang, who returned to the studio alone, talked to him like a rigorous machine.

It was agreed that he could go back home if he was obedient, but he dropped him off at that intersection. Yu Tang stood on the corner of the street holding the flowers, and walked alone back to the studio…

The uneasiness was so dense that it became a web that surrounded his heart, making him panic.

Sui Si couldn’t sit still anymore. He jumped out of the car and violently closed the car door. He hurriedly run to the building.

His office was empty. In his break room, the pillow and bedding didn’t seem to have been touched at all.

Yu Tang didn’t go to rest.

Yu Tang’s office was also empty, and in his desk was the work plan completed yesterday night. It has already been properly printed and bound, only waiting to be handed out to each department.

Yu Tang was not in the office.

Sui Si pressed his hand against the desk, composed himself, and suppressed the anxiety in his heart. He then opened the display panel on Yu Tang’s office desk.

No matter how indifferent he was to Yu Tang, he knew from the beginning that Yu Tang was someone worthy of his trust. Sui Si almost never came to Yu Tang’s office, nor did he interfere with Yu Tang’s work. Whatever happened in the studio, Special Assistant Yu can always make arrangements directly without coming to him.

It was the first time for Sui Si to look through Yu Tang’s desk. He searched through all the drawers, but couldn’t find even half a note or message. All there was was densely packed work reports, each one with Yu Tang’s approval on them.

Sui Si had seen Yu Tang’s writing.

Yu Tang wrote extremely slowly, like a primary student, one stroke at a time, and he had to wave his hand after writing a few characters.

Yu Tang also knew that his writing was no good, and was not willing to let Sui Si see it. Any handwritten section that needed to be given to Sui Si, will be given to the secretary department to copy it again.

Sui Si looked at those files for a while, standing still, when he suddenly came back to his senses and closed the drawer with force.

…Why were there so many?

Just a studio to assist him in receiving and coordinating one script after another, and to contact a few business partners.

Why are there so many incomprehensible, difficult and tedious trivial contracts and documents, like gobbledygook, making people’s head ache just looking at them?

Sui Si almost never had this awareness. He recalled the screen that Yu Tang opened yesterday, it was densely packed with complicated items and arrangements. His gaze returned to the desk, looking at the instant coffee and tea bags neatly arranged, and there is a small box placed at the side.

A pure black wooden box with flannel lining, and inside of it was an exquisite metal pendant.

Like a meticulously prepared present.

Sui Si slowly frowned, and took that pendant.

He had never seen Yu Tang wearing a necklace.

Who would gift Yu Tang a necklace?

Sui Si stared at that pendant, and fiddled with it in his hand. He didn’t plan to caer about these for the time being, and was just about to put it back, when a strong sharp pain suddenly exploded form the palm of his right hand.

……

It was an unbearable pain that he had never experienced before.

A nameless, hard to control panic firmly enveloped his whole body; his heart was beating out of control; his muscles trembled and stiffened under the intense electrical stimulation; and his strength was stripped away in an instant. The acute pain caused a brief blankness in his consciousness. Sui Si couldn’t make any sound and fell down without any strength.

“Teacher Sui, are you inside?”

The door was softly knocked twice, and Yu Tang’s gentle voice sounded from outside the door. “I went to the bathroom a moment ago. As I didn’t look at my phone, I didn’t receive your call…”

Yu Tang saw Sui Si’s car downstairs, and sprinted a 100 m to run up, while asking the system to help him adjust the body’s data.

After calming his breath, he waited for a long time but still didn’t hear a response, so he pushed open the door.

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[Yu Tang’s work diary]

I was late today

When I opened the office, I discovered the boss using an electric shock device to shock himself

• 1
  not really brothers, but just young men
• 2
  not sure if it is relevant but the candy given to Yu Tang is also called White Rabbit candy
• 3
  Black Lotus refers to people who appears to be difficult to get close to and get along, but they are actually kind-hearted. The opposite of this is the White Lotus, who acts all pure and innocent but they are extremely insidious and cunning inside
• 4
  It’s part of the saying A year’s plan begins in spring, a day’s plan begins in the morning, meaning that spring and morning are critical moment for people to start doing things, so they should seize the time (according to the internet)