Qin Chu withdrew his scrutinizing gaze, casually responded, and quickly tidied the table before throwing away the trash.
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Presumably because of the issue with his face, Qi Xuan hasn't gone to the company these past two days. However, after being ignored for a few days, the Qi family has calmed down considerably. Seeing that there are no immediate results, the people below can only keep their heads down and do their own jobs.
Qi Xuan hasn't gone back to his own place for the past few days, instead staying at Qin Chu's place, sticking to him like a shadow all day, which is driving Qin Chu crazy.
Li Hui came several more times along the way, almost kneeling down to beg Qi Xuan to come back to the company and show his face.
Finally, Qin Chu couldn't stand it anymore. He stared at Qi Xuan and said very rudely, "What are you doing here now that your face is healed?"
"I'm just scared. What if the Qi family blocks the company entrance and tries to throw sulfuric acid at me?"
Eight out of ten of this person's statements are false, and the other two are ambiguous. Qin Chu didn't take it to heart at all, casually said something, and got up to go upstairs.
Qi Xuan reached out and grabbed his sleeve: "If you want me to go, then come with me."
Li Hui, watching from the sidelines, felt he shouldn't even be there. He was terrified that Qin Chu might kick their boss in the face if she got angry. But to Li Hui's surprise, Qin Chu didn't refuse this time. She glanced at Qi Xuan and went upstairs to change her clothes.
But Qi Xuan was displeased when he saw Qin Chu come out.
He forgot that there didn't seem to be any normal clothes in the wardrobe of this villa.
For example, the outfit Qin Chu is wearing now looks like an ordinary casual outfit at first glance: jeans on the bottom and a slightly oversized pure black hooded sweatshirt on the top.
But when Qin Chu turned around to get into the car, Qi Xuan noticed that the seemingly ordinary hoodie had two red devil horns on the hood and a small triangular tail hanging from the hem...
Qi Xuan couldn't resist and reached out to tug at the tail.
The owner of the tail immediately turned around and frowned at him. Qi Xuan coughed lightly, covering his lips, "Maybe we should just forget about it. I can work from home just the same..."
Dressed like this to the company, his tail and horns were exposed to everyone. This person was his gift; if possible, Qi Xuan would like to hide him in the villa for the rest of his life, never letting anyone see him.
However, Qi Xuan clearly had no say in the matter. Qin Chu turned and glanced at him, saying, "What's wrong with you? Get in the car."
As he spoke, he opened the car door and sat down in the passenger seat, casually pulling up his hood. The two little corners hanging down behind the hood stood softly on his head, making one want to reach out and pinch them.
Qi Xuan sighed and could only smile as he opened the driver's side door.
Seeing this, Li Hui, who was waiting on the side, was stunned, and then scratched his head embarrassedly: "Ah, you want me to sit in the back seat? That's too kind of you."
Qi Xuan rolled down the car window: "No, you're running in the back."
After saying that, the car started and sped away, leaving Li Hui waiting miserably to hail a taxi.
The Qi family has been in considerable turmoil lately, with long-standing problems and bad habits being unearthed and many reforms being forced upon them. As a result, there is widespread discontent throughout the company, with everyone in the branch offices feeling insecure, and the head office management team facing a reshuffle.
With the Qi family making a scene, most people knew that Qi Xuan was behind it all. Normally, this CEO position would definitely have been voted out. However, Qi Xuan happens to be the person in charge at Kaiheng.
Now, whether out of covetousness for Kaiheng or a desire for Kaiheng to stop, it was clear that they needed to appease Qi Xuan. So, upon hearing that Qi Xuan was finally coming to Qi's Group, several directors were already waiting in the company lobby.
Soon, Qi Xuan's car stopped outside. The driver's side door opened, and everyone assumed it would be the driver, but it turned out to be Qi Xuan himself.
Unlike the previous CEO they had met, this CEO had a striking scar on his face that completely overshadowed his other features, making him very conspicuous.
At this point, many people remembered the rumors circulating in the industry about the founder of Kaiheng. Some said he was ugly, while others said he was disfigured and had scars all over his face.
So that's the reason.
After Qi Xuan got out of the car, he didn't ask anyone to park it. Instead, he turned around and went to the passenger side, as if he was going to open the car door for someone.
This action startled the person, who couldn't help but wonder to themselves, "Who's sitting here?"
But the person sitting in the passenger seat clearly didn't appreciate it at all, and simply and decisively opened the car door, the movement so forceful that the car door almost hit Qi Xuan in the face.
Qi Xuan didn't seem to mind, touched his nose, and stepped aside. Then a young man in a casual hoodie walked out, pulled down his hood, and quickly scanned the blind spots of the surrounding environment and everyone present.
How to describe that gaze... It was chilling, like an X-ray, making everyone's heart pound.
Qi Xuan was extremely annoyed and said directly to the people waiting below, "Go to the conference room, don't block the way here."
As he spoke, he reached out as if to take the hand of the young man behind him, but the young man, whether out of spite or simply being a blockhead, kept his hands in his pockets and refused to take them out.
Qin Chu only cared about Qi Xuan's personal safety; he didn't care about anything else.
But at this moment, Noah suddenly assigned a small task: "Scenario-triggered task - Show affection; please make sure to show affection with President Qi in front of all Qi's employees."
"What?"
Qin Chu raised an eyebrow, having learned another term beyond his knowledge. However, he quickly grasped the meaning and retorted to Noah, "We're not even in love, so how can we show it off?"
Noah: "..." He was speechless for a moment.
"Just... show your closeness to others."
Upon hearing this, Qin Chu pondered for a moment, stared at Qi Xuan for two seconds, and then looked at the directors and employees who were about to disperse.
He was very accurate in identifying keywords, and he wanted to do it in front of all the employees of the Qi family...
So Qin Chu lifted his eyelids slightly and said coldly, "Don't go."
The employees were stunned. They looked at Qi Xuan and then at Qin Chu, unsure whether to stay or leave.
Qi Xuan smiled and said, "I'll listen to him."
The tone was undeniably affectionate, instantly dispelling everyone's doubts.
Oh, so that's what kind of relationship it is.
Seeing that the audience had stayed, Qin Chu stared at Qi Xuan again and stretched his wrist.
The joints moved slightly, making a faint sound, which puzzled everyone present once again.
Qi Xuan was startled and immediately tugged at Qin Chu's sleeve, bargaining in a low voice: "Let's talk this over, don't beat me up in front of so many people. I still have a bruise on my lip. If anything happens, we'll go home tonight..."
Noah, startled, quickly explained, "Sir, when we ask you to show affection, it's not the 'hit-and-switch' kind of affection! Normal human ways of showing affection include, but are not limited to, holding hands, hugging, acting cute, kissing..."
Before the explanation was even finished, Qin Chu and Qi Xuan put their arms around each other's necks.
This action was extremely unrestrained, completely erasing any hint of ambiguity between the two, and the level of their "show of affection" was unprecedented and unparalleled.
Simply embracing him wasn't enough. Qin Chu remembered the key points and was determined to demonstrate them in front of everyone. So, he grabbed Qi Xuan by the neck with his elbow, dragged him around in front of all the employees, and then nodded to him: "Alright, let's go."
Everyone was stunned, their jaws nearly dropping as they watched this man carrying their ruthless and inhuman CEO Qi like a chicken.
Qin Chu remembered that there were probably still some employees who hadn't come down yet, so he dragged Qi Xuan around on each floor like he was walking a dog.
By the time Li Hui arrived at the company by taxi, President Qi had lost all face.
However, this person is an oddball.
Although surprised by Qin Chu's actions, he thought it seemed quite intimate, so he shamelessly pressed himself against Qin Chu, directly telling everyone that this domineering canary was his.
Not only that, but the hand behind Qin Chu's back also pinched his tail when he wasn't looking.
Noah watched the entire "show of affection" that was enough to make anyone's eyes pop out. He nervously opened the progress bar, expecting to see a long-awaited negative number, but to his surprise, Qin Chu actually pushed it to 100%!
Noah was stunned, feeling that these two had completely messed up the data monitoring system of this small world.
Other couples have a domineering CEO x canary, but these two have twisted it into a domineering canary x spoiled CEO.
Qi Xuan was surprisingly in a good mood after being dragged into the office by Qin Chu. Before leaving for the meeting, he even asked Qin Chu, "What do you want to eat for lunch?"
General Qin, who had stunned the entire building, still wore his cold, handsome face, but suddenly looked up at Qi Xuan and replied, "Roasted rat."
"What?" Seemingly thinking he'd misheard, Qi Xuan, who had already walked out the door, turned back and looked at Qin Chu with a troubled expression. "What are you roasting? Is it bamboo rat? But there aren't any this season..."
Qin Chu sat on the cold gray leather sofa, his eyelids half-closed, but his gaze didn't miss a single detail. After a while, seeing Qi Xuan's face turn green with envisioning roasted rats, he said, "Roasted pigeon is fine too."
Qi Xuan immediately agreed: "Okay, wait for me for lunch."
After Qi Xuan left and Qin Chu confirmed that there were no surveillance cameras in the office, he cracked his knuckles, frowned, and clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction.
He was testing Qi Xuan.
Qin Chu did not fully believe Noah's comparison results.
If the data entity's source code shows no similarity, then there are a few possibilities. One is that this thing is the imperial prince they are looking for. However, this prince's mental level is very high, just like Qin Chu, which will affect the data entity and cause it to manifest its appearance in the real world.
If all three were princes, they wouldn't look different. Therefore, this possibility can be ruled out.
The second possibility is that he is the mainframe itself, or a data entity constructed by the mainframe. However, this is also unlikely, because if the mainframe had discovered them, it would have taken action long ago, and wouldn't have wandered around aimlessly from world to world.
Furthermore, Qin Chu had interacted with this highly sophisticated artificial intelligence for work purposes. Qin Chu didn't discriminate against artificial intelligence, but to be honest, even if the main AI itself were to act, it couldn't portray Qi Xuan as brilliantly.
Noah said that he was overthinking things. The data entities in the virtual world all originated from simulations of a certain person in reality, and it was possible to encounter data entities with similar personalities.
Simply put, he was just unlucky; he ran into several freaks.
But Qin Chu had another guess.
Perhaps the consciousness of the same human is overlaid on all three data bodies.
However, according to the probability given by Noah, the possibility of encountering the same human consciousness in three consecutive worlds is very low, unless this person is consciously following him.
Anyone with a conscious mind could easily detect it, but Qin Chu had observed very carefully during this period and had even tested him several times. Based on his experience, he judged that this person truly had no memories other than Qi Xuan's.
Is it just a coincidence that the name Zhao Yuan was mentioned?
"Sir, our mission is 80% complete." Noah was particularly puzzled by Qin Chu's probing of Qi Xuan's identity. "Who cares who he is? We just need to make sure the mission is completed and then leave this world!"
Qin Chu didn't answer, but he felt that things weren't that simple.
Seeing Qin Chu's attitude, Noah couldn't help but remind him: "Sir, according to my monitoring of your consciousness, you have an extremely deep impression of the data entities Zhao Yuan and K, and you are subconsciously searching for evidence of their actual existence."
"No." Qin Chu immediately retorted, only to be met with a barrage of monitoring data thrown at him by Noah.
"I must remind you that becoming too attached to characters in the virtual world can easily lead you astray, so please be careful."
Qin Chu had seen many similar examples in the military's virtual training system. He nodded and replied, "Understood."
Then he added sarcastically, "The fact that it can make me addicted means that the mainframe's simulation capabilities are miles ahead of yours."
Noah: "..."
Hmph! She was definitely exposed by him, so she was in a bad mood and that's why she insulted him!
After Qi Xuan finished the meeting, he returned to his office and saw Qin Chu leaning against the sofa, gazing out the window in a daze.
He sat down directly next to Qin Chu, rested his chin on one hand, looked at Qin Chu for a while, and then asked with a smile, "What are you thinking about?"
The standard answer is, of course, "I miss you."
But Qin Chu turned and glanced at him, then replied, "I miss Zhao Yuan."
Qi Xuan was taken aback by this answer.
He was initially happy; wasn't Zhao Yuan just like him? Thinking of Zhao Yuan meant he was thinking of him.