“Calm down, calm down!” Mo Yu yelled while dodging. “The mission! It’s all for the mission!”
Gu Jinzhi’s face was still flushed, but at least he lowered his fists.
“What kind of mission is this!”
Mo Yu wanted to know too.
He carefully explained the contents of the mission to Gu Jinzhi, who had not yet seen the diary, trying his utmost to prove that what he had just done was truly against his own will.
“I even have to wear women’s clothing, so I’m a victim here too.” The more Mo Yu spoke, the more invested he became, even starting to feel aggrieved. “Besides, you were way too harsh, you even stepped on me.”
Gu Jinzhi froze. Completely led astray by Mo Yu’s logic, he actually began to feel that it wasn’t easy for Mo Yu to complete the mission alone.
“Stepping on you was indeed my fault. But I didn’t have control over myself back then. Next time, I can only try my best to restore my memories faster.”
Seeing Gu Jinzhi calm down, Mo Yu inwardly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Boss Gu was actually quite reasonable.
As Gu Jinzhi spoke, he turned to the side, took off his suit jacket again, and put on his dress shirt.
Mo Yu accidentally caught sight of him rubbing his chest, and his gaze instantly bounced away.
“Ahem…” Mo Yu cleared his throat. “Right now, the key is to figure out why we failed last time.”
It was eight in the morning, and many students in the school had already finished breakfast and rushed to the classroom. Occasionally, as they passed by the entrance, they looked at the two of them with curiosity, unsure if they were teachers.
The two left the classroom and walked toward the school gate, moving against the flow of students coming to class.
“It should be because I failed to restore my memories.”
Gu Jinzhi conversed with Mo Yu in a low voice.
“Every time, the mission refers to you as the player, while I am your partner. This ‘partner’ should refer to a friend who is conscious of the situation.”
Mo Yu nodded, finding that to be logical as well.
minimal moments later at the school gate, Gu Jinzhi’s driver arrived quickly and pulled the car smoothly up in front of them.
“Eh?”
On the other side, it just so happened that Mo Yu’s younger brother, Wang Minghui, was arriving for school. He thought he caught sight of Mo Yu’s figure.
However, once he bypassed the crowd and looked closely, he could only see that figure getting into a black Bentley worth at least five million yuan. The young boy immediately flinched back in shock.
He must have seen wrong!!
The driver, seeing Mo Yu again, was also slightly surprised.
Last night, President Gu was clearly working overtime at the company, so how did he appear here with him again in the morning?
Aside from supernatural forces, he really couldn’t fathom what else could make the workaholic President Gu suddenly leave alone in the middle of the night.
Just as he was completely baffled, he saw the handsome young man gently lean over toward President Gu. His side profile was stunningly handsome with fair skin, and the tip of his straight nose was almost pressed against President Gu’s ear as he spoke.
The driver’s eyes widened slightly, so engrossed in the gossip that he almost forgot to watch the road. It wasn’t until President Gu shot him a glance that he was terrified into tightening his grip on the steering wheel, no longer daring to look back.
Because there was an outsider present, Mo Yu felt embarrassed to speak loudly about things related to the instance, so he subconsciously leaned very close to Gu Jinzhi.
“So, what do we do now?”
Gu Jinzhi glanced at him. “First, I’ll send you back to the company.”
“Huh?” From his facial expression to his voice, Mo Yu couldn’t conceal his disappointment.
Gu Jinzhi’s deep eyes looked serious. “I can’t take leave today. I have very important work to do.”
In any case, the most important aspect of this instance seemed to be restoring memories. He would use his free time and psychological suggestion methods to ensure he could remember. There wasn’t much else to practice, it wasn’t as if they could practice… being beaten up.
“We will definitely succeed next time, so today’s meetings cannot be skipped.”
As President Gu spoke, he was already checking emails on his phone.
Mo Yu was somewhat unconvinced. “That’s what you said last, last time too…”
Gu Jinzhi raised an eyebrow, seemingly disliking this reminder.
“Have you finished writing your draft?”
Mo Yu: ?
Was this what they meant by ‘a difference in opinion makes further speech useless’?
“Did you forget time rolled back by a day? I was supposed to hand a draft over to you today, and I had already finished writing it.”
“That one will be rejected, you’ll have to write a new one. I’ve already reviewed it, and I can directly reject it for you as soon as I get it in a bit.”
“So you might as well go to the company right now and hurry up and start writing.”
Mo Yu’s eyes widened. Listen to that! Are those words a human should say?
“Your writing ability is lacking, and it’s obvious you weren’t a literature major. The plot progression is far too cliché. That’s why you need to read and write more.
How about this, I’ll curate a reading list for you to read when you get back. Next time you write something, you can bring it directly for me to review.”
President Gu spoke in all seriousness, every sentence packed with the overbearing pressure of an absolute overachiever trying to drag you along to improve.
Mo Yu, however, turned his head away, his gaze beginning to wander involuntarily, looking just like a student zoning out in class. He had already collected a full set of such criticisms from the Editor in Chief.
“Please pull over just up ahead,” Mo Yu said to the driver, seeing that they were close to the company.
The driver glanced at President Gu with some uncertainty, but still slowly brought the car to a stop by the curb.
“Thank you.”
After thanking the driver, Mo Yu got out of the car.
The driver shrank his neck slightly, unable to believe that Mo Yu didn’t even say goodbye to President Gu!
He cautiously glanced at the rearview mirror. President Gu had already resumed checking his emails, looking completely unbothered.
Was he overthinking things? The driver scratched his head in confusion. Only after driving for a long while did he hear President Gu put down his phone and suddenly ask a question.
“Was I very naggy just now?”
“Has President Gu’s schedule been any different lately?”
In the smoking area, Executive Director Xiao Di pulled President Gu’s driver aside for some casual chatter.
The driver froze. For some reason, he recalled the events of the morning. Holding a strange sense of harbouring a secret, he didn’t dare say too much. “You think so?”
“To tell you the truth, I’ve watched President Gu search for several charitable organizations to donate money to today!”
Driver: “?”
“He’s been like this since university, whenever he’s in a bad mood or under a lot of stress, he starts donating money. The greater the stress, the more he donate. But the rollout of the new game recently has been going quite smoothly, so there shouldn’t be anything particularly stressful, right?” Xiao Di was thoroughly perplexed.
The driver said profoundly, “It might be President Gu’s personal matters.”
“Hmm?” Xiao Di’s eyes lit up.
Last time President Gu took leave, there was no follow-up, which had left him squirming with curiosity. He just knew this driver definitely knew something.
“That makes sense. Ah, I’m so curious about what it could be! It’s not that I’m gossiping, it’s mainly that I eagerly want to help him!”
The melon eating spectator’s eyes were practically beaming with excitement.
Like two underground operatives who had finally found a comrade, the two lowered their voices.
“How about it? Has President Gu met any young women recently?”
The driver took a deep puff of his cigarette in the dark. After a long silence, he slowly blew out the smoke.
“It’s not a woman.”
Xiao Di was stunned, his hand holding the cigarette trembling slightly. “Y-You… what you mean to say is…”
The driver closed his eyes and nodded gently.
“N-No way.”
“To think that President Gu actually…”
Xiao Di suddenly hugged himself. “Could it be that back in university, when he kept telling me to roll off his top bunk, he actually had a crush on me?!”
Driver: “…I think you’re overthinking it.”
Inside the office.
Gu Jinzhi glanced at his phone. Before he knew it, it was already seven in the evening.
Mo Yu hadn’t contacted him.
He hesitated for a moment, then dialed a number.
Mo Yu was still bitterly working overtime.
For some unknown reason, although the Editor in Chief told him his draft was rejected, he didn’t urge him to write a new one. Instead, he assigned him a pile of odd jobs.
He was currently writing background copy for the books and letters collectible in a mini web game.
Just as Mo Yu was so sleepy his head was bobbing, his phone rang.
Mo Yu took a look and was somewhat surprised. “Ah?”
“President Gu.”
Perhaps because they weren’t face to face, Gu Jinzhi’s voice sounded exceptionally steady and magnetic.
“It’s about to start.”
Only then did Mo Yu check the time. “Oh, right.”
Because he was typing earlier, Mo Yu was wearing an earphone, with his phone placed flat on the desk.
Sun Ya, who was passing by his desk, accidentally caught sight of the contact background on his ongoing call. She abruptly came to a dead stop, almost spilling the hot wolfberry water in her hand.
Huh?
Her eyes widened. Th-Isn’t that President Gu?
Mo Yu was talking to President Gu… privately? This was Gu Jinzhi they were talking about! And it didn’t sound like a work call at all!!
Mo Yu suddenly felt a burning gaze on his back. Turning around, he saw Sun Ya’s expression and guiltily turned his phone face down.
“Hmm? Oh. Okay, I got it. I’m hanging up now.”
The moment the call disconnected, Sun Ya leaned over completely.
“Mo Yu! Y-Y-You know Gu Jinzhi?!”
“No, how could I? It’s just… someone with the same avatar and name.”
“For real??”
“Speaking of which, it’s getting late. I’m off work.”
Mo Yu really couldn’t explain it, so he hurriedly fled his workstation.
Sun Ya: ???
There was no need for Mo Yu to go home either. He simply found an empty spot to stay, reviewing his plan in his head.
Just now, Boss Gu mentioned that if he didn’t remember, Mo Yu should remember to press his wound, and that he shouldn’t carry things alone if something happened.
Wait, where did he say the wound was again?
When the time came, Mo Yu felt so drowsy he passed out instantly.
The scene before his eyes shifted. Mo Yu felt the world spinning before he suddenly crashed onto a mat.
“Cough, cough.” Huh, this place seemed to be the equipment room inside the school gymnasium.
In front of him, Gu Jinzhi stood tall with his hands in his pockets, looking down at him expressionlessly.
Meanwhile, Gu Jinzhi’s two lackeys in front of him were pinning him to the ground, trying to tie him up here with a rope.
“You talk so much and love to snitch so much, why don’t you stay here and try to see if you can yell loud enough for someone to come help through the walls.”
Gu Jinzhi glanced at him twice, seemingly having lost interest in this farce, and raised his foot to leave first.
“Gu Jinzhi! Wait.”
No, he couldn’t leave. If he left now, when would he ever remember?
Mo Yu called out to him. “Come over here.”
The two lackeys raised their brows. “You’re still being arrogant?”
“Hahaha! Who do you think you are? What gives you the right to order Young Master Gu around?!”
Gu Jinzhi didn’t seem planning to pay attention to him either.
In a moment of desperation, the words slipped out of Mo Yu’s mouth. “You’re a dog!”
Gu Jinzhi stopped in his tracks. “What did you say?”
Seeing that he had finally drawn his gaze back to him, Mo Yu could only continue to provoke him.
“I said you’re a dog. Come over if you dare, and I’ll tell you why.”
Gu Jinzhi’s expression darkened completely this time, scaring the two lackeys into shrinking back repeatedly.
“Are you tired of living?”
Gu Jinzhi, speaking slowly word by word, was truly terrifying. Seeing President Gu grab him by the collar, Mo Yu hurriedly struggled to pull one bound hand free from the rope.
Quick, the wound, the wound, the wound!
In that split second of emergency, Mo Yu forcefully pinched Gu Jinzhi’s chest. The solid muscle completely filled his palm.
And then, both of them froze.
Ah, wait! this hand placement. He had honestly intended to pinch his arm!