Shen Yanzhi stared at the emoji that popped up on his phone screen, his expression complicated: “…You want to get in bed and sleep too?”
This little spirit was becoming a bit too human-like.
However, he only pondered for a couple of seconds before agreeing: “Wait a moment.”
“Okay~” Chi Yu thought Shen Yanzhi had other things to do and obediently waited.
Then she watched as Shen Yanzhi scanned the living room, as if searching for something.
After finding nothing in the living room, he even went to check the small spare room.
Before long, Shen Yanzhi emerged holding a box that looked like a brand-new gift box.
Shen Yanzhi glanced at the phone on the sofa, seemingly making a comparison, then discarded the box body and kept only the shallower lid.
Under Chi Yu’s expectant gaze, Shen Yanzhi carried the phone into the bedroom.
Then he took out a small fleece blanket from the wardrobe, spread it over the box lid, and meticulously folded and smoothed out all the edges and corners.
Seeing this, Chi Yu belatedly realized: “What are you doing?”
“Making you a bed,” Shen Yanzhi replied. “It’s too late tonight, so make do with this for now. Tomorrow I’ll buy you a brand-new little bed.”
Although he didn’t understand why a phone would want to sleep in a bed, as a qualified phone owner, Shen Yanzhi didn’t understand but respected it. Thus, he manually created a temporary makeshift bed for Chi Yu.
Chi Yu: …???
She typed rapidly: “I don’t want a bed, I want to sleep with you! The kind where we’re stuck together!!!”
Only by sleeping pressed together could the phone charge, and only then could she become human sooner!
Chi Yu made up her mind—if Shen Yanzhi refused, she would wait until he was sound asleep, then endure the pain of exchanging two seconds of human form to sneak into his blanket.
After all, he already knew of her existence. Chi Yu felt emboldened.
When Shen Yanzhi saw the words on the phone screen, he was momentarily stunned.
This phone spirit… wanted to sleep with him? Stuck together?
Shen Yanzhi had known since childhood that he was good-looking. From countless love letters stuffed in his school desk to someone at a banquet offering a hundred million to keep him, and so on—throughout his life’s journey, the troubles brought by his beauty were not few.
But whether it was female classmates confessing to him in his student days, wealthy women who wanted to sponsor him, or people at work who tried to climb into his bed… Shen Yanzhi had responded to them all with cold indifference, his heart completely unmoved.
The last person who tried to climb into his bed had been sent home to farm the land for three months now.
He looked at the phone spirit before him with a complex expression.
After speaking up, Chi Yu saw that Shen Yanzhi hadn’t replied for a long time and knew he must be hesitating.
Chi Yu immediately threw a tantrum:
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One chaotic emoji after another bounced onto the screen, exactly like a bratty child throwing a tantrum at the supermarket for not getting their favorite toy.
It seemed that as long as she didn’t achieve her goal, she could keep this up indefinitely.
First-time guardian Shen Yanzhi compromised: “…Alright, you can sleep here.”
As a qualified owner, he should be more generous with his phone spirit.
This phone spirit had just been born not long ago, so being heavily dependent on him as its owner was normal.
Hearing Shen Yanzhi’s words, Chi Yu immediately brightened.
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“Then let’s go to sleep now!”
Chi Yu urged.
Sleep earlier, stick together earlier, and charge earlier!
Seeing how eager it was to share his bed, Shen Yanzhi’s face remained expressionless, though the corners of his lips couldn’t help but curve slightly upward.
Shen Yanzhi had a flaw that not even Old Master Shen knew about—he was intensely possessive and protective of his own.
At first glance, Shen Yanzhi appeared aloof and cold-hearted, showing no enthusiasm for people or matters beyond the company, seeming utterly ruthless. But in reality, that was because he simply wasn’t interested in those people or those matters. That’s why he was stingy with even an extra glance or a single word. Take eldest Uncle Shen and Third Uncle Shen, for example—no matter how much they provoked or schemed, Shen Yanzhi never got angry. He would only strike at their vital points, lying in wait in the shadows, gradually closing the net until he finally got what he wanted.
But once someone entered his territory, they would absolutely receive all his tolerance and patience. He would give them endless kindness.
It was just a pity that in his first twenty-eight years, no such person had appeared yet.
Well, now there was one, though it was a phone spirit…
This phone had originally been Shen Yanzhi’s private possession. Now that it had become a spirit, in his eyes, it was still his exclusive private property.
Therefore, toward Chi Yu’s clearly outrageous request, Shen Yanzhi displayed abundant patience.
After getting into bed, for the first time, he brought his phone to bed with him.
He initially intended to place the phone on the other pillow, but Chi Yu refused, fussing about wanting to sleep stuck together.
Left with no choice, Shen Yanzhi placed the phone inside his own blanket.
This behavior was truly rather odd.
Shen Yanzhi, accustomed to being alone with no women near him and having never kept pets, frowned slightly. He lowered his gaze to the conspicuously black phone lying quietly in his blanket.
If this were a woman, she would have been kicked out long ago.
Even though it was just a phone, Shen Yanzhi still felt somewhat unaccustomed.
Not two seconds after placing the phone on the bedsheet, he regretted it.
But a domineering CEO’s spoken word is like a thrown seedling—once it lands, it takes firm root. No regrets.
He let out a soft breath and slowly lay down.
His heart resisted, but his body honestly pressed against the phone.
The instant his body made contact, Chi Yu immediately saw the charging notification displayed on the screen: [Fast Charging]
Chi Yu: …Huh??
She rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn’t seeing things.
There was actually a fast-charging mode!
As this concerned her transformation into human form, Chi Yu paid it utmost attention.
She stared unblinkingly at the time and battery level, quickly discovering that the 1% charge that normally took ten minutes to accumulate now filled up in just five minutes.
She quickly figured out that inside Shen Yanzhi’s blanket, the charging speed was twice as fast as usual!
Chi Yu was over the moon with joy.
If she could sleep in Shen Yanzhi’s blanket every night from now on, she would never have to worry about the slow battery increase again.
Chi Yu couldn’t help but exclaim once more—reminding Shen Yanzhi about the listening device in the car tonight was absolutely the right move! And Shen Yanzhi really was a good person who repaid kindness! Nothing at all like those black-hearted capitalists!
While she was cheerfully nestled in Shen Yanzhi’s blanket, outside the covers, Shen Yanzhi lying in bed couldn’t fall asleep for a long time.
Even when lying in bed to sleep, Shen Yanzhi’s posture was perfectly standard and proper—flat on his back.
The phone’s body was cold, hard, and icy, its presence intensely strong and impossible to ignore. But before long, it would be warmed by Shen Yanzhi’s body heat, becoming as cozy as the blanket itself.
In the darkness, Shen Yanzhi closed his eyes, his breathing even, gradually falling into deep sleep.