The next day, when Chi Yu was carried to the company in Shen Yanzhi’s pocket, she was full of energy and brimming with joy.
Last night, her phone battery had directly increased by 1,180 units of charge. In other words, from that one night’s sleep, her balance had increased by 11.8 minutes of human-form time!
Since transmigrating into Shen Yanzhi’s phone, Chi Yu had only carefully stockpiled 10.7 minutes over all these days. To gain 11.8 minutes in one night—calling it a windfall overnight was no exaggeration.
After arriving at the company, Shen Yanzhi placed Chi Yu on his desk as usual.
Although Chi Yu was somewhat tempted by the charge gained from being close to Shen Yanzhi, she also knew that excess was as bad as deficiency. If she deliberately sought too much contact with him, it might arouse his suspicion.
Besides, the time spent on the office desk wasn’t difficult to endure at all now. Shen Yanzhi’s office was private—aside from Assistant Chen and other company executives occasionally coming in to report work matters, hardly anyone else entered at other times.
Shen Yanzhi’s tolerance toward Chi Yu was quite high. As long as she didn’t make noise that disrupted his work, he paid no mind to what she did with his phone.
Under the pretext of boredom, Chi Yu openly downloaded Douyin right under Shen Yanzhi’s nose.
To avoid arousing his suspicion, she didn’t search for Chen Jiazhi’s Douyin account but simply browsed the videos recommended on the homepage.
Shen Yanzhi lifted his head from his documents and saw this phone spirit casually scrolling through short videos on her own.
He watched silently for a few seconds, then lowered his head to continue immersing himself in work.
After browsing for over ten minutes, Chi Yu finally came across a video related to Chen Jiazhi.
The matter of “the richest man’s daughter being found” had been causing a stir online recently. After Chen Jiazhi and the Su Group personally came forward to confirm the truth, netizens enthusiastically followed the gossip while keeping an eye on Chen Jiazhi’s life as the Young Miss.
These past days, countless media outlets and entertainment accounts had edited videos about Chen Jiazhi. What Chi Yu was scrolling through now was one of them.
She skillfully clicked into the comment section, then following Douyin’s automatic recommendation of the words “Chen Jiazhi,” successfully navigated to Chen Jiazhi’s Douyin homepage.
Ever since seeing Chen Jiazhi that day in the private room at Jinhuang Entertainment, Chi Yu had visited her Douyin homepage every day.
Not for any other reason—simply to check whether the murderer who had pushed her into the sea was dead yet.
However, clearly, today was yet another disappointing day.
Chen Jiazhi had updated early in the morning with a video of her jogging outside her villa.
The comment section was lively as ever, almost entirely filled with praise for Chen Jiazhi.
After scrolling for a while, Chi Yu quickly exited.
She silently stared at Chen Jiazhi’s homepage. Chen Jiazhi had been updating very frequently lately, with video content mostly sharing her daily life after returning to her wealthy family.
At least once a day, sometimes two or three times. She would occasionally appear in the comment section to reply to netizens’ comments, making herself seem more relatable.
Back when the two were still good friends, Chen Jiazhi had told Chi Yu more than once that her greatest wish was to become an internet celebrity.
Chen Jiazhi had worked hard toward this goal before, but her content never attracted much attention. After several failed attempts at building an account, she had no choice but to give up.
Now, due to the change in her status, she had leapt to become a rising internet celebrity with millions of followers. From the videos she’d posted in recent days, it wasn’t hard to see that Chen Jiazhi was quietly crafting a positive image of someone living an actively engaged life.
Chi Yu looked at the 1.61 million followers on Chen Jiazhi’s homepage, then at her bustling comment section, feeling utterly calm inside.
Even if she was the richest man’s daughter, even if she had millions of followers, it couldn’t change the fact that she was a murderer.
In Chi Yu’s eyes, Chen Jiazhi was like an apple rotten at its core. No matter how thick the coating of wax covering it, grayish-green mold would eventually burst forth from deep within the fruit’s heart. At first glance, the exterior might appear bright and beautiful, but once cut open, the inner decay would be laid bare for all to see.
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Chen Jiazhi didn’t yet know that her identity as a rotten apple had been exposed.
Ever since seeing Shen Yanzhi at Jinhuang Entertainment, his handsome face and tall, upright figure had been surfacing in her mind from time to time these past days.
If at first she might have wanted Shen Yanzhi as her boyfriend because of his identity as Chi Yu’s fiancé in her previous life, the intermittent longing over these past days made Chen Jiazhi somewhat realize—she seemed to have truly fallen for this man at first sight.
Although Su Muyang had clearly told Chen Jiazhi over the phone that day not to set her sights on Shen Yanzhi—that he was different from other men, neither lustful nor greedy for wealth, pure-hearted and ascetic, with nothing that could tempt him—even if the Su family offered a generous dowry as enticement, given Shen Yanzhi’s status, he wouldn’t agree to an arranged marriage.
However, the moment Su Muyang said this, Chen Jiazhi firmly rejected it in her heart.
She clearly remembered that in her previous life, Chi Yu and Shen Yanzhi had been engaged!
For such an outstanding man as Shen Yanzhi, if it wasn’t a business marriage, could it really be genuine love for a woman like Chi Yu who grew up in an orphanage with such disparate backgrounds?
Chen Jiazhi refused to believe it.
If Chi Yu in her previous life could use her identity as the Su family’s daughter to arrange a marriage alliance with Shen Yanzhi, then she certainly could too.
Thus, the very next day, Chen Jiazhi brought up the matter with Master Su and Madam Su.
She straightforwardly expressed her fondness for Shen Yanzhi in front of them, stating her desire to marry him. She even said she was willing to sacrifice herself, as long as they could arrange for her to marry Shen Yanzhi in a marriage alliance.
Chen Jiazhi thought that after saying this, Master Su and Madam Su would surely fulfill her request. After all, in the many days since she’d returned to the Su family, the couple had been almost endlessly accommodating to her. Whenever she mentioned lacking money, they would immediately transfer funds to her, often millions or tens of millions, never questioning where she spent it, only caring whether she spent it happily—showing how guilty and doting they felt toward Chen Jiazhi who had been lost to them.
To Chen Jiazhi’s surprise, however, after hearing her words, Master Su remained silent without speaking, while Madam Su hesitated for a moment before tactfully saying that the Su family didn’t need marriage alliances, and neither did the Shen family.
These words infuriated Chen Jiazhi immensely.
If Chi Yu could have an arranged marriage in her previous life, why couldn’t she?!
Was it because she wasn’t as beautiful as Chi Yu, so they were unwilling to invest resources in her?
This was simply outrageous!
Did they think she didn’t know? These wealthy families loved arranged marriages most of all. The Su family and the Shen family—one the richest in the capital, the other a rising tech giant—how could they not engage in marriage alliances?
As expected, not being her biological parents, they simply didn’t treat her as well as they had treated Chi Yu in her previous life.
Chen Jiazhi suppressed the fury in her heart and pretended to be heartbroken, squeezing another two million from Master Su and Madam Su under the pretense that she was too distressed and needed to go out with her newly met friends to relax and have fun.
Indeed, these past days, Chen Jiazhi had been going out every day to spend time with Gu Mingyue and several other Young Misses.
But she hadn’t decided to give up on Shen Yanzhi. Rather, under the guise of leisure, she was gradually extracting information about Shen Yanzhi from Gu Mingyue and the others.
As for the matter of arranging a marriage alliance with Shen Yanzhi—she would absolutely never give up!
What Chi Yu could accomplish in her previous life, she certainly could too!