Qin Zhen lacked patience as well. When his temper flared, not even three donkeys could hold him back.
He swiftly pinched Shen Jin’an’s chin open, forcefully shoving that piece of egg into his mouth. Seeing the other person stare with wide eyes in brief bewilderment, he finally chuckled.
“Eat more so your injuries heal faster.”
Qin Zhen had no idea that in just two short days, he had nearly died dozens of times.
A normal person would be full of gratitude after being saved, but Shen Jin’an was no normal person. He had never intended to waste time on a stranger.
That night, he had stepped into a trap on purpose and sustained injuries unintentionally.
He couldn’t show his face for the next two weeks, and the moment he did reappear would be the death sentence for certain people. Next, he planned to drag those people and their entire families down into hell bit by bit using the method of boiling a frog in warm water.
As for ending up in a stranger’s house, it could be considered part of his plan, or perhaps an unexpected harvest.
As for the person in front of him, he had initially wanted to test whose agent this guy was. Once his assistant gave him a full background check on the fellow, he discovered the man was just a random passerby who had saved him unintentionally.
A thorough, complete passerby.
That bowl of plain, watery noodles gradually ran out of broth. Shen Jin’an gripped his chopsticks tightly, closing his eyes several times as he failed to understand why he was showing a bit of extra patience toward a stranger.
Last night’s brief harmony felt like an illusion, and Shen Jin’an seemed not to remember what happened last night either.
For the entire daytime, the two minded their own business. When dinner time rolled around, Shen Jin’an didn’t know what happened, but no matter how Qin Zhen called him, he refused to come out to eat.
999 was ordered to sneak inside and check multiple times, coming back empty-handed every single time.
That same night, an extra thirty thousand yuan appeared in Qin Zhen’s commercial bank account. Compared to his original remaining balance of just eleven yuan, it was a truly tragic contrast.
Seeing this, 999 crept up close to the phone screen. [Did Shen Jin’an give this to you?]
“Mhm.”
It was ten thousand more than in his previous life, though this amount of money meant nothing to Shen Jin’an anyway.
Qin Zhen leaned quietly against the sofa, closing his eyes as if deep in thought. After a moment, he picked up his phone and dialed the bank’s hotline.
Detecting Qin Zhen’s intentions, 999 was utterly shocked, its tail swishing like a hula hoop.
[Why are you checking the other person’s account? Don’t you want this money?]
Qin Zhen always smiled during the day, his exceptionally handsome face rarely revealing fatigue, but at night he was a completely different person. He glanced at 999 without a word, taking it as silent confirmation.
[But, but you can keep it! This counts as a reward given by the mission target; our interstellar system doesn’t regulate that.]
999 fell silent as well, realizing that this host was a very complex individual. After all, the label it had slapped on Qin Zhen during their first meeting was greedy for money, yet now money was delivered right to his doorstep and he didn’t want it.
Clearly, Qin Zhen was very poor, and just yesterday he had spent a quarter of his remaining balance to buy a towel for Shen Jin’an. It had seen everything.
It truly doesn’t understand anymore.
The police investigation results were not out yet, and public opinion online was still raising a massive storm.
Yang Xiaoliang spent those two days live-streaming against the clock. Watching his earnings shoot up crazily, he made half an apartment’s worth of money in two days, and his follower count surged by three million.
Having tasted the sweetness of success, he used to stream with extremely heavy filters, but over the past two days, he quietly turned the filters down to the minimum, deliberately exposing the injuries on his face and neck to guide public opinion.
Whenever fans asked about it, he would seize the opportunity to build up a persona of generosity and kindness.
Zhu Chen seized the momentum and pumped a massive wave of traffic data for him, determined to groom him into the top dog of L&M.
Businessmen value profits; perhaps to ensure neither leaked secrets, or perhaps because garbage and flies are simply drawn to each other, the two hooked up again, making eyes at each other in the company all day long.
Almost everyone in the company now had to give Yang Xiaoliang a wide berth.
Before leaving work, Mu Xiaoxiao saw the two of them acting all lovey-dovey as they walked out of the company, feeling both astonished and disgusted as goosebumps broke out all over her body.
She snapped a few photos from behind and sent them to Qin Zhen, claiming she wanted to share a massive piece of gossip with him.
To her surprise, Qin Zhen had a completely flat reaction, looking entirely unbothered. She scoffed, put away her phone, and waited for her boyfriend, Liang Kaiqi, to pick her up.
Late June always brought plenty of rain. Soon enough, a layer of water pooled on the street in front of the company. Mu Xiaoxiao waited for over twenty minutes without seeing her boyfriend show up.
She grumbled and complained that this guy probably forgot everything the moment he started coding, with only work inside his brain every day.
If not for a fairy like her descending upon him, dull, foolish straight guys like Liang Kaiqi would probably be destined to die alone.
She pulled out her phone to make a call.
“Beep.”
Public sentiment online changed by the day; today a person could be trampled by thousands, and tomorrow perhaps praised by millions.
Qin Zhen didn’t pay excessive attention to any of the things Mu Xiaoxiao mentioned. After all, he was someone who had already died once.
At 11:00 PM, he registered a brand-new account named An, propped up his mobile phone, and commenced the very first live broadcast on his personal channel.
The livestream audience consisted of just a sparse handful of people.
With the interface showing a black screen, a few netizens who initially thought their phones had frozen were just about to swipe to the next livestream when they suddenly spotted a man under the dim lighting, picking up an egg.