As Xu Le walked out of the company building, he felt completely refreshed.
He had long found Supervisor Li Baoguo unpleasant to look at.
But as an employee, he could only ignore it.
Now, though, Su Qingcheng had casually fired Li Baoguo with a single sentence.
Having someone backing you up really felt amazing!
No wonder so many people liked flattering their superiors. There were real benefits to it.
Li Hao might act arrogant in the company, but if Xu Le had powerful backing too, he could be even more arrogant than Li Hao!
That was why, in his opinion, the greatest thing about the Mission System was not the money rewards, but the increase in favorability.
Looking ahead, he decided not to ride a shared electric scooter today and would take a taxi home instead.
After arriving at the roadside, just as he was about to call for a ride, a sleek BMW stopped in front of him.
“Xu Le, what a coincidence. Did you just get off work?”
The car window rolled down, revealing Gu Qinghuan’s delicate face. She was still wearing a white wig on her head, looking like she had just finished a cosplay event.
“Yeah. Where’s your assistant?” Xu Le asked curiously.
“She went back first. Get in, I’ll drive you home,” Gu Qinghuan said naturally with one hand resting on the steering wheel.
Xu Le thanked her, opened the door, and sat in the front passenger seat beside her.
The sunlight slanted through the window, tracing the delicate contours of Gu Qinghuan’s face.
The white wig partially covered her eyes. Only after Xu Le got in did she slowly brush the strands aside.
The pair of eyes revealed beneath looked like carefully polished dual-colored crystal glass.
The upper half was a clear icy blue, while the lower half carried a soft pink hue.
The two colors blended gently together at the edges of her irises, giving Xu Le a strange sense of familiarity, as if he had seen them somewhere before.
“Are you cosplaying Firefly?”
“Yes.”
Gu Qinghuan felt pleasantly surprised inside. She had not expected that the character she casually chose to cosplay was one Xu Le liked.
Seeing the faint smile in her eyes, Xu Le’s throat moved slightly.
She was smiling at him!
That feeling was almost too much for him to handle.
It even made him unsure how he was supposed to give Gu Qinghuan the black stockings.
He could not possibly say it directly. That would be way too perverted. Black stockings were completely different from ordinary gifts.
If he scared Gu Qinghuan away, that would be disastrous.
As he thought about it, Xu Le suddenly came up with an idea.
…
“We’re here. So this is where you live?”
Gu Qinghuan looked at the old residential complex before her, her eyes flickering slightly.
A place with such poor surroundings was somewhere she would never enter in her entire life, much less live in.
If she did not already have some favorability toward him, she probably would have shown a disgusted expression by now.
“It’s a bit old, but it has everything it needs,” Xu Le said with a shake of his head before opening the car door to get out.
Seeing that, Gu Qinghuan inexplicably panicked a little.
He was not misunderstanding her, was he?
“I actually think this place is pretty nice. Aren’t you going to invite me upstairs to sit for a while?” She quickly got out of the car, lightly tugged on Xu Le’s sleeve, and smiled softly.
[Completed Su Qingcheng’s mission. Reward: 4,000 yuan. Favorability +4.]
Out of the corner of his eye, Xu Le glanced at the clothing bag containing the black stockings sitting on the passenger seat and curled his lips upward.
There. The gift had been successfully delivered.
“My god, Brother, who is this beautiful sister?!” A shocked girl’s voice suddenly rang out nearby.
Just moments earlier, Xu Yi had been chatting with her best friend. Her friend jokingly said there was a little extra flesh on her cheeks.
Xu Yi instantly panicked. She thought her friend was hinting that she had gained weight.
“I can’t keep eating takeout with my brother anymore. I need to buy groceries and make him cook.”
Xu Yi immediately made up her mind.
“What’s wrong with having a little baby fat? I’m actually jealous of you,” her friend said with smiling eyes.
Xu Yi rolled her eyes at her friend’s perfectly shaped oval face.
“My brother found a beautiful girlfriend. She’s not worse than you at all.”
In order to crush her friend’s confidence a bit, Xu Yi deliberately bragged.
“Huh? Didn’t you say your brother was kind of ugly? You even said he had a beer belly. How did he manage to find one? Do you have pictures?”
Xu Yi’s expression instantly stiffened.
She had nearly forgotten. To stop her friend from becoming interested in her brother, she had deliberately spoken badly about him before.
“I’ll show you another time. I’m going grocery shopping first.”
Xu Yi did not have any photos at all.
She simply did not believe her brother could find a beautiful girlfriend!
It had to be fake.
Beautiful women nowadays were especially smart and had extremely high standards. Although her brother was a little handsome, he was nowhere near enough!
Then she saw a BMW drive into the complex, causing her to glance over instinctively.
To her shock, Xu Le got out of the car, followed by an unbelievably beautiful woman.
The two of them were even tugging at each other playfully.
That appearance, those clothes. It was exactly the kind of woman Xu Yi dreamed of becoming in the future.
Unable to hold herself back, she blurted out in shock.
…
Looking at his overly dramatic little sister, Xu Le found it amusing.
After saying that, he subtly signaled to Gu Qinghuan with his eyes.
Gu Qinghuan immediately understood and extended her fair hand toward Xu Yi.
“Hello. My name is Gu Qinghuan.”
“H-Hello… I’m Xu Le’s younger sister, Xu Yi.”
Only now, after hearing the beautiful woman speak to her directly, did Xu Yi realize this was real.
Her brother had actually found such a beautiful girlfriend!
Still dazed, she shook hands with Gu Qinghuan.
When she held the beautiful woman’s soft and delicate hand, Xu Yi even felt a little jealous.
How was her brother worthy of this?
“Are you really my brother’s girlfriend?” she asked suspiciously while looking at Gu Qinghuan.
“Why are you asking so many questions? Weren’t you going grocery shopping? Hurry back and cook. Don’t forget you said you’d listen to me if you lost,” Xu Le waved his hand and urged Xu Yi to leave.
In his eyes, it was already generous enough for Gu Qinghuan to help him put on an act in front of his mother.
There was no way she would be willing to pretend to act intimately with him in front of other people like a couple on the verge of dating.
Something felt off.
Xu Yi immediately sensed a problem.
Her brother and this beautiful woman did not seem all that close.
Could they still be acting?
“Of course it’s real.”
Seeing that Xu Le was worried they would be exposed, Gu Qinghuan suddenly could not bear it anymore.
Her gaze drifted toward his lowered hand, as if she had made up her mind about something.
Before Xu Le could react, she had already gently clasped his palm.
Her grip was not strong, yet she stayed very close to him. The warmth from her hand spread through the skin where they touched.
?
Xu Le looked at her.
She was obviously the one who grabbed his hand first, yet the moment their eyes met, she lowered her gaze first.
Wait, she actually took the initiative to hold his hand?
“Is this your first time holding hands? Why do you seem nervous?” Xu Le whispered softly near her ear.
“I’m not that nervous,” Gu Qinghuan replied while lightly biting her red lips. A faint blush appeared on her fair face, making her breathtakingly beautiful.
“Actually, you don’t need to help me this much,” Xu Le said as his heart trembled seeing her shy expression.
Who could resist a beautiful woman blushing right in front of them?
“I’m just helping all the way to the end,” Gu Qinghuan said shyly. She could feel her heart beating incredibly fast.
“You two are bullying a single dog like me too much,” Xu Yi said with a miserable expression after seeing the scene.
Was admitting defeat still not enough?