Xia Yin

I have to admit, even with NZT-48, I still can't control people's hearts.

Is this a limitation of the NZT-48 drug, or is it that people's hearts are truly unfathomable?

The strong smell of cigarettes made Chen Chen cough lightly. He watched Guo Dazhuang turn and leave, a bloody glint appearing in his eyes.

Although the three of them had compromised for profit as Chen Chen had predicted, he had clearly miscalculated when it came to someone like Guo Dazhuang.

Perhaps it was this stubbornness and refusal to yield that made him one of the top executives in Anonymous, the world's largest hacker organization, and the CEO of a company worth over a billion?

The failure with Guo Dazhuang served as a stark warning to Chen Chen's increasingly inflated ego.

It was obvious he had touched Guo Dazhuang's sore spot.

However, if Guo Dazhuang had simply refused to invest, Chen Chen wouldn't have made things difficult for him. He didn't lack Guo Dazhuang's assistance and could have even apologized and backed down on the spot.

But what Chen Chen hadn't expected was that Guo Dazhuang not only intended to fight him to the death but also used his parents to threaten him.

And this move by Guo Dazhuang also touched Chen Chen's sore spot.

Thus, a situation of "neither will rest until the other is dead" came to be.

Sometimes, confrontations between life and death happen in an instant.

Chen Chen silently crushed out his cigarette butt, then stood up, pulled open the curtains of the private room, and looked down.

Below, Guo Dazhuang's steps were somewhat strange. He silently walked out of Mickey Coffee House and then, without stopping, headed towards the road.

The road was bustling with traffic, countless vehicles coming and going in a continuous stream.

But Guo Dazhuang acted as if he didn't see it, directly crossing the pedestrian walkway and heading straight for the other side of the road.

One car, two cars, three cars...

Car after car brushed past Guo Dazhuang. The vehicles blared their horns incessantly, but Guo Dazhuang seemed entranced, oblivious to the danger around him.

BOOM!

Finally, as Guo Dazhuang crossed the median strip in the middle of the road, an SUV couldn't brake in time and violently sent him flying.

The piercing sound of brakes echoed through half the street, and countless people subconsciously looked towards the source of the noise.

At this moment, Chen Chen once again drew the curtains, snapped his fingers, and smiled at the door:

"Waiter, the bill."

"Ring ring!"

Just as Chen Chen was riding his electric scooter back towards his warehouse, his phone suddenly rang.

Upon hearing the ringtone, Chen Chen couldn't help but frown.

This particular ringtone he had set only sounded when X contacted him.

Before leaving, Chen Chen had put X into sleep mode to prevent any accidents while he was away.

Only one situation would awaken a dormant X—someone had come to the warehouse.

Chen Chen had installed over a dozen surveillance cameras around the warehouse, forming perfect angles with each other. These cameras were directly connected to X's processor.

As soon as X detected any trace of a stranger in the surveillance feed, it would wake up from its dormant state and contact Chen Chen immediately.

Chen Chen parked his electric scooter by the roadside and quickly checked his phone.

X had sent him over a dozen images captured by the surveillance cameras.

The first image showed a girl in a white T-shirt and denim shorts getting out of a red car. The girl was tall and slender, but her features were somewhat blurry due to the low resolution.

The second image showed the girl arriving at the warehouse door and gently knocking on the rolling shutter.

The third image, seemingly realizing no one was in the warehouse, showed the girl sitting on the ramp in front of the warehouse gate while picking up her phone.

The fourth image showed the girl putting her phone down.

Chen Chen shook his head slightly, put his phone back in his pocket, and started the electric scooter again.

The girl who had come was none other than Xia Yin.

Chen Chen had deliberately chosen that remote warehouse as the company's location. He had no idea how Xia Yin had found it. And judging by her conflicted expression in the surveillance screenshots, she seemed to be hesitating whether to contact him.

Why bother?

Chen Chen sighed inwardly. Nice guys finish last...

It took Chen Chen another hour to finally get back to the warehouse. Even with the wind from the electric scooter, Chen Chen's mouth was parched from the scorching sun.

However, Chen Chen hadn't expected that as he turned the corner behind the warehouse, he would see a red Mercedes parked by the roadside.

At the same time, at the warehouse entrance, Xia Yin looked up and towards him.

Xia Yin was wearing a white T-shirt and blue denim shorts. As she sat on the ground, her shorts had ridden up, accentuating her long, slender legs.

At that moment, if someone were to ask about Xia Yin's special talent, Chen Chen could confidently answer: her legs were exceptionally long.

Looking at the girl exuding youthful vitality before him, Chen Chen shook his head and said speechlessly, "You're still here."

"What do you mean by that?"

Xia Yin quickly stood up, dusting off her pants while complaining, "I just got here not too long ago."

Chen Chen parked his electric scooter by the Warehouse and took out his key, asking, "How did you know I was here?"

"Brother Wei told me."

Xia Yin proudly ran to her car and made a "YEAR" gesture with her hand, "I just came here to show off. See this new car?"

"Your car is so white, oh wait, your legs are so new..." Chen Chen deliberately made a dirty joke.

Xia Yin's face flushed at his words, and she quickly changed the subject, "This car is a reward from my dad because my thesis was published in the Cell journal."

I knew it!

Chen Chen turned around expressionlessly and pulled open the rolling shutter door, "Auntie, I still want to work a bit longer. You should go find some young men who don't want to work."

"What auntie? Am I that old?"

Xia Yin's cheeks puffed out instantly, and she said frantically, "I'm only three grades ahead of you, and I started school a year earlier, so strictly speaking, I'm only two years older!"

"You're clearly a 58-year-old auntie, okay?"

Chen Chen walked into the Warehouse, pulled out a bottle of Wahaha mineral water from under the bed, unscrewed the cap, and gulped down half of it before stopping, "Auntie, want me to pour you a cup of cappuccino?"

"What cappuccino? I don't drink coffee," Xia Yin said, looking bewildered.

"See? You don't even understand this common knowledge, which is why I say you're an auntie," Chen Chen said dismissively. "Do you know Kai Ge?"

Xia Yin shook her head blankly.

"Do you know Qiao Biluo?"

Xia Yin shook her head again.

"Since you don't know anything, you need to catch up. You're always talking about recommendation for postgraduate study, you've become stupid from it!"

Chen Chen threw a bottle of mineral water at Xia Yin, saying disdainfully, "You should leave. We're not from the same world!"

"Are you sick?!"

Xia Yin finally got angry and threw the mineral water at Chen Chen's head, "I came all this way to find you, and you're just yelling at me? What's wrong with me that you always treat me like this?"

Chen Chen rubbed his head and stubbornly said, "I just don't like your sycophantic behavior. If you have the guts, don't be a sycophant."

"Hiss..."

Xia Yin's face turned ashen. She took a deep breath and said solemnly, "But if you don't truly like someone, who would be willing to be a sycophant? Besides, I've already given up on the recommendation for postgraduate study!"

Chen Chen was startled by this. He looked up and asked, "Why did you give it up? Didn't you already submit the application for the academic specialty recommendation for postgraduate study?"

"But I thought about it later and changed my mind."

Xia Yin lowered her head, "I suddenly became clear-headed. I know I definitely won't pursue a career in biology in the future, so why waste time? Moreover, the only reason I wanted to pursue postgraduate studies was to defy my father. Now that my relationship with my father has eased, there's even less reason to go."

"That makes sense. As a poor kid, I can't understand the thoughts of a rich lady like you," Chen Chen stroked his chin and nodded thoughtfully.

"..."

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