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As for the two of them settling overseas, the Turing Group obviously could not remain here either. So they planned to move the Turing Group's headquarters abroad as well and completely abandon the domestic market.

Huo Jiu: "..."

As expected of the domineering CEO family from an old-school Mary Sue harem novel. Were all their decisions this willful and rash?

Huo Jiu silently mocked them in his heart. However, Diwu Ling's parents' actions also explained why Huo Jiu had never seen any mention of the Turing Group or the Diwu Family in the Original Plot—because they had completely abandoned the domestic market.

Of course, Huo Jiu found this move extremely strange as well. At the very least, it did not conform to normal logic.

Putting himself in their shoes, if Huo Jiu were in Diwu Ling's parents' position, forget losing a son—even if his own father and mother had died, he would not give up such a massive domestic market.

Especially when the Turing Group had already clearly claimed an enormous market share.

It was practically as though the Original Plot had directly erased characters who should not have existed in order to progress smoothly.

Huo Jiu was suspicious. Diwu Ling's parents clearly had many doubts as well. Mother of Diwu Ling could not help asking, "How did you and Ling usually communicate? Had you met before?"

However, Huo Jiu had already obtained the clues he wanted and had no interest in exchanging meaningless pleasantries with Diwu Ling's parents. To stop them from questioning him further, Huo Jiu casually made something up. "Diwu Ling and I were in an online relationship. We had never met before. And we've already broken up. We deleted all of each other's contact information. If I hadn't accidentally learned that Diwu Ling had passed away, I wouldn't have come to pay my respects."

Huo Jiu gave Diwu Ling's stunned parents a slight bow and said sincerely, "Sorry for disturbing you. Please take care of yourselves."

With that, Huo Jiu left expressionlessly.

After returning to the Su family, Huo Jiu once again locked himself in his room and could not help analyzing the current situation.

In truth, there was not much to analyze. Huo Jiu currently had no intention of following the plot—because he truly could not think of any benefit it would bring him. He was not originally from this world, and he had no intention of playing some kind of role-playing game with it. Nor did he want to die miserably after the plot ended.

Besides, Huo Jiu did not think having an infinite amount of time to reincarnate was a bad thing. At least during these endless cycles, he could use Foresight to effortlessly earn more money than he could ever spend. He could do whatever he wanted and learn whatever he wanted without considering the cost of time at all.

But Huo Jiu still had to find a way to save Diwu Ling.

—Not because he was considering the impact Diwu Ling and the Turing Group would have on the Original Plot, but because of their relationship. Huo Jiu could not simply watch Diwu Ling die.

However, Huo Jiu had not yet figured out what to do after saving Diwu Ling. Nor could he be bothered to think about it.

With that thought in mind, after Reloading once more, Huo Jiu directly sent Diwu Ling a text message. He warned him not to drive during that period, to watch out for stray cats and dogs crossing the road, and under no circumstances to get into a car accident.

Then Huo Jiu tossed the man aside and eagerly began studying stock trading—although he was not yet eighteen and could not open an account, that did not stop him from spending money to hire himself a teacher.

But no matter how thoroughly Huo Jiu calculated, he had failed to account for Diwu Ling's personality—

During the first Reload, Diwu Ling had voluntarily offered to be the referee and openly favored Huo Jiu in front of everyone. Later, he had offered a million to buy one of Huo Jiu's dishes, and in their subsequent interactions, he had been exceptionally approachable and friendly. As a result, Huo Jiu had simply viewed him as someone sincere, innocent, and kind-hearted.

He had never expected that at another point in time, Diwu Ling's attitude toward a complete stranger like Huo Jiu would be far less friendly than when he had taken the initiative to befriend him.

Diwu Ling did not take Huo Jiu's warning to heart at all. He even treated Huo Jiu's texts and phone calls as pointless harassment. As a result, on the day Diwu Ling went to eat at First-Rank Pavilion, he did not follow Huo Jiu's warning whatsoever. After dying in the inevitable car accident, Huo Jiu also drew the police's attention because of the warning text he had sent in advance.

They suspected that Huo Jiu wanted to murder Diwu Ling, yet they could not find any evidence. And Huo Jiu had no way to explain why he had sent Diwu Ling such a message. He could only expressionlessly accept the trouble he had brought upon himself.

Fortunately, the plot automatically Reloaded a few days later. This time, Huo Jiu did not rashly text Diwu Ling a warning again. He set up a fortune-telling stall outside the Turing Group and pretended to be a master fortune-teller, warning Diwu Ling that he would suffer a bloody calamity within the next seven days...

Unfortunately, Diwu Ling clearly did not believe in such superstitious nonsense. Thus, Huo Jiu's rescue attempt failed once again.

The plot Reloaded again. This time, in order to get closer to Diwu Ling, Huo Jiu set up a snack stall outside the Turing Group. Unfortunately, before he could even wait for Diwu Ling to get off work, he was hauled away by the city inspectors who had rushed over after hearing the news...

The plot Reloaded yet again. Huo Jiu went directly to First-Rank Pavilion on the day of the car accident to intercept Diwu Ling. Diwu Ling's bodyguards stopped him nearby, and they almost called the police...

After N attempts, Huo Jiu, driven to the brink of collapse by Diwu Ling, had no choice but to admit that this damn domineering CEO really was not as easy to approach as he had imagined.

Other than Diwu Ling's initiative to get close to him during the first Reload, Huo Jiu had been completely unable to communicate smoothly with Diwu Ling in the following attempts.

"I only wanted to save your damn life! Why is it so difficult?"

After countless Reloads, Huo Jiu had also lost his patience with Diwu Ling. He even began to wonder why he was meddling in this matter at all.

He was just a marginal character who was not even cannon fodder, someone destined to be killed off by the plot. So what if he died? Why did Huo Jiu have to save him?

However, when he thought of Diwu Ling's wholehearted care and concern for him during the first Reload, Huo Jiu still suppressed his irritation and decided to give Diwu Ling one more chance.