"Why were you running?"
Seeing the boy panting from his sprint, Meng Zhiyuan couldn't help adding another remark.
"I told you to go jogging with me every morning, but you wouldn't listen."
Jiang Ze glared at him resentfully.
Whose fault do you think it was?! The big boss had a hide thicker than a city wall, and someone as thin-skinned as me simply couldn't take it.
Only after they finally reached the entrance of the Meng Group building did Jiang Ze breathe a sigh of relief.
Meng Zhiyuan was called away to an impromptu meeting, so Jiang Ze headed to the top floor alone.
But before he even reached the elevators, he ran into an unwelcome guest.
"Well, if it isn't little Jiang Ze. How did you end up looking so disheveled? Don't tell me you ran all the way to work?"
The voice he hadn't heard in so long dripped with mockery. He turned and found Shen Yun, whom he hadn't seen in ages.
What was he doing here?
Alarm stirred in him, and he immediately went on high alert.
Ding. Host...
"System, what's been going on with you these past few days? You haven't answered when I called."
The system's mechanical voice suddenly sounded in Jiang Ze's mind, giving him a pleasant surprise. He hadn't been able to contact it for days and had thought something had gone wrong.
Host... the order of this world has been growing increasingly unstable lately. My energy supply is running low, so I may enter dormancy intermittently...
Jiang Ze frowned slightly. Dormancy? At such a critical moment, that was hardly good news.
Before he could think any further, the unreliable system fell silent again.
Seeing him standing there in a daze, Shen Yun grew even more scornful.
He