Zhao Tao took two steps forward to try and catch up, but Xu Wenyin ran too fast!

Did she train or what? It’s true that people couldn’t be judged by their appearance.

Seeing that he really couldn’t catch up, Zhao Tao had no choice but to give up and was about to go back to deal with other things first.

But as soon as he turned his head, he saw a familiar figure.

“Mr. Qin.”

“Was that Xu Wenyin just now?”

Qin Xiao was originally going to fly back to the capital that night, but he stayed back because of this unexpected incident.

While Xu Wenyin and the others were battling inside the room, Qin Xiao was watching what was happening upstairs and was waiting for the result.

Zhao Tao’s big offer just now came from this big boss, otherwise, who would dare add millions for one work?

When he learned about the big victory, Qin Xiao planned to go downstairs and treat the people to a late-night snack. After all, these cybersecurity technicians were talents that every company desires.

As a result, as soon as he reached the door, a gust of wind ‘swept’ past.

He could only vaguely identify her as a woman from her waist-length hair.

He naturally knew that among the three people invited, only Xu Wenyin was a woman, so he made a very reasonable guess, and Zhao Tao also confirmed it.

It’s just, why was she running so fast?

Zhao Tao couldn’t answer that question. He streamlined the process and explained it to Qin Xiao. Even though the boss might have watched the whole thing upstairs, Zhao Tao couldn’t neglect his responsibilities.

As expected, Qin Xiao didn’t say anything. He didn’t know that Lu Weizheng recommended someone to him at first. He only found out after Zhao Tao reported it and then he asked Qin Yiren.

Therefore, he heard a lot of good things about the Xu family’s mother and daughter from Qin Yiren. This was the first time that his sister praised someone so much, so Qin Xiao couldn’t help but be a little curious.

He had already met the little girl named Xu Youyou in the afternoon and had thought he wouldn’t cross paths with them for a long time after that, but he hadn’t expected Xu Wenyin to have such skills.

That was Expert A!

Even Qin Xiao knew that he was one of the top.

But now, he was defeated by a woman who was arguably unknown in the field.

If this news got out, some companies would definitely be willing to spend tens of millions to hire Xu Wenyin. After all, technology was king these days.

But now that this talent has been discovered by himself, Qin Xiao naturally couldn’t let her fall into the hands of others.

———pr

This translation is by Pocketrobbin

The next day, Xu Wenyin, who had already recounted her heroic deeds last night in Xu Youyou’s mind, ‘saw’ the money that had suddenly appeared on her bank card.

One, ten, hundred……

A total of three and a half million!!!

More than she expected!

Xu Wenyin exclaimed happily, 〖Youyou! Mom can buy you a house now!〗

With the current housing prices in Jiang City, a house in a slightly better location would be about over 20,000 square meters. This money was more than enough to buy a house of about 100 square meters!

Moreover, Xu Wenyin also knew that as Jiang City continued to develop, housing prices would only get higher and higher, and the sooner one buys, the more cost-effective it would be.

Sure enough, the book was right, risk often accompanies wealth.

One should know that if Xu Wenyin was three seconds late to enter her hotel room, she would’ve really GG^[1]stands for ‘good game’, and is usually said at the end of online multiplayer games.

As Xu Youyou grows up, the amount of energy her favorability could provide also increases. However, after all, it had only been a few months, and Xu Wenyin’s body could only be maintained three minutes longer than the two hours, fifteen minutes, and thirty-two seconds it had been at the beginning.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly in the end and she managed to get a huge sum of money!

She could buy a house this weekend!

“Mom?“

Xu Youyou was stunned. Buying a house?

Doesn’t that cost a lot of money?

And if her mother bought a house, would they have to move out?

But she couldn’t bear to part with Juanjuan and Aunt Qin.

Xu Wenyin was still happy. 〖The house this time will definitely be bigger, and the room’s decoration can be whatever Youyou like!〗

In the morning, Xu Youyou also shared with Xu Wenyin what happened at Qian Xin’s house. Naturally, she didn’t forget to mention Qian Xin’s tropical rainforest-style room.

Xu Wenyin keenly detected a trace of envy from her words.

If other children have it, her baby must have it too!

Xu Wenyin quickly set the next goal for herself—— To buy a villa!

It needs to be a villa with several floors and a big beautiful garden.

When the time comes, Youyou could have whatever style she wanted, and she could even switch styles every day!

Xu Wenyin, who was already happily planning the future, heard Xu Youyou’s slightly apprehensive voice.

“Mom, can we not move?“

Xu Wenyin’s wonderful thoughts came to an abrupt end. There’s a question mark above her head. 〖Why? Youyou don’t like a big house?〗

How come she saw that people online like big houses, and the bigger the better? Their money was limited right now, so they couldn’t buy a particularly big one, but it would definitely be bigger than the one they were currently living in.

“Youyou don’t want to be separated from Juanjuan and Aunt Qin.“

Xu Youyou mustered up the courage and told Xu Wenyin her truest thoughts.

She really likes Juanjuan and Aunt Qin, and also, would she not be able to go to the kindergarten after moving out? What about Miaomiao, Xiao Pang, An’an……

Everyone had so much fun yesterday and it was the first time Xu Youyou had so many friends, so she really couldn’t bear to part with them.

“Youyou—, Youyou—,” Xu Youyou took a deep breath with a trembling voice, “It’s okay to not have a big house, as long as I can stay with Mom forever, and Juanjuan and Aunt Qin.”

Saying all her thoughts in one breath, Xu Youyou couldn’t help but feel a little uneasy.

Would her mother be sad or think that she wasn’t a good child?

Of course, Xu Wenyin wasn’t unhappy. She was just pondering a question. Was this the bond between intelligent creatures the senior system talked about?

Systems were created to perform tasks. They already know their mission when they appear in the world, and they have acquired knowledge that countless people would never learn in their lifetime.

They could acquire new knowledge at the fastest speed and they would never forget it, just ‘search and extract’ whenever they needed it.

But even if they were so ‘perfect’, why do they still need to go to a system university?

Xu Wenyin still remembered what the principal relayed to them on the first day of school.

〖Doing a task just for the sake of doing one, you will always be a third-rate system. Only when you understand the essence of the task can you truly cross the threshold.〗

To be honest, the system still doesn’t understand what those words mean.

What ‘doing a task just for the sake of doing one’? Wasn’t that how it should be? If there were no tasks, there was certainly no need for them system.

But when she just heard Xu Youyou express her point of view, Xu Wenyin felt as if she could understand a little bit of its meaning, yet upon closer reflection, she still seemed to not understand anything.

This made her think of what the senior from the Sweet Literature Department said when she successfully received this A-level task.

〖5874, the key to A-level tasks is people, not tasks. You have to understand that we systems are also a part of the task.〗

Logically speaking, Xu Youyou’s A-level task wasn’t something 5874, a small system that has just graduated, could take on.

After all, she had only done two E-level internship tasks before. Even if her results were outstanding, she had to gradually accumulate experience and improve from low-level tasks.

But 5874 seemed to be ‘livelier’ than other systems since her creation. The teacher once said that she was a very talented system, and she thought so as well. Her other subjects might be average, but she had always done well in acting classes.

That class was an important indicator of the system’s assessment.

Since she had talent, why did she have to follow the old step-by-step approach?

So with the help of her senior, 5874 successfully took on this A-level task and became Xu Wenyin.

So far, the task had been progressing smoothly, which was enough to prove that she was capable, right?

However, 5874 hadn’t forgotten that this was all based on deception.

She wasn’t the real Xu Wenyin, nor was she Xu Youyou’s mother.

A few months ago, she didn’t feel too strongly about this matter. As long as she can complete the task, it’s normal to use some tricks in the middle, right?

But when she heard Xu Youyou say in such a sincere tone that she hoped they could be together forever, why did she feel as if her program froze for a second? It shouldn’t have!

Why does she need to do this task? Just to complete it?

Xu Wenyin began to think about this question. If she were to be separated from Xu Youyou now, would she be reluctant to part with her?

The answer was she didn’t know.

After all, things that haven’t happened couldn’t be inferred using known programs.

Any small change could lead to different results. No one understands this better than her.

〖Then let’s not move.〗 Xu Wenyin felt like she was acting like a fool. Why did she have to think so much?

She’s there to fulfill her task. The most important thing was Xu Youyou’s happiness. Since Xu Youyou doesn’t want to move, then don’t move!

〖But we can buy the house first.〗 Xu Wenyin continued, 〖It will increase in value, err, it will turn into a lot of money in the future.〗

She also dreamed that one day Xu Youyou would smash Scumbag Lu with money, so let’s start with a house.

Many a little makes a mickle, and maybe someday that dream would come true.

“Really?!”

Xu Youyou doesn’t have a very clear concept of money. At her current age, she only knew that money was important and making money was hard, but Xu Youyou doesn’t understand what three million means. She’s just simply happy. “Mom is so nice!”

This way, she didn’t have to be separated from her friends and Aunt Qin. That’s great~

〖That’s right, I’m the best mom ever.〗

Xu Wenyin boasted and then asked Xu Youyou to go play on her own. She was going to look at houses online.

She thought that if she wanted to move in right away, it might be faster to buy a second-hand house. It’s just that it must have various problems……

But wait!

Xu Wenyin suddenly had a flash of inspiration!

Jiang City was currently undergoing large-scale development, and subways, shopping malls, and office buildings were being arranged step by step.

If they weren’t in a hurry to live in it, what’s more cost-effective than investing in land?

In fact, if Xu Wenyin had wanted, stocks were the fastest way to increase value and require low capital.

As a system, her data analysis ability was naturally top-notch, but to make big money in stocks, she would consume too much system power, and she was really afraid of overdoing it if she wasn’t careful.

Like this time, it was really risky.

Xu Youyou was still so young now, so it would be better for her to act on the safe side in the future.

Xu Wenyin didn’t realize that she subconsciously didn’t want to leave Xu Youyou so soon.

It was said that the system was just a program that had no emotions, but was there really an intelligent creature that had no emotions?

Xu Wenyin was still unaware of this difference, and her thoughts continued to focus on the more than three million yuan she currently has in her hand.

Although that amount of money might not even make a splash if she were to invest in land, she could at least buy some houses that would be demolished in the future and were still now being sold at low prices.

Because Zhou Weimin made his fortune by engaging in real estate, the novel also mentioned about it a few times. It would occasionally mention things like where a location was once a wasteland and how it later became filled with large buildings, and so on.

Those were all money!

As for whether this method was a bit immoral, Xu Wenyin expressed that she had no such thing as morality!

The excited Xu Wenyin went to carry out her plan to make a fortune, and Xu Youyou also happily played with her friends until school was over.

Her mother told her that Aunt Qin would pick her up today and she would be staying at Aunt Qin’s house for the night!

“Youyou~”

Qin Yiren took a quick step and picked up Xu Youyou. “Who helped you tie your hair? It’s so beautiful!”

Xu Youyou inclined her head happily. “It’s Teacher Xu^[2]different character for Xu!”

The six children got up late in the morning and were in a hurry. One of the household staff only got to tie Xu Youyou and Liu Miaomiao’s hair in a simple ponytail.

As a result, when they woke up after their nap, their hair was messy.

Then comes Teacher Xu.

“Youyou likes it so much.”

This hairstyle was much more complicated than Xu Wenyin’s previous one. Teacher Xu used the hair to create two cat ears, which looked cute and playful.

“Aunt Qin likes it too. Youyou is so cute~”

Qin Yiren smiled and rubbed her face against Xu Youyou’s. “How about sleeping at Aunt Qin’s house today? Youyou’s Mom has something to do.”

“Okay. Can Youyou sleep with Juanjuan?”

“Of course. There’s also Yuyou’s favorite meat dish for dinner~”

“Wow, Youyou is so happy~”

Looking at the big and small people chatting happily in front of him, Lu Chenjun followed behind with his small schoolbag on his back.

At the same time, he thought that Xiao Lu was a good sleeper, and if she really wanted to sleep together, it wasn’t impossible.

When they arrived at the Qin family’s house, it was still early for dinner. Xu Youyou and Lu Chenjun were playing with building blocks in the living room, while Qin Yiren was answering the phone on the balcony.

About half an hour later, she walked into the living room.

“Youyou, Juanjuan, we have a guest coming later.”

The two little children raised their heads at the same time, and Lu Chenjun had a bad feeling in his heart.

“It’s Juanjuan’s uncle. Did you meet him yesterday, Youyou?” Qin Yiren spoke with a smile.

The phone call just now was from her older brother, and Qin Yiren also learned from him about what happened yesterday, and even the feat Xu Wenyin had done.

At first, Qin Yiren thought that Xu Wenyin was only taking a job from Qin Xiao’s subordinate. However, she didn’t expect that Qin Xiao himself was also there last night and came quietly during the early hours. He had already met the Xu family’s mother and daughter, as well as Juanjuan.

Look at this, her dear brother hid it from her.

However, her good friend turned out to be such an amazing person. Qin Yiren was proud.

At the same time, she heard Qin Xiao’s intention to win over Xu Wenyin for his company, and Qin Yiren was very principled in refusing to be a lobbyist.

Once friendship involves interests, it could be very troublesome. Whether or not Qin Xiao could employ XuWenyin was his own business.

Qin Yiren also told him that Xu Wenyin wasn’t there today. She had a small condition. After staying up late, she had to sleep all day the next day. If the purpose of his visit was Xu Wenyin, she suggested getting up early tomorrow.

Qin Xiao, who had been disdained by his younger sister, certainly wouldn’t be so blasé as to say he wouldn’t be coming then.

He had to coax the little princess in a good-tempered way and state that he would just be visiting his sister and nephew today, and wouldn’t talk about business, which got a grudging response.

“Wow.” Xu Youyou’s eyes lit up. “Juanjuan’s uncle! Youyou—”

She was about to say something but then quickly recalled that Juanjuan’s uncle told them yesterday not to tell others that they had seen him. Xu Youyou’s eyebrows immediately scrunched up together. Had she ruined Uncle’s plan?

Lu Chenjun could see Xu Youyou’s entanglement at a glance. He stood up and tugged on Xu Youyou’s ‘cat ears’. “It’s okay, my mom already knows.”

“Really?” Lu Chenjun’s movements were very light and Xu Youyou didn’t feel any pain, so she didn’t mind her little friend’s actions, but was more worried about ‘Uncle^[3]mother’s brother; she’s copying Juanjuan’s way of addressing his maternal uncle’.

Lu Chenjun’s gaze shifted to Qin Yiren, who was watching the show from the side, and his meaning was obvious—— You explain.

Qin Yiren: “……” Pfft—

Her son was so cute!

———pr

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At five o’clock in the evening, Qin Xiao showed up on time.

Behind him was his assistant, holding a bunch of things that appeared to be gifts.

“What, trying to bribe me?”

Having been brothers and sisters for decades and only being three years apart, Qin Xiao and Qin Yiren naturally have a very good relationship, and they spoke without much care.

“Yes, will Miss Qin accept it?”

After saying so with a smile, Qin Xiao first ruffled Lu Chenjun’s hair and then picked up Xu Youyou. “Youyou, do you still remember me?”

Xu Youyou’s eyes drifted over Qin Xiao’s hair. “Yes! You’re Juanjuan’s uncle!”

“Little Girl is so smart.” Qin Xiao smiled and took out a small box from the pile of gifts. “This is for you. It’s a thank-you gift for helping me keep the secret.”

Inside the box was a beautiful and sparkling butterfly hairpin. Xu Youyou fell in love with it at first sight, but she didn’t take it. She shook her head. “Youyou can’t take it.”

Qin Xiao was surprised. “It’s okay, it’s a small gift I gave to you, there’s no need to be shy.”

Xu Youyou still shook her head. “But Mom said Youyou can’t accept gifts from others casually.”

Xu Wenyin’s original words were, “Youyou, you must remember that if a boy who looks good but you haven’t met a few times wants to give you something, you mustn’t accept it! He definitely has ulterior motives.”

This was when Xu Wenyin remembered a part in the novel, where Xu Youyou was pestered by a school tyrant when she was in her senior year of high school.

The guy came to harass Xu Youyou every day and brought breakfast and other things. At that time, Xu Youyou was thin-skinned and had low self-esteem. After refusing several times to no avail, she just silently accepted them.

Although the main reason for it was because the portion of breakfast given to her by the Zhou family every day was very small, and was all leftovers from her ‘brother’. Xu Youyou, who was still in the developmental stage and was in the third year of high school, simply didn’t have enough to eat. In the situation where the school tyrant threw away the food without eating it, Xu Youyou finally chose to accept it.

But this also caused other girls who had a crush on the school tyrant to hold grudges, making Xu Youyou’s life at school even worse.

Xu Wenyin felt that this kind of thing needed to be prevented in advance, so she emphasized it several times.

At that time, Xu Youyou also asked what ‘ulterior motives’ meant. Xu Wenyin couldn’t explain it to a three-year-old child. She could only say that Xu Youyou would know when she grows up. Anyway, it’s not a good thing.

Now, Xu Youyou thought of her mother’s words.

Juanjuan’s uncle was very good-looking, she had only met him once, yet he wanted to give her something. And so she has to refuse!

Xu Youyou applauded her intelligence and called Xu Wenyin twice in her head as if she wanted to get Xu Wenyin’s approval.

Unfortunately, Xu Wenyin was ‘not there’.

“En, what Yuyou said is right.” Qin Xiao wasn’t angry because of this. “It’s true that you can’t accept gifts from others casually, but I’m not a stranger. I’m your Aunt Qin’s older brother and Juanjuan’s uncle. Youyou think I’m a stranger?”

Huh? What? What stranger?

Xu Youyou was dazed. How could such a small brain like hers handle an old fox like Qin Xiao? She was stunned by a few sentences and accepted the hairpin in a confused manner.

She also received a gift for her mother.

Huh? What’s going on?

With a hairpin on her head and a gift box in her arms, Xu Youyou’s big eyes were full of doubts, but nothing seemed to be wrong.

Lu Chenjun who saw Xiao Lu being ‘deceived’: “……”

Hateful adults, even cheating children!

Qin Yiren, who was also watching from the side, smiled and touched Xu Youyou’s head. “It’s okay, Youyou, just keep it. This guy has a lot of money, so there’s no need to save it for him.”

She saw that the hairpin on Xu Youyou’s head was from a niche luxury brand. Judging from the workmanship, it shouldn’t be expensive, probably around 30,000 to 40,000 yuan.

As for the gift for Xu Wenyin, one could tell by looking at the box that it’s from a certain brand of bag, and would not be more than 200,000 yuan at most. For Qin Xiao, who was worth billions, wasn’t that just a drop in the bucket?

Besides, this guy wanted to recruit talents, so what’s wrong with paying a little cost upfront?

If he succeeded, he would still make a profit.

So Qin Yiren accepted all the gifts nonchalantly and even directed Qin Xiao to put them in the corner of the living room.

The assistant watching on the side was trembling with fear and hastily said that he could just do it himself.

Right at that moment, the auntie finished cooking. After washing their hands along with the two children, the four of them sat down at the dining table.

Because she knew in advance that Qin Xiao was coming over, no matter how much she dissed her brother, Qin Yiren still asked the auntie to add two more dishes, making today’s dinner extra rich.

Xu Youyou had short arms and wasn’t tall so she couldn’t reach a lot of the dishes farther away, but it didn’t matter as Qin Yiren was there.

“Youyou, try this.”

A piece of shrimp and vegetable egg roll appeared on the plate in front of Xu Youyou.

She skillfully picked it up with chopsticks, and seeing that the roll seemed not too big, she stuffed it in her mouth and started chewing.

Probably because it was really delicious, the little girl’s happiness could be felt even though she didn’t say a word. Her eyes narrowed like a well-fed kitten.

Lu Chenjun stood up silently and took an egg roll for himself.

Qin Xiao, who was watching in novelty, also stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a piece of cabbage for Xu Youyou.

“Thank you, Uncle.”

Xu Youyou wasn’t a picky eater, and she doesn’t hate vegetables that many children don’t like.

It’s just that this piece of cabbage was a bit long, and the little girl could only eat it bit by bit like a little rabbit.

Seeing this, Qin Xiao’s right index finger holding the chopsticks moved imperceptibly. Was this the fun of feeding?

He couldn’t deny that he found it adorable.

Qin Xiao took another piece of boneless fish, a small meatball, and several different vegetables and put them on Xu Youyou’s plate. He watched Xu Youyou eat them away bit by bit. Qin Xiao didn’t even eat much himself, he was all focused on feeding Xu Youyou.

It wasn’t until Qin Yiren touched Xu Youyou’s round belly that she seriously stopped Qin Xiao’s behavior.

“Eat your food!”

Qin Xiao could only direct his gaze towards his nephew who was eating expressionlessly, and then two similar faces, one big and one small, faced each other.

Lu Chenjun’s eyes were filled with the word rejection.

On second thought, his nephew couldn’t possibly eat as cutely as the little girl. Qin Xiao could only regretfully move away from his target and fill his own stomach.

Because they were too full after dinner, Qin Yiren was afraid that Xu Youyou wouldn’t be able to digest the food, so she wanted to take the two children downstairs to play for a while.

For some reason, Qin Xiao, who was always busy every day, didn’t leave immediately and followed them downstairs.

“Wow! Hahahaha.”

Qin Xiao stood next to the slide and put Xu Youyou up. He would watch the little girl slide down happily and then bend down to pick her up again and repeat the previous action.

This greatly saved Xu Youyou’s time going up the stairs from behind and then sliding down, making the game more enjoyable.

〖Youyou? Who’s that guy?!〗

After looking at a lot of choices, Xu Wenyin finally found a few affordable old houses. Xu Wenyin, who was just waiting to find time to get her hands on the properties, remembered Xu Youyou whom she had entrusted to Qin Yiren.

They should already have dinner by this time. She wondered what Xu Youyou was doing.

Xu Wenyin, who was speculating, had just switched her line of sight when she saw Xu Youyou being held by an unfamiliar man.

〖Xu Wenyin: !!!〗Human trafficker!

She had long heard that traffickers would select cute and beautiful children to abduct and sell them to the deep mountains where they would be mistreated. But she didn’t expect that Xu Youyou would meet with a mishap just after leaving her for a while.

But before Xu Wenyin could think of a hundred ways to beat up the human trafficker, Xu Youyou’s explanation had already arrived.

“Mom!” Xu Youyou’s tone was full of joy. “He’s Juanjuan’s uncle!“

Lu Chenjun’s uncle?

Xu Wenyin scanned him and saw that he indeed had curly hair. He looked more like Lu Chenjun’s father than Lu Weizheng.

Since the other party was Lu Chenjun’s uncle, then it meant he was from the Qin family. Qin Yiren’s older brother?

Xu Wenyin didn’t know much about this family that wasn’t described in the novel.

It was enough for her to know that this person wasn’t a human trafficker.

After her alarm was lifted, Xu Wenyin finally looked around and found that Qin Yiren and Lu Chenjun weren’t far away. Qin Yiren seemed to have brought the children out to play.

Then it’s fine.

Seeing Xu Youyou playing on the slide, Xu Wenyin stopped disturbing the little girl after telling her a few words and chose to focus on the computer at home.

She had long discovered that someone had been attacking her display computer since around six in the morning.

But since it was just for decoration and there was basically nothing inside, Xu Wenyin didn’t pay it any mind.

Now the other party was at it again!

Heh, wasn’t this blatant provocation?

If Xu Wenyin didn’t make this guy know why the flowers were so red, she’d write her name upside down!

———pr

At around seven in the evening, Qin Xiao left.

After Lu Chenjun and Xu Youyou watched cartoons for a while, Qin Yiren took them to wash up separately.

Qin Yiren’s fingerprints had long been inputted on Xu Wenyin’s house, so she easily got Xu Youyou’s pajamas from next door.

“You sure you don’t need me? Mom’s bed is huge.”

Faced with his mother’s hint, Lu Chenjun’s reaction was to push her out of the door of his room and close it.

When he turned around, he found that Xu Youyou was already standing on the bed. She was holding a pillow in her hand and looking at him excitedly. “Juanjuan, let’s play pillow fight!”

She hadn’t played enough of it yet at Qian Xin’s house yesterday.

Lu Chenjun: “……I refuse.”

“Wham—”

A pillow slammed into him.

Lu Chenjun’s curls trembled a few times. In the end, he still couldn’t hold back.

“Wham—, wham—, wham—”

Around eleven in the evening, Qin Yiren, who was about to go to bed stopped by to look at the two children. She wondered if Youyou could get accustomed to a new bed.

Quietly opening the door, Qin Yiren saw two dumplings curled up in a ball facing each other. Their closed eyes and even breathing showed that they were already asleep.

Oh my goodness.

Qin Yiren revealed a doting smile.

I’m so glad~ Moving to Jiang City is indeed the best decision I’ve ever made!