Chi Zhao clutched his wounded heart and carried the briefcase over to the VIP room.
He timed it such that he returned home around the time he would usually return home from school. At this time, Uncle Zhang was just about to clock off. Seeing him return, he immediately stood up straight and bowed slightly to Chi Zhao.
Since his relationship with Li Yihan had changed, Uncle Zhang's attitude towards him had also changed. Before, he would look at Qi Yuan with eight parts kindness and two parts pity, but now it was five parts courtesy and five parts respect which was completely in line with his status as the housekeeper.
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Seeing that estrangement and indifference in those eyes, Chi Zhao stood there and didn't move.
For the people in this world, Chi Zhao would subconsciously not pay them any attention because he was afraid that he would become too attached to them, but Uncle Zhang was different. When he just came to this world, the first person he saw was Li Yihan and the second was Uncle Zhang. He had always looked at him with a smile and would help him buy Lil' Fatty's snacks and clean the litter box. He was a very kind and gentle uncle.
Uncle Zhang had already changed his clothes and was about to leave. Seeing that Chi Zhao had no intention to move aside, he decided to go through the back door instead to leave. As soon as he turned around, Chi Zhao asked a question.
"Is it so hard for you to accept Mister and I becoming a couple?"
Uncle Zhang paused. He softly sighed and turned back around.
"It is not difficult to accept. Although I am old, I am not muddle-headed. I have worked with Sir for many years and to be honest, even if he just finds a bird to keep him company, I can easily accept it and if it was a human, I would be even happier."
"Then why….."
Uncle Zhang didn't wait for him to finish asking, "Because, Master Qi Yuan, you don't really want to be a couple with Sir."
As the housekeeper, saying these things was out of line but since he had worked here for so many years, Uncle Zhang had already regarded himself as half Li Yihan's elder. Seeing his junior falling into a pit and yet be unable to do anything to help, he felt very uncomfortable.
Uncle Zhang looked at Chi Zhao suspiciously, "I really don't understand. What exactly do you want? If you just want to play around, you shouldn't provoke Sir. He isn't someone you can afford to play around with."
This Chi Zhao knew. The price of playing around were broken legs, turning blind and then starving to death. He still remembered it clearly.
It wouldn't be long until it was time for him to leave. When he was at the bank just now, he had taken out two stacks of money from the briefcase. Once converted, it should be a little over a hundred thousand. When the time comes, buying a plane ticket to go abroad would be about ten thousand and half of the rest would be used to rent a place while the other half would be used to sort out his food and daily expenses. Life may be tough, but he at least wouldn't starve to death.
From growing up until now, Chi Zhao hadn't truly had a hard life yet. He sighed internally and then raised his eyes and said to Uncle Zhang, "I have troubled you these days."
Uncle Zhang was taken aback but Chi Zhao just walked past him and returned to his room.
Chi Zhao didn't print out another copy of the stolen document to replace it. He instead mixed a few of the documents and in the empty folder, there was now another document. The one that was left empty was the one that originally had documents on the corporations' plans for the second half of the year. When he left. Chi Zhao deliberately left it sticking out a little so that Li Yihan could see that someone had touched it, but it would also not look too obvious, like it was done deliberately.
Li Yihan had returned a few days ago. It was estimated that he had already noticed that something was off, but he didn't act any different from before. Chi Zhao felt that he was probably quietly collecting evidence first before taking him down in one fell swoop.
While he was collecting evidence, it was time for him to take the next step.
Go and tamper with his car.
Chi Zhao fell into daze again. Lil' Fatty wandered around the house before finally slipping into Chi Zhao's room. He tilted his head and glanced over at Chi Zhao. Feeling that the state of his poop shoveler didn't seem quite right, he sat there in thought for a while before reluctantly walking over and offering up his fluffy butt.
———Rub it. This master here knows you want to rub it.
There was no reason to reject an ass that was offered up. Chi Zhao held Lil' Fatty in his arms and petted him until Li Yihan was back. Looking back down at Lil' Fatty's butt, the hair there was visibly sparse.
...It looked almost bald.
Li Yihan stood at the door. Seeing him come back, Lil' Fatty knew that he was saved. He let out a tearful meow, causing Chi Zhao's repeated act of petting to finally stop. Lil' Fatty quickly used this chance to escape from his clutches.
"Have you eaten?"
Chi Zhao shook his head.
Li Yihan looked at him expressionlessly, "Come down and eat."
Dinner this time was extremely quiet, even the system didn't dare speak and Lil' Fatty also sat silently to the side, secretly observing the two humans. Amidst the silence, Li Yihan's cold voice suddenly travelled over, "I still have some work to do. I'll go upstairs first."
Chi Zhao looked up in surprise, "Oh. Mister, don't work too hard and go to bed early."
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They had been sleeping together the past few months. Chi Zhao's subconscious words just now showed that he had thought that Li Yihan would not sleep in the same room as him tonight. Li Yihan looked at him in silence for a few seconds before turning around and heading upstairs.
With Li Yihan gone, the rest of the food tasted like wax in his mouth. Chi Zhao placed down his chopsticks and similarly went upstairs. For half the night, he sat by the door in daze.
Suddenly, he spoke, "System."
The system seemed to know that he had something to say so it made a small sound to show that it was listening.
"I don't want to hurt Li Yihan."
After a moment of silence, the system made a sound of understanding. No one wants to harm other people and those who are willing are bad people. The systems naturally wouldn't bind themselves to bad people like them.
"But I also want to go home."
Chi Zhao hung his head, his voice getting smaller, "He really will live on and not die unexpectedly like how I did?"
Chi Zhao had passed away in an accident. He was walking down a road normally when something fell from a tall building next to him. He wasn't even able to see what it was before his life was extinguished.
This method of death was really too random.
It is very difficult for a human to be born. Firstly, there must be a man and woman who are willing to marry and then it is followed by pregnancy. After nine months of pregnancy, the mother who has already suffered enough would still have to put her life on the line to give birth before being able to enjoy the joy of welcoming a new life. Life comes by hard, but death comes by too easily. It's so easy, it can make people feel despondent.
If the store at the park didn't randomly connect the power that day, the school would not have had a power outage. If the school didn't have a power outage, Chi Zhao would not have chosen to go out for a walk because the dorm was too hot. If the child in that tall building didn't put the flowerpot next to the edge of the balcony, the dog would not have accidentally nudged it off.
This series of funny events eventually resulted in a tragedy no one could laugh at. Most people would say, how could there be so many ifs?
The system didn't speak. It naturally knew of Chi Zhao's experience and it was only a long time later that it spoke.
[It won't happen because Li Yihan is different from you.]
"How is he different?"
[Your life only just began when you met me and Li Yihan's life will finally start when he leaves you. Right now, his life has not begun yet so he will not die.]
It was rare for the system to say something so profound. Chi Zhao was stunned for a moment before lightly chuckling, "It's good that he won't die."
When their conversation ended, a door outside opened. It was the sound of Li Yihan coming out from the study. Chi Zhao listened with a bated breath and heard the sound of another door closing. He had returned to his own room.
Chi Zhao sat cross-legged on the ground and waited there for another half an hour before tiptoeing out.
When he reached the basement, he didn't dare turn on the light and just felt around in the dark until he reached the garage and turned on the lights in there.
After doing everything today, he will leave by plane tomorrow morning. It would be no problem buying a ticket at that time because the world will definitely leave a seat for him. Chi Zhao wasn't afraid of being captured by the surveillance cameras, so he boldly walked over to Li Yihan's car.
"What about the tools?"
[In the cabinet over there.]