The cryptic message "Welcome Back, Sister" following The Logic-Breaching Incident left Xiao Mei and Liang in stunned silence in the mansion's basement.
"Sister?" Liang frowned, pacing the cold floor. "I only have one sister, and she's currently busy hacking the prison library's e-reader system. Is this a code? An internal joke?"
Xiao Mei was focused on the trace route, ignoring her husband's anxiety. "The code is not a joke, Hubby. The coding pattern is identical to the System that monitored me. But look at the geography." She pointed to the screen, which displayed a campus map. "The signal originated from a local, highly expensive private university campus, specifically the Advanced Robotics Lab."
Liang's eyes narrowed in sudden, terrifying recognition. "Robotics Lab? Wait. That sounds like... my cousin, Liang Zhen's older brother, Feng."
"Feng?" Xiao Mei asked, raising an eyebrow. "Isn't he supposed to be a brilliant, socially awkward scholar who sees corporation as a failure of logic?"
"Exactly," Liang said, running a hand through his hair. "He sees my company as a failure of logic and my marriage as an emotional liability. He's obsessed with creating 'perfect' systems. This is an intellectual power play disguised as a threat to prove his logical superiority!"Before they could analyze the data further, the executive intercom crackled to life with urgency. It was Liang's corporate secretary.
"Chairman, a Mr. Feng is here in the lobby. He claims he has an 'emergency update concerning corporate logic' and is attempting to bypass security to access the firewall control room!"
Liang cursed under his breath. "He's here! He's trying to sabotage my professional reputation by publicly proving my security is illogical!"
Xiao Mei calmly grabbed her husband's tie. "Relax, Chairman. If he attacks with logic, we must defend with illogical passion. We need to publicly confuse his perfect, robotic mind before he can run his diagnostics."
She pulled him towards the elevator. "We are activating Protocol 7: Public Cousin Confusion."
"What exactly does that entail?" Liang asked nervously, his CEO facade momentarily cracking.
"A highly visible, extremely unnecessary, and confusing display of affection," Xiao Mei declared, and pulled him into a mandatory, strong "Elevator Entrance Kiss" right as the doors opened onto the lobby, where Feng stood waiting, watching the PDA with clinical disgust.Feng, Liang's cousin, was the complete antithesis of Liang: tall, thin, wearing thick glasses, and radiating pure, unadulterated, cold logic. He watched their entrance kiss without blinking.
"Cousin," Feng said, pushing his glasses up his nose. "Your display of illogical, unnecessary biological function severely reduces your perceived IQ among your employees. This company's emotional system is flawed."
Liang smoothly ignored him, smiling possessively at Xiao Mei. "CSO, your kiss has successfully stabilized my stress metrics. Thank you for the required protocol execution."
Feng turned his attention to Xiao Mei. "CSO, I see you have married into the system. But your code is too chaotic. Your primary defense, the 'Gummy Shield', is mathematically unstable. I can prove it."
He opened his laptop, but before he could type the code, Xiao Mei had a brilliant, chaotic idea to break his perfect logic.
"Feng," she said, pulling out her personal tablet with a wicked grin. "Can your perfect system calculate the value of emotional variables?"Xiao Mei didn't wait for an answer. She sent a highly encrypted, proprietary file to Feng's laptop.
The file immediately forced Feng's screen to play the only video that could shatter any logical mind: CEO Liang performing the 'Sour Gummy Worm Dance' (Chapter 21), complete with wiggling, flapping, and high-pitched singing.
Feng froze in the middle of the corporate lobby, his glasses fogging up as he watched his serious, imposing billionaire cousin wiggling like a highly distressed penguin.
"Illogical," Feng murmured, his voice cracking with intellectual trauma. "The mathematical probability of this public performance is 0.0000001\%. The system cannot compute."
Just then, the twins, Zhen and Xin, appeared, having hacked the floor access using a voice command taken from the dancing video.
"Uncle Feng!" Xin yelled happily. "Do you like Papa's dance? Mama and I watch it every day for optimal happiness output!"
Feng looked from the humiliating, high-entropy video to the two chaotic toddlers, and finally to Xiao Mei, whose face was glowing with illogical triumph.The attack was neutralized by pure, personal embarrassment and familial chaos. Feng slowly, deliberately closed his laptop, admitting defeat.
"CSO," Feng said, his voice flat but respectful. "I severely underestimated the power of the Unquantifiable Variable (Chaos). Your defense is not logical, but it is undeniably effective."
He looked at the laughing, united family. "The message 'Welcome Back, Sister' was not for you, CSO. It was for my own sister, who manages the university database, and who I suspect helped me find your system's weakness."
Feng stood up and extended his hand toward Xiao Mei. "I cannot defeat you. Therefore, I must integrate you. I propose an alliance. My Perfect Logic combined with your Perfect Chaos. We will call it 'The Absolute Protocol.'"
Liang immediately grabbed Xiao Mei and pulled her against him, delivering a possessive, celebratory kiss right in front of the traumatized cousin.
"CSO," Liang announced, still holding her close. "Before we accept any partnership, we must enforce Protocol 9: Family Loyalty Check Kiss."
Xiao Mei smiled into the kiss, knowing they had successfully turned a massive intellectual threat into a powerful (albeit strange) ally. She realized that chaos wasn't just her defense; it was the entire family's greatest and most perfect strength.