Chapter 17: Ding! You Have A New Male Protagonist Bottom Mission
Shen Chi had just reached his front door when his phone notified him that he had received a transfer of two hundred thousand.
A huge sum had fallen from the sky!
“Look at this. This is the difference between a wild Alpha and a domineering CEO Alpha! One bite from a domineering CEO Alpha is two hundred thousand. What does a wild Alpha have? A wild Alpha has jack shit!”
Seeing him push the door open in such joy, as if it were New Year’s, the system suddenly remembered something and hurriedly shouted, [Wait!]
What fell from the sky was not just a huge sum of money. It could also be a kitchen knife.
A kitchen knife flashing with cold light sliced down right against Shen Chi’s body.
Shen Chi stood at the door, his whole body stiff. His gaze slowly moved downward, and he almost burst into tears.
“Wuwu… Bro almost became sis.”
His heart was still pounding wildly. At that moment, his phone rang too.
Even when he answered the call, Shen Chi still stood at the doorway, not yet recovered. “Hello? Medical fees? One hundred thousand? What kind of scammer is this? Get lost!”
Shen Chi cursed angrily and was about to hang up, but the system stopped him again. [Wait, not necessarily a scammer. The original owner’s mother really is in the hospital.]
Shen Chi’s body froze again.
He remembered how not long ago, he had even joked about the original owner’s background.
—A sick mother, a gambling father, a younger brother still in school, and a broken him.
Shen Chi stiffly looked at his phone. The contact note clearly showed two big words: Mom.
His vision went black. The money he had just received had not even warmed in his hands before flying away.
He wiped his face and, with a mournful expression, answered the call again.
“Hello? Mom, I’m sorry. I was confused just now.”
“No, I wasn’t cursing at you. You need surgery? It costs one hundred thousand, right?”
“I’ll transfer it to you…”
Shen Chi could have ignored the original owner’s parents, but he could not bring himself to do it. In his previous life, he had been an orphan. Although his days had been all right, whenever he occasionally saw other people loved by their parents, he would still feel envious.
After hanging up, he sighed.
Money could always be earned again.
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Lu Chenzhou had his own pride. Although Shen Chi was special to him, he would not lose all reason and snatch him over like a lunatic. Although… at first, he really had been tempted.
The most fundamental difference between humans and animals was that humans knew restraint.
After the three-day probation period ended, Shen Chi became an official employee of the Lu Group.
During the probation period, accidents had happened one after another. After he became an official employee, everything instead got on the right track. There were no more biting incidents, nor any little Omegas pouncing over. Shen Chi passed a peaceful month just like that.
“There’s actually nothing happening around the male lead!” Shen Chi said in disbelief.
The system replied, [Why would you want something to happen? If something happens, you have to work. Isn’t lying flat better?]
Shen Chi had long since discovered that his system was even better at lying flat than he was. When he was working, this guy even asked him to play Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf for it.
Completely ridiculous!
“To do missions,” Shen Chi said. He had been in this world for over a month now and had not done a single mission. “Don’t you want to do missions? Finish the work sooner?”
The system lazily rolled over. [Work has no end. We’ve all got delayed retirement now. Once this job of yours ends, a new job will be waiting for me. Why should I waste all that effort?]
The wind of delayed retirement had actually blown into the system world. Shen Chi was stunned.
The system said, [Working hard only lets the boss live a better life. As corporate slaves, we must learn to lie flat.]
That made so much sense!
Shen Chi’s hands even stopped typing on the keyboard. And so, when someone asked him today whether he wanted to work overtime, he decisively refused.
Over this past month, in order to leave a good impression on his colleagues, Shen Chi had worked diligently and conscientiously. If he was told to work overtime, he worked overtime. If he was told to do a task, he did it. Now that he suddenly refused, even Assistant Zhou froze.
“But President Lu is also working overtime today.”
Shen Chi said, “Aren’t you still here? And the others too? Are none of you working overtime?”
Assistant Zhou said, “We are. But why aren’t you?”
There was no malice when Assistant Zhou asked this. Whenever Lu Chenzhou worked overtime, everyone in the secretary office would accompany him. This was not exactly a hard rule, but the Lu Group paid far too much. Everyone wanted to gain some favor with Lu Chenzhou. Besides, overtime came with overtime pay.
Shen Chi said, “I have something to do today.”
Since he had put it that way, Assistant Zhou could not ask further. He could only watch pitifully as Shen Chi took his briefcase and got off work.
During this period, although Lu Chenzhou had not deliberately paid attention to Shen Chi, as his personal secretary, wherever Lu Chenzhou was, Shen Chi was basically by his side. But today was somewhat different.
Lu Chenzhou endured it again and again. Even the heavily pregnant Secretary Xu was there, but Shen Chi was nowhere to be seen.
“Secretary Xu, where is Secretary Shen?”
“President Lu, Secretary Shen said he had something to do today, so he left work on time.” After saying this, Secretary Xu casually added, “Did Secretary Shen not tell you?”
Only after she finished speaking did Secretary Xu belatedly realize what she had said.
The pressure in the air became somewhat low. Lu Chenzhou stared at the document in his hand, and his mood suddenly became unpleasant.
“That’s enough for today. Get off work.”
Lu Chenzhou went to the underground parking lot. Originally planning to go home, he suddenly received a call from a friend inviting him out for drinks.
He rarely drank. Alcohol numbed the nerves, and he hated anything out of control, so he basically never joined such gatherings. But for some reason today, he changed his mind at the last minute. After asking for the address, he drove over.
As for Shen Chi.
Since he had finally gotten off work on time, he first spent a huge sum on a meal at KFC, then drank a cup from Mixue Bingcheng. Just as he was about to go home, the system suddenly perked up.
[Little Chi, there’s a mission!]
Shen Chi’s ears moved slightly. “What’s the situation? Is it the male lead shou? Speaking of which, I still don’t understand why I have to help the male lead shou. Shouldn’t I be helping his male lead gong?”
[In old-school worlds, the male lead shou would suffer endless grievances before getting together with the male lead gong. But in recent years, people’s thinking has awakened, and readers feel only someone sick in the head would run over to debase themselves like that.] The system spread its hands. [Negative reader reviews skyrocketed, causing deviations in the timeline between the male lead gong and shou. We have to repair it, or this world will collapse.]
Shen Chi thought of what the system had said before. After the male lead shou appeared, he would take over a pile of work, and even Shen Chi, the secretary, would be liberated.
How was that a partner? He was clearly a nanny!
With what little conscience he had, Shen Chi struggled and said, “Wouldn’t this count as helping a tyrant do evil?”
The system asked, [Then will you do it?]
Shen Chi immediately drew a clear line. “I won’t.”
The system spread its hands again. [Exactly. Let’s go. I’ll give you the location. The male lead shou is still a little pitiful thing right now. He works at a bar, and he’s an Omega pretending to be a Beta. Later, something will happen at the bar… Eh?]
Before the system could finish speaking, it suddenly made a confused sound.
Shen Chi asked, “What are you ‘eh’-ing about?”
The system said, [My side shows that the male lead gong is also at the bar. That shouldn’t be right. I remember the plot deviation happened because he was working overtime, leaving the male lead shou alone at the bar and almost causing something to happen.]
Shen Chi gave an “oh.” “Then do I still go?”
The system said, [Go. In case something unexpected happens. If nothing happens, we’ll just watch the drama. Anyway, we’re Betas.]
