After her identity was stolen, she lived in the short-lived villain's phone.

Chapter 337 Shen Yanzhi: I'll raise him
In the spacious and bright office, Shen Yanzhi pushed open the door and led Chi Yu in. He then asked Chi Yu to sit down first, while he opened the door of the built-in refrigerator next to him, looked at the drinks in the refrigerator, and asked Chi Yu, "Juice or herbal tea?"

Chi Yu was looking around Shen Yanzhi's office when she heard his voice. She turned around and was slightly surprised: "You actually have a refrigerator in your office?"

She had been following Shen Yan's commute on her phone for so long that she hadn't even noticed.

However, it seems that whenever guests came to Shen Yanzhi's office, it was always Assistant Chen or another assistant who brought in hot coffee.

Seemingly sensing Chi Yu's thoughts, Shen Yanzhi said, "If you want a hot coffee, I can go to the tea room and make a cup."

"No, no," Chi Yu said, uninterested in coffee. She pointed to a bottle of low-calorie herbal tea in the refrigerator and said, "I'll drink this."

Shen Yanzhi reached out and took out the flower tea that Chi Yu had asked for, and handed it to Chi Yu.

Chi Yu was already somewhat shocked to find drinks in Shen Yanzhi's office. However, after she reached out and took the herbal tea, Shen Yanzhi squatted down and pressed a button on the hidden storage cabinet next to him. The small cabinet door opened, revealing a lot of snacks of all kinds inside.

Chi Yu's eyes widened in surprise.

Shen Yanzhi, looking completely at ease, took out the snacks from the storage cabinet and placed them all on the coffee table.

Chi Yu followed him like a big tail: "Why are there snacks in your office? Did you eat snacks before?"

She had been by Shen Yanzhi's side for three months, so how come she never noticed that he had a habit of eating snacks!
Shen Yanzhi turned and glanced at her: "It was prepared for you."

Ignoring Chi Yu's shock upon hearing this, Shen Yanzhi smiled as he looked at the snacks on the table: "After discovering that you could slip out of the phone a few times before, I suspected that you had a physical body, but at the time I didn't know you could turn into a person, and I thought you would look like that little dough figure. So I had Chen Jin prepare these things, just in case."

Chi Yu: "..."

So, this is the beverage and snack that Shen Yanzhi is preparing to use to feed the dough figurines?
"Why are you being so nice to the dough figurine? You probably didn't know my identity at the beginning, right? Aren't you afraid I'm an AI spy sent by the competition?"

Looking at the pile of expensive snacks, Chi Yu really couldn't understand Shen Yanzhi's thought process.

Honestly, before the incident of falling into the sea, if a dough figurine had appeared on her phone, Chi Yu felt she might not have been able to get along with Shen Yanzhi so naturally and amicably. Not screaming in terror would have been the epitome of elegance and good manners.

Shen Yanzhi not only gifted the dough figurines phones, tablets, and computers to play games with, but he also secretly prepared so many snacks, intending to raise a real one.

A virtual phone spirit is already terrifying enough, but he actually wants to raise a real one!

Even if the little dough figure is herself.

Shen Yanzhi earnestly corrected him: "No spy would voluntarily expose themselves when I'm in danger. Even AI can't be as lifelike as a dough figurine."

"I never thought that my phone spirit would be bad for me. On the contrary, its presence has added a lot of fun and companionship to my mundane daily life."

It was rare for Shen Yanzhi to speak so at length. He looked at Chi Yu seriously and said, "Before I knew your identity, I imagined that if the dough figurine could really come out of the phone, I would take good care of it, making sure it had plenty of food and drink, and lots of snacks and cola. Now that I know it's you, it's the same."

Chi Yu was stunned.

If she understood correctly, Shen Yanzhi meant that he had previously thought about taking good care of the dough figurine, and now he was willing to take care of her as well.
Before Chi Yu could think further, Shen Yanzhi had already looked down at the pile of snacks on the table, stretched out his slender, white fingers, and carefully flipped through them: "These snacks were prepared by Chen Jin, you can eat as much as you want."

Chi Yu: "...Okay."

Just as she was about to sit down, her gaze fell on Shen Yanzhi's laptop bag, which was placed to the side. Chi Yu suddenly realized, "My laptop warned me of low battery when I was in the hospital. I need to charge it first."

"Okay. You sit down, I'll charge it for you." Shen Yanzhi turned around, picked up the laptop bag on the sofa behind him, unzipped it, and took out the laptop and charger.

Knowing that it would take Li Yi and the others several hours to fix the phone, Shen Yanzhi worried that Chi Yu would be bored sitting in the office: "Do you want to play on the computer later?"

Chi Yu shook her head: "Let's not play anymore."

Despite hearing her say that, Shen Yanzhi still pulled out a hidden socket from under the coffee table to charge Chi Yu's laptop.

The laptop sat on the coffee table, within easy reach of Chi Yu.

Chi Yu didn't notice Shen Yanzhi's little detail. She sat on the soft and comfortable sofa, took out a bag of snacks from the table, and joked with Shen Yanzhi: "I never thought that one day I would be able to sit on the sofa in your office and eat snacks."

"Is it good?" Shen Yanzhi sat down on another sofa, holding a bottle of the same flower tea that Chi Yu had just drunk. He unscrewed the cap and took a small sip.

He rarely drinks these; he usually drinks plain water or freshly brewed strong tea and hot coffee.

Snacks and the like are completely foreign to Shen Yanzhi.

If it weren't for the dough figurines, this would have been the first time snacks had ever appeared in Shen Yanzhi's office. When Chen Jin heard his boss's instructions in the break room that day, he was shocked beyond words.

Chi Yu chewed happily, "I think it tastes good." Perhaps it was because she was back in the familiar office, or perhaps even Chi Yu herself didn't realize that compared to the awkwardness and unease they had felt in the ward before, she was now completely at ease in front of Shen Yanzhi, looking relaxed and at ease.

Shen Yanzhi keenly noticed this, but instead of pointing it out, he cunningly asked Chi Yu, "Do you know when I discovered your existence?"

"Huh?" Chi Yu slowed down her eating and looked at Shen Yanzhi curiously: "When?"

Shen Yanzhi smiled faintly and met Chi Yu's gaze, but remained silent.

Chi Yu's mind raced, and she thought for a moment: "It was during the first few days after I transmigrated here that I secretly played on my phone every night while you were sleeping. For several days in a row, you woke up to find that your phone battery was draining at a different rate than usual?"

“Yes. Actually, I had a vague feeling about it the morning you appeared.” Shen Yanzhi recalled, “At the time, I always felt that there was something around me, but every time I looked up, there was nothing there. That afternoon, during the meeting, I even asked the technical department to come to the office to check.”

Upon hearing this, Chi Yu immediately recalled the scene from that day.

She said!
No wonder Shen Yanzhi suddenly asked Li Yi and the others to check his office. She thought there was something wrong with Shen Yanzhi's office at the time, and even thoughtfully checked it for him.

So, the problem he was looking for was actually himself!

Shen Yanzhi continued, "Later they found nothing, but I felt a strange gaze following me during the meeting. I thought I was seeing a ghost."

With his strikingly handsome face, he calmly uttered the words "I've encountered a ghost," and coupled with his identity as the president of Shen's Group, a brilliant and talented elite in business, he surprisingly believed in metaphysics in private.

But thinking about the misunderstanding she had caused him, Chi Yu couldn't help but raise her hand to cover her face: "I'm sorry, I scared you."

“It’s okay.” Shen Yanzhi replied quickly. “Later, when I got home, I found that the feeling was still there, so I started to observe and check the things around me little by little, and finally I suspected my phone.”

Shen Yanzhi still remembers how he felt when he discovered the existence of the cell phone spirit by reviewing the surveillance footage.

When an ordinary person discovers that their phone can automatically generate consciousness, they might feel horrified and fearful, but Shen Yanzhi did not.

He was sitting in a dark study, the lights were off, and only the faint light from the computer screen reflected in his deep, dark eyes.

Shen Yanzhi couldn't help but become intensely interested in this peculiar phenomenon of the phone, which was contrary to common sense. It was very similar to his first experience of stock trading after becoming an adult. He would sit in front of the computer day and night, watching the data fluctuate up and down, feeling both excited and addicted.

He had just finished his college entrance exams and invested all his savings from the previous eighteen years, a total of 30 million yuan.

In just one summer vacation, Shen Yanzhi achieved a small goal, and then felt bored.

Especially after graduating from university and entering the Shen Group in a routine manner, Shen Yanzhi became weary and numb to the uneventful life.

Until that strange consciousness appeared in his phone, Shen Yanzhi was no longer afraid; instead, he rediscovered a long-lost zest for life. Like a traveler in the desert who had finally found his own oasis.

Shen Yanzhi's myriad thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant, and Chi Yu had no idea what he had been recalling in that short time. Listening to Shen Yanzhi's words, she felt a pang of unease.

Little did she know that Shen Yanzhi's senses were so sharp that he discovered it on the very first day she transmigrated.

If you do the math, from the time she transmigrated into Shen Yanzhi's phone to the time she took the initiative to appear in front of him, it seems like she had been lying low for more than a week.

Even if Shen Yanzhi had already discovered her presence when she took the initiative to appear, it would still have taken several days to confirm it through surveillance, no matter how quickly he acted.

Before discovering her existence, Shen Yanzhi had been living a life of being 'watched by a ghost'?

Although her choice to conceal her presence was the best option given her safety at the time, from Shen Yanzhi's perspective, he was clearly more innocent. He hadn't done anything, yet he was forced to have a 'ghost' by his side.

"I should thank you back then, otherwise I wouldn't have discovered that my uncle had planted a listening device in my car." Shen Yanzhi lowered his eyes, exuding an aura of innocence and harmlessness.

Chi Yu was indeed attracted by his sincere and down-to-earth appearance.

Shen Yanzhi's act of remembering kindness and not holding grudges made Chi Yu even more convinced of Shen Yanzhi's character.

Thinking of Shen Yanzhi's previous indulgence of the phone spirit, Chi Yu couldn't help but be tempted. Her gaze towards Shen Yanzhi became less distant than before, gradually approaching the warm attitude that the dough figurine usually showed to Shen Yanzhi: "Don't be so polite. You've said thank you and sorry so many times today. If that's the case, then I'll have to tell you all about how good you were to the phone spirit and the dough figurine, and about how you hid your identity from me. The thank yous and apologies I have to say to you would probably stretch from your office to the parking lot downstairs."

“No need for that.” Shen Yanzhi quickly explained, “That’s not what I meant. I just wanted to say that I was very happy that you appeared in my phone before. As for you hiding your identity, I’ve always thought you did the right thing.”

"Mm," Chi Yu replied with a smile.

She seemed to know why he suddenly brought up this topic; he was actively trying to get closer to her.

No matter what she becomes, in his heart, she is still the little dough figure that accompanied him to work on his phone at the beginning, right?

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