You got your marriage certificate and then abandoned me? I'll feed the richest woman in the wor

The crisp sound of a slap echoed through the smoky internet cafe booth.

The force wasn't great, but it was enough to wake Xiao Liu from that illusory, rosy bubble of adolescence.

Xiao Liu covered the back of his head, staring blankly at the cold and heartless reply on his phone screen.

The tears welling up in her eyes were forcefully held back.

"Alright, stop acting like the sky is falling."

Chen Yuan withdrew his hand and lightly tapped the edge of the keyboard twice with his fingertips.

"Finish the work quickly."

"In the future, take less of these pointless side jobs. Writing a few more lines of code is much better than anything else."

Xiao Liu sniffed.

Place your phone face down on the computer desk.

His hands returned to the greasy keyboard, and the focus of a geek gradually returned to his eyes behind his black-rimmed glasses.

Without the interference of the scheming class beauty.

This genius teenager, ranked second on the dark web, has finally revealed his truly terrifying hand speed.

Ten minutes later.

On the dark blue screen, rows of red error alerts were quickly covered by green pass codes.

The final layer of underlying algorithm logic is now complete.

"drop--"

A crisp system notification sounded.

"Boss, the decoy program for the ghost base station has been deployed."

Xiao Liu pressed the Enter key for the last time.

"If those overseas dogs dare to come near again, they'll be left with nothing but their underwear in a second."

Chen Yuan looked at the stable data stream on the screen and nodded slightly.

This invisible sword hangs over China's financial network.

Finally, it was completely in his hands.

"Alright, let's call it a day."

Chen Yuan shut down the system background and unplugged the external encrypted USB drive.

"Things are getting tense these days, so everyone should behave themselves and not cause trouble online."

The woman grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds, stuffed them into her pocket, and quickly shut down her computer.

The deliveryman, Butcher, swallowed the remaining buns in one gulp and put on his bright yellow helmet.

Just like when they arrived, the three of them blended seamlessly into the bustling crowd outside the internet cafe.

Chen Yuan walked out of the internet cafe.

In the narrow alleys of the old town, the air is polluted and stifling.

Just as I reached the alley entrance, my specially made cell phone vibrated in my pocket.

The name "Wang Kai" was displayed on the screen.

Chen Yuan pressed the answer button.

"Brother Yuan! I just heard from Chu Feng that you went to an internet cafe to be a relationship coach for a middle school student?"

The call had just been connected.

The fat man's loud, booming voice blared from the loudspeaker.

The background noise also included the whirring sound of the printer running in the Star Ventures office.

"Your foray into a completely different field is way too outrageous!"

"The dignified leader of the Abyss, going around teaching people how to identify green tea?"

Chen Yuan moved his phone half an inch away.

Listening to this fatso's merciless teasing.

"Are you very free?"

Chen Yuan's voice carried its usual indifference.

"Has Star Ventures finished preparing its financial report for the next quarter?"

"No, no, no! Brother Yuan, don't try to scare me with the financial report!"

The fat man begged for mercy repeatedly on the other end of the phone.

But his lisp clearly wasn't going to stop there.

"I just think this is too strange."

"You, you teach others how to date, and you've got them all sorts of theories, leaving even elementary and middle school students completely bewildered."

"Why is it that when it comes to you, everything falls apart?"

Chen Yuan paused for a moment.

His eyebrows were slightly raised.

"What's wrong with me?"

"You have the nerve to ask what happened?"

Upon hearing this, the fat man got excited and raised his voice by eight octaves.

"Look at the way you behave when you're with Chairman Shen!"

"Other domineering CEOs are chasing women."

"That's like chartering a yacht, giving diamonds, and taking someone to Paris for a fashion show."

"And you?"

"All you do in the kitchen is stir-fry and brew her some kind of Chinese herbal soup!"

"And she wears a black apron every day while washing dishes!"

The fat man's complaints came out like a machine gun.

"Is that what you call dating?"

"You're practically a guest chef on a health and wellness show!"

"Who uses sweet and sour pork ribs as a love confession!"

Chen Yuan listened to the scolding on the other end of the phone.

The image of the kitchen at Genting Highlands involuntarily popped into my mind.

The image of Shen Wanzhou wearing rabbit slippers, blushing as she leaned against his back.

And there was her shameless act of rolling around on the leather sofa for half a piece of cake.

A warmth gradually rose in his dark eyes, a warmth he himself was unaware of.

"What do you know?"

Chen Yuan's voice deepened.

"She has a sensitive stomach and can't eat food from outside."

"We'll see."

"She falls for that kind of thing."

This nonchalant retort left the single guy on the other end of the phone speechless.

The fat man was pounding his chest and stamping his feet in frustration in the office.

I was smeared with this invisible dog food (a Chinese slang term for public displays of affection).

"Okay, okay, you're amazing."

"You've reached the pinnacle of 'living off a woman'."

"He used a pot of rice to completely win over the stomach and heart of the billionaire female tycoon."

The fat man found it more and more absurd as he talked.

If this plot were written into a novel, it would probably be criticized by readers as being too ridiculous.

"But Brother Yuan, I still have to remind you of something."

"The Shen family is, after all, a century-old conglomerate, and those old-timers and collateral relatives are not to be trifled with."

"You spend all your time holed up in the kitchen."

"Aren't you afraid they'll come knocking on your door one day, complaining that you, their 'housekeeper,' have no connections?"

Chen Yuan's gaze swept across the gray sky at the end of the alley.

His eyes instantly turned cold.

Like icicles in the dead of winter, they exude a chilling killing intent.

"If those people from the Shen family dare to lay a finger on us..."

"I'll be in the kitchen, and I'll remove their bones while I'm at it."

There was absolutely no joking in that statement.

The fat man shuddered on the other end of the phone.

The playful atmosphere was instantly frozen by this chill.

He swallowed hard.

Let's quickly change the subject.

The fat man on the other end of the phone laughed so hard he almost gasped: "Brother Yuan, you're just lucky you ran into the richest man in the country, Shen, who's a glutton. Otherwise, with your straight-man attitude, you'd be a bachelor for life!"