He stole his best friend's photos and fell for a tycoon's heir through online dating.

Zhou Siyan landed at noon the next day.

He didn't go anywhere else; he simply had the driver take him to Dingxin Media.

Sitting in the president's office, from today onwards, he is no longer President Zhou Siyan.

He is President Huo Sinian.

Even before the official announcement of the new president's appointment, the entire building was already buzzing with activity.

Zhou Siyan—no, Huo Sinian—stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the city's gray-blue skyline, picked up his phone, and opened the pinned chat window.

Zero: [Baby, if I go back to China now, will you be happy?]

A University girls' dormitory.

Xia Ruo was putting on earrings in front of the mirror, with the clothes she would wear for the interview spread out in front of her and a printed resume on the table.

She was in a good mood, humming an unknown tune, her fingers just as she threaded the earring through her ear piercing—

My phone vibrated.

She picked it up casually and took a look.

The next second, the earring slipped from her finger and rolled under the table with a clatter.

"Of course I'm happy!"

She typed that line almost instinctively, her fingers trembling slightly, then quickly added another, her tone sickeningly sweet:

"Baby has been looking forward to this day for so long!"

On the other end of the phone, Zhou Siyan looked at the two messages, a meaningful smile appearing on his lips.

He leaned against the floor-to-ceiling window, typing slowly and deliberately.

Zero: [I originally had a few more projects to do, but I don't want the baby to wait too long, so I'll cancel them all. The baby is the most important.]

Xia Ruo stared at the line of text, her pupils suddenly contracting.

Cancel it? Cancel everything? Wouldn't that mean—

Is it coming back any second now?!

Alarm bells rang in her head, adrenaline surged, and her fingers flew across the keyboard:

"Brother! We must be serious about what we do!"

Although these projects may not mean much to my brother, they could be a matter of life and death for the other person!

Since my brother made a promise, he should keep it; we are people of our word!

After sending that message, she felt like she was dancing on the edge of a knife, having to appease the big shot while also trying to reason with him.

As Zhou Siyan looked at the long string of righteous and righteous sermons on the screen, the smile in his eyes deepened.

He slowly typed out a line of text.

Zero: [What should we do? I'm afraid my brother won't be able to come back anytime soon.]

Oh yes!!

Xia Ruo almost jumped off her chair.

She bounced, her knee hitting the table, and she winced in pain.

But she couldn't care less—fireworks were going off in her mind, and a little figure in a ballet tutu was spinning wildly in her head.

"Ruoruo!!! What's wrong? Are you okay?"

Lin Wanzhi, who was also packing her things next to her, was startled and almost dropped the folder she was holding.

Xia Ruo pressed one hand against her aching knee, gritting her teeth and forcing a smile:

"Hehe, it's nothing, it's nothing. I was just scrolling through videos and an annoying female celebrity stepped in dog poop. Wanwan, you keep going, keep going."

Lin Wanzhi glanced at her suspiciously, feeling that something was off, but she didn't ask any further questions and lowered her head to continue organizing the documents.

Xia Ruo took a deep breath, calmed her wildly beating heart, held her phone in both hands, and with an almost reverent attitude, painstakingly typed out a long message:

"It's okay, brother. Baby knows what's important."

It's okay to meet a few days later, baby has plenty of time~

She paused, then added, her words brimming with understanding:

"The only thing the baby has suffered is being a few days late seeing his brother."

The baby knows that his older brother works hard to earn money, so the baby doesn't feel wronged.

After typing this line, she felt like she was an Oscar snub.

This acting skill, this awareness, this vision—who wouldn't say he's sensible after seeing this?

Success or failure hinges on this moment. Xia Ruo nervously took another precaution:

"And it's perfect timing, the baby has a lot of job interviews lately, and his older brother won't be able to spend much time with him even if he comes back, so it's better to go back to China later."

perfect!

It showed her magnanimity, created an obstacle to meeting, and made it seem like she was considering the other person's feelings.

Killing three birds with one stone.

Xia Ruo gave herself a big thumbs up in her heart.

On the other end of the screen, Zhou Siyan looked at those few lines of text and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Too many interviews? Can't accompany you? Would it be better to go later?

so perfect.

She was so perfect that every nerve in his body was telling him—she was lying.

It's not that I don't want to meet, it's that I'm afraid to meet.

There was definitely a problem!

His thin lips were slightly pursed, and the light in his eyes deepened, like a hunter smelling the strongest scent of his prey.

He slowly typed out a line: "But I still want to go back to China. I've bought the ticket."

The moment Xia Ruo saw the message, her mind went blank, as if an air raid siren had sounded in her ear.

You bought the tickets?!

Why isn't he playing by the rules?!

In her haste, her fingers typed out two words faster than her brain:

"No!"

Only after sending it did she realize what she had said, and her face turned pale instantly.

etc--

Isn't that just asking for death?

But the message has already been sent, so withdrawing it would be even more suspicious.

Xia Ruo gritted her teeth and forced herself to continue making things up, trying her best to smooth out the awkwardness:

"If you stand people up so easily, I'll get angry!"

She deliberately spoke in a coquettish tone, as if she were pouting, but only she knew that her fingers were trembling as she typed those words.

There was a few seconds of silence on the other end of the phone.

As Zhou Siyan looked at the "No" on the screen, followed by "Baby's getting angry," the corners of her mouth slowly widened.

If the soft approach doesn't work, then we have to resort to the hard one?

interesting.

He could almost picture Xia Ruo's expression on the other end of the phone—panicked, guilty, desperately trying to cover it up, yet not daring to show it too obviously.

Like a cat whose tail has been stepped on, desperately pretending that nothing happened.

He decided to stop teasing her.

Okay, baby, wait for me for another week.

(Transfer: 5000000 yuan!)

Xia Ruo stared at the number, her eyes wide like saucers.

Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions...

five million.

A fierce debate unfolded in her mind.

Pro: We can't accept it. It's stolen money. If you accept it, you'll be an accomplice, and the more you accept, the worse your fate will be.

Opposing view: You've already accepted twelve million, what's another five million? Besides, refusing it would raise suspicion! The original owner, with her womanizing persona, how could she possibly say no to money falling from the sky?

For: ...

Opposing view: Besides, we can just return it to him later. Let's accept it first.

Xia Ruoxin thought: I can't accept it... I can't accept it... I can't accept it...

Hand gesture: Ding-dong—transfer received!

She looked at the increased amount in her wallet, took a deep breath, and silently lit an incense stick for her future self.

Then she continued typing, her tone unusually sensible:

"Don't rush, brother. We need to negotiate the terms properly. I don't want your interests to suffer because of me."

Zhou Siyan raised an eyebrow slightly when he saw this line of text.

Such a sweet tongue?

Every word she uttered was a rejection, a perfunctory response, and a delay in meeting him, yet every word was wrapped in sweet words, leaving no room for criticism.

The girl's ability to lie was more sophisticated than he had imagined.

A dangerous smile flickered in his eyes.

Since we can't get through to her with words, let's try a different approach.

"Can you grant me one request, baby?"

Xia Ruo mentally patted her chest in relief!

As long as we don't meet immediately, everything is negotiable.

"Say whatever you want, brother~"

Send a voice message saying, "I love you, brother. I love you the most. I'm waiting for you to come back to China."