“I'm telling you, I'm super amazing now…”
Doudou forcefully squeezed in front of the busy Shen Siyuan, wanting to talk to him.
Shen Siyuan, annoyed beyond measure, gave Yin Xingyue a look, signaling her to pull Doudou away.
Monday was his only real workday of the week, so he had to finish a week's worth of work today. Only then could he slack off in peace for the rest of the time.
On top of that, Zhou Zhengdao had proposed many revisions over Saturday and Sunday for the project plan he wrote last week, all of which had to be handled today.
He was so busy he didn't even have time to drink water, not even for a paid bathroom break.
“Don't bother Brother while he's working.” Yin Xingyue pulled Doudou away.
“But I wanna play with him,” Doudou said, a little aggrieved.
“We'll have to wait until he's finished.”
“Sigh, grown-ups are so boring.”
Doudou propped her chin on her hands and squatted on the floor.
Yin Xingyue squatted down beside her.
Doudou added, “I don't want to be a grown-up anymore.”
Yin Xingyue pursed her lips and said faintly, “You can't become a grown-up.”
“Why not?” Doudou tilted her head to look at her, a silly expression on her face.
“Because you're already dead. You're a Ghost now, not a person,” Yin Xingyue said irritably.
“Then can I become a big Ghost?” Doudou asked curiously.
“No,” Yin Xingyue said.
This should have been a sad topic, but the way the two discussed it was somehow comical.
Hearing this, Doudou said with great disappointment, “Does that mean I can only be a kid forever?”
“What's so bad about being a kid? What's so good about being a grown-up?”
“Grown-ups can eat whatever they want, go wherever they want to play, and they don't have Mom and Dad saying they can't do this or that…” Doudou counted the benefits of being an adult on her chubby little fingers.
“But everything you mentioned costs money,” Yin Xingyue said.
“Then I'll just earn lots and lots of money.”
Doudou spread her arms wide to show a super large amount of money.
“If you want to earn money, you have to work.
If you work, you won't have time to play, and you can't just go wherever you want. Just like Brother over there…” Yin Xingyue pointed at Shen Siyuan, who was busy enough to go crazy.
Doudou was dumbfounded. How could that be?
“Is being a grown-up so unhappy?”
“Of course.
So what's so good about being a grown-up? Only kids are carefree and don't have to worry about so much,” Yin Xingyue said.
She didn't want to grow up.
If she could stay little forever, she wouldn't have to go to school, and she wouldn't have been brought back by her mom. How wonderful it would have been to stay by her grandmother's side forever.
She missed her grandmother a little. She looked at the busy Shen Siyuan, hesitating whether she should tell Brother that she wanted to go home and visit her grandmother.
“Carefree?”
Doudou rubbed her chubby little chin with her small hand, letting out a silly smile.
Hearing her laugh, Yin Xingyue looked away from Shen Siyuan and back at her, saying, “If you're bored, I'll teach you Kung Fu.
Brother asked me to teach you.”
The Kung Fu Yin Xingyue mentioned was, of course, 【Embracing Wind Slumber】.
Last night, Shen Siyuan had taught them for over an hour. Yin Xingyue quickly learned all of Shen Siyuan's movements, while the naturally lively and active Doudou learned it all in a mess.
So, Shen Siyuan handed this arduous task over to Yin Xingyue, asking her to find some time to teach Doudou and do her best to get her to learn it.
“Okay-dokey.”
Actually, Doudou wasn't resistant to learning 【Embracing Wind Slumber】. She was even quite enthusiastic, treating it like a game.
It was just because she was too little and had trouble settling down that she learned it all crooked and askew.
Doudou stood up and immediately struck the Embracing the Universe pose.
But no matter how Yin Xingyue looked at it, it just seemed off.
“Can you not stick your butt out so high? You look like a Donald Duck…”
Doudou had a low bar for laughter; Yin Xingyue's single sentence sent her into fits of it, bending over backward and forward.
The busy Shen Siyuan was drawn in by Doudou's laughter and glanced over at the two of them.
Yin Xingyue shot Shen Siyuan a helpless look.
Shen Siyuan gave her an encouraging smile and went back to his work.
“Don't laugh.
Tuck your butt in.”
“It's too big, I can't tuck it in.
My mommy said my butt is like an elephant's butt.” As Doudou spoke, she even wiggled her bottom.
“Copy me.”
Yin Xingyue also struck a pose for 【Embracing Wind Slumber】.
Knees slightly bent, body in a slight squat, arms encircling the empty air.
“It's a slight squat, not sticking your butt out.
Imagine you're holding something…”
Doudou was very confused. She was squatting.
She looked down at herself. Her legs were just too short, so you couldn't tell she was squatting at all; it just looked like she was sticking her butt out…
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“Don't rush off after work, everyone.
We're having a meeting,” Zhou Chuan said, standing up to remind them.
The moment his words landed, a collective groan erupted from the crowd.
“Are you serious? Leader, when did you learn this trick of holding meetings after work? You had all this time during work hours and you didn't call one?” Wang Chao was the first to complain.
“The Conference Room was occupied by the Planning Department all afternoon.
What could I do? I had to wait until after work.”
“We still have to go to the Conference Room?”
“Duh.
We're going to review last month's Data Analysis Report together. Wait, don't tell me you haven't written yours yet?”
“Uh…”
“What have you been doing all day?” Zhou Chuan was fuming.
He didn't mind people slacking off, but the prerequisite was to get your work done first. He was the leader, after all.
“What about the rest of you?” Zhou Chuan asked the others.
“I've already written mine.”
“Me too, already sent it to your email.”
“I finished mine last Friday.”
…
As everyone spoke up, Zhou Chuan's expression finally softened a little.
His gaze then fell back on Wang Chao.
“It's always you. You always procrastinate, never doing anything until the last possible moment.”
“Leader, I really forgot this time. I'll do it right now, I promise I'll finish it before the end of work today.”
Zhou Chuan was helpless. He could only tell him to hurry up and sat back down.
Every month, everyone had to do a data analysis for the game projects they were in charge of. If the Revenue Target was met, everyone was happy, and the meeting would be over after a few casual remarks.
If the revenue wasn't met, there would be endless analysis, from holiday events to system gameplay, picking everything apart frame by frame to find the cause.
Of course, the usual final conclusion of the analysis was that this batch of Players was no good…
Zhou Chuan was a pretty good leader, so the meeting didn't take up too much of everyone's time.
But even so, it was already seven-thirty when they left the Conference Room.
By the time Shen Siyuan had dinner outside and got home, it was almost nine o'clock.
He rode his bike downstairs and had just parked his Electric Bike when Lu Guanchang, Old Man Lu, whom he hadn't seen for several days, came up to him.
However, he didn't dare to get too close.
His eyes fell on Yin Xingyue and Doudou, who were riding the Yin Wind and circling around Shen Siyuan, and his face showed fear.
Especially the Flames on Doudou, which she couldn't fully retract, made his heart pound.
Getting too close made his Soul throb with a sharp pain.
But while he was afraid, he also felt a faint sense of envy and jealousy in his heart.
He wanted Shen Siyuan to help him meet his Wife and Daughter. He had begged and pleaded before the other had reluctantly agreed.
Yet these two little girls before him had easily obtained an Opportunity or Fateful Encounter and become extraordinary.
What he didn't know was that although he hid his jealousy well and didn't show it, as soon as the thought arose, the Fleshy Tumors on his face grew more numerous, looking as if they were about to fester.
This was the external manifestation of Appearance Reflects the Heart, something that couldn't be concealed.
Shen Siyuan naturally noticed this as well, but he didn't pay it much mind and instead asked, “Have you found your Ex-wife and Daughter?”
Old Man Lu nodded hastily.
Being a Ghost made things much more convenient. Following some old clues, after several days of effort, he had actually managed to find them.