14: Chapter 14: I can't hide it anymore, my wife has discovered my golden head!

Seeing the document she lightly pinched between her thumb and index finger, Lu Li's brain crashed.

This thing...

Didn't I hit it away with a tennis racket??

I even put a button battery inside to add weight, so it should have flown over the villa wall long ago and ended up in some trash can in a corner. Where exactly did things go wrong?

"Lu Li."

Su Qingxue flicked her wrist, slamming the phone heavily onto the dining table.

Clap!

This sharp sound caused Lu Li to skip a heartbeat.

"One lie yesterday wasn't enough, so you want to continue playing the Oscar-winning actor today?"

It was over.

His beautiful life of being a kept man was likely coming to an end.

Beside them, Chen Shuyu shrank her neck, staring at the phone on the table—that was her phone!

But at this moment, Su Qingxue's aura was fully unleashed, like a queen descending; how could she dare to speak up and ask for her phone back?

Wait...

What heinous thing did Lu Li actually do?

Chen Shuyu's eyes darted around; this earth-shattering gossip was finally something she, King Xiaoyu, could feast on.

This moocher usually looked honest, but he must have been up to no good behind the scenes. Was he finally going to be kicked out today? Hehe!

"Um..."

Lu Li scratched his head, his brain spinning rapidly.

"Actually, I do know a tiny bit."

He held up his thumb and index finger, gesturing a "tiny bit."

"You know, I do game design."

"To optimize game performance, I usually study some low-level hardware logic."

"As for this battery plan..."

Lu Li spread his hands, looking innocent: "It was also something a geek friend I met on an overseas forum came up with. I was just responsible for helping him polish the document and offered a few suggestions along the way."

Admitting to it was fine, but he was absolutely unwilling to admit to everything.

Otherwise, he feared he would never be able to leave the laboratory at the Guanghui Technology R&D Center again.

"Another friend?"

Su Qingxue raised an eyebrow, smiling without mirth, her tone playful.

"Yes, a friend! That Full-screen display concept, as well as the system optimization, were all discussed within that small circle of ours. Yang Lu, the one you chatted with, is also part of that circle."

Lu Li passed the buck completely.

As long as I don't admit it, Qingxue can't drag me off to work.

Su Qingxue didn't speak.

Her fingers lightly tapped the tabletop, making a rhythmic "tap-tap" sound.

Each sound felt like it was knocking on Lu Li's heart.

Sitting on the side, Chen Shuyu had completely turned to stone.

Although she wasn't a technical expert, she was still a top student, and those keywords just now had exploded in her mind like thunderclaps.

Full-screen display?

That smooth system that crushes iOS?

And now a silicon-carbon negative electrode battery?

Any one of these three things, if pulled out, would be enough to make a tech company's stock price skyrocket on the spot, shooting straight from Earth to Mars!

And these nuclear-level technologies capable of changing the industry landscape were actually all related to Lu Li, who was sitting in front of her in pajamas, doing nothing but playing games?

Even if it was just providing ideas...

That was still a priceless "Golden Brain"!

Chen Shuyu felt her worldview shattering.

Where was this a moocher?

This was clearly a deep-sea behemoth disguised as a grass carp!

If these were all Lu Li's work...

Good heavens, did Qingxue save the galaxy in her past life to pick up such an immortal husband?

Chen Shuyu's mouth hung open in an "O" shape, and just as she wanted to scream, Su Qingxue's cold gaze blocked the words back into her throat.

The gossip was too big.

It was choking her.

"Lu Li." Su Qingxue finally spoke, her voice cold. "Do you think I'll believe that?"

Lu Li gave a dry laugh: "Wife, take a look at those ideas; could one person really complete them?"

This was said with righteous confidence.

Indeed, whether it was the system or the battery, the workload was not something one person could complete alone.

They were products that required the collaboration of a massive team.

"That makes sense."

Su Qingxue nodded, then turned Lu Li's phone screen around and pushed it in front of him.

The screen was still frozen on the messaging app QQ.

It was exactly the chat between her and "Ada Wong".

Seeing exactly what was discussed, Lu Li's heart sank with a "thud".

Good grief, Tech Director Dou Bao had sold him out.

Tech Director Dou Bao didn't admit to the battery matter at all.

It was his own fault for forgetting to tell Tech Director Dou Bao about this silicon-carbon negative electrode battery.

But at the time, he couldn't have imagined that the file for this thing wouldn't be cleared by the sanitation worker!

Now it was a mess, with the chat history laid out right here, and "Ada Wong" knowing nothing about the battery.

If it were really as Lu Li said, that they were all part of a geek group, how could Yang Lu (Ada Wong) not know about this battery matter?

The logical loop had collapsed.

"The battery was developed by me and another team; I was indeed in a leading position!"

Lu Li's smile stiffened as he tried to take Su Qingxue's hand.

"Wife, I'm sorry. Keeping it from you was my fault. It's also because I love game development so much, and I was afraid that if you found out, you wouldn't let me make games!"

Su Qingxue leaned back slightly, avoiding his claws.

"Fine, I can overlook the matter of you hiding it."

She actually nodded.

Lu Li had just let out a sigh of relief, only to see Su Qingxue change the subject, revealing her true intent.

"However, since you understand code, hardware, and system optimization, and can even provide battery improvement plans, and you keep claiming you love games."

"Then why hasn't your so-called game studio, which has been established for two years, produced even a decent Demo?"

The smile on Lu Li's face froze instantly.

Oh no.

The boomerang hit his own knee.

"Slow work yields fine results..." he defended weakly.

"Slow work?"

Su Qingxue picked up the phone beside her, realized it was Chen Shuyu's, then turned the front camera toward Chen Shuyu, unlocked it, and opened the calendar.

"Your talent shouldn't be wasted on the sofa and entertainment. It's been two years and five days."

"Since you have this shocking ability, you should dedicate it to more valuable technological research!"

She looked up, her eyes filled with unquestionable determination.

"Five days."

Su Qingxue held up five fair fingers and waved them in the air.

"I'll give you five days."

"If you can't produce that game you've been bragging about for so long, it proves your studio is just wasting time."

"Then, you close the studio."

"Honestly come report to Guanghui Group."

Speaking up to this point, the corners of Su Qingxue's mouth curled up slightly, revealing the smugness of a hunter closing the net.

"The position of Product Manager at the company is reserved for you."

"It's perfect; you can properly implement those ideas from your friends in that geek circle."

Lu Li's face turned pale.

Product Manager?

Is that a life for a human?

How did he die from overwork in his previous life?

Wasn't it endless meetings, research, and rushing progress?

For a salted fish determined to eat soft rice until the end, this was harder than killing him!

"Wife, isn't five days too short? Game development is not a small task..."

Lu Li tried a last-ditch struggle.

"Think it's too short?"

Su Qingxue made a move to dial the HR department. "Then how about tomorrow? Since I'm driving, we can go to work together and save on gas."

"Don't!"

Lu Li instantly gave up, his face tragic.

"Five days it is."

Watching Lu Li's expression as if he were facing a formidable enemy, a trace of imperceptible amusement flashed in Su Qingxue's eyes.

Little brat.

Still can't handle you?

Just wait until you come to work obediently.

Only Chen Shuyu, who was beside them, still maintained her open-mouthed posture, completely out of the loop.

Her mind was a mess.

Clearly, over these past two years, she had long ago labeled Lu Li as a "good-for-nothing," "moocher," and "parasite" in her heart.

Yet, in the time it took for one meal today.

This moocher had transformed into a peerless master forced out of retirement by a female CEO?

Had this guy been hiding himself all along?