7: Chapter 7 The Childhood Sweethearts of the Chosen One

That night, the office of the Chairman of Company Name was brightly lit.

Some female employees working overtime whispered as they passed by:

"Today's Chairman Qin seems different from before."

"He's not only inhumanly handsome."

"But he's also been busy in the office until now."

"So handsome and so capable!"

"It's said that Chairman Qin and Chairman Jiang had a conflict and seem to have broken up; even the gifts he gave her in the past were returned by Chairman Jiang."

"If only Chairman Qin liked me..."

Just thinking about it, the few female employees couldn't help but cross their legs tightly.

They postured and posed outside the office for a while, but failed to attract Qin Ge's attention.

Disappointed, they clocked out and left.

As the lights outside went out, Qin Ge leaned over his desk and couldn't help but curse, "Just how perverted is this guy? A one-terabyte hard drive filled entirely with stalker photos of Jiang Yingxue?"

The key is that they were all the kind where she was fully clothed.

What's the point of looking at photos like these?

Qin Ge, who started by just deleting the photos, ended up formatting the whole drive.

He had already given up on the idea of finding clues about the plot through his predecessor's computer.

His predecessor was just a complete idiot with a love-struck brain.

The computer was the same.

There was absolutely no useful information.

Suddenly, his ears twitched as he heard an imperceptible, faint sound.

This was the heightened senses effect that came with the Divine Ability "Body of the Dao of Survival."

"Didn't everyone get off work?"

"Could a thief have broken into the company?"

Qin Ge looked at the pitch-black office area outside the window, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly.

He stood up, slowly opened the office door, and walked silently toward the direction of the faint sound.

In the snack area, under the dim lights.

In front of the refrigerated display case filled with freshly baked cakes, a girl wearing a small white dress and draped in an oversized suit jacket, which still couldn't hide her slender frame, was standing there.

She was sneakingily opening the refrigerated cabinet.

She moved quickly, grabbing a croissant and stuffing it into her arms, as if afraid of being seen.

Suddenly, a firm, powerful hand firmly gripped her fair wrist as she reached out again.

Qin Ge frowned, his smile becoming increasingly wicked under the dim lights of the snack area. "Stealing, are we!?"

Lin Xiaojin turned around, and the moment she saw Qin Ge, her heart skipped a beat.

She had been caught red-handed stealing cake by the company's Chairman.

There was no hope for her to become a permanent employee; she was going to be fired!

Lin Xiaojin hurriedly said, "Chairman Qin, please listen to my explanation."

"Explanation? What is there to explain?" Qin Ge picked up the name tag in front of Lin Xiaojin. "An intern in the Operations Department, Lin Xiaojin? There are still three days left until your three-month probation ends."

"You haven't even become a permanent employee yet, and you're already thinking about stealing the company's cakes."

"Once you become a permanent employee, won't you be looting the company for all it's worth?"

Qin Ge looked at the terrified Lin Xiaojin before him and couldn't help but enjoy it.

Who would have thought that while dilly-dallying in the office deleting photos, he would actually catch a Daughter of Destiny stealing things?

That really is something.

This luck is just too good!

If Jiang Yingxue was the dream lover that the mountain-descending expert Chen Yuan fell in love with at first sight.

Then the Lin Xiaojin before him was Chen Yuan's childhood sweetheart, his white moonlight, who grew up with him!

She was the existence Chen Yuan dreamed of.

Qin Ge hadn't expected that Lin Xiaojin would actually be working as an intern at his company now.

"Chairman Qin, I'm hungry. I just wanted to take some cake from the snack area to take home and eat." Lin Xiaojin pouted aggrievedly.

Qin Ge, however, said with a straight face, "The snack area is a perk for the company's permanent employees. You are just an intern; what right do you have to enjoy such perks?"

"Stealing is stealing; are you refusing to admit it?"

"If you were in the right, why would you sneak in here when all the other employees have already gone home?"

Lin Xiaojin felt indescribably guilty and aggrieved.

Previously, the veteran employees in the company would even take the initiative to let her have cake.

She just thought the cake was delicious and wanted to take it home to eat with her mother.

Since she hadn't seen any employees taking snacks home after work, she had snuck around and waited until she was the last one to leave the company.

Who would have thought she would be caught by Chairman Qin?

She had long heard that Chairman Qin was temperamental.

If Chairman Jiang smiled, Chairman Qin would be cheerful all day.

If Chairman Jiang was angry, the employees of the entire Weixue Group wouldn't dare to breathe loudly for the rest of the day.

Today, it was said that Chairman Jiang and Chairman Qin had broken up, and even all the past gifts had been returned.

Chairman Qin must be furious.

It was such bad luck that she got caught at a time like this.

This is truly terrible luck!

"Chairman Qin, I'm sorry. I know I was wrong. I won't take the cake."

Lin Xiaojin held a few croissants in her hands and held them out in front of Qin Ge.

Qin Ge glanced at them. "Just five croissants?"

Lin Xiaojin nodded timidly.

Qin Ge pointed at Lin Xiaojin's oversized suit. "Then what are you hiding in your chest that's bulging out like that?"

He reached out, grabbed it twice, and said angrily, "Do you think I wouldn't notice if you hid cream puffs inside your dress?"

With the croissants in her hands, Lin Xiaojin instinctively shielded her chest with her arms. She hung her little head in extreme shame and said aggrievedly, "Chairman Qin, that's not a cream puff!"

Lin Xiaojin's voice was somewhat choked up, tinged with a crying tone.

Qin Ge's expression turned increasingly unfriendly. "You're the one stealing, yet you're the one acting aggrieved?"

"Fine then, I'm calling the police!"

"Behavior like yours—stealing from your own workplace—is an even more serious offense."

Lin Xiaojin shook her head frantically. She put the croissants back into the refrigerated cabinet and pleaded, "Chairman Qin, please don't call the police. I'll return them to you. I'll return everything to you, won't that be enough?"

Qin Ge laughed. "By that logic, if stealing something and returning it means nothing happened, does that mean a rapist isn't guilty of rape if they pull out?"

"Ding! The Daughter of Destiny Lin Xiaojin's shame and indignation levels have exploded. The Host is rewarded with a Gambling Agreement."

"If the gamble fails, the Host loses 100 points of Physique. If the gamble succeeds, the Host will receive an additional reward."

"Gambling Agreement 1: Engage in a monetary transaction with the Daughter of Destiny Lin Xiaojin. Failure results in a deduction of 100 Physique points; success grants the medical skill 'The Art of Restoring Life'!"

"Gambling Agreement 2: Engage in a long-term monetary transaction with the Daughter of Destiny Lin Xiaojin for three consecutive days. Failure will no longer deduct Physique points; success grants the Divine Ability 'Immunity to All Poisons'!"

"Gambling Agreement 3: Reverse the Daughter of Destiny Lin Xiaojin's perception of the Host from disgust to favor. Failure will no longer deduct Physique points; success grants the upgraded version of 'The Art of Restoring Life', the Divine Ability 'Flesh to White Bone'!"

"Gambling Agreement 4: ..."

"..."

"Does the Host wish to proceed with the gamble?"

Hearing the System's notification sound, Qin Ge's eyes lit up.

Holy crap!

What a badass move—this is truly next-level.

This villain System really knows how to play games.

It even came up with a Gambling Agreement?