Li Jing was very satisfied with her new mobile phone.
With Fu Lingchu’s subordinates’ super strong work ability, the mobile phone card was also processed, and the phone charge account was also topped up - it was just that the phone charge account was only topped up for 100 yuan.
Li Jing: “Is this the kind of showiness that President Fu should have?”
System: “A small flip phone doesn’t need that much phone charge!”
Li Jing: “Oh, you’re right.”
The progress here was pretty good now. Fu Lingchu’s favorability rating was 6%. For someone as cold-hearted and indifferent as him, he had no affection for almost anyone except his White Moonlight. So, if you could get Fu Lingchu’s favorability rating to over 10%, his attitude would change significantly.
Now that Li Jing had a phone, she just needed to wait for Fu Lingchu to contact her and go through the plot.
Of course, in the original plot, Fu Lingchu used to torture her to increase his favorability rating. Now, she could use the brainwashing method of her being a tragic woman who didn’t care about money to increase his favorability rating.
Li Jing strolled back to school leisurely.
But as she walked, she suddenly noticed something was wrong.
Li Jing subtly turned her head slightly, her peripheral vision glancing back, and she immediately saw that the person standing with their back to her, buying something from a street stall, was following her.
- Oh, Ye Yan’s people, they came pretty fast.
It was a pity that she had experienced too many worlds and done too many missions. This level was simply too easy for her.
“Host, the White Moonlight is mainly here to investigate the movements around the male lead at this stage. Under the current circumstances where the three male leads have low favorability ratings for you, it’s best not to provoke Ye Yan’s hostility.”
Li Jing: “Of course, we need to sustainably cut the leeks - ah, no, develop the relationships.”
Ye Yan was a person with a pretty high level, at least in Li Jing’s eyes, she was higher than the three male leads. She was able to hook these three big fish in three different stages of her life, and she was able to make these three men who excel in various fields remember her. She must have some real skills.
Li Jing walked forward nonchalantly, went around a small path, and then made a quick turn, suddenly disappearing from the detective’s sight.
The detective stood there, anxiously looking left and right, but couldn’t find that thin figure anywhere.
“But I have to create some confusion for her,” Li Jing said to the system, “That way, she’ll have to hire a more expensive detective for me.”
A private detective who only charged 100,000 yuan, their skills were still a bit lacking.
System: “…“carpreads.pages.dev
System: This money-making idea is something it never expected.
However, it had now somewhat adapted to Li Jing’s operations. Out of professional ethics, it still dutifully gave a word of advice.
“Host, the retirement bonus needs to be approved by the Main God. If quick transmigration employees become obsessed with making money and slow down the plot progress, they will be punished.”
Li Jing snorted, “Anyway, it’s the last world. Let me tell you a secret, actually, all the transmigration female leads are the easiest to be. Because the world rules will automatically help beautify the female lead’s image in the male leads’ hearts, driving the plot development.”
- This is a statement from a top-performing employee of the Transmigration Bureau, speaking from pure experience.
She had just walked back to school at this time. On the surface, she looked like an ordinary college student in her prime, but in her heart, she was completely a big shot, saying, “So transmigration is actually very simple. The Transmigration Bureau can’t figure this out, they’re such big fools.”
As she was speaking, a figure walked towards Li Jing.
The man had a head of silver hair, but it didn’t look out of place at all.
Because under the sunlight, the man’s features were extremely three-dimensional and handsome, like a god-like sculpture meticulously carved by a craftsman, every line had perfect proportions, almost making people dizzy.
The man inexplicably met Li Jing’s gaze, as if he had heard her words.
The system was still sighing to Li Jing: “…You’re really bold, be careful that the big shot from the Transmigration Bureau who is inspecting the work hear you!”
And Li Jing was also sighing, “Do the random teachers in this world all have this level of looks?”
He was even more handsome than the male lead.
They soon passed each other.
It wasn’t until he walked away that the silver-haired man smiled lightly.
Interesting.
After Ye Yan’s private detective lost track of Li Jing, her transaction details didn’t show any movements related to Ye Yan.
But at the same time, Fu Lingchu didn’t make any moves either. This was very intriguing.
Every time Ye Yan appeared, it was a reminder to the male leads, reminding them where their true love was, and that anyone else around them was fake. However, the clearer this feeling became, the emptier that longing became. They needed a substitute even more.
Li Jing then took this time to carefully nurture her face, maintaining her 100% beauty.
The next day, while working at the cake shop.
Her little mobile phone received its first text message since it was turned on:
[Qin Yu Club. Private Piano Room. 18:00.]
Li Jing put down her phone and smiled.
She had just taken off her glasses when a customer came in to order. As soon as he met her eyes, his face turned red: “I, I want a matcha mille-feuille.”
Li Jing smiled: “Okay.”
Men, they’re pretty much all the same.
These noble male leads, they were just throwing themselves into the net—facing a face that perfectly matches their aesthetic, how could their hearts remain calm?
After Li Jing finished work, the car sent by Fu Lingchu was already parked at the door of the shop—to be precise, at the door of President Fu’s shop.
Fu Lingchu didn’t care what the students passing by thought of Li Jing. Fortunately, Li Jing didn’t care much either.
She got into the car with a calm expression amidst the various gazes. The special assistant sent her to the door of the high-end club and didn’t go in.
Li Jing’s attire was out of place with the luxurious environment here, but the waiters didn’t dare to be negligent, because they all knew who was sitting in the quietest piano room on the inside.
Li Jing, with a calm expression, was led by someone through the long, quiet corridor. Pushing open the door, a strong European artistic atmosphere rushed towards her. She passed a wall full with oil paintings hanging on it before finally entering the piano room.
Fu Lingchu was sitting on a leather sofa, the whiskey in the glass beside him was already half-empty, clearly in a bad mood.
In the original plot, Fu Lingchu asked Li Jing to stay with him in the piano room because Ye Yan had played a few pieces for him before, becoming a cherished tenderness in his heart. The brief warmth he showed that day surprised the original owner, making her mistakenly believe that their relationship had eased. So she reached out and tentatively played a few notes on the piano.
However, Fu Lingchu’s face instantly changed, and he mocked her with extremely blunt words: “Don’t you even look at who you are? Do you deserve to play the piano with this face?”
Later, people in the wealthy circle heard that she was presumptuous enough to want to play the piano, and they publicly forced her to perform at a banquet, crushing the female lead’s dignity to the ground.
The system said to Li Jing: “Host, according to your work records, you won the world-class piano competition in the last world, so you can perfectly resolve this plot and greatly increase Fu Lingchu’s favorability.”
Li Jing thought: Indeed.
Her piano skills were indeed excellent.
This also made her immediately recognize that the piano Fu Lingchu had placed in this private piano room was very valuable.
Li Jing: ^_^
Fu Lingchu glanced at Li Jing, didn’t let her sit, and didn’t speak.
He slowly sipped the wine in his glass, his deep eyes extending from the rim of the glass, unreservedly scanning her from top to bottom.
After finishing his drink, Fu Lingchu pointed to the changing room on the inside, using a very contemptuous tone: “Go change your clothes.”
There was a matching outfit that Ye Yan had worn.
Li Jing thought, golden leeks even covered clothing expenses, not bad.
She checked her account, and Fu Lingchu hadn’t been stingy enough to buy her a fake, the dress was a genuine 50,000 yuan.
So Li Jing had no complaints and cooperated by going to change clothes.
While she was changing clothes, Fu Lingchu poured himself another glass of wine.
He only needed a counterfeit to sit in front of the piano, looking at her silhouette, imagining that she was Ye Yan. He needed to numb himself, quietly being in the same room with Ye Yan, happily accompanying each other.
As for Li Jing? Fu Lingchu didn’t want her to touch the piano at all. Only someone like A’yan could play ethereal and pure music, just like her person, gentle as water…
The door to the changing room opened.
Li Jing had become adept at using this face and was very clear about Fu Lingchu’s preferences.
So at that moment, the outline of her lowered eyes, the curve of her lips, the atmosphere emanating from every strand of her hair, all hit Fu Lingchu’s hidden heart, emitting a fatal attraction.
Fu Lingchu’s pupils constricted.
“Is it okay?” Li Jing showed a hint of embarrassment.
Fu Lingchu’s favorability +4%
Li Jing: Oh ho, it’s over 10%.
Men are indeed visual creatures, so simple.
Fu Lingchu’s voice tightened slightly: “Okay…” His tone was clearly different from before.
The system said: “If you strike while the iron is hot, you might be able to boost your favorability rating again!”
Li Jing: “Don’t rush.”
The male lead needed to fall into her rhythm.
Li Jing didn’t speak much, because Fu Lingchu was already captivated by her face and attire.
“I haven’t been here for a long time,” Fu Lingchu’s voice was low and magnetic, “Sitting here… brings back a lot of memories.
Li Jing extracted the key point: Oh, he’s lonely.
“I see all sorts of people every day, but there’s not a single one I can truly talk to.”
Li Jing made a comment: Hmm, he’s starved for love.
“But at this moment,” Fu Lingchu raised his dark eyes, his profound aura settling heavily, “I am at peace.”
Li Jing summed it up: He’s an idiot.
If it were the original owner, it would be hard for her not to misunderstand at this moment, thinking that the high-and-mighty CEO had opened up his heart to her. Little did she know that all these words Fu Lingchu was saying were directed at the imagined Ye Yan. As soon as she touched the piano, he would immediately turn cold, and she would be ridiculed by the wealthy circles.
However, Li Jing’s thoughts were not revealed on her face in the slightest. Her expression at this moment was three parts serious, three parts slightly surprised, and three parts bewildered, complex enough to be interpreted from any angle.
At least, it seemed like Fu Lingchu was interpreting it from the angle he liked.
His favorability rating slowly climbed another 1%.
The system’s voice was a little excited: “Host, the next plot point, you can choose to follow the original melodramatic plot, pretend you don’t know how to play the piano, or choose to show off your talent and amaze him with your music!”
Li Jing gently raised her hand, her white fingertips landing on the black and white keys: “Then I’ll choose plan C.”
In her experience, boosting Fu Lingchu’s favorability rating by 5% in one night was basically the limit. For a shrewd businessman like Fu Lingchu, he wouldn’t let his emotions fluctuate constantly.
—But his money could.
So Li Jing neither played blindly nor played genuinely, but gently stroked the keys, her voice nostalgic.
“This piano… reminds me of the orphanage, before I was adopted. It’s exactly the same as the one the teacher played.”
System: “What kind of performance is this???”
Fu Lingchu also snapped out of his reverie.
He wanted to scoff. How could the dilapidated orphanage Li Jing lived in possibly have a piano of this caliber? However, with 10% favorability, he merely shifted his expression, but didn’t utter any words of mockery.
“We all longed for that piano, but it was eventually taken away,” Li Jing’s stubborn eyes revealed a plea for the first time in front of him, “Could you donate one to the orphanage?”
“In my name…”
Fu Lingchu remained silent.
The system also fell silent.
A single tear from Li Jing gently fell onto the piano keys. It made no sound, yet it was like a pebble thrown into the lake of Fu Lingchu’s heart.
She timely delivered the final line: “I want to use this to tell them that I’m doing well now.”
Fu Lingchu’s breath grew shallow. After a few seconds, he agreed to the request.
“—Okay.”
The girl in white lowered her head and smiled faintly, sincerely saying:
“Thank you, thank you!”
-—–
That day, Fu Lingchu didn’t do anything else. He left quickly.
With the keen sense of a successful businessman, he felt something was off, but couldn’t figure it out.
Could there really be someone in the world who didn’t care about money and was dedicated to giving back?
Was she a fool, or an angel?
On the other side.
Li Jing just saw the transaction details: [Fu Lingchu Donation/Steinway Piano, Value 700,000 Yuan]
The sound of the money counter rang for a long time, and Li Jing’s balance directly became over a million.
She couldn’t help but whistle.
Fu Lingchu, let me tell you thank you, because of you—
Author Note:
The male protagonist has quietly appeared.