Pretending To Be A Boss-Chapter 530 - 5: Cute Girl_2

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But Li Xiaoyu still indulged Tang Xian.

After all, it was not easy to see him even once, so how could she afford to complain?

She lay on her side with her eyes closed, thinking about various things. Despite feeling incredibly tired and worn out, she just couldn't fall asleep.

Tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

And she didn't know that, at this very moment, in a distant fortress in France, there was also a man—

Restlessly rolling over, sleepless.

Li Xiaoyu wanted to say something, she had been so worn out lately, but what was the point of telling Dong Ran or Qiao Shanshan?

Tell Pyramid, Tang Feiji, Tang Xiaojiu, those myriad beasts? They surely couldn't comprehend human emotional complexity. And it always felt out of place anyway.

Only when Tang Xian's face flashed through her mind did Li Xiaoyu feel the most desire to speak.

This thought was like an alarm clock constantly swinging and causing a commotion in her mind.

In fact, ever since that Santa Claus had taken her away from Fortress 39, she had wanted to say something but always felt she lacked the conviction.

Now... now she seemed to lack it still.

Li Xiaoyu's expression became dejected, like a "clearly delighted" little cat.

The comparison might be strange, but their drooping expressions were indeed the same.

After a long while, she slowly regained her calm and began muttering to herself:

"Tang Xian, I miss you."

Even though that person couldn't hear her, even though she used to miss him intensely, it never felt as helpless as it did now.

It used to be better before, Li Xiaoyu bit her lip and closed her eyes, thinking about how she used to constantly send people to monitor... to protect him. Now she didn't even know where he had gone.

In the end, she couldn't resist the fatigue. It wasn't just tiredness from staying up late one night, but rather exhaustion from several days of high-intensity work.

Li Xiaoyu was reluctant to linger in dreams. If she couldn't dream of that person, it was tremendously dull, and if she did dream of him, it was even more distressing to wake up and not see him.

So she set two exquisite little alarm clocks. She made sure that when one clock's clamor briefly ceased, the other would seamlessly take over with its noise.

Because she had been getting increasingly fatigued lately, getting up had become more and more difficult.

She fell into a heavy sleep.

Waiting for the alarm clock to wake her up.

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The alarm clock didn't wake Li Xiaoyu up.

She slept for eleven hours and then woke up due to hunger.

Li Xiaoyu put on a pair of fuzzy little rabbit slippers, which she had gotten from the Holy Land Fortress. With her personality, she normally wouldn't wear them, but once she got a taste for the cute attire, she found it irresistible.

Rubbing her bleary eyes, Li Xiaoyu glanced at the clock.

She was a bit out of it. Ah, the alarm didn't go off, did it?

It was odd that she had slept through to the afternoon. After checking the alarm clocks, Li Xiaoyu found they had stopped, seemingly malfunctioning. Both of them at the same time.

Thinking about the pile of work she had to do, and the numerous proposals waiting for her review, she rubbed her forehead and frowned as she walked out of the inner room, thinking that since she had rested enough today, she'd need to be efficient.

She pushed open the door and froze as her gaze settled on her usual workplace.

Li Xiaoyu stared at Tang Xian who was busy reviewing various proposals for her, realizing suddenly—it wasn't that the clocks were broken, she had just not woken up.

She was getting ready to go back to sleep when she suddenly heard Tang Xian laugh.

Although it should be a dream, Li Xiaoyu was still curious about what he was laughing at.

"What are you laughing at?"

Tang Xian thought Li Xiaoyu lacked the childlike charm of Tang Xiaojiu.

To him, Li Xiaoyu often seemed foolish.

But today was different. When he saw "Find the correct position to wake up from a dream 29%" appearing in the current needs analysis of Baichuan City's top official, he couldn't help it.

She might be foolish, but he admitted Li Xiaoyu was the second smartest woman he had ever met. Of course, after his memory returned, Li Xiaoyu probably became the third smartest.

The first and second would probably be Ju Mang and his mother respectively.

In the end, when smart people are confused, they are very cute.

"Actually, there are many ways to wake up from a dream. You can do something you wouldn't dare do in reality, like experience a falling sensation, to wake yourself up through a strong stimulus."

"My office is on the sixth floor. Are you suggesting I jump down from here? That's indeed a good suggestion," Li Xiaoyu thought to herself that the Tang Xian in her dream was as foolish as can be.

Tang Xian didn't say anything but suddenly stood up.

Li Xiaoyu had a bad feeling all of a sudden.

With a sudden cry of alarm, she saw Tang Xian embrace her waist and his high-tech glove shot out a grappling hook, though she had no idea where the hook had landed.

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Then, a surge of force instantly pulled her outside the house—

The rushing airflow and the feeling of weightlessness didn't wake her up after all?

Li Xiaoyu's face turned red in an instant. She should have been pale from fright, but the sensation of being held firmly at the waist felt too real.

There was no scream, never underestimate how high-pitched and sustained a woman can shriek.

While Li Xiaoyu was in the midst of her scream, Tang Xian kept swinging around Baichuan City.

In the liveliest area of the city, there were earth-shattering changes compared to when she and Tang Feiji first arrived here.

But the biggest contributor to these changes wasn't the discoverer herself, or rather the hands-off manager, but Li Xiaoyu.

After a minute-long Spider-Man style swing, the two stopped at a crossroads where few people passed by.

Tang Xian looked at Li Xiaoyu, whose face was flushed and who was breathing rapidly, and laughed,

"Is this position correct? Are you awake now?"

No matter how dazed Li Xiaoyu could be, her mind was now clear, and all traces of sleepiness vanished.

She spoke in a tiny voice, just like an autumn mosquito,

"I'm awake. You... Let me down first."

Because during the swinging, her cute rabbit slippers were thrown off, Tang Xian seemed to have noticed this, so he switched to a princess carry before they finally landed.

"Are you sure?"

"No... not sure."

Li Xiaoyu felt extremely embarrassed.

Strange, she used to think that she would never feel embarrassed doing anything with this person.

In retrospect, she probably knew that Tang Xian wouldn't tease her.

Isn't everyone a child longing for companionship? It's just that knowing there's no one to accompany you, you have to grow up from a child prematurely.

"I thought you had something important to do, leaving Song Que and the others behind. Do you have a plan?"

"I do have something to take care of, and I won't stay long."

"So you came back to..."

"Check on you."

"Ah... Am I still not fully awake?"

"It seems that the term 'dimwittedness' really does exist in this world," Tang Xian said earnestly.

Li Xiaoyu gave Tang Xian a soft punch, and then fell silent.

Although being held felt nice, Li Xiaoyu wasn't used to it. She wanted to get down, but her shoes were gone, and it would be too embarrassing to walk barefoot and be seen by others.

What a dilemma. He must be doing this on purpose, right?

Tang Xian looked at Li Xiaoyu, whose needs changed quickly, and felt a sense of satisfaction seeing her.

This feeling was somewhat frustrating for him, but not unwelcome.

So he just held this young lady and slowly walked back from the crossroads.

Tang Xian had seen many people in his life.

But he had never met anyone like Li Xiaoyu, with an affection rating for him that seemed to exceed the system's upper limit.

And this was something that had never changed.

He had seen Li Xiaoyu's fortune fluctuate from being unadvisable to pitifully poor, and her disdain go from the mines to the Pyramid.

All these changes, in fact, were because of him.

Yet the one thing that remained unchanged was her affection rating, as if there was an error in the value.

"To love without measuring, makes it hard to forget." Tang Xian had not experienced this. Most of the time, without measuring, one should forget.

Yet many things and people in life need to be carefully considered to recognize those invisible yet intense emotions.

The series of talent data before his eyes saved Tang Xian from a lot of guessing and pondering.

There was a feeling of having been spoiled, but at this moment he still felt a bit uncomfortable, saying,

"I admit, you're cute."

"Cute as in adorable, or cute as in suitable to be loved?" Li Xiaoyu would definitely not miss the opportunity, and was no longer shy and flustered.

At this moment, she acted even sturdier than Tang Xian.

Tang Xian paused, and then said,

"Cute as in 'to tear apart the word' is not cute, but... I'll make an exception this time."