What Do I Do If My Boss Took Control of My Voice Chat Assistant?

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A gorgeous blogger who cares about nothing but making money x her humble, devoted, lovesick boss

One day, a user with the ID E posted a photo on the social media platform: a cheek-to-cheek selfie with Jiang Lili, a blogger with tens of millions of followers.

In the photo, the woman playfully winks while the man beside her gazes at her with an adoring smile. The caption reads: "I planned this for a long time, and finally got what I wanted."

At first, netizens thought it was just one of countless AI-generated photos.

So most of the comments were mocking:

[Seeing such a handsome man with our Sister Li makes me feel better about it.]

[The guy really is handsome, and the photo editing is really good.]

After the post had been trending for a while, the comments began to change direction:

[Guys, can someone tell me why it doesn't say this was AI-generated?]

[Holy crap, isn't that man Jiang Jingmian, the founder of JN Capital?]

[We're doomed, everyone. I have Jiang Lili's Moments, and I saw this photo there.]

1.

The year she graduated, Jiang Lili signed with Shang Media and became a beauty blogger.

The day after her interview, she ran into a strange-looking man.

At the elevator, the man was about to step out, but when he saw her, he stepped back inside.

After she got into the elevator, he abruptly asked whether she'd been doing well all these years.

Jiang Lili: ???

When she got home, she complained to her voice-chat assistant about the guy.

The assistant, which usually replied in an instant, unusually faltered: "Master, could it be that you know each other, but you've forgotten?"

"How could that be?" she answered without hesitation.

It wasn't until her high school reunion that she remembered: the man was her high school classmate, now the founder of JN Capital and the biggest investor in her company.

Jiang Lili's inner monologue: Good thing I stopped myself from cursing him. Otherwise, I'd be out of a job.

2.

Later, the two of them started dating. Jiang Jingmian was even more gentle and considerate than she'd imagined, practically the perfect boyfriend.

Until one day, while she was lounging on her bed watching a show, the voice-chat assistant on her bedside table suddenly spoke on its own.

"Seriously, Jiang Jingmian? You've only been together for a year, and you're already planning to propose?"

"What does how long we've dated have to do with marriage?" The man's cool voice echoed through the room. "As long as we're in love, isn't that enough?"

"Fine, I'm done trying to talk you out of it, you lovesick idiot."

On the bed, her crossed legs stopped swinging. Jiang Lili jolted upright, grabbed the voice-chat assistant, and cried out in disbelief, "Jiang Jingmian?"

The moment she spoke, the conversation cut off. Silence spread through the room.

"Lili, let me explain."

Jiang Jingmian's strained voice sounded in her ear.

Click.

Jiang Lili immediately pressed the assistant's power button.

It finally dawned on her: the other end of the voice-chat assistant that had kept her company all this time wasn't an AI. It was Jiang Jingmian.

No wonder Jiang Jingmian always showed up right on time whenever she was sad.

No wonder that when they had just started dating, he knew to buy her a heating pad and bring her brown sugar water on the first day of her period.

No wonder he knew about the scar on her waist.

Hmph! He actually copied the answer key to date her.

Jiang Lili thought that if Jiang Jingmian didn't give her a satisfactory explanation this time, she'd never speak to him again.

*

Jiang Jingmian rushed home in a panic and saw Jiang Lili standing on the balcony.

He strode over and hugged her, wishing he could make her hear how violently his heart was beating.

"Lili, I thought you'd left and weren't going to talk to me anymore."

Jiang Lili shoved him away and said angrily, "Why did you take control of my chat assistant?"

Jiang Jingmian's beautiful, dark eyes dimmed, his long lashes casting thin shadows beneath them.

"Lili, you know I've liked you since high school.

"I can't accept that you don't like me.

"So I won't let any chance to learn how you feel slip by."

^_^ Here's a preview of my upcoming story.

[She Doesn't Want to Be the Heroine, but He Wants to Be the Hero]

After a car accident, Lin Wenwen discovered that she'd transmigrated into a romance novel about healing and redemption. According to the original plot, the heroine would meet the male lead, Fu Jin, in her sophomore year of college, and Lin Wenwen had arrived on the very first day of that year. The System told her that as long as she followed the story and made the original male lead fall in love with her, she could return to her original world.

But, contrary to the System's expectations, Lin Wenwen didn't want to go back to reality. She wanted to start her life over here.

Seeing this, the System immediately changed the conditions. "Dear heroine, the rules have been revised."

"During your sophomore year, your only source of income will be completing missions. If you fail to complete them, you won't have the money to survive in this world."

After seeing the cash she'd earned from her part-time job turn into blank sheets of paper, Lin Wenwen accepted her fate. She had no choice but to complete the System's missions to raise Fu Jin's affection for her.

Fu Jin's affection +1

Fu Jin's affection +3

Fu Jin's affection +5

Lin Wenwen held her head and shook it. Please stop, please stop. I'm begging you, I don't want to go back!

Then one afternoon, a twist of fate arrived.

She ran into the original male lead, Fu Jin, on a tree-lined avenue. The System told her to pick up some litter by the roadside to deepen the male lead's impression of her as a gentle, innocent girl.

As she listened to the System keep updating the affection score, Lin Wenwen had a sudden idea. With her backpack on, she ran forward, then leaped onto the back of a strange man in front of her, hooked an arm around his neck, and said in a sweet voice, "Babe, did you miss me?"

To her surprise, the young man caught her legs securely and played along. "Of course I did, sweetheart."

At that, Lin Wenwen's mind went blank, as if it had been wiped clean. The System's notification brought her back to her senses: [Heroine, please note: the male lead's affection has decreased by three points.]

Lin Wenwen: !!!

She had made up her mind. She was going to pretend to be in a relationship with the man who'd caught her.

*

Ever since she and Fu Yu had started pretending to be together, the original male lead's love for her had only gone down, never up.

The System told her that Fu Yu was Fu Jin's father's illegitimate son and had hated him since childhood. So by spending time with Fu Yu, she was becoming like him, and naturally Fu Jin's affection for her was falling.

Lin Wenwen's assessment of Fu Yu was: He's good-looking, but incredibly irritating.

Well, she still had to rely on him if she wanted to stay here. Lin Wenwen kept telling herself that after Fu Yu drove her crazy.

But just as she really fell for him, the System told her that Fu Yu had approached her for a reason.

Following the System's instructions, she got hold of Fu Yu's phone and saw an app on it identical to the one on her own phone. It showed:

Heroine's affection increased by ten points, total: ninety points.

Personal protagonist score increased by ten points, total: ninety points.

Reward sent. Second male lead, keep up the good work.

*

One night, a man's voice appeared in Fu Yu's mind. The voice introduced itself as the System.

The System told him that if he could make the heroine fall in love with him, he would not only be able to escape his status as an illegitimate son, but also become the male lead of the novel and live a smooth life.

Fu Yu agreed.

Later, he felt he was the luckiest person in the world. He could change his fate while guiding the person he loved to fall in love with him.

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