Chapter 217: Crit Gear? Yan Luoxi Opens the Door to a New World

Chapter 217: Chapter 217: Crit Gear? Yan Luoxi Opens the Door to a New World

’Seriously.’

’You could have fun with legs like those for a year and it wouldn’t be an exaggeration!’

Gu Yizhou thought to himself.

Just then,

Yan Luoxi happened to look up after plugging in the power cord.

"All set,"

she said, turning to look at Gu Yizhou.

Huh?

But just as she finished speaking, she noticed where this damn man’s gaze was fixed.

She jerked her head down to look.

In a flash,

two rosy blushes instantly appeared on her usually impassive, icy face.

At that moment, Gu Yizhou also snapped back to reality.

’So awkward!’

’But right now, I absolutely cannot admit I was just sneaking a peek at her.’

"Thanks."

He nodded, feigning a serious expression. "Well, President Yan, I’ll go take a look at the files now."

Without waiting for Yan Luoxi to reply, he turned and sat back down in his seat.

"Tsk."

"Jerk."

"Taking advantage of me again!"

Yan Luoxi, her face blushing, shot him a glare and muttered irritably under her breath.

Of course,

although she said that, she wasn’t actually angry at all.

A woman makes herself beautiful for the one who delights in her.

Regardless of whether later generations interpreted this as adorning oneself to please yourself or to please others,

in any case, the reason she, Yan Luoxi, had dressed so beautifully today was precisely for that jerk to see!

So, how could she possibly be truly angry?

She just hadn’t expected that this jerk actually liked black stockings too.

Before, when she saw that he never looked at her, she’d thought he wasn’t interested.

’As expected.’

’Looks like I need to add some "critical hit" gear!’

’Next time, I’ll try switching to some "attack speed" gear for him.’

Yan Luoxi thought to herself.

To be honest, the formerly innocent-as-water her didn’t understand any of this. It was only because she felt that jerk never looked at her that she went online to do some research.

She wanted to see what kind of girls guys liked.

But!

That search...

It was as if Yan Luoxi had opened the door to a whole new world...

...

After sitting down, Gu Yizhou’s mind was still full of those long, black-stockinged legs.

’This woman is going to be the death of me!’

HUFF...

He took a deep breath, quickly suppressing the distracting thoughts in his mind.

’What else can I do!’

’He was afraid that if he kept thinking about it, the ’professor’ would stand up and give a lecture!’

’In a situation like this, even the great Liu Xiahui would probably get instantly hard!’

Shaking his head helplessly,

Gu Yizhou began to silently chant in his mind, ’Heart pure as ice, unalarmed though the heavens fall. Calm amidst endless change, spirit at ease, qi serene. Untouched by grime, untainted by worldly forms, a silent void, a unified nothingness...’

After chanting for a while, Gu Yizhou quickly entered a state of sage-like clarity.

He then hurriedly clicked open the file on his computer and began to read it seriously.

And all these little movements of his were caught by Yan Luoxi, who was secretly watching him.

However, Yan Luoxi naturally had no idea what was going on in his head.

She thought he was acting a little strange, but she didn’t think too much of it.

Shaking her head, she also began to work seriously.

That’s right!

Originally, she hadn’t planned on actually working.

But she felt that if she did nothing and just kept sneaking glances at that jerk, he would discover her sooner or later.

So she decided to handle some work as well.

Besides, Yan Luoxi discovered that casually tossing a file to that jerk and letting him "play" with it felt really damn good!

At this moment, Yan Luoxi could finally understand how that guy, Gu Yizhou, felt when he threw a pen for her to pick up.

Hmph!

’Jerk.’

’In a little while, I’ll send you a few more files to pick up and play with.’

They were going to be together all day anyway.

Work together now, eat together later.

There was plenty of time, no need to rush!

Thinking of this,

Yan Luoxi’s mood improved greatly.

Even the icy expression on her face couldn’t help but thaw considerably.

...

At this time, Gu Yizhou was naturally unaware of the little scheme Yan Luoxi was hatching in her heart.

He was looking at the file Yan Luoxi had sent him, analyzing it as he read.

’I didn’t expect the company to have plans to invest in a liquor company.’

Gu Yizhou was a little surprised.

That’s right.

The file Yan Luoxi gave him was an investment proposal for a liquor company called "Button Wine".

However, after Gu Yizhou was halfway through it,

he discovered that there seemed to be a problem with the company’s financial data.

Actually, you couldn’t really call it a problem.

Rather, Gu Yizhou just felt that something was off.

Because all of the company’s data was just too perfect.

It was practically flawless.

Going by the collected data, an investment would be guaranteed to have a very high rate of return.

But for some reason, Gu Yizhou felt a strange sense of unease when he looked at the company’s information.

As for what exactly was strange, he couldn’t quite put his finger on it at the moment.

After all, he hadn’t done a deep dive into the company himself, so he couldn’t definitively say there was a problem yet.

However, based on his experience from his past life, any investment proposal that gave him this strange feeling most likely had some real, hidden issues.

Just as he was thinking this, Gu Yizhou suddenly felt a wave of dizziness.

When he focused his eyes, a line of text suddenly appeared before him:

[Button Wine Company, Ltd. will have its internal financial problems and the debaucherous conduct of its management exposed on January 3rd. The scandal will cause the stock price to fall. Subsequently, speculative funds will move in, prompting shareholders to dump their Button Wine Company stock. Amidst the chaos, Button Wine Company’s stock price will begin to plummet on the 3rd. A short-term investment can be made by short-selling; the estimated 10-day rate of return is 80%.]

"Er..."

Gu Yizhou froze for a moment.

The system prompt, which hadn’t appeared for quite some time, had shown up again.

And its appearance this time was just like the last time it prompted him to buy into Zhongxin Group.

That time, it had just made him several million.

He didn’t expect it to happen again.

And this time, it was related to his own company.

’No, wait.’

’Could the trigger condition be that the system only provides this information because I just looked at this company’s file?’

Gu Yizhou couldn’t help but wonder.

’January third...’

’That’s seven days from now again. It seems this system always predicts things seven days in advance!’

’Short-selling.’

’Looks like I’ll have to follow the system’s prompt and short it this time.’

’Er...’

’Oh, right.’

’Our company wants to invest in them... that’s not going to work right now.’

’I don’t know what will happen in the future,’

’but for now, at least, it’s a no-go.’

Gu Yizhou thought to himself.

He raised his head and glanced at Yan Luoxi.

Only to find that ice queen swinging her legs up and down under the table.

Her playful appearance made Gu Yizhou freeze for a second.

’Er...’

’I’m not seeing things, am I?’

’Is this still the same unapproachable, ice-queen president everyone talks about?’

At that moment, Yan Luoxi hadn’t yet noticed that Gu Yizhou was secretly watching her.

Her long, slender legs, wrapped in black stockings, were still swinging up and down under the table.

And every swing struck deep into Gu Yizhou’s heart...