Chapter 165 - 130: Wang Chao: I Have a Plan, and a Dream...

The others: ?

"Hey, let me ask you something, Xiao Xi. Have you ever considered opening a pig farm?" one of them couldn’t resist asking.

"Holy shit! You two have been together for over a decade—that’s more than thirty-six hundred days! All you do when you’re together is eat? Seriously, just eat?!"

Officer Zhang was stunned.

"Two young people, a tinderbox of passion... you’re together for over three, almost four thousand days, and you just eat? I guess no one told me the ’tinder’ was for actually cooking food..."

"Look, I don’t mean to be rude, but I just have to ask... did you guys not get enough to eat when you were kids or something?"

Chu Xi thought for a moment, then nodded seriously.

She did indeed remember Xu Huo not being able to eat his fill. It was a memory that had stayed with her for more years than she could count.

"So you really didn’t? But you still can’t *just* eat!"

Officer Zhang winced. She suddenly felt that the naive girl in front of her was a bit *too* naive.

"So, what do you think of Advisor Xu?"

"He’s great. He eats everything I cook. He’s not picky, so he’s easy to feed," Chu Xi said.

"But what if he stops eating your food someday?"

Officer Zhang felt it was her duty to give these two youngsters a little guidance.

"He’s not picky," Chu Xi said, shaking her head.

"No, that’s not what I mean. What if someone else takes your place?"

Officer Zhang began.

"What if one day he stops eating your cooking and starts eating some other girl’s? What if he ignores you, marries another woman, has children with her, and grows old with her?"

Chu Xi looked completely lost.

After ten years together, she had gotten so used to their routine that she had never considered this possibility.

’If he suddenly disappeared...’

In a daze, panic began to brew in her mind. It felt like someone lost in the abyss had just had their only source of light extinguished, plunging them into boundless darkness.

"Xiao Xi, have you ever... by yourself..."

Xiao Zhang leaned in and whispered something in Chu Xi’s ear.

As Xiao Zhang spoke, Chu Xi’s heart began to race. It was as if she’d heard something utterly scandalous. Her almond-shaped eyes widened as she stared at Xiao Zhang in shock.

"That... that..."

"Oh, come on. It’s a basic need. It’s fine as long as it’s in moderation!"

Xiao Zhang’s words left Chu Xi’s entire worldview shaken.

’She had never done... *that* before.’

When she was little, she was afraid of the dark. Now that she was grown, turning off the lights just left her feeling lost.

Just as Chu Xi, despite her fear, felt a strange curiosity bubble up and wanted to ask more...

A voice suddenly rang out.

"Time to go, time to go! Time to go home for dinner!"

Xu Huo’s figure appeared in the doorway. He was calling out to her like a grandparent picking up a child from kindergarten.

A few of the police officers shot Xu Huo a strange look before quickly looking away.

Xu Huo: ?

’What’s going on?’

Chu Xi pulled aside the blinds, her face beet red. She ran up to him and started pushing him out the door. "Let’s go, let’s go."

Xu Huo: ???

He felt something was off, but no matter how he pressed her, she wouldn’t answer.

This, however, made Xu Huo feel a bit gratified.

’The kid’s growing up. She can keep things to herself now.’

’Her symptoms are getting milder.’

With that, he stopped bothering with it and started walking away.

The officers behind them watched the pair’s retreating backs and clicked their tongues.

"Honestly, if before today some guy had come up to me and said he ’just wanted to have a meal and nothing else’..."

"I would’ve knocked him dead with my boobs!"

...

...

「The next day.」

「Five in the morning.」

A knock sounded on Xu Huo’s door.

It wasn’t Chu Xi. The moment Xu Huo opened the door, he wasn’t greeted by the sight of a sweet, soft girl, but by a man with dark, panda-like circles under his eyes and a completely haggard face, looking like he’d been up all night.

The smile vanished from Xu Huo’s face, his expression hardening.

’Knocking on my door at five AM...’

"Give me one reason I shouldn’t kill you."

"Brother Huo, I have a plan!"

Wang Chao said excitedly.

"I stayed up all night finishing the plan!"

"The more I wrote, the bigger it got! This plan can actually work!"

’A plan...’

’He actually finished his business plan?’

Xu Huo paused, then said:

"Mm, that’s great. So, where’s that reason I shouldn’t kill you?"

"I just told you. I finished it."

"Isn’t that a reason *to* die?" Xu Huo asked in surprise.

Wang Chao: ...

"I’m begging you, Bro, just take a look! This one can make some serious money, I guarantee it. It just needs a lot of initial capital."

"But you have money, Bro, and Sister Chu Xi’s family is rich, too..."

"If this works, we’ll be on top of the world!"

Wang Chao’s face was a mask of desperation; he was practically bouncing off the walls with frantic energy.

"Bro, you know I have a dream..."

Xu Huo fell silent.

’This poor kid’s plans...’

Could be summed up in one word.

Weird!

But...

You could say the kid was ambitious.

You could also say his luck was off the charts—in that he was a total jinx.

But... you couldn’t say he was incompetent!

If any single one of his plans actually succeeded, the man would stand at the apex of the future!

He had a whole notebook filled with "opportunities" like this...

After a moment, Xu Huo spoke with a sigh of resignation.

"Let me see it."

"Yay!"