Wen Fan listened to her, and instantly felt that he had been deceived.

When he met Lin Xiu for the first time, he thought that she was a cute and gentle girl. But he never thought that she is….stealing information now? !

And moreover, she’s trying to steal such an important core of technology!

While Wen Fan was still in deep thoughts, he sensed that the drawer was pulled open and a woman’s face slowly appeared in front of the phone screen.

Lin Xiu who was searching anxiously for the information met eyes with Wen Fan who was in Lou Wei’s phone.

Wen Fan was already awake, so Lou Wei’s phone has changed from a black screen to a desktop display mode. They stared at each other.

Lin Xiu immediately took a step back in guilty conscience.

Because she wasn’t a member of the Compagnon team, she was not allowed to enter the research room of the designing team. And after she started joining the company Lou Wei does not hold any meetings with the entire staff of the company, but only held departmental meetings with the staff of the designing department. Moreover, the company clearly prohibits the employees from discussing matters regarding ‘Compagnon’ outside of the meeting room. Therefore. Lin Xiu never saw Wen Fan before and never learned about ‘Compagnon’ in great detail. She also never spoke to Wen Fan before.

She only gets to learn about ‘Compagnon’ based on Lin Xiao’s brief explanation that ‘Compagnon is a virtual character RPG game with endless possibilities. The virtual character could communicate with its phone owner like a real human and also based on Ke Yanan’s post regarding Compagnon on Weibo

The moment she saw Wen Fan, she had a feeling that this tiny man would expose her wrongdoing! Because Lin Xiao ever mentioned that Wen Fan is very human like. He could hold a conversation with his owner and he was like a real human being. He could even replicate the emotions of that of a human.      

If he told Lou Wei later that he had seen a woman who pried open his drawer and searched around it, wouldn’t that expose her?    

This is the first time she did such a sneaky thing. She was already lacking in confidence in pulling this off, and now, her body went weak all over.     

However…

Lin Xiu recalled that there was no surveillance camera in Lou Wei’s office. If she took away this mobile phone with Compagnon installed in it, doesn’t that mean she would be able to destroy all the evidence of what she’d done and she could also complete the mission that Si Yu passed to her? 

To Lou Wei, it would be just another cell phone. She took the phone and ran away. There is no surveillance camera in this office. Even if Lou Wei knew that it was her who took his phone, there would be nothing he could do about it.

After Si Yu paid her the five million dollars, there will be no need for her to hang around, stuck with a lousy job of serving tea and handing water here.

Lin Xiu widened her eyes that looked similar to her cousin, Lin Xiao, to look at Wen Fan. The greed in her eyes had completely replaced its original gentleness and kindness. She no longer looks like Lin Xiao at all and she was radiating with meticulous aura.

At first, she was still thinking about what she wanted to do as she picked up the phone. But when she saw Wen Fan already calling Lou Wei’s phone number, she decided to take action immediately!

When Wen Fan just managed to dial Lou Wei’s number, the phone was forced into a shutdown. Wen Fan didn’t manage to send the video  footage to Lou Wei and also the message to inform him to call the police.      

Although Wen Fan could contact others through the internet, he wasn’t able to control the phone on the outside world. Lou Wei’s phone could only be turn on by pressing on the power button. With Wen Fan inside the phone, there is no way for him to turn on the phone. And because the phone was turned off, he was unable to connect to the internet and he couldn’t contact Lou Wei’s working phone.

It’s over.

Wen Fan thought.

He probably understands why Lin Xiu wants to take away the mobile phone. Today is the day before Compagnon’s official release. Lin Xiu is here for no other reason than to steal the core technology of Compagnon. And now, he was about to be stolen, taken away from this place.

Wen Fan sat on the dark mobile screen. The QQ Penguin and Meituan Kangaroo stood still and stared at each other with wide eyes. Even the desktop background behind Wen Fan also froze. It was as if the world came to a stand still and he was the only living thing in that space, like in a movie where he was lost in the city full of corpses.

Wen Fan is brave, he especially loves to watch suspense horror movies. But at this moment, he still felt a shiver down his spine. 

He couldn’t connect to the outside world and at the same time, the connection to Lou Wei’s computer was interrupted. He vaguely felt that he was placed inside Lin Xiu’s pocket.

And he was then taken away from the room.

Lin Xiu took Wen Fan out of Lou Wei’s office. Wen Fan immediately heard Lou Wei talking on the phone in the corridor. Wen Fan was getting really anxious that he dashed to the screen and shouted Lou Wei’s name. But because he was not connected to the internet, the audio program that Lou Wei installed for him was not functioning at all. He can’t make any sound now.

Wen Fan could only pound on the phone’s glass screen, calling out to Lou Wei without a sound.      

Wen Fan never felt so useless before. 

He is about to be taken away, leaving Lou Wei, and even likely to be taken apart for data research.

Wen Fan has tried before, but there’s simply no way for him to get out of Lou Wei’s phone. He couldn’t understand why. But if he was taken away, it would be impossible for him to come back by himself. And after Lin Xiu took him away, there’s definitely no way that they would let him live. Even if they were unable to replicate Compagnon’s source code, they would destroy the phone in order to destroy the evidence.

The more Wen Fan thought about it, the more he felt smoke rising above his head. He could sense that his life was over. He clasped his tail in between his legs and leaned his face against the phone screen, calling out to Lou Wei’s name silently. 

Lou Wei! Lou Wei! Lou Wei!

For some reason, his telepathy might have worked. When Lin Xiu pressed on the elevator’s button, Wen Fan heard Lou Wei suddenly stopped talking on the phone and turned around to speak to Lin Xiu, “Wait.”      

Lin Xiu didn’t want to turn her head at all. She took a deep breath with her back facing Lou Wei, and then turned her head to look at him without turning her body around. She tried to put a smile on her face, “Yes, President Lou?”

Wen Fan held his breath as he leaned closer to the phone screen, listening to Lou Wei’s voice outside.

He heard Lou Wei say, “Had you forgotten the cup?”

Lin Xiu hurriedly looked down at her hands, “I…I think I forgot.” Just when she was about to turn around to take a coffee cup, she suddenly remembered that she had come to deliver coffee five minutes ago, “No, I ——”

But before she could finish her words, Lou Wei interrupted her, “You seem a little nervous?”

In fact, Lou Wei already felt something was wrong just now. While he was talking on the phone, he realized that Lin Xiu was inside his office for a long time. Usually, when a person is making a phone call, they would feel that time passes by very quickly and they wouldn’t really take notice of the time at all. However, Lou Wei really hated it when others stepped foot into his working space. He would get very vigilant every second.   

Just like now.

The woman’s attire and tone were not really different from before, but he just felt that something was wrong.

Lin Xiu quickly shook her head, “I’m not. I’m not.” She looked really nervous as she spoke, but at the same time, she also looked like every employee who is around the big boss, “Well, I am indeed a little nervous.”

Lou Wei looked at her calm look and he realized that he might have been oversensitive. To be honest, he didn’t really take note of the time when he saw Lin Xiu entering his office. Perhaps he had made a wrong judgement of the length of time while he was on the phone. After all, his conversation flow with Ding Yuxiao was done rather quickly. 

So he waved his hand and said, “Your brother is a senior staff member of the company. If there’s anything you don’t understand, you can ask him. And you can also ask me if you want. There’s no need to be too nervous.” 

Lin Xiu nodded repeatedly. When Wen Fan heard what Lou Wei said, the tensed nerves and tendons in his body snapped. A great wave of disappointment swept across him.

It’s really over now.

Lou Wei didn’t notice Lin Xiu’s abnormality.

Wen Fan suddenly felt what it is like to be in grieve disappointment. He heard Lou Wei tell Lin Xiu to go back, and his last glimmer of hope disappeared. He already began to wonder if this body would turn into a string of bright blue data after he died.

This idea made him feel sad for a while. It’s really sad that he couldn’t even leave behind a body when he passed away!

Lou Wei wasn’t aware that he is just less than half a meter away from Wen Fan.  

He beckoned Lin Xiu asking her to return to her office and watched as she pressed the elevator button again. Lou Wei did not leave immediately. His mind wandered back to the negotiation he had with Ding Yuxiao just now and he planned to go downstairs to discuss with Zhang Xuan who had been working on contract negotiations with celebrities.

When the elevator door opened, he followed Lin Xiu to the elevator.

They stood side by side, facing the elevator door together.

Lou Wei stood on the right side of Lin Xiu. He looked straight ahead, while Lin Xiu looked sideways.

At first, Lou Wei thought that Lin Xiu was a shy lady, so he deliberately stepped aside to keep a distance from her, trying not to make her feel nervous.

But the moment Lou Wei lowered his gaze, he noticed from the reflection of the elevator door panel that something was odd with Lin Xiu’s clothes.  

Yuancheng Technology is not a company with strict regulations, but it still has its own set of basic corporate etiquette. For example, employees must wear formal attire, and the ladies formal wear is mostly tight fit. Not to mention that Lin Xiu is extremely thin, even if there are wrinkles around her waist area, they would have been slanted. 

But the wrinkles on her waist area were horizontal. The wrinkles ran across the abdomen, and it was even around the side pockets as if they had been stretched by something angular.

Or perhaps she bent down just now?     

And it also looked a little like…there was something inside her pocket.

Even the hem of the front flap is slightly protruding forward. It was obvious that there was something protruding from her abdomen area which caused the shirt to rise.

Lou Wei thought for a while and whispered, “May I borrow your phone for a while?”

Lin Xiu, who had been looking to the side, turned her head immediately. Her reaction was extremely sensitive and quick to meet with his gaze.

Lin Xiu did not say anything, but she did not dare to ignore Lou Wei.

She hesitated to take out her mobile phone from her left pocket, and carefully handed it to Lou Wei.

When Lou Wei was talking on the phone on the left side of the corridor, Lin Xiu put Lou Wei’s mobile phone in her right pocket so that Lou Wei would not notice her pocket when she walked past him after exiting his office. Even if Lou Wei stands on her left side, he would not be able to see inside her right pocket. 

But when they were both inside the elevator, Lou Wei was now standing on the right of Lin Xiu. The pockets of formal wear were very shallow. In order to prevent Lou Wei from seeing the phone in her pocket, Lin Xiu extended her left hand and took out her mobile phone from the left pocket, and handed it to Lou Wei while her right arms subconsciously clamped the right pocket tightly.

When Lou Wei took the mobile phone from her hand, Lin Xiu’s body went stiff and she even held her breath. She was so nervous that her skin was covered with goosebumps.

Luckily, Lou Wei was just checking the time from her mobile phone and did nothing else. He then returned her mobile phone and Lin Xiu immediately extended her left hand to take it. She secretly let out a sigh of relief and was about to put her phone back into her left pocket.

Just when she was in the middle of letting out her sigh of relief, she suddenly felt a tug on her arm and Lou Wei’s hand reached inside her pocket. 

This is it.

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Lin Xiu immediately crumbled.

Her face went pale as she watched Lou Wei took out the mobile phone from her pocket

“This is your phone…?” Lou Wei clenched tightly on the personal phone and stared at Lin Xiu with a cold eye. There was not a single expression on his face, and it was a look that was more terrifying than any expression.

The man’s already cold facial features were terrifyingly cold. Right now, his eyes were gloomy and it was even more spine-chilling terrifying.

The man’s already cold facial features were terrifyingly cold. Right now, his eyes were gloomy and it was even more spine-chilling terrifying.

Lin Xiu trembled, and she tried to think…

Her mind went blank. She opened and closed her mouth, trying to think of the right words to say. It took her a long while to say,  “I…I, I don’t know, I didn’t take it, it really wasn’t me.”

Lou Wei ignored her and lowered his head to check on his phone. When he found that the phone was turned off, the aura surrounding him finally dropped to freezing point. 

He was really furious when he discovered that Lin Xiu stole his phone. But the moment he saw Wen Fan hugging his knees in despair, curling his body in a corner when the phone turned on, the anger in his heart had reached its peak. 

Wen Fan no longer held on to the hope that he would be found, he never expected that Lou Wei would find him again!

When he saw Lou Wei’s face, he thought he was hallucinating. The world in the phone that was completely black had lit up once again because of Lou Wei’s appearance.

He slowly stood up and looked at Lou Wei. When he managed to react, he immediately leaned on the giant glass in front of him and shook the big ears on his head, rubbing his hand on the phone screen. He wished he could rub himself against Lou Wei’s palm now. Lou Wei reached out his hand to touch the tiny man’s head on the screen. But because Lin Xiu was there, he couldn’t expose Wen Fan’s overly human nature. So, he only comforted Wen Fan with his actions silently. His cold aura immediately disappeared, and a worried look appeared in his eyes.

When he lifted his gaze to look at Lin Xiu again, his eyes were already filled with coldness, “Who sent you here?”

Lin Xiu is not a person who specializes in stealing things, she was already jumped out of her skin by Lou Wei. Her calves are shaking and she stammered for a long while before spitting out the words, “Si… Si Yu.”

As soon as Lin Xiu muttered the words, the elevator door slowly opened. Lin Xiao stood behind the door and he was about to ride the elevator upstairs to call Lou Wei for a meeting. He saw Lin Xiu’s panic-stricken face and then looked at his boss who wore an icy cold face. He furrowed his brows as he sensed something wrong, “What’s wrong? What happened?” 

After all, Lin Xiao was Lin Xiu’s cousin, she grasped at the last glimmer of hope, “Ge, I was wrong, I was wrong. I really knew I did wrong this time. I took a wrong step. I swear I will never do this again!” She tugged Lin Xiao’s sleeve and turned around in fear to look at Lou Wei who was watching her crying with his cold eyes. Her shoulders trembled as she said,
Ge, please help me to persuade President Lou.”

Lin Xiao looked at Lin Xiu, then looked back at Lou Wei.  After thinking for a while, he raised his shoulder and withdrew his arm.  

Having known Lou Wei for more than five years, Lou Wei usually doesn’t get angry at all. It is even rarer to see him looking so cold like today.

Moreover, he didn’t have any special feelings for Lin Xiu. After all, the two of them hadn’t seen each other very often since childhood. If it wasn’t because his father accidentally revealed his workplace and salary, Lin Xiu wouldn’t have come to him so suddenly.

“Explain to me what had happened.”  Lin Xiao raised his voice and said.

Of course, there is no way that Lin Xiu could tell him. Her pale face flushed suddenly, and the shame and panic emotions were written on her face.

The employees around them noticed the situation here. Lou Wei wasn’t thinking of giving any face to Lin Xiu, but he didn’t want to embarrass Lin Xiao. After all, he, Lin Xiao and Lin Xiao and Zhao Mengke have been working hard to start this business for so many years. And of course, he would never doubt Lin Xiao. So, Lou Wei turned his head to Lin Xiao and asked him to hold on to Lin Xiu as they got back inside the elevator to his office. 

He then said,  “She took my personal mobile phone and intended to give it to Si Yu.”

Lin Xiao’s originally blank expression instantly changed. He stared at Lin Xiu in disbelief, and immediately put a distance between them. For a period of time, Zhao Mengke had been dragging him out for drinks almost every day after Si Yu tricked them with the game plug-in. Even if Lin Xiu had just joined the company, she should have heard from the others about the relationship of Gao Qing with Yuancheng Technology now. How is it possible that she is not aware that she had to stay away from Gao Qing? And now she even did this?

Then, there is only one possibility.

Lin Xiao stared at Lin Xiu, “You were sent by Si Yu from the very beginning.” This sentence was not a question, because the answer was clear.

Lou Wei was still thinking about Wen Fan, and he was too lazy to bother with how to deal with Lin Xiu. He turned his head to look at Lin Xiao.

Although he was angry at Lin Xiu for wanting to take Wen Fan away, and he was afraid that Wen Fan might disappear, Lin Xiu was Lin Xiao’s younger sister after all. If Lin Xiao was to beg for mercy on her behalf, he could treat it as if it never happened.

However,  Lin Xiao was more determined than he thought.

“Just follow the normal procedure.” Lin Xiao said, “We’ll do it according to the confidentiality agreement that she signed when she accepted the job offer.”

In order to protect the company’s intellectual property, Yuancheng Technology would sign a confidentiality agreement with the employees when they offer them their employment contracts. From a legal perspective, if the company does not sign a confidentiality agreement with their employees, even if the employees disclosed the top secret of the company, the employees did not commit a crime. But it is different once they sign the confidentiality agreement. The company could make an appeal in the courtroom based on the agreements.

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If Lin Xiao only intended to fire Lin Xiu, even if this matter was revealed, Si Yu would be fine as Lin Xiu was not interrogated. But Lin Xiao intended to follow the protocol of the confidentiality agreement. This implied that he intended to bring this to the courtroom and do this in accordance with the law.

Wen Fan leaned against Lou Wei’s phone screen, looking at Lin Xiu who wore a mixed expression of sadness, anger, and embarrassment.

Si Yu never expected that the Police Superintendent would come to the office looking for him regarding the scheme he was just bragging about in the morning.

Gao Yuan, who was expecting the good news from him, had already fled. He had no intention of helping him at all. Si Yu didn’t even have the time to escape. So, he was handcuffed and brought into the police car in a daze.

Just when he was being pressed on the head to get into the police car, he saw Lin Xiu, who was also handcuffed, sitting in another police car behind him. Lin Xiu’s face looked haggard and she was sad. The moment her eyes met his sullen gaze, she immediately looked away in fear.

Si Yu instantly understood what was going on.

His scheme was exposed.

What wreck this Lin Xiu was. Not only did she not succeed in the mission, she even exposed him. 

He immediately yelled, “Lawyer! I want a lawyer!”

It is a pity that he was violently pushed into the police car before he could continue yelling. The policeman handcuffed both his hands on the railing at the back of the seat in the font and buckled the seatbelt on him. 

“Don’t worry, you’ll not only get to see the lawyer, you’ll also get to see the judge soon.” The policeman sitting in front turned his head and glanced at him mockingly.

Si Yu panicked, even more, when he heard it. At first, he approached Lin Xiu at her university because he learnt about her connection with Lin Xiao. Although they were not closely related, if something happened to Lin Xiu, there is no way that Lin Xiao would not help or plead for her. As long as nothing happens to Lin Xiu, he will be fine.

He didn’t expect Lin Xiao to be so cruel!

Si Yu vaguely heard the phone ringing in his pocket. Because he was still on the way to the detention center, the police officer took the phone from his pocket and looked at the number displayed on the phone before he agreed to let Si Yu answer it.

When the policeman pressed the answer button and placed it on Si Yu’s ear, he heard Lou Wei’s voice on the other end of the line.

His voice was cold and deep as usual. But there was an unspeakable chill to it. This is the first time Si Yu felt a chill down his spine. He listened to Lou Wei saying, “I didn’t look for you for the plug-in problem last time because I wanted to take you down openly. However, your despicable scheme is really shameless.” 

Lou Wei continued, “Most importantly, you should have left him alone.”

After he finished his words, he hung up immediately, not giving Si Yu a chance to beg for mercy. Si Yu was stunned for a long time, he didn’t understand who exactly this “he” Lou Wei was referring to.

    ————

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao has already begun to hand over his resignation. The handsome young man walked into Lou Wei’s office with a letter of resignation, but Lou Wei waved at him and asked him to go home for a rest, “Lin Xiu’s incident has nothing to do with you. Don’t think too much.”

But Lin Xiao still felt guilty over what had happened.

It was him who asked Lou Wei to recruit Lin Xiu. Otherwise, there is no way that Lin Xiu could get selected with her academic performance.

And now, this happened.

Lin Xiao is someone who is serious about everything.

Lou Wei knew how to handle him, so he called Zhao Mengke immediately.

Zhao Mengke heard about the story as soon as Lin Xiu was taken away by the police for pre-trial detention.  The moment he walked in, he grabbed Lin Xiao’s shoulder and said, “My Bro, don’t think too much about this! Bro, let your bro bring you to wallop some roasted chicken!”

Without waiting for Lin Xiao’s reply at all, he dragged him out of Lou Wei’s office.

After they left, the office finally returned to its quiet state. Lou Wei immediately took out his phone and looked at the tiny man who was wagging his tail again on the screen.

Maybe because he had escaped a catastrophe, Wen Fan’s tail is now wagging uncontrollably. He felt that all the APPs that are moving once again were exceptionally tender.

He hugged the QQ penguin next to him and looked at Lou Wei. The ears on the top of his head couldn’t help but open and close.

Lou Wei touched Wen Fan’s little head. He stared at his outfits and thought for a while before pulling out a new set of outfits from the closet next to him and pressed it on Wen Fan to change his clothes.

“Stop wearing that, it brings bad luck.” Lou Wei said calmly.

Just as Wen Fan was about to reply that it’s not because of the outfit, he lowered his head and found that he was already dressed in black and white attire. His sleeves were black, but the abdominal part was white. The crotch is so low that it almost covered his leg completely.  

When he turned his head again, he found that the tail behind him was gone and it was now replaced by a small pointed tail.

When Wen Fan shook his hips, the tip of the little tail behind him swayed. But it was much heavier than the puppy’s tail previously.

Before he realized what suit he was wearing, he saw the QQ Penguin next to him staring at him with its eyes wide in surprise. It then pretended to be shocked and pulled out a whiteboard with a bunch of words written on it. 

The translator parrot on top of Wen Fan’s head quacked twice and said, “Oh, my God, your colors are so gorgeous, and to be honest, my heart is pounding hard now.”

The penguin immediately nodded frantically. But it was a pity that it didn’t have a neck. It lost its balance when it lowered its head and it fell facedown to the ground. It then covered its face sadly as it got back on its feet. Two rows of thick noodle tears flowed on its face, “Yin Yin QnQ!!”

Wen Fan seized this opportunity to quickly draw a mirror from the “mirror” APP next to him and took a picture of himself. He found that that-

He is now wearing a penguin costume.

No wonder QQ Penguin was surprised by his outfit.

Wen Fan, “…”

Seeing that Wen Fan didn’t say anything, Lou Wei leaned closer to the screen and asked tenderly, “You don’t like it?” 

Wen Fan shook his head, “It’s pretty cute! Just…”

He pondered deeply before saying, “I can’t take color photos anymore.” After he finished speaking, he laughed. The trauma caused by Lin Xiu’s incident disappeared instantly, and the little canine teeth at the corners of his mouth were exposed. 

Listening to his laughters, Lou Wei, who was still shocked and worried that Wen Fan was almost taken away by Lin Xiu, felt the rock resting on his heart suddenly disappeared. His mood suddenly lifted.

He mimicked the movements that Wen Fan often did, leaning against the phone screen, exposing only his pair of eyes. However, his voice was more serious than ever.

“I promise I won’t let something happen to you again.”

He extended his index finger and gently poked Wen Fan’s white belly. “In the name of your little belly and my everything.”

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