Translator:- Max
Editor:- Nine
The exhausted Jiao Qi quickly fell asleep in his Lao Gong’s arms.
Zhang Chenfei hugged him, and remained motionless. Only after hearing the steady and long breathing did he raise his hand to check for messages.
The head of the technical department who went on a business trip to the United States just got off the plane and reported to Zhang Chenfei which resembled a system message:
【I and the data have arrived. Tomorrow at ten o’clock, I will go to the company. The data is double-encrypted, and the secret key has been sent to your smart brain. Please take note to check it.】
On the other hand, two days ago, NC sent him an email, but he didn’t reply to it in the script. The other party thought he was angry and sent two more emails in a row.
After reading the content of the email, Zhang Chenfei really got a little angry.
“Mmm…” The sleeping little wife let out a soft moan. Zhang Chenfei lowered his head and realised that he had unconsciously tensed his muscles while reading the email, squeezing the person in his arms. He quickly relaxed and gently kissed his forehead, then turned off his smart brain to go to sleep.
Jiao Qi had a particularly peaceful night’s sleep, and in the morning, all his fatigue was swept away. After having a loving breakfast prepared by his normal Lao Gong, his mood was exceptionally good.
“Let’s have lunch together, I’ll contact you when the time comes.” The car parked steadily downstairs at the Bajiao, and Zhang Chenfei reached over to help his little wife unbuckle the seat belt.
“Aren’t you busy today? Didn’t the data come back?” Jiao Qi frowned slightly, realising that it was rare for him to be awake. Zhang Chenfei should be racing against time to deal with smart brain matters. Going out for lunch would not only take up a lot of time but also risk triggering a new script if they saw something on the way.
“Busy, but that’s not as important as you.” Zhang Chenfei unlocked the car door and smiled as he watched his little wife get out of the car. The words “I missed you” from last night had pricked at his heart, and it still hurt. He was determined to spend more time with Jiao Qi, no matter what.
Jiao Qi paused as he opened the car door, and he turned to look at Zhang Chenfei. The morning light streamed through the sunroof, casting a golden glow on his handsome face. As if enchanted, he suddenly leaned in and lightly pecked those healthy-looking lips.
After the kiss, both of them froze.
“En… clock-in.” Jiao Qi said this in embarrassment and quickly opened the car door, and ran off. Once he got out of the car, the faint blush on his face disappeared completely. He straightened his collar, reverting to the usual conscientious and unsmiling President Jiao.
Zhang Chenfei extended a finger and gently pressed it against his lips. His mouth slowly curved into a smile, almost reaching the base of his ears. As he watched his little wife’s back outside the window, the tips of his ears turned pink.
Suddenly he pushed open the car door and hurriedly ran over.
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“Eh, what do you want to eat for lunch?” Like a young man in the early stages of dating, Zhang Chenfei, the legendary game master, suddenly forgot his words and stumbled for a moment before remembering the topic.
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Jiao Qi looked at him amusedly. What was the need to be so excited? Using a smile to conceal his lack of words, he nodded. “Okay.”
Happily, Zhang Chenfei sent off his little wife to the building, and then he asked Louis XIV to make a reservation at Peach Blossom Liushui Pavilion. Humming a tune, he made his way to the company. However, once he entered the President’s office, the smile on his face faded away.
Negotiations with NC were not going smoothly. They wanted the app to be a paid collaboration for mutual benefit. NC was willing to provide internal update data for each occurrence, making it easier for Shifei Technology to synchronise cache-clearing applications. However, the condition was that it would be a paid service, and only NC’s external devices could carry the application.
“NC is asking for 50% of the profits.” Secretary Su Su presented the summary of the situation over the past few days.
Originally, Zhang Chenfei had already negotiated with the other party on Monday, but who knew that while discussing the details later on, they would change their mind at the last moment.
“Even when death is near at hand, they still want to make money. Tell them it can only be done for free. If they don’t want to do it, I’ll find another company to collaborate with.” Zhang Chenfei said with a cold expression.
“OK.”
They had initially expected to receive data from NC today, and when combined with the data from the United States, they believed there would be no room for error. However, now they only had data from the U.S. side, making it difficult to guarantee accuracy.
After decrypting the data, the technical department raced against time to import the data brought back from the US into testing.
The young executive who had just returned from the United States was rapidly typing on the computer while wearing radiation-proof glasses. After inputting all the data, he stared at the screen, anxiously waiting for the test results. At the same time, he explained to the President, “All the data is strictly as requested in the checklist. They refused to provide the thirteenth item, claiming it was not relevant, but I insisted on getting it. It should still be relatively complete… Damn it!”
The programmer brother who was still soft-spoken in the previous sentence suddenly burst into profanities.
“What’s the matter?” Zhang Chenfei didn’t pay attention to the etiquettes of programmer. The working environment in the technical department was the most casual in Shifei. You can pick your feet or even sleep, as long as you do your job well.
“The data they gave was from the 3.0 era, and now the internal hardware of the smart brain has been upgraded to 5.0.” Sure enough, there were no good products for free, and the young executive was very angry.
“What about its integrity?” Zhang Chenfei didn’t appear surprised; he seemed to have anticipated this situation. Their condition to the U.S. manufacturer was to provide the data and a partial compensation to immediately halt the lawsuit. Since they didn’t have large-scale servers there, they manually verified the integrity of the downgraded data without detecting any issues.
“Integrity of the data is OK.”
“Import it, let’s make the app first.” Zhang Chenfei made a decisive decision, “I will pay three times the wages for working overtime on weekends, so hurry up.”
“But, with this data, the application will be like an old-fashioned car.”
“Old-fashioned cars are still cars too. Everything has to have version 1.0, right?” Zhang Chenfei smiled and patted the young executive’s shoulder.
“I got it.”
Over a month ago, Zhang Chenfei asked the Technical Department to do preliminary work. Now that the model had already been built, it only needed data import and fine-tuning. With overtime work, it should be completed quickly.
Hopefully he could catch up before the next script came.
Peach Blossom Liushui Pavilion was a private kitchen restaurant, whose name was a line taken from a poem, “Peach blossoms float on the water, and the mandarin fish is fat“. It was said that their ancestors served as imperial chefs, and the food they prepared was exceptionally delicious. Their signature dish was the “Squirrel-Shaped Mandarin Fish“. However, the restaurant only had three tables and catered to a limited number of guests per meal, making it quite exclusive and extravagant.
“This restaurant’s cooking is very slow, and we might need to eat here, from twelve to one-thirty. Do you have enough time?” Jiao Qi was concerned because he knew that Zhang Chenfei, in order to avoid entering the script too early, refrained from watching TV shows, news, and chatting with friends; making it quite difficult for him.
“There’s still time, even if we eat until five o’clock there’s still time.” Zhang Chenfei said as he picked up a golden and crispy piece of fish for his little wife.
“Today is Friday…” Seeing his Lao Gong’s confident appearance, Jiao Qi decided not to say more. He then recalled the morning call from Jiao Zuoren. “Dad wants us to come home tonight.”
Last time, they almost messed up the Li family’s baby’s full moon wine celebration, which made Mr. Li very angry. He complained to Jiao Zuoren, saying that he couldn’t control his two sons. After thinking it over for two days, Papa Jiao finally decided to call them both back home for a chat.
“Okay, no need to worry, with your Lao Gong here.”
Zhang Chenfei had his own way of dealing with his father-in-law. Hearing that Mama Jiao was also at home today, he asked his secretary to buy two new fashionable bags this afternoon. When he picked up Jiao Qi after work, he also brought along their little Golden Retriever.
Papa Jiao and Mama Jiao were sitting in the living room, waiting for the children to come back.
“Don’t lose your temper later, last time Yan Yan already mentioned it, and we don’t have the right to interfere in his decisions.” Mama Jiao sighed, recalling how Jiao Qi once said that no one had ever doted on him so much, feeling a heavy weight in her heart.
Jiao Zuoren hesitated for a long while, then choked out a sentence, “Understood.”
“Wang Wang!” There was the parking sound outside, followed by a crisp dog bark.
“Aiyou, Guangzong, come here to grandma.” Mama Jiao immediately forgot about scolding her son when she saw the fluffy little puppy. She reached out and caught the excited little guy as it jumped into her arms.
“Mom, this is for you. I don’t know much about women’s bags, so I bought it when I saw it was the latest model.” Zhang Chenfei handed over the two bags in his hand, and with just a few words, coaxed his mother-in-law and made her burst with joy.
“Aiya, I was just thinking about getting this one, and now Chenchen bought it for me. He’s so considerate. Look, learn from Chenchen.” Mama Jiao said, hugging the puppy in one hand and examining the bag in the other, while also not forgetting to scold Papa Jiao.
“What’s the difference between this one and the bags you have in that cabinet of yours?” Old Mr. Jiao, who had an aesthetic sense from the previous century, didn’t quite understand these things.
“Oh, I won’t discuss this with a straight man like you.” Mama Jiao waved her hand dismissively and took Guangzong to put the bags away.
Signalling for them to sit down, Papa Jiao remained silent for a while before slowly speaking, “I won’t mention the matter with the Li family. If you misunderstood, you should have a clear understanding in your heart. Yan Yan talked to me last time, but I still want to hear your true thoughts, Chenchen.”
Zhang Chenfei used to fool him all the time, but now Jiao Qi had made it clear, so he should also say it clearly and honestly as well.
Jiao Qi frowned: “Dad…”
“You don’t talk.” Jiao Zuoren waved his hand.
Zhang Chenfei smiled faintly and held onto Jiao Qi’s fist, which clenched unconsciously. “What Dad said about the child is also reasonable.”
The fist in his palm trembled slightly.
Jiao Zuoren nodded in relief.
“But…” Zhang Chenfei calmly opened his little wife’s fist, placing his own thumb inside for him to hold onto gently. He gently patted and comforted him. “We know what kind of life we want. Currently, having a child is not suitable. After all, I already have very little time to take care of Yan Yan. If we have another child, it would be impossible to take proper care of them.”
“How old is he, and do you still need to take care of him?” Papa Jiao’s eyes widened.
Zhang Chenfei looked up at his father-in-law, and said sincerely, “Three years old.”
“…..”
Hi guys, sorry for taking a break for a few days. Those, who are on discord would know that I took a break so that I can mange my schedule of juggling with 3 books and plus my classes are also starting in August plus my 18th birthday is on this 4th too so I had to take a few days off to calm down. I hope you guys understand as I had to fix my schedule. Don’t worry, I’ll try to make up for the 2 missed updates but yeah schedule for Mr. Dior of every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday will remain consistent from now on and I will try not to delay the posting of chapters. I hope you guys are enjoying my translations so far. Meet you on Monday~
Hehe I can feel papa jiao’s blood pressure shooting up at that ‘three years old’ answer from chenchen 🤭
What kind of story did you trigger again 😂😂😂
quite the packed schedule you have there! don’t worry, your private life should always come first ☺️ and happy birthday!
Happy birthday! 🌸
I do enjoy your translation, thank you for your hard work! :3