Wen Bai had miscalculated. He had initially thought Lin Shuangshuang would remain within his line of sight. To his surprise, the person who had promised to take good care of him called him once and then vanished. She didn't reappear until he had recovered from his injuries.
Ji Tianle did visit him once, but seeing that Lin Shuangshuang wasn't there, he impolitely shut the door without giving anyone a chance to come in.
He didn't clearly hear what the other person said, nor was he interested.
Lately, he had been receiving many calls from strangers. He only answered when it was Su Ying; otherwise, he would hang up. Since he wasn't going out anyway, he eventually just turned off his phone.
Lin Shuangshuang was truly busy recently.
She had to be honest with Wen Bai. Her supervisor had arranged an internship for her at a design company she had been very excited about. She was busy with onboarding and the internship and promised to visit Wen Bai once she had more free time.
She also promised to take Wen Bai to some restaurants she thought were good to slowly make amends.
After a few days of interaction, Lin Shuangshuang had discovered that Wen Bai seemed uninterested in most things, but he was very interested in food. While he had reacted indifferently to the abundance of items she brought him, he showed enthusiasm for various pastries and rare fruits.
During their conversations, Wen Bai didn't seem interested in any topic. However, whenever she mentioned some popular online restaurant or food rankings, Wen Bai's attention would be drawn to her.
She had already made reservations at several highly-ranked restaurants that interested Wen Bai, waiting for him to recover so she could introduce him to the vibrant culinary world.
However, Lin Shuangshuang genuinely felt that this year was her unlucky year!
She thought she only needed to avoid Yu Yang, but who would have expected that the design company she had longed to join, an internship opportunity her supervisor had obtained through connections, would have Jiang Yiyi, the design department's director whom she had met a few times and had an unpleasant encounter with, as her superior.
Given Jiang Yiyi's inexplicable extreme dislike for her and her possessive attitude, she felt that Jiang Yiyi did not know they were in the same company, at least for now.
It was a colleague who asked her to retrieve a document from the director's office. Only then did she see the photos on the director's desk: it was Jiang Yiyi and Yu Yang.
Although they were two separate photos in a single frame.
At first, she thought Yu Yang was the design director and was utterly devastated. After inquiring, she learned that the design director was not a man but a woman. Her mood didn't improve much, as Jiang Yiyi's antagonistic demeanor was no better than Yu Yang's bad luck aura.
However, the good news was that Director Jiang Yiyi was currently on leave, with no return date set.
She didn't have time to dwell on these matters now, as there was a major, bi-annual fashion design competition approaching. The participants were design works recommended by well-known companies, and individuals couldn't compete independently.
One humane aspect of this company was that while they valued seniority, they valued potential even more. As long as you had excellent work, even as a newcomer, you could succeed here.
The company had announced that an internal preliminary selection would be held for this competition. Anyone interested in participating could submit their work. Interns like her were also allowed to submit their designs. She had been dedicating all her time recently to meticulously designing her competition entry.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yiyi was pouring all her energy into Yu Yang.
Taking advantage of Yu Yang's softening stance, she was seizing every opportunity, vowing to secure him firmly. This time, she wanted to strike while the iron was hot and see if they could get married to prevent Yu Yang from having any other thoughts of breaking up. Once married, she could more legitimately drive away all the other women around Yu Yang.
Fortunately, after the previous warning and threats, that woman named Lin had not appeared by Yu Yang's side again. She still had two weeks of leave and had been asked to return to oversee the company's internal selection of design works.
Jiang Yiyi considered herself quite career-oriented and had a small reputation in the design industry. This competition was very important to her, and she always submitted her entries. Her work naturally did not need to be screened.
This competition was not only important to her but also to the company.
Yet, for Yu Yang's sake, she didn't have time to go to the company to oversee the selection. Her time was now divided into two parts: designing her own work and managing Yu Yang. Therefore, she had delegated the basic screening to others.
Once she sorted out her romantic issues, she would deal with company matters.
Recently, her brother heard that she and Yu Yang had reconciled and lectured her extensively, insisting that she bring Yu Yang out for a meal. She knew her brother too well and decided it was best not to take that risk yet, waiting until their relationship was more stable.
In reality, just as she was unaware of many things about Yu Yang, Yu Yang was also unaware of many things about her.
For example, he didn't know about her family background, nor that she was actually very talented and accomplished in design, and even less so that the company she worked for was owned by her family.
After Wen Bai recovered from his injuries, he ordered many dishes as he had wished. Su Ying truly catered to his every request.
After an initial period of comfortable and leisurely living, Wen Bai finally decided to continue his mission under the reminder of System 001.
He could no longer access the female lead. After contacting Jiang Yiyi, he discovered that the male lead was still entangled with her.
Since neither the male nor female lead had yet embarked on their predetermined plotlines, Wen Bai's mind flashed with the image of a certain person for a double safeguard.
Although, he didn't particularly like this person, but who could help it, he was the second male lead?
Moreover, the second male lead had fallen in love with the female lead at first sight. Looking at the current situation, Wen Bai indeed had no better candidate.
"If the female lead gets together with the second male lead, wouldn't that count as changing the plot, as deviating from the story?"
System 001 pondered for a second: "Yes!"
Although it wasn't a normal kind of disintegration, at least it would cause the plot to go off course, which would count.
For the first world, they shouldn't set their expectations too high.