The Whole Net is Shocked!!
A **huge, earth-shattering piece of news**!
The moment Ning Yi casually finished that bombshell of an introduction, every single person present completely exploded!
—Madam was way, way, way too amazing, wasn’t she?! Quietly doing something this huge behind the scenes?
Everyone was so shocked that for a moment, none of it felt quite real.
But very soon, some of the assistants remembered that the first time Madam had come to the company, she had helped them fix computer problems. Issues that had been quite troublesome for them had been solved effortlessly by Madam—so there had been signs all along!
Then… did Young Master Gu know?
Gu Cheng had only just found out himself.
—It wasn’t that he had never suspected something along these lines, but he had already had people thoroughly investigate Ning Yi’s background, past experiences, résumé, life history, bank records, and so on.
What was more, she was almost always by his side every single day, lying down when she was full and eating when she woke up. There had been absolutely no sign that she could so calmly and casually support such a huge internet platform.
His A Yi really was…
…remarkable.
Just as a strange sense of pride began to rise in Gu Cheng’s heart, his rational mind was already racing at top speed—
Young Master Gu rapidly traced back to a conversation on the plane one day, when he had been in Ning Yi’s body and met that friend of hers.
—“It’s me, 01.”
—“Where’s your husband?”
So at that time, what he had said was in fact “01.”
It was just that he had spoken quickly, and at the time, what Gu Cheng had cared more about was the second half of the sentence.
So.
Wander had known all along.
And he hadn’t known.
The pride that had just risen in Gu Cheng’s heart immediately sank, and dissatisfaction began spreading through him in all directions, surrounding him with a gloomy, low-pressure aura.
Ning Yi: “0v0”
She quietly edged a little closer toward Gu Cheng.
Aiyaa, she knew it—he would be angry!
After all, in this whole world, no one dared deceive the emperor!
Ning Yi sighed inwardly. Looks like her little scheme of asking for one hundred million more was finished! She’d be lucky just to hold onto the five hundred million she already had!
A shadow clouded Gu Cheng’s eyes as his mind frantically calculated exactly when she and Wander had first come to know each other’s identities.
By this point, Assistant Zhou and the other Gu Corporation staff had also finally recovered their senses from the dazed shock.
In preparation for welcoming the founder on contract-signing day, Assistant Zhou had been worrying because he’d wanted to make arrangements in advance, but didn’t know who the other party was or what they liked. Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that the person was right in front of him!!
He had thought this was a business-emperor x cute salted-fish pairing, but it turned out to be a power couple joining forces!
He was shipping something entirely new now, ahhh!
Assistant Zhou was so excited he almost wanted to run around spreading the news, but the moment he turned and saw Young Master Gu’s expression, his powerful professional instincts instantly brought him back to reason, and he lowered his head quietly and with restraint.
—Why was Young Master Gu unhappy?
Gu Cheng lowered his eyes to look at Ning Yi, and no matter how you looked at it, that expression was definitely not a happy one.
The atmosphere in the entire president’s office calmed right down.
Ning Yi thought: From now on I’ll definitely never lie to hubby again!
This humble believer is willing to exchange “never deceiving hubby again” for becoming filthy rich in this lifetime! (pious)
“…So,” after several thoughts had turned over in his heart, Gu Cheng lightly pinched Ning Yi’s ear and asked in a tone tinged with danger, “did you and that friend of yours meet while learning to code?”
Ning Yi immediately thought: No. This humble believer still has to lie one more time.
After all, she couldn’t exactly tell Gu Cheng that the two of them had met in the apocalypse, then transmigrated together into this brainless doting-romance novel world of yours, could she?
Haha, that would be too funny.
Hubby wouldn’t understand!
So Ning Yi fiddled with her fingers. “I guess… kind of?”
“Kind of?”
That ambiguous answer made the smile at Gu Cheng’s lips turn even colder.
He looked at Ning Yi with that icy expression.
Assistant Zhou tried to interpret his boss’s intentions and felt that Young Master Gu was unhappy, but not the kind of unhappy that couldn’t be resolved.
The solution was simple: Madam just needed to coax him a little.
The details, however, were clearly not for public viewing.
So Assistant Zhou expertly led the assistants and secretaries out.
Once outside, they finally let out the breath they had been holding.
“Oh my god, this still feels unreal…”
“I truly never could have imagined it…”
“Madam is founder 01, then that Wang family heiress can’t compare at all…”
As the highest-ranking assistant in the president’s office, Assistant Zhou very reservedly took charge of the situation. “But we must keep this matter confidential. Young Master Gu and Madam should decide for themselves when to announce it publicly.”
“Mhm.”
“Yes.”
Assistant Zhou thought: Even before Young Master Gu knew Madam’s value, he already loved her this much.
Which means his love had never been mixed with profit at all!
This was true love!
The spacious office fell quiet.
Ning Yi said sincerely, “Hubby, even though I’ve got one more identity now, the relationship between us won’t change, right?”
You’re still going to invest that five hundred million, right? ^3^
For Gu Cheng, of course that was true as well—Ning Yi’s identity had changed, but she was still the same person.
There was no difference.
But inwardly, Gu Cheng gave a cold laugh. Rather, it was Ning Yi’s relationship with that friend of hers that seemed even more stable.
Ning Yi read the room and could tell that the emperor who had been deceived was still angry.
She had to coax him.
So Ning Yi pulled Gu Cheng’s laptop onto her lap and started typing away furiously.
Logically speaking, Gu Cheng’s computer contained a huge amount of confidential data and all kinds of business secrets, so it wasn’t something that could casually be handed to another person.
Not to mention, now there was an extra layer to their relationship. Ning Yi was the person he was going to invest in, so security should have been kept even tighter.
But Gu Cheng just sat beside her, one arm stretched out, his forearm resting on the sofa behind her, and didn’t stop her.
He simply watched Ning Yi’s slender pale fingers fly across the keyboard, and the seriousness on the side of her face was something he had rarely seen before.
Gu Cheng watched quietly for a while.
The gloom in his heart suddenly dissipated quite a bit.
Then Ning Yi finished typing too, and shyly turned the screen to show him.
Gu Cheng: “Hm?”
Ning Yi: “Click it, hubby.”
Gu Cheng glanced at it. It was his personal profile page on the Gu Corporation’s official website. He clicked casually, and then—*boom*—
A shower of little hearts exploded everywhere like flower petals from the heavens.
And in the middle popped up a modelled 01.
—“Hubby, love you, mwah mwah.”
Gu Cheng: “…”
A very hardcore way of coaxing someone.
But he could only blame his memory for being too good. He instantly remembered that a long time ago, his computer had once exploded with a bunch of other things too.
Gu Cheng gave a cold smile. “This time, no poop is falling down.”
Ning Yi: “OvO?”
She rummaged through her memory for the shameless things she had done before.
There were rather a lot of them, so it took her a while to remember that once, because her hubby had been such a huge cheapskate, she had apparently written some poop code into his computer.
Ning Yi: Hehe ^3^
She was still leaning in Gu Cheng’s arms, so she very conveniently rested her head against his chest and rubbed against him like a little cat.
“Hehehe. Hubby.”
The dark resentment hanging around Gu Cheng was rubbed away by her just like that.
Gu Cheng raised a hand, just about to pat her head, but then suddenly reflected and felt that he was giving in a little too easily.
Just as he lowered his hand again, Ning Yi caught it.
Then she gave the back of his hand a series of little pecking kisses.
Gu Cheng: “!”
Ning Yi lifted her head and said with cheerful little mwah-mwah sounds, “So, hubby, how was my hand-kissing gesture? Did you feel my sincerity?”
That’s what princes and princesses on TV always do! To their old emperor father.
Gu Cheng lowered his eyes and looked at her for a long moment. In the end, he still curled his lips into a smile.
Then he took hold of her wrist, lifted her hand, and lightly kissed the back of it too.
That light kiss from him made Ning Yi feel a little embarrassed.
But clearly when she kissed him herself, she hadn’t felt embarrassed at all.
With a bit of shyness, Ning Yi said, “Hehe, hubby, you’re pretty polite.” Quite the proper exchange of courtesies.
Gu Cheng was in a good mood. Playing with her wrist in his hand, he asked lazily, “Is running a platform fun?”
Although Ning Yi had done all of this in places he knew nothing about, CMore was, after all, now a massive mainstream platform. Building its whole structure must have taken an enormous amount of effort.
Ning Yi knew he wasn’t angry anymore, so she immediately pounced over and wrapped herself around his neck, saying sweetly, “It’s fun, hubby!”
Of course there had been difficult parts to building the platform too, but seeing it slot perfectly into this world and run successfully was still very satisfying.
Ning Yi said excitedly, “In future I’ll make one for you to play with too!”
“…” Gu Cheng lowered his eyes and narrowed them. “Don’t say lines like that so casually.”
This was the office.
…Though it wasn’t as if the office was impossible.
Gu Cheng closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose.
What exactly was he thinking?
Ning Yi had no idea what he was thinking, but as long as she had soothed him, then her several hundred million were safe!
Hugging him, Ning Yi gave him a little shake and pressed her advantage, boldly encouraging him, “Then let’s add another hundred million, hubby!”
Gu Cheng: “?”
After being nudged around by her for quite a while, Gu Cheng finally pinched the back of her neck and lifted her up.
“Miss 01, it’s time to go eat now.”
“Mm-hmm, let’s eat just a tiny hundred million bit.”
“?”
After Ning Yi’s identity was exposed within a small circle inside the Gu Corporation, the news did not spread.
Because everyone present at the time had been Gu Cheng’s trusted confidants. Looking at Young Master Gu’s expression, none of them could tell what he intended, so each and every one of them tightly zipped their lips shut.
So now, Princess Ding was still happily basking in satisfaction.
Because after this whole matter had fermented, whether 01 appeared or not, Ding Ziyue’s goal had actually already been achieved.
Because not responding = not denying = tacitly admitting.
Since 01 still refused to appear, that more or less meant he was defaulting to everything Ding Ziyue had said: that he had been secretly paying attention to Ding Ziyue, admiring her, that they appreciated each other as kindred spirits, and that Ding Ziyue had given him encouragement and courage.
At that point, even if 01 never came to meet Ding Ziyue, it didn’t really matter anymore~
As long as there wasn’t any other major twist when his identity was revealed, Ding Ziyue’s attempt to tie herself to him had already succeeded! Her name would rise right alongside CMore, soaring to great heights~
Which was why—Ding Ziyue herself knew perfectly well, wasn’t it possible that 01 had also paid attention to other bloggers? There had been plenty of bloggers who joined CMore in the same period as she had, and 01 might have been following them too. But only Ding Ziyue had fiercely seized this opportunity!
Now Ding Ziyue’s follower count was skyrocketing every day, and as CM continued to develop, even her own value was rising with the tide.
So naturally, Ding Ziyue had even more leisure to laugh at Ning Yi now.
This time, the Wang family heiress from another province was determined to win! Once CMore’s financing was completed, the Gu Corporation’s weight in the internet industry would only keep growing. A marriage alliance between the Wang family and the Gu family was practically something everyone in the industry and the wealthy circles looked favourably upon!
[Haha, Ning Yi managed to hook up with Young Master Gu through sheer luck, but her good days are finally over.]
[Ah, really? Then maybe I have a chance too besides the Wang family.]
[The main thing is how anyone could compare with the Wang family. Tell me, what commercial value could Ning Yi possibly have? That’s why she’s guaranteed to lose. Compared with the Wang family, even the Wen family would have slim chances.]
[Which just proves Yueyue is amazing~ Even the founder of CM has such a deep connection with you!]
Ding Ziyue happily read through everyone’s discussions.
Then she multitasked with both hands—secretly mocking Ning Yi on one side, while also not forgetting to jab at her longtime rival Wen Zheli.
At the same time, she sent Ning Yi a message: [Oh dear, little sister, don’t be too upset. Even if you get kicked out with nowhere to live in the future, my door will always be open for you.]
And she sent Wen Zheli: [Oh dear, Zheli, I see the Wang family has really strong momentum lately. Although their family business suits Young Master Gu better than yours, I still think you shouldn’t give up, after all, you’re childhood sweethearts~]
Attacking from both sides—Ding Ziyue was practically having the time of her life!
Wen Zheli: …That white lotus!!
Ding Ziyue had been calling out that founder online every single day, and she thought other people couldn’t tell she was deliberately trying to tie herself to him?! To put it bluntly, wasn’t she just currying favour with a big shot!
Wen Zheli ground her teeth in hatred and prayed to heaven that she would get to see Ding Ziyue’s face slapped one day.
Even if it was Ning Yi suddenly standing up and slapping her face, that would do!
The whole world had suffered under Ding for too long!
Amid the expectations of the entire internet, the day of the signing finally arrived.
Thanks to Princess Ding’s publicity campaign, everyone was paying close attention, because rumours online said that founder 01 would appear at the Gu Corporation today!
Both Ning Yi and Gu Cheng were dressed quite formally today.
That had been arranged by Assistant Zhou too—on such an important day, perhaps the whole internet would learn Madam’s true identity and witness their breathtaking love story, so they absolutely had to wear matching couple outfits and stun the entire scene.
Young Master Gu was dressed in a deep black tailored suit with a sculpted silhouette, with an amber brooch pinned to his chest. Ning Yi wore a long black dress that hugged her narrow waist, with delicate amber-and-platinum floral buttons at the neckline as a subtle echo.
Assistant Zhou: shipping them fiercely, silently.
Today’s contract signing was really just a matter of going through the formal process—setting out the content of the agreement and the promised clauses. Normally, agreements between investors and startup companies would strictly stipulate restrictive clauses.
Originally, the Gu Corporation’s requirements regarding the technical core had been somewhat harsh. After all, the founder’s architecture supported the entire CMore platform, and her technical patents and so on all needed to be tightly restricted.
But ever since Young Master Gu found out who 01 was, the clauses in the agreement specifically restricting 01 had been appropriately relaxed.
—Favor and trust of this kind had never before been given by Young Master Gu to anyone else!
Assistant Zhou privately savoured this enormous candy that only Gu insiders could know about, shedding tears as he felt this was perhaps the reward for all his flexible assistance in supporting Young Master Gu and Madam’s sweet love.
Ahhh T-T—
Today, a huge number of reporters were staking out the entrance to the Gu Corporation!
Because all the reporters believed that today there was definitely going to be some explosive headline news—!
No matter what kind of bombshell it was, catching it would make the trip worthwhile!
CMore had simply started a livestream too. Zhao Weining and the others were quite open-minded about it: their own platform’s hype was there, so why not take advantage of it? Netizens had already developed a reliance on CM livestreams, so the moment they saw the official stream go live, they clicked in at once.
[Ahhh, looking forward to seeing that founder.]
[I’m here, I’m here!]
First, representatives from various venture capital firms arrived at the Gu Corporation one after another.
Then very soon, Princess Ding herself made a stunning entrance.
Today, she had deliberately gone all out with her styling, dressing herself up like some dreamy goddess of light, sparkling from head to toe—doing everything she could to match the image of being 01’s light.
At her side, Jiang Linyi also made a grand appearance, allowing Ding Ziyue to hold onto his arm as he stood beside her, jealous but restrained.
Quite a few reporters immediately came over to interview them. “May I ask, Best Actor Jiang, would you mind the bond between Miss Ding and big shot 01?”
As the male lead of a doting romance novel, Jiang Linyi would of course feel jealous about such things.
But with excellent composure, he smiled at the cameras. “No. Outstanding people are naturally drawn to one another. I believe Yueyue simply admires that founder in a purely sincere way.”
Ding Ziyue covered her mouth and smiled. “Brother Linyi came with me today, and that itself proves it. We just both want to meet 01, because I want to see him get better and better.”
[So the big shot really still hasn’t shown up at all.]
Netizens all started guessing. Some thought he might be a foreign-imported tech genius who had done hacking before and therefore didn’t want to reveal his true face. Others guessed he was actually a prodigy still in school who didn’t want to be disturbed, which was why he had stayed hidden. Some, like Ding Ziyue, guessed that although the big shot was strong technically, he was extremely ugly, so he was too embarrassed to show himself in public.
There were all kinds of theories, with everyone saying something different.
In a kind and considerate tone, Ding Ziyue said to the camera, “Actually, I think that no matter what 01 looks like, no matter who 01 is, it doesn’t matter anymore, because what I admire is—”
Before she could finish, the limited-edition Maybach stopped at the entrance of the group headquarters.
Gu Cheng and Ning Yi got out of the car.
Since Gu Cheng got out first, he paused, adjusted his cuff, then turned back with a calm expression and extended his hand to Ning Yi.
Holding his hand, Ning Yi stepped out of the car calmly and gracefully. Standing together, the two of them were once again a very pleasing, perfectly matched sight.
All the insiders among Gu Cheng’s trusted people knew that this was already Young Master Gu sending everyone a signal.
—This woman, his wife, was the true main character today.
At once, no one paid attention to what Ding Ziyue was saying anymore.
[Ahhh did you all see that? Starting off with a huge sugar hit! Even in a setting like this, Young Master Gu still keeps Sister Ning by his side!]
[Who can still say this isn’t love?]
[There is absolutely no way there’s going to be a divorce!!]
[Although, but…]
[Feels like Ning Yi is panicking too, right? Otherwise why would she force herself to follow along on an occasion like this? It’s kind of inappropriate…]
[+1. Yueyue is still the one who understands the bigger picture.]
The online viewers were saying all kinds of things.
Meanwhile, all the reporters who had originally been gathered around Jiang Linyi and Ding Ziyue now swarmed over toward Gu Cheng and Ning Yi.
The bodyguards sealed the reporters off tightly, so much so that they couldn’t even touch the clothes of Young Master Gu and Madam.
With a detached expression, Gu Cheng held Ning Yi’s hand and led her through the crowd, directly ignoring the complicated looks on Jiang Linyi and Ding Ziyue’s faces as he walked toward the company entrance.
With reddened eyes, Ding Ziyue watched Ning Yi being rightfully led along by Young Master Gu, and wave after wave of unwillingness surged in her heart. She hurried after them.
—“Little sister!”
That one cry from the “goddess of light” did succeed in drawing the surrounding attention.
Ning Yi paused as well and turned back, only to see Ding Ziyue approaching with a smile and grabbing Ning Yi’s other hand.
“No matter what happens, your big sister will always be here! Understand?”
That sentence directly implied that something might happen to Ning Yi—exactly like the marital change netizens had been observing and speculating about.
[Ah, Princess Yueyue is really so gentle.]
[No wonder big shot 01 fell for her and made her his light…]
Ning Yi: “?”
She was directly pulled away by the expressionless Gu Cheng.
Once they entered the building elevator, Ning Yi gave the backend a hard-to-describe look.
Ding Ziyue to Ning Yi: I know you’re going to get kicked out of the Gu family!
Ding Ziyue to 01: [Don’t be afraid. The light will always shine on you…]
Ning Yi: metro old man looking at phone.jpg
The group entered the conference room.
Zhao Weining, the representative of the company behind CMore, Zhao Weiying who had come to support him, and the other investors who were about to participate in the financing round were all already seated neatly around the hollow rectangular table.
Everyone was dressed in formal business attire, with nameplates placed in front of them. The atmosphere carried the solemnity of a major occasion.
When they saw Gu Cheng entering with people behind him, they all stood up.
“Young Master Gu, long time no see! You haven’t changed at all from a few years ago…”
“President Gu, this time you have to lead us to glory. Let us bask in some of your good fortune too!”
As they spoke, they craned their necks to look behind Gu Cheng.
Everyone was extremely curious—who exactly was founder 01, the person who had never once shown their face?
But when they stuck their heads out to look, all they saw was Young Master Gu’s beautiful wife.
Hm? Where was the founder?
They assumed Young Master Gu doted on his wife so much that he had even brought her along to a setting like this. Though some of them had slight reservations in their hearts, because it was Gu Cheng, no one dared say anything.
But when Young Master Gu sat down with Ning Yi right beside him, everyone was even more shocked.
Had he d-doted on her to *this* extent?
At this point, this wasn’t even tyranny anymore—this was practically the behaviour of a foolish ruler—
Gu Cheng, however, sat there with his arms folded and said calmly, “Let’s begin.”
The assistants were already highly trained by now, efficiently turning on the big screen and distributing the contract materials in an orderly way.
But the venture capital bosses couldn’t sit still—not, wait, there was still one person missing! The technical core they valued most, that—
Then Gu Cheng, seated at the centre of the table, looked at everyone and curled his lips slightly.
“Let me introduce her. This is my wife.”
“Today’s contract will be signed with her.”
Everyone’s expressions were filled with shock and disbelief, and they all thought: could even a man like Young Master Gu really get so lovestruck that he lost his mind?!
—“She is 01.”
The man’s calm voice rang out.
Everyone’s expressions gradually turned blank.
Insider Zhao Weining at the scene: *Wuwuwu, finally! The outside world will finally know!*
Insider Assistant Zhou at the scene: *So you really are proud of her, aren’t you, Young Master! I’m dying from shipping this!*
And at the centre of the storm, Ning Yi smiled leisurely.
She twirled the pen in her hand, then lazily stood up.
“Then let me explain a few of the programs that can be launched next.”
“I’ll explain it in a way that everyone can understand.”
Looking at the girl’s calm figure standing in front of the big screen, for some reason everyone suddenly had the same feeling.
Holy shit—
She really did seem like a big shot!
By the time this concise yet intensely hard-core technical presentation was over, all the venture capital bosses following Gu Corporation’s lead felt a little dazed.
Amazing.
But damn it—Young Master Gu was leading the investment round, and Mrs. Gu was the founder herself.
Had they just been played by Young Master Gu?
But the founder was already right here, the closed-loop ecosystem CMore had mapped out really did have excellent commercial prospects, and the ability Ning Yi had just displayed was enough to make anyone covetous.
In the end, everyone rather dazedly completed signing the agreement.
Dazed, and somehow a little stuffed too.
It felt like they had been force-fed a mouthful of dog food.
Ning Yi read through the contract a bit more slowly, since it was her first time signing one after all.
Gu Cheng sat right beside her, his fingers resting on the back of her chair, not rushing her.
Just then, Ning Yi’s phone beside her was being bombarded with messages. Old Bitter Melon had gotten anxious—over the past few days he had been constantly trying to PUA Ning Yi, flooding her with messages every day and telling her to steal commercial secrets.
Gu Zhisong would never have imagined that Ning Yi would be sitting at the table, and even sitting right next to Gu Cheng. He thought a stupid woman like Ning Yi would only be standing off in some corner pouring tea and water.
Ning Yi couldn’t be bothered replying to him. After all, there were just too many people bombarding her with messages every day—how was she supposed to read them all?
If he could first deal with Ding Ziyue, then Ning Yi might reply to him. ^-^
[Find a chance to photograph Gu Cheng’s contract today.]
[Once it’s done, I’ll give you two million, so you can leave with dignity before the Wang family heiress enters the Gu family.]
[Do you know which parts of the contract are the key points?]
Gu Zhisong then explained several key clauses in the contract that Ning Yi should pay attention to. Ning Yi glanced at them: “?”
So she finally opened Gu Zhisong’s chat box and read through everything carefully. Ning Yi’s response was: thanks!
You really are a good person—giving money *and* providing educational explanations.
In that case, let’s upgrade your nickname from Old Bitter Melon to Old Bitter Loser! ^_^
After carefully reading through the contract, she somehow felt that it wasn’t as harsh as she had imagined. Then she casually snapped a picture of an unimportant page and sent it to Old Bitter Loser.
On the other side, Gu Zhisong had finally been waiting for his pawn to become useful, and he was almost wild with joy—but after opening the image and taking a look, he realized something was wrong.
“?!”
Wait—why is she still holding a pen?!
And Ning Yi, pen in hand, flamboyantly signed her own name.
All the agreements had now officially taken effect, and CMore’s current financing round would formally begin.
A broader world and a larger-scale team lay ahead.
Someone squeezed Ning Yi’s palm.
Gu Cheng looked over the scene in the meeting room. The overall outcome had already been decided.
He asked her calmly, “How does it feel?”
Ning Yi took a breath. “I want to announce to the elders back home your child has made it in life—”
Before she could finish, he squeezed her palm harder.
His voice, a few degrees colder, sounded by her ear. “Where is your back home?”
Is it that place you shared with Wander?
Ning Yi: “?”
Why are your points of focus always so weird?!
Assistant Zhou, who had been monitoring the online situation in real time, came over at the right moment and said, “Young Master Gu, the netizens are all calling for founder 01 to appear, and Miss Ding has once again posted some… uh… remarks about Madam.”
Before they knew Madam’s identity, Miss Ding’s behaviour hadn’t seemed *quite* so ridiculous. But now, it was simply…
Ning Yi honestly couldn’t bear to look at Ding Ziyue.
To be fair, Princess Ding really was the core, the driving force, of this brainless doting-romance world!
Single-handedly carrying all the drama of the entire universe!
After hearing Assistant Zhou’s report, Gu Cheng absentmindedly played with Ning Yi’s fingers and asked expressionlessly, “Do you need me to arrange a press conference for A Yi, so that your elders back home, your relatives and friends, can all see it?”
He deliberately emphasized the words “relatives and friends,” his tone cool and detached, yet while speaking he still pulled her into his arms.
Ning Yi: What a very strange husband!
But—
“No need.”
This was just about giving the public an explanation, so if it started somewhere, then it could end there too.
Her career had begun with a string of code.
So there was no need to switch battlefields. This place was where she stood.
So Ning Yi changed two words in her backend.
And an update she had prepared would also go live on schedule today.
Gu Cheng lowered his eyes and looked at her. In truth, nothing had changed.
And even if everyone knew now that she was not only Ning Yi, but also 01—
she was still his.
No one else should even think of coveting her.
[Ahhh, so has the founder actually come or not?]
[Yueyue has already been waiting here for ages.]
[I watched everyone who came in just now at the entrance—I didn’t see 01 anywhere.]
And at last, Ding Ziyue smiled and shook her head.
Facing the camera, the goddess of light revealed an expression that was three parts disappointment, three parts understanding, and four parts *I get it completely*.
“It’s okay. Maybe you still don’t want us to know who you are.”
But Ding Ziyue had already achieved her goal anyway~
“I’ll always support you silently and encourage you!” — It looked like this association wasn’t going to be undone, so her own value would continue rising together with CMore!
“I hope the CMore platform I love — which is also your hard work — will keep getting better and better.” — And then once Young Master Gu, who had invested in CM, married into the Wang family, useless Ning Yi would be finished, hahaha!
Of course, the audience couldn’t hear Ding Ziyue’s inner thoughts. They only thought: Yueyue is so gentle — how can the big shot be such a coward?!
[Big shot 01, are you even a man anymore?!]
[Don’t you want to meet the light that’s been shining on you all this time?!]
“No need for everyone to get angry either,” Ding Ziyue said to the camera, taking out her phone with a life-or-death kind of gentleness. “Right now, let me @ him one last time.”
From the @ dropdown, Ding Ziyue pulled up her recent contacts, selected 01, and sent out one final post.
Then she closed her eyes and basked in this wave after wave of satisfaction.
This round, she had won beautifully, won completely~~
When Ding Ziyue opened her eyes again, intending to look at the skyrocketing likes and comments, she suddenly sensed that something was off.
But the netizens had noticed it even faster than she had—
Wait, why had the person she @’d turned into Ning Yi???
Wasn’t she supposed to be tagging 01?
When they clicked into the tagged account, the homepage was still empty, just a blank profile picture—
Had big shot 01 changed their name? Or had she tagged the wrong person? But hadn’t Sister Ning never even opened a CM account before??
The netizens were utterly confused.
And Ding Ziyue’s smile faltered slightly.
A glitch?
Even this could let Ning Yi piggyback off her? Her luck really was pretty good?!
Ding Ziyue steadied herself and smiled at the livestream camera. “Haha, maybe the system had a problem. Quite a coincidence, actually. Looks like big shot 01 still needs to do more maintenance on the system~”
“And little sister too — since you registered an account, why didn’t you follow me back?”
Presumably, Ning Yi must also have wanted to understand what kind of platform CMore was. After all, Young Master Gu had already invested in it, and she, Ding Ziyue, had also proven her commercial value to everyone. And if Ning Yi didn’t follow her, it was surely because she saw how many followers Ding Ziyue had and felt inferior, right?
But the netizens were not nearly as confident as she was. Following the clues, they quickly uncovered more anomalies—
[But that really is 01’s account. I checked — the follower count and registration date haven’t changed.]
[??????]
[????????]
[Holy shit, wait, I think I’m starting to smell huge news here…]
[So 01 never showed up, but changed their username to Ning Yi?]
[Wait, my brain is a bit scrambled, let me sort this out.]
[Then where did 01’s account go? It’s gone??]
Sitting in Gu Cheng’s president’s office, Ning Yi smiled kindly and wagged her index finger.
No no no—
Who said 01 was gone?
Very soon, every CM user got an update notification.
This was code she had already prepared in advance. After the update, every CMore user had a special serial badge appear next to their name.
It represented what number registrant you were.
So amid the dizzying chaos of all this gossip, netizens immediately started checking their own exclusive little badges.
[Holy crap, I’m number 188888! I’m heaven’s chosen one!]
[Why is my number so completely unremarkable, wuwuwuwu]
Ding Ziyue had no idea what was going on, but she also opened her phone to look at hers—
[Number — 886]
Ding Ziyue: “…” Why did this suddenly feel kind of unlucky?
[Wuwuwu I’m so jealous of the special numbers!]
[So jealous, so jealous]
[Wait—HOLY SHIT AHHHHHHH]
[Go check Sister Ning’s profile! Hurry, go, ahhhhhhh—]
All users’ serial badges were silver.
Only one person’s badge was gold.
She had changed her name to her real name, and replaced the old code name with a gold badge.
—Her name: Ning Yi.
—Her serial number: 01.
Meaning the first person ever registered on this platform.
Which also meant… the founder.
[Wait a second, ahhhh]
[Is it what I think it is? My hands are shaking while typing!?]
[So Sister Ning is 01!!!]
Ding Ziyue: “?”
What? What kind of nonsense are they talking?
Ding Ziyue clicked into Ning Yi’s profile, and the moment she saw the verified Ning Yi and that gold serial number 01, the smile on her face slowly cracked open.
Then—whose light had she been trying to be?!
In that instant, Ding Ziyue immediately closed her phone and wanted to 886 her way out of all this, but the voices of the reporters at the scene rang straight into her ears.
“Holy shit—the news just came out from inside the Gu Corporation!”
“It was Gu Cheng’s wife who signed the contract with them just now!”
“Ning Yi is the founder!”
The whole place erupted.
And in the still-running CMore livestream, the entire internet heard it loud and clear.
At last Ding Ziyue completely broke down: Couldn’t you have shouted it after I’d already left?!
Fake—it was all fake!
This time she was truly shattered! How could she possibly be Ning Yi’s light?!!!
At last, Ding Ziyue covered her face and ran off crying.
Jiang Linyi chased after her from behind. “Yueyue—!”
But no one cared about the two of them anymore.
At that moment, the entire screen across the internet was flooding with:
[HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT]
And in the midst of that overwhelming uproar—
[Holy shit wait—is it only me who wants to know Young Master Gu’s reaction?!]
[Ahhh same here]
[What does it feel like when your wife is secretly a big shot, ahhhh]
…
And at this moment,
Young Master Gu’s reaction:
He sat in front of the computer, hands braced before him, deep in thought.
How to register serial number 52,000,000 overnight.
Waiting online. Urgent.
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