QT: The Host is Listless

1.7

The check-up that day was done swiftly. In the night, Shen Yi can be seen scrolling through his computer once more, this time, he was straightforwardly surfing social media platforms to look at further news regarding Lan Xing's situation. With the police investigating, it was only a matter of a couple of days (a week at most) before the situation was handled. However, if he wanted to ensure that her reputation remains as clean as possible, then Shen Yi needed to ensure that the main cast are all crippled socially.

"Should I hire a private investigator?" Shen Yi mumbled.

The tab shifted, and soon the image displayed on the computer screen switched to the stock market analysing data sheet. As mentioned before, Ye Jun's company was facing serious financial issues. This was one of the major plot points in the original novel, and one of the reasons why Ye Jun fell deeper in love with Wen Lianhua was due to this. In the crisis of his company's downfall, Wen Lianhua not only fixed the problem for him but also increased his company's social standing.

Which was all bullshit, of course. All Wen Lianhua did was change the data to con people into increasing the market share, illegal but she wasn't caught at all and by the time it could've turned into a problem, the company was already big enough to deal with it. All the money laundering was spent, and all the evidence for any sort of conviction was completely wiped.

This brings Shen Yi to having to choose between two choices:

1. Wait for them to commit a crime.

2. Cause their downfall earlier on.

One was more work than the other, naturally. However, the one that requires less work was more susceptible to plot armour. Shen Yi wasn't quite sure if he wanted to test himself against plot armour. Isn't it scary to live in a novel world? You can spend so much effort doing things only for it all to fail in the face of plot armour.

"Guess I'll have to ruin Ye Jun's company then," Shen Yi decided. Perhaps he can salvage a few parts of the company and throw them to Ye Xiao as bait.

Ding!

Shen Yi's eyes dulled, picking up his mobile phone. Speak fo the devil and he shall appear. On the phone screen, displayed brightly was the notification to indicate a text message coming from Ye Xiao. Ever since Shen Yi exchanged numbers with the guy, it seems as if a message came in timed once every hour.

It was literally two in the morning right now, what did this crazy person want? A quick read showed that Ye Xiao was asking if Shen Yi was asleep. If he was to be sleeping, would he even be able to answer the damn text?

Shen Yi resisted the urge to block him. Shen Yi solemnly told himself once more that it was better to keep multiple hands doing the work for him so that Shen Yi didn't need to work too hard. Being too harsh to Ye Xiao will result in the loss of a usable tool and would require Shen Yi to work even harder.

After the quick hypnotism, Shen Yi responded to the text. As expected, within seconds of his reply, he got one in return. Ye Xiao recommended a bunch of things that could help with sleep. Shen Yi moodily stared at the influx of messages that was akin to spam before wishing him goodnight.

Shen Yi decisively shut off his phone completely after that, not wanting to experience an explosion of text messages. He had enough of them, this Ye Xiao did nothing but talk. Shen Yi gloomily turned his focus back to his computer screen once more, only to widen his eyes in confusion. Within a couple of minutes he spent talking to Ye Xiao, the market price of Ye Jun's company fell by 0.34%.

"Oho?" Shen Yi quirked his lips up. It seems that someone was working really hard to increase the casualty. In this case, Shen Yi decided to change his plan. Relying on an inconsistent, independent variable may be risky but it was a risk he was willing to take. Since there are people who are actively attacking Ye Jun, then Shen Yi can work on the second male lead.

Luo Sheng is a biochemical engineer who is at the pinnacle of his life and government funded. If Ye Jun was to be the model example of the richest and most successful businessman, then Luo Sheng was the example of someone who has redefined the words 'Overachieving Genius'. To take down someone like this was not easy, however, redirecting his attention would be an easier thing.

"A pharmaceutical company," Shen Yi hummed. This world was created from the mind of someone else, meaning, the creator's imagination limits many things. There are many things that don't make sense, things that Shen Yi can use to his advantage.

In the story, it is said that Wen Lianhua founded a pharmaceutical company and hired the second male lead to be one of the head researchers. There was no place in the text nor his memories to indicate that she had gotten diplomacy in pharmacy at all. Despite this, she still utilised her "advanced knowledge over medicine" from another world to be her own head pharmacist.

Which is really, genuinely a load of shit.

But this also allowed Shen Yi to abuse this system thoroughly, turning countless plot holes and lack of common sense in the story into his own pond of tools.

"First I need to give something the second male lead can value, at this point in time, he only just began to have a crush on Wen Lianhua. Then, let's test if he values his own career and advancement more or his crush on her," Shen Yi nodded to himself.

If Luo Sheng chose to value his crush, then Shen Yi would just have to work twice as hard to make sure Luo Sheng gets buried deep into the ground the second he attempts to touch Lan Xing's reputation. Otherwise, it would just reduce his work by three quarters.

"Host? You're not sleeping?"

Shen Yi stilled, he glanced at the corner and realised that he neglected the vigilance he had over Shiba. A frown made its way onto his face, this system of his made him soften the guard way too easily. He glanced forward and Shiba was looking at him with a puzzled expression on his face.

"What are you doing, Host?" Shiba asked, crawling over in the form of a teacup poodle.

"Research," Shen Yi slammed the computer screen down. "Why are you awake?"

Shiba flinched, "Host, are you still mad from this morning?"

"No." Shen Yi stilled.

His fingers twitched when Shiba placed his tiny paws on top of Shen Yi's palms, the soft pad was pressed lightly and round watery eyes stared up at him. Exasperation washed over him along with what suspiciously seemed to be resignation. Shen Yi reached down and scooped the tiny thing up, petting it on the head.

Oh well, this tiny thing probably only knows how to act cute and do whatever people say. Shen Yi was dead already anyway, so it won't matter if he continued to keep his guard up when it concerned this harmless thing.

"I'm not mad," Shen Yi said again, his voice still cold but not as emotionless as before.

Shiba seems to melt into a puddle out of relief. It seems that Senior 002 was right in saying that acting cute would get his host to soften up, from now on, Shiba was only going to listen to Senior 002! Senior 003 was too unreliable.

"What can you do to help me?" Shen Yi suddenly asked. "Do you provide any assistance to the hosts?"

Shiba froze, then guiltily, he shrunk back a little. "That is... No, we can't help the host with anything."

Oh, useless. Shen Yi resigned himself to having to work after all. In this case, he'll just have to establish a company that can eventually fight both Ye Jun's company and the pharmaceutical company Wen Lianhua owned.

Fuck, this was too much work, should he just fail the mission?