Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 521 Parallel World (5)

But Jing Chen was tall and had long legs, so he walked very fast ahead. By the time Yan Zhen rounded the corner, his figure had vanished into thin air.

Yan Zhen guessed that he had teleported to the doghouse in an instant, so he immediately took out the key from his pocket and activated the teleportation.

When they arrived at the doghouse, Jing Chen was indeed sitting on the sofa. He still had that expressionless look, but his whole being was filled with a low-pressure atmosphere.

Yan Zhen walked over and sat down next to him, her hand naturally resting on his shoulder: "Are you angry?"

Jing Chen glanced at her.

Yan Zhen explained the background of Zhou Zhiji's invitation to dinner in just a few words.

“He doesn’t want to owe me a favor, and I don’t want to be owed one either, so as to avoid future entanglements,” Yan Zhen said kindly. “After this meal, we’ll be even.”

Jing Chen was silent for a moment, then said, "You didn't know he liked you?"

"He didn't say anything, so I pretended not to know."

"So you can tell he likes you?"

Yan Zhen frowned: "What do you mean?"

"You know he likes you, yet you still went to dinner with him. Isn't that just giving him a chance to show his affection?" Jing Chen said angrily. "I mind! I'm angry! Your behavior makes me very sad!"

Yan Zhen seemed to be thinking for a while, then said, "I'm sorry."

Jing Chen was taken aback.

"There won't be a next time. If I encounter a similar situation again, I will refuse."

Upon hearing Yan Zhen's words, Jing Chen's expression did not improve; instead, he sensed a strong sense of perfunctoriness in Yan Zhen's tone.

Because she didn't want to argue with him, or rather, she didn't think it was a serious matter at all, she tried to end the argument with a half-hearted apology in order to gloss over the matter.

Are you just giving me the runaround?

Yan Zhen: "..."

A subtle hint of impatience flickered in her eyes and brows: "What would be considered not perfunctory?"

“You didn’t think you did anything wrong at all; your apology was just to appease me!” Jing Chen said. “I have a reasonable suspicion that if it happens again, you will still go out to eat with male colleagues.”

Yan Zhen stared at Jing Chen for a while, then suddenly laughed: "So, to be with you, I have to cut off all contact with my male colleagues?"

"Don't try to twist the facts. You know perfectly well that Zhou Zhiji has feelings for you!"

"Do you know how many people of the opposite sex and the same sex in the Quick Transmigration Division have feelings for me?"

Jingchen choked back a sob.

"As long as they don't confess their feelings to me or say anything ambiguous that crosses the line, I'll pretend I don't know anything. That's normal interpersonal interaction! Is it so hard to understand maintaining normal interpersonal interactions with colleagues in the workplace who you never know when you might need their help?"

Jing Chen: "..."

“I understand you’re unhappy about this. You’ve brought it up, and I’ve offered a solution. I will refuse any similar invitations in the future. You’re still being unreasonable. What more do you want?”

Jing Chen: "..."

His momentum gradually weakened, and he said in a low voice, "If you agree to make our relationship public, then there won't be any problems."

Yan Zhen frowned: "What did you say?"

Jing hesitated for a moment, then mustered her courage and said, "I want to make our relationship public."

Yan Zhen pondered for a while, then placed the sweet and sour pork ribs he had brought in front of Jing Chen: "I bought them at the cafeteria, using my points."

Jing Chen was taken aback.

Seeing Yan Zhen stand up and casually pick up the coat he had left there last time, he instinctively stood up as well: "What are you doing?"

"You've crossed the line. Let's end this relationship."

After Yan Zhen finished speaking, he turned and walked out of the doghouse.

Jing Chen felt as if he had been kicked; after a brief moment of confusion and helplessness, the discomfort and panic finally surged up.

He hurriedly tried to chase after them.

But after chasing for only a few steps, Yan Zhen turned back.

"Yan Zhen..."

Yan Zhen stepped aside and picked up a small cookie from the table: "I'll take this with me."

Jing Chen quickly reached out and grabbed her: "I..."

"Don't forget our initial agreement, no clinging on." Yan Zhen interrupted him, pried his hand away, patted him on the back, and comforted him, "This is good too. People with different paths should not work together. It's better to cut our losses while our sunk costs are still low. It's better for both of us. If we get along for a long time and our feelings become so deep that we can't tolerate each other but we can't bear to separate, then that would be disgusting."

Jing Chen: "..."

Seeing that Yan Zhen was about to leave, Jing Chen quickly reached out to try to stop her.

But Yan Zhen saw through his intentions, reached into his pocket, and pressed the remote key.

Jing Chen only felt the person in front of him flash by and disappear into thin air.

His mind went blank with panic. He hurriedly turned around to look for the remote key on the table. In his haste, he knocked over some miscellaneous items on the table, and the key fell to the ground with the debris.

After being delayed for a short while, when Jing Chen hurriedly returned to the Quick Transmigration Division and pushed open the door to Yan Zhen's office, only Xiao Qi, who was munching on cookies, was inside.

Jing Chen's breathing quickened: "She's gone?"

Xiao Qi immediately put down the cookies and sat up straight: "Yes, Master went to do a mission and just left."

Jing Chen: "..."

Remembering Yan Zhen's instructions, Xiao Qi picked up the remote key on the table with its paw, spread its wings and flew to Jing Chen: "By the way, this is what Master asked me to give to you, saying it's returning to you."

Jing Chen didn't answer, and said with a stern face, "Give me the mission number."

Xiao Qi hesitated for a moment, then remembered that Yan Zhen had returned and left expressionlessly just two minutes earlier, before finally giving out a number.

Jingchen noted down the number and turned to run.

He hurried to Zhou Yanqing's office, but when he opened the door, he didn't see anyone. Only Zhou Yanqing's system, Xiao Lan, was there.

Upon seeing him, Xiao Lan asked, "Lord God, are you looking for President Zhou?"

Jing Chen: "Where did he go?"

Xiao Lan said, "President Zhou has gone on a mission."

Jing Chen had no choice but to turn to another programmer in the Quick Transmigration Division.

Upon arriving at the programmer's office, Jing Chen stated the mission number: "I need to enter this world with my memories."

The staff member typed in the code rapidly, and after opening the code for the small world, he scratched his head and said with difficulty, "Because there are senior mission takers from our company performing missions in this world, the relevant programs have been locked to ensure that the world does not collapse. If you go in with your memories, it would be a bug, and there is a certain probability that it will cause the world to go awry and endanger the safety of the mission takers."

"Then change the program and unlock it!" Jing Chen urged. "Change it now, immediately!"

The programmer quickly replied, "Okay, please wait a moment, it will be fixed in two hours at most."

Two hours?

Jing Chen's heart turned cold.

Two hours in the Quick Transmigration Division feels like several months in the small world.

If a few months were wasted, given Yan Zhen's ruthlessness, he would have long forgotten about him.

The daylilies will be cold by then.

“No changes, I’m going in now.” Jing Chen made a decisive decision. “Run it according to the original procedure.”

"Yes."