I Don't Agree to the Terms

"Yes, Chairman Xiao." The assistant was relieved. Under the control of Young Master Xiao, the company had nearly become a complete mess in just three days. If he were really left in charge, no one would have good days ahead. Within a year, Eternal Life Technology, being such a large enterprise, would probably collapse.

Then, Xiao Yongsheng was briefed on many matters and provided precise solutions rapidly.

Indeed, he had built his empire based on his unique eyes, but over the years, he had learned and gradually evolved into a formidable figure. He didn't care about any enemies except for death, which constantly kept him up at night and was slowly defeating him.

The plane soon landed at the airport, and a car was waiting to take him to the old residence that Xiao Yongsheng had not returned to for many years.

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"This time it's actually the female lead, plus this melodramatic female-centric plot really caught me off guard." Gu Shanhai stood at the entrance of Eternal Life Technology's building. He was initially interested in Xiao Yongsheng, but after calculating, he found Xiao Yongsheng to be just an ordinary passerby. Instead, his son, Xiao Yunting, turned out to be surprisingly different.

Last night, after getting drunk, he did something illegal to the female lead, Su Man. It must be said that being rich and handsome really makes a difference. If it were someone else, they would have been detained by now, but today, they went to work as if nothing had happened.

Then, Su Man was promoted to be Xiao Yunting's personal assistant— and I mean the kind that assists in the evening too.

This was followed by the start of a contrived office life driven by an overbearing CEO romance.

But in Gu Shanhai's eyes, the actions of Xiao Yunting were enough to land him in jail for twenty-five years.

And there was also shamelessly selling off ancestral property without even blinking, firing core staff at will, with all employees revolving around their romance.

Like the malicious supporting female character, the scheming boss, and so forth.

However, according to Gu Shanhai, this was also the norm. Your Young Master fires two core staff, and he doesn't allow them to complain?

The workplace culture at Eternal Life Technology was still excellent, whether it was the benefits or relationships between employees. There was no malicious exploitation, and there were no underhanded dealings among superiors or colleagues, creating a strong cohesion, which is why the company's efficiency was extremely high.

"So, he didn't feel awkward saying that? Why does this female lead enjoy it so much…" Gu Shanhai commented.

Just now, he saw Su Man accidentally spill coffee on Xiao Yunting, and then Xiao Yunting used the line: "Woman, you're testing my limits."

When he heard that, Gu Shanhai almost burrowed a three-bedroom apartment with his toes, as it was the first time he had encountered such cheesy rhetoric.

To speak of dominance, he had seen the monstrous authority of Atilis, but his dominance wasn't towards women, but a ruler's type of dominance.

Then there was Huang Yanshan's near-insane dominance, like a mad king, whom everyone dared not defy.

But the dominance of this overbearing CEO, Gu Shanhai really felt he couldn't quite stomach it.

"With these two as the main characters, I think the world is doomed," Gu Shanhai was certain the trouble had nothing to do with these two. If there weren't some interferences from beyond, the concept of death wouldn't vanish, and the world would probably just remain in the realm of cliché CEO romances like this one, at most just lovie-dovie.

As for the idea of the male and female leads turning into superheroes in tights to save the world when a crisis hits, that's thinking too much. Both are brainless and lack the capability.

If Xiao Yunting were sane, how could he do such things? How could he possibly give up his father's vast enterprise just to chase love?

"No value really, should I just drain the luck from these two?" Gu Shanhai felt somewhat conflicted.

But this thought was immediately dismissed by him. He was concerned the luck might be tainted, and besides, he wasn't in dire need of that little bit of luck.

"Let's just check on Xiao Yongsheng instead, he seems more valuable than these two." Gu Shanhai sighed, just about to leave, when he noticed a bizarre figure.

"It seems you've also noticed something is off with Eternal Life Technology." The bizarre figure said gravely upon seeing Gu Shanhai.

"Ah, right, what do you think?" Gu Shanhai, limited by the information he got from his Prophetic Divination, couldn't claim to know everything. But the bizarre figure was different; his simulator was professional in gathering intelligence.

"I suspect the disappearance of the concept of death likely originated from an experiment gone awry at Eternal Life Group. You know, the founder and chairman of Eternal Life Group, Xiao Yongsheng, is seriously ill." The bizarre figure asked.

"Yes, cancer. I calculated, he has at most three months to live, but he seems to have given up and returned to his old home to retire, leaving the company to his son." All this was predicted by Gu Shanhai through Prophetic Divination, feeling there were quite a few issues, just not sure specifically what the issues were yet.

The bizarre figure's simulation also led to this result, which is why he was not surprised by Gu Shanhai's ability. Otherwise, he could defend against his simulator.

"As for Xiao Yunting, well, he's competent, but he's too petty. Since his father's death, he's been all lovey-dovey with Su Man all day. Yet, strangely, despite his unrestrained damaging approach towards the company, not only has he not ruined the company, it's actually thriving, which is really weird." The bizarre figure said with a strange expression.

In the simulator, they only lived one year, and then his simulator indicated that he died.

This shows that the disappearance of the death concept does not prevent one from being killed.

Players who are killed return to the "First Epoch," which is equivalent to failing the mission.

As for NPCs, after the disappearance of the death concept, being killed does not result in actual death, but the bizarre figure was unsure of the specific manifestations since his simulation was only a line of text and couldn't show the visuals.

"It looks like you've also noticed something peculiar about these two, why don't you go and kill them to see if they drop anything?" Gu Shanhai encouraged the bizarre figure to handle it.

Perhaps killing Xiao Yunting could result in dropping a domineering aura, and killing Su Man could drop a white lotus aura.

Hmm, just thinking about it was somewhat tempting.

The bizarre figure looked strangely at Gu Shanhai; he didn't know they were main characters, but he could tell from his fate system that these two were favored by fate, not so easy to kill.

Furthermore, even if he could, he wouldn't. Killing them could provoke the backlash of fate.

"Go on, I'll give you the reward." The bizarre figure didn't fall for it, instead encouraging Gu Shanhai.

As for fate backlash, Gu Shanhai didn't care much, he didn't follow the fate system. The premise for backlash was that he'd have something they could hit.

What about having related Spirit Plant? That thing was within his body, and for central characters who were like his children, the world of a father's generation—how could that possibly backlash into his body.

"No thanks, no thanks, what could those people possibly drop?" Gu Shanhai also refused, the benefits were too small, not worth it.

"Alright then, I'll keep an eye on this place, and you can go look elsewhere?" Gu Shanhai asked.

Hearing this, the bizarre figure nodded. "Okay, I'll keep an eye on them."

With his simulator, he could traverse the world from home, having already spotted anomalies. By managing on both fronts, Gu Shanhai could freely investigate other areas.

"You're really not shy." Gu Shanhai teased him, then got up to leave. He didn't use Five Elements Great Escape because being in a cafe on the street corner, being too ostentatious wasn't in line with his low-profile principle. He didn't want to attract official attention, nor did he want to cooperate with the officials because it was pointless.

Given his current capacity, cooperating with the bizarre figure was okay, but cooperating with a non-Transcendent official, his ability to collect intelligence was still inferior to his own.