Because it was the weekend, the major event of signing the contract naturally called for a celebration. For safety, Liu Chen chose a private room on the top floor of Tianwang Tower.
Lai Jielun naturally drove his own car. Since Liu Chen and the others were delayed longer than expected, by the time they arrived, Ren Mo and Sang Ling were already seated. The moment Mi Zhuzhu sat down, Liu Chen walked in.
Hearing the door open, Mi Zhuzhu, who turned her head, saw Liu Chen and immediately jumped up. With a bright smile, she quickly walked up to Liu Chen and gave him a big hug, not forgetting to exclaim:
"Chenchen!! Even though I've said it countless times on QQ, I have to say it to your face now, you're amazing! Tsinghua University skipping grades! You have no idea, the professors at our school are all talking about your skipping grades!"
Liu Chen, listening to Mi Zhuzhu's boastful tone, smiled and hugged her back.
This hug, however, startled him with Mi Zhuzhu's frail physique.
Releasing her, Liu Chen stepped back and tilted his head slightly, carefully observing Mi Zhuzhu's face and her exposed hands.
"Are you dieting?"
Liu Chen asked as he rolled up the sleeve of Mi Zhuzhu's arm.
As soon as it was revealed, Liu Chen's brows furrowed. Mi Zhuzhu, in both of her lives, had never been a skinny girl. Even though high school was tough this life and she lost some weight, she was still 158 cm tall with a weight of 110 jin, which was just right.
Now, her arms looked so thin, she might not even weigh ninety-five jin?
However, before Liu Chen could say anything, Lai Jielun, who was behind him, interjected:
"Zhuzhu! How did you get so thin? Are you not feeling well? Come on, let's go to the hospital!"
Lai Jielun was truly frightened. In his understanding, he hadn't seen Zhuzhu for only a little over half a month, and she had become so thin. If it wasn't an illness, what else could it be?
Thinking that Zhuzhu was sick and he, as her boyfriend, didn't even know, spending his days only thinking about acting, Lai Jielun felt like punching himself.
In fact, Lai Jielun did punch himself.
Mi Zhuzhu quickly stopped him. Seeing the reactions of Chenchen and Lai Jielun, she felt a little annoyed.
"Oh, I, I just lost some weight, why are you guys so surprised?"
"Lost weight?" Lai Jielun was stunned by the words.
"Why did you lose weight? Are you feeling unwell anywhere?" Lai Jielun's first reaction was that it was a health issue.
Mi Zhuzhu pursed her lips and returned to her seat, her eyes darting away, afraid to look at Liu Chen and Lai Jielun.
"Oh, I just lost weight, what's there to explain?"
Seeing Mi Zhuzhu's demeanor, Liu Chen's brows furrowed even tighter. At this moment, Liu Chen suddenly remembered that in his previous life, around these years, a trend of diet pills had swept through City C.
However, this trend didn't last long, only about half a year in total, before it was eradicated by the police. Liu Chen remembered this because someone in the dormitory where he worked had bought them.
When the police officers came to inquire at the time, they had explained that the reason these pills worked so quickly for weight loss was due to liver damage and damage to the digestive system. Some people had even fainted and died after taking them.
At that time, the colleague immediately produced the diet pills and said, "No wonder I felt dizzy after taking them."
Calculating the time, it was precisely the period when those popular diet pills from his previous life were at their peak.
With this thought, Liu Chen sat down next to Mi Zhuzhu, placing one hand on the dining table and the other on Mi Zhuzhu's knee.
"How did you lose weight? Share it with me."
Since Liu Chen had sat next to her, Mi Zhuzhu couldn't avoid his gaze any longer. She gathered her courage:
"I, I just ran and exercised, and ate salads. Our school's track is so big, I ran so hard..."
Hearing this explanation, Liu Chen raised an eyebrow but didn't refute it. He simply reached out and pulled up Mi Zhuzhu's hoodie sleeve.
Liu Chen lightly tapped his chin, gesturing for Mi Zhuzhu to look at her own arm.
"Zhuzhu, you stutter when you lie, and you like to shake your legs. My hand was on your knee just now, and you almost made me get osteoporosis."
Mi Zhuzhu's eyes widened at these words, and her leg shook even more violently.
"No... No I didn't... Ah! Don't look at me! I, I didn't get thin from exercising, I, I lost weight by taking diet pills."
After saying this, Mi Zhuzhu, worried that Liu Chen would report her, quickly added:
"Chenchen, please don't tell my dad about this. If my dad finds out I took diet pills, he'll fly from City C to Beijing to scold me..."
Mi Zhuzhu's words caused Lai Jielun to fall silent.
He could vaguely guess why Zhuzhu wanted to lose weight. Perhaps it was because on a few occasions when he visited the school, he had seen a dance student confess his feelings to him.
However, Lai Jielun couldn't even recall the appearance or name of that dance student. He only remembered that the dance student was very thin, thinner than the bones of Zhuzhu's favorite sweet and sour pork ribs.
But now that everyone was present, Lai Jielun naturally couldn't reveal Zhuzhu's hidden thoughts. He wanted to protect her dignity.
So, he could only sit silently next to Liu Chen, looking at Zhuzhu with a pained expression.
While Lai Jielun remained silent, Liu Chen spoke:
"Mi Zhuzhu, you are now a Weibo influencer and have a loving boyfriend. Why do you want to lose weight?"
Mi Zhuzhu opened her mouth, wanting to fabricate a reason, but seeing Chenchen's serious eyes and the hand on her knee, she pouted, closed her eyes, and resigned herself:
"Well, the girls who confessed to Lai Jielun are all skinnier than me. Last time I went to see him, a girl called me a fatso. How could Lai Jielun like me... Wuwu..."
As she spoke of her sad thoughts, Mi Zhuzhu couldn't hold back her tears and buried her head in Liu Chen's neck.
Liu Chen felt the dampness on his neck and gently patted Mi Zhuzhu's back.
The words he had intended to scold her with immediately disappeared. Mi Zhuzhu was sobbing uncontrollably, how could he bear to say anything more?
Liu Chen didn't say anything, and Ren Mo and Sang Ling were even less likely to. Just as the room fell into silence, the door opened again, and Ren Yu entered, wearing a hoodie and jeans.
This was the first time Ren Mo had seen his brother since he returned from Los Angeles. Upon seeing the hoodie and jeans Ren Yu was wearing, his expression was as if he had seen a ghost.
His brother usually wore white shirts as if they were glued to him, projecting an image of a young elite. How could he now... seem a bit like he was trying to act young?
Ren Yu was unaware of his brother's thoughts. He only saw Liu Chen holding the crying Mi Zhuzhu.
Ren Yu's eyes flickered, and he walked directly to Liu Chen's side and stood there.
"What's wrong."
As Ren Yu asked, Mi Zhuzhu heard his voice and immediately stopped crying. She had been overwhelmed by emotion for a moment and couldn't control herself. Coupled with the recent diet pills that made her vomit when she ate, she was easily agitated.
Now, hearing Ren Yu's voice, Mi Zhuzhu's reason quickly returned.
She released her hands that were tightly clutching Liu Chen, took a tissue from the table to wipe her tears, and then lowered her head, saying:
"Nothing, I, I was just happy to hear that Chenchen signed the contract."
Seeing that Mi Zhuzhu had released her hand from Liu Chen's, Ren Yu didn't probe further. He merely glanced at Lai Jielun and then sat down next to him.
After all, Lai Jielun was no longer a mere high school graduate. Seeing Ren Yu's gaze and then looking at where Liu Chen was sitting, he stood up.
"Liu Chen, let's switch seats. I want to talk to Zhuzhu, okay?"
Liu Chen looked at Mi Zhuzhu, confirmed that she had no objections, and then stood up, nodding. He and Lai Jielun switched places.
While Lai Jielun and Mi Zhuzhu were talking, Liu Chen leaned over to Ren Yu and explained the situation, of course, focusing on the diet pills Mi Zhuzhu had taken.
"Even Zhuzhu is taking diet pills. In City C, how many people have been deceived by these diet pills? I think I should tell the police."
Liu Chen spoke with sincerity because she knew that these diet pills were genuinely life-threatening. Furthermore, she was thinking about Mi Zhuzhu taking diet pills. If the sellers of the diet pills publicized it using Mi Zhuzhu's name, it would implicate Mi Zhuzhu, which would be bad.
Ren Yu listened attentively to Liu Chen's words. Although he was also puzzled why his Chenchen trusted the police so much, wanting to report everything like a child singing a song about finding five cents on the roadside and handing it in.
However, this was not an important matter. He could ask for clarification when they were alone in the future.
Liu Chen was unaware of Ren Yu's thoughts. She only felt that after being reborn, she should take on as much responsibility as she could. After all, with great power comes great responsibility.
With this thought, Liu Chen took out her phone, logged into Weibo, and directly messaged the official Weibo account of the C City Public Security Bureau about the diet pill issue. Of course, she did not disclose Mi Zhuzhu's information, only stating that she had received a private message from a fan.
In 2010, there were very few official accounts on Weibo. This C City Public Security Bureau account was considered quite popular, mainly due to several previous statements regarding Liu Chen that had boosted its followers.
This official account didn't have the so-called operation like in later years. It primarily posted notices and photos of fugitives with bounties, usually done casually in the office.
As for private messages?
There were none at all. Despite the idle netizens, they knew which Weibo accounts could be trifled with and which couldn't.
Therefore, although the C City Public Security Bureau's official Weibo had tens of thousands of followers, they had never received a private message.
So, when Liu Chen's private message arrived, the conspicuous "1" immediately caught the attention of the police officer who had just logged into Weibo to post an announcement.
"Someone actually sent us a private message?"
Muttering to himself, Officer Qu clicked on the private message. Upon reading it, Officer Qu's expression immediately turned serious.
C City had appeared to have three-no-three products, and they were circulating so widely?!
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Compared to Officer Qu's shock and immediate action, Liu Chen forgot about the matter after receiving a reply from the official account.
There was no other way. There were too many things happening recently. The factory area was about to be completed, and she had to fly back to City C to recruit team leaders with Yu Bing and Chen Hu, as well as a real HR.
Yes, Liu Chen wanted to recruit a human resources administrator, and even establish a human resources department.
After their last meal, Lai Jielun accompanied Mi Zhuzhu to the hospital for a physical examination. The results showed mild liver damage, mild anorexia, malnutrition, and anemia.
As a result, for the past week, Lai Jielun went to Mi Zhuzhu's school every day after class to have dinner with her and then take a walk.
But this time, no matter how much Mi Zhuzhu ate, her weight wouldn't go up. Moreover, due to excessive dieting, her digestive system had difficulty digesting even a little more food, and her stomach was constantly rumbling.
There was nothing Liu Chen could do but switch the "Body Strengthening Milk" she had drawn from the system to a domestic milk brand and express mail it to Mi Zhuzhu.
The reason she hadn't personally delivered it for a visit was that she was too busy.
Liu Chen had officially become a sophomore student, attending classes daily, and spending the rest of her time tinkering in the laboratory.
Of course, Professor He Long, as the research advisor, would still visit the laboratory from time to time.
After staying in the lab until nine o'clock in the evening, Liu Chen cleaned up and returned to her dormitory, then turned on her computer to start sifting through resumes.
This was also why Liu Chen wanted to establish an HR department. Yu Bing and Chen Hu were capable of managing their original departments.
She didn't trust them to be responsible for recruitment, especially with a mastermind waiting to make a move behind the scenes.
Therefore, every evening when Liu Chen returned home, she would take the incomplete resume forms drawn from the system, open the resumes she fancied one by one, fill in the names, read them, then erase the names and write new ones.
Yes, this was a bug in the resume form that Liu Chen had finally discovered. Although it could only monitor the employee's situation in real-time,
Liu Chen felt that she didn't need real-time monitoring; she only needed to screen them for now.
However, as a product of the system, even a fragmented version was still durable. Liu Chen estimated that she had written names on the resume forms hundreds of times.
As she thought, Liu Chen wrote down the information from the resume in front of her.
Name: Cui Jian
Gender: Male
Age: Thirty-five
Skills: Fraud Intermediate, Flattery Intermediate, Personnel Management Intermediate...
Current Loyalty to Host: -30 (Extremely Dangerous), Recruiting someone like this? Host, run!
Favorite Food: China Brand Cigarettes
Current Health Index: 40 (Body depleted by alcohol and women)
Current Status: Drunk and sleeping
The form also included the home address and family members.
Liu Chen looked up at Cui Jian's resume on the computer, then looked down at the resume from the system.
A smile appeared on her face.