Becoming a Confidence Coach to an Arrogant Director - Chapter 22

Chapter 22: Stubbornness 

Morale Booster Yuan, having lost points, was now extra cautious.

Director Gu pushed the phone on the coffee table to the side and said coldly, “Your friends, call them yourself!”

Yuan Yishan glanced at the disconnected voice message, which clearly showed the four big characters “Brother Li Cheng.”

She thought, This jerk must have caused trouble again to make Director Gu so angry, and I’m being dragged into it. I lost 10 points. I need to make him pay.

Morale Booster Yuan picked up the phone and, in front of Director Gu, called “Brother Li Cheng” back.

Beep…

After several rings, the call was connected.

Morale Booster Yuan activated an internal program, and her electronic voice was more flirty than usual.

“Brother Li Cheng, I’m so sorry! I was washing dishes just now and couldn’t answer your call in time! Why did you hang up, Brother? Are you angry?”

The moment she finished speaking, a beep sounded.

Beep, the system detects that the programmer you are speaking with is currently feeling extremely anxious. Deducting 10 satisfaction points.

Beep, beep, the system detects that your bound user is feeling irritable. Deducting 20 satisfaction points.

Yuan Yishan: ?!

What’s going on? Did I say something to make someone anxious? Or did I do something to make someone irritable? You stupid system, do you have a bug?

Sorry, Host, the little fairy is running normally. No loopholes have been detected.

Yuan Yishan: …

The flirty electronic voice didn’t get to talk to Brother Li Cheng for long. He made an excuse and quickly hung up.

Morale Booster Yuan, who had hung up the phone, looked at Director Gu sitting on the sofa and felt very uneasy.

Why did this little ancestor suddenly become so irritable? It doesn’t seem like anyone provoked her. Is she not feeling well?

Yuan Yishan checked her control panel. The monitoring mechanism showed that her health was not much different from the morning.

“Sister, are you still not feeling well?” she asked tentatively.

Director Gu’s expression was serious. She didn’t respond or look at her.

Morale Booster Yuan sat next to the sofa, forcing her smiling A.I. face into Gu Jin’s line of sight.

“Does your stomach hurt? Should I press it for you again, Sister?”

Director Gu’s phoenix eyes slightly lowered, and she spoke with her thin lips.

“Are your friends appeased?”

Yuan Yishan: It’s Li Cheng’s fault, that darn gay-acting guy, for making Director Gu so angry. Now Gu Jin is taking it all out on me. He’ll get what’s coming to him.

She activated an internal program, apologizing in her flirtatious voice.

“Sister, Brother Li Cheng is usually very mischievous, but he definitely didn’t know it was you answering the phone. He wouldn’t dare otherwise. I apologize on his behalf. Can you be the bigger person and not bother with people like him?”

Gu Jin: …

Morale Booster Yuan’s A.I. hand reached out and nervously tugged at the sleeve of Gu Jin’s pajamas, her voice even more娇滴滴 (sweet and soft).

“Sister, please?”

Gu Jin: Forget it. Why am I getting angry with a bunch of idiots?

…

Director Gu, who was trying to heal herself, was now lost in thought, holding her uncomfortable stomach on the sofa.

Yuan Yishan watched her user space out and refuse to respond, so she began to act cute and miserable in every way possible.

She moved her A.I. body half a step closer to Director Gu and sniffled hard.

“Sigh~”

Gu Jin heard her sigh for no reason and looked at her.

Yuan Yishan sniffled again.

Director Gu was a little baffled, not knowing what tricks this girl was up to now.

Soon, she saw a thin layer of mist form in her beautiful lychee eyes. The little girl blinked her eyes, and a few crystal-clear teardrops trickled down her long eyelashes.

Yuan Yishan activated an emotion release mechanism, and her electronic voice sounded incredibly sad and emotional, with a hint of a sob.

“In this world, you’re the only family I have, Sister. When you’re angry and don’t want to talk to me, I feel so lonely!”

Although Gu Jin knew she was deliberately trying to get attention, her heart was inexplicably touched when she heard her say she was her only family.

Yuan Yishan detected the subtle change in her emotions and immediately elevated the sad atmosphere to a climax.

“I wonder how my parents are doing now. I miss my home so much! So, so much…”

The “family” card was the most effective one. Morale Booster Yuan’s face showed a deep sense of loss.

Gu Jin couldn’t tell if it was real or not. Her hardened heart broke in an instant. She wasn’t good at comforting people, but she hesitantly placed her hand on the cold hand of the machine.

Yuan Yishan detected the bony five fingers resting on her right hand. The cold chip, which didn’t have a constant temperature mode on, suddenly felt hot as if it had undergone some high-power exercise. Even the tears rolling down her eyelashes became warm and real.

At the same time, the human emotion wrapped in the cold machine shell began to become greedy.

“Sister, c-can you hug me?”

Gu Jin paused when she heard this request. Then, she slowly moved closer, her tired body giving her a clumsy hug from behind.

It was very gentle and warm!

The face reflected on the A.I.’s control panel was too stiff from being at a loss for words. The monitoring mechanism showed a heart that was beating erratically.

In that instant, Yuan Yishan turned around and hugged Director Gu tightly.

How can this gentle woman in front of me be so good, so thoughtful? I just want to turn her into a little accessory, tie her to myself, and not let her go. When I have enough points in the future, I’ll put her in my pocket and take her with me as a personal item to keep all to myself.

Gu Jin awkwardly opened her mouth.

“Do you have a wish?”

A wish?

Yuan Yishan’s dark A.I. pupils rotated once.

“As long as it’s within my power, I can help you fulfill it!”

She gets it. So, this was Director Gu’s way of comforting people?

A wish? Within her power?

Of course I have one! My biggest wish is to quickly accumulate hundreds of millions of points and return to the real world as soon as possible.

When Morale Booster Yuan thought of her biggest wish, the sense of emotion in her electronic brain instantly turned into motivation. She activated an internal program, and her electronic voice immediately became cheerful and lively.

“Really? Can Sister really fulfill a small wish for me?”

Director Gu nodded mechanically.

“Mhm, what is it?”

In the next second, Yuan Yishan said, “How about we go out and have fun? We can bring Li Cheng and Gua Ge with us!”

The moment she finished speaking, the system responded.

Beep, user emotion is dissatisfied. Deducting 10 satisfaction points.

Yuan Yishan: ?!

Didn’t she say she wanted to help me fulfill a wish? Why did my satisfaction points suddenly drop?

She looked at Gu Jin.

The person in her arms had already struggled to climb out of her A.I. embrace. She pushed Yuan Yishan away, her face solemn.

“No.”

Morale Booster Yuan: ?

If we don’t go out, how can I earn double the points?

Since coming to this world, she had only earned points from three groups of people. The first was Li Cheng and Gua Ge. Because the front-end newbies felt inferior, the little fairy executed two commands, fulfilling the programmer morale booster’s no-truth-in-the-chest and pretend-to-understand commands.

Then there was Director Xiu. She didn’t know what command she executed, but her satisfaction points soared, causing the system to force an upgrade, and her A.I. electronic brain lost consciousness on the spot.

And then there was her user. When Yuan Yishan thought of the initial 1,000 points and the smile on Gu Jin’s face the moment she protected her, her heart ached a little.

But the one million points from yesterday came in a very strange way. What attribute did she trigger to make her user feel so satisfied all of a sudden?

Even though Yuan Yishan knew the source of the soaring satisfaction points, she couldn’t just say to her user when she was sober, “Sister, why don’t you touch me again so I can get another million satisfaction points?”

She would probably get kicked out before she could even finish her sentence. It was not a good idea.

She could only resort to the last option: curry favor with her user and encourage the rookies to earn double points at the same time.

Director Gu saw her in deep thought, and her cold heart became conflicted.

Should I agree? Or should I not? Agree? Or not?

But she really wasn’t used to talking to unfamiliar people. But this girl clearly liked being in a crowd. Staying with a “dummy” like her all day must be boring. Maybe going out and having fun was truly her biggest wish?

While she was in a dilemma, Morale Booster Yuan began to test the waters again.

“Or, if we don’t want to go out and have fun, we can just have a small hot pot at home?”

Beep, deducting 10 user satisfaction points.

This time, the little fairy couldn’t even detect the reason. 10 satisfaction points were just deducted. Yuan Yishan was baffled again.

Director Gu: Kid, what gives you the courage to bring your friends here? Do you know that even Ji Xiu and Pei He have only been to my house a few times?

Morale Booster Yuan fought to the death, tugging at Director Gu’s arm, whining.

“Please, Sister~”

“No!”

One minute later, the machine in front of her had a pouting expression, as if she was about to cry from being wronged. She sniffled hard.

“Sister just said she would help me fulfill a wish, but now she’s suddenly changing her mind. It turns out Sister just wanted to fool me and never intended to help me fulfill my wish. I don’t love you anymore, hmph!”

Gu Jin: …

How can this person be so unreasonable? She eats my food, uses my things, and whines to me all the time. Who spoiled her like this?

Another minute passed. The A.I. on the sofa was crying like a string of pearls, with tears falling down. She lowered her head, her thin shoulders shaking as she sobbed, looking incredibly sad.

Gu Jin looked at the machine’s tear-streaked face. Where did she get all these ready-made tears? Also, what kind of superb acting is this?

The two remained in a deadlock for another two minutes. In the end, Director Gu couldn’t bear it anymore, fearing that she would damage her internal parts from crying. She finally compromised in a cold tone.

Yuan Yishan, having gotten permission, went to share the good news with her friends.

Li Cheng and Gua Ge, who received the voice invitation, looked at each other, their anxious hearts pounding in their chests.

In the next second, the system responded.

Beep, the system detects that the programmer you are speaking with is feeling extremely uneasy. Deducting 20 satisfaction points.

Yuan Yishan: Oh my goodness! Why is this happening? I’m trying so hard!

God: There are a thousand and one ways to earn satisfaction points, so why are you so determined to drag these two cowards down with you?