Becoming a Confidence Coach to an Arrogant Director - Chapter 32
Chapter 32: Finally Here
Yuan Yishan crawled out of the ruins. It was too difficult to get a taxi in the remote suburbs. She had just restarted, and to ensure she could run at a faster speed, she could only turn off all the modes she could, leaving only the navigation program. The running mode was also activated to its maximum power, but it still couldn’t compare to the speed of an electric scooter.
After speeding through the wind for a while, the little spiritual entity’s entire body became hot due to the high power. If she continued like this, she would easily be scrapped. She had no choice but to jog for a while, find a place where it was easy to get a taxi, and call a rideshare.
The car ran into a traffic jam during rush hour, and the drive into the city was excruciatingly slow.
Yuan Yishan, a machine, didn’t know how many times she urged the driver to drive faster. Finally, the uncle was so impatient with her that he didn’t care about his five-star rating and started to drive her away.
“Little girl, rush hour is like this. If you really can’t wait, just get another car!”
Only then did she shut up. After a while, the car came to a complete stop on the overpass.
The Encourager Yuan, a machine, was about to explode with anxiety.
“Stop the car! I want to get out!”
The uncle’s tone was very bad.
“Little girl, you can’t stop here!”
It was true that you couldn’t stop on an overpass. She was so anxious, but she couldn’t do anything to him. She could only stare at her control panel, watching the time tick by second by second…
But in fact, Director Gu was not in any life-threatening danger.
The Encourager Yuan had predicted that she could finish restarting within 48 hours, or at the very latest, 72 hours, so when she ordered her meals, she only ordered about three days’ worth.
When her Director Gu didn’t receive her meals on the fourth day, she started to get anxious. She only started a large-scale search for her on the fifth day.
A machine had no identification, and she didn’t dare to alarm the police. She could only drive a small car by herself, searching tirelessly with her injured ankle.
The poor Director Gu couldn’t even care about her own pain. She searched through all the nearby buildings she could think of but still couldn’t find her until an hour ago when she finally couldn’t hold on anymore and collapsed.
At that time, she was driving toward another construction site where she thought she might be hiding. While waiting for the traffic light, she even found a moment to send a message to her little core machine.
The red light ended, and the green light came on. Just as she was about to drive forward, she couldn’t hold her breath. Both she and the car stalled at the same time. Her body went limp on the steering wheel. She didn’t have the strength to get up, even with the cars behind her honking their horns madly.
It wasn’t until the drivers behind her honked their horns madly to no avail and an irritable driver with road rage from the back row got out of his car to smash her window that he found out that the person in the driver’s seat was already unconscious.
Afterward, she was taken away by an ambulance, and her car was towed away by the traffic police.
With Double Twelve approaching, Boss Pei was originally going to call and ask her if she wanted to come to work. After he found out about this, he didn’t go over himself and just casually called Yuan Yishan.
He only had a half-baked understanding of the situation. He just wanted to find someone who was irrelevant to the company’s research and development to deal with it symbolically.
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Unfortunately, after the morning rush hour ended, there was another accident ahead. By the time Yuan Yishan arrived at City Hospital 3, it was already past ten o’clock and almost eleven.
She ran toward the hospital room at a non-human speed, startling the doctors, nurses, and patients in the hallway.
Director Gu had been awake for a while. There was an IV drip on the back of her fair hand. Her haggard and exhausted look was integrated with the hospital bed. On her pale and thin face, there was a sense of powerlessness that she couldn’t get rid of.
Sensing that someone had rushed in, she slightly opened her eyes.
Yuan Yishan was afraid of agitating her, so she didn’t dare to take another step forward. She stood by the hospital bed and tentatively called out.
“Sister!”
And the woman who had said she had no more points to earn from her was filled with a sense of relief and emotion that flooded her entire heart the moment she heard her call her “Sister.”
At the same time, the satisfaction data on the little darling’s control panel soared, surpassing any previous point record.
Her little puppy was back. She didn’t have to do anything. She was happy just listening to her bark. The days of resentment, fatigue, anxiety, and the despair of not being able to find her were all worth it the moment her little core machine appeared by her side.
Director Gu struggled to take off her oxygen mask and wanted to talk to her, but her throat was still hoarse, and she couldn’t make a sound.
After a while, she tried hard to suppress the sadness and emotion in her heart. Her little core machine was so smart. She should be able to understand sign language.
She struggled to lift her arm. There was no blame, only concern.
“Did you run all the way here?”
The sign language was mapped on the core machine’s panel. The emotional consciousness in her electronic brain was out of control. Yuan Yishan, a machine, had tears falling from her beautiful lychee eyes like broken strings of pearls. She couldn’t stop them no matter what she did.
Director Gu, who was lying in the hospital bed, was also brought to a state of sadness by her. She bit her lip hard, controlling herself from letting her tears flow. After enduring this uncomfortable feeling, she weakly raised her hand again.
“My stomach feels very empty and uncomfortable. Go get some breakfast!”
The Encourager Yuan obviously understood, but she stood there foolishly, unwilling to move.
She raised her hand again, urging her.
“Hurry up and go!”
Director Gu’s phoenix brows furrowed. The little Yuan followed the order and ran downstairs to buy breakfast.
The person lying in the hospital bed then struggled to reach for her phone on the bedside table, opened the front camera, and started to tidy up her appearance.
After several days of tossing and turning, she hadn’t had time to take a hot shower. At this moment, her hair and face were greasy. Her lips were dry and chapped, and her dark circles were very heavy. Her entire body looked a mess.
— She likes pretty girls. I must look very annoying to her right now.
Director Gu didn’t have any makeup tools. She could only use her hands to comb her hair, lick her chapped lips with the tip of her tongue, and straighten her wrinkled collar. She tried her best to make herself look less pathetic.
The Encourager Yuan was as fast as lightning. In less than five minutes, she rushed in with a bowl of millet porridge.
The person on the hospital bed had already tidied herself up and was not as disheveled as before. Her fragile emotions had also been reined in. She squinted her eyes and glared at her with her phoenix eyes.
And the Encourager Yuan, who was standing in front of the hospital bed, looked more like a puppy waiting for its owner to give an order. She held the plastic bag with her two core machine paws, pursed her small mouth, and looked at her with a sincere attitude.
Director Gu raised her hand with a serious expression.
“What are you standing there for? Are you waiting for me to get up and take it?”
The little core machine Yuan quickly went over to her.
“Sister, I…”
The person lying in bed raised her arm, signaling for her to help her up.
The Encourager Yuan activated her constant temperature mode. She put one arm around Director Gu’s neck, moved it back an inch, and gently pulled her into her arms.
At this moment, Director Gu was like a boneless cat. She couldn’t find any support and could only lie limply in her arms. Her chest rose and fell slightly, and her breathing was a little heavy, but her heart felt like it had found a solid place, a new sense of belonging.
She turned her gaze to the porridge next to her. She hadn’t eaten anything for a long time and hadn’t felt hungry, but now, looking at the food, she really felt that her stomach was empty and uncomfortable.
Yuan Yishan took a pillow and put it behind her. She wanted to free her hands to feed her some food. As soon as she took her core machine paws away, the person leaned to the side and fell in.
Director Gu couldn’t sit still at all. She had no choice but to put her back in her arms.
Director Gu, who was nestled in her heart, was very disappointed with her body.
— Why am I so weak? I should have taken care of myself first. Now I’m just a pitiful mess with no power at all.
After thinking it through, the smart core machine Yuan piled up the blankets on the bed, made a nest out of them, and put her in it.
Director Gu, a tiny figure, leaned against the nest of blankets. She could barely sit up, but she didn’t seem to be in a good mood.
The Encourager Yuan took the porridge from the bedside table, opened it, and carefully fed her spoonful by spoonful.
Director Gu gracefully moved her lips. The millet porridge slid down her tongue and into her throat, but it was so painful that she couldn’t swallow it.
After hesitating for a few seconds, she was afraid that the little core machine would notice something was wrong, so she forced herself to swallow a mouthful. Her eyes almost filled with tears from the pain, but she held them back.
The subtle movements were all captured on the Encourager Yuan’s control panel. Her heart ached so much that she didn’t dare to feed her a second spoonful.
Director Gu recovered for a few seconds and then gently raised her hand.
“What are you waiting for? Have you never served a patient before?”
The Encourager Yuan nervously fed her a second spoonful.
Director Gu swallowed with difficulty. After eating less than three spoonfuls back and forth, she was really scared of the pain and didn’t dare to swallow anymore. She intentionally pushed the bowl of porridge in her hand to the side with a fierce look.
In sign language: “It’s so gross. You don’t even know how to buy breakfast!”
She felt that it wasn’t convincing enough, so she raised her hand again to add something.
“You eat it yourself!”
The Encourager Yuan looked at the person in front of her. For a moment, she couldn’t control her emotions, and tears started to fall again.
Director Gu raised her hand, commanding.
“Don’t cry!”
The little darling sniffled and held back her tears. When she put down the bowl of porridge, her shoulders were still trembling uncontrollably.
She didn’t know why, but ever since this core machine body came to the hospital, her emotional consciousness had become especially fragile. She would easily trigger various emotional packages inside the core machine.
Although Director Gu was being assertive physically, her heart was already filled with so much sadness because of her. Looking at the subtle bits of dry grass and wood shavings in her hair, she concluded that her little core machine had been sleeping on the streets for the past few days. Her heart suddenly felt like it had been stabbed by something and was so painful that she couldn’t breathe.
She used her force to grab the core machine’s lapel, accidentally falling to the other side.
The Encourager Yuan quickly put down the porridge bowl and picked up the person who had fallen, holding her in her arms.
Director Gu, who was being held, trembled slightly, and her chest rose and fell. She bit the core machine’s arm in front of her with medium force, raised her head, and glared at her fiercely.
“From now on, no matter how much I drive you away, you are not allowed to run anymore, understood?”
The Encourager Yuan’s powerful internal detection system clearly analyzed what she was thinking.
Her slightly hoarse electronic voice, from crying, said, “Understood, Sister. From now on, no matter how much you drive me away, I will never run again!”
Director Gu was surprised that her little core machine could understand her gaze.
The Encourager Yuan sniffled again and added.
“I will shamelessly stay by your side to earn points. Even if I get a full score, I won’t leave!”
Director Gu looked up, her gaze a warning.
“You still dare to mention points to me?”
The Encourager Yuan tightly shut her mouth.
— I don’t dare anymore. I will never dare again…