Becoming a Confidence Coach to an Arrogant Director - Chapter 4

Chapter 4: The Fundamental Qualities of a Mood Booster

After the meeting, Gu Jin called out to Pei He, and the two went to the CEO’s office.

After Yuan Yishan expressed her guilt again to the group of guys, she quietly followed them, as she couldn’t be too far from her user.

“Oh, Sister~”

The man’s saccharine voice came from the doorway. At first, you’d think it was a bickering couple showing off their affection.

The woman didn’t respond, and it was quiet for a while. After a long time, the man’s voice got a little higher.

“Sister, I don’t understand why you have such a big prejudice against the programmer mood booster position. Look at our R&D department, it’s always so lifeless. I just found a young woman to liven things up for everyone!”

“Liven things up? Do you think the programmer’s job is all talk?”

“Sister, you…”

The room fell silent again, and in the end, the woman compromised with a succinct statement.

“Isn’t the front-end department short on a recent graduate? Let her learn. If she’s not qualified after her one-month probation, she leaves, alright?”

“Okay, okay, whatever Sister says goes. Sister is the boss!”

Only after processing this conversation did Yuan Yishan faintly sense the hidden danger.

Fortunately, she had a solid foundation as a senior programmer. Drawing pages was a small matter, and although it was troublesome, she still preferred it over acting cute.

Host, please do not forget your identity. Do not do things unrelated to your profession.

“???”

Teasing lions, coaxing coders, leading horses, and being an expert at pretending to be a beginner is the normal state of a programmer mood booster.

“…”

So, not only did she have to survive the probation period, she also had to constantly maintain the demeanor of a rookie and a pretty face?

It was too difficult. It was really too difficult!

…

After tossing and turning for almost a whole night, as dawn approached, Director Gu finally took pity on everyone and let them go home to rest.

People left one after another, and the R&D office area gradually became empty.

Yuan Yishan dawdled at her desk.

Her user was still at the company, so she couldn’t go back, and besides, she had nowhere to go.

“Aren’t you going back?”

“I… my school dorm won’t let me stay anymore. I have… nowhere to go.”

Gu Jin had originally planned to turn off the main lights after everyone left and then go to her office to work overtime.

At this moment, she reluctantly removed her hand from the light switch and walked expressionlessly toward her office.

When Yuan Yishan saw her leave, she followed her slowly.

Gu Jin stopped and turned back abruptly.

“What are you following me for?”

“I… I’m scared. Can I stay with you…”

“No!”

She said and left without looking back.

Yuan Yishan stood there stunned.

She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the person enter the office.

Not only had she become a machine for no reason, but she was also homeless. She also had to please a user who was full of hostility towards her. And on top of that, she couldn’t get too far away from her. This was just too difficult for her, a machine.

After Gu Jin went in, she tidied up the room that Yuan Yishan had messed up, then sat back down in front of her computer and started coding.

Compared to the robot outside the door, she seemed more like a machine herself.

She worked non-stop from morning to night, with code occupying most of her life. It was as if she would immediately wither away if she stopped, and she would become extremely anxious.

A severe case of work addiction.

Yuan Yishan started to feel sleepy.

In the real world, she was a true workaholic, with an endless stream of demands and an endless stream of bugs to fix.

She had once imagined that once she saved enough money to buy an apartment in Hangzhou, she would quit her programmer job, go back to her hometown, find a random administrative job to coast through, and during holidays, when she missed the outside world, she would bring her parents to stay for a while and live a happy, carefree life.

Who would have thought that she would transmigrate into a virtual world and become a mood booster for livening up the atmosphere, only to still have to guard the door in the middle of the night…

Beep, detecting that your user has worked continuously for 24 hours without a break. Her brain is in a state of high fatigue and may lead to forced unconsciousness. Host, please take action immediately.

Yuan Yishan’s thoughts were interrupted by the system voice.

She immediately realized that this young boss couldn’t pass out! If she did, how would she ever return to reality?

Yuan Yishan didn’t hesitate. Without thinking, she knocked on Director Gu’s door with a loud bang.

It took a while for her to get a response from inside. One more second and she might have broken down the door.

The person at the computer desk had a pale face and dry, cracked lips. Her slender fingers were tightly pressing her temples, trying to ease her splitting headache.

She looked at Yuan Yishan, her eyes unfocused and vacant.

“What is it?”

In her rush, Yuan Yishan forgot the cutesy “sister” address and asked in her usual confident “Sister Shan” tone from the real world.

“Are you okay?”

The other person finally regained a little strength and said irritably,

“What are you here for?”

“Sister, you need to rest!”

This “sister” was completely different from the context of the robot’s cooing. It contained 80% helplessness and reproach, a typical “Sister Shan” tone.

“None of your business! Get out!”

“You!”

Host, please pay attention to your tone.

“…”

In the end, with the internal system’s reminder, she switched back to the sweet, electronic voice.

“I’m sorry, Sister. I can see you don’t look well. Do you have a headache? I can help you with a massage to relieve the pain.”

“Get out!”

Yuan Yishan: …

What a stubborn mule. She’s in this state, but her mouth is still so poisonous. How has she survived until now?!

She walked over and forcefully pressed her hands on the user’s head.

Gu Jin struggled in panic, but Yuan Yishan was too strong for her to break free. After a while, she passed out from the pain.

Yuan, the “masseuse,” adjusted the chair to a lying position, took the thin jacket from the sofa, and covered her with it.

Then, she tactfully retreated and left.

…

Gu Jin slept so soundly that when she woke up, a round, golden sun was hanging in the west outside the French window. There were a few red clouds in the sky, and it was clearly the evening of the next day.

All the sleep she had lost from years of staying up was finally made up for.

She was lying on the chair, covered with a thin jacket, and the annoying person was nowhere to be seen.

Gu Jin got up after her body, which was numb from sleep, had adjusted a little. She went to the bathroom and splashed some water on her face.

She was about to check the server room to make sure everything was alright before going back to rest, but then…

In the adjacent server room, Yuan Yishan was sitting cross-legged on the floor, leaning against the main server, in a standby state with her eyes closed.

Her sitting posture was so “Sister Shan”-like that it didn’t match her cute, Lolita outfit at all.

Gu Jin felt something poke her heart, but she pretended not to notice and went back to her office.

She took out her phone and ordered two meals.

She turned on the security camera, saw the person was still there, and after hesitating for a few seconds, finally took one of the food containers and went out.

Ahem~

Yuan Yishan woke up from standby and saw the person standing next to her, looking a little flustered.

“Uh, I was too sleepy. I…”

Gu Jin placed the food container next to her as if she were giving alms to a beggar on the street, then turned and went back to her office.

Although she didn’t have much of an appetite, she ate a few bites of her takeout to keep her body going. She would glance at the camera from time to time to see if the other person was eating.

Yuan Yishan had no idea she was being monitored. She was just playing with the takeout box, like a kitten with a food can.

The scent of food filled her electronic brain, but she was just a machine now.

A few minutes later, she separated the takeout box and threw it in the trash, making it look as though she had eaten it.

Gu Jin: ?

…

In the underground parking garage, Director Gu was about to open her car door when she saw the reflection in the rearview mirror and subconsciously looked back.

There, the “masseuse” Yuan was standing less than a meter behind her, with her mouth pursed, looking pitifully at the woman in front of her, like a homeless dog.

“You…”

“Sister!”

After saying her name, the “masseuse” Yuan stopped talking. Her teeth bit her lower lip, looking miserable.

Gu Jin was unmoved. She turned her head and prepared to open the door.

The “masseuse” Yuan took a step forward and grabbed a hold of Director Gu’s sleeve, pulling it lightly.

“Sister, I have nowhere to go.”

Gu Jin was truly at a loss with her.

After a minute of stalemate in the gasoline-scented underground parking garage, the “little cutie” finally got into the cold-blooded director’s black Bentley.

With someone in the passenger seat, Gu Jin’s hands on the steering wheel were a little nervous. She was extremely focused the entire way.

Out of the corner of her eye, she could see the beautiful profile, the elegant swan-like neck, and the gentle light of the fading twilight, which could not hide the woman’s inherent coolness.

Yuan Yishan thought that if she had a phone right now, she would definitely take a picture and post it in their racing group, to let the guys see what a true ice queen looked like…

The car drove into a new neighborhood not far from the company and stopped smoothly on the second floor of the underground parking garage.

Gu Jin got out of the car. She wasn’t wearing high heels while driving. In her flat shoes, she was a head taller than Yuan Yishan. With her hands in her pockets, she walked ahead, not giving her a single glance.

The “little cutie” still followed eagerly behind, as if afraid of losing her at any moment.

The elevator stopped on the 22nd floor. Gu Jin opened the door with her fingerprint, walked inside, and left the door unlocked, without inviting her in.

Yuan Yishan followed inside and obediently closed the door.

The apartment was decorated very simply: one bedroom, one living room, and a kitchen. The items inside were brand new, as if they had never been used after being set up.

After changing her shoes, Gu Jin went straight to the bathroom, completely ignoring her guest.

Yuan Yishan stood outside, feeling a little helpless. Then, she heard the sound of rushing water from the bathroom.

When the woman came out of the shower, she was wearing a light purple silk nightgown. She had her long, wet hair tied up, making her swan-like neck even more prominent. Every slight movement was full of graceful curves.

A faint scent of perilla floated through Yuan Yishan’s electronic brain. She narrowed her eyes and gave a fawning smile.

Gu Jin took out a brand new set of toiletries and a beige cotton nightgown from the cabinet and tossed them onto the sofa.

Without a word, she went straight into the bedroom…