My Online Girlfriend Has a Twin Sister - Chapter 320 - 215: Truth is Stranger Than Fiction, Li Bing Meets Jiangg Yao

If we just communicate properly, everything can be resolved, right?

Chen Yuan wrote line after line, but in the end, the content wasn’t right and the opening was just plain awful. He crossed it all out.

Honestly, putting his thoughts down on paper wasn’t as easy as he’d imagined, especially since he’d never written anything like this before. He had, however, received many confession letters from girls. Their openings usually went something like, “Chen Yuan, you don’t need to know who I am. Just think of me as a stranger you’ve never met from some other class.” Chen Yuan tried to apply their formula, but he found it couldn’t solve his current problem.

Writing it on paper… it felt stupid and overly dramatic.

’I wonder if what I’m doing right now is also overly dramatic… Whatever.’

He’d always been the type to get hung up on trivial things and keep to himself. He would hide all his thoughts in his heart, and over time, he forgot how to express them at all.

The only things that came out of his mouth were raw emotions. The gentle, carefully prepared words in his mind would become accusations and attacks the moment he tried to speak, as if his tone were trying to force a confession with a condescending air.

He didn’t want to communicate like that. Writing it down was better.

This was truly the heart of a sensitive, withdrawn boy. But no one ever cared why he was withdrawn. They just thought a boy shouldn’t be that way, shouldn’t overthink things or be ruled by his emotions.

Those people took it for granted that all men should be forged through countless trials from birth, invincible against any setback. They didn’t care if a man was even at an age where he should be facing such trials.

They arrogantly and rudely assumed all men were lions. If he happened to be weak, then he should be like a squirrel darting through the forest, tirelessly gathering nuts, trip after trip, without complaint.

They ignored the fact that even a wounded lion will hide away to lick its wounds. All they saw was the squirrel running.

“Jiangg, this is the first letter I’ve ever written to you.”

Chen Yuan murmured the words as he wrote them out, stroke by stroke. When it was time to write the second line, he let out a long sigh.

He wracked his brain, trying to find a gentler way to phrase the word “deceive,” but at the end of the day, wasn’t it just a lie? Even now, he still couldn’t believe Jiangg would do something like that! It felt so bizarre.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK—

A knock sounded at the door.

Chen Yuan glanced up and grabbed a file to cover the letter he was writing.

“Come in.”

“Chairman Jiang,” Pei Youwen said with a nod, a laptop in his hand. “I have a project for you to look at. A few days ago, you mentioned wanting to get up to speed with the company’s business processes, right? Well, we have a ready-made project right now—short, simple, and fast.”

“Let me see.”

“The planning department has already finished the proposal. It’s right here… It’s for a physical store and online distribution of novelty products. The second party’s idea is to turn this into an innovative brand in the industry. He has his own factory, but it’s on the smaller side.”

“Is this thing really worth investing in?” Chen Yuan asked, not quite getting it after a quick skim of the contents on the laptop.

“Although this industry isn’t new in the country, his idea is still worth a look. A futuristic robot girlfriend, made entirely of silicone, low production cost, serving the broad demographic of single people.”

Having finished his introduction, Pei Youwen stood to the side.

He wanted to wait for Chen Yuan to get the gist of it before laying out the full development prospects.

Chen Yuan was indeed reading very carefully, but when he flipped to the last few pages of the proposal and saw the second party’s personal information, his brow furrowed instantly.

’I’ve seen this guy before!’

Instantly, the scene from the maid cafe that day flashed through his mind.

He and Wei Zhen had been heading down the escalator when they ran into a few employees from their own company. There was a bald man behind them.

That bald man was a dead ringer for the one in the photo.

Chen Yuan suppressed his doubts and focused on the business side of things first. “I remember some big companies have been working on these ’tech girlfriends’ for a while now, right? It’s not new. Is there really a market for this stuff?”

“People have been working on it, but no one’s ever seen a real product. It’s a great gimmick… When it comes to sales, the current trend is to spin a story for the users, paint a pretty picture.”

“Now that you put it that way, I get it.”

“So, besides our investment, this boss wants us to create some high-end promotional material for him so he can take a fancier proposal to attract more investors,” Pei Youwen said, placing a hand on his hip and nodding. “Mm, I have to say, it’d be hard to lose money on this thing.”

“And this address?”

“Our people have checked it out. It’s a good location. They can use it as a physical base of operations, hold monthly exhibitions to attract customers. They don’t even have to sell anything—they can even give products away. The main goal is just to build up a reputation!”

Chen Yuan pulled his gaze away from Pei Youwen’s face. The address was indeed the location of that maid cafe.

From what he remembered, business at that cafe was booming. Don’t people usually say that changing tenants is terrible for foot traffic?

’Would the owner really agree to this?’

“If I take on this project, it won’t affect the employees at the company, will it?”

“Don’t worry, it’s fine. I’ve already made the arrangements. If there’s anything you don’t understand, you can ask me or the director.”

“Alright then. Send me his contact information. I’ll look into it later.”

“I’ll send the proposal over first.”

…

「Meanwhile.」

Jiangg Yao wasn’t idle in the afternoon either. Wan’s birthday was coming up, and she had originally planned to squeeze in some time to buy a gift. Unexpectedly, Chen Yuan’s having lunch at home had delayed her stream. Now, there was no need to squeeze anything in—she just took the day off.

Besides buying the gift, she also had to pick out some clothes, buy a new pair of headphones from a specialty store, and pick up dozens of packages for her sister and herself that she’d forgotten about in the delivery locker for who knows how long.