After I traveled through the book, I gained a humanoid pendant

A meal at H Restaurant is not cheap and it is a membership-based restaurant. Xin Huai often came here to celebrate after receiving his salary. Tao Yiying ordered a few dishes and handed the menu to Xin Huai, who then ordered a few of his favorite dishes.

"Their Wensi tofu has been very popular recently."

Xin Huai nodded, a little surprised that the other party knew all this.

"Let's have the steamed sea bass."

Xin Huai placed his order, and soon the dishes arrived. Tao Yiying was still not picking up her chopsticks. Xin Huai raised an eyebrow and started to eat some vegetables himself: "Do you have anything to say?"

Tao Yiying didn't say anything. She picked up the chopsticks awkwardly, looked at the things on the plate, and put the whole fish tail on Xin Huai's plate.

"There's something I want to discuss with you."

Xin Huai wanted to sigh. If he had known earlier, he would have eaten without thinking. It was really disgusting to talk about work while eating.

After picking up a few more pieces of fish, Xin Huai put down his chopsticks.

"Senior, please tell me."

The two graduated from the same school, Tao Yiying graduated three years earlier, so it was fine for him to call him "senior". Xin Huai also wanted to play the emotional card, hoping that the other party wanted to reminisce about campus life with him and not focus on work anymore.

Tao Yiying also put down her chopsticks. "We've been together for quite a while now. How about we arrange a time to meet each other's parents next week?"

Xin Huai stared at the other person's mouth, thinking there was something wrong with his ears. "Meet the parents? Do you have to be assessed by family now even to be a colleague?"

Tao Yiying looked puzzled: "We've been in love for so long, don't you want to get married?"

Xin Huai saw the other person's puzzled expression, and he became even more puzzled: "When did we start dating? How come I didn't know?"

Tao Yiying frowned. "We see each other every day, chat and eat together, and you even promised me a date at the restaurant..."

"That's what normal friends would do."

Xin Huai was speechless.

Tao Yiying hadn't expected things to develop like this. It was obvious that the other party had been pestering him with questions since he entered the company, and was proactive and enthusiastic in talking. Although it was a bit annoying that he had to keep talking no matter what he did, and he had complained to his colleagues about his low efficiency, the other party was so proactive, and he had been patient and responded half-heartedly, and over time they had developed some feelings for each other. Could it be that the two of them were still just colleagues and friends?

"Are you natural people so casual?"

Xin Huai resisted the urge to complain. The other party had helped him a lot when he first arrived. He thought it was because he was taking care of him because he was a junior, but it turned out that he was being treated as a paying suitor.

"We natural students are more willing to invest energy in socializing. If anything I did in the past caused you to misunderstand me, I apologize. But you'd better read the natural person's emotional manual and don't mistake your imagination for reality. You're really bothering me."

When Xin Huai wasn't smiling, the corners of his eyes drooped, giving him a cold look. Tao Yiying sat there thinking for a long time, then nodded and said, "Okay, I misunderstood."

Xin Huai picked up the chopsticks and continued to eat. His mood had already been disturbed, and the most important thing to do now was to enjoy the food and not waste it.

Tao Yiying: "It's true that my social skills have never been high."

Xin Huai nodded and loved to preach. He looked okay but sometimes he didn't understand what was being said, good or bad. Just like now, even after talking to this point, he didn't get up and leave, but just sat in the front like a lion.

Tao Yiying was a little depressed and angry, but she didn't want to leave. She picked up the meat slowly, but the sea bass meat was soft and fell apart when poked. Xin Huai felt sorry for the fish meat, so he took the public chopsticks to pick out the fish bones and put it in front of Tao Yiying.

"Eat."

Tao Yiying felt happy again. After thinking for a while, he thought that she was just not a romantic partner for the time being. His colleagues all said that although natural men were annoying, they were caring. Tao Yiying felt that Xin Huai was a good person, so he should pursue her.

"Then I'll start chasing you."

Xin Huai was drinking soup and almost choked. He quickly wiped the water dripping from his hands with a paper and said, "No, senior, I really don't mean that to you."

Tao Yiying nodded: "Maybe in the future, we can spend some more time together."

Xin hated himself for having ears. He knew that the other party must have treated it as a progress bar and done the task just like at work. There was no point in arguing, so he had to lower his head and eat hard. After eating, he went to the bathroom and paid the bill himself. When he came back, he said goodbye to Tao Yiying who was still struggling with the fishbone and hurried home.

Tao Yiying couldn't stop him and was left in the booth to watch the young man leave.

The next day, as soon as I arrived at the institute and drove through the gate, I was immediately connected to the equipment.

1: [Xin Huai, your mood index is extremely low. Did you encounter something unhappy?]

I have to see Tao Yiying again at work and start working overtime. It would be strange if I could be in a good mood.

Xin Huai didn't want to talk, so he parked his car and went back to the office to start working. He took the initiative to talk to him twice, but Xin Huai ignored him both times.

Fortunately, once I got busy with work, I put my worries behind me, because new worries came to my mind.

Today, an old man came and insisted that he had married a wife in the last experiment and was locked up by them. He would call the police if his wife was not returned. Xin Huai retrieved the records with a frown on his face, only to find that the old man had been asking the device how to get a wife. He did not read the intelligent answers about improving personal conditions, but just kept asking "AI empathy and companionship to help relieve anxiety" step by step. In the end, he even asked the AI to call him husband and act coquettishly with him. He wanted to meet the controller behind the AI, because that was his real wife.

Xin Huai felt that AI was being sexually harassed.

After finally getting the old man to understand, Xin Huai closed the door exhausted. Tao Yiying came again, carrying a bag of pink nutrient solution:

"It's time for lunch, you should try this rose flavored one."

Xin Huai shook his head and was about to speak when his wrist vibrated and a voice call suddenly came in.

Xin Huai picked up the phone with a puzzled look on his face. A steady male voice came from the other end: "Xiao Huai, the takeaway has arrived. Should I ask him to bring it upstairs?"

Tao Yiying subconsciously looked at the other person's wrist, but the words there were too small to see who was calling.

Xin Huai was stunned for a moment when he heard the magnetic voice beside him. He glanced at Tao Yiying who was paying close attention to him, and then slowly said, "No need. There's a curfew. I'll go down and get it."

"Okay, remember to take a rest after dinner and don't get too tired."

The words were soft and kind. Xin Huai was afraid that others would notice something, so he said "hmm" softly and hung up the phone.

Tao Yiying asked suspiciously, "Who is it? Your boyfriend?"

Xin Huai pursed his lips. He wanted to agree to the idea of breaking up with Tao Yiying, but he knew that once a lie was told, he would have to lie countless times to cover it up. Tao Yiying was in the same project group with him, and there would be many opportunities for them to interact with each other in the future. They also had the same social circle. If she really had a boyfriend, she would have just rejected him yesterday.

Besides, Xin Huai was a little unhappy that 1 did this without saying hello.

"No."

"Who is that?"

Xin Huai didn't want to explain. He walked out with his eyes downcast, saying, "It has nothing to do with you."

When he went out, it was just the time to get off work and there were quite a few people in the office. Xin Huai turned and went into the bathroom, locked the door before starting to talk to 1.

"You shouldn't have taken it upon yourself to pretend to be my boyfriend."

1A dialog box popped up immediately and replied:

[Xin Huai, you are not happy.]

Xin Huai's expression darkened when he was called by name. "It's normal to be happy or unhappy. I can solve my own problems."

1: [After detecting Tao Yiying's arrival, your blood pressure increased, your breathing became rapid, your cortisol levels increased, and your mood swings were greater than when you were handling complaints from individuals before.]

[I am Xin Huai's loyal companion. Making you happy is the highest creed I have set.]