The system makes me so beautiful that I don't care about anyone else's life or death.

Zhu Hong repeatedly warned the personal assistant, who was hiding himself completely, not to lose his temper, or the new personal assistant would deal with him.

She's just a tall, strong girl, what's so scary about her?

Fine, I'll let it go for Zhu Hong's sake and not cause her any trouble.

Moreover, Ye Cheng and she also know each other.

But who knew that Gu Cai had just calmed down...

"Bang bang bang—" The sound of metal spinning on the ground.

Her anger, now fully charged from being disturbed, yanked open the door and yelled:

"Quiet!"

Looking around, the girl at the corner had just bent down to pick up a decoration that had been accidentally knocked off the ground.

Seeing that Gu Cai was angry, she felt a little embarrassed and at a loss.

"..." Su Ran opened her mouth, not knowing how to explain.

She straightened up nervously, holding a cone-shaped gold ornament in her hand. If Gu Cai wasn't mistaken, it should be the horn from a classic phonograph.

Speaking of this, Su Ran also felt that she was stupid.

Su Ran had originally planned to prepare lunch in advance before leaving, but when she went to get eggs from the refrigerator, she happened to see the gramophone that was placed on the island counter as decoration.

Driven by curiosity, I couldn't help but wonder where the sound came from. Was it a speaker? Or was there a sound hole somewhere else?

Su Ran hadn't even had a chance to do anything, hadn't even touched it, yet it fell right in front of her!

Su Ran felt like she was about to break apart.

He hurriedly picked it up and tried to put it away, but it seemed to have broken and wouldn't stay in place. It fell down with a louder noise, which alerted Gu Cai.

Gu Cai clearly did not believe her explanation.

He stared at her intently, his voice laced with anger, "Didn't Zhu Hong make it clear to you when you joined the company?! You're not allowed to touch anything here!"

“I understand, but this thing…” Su Ran’s words, which were already low in spirit, were interrupted abruptly before she could finish.

"Don't say anything. I'll let you off the hook for Sister Zhu Hong's sake, but you have to pay for the gramophone!"

"How much compensation...?" She considered it for a moment. This item would cost several hundred yuan on Taobao, but the key point was that she hadn't touched it.

"1."

"??? What? Ten thousand?!"

What's this thing made of? It's so expensive!

"You can check the security footage. I didn't even have time to touch it before it fell down by itself." She shouldn't have been curious.

"I don't care, if it weren't for you, would it have fallen? You have to pay for it!"

"..."

A little butterfly silently floated by, muttering that the boy had a lot of breasts but a fierce temper.

Su Ran silently swallowed a breath.

I felt I shouldn't have been so cowardly.

Mustering her courage, she said, "You're not trying to scam me because you don't have any pocket money, are you? Don't you even know how long this speaker has been broken here? It's not like it'll fall down just because I touch it."

Gu Cai laughed.

"Who else could be here besides you?"

Su Ran said, "Aren't you human?"

This was the first time Gu Cai had encountered a family employee who dared to talk back to him. He had never suffered a loss in his life.

"I'll have Zhu Hong fire you!"

"...It's not impossible."

Su Ran thought this was for the best; she really couldn't afford to serve the young master. At worst, she could ask Zhu Hong to help her find a different job.

Gu Cai was taken aback, not expecting his assistant to be so cooperative.

Every time they were asked to be fired, they would weep and beg him to be lenient and not to hold it against them.

In a fit of anger, he picked up his phone to call for help.

But before the call could be made, Su Ran's phone rang.

"Grandma, it's okay. Just buy whatever you want to eat. I'll be back around noon."

"Please don't bother, I'll make your favorite braised prawns when I get back~"

His voice was so gentle it could melt your heart, a stark contrast to his previous tense tone, making the listener wish that voice were directed at him.

Gu Cai couldn't help but slap his forehead. How could he have been so easily swayed by someone else's voice?!

But it really sounds great.

Her voice is very good.

It's as gentle as the misty rain in a painting of a Jiangnan water town, like the sound in every boy's dream during his innocent and confused youth.

I wish she wouldn't talk back like she used to.

It would be so much better to speak to him in such a gentle tone.

He shouldn't have gotten that angry...

Gu Cai muttered to himself.

After Su Ran hung up the phone, she saw Gu Cai standing there blankly, lost in thought, not knowing what he was thinking.

Although it was unclear why Gu Cai had lost his composure, his expression did not seem as angry as before.

So she softened her tone.

“I don’t have 10,000 yuan, and I don’t want to argue with you about this. I just want to work part-time in peace.” After thinking for a moment, she offered another suggestion: “How about this, if you think it’s appropriate, I can grant you a small request. As long as I can do it, this matter can be put on hold.”

Sigh, let's appease this young master first. Even if Zhu Hong helps him find a new job, it will still take time.

A clear and gentle voice flowed through the living room, past the sofa between the two of them, and into Gu Caide's ears, like a heartwarming melody.

The previously stalled inspiration seemed to have been unearthed through a new channel, continuously irrigating and nourishing it.

"If you can do it?" He suddenly had a new idea, his eyes shining as he looked at Su Ran.

Su Ran felt like a bone being stared at by a wild beast, a little horrified, but she still nodded firmly.

"As long as it's not illegal, immoral, or against one's personal will." She added conditions to this requirement.

"Don't worry, I will never let you do anything illegal or criminal. I just need to use your voice." He raised an eyebrow, not expecting a personal assistant to have so many demands.

"My voice?" Su Ran blinked. Of course she knew her voice was good, but she never expected it to be good enough to be worth ten thousand yuan. It was too easy for her.

Before long, Su Ran learned of Gu Caide's intentions.

Gu Cai is a very talented singer-songwriter. Su Ran used to be focused on studying, and only heard Gu Cai's name through snippets of conversation from her classmates. She had no idea that he was such a popular new generation singer in the music scene.

Therefore, when Gu Cai invited her to his music room and saw the dazzling array of record samples, she pointed to one of the posters and said to Gu Cai, "You seem to be very popular," Gu Cai's face darkened for a moment.

His mind raced with wild thoughts. Could this be a hater trying to annoy him?

Who doesn't know he's the hottest singer-songwriter right now? Every nanny and hourly worker who comes to work here knows his life story like the back of their hand. He thought this personal assistant was well-trained and didn't have the same lack of boundaries as the previous ones.

But when he met Su Ran's clear, unwavering eyes, he felt he had underestimated himself. There would always be a small segment of the world who didn't know him yet.

He made Su Ran put on headphones.

Gu played a piece of music, an ethereal and abstract electronic piece with a quirky and novel feel, mixed with classical elements. It sounded strange at first, but the more you listened, the more rhythmic it became, making you want to immerse yourself in it.

Even though it was already perfect, Gu Cai still frowned, feeling dissatisfied with everything.

“Sing,” he said.

Su Ran was suddenly startled, her eyes widening in surprise.

"Didn't you understand what I meant? Sing," Gu Cai said impatiently.

"What to sing?"

"Follow your feelings, sing however you want." Gu Cai pressed his temples, trying to appear as casual as possible.

Although she didn't know what Gu Cai wanted, Su Ran closed her eyes and felt the gentle, flowing rhythm of the music remind her of the bizarre world in her dreams.

She unconsciously opened her mouth and hummed a song that had appeared in her dreams.

Just as the sunlight illuminates the distant mountains, the misty mountain streams become as clear and crisp as in the early morning.

The birds seemed to have awakened, flying towards the distant woods, perching on branches and singing melodious songs.

……

Gu Cai was holding a sheet music in his hand, which looked like it was filled with dense musical notes, but his mind was already distracted, and he didn't even notice that the sheet music had fallen to the ground.