mandatory agreement

"you are late--"

Champion closed the vintage pocket watch in his hand and said coldly.

"Sorry," Zhou Xing stood at the door of the Fourth Research Institute, his breathing was steady, and he didn't show any signs of rushing, "I tried my best."

"Lying is not a good habit," Champion raised his gloved right hand and patted Zhou Xing's face with his fingers, "It's not good to stay up late either."

Zhou Xing waited for Champion to take back his hand before reacting slowly. He wanted to retreat, but realized it was too late.

"Feel sorry."

"You're in poor form. One of our agreements is that you need to be in top physical condition. I hope you remember."

"Oh, yes."

Zhou Xing responded unconsciously, and walked forward slowly.

Champion simply stood in front of Zhou Xing, and Zhou Xing stopped a second before hitting him, raised his head, and looked at him.

"What are you thinking? Fascinated and out of place."

"I miss the person I love." Zhou Xing said it directly, not knowing whether it was intentional or stupid.

"Tsk—" Champion sneered, "If you had the guts, you shouldn't have come today, pay my bills, and go sleep with your lover."

"Excuse me, can I pay in installments?" Zhou Xing clenched his palms and asked word by word.

Champion watched Zhou Xing silently, and Sarah suppressed a smile in his ear to remind him.

"Mr. Lu Zheng, Zhou Xing chose you."

Champion pulled up the glove of his right hand, and said coldly: "According to your current wealth and potential, I'm afraid you won't be able to pay it back for the rest of your life. I don't need to take this risk. Either pay it off at once, or continue to fulfill the contract."

"...I can pay it off in one lump sum." Zhou Xing said softly, as if he had relieved some kind of burden.

"Like I said, lying is not a good habit."

"I have a boyfriend, I can borrow money from him and return it to you."

"Will he lend it to you?" Champion questioned, "If he would lend it to you, you should have paid it back."

"That's because I didn't want to talk to him before."

"Unwilling to speak? For your ridiculous self-esteem?"

"I don't want to bother him," Zhou Xing sighed, and added as if joking, "My intuition is very accurate. It has been telling me that if I choose to borrow money from him, something bad will happen."

Champion stroked his fingers and asked, "What intuition?"

"Thoughts that flashed through my brain sometimes didn't work." Zhou Xing shook his head and said, "This time it should not work. There is no worse situation than now."

"Okay," Champion said blankly, with a businesslike look, "you contact your boyfriend now and ask him to pay to my account."

Zhou Xing bit his lower lip and said, "Sorry, I can't contact him, he blocked me."

"Then how are you sure he'll pay the bill for you?"

"I'm not sure either."

"so?"

"You have a military background, right?"

Champion reacted very quickly, he said, "Your lover is in the military camp? Do you want me to take you there?"

"Correct."

"Little friend, I'm starting to wonder if you're lying again."

"I don't need to lie to you," Zhou Xing said with a low posture, "Please take me into the barracks and let me talk to my boyfriend. He will pay you the breach of contract and we will terminate the agreement."

"What if he refuses to pay the money? It's a lot of money, you know."

"I don't know what to do," Zhou Xing said honestly, "but I am very unwilling now. I don't want to accept the ending in front of me, I don't want to be separated from the person I like, and I don't want to continue to perform the agreement with you."

Champion looked down at Zhou Xing for a while, and asked, "Why should I help you?"

"You shouldn't like to force people. You seem to be an upright and gentle person."

"I'm not." Champion only paused for a second before continuing, "I can take you to see him, but you have to do today's renovation. If he doesn't want to help you pay the bill, we will continue to perform the contract."

Zhou Xing thought for a while and said, "Okay, I promise you."

--

Champion sent Zhou into the operating room, sat on a soft armchair, and called softly, "Sara."

"Do you need a helicopter?"

"You look like you want me to drop the horse, no need to prepare a helicopter, book two tickets for tonight."

"What are you going to do next?"

"You should be able to judge all possible ways I can respond."

"But I can't judge which one you will choose. People's hearts are the most unpredictable thing."

Champion——Lu Zheng didn't refute this sentence, he just said: "Test the abilities of next week."

"what do you mean?"

"He may have differentiated a prophecy-like ability. Although the chance is small, there are related cases in the history of the alliance."

"Ok."

"Relevant personnel of the Communication Research Institute injected the third reagent during Zhou Xing's drowsiness."

"Ok."

Champion tore off his white gloves, threw them into the trash can, and said, "Do you think I'm a good person?"

"You were a good man," said Sarah cautiously.

--

Zhou Xing slept very deeply this time, when he woke up and opened his eyes, what he saw was the pale and beautiful face of Champion.

Champion closed the pages of the opened physical book. Zhou Xing saw that the title of the book was "100 Questions about Body Care for Pregnant Women". He was a little embarrassed and asked bravely, "When are we going to leave?"

"After an hour, I don't have time to eat. Can I just eat the plane meal?"

"Of course, thank you."

"You're welcome, if you want to get the desired result, the initial investment is necessary." Champion didn't seem to care about the lethality of his words, "I'm curious, what will happen to you if your boyfriend rejects you?"

"I haven't thought about this question," Zhou Xing replied while putting on his shoes, "He said before that when something doesn't happen, it is impossible to predict the reaction in advance."

"I just know that I like him very much, I want to get his forgiveness, and I want to give it a try to see if there is any possibility for us to be together."

"Well, good luck." Champion sent his blessing.

"Thank you."