Chapter 558: Time to Find a Little Assistant

Chapter 558: Time to Find a Little Assistant

Wu Chen reached for his phone. As his new life unfolded, he was reconnecting with more and more people and forming relationships with them. As time passed, those relationships grew increasingly complicated and deep. He was starting to get a little busy, and it was easy to foresee that he would only get busier.

That clearly didn’t fit the spirit of “playing around in the world.”

Wu Chen knew that if he didn’t make some changes, then in another month he would have to take at least several calls every day. He would be busy all day and all night, and even if he occasionally wanted to sleep in because he hadn’t rested enough, that would be out of the question.

It wasn’t that this would put him under any mental strain.

He didn’t feel even the slightest mental fatigue. His mental strength was a thousand times that of an ordinary person! The reason he still needed sleep was the limitation of his body, not mental exhaustion… And Wu Chen liked sleeping, too. That was part of living like a human being.

No mental pressure.

But the life Wu Chen envisioned for himself wasn’t one where he was busy like an overworked office drone! Often, he kept busy simply because he found it fun.

Still, there would be times when he didn’t want to be busy, when he wanted to hold the woman he loved and whisper secrets to her.

“I really should find an assistant…” The thought flashed through Wu Chen’s mind. In an instant, he picked out several candidates from the vast store of information in his memory, then narrowed the list further.

That was right!

Even after a thousand years of looping, Wu Chen knew far too many people. Yet only a handful met his requirements for an “assistant.” The job demanded not only intelligence, but also a particular temperament, a particular way of thinking, and an exceptional ability to understand the twists and turns of Wu Chen’s mind.

And on top of meeting all those conditions…

The “assistant” had to be a sufficiently young and beautiful woman—and nothing else would do.

Wu Chen could hardly bear the thought of a man learning certain secrets about him. His assistant might not be the person who understood him best, but she would certainly learn a great many secrets about some aspects of his life, including many of his plans, his loyalty assessments, his family circumstances, and how he handled crises.

For that reason…

Judging by their overall qualities, Li Ruobing, Su Qingying, and Wu Yurong were actually not qualified to be Wu Chen’s assistant.

It wasn’t a matter of ability, or whether they were good or bad at the job…

The problem was that Wu Chen himself was abnormal! His “little assistant” would have to be a lunatic. In a sense, she really did have to be “crazy” to keep up with the thoughts of a thousand-year-old monster like him.

The call was from Peng Wei.

“Speak,” Wu Chen said as soon as he answered.

“Mr. Wu, are you in the presidential suite at the Xingyun Hotel?” Peng Wei asked quickly.

“Mm… Have the paparazzi shown up?” Wu Chen asked calmly. Peng Wei’s first question had been about his location, so there could only be one reason. When Wu Chen had called Mao Rusong for a moment the previous evening as he was leaving the banquet, he had already thought of this possibility.

Mao Rusong had arranged a great many things for Wu Chen at short notice. Since Wu Chen hadn’t arranged them himself, oversights were inevitable. That didn’t mean Mao Rusong was incompetent.

It was simply that the intelligence surrounding An Menglan was far too valuable.

Wu Chen had been prepared for this. It wasn’t a big deal.

After all, entertainment reporters across the country had gone crazy. The reporters in Modu were even more frantic, as if they’d been drugged. They were desperate to find An Menglan. She had run away from the company the day before, so they were bound to mobilize a terrifying amount of manpower and search the entire city.

Wu Chen couldn’t even be bothered to take An Menglan straight out of Modu to lie low somewhere else. There was no need.

In the end, the paparazzi would only run around in circles.

“That’s right, Mr. Wu! One of my informants at Feisu Studio just called me. He said the studio owner had gotten someone to investigate where Miss An might be staying overnight. That information is still a closely guarded secret in the industry, and only a handful of people know about it. I don’t think too many people will show up to stake the place out, but if this goes on for long, it’ll be hard to say…” Peng Wei explained quickly.

“Mm. It’s a small problem. You get on with your work. Don’t worry about the paparazzi,” Wu Chen said.

“Understood, Mr. Wu. I’ll get back to it.”

“Mm.”

He ended the call.

Peng Wei truly deserved his reputation as the top paparazzo. He had the largest private intelligence network, with informants everywhere. No one in the industry was better at getting the first word on a story. That was exactly why Wu Chen had brought him under his control. Used well, the man’s value was countless times greater than even he himself realized.

For example, Peng Wei was now taking the fight to Hezhong Media. He was the vanguard in this major operation!

Wu Chen tossed his phone aside. “Who was that… so early…” An Menglan turned over sleepily and mumbled the question.

“Peng Wei. The paparazzi are here to catch us together,” Wu Chen said with a smile.

“Huh?!” An Menglan’s eyes sprang open. She had already gotten most of the sleep she needed, and now she was wide awake with fright. “Where? How long until they get here?”

“They’re probably already here, downstairs.” Wu Chen smiled and stroked her hair. “What are you nervous about? I’m here. They won’t get a picture of you.”

“Why would I care if they got a picture of me? I’m afraid they’ll get one of you…” An Menglan looked up at him anxiously. “If your photo gets posted online, people will dox you and find out who you are. Then all those connections of yours… Mm!”

Wu Chen kissed her to make her stop talking.

“You have to believe me. If one day a picture of me appears online, it’ll be because I wanted it to appear—not because someone took it and posted it.” Wu Chen smiled.

“Fine…” An Menglan looked like she was saying, All right, I believe you. Happy now?

It was already ten in the morning. Although they’d been disturbed for a while shortly after six, both of them had, overall, gotten enough sleep.

An Menglan had a small wound on her knee, but she decided to take a shower first.

It barely hurt anymore. She just needed to clean it gently again afterward.

Wu Chen, meanwhile, left the bedroom in his hotel robe and went into the adjoining bedroom. Its door wasn’t locked.

The curtains were drawn. They were excellent at blocking out light, but Li Ruobing had left a narrow gap instead of closing them completely. A single shaft of sunlight entered the dim room, lending it a hazy, dreamlike beauty.

Li Ruobing was still fast asleep, lying on her side facing the window with a thin blanket over her. In that sliver of light, the curves of her reclining figure rose and fell like mountain ridges greeting the sunrise—an almost unreal sight.

Wu Chen gently closed the door.

Then he walked toward Li Ruobing.