Chapter 37
He Yuan’s brain spun rapidly.
In short, the truth couldn’t be told right now.
This had nothing to do with Chu Xi personally, nor was it because he cared about it himself, but because of Wen Su.
He couldn’t decide alone to publicize private matters.
He could use the excuse Wen Su gave when dismissing him—”dissatisfaction with using generals as research subjects”—but the project was still confidential. More importantly, Chu Xi was already his friend!
He couldn’t lie to a friend!
Decided.
He Yuan took a breath, looked at Chu Xi seriously, and said, “I can’t answer the first question for the time being. It’s not that I’m unwilling to be honest with you, but because there are other reasons. As for the second question…”
The rumors said he pretended to be a life assistant but was actually General Wen Su’s secret lover. That was incorrect!
So he shook his head firmly. “The rumors are false, don’t believe them.”
“Hoh…” Chu Xi showed an expression of contemplation and probing. A moment later, he spread his hands indifferently. “Alright, if you say don’t believe it, then I won’t.”
The two continued to chat about school and daily life, compared their schedules, and agreed to eat, study, or hang out together when free.
After parting, He Yuan received a reminder message from Chu Xi—
[Remember to take your medicine and use the spray on time. You seem scatterbrained!]
The Young Master was really a good person.
He Yuan smiled knowingly and replied: [I’m just scatterbrained in attitude, but very careful in doing things. I won the award for Best Life Assistant!]
Thinking for a moment, he replied again: [Thank you, Xiao Xi!]
Chu Xi: [I’ve decided. I want to change my name.]
He Yuan: ?
Chu Xi: [Chu Xi (Morning Sun). The name you mentioned is very good, sunny and full of vitality. I don’t want to be a white, clean porcelain doll (Chu Xi – White/Fair).]
He Yuan: ???
Chu Xi: [Call me Xiao Xi.]
He Yuan: ??????
Orders from the tsundere must be obeyed.
He Yuan: [Okay, Xiao Xi.]
Chu Xi: [Thank you, Xiao Yuan.]
He Yuan’s heart vibrated again.
Someone called him Xiao Yuan again.
Although the emotions behind it were different, as long as it came from the heart, he was very happy.
Half a month later.
Wen Su was invited to Star Source University by Professor Tang Xing to discuss the robot butler’s issues.
That day, Chu Xi’s bodyguards took the robot butler back to the Alliance Administration Building’s Emergency Handling Department while contacting Wen Su.
After Wen Su arrived, he used his master authority to shut down all functions of the robot butler. The staff handling the handover were unclear about the details, only saying the robot butler was sent there for “disturbing public order.” Wen Su assumed the robot butler had malfunctioned after leaving Star Source University and that passersby had called the police.
So he contacted Professor Tang Xing to explain the situation. Professor Tang Xing thought it was necessary to conduct in-depth research and took the robot butler back to his laboratory.
Now, there were preliminary results.
It wasn’t until this moment, when Professor Tang Xing played the footage recorded by the campus cameras for Wen Su, that Wen Su realized the robot butler had actually met He Yuan that day, malfunctioned in front of him, and attacked him.
The one who saved He Yuan turned out to be Young Master Chu.
Seeing the real, vivid He Yuan again after so long, he…
He didn’t know how to describe his mood. He only knew that if it weren’t for his long-standing habit of not showing emotions, he would probably find it hard to maintain a calm surface right now.
“General Sir, the video shows that your robot butler and this student know each other. Although we don’t know what they said, it can be concluded that the disorder was not sudden but triggered by this student.”
“Are you that certain?”
Professor Tang Xing nodded. “Because your robot butler was upgraded to the highest system version and had Super Mode enabled. This means that all the information and data it accepted, stored, and analyzed in the past became the foundation for it to infinitely approach being human.”
“According to you, this robot has served you as a life butler for over twenty years. That is to say, the vast majority of the information and data it possesses comes from you. Therefore, when it infinitely approaches being human, it is actually infinitely approaching you.”
Wen Su frowned.
“Does it not seem like it? Because it is only infinitely approaching, not a complete representation. To ‘infinitely approach,’ it will manifest your current most obvious characteristics. Of course, this is derived from its analysis of existing data. It is normal for ‘your current most obvious characteristics’ as perceived by it to differ from the real you and the you that you perceive.”
The wording was convoluted, but Wen Su understood.
The professor meant that the robot butler had continuously collected and analyzed his information for over twenty years. After upgrading to the highest version, it merged this information and became another him.
As a human, he could hide and regulate his emotions and control his behavior. But a robot couldn’t; a robot would only expose them objectively and completely.
What was his true state recently?
Of course, it was missing He Yuan insanely.
Happy because of He Yuan, sad because of He Yuan. Controlled by He Yuan’s every move, his emotions were changeable and extremely unstable. He tried his best to restrain himself, leading to a fierce struggle deep inside his heart.
The robot butler absorbed these overly complex things and malfunctioned because it couldn’t provide a solution through analysis;
Ideally, staying away from Wen Su, the source, would improve the situation slightly;
But upon contacting He Yuan, the true source, the disorder turned into loss of control.
This was precisely a portrayal of Wen Su himself.
“If you want to know exactly which detail stimulated the robot, we can invite that student over and ask about their conversation content at the time,” Professor Tang Xing suggested.
Actually, this should have been done earlier, but considering it might involve Wen Su’s privacy, he didn’t act on his own initiative.
Wen Su refused.
Because he had already guessed the reason.
The reason was actually very simple—
He Yuan wanted to leave.
The screen showed He Yuan standing up and waving goodbye, and then the robot butler lost control.
They had finally met with great difficulty, only to separate after a few moments. Not knowing if they could meet again in the future, and most critically, He Yuan proposed the separation first, looking like he didn’t want to stay a moment longer, not sad about the separation at all.
Seeing the footage, Wen Su thought this.
If, as the professor said, the robot butler infinitely approached him, then naturally, the robot butler thought this too.
This thought was unbearable for both man and machine.
He could still desperately endure it, only making things difficult for himself, but the robot butler had only one path: losing control.
In the end, was it his love and longing for He Yuan that hurt He Yuan?
Could something that hurts the other person still be called love and longing?
If this continued, would he, like the robot butler, one day be unable to control himself anymore?
A top-tier Alpha losing control would result only in destruction.
Leaving everything else aside, if destroyed, how could he continue to love and protect He Yuan?
Wen Su left the laboratory.
The robot butler remained.
The cause of the disordered loss of control was identified. The professor said it could be regulated by inputting a large amount of diverse information from wide-ranging sources, with periodic monitoring to see the effect. But this method treated the symptoms, not the root cause. The root cause still depended on the owner.
If he didn’t want to give up on this robot.
The old Wen Su, facing this situation, would likely choose to give up and just get a different robot.
Not out of cold-heartedness, but out of rationality.
And how could one talk about cold-heartedness when facing a robot?
But the current him was different.
He chose not to give up without hesitation.
Because the robot butler’s disordered loss of control was caused by him. He had to take responsibility. Even more so because he clearly remembered every scene of He Yuan and the robot butler getting along.
He remembered He Yuan treating the robot butler as a human and working seriously with it. He remembered He Yuan talking to flowers. He remembered that He Yuan was full of kindness and love for everything in this world.
So even if it was a robot, why couldn’t one talk about indifference or warmth?
He changed a lot because of He Yuan.
Willingly.
And now, he had come to a moment where he must change.
Standing on the west lawn of Star Source University, he recalled the past when he sat on the bench chatting with He Yuan.
That day, He Yuan was feeling down. The always optimistic person rarely denied himself. He accompanied him, comforted him, and treated that as the beginning of loving and protecting him.
So today, let it end here.
Not ending the love, but ending the painful present that bound him.
In the end, Wen Su sat there for a whole night, leaving alone shortly after the sun came up.
He wasn’t as lucky as the robot butler to encounter He Yuan by chance. But it didn’t matter, because He Yuan was nearby after all. Perhaps he had walked the path not far behind him, or dined in a corner of the cafeteria he could see at a glance. This was equivalent to an unknowing companionship.
It was his final act of willfulness.
Returning to the base, what greeted him were the pink roses carefully planted in front of the villa.
He stopped, admiring them seriously as never before, and finally snapped one off.
Inadvertently, his finger was scratched by a small thorn on the stem, and two lines of blood spilled from the pale cut.
Even the strongest warrior could be hurt by being caught off guard, but getting hurt wasn’t necessarily always a bad thing.
Back in his room, he placed the rose in a glass and poured clear water into the bottom.
Watching quietly for a while, he opened a shopping app and operated it very unskilledly, searching—
Buying something, and buying a non-essential item at that; he rarely did such things himself.
He Yuan once said that cut flowers could bloom for a long, long time if added to hydroponics with properly proportioned nutrient solution.
Then he hoped this flower, this flower planted personally by He Yuan and ultimately planted in his heart, could bloom forever and accompany him forever.
Until the gardener returned.
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