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Arc 8 – The Real World
Chapter 177

Chi Zhao’s memory is currently a mess.

When someone asked him how old he was and where his family lived, it would take him a while to answer and two out of every ten questions he was asked was answered incorrectly.

The doctor said that it was due to the impact to his head seven years ago resulting in some confusions in his memory. It wasn’t amnesia, so it should slowly recover on its own with time.

Compared to the despair over the past seven years, let alone Chi Zhao’s slight memory disorder, even if he lost all his memories, Chi Zhao’s parents didn’t mind.

That long wait made them dare not ask for anything else. As long as Chi Zhao was still alive and well, they were content.

The third day after waking, Chi Zhao managed to almost figure out what happened.

He had gone out to buy some things and was hit in the head by a falling pot plant and sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. The doctors had already given up on him and had even given him several critical condition notices but somehow, he managed to overcome it. Although his life was o longer in danger, he was still in a comatose state.

And that state lasted for seven years.

Parents who have aged, classmates who have matured, as well as his unfamiliar self. Everything caught Chi Zhao off guard. The doctor said that it was a miracle and everyone who came to visited him both cried and laughed. There were even reporters who came to interview him, saying that his story was a hot topic.

Chi Zhao didn’t care about what happened to the outside world, he was still trying his best to adapt to this world that was both familiar and unfamiliar to him and trying to clear up his messy mind.

He would always feel like he had forgotten something, but even after pondering deeply over it, he couldn’t remember. He told the doctor about this situation and they said that this was normal for him. His brain after all had been operated on and those who are comatose may not be completely unconscious. Perhaps he had been dreaming during those seven years and that was why he felt like he had forgotten a lot of things after waking up.

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Chi Zhao felt that what the doctor said made sense. He no longer thought about those messy thoughts and began to think about what he should do in the future.

At the time of the accident, he had just turned twenty and was preparing for an exam for his university. After waking up again, he had now turned twenty-seven. Among the classmates who came to visit him, one even came with their son. The little boy was already three and a half years old, and he hid behind his mother, looking both curiously and vigilantly at Chi Zhao. He only meekly called Chi Zhao ‘uncle’ after some nudging from his mother.

“I didn’t think much about those seven years until I saw your son.”

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Chi Zhao had been discharged from the hospital. After living with his parents for more than a month, he moved out. After he graduated from high school, his parents had purchased an apartment near his university to make it more convenient for him and ever since his accident, that apartment had remained vacant. In this society, people move out of their parent’s homes immediately after becoming an adult and almost no one lived with their parents. As soon as Chi Zhao was almost recovered, he left. His parents were very open-minded and didn’t make any attempt to stop him.

Now that he had woken up, he had to face life. Chi Zhao had been asleep for seven years but there was still nearly seventy years to live in the future so he couldn’t just continue lounging around.

His female classmate had already become a mother. When she was in university, she got along with Chi Zhao well and during those seven years, she often came to the hospital to visit him with her son in tow. It was just that every time her son came, Chi Zhao had his eyes closed. Seeing him with his eyes open, he found it strange.

The female classmate laughed, “I also didn’t think that I would get married so early, but my fated one appeared.”

“What are you going to do now? Go back to school?”

The average life expectancy now was one hundred years. With the life expectancy increasing, the time used on education naturally also increased and many people are still in school at thirty years of age. Returning at Chi Zhao’s current age, although he was still older, it wasn’t particularly old. It stood to reason that Chi Zhao should get his diploma regardless of what he does in the future, but he instead knitted his brows and shook his head, “I don’t want to go back to school anymore?”

The female classmate was very surprised, “Why?”

Right now, even high school graduates aren’t accepted as waiters. If Chi Zhao didn’t go back to school, what else could he do?

Chi Zhao also didn’t know. He looked ahead with a look of confusion, “I also don’t know. I just have a feeling…….That I seemed to have gone to school many, many times. If I went back again, I might vomit.”

Female classmate: “………”

“If you don’t want to then you don’t need to. Are you going back home to help out then?”

Chi Zhao’s father had a company of his own, but it wasn’t large, and the annual income wasn’t too high or too low, just enough to place the family at the middle-class level. Because there aren’t many people in the family, a small company like this was enough to support the whole family. There was no education requirement if one wanted to inherit the family business, so it wasn’t a bad idea.

Chi Zhao shook his head again, “Not going back for now. I want to stay outside for a few years, find any casual job and pass the time.”

When he said this, Chi Zhao had his head lowered. The female classmate looked at him without making any attempt to hide her assessing gaze and felt that Chi Zhao’s current state wasn’t very good, and he seemed to be in a low mood. Perhaps it was a sequela of his long comatose state?

The female classmate thought for a while, “It’s very troublesome finding a job out here. Why don’t you come to our company? The publicity department just happens to be lacking an assistant and there are no technical skills required. As long as you take notes, print out the forms and help out where required, you can take it on.”

This female classmate was an amazing woman. When she was in university, she was already contracted to a large company and her studies never got in her way and after graduating, she directly became the vice-director of the human resources team. Chi Zhao admired her very much. He asked her how she managed getting promoted so quickly only for the female classmate to smile shyly and touch the back of her son’s head.

“It’s nothing. My husband is the general manager of our company.”

Chi Zhao: “……..”

In the end, Chi Zhao still relied on his connections to enter the company.

It had been half a month after joining the company. Chi Zhao adhered to the principle of speaking less and doing more and did his work quietly. His colleagues knew that he was their boss’s wife’s old classmate, so they treated him a little distantly. Only after working together for a while did they realise that Chi Zhao was actually very polite and well-behaved and never slacked off despite his connections.

He looked young so no one would’ve been able to tell that he was twenty-seven just based on his appearance and the women in the office treated him like their younger brother. Although men typically didn’t like seeing him being spoiled like this, they would face a backlash if they bullied him so they could only keep their mouths closed.

Chi Zhao had joined this company just to give himself something to do. When he had nothing to do before, he would always be distracted and think about all sorts of things, making him even more frustrated as he could never reach a conclusion. After working as an assistant for half a month, Chi Zhao felt that his mind had become a lot calmer, his mood had improved and his personality had also become more cheerful.

Before, he had come to the company to immerse himself with work but now, he also chatted with the others. After making himself a cup of coffee in the staffroom and returning, he saw a stranger standing at the secretary’s desk in front of the president’s office. That party had their brows knitted tightly and he appeared to be in a difficult position.

Chi Zhao just happened to pass by him. Standing behind him, Chi Zhao poked his head out and read the contents in a glance.

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“This plan seems to have considered everything, but they have forgotten to consider its impact. Since last year, Victor Estate’s net export profit has been on a decline. Victor Estate is the world’s largest wine estate and twenty percent would usually be exported to our country each year. There was no change to that last year, but the net profit still fell so much. In the case of the raw materials and manufacturers also not having raised their prices, the only explanation for the net profit to fall is the doings of the people above.”

“With even Victor Estate being impacted, they still want to buy a brewery at such a large loss. Is this person in the right mind or are they a spy from another company?”

The unfamiliar man turned and looked at him questioningly, “You understand this?”

Chi Zhao blew onto his steaming cup of coffee and shook his head, “I don’t understand. Just watched some news.”

“But what you said just now makes sense. You seem to know very well.”

The stranger asked him again, but Chi Zhao just scratched his head, “Really? I just said it casually. Looks like I hit the right mark.”

After saying that, Chi Zhao left. The stranger looked at his back figure with a raised brow.

Over the next half a month, Chi Zhao would be harassed by this strange uncle from time to time. If it weren’t for the fact that the other party looked older than his own father, he would suspect that he was interested in himself. Whenever he was harassed, that uncle would bring along a couple of questions and from the looks of it, it wasn’t that the uncle didn’t know the answers to those questions, but he still insisted on hearing Chi Zhao’s opinions.

After happening to get it right once or twice, Chi Zhao felt that he was just lucky. When it reached seven or eight times, even Chi Zhao himself was stunned.

After living for so many years, he only realised this just now.

As it turned out, he was a financial genius!!

……….

Chi Zhao wasn’t dumb. How could ordinary people have access to so many of the company’s secrets. When the uncle finally revealed his identity to be the chairman of the company, Chi Zhao looked at him and responded very perfunctorily, “Oh.”

Sensing that the uncle was hurt by his perfunctory attitude, Chi Zhao explained, “I knew since the second time you came to find me. There is a photo of you on our company’s official website.”

The president who thought he had done well disguising himself: “……..”

Like this, Chi Zhao was sent over to the super high-tech B2B International Business Department by the president. The female classmate was shocked when she heard about it and immediately complained, “Why didn’t you tell me earlier that you were this skilled? I wouldn’t have made you take up an assistant role if I knew that!”

Chi Zhao: “…..If I said I didn’t know it either, would you believe me?”

Of course, the female classmate didn’t believe him. No one felt that one would suddenly become skilled after being hit by a flowerpot and just thought that Chi Zhao had hid his true abilities to remain low key. Even Chi Zhao’s mother thought this.

It was originally thought that he would take a long time to adapt to the missing seven years after waking but unexpectedly, in just two months, her son had already adapted perfectly to the current life.

The old mother felt reassured. She then started to worry about her son’s future like all other mothers.

After receiving a call from his mother, Chi Zhao only felt a headache, “I don’t want to go…..”

“I’m not telling you to go on a blind date! It’s just having a chat. If it’s a good match, you can start off as friends. I’ll tell you this, son, I’ve seen her already and she’s very pretty and has a nice personality. Her mother and your father are elementary school classmates, and the family background is good. I’m sure you will like her. Do you think your mum is doing this to harm you?”

If someone were to ask Chi Zhao’s mother to introduce someone to Chi Zhao seven years ago, she would’ve definitely dismissed it, but seven years later, her attitude had completely changed. No one knew what could happen in the future and parents cannot be with their children forever. Humans are social animals so they naturally wouldn’t like to be alone.

Chi Zhao’s mother didn’t want to force him to start a family, nor did she want him to have a son to continue the family line. All she wanted was for her son to have someone by his side who would love and support him for the latter part of his life even after she and her husband passes away and not live his life alone.

Chi Zhao had refused many times and if he continued to refuse, he was afraid that he would hurt his mother’s feelings. He sighed, “Alright, but it’s just to meet her. If it doesn’t work out, stop arranging these for me in the future.”

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