Chapter 456
True to Shi Sheng’s words, Zhao-zong’s robots were fine in the beginning, but various problems soon cropped up—they no longer listened to orders, and there were instances where humans were unable to control them .
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These robots had made a large impact in the early stages, especially since the government was supporting it . Hence, they were selling so much that the factories were working overtime to manufacture another batch .
But who would still dare to use them now? As a result, the batch of robots were left gathering dust in a warehouse .
Just as Zhao-zong didn’t know what to do, Shi Sheng gave Qin Ge a suggestion .
“Go acquire those robots at a low price . I’ve checked them out . The shells have no problem—they used the best materials . ”
Qin Ge frowned . “But it’d be useless even if we acquired them… Our own products haven’t been fully developed, so we don’t have a useable program…”
“Just change theirs . All you have to do is buy them . ”
Qin Ge had always listened to his wifey—even if she wanted to waste away all his money, he’d still deliver it to her . Hence, he ignored the opposition from others in the company and acquired that batch of robots .
Shi Sheng took over the research lab, leading the researchers to work overtime to change the programming .
Shi Sheng was simply a legend to the people in the lab . Her thinking exceeded the current technological standards of this world by far, but she was able to actually utilise it to create something practical .
‘CEO’s wife is actually an alien with her own cheats, isn’t she?’
“Ma’am, we want to use this clip for the promotional video . Do you think it’s okay?” The person from the marketing department played a video .
It was the one of Shi Sheng pummelling Qin Xin’s bodyguards with her Mary Sue’s Sword outside of school .
Heck, the meme was still alive even today .
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“Why does this person look a lot like our CEO’s wife though?” Someone voiced their doubts .
With this reminder, the others finally realised why they found her so familiar .
They’d always been curious as to how their CEO and his wife got together . Now that they were watching this video, they found some comments below it . Though it had been a while, the information was still relevant .
“So the CEO’s wife was actually a student at A University . ”
“I remember our Qin-zong used to be a professor there…”
As the discussions got louder, the topic derailed greatly .
In the end, the advertisement used the video of Shi Sheng pummelling the bodyguards . The producers even wrote a little story in .
Though it was very Mary Sue…with the Mary Sue’s Sword and the adorable robots, they got a surprisingly positive feedback .
Remainder the Equal of Heaven[1]: [Has a classic re-appeared? Though I don’t know what the producers were thinking, I really feel like laughing . ]
eating pickled veggies everyday: [the light of mary sue touches all! tho it’s been a long time, the fight continues on! time can’t stop mary sue from dominating the world! submit, ye foolish mortals!]
Plato’s dead: [I give this ad 101 pts . Reached a new height of Mary Sue-ness, yet I can’t bring myself to hate it . ]
Sino-Cuban: [Who dares mess around when the Mary Sue’s Sword reveals itself? PS . I feel like the special effects aren’t as good as they originally were…is it just me?]
Zhao DaDa: [I heard the Mary Sue’s Sword in the original video had its own special effects . this ad clearly added the effects in afterwards]
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Due to the fact that the special effect of the Mary Sue’s Sword in the advertisement wasn’t as good as the original clip, the marketing department fretted a lot .
There was only so much video editing could do . Hence, someone thought of the person in the video .
It was their CEO’s wife ah! Why were they worrying over this when they could just ask her?
But their CEO’s wife expressed that the special effects were gone . Her iron sword didn’t emit Mary Sue’s light anymore . Instead, it was emitting a green light . It changed the colour every year .
Shi Sheng suspected that it wanted to try all seven colours of the rainbow to see which one looked the best .
‘After it levelled up…it simply wants to ascend the heavens!’
In the end, the promotional clip remained untouched . Since the original video had already been warped to this extent by the marketing department, what was one little flaw?
The cost of making these robots were very low . They came up with all sorts of testing measures for them . The testing period lasted a month, during which no problems arose .
As a result, the negative impact these robots brought before was gradually reduced .
By the time they launched, the sales were exceptionally good .
When Qin Ge released the promotional clip for the high-end robots his own company was developing, he immediately received olive branches from various people—even the government—who were looking to co-operate .
Shi Sheng and Qin Ge had beenholed up at the company over the past few days . Even while they were resting, they did so inside the company building .
Once they finally got everything sorted out, the only thing Shi Sheng felt was exhaustion . ‘This money was too exhausting to earn… I wanna go home and rest . ’
Shi Sheng left Qin Ge alone at the company, getting the company driver to send her home first . She had only just entered her little neighbourhood when she heard someone call out to her .
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“Chu-Chu…”
Shi Sheng turned around to see Qiao-fu, who appeared to have aged a lot in the time since she last saw him .
“Dad?”
……
Qiao-fu examined the place . It wasn’t big—only having a living area and three rooms . It was well-kept, and the kitchen was a normal one .
Shi Sheng set a glass of water down in front of Qiao-fu . “Dad, why didn’t you call me before coming over? If I hadn’t come back just now, how long were you planning to wait for me?”
“Chu-Chu . ” Qiao-fu seemed to have trouble talking about something .
Shi Sheng gave him an odd look . ‘What happened?’
Qiao-fu arranged his thoughts into words and only told her what had happened after quite a while .
He was originally planning to return the money to Shi Sheng, but Qiao-mu took it without discussing with him and gave it to Qiao Qian’qian .
Qiao-mu thought, since they were all one family, it was the same whoever got the money . Qiao Qian’qian was alone overseas right now—how hard must her life be? And since Shi Sheng had managed to get a powerful support in the form of Qin Ge, she wouldn’t miss this itty bit of money .
Because of this, Qiao-fu and Qiao-mu got into a big fight . That meant rehashing old scores . Welp, this resulted in the two impulsively getting divorced .
Qiao-fu ended up with almost nothing—Qiao-mu only left him a single card with around 200k inside . As for the company, the house, and the car, Qiao-mu took them all .
Shi Sheng was utterly stunned once he had finished . ‘And you agreed to those divorce conditions?!’
Qiao-fu smiled bitterly . “We were married for so many years . As a man, I can’t just leave her with nothing to depend on for the rest of her life, can I?”
He had also grown tired of arguing with her .
“Does she even know how to run a company?” Shi Sheng was speechless . ‘Wouldn’t it go broke in her hands? Qiao-mu’s pretty ‘awesome’ too . She wasn’t this capable in the plot, so how come she’s following the FL in breaking character? Scared!’
Qiao-fu’s expression changed, but he’d already given the company to Qiao-mu, so there was nothing he could do now .
Shi Sheng sighed . “Dad, stay with us for now . ”
“No need; I just came to have a look . I didn’t have anyone to talk about this to, so it was getting a bit stifling, keeping it all to myself…”
Sometimes, one just needed someone to talk to .
Qiao-fu made to leave as he spoke, “I can still move around . Since I could build myself up from nothing back then, I can do so again . ”
“Dad . ” Shi Sheng stopped him . “We have a lot of spare rooms here, so you should stay for now . Tomorrow, I’ll go look around and see if there are any suitable houses nearby for you . ”
Hearing that he wouldn’t be staying with them long-term, Qiao-fu relented . “Okay then . ”
He didn’t want to trouble his daughter and future son-in-law .
[1] Play on Sun Wukong’s title, Great Sage Equal to Heaven .