TICFL Chapter 4

Zhang Zhang has lived in the Fu family’s luxury villa for three days. From feeling lost at first, she has gradually adapted to the new environment.

 

All she does every day is eat and sleep.

 

Another thing is to accept Fu Yiting’s “favour”.

 

Specifically, he touched her shiny shell, slippery belly, and took turns shaking hands with her six limbs.

 

Recently, there was a new activity added: training her to make a heart shape with her antennae.

 

However, during Fu Yiting’s working hours.

 

Apart from the crystal box, the farthest distance Zhang Zhang could move around was to the windowsill.

 

If you go any further, you will be restrained by the chains on your body.

 

At this time, Zhang Zhang was lying on the windowsill, looking at the birds flying outside the window, lost in thought.

 

These days, she misses her little cockroach brothers and misses the days of swimming in the sewers with them.

 

She wonders if her younger brothers will be bullied by other creatures when she is not around.

 

Zhang Zhang felt that she really shouldn’t have been so impulsive for beauty, forgetting her loyalty for a moment and running off with Fu Yiting.

 

She felt regretful.

 

At night, Fu Yiting was sitting in a rocking chair by the window, holding a mobile phone in his hand.  He was reading a novel titled Battle Royale: The Social Misfits’ Boss Blew Up!

 

There really is no logic.

 

However, this novel provided insights into the mindset of contemporary people when they lose control. Fu Yiting firmly believed that one must bravely explore unknown areas, actively open up new market spaces, and constantly uncover  the infinite business opportunities and possibilities hidden through innovative thinking and decisive actions. By seizing opportunities, one can promote industry changes and promote technological upgrades and iterations. Only in this way can one truly get rid of the old and bring in the new, keep up the pace, and allow Fu’s company to always maintain strong competitiveness and be invincible!

 

Fu Yiting was imagining the future of the Fu Corporation.

 

At this moment, Zhang Zhang landed precisely on his mobile phone, and she rubbed Fu Yiting’s fingers with her head.

 

Fu Yiting also started today’s “favour” activity.

 

As Fu Yiting watched Zhang Zhang complete today’s antenna heart shape, he couldn’t help but sigh, “The curvature of your antennae still doesn’t quite resemble it…”

 

Forget it, take your time.

 

At this moment, Fu Yiting discovered that Zhang Zhang had no intention of leaving.

 

Fu Yiting looked confused and didn’t understand what was going on.

 

Zhang Zhang jumped onto the screen of his mobile phone and pointed at the Chinese characters in the novel with her front limbs.

 

Fu Yiting read the characters one by one , and finally realised that it formed a sentence.

 

I want to go out.

 

Fu Yiting raised his eyebrows and said to Zhang Zhang with disdain: “It was you who insisted on following me into the Fu family.”

 

“I also gave you a chance to leave.”

 

“Now you want to come and go as you please. Do you think the Fu residence is a casual place?”

 

Fu Yiting pinched Zhang Zhang’s tentacles with his fingers, forcing her to look up and look at his handsome face.

 

He said coldly: “Don’t forget your identity. You are just a substitute cockroach.”

 

Then he threw Zhang Zhang back into the crystal box and slammed the door and left without looking back.

 

At that moment, Zhang Zhang, sitting in the box, lowered her antennae. She seemed to hear the sound of her heart breaking.

 

It turns out that Fu Yiting kept me here just to make me his substitute…

 

Then I have to leave!

 

Zhang Zhang is still the cockroach with the core socialist values. [1]

 

She began to think about how to escape from the Fu family villa.

 

“Click.” At this time, the door of the room was gently pushed open.

 

Zhang Zhang thought it was Fu Yiting who came back, so she lay back in the crystal box and planned a long-term plan.

 

But the person who came was not Fu Yiting, but Fu Yirou.

 

Fu Yirou felt that something was wrong with her eldest brother recently. No, something was wrong with the entire Fu family.

 

Normally, it is impossible for cockroaches to appear in a high-end villa. However, after she drank the white porridge that day, the cockroach mysteriously disappeared, and there was no trace of it in the entire Fu family home.

 

Fu Yirou always felt uneasy, as if every corner of the Fu family home was filled with cockroaches, and were everywhere.

 

And her eldest brother also became abnormal after the cockroach appeared.

 

Fu Yiting, who was originally a workaholic, actually got off work on time these days. Moreover, he usually stayed in the study to work overtime after dinner, but these days he went straight back to the bedroom, which was abnormal.

 

Especially now, since my eldest brother just left his room with an angry look on his face.

 

Something is wrong. Something is very wrong.

 

Fu Yirou took advantage of her elder brother’s absence and sneaked into Fu Yiting’s bedroom to find out what was going on.

 

Fu Yirou came to Fu Yiting’s room, and she immediately noticed the exquisite crystal box.

 

As she approached the box, she realised that it wasn’t Pandora’s box from a fairy tale but rather a living cockroach incubator!

 

“Ahhhhh——” Fu Yirou’s scream resounded throughout the Fu family.

 

She picked up a thick book and threw it at Zhang Zhang.

 

Zhang Zhang suddenly realised that the person coming was not Fu Yiting. She was unable to dodge and was flattened by Fu Yirou.

 

But cockroaches have tenacious vitality and can continue to wriggle even if they are beaten into pieces.

 

Besides, Fu Yirou was not very strong, so it would be no problem for Zhang Zhang to take the blow with her current physical condition.

 

It’s just that the body is a little flat.

 

Zhang Zhang moved her body, but surprisingly, the shackles on her body did suit her size anymore because she was flattened.

 

Taking advantage of the fluid that oozed out from being smashed, Zhang Zhang managed to move her body slightly. The pure gold shackle then slowly slid off her shiny body. 

 

She was finally free.

 

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[1]

The term “core socialist values” refers to a set of principles and ideals promoted by the Chinese government as central to the country’s socialist ideology. These values are intended to guide moral behaviour and social norms in China. The core socialist values are:

 

Prosperity (富强)

Democracy (民主)

Civility (文明)

Harmony (和谐)

Freedom (自由)

Equality (平等)

Justice (公正)

Rule of Law (法治)

 

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