54: Chapter 54 Accidentally Entering the Imperial Family: The True Noble Male Supporting Character 15

Early morning, the top floor of the Tianhai Group building.

"Hmm, that will be all for now. Send them over to her."

Meng Zhu held a few books in his hands, checked them over one more time, and handed them to Assistant Chen Yuan.

Assistant Chen Yuan remembered these books; back in the day, a young Meng Zhu would carry them around every day to study.

They contained many annotations from his genius father, and later on, Meng Zhu added his own notes to them as well.

Only a trusted aide like him knew that these were the "military classics" Meng Zhu used when he took charge of the Meng Family during his youth, studying and applying them amidst the bloody storms of business warfare.

Their value could not be measured by money, nor could they be compared to the papers of so-called economics professors.

Tianhai Group was the initial life's work of Meng Zhu's father, but it was far less glorious back then than it is now.

In fact, in the entire H Country, the Meng Family only had Tianhai Group, which only served to further demonstrate the strength of Tianhai Group.

And all of this was the result of the young Meng Zhu's hard work along the way.

"Boss, since you intend to mentor her, why not recruit Miss Qiao into Tianhai Group and keep her by your side? Wouldn't that be faster?"

Assistant Chen Yuan took the books and couldn't help but ask the question that had been on his mind.

In truth, he had a little ulterior motive; he felt that his boss wasn't young anymore, and perhaps it was time for him to have a sweet romance.

"Let her study for a while first."

Assistant Chen Yuan nodded and bowed as he retreated.

After sending Assistant Chen Yuan away, Meng Zhu frowned while alone in his office.

He had been somewhat surprised by the question Assistant Chen Yuan just asked.

The reason was simple: this was not something Assistant Chen Yuan should have been able to ask.

Meng Zhu had always known that the Light and Shadow Federation had secrets; more precisely, the entire reality had problems.

People said that the main characters of the movie world were intelligent life forms, while secondary characters and even passersby were all intelligent AI.

But you would find that the passersby in the movie world had a level of intelligence that far exceeded real-world artificial intelligence.

People in the real world had cognitive barriers, as that was the education they had received since childhood.

They were accustomed to the explanations and classifications of artificial intelligence and did not feel there was any problem with them.

But Meng Zhu was different; he had transmigrated to the Light and Shadow Star, and the knowledge from his previous life told him that many things were unreasonable.

In his previous life, many tech moguls believed that there should be two things that defined the boundary for artificial intelligence becoming true life.

One was "the fear of death."

The other was "hesitation."

An AI that feared death was already very abnormal, and hesitation was even more so.

Intelligent life would have its own deductions and judgments when facing any problem, but when it clearly knew the answer yet hesitated about whether to say it out loud...

It was already no different from true life.

But in this world, intelligent life seemed to have a very strange definition of emotion.

Yet, emotions could be simulated; there had to be a deeper problem here.

For example, regarding the awakening of intelligent life, what exactly was awakening?

And why did falling in love with an actor count as awakening? Was that really reasonable?

If emotion was the dividing line, then why couldn't it be familial love or friendship? Why did it have to be romantic love?

And why couldn't one fall in love with someone else? Why did it have to be an actor?

Saying that intelligent life had no human rights before awakening felt more like they became the actor's private property because they fell in love with an actor.

But then they had to be sealed away. Honestly, it made a transmigrator like Meng Zhu feel quite itchy with curiosity.

So, he often spent his free time pondering these secrets of the Light and Shadow Federation.

Of course, that was a digression. Let's get back to why Assistant Chen Yuan was strange.

Meng Zhu actually understood the rules for the conclusion of a movie world.

Like this movie, theoretically speaking, The Analyst's initial guess was completely correct.

As long as he helped Qiao Chuxia from here on out, it would very likely end instantly, because it would be easy for her to reach the top, and then there would be nothing left to film.

So, if one replaced the male lead, actively created the plot, and controlled the plot, forcing the Heavenly Dao to cooperate with you, would it feel offended?

The answer was no; otherwise, given the Heavenly Dao's authority over the movie world, the actors would have no chance at all.

The truth of the matter was this.

The Heavenly Dao didn't care about the duration of a movie; it only judged whether it still had value to continue unfolding.

So, taking this movie as an example, the Heavenly Dao knew that as long as Meng Zhu went to support Qiao Chuxia, it would likely have no more value.

If Meng Zhu made other plans, then the movie would still have a need to continue unfolding.

The problem arose right here.

As a super-intelligent entity, the Heavenly Dao would not have any bias.

If the movie had value, it would continue calculating; if not, it would end instantly. It simply didn't care.

Theoretically, in the entire world, apart from the main and secondary characters, all other humans were AI, and they were all under the direct control of the Heavenly Dao.

Therefore, these characters, like Assistant Chen Yuan, should similarly have no bias, and they should not be able to make behaviors or suggestions that influenced the direction of the plot.

One had to know that actors had no memory.

For example, today, if Meng Zhu had really listened to Assistant Chen Yuan's suggestion, recruited Qiao Chuxia into Tianhai Group, and then she soared to success, causing the movie world to end quickly.

Then was that Assistant Chen Yuan's own action, or was it the instruction of the Heavenly Dao that controlled him?

So, this was clearly problematic.

The first thing Meng Zhu suspected was: were these ordinary NPCs like Assistant Chen Yuan really AI?

Sometimes, the more one investigated, the more problems arose.

Was this vast movie world really just a virtual world?

And what exactly did the so-called awakening mean?

It was precisely because Meng Zhu was so curious.

That, even before The Analyst said those words, he had actually already decided that in this movie, he would try to replace the protagonist.

The more shocking and unconventional he was, the more he believed he could obtain more information.

If he could force the Federation to declassify information for him before reaching the Best Actor level, that would be even more perfect.

...

Back to the movie plot.

The next day.

Qiao Chuxia had been in a good mood at school today, but it was completely ruined by a phone call.

The person on the other end of the unknown number was none other than Ye Zhiming.

He had already realized how foolish he had been to go to the Qiao Family.

So this time, he had found out Qiao Chuxia's phone number, and the conditions were still the same, only they had changed from being offered to the Qiao Family to being offered to Qiao Chuxia.

His words were very earnest, even servile.

But unfortunately, Qiao Chuxia had no intention of paying attention to him at all, and her attitude remained firm.

Afterward, her mood for the whole day was affected.

Fortunately, just as she returned to Yujing Mountain, Butler Wen Yi's smile healed everything.

"Miss, Assistant Chen Yuan came by today. He brought some things and has already placed them in the study for you."

"What kind of things needed to be put in the study?"

When Qiao Chuxia pushed open the door to the study in confusion, what she saw was a dark nanmu wood box.

She gently opened the lid of the box.

Coming into view were old books stacked neatly.

The edges of those books had soft, worn-out fringes from being repeatedly leafed through.

Between the pages, they were filled with a large number of handwritten annotations.

One set of handwriting was sharp, and there was another set, slightly more dashing.

She was naturally clever, and among these two sets of handwriting, one of them must be Meng Zhu's; in other words, these were the books Meng Zhu used when he studied.

Pleasantly surprised, Qiao Chuxia took out her phone and, without hesitation, typed out a line.

"I received the books that Assistant Chen Yuan brought. Are those ones you have read?"

Not long after the message was sent, there was a response.

"Mm, try self-studying. You can ask me if you have any questions."

Qiao Chuxia sent an 'Mm-hmm' emoji and then teased:

"I thought that for a beginner like me, the books I needed to read should fill an entire wall."

"That depends on what kind of books they are. Clearly, the books you received are more useful than an entire wall."

That was true; these books had been carefully selected, not to mention they had so many annotations from a business genius.

Thinking of this, Qiao Chuxia felt wonderful inside.

She was so happy that she even forgot to tell Meng Zhu about the phone call from Ye Zhiming at school.