Not a god

Chapter 214 Emotions
Chen Xi handles official business quickly and is concise in meetings. All the clerks in the Youth Federation know that when Director Chen requires reports, each slide of the PPT cannot have more than 30 words, and they must know everything they are going to say by heart beforehand.

More than 40 meetings were held in just two or three days, making up for all the meetings that had accumulated during my time away from Jiangcheng.

It's not that Chen Xi likes meetings, but at this stage of development, every day, many people in various departments have to make countless decisions.

Chen Xi couldn't judge whether these decisions were good or bad, right or wrong; it was simply his destiny to be good at listening and feeling the emotions of others.

In front of such a human lie detector, the person giving the report could hide almost nothing, and all their little thoughts were exposed.

It's not that these people have ulterior motives, but as the All-China Youth Federation has grown in size, it's inevitable that some people will have ulterior motives, trying to fill positions without real membership, concealing information, or acting out of wishful thinking or guilt.

Occasionally, some young women lack confidence, unsure if their work will proceed smoothly, and feel anxious. These girls need Chen Xi to comfort and encourage them.
"Be confident, be passionate, stand tall and proud. How can someone who's going to do big things speak with a trembling voice? If you're going to act like this, come to my office after the meeting..."

"Woo!"

"Okay, that's all for today."

……

Every meeting felt like a drill, with everyone on edge, only to breathe a sigh of relief when it ended.

"As expected, there are no incompetent people born with a destiny, only incompetent people born with a destiny. Director Chen's ability to obey orders is clearly weak, but he is ridiculously strong in this kind of clerical work..."

"Damn it! I was just reporting on some recent developments at the Sinong Hall and applying to establish a new project, and he actually guessed that I have a crush on Xiaoxue and that the new team was created to promote her and have an office romance..."

"Director Chen refused?"

"He agreed, but he told me... Xiaoxue actually has a boyfriend, and there are three exes in the guild. He told me to focus on my work and not think too much about it."

"Damn it, can't we even protect our private lives in front of Director Chen? We have to retaliate against him!"

How to counter this?

"Has no one managed to find out any gossip about Director Chen?"

"He has a super beautiful wife, a cute daughter, twin sisters-in-law, and even owns a coffee shop in Tianfu Square. He sneaks back to the shop every day after work..."

The more they talked, the harder their fists got. How could they be so successful in life, knowing all the gossip about Director Chen, yet they were the ones who suffered the most?

"I heard that Director Chen is not an ordinary person either. He seems to be related to a family of destiny from the old era in Shanghai, and there is a third-level expert in the family."

"A third-tier expert? Those are extremely rare..."

"Why do you speak with such a web novel-like tone?"

Besides these trivial matters, other projects related to the construction of the Dream Monitoring Tower have also been completed one after another. Each station is now guarded by armed police and shepherds, and the entire city of Jiangcheng is now covered by the monitoring range of the Dream Monitoring Tower.

After finishing another stack of documents, Chen Xi called Gu Nanzhi over: "Where are Situ and the others? I haven't seen them since they came back."

Gu Nanzhi said, "There's a Heavenly Craftsmanship Exchange Conference, and he's been attending it these past few days."

"I remember this...we think we were the organizers?"

"Yes, it's about the Dream Watching Tower..."

The Dream Watching Tower is the first celestial creation of strategic significance. During this time, Situ will also lead the people of the Celestial Crafts Hall to teach future staff how to operate and use the tower, and to hold exchange meetings with a large number of younger generations from other regions who have also awakened their Celestial Craftsmanship destiny, passing on their experience related to this creation. Holding such exchange meetings would indeed benefit the Youth Federation's publicity work, but time is tight and the task is heavy. Now is the time for the Celestial Craftsmanship-related industries to flourish, and every day cannot be wasted.

Chen Xi certainly hopes that this country and society can overcome this crisis and get better and better, but he also has his own selfish motives, such as experience sharing sessions and the responsibility of large guilds... To put it bluntly, he hasn't even had enough to eat yet, so why is he in such a hurry to share with others?

"You also think this is unnecessary?"

Gu Nanzhi looked speechless and complained, "We haven't even had enough to eat ourselves, why are we in such a hurry to share with others?"

"..."

Chen Xi suddenly fell silent and looked up at Gu Nanzhi.

The other person doesn't have the ability to read minds, so it's impossible for them to know what I was just thinking.

He also doesn't have the ability to read minds. He can only sense other people's emotions from their words and actions. So, he just felt like he was affected by Gu Nanzhi's emotions.
It was a completely different feeling from when I was trying to understand other people's emotions. It was a strange feeling, like I had personally experienced it and felt it for myself.

The feeling is like reading about the Normandy landings in a history book, thinking you already have a deep understanding of the cruelty of war. But today, suddenly, you're surrounded by artillery fire and the tense, exciting feeling of everyone rushing forward.

For a fleeting moment, Chen Xi felt a surge of selfish, egoty, and stingy emotions—not just reading about them, but experiencing them.

This kind of effect is so strange, like Chen Yi eating baby food for a few months and then eating ice cream for the first time, experiencing the joy of discovering that the world can be so delicious.

Chen Xi's heart skipped a beat at that moment.

"Why are you looking at me like this?"

Feeling bewildered by Chen Xi's direct stare, Gu Nanzhi was somewhat confused.

She knew she was good-looking, but after working together for several months, she knew very well what kind of person Chen Xi was, and she wouldn't have any other associations with her.

Gu Nanzhi asked curiously, "Is there something on my face?"

"No."

So that's it. This is possessiveness, the desire to have everything, the emotion of wanting to possess everything and being unwilling to share with others.

Selfishness, if viewed from a slightly different angle, can also be called self-love. From an animalistic perspective, human emotions are neither good nor evil, and Chen Xi would not resist or despise the idea of ​​'profit-seeking'.

Is this an ability derived from being good at obeying orders? Chen Xi felt it was necessary to study it; in fact, he was quite eager to study it.

This might be the first time that something unrelated to Jiang Wanwan has given him the feeling of 'wanting'.

"It's nothing, I just suddenly thought of something else... Let Situ come back. Now that the Dream Watching Tower is completed, there are some other projects that need to be approved."

"What project?"

"Universities will be recruiting special students in September. Gathering a group of newly-adults with various powerful superpowers together could easily lead to accidents..."

It's probably a kind of creation that can suppress human destiny and spiritual energy. Besides places like universities, it will also be placed in elementary, middle, and high schools.

This will be a very large order.

(End of this chapter)