The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife

Chapter 64 A New System

"Don't listen to him. Mama Jean and I have prepared a lot of food for the night, so remember to eat more later," Susan said, offering Seth a genial smile.

Seth's eyes glowed. He dashed over and tried to grab Susan's hand.

Susan was startled. However, before Seth could get close to her, he was stopped by Julian who grabbed his hand in return and yelled out, "Behave yourself!”

"I'm sorry. I was way too excited,” Seth said as he wiped away an invisible tear. "I don’t understand why God is so nice to you, Julian. You're a jerk yet God still sends you such a perfect wife. This is really unfair.”

Susan was tickled pink by Seth's remark. She covered her mouth and stifled a laugh.

Julian's face turned dark. He said sulkingly, "You talked too much. Can't you just keep your mouth shut?"

"Susan, are you sure you want to spend the rest of your life with him? He's not only an autocrat, but he is also a deadhead. My name is Seth Leeds. I strongly suggest that you try it out with me. I’m a humorous person, I’m very good to my partner, and I..."

Then, before he could finish speaking, he saw Julian walking towards him expressionlessly with a roll of tape in his hand. As if he knew what kind of fate might befall him if he allowed Julian to get close to him, he let out a shout and began running around the room.

A brief moment of consternation flashed through Susan, but she soon snapped herself out of it. She chuckled and dived into the kitchen to continue preparing their dinner.

Seth was still running around the room, shouting and screaming along the way like a little kid. As he passed by Jacob, he caught sight of something on the screen and suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Piqued by curiosity, he went closer to have a better look. Original from NôvelDrama.Org.

"Hmm, what are you doing, bro?" He asked a question, and although Jacob gave him the cold shoulder and continued tapping away on the keyboard, he was not disheartened. Then, his smile suddenly deepened, and the light in his eyes glowed with something like enthusiasm.

When Julian saw his reaction, he narrowed his eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"

Seth did not reply. He stared at the screen, and it took him quite a long while to finally come around to his senses. He smacked his thigh and gasped, "Holy sh*t, Julian, who is this Mr. Genius?"

"Mr. Genius?" Julian was stupefied by the word. "He is Susie’s brother, my brother-in-law."

"He is your brother-in-law? Terrific, this is absolute genius," Seth exclaimed, as he could not peel his eyes away from the screen.

"Hoh?” Julian was curious as well.

He knew that Jacob was a programmer of some sort and he was always typing some codes, but he was oblivious about the specifics since coding was beyond his scope of specialty. Since Seth specialized in computer language, he might be able to tell what Jacob was doing.

'Judging from his reaction, could it be that the code Jacob writes is something extraordinary?’

Without peeling his eyes away from the screen, Seth explained, "In the past, all phones manufactured in China used the TG system as their mobile operating system. This kind of system is full of loopholes, has very low security, and it often causes the device to freeze up. Then, several years ago, America introduced a whole new mobile operating system known as the DC system to the world. Backed up with powerful performance, the all-new mobile operating system soon swept across the world and dominated the entire market, causing the mobile industry in China to take a great hit as nobody was willing to buy the device powered by the TG system anymore.

Eventually, the cornered China's mobile industry had n o other choice but to purchase the DC system's copyright with a sky-high price and produce new devices based on the DC system. The cost was way too high indeed, but it’s not a problem for CK, the multinational conglomerate who owns the copyright o f the DC system. They continued to produce one

mobile device after another with better performance a t an affordable price, and ever since their mobile devices entered China's market, it further drove the phone manufacturers in China into the wall. Right now, only a few are left standing as most of them have already stepped out of the business." 1

"I know the thing you said, but what has it got to do with Jacob’s code?" Julian asked with a frown.

Seth took a deep breath before speaking again, "If I were not wrong, he seems to be creating the code for a new type of mobile operating system. I have no idea what will the system look like when it comes out, but based on what I’m seeing right now, I’m certain that it will cause a big, if not the biggest earthquake in the mobile industry so far.”

"Really?” Julian was surprised as well.

Although Jacob did not seem like it, often fooling and mucking around like an idle person, nobody could deny the fact that his ability was top-notch when it came to information technology. Since even Seth was shocked by his job, whatever he was doing right now must be very extraordinary.

"Wow! Why did I never think of using this in such a way! Brilliant! This is pure brilliance! You're really a genius! Look at this, oh my, this is so much fun...” Seth got himself all worked up as he watched on. His eyes shone brightly like a kid who found his favorite toy as he could not stop jabbering on and on.

"Time for dinner," Susan hollered out to the trio as she set up the table.

When she turned her head and saw Julian and Seth were standing behind Jacob, she walked towards them.

"It's time for dinner, brother," Susan repeated as she forcibly closed the laptop, compelling Jacob to obediently rise to his feet. On the other side, Seth was s o engrossed into Jacob's work that he gave a little yelp when the screen was gone. He jerked around and his eyes found Susan who was obviously startled by his reaction.

Looking at her with glowing eyes, he quickly asked," Susan, glad that you're here! Is he your brother?”

As he asked the question, he kept darting his eyes at Jacob as if he was a treasure.

Dumbfounded, Susan stammered, "Y-Yeah, he's my older brother. What's wrong?"

"Can you ask your brother to keep me as his apprentice?" Seth pressed on, keeping his expectant gaze firmly on her face.

Susan had no idea what happened just now, so she was even more confused. "Huh? What are you talking about?"

"Don't mind him. He just slipped into his old habit again," Julian chimed in, 'Let's go. It's time for dinner."

"Okay..." replied Susan as she nodded woodenly. Then, she hailed Seth to have dinner with them.

After shoving a spoonful of food into his mouth, Seth turned his attention on Jacob once more. Through a mouth full of food, he asked, "Are you writing the code for the mobile operating system?"

Jacob did not reply. He just concentrated on eating his dinner. Just when Susan was about to explain to Seth that her brother would not talk to other strangers due to some reasons, she heard

her brother reply softly to Seth after pushing a spoonful of food into his mouth.

"Yeah.”

"You're so good at coding!" Seth's eyes glowed, "Can you teach me how to do it?"

Jacob threw a sidelong glance at him and replied, causing Seth's face to go scarlet in embarrassment," Nope. You can't do it." 1

After all, this was the first time somebody said he could not do it after so many years.

Unwilling to submit, Seth stared recalcitrant at Jacob and refuted, "How do you know I can’t do it if you never try me?"

"Ahem!" Julian almost spat his food out.

"What's wrong with you, Julian?" Susan hastily patted his back.

"You can’t do it means you can't do it," Jacob repeated mechanically.

"How do you know I can’t do it if you don’t let me try?" Seth asked stubbornly.

"No is no."

"You haven't seen me try yet..."

Both of them fell into their own worlds. Susan was quite surprised to see that her brother could engage in a long conversation with a stranger. By the moment she came around and stopped them, they had already talked for a long time.

"Brother, here are your favorite Buffalo wings," said Susan as she placed a wingette onto Jacob's plate.

Jacob responded and resumed eating again.

"Hey, why haven't you told me why I can't do it yet?" asked Seth as he refused to let the topic sink.

This time, Jacob did not reply to him anymore.

"Hey, hello. Anybody in there? Why can't you give me a response? Don't act so high and mighty just because you're very good at coding. Let me tell you something. I'm also somebody in information technology. That year, I..."

Seth moved his chair closer to Jacob and began telling him his story. He did not believe that he could not make Jacob accept him as his apprentice today. 2

Just as Susan wanted to tell Seth that he should not waste his efforts, Julian chimed in, "Just let him be. He's a talkaholic and he won't stop talking until he finishes his story."