I Can View Character Attributes - Chapter 21

Chapter 21: Programmer

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

“Xia Xu, you… are you really going to give Uncle Yang an eight thousand yuan salary?”

After Yang Bowen left, Tang Youxin felt a little dizzy.

This was a salary of eight thousand yuan, a figure that she didn’t even dare to imagine.

Eight thousand yuan a month meant an annual salary of more than ninety thousand yuan, close to a hundred thousand yuan. That was a lot of money. Her life goal was probably nothing more than this.

But all of this was the salary of a middle-aged uncle that she had casually recruited. What was more ridiculous was that this salary was paid by her classmate, and even by a classmate whose family background was worse than her.

All of this felt like a dream—in fact, she had already pinched her tender waist several times.

“Of course, Youxin, you have helped me a lot this time.”

Xia Xu’s face was still full of excitement. He couldn’t help but pinch the little white flower’s cheeks.

A monthly salary of eight thousand yuan was enough to convince an ultimate talent like Yang Bowen to work for him. This was much more exciting than picking up antiques.

“Uncle Yang is that great?”

Tang Youxin shyly broke free from Xia Xu’s demonic hand. Her face turned red from embarrassment, and she quickly changed the topic.

“Of course he’s amazing. Didn’t I say just now that he is definitely a super genius in detective work. Forget about a monthly salary of eight thousand, even paying him eighty thousand is worth the money.”

The more Xia Xu looked at the little white flower, the happier he was. He couldn’t help but want to continue playing tricks with his hands, but he remembered that their relationship was not that close, so he restrained himself.

Seemingly sensing that Xia Xu was eager to play more tricks, Tang Youxin took half a step back shyly, but she couldn’t contain her curiosity in the end. “But isn’t this the first time you and Uncle Yang have met? Do you really know so much just by observing?”

“Didn’t I tell you before that I am the best at fortune-telling? In short, I know how to read fortunes, and I can tell the talents of others with my fingers.”

Xia Xu told the truth.

Unfortunately, she didn’t believe it the last time and this time, Tang Youxin obviously treated him as talking nonsense, but the ‘observation’ ability he said just now was more convincing.

“I’m serious.”

Tang Youxin’s lips trembled. She hesitated a few times, but in the end, she couldn’t help but speak again. “You… You said at noon that I’m also very talented. Can you tell what my talent is? How can you tell?”

No one would not want to become better. Xia Xu’s words to Yang Bowen just now made her curious and hopeful.

Of course, the main reason was because of Xia Xu’s decisive behavior. That was a salary of eight thousand yuan a month. No one would give out that much money just for a joke, right?

Xia Xu was obviously confident in his judgment. In this case, maybe what he said this afternoon was true.

Holding on to this hope, she looked at Xia Xu nervously, her hand subconsciously twisting the corner of her shirt.

Looking at that look of anticipation, even an old-fashioned and honest to a fault person would be willing to tell a white lie.

Moreover, there was no need to lie.

“Of course, what I said to Youxin before is true.”

Xia Xu patted the little white flower’s head dotingly. The latter, who was looking forward to the answer, did not avoid it. In fact, she was waiting for the verdict nervously.

Xia Xu realized that he had subconsciously reached out his demonic hand again, so he pretended to be natural and quickly retracted it. He said, “Youxin, don’t you realize that your logical thinking is actually very good? Moreover, your math results are always full marks.”

It might be difficult to deduce the effect from the cause, but it was easy to find the cause from the effect. Just like what he said to Yang Bowen, based on their talents, he could naturally infer some of their daily characteristics.

After all, they had four or five-star talents, so their characteristics and advantages would be relatively strong in daily life. However, because he had not come into contact with related occupational skills, they would often perform poorly, making it difficult to be noticed and discovered.

“Logical thinking? Am I suitable to be a detective as well?”

After Tang Youxin heard Xia Xu’s words, she looked back at herself. Just like Yang Bowen just now, her eyes lit up.

After thinking about Xia Xu opening a detective company and recruiting Uncle Yang, everything seemed to be clear. But soon after, she was a little distressed. “But what’s the use of mathematics? Do detectives also need to use mathematics?”

“Who told you to be a detective?”

Xia Xu knocked her forehead and said angrily, “Mathematics is the foundation of all science. No subject can be separated from Mathematics. In addition, your logical thinking is very good, so the most suitable thing is to learn computer skills and become a programmer.”

“Ah… programmer? I’m a girl, can I be a programmer…”

Tang Youxin was a little disappointed and a little hesitant.

Truthfully speaking, she had never been exposed to computers since she was a child. She had only taken two basic computer classes after entering high school, but the basic computer classes were basically just for them to play. After a few classes, the other students would enjoy their games, while she would only browse the web pages.

After the second year of high school, there was no such course. The basic computer teacher was weaker than the physical education teacher, and he was on a long period of sick leave with the music and art teachers.

Therefore, it could be said that she had no foundation in computers, nor was she interested in them.

Although she had a five-star programming talent, she did not have the potential destiny to be a programmer.

According to Xia Xu’s understanding of his own abilities, the potential destiny should be actually split into two types, destiny and potential.

The former described destiny like fortune-telling, such as being a kingdom-toppling beauty and bringing fortune to her husband, or maybe even a jinx, a noble person, or an aristocrat. The latter meant having the ‘potential to become someone’.

This potential did not necessarily correspond to one’s talent. It was more about personality, consciousness, lucky chances, social class, and many other aspects that were inclined to one’s own subjective will. Most of the time, it was the occupations of various professions.

Of course, there were exceptions, such as thieves, criminals, and outlaws, but these could also be classified as occupations to a certain extent.

The first person he checked after awakening his ability, Su Yu, had a two-star literature talent, but he did not become a master of literature. He had no medical talent, but he could become a mediocre doctor. From this, it could be seen that talent and potential were not directly related. If one had talent, they might not have developed it, but if one did not have talent, they could work hard and make up for their shortcomings.

Tang Youxin did not have the potential destiny to be a programmer, which meant that she basically had no such inclinations or preferences, and her future was unlikely to follow this path.

However, she didn’t seem to have any other ‘potential’. Her beauty and fortune was only her destiny.

This was a little strange. Other people only had potential without a destiny, but she was the opposite.

Xia Xu had some guesses about this. Firstly, she didn’t have a job to begin with. After all, she was a drop dead gorgeous beauty. She might even marry into a wealthy family in the future.

It was also possible to be an ordinary housewife. After all, he had yet to see any potential destiny of being a housewife. Moreover, with her fortune to husband’s destiny, whoever married her would most likely get rich and continue to let her be a wealthy woman.

The second possibility was that Tang Youxin did not have a strong and obvious subjective tendency to begin with. Either she was in a certain profession, but her performance was poor, so she did not have the potential to reach the rating of ‘1 Star’.

Using Su Yu as a reference, being a doctor without talent showed that even though the talent was not shown on the status, it did not mean that there was no talent. Perhaps he had not reached the level of being able to enter the star rating, which was equivalent to being a second or third-rate doctor.

The last possibility was the worst, and it was also the possibility Xia Xu hoped would never come true—to die midway..