Use for My Talent Episode 2 Recap
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When Gu Renqi exited his car, he demanded Shi Shuangjiao return his robotic vacuum cleaner, offering to waive the repair costs and pay the full reward. Shi Shuangjiao was confused until Gu Renqi showed her a phone number, accusing her of being part of a group fraud with Shi Junjie as her accomplice. Recognizing her brother's number, Shi Shuangjiao insisted she had found the robot, not stolen it, and promised to return it intact.
She asserted that despite the difference in their positions, her integrity was not to be questioned or intimidated. Upon returning home, Shi Shuangjiao furiously confronted Shi Junjie, beating him until her best friend, Zhu Yan, intervened. Later, Shi Shuangjiao accepted a live-streaming eating job from her senior. The food was extremely spicy, but despite her sensitive stomach, she ate a large amount to not let him down.
However, while vomiting in the restroom, she overheard her senior boasting to a colleague about how he had underpaid her, calling her desperate for money and easy to dismiss with a few hundred yuan. Feigning ignorance, Shi Shuangjiao left after informing her senior that she had found a permanent job and would no longer work for him. Meanwhile, upon learning that HR had approved Shi Shuangjiao's hiring, Gu Renqi went to the department to demand they rescind the offer.
He planned to dissolve the manual cleaning department in favor of a fully automated system. However, Uncle Jin, the head of HR and a long-time colleague of Gu Renqi's grandfather, disagreed, arguing that machines could not replace human connection. Citing a prior three-month agreement, Gu Renqi conceded but declared that if the department failed to generate profit within that period, it would be disbanded, a challenge Uncle Jin accepted.
Gu Renqi’s obsession with machine-like perfection and his severe germophobia stemmed from his grandfather’s strict upbringing. His grandfather would criticize anything less than a perfect score, calling him a "dirty" and "useless thing," and had forced him to study business management over his interest in AI, fueling Gu Renqi's desire to replace human workers.
Shi Shuangjiao returned the robotic vacuum cleaner to Gu Renqi, along with the two hundred yuan she had earned, promising to repay the car repair costs gradually. Gu Renqi accepted the robot with visible disgust, immediately spraying it with disinfectant. At that moment, Shi Shuangjiao fainted from stomach pain. Gu Renqi reluctantly took her to the hospital, covering his car seats and her face with disposable disinfectant towels, showcasing his extreme aversion.
At the hospital, Gu Renqi was repeatedly mistaken for Shi Shuangjiao's boyfriend by nurses. Forced to handle her admission, he wore a protective mask and disposable gloves, demanding other patients maintain a significant distance, which led them to suspect he had a contagious disease. While searching for her ID, he found a photo of a mother and daughter in her wallet, which stirred an unfamiliar feeling of warmth in him. Her friend Zhu Yan later arrived to take her home.
Sometime after, Shi Shuangjiao had a humorous misunderstanding with her new neighbor, Lu Xian, whom she mistook for a motorcycle taxi driver. Meanwhile, seeking revenge for his sister, Shi Junjie smeared feces on the roof of Gu Renqi's car. Fortunately, Li Dongxian discovered and cleaned it before Gu Renqi saw it, though Gu Renqi still detected a faint, unsettling odor in the car. On her first day at work, Shi Shuangjiao organized her desk, placing a family photo on it.
When Gu Renqi arrived, a foul smell permeated the office, which he traced to something he had stepped on. Disgusted, he threw the shoe away and went to his private office to change. Unaware, Shi Shuangjiao entered to thank him for the hospital trip. Both were flustered, but she casually tried to ease his embarrassment by mentioning that the men in her family often walked around shirtless.
As she left, she pointed out that he had misbuttoned his shirt, and he rejected her offer to clean his shoe. Later, while washing his hands, Gu Renqi overheard colleagues gossiping about him ironically stepping in trash. When the person exited the restroom, he saw it was Shi Shuangjiao, wearing headphones. This strengthened his suspicion that she was deliberately orchestrating these events, including her fainting spell.
He was about to call HR to fire her but remembered the three-month agreement with Uncle Jin. When the celebrity Wang Qianqian arrived for an interview, Gu Renqi, seeing Shi Shuangjiao cleaning his office, made pointed remarks about people who use deceitful means to get ahead and his disdain for those who expect to gain without effort. Shi Shuangjiao, however, seemed completely absorbed in her work and oblivious to his comments.
Later, while she was cleaning outside a laboratory, Gu Renqi observed her from inside. He accidentally stepped on a mechanism that caused a glass barrier to retract. Startled by his sudden appearance, Shi Shuangjiao stumbled backward and fell into a bucket of water.
