Chapter 83 [83] inspired her career ambition.

Shen Yu took a chocolate from the trunk, which looked imported.

Tang Yuanyuan held him in her arms and said two dry words: "Thank you."

"Can I go now?"

Shen Yu knew she was doing this on purpose to irritate him. "Miss Tang, has anyone ever told you that you're kind of cute when you're being naughty?"

Tang Yuanyuan gave him a sick look and turned away.

She did this on purpose, distributing chocolates to the students passing by. After walking a hundred meters, she had distributed all the chocolates, not leaving a single one for herself. Then she raised the box provocatively with her back to Shen Yu and threw it into the trash can.

Shen Yu leaned against the car door, touched his nose, and was in a bad mood.

The sad thing is, he brought this upon himself.

Tang Yuanyuan was not affected by Shen Yu's mood. If she was affected, it was because it further stimulated her career ambition.

She wants to make this cake shop bigger and stronger under Shen Yu's nose.

How long did he think he could control himself?

Oh.

The decoration style Liu Lijuan chose was a cool and dark one, which looked like the grand style of a five-star hotel. She felt that she had to choose something different.

But she herself had no specific idea of ​​what it would look like. She just knew that she wanted to choose one that would amaze her at first sight.

She had dinner with Li Mu in the evening, but she was not satisfied with any of the plans proposed by the decoration company.

Li Mu: "These are all very beautiful, why are you still not satisfied? So what kind do you want?"

This was not Tang Yuanyuan's first visit to Shanghai, and she was shocked by the sight of such a nice high-end hotel.

When she thought of this old incident, cold sweat suddenly broke out on her forehead.

She and Li Mu actually both came from small places, and had some shortcomings in terms of aesthetic taste in decoration. If she had not seen Liu Lijuan's decoration plan, she would probably have been very satisfied.

Looking back on this old incident now, she suddenly realized that this kind of ignorance is actually very dangerous. It is another world that you are not aware of, but you are still self-satisfied.

These types of decoration are actually very common. Compared with Liu Lijuan's plan, it is no wonder that she is so confident.

In order to make up for this shortcoming, I feel that I should read more first.

So the next day, Tang Yuanyuan took the bus to the most prosperous place and checked every small shop, focusing on cake shops.

However, at that time, most ordinary small shops did not have a deep understanding of things like exquisite decoration. After running around for a whole day, Tang Yuanyuan did not see the type of style she wanted.

I went to the library to look for books again in the evening, but cameras were still high-end products at that time, let alone books of this kind, which were not available at all.

Tang Yuanyuan could only return to the dormitory disappointed. On the way, she passed by a public telephone booth and called Shen Yu back as usual.

"Hello, Mr. Shen."

"I arrived a full twenty minutes early today." Shen Yu held the mobile phone with his slender fingers, pressing it against his ear, as if this would allow him to be closer to the person opposite him. "I feel a sense of luck and happiness."

Tang Yuanyuan stabbed him in the face, "Mr. Shen loves to say sweet words. It seems Miss Song is obsessed with you because of this. She's even been reluctant to let go of you even after the engagement was broken off."

"I haven't said anything sweet to her," Shen Yu said, turning the cell phone around and turning over in bed. His dark pajamas slid up a little, pressing against the quilt. "I've only said that to you."

Tang Yuanyuan: "Do you think I believe it?"

"You don't sound like you believe it," Shen Yu said. "I'm very distressed. What can I do to make you believe me? I didn't say it."

Tang Yuanyuan: "I just can't believe it."

Shen Yu: "It seems that I am more wronged than Dou E. She may have her day of vindication, but I have no hope of redress in this lifetime."

Tang Yuanyuan just wanted to say something to him, and didn't want to waste time with him: "Goodbye."

Shen Yu sighed softly into the phone and said "goodbye" softly to the dead cell phone.

In the dormitory, Xu Dandan held the basin and looked at Tang Yuanyuan in surprise and said, "I thought you wouldn't come back tonight."

Tang Yuanyuan put down the water cup, "Also?"

Wang Meng and Xu Dandan smiled at each other. "This man who has indulged in sex has no self-control. Look at Jiang Ling. She asked me to sign for her again tonight. That's the third time this week."

Tang Yuanyuan repeated in confusion: "Eating meat?"

Wang Meng covered her mouth in surprise: "No way, you and your boyfriend are so innocent? Last Saturday..."

Xu Dandan: "Did you really go to your relative's house?"

Tang Yuanyuan wanted to throw the towel in their faces: "What else!"

She was so angry that she picked up her toiletries and went to the bathroom to wash up.

Wang Meng and Xu Dandan wanted to tease him even more, so they followed him and said, "Plato?"

"Tang Yuanyuan, are you conservative, or is your boyfriend still innocent and uninformed?"

"That doesn't make sense. Men talk about this and even compete with each other. Even if you haven't eaten pork, you've seen pigs run. There's no way your boyfriend doesn't know that."

Tang Yuanyuan was concentrating on brushing her teeth. Her relationship with Li Mu was fake and they were not really in love.

These two people are just overthinking it.

But what exactly was Shen Yu thinking?

"Men, when you're in love, do you need that?"

Wang Meng opened her mouth in surprise: "No way? You guys are really so innocent?"

"I didn't expect that your little boyfriend, who looks so naughty, is so loving. He's such a good man."

Wang Meng's words gave Tang Yuanyuan a reminder. Can Shen Yu really keep his promise?

Tang Yuanyuan realized that her trust in him had collapsed. Perhaps she shouldn't trust Shen Yu too much.

Tomorrow is Saturday. She originally thought that she would just show up in the evening as a formality, but now she has changed her mind.

You should go in the morning and return at noon. The evening is the dangerous time.

So, after Tang Yuanyuan had breakfast early in the morning, she took a taxi to Shen Yu’s small Western-style building.

She wore the simplest jeans, shirt, and Warrior shoes, had a simple ponytail, and carried a backpack, which even contained a fruit knife.

Not dressed up at all.

A middle-aged man whom Tang Yuanyuan had never seen before opened the iron gate for her: "I am the master's butler, you can call me Uncle Hua."

Tang Yuanyuan nodded politely: "Hello, Uncle Hua."

Hua Shu was polite in his English way: "The gentleman is in the greenhouse. I'll take you there."

Shen Yu was wearing a white T-shirt, black trousers, and knee-high rubber shoes. He was squatting in the flowers, weeding, with a little dirt on his jade-white fingers.

He waved his hand, signaling Uncle Hua to bring some fruit plates over. He then looked Tang Yuanyuan up and down, a gentle smile on his lips: "Come over? I thought you would come in the evening, a bit surprised. Have you had breakfast?"

Tang Yuanyuan gripped the shoulder strap of her backpack uncomfortably. "We've eaten. What are we going to do today?"

Shen Yu: "What are your plans?"

Tang Yuanyuan: "Isn't it the day you specified?"

Shen Yu picked up the shovel with amusement: "Just because I specify something, does that mean there must be an arrangement?"

Tang Yuanyuan: "Whatever you want."

Shen Yu put the small shovel aside, patted the dirt off his hands, rinsed them under the faucet, wiped off the water stains with a towel, and motioned Tang Yuanyuan to sit down.

He sat down on the other side and asked, "Tell me, what is your understanding of dating?"

Tang Yuanyuan: "I don't know."

Shen Yu: "What about your classmates?"

Tang Yuanyuan: "Eat, watch movies, go shopping."

Shen Yu: "Are you interested in these?"

Tang Yuanyuan: "Does it matter whether I'm interested or not?"

"Of course it's important," Shen Yu said. "Whether it's a relationship or a marriage, I believe the core is respect. You should choose something that both parties enjoy. Of course, a certain amount of compromise is also essential."

Tang Yuanyuan found it funny: "Respect, do you think you respect me?"

Shen Yu: "I admit that the way I forced you to fall in love with me was not glorious, nor respectful."

"That's the only solution I have. Deep down, I respect you very much. I hope you understand."

Tang Yuanyuan said coldly, "Mr. Shen, you are too good at making sophistry. I can't argue with you."

He sighed helplessly and stood up from his chair. "My plan this morning is to trim these flowers. I haven't thought about what I want to do in the afternoon yet. What about you? What do you want to do?"

Tang Yuanyuan: "I want to go back to school."

Shen Yu: "What are you doing back at school?"

Tang Yuanyuan: "Reading, studying, do you want to respect me?"

Shen Yu had no doubts. If he dared to say yes, Tang Yuanyuan would walk away without even looking back. "I have some books in my study. Pick one out. You can read while I weed. Is that okay?"

Tang Yuanyuan originally thought that the date Shen Yu arranged was just about going somewhere to have fun, but she found reading a book much more acceptable than playing with him: "Okay."

Shen Yu has a library that is like a small library. Tang Yuanyuan was shocked by the books, which included all kinds of books.

Shen Yu asked: "What kind of show do you want to watch?"

Tang Yuanyuan: "I'm busy decorating my cake shop lately. Do you have any books on this?"

Shen Yu took the lead and walked ahead, saying, "China lags behind in the field of decoration. When I was abroad, I developed a habit of photography and took some representative photos. They're quite good. Perhaps you can refer to them. There are also two theoretical books, all in English, with some professional terms, which may be a bit difficult for you to understand."

Tang Yuanyuan: "It's okay, just show it to me."

Shen Yu pushed the ladder forward twice, stepped onto the top level, took down three photo albums, and then found two English books on the next level.

Tang Yuanyuan carried the book all the way back to the greenhouse. There was a fruit plate, grapefruit tea and beautiful little cakes on the rattan chair.

Shen Yu picked up a small shovel and squatted down in the flowers to weed and trim the branches.

Tang Yuanyuan felt quite comfortable sitting here alone. She opened the photo album and ate some fruit.

Shen Yu is very good at taking photos. Tang Yuanyuan doesn’t understand elements like color matching and composition, but she can feel the beauty at a glance.

Log cabins in the forest, windmills, ancient castles, churches, exquisite bars, and small cute snacks.

Tang Yuanyuan was attracted by a fairy-tale-like picture of a red-walled and white-tiled house.

She suddenly had an inspiration. The cake had a fairy-tale feel, and the decoration style she wanted should be similar.

A polar composition of large clouds and blue sky caught her eye.

Can her cake shop make a house that looks like a cloud?

The pure white house, as sticky as snow, with the roof painted in blue triangle, a very bright sea blue, is a beautiful sight.

Tang Yuanyuan had unknowingly finished reading the three photo albums. She had an overall sense of the outside and even thought out the details inside.

Looking through those professional decoration books again, she really seemed to be struggling.

Shen Yu had also finished weeding by this time. "Can I help you translate?"

Tang Yuanyuan thought it would be a good idea to use the knowledge he taught her to defeat his cake shop: "Then I'll trouble you."

Shen Yu's standard British voice makes his reading smooth and pleasant. When he talks about some unpopular knowledge points, he will stop to explain to Tang Yuanyuan, "...Retro style, or minimalism, these two styles are very British." He flipped through two representative pictures, "This one with simple lines and mainly dark colors is minimalism. This retro style with a deep sense of history is the other extreme..."

Before we knew it, half the morning had passed and Uncle Hua came to remind us that it was time for lunch.

Shen Yu asked, "Just eat something at home and rest for half an hour after eating, is that okay?"

Of course Tang Yuanyuan had no objection, she didn't want to run outside at all.

When Tang Yuanyuan put down her chopsticks, Shen Yu asked, "You can take a nap in the room we were in last time. It will be more effective."

Tang Yuanyuan didn't want to sleep here anymore and shook her head: "I'm not sleepy."

Shen Yu tucked his lips with a handkerchief and told Uncle Hua, "Prepare the tea utensils. I'll make some tea."

Tang Yuanyuan is not interested in tea.

Shen Yu said, "You want to do big business. In China, the network of personal relationships is based on two tables: one is the tea table and the other is the wine table. Both are very useful places."

"I'll teach you, just watch carefully."

It was the first time that Tang Yuanyuan realized that tea leaves could be prepared with more than just a glass of hot water, but could also be prepared with so many small tools.

There are so many tea-drinking utensils.

Shen Yu introduced them to Tang Yuanyuan one by one: "For brewing tea, different teas require different tea sets. Pu'er, Oolong, black tea, and old white tea are best paired with purple clay. Purple clay is made from purple clay fired in Yixing. This special clay is used in Yixing. The teapots fired from it have a double-pore structure and absorb tea juice very well. Teapots that have been used for a long time have their own tea fragrance. However, purple clay teapots should be used one for each tea, otherwise the flavors will easily mix..."

Tang Yuanyuan likes things that she is not familiar with and listens to them with great interest.

Shen Yu's slender bony fingers pinched the small purple clay teacup and placed the first cup of tea in front of Tang Yuanyuan: "Try it and see if it's different from what you drank before."

The tea soup is a clear light yellow in color. Just by smelling it, Tang Yuanyuan can feel a refreshing fragrance, like the refreshed leaves after the rain, or the fragrance of young grass.

Tang Yuanyuan felt the fragrance of tea for the first time.

No wonder I didn’t like it before. It turned out that the tea was not right and the brewing method was not right either.

Shen Yu glanced at the watch on his wrist. Exactly half an hour had passed. "Now, shall I translate the book for you again?"

Tang Yuanyuan nodded.

Both books were not thick, only about 30 pages. Shen Yu finished reading and said: "For English, a sense of language is very important. I can't relax just because I got into university. I have to persist in listening every day."

Tang Yuanyuan nodded: "I understand."

Shen Yu checked his watch and stood up from the table. "Come with me to the study."

Shen Yu took two steps and turned back, but Tang Yuanyuan was standing there motionless, looking alert.

He was so angry that he laughed: "I asked you to come to the study to listen to the BBC, what were you thinking?"

What is the BBC?

Tang Yuanyuan didn't understand, but she really lacked the basic knowledge in this area.

Shen Yu turned on the radio and explained, "The BBC is the most mainstream and authoritative news media in the UK and one of the largest broadcasters in the world. The main characteristic of the business world is the information gap. If you want to stay sharp in the business world, it's very important to listen to the BBC on time every day. During daylight saving time, the time difference between the UK and ours is 8 hours, and during winter time it's 7 hours. It's almost 8 o'clock there right now."

On the radio, after the rustling sound, the host's standard British English came.

Tang Yuanyuan pricked up her ears and listened quietly, but found that she still couldn't understand some sentences. Their English seemed to be different from the one on the tape and in the book.

Shen Yu explained to her, "Our country's English is quite formal, and foreigners generally don't speak that way. Just keep listening and get used to it. There's no rush, just take your time."

Tang Yuanyuan nodded: "Thank you, I understand."

Shen Yu: "It's a very pleasant day today. Now, shall we ask the driver to take you home?"

It is early winter now, and it is a rainy day. It just started raining outside, and the night is getting darker, but it is actually only half past three.

It's not too late.

Tang Yuanyuan was surprised: "Go back? Just like that?"

She had never heard of anyone dating someone who was in class!

She attended classes for almost half the day.

Shen Yu was so angry that he laughed: "Do you really think I'm a monster?"

"Ms. Tang, I hope you understand that I asked you to date me not to please me."

"This is my understanding of love. We just do what we like to do in our daily lives. Unless it's a special day, we'll probably spend our time like this in the future."

"So, please keep your heart at ease. I won't force you or do anything to you."

I have to say, these words really hit Tang Yuanyuan's heart!

If we were to say what Tang Yuanyuan envied most about Shen Yu, the first was his money, and the second was his rich knowledge and experience, which she particularly wanted to absorb.

This is no different from before, right?

Why do you have to add an emotional tone?

At least, Shen Yu gave her a very strong feeling during their last conversation, and she thought he was going to do something.

"Did you do that on purpose?" She thought for a moment before finally understanding. "Last time, you deliberately described yourself as awful, and I became wary of you. But now, you've become that gentleman again, refined and thoughtful, showing the side of you that I respect the most."

"This is completely different from the date I had imagined, so I admire you again. Are you planning to boil the frog in warm water like this?"

"I have to say, your methods are very clever."

"But I won't change my mind because of this."

"I still don't want to."

Shen Yu: "Do you really have to think so badly of me?"

"Can't I just be really scared?"

"Or, are you saying this on purpose to make me hate you?"

Tang Yuanyuan: "Don't you think that what you did was unfair to Miss Song? Don't you think you did something wrong?"

Shen Yu: "I never felt that what I did was right."

Tang Yuanyuan felt like she couldn't get through to him anymore: "Can I make a request?"

Shen Yu: "You say."

Tang Yuanyuan: "I hope that bet has a time limit. I can't keep being so unclear with you."

Shen Yu thought for a moment and said, "Before you graduate from university."

Tang Yuanyuan: "Two years, my maximum limit is two years."

Shen Yu: "Okay."

Uncle Hua had already prepared the car and umbrella, and Tang Yuanyuan got in the driver's car and returned to school.

Uncle Hua helped Shen Yu write, using a jade ruler to stretch out the rice paper and flatten it.

Shen Yu picked up the ink pen, wrote the word "quiet", and looked at it silently for half an hour.

Uncle Hua still finds it incredible. After all, he watched Shen Yu grow up. He was the child that his parents talked about. He never had a rebellious period and was always at the top of his class. During the summer vacation of high school, he followed his father to learn how to handle official business. Mr. Shen never worried about him at all.

"Sir, I find it hard to imagine that you could endure the pain of love."

Shen Yu: "Are you laughing at me in your heart?"

Uncle Hua: "I dare not, I just think that this little girl has a lot of personality."

Shen Yu laughed at himself: "Maybe this is really my karma."

Tang Yuanyuan used pen and paper to draw the pattern she wanted in a notebook and handed it to Li Mu. Because the store was relatively small, she asked Li Mu to order some smaller furniture so that it would match the exterior decoration and have an overall cute cake-like style.

Li Mu was in charge of the decoration and recruitment of employees, while Tang Yuanyuan asked Qian Tingting to look for raw material suppliers. She was a frugal person and was very meticulous in this regard.

As for Tang Yuanyuan herself, she was busy with the group's bakery while attending school. In her free time, she took Zhu Yue to dozens of cake shops and five-star hotels to try all the desserts in other people's shops. Zhu Yue worked hard in the rental house for a month, and Tang Yuanyuan finally ordered the shop's flagship product.

At this time, the decoration of the cake shop was almost completed.

Tang Yuanyuan named the cake shop: Yunduo Honeyland.

It looks very much like the surface of a cake and fits the decoration of my store.

Liu Lijuan directly used her English name and named the cake shop sweet.

In Yunduo Mijing, except Zhu Yue and Li Mu, no one knows that the boss behind the store is Tang Yuanyuan. Li Mu also hired a trusted brother or sister as the store manager, so Liu Lijuan has no idea that Tang Yuanyuan is behind Yunduo Mijing.

She was very dissatisfied with Yunduo Mijing: "I don't know where this country bumpkin came from. He opened a business next to mine and took my business away. He didn't even notice how powerful our background is. I want to see how he dies."

Zhang Li agreed, "Of course. We have the expertise and funding. Everyone in our school will definitely support our own project."

Tang Yuanyuan thought to herself, sorry, I'm the one who's here to compete with you for the market.

The next day, the day when Sweet opened the store, Liu Lijuan held a grand opening ceremony. As an entity project incubated by this year's Startup Cup, several professors from the department came to participate. Several senior executives from several companies that sponsored the project also came. Only the big boss Shen Yu came in person to cut the ribbon.

Tang Yuanyuan's job was to perform the etiquette of holding wedding silk. The weather was already very cold at that time, so she put on a down jacket over her cheongsam for socializing and pretended not to see Shen Yu coming.

Shen Yu got out of the car and stopped beside her.

"Cloud Honeyland?"

His eyes narrowed slightly behind his glasses: "Who opened this shop?"