Chapter 67 Family members, we have a dog!
As November arrives, the weather turns cooler.
Chen Ci finally finished drawing the birthday illustration for Zhou Mingye, and he used it to make merchandise. The original IP project of Pupu Paradise was also officially approved, and Chen Ci's car finally arrived.
But she still hasn't gone to learn to drive.
Zhou Shilin liked her post on WeChat Moments about buying a new car and then commented, "When are you going to post your driver's license?"
Chen Ci: "..."
Now, not only her father and her boss are urging her to learn to drive, but Zhou Shilin has also started urging her to learn to drive.
Since everyone says she's a director and her status is different, it's not unreasonable to assign her a driver, right?
"Why don't you want to learn to drive?" Zhou Shilin asked Chen Ci, who was drinking soup, while they were having dinner at the table.
Chen Ci put down her bowl, coughed, and said, "It's not that I'm unwilling, but I'm just too busy with work right now. As you know, we're working on an original IP project, which is just starting out and is still immature in many aspects. Almost everything has to go through me first. The new department staff hasn't been fully recruited yet, and I'm holding multiple positions..."
She rattled off a whole bunch of things, but before she could finish, Zhou Shilin interrupted her: "Keep it simple."
Chen Ci: "I'm lazy."
"..." Okay, that's certainly concise enough.
"So you're planning to let your car just gather dust in the garage?"
"How could that be? Your garage is so clean, how could it be dusty!"
"..." Zhou Shilin picked up the bowl, took a sip of soup, and said nothing more.
Chen Ci ate a few bites of food, then looked up at Zhou Shilin across from her.
Zhou Shilin said, "Speak your mind."
Chen Ci smiled at him, with a hint of ingratiation: "President Zhou, why don't you assign me a driver? That way, my car won't be gathering dust in the garage."
Zhou Shilin thought for a moment: "Providing a driver for the director should also be the responsibility of your General Manager Wu."
"Mr. Wu doesn't even have a driver."
"..." Then he's in a terrible situation. "Even your CEO Wu doesn't have a driver, and you're expected to have one? Is that reasonable?"
Chen Ci: "..."
That makes some sense, but it seems like I'm flattering Mr. Wu a bit.
She pursed her lips, ate a few more bites of food, and asked Zhou Shilin indistinctly, "Did you learn to drive back then?"
"...Otherwise what?"
"Haha." Chen Ci laughed awkwardly twice. "So even President Zhou has to learn to drive properly."
"...President Zhou is also a law-abiding citizen."
"Okay." Chen Ci chewed and swallowed the food in her mouth. "Did you learn to drive in college?"
"Yes, I'll start learning when I'm old enough."
"Oh...did the driving school you went out of business?"
"..." Zhou Shilin looked up at her, "Want to retake the driving school I used to attend?"
“Yes, that’s right.” Chen Ci nodded. “President Zhou’s selection is definitely reliable.”
"Okay, but the coach suggests you change to another one. My previous coach wasn't good enough."
"..." Is it really because the coach is incompetent?
Shen Ci had no way of verifying Zhou Shilin's coaching skills, because Zhou Shilin quickly helped her contact a new coach. The coaching was one-on-one, and Shen Ci simply made an appointment with him every week and went directly to the appointment.
Chen Ci nodded in satisfaction: "It seems quite humane."
Zhou Shilin said, "I can do it by paying more money."
"..." That is indeed the case, humanized service.
After Zhou Shilin took action, Chen Ci quickly learned to ride a car. Perhaps because of her previous experience riding a motorcycle, learning to drive a car was much easier than Chen Ci had imagined.
Every time she went to the driving school, Zhou Shilin would drive her there and back. To save time on the road, the two of them even moved to the house closest to the driving school on weekends.
Chen Ci immediately understood the purpose of Mr. Zhou having so many houses—he didn't need the mountains to come to him; he could come to the mountains himself. :)
On the way home from driving school that day, Zhou Shilin mentioned the idea of getting a dog to her: "A friend's dog just had puppies. He knows we want a dog, so he specifically asked me if I wanted one, saying he could give it to us."
"Really?" Chen Ci had been so busy lately, dedicating her limited free time to the driving school, that she had completely forgotten about the dog. "What breed is it?"
"Labrador".
"What a coincidence?"
"Yes, he sent me a video. You can see it for yourself."
"Okay." Zhou Shilin's phone was in the car. Chen Ci took it from him, entered the password to unlock it, and asked, "Is it on WeChat?"
"Yes, I've pinned it."
“Okay.” Zhou Shilin only had two pinned friends on WeChat: Chen Ci and the friend he mentioned. Chen Ci opened the video in the chat window and saw a newborn puppy.
"My goodness, they're so cute!" Chen Ci looked at the puppies in the video and wished she could reach into the screen and pat their heads. "They're even cuter than Xiao Yong's!"
Xiao Yong was the boy they met in the elevator that day, the one holding the Labrador.
Zhou Shilin said, "All animals are cutest when they are young."
Chen Ci thought for a moment and quickly found an example to refute him: "Humans are not like that. When our goddaughter was born, even her own mother thought she was ugly."
Zhou Shilin: "..."
Human babies are indeed not very good-looking when they are first born.
"They'll grow out of it when they're older; early childhood is the cutest time."
"But they are also the most annoying." Just look at how Wu Junnan and Pupu often break down and complain on their WeChat Moments, and you'll know how annoying human babies can be.
"For humans, life, from birth to death, is actually quite troublesome."
Chen Ci: "..."
This is not just reasonable, it's philosophical.
"It has to be President Zhou who has the most insightful perspective."
"You flatter me."
Chen Ci lowered her head and continued watching the video on her phone: "But this dog is such a good breed, it could fetch a lot of money, right? Did your friend really give it to us for free?"
"Well, my friend isn't short of money."
"..." I'm sorry, she underestimated the value of the word "friend" from President Zhou.
"You don't have driving lessons tomorrow, so why don't you come with me to his house this afternoon?"
"Oh, can I take the puppy home tomorrow?"
"The puppy was just born not long ago, it's still too small, let's wait a bit longer." Zhou Shilin slowed down and stopped the car at a red light ahead. "Going to see it for yourself is more direct than watching a video."
Chen Ci nodded: "That's right."
At this point, she abruptly changed the subject: "But I only recently realized that, Mr. Zhou, your driving is really well-regulated and standard."
"..." Zhou Shilin paused for a moment, "Is this a side effect of learning to drive?"
"Yes, I even dream about driving."
Zhou Shilin raised an eyebrow slightly: "What kind of driving?"
"...Of course, I mean the proper kind of driving!"
Zhou Shilin chuckled almost inaudibly, looking at her and saying, "Yeah, if you want to make some inappropriate jokes, just come to me. Don't even dream about it."
"..." Okay.
"By the way, the dog cafe I took you to last time was owned by this friend."
"Oh, that's perfect, he can also teach us some dog-raising knowledge."
The next afternoon, Chen Ci and Zhou Shilin went to their friend's villa. It was clear that this friend loved dogs; as soon as the car drove in, two large dogs rushed over.
"Prince One, Prince Two, come back!" Someone called out to them from behind, and the two dogs obediently ran back. Chen Ci looked out the car window at the two big dogs running outside and said to Zhou Shilin beside her, "I've finally met someone who's even more casual about naming things than me."
She had always felt that the name "Shen Feifei" was a bit too casual, but after hearing such amazing names as "Prince One, Prince Two" today, she felt that she had already shown a lot of literary talent by not giving herself a name like "Chen Ci Er".
Zhou Shilin chuckled and said to her, "Prince Er is Labrador's father."
“Yes, I can tell.” Chen Ci nodded. “Because the other one is a husky.”
At this point, Chen Ci turned to look at Zhou Shilin in disbelief: "Someone actually calls himself the Husky Prince."
This is true love.
After the two got out of the car, Zhou Shilin's friend came to greet them personally, accompanied by the Prince Husky: "Miss Chen, I've heard so much about you. It's great to finally meet you in person today."
Chen Ci glanced at Zhou Shilin beside her and said with a smile, "Does President Zhou often mention me to you?"
“I knew it when he took you to my dog cafe last time.” The other person said, glancing at Zhou Shilin as well. “But when I asked him, he wouldn’t say anything. He’s keeping it a secret.”
Zhou Shilin coughed lightly, interrupting their conversation: "Let me introduce you, this is my friend, Shi An."
"Hello, Mr. Shi." Chen Ci extended her hand and shook hands with him.
"Come in and have a seat." Shi An led the two of them into the living room. "The puppies are in their nursery downstairs with their parents. Would you like to sit in the living room first, or go see the dogs?"
Zhou Shilin said, "Let's look at the dog first; she can't sit still right now."
Shi An chuckled and led them to the puppy's room. Shi An's villa had several pet rooms, and this one was a special baby room built for the puppy, its furnishings even more luxurious than many human baby rooms.
Several puppies were nursing around their mother, who lay on the ground, looking utterly dejected.
It seems that not only humans, but dogs also find it troublesome to take care of children.
Noticing someone coming in, Prince Er, who was lying next to the mother dog, suddenly stood up and ran towards them.
When Chen Ci saw it coming, she instinctively hid behind Zhou Shilin. Zhou Shilin turned around and looked at her, asking, "What's wrong?"
Chen Ci asked, "Does it know we're here to take its child?"
"...I guess it just wants to play with you."
Shi An, who was standing next to him, patted Wang Zi Er's head and began to lecture him: "You're a father now, can't you be a little more mature? Spend more time with your child and stop going to see Wang Zi Yi all the time."
Prince Er lay back down next to the dog cage. Shi An said to Zhou Shilin and Shen Ci, "The puppy is now half a month old, its eyes are open, and it weighs about two pounds."
When Chen Ci heard that the puppy's eyes had opened, she went to check them out. Labradors have big, round, and adorable eyes, but among all those big eyes, Chen Ci noticed one with squinty eyes: "Is that puppy developing a bit slower? Its eyes haven't opened yet."
Shi An looked at the puppy she was talking about, reached out and picked it up from its mother: "It just fell asleep while eating."
Chen Ci: "..."
Why don't we get this one? I feel like we're destined to be together.
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Author's Note: The main story will conclude tomorrow, and the epilogue will begin the day after tomorrow~ [rose]
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