Chapter 16 Card Drop
The air conditioning in the private room was turned on very low.
Lu Zhouyan, wearing pants that were soaked from the trouser legs to the socks, managed to survive until the end of the dinner.
The dinner to discuss the contract ended with the outcome that Lu Zhouyan wanted.
But there was no joy on Lu Zhouyan's face.
After seeing off Mr. Meng and his secretary, Sheng Baili carefully lifted the tablecloth.
She saw Lu Zhouyan's pants that were soaked by her.
Lu Zhouyan's lower body is a pair of well-tailored black suit pants. The low-key and steady black fabric wraps around the man's slender and powerful thighs. He has long legs and strong muscles. He looks thin when dressed and muscular when undressed. After being wetted by water, the fabric sticks tightly to the skin, and the lines are more obvious.
Sheng Baili stared at his boss' thigh without blinking, his brain had gone into a state of shutdown.
[What should I do? What should I do? Xiao Baili is in trouble again.] Haicha said anxiously.
"Have you seen enough?" Lu Zhouyan opened his eyelids and looked up at her. "You can't drink, you can't resist drinking, but you eat a lot."
"Is this how you protect the president's safety?" Lu Zhouyan said.
Sheng Baili: “…”
Seeing that his secretary's brain was at a standstill, Lu Zhouyan smiled coldly.
"For a secretary who failed, you're really successful," he said.
Sheng Baili: “….”
[Oh my god, the male lead is scolding you. He said you are more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything.] Haicha exclaimed.
[Thank you, but you don’t need to translate for me.] Sheng Baili’s mind began to work slowly.
"I really don't know what special qualities you have that allowed you to enter the Lu Group." Lu Zhouyan said again.
"......." Sheng Baili remained silent for a moment, thinking about countermeasures.
"Maybe it's because I'm very brave." Sheng Baili said.
Lu Zhouyan: “….”
After all, this is a high-end restaurant and there is a shopping mall not far away. Sheng Baili quickly picked up his phone to navigate.
"Mr. Lu, it's only 200 meters walk to the Grand Bay Shopping Center. Let's go there to buy a new pair of pants." Sheng Baili said.
"Okay." Lu Zhouyan accepted the solution.
It's only a distance of 200 meters, which takes 20 seconds to jog or two to three minutes to walk.
He can bear it.
Twenty minutes later.
Lu Zhouyan, who was following Sheng Baili, could no longer bear it, "How far is it?"
As he spoke, he looked around, but he couldn't see any shopping mall, let alone the shadow of a store.
Sheng Baili: “…”
"Please be patient." Sheng Baili looked at the instructions on the navigation and said, "There are still 190 meters, General Lu."
"?" Lu Zhou Yanqi was speechless, and reached out to grab the phone from the waste secretary, "I'll take care of the navigation."
Lu Zhouyan looked at the navigation and walked in the direction shown on it. Ten minutes later, he arrived at the Greater Bay Area Shopping Center.
Sure enough, once you stray off the stupid secretary's path, every path is the right one.
The first floor of the mall is a large supermarket with many promotional areas and a large selection of men's trousers.
Lu Zhouyan seldom comes to the mall to go shopping, and his eyes paused slightly above it when he passed by.
Sheng Baili, who was very sensitive, caught the boss's gaze again. They were some trousers on sale for 99 yuan, not a well-known brand, and the material looked ordinary.
Sheng Baili touched and looked at them, and found that the workmanship was average, and some of the lines on the pants were not cut cleanly.
"Mr. Lu, the pants here are too cheap and don't suit your taste. Let's go upstairs to choose." Sheng Baili said.
"Yeah." Lu Zhouyan nodded.
So Sheng Baili followed Lu Zhouyan into a luxury store upstairs.
The pants here are made of high-quality fabrics and have a great texture. You don’t even need to touch them to tell they’re high-end products.
"Mr. Lu, this kind of pants really suits your temperament, they are generous and high-quality." She tried to understand the ways of the world and said with high emotional intelligence.
The salesgirl glanced at the two of them inconspicuously, and noticed that Lu Zhouyan was dressed modestly and had a good appearance, and her eyes suddenly lit up.
"Hello, how can I help you?" the salesgirl asked with an enthusiastic smile.
"Look at the pants." Sheng Baili said, "Our boss's pants are wet."
As he spoke, Sheng Baili pointed at Lu Zhouyan's left leg.
?
What the fuck.
Sheng Baili took a pat and really did it.
"Boss, that's it." Sheng Baili exclaimed, "Then should we still buy it?"
Lu Zhouyan: "......"
I was outside in the cold wind for half an hour. What do you think I did?
Lu Zhouyan smiled without any emotion, walked around the store, and took out a pair of trousers.
"This is it," Lu Zhouyan said, "Wrap it up."
"Yes, wrap it up." Sheng Baili also said.
Saleslady: "Okay, okay."
"Would you like to try it?" the salesgirl asked caringly.
"You can wear them when you go out, Mr. Lu. Although dried pants are good, they are stained with white water marks. New ones are still more comfortable to wear." Sheng Baili said.
"Okay." Lu Zhouyan picked up his pants and went to the locker room. "Then I'll wear them and go. Secretary Sheng, go buy the bill."
Secretary Sheng: “…?”
Buy the bill? Me?
Sheng Baili glanced at the price tag and was shocked. She blinked twice quickly and grabbed Lu Zhouyan's hand a second before he entered the locker room.
"Wait a minute, Mr. Lu." Sheng Baili said, "I suddenly think the pants sold on the first floor are also very good."
"The styles are popular and the prices are affordable. The production process is streamlined and the quality is guaranteed." Sheng Baili analyzed seriously, "They should be more comfortable to wear than these hand-sewn pants."
"Let's go to the first floor and try it, Mr. Lu?"
Lu Zhouyan: “….”
Are you only willing to spend 99 yuan on him?
"But you just said that the pants here suit my temperament," said Lu Zhouyan.
"Yes, that's right." Sheng Baili ignored him.
"But occasionally wearing down-to-earth clothes can help change the outside world's perception of you, and it's also a place for marketing," said Sheng Baili.
【Xiao Baili, awesome! 】
Lu Zhou glanced at her and said, "I am the president, not the prime minister."
"Also, the Lu Group does not need a marketing president to gain fame," he said coldly.
Sheng Baili was speechless and watched the spendthrift CEO go in and change into a new pair of pants that cost five figures.
[It's over, I'll be using these pants for nothing for a month after I buy them.] Sheng Baili said.
[Don't worry.] Haicha checked her balance, [You haven't received your salary yet, and there is not even a five-digit amount in your card.]
Sheng Baili: “….”
It makes one feel cold inside.
Sheng Baili faced the salesgirl who smiled and gestured for her to swipe the card, while she frantically sent messages to her boss.
【Poet: Mr. Lu, I cannot afford this pair of pants at the moment.】
[Poet: [Picture], please see, my balance is only that much. ]
Afraid that he couldn't see it, Sheng Baili wanted to make a voice call to remind him to check the message.
As a result, his hand shook and the video call ended. Sheng Baili hurriedly tried to hang up the phone.
Lu Zhouyan in the locker room: “=.=”
Play video?
This secretary is really poor and lustful.
Lu Zhouyan put on new trousers that were brand new and had no odor and came out.
I felt refreshed all over.
"Go and pay the bill." Lu Zhouyan held a black card between his fingertips and threw it to Secretary Sheng.
"Okay, boss." Secretary Sheng went to pay the bill.
I swiped the card to get 89,999 without any discount. Rich people are really extravagant.
But it's not her money, so it doesn't matter.
When returning the card, Lu Zhouyan heard the secretary's heartbeat.
[Hehehe, I got the full amount, and didn't let the boss pay a penny less. ]
Lu Zhouyan: “.”
"Secretary Sheng," he said, "this pair of pants is on your account. Please remember to return it to me along with all the previous expenses."
Secretary Sheng looked up: "?"
Suddenly I am in debt of 100,000. Thank you, boss.
Ha ha ha ha.
Lu Zhouyan saw that the stupid secretary's expression was changing unpredictably, and finally he looked disgusted with the world.
He felt a little better again, and the corners of his lips curled up uncontrollably.
[Xiao Baili, are you okay?] Haicha was very worried about the host's precarious mental state.
[Although the money is gone, your bond with the hero has deepened.] She consoled him.
Haicha wanted to say something else, but suddenly she detected a new emotional fluctuation, and she reported it in surprise.
[The system has detected that the male protagonist's favorability towards you has increased by +2. Please cheer up and try again~]
[Skill cards appear. There are now 3 skill cards to choose from.]
Three cards appeared in Sheng Baili's mind one by one.
[The first one, the location card, can accurately locate the male protagonist once, helping you to find the male protagonist smoothly in this world.]
[The second card, the driver's license, allows you to drive any type of car safely and smoothly, becoming an all-round secretary who is good at both literature and martial arts and can drive. Limited to 2 hours.]
[The third card is a product price reduction card. All products within 1 meter of the hero will be reduced by 10 times. The time limit is 10 minutes. It will help you get through the financial difficulties.]
Is this even necessary to think about?
The location card sounds useless. She is the male protagonist's secretary. She has Lu Zhouyan's daily schedule and can even change it. Why does she need this?
She doesn't want the functions that Ji Susu's system has.
Sheng Baili quickly crossed out the waste card.
The driver's license card doesn't seem to be of any use either.
Although she can't drive, can't she take a taxi? As the CEO's secretary, she doesn't need to drive.
And the time limit is 2 hours, and you can’t even drive on the highway.
Sheng Baili moved forward without hesitation, his finger firmly pressing down the third price reduction card.
[Smart little Baili can solve our urgent problem! ]
【Use immediately.】 Sheng Baili said.
[The 'commodity price reduction card' is being activated. Please pay attention to your time and allocate the card usage properly.] The system electronic voice sounded.
The announcement ends and the ten-minute countdown begins.
The prices of all goods within 1 meter of the mainland have dropped 10 times.
Sheng Baili was overjoyed and immediately ran to the pants area. When she was running, she was more than 1 meter tall, so she turned around and pulled up Lu Zhouyan who was sitting on the sofa.
"Follow me, Mr. Lu," said Sheng Baili.
Lu Zhouyan: “?”
I don't have 89,000, but 8900 is still something I can barely come up with.
Sheng Baili spent a huge amount of money to buy this pair of pants for the second time, and waved his hand, "Please help me pack it up."
The saleslady was confused, but did as she was told and packed the pants a second time.
Do you like these pants so much? I want to buy another pair as a backup.
Lu Zhouyan didn’t understand what the secretary was thinking. “Don’t you have no money?” he asked.
"It suddenly came to me." Sheng Baili said.
"Here you go, Mr. Lu." Sheng Baili handed the bag to Lu Zhouyan, "Pay off the debt with property. I've paid off the debt with this pair of pants!"
Lu Zhouyan: “….”
"I don't wear two pairs of the same pants," said Lu Zhouyan.
"Oh." Sheng Baili understood, pointed to the dressing room, and said, "Please change, Mr. Lu, and wear the second pair of pants. The first pair is not needed. Please return the money to us."
Saleslady: “…”
Lu Zhouyan: ""
What kind of plane are you working on?
"Go change." Sheng Baili pointed with his big hand and told Lu Zhouyan to go to the locker room.
Lu Zhouyan didn't want to move. He met the salesgirl's inquiring gaze and smiled softly: "Let's buy two."
"Okay, let's go. I'm tired after all this trouble." Sheng Baili said.
The pants cost her 8,900 yuan, and she will have to starve to death again this month.
No, there is 50 yuan left on the card, which is equivalent to 500 yuan.
"Excuse me, do you want me to pack these pants for you?" the salesgirl asked, pointing at her old pants.
"Throw it away." Lu Zhouyan said.
The salesgirl agreed, and then she was going to put away the valuable pair of pants and throw them away.
In a flash, an idea popped into Sheng Baili's mind.
"Don't throw it away yet." She said, "Boss Lu, I'll take it back."
The saleslady and Lu Zhouyan looked back at her: "?"
"It can be worn after washing. I have a younger brother who might need it." Sheng Baili said, "Don't waste it."
Lu Zhouyan: “….”
After we left the store, Lu Zhouyan said, "I think I've seen your brother before. He should not be even 1.7 meters tall. Can he wear it?"
"You can wear it when you grow up." Sheng Baili said, "Thank you Mr. Lu for your sponsorship."
“.......”
I can no longer tell whether it is saving money or frugality.
While the ten-minute skill card was still valid, a small light bulb lit up on the top of Sheng Baili's head.
[Wow, host, go buy something to eat, or you won't make it through this month.]
[If I can get through this, I can eat and drink at the company.] Sheng Baili said, [Poor people can survive by taking advantage of others.]
That was true. But time was running out, so she quickly took the discounted Lu Zhouyan to the supermarket on the first floor.
This is her promotional card!
Promotion Card glanced at her like she was crazy, "Why are you walking so fast? Are you going to bed early so that you can be the first one to have morning tea at the company the next day?"
Sheng Baili: “.......” You know this again?
[So scary.] Sheng Baili said, [There aren’t that many spectators in life, but there are surveillance everywhere.]
Haicha: “….”
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