Chapter 170 The Legendary Beautiful Stepmother
The next day, after waking up in the morning, Cheng Zhu replied to the WeChat message Zhang Qiqi sent late last night.
Didn’t they both tell each other last night that they were going to take a shower? Zhang Qiqi wanted to rely on their subsequent reactions after the temporary interruption of the conversation to infer whether their relationship had progressed further through this date.
If Cheng Zhu talks to her after washing, it will undoubtedly be a good sign.
In the end, she waited and waited, but nothing came of it.
Later, even when she took the initiative to send a message "I'm done washing", it fell on deaf ears.
This kind of experience happens to Zhang Qiqi from time to time, but she always says she is going to take a shower and then never replies to the message.
But who would have thought that the positions were swapped today!
——Polar reversal!
The message that Cheng Zhu barely found time to reply to after waking up in the morning also seemed very familiar to Zhang Qiqi.
"I took a hot bath yesterday, and then I felt sleepy as soon as I touched the pillow, and fell asleep directly." Cheng Zhu began to make up stories.
If we really calculate his sleep time like this, he slept for a full eleven hours!
Watching a movie is like working in the fields. Why is it so tiring?
"It's okay. I went to bed late last night." Zhang Qiqi clearly didn't go to bed until twelve o'clock, but she still replied like this.
It takes another evildoer to deal with a bad guy, and it takes another evildoer to deal with the queen of the sea.
——"Torture".
After giving a simple reply and doing some perfunctory relationship maintenance, Cheng Zhu simply said that he had to go and get busy.
In fact, he didn't have anything particularly important to do this morning. He just wanted to go to the [Insist on Visiting] studio and enjoy the cheers of the employees.
"It can't be helped. Who told us to briefly top the same category last night?"
"Last night, the work group was already partying."
As soon as Cheng Zhu's mood improved, he directly sent a lucky red packet of 888, and the atmosphere in the group became more lively.
He never plays tricks, and the employees all know that once the store secures its number one spot, the boss will definitely give everyone red envelopes as he did before.
At noon, in a high-end villa community in Hangzhou, Shen Qingning, who was sitting in the room reading a romance novel, heard a knock on the door.
"Ningning, it's time for dinner." The stepmother's voice came from outside the house.
“Okay, Auntie.” Shen Qingning replied, then slowly covered the novel in her hand.
Personally, she prefers reading physical books.
It's still a sadistic book now.
This cold and aloof girl always follows the principle of not reading any romance novels unless they contain sad stories. She doesn't know why, but she loves to read sad stories to feel the passionate love and all kinds of love-hate entanglements in them.
Reason told her that all this was unrealistic and the content was all fake.
But she is a very rational person on weekdays. When she relaxes occasionally, she is used to reading without thinking.
These days, she didn't have a very good impression of the romantic novels she read.
It was very strange. She was clearly reading a book that would normally be considered moderately sad, but her emotional ups and downs were comparable to those of a very sad book.
The clear-headed girl knew very well that the problem was not with the book.
The book is still the same book.
The problem is with oneself.
Ever since Lin Lu had a late-night conversation with her that night, she would often become distracted and uneasy.
Lin Lu is too straightforward and honest. Since she likes someone, she will naturally choose to tell her good friends as soon as possible.
These days, during the National Day holiday, when Shen Qingning was free, she usually read books.
When reading romance novels, you are bound to see some sweet content.
After all, even if it is a sad story, it is impossible to be sad from beginning to end.
Readers who like to read sad stories are often very good at finding sugar in the broken glass.
Whenever she saw such a sweet plot, she would always recall that hazy night, the night when he took her to enjoy the evening breeze.
Because she is different from Lin Lu.
There is actually only a little sweetness between her and Cheng Zhu.
There is only the sweetness of that night.
Shen Qingning, who was sitting in a chair, glanced at the cover of the novel.
Interestingly, the cover of this novel features a man and two women.
She got up from her chair in her pajamas and started to go downstairs to eat lunch.
A pair of trousers and pajamas looked like cropped pants on her.
If we only talk about legs, Shen Qingning, the "leg expert", really has no rivals in the University of Science and Technology.
When they arrived at the restaurant, the stepmother, who was only two years older than Shen Minglang, had already sat down and was pouring corn juice into a cup.
"Ningning, would you like something to drink?" she asked.
"No, I'll just drink some water." Shen Qingning shook her head.
Shen Qingning and Shen Minglang's stepmother is 29 years old this year and will celebrate her 30th birthday in two months.
She is pretty, but definitely not stunningly beautiful. She is the kind of pretty that is pleasing to the eye and gives people a very comfortable feeling. She is the kind of beauty that is not aggressive at all.
This is one of the reasons why she can become the stepmother of the Shen family, and Father Shen is more at ease with her.
A man of his age, who is successful in his career, doesn't want a troublesome woman to come home and make the house restless every day.
You know, having a son like Shen Minglang is already worry enough.
Father Shen was very direct with the brother and sister and told them that he would not have any more children.
He must have talked about this with his second wife.
However, if this stepmother was older, she might be able to say thoughtfully: "It's okay, I will treat them as my own children."
It’s a pity that she was too young. When Shen Minglang was born, she was only two years old and still at the age of wetting the bed.
To be honest, Shen Qingning herself had a good impression of this stepmother.
She was indeed not the kind of person who would make trouble. On the contrary, in this family, she always had to endure Shen Minglang's anger and had never complained or cried to Shen's father.
It doesn't matter whether this is her natural personality or she has high emotional intelligence.
I can only say that she has always managed this household very well.
After sitting down at the dining table, Shen Qingning took the warm water poured by the nanny and said to the woman, “Auntie, I have something to ask you.”
What she wanted to ask was naturally about Starlight City and helping Cheng Zhu rent a store in the mall.
The Shen family has invested in Starlight City, but it is under the name of their stepmother, Wang Yushan.
Speaking of which, Shen Minglang once went crazy about his stepmother's name: "Your name is Wang Yushan, and my father's name is Shen Guoqiang. Do you think your names look like a couple when put together?"
The reason why her name was used to invest in the business was actually to allow her to get a share of the money from the mall every year.
This money is for her daily spending.
It sounds better to tell others that I will get dividends from the shopping mall, rather than saying that my husband will give me living expenses.
For Wang Yushan, although Shen Qingning usually called her aunt, she got along with her as a friend, more like a sister than a stepmother.
She never puts on airs in front of Shen Qingning.
"Just tell me what you want to ask me." She put down the cup of corn juice and looked at Shen Qingning.
"Are there any shops available for rent in Starlight City now? Or are there any that are about to expire?" she asked.
"Then I'll make a phone call and ask." Wang Yusan replied.
After that, she looked at Shen Qingning and asked, "Which position do you want, and how big do you want it to be?"
"The more central the location, the better. Let me ask for the specific size." She picked up her phone and started sending WeChat messages.
"Are you asking on behalf of a friend?" Wang Yusan suddenly became interested.
In her impression, Shen Qingning was a person with few friends, and the only person who had ever come to her house was Lin Lu.
But she knew Lin Lu, and they had added each other on WeChat when she came to visit her home before. If she was asking on behalf of Lin Lu, she would definitely say her name directly.
"Yeah, I'm asking for a friend." Shen Qingning said as she typed for Cheng Zhu.
"A man or a woman?" She was joking on purpose to liven up the atmosphere.
Our Ningning doesn’t have many men around her.
She was cold, very cold.
Some of Shen Minglang’s friends had also come to visit their home, and Wang Yusan could see that those friends of Shen Minglang were a little afraid of Ningning!
Of course, Shen Minglang himself is also afraid of his sister, extremely afraid!
Wang Yushan has a clear position in her mind: the person with the highest status in the family is actually Ningning, followed by Old Shen who dotes on his daughter, then Shen Minglang, and finally herself.
Unexpectedly, Shen Qingning raised her head and replied: "Male."
Then she immediately added, frantically filling in Cheng Zhu's identity: "He is Jiang Wanzhou's childhood friend."
"Oh, so that's it. He's your cousin's childhood friend." Wang Yusan didn't think so at all.
Shen Qingning has a very cold personality. She is actually very, very nice to people she approves of and people she is really close to.
But the problem is that it is difficult for others to be recognized by her and become someone close to her.
Oh, he is Jiang Wanzhou’s childhood friend, so you will take the initiative to help him?
This is not your character at all, right?
It would be almost the same unless Jiang Wanzhou asks you for help.
At this moment, Shen Qingning received Cheng Zhu's reply, and then relayed: "It's best to be around 60 square meters, and a little bigger is also fine."
"So what does this store do?" Wang Yusan asked again.
Just make the call after you have understood the situation clearly, so as to avoid making several calls in a row.
“Let me ask.” Shen Qingning said again.
This made Wang Yusan feel more and more that something was wrong, because Ningning was obviously very organized in doing things.
It is impossible for her not to know that shopping malls have their own investment standards and plans.
For a more core location, you must also consider what project you are doing.
After getting Cheng Zhu's reply, Shen Qingning's beautiful eyebrows frowned slightly.
She never thought that Cheng Zhu would want to get involved in such an industry.
"What's wrong?" Wang Yusan looked at her expression and expressed concern.
“He said he wanted to open a milk tea shop.” Shen Qingning replied.
In her mind, this is an even less reliable project than opening a claw machine store at the school gate.
Its unreliability is comparable to Shen Minglang’s previous failure cases.
As mentioned before, many boys who want to start a business would think about opening Internet cafes, restaurants, bars, etc.
Girls start their own businesses by opening nail salons, beauty salons, milk tea shops, flower shops, etc.
Nowadays, opening your own brand and milk tea shop is basically a dead end.
There is no competitiveness at all in front of those big brands that are already very famous and have stores all over the country!
It's normal to lose money every time you open a store.
And leaving all this aside, under normal circumstances, a shopping mall of the same level as Starlight City is unlikely to give a good location to a little-known self-created milk tea brand like yours.
Wang Yushan was also a little surprised when she heard that they were opening a milk tea shop.
The other party wants to move into a shopping mall of the same level as Starlight City, and also said that they want to find a more central location. But they actually want to open a milk tea shop?
This can't be connected at all.
Why open a milk tea shop in a place like this?
Do you think you run a Starbucks?
There is absolutely no need for that. It's all unnecessary upfront investment. It's just a waste of time.
Wang Yushan thought that Shen Qingning would let it go and go talk to her friend.
But what she didn't expect was that Shen Qingning said to her: "Auntie, is this matter a bit difficult to handle?"
Asking this question means that her attitude is: if it can be done, it must be done!
This gave this beautiful stepmother an idea:
"Who on earth is the other party?"
(End of this chapter)
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