Chapter 118 [118] Liking is restraint, desire is indulgence...
Shen Yi was surprised: "Why are you asking her?"
Shen Yu remained calm and said, "Her mother is a practical person. I have a project and I'm considering inviting her mother to invest in it."
This reason is very sufficient, Shen Yi did not doubt it: "It is difficult for me to see her, so you can find a way yourself."
Shen Yu did not look for Tang Yuanyuan again.
By the end of the year, Zhang Lancao had indeed returned. Shen Yu went through a lot of twists and turns and finally met Zhang Lancao herself at a tea party.
He was very optimistic about the platinum market and invited Zhang Lancao to go abroad for inspection.
Shen Yu?
Zhang Lancao touched the business card, her lips curled slightly. "Such a great project, why did Mr. Shen want me to join?"
Shen Yu's slender bony fingers clasped together slightly and casually placed them on the tea table. "As a businessman, it's naturally for business."
Zhang Lancao had a guess, but wasn't completely sure. "That sounds great. Can I bring my daughter along for this inspection? Does Mr. Shen mind if I bring someone along?"
Shen Yu naturally had no objection: "I'm honored to have met your daughter twice. She's very spiritual. Mr. Zhang is very lucky."
Zhang Lancao smiled knowingly and drank the tea.
When he got home, he asked Tang Yuanyuan again: "...Are you familiar with Mr. Shen?"
Tang Yuanyuan replied while doing her homework, "I've seen him twice. Once at Mr. Chen's birthday party, and once at this year's commendation ceremony. I took a photo of him."
Zhang Lancao: “Is that all?”
Tang Yuanyuan looked over in confusion: "What's wrong?"
Zhang Lancao: "Nothing, it's winter vacation now, and it's too lonely for you to stay at home alone. Come with me."
Tang Yuanyuan's suitcase was filled with her winter vacation homework and she had a camera hanging around her neck. Shen Yu saw through the transparent glass of the VIP lounge that Tang Yuanyuan was sitting on the suitcase and being pushed into the airport by her mother, drinking a bottle of soda in her hand.
Shen Yu borrowed a private plane from his father to travel. There were two bedrooms, a dining room, and a kitchen in the cabin of the plane, which was like a large flat, making life very convenient.
The flight attendant brought some cut fruit. Tang Yuanyuan picked up a piece of mango with a small fork and ate it in small bites. After the curious tour, she put on her headphones and listened to English while doing her test paper.
Shen Yu picked up a book and started flipping through it.
Zhang Lancao went to her room to catch up on her sleep. She rarely had such free time, and she liked to take a nap when she had free time.
Tang Yuanyuan was stumped by an additional math problem. She added several auxiliary lines but still couldn't put pen to paper.
Shen Yu closed the book and asked, "Have you encountered any problems?"
Tang Yuanyuan raised her head and said softly, "Yes."
Shen Yu said politely: "Maybe I can take a look."
Shen Yu was sitting opposite. Tang Yuanyuan pushed the test paper over, supported her chin, and waited with shining eyes.
Shen Yu stared at the paper for five minutes without saying anything. Tang Yuanyuan silently took a chemistry paper to do.
After finishing three more papers, Zhang Lancao woke up and the flight attendant brought the meal to the table.
Shen Yu peeled his rice slowly, seemingly without much appetite. Halfway through his meal, he suddenly put down his chopsticks and said, "I know how to solve that problem."
Shen Yu added an auxiliary line with a pen and said, "Try solving it this way."
Tang Yuanyuan's thoughts were opened up, and he wrote quickly, laughing, "That's right."
Shen Yu picked up the juice, took a sip, and let out a sigh of relief.
Later, Tang Yuanyuan did another question, and was a little further away.
The rough raw stones were cut, various sharp electric tools buzzed, and the hard diamonds were polished by the masters into various beautiful and exquisite ornaments. The remaining scraps were also inlaid in silver pendants to become platinum ornaments.
After visiting the factory, I went to the physical store. The jewelry was displayed in a transparent glass counter, and it became even more eye-catching under the light. No girl can resist such sparkling jewelry. It can be seen that as long as it is introduced into the country, rich people will like it.
Tang Yuanyuan's eyes were glued to the jewelry, and Zhang Lancao bought two sets for her daughter with a wave of her hand.
Tang Yuanyuan thought she should take off the earrings: "Mom, I don't even have ear holes, so earrings are useless."
A set of earrings costs hundreds of thousands, and the cost of earrings should be around one hundred thousand, which is enough to buy a house.
Zhang Lancao: "What if you finally come to your senses and decide to pierce your ears?"
Tang Yuanyuan: "I won't do it, it hurts so much."
Shen Yu raised the corner of his lips when he heard this. Seeing her fearless personality, she was actually afraid of the pain of a puncture in the ear.
There is the world-famous Disney here, so Shen Yu naturally had to make arrangements. Zhang Lancao deliberately pretended to be sick and lay in the hotel to rest. Tang Yuanyuan had a crazy time the whole day and didn't come out until the park closed.
When she returned home, she was holding a souvenir doll that was bigger than her. "Mom, it would be a shame if you didn't go. The roller coaster is super thrilling. It's just one track, and it feels like a train running in the sky..."
Zhang Lancao listened to his rambling for a long time, and was surprised to find that Shen Yu didn't go. "... Mr. Shen didn't go with you?"
Tang Yuanyuan was still immersed in excitement: "No, he arranged for an employee from the office here, a woman, who is very familiar with the place and knows how to have fun. She was the one who took me out to play."
Zhang Lancao couldn't understand it. A single man and a single woman, what a great opportunity.
Why didn’t Shen Yu show up?
Did he misunderstand? He had no such intentions towards his daughter? Was it purely for business?
After all, in this line of work, she had never seen Shen Yu do anything out of the ordinary.
The pilot for the Platinum Project has been finalized at Wing On Department Store, with the grand opening date being April 19th.
My daughter’s birthday, is it a coincidence or intentional?
After asking Tang Yuanyuan, Shen Yu found out that he had never asked about her birthday. Zhang Lancao was unsure. After thinking for a while, she took Tang Yuanyuan to attend the opening ceremony.
The mother and daughter arrived not too late, and Shen Yu was already at the opening ceremony. Zhang Lancao didn't feel anything special. Shen Yu was a gentleman by nature, polite to everyone, and communicated with Tang Yuanyuan normally.
He just happened to know that it was Tang Yuanyuan's birthday, so he asked the clerk to pack up a valuable diamond bracelet and put it on his account.
Zhang Lancao reasoned, "This is too expensive."
Shen Yu smiled and said, "I really value platinum. I hope Mr. Zhang won't be estranged from me when we work together."
Zhang Lancao couldn't be polite anymore, so she had to ask Shen Yu's secretary privately. Shen Yu's birthday was in a month, so Zhang Lancao asked the secretary to remember this and gave him an equally valuable gift in return, which she asked the driver to deliver to Shen Yu's company early in the morning.
"Mr. Zhang, such an expensive gift is truly a shame for you," Shen Yu called Zhang Lancao's mobile phone. "We've prepared some light meals at home. Please come with Miss Tang."
Since they were going to develop the platinum business together, Zhang Lancao didn't hesitate and brought Tang Yuanyuan to the Shen family to make friends.
Tang Yuanyuan saw the photo album on the coffee table and found that it was full of good photos, including Africa, Antarctica, volcanoes, and salt lakes.
"Mr. Shen also likes taking photos?"
"A little bit." Shen Yu said, "I have a collection of cameras in my room. Do you want to take a look?"
"good."
Tang Yuanyuan felt that Shen Yu was being modest. His photos were better than hers, and he had been to many places.
Shen Yu's room is very big. There is a big bed on the west side, a large desk by the window on the east side, and a transparent glass cabinet next to it for collecting cameras.
Shen Yu readily pointed out the advantages and disadvantages of various lenses and took a photo of Tang Yuanyuan's face.
Tang Yuanyuan was caught off guard. She always took pictures of others, but this was the first time she was photographed by someone, and she was stunned for a moment.
By the time he reacted, Shen Yu had already lowered his head, adjusting the lens and casually said, "This kind of lens is very suitable for close-up shots of people's facial features. When I print the photos, you can carefully distinguish them..."
It turned out that it was to teach myself how to take photos.
Tang Yuanyuan sat casually on the carpet and fiddled with the cameras under his guidance. Soon all the cameras were placed on the ground. She listened for a full hour until Mrs. Shen came up to say that dinner was ready. She was still not satisfied.
The photos and cameras unknowingly covered half of the carpet. Tang Yuanyuan stood up and put the camera in the cabinet.
Shen Yu said, "Auntie will clean up in a while, let's go downstairs and eat first."
Tang Yuanyuan didn't want to keep everyone waiting, so she got up and left, sitting next to Shen Yu. She hummed a few words of "Happy Birthday" along with everyone's singing, and Shen Yu blew out the candles.
Tang Yuanyuan declined: "The first piece of cake is for the birthday boy, give me the second piece."
Shen Yu: "The younger one should take the first bite."
Tang Yuanyuan: "..."
Shen Yu: "There are several good books on photography in the study. I'll find them for you later."
Of course Tang Yuanyuan had no objection.
The Shen family's study is very large, with more than a dozen neatly arranged bookshelves, all of which are neatly stacked with books. Shen Yu carried a ladder and searched around several bookshelves, finding five or six photography books.
Shen Yu advised her: "Take your time and see. For now, you should focus on your studies. It won't be too late to slowly figure it out after you get into university."
"I'll just watch it for a while on the weekends. It won't take me too long."
Shen Yu asked again: "Which university are you going to? Are you planning to study abroad or in China?"
Tang Yuanyuan didn't want to go out: "It would be great if I could go to Fudan University. I don't want to be too far away from my mother."
Shen Yu: "Your mother-daughter relationship seems to be particularly good, far better than that of ordinary mothers and daughters."
Tang Yuanyuan nodded: "Because my mother is very good, she never scolds me, and she gives me everything I want."
Shen Yu: "My mother is also a very good person."
Tang Yuanyuan holds the book in her arms, and Shen Yu's life is also very happy.
Shen Yu watched the mother and daughter's car leave, then turned back to the room. His aunt was sorting out her camera.
"Go out, I'll do it myself."
The aunt left the room. Shen Yu squatted on the carpet, picked up the camera and put it close to his nose, as if it was contaminated with a little her scent.
She celebrated his birthday with him and visited his room.
He slowly packed up his camera and was about to go to the darkroom to develop the photos when his cell phone rang.
"Brother Yu, I've warmed up the place for you. When are you coming over?"
He was a relative of his, a small-time tycoon who had just opened a KTV. Shen Yu had to give him face and went out with his car keys.
There are many rich second-generations in the circle, including Mr. Chen, men and women, all well-dressed.
Mr. Chen brought a female star who appeared in a TV series. He patted Shen Yu's shoulder while half drunk. "Isn't she pretty? She's a newcomer in the industry. She has a good temper. I haven't met her before. Don't say I don't miss you."
Shen Yu's slender hands held the wine glass loosely, and he smiled: "Keep it for yourself. I've already partnered with someone about the platinum. We'll work together next time if there's something suitable for you."
Mr. Chen's expression remained unchanged: "You are just too pretentious. Try it and you will know how fun it is. I guarantee you will get the taste of it."
Shen Yu glanced at the watch on his wrist. He had already shown up and was reluctant to stay any longer. "Have fun, Mr. Chen. I have things to do."
Mr. Chen said with a smile: "Well, you are not a monk. You are still young and full of vigor. Don't you feel lonely when you sleep at night? Believe me, try it, you will definitely like it."
Shen Yu smiled: "You're not talking about love, you're talking about desire."
Mr. Chen: "What's the difference? Satisfying desires is what people enjoy."
Shen Yu: "Liking is restraint, desire is indulgence."
Shen Yu didn't expect him to understand, so he took the key and left. Mr. Chen exhaled a puff of his cigar, "Restraint? Do you like to be restrained?"
There's something wrong with you!
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