MMCD - 5

As the spoiled young lady of a wealthy family, Sheng Wenyan often wouldn’t stop until she got what she wanted.

She was even a little obsessive; she would do whatever it took to get something she desired or had her eye on.

For example, her crush on Shen Shuyi. She genuinely liked his intellectual type and his face. So, as long as she felt there was still hope, she would try her best.

That’s why she could set aside her spoiled-princess temper and her various gold cards to work at IZ, and she could also volunteer to be Shen Zai’s personal assistant without a second thought.

What’s the big deal? It would help her make a good impression and get closer to Shen Shuyi. What’s not to like?

“Mr. Shen, I’m really capable. I can endure hardship the most, and I have a great memory. I can quickly remember all your preferences and requirements.”

The car was quiet. Shen Zai looked at her calmly, his expression shifting from surprise to suspicion, because her current eagerness to volunteer and Chen Chao’s opinion of her were both different from what her father had said.

Sheng Wenyan saw he didn’t react and spoke again. “What’s wrong? You don’t believe me? I was famous for my memory in school. I even won an award.”

Though it was a long time ago, it was true.

Heh, she was the fifth-grade champion of the classical poetry recitation competition!

“Okay, then what skills do you need? I’ll tell you about my strengths again—”

Seeing that the person in front of him was about to keep talking, Shen Zai raised a hand to stop her. “You can endure hardship the most, is that right?”

Sheng Wenyan’s eyes lit up, and she nodded.

Shen Zai leaned back against the car seat and seemed to smile. “In that case, you can give it a try.”

At seven in the evening, they arrived at the restaurant.

The other party was already there and greeted Shen Zai warmly when he walked in.

Sheng Wenyan and Chen Chao stood a little behind. They sat down only after Shen Zai was seated.

“Shen Zai, you said this was a business dinner, but you brought a pretty girl. That’s not very fair,” the man in a black shirt across the table said, looking at Sheng Wenyan playfully.

Shen Zai didn’t mind his teasing and simply said, “New assistant.”

“Oh?”

Sheng Wenyan recalled what a typical assistant should act like. She cooperatively stood up and handed out a business card that Chen Chao had printed for her. “Hello, Mr. Yang. I’m Mr. Shen’s new assistant. You can call me... Xiao Sheng.”

“Xiao Sheng? Where did you find her?” Yang Qianhe said. “I’m also looking for an assistant. How come I couldn’t find someone this good-looking? Shen Zai, did you go to a media school to hire assistants?”

Shen Zai and Yang Qianhe had known each other for a long time. Besides being business partners, they were also good friends, so he knew that Yang Qianhe’s words were a little frivolous.

He gave him a faint look. “Let’s talk business.”

Yang Qianhe immediately reined it in after receiving that look and cleared his throat a little boringly. “Oh, I was just chatting... Fine, fine, business, business.”

Soon after, all the dishes were served.

At this point, Sheng Wenyan’s stomach was rumbling, but she looked over and saw that Shen Zai was talking business with the other men, and Chen Chao was talking to someone else. Neither of them was really eating.

If they weren’t eating, she couldn’t just sit there and stuff her face, could she?

So Sheng Wenyan didn’t touch her chopsticks. Although she didn’t understand much of what they were saying, she tried her best to look attentive.

“Eat.”

As she was pretending so hard her eyes were starting to glaze over, the man sitting next to her suddenly turned his head.

Sheng Wenyan: “Huh?”

Shen Zai glanced at her chopsticks. “Not hungry?”

Sheng Wenyan was a little slow to react to how the man who was talking business a second ago had turned to talk to her about this. She was stunned for a moment and subconsciously said, “A little...”

“Then eat, you don’t have to just watch.”

Sheng Wenyan was bewildered. “You guys are talking business.”

Shen Zai: “Were you listening carefully?”

“Of course I was!”

Was her acting not obvious enough?

As Sheng Wenyan was trying to express how serious she was, she suddenly saw Shen Zai smile. It was a very brief smile, but it was definitely there.

To be honest, his smile was very handsome, but Sheng Wenyan wasn’t in the mood to appreciate it because the smile made her feel very guilty.

“Your stomach rumbled,” Shen Zai said, turning his head slightly towards her. His voice was low, and no one else heard it but her.

Sheng Wenyan subconsciously covered her stomach. “...”

Really?!

“I don’t have a habit of starving my employees. Feel free to eat,” Shen Zai said, his expression flat, as if that brief smile had never existed.

Sheng Wenyan was speechless for once. “...Oh.”

After Shen Zai finished speaking, he went back to talking business with the others. Sheng Wenyan’s gaze lingered on him for two seconds before she picked up her chopsticks and quietly took a bite of food.

Sob... It was so good.

The dinner finally ended close to ten o’clock.

Sheng Wenyan got up and went to the restroom. On her way back, someone patted her on the shoulder from behind.

“Hey, Xiao Sheng.”

Sheng Wenyan turned around and saw Yang Qianhe. “Mr. Yang.”

“You gave me your business card, but I haven’t given you mine yet.”

Yang Qianhe’s name meant “humble and gentle,” but his smile was anything but. He had a flashy vibe to him.

He handed out his business card and winked his right eye. “Give me a call. Next time, we can... talk about work again.”

Having seen the world, Sheng Wenyan wasn’t a naive graduate who didn’t understand anything.

Tsk, it was obvious this guy was trying to flirt.

Sheng Wenyan secretly rolled her eyes. Normally, she would have already blasted him with her sharp tongue, but she was trying to maintain her good-girl persona right now, so she couldn’t.

So she smiled, reached out, and took the business card. But just as she was about to say something polite, the business card in her hand was suddenly snatched away.

“She’s an intern. She’s not capable of talking about work with you yet.” Shen Zai had appeared behind her at some point. He casually tossed the business card into a nearby trash can and said in a mild tone, “That’s unnecessary.”

Yang Qianhe: “Hey, what’s with you? How is that unnecessary? Interns need to get some experience.”

“She’s my employee. Why would you give her experience?”

Yang Qianhe: “With our relationship, why are you being so distant...”

Shen Zai didn’t bother with him and gestured to Sheng Wenyan. “Go get the car.”

Sheng Wenyan: “I’m driving?”

“Chen Chao drank alcohol.”

“Oh...”

Sheng Wenyan took the keys and left.

Yang Qianhe looked at her retreating figure and hooked his arm over Shen Zai’s shoulder, not wanting to let go. “Oh, what are you doing? I was just giving her a business card. I’m not trying to poach her. Why are you so anxious?”

Shen Zai’s brows furrowed, and he gave him a look of slight disdain. “You think I don’t know what you’re up to?”

“Look at you, what could I possibly be up to?”

Shen Zai said, “She’s a young girl. You should control yourself.”

Yang Qianhe was unhappy with that. “What’s that supposed to mean? I’m a good catch at thirty-one!”

“Let’s go.”

“Hey...”

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It was the first time in Sheng Wenyan’s life that she was a chauffeur. After driving the car to the hotel entrance, she waited for a while before Shen Zai and Chen Chao came out.

“I’ll send you the address of where Mr. Shen is going tonight. You can drop him off,” Chen Chao said, standing outside the window instead of getting in.

Sheng Wenyan: “You’re not getting in?”

“I’m going home. It’s the opposite direction.”

“I see.”

“Drive carefully,” Chen Chao warned, giving her a look. He added, “Also, I’ll send you all of Assistant Lin’s previous work content when I get home tonight.”

“Okay, Assistant Chen!”

Shen Zai was already in the back seat. He hadn’t drunk much tonight, but to the completely sober Sheng Wenyan, there was still a faint scent of alcohol.

Sheng Wenyan entered the address into the navigation system and started the car.

“Mr. Shen, you live in Tongyue Bay? I have a friend who lives there too.”

“Mm.”

Sheng Wenyan glanced at him in the rear-view mirror. “That’s a nice place. The location is good. I really like it. I even asked my dad to get a set there before... Hey, Mr. Shen, you’re good friends with my dad, right? But it seems there’s a big age difference between you two.”

Shen Zai didn’t respond, but Sheng Wenyan didn’t care at all and kept talking to herself. “My dad said you’re especially amazing. Your investment instincts are sharp, and you built such a big business at a young age without relying on the family. He told me to learn from you. I agree; I can definitely learn a lot from being by your side.”

“I can learn what I can about investment. What the teachers teach in school is all just theory. I can only really learn and understand things by following you. I really think you’re amazing. If I could be where you are at thirty, I would think...”

“Be quiet.”

Sheng Wenyan, who was gushing with various compliments, was interrupted and almost choked on her words.

Shen Zai looked up, his tone pressuring. “Don’t talk while driving.”

Sheng Wenyan immediately shut her mouth.

Ugh, he doesn’t even want to hear compliments? I prepared several pages of script!

Shen Zai: “Also, when you get there, you can drive the car back. Just come to pick me up tomorrow morning.”

“...Okay, what time?”

“Seven o’clock.”

“?”

Seven o’clock! That’s when the roosters crow, damn it!!!

Sheng Wenyan’s face instantly turned pale, but she just saw the man in the back seat, who was closing his eyes to rest, slowly say, “Be on time. I don’t like being late.”

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What did seven o’clock mean?!

The drive from her house to Shen Zai’s was about twenty minutes. She needed thirty minutes to wash up and put on makeup, so that meant she had to get up around six?

Six o’clock?!

She hadn’t woken up that early since elementary school!

Sheng Wenyan, who was swearing to herself on her way home, threw Shen Zai’s car keys onto the coffee table and looked lifelessly at the antique chandelier on the ceiling. “Why does a company boss have to wake up so early...”

“Miss, you’re back. Did you have dinner?” At that moment, the housekeeper walked over.

“I did,” Sheng Wenyan replied. “Where’s my dad?”

“Oh, he left this morning. He went to France.”

Sheng Wenyan was stunned. “France?”

“Yes, Mrs. Sheng was bored at home, so Mr. Sheng went with her to have some fun. They’ll be back in two weeks. Didn’t you know?”

“How would I know,” Sheng Wenyan’s expression was instantly speechless. She got up and walked toward the stairs.

She really didn’t know her father’s whereabouts. It had been like this since she was a child.

Her father was a man who prioritized love. She had seen it clearly since she was little; she had very few memories of him being by her side. After her mom died, she saw him with one woman after another. Tian Jiao had only become a stable presence and married him a year ago.

After returning to her room, Sheng Wenyan quickly removed her makeup, washed up, and finally burrowed into her blanket.

She was tired from a long day and couldn’t even play on her phone, so all she wanted to do was happily scroll through Weibo.

However, she looked at the time... it was almost midnight.

Sheng Wenyan let out a cry of despair. Did she really have to wake up at six tomorrow? Was this some kind of evil punishment?

This whole chasing a guy thing was too tiring...

Maybe she should just give up!

Ding—

Just then, her phone received a message. It was two WeChat messages from Lou Ning.

[Image]

[Someone saw Shen Shuyi at a bookstore today! A candid shot! I shared it with you, sis]

Sheng Wenyan’s spirits lifted. She clicked on the image and zoomed in, zoomed in...

In the picture, a boy in a white hoodie was holding a few books, smiling as he talked to the person next to him.

Sob... That face was so cute.

He was so cute she couldn’t give him up.

Sheng Wenyan closed her eyes and then opened them again, her gaze sharp, as if she had made a huge decision—

Then she set an alarm for six o’clock.

For Shen Shuyi!

Six o’clock tomorrow! I can do it! I can!