Back in the office, Ye Shuang kept thinking about Chen Qin's words.
Wasn't he also a coward, afraid that his every move might hurt others?
"President Ye, President Ye."
"Hmm?" Ye Shuang looked up, noticing Kou Kou calling his name, and asked, "What is it?"
"The brand ambassadors have arrived. Would you like to discuss the project details with them?"
"Is that so?" Ye Shuang nodded. "Alright."
Standing up, Ye Shuang headed towards the reception area.
Before even reaching his destination, a familiar voice could be heard from afar. "Baaah, who are you calling a pipsqueak?!"
Pushing the door open, the noisy scene inside genuinely surprised Ye Shuang. This time, he had selected four brand ambassadors, divided into two pairs for two different products.
When one of the ambassadors saw Ye Shuang, she immediately let out a sound of surprise.
"Ye Shuang, what are you doing here?"
Ye Shuang followed the voice and saw a petite, golden-haired girl sitting on a chair, dressed in a beautiful evening gown. She looked like a princess.
"I'm the vice president of this company. What do you think?" Ye Shuang chuckled. Facing Alice, whom he hadn't seen in a long time, he gently pinched her cheek.
"Hey! Don't pinch my face!" Alice immediately put her hands on her hips and said loudly. Despite her words, she didn't swat his hand away, merely glaring at him with a fierce-yet-cute expression.
After exchanging a few words with Alice, Ye Shuang turned his attention to the other three.
These three were the brand ambassadors he had chosen. Perhaps it was intuition, but he hadn't selected any of those internet "bad boys" — while they might bring traffic and buzz, they wouldn't necessarily have a positive influence on the products.
Although some companies like to make their products famous through controversy, such behavior ultimately only ruins their reputation, making them widely disliked or even boycotted.
"Sounded pretty lively in here earlier."
"Because he called me a little kid!" Alice immediately raised her hand to tattle, not holding back her grievance at all.
Following Alice's pointed finger, the man in question awkwardly rubbed his hands together. He was a gaming blogger who preferred staying home playing games and had almost no interaction with women.
Seeing how tiny Alice was, he had made a comment like "Where did this little pipsqueak come from? Where's your mommy?".
Now, seeing that Alice seemed very familiar with the client's leadership, he felt a bit uneasy.
Would the collaboration fall through? He had finally gotten this sponsorship opportunity.
"You are... the one with the online handle 'Little Yin', right?"
"Yes..."
"Hehe, Alice doesn't like being treated like a child. Next time, you could try calling her 'Mature Miss Alice'." However, Ye Shuang didn't seem to give him a hard time just because he was close to Alice. He just made a joke and brushed past the issue lightly.
"Sounds terrible, 'Mature Alice'." Alice stuck out her tongue, but she didn't look angry anymore.
"Alright, alright. I spoke without thinking, sorry about that." Little Yin, not wanting to lose too much face, politely smiled at Alice.
Alice just gave a soft "hmph."
With Ye Shuang's words easing the awkwardness, they began discussing work matters. About an hour later, the contracts were finally signed.
Among them, Alice's endorsement fee was the highest, around over eight hundred thousand.
The reason for Alice's high fee was closely tied to the recent viral success of the short drama she starred in.
It was that parody short drama where Coco whipped the male actor with a whip. It had gained Alice over two million followers on the platform.
"You're quite good at making money," Ye Shuang laughed.
"I'm a little rich lady, you know. Want me to keep you?" Hearing Ye Shuang's words, Alice couldn't help but feel a bit smug.
Ye Shuang smiled. "I'm the client."
Alice then realized and immediately said nonchalantly, "W-well, you're just the client for now. In the future, I'll be your client, hiring you to work for me with my money."
She extended her pinky finger. "Just you wait."
"Alright, I'll wait." Ye Shuang reached out his finger and gently touched hers. Alice immediately let out a startled "Eep!" like a frightened kitten. "Y-you, you... don't touch me randomly!"
"Your wording is way too easy to misunderstand," Ye Shuang said. It was just a finger touch.
Perhaps because young girls were more sensitive about these things, he sincerely apologized, "I won't dare do it again, sorry."
Seeing Ye Shuang slightly bow to apologize to her, Alice realized she had overreacted. She looked at her own finger, then suddenly extended it again, her speech a bit stammering.
"I-if you beg me... it's not like I can't let you touch it."
"But! No pinching my cheeks, and no patting my head!"
"How about touching your butt?" An Shiyu beside Ye Shuang asked with dot eyes.
"Where did you pop out from?!"
"Invisibility. Pretty amazing, right?" An Shiyu said.
Watching the two of them bicker, Ye Shuang didn't stop them this time. Instead, he interjected, "Where's Bobo?"
"Him? He was right next to me just a moment ago." Alice looked around, her twin ponytails swinging.
Then she called out, "Bobo—"
"Probably not nearby," Ye Shuang started to say, about to tell Alice not to shout so loudly, when the cardboard box next to the refrigerator suddenly stood up.
"I'm here, Miss Alice." The large-framed Bobo placed the cardboard box aside and said,
"Long time no see, Mr. Ye Shuang."
You were really there?!
"Your invisibility skills are pretty good," An Shiyu gave Bobo a thumbs-up.
"Thank you for the praise."
Ye Shuang took Alice and Bobo back to his office. After chatting for a while, he asked if they wanted to have dinner together that evening.
Alice seemed to have no objections, as she had only come today for the endorsement deal and had no other plans.
However, when it was time to leave work and Ye Shuang and the others arrived at the entrance of their home building, they unexpectedly ran into Aunt Xian downstairs.
She seemed to have come looking for Yu You but hadn't expected to meet Ye Shuang and Alice here.
"Shuang-zi, Ai..."
Looking at the familiar girl, Aunt Xian opened her mouth as if to say something.
In the end, she seemed to smile somewhat awkwardly. "I... I'm not feeling too well. I should go."
With that, she fled the scene as if escaping.
Seeing this, Ye Shuang instinctively looked towards Alice.
Alice clenched her small fists and bit her lip. "I... I don't care..."
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
