This Piece of Green Plum is Professional

Zhou Jialu waited outside the door for quite a while before Lu Yuning finally opened it.

"Eeh? Your face is so red. Are you feeling unwell?"

"N-no, nothing like that. I'm fine. I was just doing housework..."

"Oh, oh, haha... Actually, there's no need to clean it yourself. Just call room service."

"Mhm, I know. Thank you, Senior Xiaolu~"

Lu Yuning was sweating bullets.

To think she would visit so suddenly... wait, it wasn't sudden!

This morning, Xiaolu had made an appointment to come over and bring her a high-speed blender. The one she used at her old rental had been accidentally broken during the move. Sob, Ningning really is so clumsy.

Xiaolu had said that if she lacked any daily necessities, she could just tell her, and she would procure them all at once.

She claimed to be Su Bai's housekeeper.

Housekeeper... that sounded like such a distant term. In Lu Yuning's impression, only those wealthy families in TV dramas had settings involving housekeepers.

But Xiaolu looked different from those traditional housekeepers.

She was seen dragging a trolley cart, pulling a massive cardboard box inside.

"Eh, is this the blender?" Lu Yuning had seen plenty of similar kitchen appliances, but this was the first time she had seen such huge packaging.

"Yes. It's that imported German brand, called what's-it-name... I forget. Anyway, it's definitely good to use. You mentioned before that you use one a lot, so I brought a good one from home."

Xiaolu helped her install and test it.

How should one put it? Lu Yuning felt her horizons had been broadened. The craftsmanship of a luxury brand was indeed different from what she usually used.

She had heard that when it came to kitchenware, many rich people liked to use brands imported from Germany or Northern Europe. She originally thought this would have nothing to do with her in this lifetime, but who would have guessed...

"Woo, thank you, Senior..."

"There's nothing to thank me for. We are all good sisters. The standard of living definitely won't be poor. Just call me if you need anything else."

Zhou Jialu was incredibly sharp; naturally, she could see Lu Yuning's uneasiness.

...

Combining this with the message Su Bai had helped her reply to earlier, and the message Lu Yuning had sent on her phone, Zhou Jialu felt she had roughly pieced together the truth.

This was a good thing.

...

Thoughts flowing, Zhou Jialu said goodbye to Lu Yuning. Before leaving, she didn't forget to remind her: "Don't mistreat yourself when it comes to food. You can't just stop eating to lose weight. If it really comes down to it, just exercise more. You can ask Su Bai to take you to the Ascott gym; he's a professional when it comes to fitness."

Then she slipped away.

Staring at the high-speed blender, Lu Yuning spaced out for a while before coming back to her senses.

Hmm... let's use it to make dinner today.

Lu Yuning's dinner usually consisted of blending some fruit and vegetable juices or similar things using a food processor.

She was afraid of getting fat.

...

Afternoon.

Su Bai didn't have classes, so he ran over to Shengxi Technology to keep Chen Yusheng company while she read papers.

It was a bit bizarre to mention, but that abstract way of reading papers born from a sudden whim last time had received rave reviews from Chen Yusheng. She indicated that with Su Bai's help, her efficiency had improved a lot.

This wasn't scientific. Logically speaking, multitasking should only lower efficiency, so what was going on?

Could it be because her relationship with Su Bai was just too good?

It didn't matter. In any case, Su Bai also liked this style of play. Moreover, inside Shengxi's office, there was a wonderful kind of fun to it.

Aside from "watching anime," they had opened up a new battlefield called "reading papers"...

After a period of arduous paper studying, Su Bai asked:

"Has the company encountered any operational difficulties recently?"

"Not for the time being... and we probably won't encounter any. I feel like this kind of startup, especially since we make software, isn't as troublesome as running a factory."

"True." Mentioning opening a factory made Su Bai want to laugh. "The clothing factory I asked Xia to help me negotiate was secured without issue, but there are all sorts of miscellaneous things to deal with. Fortunately, simple sampling and trial production don't require the entire production line to be up and running."

"Yeah, you're just satisfying your own selfish desires, not needing mass production to make money." Chen Yusheng paused, her eyes suddenly lighting up. "Can I customize stockings?"

"Even if you didn't bring it up, I would have taken the initiative to do it."

"Hehe~"

The Big White Goose really understood her.

When she first found out Su Bai had hooked up with a beautiful designer, Chen Yusheng didn't think much of it. It wasn't until Lu Yuning started making custom clothes for Zhou Jialu that Chen Yusheng realized: this new sister was useful to her too!

In order to occupy a dominant position in Su Bai's lineup... commonly known as vying for favor, every confidante had to utilize her own unique advantages.

Chen Yusheng felt that her advantages were probably her good grades, and her legs?

Girls who were willing to wear stockings all day were indeed quite rare. Some girls might pretend for a while in social situations to flirt with rich guys, but after all, in the experience of most girls, wearing stockings wasn't very comfortable. So, an act that was inherently uncomfortable would eventually be unmasked by the passage of time.

Gradually, they would get too lazy to pretend.

Chen Yusheng genuinely liked it, which fit Su Bai's preferences perfectly.

This was also one of Su Bai's philosophies on love: it didn't matter if a girlfriend had strange fetishes; the key was that the fetish had to align with his.

Being compatible was the most important thing.

"By the way, I recently independently developed a new skill. Let me show you the effect."

"What is it?"

Chen Yusheng grew expectant. Every time Su Bai said such nonsense, it was inevitably followed by some abstract behavior that made people unable to hold back their laughter.

Su Bai cleared his throat and, in a pretentious tone with gritted teeth, said: "Lower your head!"

Chen Yusheng tilted her head, a question mark slowly appearing on her face.

"...Did you not feel that kind of sensation? Like, uh, feeling that I have a lot of leadership charisma?" Su Bai gestured with his hands.

"Dying of laughter. Where is the leadership charisma, I'd like to ask? This character doesn't have leadership charisma per se, from what I see."

It seemed Shengxi didn't really buy this act.

Su Bai had a sudden idea. He recorded a line with a rich "domineering CEO" flavor.

He sent it to a certain childhood friend for her appraisal.

In this regard, she was the professional.

The result was that it took a full ten minutes for the other party to reply. She said..., and typed a bunch of words that were clearly emotionally charged and showed she had already entered the role.

Hmm, not bad.

It seems the [Natural Leadership] skill is useful.