Chapter 18: Truly No Ambition

After finishing lunch, the handsome, tattooed boss lady's furrowed brow completely cleared of its gloom.

In her delight, she took off the big gold bracelet from her wrist on the spot and gave it to Liu Yue.

In the boss lady's words: "Dear niece, you're an elegant girl, so that makes you my daughter too — don't be polite."

Wenya smiled and told Liu Yue to accept it.

Liu Yue put the big gold bracelet on her wrist right there, making the boss lady beam from ear to ear.

On the way back to Hao Ya Media, Wenya explained with a smile that sometimes accepting a gift is also a way to make the other person happy.

【Noted.】

Shen Mo couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

【As expected of a former player, this technique is just awesome — she's got people's hearts locked down tight.】

【Truly a model for our generation.】

Liu Yue felt Shen Mo was really interesting — the whole person was very amusing.

You have to know that ordinary people who heard Wenya's story all found it disgusting, yet Shen Mo actually thought she was a model for our generation.

In the afternoon, Wenya continued to teach Liu Yue how a media company operates, while Shen Mo wandered around the company on his own. Everyone already knew Shen Mo, and no ridiculous situations arose.

Wandering and wandering, Shen Mo arrived at the rest area.

Here there was free coffee, snacks, and massage chairs — tired company employees could come here to rest.

Sitting in the rest area, watching the company employees come and go, Shen Mo was puzzled. Wasn't it said that working at a company was very hard, and bosses were all inhuman? How could there be such a comfortable rest area?

"Hey, son-in-law." A buxom woman called Tyrannosaurus sat down directly across from Shen Mo, greeting him with a grin. Beside her was her niece, a girl who looked a bit spacey.

Shen Mo paused for a moment, then replied as gently as possible: "Hello."

"I'm Tyrannosaurus, you can call me Long Long. This is my niece Dai Dai." Tyrannosaurus explained proactively.

Glancing at her chest, Shen Mo thought, indeed quite domineering.

"Hello, I'm Shen Mo."

Dai Dai blinked at Shen Mo, then secretly poked Tyrannosaurus.

Shen Mo was puzzled — was there something going on? Tyrannosaurus let out a mischievous laugh, her beautiful face actually showing a sleazy expression.

"Son-in-law, I want to ask how you met President Liu. Was it really like what the internet says — your brother Shen Jiayun didn't want the vegetative President Liu, so you went to take his place?" The gossip in her eyes was completely undisguised.

Shen Mo also knew the rumors online. When he woke up this morning and first saw them, Liu Yue had sighed that it was just like Liu Qingqing — willing to throw her own reputation away completely just to make Liu Yue suffer.

But it was useless.

Then Liu Yue looked at the million followers her account had gained, as well as the several trending topics Liu Qingqing had sent her way. She had her personal finances transfer a trending-topic fee to Liu Qingqing, and sent Liu Qingqing a message thanking her for the trending topics, and saying that they had successfully made her, Liu Yue, into a victim who gained the public's sympathy. As for the jokes about Liu Yue being dumped, Liu Yue said she could calmly accept that fact — hadn't everyone run into a few scumbags? In Liu Yue's words, this move could make Liu Qingqing so angry she wouldn't eat for three days.

So Shen Mo calmly told Tyrannosaurus and Dai Dai: "That's right, it's true. Sister Yue became a vegetative due to some accident. Shen Jiayun felt marrying a vegetative was too embarrassing, so my old man thought of me, the kid raised in the countryside, and had me go take his place. It's that simple."

The moment the words fell, Shen Mo heard Tyrannosaurus and Dai Dai let out screams, and some people resting nearby all looked over in surprise.

"Then son-in-law, are you one of those countryside divine doctors from novels, who went to Jinghai with a marriage contract?"

"Did you already know President Liu before, and secretly pledged yourselves to each other, and went specifically to save President Liu?"

"Do you also have four or five young lady marriage contracts on you, and they all look down on you and despise you, so next you'll walk the path of being humiliated together with President Liu, then showing off and slapping faces?"

"Ahhhhhhh, just thinking about it is exciting."

"When the time comes, can you let us have the first scoop?"

【Good… neurotic.】

A drop of cold sweat ran down Shen Mo's forehead, especially as he watched the gathering crowd of beauties beside him grow larger and larger, and the gossip in their eyes, making him even more nervous.

Under everyone's expectant gazes, Shen Mo said with difficulty: "Could you all read fewer 'Dragon King face-slapping' novels?"

Dai Dai blinked and asked in confusion: "But isn't it all like that?"

"You were never favored since childhood, grew up in the countryside, then by chance met a mysterious master who passed on his teachings and obtained several marriage contracts." "When you returned to the Shen Family, it was time to prove yourself against the heavens all the way, and you took the opportunity to win the favor of beauties from all walks of life."

【Is this yet another version?】

Shen Mo was mentally exhausted, especially when he saw the surrounding group all nodding in agreement. He silently rubbed his temples and said wearily: "Everyone, although the Shen Family raised me at my grandmother's place, my grandmother is also a fiery little old lady. She has a three-courtyard, three-entrance big house in the countryside herself, several buildings in the city, and runs a barbecue shop that makes over twenty thousand a month and several million a year. So I haven't suffered much. Even when I worked at a bar during college, it was just a part-time job to experience life."

"So I don't hate the Shen Family, and I won't slap them in the face."

"Secondly, medicine is rigorous and requires a great deal of practice. No medical student can treat and save people just by reading theory."

"So divine doctors don't exist either — I'm purely blessed with heaven-defying luck."

Next, Shen Mo bragged in detail about his heaven-defying luck — right after getting married, he encountered Liu Yue waking up, and successfully secured his position as a live-in son-in-law purely through his looks.

Tyrannosaurus and the others were deeply disappointed. They had thought Shen Mo's path home would be all about slapping faces against Shen Yilong and the others, saving Liu Yue, and getting together through the grace of saving her life.

And that's all there was?

"Girls, reality isn't a novel — there aren't so many messy things. Everyone please spare your husband." Liu Yue's gentle voice rang out from outside the crowd.

Everyone turned around to find that at some unknown point Wenya and Liu Yue had appeared beside them. They quickly greeted them and left with grins.

Shen Mo stood up to greet them: "Wife, Aunt Wenya, are you done chatting? Shall we go home now?"

Wenya and Liu Yue shook their heads, sat down across from Shen Mo, and Wenya ordered two cups of coffee.

Taking a sip of coffee, Liu Yue looked at Shen Mo with a smile: "Hubby, my dad just called me and asked when we're going back to Jinghai?"

"Uh, what's up?" Shen Mo asked in confusion.

【Why suddenly ask this? Whether we go back to Jinghai or not, isn't that up to you, wife?】

Liu Yue, her eyes curved, said with a beaming smile: "My dad's meaning is that I've taken the shares, and my mom is being too forceful. He wants me to go back and inherit the Liu Group, continue being president, and wants you to come back and help too, so that when I have kids in the future you can take over running the Liu Group for me."

Shen Mo's eyebrows twitched wildly.

【Holy crap, Liu Xinhua, you shameless bastard, you're actually screwing me over.】

Shen Mo said resolutely: "Wife, whether we go back or not is up to you, but I absolutely will not enter the Liu Group."

【No way, I'm a live-in son-in-law — how could I work for your Liu Family?】

Liu Yue didn't know what to say.

Wenya laughed—this Shen Mo was really amusing.

Shen Mo hurriedly sat down beside Liu Yue, took her hand, and said solemnly, "Wife, in our family you decide everything, except one thing—that's absolutely not allowed: making me work."

"My only job can be to serve you; I can't do anything else, not even a little."

【What a joke—I'm just an ordinary junior college graduate; my resume can't even pass the mechanical review of a major corporation. If I went to work at the Liu Corporation, how much hardship and suffering would I have to endure just to grow, not to mention the risk of messing something up and getting kicked out of the Liu Family.】

【So I absolutely can't go. I must kill off Liu Yue's attempt to get me to work at the Liu Corporation.】

Shen Mo's inner screaming left Liu Yue caught between tears and laughter—this man really had too much self-awareness.

Shen Mo continued on the surface, "Wife, don't look down on my job. Serving you every day is also very hard work. At the very least, to ensure a happy marriage, I have to study all kinds of positions, and also maintain a fitness base, you…"

"Stop right there." Liu Yue blushed—how was this getting more and more outrageous.

Wenya beside her wore a knowing auntie smile—so amusing.

Wenya and Liu Yue had originally been in the office discussing the future of the media industry, when they received a call from Liu Xinhua. He complained with a face full of grievances that Liu Yue should hurry back to work; Liu Bai's work enthusiasm wasn't great either, and it was all up to him, an old man, to hold things together—truly too bullying.

He also said Shen Mo couldn't just eat without working; that wouldn't do. At the very least, he had to be trained to the point where, when Liu Yue had children in the future, Shen Mo could hold up the corporation.

After the call ended, Liu Yue and Wenya felt they should give Shen Mo a chance to step into the spotlight and prove himself.

After all, what man doesn't have a little ambition?

Little did they know, Shen Mo truly didn't have any.

(End of chapter)