Chapter 24: A Not-So-Reliable Idea

Liu Yue put down her bowl, and Shen Mo automatically got up to refill her rice.

【Hehe, whatever it takes to manage a wife, I'll just do my duty as a stay-at-home husband.】

Liu Yue sighed inwardly, thinking Shen Mo would keep talking, but in the end he was still the same as ever.

Qin Hao and the elegant lady also looked at Liu Yue with suspicion; the two of them hadn't expected Liu Yue to do live-stream selling.

The elegant lady had assumed Liu Yue wanted to turn the media company into a celebrity promotion outlet, or to cultivate some distinctive streamers; she hadn't expected it to be selling goods.

As for selling goods, the elegant lady didn't do it.

For the elegant lady, the money earned wasn't small, but this was harvesting leeks, and harvesting them in the most shameless way.

Facing everyone's gazes, Liu Yue took the rice bowl Shen Mo handed over, eating the big shrimp Shen Mo had peeled for her.

"My live-stream selling might be different from other people's."

"My idea is, don't do the low-end stuff like ten-something yuan for two bottles, sell genuine goods."

"I predict that within the next year, the live-stream selling market will definitely blow up once because of counterfeit goods, and when that time comes, I can use the company's direct-sale genuine goods to ride the wave and take off."

Next, Liu Yue gave a detailed explanation of the live-stream sellers she had investigated: out of ten items, eight were fake, and the remaining two were half real, half fake — it was pretty outrageous.

A market bound to blow up sooner or later might as well be left for her to take off with.

Liu Yue's idea was: sell genuine goods, and when the counterfeit goods blow up, she could ride the wave and take off.

Just like the milk powder incident back then.

All the other brands blew up, and only one survived because it was genuine, and that genuine one took off.

Liu Xinhua, Ms. Qin Hao, the elegant lady, Grandfather, and others didn't comment on Liu Yue's idea; they felt it wasn't very reliable.

As for Shen Mo...

【Holy crap, as expected of my wife, I didn't understand a single word.】

After the meal, Liu Xinhua tried to linger and not leave, but in the end was thrown out by Ms. Qin Hao.

Looking at this scumbag just annoyed her.

Liu Xinhua didn't care either; he drove off to the five-star hotel he had booked, and along the way treated himself to a full-body spa — feeling absolutely fantastic.

Night.

Liu Yue sat by the kang using her computer to look at all kinds of data, while Shen Mo massaged her shoulders from behind, helping to relax her muscles and tendons, feeling the softness in his hands...

【Ooh ooh, I've been kneading for half a year now, how come I still never get enough of it.】

【Wuwuwu, wifey is all about work, completely ignoring me, and I don't even dare let my hand slip, what do I do.】

【By the way, why does wifey love work more than she loves me? Is it because my stamina isn't enough anymore?】

【Sigh, how do I get wifey to stay obsessed with me.】

【So hard, so hard, even being a pretty boy has its difficulties, as expected, I'm just too useless.】

【By the way, should I actually go out and work? Lately I've been reading a lot of novels where the wife looks down on her useless husband and then falls for a career-driven man.】

【Ahhhhhhh, so torn.】

【But going out to work is too tiring, and I have to deal with interpersonal relationships, maybe I should just research how to enchant my wife instead.】

【I remember Liuzi once said he had a friend who sells Indian god oil and special toys from the little-Japan household, maybe I should buy some, let wifey冲刺巅峰 again, and make her completely unable to leave me.】

Liu Yue's face quickly turned red hearing Shen Mo's inner thoughts, and the hand holding the mouse couldn't help but tremble.

Liu Yue didn't quite understand how Shen Mo's inner thoughts could be so chaotic. How could he think of so many things at once.

Also, what the hell are Indian god oil and little-Japan toys, you've already made my legs go weak the next day.

Most importantly, is it about making me unable to leave you, or are you rewarding yourself?

After finishing her complaints, Liu Yue reflected on the half year of living with Shen Mo, and evaluated it in one sentence: well-endowed, skilled, and handsome, with a considerate and gentle personality, making one feel delightful to use, and the one-million-a-month living expenses given very satisfactorily.

Shen Mo's inner thoughts ultimately still disrupted Liu Yue's state of mind.

Beep beep. Looking at the sudden message, Liu Yue clicked it open in confusion.

It was a New Year's greeting sent by Liu Qingqing.

She glanced at the time — turns out it had already passed twelve without her noticing.

Liu Yue casually sent one back.

She used to hate Liu Qingqing quite a bit, but as the time spent with Shen Mo grew longer, she stopped hating her.

After all, without Liu Qingqing, she might have married Shen Jiayun.

Looking at Shen Jiayun's build, he probably isn't as capable as Shen Mo.

Before long, Liu Yue received another New Year's greeting, this time from Liu Xinhua's secretary — a video of five-year-old Liu Yuwei holding up her little hands to wish her a happy new year.

Shen Mo also saw it from behind Liu Yue, and said with a grin: "How does she dare to dance right in front of you."

Liu Yue said calmly: "She's showing goodwill. With the downfall of Liu Bai and the others, both Liu Qingqing and Li Qingyue (Liu Xinhua's secretary) have realized that the Liu Family will be mine in the future. How much money they can get from Liu Xinhua depends entirely on my attitude — and, indeed, they might actually be able to get a large sum."

【Shocked, where do they get the nerve to think Liu Yue would give them money.】

"By the way, wifey, will you give them money?" Shen Mo asked his question.

【If it were me, I wouldn't give any.】

Liu Yue found it amusing inside, and said calmly: "I will."

【Stunned, is this showing benevolence?】

"It's not that I'm being a saint, but because this is the rule."

【Rule?】

Shen Mo was puzzled.

"If I don't give them a single cent, they'll definitely make a fuss in the end, and that would look too ugly. Better to give them a sum of money and send them on their way."

"Anyway, what they're splitting is the old man's private money, and it's not much."

Liu Yue actually didn't care about the existence of Liu Qingqing and Liu Yuwei — one was something she had grown used to over all these years, and the other simply wasn't worth bothering about.

If they really didn't give a single cent and drove the other party to the wall, it wouldn't be impossible for the other party to go crazy and pull off a desperate one-for-one trade with Liu Yue.

Liu Yue remembered that there was a family in Jinghai before that did exactly this — they pushed an illegitimate son to the breaking point, and he just drove a car and took the whole family with him. In the end, that huge family fortune was inherited by the group's shareholders. Hilarious.

After sending out a few New Year greetings, Liu Yue followed Shen Mo to bed.

New year, new atmosphere — gotta greet it with a fresh look, right?

To keep Liu Yue's heart, Shen Mo wore her out so thoroughly that she couldn't even get off the kang on the first day of the New Year, and could only lie in bed and eat.

Grandpa and Grandma were long used to this.

After all, the refined lady also had her meals carried into her own room — Ms. Qin Hao couldn't get off the kang either.

Liu Xinhua, who had come over to mooch a meal, was so infuriated by this scene that he stormed off and flew back to Jinghai to find his little secretary.

He felt that coming to Erbin had been a mistake.

After finishing breakfast, it was time to go door-to-door paying New Year visits. Ms. Qin Hao and Liu Yue only then got out of bed.

Grandpa drove, with Shen Mo and Liu Yue following along.

Those elders beamed with joy upon seeing Shen Mo and Liu Yue, and happily gave out red envelopes.

Some old ladies saw the way Liu Yue walked and burst into smiles, saying they wanted to see a great-granddaughter.

The old Qin Family had quite a lot of relatives. After one full round of New Year visits, Shen Mo had collected over a dozen red envelopes.

But Shen Mo found it strange — why hadn't grandpa taken them around to visit anyone these past six months?

Grandpa said nothing.

After eating on the fifteenth day of the first month, Liu Yue told Shen Mo it was time to get to work.

(End of this chapter)