Chapter 296: What? You have your own boat?

She spoke, ignoring Wu Bin's objection and stood up directly.

"No, how did you just leave? Let's chat a bit more." Wu Bin got anxious; he hadn't even finished telling the goddess how successful he was, how could she leave? He stood up and chased after her, heading out.

Ye Cheng stood at the doorway, waiting for Yang Liu to come out; he decisively let go, the private room door clicked shut, Wu Bin, chasing anxiously, bumped right into it, and even through the door crack one could feel his pain.

Yang Liu puffed a laugh, pointing at Ye Cheng and said, "How are you still so bad?"

She was already a beauty; with that smile, Ye Cheng's heart fluttered, and he teased,

"There's no way, if a man isn't bad, a woman won't love him."

Yang Liu's face flushed, she snorted, "What nonsense are you spouting?"

"Just joking, alright, beautiful, I'm leaving now." Ye Cheng said that and prepared to leave.

Seeing Ye Cheng still eager to leave in front of her, this great beauty, Yang Liu said displeasedly,

"What? I, a beauty, can't even chat with you for a while?"

"Yo yo yo, which girl calls herself a beauty?" Ye Cheng said teasingly.

"You..." Yang Liu, angry, raised her hand and slapped Ye Cheng hard, "You're just as slick-tongued as in school, can't you speak properly?"

The beauty's strike wasn't heavy, but her heart jumped violently.

Ye Cheng was about to say something when he heard a surprised voice from behind, "Ye Cheng?"

He turned around and saw Wang Ke, who had just come out of a private room.

"Yo, President Wang, you finally showed up." Ye Cheng said with a smile.

Wang Ke stepped forward, shook Ye Cheng's hand, and laughed while scolding, "What do you mean by 'you finally showed up'? It sounds like I was slacking. As for you, why are you here? Did you bring your girlfriend to eat?"

Ye Cheng teased, "Forget it, I'm not worthy of that great beauty. At the class reunion, she's our class belle and also the school belle, Yang Liu."

"President Wang, good." Yang Liu followed Ye Cheng in addressing Wang Ke.

Wang Ke said cheerfully, "Beauty, nice to meet you; next time you come I'll give you a discount."

Yang Liu had thought Wang Ke was some company boss Ye Cheng knew; anyway, nowadays everyone going out is a 'boss', but she didn't expect him to say he'd give her a discount right away.

She tentatively asked,

"Are you the owner of this shop?"

Wang Ke was a bit surprised; Ye Cheng hadn't told her, it seems they're not really a couple, he replied,

"Oh, you could also say I'm the boss."

Yang Liu looked at Ye Cheng in surprise, her eyes full of doubt: "You're just a fisherman, how do you know this shop's owner, and you seem quite familiar with him."

You should know, in Donghai Shi this private restaurant is still quite high-end.

Ye Cheng saw this was about to expose his poor loser persona, so he quickly explained,

"Ah, well, I often come to deliver fish to President Wang, so I'm familiar; he looks out for me, otherwise I couldn't afford this place."

Yang Liu still looked doubtful, "Delivering fish can get you this kind of connection?"

"I may be inexperienced, but I'm not stupid."

He had just finished speaking when Wang Ke beside him chimed in, "Tch! You couldn't afford it; I heard from Lao Zhao that you bought a boat, each trip costing over ten thousand."

"What? You have your own boat?" The others Yang Liu didn't catch clearly, but she heard the part about having a boat.

"Then just now you asked me to take you out to sea, yet you said you were just a worker." Yang Liu looked at Ye Cheng with resentment,

"You never speak a word of truth."

Those words left Ye Cheng speechless; all he could do was give an awkward laugh, making things awkward.

Seeing this, Wang Ke roughly understood and burst out laughing,

"Beauty, next time you want to go out to sea, just let him take you; this guy is just stingy."

"Hmph, I think he's not only stingy but also insincere." Seeing Ye Cheng not explain, Yang Liu got completely angry, flicked her hand and left.

Ye Cheng had wanted to explain, but he raised his hand then let it drop; forget it, we don't have much connection anyway.

"Yo, not going to chase?"

"What's there to chase? She's a well-behaved beauty and top student, while I'm just a fisherman out at sea—we're on different wavelengths." Ye Cheng self-deprecatingly remarked.

"Out at sea fishing, heh, if you're the kind who fishes at sea, my uncle would say he hasn't seen you in ages and wants to meet; would he suddenly go into real estate?" Wang Ke gave Ye Cheng a meaningful glance.

"Huh? Lao Wang is getting into real estate?" Ye Cheng really hadn't expected Lao Wang to actually listen to him.

"Right, he said you once mentioned something that made sense, so he's now invested in a plot of land, wanting to call you someday to discuss it."

Ye Cheng rubbed his mouth, wearing an expression of "Old Wang this guy, just that sly, and he actually took it to heart."

Wang Ke, displeased, put an arm around Ye Cheng, "Hey, he's my uncle after all; calling him Lao Wang in front of me is fine, but saying he's sly isn't right."

"Tch! He's a big boss who insisted on going to sell vegetables, then bummed a bowl of rice noodles—how is that not sly?"

"My uncle was just going to reminisce about the past."

"Then even back then he was sly."

"Got any slyness like yours?"

"By the way, why hasn't my little sister Xiao Rou thought of me?" Ye Cheng quickly changed the subject.

As soon as Xiao Rou was mentioned, Wang Ke immediately became wary, looking at him, "What are you up to? My cousin is a proper lady, don't get any ideas about her."

"As if she were proper." Ye Cheng was speechless; Xiao Rou and propriety basically don't go together.

"What's up, are you pretending to be proper?"

The two kept chatting while heading toward the doorway.

Behind them, the private room door opened; Wu Bin came out to settle the bill, Yang Liu had left, and staying just to drink would be pointless, pure waste of money.

He glanced casually, then his body shuddered, incredulously looking ahead—Wang Ke was seeing Ye Cheng out at the door.

This?

Wang Ke, whom he knew, is a relative of the big boss, manages this shop, is a high-level executive of the group; since the boss has no son, everyone says Wang Ke might have a chance to take over.

I'm actually just on the edge of the middle tier; compared to Wang Ke I'm still far behind, but seeing how familiar Wang Ke and Ye Cheng are with each other, how could that be?

How could Ye Cheng possibly know the company's high-level executives?

He stood there, unable to figure it out.

Wang Ke had already sent Ye Cheng off and returned, whereupon Wu Bin hurried over, bowing at the waist and saying,

"President Wang, good day."

"Ah, you're Xiao Wu from the company, right?" Wang Ke recalled that today a team leader from the company had come to set the table, but he only remembered the surname Wu, not the specific name—it wasn't yet at the level he needed to remember.

"Yes, President Wang, I'm Wu Bin." Wu Bin said with a fawning smile, being able to have the future successor remember his name is such an honor.