Chapter 171: Go Tell That to My Misheard Lyrics!

However, she did not expect that when she met Meng Zeming at a cafe the next day, after a few pleasantries, the other party started off with, "Name your price, I want to acquire your Company."

Lin Sui: "..."

In the quiet cafe, there was no fan-waiter coming over to help her act this time; she was the only one silently enduring it.

Meng Zeming looked only four or five years older than her.

Lin Sui had no memory of him.

Judging by his face, he did indeed look a bit like a member of her family.

He was different from the classic CEO temperament of Shen Qing Ge.

Shen Qing Ge was a CEO from a novel, appearing on the surface to be filled with an aloofness that kept people at a distance, an image where invisible posturing is the most lethal.

But Meng Zeming was more like an "honest man" in reality who would bow and scrape to others in order to facilitate a deal.

But as a businessman, how could anyone be truly honest?

"You ran over here to acknowledge our kinship just for this?" Lin Sui asked helplessly.

Meng Zeming leaned back in his chair, staring at Lin Sui's face, "Isn't it because I thought relatives could get a discount?"

"I see your image is even better than when you are in the Live Streaming Room; if you like doing this line of work, you can come to my Company, and I will give you the best resources."

Lin Sui: "Push the resources others worked hard to obtain onto me?"

"... That matter has nothing to do with me."

Meng Zeming sat up straight, feeling it necessary to explain to Lin Sui, "I am the boss, the streamers under me all have dedicated management personnel, I basically don't interfere; aren't you like this too?"

Lin Sui: "..."

Is that how a boss is supposed to be?

"No wonder there are so many parasites in your Company," she said bluntly.

Meng Zeming was speechless for a moment.

Lin Sui continued: "But I don't understand, the small streamers in your Company who have no fame have all had their contracts terminated, and my Company is also full of small streamers with no fame; why are you buying it?"

"..." Meng Zeming was stumped by her question.

He also didn't know why his aunt told him to buy it.

The only thing in this Company worth keeping was Lin Sui.

Those other streamers were unknown, and currently, they couldn't bring in any profit at all.

But thinking of his aunt's goal, Meng Zeming calmed down again.

He couldn't tell Lin Sui that he was doing this just to find an excuse to stuff money into her hands, right?

He could only open his eyes and tell a lie, "I think your small Company has a lot of potential; the future is promising."

Lin Sui smiled and raised an eyebrow at him, "Cousin, you have a great eye~"

Meng Zeming: "..."

He took a deep breath, "Then name your price."

Lin Sui was just about to refuse when the system suddenly popped up, 【Name a price of four hundred million; it's just enough to finish building our Company, and we can just change the name then.】

Sell!

What is being sold is just a trademark.

If one company is gone, we can build another; if the money is gone, then it is truly gone.

Lin Sui: "..."

Truly unscrupulous.

With the current scale of her Company, it was worth at most a few tens of millions.

Lin Sui asked calmly: "May I ask, do you have a lot of money?"

Meng Zeming smiled, "I don't, but I have someone behind me."

He picked up the coffee in front of him and took a sip.

He believed that no matter how much money she asked for, his aunt would pay it.

"Just go ahead and quote your price."

Lin Sui: "One billion."

System: 【...】

Meng Zeming: "..."

Lin Sui blinked at him, as if saying—

"You told me to go ahead and quote."

"The system can't distinguish between retroflex and non-retroflex sounds."

"Go tell that to my misheard lyrics!"

"We are all quoting with such effort... I've put in so much effort, you wouldn't be unable to afford it, would you?"

Meng Zeming swallowed the coffee he had almost spat out, "Can we be realistic?"

Lin Sui tilted her head, "Isn't this realistic enough? It's very realistic."

She said seriously: "Even you yourself said my Company's future is promising; once it develops in the future, the value will be more than one billion."

"It hasn't developed yet!" His own company might not even be worth that price!

Lin Sui: "Nowadays, when ordering takeout, merchants calculate labor costs, utility bills, rent, and the future costs of their children getting married and having kids into the buyer's bill; why can't I, with such a big company, calculate the future value in advance?"

"We're relatives, I've already given you a discount."

Meng Zeming held it in for a long time before he could stop himself from losing his temper, "Cousin, don't mess around..."

Lin Sui, however, lowered her head, interlaced her fingers, and said with a look of great pain: "Cousin, you might not know how I've spent these past few years..."

"..."

Meng Zeming calmed down, thinking that Lin Sui had not had a mother by her side for so many years, and her life might have truly been quite bitter.

How pitiful...

She might indeed need a large amount of money to fill the void of her childhood.

He waited quietly for Lin Sui to tell stories of her past, wanting to understand her a bit more.

As it turned out, Lin Sui had nothing more to say.

He waited patiently.

After a while, he saw Lin Sui secretly lift her eyes to glance at him.

Meng Zeming: "? You should keep talking!"

Lin Sui: "Usually at this point, you should have interrupted me! Do you not understand how the plot is supposed to go?"

Meng Zeming: "...?"

"Are you putting on a show here?"

"Before I became a Live Streamer, I was an actor."

Meng Zeming: "Who asked you!"

He stood up in anger, wanting to just walk away, but then remembered the purpose of his visit.

He put his hands on his hips and smoothed out his breath, "Is there room for negotiation?"

Lin Sui smiled at him, imitating the tone he had just used to act wealthy, "Feel free to name your price~"

"Fine." Meng Zeming laughed in anger, "If you won't negotiate, then I'll go back and negotiate."

Anyway, it wasn't his own money he was giving; one billion was one billion.

Lin Sui was somewhat surprised, "Oh? So there really is room for negotiation?"

"Hmph." He snorted coldly and left the coffee shop directly.

Lin Sui watched his departing back, pondering who he was going back to negotiate with.

If such an outrageous price was negotiable, then there could only be one answer.

Could it be that mother of hers whom she hadn't seen in a long time?

She really knew how to cause trouble for her.

First she found her second aunt, and now she was finding her cousin.

Taking turns, one after another.

System: 【You know this price is outrageous too?】

"They might not even pay if you set that price." Lin Sui came back to her senses.

【If one billion is negotiable, why wouldn't they pay four hundred million!】

Lin Sui retorted: "Are you complaining about having too much money?"

【That's not it, if the talks fall through, we won't get any money.】 It felt like she never intended to negotiate seriously.

Lin Sui indeed had no intention of negotiating seriously, "The people in the Company were all hand-picked by me; if I sell it, they all belong to someone else."

With contracts in place, they couldn't run away for the time being.

Most of them came for her sake, yet she was just going to wash her hands of it and run off; what would that make her?

The System didn't expect her to be thinking about others, and for a moment, it was quite moved, 【I'm tearing up, sister; when it comes to loyalty and righteousness, you've reached the peak.】

Lin Sui took another sip of coffee and sighed, "The main thing is that my two super big brothers are both in the Company; I can't bring myself to hand them over to someone else!"

Without A Fu and Shen Ti, how much of her source of income would she lose?

To be precise, for this Company to be up and running, Shen Ti deserved more than half the credit.

Who would send away their god of wealth because of immediate benefits?

System: 【... Why don't you try calling me black-hearted again in the future?】

Compared to her, it felt like a greenhorn.

Lin Sui: "Enough, where is yesterday's reward? Give it to me!"

You've already deducted the money from me, so you have to give me the reward, right?

Don't even think about trying to get away with it!

System: 【...】

It didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

Because Lin Sui had finally become the person it wanted her to be.

A lover of money as if it were her own life.