Chapter 52: Chapter 52: A Loving Lunch

The next day, the weekend rolled around once more.

Lin Wanyu was on her period and didn’t feel like going out.

Aside from working out, Gao Yuan also stayed home, keeping Lin Wanyu company while handling the preliminary work for his business.

The company’s business license had been approved.

As for the company’s name, Gao Yuan couldn’t think of anything good, so he simply named it Yuanfang.

The brand application had been submitted, and He Lang was already expediting it through his company’s internal channels. For this, Gao Yuan paid an additional 13,800 yuan in rush fees.

Li Mengqing, however, didn’t visit today, saying she was working overtime.

Gao Yuan figured she was probably working hard for his skincare business, and his heart went out to her for a moment.

And at that moment, Li Mengqing was indeed busy at her company.

Not that she was helping him find influencers to discuss collaborations with, but rather, she was in her exclusive styling room, creating new looks for her company’s influencers.

This was already the eighth new look she had created in the past few days.

In the past, she’d be lucky to get appointments with one or two influencers a week.

Her subordinates were also wondering why Sister Qing was working so hard lately. There were no quotas to meet. ’Is she doing it for the good of the company?’

Li Mengqing was selective about her clients. Previously, she only styled influencers with over a million followers.

This time, she lowered her standards.

Now, influencers with over 500,000 followers could book her for styling.

Once this news got out, all the second-tier influencers and streamers in the company were ecstatic.

Who wouldn’t want to be more beautiful? Perhaps their next video would go viral, or a big spender would shower them with more gifts during a livestream.

That was all money!

But Li Mengqing had no other requests for them. After finishing a look, she would simply say, "Just consider it a personal favor you owe me."

For these streamers and influencers, getting a style from Li Mengqing for free was a fantastic deal.

And for Li Mengqing,

it was also a great deal. These people would owe her a favor, and when Gao Yuan’s masks were released, she could have them film a video to repay it.

Influencers and streamers charge a lot for commercial videos, but they sometimes voluntarily recommend products to their fans for free.

For that to happen, the product had to be good and have no side effects. It also had to be something beneficial for their fans.

This was precisely Li Mengqing’s plan.

Once Gao Yuan’s GY masks were produced, she planned to send each of them a box to try, so they could personally experience the effects.

Then, she’d have them repay the favor by filming a video to promote the product.

After finishing a look for an influencer, Li Mengqing returned to her office and began rubbing her hands nonstop.

’These last few days have been exhausting. I haven’t been this tired since I was first learning the ropes.’

’I can’t believe I’m pushing myself this hard again... and all for a man.’

That was just how Li Mengqing was.

Unlike Lin Wanyu, she didn’t wear her heart on her sleeve, but once she set her mind on something, she would see it through to the end.

That night, spurred on by alcohol and egged on by Lin Wanyu, she had just wanted to experience a moment of passion.

She never expected to actually fall for him.

She saw all sorts of handsome men at work every day. Compared to them, Gao Yuan really didn’t have any particular edge.

But with him, Li Mengqing slowly began to feel a sense of home. It was like a poison she had drunk, making it impossible to escape.

Sometimes she found fate to be a strange thing. When she yearned for love, what she found often wasn’t love at all.

And now that she was scornful of it, fate had insisted on thrusting love upon her.

After rubbing her hands for a while, she couldn’t be bothered to go downstairs for lunch.

She pulled out her phone to order some takeout, planning to rest for a bit during her lunch break. She still had to style two more people in the afternoon.

"Are you in your office?"

She was scrolling through food options on her phone but had no appetite for anything she saw. Suddenly, a message from Gao Yuan popped up.

’This guy never messages me first. I’m always the one who texts him when I feel like teasing him. The sun must’ve risen in the west today.’

"I am. Miss me already, handsome?"

Li Mengqing had once again transformed into a teasing vixen.

But after she sent the message, Gao Yuan didn’t reply.

’That’s a bit annoying. Now I’m upset.’

Li Mengqing didn’t even want to eat lunch anymore.

She knew Lin Wanyu didn’t mind her flirting with Gao Yuan in the slightest—in fact, she seemed happy to share him—but Li Mengqing couldn’t bring herself to be that brazen about it.

She could only suppress this envy deep down, confining it to their private, unseen chats.

Having lost her appetite, Li Mengqing just rested her head on her desk to take a short nap.

BANG~

The door to Li Mengqing’s office was opened, and then quickly closed.

She was startled awake and looked up.

To her surprise, Gao Yuan was standing in her office, holding a small canvas bag.

"Heh heh. Well, here I am."

Gao Yuan’s first words immediately made Li Mengqing a little embarrassed.

She felt no embarrassment at all when flirting with Gao Yuan over text; in fact, she was quite bold.

But hearing him say it face-to-face immediately made her feel flustered.

"What are you doing here? How did you get in?"

Gao Yuan ignored her, placed the small canvas bag on her desk, took out a lunch box, and set it in front of her.

"Delivering lunch to a certain someone."

"As for how I got in? I tunneled."

Li Mengqing looked at the lunch box before her, and her gloomy mood instantly brightened. She wanted to smile but didn’t want to show it in front of Gao Yuan, so her expression just twitched.

She used the excuse of wiping her face with her hands to hide a quick smile before immediately reverting to her cool and aloof demeanor.

"Thanks!"

Watching Li Mengqing’s little performance, Gao Yuan couldn’t help but think that Lin Wanyu had been absolutely right about her.

Lin Wanyu had predicted everything that just happened.

In fact, it was Lin Wanyu who had urged Gao Yuan to deliver the lunch.

What Lin Wanyu didn’t know was that Gao Yuan had already made lunch for three people. During their meal, he had even brought up Li Mengqing on his own initiative.

That was what had prompted Lin Wanyu to suggest he deliver the meal to her.

Lin Wanyu’s reason was that she felt bad for her best friend, and Gao Yuan hadn’t hesitated at all, coming over immediately.

Similarly, what Gao Yuan didn’t know was that Lin Wanyu could also guess what was on his mind.

He had never brought up Li Mengqing on his own before. Publicly, the two of them just bickered, but Li Mengqing hadn’t hidden the contents of their private chats from Lin Wanyu.

The two women just didn’t want him to die of social embarrassment.

You could say that Lin Wanyu had specially paved the way for Gao Yuan to come and deliver this "lunch of love."

’There’s nothing wrong with a man taking the initiative.’

Gao Yuan had the desire but not the nerve, so Lin Wanyu decided to give him a push.

Li Mengqing lowered her head and dug into the lunch Gao Yuan had brought. It was braised pork with rice and a few stalks of choy sum. She ate with great relish, having long forgotten that she’d seen the very same dish while browsing for takeout just moments before.

Gao Yuan, on the other hand, sat on the sofa watching Li Mengqing.

’He really couldn’t figure this woman out.’

’She’s beautiful and has a great body. Her personality is a little strange, but not in a bad way.’

’So why isn’t she dating anyone or getting married?’

’Do high-income women in the big city really not need men?’

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