Chapter 400 - 399: Xia Zhiyun’s Determination

After Xia Zhengguang went back to his room to rest, Xia Zhiyun stood in front of Xia Zhengguang’s door, his eyes narrowed slightly.

It wasn’t that he hadn’t heard what Xia Zhengguang had said. On the contrary, he had heard every word with perfect clarity.

And Xia Zhiyun remembered what Xia Zhengguang had just said: the reason Situ Wenze was targeting the Xia family was because they had offended someone from the Situ family.

But no matter how hard he thought, he couldn’t recall when he might have offended someone from the Situ Family.

Xia Zhiyun’s lips pressed into a thin line as he thought, but even after racking his brain, he couldn’t remember ever clashing with anyone from the Situ Family.

Unable to figure it out on his own, Xia Zhiyun decided to call his former assistant.

That’s right, former.

Without the Xia family company, Xia Zhiyun was, at best, a down-on-his-luck young master with a bit of money left. He didn’t have to go to work, so naturally, he no longer needed an assistant.

The person on the other end answered quickly, but after listening for just a moment, Xia Zhiyun’s expression darkened.

He was no longer the president of the Xia family company, but the assistant was still the president’s assistant. Now, that person had seamlessly become the assistant to the new president, Situ Wenze.

Some might think the assistant was disloyal, but for that assistant, the position of President’s Assistant at the Xia family company was just a job to support their family.

Without that job, his next one might not come with such a high salary, not to mention the monthly bonuses.

From a moral standpoint, what the assistant did was a low blow. But realistically, if Xia Zhiyun were in the assistant’s shoes, he felt he probably would have made the same choice.

But since he was the president who had been replaced, he felt deeply uncomfortable no matter how he tried to rationalize it.

The assistant was no longer an option, so Xia Zhiyun pinned his hopes on a private investigator.

However, he didn’t have much money on hand, so the investigator he hired wasn’t a particularly famous one.

But he had no other options left; his only hope was that this investigator would be reliable.

As long as he could find out why the Situ Family was suddenly targeting them, Xia Zhiyun would know how to tailor a solution to the problem.

No matter what, as long as he could get the Situ Family to stop targeting them, he would accept any demand they made.

At this thought, Xia Zhiyun’s resolve to hire a private investigator hardened.

He took out his phone, found a number, and dialed.

「* * *」

Yun Zijin had been keeping Lu Yunque company at work, and by 6 p.m., he was still busy in a video conference.

Seeing that Lu Yunque showed no signs of ending the meeting, Yun Zijin found a small blackboard, wrote the two words "Let’s eat" on it, and held it up in front of him.

Lu Yunque glanced up casually and saw the words Yun Zijin was holding up on the little blackboard.

He then raised his wrist to check the time. The minute hand was already approaching the "2".

It was past Yun Zijin’s dinner time. Lu Yunque quickly said a few words to the others in the video conference and ended the meeting.

"Sorry, I lost track of time during the meeting. Do you want to go out to eat, or should we eat here?"

Lu Yunque was usually too lazy to go out, so he always had Mo Bin order food for him.

However, the food he ordered was on a completely different level from the takeout ordinary people would get.

"It’s already this late. Let’s just have it delivered."

"We probably wouldn’t get a table even if we went to a restaurant now."

"Besides, it’s not like we haven’t eaten here before."

"Okay, I’ll have Mo Bin order something."

With that, Lu Yunque picked up the internal phone on his desk, called Mo Bin, and told him to order dinner.

「* * *」

By investing 30 million in Gao Mi’s film crew, Yun Zijin had already completed her spending quota for the week. For the rest of the week, she didn’t have to worry about the spending task.

On Friday night, Yun Zijin sat on her bed, waiting for midnight to arrive.

As the midnight bell tolled, Yun Zijin finally received her reward for the week’s spending task.

[Congratulations, Host, for completing this week’s cumulative spending task of ¥24,000,000. Task Reward: You have received a 5x cash rebate of ¥120,000,000, which has been deposited into your bank account. You have also received: Beginner Chinese Medicine Acupuncture Technique Skill Card x1, Free Spending Health Pills x100, Moonlight Grass Seeds x20 packs, Fire Tree Seeds x20 packs, Ice Tree Seeds x20 packs, and full ownership of all shops on Dijing Financial Street. All related documents and certificates have been sent to the System inventory. Please check for them.]

Looking at the rewards, Yun Zijin was especially surprised and delighted by the Acupuncture Technique.

She had already gotten used to receiving real estate and all sorts of strange items.

"It’s a Chinese Medicine Acupuncture Technique!"

Yun Zijin looked at the Skill Card floating in front of her and reached out to take it.

"How do I use this?"

As soon as she said it, the instructions on how to use it automatically appeared in her mind.

She just needed to place the Skill Card on the spot between her eyebrows, and it would automatically merge with her.

What was she waiting for? Yun Zijin immediately placed the Skill Card between her eyebrows. She soon felt a flood of knowledge rushing into her mind.

After a long while, Yun Zijin opened her eyes. Sensing the new knowledge in her head, her eyes shone with excitement.

Although many of this week’s rewards were repeats, the Acupuncture Technique alone made Yun Zijin feel like she had hit the jackpot.

’And...’ Yun Zijin thought, ’if I can get the Intermediate Acupuncture Technique and the Advanced Acupuncture Technique, I might be able to help Lu Yunzhou’s legs recover with acupuncture!’

The thought of this possibility raised her expectations for the Acupuncture Technique to a whole new level.

However, she had only just acquired the technique and had no hands-on experience yet.

Before announcing to anyone that she knew acupuncture, Yun Zijin planned to buy a couple of lab mice to practice on first.

No matter what, she had to be responsible toward others.

’But now isn’t the time to think about all this. Everything else can wait until tomorrow. It’s time for me to sleep.’

「* * *」

Saturday was the day of the special event at the Wangyou Milk Tea Shop.

Yun Zijin, who rarely visited the Wangyou Milk Tea Shop, was there today acting as a server.

Well, quite a few able-bodied helpers she had roped in, along with some willing volunteers, had also shown up today.

"Sister Yun, this Baonu Tea... can guys drink it?"

The moment Sheng Yang entered the shop, he saw the two large words for "Baonu Tea" on the promotional poster.

He was eager to try the new product, but the name made it sound like it wasn’t for guys.

"Of course you can. But you’re not overweight. The main effects of this Baonu Tea are fat reduction and skin beautification. You probably don’t need it, do you?"

Yun Zijin looked Sheng Yang up and down. He had a well-proportioned figure. She could tell he had abs, though she couldn’t say if it was a six-pack.

"I don’t need it... but someone else does. Sister Yun, can I really not buy some through an internal channel?"

From what he’d just heard Sister Yun and Qin Sitong say, this Baonu Tea was only available today. After today, it would be gone.

"No way. We have very limited stock. For today’s event, I didn’t even save any for myself, so don’t even think about it."