Title: The Male Lead’s Villainess Stepmother
Translator: Fringe Alpaca
Chapter 134 - Mathematics didn’t really work out that way (3)
The boss was just asking her. Did that mean she can just say “No”? Yan Shuyu’s eyes flickered, and she was very tempted to say just that when she heard the boss say in a very nonchalantly way, “When you said activities, you are referring to Liu Ci’s musical institution, right? I still have Instructor Liu’s business card that he gave me last time. I happened to have some questions for him. If you don’t think it’s appropriate, I can reach out to them directly.”
Yan Shuyu: “……”
Zhou Qinhe sounded very reasonable, but Yan Shuyu knew full well that Liu Ci already knew of the boss’s real identity. In addition to being a very outstanding musician, Lui Ci also wanted to have a very successful business. Meaning, if the boss was to reach out to Liu Ci, Liu Ci would arrange for the boss to come no matter what hoops he had to jump through, never mind that it was just regular pre-opening activities tomorrow.
So what was the point to make the boss go the indirect route and have him hold yet another grudge against her? As much as she had an inkling that the boss was threatening her a bit, she still replied with feigned enthusiasm, “No, it is fine. I just heard that there will be lots of kids there tomorrow. It’ll probably be pretty noisy and I worry that it isn’t exactly your scene.”
Yan Shuyu really hoped that the boss would think this whole thing through. This father and son pair were standing at the top of the world. She could only imagine them going to places with others of their same caliber and the venues that were resplendent and magnificent. Definitely not activities that were so peasant-like.
Nevertheless, Zhou Qinhe had already made that decision single-sidedly. “That will be fine. Xiao Yi and I would like to check it out as well. What time tomorrow?”
Things didn’t exactly go as she had hoped. Yan Shuyu replied a little distressed, “I heard there will be some games as well. It’ll be from 2 PM to 5 or 6 PM. “
Zhou Qinhe responded with a “Mm” before he suddenly asked another question, “Do you have plans tomorrow at noon time?”
Yan Shuyu had a bad feeling. “Perhaps, maybe… I don’t think so?”
“Then why don’t we have lunch together?” asked Zhou Qinhe directly without letting her tone bother him a bit. He then added, “Yuanbao can have seafood, right?”
He didn’t ask whether Yan Shuyu could have seafood, but as soon as she heard the word, her eyes beamed. All the words she had prepared to turn him down turned into, “What kind of seafood.”
“They have every kind.” Zhou Qinhe reminded nicely, “I heard that this restaurant is by reservation only. If you would like to go, this is the perfect time to make a reservation. If we wait any longer that might be a problem.”
A restaurant that even someone with the boss's status had to make a reservation to eat there? Exactly how Tall, Big, and High (Class) was this restaurant? If Yan Shuyu was only tempted earlier, she was now completely fixated. Struggling, she asked, “Zhou Yi will be there as well?”
“Of course.” Laughed Zhou Qinhe. “That way we can just head over to the activities after lunch.”
Yan Shuyu thought she got it now. The boss was treating them as a token of appreciation for her and her son taking him and his son out for fun. There was no reason to turn him down.
As such, why should she? It’d be an extra opportunity for her son and the male lead to get closer to each other. And that was how Yan Shuyu happily made her decision. She was still being polite verbally though. “Oh, I would hate for you to spend so much….”
“Quid pro quo. You treated me to coffee last time.”
Trading a seafood meal from the boss with a $20 cup of coffee was a steal. Naturally, Yan Shuyu, being the one who came out ahead in this, would not remind him that the mathematics didn’t really work out that way. With her lips curved madly up, she nodded. “Alright.”
“We will go pick you up at 11 AM, will that work?”
Yan Shuyu thought about it for a bit. She really wished the boss would give her the address, so she and her son could just take the subway over. But she figured that the boss’s gentleman etiquette would never let her do that.
Welp, he already knew where she lived, so what difference would that make now? She nodded happily and said, “Okay, I will see you tomorrow then.”