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  Chapter 134: Sweeter Than Milk Tea

  TL: Etude

  “Setting up our own delivery system is too troublesome,” one of them mented.

  “It’s more cost-effective to start with a cash-on-delivery settlement model,” angested.

  “The bo punch of the forum only reach Lin. Beyond that, the costs soar. We o break out of our circle in advance.”

  “Small-scale operations are manageable, but sg up brings a host of problems.”

  On a sunny and warm afternoon, as the store quieted down, the manager of Xi Tian, Fang Xiaoxuan, gazed through the gss window, her face filled with longing as she watched the shop owner and the boss dy sitting uhe sunshade outside the door.

  The owner was busy sketg and writing on a piece of paper, muttering to himself.

  The boss dy, donning oversized suhat cealed her face, lounged leisurely in a chair, her legs, stogs, swingily.

  After a while, she extended her milk tea cup to the owner for a sip.

  A bit ter, she offered it again for another sip.

  Sometimes the owner would refuse, pining it was too sweet. But the boss dy would insist, nudging the cup closer until he relented and took a sip.

  “Ah, it’s eveer than the milk tea I make,” he ented.

  Fang Xiaoxuan thought that the owner usually exhibited a seriousness and maturity far beyond his peers, uher college students. Whether in his gaze or tone, he cked the youthful vitality and aspiration, instead possessing a depth and sharpness of an adult.

  But whehe boss dy was around, he would return to his normal state.

  Indeed, it seemed that in this world, the oy capable of taming such a creature as the owner was the boss dy.

  “Let’s go, little rich dy, I’ll take you for a stroll.”

  After a while, Jiang Qin put down his pely folded the paper, and stuffed it into his pocket, deg to i room 502.

  Feng Nanshu stood up to put on her shoes, only to feel her foot gently grasped by a warm hand. Before she k, one shoe was already on.

  “Helping others is the source of happiness,” Jiang Qin murmured, adopting an air of a righteous gentleman. He early held her other foot, a stog, massaging it briefly before helping her with the shoe.

  “Done, let’s go!”

  Feng Nanshu looked down at her shoes in fusion. “Jiang Qin, my shoeces aren’t tied yet.”

  “I don’t really know how to do that,” Jiang Qin admitted, spreading his hands in surrender.

  “?”

  Fang Xiaoxuan, watg from behind, spped the doorframe in amusement, thinking to herself that the owner just wao touch the boss dy’s stog-cd feet. Having taken the advantage, he should at least tie her shoeces!

  Arriving at the 502 room of the prehensive building from Xi Tian Milk Tea Shop, they were greeted with the incessant ctter of keyboards, indig a fervent w atmosphere.

  Dong Wenhao was dug a meeting with several group leaders, preparing for the crucial version phase to prevent a rapid decrease in active users after the event.

  Everyone was busy with their tasks, with vibrant energy thhly permeating the room.

  However, when Feng Nanshu entered with Jiang Qin, many couldn’t help but pause their work.

  Many newers in the rge tech team, recruited from the school, didn’t reize Feng Nanshu, and some didn’t even know Jiang Qin.

  At that moment, ohought crossed their minds.

  Fuck, such a beautiful girl.

  And when the “little rich dy” gnced over with an indifferent look, the thought transformed to: Fuck, such a cold and aloof girl.

  It was only when the old staff enthusiastically greeted the “boss dy” that everyone realized who she was. They quickly averted their gaze, straighteheir backs, auro their fervent work.

  “The boss dy has brought milk tea for everyone. Someone will deliver it shortly. Wenhao, make sure to distribute it.”

  After Jiang Qiered the room, he called out.

  “Alright, boss,” Dong Wenhao respohinking to himself that despite the boss’s frequent visits, they had never seen as much as a straw from him, let alone milk tea. It’s really all thanks to the boss dy.

  Not long after, two college students w part-time under Fang Xiaoxuan arrived, carrying a rge batilk tea.

  The newers, sipping their milk tea, learned from the old team members’ gossip that the incredibly popur Xi Tian milk tea shop downstairs was owned by the boss dy.

  Truly, exceptional people attract each other.

  One was engaged in forum promotion, the other in making milk tea – a perfect pair, like heroes in martial arts tales!

  “?!”

  Feng Nanshu looked at the pile of milk tea somewhat bewilderedly. “I don’t recall them milk tea.”

  “This is how you make your presence felt. Besides, I usually py the cool and aloof boss, a bit unapproachable. Iure, you’ll be responsible feing goodwill. In their eyes, the boss dy and the boss are one and the same.”

  Jiang Qin tried to expin, though he felt that the little rich dy probably didn’t uand.

  As the promotion tihe team would grow, especially in different campuses. Thus, a certaiat would iably emerge.

  Therefore, Jiang Qin had to maintain a somewhat cold and distant demeanor to have enough deterrent effe the team.

  But too mutimidation could dilute the sense of belonging, so occasional amiable gestures were necessary – a on tacti business operations.

  “Then I’ll have Xiaoxuan send over some ice cream too!”

  The little rich dy didn’t quite uand, but her eyes lit up at the mention of ‘family.’ She took out her phone, ready to demonstrate the generosity of the boss dy.

  “No, once is enough. Don’t imitate recklessly.”

  Feng Nanshu looked at him someuzzledly. “Should we do this daily?”

  “Just this once. Doing it every day would be too presumptuous, wouldn’t it?”

  After speaking, Jiang Qin approached Guo Zihang, who was intensely focused on his puter s, typing away furiously. “Old Guo, how do you find the experience of w part-time on campus?”

  “Stepfather, I feel like I’m doing well,” Guo Zihang replied enthusiastically.

  “Really? Where do you think you’re excelling? Tell me about it.”

  “I’m managing forum posts for you. I delete those that involve personal attacks and highlight the well-written ones. It feels like I have trol over the campus discourse!”

  Jiang Qin patted his shoulder. “This job is too important. Without you, this forum would surely colpse.”

  Guo Zihang was taken aback. “Is it really that serious?”

  “What’s important is fidence. Old Guo, you ck fidence. Don’t always go for the hard hits online. You that fideo real life. When that senior handed you the milk tea, why didn’t you even say thank you?”

  “I was hesitating whether to thank her or not, and then she left,” Guo Zihated.

  “Some things, if you hesitate, it’s too te. Here, practiow. Say thank you to the little rich dy whht you the milk tea.”

  Jiang Qin stepped back, revealing the cute girl behind him who had been following him with her gaze.

  Guo Zihahat his stepfather was just teasing him today, but he had no proof. Yet, looking at the girl just a step away, he felt an unreal sensation.

  He remembered how in high school, after lunch break, many boys would lean against the windows, watg a bck car with wings slowly stop at the gate. Feng Nanshu would theer the school uhe brilliant sunlight, as cold and distant as the moon, walking straight through the campus without a sideways gnce.

  There would often be a breeze thely lifting her skirt.

  That moment seemed to dazzle the years and tenderly touch the youth of many.

  After Feng Nanshu crossed the campus aered the teag building, the bolder boys, pretending to go to the bathroom, would sneak extra gnces, feeling immensely satisfied.

  But Feng Nanshu never spared a gnce for anyone, sitting quietly in her seat from the moment she ehe until css started, and then following the bck car as she left – mysterious and aloof.

  That se art of many people’s youth. Yet now, this pristine figure of youth, Feng Nanshu, obedient like a cat, her eyes stantly fixed on Jiang Qin, following him wherever he went.

  Must be fi… it felt too surreal.

  fidence…

  Yes, perhaps what set him apart from his stepfather was just fidence.

  “Thank you, student Feng.” (not disrespectfully lol)

  “You’re wele.”

  Feng Nanshu replied with a distant ess, instantly halving Guo Zihang’s newfound fidence.

  No, maybe it wasn’t just fidehat he cked pared to his stepfather.

  Jiang Qin, witnessing Guo Zihang’s shrinking fidence, felt somewhat helpless. He thought that f oneself required irength and hoped that one day Guo would find his. Then, he and the little rich dy left the prehensive building auro their car.

  His visit today didn’t have a specific purpose; it was simply to take Feng Nanshu out for a walk and to rex a bit. The effect seemed pretty good.

  “Weren’t you happy when everyone said thank you? Why didn’t you react to Guo Zihang’s thanks?”

  “He didn’t call me ‘boss dy,'” Feng Nanshu stated matter-of-factly.

  Jiang Qin paused, “So, what you wao hear wasn’t ‘thank you,’ but ‘boss dy’?”

  “Mhm.”

  “Why?”

  “I don’t know.”

  Feng Nanshu’s voice was soft, her eyes sparkly.

  …

  In a fsh, it was 8 o’clo the evening. Cao Guangyu sent an address with two words: “e quickly.”

  Jiang Qin saw the words “e quickly,” but his mind tra into, “I ’t wait to show off!”

  Ten mier, the bck Audi arrived at Juxianlou.

  Juxianlou was one of the more famous restaurants in Lin, with a pure ese-style decor. The entire pce was adorned in an a charm. The entrance felt like stepping into a wealthy family’s courtyard, plete with an artificial stream and a realistidscape tree. Behind it was a rockery stantly emitting mist, resembling the Peach Ba of the Queen Mother of the West1 https:///topic/Xiwangmu. [1]

  Jiang Qin had checked earlier; with an average spend of three hundred per person, it was quite a vish affair for those times.

  After getting out of the car, Feng Nanshu hurried to the restroom, while Jiang Qiered the private room first.

  Pushing open the door, he found Cao Guangyu seated in the tral seat, a woman’s purse on the empty chair beside him. Ren Ziqiang and Zhou Chao looked overwhelmed and dazed, as if they couldn’t quite grasp the situation.

  “Old Jiang, you’re here? e sit!”

  Jiang Qin sat o Ren Ziqiang. “Old Cao, where’s your partner?”

  Cao Guangyu’s face was full of spring: “She’s goo order dishes, she’ll be back soon, hehe.”

  “Have you all met her already?” Jiang Qin looked towards Ren Ziqiang.

  Ren Ziqiang nodded. “You’d never guess. Old Cao’s partner is the same one who threateo beat him up online. Damn, they mao spark a romahrough insults. I’ve never seen anything so absurd in my life!”

  “?”

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