Huang Qing hadn’t planned to really test drive Yang Hao’s car, since they had just met today.
Even close friends would hesitate to lend out their car, but this Yang seemed quite accommodating when driving upstairs. Overwhelmed by curiosity, she couldn’t resist taking a couple of loops around the commercial street in that imposing Yangwang U8!
The driving experience was excellent, and if she hadn’t been facing difficulties at home right now, she definitely would have bought one for herself.
However, after taking the car for two loops, the shade upstairs remained closed.
The time passed rather slowly…
After getting out of the car, Huang Qing leaned on the bumper of the Yangwang U8, smoked a cigarette, and video-chatted with her bestie: “Di, let me tell you, I sold my coffee shop for 8 million…”
“Yeah, sold it together with the retail space.”
“It was a well-off dude who bought it for his lover, but those two are really impatient,” she continued, “right now they’re in the private room trying out their card skills…”
“You freak, why would I have cameras in my private room!”
“Watching gets boring, how about I set you up with two young hunks tonight?”
“…”
Huang Qing was having a blast chatting with the woman on the video, but their words were rather salacious.
Their chat lasted for over twenty minutes.
Finally, the shade upstairs was pulled up.
“It’s over.”
“I’m going up to sign the contract.”
Huang Qing greeted the woman on the video and then ended the video call.
She didn’t go upstairs immediately. Instead, she smoked another cigarette before returning to the private room with her assistant: “Yang, the car is really good. I took a few loops, and the driving experience was very impressive!”
While speaking, Huang Qing’s gaze inadvertently wandered over Wang Xueru, imbuing her words with a double entendre.
But Wang Xueru was rather naive and didn’t catch the subtext in Huang Qing’s words. She was nervously reviewing the contract, fearing the other party would suspect something.
So as not to leave any traces, she even ordered some food, trying her best not to be discovered.
Yang Hao, who caught the subtext, laughed: “The car is really nice. Only those who try it will know!”
Yang Hao wasn’t as naive as Wang Xueru. During the uninterrupted forty minutes or so, when no one disturbed them, waiters occasionally passed by the door to the second floor, which gave the impression they were adding to the storyline!
Therefore, Huang Qing seemed cold, but in reality, she knew how to have fun.
Not surprising really, considering she did run a bar, a business not everyone can handle.
After a bit of small talk, they got back to the matter at hand.
Before getting down to business, Yang Hao had sent the contract to Wang Xiuxiu, whom he had met while buying a house, asking her to review it.
That real estate agent had replied fifteen minutes ago, confirming there were no issues with the contract.
Thus, Yang Hao wasted no time and transferred a deposit of 500,000 yuan directly to Huang Qing. They agreed to meet on Monday morning at the real estate office to complete the transfer procedures.
“Miss Wang, if you’re free today, you could stay and familiarize yourself with the shop. Once we complete the transaction on Monday, you can start running the place quicker,” Huang Qing said to Wang Xueru after the 500,000 was in her account.
Her plan was to sever all ties with the shop after getting the money on Monday. It was perfect timing to handover the shop’s particulars to Wang Xueru today, so she wouldn’t have to come back on Monday.
“Um…”
Wang Xueru wasn’t quite in the role yet, feeling a bit out of her element.
“Xueru, just stay, will you? I was just about to go work out,” Yang Hao said, gently patting Wang Xueru’s shoulder and adding in a low voice, “From now on, you’re the boss here, you should start getting into the role quickly.”
“Okay.”
Wang Xueru nodded, suddenly feeling the weight on her shoulders. This shop was an investment of 8 million yuan. She had to manage it carefully.
After greeting Yang Hao, Huang Qing started walking through the business with Wang Xueru, familiarizing her with the shop and introducing her to the two employees and a pastry chef as the new boss.
After all that was done, Huang Qing drove off in her BMW X6.
Wang Xueru felt a bit dazed. It seemed like it was just over two hours since she told Yang Hao she wanted to open a cafe, and now she was the owner of such a large establishment.
Originally, the coffee shop had five employees. When Huang Qing announced her intention to sell the place, two of them left.
Business wasn’t great at the moment, and with Wang Xueru willing to be hands-on, there wasn’t an immediate need to hire more staff.
After processing the situation for some time, Wang Xueru gradually began to adapt to her new role, silently planning the future management of the cafe…
Just then, her phone rang. It was Yao Tingting, her best friend for over twenty years, from elementary school all the way through high school.
“Xueru, I’ve already sent the little ancestor over to my mom’s. Do you want to come over and find me?” Yao Tingting, who was aware of her friend’s divorce, wanted to meet up and chat over the weekend.
“Tingting, I’m a bit busy over here…”
“What could be so important to keep you from me?” Before Wang Xueru could finish speaking, her dear friend started to complain.
“Hmm, it’s like this…”
Wang Xueru explained the whole sequence of events.
“Huh???”
“An 8-million coffee shop given away just like that??”
“Xueru, you’ve definitely encountered a scammer!”
“Send me your location, I’m coming to rescue you right away!!”
Yao Tingting, who had just heard the story, was extremely agitated, her voice on the phone taking on an urgent tone.
“Yang wouldn’t be a scammer, and besides, I haven’t lost anything.”
Wang Xueru thought her friend was probably overthinking it.
Although she hadn’t known Yang Hao for a very long time, she still trusted this Yang, especially since he hadn’t asked her for a single penny.
Scamming for money was out of the question!
Scamming for sex?
That was even more ludicrous!
That Yang had already hit it off with three routes!!
“Xueru, you’ve been brainwashed already, quickly send me the address!”
“I must save you from the dire straits!”
Yao Tingting simply didn’t believe Wang Xueru’s words and spoke with righteous indignation.
“Okay, okay, then come over.”
“We can talk about it…”
Although Wang Xueru didn’t think she had been deceived, Yao Tingting had experience opening a milk tea shop before, which could be useful for giving advice on how to run the coffee shop well.
About twenty minutes later, Yao Tingting stormed into the coffee shop.
The woman was quite tall, wearing a khaki trench coat, with jeans and knee-high boots underneath, her figure was passable, but her looks paled in comparison to Wang Xueru.
“Tingting, let’s go upstairs to talk.”
Wang Xueru led her good friend into the [Orange] private room and then had the staff bring up two cups of coffee.
“Xueru, what’s going on? You’re suddenly the boss now?”
“He didn’t make you sign a loan agreement or a mortgage, did he?”
Yao Tingting had been sizing up the coffee shop ever since she walked in.
Though the decoration was average, the space was generously sized, with up to one hundred and forty or fifty square meters upstairs and downstairs. You need to know that the Starbucks in Starlight City was only a little over fifty square meters.
And a rich man she hadn’t known for long had just given such a big shop to Wang Xueru, which was like the dream scenario for every Cinderella, classic “Domineering CEO’s Love for the Second-Time Bride”!
But even the scriptwriters of “The First Half of My Life” would shake their heads at such a storyline!
So Yao Tingting was quite skeptical, “Xueru, I think you’ve been holed up at home for too long.”
“I’ve always told you to find a job, even if it didn’t pay much, at least you wouldn’t become out of touch with society. To believe such an obvious scam, no wonder Shen Mingshan managed to deceive you!”
Yao Tingting, who had been close friends with her for over twenty years, did not mince her words and launched into a tirade.
Wang Xueru knew her friend only meant well, and she handed over two contracts: “I think Yang wouldn’t deceive me, the contracts are all here, take a look for yourself.”
“You, you’re just too naive!”
Yao Tingting shook her head, then began to scrutinize the contracts seriously, looking for loopholes.
In her mind, there definitely had to be a catch in those contracts.
However, after a long time, she couldn’t find any abnormal clauses.
“This isn’t right!”
“There should be something wrong…”
The confused Yao Tingting took photos of the contracts and sent them to a lawyer friend of hers.
After reviewing them, the friend’s response was also that there were no problems!
“Xueru, what exactly is your relationship with this Yang guy??”
Since there was nothing wrong with the contracts, it meant that this had really happened.
A man had really given her friend 8 million!!
Yao Tingting could only begin probing from the angle of their relationship.
“Uh, I haven’t had the chance to tell you.”
“Actually, we…”
Regarding her close friend, Wang Xueru had nothing to hide, so she explained her relationship with Yang Hao a bit, of course, she wouldn’t speak of what had just transpired in the private room.
After listening, Yao Tingting was dumbfounded, and it took her quite a while to utter a single word: “Damn!!!”