Working: Start by earning the boss a hundred million!

Chapter 82 Going to Cloud City?

"If I knew what you did, would I need to pretend to be asleep?" Shang Xingjian said arrogantly, as if there was nothing in the world he didn't know.

Cheng Mai looked at him with a skeptical expression. "Could it be that you were crying because you were injured and in pain, which is why you heard it?"

Shang Xingjian raised an eyebrow and leaned slightly towards her. "What would you do if I started to sob?"

The close proximity allowed Cheng Mai to feel his breath on her face as he spoke.

Cheng Mai pursed his lips and looked down at Shang Xingjian, who was standing very close to him. He showed no embarrassment, nor did he make any other move. "Boss, I think..."

"Maimai, boss, I... I've come at a bad time." Shen Luo came in quickly, spoke quickly, and changed his mind even faster. Before he finished speaking, he was already out.

Shang Xingjian stepped back a little, and Cheng Mai calmly suppressed his breathing and coughed lightly.

"Shen Luo, come in." Cheng Mai said, then pressed the service bell and ordered a few more steamers of buns.

When Shen Luo came in this time, he first peeked in and only dared to enter after confirming that it was safe inside.

"I went to your house to look for you, but no one was home, so I came out," Shen Luo explained why he was there. "Did someone break into your house?"

She had seen the terrible scene firsthand.

Cheng Mai took the tablet from Shen Luo and looked at the key footage she had edited. "It was indeed vandalized. Why don't you ask your boss how he does things?"

Shen Luo looked at her boss reproachfully, "Boss, your abilities are lacking. How could you protect someone and end up like this? You couldn't even defeat a monster that only knows how to use fire? And you even let them burn their house down like that?"

She'll seize any opportunity to have a good talk with the boss.

Shang Xingjian had already sat up straight and was now looking at Shen Luo with displeasure. He hadn't thought there was anything wrong with her being diligent before, but now he wondered if this little bird was being too diligent.
"That monster who can only use fire, that's me," Shang Xingjian replied coolly.

Shen Luo: "..." Sorry to bother you. I didn't know you two were playing some kind of 'Cospree' game. Next time, it's best not to say too much.

"Yesterday, Luo Linwen first went to see Qin Mai, then went to the Shen family to make a scene, and then Qin Mai went in and found her son?" Cheng Mai placed the tablet face down on the table. Judging from the video, the order was correct.

“That’s right. Luo Linwen caused a huge scene at the Shen family yesterday. The servants all came out to watch the commotion. Qin Mai happened to find the child in the room on the second floor during that time.” Shen Luo’s crab roe buns arrived, and she didn’t stand on ceremony with Cheng Mai, eating as she spoke.

Cheng Mai thought for a moment, then handed the tablet back to Shang Xingjian, "It's going too smoothly, everything is going too smoothly."

Shang Xingjian only glanced at it a few times and didn't make any comments. He found it less exciting to fight Shen Luo for food.

"Are you worried that this is their scheme, that they're playing along?" Shen Luo couldn't outmaneuver her boss, but she didn't dare to argue back, and could only give him a resentful look.

"They're not that stupid to use such a simple method to outmaneuver you." Shang Xingjian ate contentedly, filling his bottomless stomach.

Shen Luo vaguely felt that something was off about what the boss had said, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.

"Is Shen Yuanbai at the police station? Let's go see him." This time, Cheng Mai decided to take the initiative and start with Shen Yuanbai.

“He was bailed out by his family not long ago, but Qin Mai insists on suing him, and we’re probably waiting for the trial,” Shen Luo said.

The Shen family certainly has the capability, since the charges against them haven't been finalized yet.

If he's not at the police station, then we'll go to his house to see him. In any case, Cheng Mai is definitely going to see this person today.

After breakfast, Shen Luo returned to the company, while Cheng Mai, accompanied by his "bodyguards," went to the Shen family to see Shen Yuanbai.

The area in front of the Shen family's house is now surrounded by reporters, and it seems impossible to get in through normal channels.

Therefore, Cheng Mai looked at Shang Hangjian.

Shang Xingjian, seemingly unfazed, was engrossed in playing games on his phone. "In broad daylight, you want me to be thrown into a mental hospital? No way."

Cheng Mai glanced coldly at his phone screen and said ruthlessly, "Don't you need to buy a quarterly card in five days? A quarterly card costs 168 yuan. Do you still have the money?"

Upon hearing this, Shang Xingjian immediately looked at Cheng Mai and said, "Being arrested and sent to a mental hospital must mean someone like Xiao Qian who isn't skilled enough."

Xiaoqian, who was diligently working at the company, suddenly sneezed loudly: "..."

He always felt like someone was cursing him, and the cursing was pretty vulgar.

"President Shen, there's a situation here." Xiao Wang came out of the programming department and called out to Shen Luo.

Shen Luo was explaining basic operations to the newly hired receptionist, who was actually a little fox. When she heard Xiao Wang's voice, she told the little fox to learn on her own while she went to get busy.

When Shen Luo arrived, the people in the office area glanced at the reception desk, but were startled by Shen Luo's sharp glare and immediately went back to their own business.

Upon arriving at the programming department, Xiao Wang showed Shen Luo his computer. "President Shen, our platform is currently online nationwide, and the number of registered users exceeded ten million yesterday."

"This is a good thing."

Xiao Wang clicked on another page, which showed the registration map distribution. One place was so red it was almost black, with a registration volume of three million, which was almost the entire non-human biomass of the region.

This non-human biomass refers to souls, sentient beings, etc., which are different from normal chickens, ducks, fish, pigs, cows, and horses, so this number is actually quite large.

Shen Luo placed one hand on the table, looking at the location on the map, "Yun City?"

"That's right, it's Yuncheng. And these registrations suddenly increased last night. Something's fishy about this," Xiao Wang warned. Although these registered users haven't done anything yet, they can't afford to be complacent.

“Yuncheng.” Shen Luo straightened up, still looking at the computer. “The fact that you’re so eager to take us to Yuncheng means there really is a reason why we absolutely have to go.”

Xiao Wang looked at Shen Luo with concern, "President Shen, we haven't set up a branch in Yuncheng yet. With so many people registering overnight, I'm worried that the system might malfunction."

"Recently, select a few capable people—oh, no, ghosts—to come with me." The boss and Cheng Mai were busy with other matters, so Yun Cheng was the only one who could make the trip.

"Should we tell the boss and CEO Cheng about this?" Xiao Wang asked Shen Luo first, unsure of what to do.

"I will tell you, but not now." Shen Luo had practically grown up with Shang Xingjian. Although she didn't know what Shang Xingjian had been doing lately, her intuition told her that her boss was making a big move, a big move by him alone, one that no one else could possibly know about.

Xiao Wang nodded, "Then I'll pack up and we can go to Yuncheng with President Shen anytime."

"Are you going to Yuncheng?" This was the question Cheng Mai heard as soon as he returned.