Forcing Me to Be Reborn?!-Chapter 200 - 172 Meeting the Parents

Chapter 200: Chapter 172: Meeting the Parents

Chapter 200: Chapter 172: Meeting the Parents

“You mean the young boss is a designer!?” Liu Jiani, after pausing for a moment, finally realized.

“No way, didn’t he say he was only eighteen?”

Honestly, being able to do so well in e-commerce at eighteen had already seemed pretty unbelievable to her.

The reason she thought it was ‘just a bit’ unbelievable was that she came from a privileged background and knew many kids from wealthy families who, even at a young age, had already developed a business mind.

Ordinary students lead average lives, spending their days studying, and their free time taking extra classes.

How could they possibly have business acumen?

But kids from good families might be different if their parents deliberately groomed them.

That’s reality!

Liu Jiani had examples from her own circle, still in university but already making eight figures a year.

If a person is smart enough, works hard enough, and also hits the jackpot at birth, that could be very daunting!

But now you’re telling me he designed these clothes too? Doesn’t this guy know too much? Is he good at too many things?

This just amplified the feeling of disbelief in her heart.

She even wondered, could he actually not be eighteen?

Was he trying to mess with me because he saw that I was an older chick?

If that’s the case… well, he’s pretty good!

Way above average.

At that moment, Ye Zi assured her, “He designed these styles, and don’t overthink it, he really is eighteen.”

Eh, wait, but thinking about it practically, I actually didn’t think too much…

Originally, Liu Jiani was just surprised to meet a handsome young guy; at first, she even wondered if he might be a sleazy greasy man.

Now it turned out, he was a design genius with a great business mind!

Quite a prime quality overall.

She even instantly felt envious as a fellow designer.

His products had unique designs, highly distinctive, and yet they managed to gain market acceptance and exploded in sales. If that’s not success, what is?

Liu Jiani started feeling some extra emotions towards Cheng Zhu.

“Life really is interesting,” this seasoned lady suddenly exclaimed in her heart.

Initially, she had wanted to use this opportunity to get closer to Ye Zi.

Ye Zi matched her aesthetic perfectly, had a great body, and Liu Jiani always regretted that they hadn’t slept together yet.

Unexpectedly, during this process, she also stumbled upon a pleasant surprise!

Oh sister, I’m starting to get a bit interested in this young boss too.

She looked at Ye Zi and asked a very odd question.

“By the way, what zodiac sign is your young boss?” she inquired.

“Aries. Why?” Ye Zi responded.

“Aries! Top-notch!” The seasoned lady suddenly felt even better about him.

As a girl, Ye Zi definitely had a basic understanding of zodiac signs.

And coming from the mouth of an experienced woman like Liu Jiani, she instantly understood which characteristics of Aries she was hinting at.

“Ye Zi, send me this little Aries’s WeChat, will you?” Liu Jiani said.

“I need to ask him first, get his permission,” Ye Zi replied.

“There’s no need, I have to go through friend verification when I add him, isn’t that asking for permission?” Liu Jiani said it as if it was the most natural thing.

“It’s different,” Ye Zi wouldn’t just send Cheng Zhu’s contact.

Of course, she wouldn’t dare reject a friend request for Cheng Zhu on his behalf without his permission.

“Do you not want to give it to me?” Liu Jiani squinted her light blue eyes.

“A little,” Ye Zi admitted frankly.

Liu Jiani stretched lazily, relying on the fact that her girlfriend Marie couldn’t understand what she was saying, and said: “It makes sense, I’m 75E, mixed-race, and he’s a young eighteen-year-old Aries, young and capable, I’m indeed a threat to him.”

This seasoned lady straight-up swallowed the word “teen”.

As she stretched her back, her almost popping buttons due to her large bust was risky.

Ye Zi shook her head, not saying much, just indicated that she would ask him, then continued arranging the shooting schedule.

She didn’t think the boss was the dangerous one.

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On the other hand, having left the hotel, Cheng Zhu hopped onto his electric scooter and started heading towards Star City.

The journey would take about 20 minutes, and he had plenty of time.

But since this was a business matter, he definitely couldn’t be late.

He personally disliked people who weren’t punctual when it came to business.

Speaking of which, he felt a bit peculiar inside.

“I’m about to meet Ning Bao’s… stepmom, I guess?” Cheng Zhu thought to himself.

Even though his young stepmother wasn’t even 30 yet, by status, she was still a stepmom.

“It’s just a stepmom, I guess,” he mused.

He, the typical tricky man, definitely had different considerations regarding meeting parents.

But to say he was scared? Not really.

A tricky man’s trademark is to have a good mentality, strong resilience.

After arriving at Star City, he still had over twenty minutes until the agreed time.

Cheng Zhu thought for a moment, decided not to inform Shen Qingning that he had arrived just yet, and opted to browse the mall on his own for a bit.

He hadn’t visited this mall many times, so familiarizing himself couldn’t hurt.

After wandering for ten minutes, Cheng Zhu finally sent Shen Qingning a WeChat message, telling her he had arrived.

“Are you on the first floor? If you are, do you see that Starbucks?” Shen Qingning asked.

“I’m on the first floor. I know where the Starbucks is. I’m walking over now,” he replied.

The Starbucks at Star City was located on the first floor near the east entrance.

Its location was actually just outside the mall, almost like an outer extension of the mall.

There was a door inside the mall that led into Starbucks.

But on the outside of the mall, Starbucks also had a glass door, so people from outside could enter directly without going through the mall.

This was an excellent location for a beverage shop.

Cheng Zhu hadn’t considered that Shen Qingning wanted to bring him here to see this spot.

Now, in 2014, Starbucks’ business was definitely stable.

When he approached Starbucks, from a distance he saw two men and two women standing outside the store.

Shen Qingning wore a white long-sleeve, thin sweater today, with simple jeans on the lower half.

Due to her perfectly proportioned and shaped legs, from the side, her figure was impeccable.

Those legs belonged to the “playful year series.”

For a leg enthusiast, these were dream legs.

What caught Cheng Zhu’s attention more was that Shen Qingning usually wore her slightly curly long hair down, but today she had simply tied it back in a ponytail.

The stunning stepmom, Wang Yushan, stood next to her, and the two didn’t look like a mother-daughter duo, more like sisters.

She had the type of beauty that was comforting and enduring. Nearing thirty, she fit into that slightly mature woman category, exuding maturity not found in younger girls.

“She seems easy to talk to,” Cheng Zhu thought to himself.

As for the two men standing beside them, one was a middle-aged, slightly chubby man in a suit and tie, whom he guessed must be Star City’s leasing manager.

The other was a young man with slicked-back hair, wearing Capri pants and slip-ons, looking okay—if not compared to me.

This slick-haired guy’s gaze lingered on Shen Qingning, and Cheng couldn’t tell what he was saying right now, but it seemed to be a pleasant conversation.

However, Shen Qingning clearly wasn’t paying much attention, her eyes looking around until she soon saw Cheng Zhu approaching quickly.

Wang Yushan noticed where she was looking and immediately followed her gaze, becoming tense as well.

“So nervous, so nervous, about to meet Ning Bao’s special male friend.”

“Hmm? He’s quite handsome! And tall!”

“He looks open and confident, how is he not nervous at all?”

When Cheng Zhu reached their side, he first smiled and nodded at Shen Qingning as a greeting, then turned to Wang Yushan and said: “Hello, I’m Cheng Zhu, a friend of Shen Qingning and Shen Ming Lang, and I grew up with Jiang Wanzhou. I’ll just call you auntie along with them, hope you don’t mind this title. You can just call me Little Cheng.”

The cool young girl standing nearby thought the same thing: “How is he not nervous at all?”

But soon, she also felt a complex emotion, even a bit of disappointment.

“Yes, he’s just not nervous at all…”

This made the sparkle she saw in Cheng Zhu somewhat dim.

At that moment, Wang Yushan first smiled at Cheng Zhu, nodded slightly, then introduced the two men standing opposite: “Little Cheng, this is the leasing manager of Star City, Mr. Xu.”

“And this one is the owner of the perfume shop across.”

Wang Yushan also didn’t know what the young man’s name was; he had introduced himself earlier, but she hadn’t cared to remember.

She had just been busy getting into the right state, fully immersing herself in the role of Ning Bao’s stepmom, considering her posture, facial expressions, and how she held her handbag.

Just now, she and Ning Bao had followed Mr. Xu here to look at the perfume shop, which was about to expire and not planning to renew its lease, a very prime location, perfectly sized.

The owner of the shop, seeing Mr. Xu standing outside, greeted them warmly, then got chatting.

She also noticed that his gaze often lingered on Ning Bao, praising her several times, and even mentioned earlier that his perfume brand’s main product was very suitable for girls like her.

Potentially, he hadn’t expected her to be Ning Bao’s stepmom; otherwise, he might have been more restrained.

“Hello, Manager Xu,” Cheng Zhu greeted at this time.

“Hello,” Mr. Xu responded.

At this moment, the young owner of the perfume shop extended his hand towards Cheng Zhu: “Hello, Little Cheng. I’m Wu Yuzhou. ‘Yuzhou’ as in the ‘fishing boat at dusk.'”

He naturally called him Little Cheng, probably thinking of him as just a student and likely seven or eight years older.

Cheng Zhu shook his hand, “Hello, Wu Yuzhou.”

He used his full name because Wang Yushan was there.

Shit, in the hotel, that French-Chinese mixed-race girl called me young boss, and now in the mall, here’s someone calling me Little Cheng.

It’s because her position puts her there, being Ning Bao’s stepmom, but who the fuck are you?

And your eyes just keep glancing at my Ning Bao.

Don’t even know what perfume you sprayed, smells pretty damn strong.

At this moment, Mr. Xu, the leasing manager, looked at Cheng Zhu then turned to Wang Yushan, saying: “Mr. Wang, this wouldn’t happen to be the young man you mentioned over the phone, would it? So young, haha.”

From the greetings between Cheng Zhu and Wang Yushan, anyone could tell they were meeting for the first time.

It seemed, because he was a friend of Shen Qingning, she made a call and came in person?

Doesn’t look like a boyfriend.

So, probably not a future son-in-law of the Shen family?

He was a bit unsure.

In fact, not just him, even Wang Yushan, seeing Shen Qingning and Cheng Zhu together, as well as Cheng Zhu’s composed demeanor, she was also unsure.

So, she decided to take the initiative, in a half-joking tone, to probe:

“Little Cheng, you don’t seem nervous at all seeing me?”

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