Chapter 350: Before the Groundbreaking Ceremony

Lu Yunque insisted on calling the bank, but a transfer of 1.9 billion couldn’t be processed instantly.

It required several layers of approval before the transfer could be confirmed, so it definitely wouldn’t be finished today.

Yun Zijin wasn’t bothered, though. She used the excuse of going back to her room to get the seeds, closed the door, and took the Fire Tree and Ice Tree seeds out of her system inventory. Only then did she leave her room and go down to the living room on the first floor.

"Here are the Ice Tree seeds, and these are the Fire Tree seeds. They look very similar, so don’t mix them up."

Yun Zijin could only tell them apart by their packaging. If the seeds were taken out individually, she’d be completely lost.

Lu Yunque opened the two packets and, upon seeing the seeds inside, understood why Yun Zijin had emphasized that point.

The seeds in the two packets weren’t just similar—they were utterly identical.

"I’ll be careful."

Lu Yunque inspected the seeds and counted out 100 from each bag. He put them into separate, clear, resealable bags. To avoid any confusion for Yun Zijin later, he also wrote "Ice Tree" and "Fire Tree" on small slips of paper and placed them inside the respective bags.

After taking the seeds from Yun Zijin, Lu Yunque didn’t stay long and drove directly to the Lu Group for work.

Yun Zijin took the 200 seeds Lu Yunque had set aside for her, returned to her room, and changed into her own clothes.

Time flew by, and soon it was 12:00 AM on Friday. To complete her weekly spending task, Yun Zijin had a jewelry store in Jinsheng Mall custom-make a set of glass-type violet jadeite jewelry.

From a bracelet to earrings, a pendant... the set had it all.

[Congratulations, Host, for completing the weekly cumulative spending task of ¥12,000,000.00. Mission rewards granted: Congratulations, Host, on receiving a 5x cash rebate! ¥60,000,000.00 has been deposited into your savings account. You have obtained: 10 packs of Fire Tree Seeds, 10 packs of Ice Tree Seeds, one "Unfurling Clouds" Gown from the ’Randomly Spend’ brand, one recipe for ’Slimming Beauty Goddess Tea,’ and the complete property rights to all residences in District A of Dijing’s Jixiu Jiangnan community. All related documents and certificates have been sent to your system inventory. Please be sure to check.]

Looking at this week’s rewards, Yun Zijin was in a wonderful mood.

The Ice Tree and Fire Tree seeds had just generated 1.9 billion in wealth for her, after all.

Once Lu Yunque built up a reputation for the Ice Tree and Fire Tree, they might generate even more wealth.

It was just that Lu Yunque was always being secretive about his plans for the Ice Tree and Fire Tree. Whenever Yun Zijin asked, he would just say it was confidential.

After securing her rewards, Yun Zijin went to bed with her mind at ease.

The next day, Yun Zijin woke up early because she had to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for her manor.

Han Chun was in charge of Yun Zijin’s styling again today. However, since Xingyu Mansion and the South Suburb were quite far apart, Mei Lin had booked a guesthouse for Yun Zijin near the plot of land in the South Suburb for convenience. Yun Zijin’s styling would be done there.

For convenience, Han Chun’s team came to Xingyu Mansion in the morning to travel with Yun Zijin to the guesthouse in the South Suburb.

Also traveling with Yun Zijin was Mei Lin, whom she hadn’t formally seen in quite some time.

Between handling the manor’s paperwork and inspecting the materials ordered by the construction team, Mei Lin had been so busy lately her feet had barely touched the ground.

Just as Yun Zijin finished getting ready to leave, she came out and saw Lu Yunque, already prepared, waiting for her outside Villa No. 1.

Yun Zijin’s eyes lit up. "Didn’t I tell you that you didn’t have to come pick me up?"

Since she was bringing Han Chun’s team with her today, Yun Zijin had been worried it would be too chaotic with so many people and told Lu Yunque not to come get her.

Lu Yunque had agreed readily, but unexpectedly, he still came today, and so early at that.

"Today is a big day for you. As your boyfriend, I want to witness the whole thing. Get in the car!"

Lu Yunque opened the car door for Yun Zijin and offered her a hand so she would have something to steady herself on as she got in.

Since he was already here, Yun Zijin couldn’t possibly turn him away. So, she had Mei Lin get into her car, while she rode with Lu Yunque.

Mei Lin glanced at Lu Yunque but ultimately said nothing.

In her programming, obeying Yun Zijin was the highest directive. Although she wasn’t necessarily pleased with Lu Yunque, she would unconditionally fulfill any of Yun Zijin’s requests.

"Your assistant... she doesn’t seem very pleased with me, does she?"

After they got in the car, Lu Yunque commented on the attitude he sensed from Mei Lin.

"That’s just Mei Lin’s personality. Don’t overthink it."

Yun Zijin, for her part, didn’t think much of it. After all, Mei Lin was a robot; she didn’t think Mei Lin could have any deep-seated opinions about Lu Yunque.

At most, because of their relationship, she was just scrutinizing Lu Yunque a bit more.

However, Yun Zijin had no intention of telling Lu Yunque that.

The secret of Mei Lin’s identity as a robot was one Yun Zijin would take to her grave.

Since Yun Zijin had put it that way, Lu Yunque couldn’t press the issue. He could only resolve to pay more attention in their future interactions.

As for Han Chun’s team, after seeing Lu Yunque, the gossip was practically written all over their faces, but not a single one of them dared to say a word.

They jostled each other as they got into the car they had driven over, then followed obediently behind Lu Yunque’s Rolls-Royce Phantom.

Before they even reached the South Suburb, Yun Zijin’s phone started buzzing and chiming with all sorts of messages.

There were messages from Qin Sitong, Su Mengyao, Li Yuexing, Sheng Yang, and others—no one was left out.

Midway through the drive, Lu Yunque saw that Yun Zijin’s hands were a blur as she tried to reply to all the messages, and she still wasn’t finished. He took the phone directly from her hands, created a group chat with everyone who had messaged her, and sent a voice message.

It said: "We’re busy. Don’t bother us."

The group chat, which had been flooding with several messages a second, instantly fell silent. Yun Zijin’s phone was finally quiet.

Yun Zijin gave Lu Yunque a mental thumbs-up. ’As expected... I’m still too approachable. I wonder when I’ll ever reach Lu Yunque’s level, where he can shut everyone up with a single sentence.’

After sending the voice message, Lu Yunque handed the phone back to Yun Zijin. "You can’t be too nice to these people. If you give them an inch, they’ll take a mile."

This was a lesson Lu Yunque had learned from years of experience.

"My style is a bit different from yours."

’The reason Lu Yunque could do that was because his status was already immense,’ Yun Zijin thought. ’More importantly... Lu Yunque definitely has dirt on people like Li Yuexing and Sheng Hao. If even the big shots didn’t dare to speak up, the smaller fish would be even more terrified. My disadvantage is that I met Li Yuexing and the others too recently and don’t have any leverage on them.’

"You’ll see."

Once you start doing things like this, it works like a charm every time.

Yun Zijin was noncommittal. Regardless of the future, at least she had some peace and quiet for now.

The car drove for over an hour before finally arriving at the guesthouse Mei Lin had booked.

Because there were so many people in their group, Mei Lin had booked the entire guesthouse when making the reservation so as not to disturb the other guests.