Chen Yiran’s car drove into the villa area and stopped in front of the Lin family’s house. Li Linlin didn’t say goodbye to him, she just unbuckled her seat belt and went to open the car door.

“Wait.” Chen Yiran called her from the side.

Li Linlin looked back at him, and before she could ask what was going on, she saw Chen Yiran holding up his phone and taking a picture of her.

“……What are you doing?” Li Linlin asked speechlessly.

Chen Yiran looked at the photo he took, then raised his head and smiled at her. “I’ll go back and print this out to put beside my bed.”

“……” Li Linlin was silent for a while before speaking, “But why will you display such an ugly photo?”

After a long day, not only was her hair messed up and her makeup had come off, he just casually took a picture of her in the car! It’s too sloppy!

“I have so many fairylike photos and that is what you’ll display?” Li Linlin asked from the depths of her soul.

Chen Yiran looked at her and said with a smile, “Is it ugly? I don’t think so. You look good no matter what.”

“……”

Li Linlin didn’t talk nonsense with him. She grabbed his phone and looked at the photo he just captured. Suddenly, her two eyebrows wrinkled. “If you put this photo beside your bed, I’ll really cut ties with you!”

“That serious?” Chen Yiran took back his phone and chuckled. “Then you can send me a photo you like.”

Li Linlin glared at him and got out of the car without agreeing, however, Chen Yiran received photos from her on the way back.

While waiting for the traffic light, Chen Yiran picked up his phone and looked at the fairylike photos sent by Li Linlin. They were indeed beautiful, but they were something that could be found online. It was unknown how many people had printed it out and placed beside their beds.

【Is there one that can’t be found online?】

Li Linlin looked at the photos she had sent to Chen Yiran and thought to herself that this person had quite a lot of demands.

She sent another photo and Chen Yiran quickly replied to her message.

【Send me that photo of the two of us too.】

That photo he was talking about was a bit old, but she had copied it to her computer before, and then later saved it in her mobile phone as well.

She had changed phones over the years but this photo had always been there.

Li Linlin found it on her album, looked at her tiny self and the teenager Chen Yiran in the photo, and clicked send.

Chen Yiran’s phone vibrated. The light at the intersection ahead had turned green so he only glanced down for a second and started the car.

After arriving home, Chen Yiran printed out all the photos sent by Li Linlin and made a photo wall. After he finished it, he admired the fruits of his labor with satisfaction, then took a photo and sent it to Li Linlin.

【Chen Yiran: How is it? Does it look good?】

Li Linlin came out of the shower and saw this message from him. Chen Yiran’s photo wall was placed in the bedroom, right above his bed. Although it was so abrupt that it somewhat ruined the decoration style, every photo of her was beautiful, which greatly enhanced the appearance of the room.

【Linlin: Not bad.】

【Chen Yiran: [Picture]】

He sent a photo of Xiao Chaichai grinning and gave it a caption to make it an emoticon.

Li Linlin curled her lips and couldn’t help but look at Chen Yiran’s photo wall again. Her face felt a little hot.

She suddenly put down the phone, collapsed on the bed and covered her face with the quilt.

Not long after, Wu Hui called, reminding her that she had to go to the mountain to record the last episode of 《A Meal in the Woods》 tomorrow.

Due to Li Linlin’s previous car accident, the progress of the show was delayed for a while. Now that her injury had recovered, the show could finally record its last episode.

Li Linlin got up early on the day and was picked up by Xiao Xi and Xiaoxiao. This time it wasn’t one of her two assistants who were driving. Chen Yiran actually found a professional driver for her and even settled the driver’s salary.

Li Linlin suddenly realized that although she opened a studio, her employees seemed to be receiving their salaries from Chen Yiran? So who exactly was their boss???

She immediately sent a message to Chen Yiran. 【President Chen, I will pay for the driver and the assistants’ wages from now on.】

Chen Yiran was having a regular morning meeting. He frowned when he saw her message, making the voice of the manager who was making a report suddenly became weaker.

【Why?】 Chen Yiran simply replied with one word.

【Linlin: They’re on your payroll, so are you their boss or I? Who makes the decisions?】

Chen Yiran looked at the new message she sent and smiled slightly. The manager who was reporting on work felt that he could continue again.

【Chen Yiran: You’re the boss. You own the studio so of course they will listen to you.】

Li Linlin raised an eyebrow and asked him, 【Does this statement of yours legally valid?】

【Chen Yiran: Yes.】

【Linlin: Alright then, I’m going to print this and frame it.】

When Li Linlin arrived at the mountain, Chen Yiran happened to finish the morning meeting. When leaving the conference room, Fu Angsi walked with him and teased with a playful expression, “President Chen, I just saw you playing with your mobile phone during the meeting.”

“Oh.” Chen Yiran responded coldly, “Then you can go and tell the board of directors.”

Fu Angsi: “……”

The board of directors were afraid of Chen Yiran and he would even arrange work for the chairman…… so Chen Yiran really has the capital to play with his mobile phone.

Because no one can control him. 🙂

“President Chen, there’s a party tomorrow night. Lu Siyu hopes you can attend with her.” Assistant Wu came over and reported to Chen Yiran.

Chen Yiran asked him, “What party?”

“It’s a party organized by a streaming platform. A lot of celebrities will attend. They have invited you before, but you have arrangements for tomorrow, so you declined.”

Chen Yiran glanced at him. “So why are you still asking me?”

“……” Assistant Wu was scared. “It’s because Lu Siyu made a personal call.”

This Movie Queen Lu was President Chen’s business. Shengteng was able to sign her thanks to President Chen’s involvement. He even accompanied Lu Siyu last time at Tomato magazine’s gala. How could he, an assistant, refuse without authorization?

Chen Yiran said, “I’m not going, turn it down. Tomorrow’s itinerary remains unchanged.”

“Yes, President Chen, I’ll get on with it now.”

Assistant Wu left quickly, and Fu Angsi, who was walking next to him, looked at Chen Yiran. He said, “President Chen, if you’re always closed off like this, aren’t you afraid that Movie Queen Lu will throw a tantrum?”

Chen Yiran said, “I’ve long stated that Lu Siyu isn’t irreplaceable.”

Fu Angsi pursed his lips. He understood the reasoning, but they had signed Lu Siyu after a great difficulty. President Chen was speaking as if signing someone else wouldn’t require time, effort and money.

“Sigh, I finally understand why you’ve been single for almost thirty years.” Fu Angsi patted Chen Yiran’s shoulder and said in a serious manner, “Because only single people can make the most correct decisions. Falling in love delays people’s careers.”

Chen Yiran: “……”

He nodded and also patted Fu Angsi on the shoulder. “So for the sake of Huachuang’s development, Mr. Fu must stay single.”

Fu Angsi: “……”

Bah, the company belonged to him, Chen Yiran, so how come being single was his job?

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Li Linlin recorded the show for two consecutive days and finally finished it. The program group specially held a closing banquet on the mountain and treated everyone to a meal.

Li Linlin followed the staff to the restaurant and sat in her seat. She played with her mobile phone while waiting for her meal to be served.

“Ms. Li Linlin.” Suddenly, a waiter called out to her. Li Linlin looked up and saw that he was holding a large bouquet of roses in his hand.

“This flower is for you.” The waiter handed it over to Li Linlin respectfully. Because the bouquet was so big, Li Linlin had to stand up and hug it with both hands to receive it.

“Thank you, thank you. Are these the flowers the program group prepared for us?” Li Linlin was a little surprised. The program group was too generous to give her such a large bouquet of roses. When she had finished filming her previous drama, the bouquet given by the crew was only half the size of this one.

The waiter smiled and said, “No, these flowers are given to you by our President Chen. Have a pleasant meal.”

After the waiter said so, he bowed to her and went on to do his own business.

The Youxian Mountain project was invested and built by Huachuang. The President Chen the waiter was referring to could only be Chen Yiran.

Li Linlin felt a little shy when she thought of this, especially when other people in the restaurant were attracted by the flowers in her hand and whispered while looking in her direction.

Li Linlin handed the flowers given by Chen Yiran to one of her assistants and asked her to put it in the car first. It was too conspicuous to stay there. Several people from the program group were sitting together and secretly talking about Chen Yiran and Li Linlin. “Have you guys seen the dating show Linlin was on?”

“I’ve seen it, I’ve seen it. To be honest, I ship her and President Chen.”

“Say, do you think they’re a real couple? President Chen even sent her flowers.”

“It’s hard to say.” The director shook his head. “Capitalists don’t believe in love.”

“……”

The dinner started and the waiters served a lot of dishes that weren’t originally ordered by the program group. Seeing this, the director held his wallet tightly. “These are……?”

One of the waiters said, “These are specially prepared for you by our President Chen, to congratulate you on your show’s completion.”

“President Chen paid for all these?”

“Yes, please enjoy your meal.”

After this, the crew began to whisper again, “President Chen is so generous.”

“He certainly is. These dishes are much better than what we initially ordered!”

“Is this treating Linlin to dinner and inviting the entire crew?”

“……If nothing else, I hope to have another chance to work with Linlin in the future.”

Li Linlin had no idea that all of these were prepared by Chen Yiran and was exclaiming to her assistants that the program group was so generous. Not only were they generous, but they also seem to understand her tastes? Many of the dishes were what she likes to eat.

After having dinner with everyone, Li Linlin followed the crew and prepared to go down the mountain. But just as she was about to step out of the restaurant, she was stopped by the same waiter who had brought her the flowers earlier. “Ms. Li Linlin, please wait a moment.”

Li Linlin turned around and looked at him, as if expecting him to conjure up something from his hand. “Why? Do you still have something to give me?”

The waiter smiled and told her, “Please come with me. President Chen has prepared a surprise for you.”

Li Linlin contemplated for a while, then told the two assistants beside her, “You guys go to the car first and wait for me. I’ll be right there.”

“Okay, okay.” Xiao Xi and Xiaoxiao were working under Li Linlin using Chen Yiran’s salary. Now that the two bosses were having a date, of course they had to get out of there.

Li Linlin followed the waiter to a deserted path. Just as she was about to stop, she saw Chen Yiran waiting under a tree.