151: Chapter 151 A Wrong Idea

Shen Yan blinked, completely helpless.

He let go of the steering wheel, turned around, and said to Lü Yan, "Actually, if you wanted me to give you a ride, you could have just asked directly. There was no need to beat around the bush."

Lü Yan didn't feel it was her fault. She replied to Shen Yan, "But this kind of implication, shouldn't you be able to understand it very easily?"

"After all, you are someone who has a girlfriend. I don't believe someone with a girlfriend can't even grasp such a simple implication."

Shen Yan laughed.

He stared at Lü Yan playfully and said, "You know I have a girlfriend, so to avoid suspicion, can't I pretend not to understand?"

Lü Yan shook her head while getting into the car.

"That won't work. It's very far to where I'm going. Taking a taxi would cost at least a hundred."

Seeing that she had already settled into the passenger seat, Shen Yan stopped arguing.

"Set the navigation for me."

Lü Yan nodded and handed him her phone's navigation directly.

Half an hour later, Lü Yan got out of the car in front of a bar.

"We're here. Thank you for today; you treated me to dinner and drove me here."

... Huh?

Didn't she ask for all of that herself?

Shen Yan grumbled inwardly while maintaining a slight smile on his face, politely bidding farewell to Lü Yan, "It's nothing, nothing. If you don't have anything else to do here, I'll be leaving now."

Lü Yan didn't ask him to do anything else, only saying, "Okay, you go ahead. If there's anything else about the lawsuit here that requires your help, I will notify you."

Shen Yan made an "Mm" sound, then stepped on the gas and drove away.

...

On the other side.

Chen Ling had just finished a day of work and returned home exhausted.

"Go away! Get away from me, I don't want you with me, hurry up and leave!"

As soon as she entered the door, she heard her daughter's cries.

"Youyou?"

Hearing her mother's voice, Youyou immediately dropped the doll in her hand and ran towards her mother.

"Mom, you're finally back! Hurry up and chase this bad uncle away for me!"

Chen Ling looked up and realized the bad uncle Youyou was referring to was Yang Jin. She frowned, squatted down, and asked the constantly crying Youyou, "What's wrong? Why is he a bad uncle?"

Youyou cried and shouted, "He is a bad uncle, he is a bad uncle! I don't want him staying at home with me!"

"No, I want to go find Dad, I want Dad to stay with me!"

The moment the word 'Dad' was mentioned, Chen Ling couldn't help but become irritated. She slapped Youyou across the face with a 'smack'.

"Chen Youyou! What have I done to you? Why do you keep mentioning your dad every time you open your mouth? Did I not feed you, or not give you anything to drink?"

Youyou was stunned by the slap.

Tears streamed down her eyes. She opened her mouth and murmured, "Mom..."

Chen Ling looked at her with disgust and shouted, "Don't call me Mom! I don't have a daughter like you! Get back to your room! Don't come out unless I call you!"

Youyou had never seen her mother like this before; she was momentarily shocked and scared.

"Mom, I was wrong, Mom, please don't scold me..."

Chen Ling closed her eyes and directly told the Nanny to take Youyou into the room.

Once only Chen Ling and Yang Jin remained in the living room, Yang Jin finally spoke up, asking, "What's wrong with you today? Why are you so irritable?"

Chen Ling walked to the sofa, sat down, and pressed her temples with her hand.

"What else could be making me so irritable after leaving the company?"

Yang Jin raised an eyebrow, walked over, and sat next to Chen Ling, saying, "Aren't things going quite smoothly at your company?"

Chen Ling let out a deep sigh.

"Then you are really overthinking things. Things at my company are not smooth at all. Didn't I tell you I was setting up an artificial intelligence project?"

"Originally, I thought it would be simple: find a technical team and then find some experienced people. Who knew, good heavens, just finding the technical team required me to invest tens of millions upfront..."

As she spoke, her brow was furrowed enough to crush a fly.

"You know, I don't have that much money on hand right now... If the initial investment is this large, I'm not sure if I can keep going..."

As soon as she finished speaking,

Yang Jin immediately interjected firmly, "Persist! You absolutely must persist! Did you forget what you told me? Hai Province will soon introduce a new policy to support artificial intelligence projects!"

"If you give up now, it's equivalent to giving up future wealth. Are you willing to do that?"

Chen Ling let out a chuckle.

She looked at Yang Jin with interest and said, "Of course, I'm not willing, but the problem now is that I simply don't have that much money. Or... are you planning to help me?"

Yang Jin's eyes darted around, and he directly avoided Chen Ling's gaze.

"The situation with my company isn't good right now either, and you know exactly how much money I have... Helping you with a few hundred thousand is fine, but tens of millions... I definitely can't help with that."

Chen Ling scoffed, feeling that Yang Jin was speaking without understanding the severity of the situation.

"Since you can't help me, why should I persist? This artificial intelligence project is really too costly. I think I need to think of other avenues..."

Before she could finish speaking, Yang Jin interrupted her.

"Tsk! Don't be in such a hurry to give up. Actually, you still have another path you can take."

Chen Ling responded with interest, "What path?"

Yang Jin smiled slightly and took out a courier package from the side, handing it to her.

Chen Ling stared blankly at the package.

"What is this?"

Yang Jin raised his hand and replied, "You'll know when you look, won't you?"

Hearing him say that, Chen Ling frowned and opened the package.

"Whoosh!"

Papers fluttered down from mid-air onto the floor.

Chen Ling trembled with rage.

"Shen Yan!"

Seeing how angry she was, Yang Jin quickly handed her a glass of water.

"Don't be angry, drink some water first."

Chen Ling didn't even glance at the glass of water.

"Drink water for what! He already sent the lawsuit documents to me!"

Yang Jin chuckled lightly and replied to Chen Ling, "It's true that he sent the lawsuit documents to us, but this isn't a bad thing for us either."

Chen Ling sensed something fishy.

Her eyes narrowed, and she turned to look at Yang Jin.

"What do you mean by that?"

Yang Jin's meaning was very simple.

Since Chen Ling needed money now, she could use her daughter to blackmail Shen Yan into giving her a sum of money.

However, he didn't expect that as soon as he voiced his idea, it was met with Chen Ling's angry rebuke.

"Yang Jin! What do you take me for? No matter what, Youyou is my daughter. How could I possibly sell Youyou for money!"

A flash of displeasure crossed Yang Jin's face.

If Chen Ling didn't still have some use value, he would have kicked her away long ago, and she wouldn't be able to boss him around like this.