21: Chapter 21 Don't tell anyone about this!

The immortal Lü Dongbin once said:

"A beauty of sixteen has a body like cream, with a sword at her waist to slay the foolish man."

This verse isn't actually describing some scene of fighting and killing.

Ancestor Lü was actually describing how the drain of sensual pleasures can cause great harm to a man.

It was to advise younger generations to study the Dao well.

Of course, at Lin Lan's current age, she was already far beyond being a "beauty of sixteen."

However, her mature and beautiful temperament, coupled with her slight intoxication from the previous night, made Shen Zhou deeply realize what it meant when "the Golden Wind meets the Jade Dew, surpassing all the encounters in the human world!"

Around ten o'clock the next morning, Shen Zhou finally took a short nap after a night of hard work, then got up to wash.

Seeing that Lin Lan was still asleep in the bedroom, Shen Zhou went to the kitchen on his own to prepare breakfast for her.

Lin Lan's home was a large luxury flat, about two hundred square meters.

Although in a place like the Magic City where land was at a premium, such a flat wasn't considered the height of luxury.

Fortunately, the various facilities in the house were very complete.

After simply making two cups of soy milk for himself and Lin Lan using the soy milk machine, Shen Zhou found a carton of eggs and a few slices of toast in the refrigerator that seemed to have been there for a while.

Clearly, Lin Lan wasn't someone who knew how to enjoy herself, or rather, she was a woman who didn't quite know how to live.

Because these were the only things he could find in the refrigerator.

Shen Zhou really couldn't find anything else to make breakfast with.

In the huge French double-door refrigerator, there was actually only a carton of eggs, a few bottles of champagne, and a few slices of bread.

He didn't know how Lin Lan usually lived her life alone.

It seemed far too haphazard.

"Uh, this bread looks like it's about to expire!"

After glancing at the bread packaging he took out of the fridge, Shen Zhou gave up on the plan to prepare a Western-style breakfast for Lin Lan.

Considering that Lin Lan was still sound asleep and probably wouldn't wake up for a while.

Shen Zhou took the keys to Lin Lan's home and went to the convenience store downstairs in the community.

As mentioned before, the community Lin Lan lived in was quite high-end, so the supporting facilities were relatively complete.

Among the shops downstairs, there were not only various stores but even a wet market that supplied daily vegetables for residents with a fairly complete range of items.

After simply picking out a few things, Shen Zhou returned to Lin Lan's luxury flat and began to get busy.

Lin Lan slept quite well, not waking up until after twelve o'clock noon.

She woke up in the bedroom with bleary eyes.

As the female boss, with her hair slightly messy, was about to walk into the bathroom to wash up.

She was attracted by the aroma wafting from the dining room and kitchen.

"Soy milk, fried dough sticks, soup dumplings, and egg pancakes!"

"Wow, Shen Zhou, did you buy all these from the breakfast shop downstairs?"

"Why do they look different from what they sell in the shop?"

Unable to resist her empty stomach, Lin Lan didn't bother washing up and went straight to the dining table, where she picked up Kuai Zi and put a soup dumpling into her mouth.

"Wow! When did the breakfast shop downstairs start making such delicious soup dumplings?"

"I eat there every day, how did I not notice?"

Surprised by the lingering, exquisite taste, Lin Lan's face, still showing the effects of last night's hangover, suddenly lit up with a satisfied smile.

"My beautiful boss, what time do you think it is? Where would there still be breakfast for sale?"

"I just made these!"

"How is it? The taste is alright, isn't it?"

"You made them? You know how to cook? I thought you only..."

Lin Lan looked at Shen Zhou, who was wearing a pink cartoon apron, with a look of disbelief.

Then, as if recalling what had happened before, a blush spread across her face.

"I only what?"

Shen Zhou was stunned for a moment, then saw Lin Lan unconsciously stick out her tongue at him before turning and walking into the bathroom.

"Haha, this boss is really interesting. She probably wanted to say I'm only good at manual labor!"

Sometimes, that's just how it is between men and women.

Normally, between ordinary friends and intimate lovers, something unexpected always happens to bring the two together.

And often, after people who are too familiar with each other suddenly move from being ordinary friends to intimate lovers.

The feeling between the two will suddenly become somewhat strange and wonderful.

And this was also the reason why Lin Lan would blush whenever she thought of what happened yesterday.

"What's wrong with me?"

In the bathroom, Lin Lan splashed her beautiful face vigorously with cold water.

Trying to clear her head and properly recall what exactly happened yesterday.

After thinking for a moment, a long-lost sweet smile unconsciously appeared at the corner of Lin Lan's mouth.

But soon, Lin Lan tucked away her smile and quickly washed up.

"Shen Zhou, can you promise me one thing?"

When she saw Shen Zhou again, Lin Lan had already changed into a sharp professional outfit.

"What is it, boss?"

Shen Zhou asked while drinking soy milk.

"Regarding what happened between us yesterday, can you not tell anyone at the company?"

"Uh, if you feel like you've been wronged, I can compensate you. How about I give you a bonus?"

"Ah? Compensate me? *Cough, cough, cough, cough*."

Shen Zhou was dumbfounded, and a mouthful of soy milk nearly choked him.

"Boss, what did you say? Compensate me? What kind of compensation are you giving me?"

Astonishment, curiosity, and incomprehensibility.

These sudden words from Lin Lan truly added many question marks to the heart of this young man, Shen Zhou, who had only been in society for a few months.

What did she mean? What did she mean by compensating him, Shen Zhou! He was a grown man; how could such a good thing exist in this world!

His beautiful boss couldn't have taken the wrong medicine, right? Not only did she throw herself at him last night, but she even wanted to compensate him after waking up today!

What kind of divine beauty was this? This logic seemed a bit reversed!

"No, no, you might have misunderstood. I didn't mean what happened yesterday!"

"I mean..."

"Sigh, forget it, I'd better explain things clearly to you!"

...

Half an hour later, after dining with the beautiful boss, Shen Zhou finally understood the whole story.

It turned out that things really weren't as simple as Shen Zhou had thought.

At the same time, during his conversation with Lin Lan, Shen Zhou also confirmed a suspicion that had felt quite strange to him all morning.

"Boss, you've never been married? Then why did you tell the people in the company before that you were divorced?"

After hearing the whole story, Shen Zhou couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.