197: Consistent internally

"Oh, right."

Seeing Li Mengyao finish paying the bill, Ye Su was just about to get up and leave when she called out to him:

"My parents have been nagging about how you haven't come over for a meal in a long time. It just so happens that tomorrow is Friday, so come back with me for a meal."

"Ah—" Upon hearing this, Ye Su's face immediately fell.

He had just finished setting up his computer and was planning to enjoy it for the next few days; he hadn't expected Li Mengyao to pull this on him.

Truly, blessings and curses are intertwined.

Pretending to be Mengyao's boyfriend had successfully helped him establish a connection with the Li family, but it seemed he had also boarded Mengyao's pirate ship!

"What 'ah'?" Seeing Ye Su's reluctant reaction, Mengyao immediately crossed her arms and glared at him: "What, is it that difficult for you to come to my house for a meal?!"

"It's not difficult..."

Ye Su responded weakly, but his attention was entirely on Mengyao's hands.

"That's more like it." Mengyao flashed a victorious smile: "Shall I pick you up tomorrow afternoon?"

"No need for that trouble, I can just go over myself."

"Fine, suit yourself."

After agreeing to go to her house for dinner tomorrow night, Mengyao picked up her bag with satisfaction, left the hotel with Ye Su, and they each drove home.

...

"Dad."

After returning home, Mengyao immediately sought out Li Shanhai in the living room and took the meteorite out of her bag to show him:

"What do you think of this meteorite? Is it suitable for making that batch of high-end jewelry?"

Li Shanhai had initially been puzzled by his daughter's action of pulling a rock out of a tissue.

But as soon as she said it was a meteorite that could be used to create high-end jewelry, Li Shanhai immediately took the meteorite and examined it carefully.

Wang Lijuan, who was nearby, heard that her daughter had brought back a meteorite and also curiously leaned in, wanting to see what it was all about.

"Is this a meteorite? It's so beautiful!"

Although the family started in the jewelry business, Wang Lijuan didn't really have much interest in jewelry; she didn't need to rely on such things to prove her status or position.

However, seeing the exposed corner of the meteorite, with its deep, pure black color refracting dazzling light, Wang Lijuan couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

"It really is beautiful!"

In decades, he had touched countless gemstones, yet Li Shanhai was equally captivated by this meteorite:

"Even if it weren't a natural meteorite, but something artificially created, if it can achieve this effect, this stone could definitely be used to make jewelry!"

Li Shanhai looked at his daughter: "Are you sure this is a natural meteorite? Have you had it appraised?"

"Not yet, I just got the meteorite and immediately brought it back for you to take a look."

"You just got it?" Li Shanhai asked suspiciously: "Where did you get it from?"

"Uh... Ye Su gave it to me. He said it was a meteorite."

"Oh, Xiao Su gave it to you—"

Wang Lijuan and Li Shanhai exchanged glances, immediately recalling how their daughter had been secretly happy during lunch that morning.

No wonder she was so happy early in the morning; it seemed it was because Ye Su was going to give her a meteorite.

Unable to stand their playful gazes, Mengyao immediately demanded: "Is there a problem?"

"No."

"What kind of problem could there be?"

"If there's a problem, it's just between the two of you."

"That's right."

Li Shanhai and his wife sang in harmony, perfectly in sync, leaving Mengyao with no energy to retort.

After teasing their daughter, Li Shanhai returned to the serious business:

"Since Xiao Su gave it to you, I don't think there's any issue; this is definitely a natural meteorite."

Li Shanhai turned the meteorite from multiple angles, letting the light on it shift colors like color-changing ink.

"I remember that over two hundred years ago, someone discovered a Chiron glass meteorite in the Aberdeen region of Scotland that had the characteristic of changing color according to temperature and lighting.

However, that meteorite was deep green, the light it refracted wasn't as rich, and the described material is also quite different from this one."

Li Shanhai was, after all, an authority even greater than jewelry experts, and his knowledge of meteorites was readily available:

"Judging from its appearance, aside from its small size, in terms of rarity, it actually surpasses that Chiron glass meteorite. Using it to make high-end jewelry couldn't be more perfect!"

After determining the value of the meteorite in his hand, Li Shanhai also became excited.

Although Poyun Group had held a grand press conference yesterday and continued to pour traffic and build momentum across various platforms, the results were still a bit worse than expected.

By pulling the banner of the Eight Great Silver Stores, they still couldn't get many people to buy into it, as they felt Poyun Jewelry didn't measure up to that standard.

If they were really going to spend millions to buy a piece of jewelry, why wouldn't they choose those international big brands that have internationally renowned designers participating in the design and production?

Now, with such a rare meteorite, even if others had money, they might not be able to buy one.

Li Shanhai was confident that for subsequent marketing campaigns, he could maximize the hype and make high society flock to this batch of high-end jewelry!

"Xiao Su has really done the company a huge favor again!"

All Ye Su had given to Poyun Group was a book of design drafts and a rare meteorite.

Li Shanhai estimated that the market value of both items combined was only around one million.

But these items worth only one million brought Poyun Group an effect that many millions couldn't buy!

Seeing Li Shanhai full of praise for Ye Su, Mengyao, for some reason, felt a little happy and proud inside.

"Wait a minute."

Just as the father and daughter were happy, Wang Lijuan, as the future mother-in-law, discovered a blind spot:

"You just said this meteorite was a gift from Ye Su. Did you not give him any money for it again?"

Meeting her mother's gaze, Mengyao felt a bit guilty: "He said himself he wanted to give it to me, why would I give him money?"

"Why are you so thoughtless!"

Sure enough, the next second, Mengyao was met with her own mother's reprimand:

"Xiao Su is starting his own business right now, so he definitely isn't that well-off. This meteorite clearly looks like it's worth a lot of money; how could you just take it back without even asking!"

Between his wife and his daughter, Li Shanhai naturally stood unconditionally in his wife's camp, joining her in scolding his daughter:

"Your mother is right. At this stage, Xiao Su must have a lot of places where he needs money—I know that better than anyone. You really shouldn't have just accepted such an expensive gift from him."

Ye Su had given Mengyao two such expensive gifts in a row, which made Li Shanhai and his wife worried about the burden it placed on Ye Su.

At the same time, they were also worried that because their own family was too well-off, it might be putting psychological pressure on Ye Su, causing him to keep giving their daughter these expensive gifts.

Facing the united front of her parents, Mengyao felt aggrieved:

"This isn't my fault either. I asked him several times this afternoon if he was really giving me the meteorite, and he said it himself, telling me to just accept it."

Wang Lijuan looked at her with a look of 'I wish you were wiser':

"If you ask like that, how could he possibly answer that he wants to sell it to our company! You should have been more proactive and said you were buying it on behalf of the company; it's the company's money anyway."