401: The plan went smoothly

[Sister Ran: Alright, stop with the glib talk.]

[Sister Ran: Didn't you say that massage chair was decent last night? I've already had someone send another one over to your place.]

[Sister Ran: It should be delivered in a bit, please sign for it.]

[Alright.]

After flirting with Yan Ran for a while on his phone, Ye Su finally found Yu Jinle's contact information and sent her a message.

[Are you there?]

[Jin Le: Yes!]

[Jin Le: Little Yu is on standby! If the boss has any instructions, please feel free to give them!]

Yu Jinle also sent Ye Su a meme of Tuffy, the little grey mouse from Tom and Jerry, standing with his eyes narrowed.

Ye Su was amused by this message from his friend from back home, who was also the first employee of the Ye enterprise.

[The boss doesn't have any lunch plans today, so I was wondering if I could mooch a meal at your place at noon.]

[It just so happens that I haven't visited you in a long time, so I can go over and take a look today.]

[Jin Le: You want to come over for lunch?]

[What, not welcome?]

[Or do you have plans today?]

[If it's inconvenient, I'll visit another day.]

Ye Su waited a while before receiving Yu Jinle's reply.

[Jin Le: I just asked Jiang Lingling and the others, and they all said it's fine. If you want to come, then come.]

[Them?]

[Jin Le: I'm in a three-bedroom apartment. Besides Jiang Lingling, there's another roommate.]

[I see.]

[As long as I'm not disturbing you all.]

Ye Su transferred another five hundred yuan to Yu Jinle.

[Since it's my first time eating there, I don't know what dishes you all like.]

[Take this five hundred yuan to buy groceries. If it's not enough, tell me. If there's any left over, consider it your labor fee.]

[Jin Le: Thank you, Boss! The boss is generous!]

[Alright, send me the address, I'll be over in a while.]

[Jin Le: Alright.]

After buttering up Ye Su a bit more, Yu Jinle turned to Jiang Lingling, who was all dressed and ready to go out, and another girl, and said:

"My boss sent five hundred yuan, saying it's for our lunch. We can spend it however we want later."

Jiang Lingling was a bit embarrassed: "Five hundred yuan? That's too much. We're eating at home; how could we possibly spend that much?"

"It's fine, my boss is rich. No need to be polite with a tycoon like that," Yu Jinle said with a grin.

"Besides, he said any money left over will be my labor fee. When we go to the mall later, let's spend all five hundred. We can just put whatever food we can't finish in the fridge."

"He's coming over for a meal and immediately drops five hundred yuan for groceries? Your boss is too generous!"

The other girl in the living room, who had long, air-perm hair and stood nearly 1.7 meters tall—half a head taller than Yu Jinle and the others—with regular features that weren't striking at first glance but grew on you the more you looked, exclaimed:

"Compared to your boss, my previous boss deserves to be strung up on a streetlamp!"

The girl speaking was naturally Yu Jinle's third roommate, Su Yingxuan.

As a college graduate of only one year, Su Yingxuan had been absolutely infuriated at her last job.

In her words, that trashy boss would get all snarky the moment he saw employees leaving on time, and would deliberately schedule meetings right near closing time.

He wouldn't pay a cent in overtime, yet he tried every trick to make his employees work overtime.

Even if the employees had no work on hand, he would still force them to sit in the office after hours.

The company's only "benefit," as the shameless boss put it, was that they had a rotating "big and small week" schedule, claiming it was much better than companies that only had one day off.

This behavior of trying every way to exploit employees led to a high turnover rate; almost every month or two, they had to hire new people because someone had quit.

Worried that a short work experience would mess up her resume and make it hard to find the next job, Su Yingxuan gritted her teeth and stayed at the company for a full year.

Last month, unable to endure it any longer, Su Yingxuan submitted her resignation, and finally, last week, she escaped that sea of suffering as she had wished.

With her previous boss as a comparison, even though Su Yingxuan had never met Ye Su, her first impression of him was already at least a 9.5 out of 10.

Watching Su Yingxuan grit her teeth at the mention of her previous boss, Yu Jinle nodded in deep agreement and did not spare any praise for Ye Su:

"Compared to companies out there, my boss is truly excellent. Just the fact that I can leave on time every day is enough to make me willing to work for him for the rest of my life."

"Alright, stop it," Su Yingxuan said, sounding heartbroken. "If you keep talking like that, I won't know how to find a job next month!"

Thinking about how Yu Jinle's boss would occasionally give her employee benefits and never exploited his staff, when Su Yingxuan looked at the job requirements online, she didn't even want to send her resume to those companies if she weren't forced to by life.

Su Yingxuan had a cheerful personality and wasn't one of those girls online who would form cliques in the dorms.

So, after Jiang Lingling moved in, the two quickly became close.

In front of the two of them, Jiang Lingling was no longer as reserved as she was outside.

Hearing her two roommates praising Ye Su, she silently added:

"And Jin Le's boss is also better looking than the bosses of those other companies."

"Is he really that handsome?"

Su Yingxuan had heard Yu Jinle praise her boss's looks more than once, saying that back when they were studying in their hometown, he was at least at the level of a school heartthrob.

Now hearing that even Jiang Lingling praised him as handsome, Su Yingxuan immediately decided that she had to see for herself later just how handsome he could be.

"When he comes over later, you'll know once you see him yourself."

Yu Jinle added to herself: "He was my crush when I was in school, after all, so he must be handsome!"

"Alright, then I'll definitely have to see what kind of handsome guy he is to be able to win over both of your tastes."

Chatting like best friends, the three of them headed out together, taking the five hundred yuan Ye Su had given them to go on a shopping spree at the mall.

...

On the other side, at the Apartment Complex, after waiting for the store to deliver the massage chair and testing it to ensure all functions were normal, seeing that it was past ten o'clock, Ye Su sent a message to Yu Jinle.

[Have you finished shopping and gone back, or should I wait a while before heading over?]

[Jin Le: We're just about done shopping, we'll take a taxi back in a bit.]

[Jin Le: You can just come over a bit later.]

[That works too.]

Ye Su thought about it and replied with another message.

[Where are you shopping? Send me your location. If it's on the way, I'll just come pick you up.]

[Jin Le: Having the boss be our driver, how embarrassing.]

Seeing this, Ye Su thought Yu Jinle was possessed, as she was actually saying something so considerate.

However, the very next second, Ye Su received the location she sent.

[Jin Le: We're shopping here, do you see if it's on the way?]

"I'm speechless..."

Ye Su felt a sense of helplessness, as if he couldn't reach through the screen.

Opening the map app on his phone and checking, he saw that he only needed to take one road to pass by the mall where Yu Jinle and the others were shopping, so Ye Su replied:

[It's somewhat on the way. I'll come pick you up now, I should be there in about ten minutes or so.]