84: What's wrong with you?

Carrying the documents, as he walked out side-by-side with Li Mengyao, Li Mengyao continued chatting with Ye Su:

"You should be starting your internship next semester, right?"

"Yes."

"Have you found an internship placement yet?"

"No."

"If you don't mind that my place is small, you can come to my company for your internship then."

Small?

Where are you small?

Ye Su almost subconsciously glanced at a place he shouldn't have.

"How could I possibly mind? If I can't find an internship placement, I will definitely come begging to be taken in."

Li Mengyao's car was parked by the side of the road. After chatting for a few moments, the two of them arrived at the car.

Li Mengyao was driving a red sports car. Ye Su had absolutely no knowledge of cars.

Let alone the car model, looking at the yellow shield emblem with a black horse in the center, Ye Su couldn't even tell if it was a porsche or a Ferrari.

"Where are you going? Do you need me to give you a ride?"

"No, thank you."

"Alright then, bye-bye."

Waving at Ye Su once more, Li Mengyao stepped on the gas and drove off.

"When I have money, I'll get one of these to drive too."

Leaving behind this remark, which didn't sound very wealthy, Ye Su rode his little electric scooter back to school at a leisurely pace.

Today's incident served as a reminder to Ye Su.

If he wanted to start a business in the future, he would need to be more cautious regarding employee management and screening.

After all, no one knows how much trouble a person can cause.

...

From initially staying out all night on weekends, it had developed into frequently skipping classes now, having Lin Jingjie help him answer roll call.

Upon returning to the dormitory, Ye Su was inevitably lectured earnestly by his three "adopted sons" who were bursting with jealousy.

Ye Su naturally chose to ignore their sour, jealous behavior.

However, thinking about how today was a make-up class for Monday which he had already skipped, and tomorrow was Monday with the same class...

If he skipped Monday morning's class consecutively, what if the teacher held a grudge and made things difficult for him during the final exams?

But on second thought, the teacher didn't take attendance every time, and with Lin Jingjie's help, skipping class consecutively probably wouldn't be an issue.

"Forget it. The sooner I upgrade, the sooner I enjoy the benefits. If I don't upgrade this week, I'll still have to do it after May Day anyway."

To upgrade all seven days to Level 2 Intelligence early, so he could use the 【Intelligence Upgrade Opportunity】 gifted next month to upgrade to Level 3 Intelligence, Ye Su naturally had to seize the time to finish upgrading all the Level 2 Intelligence during this period.

As for skipping classes, let it be. As long as he could pass the final exams, a slightly lower participation grade wouldn't matter.

After finishing dinner, having figured it out, Ye Su summoned the system.

"Spend 100,000 yuan to upgrade Monday's Level 1 Intelligence to Level 2 Intelligence."

【Deducting payment, please wait, Host...】

Beep—

【Ding!】

【Upgrade successful!】

Along with the bank deduction text message sounding on his phone, the system also notified Ye Su that the intelligence had finished upgrading.

【Time remaining until the next intelligence refresh: 05:01:44, please wait patiently, Host!】

Glancing at the countdown on the screen, Ye Su closed the system and waited peacefully for the next intelligence refresh.

...

Meanwhile, at Zijing Villa District, Li Mengyao's family was still eating dinner.

At the head of the table, a middle-aged man whose brow bore a slight resemblance to Li Mengyao's was nodding at her while picking up food:

"This time it was a close call, but you retrieved all the lost documents. You did well; I'll credit you for this."

Li Mengyao didn't take the opportunity to claim credit: "Actually, it didn't have much to do with me. It just so happened that a friend saw the discarded documents and noticed our group's name on the document bag, so he thought to hold onto the documents for me."

"Oh? Is there such a coincidence?"

Li Shanhai only knew that the documents were retrieved by Li Mengyao, but he hadn't expected them to be retrieved in this manner.

"Could your friend have specifically set up such a scheme, actually wanting to achieve some purpose?"

Having been in the business world for so many years, Li Shanhai inevitably thought a step ahead when encountering matters.

Compared to Li Mengyao's friend coincidentally stumbling upon the group's lost documents in such a large city like Yangcheng and holding onto them to return them to Li Mengyao...

Li Shanhai felt it was more likely that the friend had bribed an employee in the group to get the documents out first, then feigned helping Li Mengyao retrieve them.

As for what purpose Li Mengyao's friend had, it was a bit intriguing.

But Li Shanhai didn't expect Li Mengyao to firmly deny it after hearing this: "He definitely wouldn't do that, stop with the conspiracy theories."

"How are you so sure that your friend wouldn't do that?" Li Mengyao's firm attitude made Li Shanhai very curious: "Is your friend female?"

"Male."

"Hmm!" Wang Lijuan, who previously had no interest in the company topics the father and daughter were discussing, suddenly had her eyes flash with sharp light: "A boyfriend?"

When she blurted it out and revealed Ye Su's gender, Li Mengyao already felt a sense of foreboding.

At this moment, seeing her mom's reaction, Li Mengyao had an "I knew it" expression and said speechlessly: "Don't randomly assign identities behind people's backs, okay? It's a male friend!"

"Oh~~~" Li Shanhai drew out the sound meaningfully: "Understood, we understand, a male friend."

Li Mengyao's reaction just now was too firm, making Li Shanhai unable to help but let his imagination run wild.

"Old Li!" Li Mengyao gritted her teeth and glared at Li Shanhai, who still wanted to stir the pot.

Seeing his daughter's reaction, Li Shanhai immediately swallowed the rest of his words.

But Wang Lijuan still wouldn't give up and asked one more time: "Really just a normal friend?"

"Really just a normal friend..."

Wang Lijuan was greatly disappointed and was no longer in the mood to continue chatting.

This daughter of hers had been good-looking and a good student since she was young, and after graduation, she went straight into the company to help; her work ability was also obvious to all.

But she was already 27 this year, and let alone a boyfriend, she hadn't even brought a single male animal home, which worried Li Shanhai and his wife terribly.

They had tried introducing their friends' sons to Li Mengyao, but Li Mengyao would either say they didn't look good enough or their abilities weren't up to par, and in the end, nothing ever came of it.

If things continued like this, Wang Lijuan worried that Li Mengyao wouldn't intend to get married even by the age of forty.

When she was in school, the couple worried about whether Li Mengyao would be deceived by someone.

Now, they wished someone would be able to deceive Li Mengyao away!

Seeing Wang Lijuan, Li Shanhai could only change the subject: "Since your friend helped the company so much, you must thank him properly."

"I have, I've already thanked him."

Thinking of the way Ye Su acted when she sent the red envelope, the corners of Li Mengyao's mouth couldn't help but curve into a smile, though it quickly faded.

But who were Li Shanhai and his wife? Reading people's expressions was their basic skill.

The couple simultaneously caught the fleeting smile at the corner of Li Mengyao's mouth, and with great tacit understanding, they looked at each other, both reading the meaning in each other's eyes:

Something's going on!

Having finally seen a glimmer of hope, Li Shanhai and his wife dared not rush things and could only keep the questions they wanted to ask to themselves.

"What about that employee who lost the documents? How did you handle it?"

"Human Resources dismissed the person on the grounds of 'major negligence at work'."

Sending a thank-you red envelope to Ye Su was Li Mengyao's personal action, and naturally, she didn't make that employee responsible for it.

"Hmm."

Li Shanhai nodded and smiled, beckoning Li Mengyao: "It's nothing, let's eat."

"That's right, stop talking about work, let's eat." Wang Lijuan was also beaming with joy.

Only Li Mengyao looked at the two of them, confused.

Why had the couple's mood suddenly become so good again?