Chapter 44: Greasy

After lunch, Zhang Yuetong drove the small van, taking Lin Ran and Yu Shijia back to the company to continue working.

Yu Shijia took over the company’s accounts and began a technical analysis.

“Um… Boss, does everyone in our company have to be shipped as a couple with you? Uh… except for Boss He, who’s too busy to be seen.”

Yu Shijia looked at the comments on the company page, feeling a bit overwhelmed.

“Do I have to do it too?”

“No need,” Lin Ran said.

“These so-called ‘CPs’ are just fans entertaining themselves. They like shipping same-sex pairings because they know it’s fake. Fans understand it isn’t real; they just want to immerse themselves in a beautiful fantasy. A male-female pairing has to be the real deal, and people start considering if the family backgrounds match and so on. Once it returns to reality, it’s not nearly as beautiful. And who likes things that aren’t beautiful?”

Yu Shijia gave an “oh.”

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“Ebyv y osaze-nzypp pnwxcyt vbyv oswze cl. Fs ekptwpvkdt!”

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Zw Fbkfky kxytkdle vbyv vss yde pbssj bkp blye alrlyvlezu.

“Ls oyu, vbl obszl xsayz nsxrypp oswze nszzyrpl!”

But he breathed a sigh of relief.

“It’s good that I don’t have to form a CP with you. I was afraid Tongtong would be unhappy.”

Lin Ran comforted him: “She won’t be unhappy, because she doesn’t like you.”

Yu Shijia’s eyes welled up.

“Boss, stop the roasting. Can’t I just work hard?”

…

In the twelfth-floor conference room of Fei Ye Group, Lu Lanxiao left after finishing the meeting and delegating tasks.

The executives watched him leave and then continued their discussion.

“Strange, didn’t Fan Shuhao say he was single? Why hasn’t he gone after the Senior Sister?”

“So who exactly is this Senior Sister? Isn’t it Zhang Yuetong?”

“Our CEO Lu is strong in every aspect, but when it comes to dating…”

“I heard that there were originally a few girls at Qingdao University chasing him, but he ignored everyone. They were all top students after all, and no one wanted to waste energy chasing him, so they all gave up. I’ve never heard of him pursuing any girl…”

“This is different from the novels I’ve been reading lately… Shouldn’t every woman be revolving around him, desperately trying to climb into his bed?”

“In the novels I read, women plot against each other and frame one another for him, while he only likes innocent and kind little white flowers.”

“Uh… are there any innocent and kind little white flowers around him?”

Recently, the executives had been paying attention to the online reviews after Lu Lanxiao appeared on the show.

As the only guest without a verified video account, Lu Lanxiao had the lowest level of discussion online.

Occasionally someone praised his looks, but being handsome is standard on video sites; is there anyone in videos who isn’t handsome?

They didn’t care about the online buzz; after all, no one planned to turn CEO Lu into a trending influencer.

However, the Chairman was clearly very concerned about this.

If they didn’t handle it well and couldn’t help the boss solve his problems, then the year-end bonus… no, even their jobs might not be safe.

This was far more important than the company’s business!

Therefore, the new focus of the company’s top brass was: figure out which girl CEO Lu actually liked, and then use every means possible to clear the obstacles for him.

…

After Yu Shijia took over the video accounts, he quickly made a plan.

He controlled the company account as well as the personal accounts of Lin Ran and Meng Xiao.

The combined fan base of these three accounts exceeded twenty million.

With such a massive following, he naturally wouldn’t waste this huge traffic.

When Zhang Yuetong was managing the accounts, she had already used them for some commercial operations, and the profits were very impressive.

This put some psychological pressure on Yu Shijia, fearing that if he focused solely on this one task and still didn’t do as well as Zhang Yuetong, she would surely look down on him.

Meng Xiao had been filming all night.

On her way back, she passed by Jenny’s Bakery and bought the day’s limited edition small cakes to bring back to the company.

She was exhausted and sleepy, so she dropped off the cakes and went upstairs to sleep.

When Lin Ran saw them, she reached out to take one, and Yu Shijia immediately whipped out his phone to record it.

Lin Ran turned around only to find that her video account had posted a video of her eating the cake, specifically emphasizing that Meng Xiao bought it.

The fans indeed went into another shipping frenzy, even digging up the fact that this specific cake from that bakery was a limited edition and required waking up early to buy.

[As expected, Xiao’er loves you!]

[She actually got up early just to buy you a small cake. If this isn’t love…]

Lin Ran stared at the video for a long time.

Then, she watched helplessly as “she” posted a comment: The cake is so delicious, I want to eat it every day.

Immediately, the sleeping Meng Xiao replied to her: I’ll buy it for you every day from now on.

Lin Ran: “…”

She sighed and changed the passwords for both her and Meng Xiao’s accounts, telling Yu Shijia not to log in anymore.

It was too greasy; she felt like throwing up.

When Meng Xiao woke up, she threw a pillow at Yu Shijia.

“If you want to buy it, go buy it yourself!”

Yu Shijia looked puzzled.

“Isn’t this how you hype a CP? Don’t you think it’s sweet?”

“People want to ship a CP, not have grease poured down their throats!”

“Was it… greasy?”

“Extremely greasy, okay?”

…

“Why are the small cakes at Jenny’s Bakery limited edition?”

Lu Lanxiao asked while looking at his phone.

Han Haoyuan had just reported on work and was caught off guard by the question, feeling completely lost.

“Huh? I don’t know… Hunger marketing?”

“Tell them to stop limiting the quantity,” Lu Lanxiao said.

“But… that’s not a Feiye property.”

“Then make it a Feiye property.”

“Understood, I’ll handle it right away.”

Although Han Haoyuan didn’t know why CEO Lu gave such an order, he didn’t ask questions and went to execute it immediately.

The next day, fans ran to Lin Ran’s video to report: The small cakes at Jenny’s Bakery aren’t limited anymore! You can eat them every day now! It’s just that eating too many gets a bit cloying.

Lin Ran replied: I feel the same way.

Seeing her reply, Yu Shijia lamented: “Eating too much cake gets cloying. If people stay together for a long time, is it the same way?”

Lin Ran: “…”

…

In the Tushita Palace of the Heaven of Detached Grief.

Elder Taishang got up early and his right eyelid kept twitching.

He wondered if something bad was about to happen.

Sure enough, he saw the Celestial Hound running into the palace, barging in aggressively.

“The Sixth Princess said the stray cat she often feeds is missing. Is it here with you?”

The Celestial Hound barged in while speaking, sniffing everywhere as he walked.

“It last appeared here! That’s right! The scent ends right here!”

Elder Taishang knew exactly what kind of character this hound was and couldn’t reason with him.

Coming here under the pretext of finding a cat was nothing more than an attempt to blackmail some benefits.

“There are no pills.”

Elder Taishang extended his fly-whisk.

“Leave, stop looking here.”

“Fine, I’ll go back and tell the Sixth Princess that the cat was taken by you to be refined into pills!” the Celestial Hound threatened.

“How can you say that? That’s slander! Libel! I never use living creatures for alchemy; that would invite divine retribution!”

Elder Taishang defended himself anxiously.

“But the scent definitely disappeared in your palace. How do you explain that?” The Celestial Hound pointed at his own nose.

“It doesn’t lie!”

He spoke with righteous indignation, “You thought its meowing was too annoying, so you killed it, right? Where is the body? The Sixth Princess is such a kind fairy; how heartbroken will she be when she finds out!”

Elder Taishang had a massive headache.

Ever since the Sixth Princess started watching mortal livestreams, she had set up a “Celestial Animal Protection Association” to ensure the safety of small animals in the heavens.

If she thought he had harmed the stray cat she fed, wouldn’t she pluck out his beard?

He sighed, walked into the room, and took a bottle off the shelf.

“This is a Pill of a Thousand Gold, newly refined. Take it and leave quickly!”

He reached out to give it, and the Celestial Hound impatiently reached out to grab it.

In the scramble, neither of them held on, and the bottle fell from the shelf, landing right in the trash can underneath.

The Celestial Hound bent over to look in the trash can, only to find it completely empty.

He lifted the can and asked in surprise, “Why doesn’t your trash can have a bottom? Where’s the stuff? Where did it fall?”

“You wasteful creature!” Elder Taishang snapped in frustration.

“It fell to the mortal world…”

The Celestial Hound looked closely at the trash can.

“Is this a teleportation array? Why did you draw a teleportation array on a trash can?”

Elder Taishang said, “It teleports the trash directly to the mortal world so I don’t have to empty it. It’s very convenient.”

“But if mortals pick these things up, won’t it cause trouble?” the Celestial Hound said.

“The Jade Emperor said we can’t let mortals know of our existence! This is the age of short videos. If an immortal is discovered and a video is posted, the whole world will know. Erasing memories would be a massive workload. That’s why no one has been allowed down there for years…”

Elder Taishang stroked his beard.

“Don’t worry, I placed the other end of the trash can in an active volcanic crater. The trash sent over is incinerated immediately.”

“But what if someone goes to that crater and sees the trash can you placed there?”

“Impossible! That’s an active volcano; how could anyone go up there? Do they have a death wish? Besides, it’s on a deserted island that isn’t on any shipping route. Who would veer off course to go there for no reason?”

The Celestial Hound nodded.

“True, it’s impossible for someone to veer off course to a deserted island, climb an active volcano that could erupt at any time, and bring back a trash can from there.”

He remembered his purpose again.

“My stuff fell to the mortal world. Compensate me!”

Elder Taishang was speechless.

“That was my stuff!”

“But you were giving it to me! The Sixth Princess…”

“Fine, fine. I’ll give you another one after I refine it in a few days. I really don’t have any right now!”