On the beach.
Wearing sunglasses and a classic beach outfit, Zhou Yi lounged on a beach chair, holding an opened young coconut and occasionally taking a sip through the straw.
Bored.
No matter how fun a place or thing was, there would always come a time when it grew tiresome. Zhou Yi had fallen into exactly that state.
As for beautiful women... they were just that. He had seen plenty and experienced plenty, so Zhou Yi was now rarely especially interested in anyone—unless she had some special identity, like Gisele, who had the looks, the figure, and was a character from the story.
Of course, it definitely was not because his body could not handle it. With his current physical condition, he had nothing to worry about.
Thinking back, Zhou Yi even found himself missing who he had been before he transmigrated—
An utterly ordinary, plain and unremarkable college student, just like Louis Koo. He had experienced nothing and had still been a blank sheet of paper, full of beautiful fantasies about everything. He earned a little money writing novels, gave some to his family to pay off the mortgage, kept some for his own living expenses, and, because he stuck to his principles, spent a large portion supporting official releases in the novels he read. He had finally graduated, found a job, and then came down with... never mind that part.
Still, fortune and misfortune went hand in hand... Who could have known that such misfortune would bring him such good fortune afterward?
Maybe one day, he would even find a way back. By then, according to the settings in the novels he had read before, he should have some sort of time-traveling ability. In other words, he could return to the very second after he had left and pick up seamlessly?
All in all, he had not lost out. He had made an absolute killing.
It was just that now... what should he do?
Utterly bored, Zhou Yi finally finished the coconut water. He picked up the spoon beside him, intending to scrape out the coconut flesh.
Then he heard a voice.
"Looks like you're bored?"
"A little." Zhou Yi did not even turn his head, continuing what he was doing as he replied, "Why are you here? Finished with the preparations?"
He knew who it was just from her voice. After all, she was the only woman in this world who interested him at this stage.
"More or less. There's still one thing left," Gisele said as she walked up from behind him in a bikini. Teasingly, she added, "I'm not a billionaire, after all. If I want money, I have to work for it."
"That's true." Zhou Yi nodded and shifted to the side. He had been using a double beach chair to begin with. "What's left?"
"Reyes's palm print." Gisele lay down on the beach chair without ceremony. "Without it, even if we get the vault, it'll take far too long to open it. We won't be able to get it open in a short time. Time is tight. Once we get the vault, we have to open it immediately, split the money, and leave."
"Good idea. Drag the entire vault away, and Reyes will probably be furious. The safest place will become the most dangerous place instead." Zhou Yi smiled. "But where can you get close to Reyes?"
"Reyes will be coming to the beach soon to discuss business with some people. Those 'businessmen' are worried because Reyes recently gathered all his money together and has been turning the whole city upside down hunting for Toretto and the others. That's why Reyes needs to reassure them and invited them to relax a little," Gisele said. "And this should be our only chance to get his palm print."
"What are you planning to do?" Zhou Yi asked.
"All I need is..." Gisele slowly slid her hand down from the root of her thigh. Her leg was long and smooth, and it took her ages to reach her toes. "This."
"Hmm... Touching one hundred million dollars?" Zhou Yi looked at Gisele's long legs and could not resist giving one a slap. "I'd better do it for you... though Reyes has to pay that hundred million."
"I agree with that." Gisele did not object. She had already been quite interested in Zhou Yi, and compared to an old drug lord like Reyes, Zhou Yi—a handsome, well-built billionaire who did legitimate business—was obviously far more attractive.
"But," Gisele said without trying to stop Zhou Yi's hand, asking somewhat puzzledly, "how do you plan to do it?"
"There are plenty of ways. It depends on whether you want the fast way or the slow way." Zhou Yi was not some desperate lecher. After getting a feel for it once, he withdrew his hand, picked up an opened young coconut from beside him, and handed it to Gisele. "Want some coconut water?"
"What's the fast way? And what's the slow way?" Gisele took the coconut, drank some coconut water, and asked curiously.
"The fast way is—go straight to him, discuss business, have a drink, and get the palm print," Zhou Yi said. "The slow way is to gather all his evidence, seize all his power, and crush him completely with overwhelming force. But that method... first of all, I don't really like doing things that are seriously illegal. Besides, you guys would barely have any role to play in it, and that wouldn't be very good either."
"Since you've analyzed it so thoroughly, what else can I say?" Gisele smiled faintly. "I want the fast way."
"Too fast won't do either," Zhou Yi said meaningfully. "We need to make some preparations first. Conveniently enough, I'm short a secretary."
Let the secretary handle things when there was work, and when there was no work... Ahem. Of course, Zhou Yi was not that impatient. Taking care of business came first.
"A secretary?" Gisele said. "Then I'll need to change clothes."
"No, not for now. We came to the beach to have fun, and the idea of discussing a business deal with him was equally spontaneous." Zhou Yi gazed at the scenery and spoke casually. "That way, he won't have much room to react, and we can achieve our goal faster... Besides, we're not talking to him right now."
"Why are you so good at this?" Gisele asked in confusion.
"Once you've done enough business, you'll understand that many major deals are generally made in little settings like this, through seemingly accidental encounters," Zhou Yi said with a smile. "Everyone understands the routine. It just depends on whether one side is willing to hit and the other is willing to take it."
"I suddenly feel like driving suits me better." Gisele sighed. "So many twists and turns. It's exhausting."
"Driving is a pretty good form of entertainment too. After all, I made my start as an Auto Mechanic, and I still haven't let that craft fall by the wayside. Repairing cars, modifying them, driving them—all that is among the few hobbies I still have," Zhou Yi sighed as well, then said something that made Gisele's teeth itch in a tone that made them itch even more. "Having money really does make you lose a lot of fun..."
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