After adding Liu Miao as a friend, Zeng Shen turned and walked toward the car nearby.
Li Yuqing sat in the passenger seat.
Watching Zeng Shen get into the driver's seat, she asked curiously, "Honey, how did you know that pretty lady wanted to talk to you?"
"Because she needs money and wants investors, and your husband happens to have money now." Zeng Shen took the dark gold card from his pocket, waved it, then casually set it in the car's storage compartment.
"So you deliberately waited for her to come down and find you."
"Exactly."
Zeng Shen nodded, stepped on the gas, and drove out of the parking lot. "Where to now, babe?"
"Back to the Juling office building. Tongtong just messaged me saying the studio's desks, chairs, computers, and everything else have arrived," Li Yuqing said.
"You got it."
Zeng Shen nodded and stomped on the accelerator. The car shot forward.
"Slow down, honey," Li Yuqing said, glancing at the dark gold card Zeng Shen had casually left in the storage compartment. "Now that you have so much money, what do you plan to do with it?"
Zeng Shen already had an answer to Li Yuqing's question: use the money to earn more survival points.
But how could he use money to earn more survival points?
He had no detailed plan yet.
So.
After giving it some serious thought, Zeng Shen said, "I haven't worked it out yet. I'll tell you when I have an answer."
"Okay." Li Yuqing nodded sweetly, then hesitated before adding, "If you don't want to start a content creation company with me and would rather do something else, I'll support you too. After all, Liu Tongtong and I only started the studio for fun."
"You mean you started it to reel your husband in, right?" Zeng Shen chuckled.
"No, we didn't." Li Yuqing's cheeks flushed, and her voice softened. "We only came to you because we couldn't find anyone else at first."
"Hahaha."
Zeng Shen laughed without pursuing the subject. They both knew the truth, and that was enough.
[Warning: the host is about to be dragged into the domain of a tier-three Undead System deity. Once inside, you will be imprisoned, enslaved, exploited, and may even face mortal danger. Please break free of her restraints and distance yourself from this tier-three Undead System deity as soon as possible.]
The car soon stopped outside the Juling office building. Listening to the notification in his ears, Zeng Shen defiantly wrapped an arm tightly around Li Yuqing's soft, delicate waist, holding her against him as they hurried toward Like Family Studio on the thirteenth floor.
Outside room 1314.
Li Yuqing pressed her fingerprint against the smart lock, and the door opened instantly.
The first thing they saw was a dozen or so large cardboard boxes containing office furniture, all sitting in the middle of the living room.
Two or three cardboard boxes also stood in each of the other four rooms.
Hearing the door open, Liu Tongtong emerged from a room to the side. The moment she saw Zeng Shen and Li Yuqing come in one after the other, she teased:
"Boss, you're finally back from your honeymoon."
"What honeymoon? We just went downtown to take care of something," Li Yuqing said, blushing.
"Why go all the way downtown for that? We've got a bed right here in the studio. If having me around makes things awkward, you can give me a few days off before you come back," Liu Tongtong continued teasing.
Flushing at Liu Tongtong's words, Li Yuqing lunged at her, pushed her down onto the nearby sofa, and sat on her as she reached out to tickle her slender, snow-white waist.
"Ah! Hahaha! Stop, hahaha!"
Liu Tongtong struggled and laughed, trying to get up, but Li Yuqing wasn't ready to let her off yet. She even slipped her hands under Liu Tongtong's clothes to keep tickling.
"Hahaha, stop tickling me! Your husband's here! Ah, my clothes are all messed up! Stop, hahaha! Your husband's going to see everything!"
"Hmph, that's what you get for making fun of me." Li Yuqing kept tickling her, a mischievous smile curling her lips. "If he sees everything, that makes you part of the Zeng family."
"Fine, you said it! Just wait until I seduce your Shen one day-hahaha! Stop, stop!"
"So you really want to, huh? I'll tickle you to death!"
Watching Liu Tongtong writhe under Li Yuqing's tickling, her disheveled clothes exposing plenty of pale skin, Zeng Shen swallowed.
Then.
He quietly reached back to close the door, picked up a utility knife nearby, and began opening the boxes.
Most of the boxes in the living room contained high-end office desks and chairs that needed assembly.
The boxes in the other rooms probably held desktop computers and other office equipment.
After Zeng Shen had been working for a while.
Having laughed and played enough, Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong straightened their rumpled clothes and began helping him.
More than two hours later.
The formerly empty living room had been divided into two areas.
The area near the entrance held a set of soft rubber sofas, a table, chairs, stools, and a coffee table.
In the area near the balcony windows.
Four individual workstations had been joined into one large desk, set against the wall beneath the windows.
Each workstation had a padded office chair and a computer.
"Finally done. I'm exhausted."
Li Yuqing and Liu Tongtong stretched a little.
Sitting on a soft sofa chair, Zeng Shen checked the time on his phone. "It's six thirty. Want to go downstairs for something to eat?"
"Honey, I don't feel like going down. Let's order delivery," Li Yuqing said.
Liu Tongtong nodded in agreement. "I want a burger and fried chicken."
"Me too," Li Yuqing said.
"Okay, I'll order for you." Zeng Shen ordered three burger-and-fried-chicken meals on his phone.
But suddenly.
His expression changed slightly as he remembered the stray cats in his divine realm. He hadn't fed them all day.
They were probably frantic with hunger by now.
He immediately said to Li Yuqing, "Babe, give me your car keys. I need to head out for a bit. I'll come pick you up later."
"Honey, Tongtong and I are going to discuss the studio's future here tonight. When we get sleepy, we'll sleep in the room at the very back. If you've got something to do, go ahead. Don't worry about me," Li Yuqing said as she handed Zeng Shen the keys.
"Okay, sounds good."
Zeng Shen took the keys and quickly left the office building.
[Fortune favors the host. You have escaped enslavement by a tier-three Undead System deity and her followers with your life. Survival points +20.]
Ignoring the notification in his ears, Zeng Shen opened the car door and drove swiftly toward the Haoyun residential complex.
As soon as he got home and closed the door, Zeng Shen eagerly opened the divine realm gate in the living room and ducked inside.
In an instant.
He appeared in Bastet Town.
The moment the cats in the tree-stump shelters saw him, they all jumped out and gathered around him, meowing incessantly.
The little black cat rubbed against Zeng Shen's feet, also letting out hungry-sounding meows.
"You're all starving, aren't you?" Zeng Shen stroked Xiao Hei's head, then hurriedly took out a large bag of cat food and poured it all into the spotless feeding dish.
"Meow..."
Seeing the dish filled with food, the surrounding cats immediately meowed in excitement and delight.
In an instant, faint white light rose from more than a dozen large stray cats and streamed toward Zeng Shen.
[Congratulations, host. Your believers sincerely thank you for bringing them abundant food. Sixteen casual believers have become your true believers. Survival points +1,150, faith +160.]