Shi Jihan immediately perked up. "No problem."
000 rubbed its hands excitedly. [Is this where you rise up, put on your roadblock identity, and start following the main plot? Are you going to poison the well for those two at the banquet? So excited, so expectant, so thrilled!]
Lin Xubai gave him a budget of thirty thousand.
Shi Jihan laughed. "The rest is my pocket money, right?"
A business with zero investment and enormous profits—he got to work immediately.
He worked himself to the bone out in the rural countryside.
Zhou Jingcheng watched him carry things in and out, all from his own room. Not only had Shi Jihan emptied out his newly stocked wine cabinet, but he was also standing in the room, carefully eyeing it for anything else that caught his fancy.
Zhou Jingcheng was out of options. Slowly, he said, "Breaking and entering. I'm calling the police."
"What breaking and entering? Don't say nonsense like that," Shi Jihan said disapprovingly. "I'm helping your furniture circulate and be reused. You don't need to thank me too much—just say thanks, treat me to a meal, and transfer a few tens of thousands to show your appreciation. I'll endure this tiny bit of hardship."
Zhou Jingcheng said darkly, "That really is such a hardship for you."
Seeing that Zhou Jingcheng had suffered a little too, Shi Jihan sincerely invited him to tonight's banquet. "Do you want to come?"
"Not tonight. The company has a livestream event that was scheduled in advance. Zhou Zeyang and I need to connect and show our faces." As Zhou Jingcheng spoke, his hand honestly accepted the banquet menu Shi Jihan handed over.
After glancing over it, he sincerely declined. "What a pity. I don't have time to attend such a tasteful, refined banquet. What a