Treating a 300-Million-Yuan Contract as a Scam

After stepping out of the elevator, Li Na immediately ordered all of her operational teams to search the entire internet for Chen Siyao's contact information and make sure to reach out to the top streamer with seventy million followers at the very first moment.

Meanwhile, Chen Siyao's phone rang.

She glanced at the caller ID; it was an unknown number, and the location showed as Capital City.

Right at the other end of the line came Li Na's excited and respectful voice: "Is this Ms. Chen Siyao? I am Li Na, the newly appointed general manager of the Doule Live Streaming Business Division! We want to sign an exclusive lifetime contract with you, featuring a signing fee of three hundred million yuan, along with top-tier resources across the entire platform!"

Three hundred million?

An exclusive contract?

Chen Siyao was stunned for a moment, then immediately frowned, assuming it was a scam call. Her tone turned cold at once: "Sorry, I don't take out loans, and I don't do engagement brushing. Stop trying to trick me."

With that, she hung up directly and conveniently blacked the number.

Yang Wanqing, sitting in the back seat, saw this scene and asked curiously, "Siyao, who was it? Why did you hang up?"

"A scam call, obviously," Chen Siyao curled her lip. "She said she'd give me a three-hundred-million-yuan signing fee. Anyone can tell it's a fraud; scammers these days are getting more and more outrageous."

Hearing this, Yang Wanqing slapped her own thigh, suddenly remembering something as her expression shifted: "Oh! I remember now! A while ago, a bunch of platforms called me saying they wanted to sign you to an S contract and give you tons of money. I thought they were scams, so I cursed them all out and blacked them!"

"Ah?" Chen Siyao instantly blanked, staring at Yang Wanqing with wide eyes. "What did you say? Those calls weren't scams? They were real platform contracts?"

"I, how would I know!" Yang Wanqing looked innocent and scratched her head. "Those callers opened their mouths with millions and tens of millions—anyone would think they were scammers! I just hung up on all of them!"

Cai Jingwen listened from the side in dumbfounded shock: "You two... are way too absurd! Signing contracts delivered right to your door, and you treated them all as scams?"

Right at that moment, Chen Siyao's WeChat suddenly chimed—it was a friend request sent by the official Doule customer service, with the note: [Li Na from Doule Headquarters, regarding the three-hundred-million contract matter, please accept the verification, official certification is verifiable!]

Half-doubtful, Chen Siyao accepted the friend request, and Li Na immediately sent over her work ID from Doule Headquarters, the intention of contract signed by the president, and the company's official seal documents. All the information was complete and crystal clear.

Looking at the glaring 300,000,000-yuan signing fee on the document, Chen Siyao, Yang Wanqing, Cai Jingwen, and Li Li all simultaneously drew in a sharp breath of cold air, their phones almost dropping to the floor.

"Thre—three hundred million... It's real..." Chen Siyao's voice trembled, her entire person dumbstruck.

The interior of the car fell instantly silent.

Yang Wanqing's phone almost dropped to the ground.

Li Li's mouth opened wide enough to stuff an egg into it.

Cai Jingwen was stunned as well.

Only Chen Hao continued driving calmly, as if what he had heard wasn't three hundred million, but three yuan.

Yang Wanqing reacted first, screaming out: "Three hundred million?! Three hundred million! Oh my god! Siyao! You're going to be a rich lady!"

Her outburst also blasted the viewers in the live stream back to wakefulness:

[I Am Ying Zheng: What? Three hundred million? Did Doule lose its mind?]

[Yaoyao's Little Red Riding Hood: Sister Siyao is about to get rich! Drag me along!]

[Dongmen Xue: A three-hundred-million-yuan signing fee? That's broken records, right?]

[Sober in the Mortal World: I remember the highest signing fee on Doule was eighty million. What is the concept of three hundred million?]

[Watermelon-Eating Crowd: The concept is that I wouldn't make this much in ten lifetimes]

[Evening Breeze Meets the Forest: Wanqing! Go ask quickly! Is it real!]

Only then did Yang Wanqing snap back to reality and point the camera at Chen Siyao: "Siyao! Was that call just now real or fake? Three hundred million?"

Chen Siyao finally came to her senses, took a deep breath, and tried to calm her emotions: "It should be real... She said she's the head of the Doule Contracting Department..."

The live stream exploded once more:

[Wildest Across the Net]: Yang Wanqing: I hung up on a signing call thinking it was a scam; Chen Siyao: I hung up on a signing call thinking it was a scam! These two are brilliant fools!

[Liu Yaowen 58]: Suggest changing the name: The Incident of Missing Three Hundred Million Due to a Scam Call! I can't with this laughter!

[Chancheng Ye Family]: Congratulations to Ms. Chen! The Ye Family offers its congratulations!

[Luocheng Wu Family]: The Wu Family congratulates her as well! The three hundred million is well deserved!

[Wuling Mountain Qin Family]: The Qin Family ancestor came to me in a dream again, saying Ms. Chen is a person of great fortune!

[I Am Ying Zheng: Hahaha, is the Qin Family ancestor on the clock again?]

[Yaoyao's Little Red Riding Hood: I genuinely admire this routine from the Qin Family]

[La Vega: The Qin Family: The ancestors of our household, providing dreams 24/7]

Holding the little wolf cub, Li Li whispered, "Actually, you can't really blame Wanqing; there really are a lot of scam calls nowadays. I got one myself the past two months, saying I'd activated a Doule live streaming membership and that eight thousand would be deducted. It scared me so much I almost did what they said. But when I checked later, I hadn't activated anything at all."

Yang Wanqing nodded repeatedly: "Exactly, exactly! There's news like that everywhere on the internet—things like 'fake customer service scams' and 'membership cancellation traps.' I just have high vigilance, so I wouldn't fall for it!"

In the live stream:

[Sober in the Mortal World: Having high vigilance is a good thing, but this time it seems you missed out on a hundred million]

[Yaoyao's Little Red Riding Hood: It's not seemingly, you really missed a hundred million]

[Watermelon-Eating Crowd: Wanqing: I missed it with my own strength, so what?]

[Evening Breeze Meets the Forest: I'll give Wanqing's move full marks]

[I Am Ying Zheng: Too funny. The scam call didn't get anyone, but the real signing call got hung up on as a scam]

Looking at the bullet comments, Yang Wanqing felt a bit guilty: "Um... Siyao, you won't blame me, right?"

Chen Siyao rolled her eyes: "Blame you for what? Aren't we signed now anyway?"

Yang Wanqing breathed a sigh of relief and grew excited again: "Right, right, right! Three hundred million! Siyao, you remember to treat us!"

"Treat, treat, treat. Eat whatever you want."

"I want to eat a big feast!"

"Fine."

"I want to eat seafood!"

"Fine."

"I want to eat a Manchu Han Imperial Feast!"

"...Can you even eat that much?"

"Even if I can't finish it, I'm ordering it!"

The two of them burst into laughter.

Chen Hao glanced at them through the rearview mirror, the corners of his mouth curving slightly upward.

Cai Jingwen caught this subtle expression, her heart fluttering.

He was smiling.

Even if it was just for a fleeting moment, he really had smiled.

This man wasn't completely indifferent after all.

She lowered her head, a hint of a smile also blooming at the corner of her lips.

Laughing uncontrollably, Yang Wanqing turned to look at Chen Hao: "Brother Hao! Your sister is about to become a multi-millionairess! Do you have anything to say?"

Chen Hao glanced at Chen Siyao through the rearview mirror and said indifferently, "Mhm, pretty good."

"Just that?" Yang Wanqing was speechless. "Your sister is about to have three hundred million, and your response is 'mhm, pretty good'?"

Chen Hao thought for a moment and added another sentence: "Don't get full of yourself."

Chen Siyao had still been feeling dizzy, but upon hearing those two words, she suddenly sobered up.

She looked at her older brother's back, a wave of warmth welling up in her heart.

Three hundred million was indeed a lot.

But in her brother's eyes, it was probably just a number.

She took a deep breath and smiled: "Brother, don't worry, I won't get full of yourself."

Cai Jingwen watched her and nodded inwardly.

This girl had a good older brother.

The car continued forward, the scenery outside the window changing from rolling hills to a canyon. The mountain slopes on both sides were steep, and a surging river ran through the bottom of the valley, its rushing water roaring loudly enough to be heard right through the car windows.

Yet no one inside the car was paying attention to the scenery.

In Chen Siyao's live stream, the bullet comments were still frantically discussing the matter of the three hundred million:

[New User 001: Three hundred million! If I had three hundred million, I'd flat out lie down and retire!]