In the underground parking garage of the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
Chen Lin and Qin Chuxia walked side by side, a subtle tension hanging in the air.
They approached a sleek beast painted fiery red from end to end.
Qin Chuxia stopped and took an equally red car key out of her petite Hermès bag.
She rose slightly onto her toes and held the key out to Chen Lin, her gaze wavering.
"Chen Lin, could you drive?"
"I... I only got my license a month ago!"
Chen Lin looked at the black prancing horse on the key, then at the Ferrari LaFerrari before him, its extravagant shape brimming with power and wild beauty. He fell briefly silent.
Who the hell let a rookie who'd had her license for one month anywhere near a monster like this?
But on second thought, even Changfeng Securities was just an inconspicuous subsidiary of the Qin Family's enormous business empire. Suddenly, it all seemed perfectly reasonable.
Some people were born in Rome.
Others were born to be beasts of burden.
Chen Lin accepted the key without protesting.
He had never driven this car, but he had seen plenty of it on Douyin.
Only 108 were available nationwide, yet on Douyin, it looked as though everyone owned one.
Its 6.3-liter naturally aspirated V12 engine, paired with a hybrid system, unleashed nearly a thousand monstrous horsepower, with an official zero-to-one-hundred time of 2.9 seconds.
And yet...
The image of a rival manufacturer's SU7 Ultra flashed through Chen Lin's mind.
Fifteen hundred horsepower.
Zero to one hundred in 1.98 seconds.
By comparison, this top-of-the-line Ferrari worth tens of millions... seemed a little underwhelming?
He pulled open the upward-swinging butterfly door and settled into the driver's seat.
Qin Chuxia expertly ducked into the passenger seat as well.
Chen Lin pressed