Chapter 8

This ridiculous CEO novel world really was brainless and full of every imaginable absurdity.

President Liu's family was in the jewelry business, and he was known in the jadeite trade as Liu One-Eye. He had never misjudged any jadeite that passed through his hands. If President Liu said so, then these stones were almost certainly jadeite.

Zhang Lexuan was completely dumbfounded. Who could have known these ugly rocks really were jadeite?

Song Shiwei was already waving flags and cheering in her mind-

[Progress toward Zhang Lexuan washing his hair upside down +10086]

[Oho! Hair washing, hair washing! Zhang Lexuan, wash your hair upside down.]

She gave Zhang Lexuan, who stood stiffly beside her, a meaningful look. "Certain people-I seem to remember them saying they'd wash their hair upside down if these stones turned out to be jadeite?"

Zhang Leyao pointed at the attendant beside them. "There, the water's ready. Go ahead."

Zhang Lexuan clung to his last shred of defiance. "I don't think that's necessarily accurate, is it? What if President Liu got it wrong?"

President Liu immediately bristled. "Impossible! Young man, you can insult my character, but you absolutely cannot insult my professional competence! When has Liu One-Eye ever misjudged anything?"

Song Shiwei nodded earnestly beside him, then suddenly perked up. Here came the gossip.

[President Liu? Holy crap! You really have misjudged something.]

President Liu: ???

Zhang Lexuan: ???

Did that mean he didn't have to wash his hair upside down? But the very next second, Song Shiwei mercilessly shattered his fantasy.

[Liu One-Eye, who never misjudged jadeite, actually misjudged his wife and his buddy.]

[Who would've thought, who would've thought? President Liu's impotent, so where did his wife's kids come from? His buddy? Oh, then that explains it. Maybe President Liu knows and is happy to become a dad to someone else's kids.]

[And the thing is, his impotence was caused by his wife drugging him?? President Liu, you've really been wronged.]

[Out of those two or three kids, only the eldest daughter is his. His eldest daughter's already being driven nearly insane by that lunatic mother of hers. President Liu, if you don't go back and check on your eldest daughter, you deserve to have your family line die out.]

President Liu: ?!

Chapter 8: Chapter 8

◎What kind of dogshit plot was this? Even Wang Baochuan wasn't as much of a love-brain as you◎

Happy to become a dad to someone else's kids, his fucking ass. He had only just discovered the vast green grassland of cuckoldry atop his head, and he was also a poor sucker who had been drugged by his wife.

No wonder his wife had suddenly suggested letting his good buddy Liu Qiang adopt their son. Failing that, letting Liu Qiang adopt their younger daughter would work too. When he had half-jokingly asked why not their eldest daughter, his wife had immediately turned hostile and said, "How could that be the same!"

So there had been signs of all this long ago.

So a glaringly obvious cuckold's hat had been right before his eyes, and he truly hadn't seen it.

Zhang Lexuan: ?!

This gossip was certainly juicy, but he still had to wash his hair upside down!

[President Liu's so pitiful. I suggest you hurry home and investigate your company's taxes. Don't lose your life at the hands of that adulterous couple.]

Having already followed Song Shiwei through two rounds of gossip earlier, President Liu listened to her inner voice and had long since started cross-checking certain clues in his mind.

Whenever his buddy came to his house, his wife would be especially happy and would encourage the two children to cling to him, while his eldest daughter would be shooed aside by his wife.

Several times, he had even heard the children calling "Dad" from outside the door. He had thought his aging ears had mistaken "godfather" for "Dad"?

Song Shiwei continued looking through the original novel, then quietly grumbled-

[President Liu really has it rough. His wife suddenly asked to take charge of the finances a while back, and his good buddy joined the company, saying he wanted to be the purchasing manager. Those two have already started siphoning off assets, while this love-brain is still happily thinking his wife loves him and doesn't want him overworking himself. Even after going bankrupt, he won't know what killed him.]

She had a point. She really had a point. His wife really had taken over the finances recently, and his good buddy, who had loafed around for decades, had suddenly said he wanted a job. His wife had put in a good word for him too. He had found it so unbearably annoying that he had given him a minor managerial position in purchasing.

He had never imagined those two had secretly started plotting to seize his assets so early on.

Did they really think a few years of taking things easy had turned him into a sickly cat? Every last one of them-he would play them to death, or all his years in business would have been for nothing.

He was about to turn around and go clean house, but he still remembered the kindness of Song Shiwei's well-intentioned warning. So he pulled the tools of his trade out of his pocket. "Well, how about I cut these open for you? That way, you can wash your hair upside down a little more peacefully."

Song Shiwei looked eagerly at President Liu, while howling with laughter inside.

[Hahahahaha, President Liu, you really know your memes. Hurry up and cut them! I want to see that dumb-dog little brother Zhang Lexuan wash his hair upside down, pronto.]

[I'm just an ordinary college girl who wants to watch someone wash his hair upside down.]

Zhang Lexuan: ...

You want to see someone wash his hair upside down, but my life matters too.

President Liu worked very quickly. In just a few movements, he sawed a small opening in the stone, revealing jadeite so vividly green it seemed ready to drip.

"Excellent stuff! Natural imperial-green-grade jadeite." His excitement was plain to see. "Miss Song, if you sell it to me, I can pay an extra ten percent."

Song Shiwei wore an expression that said she had expected as much-

[Sure enough, this is exactly the kind of thing this ridiculous world would do.]

Buying material of this quality would turn a profit even with a ten-percent markup. He would consider that ten percent his repayment to Miss Song.

Zhang Lexuan: !

Oh no, this one's coming for me.

"Zhang Lexuan! Time to wash your hair upside down." Song Shiwei raised her eyebrows, her grin positively obnoxious.

Zhang Lexuan was all too familiar with that obnoxious air. Wasn't this exactly the sort of trolling college students loved best?

But he had been the one to shoot his mouth off. Resigned to his fate, he took the water from his sister, who was stifling her laughter, and was just about to flip over and wash his hair upside down.

Song Yurou rushed out. "Sister, how can you treat Lexuan like this? His sister even agreed to make clothes for you. How can you still be so ungrateful?"