Blind Date: I'll Slap Your Face Swollen with Money

His face covered in cold sweat, Zhang Jinlong crawled over to Lu Yuan in a sorry state and clung tightly to his leg. "Chairman Lu, I-I really didn't know you were the chairman..."

"If I'd known you were the new chairman of Yida Group, I wouldn't have dared treat you like that even if you beat me to death! Please, let me off. As long as you don't sue me, I'll work for you for free and make up for the company's losses!"

Tears and snot streamed down Zhang Jinlong's face.

Lu Yuan sent him rolling away with a kick and snorted. "Even if you work for free, the company doesn't need someone like you. And those women who've been carrying on with Zhang Jinlong can all collect their pay from finance and get lost!"

Everyone else was already dumbfounded. Lu Yuan had been nothing more than an ordinary junior salesman here, and everyone had treated him as an ordinary person. Yet today, Lu Yuan, who had interacted with them as an ordinary person, had transformed into the chairman.

"So Lu Yuan was the hidden tycoon among us!"

"Chairman Lu, I've never offended you before!"

"Chairman Lu, are you free tonight? We'd like to take you out to dinner. Would that be all right?"

The colleagues who had once been cold and distant toward Lu Yuan now crowded around him with friendly faces. The men wanted promotions and raises, while the women wanted to get into his bed.

Everyone simply wanted something from him.

Lu Yuan gave them a cold look and refused them indifferently. "Cut out all these underhanded tricks and do your jobs at your own desks. When it comes to raises and promotions, I only look at individual ability. If you aren't capable, you'll all be laid off. The company doesn't support idlers!"

At that, every employee lowered their head and obediently returned to their desk.

His mother called from home. "Yuan! I've arranged a blind date for you. When you have time, go over to Starry Sky Media Company. The girl is a livestreamer. It's your first time meeting her, so make sure you leave her with a good impression."

Lu Yuan didn't want to let his family's good intentions go to waste, so he agreed without hesitation.

After leaving Yida Shopping Mall, Lu Yuan drove to Starry Sky Media.

Lu Yuan was ushered into the lobby, where a fashionably dressed woman with wavy blond hair looked over at him. "You're the one Auntie Wang introduced for the blind date, right? You're pretty handsome!"

Lu Yuan said politely, "Thank you. You're very pretty too."

"Hehe, we're all adults here, so I'll get straight to the point. Tell me what you've got going for you. How much do you earn a month? Any savings? Do you own a home? A car?"

Lu Yuan frowned. How could he not see that she was sizing him up? He kept an extremely low profile. "I earn fifty thousand a month and have twenty or thirty thousand in savings. I'm still working toward a home and a car."

The internet celebrity immediately lost interest. "That's all you earn? Fifty thousand is pretty good in other cities, but with the cost of living in Magic City, what can you do with that?"

"Forget it, we're not compatible. Coming on this blind date with you was a complete waste of time."

Lu Yuan sneered. "May I ask, Miss Wang Ning, since you're so picky, what do you have going for you?"

Wang Ning raised her phone, opened a short-video app, and showed off to Lu Yuan. "I have over five million followers on Douyin, and I earn one or two hundred thousand from a single livestream selling products. With what I have going for me, do you think you're worthy of me?"

The other female livestreamers at the media company also mocked Lu Yuan. "You earn so little, yet you're hoping to hook up with a big internet celebrity with millions of followers? A toad lusting after swan meat! Why don't you piss and take a look at yourself in it?"

Lu Yuan didn't care in the slightest. He had never been very interested in these internet celebrities to begin with.

Female internet celebrities who livestreamed short videos were just a bunch of materialistic, vain people who wanted to do nothing, dreaming of making big money by twisting their waists and shaking their hips, wanting to reap without sowing.

Once they turned off their livestream beauty filters and effects and took off their makeup, was a single one of them even worth looking at?

"Boom!" A Rolls-Royce pulled up outside the media company just then.

A young heir in sunglasses got out of the car and walked straight up to Wang Ning, handing her a bouquet of flowers. "Ning'er, will you be my girlfriend?"

Blushing, Wang Ning accepted the flowers and nestled in his arms. "President Park, I accept. How do you have time to come over today? Don't you have a new Korean drama to film?"

"I turned them all down. How could filming an idol drama ever be more important to me than you?"

Lu Yuan recognized the young heir too. He was Park In-yong, a rising star from Kimchi Country who often played young idol leads in soap operas and was very popular on the mainland.

A few text messages arrived on Lu Yuan's phone just then.

"Chairman Lu, the rent from the school-district properties has been collected, and quite a lot of it is in cash. When will you be home? We'll arrange delivery for you!"

"Mr. Lu, the contracts for your school-district real estate across the country have come through. We'll deliver them to you now. Are you home?"

"Mr. Lu, the paperwork for your shares in Yida Company across the country has come through. We're delivering it to you. Are you home?"

Lu Yuan sent the same reply to all of them: Deliver it straight to Starry Sky Media!

Seeing that Lu Yuan still hadn't left, Wang Ning said irritably, "Why are you still standing here? Wasn't I clear enough? We're not compatible. Get lost! I could never fall for you. I'd rather cry in a BMW than laugh on a bicycle with you!"

"A stinking loser like you should just focus on working. Don't try chasing girls like other people. Even if you got one, you couldn't afford to keep her. A single set of my skincare products costs fifty thousand."

Lu Yuan ignored her, walked out of Starry Sky Media's lobby, and returned to the driver's seat of his Bugatti Veyron. Wang Ning happened to see it.

Wang Ning and the others sneered. "You only earn a little over fifty thousand a month, just that little a month, yet you rented such a nice car to save face. What a loser. Do you think renting a car will make me think more highly of you?"

Utterly speechless, Lu Yuan looked coldly at the clowns and said mockingly, "Right, I sold my house to rent this car. Heh, how ignorant!"

"Hehe, who are you calling ignorant? Didn't you say yourself that you only earn fifty thousand? Can fifty thousand buy this car?"

Lu Yuan shot back, "I just thought a woman like you wasn't worthy of me, so I deliberately lowballed it. I'm laying my cards on the table. I'm done pretending. I'm a top tycoon worth trillions!"

"I wanted to get along with you as an ordinary person, but I never expected you to humiliate me in every possible way..."

Wang Ning didn't believe Lu Yuan for a second. She scoffed. "If you had trillions, you'd have smashed me to death with money long ago, and you'd already be dragging me off to a hotel room. Would you still be standing here saying all this?"

Lu Yuan smiled. "I really do want to smash you with money, but not to take you to a hotel room. I just want to smash you to death!"

Wang Ning was dismissive. "Hehe, come up with that much money first!"

Lu Yuan called the general manager of Tomson Riviera directly. "The rent-bring it all over in cash. I'm going to use that money to slap someone's face swollen."