The headquarters of Daliang Capital.
Inside the staff restroom.
“You know what, I saw General Yu wearing a silly grin while talking on the phone yesterday!” A female employee washing her hands told her colleague.
“Which General Yu are you talking about? Big Yu or Little Yu?” the colleague asked.
“Of course I’m talking about Little Yu,” the female employee replied.
“Tsk tsk, that’s strange indeed. She actually smiled?”
The astonished look on her colleague’s face gave the female employee great satisfaction. She continued, “I’ve never seen General Yu make that expression before. I wonder what happened.”
“Maybe it was her boyfriend?” the colleague joked.
“Impossible, isn’t General Yu a staunch single woman?” The female employee frowned, unable to accept this possibility.
“There’s no such thing as being single by choice. It’s just that she hasn’t met someone who could steal her heart,” the colleague scoffed.
“That’s true. General Yu is already at that age. Big Yu must be quite anxious and might have introduced someone to her.”
“I wonder what General Yu and her boyfriend meeting would be like. Previously, a male employee was a bit too eager and got transferred to a branch office.”
“What else could it be like? She probably threw herself at him and acted all sweet and affectionate!”
As the two were chatting enthusiastically, they suddenly heard a cough.
The stall door opened, and a serious-looking woman walked out.
“Dong Assistant,” their faces turned pale. Dong Assistant was someone close to Yu Ningmeng.
“Don’t spread rumors carelessly,” Dong Assistant said as she walked to the sink, not even glancing at them while focusing on washing her hands.
“We understand,” the two exhaled in relief and quickly left the restroom.
After finishing washing and drying her hands, Dong Assistant glanced at the direction they left and snorted in amusement.
She had overheard their entire conversation. Boyfriend? Acting sweet and affectionate with a boyfriend? They were just daydreaming.
The Yu Ningmeng she knew was an independent, strong woman devoted to her career—a remarkable representative of the rise of women. How could she be like those shallow girls who revolve around men?
As for that phone call yesterday, it must have been because some project made progress, so she smiled. They had misinterpreted it as a silly grin.
After leaving the restroom, Dong Assistant arrived at Yu Ningmeng’s office and knocked on the door.
“Come in,” Yu Ningmeng’s voice came from inside.
Opening the door, Dong Assistant entered the office.
She looked toward the desk. Yu Ningmeng was wearing black-rimmed glasses and carefully reviewing documents.
“Is the meeting ready?” Yu Ningmeng asked.
“It’s all set,” Dong Assistant handed Yu Ningmeng two USB drives.
The two USB drives contained the same information, serving as backups for each other.
Glancing at her wristwatch, Yu Ningmeng stood up.
“Let’s go,” she said, opening the door and walking out.
Dong Assistant hurriedly followed behind.
Arriving at the conference room, everyone was already there. Yu Ningmeng inserted the USB drive and began the meeting.
Dong Assistant sat on one side, looking at Yu Ningmeng who was speaking earnestly on the stage, then at the attendees around her.
There were sixteen people attending the meeting, all department heads of the company. Among them were twelve young and handsome men, specially placed there by Old Yu to facilitate Little Yu’s marriage.
These carefully selected men had been in the company for a year, yet Little Yu had completely ignored them. One overly enthusiastic man had even annoyed General Yu and was transferred away.
Given General Yu’s behavior, which clearly demonstrated her independence, it was still difficult to shake the deep-rooted biases people harbored.
An hour later, the meeting ended. Yu Ningmeng, accompanied by Dong Assistant, returned to her office.
Yu Ningmeng continued reviewing documents while Dong Assistant sat at a nearby desk organizing files.
After a morning of work, Dong Assistant stretched and noticed Yu Ningmeng frowning at the screen, looking troubled.
It seemed she had encountered a difficult issue.
Standing up, Dong Assistant approached Yu Ningmeng from behind, preparing to call her for lunch.
She casually glanced at the screen, curious about what troubled General Yu.
On the screen were several web pages.
[How to Date a Younger Man]
[72 Ways to Manipulate a Cute Young Guy]
[36 Strategies to Steal Someone’s Love]
Dong Assistant: “???”
Noticing someone behind her, Yu Ningmeng immediately closed the web pages.
“I remember Dong, you majored in design, right?” Yu Ningmeng said casually.
“Yeah,” Dong Assistant’s mind was still stuck on those three web page titles.
“Good, come with me!” Yu Ningmeng grabbed Dong Assistant, taking her downstairs, getting into a car, and driving toward her villa.
Before Dong Assistant could recover, Yu Ningmeng had brought her into the walk-in closet.
Opening all the wardrobe doors, Yu Ningmeng pointed at the clothes and said, “Which one suits me best?”
Looking at the pile of dresses in the wardrobe, Dong Assistant hesitated before replying, “General Yu, I’m not an expert in this field.”
“Aren’t you a design major?” Yu Ningmeng asked, puzzled.
“I majored in advertising design,” Dong Assistant answered.
“Isn’t it basically the same? Just pick one for me,” Yu Ningmeng said in an unquestionable tone.
Dong Assistant had no choice but to start examining each dress one by one: “Are you going to a banquet?”
“Yeah,” Yu Ningmeng replied.
Dong Assistant’s heart, which had been tense, finally relaxed.
For a moment, she had thought Yu Ningmeng was choosing clothes for a date. Of course that was impossible. It was just an ordinary evening banquet. The web pages she had seen earlier must have been pop-ups from accidentally clicking on spam ads!
My General Yu could never be interested in men!
Yu Ningmeng added, “It’s a private dinner, and the guest is younger than me.”
Dong Assistant’s heart tightened again.
I trusted you so much, and you actually are going to meet a man!
After five seconds of confusion, Dong Assistant comforted herself: meeting a man wasn’t strange at all. Men also look for women. As a modern woman, she should also go out and seek men!
Men like younger women, so of course women can also look for younger men!
Suddenly enlightened, Dong Assistant used her aesthetic sense to help Yu Ningmeng pick clothes with all her might.
After the selection was completed, half the afternoon had passed.
After having a late lunch, Yu Ningmeng asked Dong Assistant, “What kind of alcohol gets you drunk easily? I need something that doesn’t taste strong but hits you later.”
Dong Assistant’s scalp tingled, her mind in turmoil.
She looked at Yu Ningmeng in shock.
“What’s wrong?” Yu Ningmeng asked.
“Nothing,” Dong Assistant covered her head.
It was obvious General Yu wanted to get that man drunk and then do something inappropriate.
This could be considered a crime!
Wait, when a woman does this to a man, it might not even be a crime.
Those men liked to use alcohol to get women drunk to achieve their inappropriate goals, so of course women could do the same to men!
However…
“General Yu, shouldn’t we discard the bad practices instead of imitating everything?” Dong Assistant asked cautiously.
“What?” Yu Ningmeng narrowed her eyes.
Dong Assistant immediately changed her tone, “I’ll go ask.”
Taking out her phone, she contacted the assistant of a fat boss to seek advice.
After all the preparations were completed, it was already dusk.
The chef and maid in the villa started setting up the dinner.
“Dong Assistant, I’m going home now,” Dong Assistant prepared to leave.
“Wait,” Yu Ningmeng called her.
“Is there anything else?” Dong Assistant felt something ominous.
“You know everything now, right?” Yu Ningmeng looked at her.
“I…”
Before she could finish, Yu Ningmeng interrupted her, “Stay and help.”
Dong Assistant wanted to cry. She had only wanted to be a modern woman, so why had she suddenly become an accomplice to female evil forces?
Unwilling to defy Yu Ningmeng, Dong Assistant was arranged by Yu Ningmeng to hide in one of the rooms, observing the situation outside and waiting for orders.
At 5:30 PM, Dong Assistant saw from the window a car arriving outside the villa. A man who looked like a college student got out of the car.
The man entered the villa. After a brief conversation, they entered the dinner phase.
Everything went smoothly. At 8 o’clock, Dong Assistant walked out of the room and helped Yu Ningmeng carry the man to the bedroom.
Her work was finally completed, and Yu Ningmeng waved her off.
However, even after returning home, Dong Assistant’s heart remained unsettled.
She felt like a sinner, forced by her boss’s tyranny to assist in such an act.
She wondered what would happen when the man woke up. Would he cry out in accusation, wrapped in the sheet, denouncing General Yu’s brutality? Then General Yu would smirk disdainfully, forcing him to recall the shameful memory again?
Finally, she would throw a wad of cash and leave heartlessly?
…
Except for the part about throwing money, Yu Ningmeng’s thoughts were the same as Dong Assistant’s.
Thinking about the expression Xia Yu would have when he woke up tomorrow morning, she felt both fear and excitement.
“You always show off in front of me. Today, I’m going to make you call me Dad!”
Excitedly, Yu Ningmeng crawled next to Xia Yu and extended her evil hand.
Then her hand was caught.
Opening his eyes, Xia Yu looked at Yu Ningmeng with a gaze completely free of drunkenness.
Xia Yu had level 3 endurance, so a little alcohol couldn’t get him drunk. He was just curious about what Yu Ningmeng would do.
Yu Ningmeng’s expression froze.
Five seconds later, Yu Ningmeng withdrew her hand, got off the bed, and said, “Sorry to bother,” before quickly running toward the door.
Opening the door, she hadn’t even had time to sigh in relief when a strong hand grabbed her collar.
“You can’t leave things half done,” Xia Yu dragged Yu Ningmeng back into the room and closed the door.
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