Chapter 92: Lu Mengyao Opened the Road Wide Open

Because he had been drinking, Cheng Yao let himself go without restraint.

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Of course, a large part of it was because Cheng Yao thought it had all started when he said, “In a while I’ll go look at the villa, and I’ll take you with me.”

That night, he learned some new lessons.

And Lu Mengyao came to understand what a scoundrel was.

In her eyes, life was like a game, and games were meant to be played, weren’t they?

A level-five character fighting level-one monsters was called easy living.

Fighting level-five monsters was called effort.

Fighting level-ten monsters was called struggle.

Fighting level-ninety-nine monsters was called madness, a stroke of the brain.

And then there really was a game like that, where beyond the beginner village the whole world was filled with level-ninety-nine monsters. How was a player supposed to play it?

What else could they do but shut it down?

But after shutting it down, there were still people complaining, cursing you for not logging in as if it were shameful.

She, however, was different. She had taken three paths and traded them for a broad road to the heavens; logging in granted her divine weapons and top-tier gear, and she was instantly max level, never even needing to fight monsters. How could she not feel secretly delighted?

Congratulations, your intimacy has reached 90. Daily task completed. You have received one million in cash.

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The next morning, Cheng Yao got up early.

He specially bought some thousand-year egg and pork congee from KFC to comfort Lu Mengyao, but who knew she was far more optimistic than he had expected, though she kept frowning.

Lu Mengyao took a sip of the congee. “When you boys look at girls, what do you look at first?”

“The eyes,” Cheng Yao said earnestly.

“?”

Lu Mengyao looked utterly baffled. “I don’t believe you’re that upright. Shouldn’t you be looking at the chest?”

“First the eyes. If I’m not looking at mine, then I’m looking at—”

“Exactly,” she said.

Cheng Yao smiled. When he had chatted with Zheng Yuechan before, it had been the same; he only dared observe how magnificent she truly was when her attention was no longer on him.

Zheng Yuechan really did have a heart broad enough to hold the world. Cheng Yao even wanted to become the baby in her arms, though he wasn’t sure whether she would mind a baby more than two hundred months old.

She had said she couldn’t handle it, and Cheng Yao had thought it through as well. He didn’t need to handle it either; he just needed to lean in and kiss her.

“Want to try the car?”

“I already tried it last night.”

“I meant the Porsche…” Lu Mengyao’s voice turned sultry. “The keys are by the door.”

“I know.”

Lu Mengyao uploaded the new video: a father-daughter themed clip about a daughter crying in the rain after heartbreak, and her father keeping her company…

Cheng Yao felt as though he had grasped the trick, or rather, that Zheng Yuechan, the one who truly knew how to plan content, had done a superb job.

Then he chatted with Zheng Yuechan about company operations, and she gave him a few more paths…

Every time he heard that phrase, Cheng Yao now inevitably let his thoughts stray.

Early that morning, Cheng Yao received the bank account number sent by Liu Hanyue. Before long, he made a trip to the bank and transferred one and a half million分别 to the cards of Lu Mengyao, Liu Hanyue, and Lin Ketong.

This counted as wages to keep them tied to him, with another half of it to be paid out together with the year-end bonus.

For Cheng Yao, earning money by skill was not what mattered.

He also transferred Zheng Yuechan’s two million to her without the slightest delay.

Host: Cheng Yao

Appearance: 85

Skills: Guitar, exceptional hearing, heavenly voice, piano, award-winning actor, racing god, photography, dance

Wealth: 110758000

Girlfriends: Zhang Ya, Lu Mengyao, Lin Ketong

Items: None

He understood that sometimes, the way to win people over was simply to smash them with money.

After receiving the money, Zheng Yuechan sent him a message reminding him not to forget the salon on Sunday evening.

At first Cheng Yao had not wanted to go. After thinking it over, though, he decided it would be good to see the world. It was better to make contact than to have no experience at all; shutting himself away and trying to build a road on his own was no good either.

Cheng Yao felt that in the future he ought to visit more places like that.

Drawing closer to Zheng Yuechan would bring no harm, only the need to spend a little more money.

Near noon, Cheng Yao bought some watermelon and returned to school.

The moment he got back to the dorm, Wang Wenbo said, “Cheng Yao, going to eat?”

“Wait for me a second.”

“Also, I’ve got something to tell you. Old Zhang has a girlfriend now.”

“Oh? So you’ve stopped playing Dungeon and Warrior. Weren’t you going to save Celia?” Cheng Yao teased.

Zhang Lei said unhappily, “What’s Celia got that’s as sweet as a girlfriend…”

“Which class is she from?”

“Internet dating.”

“Huh?”

Cheng Yao wore a strange expression. Quite brave of the kid—to dare to do internet dating!

Zhu Huiyang said with a laugh, “He met her while playing Chicken Dinner. She’s from Guangzhou. Just because she called him handsome once, he chased after her relentlessly, buying skins and carrying her in ranked matches.”

“Not bad. From Guangzhou, huh? I’ve got two friends from Guangzhou too…”

Cheng Yao thought that even newly made friends counted as friends, like those two twin girls from that island school.

Zhang Lei said with a smile, “We’ve been getting along pretty well. If there’s a chance, we can arrange to meet up.”

Impressive—he even wants to meet in person. Isn’t that just asking to make it awkward for the girl?

“Do as you like. Got any photos?”

“Yeah.”

The few of them walked and looked at the pictures. The photos were decent, but the heavy editing was obvious; she definitely did not look the same as the original.

Zhang Lei said through gritted teeth, “Her foundation’s pretty good.”

“If you’re satisfied, that’s what matters. I’m not free this week—I’m going to hang out at my girlfriend’s place. Next week, then.”

Wang Wenbo said, “You’re going to the capital, right? I’d already made plans with a South-Central Aviation girl and wanted to call you along.”

“You go yourself.”

“Fine. Old Zhu, are you going?”

“I’m going!”

They said the girls from South-Central Aviation had long legs, fair skin, and beautiful faces. No one knew whether that was true.

When they reached the cafeteria, they ran into Liu Hanyue by chance.

Wang Churu waved at him. “Cheng Yao, Cheng Yao, let’s go eat outside.”

“My treat,” Liu Hanyue said, clearly in a cheerful mood after receiving the first large sum of money in her life.

Cheng Yao glanced at her chest and felt something was off.

Higher than usual…

She was padded.

She said she didn’t care, but in truth she still cared deeply. A classic case of saying one thing and meaning another.

“The beauty of the faculty is treating us?”

“How rare…”

“You eating or not? If not, forget it.”

“We’re eating!”

So the few of them headed to the school gate together, took the subway to Golden Eagle, and had hotpot.

Wang Churu leaned close and asked, “Why did you transfer me so much money?”

“Your salary. You’ll be working too in the future.”

“Oh, I see. Fine, then. Yueyue is padded today…”

“Nice. I can tell.”

Cheng Yao gave Wang Churu a thumbs-up, but he did not call her out on it; otherwise it would have hurt her pride a little.

After eating and drinking their fill, they returned to school. In the afternoon, the three of them came to the small pavilion beside the school’s grove of trees.

The greenery here had been carefully planned. It was said that at night, couples would sometimes come here to practice their peerless divine art, leaving behind traces worth pondering.

Cheng Yao was a proper man, of course, and would never do such a thing.

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