Forced Me to Regress, Huh?

In the white Range Rover, the tipsy Lin Lu raised her phone and showed it to Shen Qingning. “Ningning, look. This is how I saved Cheng Zhu’s WeChat.”

Shen Qingning looked over and saw the contact name: Master Cheng Zhu.

“When did you change it?” Shen Qingning was speechless. She thought it was very childish.

Lin Lu said, “When we were in the private room. Everyone was a little drunk and off doing their own things. I wanted to learn an ultimate skill from him, how to throw… ahem, I mean, learn a little magic trick!”

She was still hoping to use the trick next time she played dice with Shen Qingning to get her drunk, so she quickly changed her words.

“Magic trick?” Shen Qingning was puzzled.

“Never mind!”

These two words made Shen Qingning keenly sense something. Oh! So you two have a little secret!

“Anyway, as a condition, he asked me to change the contact name and add the prefix master to show my sincerity,” Lin Lu said. “Don’t you think he’s annoying?”

Shen Qingning was about to say, “He’s pretty childish,” but then she saw Lin Lu was already typing in the chat box.

The voice actress, once again sounding like a narrator, said while typing, “No, I have to get him to add the prefix senior sister to my name! Hmph!”

She was in high spirits and had a smile on her face, as if she were accomplishing the most amazing feat in the world.

The word ‘childish’ got stuck in Shen Qingning’s throat.

Because she remembered that Lin Lu was indeed a bit childish at times, and she actually loved her for it.

Meanwhile, Cheng Zhu, sitting in the taxi, received a message from Lin Lu.

She asked aggressively, “Is there something you haven’t told me?”

Cheng Zhu’s heart skipped a beat. Did she find out I helped Shen Qingning drink?

No, it can’t be that. We’re not that close yet. There’s no reason for her to ask me this.

He chose to play dead and didn’t reply.

Based on his understanding of Lin Lu, she definitely wouldn’t be able to hold back for more than a few minutes before messaging him again.

Sure enough, just twenty seconds later, when she saw he hadn’t replied, she typed, “Hey! You’re going to study at Sci-Tech University too, but you didn’t tell me!”

Cheng Zhu thought, This girl really uses a lot of exclamations when she chats. Does she voiceover her internal speech as she types?

He indeed hadn’t told Shen Qingning and Lin Lu that he was going to be their junior brother.

In his opinion, having a certain identity sometimes made interactions easier.

Being a junior brother was actually quite a useful identity.

But for Cheng Zhu, starting off with an identity would feel restrictive.

Many of his actions would then be confined within the limits of that identity.

So he saw no need to tell them from the start.

Of course, now that they knew, it didn’t matter. He guessed they must have heard it from Jiang Wanzhou.

So, he replied, “Sorry, just saw your message. You’re just asking about this?”

“Yes!” Lin Lu replied immediately and quickly added, “No, you have to add senior sister to my contact and send me a screenshot!”

To be fair, giving each other nicknames in private could be a bit flirtatious.

But Cheng Zhu replied, “Why should I?”

Letting the other person get their way too easily could lead to expected obedience. Many times, a bit of pushback was good.

“Because I really am your senior sister,” Lin Lu quickly sent back, adding an annoyed emoji for emphasis.

“That’s not how it works. Look, you labeled me as master, right? Haven’t I fulfilled my role and taught you a few things?” Cheng Zhu teased in response.

As expected, she replied, “Big deal! When school starts, your senior sister will look out for you!”

“Alright! Make sure you remember your promise.” Cheng Zhu updated her WeChat contact and sent her the screenshot.

Sitting next to Lin Lu, Shen Qingning watched helplessly as a smile broke out on Lin Lu’s face, her dimples showing clearly.

The voice actress even picked up her phone and showed Shen Qingning the screenshot of the name update sent by Cheng Zhu. She even added her own sound effects. “Ding-ding—!”

“Stop fooling around. We’re almost home,” Shen Qingning said calmly.

She felt this kind of thing ridiculously childish, but for some reason, a thought suddenly crossed her mind.

—She wasn’t friends with Cheng Zhu on WeChat.

* * *

At night, after drinking a little, Cheng Zhu slept deeply and soundly.

He wasn’t the type to act out after drinking. Even if he drank too much, he would just sleep it off.

After waking up, he opened the lingerie photos he had taken of Yezi, which were practically a private portfolio, and continued editing them. Just two more sets left. I should finish by this afternoon.

At 2:30 p.m., he was nearly done with his work.

He opened WeChat and sent the last two sets of product photos to Yezi.

After looking through them, she said, “I like the last one the most.”

She was talking about the stepmother dress.

Of course, this type of dress didn’t have such a heaven-defying name these days. It was just that later, netizens proved to be naming geniuses.

In Yezi’s opinion, the stepmother dress was the most tasteful set among these products.

This woman thought that Cheng Zhu mostly interacted with people his own age, and she was sure that, in some aspects, she couldn’t compare to those eighteen-year-old girls.

But the stepmother dress was different. How could high school graduates pull off that kind of feel?

Only a sophisticated young woman like her could!

After chatting with Yezi for a while, Cheng Zhu sent a message to Wang Anquan. “I’m setting up the ZTC for the store today.”

Wang Anquan had originally known nothing about e-commerce, but now that he was working with Brother Zhu, he had taken some time to study online. He knew that ZTC was a way to pay for product promotion.

Of course, Cheng Zhu planned to use some tricks here, and he didn’t intend to teach Wang Anquan about them just yet.

Earlier, when Cheng Zhu had nothing to do, he had checked out the store of the bespectacled man, Wang Wei. Wang Wei had mentioned naming the store himself last night.

Wang Wei thought that since Cheng Zhu was just starting in e-commerce, he would definitely be shocked when he saw the store’s data!

In reality, Wang Wei’s store was still in the stage of losing money while spending to attract attention. But that didn’t stop him from pretending to be successful to the outside world.

Cheng Zhu merely took a glance. That’s it? How the hell does he have the nerve to tell people his store name?

He was puzzled.

If he were Wang Wei, he would never reveal his store name if anyone asked—it was too embarrassing—not to mention volunteering it himself.

Had it been in Cheng Zhu’s past life, if someone from a company like theirs came to him for advice, the meal would be expensive, there would be several bottles of wine on the table, and the glasses would have to be lowered slightly when toasting.

After receiving Cheng Zhu’s message, Wang Anquan immediately replied, “Brother Zhu, does this mean we’re about to have a huge surge in sales?”

“Of course not. How can it be that exaggerated right away?” Cheng Zhu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “However, we will definitely start getting busy gradually. It’s time to give the factory boss in Guanyun a little shock.”

“Got it!” Wang Anquan was already rubbing his hands in anticipation.

As though he had been brainwashed, he shouted the internal slogan of the store Keep Coming in his mind.

—Use the cheapest materials, make the most money!

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