Several days passed, and the company’s profits had long since surpassed the agreed one million.
Normally, success like this anywhere else would absolutely cause no small stir, but this was Academy City, where the one thing in least short supply was people starting businesses and people who had already succeeded at it.
So Su Yu’s company still counted as small-time, but small as it was, plenty of people knew of Sufu Company.
The weight of that Sanguosha board game was plain for all to see.
And in this stage of continuous improvement, another great general was about to join.
Ningguang, Beidou, Lumine, and those two sneaky fellows weren’t full-time after all, but Wang Xiaomei was full-time.
By the way…
why hasn’t Tongzi handed out the reward yet?
Electronic cricket fighting waits for no one.
[Ding, Bet Mission complete: This Was a Great Gamble]
[Ten percent of Douya Group’s shares have been issued]
[Long-term Business Mission triggered: Bring Wealth]
[Mission Content: Make money, become Academy City’s foremost business titan]
[Mission Rewards: There will be milestone rewards at profits of ten million, one hundred million, one billion, ten billion, and one hundred billion, with richness increasing multiplicatively, including but not limited to Immortality Water, ten Eternal Union Rings, etc.]
[Achievement unlocked: Millionaire]
[Received three achievement rewards and one random reward]
Su Yu had originally thought that money, so long as it was enough to spend, more than enough to spend, was fine.
Besides, ten percent of Douya Group could be considered a massive sum, so you could say he’d just lie back and wait for the money to be delivered into his hands.
But upon seeing this long-term mission, Su Yu had to admit that the System had truly grasped his soft spot.
Immortality…
sounded pretty cool.
The rings afterward…
cough cough cough, he actually didn’t care about them much.
“Excuse me, which one of you is Su Yu?
Come out here.”
Just as Su Yu was enjoying Xianyun’s special privileges, sprawled over his desk imagining one beautiful scene of the future after another, a cold, clear voice came from the doorway.
It happened to be class time, and the gazes of the teacher and all the students were drawn to the girl at the door.
“Uh, this classmate, we’re in the middle of class…”
Before the teacher at the lectern could finish, the girl at the door stared straight at him, and those eyes, devoid of even a shred of emotion and full of indifference, made the teacher shut his mouth outright.
“A total of seven people looked toward you.
It seems you’re Su Yu.
Come out and follow me.”
Su Yu stared blankly at this indifferent girl.
She had a head of white hair, wore elegant clothing, and had a tall figure.
From the forearm exposed by her upper garments, one could tell this girl’s strength was no small thing.
“Sworn brother, did you go and provoke some delinquent?
Tell me, and I’ll settle it for you.”
Even though Arataki Itto spoke very quietly, the girl at the door still keenly noticed, and that gaze immediately landed on Arataki Itto.
“You, what are you looking at me for?
Others might fear you, but this boss here doesn’t!
You want to bully my sworn brother, you go through me first!”
“All right, Itto bro, thanks for the goodwill.
You’ve probably misunderstood.
I roughly know what she’s looking for me about.”
Su Yu could of course tell that the girl at the door was one of Xianyun’s disciples, Shenhe.
With that signature gaze and white hair, it’d be hard not to recognize her.
And for her to come looking for him at this particular time, nine times out of ten it had to do with the bet with Xianyun.
Su Yu hurriedly pressed down the fist-rubbing Arataki Itto.
It wasn’t that he was worried he’d do Shenhe any harm; on the contrary, he simply didn’t want his good brother to come to school the next day sporting a pair of panda eyes.
“Then teacher, I’ll head out first.
It’s probably Teacher Xianyun looking for me.”
“Oh oh, since it’s Xianyun then no problem.
Cough cough, go ahead, I’ll continue the class.”
The teacher at the lectern cleared his throat and pulled his gaze away from Shenhe, his face full of embarrassment and lost face, which was quite normal.
As a teacher, to be scared off by a little girl on his own home turf.
Did he not want face or what!
Passing by the teacher, Su Yu came to the doorway and exchanged a glance with Shenhe.
Then Shenhe did something Su Yu couldn’t have predicted.
The girl reached out and grabbed Su Yu’s wrist, said not a word, and dragged him off toward the direction of Xianyun’s office.
If he hadn’t been so familiar with this direction, and hadn’t known who this seemingly unreasonable girl in front of him was, he’d have worried he really had been targeted by delinquents who wanted to drag him into the restroom.
Su Yu stumbled along behind Shenhe.
The force coming from his wrist was tremendous.
Even with his Oni constitution, he felt a sense of powerlessness.
Shenhe didn’t say a single word the whole way, and Su Yu couldn’t be bothered to ask.
Once they got there, Xianyun would just tell him again anyway, so he’d save himself the trouble of hearing it twice.
The moment they entered the office, Shenhe released Su Yu’s wrist and, with the air of someone handling official business, walked up to Xianyun.
“Master, I’ve brought the person.”
“…”
“Is this how you bring me a person?”
Xianyun watched Su Yu, who was constantly rubbing his wrist, and with a slightly trembling hand pushed up her glasses, then looked at Shenhe and asked.
“What else, Master?
As long as the person is brought here, isn’t that enough?”
Shenhe’s expression was still that same emotionless one, but Su Yu could still see a trace of innocence in it.
Say what you will, an emotionless, cold, aloof girl showing that kind of little expression really had quite a contrast, cough cough.
Unlike Su Yu on this side, who was so at ease his thoughts had begun to wander, Xianyun on the other side continued to suffer pupil-quakes.
Good heavens!
I knew it.
No wonder my heart was pounding the whole time I waited.
I actually forgot the most crucial point: that Shenhe’s interpersonal skills are zero!
Of course I intended to honor the bet, but thinking that one disciple had found a place while the other was still hitting walls everywhere, I figured I might as well take this chance to recommend Shenhe to Su Yu and let him be that child’s boss.
That way both of them would be at the same company and could look after each other, (in reality it was Ganyu unilaterally looking after Shenhe).
But Shenhe’s first meeting with her future boss, and she’d squeezed his wrist sore…
wuu, she wouldn’t be given a hard time from now on, would she!
This child Shenhe had shown indifference toward everything since she was small; it was only under her master’s many years of careful care that she’d changed a little.
The child had boundless strength and no sense of how hard she hit.
Who knows how much in medical fees for other people’s children she made me spend.
In the end she didn’t even finish school.
It all relied on my and Ganyu’s teaching.
But ever since Ganyu graduated and went out to struggle in society, and I had more classes to teach on my end, the time to teach this child grew scarce, so I simply let her go out and struggle in society too. This chapter is updated first at g.com.
The result was that before her three-day probation period was up, her boss sent her back in tears, saying she’d split his cutting block worth over ten thousand Mora into two halves, and had also beaten a customer who was spouting drunken nonsense into the ICU.
Luckily that boss had some ties with my old friends, so he didn’t hold it against the child too much, but there was no way she could keep working there.
And now, before she’d even joined the company, she’d already offended the boss!
At this, Xianyun’s state of mind underwent a somewhat “subtle” change.
That said, since Su Yu had come all this way, Xianyun braced herself and introduced this disciple who gave her so much headache.
After a brief conversation, Su Yu finally understood why Xianyun’s expression had turned so ugly just now.
But in this regard, Xianyun was overthinking it.
He wasn’t the kind of “talent” who’d have Xiang Yu do the cooking and Zhuge Liang charge into battle.
Shenhe and Ganyu were both joining the company full-time.
He couldn’t be happier.
As for Shenhe’s record of constantly getting into trouble, that was nothing worth mentioning in Su Yu’s eyes.
To solve this problem was simple too: just have Shenhe, like Beidou, work in the company’s security department.
Shenhe plus Beidou.
Who could force their way through the company gates?
Or make her a “secretary” who does nothing at all.
She wouldn’t have to do a thing; she’d just stand there during negotiations, staring at the other party.
At the very least it’d make the other side cough up another chunk of meat.
“I know this is a bit embarrassing, but as your teacher, I still want to ask you to take in this disciple of mine.”
Xianyun stood ramrod straight and gave Su Yu a ninety-degree bow.
At this moment Xianyun was no longer the elite workplace teacher of the Academy, but simply a headache-ridden parent toiling for her own child.
“I’ll take her in.”
“I…
can accept…
eh???”
Hearing Su Yu’s reply, Xianyun wore a look of utter disbelief, because she was not the sort of person who would hide things just so her child could get into a company.
She had just now recounted all the things Shenhe had done that would give any ordinary person endless headaches.
Honestly, although she and Su Yu got along fairly well, the company was still in its budding stage of development after all, so it would have been perfectly normal for him to refuse.
“Let me say this first: you can’t give Shenhe a hard time and banish her to the warehouse.”
“Of course.
I won’t let a pearl gather dust.”
“Tss, you bastard, you haven’t gone and taken a fancy to my Shenhe, have you?”
“Cough cough, it should be, roughly, possibly, perhaps not.”
“Ha!
I knew it, you little punk!”
“Master, so I’m going to follow him from now on?”
Shenhe interrupted Su Yu and Xianyun’s conversation, tilting her head with a look of complete confusion.
“Yes, good disciple, from now on you have a place to belong!”
“A place to belong…
does that mean marriage?”
Shenhe furrowed her brows slightly, then crisply and cleanly took hold of Su Yu’s right hand.
“Eh eh eh???” *2
“That’s not what this means, disciple!”
“Cough cough…”