From the moment she opened the car door and got out, Su Jingsheng moved at twice her usual speed.
First, she handed all ten keys to the man, then warned him, “The things are inside. Take them yourself. I’ll be especially busy this month, so don’t contact me unless it’s about Duoduo.”
She rushed inside, hurriedly pulled out a suitcase, casually stuffed in a few changes of clothes, put in her toiletries, and then headed out.
Lu Qingyu had only just sat down.
She wanted to leave without even saying hello.
Lu Qingyu leaned against the sofa and looked over coldly. “I’m hungry.”
“Order takeout. I’m going on a business trip and don’t have time. I’m leaving. Bye.”
She changed into a pair of flats at the entryway to make it easier to hurry back and forth. After thinking it over, she stuffed a pair of high heels inside as well, to wear when discussing the partnership.
Wait.
She also needed to take one good outfit.
She hurried back to the master bedroom and stuffed several outfits into the suitcase. Just as she was about to leave, a large hand gripped the suitcase and blocked her path.
The man stood before her, his deep gaze sweeping toward her like a net, trapping her restless, anxious heart.
She had no choice but to face him properly.
Su Jingsheng explained in an extremely helpless tone, “Our company needs to find a partner, but we haven’t even finished making the game yet, so I need to go to their company first and feel them out. My flight is at two, and I still have to go back and pack some things. I really don’t have time. Could you order takeout, or should I order it for you?”
At that moment, Su Jingsheng completely forgot that she had no need to do any of this.
Because she didn’t owe the man anything at all.
Lu Qingyu acted as though he hadn’t heard her explanation. He forcibly took her suitcase and repeated coldly, “I’m hungry. I want to eat your noodles.”
Su Jingsheng was so furious that she felt like strangling Lu Qingyu.
She was already this busy. What was wrong with getting takeout and eating something convenient?
Once she noticed the man’s forceful methods, she could only give up. Continuing the argument would bring no benefit. There was still half an hour; making some noodles would be enough.
She didn’t waste words, immediately turned on the stove to boil water, and then cooked the noodles.
Lu Qingyu stood by the door, moving the troublesome suitcase aside, then called Xiao Xu from there.
“Look into where Su Jingsheng is going and what kind of partnership she’s seeking.”
“Yes.” Xiao Xu did not dare delay.
Less than ten minutes later, Lu Qingyu’s phone rang. The image displayed the exact information about Su Jingsheng’s flight, as well as the purpose of her trip.
Mini-games?
Lu Qingyu crossed the kitchen and entered the master bedroom. Many sheets of paper were scattered across the table, including her proposal.
The Tianfeng Consortium had numerous companies under it. Just two days ago, he had discussed matters with the game company and even Test Played one of its games, confirming its release date.
That game had taken a full three years to develop. It had a magnificent scale and richly developed characters.
It had improved upon all the shortcomings of the games currently on the market. It was a major company with a major production, and many people were watching and waiting for it.
Moreover, its release date was tomorrow.
In the short term, no other game could possibly attract much attention.
Therefore, no matter how hard Su Jingsheng worked, she was destined for a dead end.
Recalling Su Jingsheng’s anxious expression, Lu Qingyu’s large hand crushed the papers into a ball of waste.
“Where is he?” Su Jingsheng asked in confusion when she came out carrying the noodles and saw no one.
Lu Qingyu emerged from the master bedroom unhurriedly.
Su Jingsheng’s expression darkened. There was a huge pile of clothes on the bed. There shouldn’t be anything she ought not to have seen, right…
“Could you stop going into my room without permission? That’s my turf.”
A woman’s turf.
Didn’t he feel that he looked completely out of place standing in there?
Lu Qingyu did not respond. They had already done everything they should and shouldn’t have done, and seen everything they should and shouldn’t have seen. They even had Duoduo. What else was there to be mindful of?
Su Jingsheng was accustomed to Lu Qingyu’s silence. She placed the noodles on the coffee table and walked toward the door without looking back. “I made some soup beside it. If you want to eat tonight, just cook the noodles and put them in the soup. I really don’t have time anymore. Goodbye.”
She pulled her suitcase away and vanished without a trace.
After finishing the noodles, Lu Qingyu contentedly lay on the sofa, resting his arm across his eyes to block the sunlight. Before long, he fell asleep.
Su Jingsheng arrived in City C and stayed there for one night. She only dared to visit the next day, after the company decided what kind of mini-games to make.
Otherwise, if she went now, she would definitely be thrown out.
At one in the morning, they were still holding a video conference. Based on that day’s statistics, they had created different mini-games aimed at three separate age groups.
This kind of game was simple to make and did not require much thought.
With a better platform, it could appear on the market within a month.
After receiving the promise, Su Jingsheng breathed a sigh of relief. Even after the video conference ended, she did not sleep. Instead, she made herself a cup of coffee.
They only had a concept at present. Tomorrow, she had to organize her wording properly; absolutely nothing could go wrong.
Once they lost the partnership, even if they completed the game, it would still be a dead end.
She wrote and deleted things in front of the computer, struggling for nearly two hours, then took the draft to the mirror.
She raised a warm smile and practiced toward the mirror, “Hello, President Shen. I’m the person in charge of Lingfeng Game Company. My name is Su Jingsheng. Our company has recently developed several mini-games that are perfect for passing the time while chatting. Do you think you might have time to discuss them with us?”
Facing her reflection in the mirror, Su Jingsheng shook her head fiercely.
No.
There was no focus. It wasn’t enough to make the other party waste time meeting her.
“Hello, President Shen. I’m the person in charge of Lingfeng Game Company. Our company has recently developed several mini-games. I wonder if you might be interested.”
“President Shen…”
“I’m the person in charge of Lingfeng…”
“Hello…”
Su Jingsheng said it again and again, rejecting each version herself. In the end, exhausted, she sat on the floor against the wall and revised her wording.
But she simply didn’t know how to attract the other party’s attention.
If only Lu Qingyu were here. With his looks and his talent for deceiving people, he would definitely have a solution.
Sigh, she should have brought him along in the first place.
Su Jingsheng rubbed her long hair, then finally lay flat on the floor to make revisions.
Over the past month, she no longer knew how many nights she had stayed up. The cycle of the moon setting and the sun rising had already become normal in her eyes.
At eight in the morning, she drank two cups of coffee and applied heavy makeup to conceal all the dark circles and fatigue caused by staying up late.
She stepped into her high heels and held the project proposal she had completed overnight against her chest. Before leaving, she practiced smiling.
Whether she met them today or not, within one month, she had to obtain this partnership—even if she had to beg for it, and no matter the price.
She pushed open the room door with a carefree flourish. The light pouring toward her fell across her body, symbolizing infinite hope.
In a corner, someone covered his mouth and said to the person through the bluetooth earphones, “She has already gone out.”
“Yes. I’ll follow her now.”
“Mm, good.”
The man glanced around, lowered the brim of his hat, and followed behind Su Jingsheng.
After he left, another person appeared in the corner and reported something to the person on the phone.