Chapter 151: When One Man Achieves the Dao, Even His Chickens and Dogs Ascend to Heaven (Part 3)

The next morning, Fang Yu reluctantly drove the 640 to the neighboring town. Last night, Baozi and Hu Yan had stayed in a small inn that looked reasonably clean.

"Baozi, wake up! Didn't you say you wanted to go to the city to find Qin Lu?" he knocked on the fat man's door.

"Coming, coming!" The floorboards thudded as Baozi rolled right out of bed and swung the door open.

Stepping into the room, Fang Yu was taken aback for a moment. Although the April weather was starting to warm up, there was no need for the dead fat man to jump out wearing only a pair of underwear, his layers of pasty fat jiggling in a way that made one slightly nauseous.

"Aren't you cold? Get dressed quickly and let's go."

Baozi triumphantly grabbed a cigarette pack from the bedside table and offered him one.

"Aiyo, how could I be cold? We're bound to get some exercise in, aren't we?"

It seemed the dead fat man was deliberately making his relationship with Hu Yan explicit in front of him. At that moment, Hu Yan was in the bathroom putting on makeup, and upon hearing this remark, she didn't even bother to object.

Fang Yu looked at Baozi putting on airs with a mixture of amusement and exasperation, thinking to himself that he had known this outcome more than a decade ago.

"Hurry up, I have an appointment to meet Qin Lu at 10:00 AM."

After waiting endlessly for the two of them to finish washing up and head down to the parking lot, Baozi casually pointed at the 640.

"There's only three of us, can't we just squeeze in?"

Fang Yu nodded helplessly. Although Hu Yan wasn't as blessed with a stunning figure as Qin Lu or Xia Churan, she definitely wasn't fat.

"Fine, dammit, be gentle. You're going to break my suspension."

"I remember your car is a convertible, right, Fang Yu? Put the top down. This weather is just perfect." Baozi complained as soon as he sat in the passenger seat.

Fang Yu was initially reluctant, but Hu Yan was now looking over the interior with a hint of envy.

"Exactly, exactly! I've never ridden in a convertible before."

Fang Yu had no choice but to mumble as he lowered the top. Fortunately, the early April weather wasn't chilly, and along the way, they drew plenty of sideways glances from passersby. Baozi looked immensely pleased with himself, as if the car belonged to him.

In the late spring of March, as all things revived and flowers bloomed in full splendor, Qin Lu stood beneath a peach blossom tree, waiting joyfully for the arrival of her beloved.

A gentle breeze brushed her face, making her even more breathtaking than the peach blossoms. Fang Yu couldn't help marveling once again that, compared to Xia Churan's soul-stirring allure, the pure and refined elegance of his white moonlight still held the upper hand.

He took Qin Lu's delicate wrist and pointed smilingly behind him.

"Baozi and Hu Yan are here. I told you about it last night, didn't I?"

"Mm-hmm, when did they get together?" The young girl asked with a hint of curiosity. Back in high school, Baozi's unrequited infatuation with Hu Yan was something everyone knew about.

Before he could answer, Hu Yan took the initiative to link arms with Qin Lu.

"Aiyo, Qin Lu has gotten even prettier in college. Truly worthy of being our class beauty! Oh, this bag matches your outfit so well, did Fang Yu buy it for you?"

Qin Lu and Hu Yan hadn't been particularly close originally, but seeing an old classmate made her quite happy. She smiled and nodded.

"Yeah, Fang Yu went on a business trip to Shawann a while ago and brought it back for me."

"Oh~" Hu Yan nodded meaningfully, confirming her suspicion that Fang Yu was indeed an unrepentant scumbag who could effortlessly juggle two gorgeous girls.

Then again, who wouldn't love a scumbag who was both handsome and wealthy?

Apart from Qin Lu, the other three were academic slackers. Baozi's eyes were already dazzled by the girls roaming around the normal university campus.

"Holy shit, so many girls."

"Of course, this is a normal university; naturally there are more girls."

"Damn it, I shouldn't have brought Yanzi along. Look at how dashing I am—if I just crook my finger, some young girl would come flocking over, right?" Baozi bragged shamelessly.

Fang Yu had no desire to chat nonsense with the dead fat man. Taking advantage of the fact that Qin Lu and Hu Yan were strolling through the campus, he sneaked away to the former office of "Qinglu," which now served as a branch office.

"Director Fang, these are last month's reports. Please take a look." The finance manager submissively handed over a stack of spreadsheets.

He nodded and returned to his office to review them. It was clear that ever since returning from Shawann, Qinglu's sales had seen a healthy boost. The delicious chicken cutlets, paired with drinks made from a secret proprietary recipe, had once again surpassed Xianlin Milk Tea.

Just as he was engrossed in reading, his phone rang. It was Zhang Hao calling.

"Old Fang, your car is all sorted out. I've already had Xiao Sun drive it over to you. It should arrive by this afternoon, and all the paperwork is in the car."

"So fast? Well, I suppose it's not like it's a hypercar. Thanks, Old Zhang."

"There's another matter. Now that our companies have merged, do you think you have time to take a trip to Tokyo?"

"Tokyo? Why on earth would I run off to the Land of the Rising Sun?" He was somewhat baffled.

"MicroSilver Group wants to provide us with financing! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. With this investment, we can probably go public by next year!" Zhang Hao sounded extremely excited.

Fang Yu's blood pressure spiked instantly as well. MicroSilver was one of the top venture capital firms in the world; back in the day, even Father Ma had to rely on their angel investment to secure his position as China's richest man.

"Alright, no problem. But what the hell am I supposed to do if I don't speak Japanese?" He ran into a dilemma, being a genuine academic slacker himself.

"Ah, what's the big deal? Just hire a translator. I'm going this trip too, so why don't we just rendezvous in Tokyo?"

Turns out Zhang Hao was going as well. Fang Yu felt relieved.

"No problem. I'll need a visa for Tokyo, right? When are we leaving?"

"Yeah, we leave in half a month. Go get your documents processed quickly. If push comes to shove, I'll have Xiao Sun come over to pick up your info and have the company handle everything together."

Having a company behind you really made things convenient. Fang Yu readily agreed without hesitation.

"Fine, I'm still at the company looking at reports right now. I'll head back after lunch."

After hanging up the phone, he quickly put down the materials in his hands and trotted all the way back to the normal university. At that moment, Qin Lu was accompanying Baozi and Hu Yan for a stroll by the artificial lake on campus.

"Where did you go? Honestly, I've been waiting for you forever." The white moonlight gently straightened out a stray lock of hair on his forehead with a hint of aggrieved fondness.

"Heh, went to the company to check on the financials. Oh, by the way, Lulu, I need to take a trip to Tokyo in a little while. Would you like to come with me?" He coaxed the little white rabbit in his arms step by step.

The young girl's pretty face flushed red as she looked at him with a mixture of anticipation.

"Ah? How long do we have to go for?"

"Hard to say for sure, probably at least a week, and a minimum of 5 days." He was telling the truth; since trips to Tokyo were fully funded by the company, he naturally had to make the most of it and enjoy himself thoroughly.

He hadn't had such opportunities before his rebirth. Now that he had transformed into an overbearing CEO, he simply had to tour the entire globe.

However, Qin Lu hesitated and shook her head.

"Aww, do we have to go for that long? If it were two or three days, I could ask for leave, but for this long I'm afraid it won't work. Wuwu, but I want to be with you so badly."

Looking at the delicate and touching beauty in his arms, Fang Yu felt his blood surging, making him wish he could drag his white moonlight right then and there to a townhouse to consummate their relationship.

Holding the young girl's slender waist, he could only speak in a soft, gentle voice.

"Can't you smooth things over with the head of your department? I heard it's the cherry blossom season in Tokyo right now."

Which young girl didn't yearn for romance, and which young girl didn't love romantic cherry blossoms? Although the cherry blossom season ended in mid-April, it didn't matter—Qin Lu didn't know that. Besides, Tokyo's late-blooming cherry blossoms would last into May. By the time his white moonlight arrived in Tokyo, it would be nothing short of romantic moonlight and candlelit shadows.

At the mere thought of this, Fang Yu almost burst into a lewd and triumphant laugh.