Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 238 Killing the Cuckoo (53)

Two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

Wenfu Bakery's newly opened branch is doing brisk business. After the peak order period during the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone is exhausted, so Yanzhen gave the employees a half-day off.

In the afternoon, only Yan Zhen and Wang Jinqiu, who was developing new products, remained at the main store.

Wang Jinqiu has a deep love for baking. In the past, due to the pressure of life, she worked in cake shops of all sizes, frosting, decorating and making cakes day after day. The long hours of standing at work caused varicose veins in her calves, and she only earned a few thousand yuan a month.

Now that both Wenfu Bakery stores have hired cake decorators, Wang Jinqiu no longer needs to compete on sales. Apart from mentoring apprentices and guiding newcomers, she spends the rest of her time developing new products.

The new product was quickly launched. Yan Zhen took a couple of bites and found the jasmine black tea flavored cake to be surprisingly refreshing. With its attractive appearance, Yan Zhen had a feeling that this new product would become a mainstream item in the store for the fall.

She immediately opened her camera and started taking promotional photos.

As the two were busy, the door of the cake shop was pushed open from the outside, and the wind chimes hanging at the door jingled.

Yan Zhen thought a customer had come in, but she was busy with what she was doing and didn't look up as she said, "Sorry, we're closed this afternoon, everything's sold out..."

Before she could finish speaking, Wang Jinqiu nudged her with her elbow: "Not a guest."

Yan Zhen then turned his head and saw that the person who came was Qi Zhaoyi, who had a tool bag hanging on his shoulder.

"Why are you here?" Yan Zhen asked, somewhat surprised.

Isn't Qi Zhaoyi busy filming a documentary in another city?

"I went back to Ningcheng to discuss a collaboration, and I thought I'd drop by to see you," Qi Zhaoyi said with a smile. He greeted Wang Jinqiu and then said to Yan Zhen, "Didn't you say the other day that the light strips in the shop weren't working? I brought my toolkit to check it out for you."

Yan Zhen paused slightly.

Unexpectedly, Qi Zhaoyi not only remembered her casual remark, but also took time out of her busy schedule to come and solve this little problem for her.

Qi Zhaoyi brought a ladder from the storage room and began to check where the light strip was malfunctioning.

Yan Zhen brewed three cups of tea, brought them out and placed them on the counter, then leaned against the counter, drinking her tea while watching Qi Zhaoyi, who was facing her, repair the light strip.

The more I looked at her, the more profound her gaze became.

To be fair, as the white moonlight that Li Tingyi had been thinking about for more than ten years, Qi Zhaoyi had the right to be so.

He was dressed quite casually today, wearing black jeans on his lower body, a light-colored T-shirt on his upper body, and a dark workwear jacket on top. His mature and sophisticated style made him look gentle and refined, yet tall and athletic.

His recent physique management has yielded remarkable results. Standing on the ladder, he reaches out to check the light strip on the suspended ceiling. This posture makes his chest muscles look taut, his waist and abdomen lean and flat, and the lines from his buttocks to his thighs firm and perky. His well-proportioned legs are long and straight, making him look as beautiful as a sculpture.

Add to that his face, now that it had shed its颓废 (颓废 is a difficult word to translate directly, but it implies a sense of decadence, listlessness, or apathy) and his features were exquisitely refined... this man was exactly her type.

Yan Zhen was staring intently at Qi Zhaoyi when suddenly someone gently bumped his arm.

She turned her head and met Wang Jinqiu's mischievous gaze.

"Is it pretty?" Wang Jinqiu lowered his voice and winked at her meaningfully.

Yan Zhen didn't hesitate: "It looks good."

"Fancy it?"

"Ah."

"Capture him?"

"I'm taking it."

Because of the influence and interference from Jing Chen during the missions in the previous worlds, Yan Zhen hasn't been able to relax and enjoy a relationship for a long time.

For her, relationships and sex are a form of relaxation outside of work; she doesn't mind having one when she has the time and money.

It's rare for her to meet a man in her small world who is exactly to her liking in terms of temperament, personality, character, and appearance, and they are both single and have no financial pressure.

She planned to get Qi Zhaoyi after completing her mission and have a relaxing and enjoyable relationship.

Qi Zhaoyi quickly identified the problem with the LED strip circuit and, after some fiddling, the LED strip lit up again.

"Alright." Qi Zhaoyi packed up her tools and climbed down the ladder.

Yan Zhen stepped forward, took the tool bag from his hand, and handed him a cup of tea: "Thank you for your hard work."

"Easy to do."

The two chatted about their recent lives over tea. Qi Zhaoyi quickly finished his tea, put the cup on the counter, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Are you free tonight?"

"Ok?"

"I have to go back to continue filming tomorrow, and I'd like to have a meal with you before I leave."

“Okay.” Yan Zhen agreed. Seeing that it was getting late, she said, “Wait for me for twenty minutes. I’ll leave as soon as I finish what I’m doing.”

Qi Zhaoyi was visibly happy: "Okay."

Yan Zhen quickly finished filming the new product promotional video and was about to pack up when Wang Jinqiu came out of the kitchen, grabbed a bag, shoved it into her arms, and gave her a knowing look: "I'll take care of things here. You guys go eat."

Yan Zhen raised an eyebrow: "Thanks."

As Yan Zhen walked out of Wenfu Bakery with Qi Zhaoyi and got into his car, his phone rang.

It was Aunt Gao calling.

Yan Zhen had a bad feeling when he saw the caller ID.

The Gao family never visits unless they have a reason, so after receiving this call, it's highly likely that they won't be able to have dinner with Qi Zhaoyi today.

But if something really happened to the Gao family, Yan Zhen couldn't just ignore it completely, so she could only swipe down to answer the phone: "Hello."

As expected, something bad happened to the Gao family.

Qi Zhaoyi drove Yan Zhen back to the Gao family home.

When Yan Zhen entered the house, it was a mess. Tables and chairs were overturned all over the floor. Gao's mother was wiping away tears, and Gao's father was lying on the sofa. His old face was pale and weak with anger, his lips were trembling, and the light in his eyes had dimmed.

Gao Heng was nowhere to be seen.

Yan Zhen had just learned a rough outline of what happened over the phone. Gao Heng had been scammed while making investments. Not only was all his money gone, but he had also secretly mortgaged his house to borrow a large sum of money, which he then invested, only to lose it all.

Moreover, some relatives, seeing that Gao Heng had made money, asked him to invest with them, and they invested a total of two or three million yuan, which then vanished without a trace.

The Gao family home is in a mess right now because these relatives came to make trouble after discovering they had been scammed.

"Where is Gao Heng?" Yan Zhen asked.

Gao's mother didn't answer, her gaze unconsciously shifting to the second bedroom.

Yan Zhen understood and went over to knock on the door of the second bedroom.

The person inside is pretending to be dead; they won't speak or open the door.

Yan Zhen asked Gao's mother to bring the key to open the door and dragged Gao Heng, who was curled up on the bed with his head completely covered by the quilt, out.

Gao Heng looked as if his yang energy had been drained by a fox spirit; his face was deathly pale and his spirit was low. He had clearly just been crying, and his eyes were swollen like peaches.

"Tell me, what happened?" Yan Zhen asked patiently.

Gao Heng held his breath and remained silent.

"Prefer not to say?"

Gao Heng remained silent.

Yan Zhen got up and left.

Gao Heng quickly called out to her, "Sister."

Before he could even finish speaking, he broke down and burst into tears.

"It was Xu Chuan, he lied to me! He swindled my money and cheated my whole family."