Dou Dawei looked at Li Xiaoya with hopeful eyes.
Li Xiaoya, feeling extremely nervous, stared at Sheng Yuxiao and exclaimed, "How can you possibly listen to me?"
Sheng Yuxiao smiled and asked in return, "Why shouldn't I?"
Li Xiaoya clenched her fingers tightly and lowered her head without saying a word.
Her memories of when she was even younger were a bit hazy, but she vaguely remembered that one year her mother had said to her, "Xiaoya, can you help mommy make a choice?"
She had forgotten what choice it was or what she had chosen, only vaguely recalling that she had cried her heart out afterward.
She must have made the wrong choice.
It must have been a very, very wrong choice.
Li Xiaoya said in a muffled voice, "Don't listen to me. I'll choose wrong."
Sheng Yuxiao keenly noticed that her voice carried a hint of suppressed tears. His heart skipped a beat. Was she frightened?
No, that wasn't it.
It seemed more like... she had experienced some kind of similar trauma in the past.
Sheng Yuxiao pursed his lips, but became even more determined to have Li Xiaoya make the choice.
In fact, many people don't know one thing... in the face of absolute capital, business is relatively easy to do.
With strong capital in place, it's effortless to make money generate more money. All connections will come to pave the way.
For him to lose money would actually be quite difficult.
On the contrary, when ordinary people make choices, no matter what they choose, it could be wrong.
Because their foundation is inherently weak, making it difficult for them to take even a single step forward in whatever they do.
"You won't choose wrong, trust me, give it a try. If you don't choose, then I'll have no choice but to let him go," Sheng Yuxiao coaxed in a low voice near Li Xiaoya's ear.
Dou Dawei was on the verge of tears.
Is this how you coax a child?
Li Xiaoya thought about the responsibility she bore for one person, no, for an entire factory.
An entire factory...
Aunt Luo used to tell her that when she grew up, she'd work in a factory where hundreds of people worked together.
So she was carrying the fate of hundreds of people on her shoulders.
Li Xiaoya frowned painfully and reluctantly: "O-okay. What's 'hand purchase'?"
Dou Dawei patiently explained to her: "It's 'acquisition', which means buying. It's when other people come to buy my factory."
"Oh, what's a foreign enterprise?"
"It's a company from another country. You know what foreigners are, right?"
"...Um, isn't one million a lot? Why don't you want it?"
Dou Dawei grimaced: "It's not that cheap, you know. They're cutting the price to the bone."
"So they're bad guys, right?"
"Yes, yes!"
Li Xiaoya looked at Sheng Yuxiao: "Alright then."
Sheng Yuxiao smiled: "What does 'alright then' mean?"
"It means, it means don't sell to the foreigners."
Sheng Yuxiao nodded and said promptly: "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Upon hearing these light words, Dou Dawei was momentarily stunned, standing there as if struck by lightning. After a while, he burst out: "My goodness! My goodness! Did I... did I succeed?"
Sheng Yuxiao smirked: "It's not you who succeeded, it's Li Xiaoya who helped you succeed."
"Yes, yes, little girl, no, no, little mistress, you must be my reincarnated ancestor! I should worship you!"
Sheng Yuxiao was speechless: "What are you talking about?" Only the dead are worshipped.
Dou Dawei quickly slapped himself twice on the face: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I misspoke."
"Although I've agreed, you still need to write the report, and all the required materials must be submitted without exception," Sheng Yuxiao said in a slightly cold tone.
"Yes, yes! I understand! Without the materials, we can't complete the investment process anyway..."
Sheng Yuxiao then ushered Li Xiaoya into the car, not bothering with further pleasantries with Dou Dawei: "Someone will contact you."
"Yes, yes!" Dou Dawei watched as they drove away.
Meanwhile, Lin Xiaoru was also happy that she had done a good deed.
It was the first time she had witnessed such a grand scene up close.
If it weren't for "Exchange Lives" coming here to film, she would never have seen such wealthy people in her lifetime.
"Xiaoru," a colleague called her.
She turned her head, and heard her colleague ask, "I heard you went back with your boyfriend to meet his parents last week. How did it go?"
Lin Xiaoru's expression immediately fell: "How do you think it went? They complained that my job isn't suitable for family life and that I won't be able to take care of children after marriage. It's over."
"Then why don't you consider Director Zheng? After all, nurses and doctors getting married is the ultimate destiny!"
The Director Zheng they spoke of was over forty, had been married and divorced once, and had a considerable income in this small county town. But when Lin Xiaoru thought of his beer belly, receding hairline, and his flirtatious nature that made him hit on every young nurse...
Lin Xiaoru shook her head repeatedly and said, "I can't aspire to that, I really can't."
Other colleagues couldn't help but laugh at her: "You! Director Zheng is so good to you. During last week's surgery, he was chatting and said he wanted to buy you some SK-II. That's expensive, isn't it? Over a thousand yuan a bottle."
Lin Xiaoru bit her lip and insisted: "I'm more suited to a poor life. I can't handle anything too high-end."
Just as she said this, a tall, sturdy man walked straight towards Lin Xiaoru.
"Miss Lin Xiaoru, right?" the man asked, glancing at her name tag.
"Y-yes, that's me." Lin Xiaoru was a bit afraid of encountering trouble with patients, and her colleagues also retreated a bit at the sight.
"Thank you for taking care of and helping little Li Xiaoya these past two days. This is a gift for you." The man said, handing her a box.
The box was only about the size of a palm. Lin Xiaoru took it in confusion and opened it to find a card inside.
The man said, "The PIN is your birthday. You can change it yourself at the bank."
"Holy crap!" Her colleagues exploded in excitement.
"Is this related to the news from the past couple of days? Lin Xiaoru, you're amazing! So you were involved in this too!"
Lin Xiaoru was a bit flustered and tried to push the card back.
But the man said, "You shouldn't refuse. Only when people who do good deeds are rewarded will more and more people in this world do good things."
With these words, Lin Xiaoru had no reason to refuse anymore, so she accepted it with a blushing face.
Shortly after the man left, another person who looked like a bodyguard came over and said the same thing: "Is this Miss Lin Xiaoru? This is a gift for you, to thank you for helping little Li Xiaoya..."
As he spoke, he also handed her a card.
The card was inscribed with the character "Qin" in seal script, and on the back was a line of small text that read "You can make purchases with this card at any mall under the Qin Group without payment."
"Holy shit! Holy shit!" The colleagues were shocked once again. "With this card, where can't you buy SK-II? You don't even need others to gift it to you! You don't need it at all! This is such a big move! Is this the joy of being rich?"
Meanwhile, Lin Xiaoru stood there, dumbfounded.
She felt as if she was even luckier than that person who won the grand prize of a free shopping spree during a certain year's shopping festival!
"This must be from Qin Sui, and the one before... must be from Sheng Yuxiao. For that Li Xiaoya, they're really being generous!" A colleague couldn't help but shed tears of envy.
Little did they know that for these two not-yet-adult young masters in their prime and rebellious youth, having Li Xiaoya taken away from "right under their noses" was simply an insult to these young masters!
Meanwhile, Li Xiaoya returned to Li Family Village.
When the car drove into the village, the villagers couldn't help but come out to see what the commotion was about.
The stir this time was so big that even those who found out later couldn't help but marvel.
"Li Xiaoya has hooked up with a rich person," they whispered among themselves.
"Xiaoya, Xiaoya, you're finally back. Everyone was so worried about you. Your grandfather is such a scoundrel! Just like your father!" Aunt Luo, who lived at the entrance of the village, was the first to come over, carrying a basket in her hand.
She held up the basket, trying to push it into Li Xiaoya's arms through the car window, saying, "You must have suffered a lot. I picked a few goose eggs from the coop for you to eat."
Li Xiaoya looked at her curiously and shook her head, saying, "I don't want them."
"Oh, don't be polite with your aunt..."
"Aunt, your grandson broke the goose eggs before and said I did it. You came to my door asking for eighty yuan to compensate for one egg... I can't afford such expensive eggs." Li Xiaoya shook her head again.
The audience couldn't help but sigh.
[Haha, Li Xiaoya can be quite sharp-tongued sometimes]
Meanwhile, Aunt Luo's expression froze: "You... you child, oh my, didn't you end up not paying that eighty yuan in the end?"
Li Xiaoya nodded: "Yes, I knelt and begged you, saying it wasn't me who broke it, that I didn't have that much money. Then you took my chicks away."
Aunt Luo: "..."
Li Xiaoya spoke softly but clearly, enunciating each word: "Aunt, you later said I liked to lie and wouldn't admit when I did something wrong."
Anger flashed across Aunt Luo's face, but she forcibly suppressed it. Finally, she managed to twist her face into a smile: "Aunt only found out today that I misunderstood you... I'll go back and beat that boy of mine..." As she spoke, she finally stopped blocking the way and retreated to the roadside, not even daring to look at Sheng Yuxiao sitting in the car.
