Top floor of the Lu Group.
Having recently secured a major project, everyone in the CEO's office was busy working overtime.
Zhou Zheng was discussing matters with a few other assistants when his wife sent him a message.
Everyone knew Zhou Zheng had a great relationship with his wife, so they teased him and urged him to reply quickly.
Zhou Zheng didn't act coy. He opened the message and saw it was a link.
[Wife: Look! Your boss's wife is live-streaming and selling clothes with the young master!]
[Wife: Oh right, the young master of the Zheng family is there too!]
Zhou Zheng was greatly surprised and hurriedly clicked on the link. Unexpectedly, he tuned in just in time to see some creep in the live stream trying to get the boss's wife to call him hubby by throwing a few Carnival virtual gifts.
Seeing the boss's wife kick the guy out, Zhou Zheng felt a wave of satisfaction. But to his surprise, the guy switched to another account, came back in, and spewed a bunch of disgusting remarks.
The boss's wife continued to kick him out, and the guy kept switching accounts.
How could anyone tolerate this?
Zhou Zheng quickly took his phone and knocked on the door of the CEO's office.
Sure enough, the boss's face instantly darkened when he saw it.
Then, Zhou Zheng heard the boss's wife in the live stream telling her assistant to turn off the tipping feature.
Zhou Zheng thought this was a good solution, but suddenly heard his boss ask, "How do I send a gift?"
Zhou Zheng's eyes widened. "Huh?"
Lu Bochuan handed his phone over. "Help me register an account too."
Zhou Zheng instantly understood his boss's intention. He hurriedly registered an account for him and thoughtfully linked a bank card to it.
"Boss, I've already followed your wife for you." Zhou Zheng returned the phone to Lu Bochuan and quickly took his own phone back.
His intuition told him that the boss was about to do something big.
Sure enough, two seconds later, Carnivals began flashing frantically across the screen in the boss's wife's live stream, non-stop.
Zhou Zheng couldn't help but marvel: The boss is mighty.
Shu Qingqing didn't know whether to laugh or cry as she watched the Carnivals continuously spamming the screen like meteor showers.
Seeing Lu Bochuan's message saying "Don't turn it off," she was only stunned for a moment before quickly guessing what he wanted to do, and sure enough, it was exactly as she expected.
The man who earlier claimed to have bought a hundred Carnivals also followed suit and sent gifts for a while, but he soon realized that the other party's financial power was far above his, so he stopped sending them.
Seeing this, Shu Qingqing quickly sent a message to Lu Bochuan, telling him to stop sending gifts too.
But Lu Bochuan showed no signs of stopping.
Shu Qingqing then called him.
Lu Bochuan hung up.
Helpless, Shu Qingqing had no choice but to tell customer service to turn off the tipping feature again.
Lu Yu, however, stopped her. "Let him send them."
Shu Qingqing: "He's got money to burn! The platform takes half of this."
Lu Yu's expression remained unchanged. "It doesn't matter. It'll only take my dad a few minutes to earn it back."
Shu Qingqing: ...
It took several dozen minutes for the rain of Carnivals to finally stop.
Sporting a level-sixty badge, Lu Bochuan dropped a casual comment in the chat section—
[Still want to compete?]
As soon as this sentence came out, the netizens exploded:
[@Brother Abs, bro, the big boss is asking you, do you still want to compete?]
[Holy crap, the top gifter sent a thousand Carnivals!]
[A thousand... three million... I've never seen so much money in my life.]
[I've only seen that much during the Tomb-Sweeping Day when burning paper money.]
[I just took a look, the top gifter only follows the streamer.]
[What the heck? Didn't the streamer already get married?]
[Yes, the streamer is married. Her first viral video said she was the pampered wife of a billionaire CEO.]
[Streamer, you're doomed. You won't be able to explain this to your husband when you go back today.]
[The top gifter's nickname is Lu Bochuan. Why do I feel like this name is so familiar?]
[Could it really be the streamer's husband?]
[Damn, I searched it up, and there really is a Lu Bochuan, and he's a billionaire tycoon.]
[Is it really the streamer's husband?]
[I think it should be the streamer's husband. Didn't the official account of the Lu Group comment last time?]
[Maybe the streamer's husband is just an employee of the Lu Group, and secretly used the official account to comment in order to build a persona for the streamer.]
[Streamer, please reply!]
[Streamer, please reply +10086]
The comment section was bustling with excitement, but neither the man who had previously asked Shu Qingqing to call him hubby nor Lu Bochuan spoke again.
Because of this stunt, the live stream's popularity skyrocketed, but everyone was talking about who the person that sent a thousand Carnivals was. Nobody cared whether the clothes looked good or not anymore.
Shu Qingqing simply decided not to waste any more time and ended the live stream early.
The co-host Tingting and several customer service reps were also very curious about the identity of the person who sent a thousand Carnivals, but since Shu Qingqing didn't bring it up, they didn't dare to ask.
Shu Qingqing had no intention of saying anything either. She just sent red envelopes in the group chat, letting them get off work early to go eat something good.
Everyone cheered and left.
Feng Xiangdi discussed the clothing styles for tomorrow's live stream with her and then also left.
Only the three of them were left in the studio.
Shu Qingqing picked up her bag. "Let's go, you two little brothers. I'll take you out for a big meal too."
"Alright!" Zheng Binyang happily began recommending restaurants. As soon as the three of them walked out the door, they saw a familiar Bentley parked outside the studio.
There was no one inside the car.
Zheng Binyang poked Lu Yu. "Isn't this your dad's car?"
Just as he finished speaking, a tall, steady man emerged from the darkness and walked unhurriedly to Shu Qingqing's side.
"Finished?" Lu Bochuan asked.
Shu Qingqing smelled a faint scent of tobacco, but she wasn't repelled by it. She raised an eyebrow and met the man's gaze. "Thanks to CEO Lu, even though we didn't sell many clothes, we still made 1.5 million."
Lu Bochuan was amused by her calling him CEO Lu.
Shu Qingqing suddenly swatted him with her bag. "Are you stupid? I told you not to send gifts but you still did. You just gave away 1.5 million for nothing!"
Then she swatted him again. "And you dared to hang up on me!"
Lu Bochuan waited until she was done hitting him before casually taking her bag. His gentle tone carried a hint of pampering. "Alright, I apologize. I shouldn't have hung up on you."
Zheng Binyang had been watching with great interest when he was suddenly dragged away by the arm.
"No, Lu Yu, I want to watch a little longer. I've never seen Uncle Lu like this before."
Expressionless, Lu Yu shoved him into the backseat. "No, you don't."
The dim yellow streetlights cast a thin veil over Lu Bochuan. He slightly lowered his head to look at her, a certain emotion she couldn't quite name resting in his eyes behind his glasses.
Shu Qingqing suddenly felt a little afraid to meet his gaze.
"Fine, I won't hold it against you this time." She hastily grabbed her bag back and walked toward the passenger seat.
Lu Bochuan watched her figure, his eyes dark and unreadable.
The group had dinner before heading to their respective homes.
The bedrooms in the Lu residence were all on the second floor. Lu Yu's room faced south, while Lu Bochuan and Shu Qingqing's was on the north side.
Shu Qingqing had a glass of red wine today. Although she was still conscious, her reactions were a few beats slower.
Lu Bochuan followed behind her, watching as she slowly turned the doorknob and then sluggishly fumbled for the light switch on the wall.
However, the lights didn't come on even after a long while.
Lu Bochuan walked over, covering Shu Qingqing's hand with his own to help her find the switch.
"Qingqing."
"Hmm?"
"Why didn't you answer the netizens' question today?"
"What question?"
"Who is Lu Bochuan?"
"Isn't Lu Bochuan you?"
"And who am I?"
"You're... Shu Qingqing's husband."
"Good girl. Next time people online ask, remember to give them that answer."
The next second, blinding lights flicked on.
Shu Qingqing instinctively narrowed her eyes.
Wait, what was she supposed to answer again?
