"We’re just both getting what we want."

A slight smile played on Lin Shen’s lips. His warm, radiant grin deeply touched Chen Chi’s heart, allowing the once-deceived man to once again feel the warmth and kindness that could exist between strangers.

When he got home, he immediately and excitedly shared the good news with his wife, but she was a bit skeptical.

"Is there really someone that kind? He’s not just making you more empty promises, is he?"

"No way!"

Chen Chi took out his phone and showed his wife the bank transfer notification.

"Look, the five million has already been deposited. How could this be fake?"

"..."

He did have a point.

’Words and attitudes can be faked, but this money is real!’

’This is a full five million yuan!’

’Who could just pull out that much money?’

Lin Shen’s incredibly extravagant gesture dispelled most of the worries in Chen Chi’s wife’s heart. She then said gently,

"It seems like he’s a good boss. You should work hard for him. Maybe you can really make something of yourself."

"Yeah."

Chen Chi hugged his wife and said with deep emotion,

"I’m sorry you’ve had to suffer so much with me. From now on, I’ll get back on my feet and help Boss Lin run our dog cafe well!"

7:00 PM.

A jet-black Jaguar XFL was parked quietly by the roadside. The twilight glinted off its streamlined body, giving it an understated air.

Lin Shen sat in the driver’s seat, tossed the contract carelessly into the back, and opened his phone to check his ReceivePal tasks.

[Upgrade Task: Increase your total industry assets to 10,000,000 yuan (Three shops: 11,000,000/10,000,000, complete)]

[ReceivePal Lv. 11 → Lv. 12]

[Reward: Daily income 110,000/day → 120,000/day]

[Item: Designated App Cracking Card*1 (You can designate a sub-intermediate level app to crack)]

[Upgrade Task: Increase your total luxury car assets to 10,000,000 yuan (Jaguar XFL, Mercedes S680: 4,600,000/10,000,000)]

’Luxury cars?’

That was both unexpected and perfectly logical to Lin Shen.

After all, since ReceivePal’s 2.0 update, the last two tasks had been for total capital and total industry assets.

Now it was total luxury car assets. He wondered if the next one would be total real estate assets.

Lin Shen thought it was quite possible and began to ponder.

’Does it count as long as I’m the one who buys the car?’

’It should still count even if someone else drives it, right?’

A brand-new idea started to form in Lin Shen’s mind. Full of anticipation, he tapped the Designated App Cracking Card.

He’d long since decided what he wanted to crack.

Boss Direct-Hire!

As the number of businesses under his control grew, Lin Shen felt that employee recruitment needed to become a priority.

That being the case, he might as well just crack a relevant app and let it help with the overall planning.

And so, Lin Shen thought of Boss Direct-Hire.

A moment later, an app icon with the same design but in a deep red color downloaded itself next to the original.

Its name was: Employee Direct-Hire!

’Pretty unique.’

The corners of Lin Shen’s mouth turned up as he tapped to check its effects.

[Employee Direct-Hire Lv. 1]

[Decryption Effect: When you hire an employee, you will receive a 30% rebate on their base salary (increases with the level of "Employee Direct-Hire").]

[Upgrade Task: Sign labor contracts with ten employees (1/10).]

[Bonus Basic Function: Resume Screening (Recruitment ads published by the host will attract more capable talent to submit resumes and will be screened for ability.)]

[Congratulations to the host for successfully activating a cracked app (7/20)! The Decryption Effect of "ReceivePal" has been doubled!]

[Current Main Quest Progress: 35%]

[ReceivePal Decryption Effect: 120,000/day → 240,000/day]

’I get a rebate for hiring employees!?’

Lin Shen was very satisfied with this effect. It would work perfectly in tandem with the startup fund from GoGo Maps.

Of course, he understood the principle of quality over quantity.

He couldn’t just complete the task for the sake of completing it; the app had to serve his needs.

Lin Shen smiled knowingly. After driving home, he took out the Patek Philippe watch he had bought for Qin Yuenan.

First, he took a picture and uploaded it to Big Blue Book.

’An eight-hundred-thousand-yuan watch should count as a luxury item, right?’

Lin Shen thought about the caption for a moment, then published the post:

"Not sure if a girl’s wrist can fit a watch like this? (I’ll delete any bad comments)"

’This feels like a blatant fishing post!’

Lin Shen laughed out loud. Even he thought he was acting like someone fishing for comments.

But alas, his private messages and comments were full of "fish" who had taken the bait.

Even if you filtered out the 80% who were scammers, there were still 20% who dreamed of finding a tall, rich, and handsome man on social media. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

’So naive!’

"The Patek Philippe Aquanaut series is so gorgeous! You have such great taste~"

"It’ll fit! It’ll fit! I can’t just wear a watch, I can also wear a collar and a tail!"

"Daddy! Let me wear it! I want to be your personal bitch!"

"..."

Tsk tsk!

Seeing all the over-the-top comments, Lin Shen shook his head and sighed softly before checking his task progress.

[Big Blue Book:]

[Upgrade Task: Post a note about luxury goods and gain 10,000 followers (Complete).]

[Big Blue Book Lv. 4 → Lv. 5]

[Decryption Effect: Natural acquisition of internet traffic will increase from 50% → 60%]

[Congratulations on "Big Blue Book" leveling up to Lv. 5! Reward Function: Bot & AI Filter]

[Reward: Basic Experience Book*1]

[Upgrade Task: Post a note about fitness and gain 20,000 followers]

’A bot and AI filter?’

Lin Shen tapped it curiously. After all, this was the first special function Big Blue Book had given him.

[Effect: Can filter out various bots, fishing attempts, and meaningless comments from robots under any work you publish on any social media platform.]

[Note: The internet is not a lawless land. Please communicate in a friendly manner and build a harmonious online environment together.]

’Filter out bots?’

Lin Shen thought for a moment, then tried it on his own account. He found that the number of comments on his post was instantly cut in half!

Even more impressively, 70% of the Red Point notifications for his private messages were gone!

Only a dozen or so remained. After tapping into their profiles, he confirmed that they were indeed real people.

After all, it was hard to imagine an AI coming up with such obscene jokes.

’Humanity is just too advanced!’

’Interesting!’

A smile spread across Lin Shen’s face. He felt this function was pretty good and would be very suitable for managing the social media accounts when he started operating the Cat Cafe.

’Now Mom will never have to worry about me getting dogpiled by bots again!’

Lin Shen got up from the sofa and went to the bathroom for a shower, washing away the fatigue from a long day of running around.

Then, he used various items and skincare products to take care of his body, both inside and out.

Finally, he poured a glass of red wine and swirled it as he walked over to the floor-to-ceiling window, quietly looking down at the city nightlife.

Just as Lin Shen was contemplating life and thinking about his plans for tomorrow, his "plans" came looking for him.

[Zheng Yanfei: Hey~ I don’t have class tomorrow. My dorm mates and I were thinking of going out. Wanna come?~]

’Dorm mates, huh?’

Seeing the WeChat message from Zheng Yanfei, Lin Shen found himself a bit confused about the dynamics of a women’s dormitory.

The last time he met the little girl, the atmosphere between her and her roommates had been incredibly tense—especially with the one named Cheng Xiao. They had been on the verge of fighting right then and there.

’And now they’re calling each other "mates" in private?’

’So you’re all open about your animosity, but secretly you’re best friends? Right!’

Lin Shen silently roasted them in his mind before typing a reply.

[Lin Shen: Sure, what time? I’ll pick you up.]

[Zheng Yanfei: The hotel is fine, thank you~]

’The hotel?’

Lin Shen was stunned. Before he could even react, the little girl immediately retracted the message and sent a new one.

[Zheng Yanfei: I’m sorry! That was a typo! I meant nine o’clock! Not hotel!]

Heh.

’She did that on purpose, didn’t she!’

’A little girl through and through, always so scheming!’

A slight smile touched Lin Shen’s lips. He knew Zheng Yanfei was fishing for a reaction, but he rather enjoyed this kind of push-and-pull, ambiguous flirting.

’In that case, I might as well play along.’

[Lin Shen: They say typos happen because you type a word often. So, does that mean you’re constantly talking about "hotels" with other people?]

[Zheng Yanfei: No! You’ve got it all wrong! There aren’t that many words that come up for the pinyin "jiudian," you have to believe me~]

[Lin Shen: I don’t care. Because of your typo, I already booked a hotel room, and it’s non-refundable. What are we going to do? How about you reimburse me?]

[Zheng Yanfei: I’m still a student, I don’t have much money... This is all my fault. I can’t pay you back... so how about I make it up to you by spending the night at the hotel with you? (shy)]

’She really knows how to play the game!’

Lin Shen smiled knowingly.

’This little girl has a few tricks up her sleeve!’

’She really has a way with words.’

[Zheng Yanfei: Well then, see you tomorrow~ Good night~]

[Zheng Yanfei: [Photo]]

[Zheng Yanfei: Here is today’s installment of bedtime leg pics (September 6th, complete!)]

PFFT—!

Lin Shen couldn’t help but laugh out loud again.

Ever since he had intentionally-yet-unintentionally revealed that he liked looking at beautiful legs in stockings, the little girl had been sending him a carefully shot leg picture every night before bed as if she were punching a clock.

From pantyhose to fishnets, tonight she had switched to black thigh-highs with garters. She never repeated an outfit.

She was so perceptive. Lin Shen felt it was about time to put this little canary in a cage.