Chapter 1: Beautiful Leader (2/2)

Her response was quick. “Alright. Including your salaries, we’ve got over 200 thousand after selling all our equipment. I’ve made a new card, and I’ll send it to you tomorrow.”

“Mn.”

I lay on my bed after sorting out my feelings. I recalled all the things that had happened in the past two years and lamented about the ups and downs of life.

I had worked for the boss for over a year already, but I had never seen her in person before. She told me that her appearance in game was beautified, and that she was a dinosaur in real life.

I didn’t really care about that anyway.

……

The next day, very early in the morning, I woke up and put on a set of casual clothes. I walked downstairs and strolled through the streets. The gym was only ten minutes away from my place.

Feeling a bit of trepidation, I called the boss again. “Boss, how do you look like? What should I look out for?”

A melodious laugh came from the opposite side of the phone. “Silly boy, just head to the front of the gym and look for the girl who stands out the most.”

“Mn.”

I hung up the phone and arrived at the public transport stop in front of the gym. Then, I waited while looking all over the place.

There were seven or eight people at the public transport stop besides me. A brand new black sports car with gorgeous curves was also parked nearby. I didn’t recognize the license plate, but it was probably very expensive.

It was time, but boss still hadn’t shown up yet.

At this point I was growing impatient, so I took out my phone and acted to call her again.

Speaking of which, everyone at the stop including me had noticed that the owner of the sports car was a superbly beautiful woman. She had bright eyes, clean teeth and long hair. Her looks were good enough to compete in a national beauty pageant. The faint smile on her face and the way her hair danced slightly to the wind only increased her charm further and flabbergasted nearly all the young men waiting at the stop. No one was expecting to find such a gorgeous woman in that amazing sports car.

……

That was the first time I saw He Yi. Beautiful, outstanding and natural, she split open the muddy pool that was my life and bathed everything in light. Everything except her peerless appearance faded into the background, pulling at my eyeballs like a ray of holy light that descended from the heavens.

The beautiful woman didn’t mind the shower of attention she was receiving. However, the corner of her lips curled slightly with dissatisfaction as she called a number.

“Doo doo doo…”

My phone rang. When I brought it to my ears, I heard the boss saying, “What’s keeping you, Lu Chen?”

I was stunned and in disbelief. Was this beauty really the boss I had been working with for almost two years? If that was true, then she had lied to me earlier. She was beautiful enough to shake anyone to the core.

“Boss, I arrived a while ago…”

Feeling a bit embarrassed, I walked up to her while still holding my phone.

The beautiful woman turned around to shoot me a glance. Then, she smiled and opened the door, saying, “It was you? Hop in then, there’s a place I want to take you to.”

I climbed into her car while my back was showered by countless sharp gazes of envy and jealousy. They felt like literal swords stabbing into my back.

“Boss, I didn’t think you would be so…”

“So what?” She turned toward me with a smile. Her eyes were clearly playful.

I gulped once and didn’t continue. The woman’s uniform she was wearing had a very low collar, so I had a clear view of pale flesh hidden beneath the fabric. That alone was enough to make my heart throb, much less the ravine that nearly sucked my soul away. It was more than enough temptation to boil up my head.

Next to my boss’s collar was an exquisite-looking work badge. Clearly, she was supposed to be working at this time. Her company’s name, “GGS” was written in huge font on the work badge, and beneath it was her name, He Yi! What really astonished me, however, was the job title written after her name. It said “Asia Region Vice President”!

“Boss, your name is He Yi?” I asked.

“Mn. It’s a good name, isn’t it?” She smiled slightly while starting the car. “What do you want to do in the future, Lu Chen? Or should I say, what are your dreams for the future?”

“My dreams?”

I thought for a second before laughing. “My dream is to hide in a mountain starting tomorrow and live in happiness. I want to feed my horse, chop up firewood for warmth and travel around the world. Starting tomorrow, I’m going to focus on agriculture, build a big house that faces the sea and let spring come to me…”

“Enough, you!”

He Yi let out a giggle. “You sure are hopeless. I guess it’s up to me to be your guiding light again! Come on, I’m going to take you somewhere.”

“Where?”

I asked a bit worriedly from the front passenger seat.

He Yi shot me a mysterious smile and lifted her eyebrows. “It is a place where dreams are realized. The Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls guild is planning to build a high-level workshop, and it’s probably going to consist of all our main members. You are the first candidate that came into my mind.”

“A workshop?”

I felt a little lost. I was alone for the longest time, and now I’m going to be joining a gaming workshop?

“Boss, I think I prefer to be…” I fell silent for a very long time before continuing, “I really don’t think Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls needs someone like me…”

He Yi immediately glared at me and scolded, “Cut the whining and just follow me!”

I could only shut up as ordered. Everyone who followed He Yi knew about her drive, and the only thing we could ever do was to obey her decision.

I didn’t say anything else after that. He Yi was also focused on her driving. Once in a while though, she would sneak a glance at me and smile.

After a while, she passed a card to me. It contained a portion of the income I had accumulated in the last half a year or so. The car quickly exited the city area, and the traffic growing thinner by the second.