「The next day.」

Lin Feng drove Zhang Yuxi to class. When he returned home, An Lan was just coming out of her bedroom in a camisole nightgown. Her legs bare, she padded to the bathroom to wash up.

Seeing this, Lin Feng couldn't help but frown. That An Lan… she really is making herself right at home!

"An Lan," Lin Feng said to her as she was eating breakfast. "About what you mentioned yesterday… I've thought it over, and I'm willing to partner with you."

An Lan's eyes lit up instantly. "Really?" she asked, taking a bite of her sandwich.

Lin Feng nodded. "Of course. However, we need to plan this out carefully. The market environment isn't great right now. If we're going to do this, we have to be in it for the long haul. We can't just open a shop and have it close down a few months later. In that case, it would be better not to open at all."

An Lan nodded in agreement. After all, her money didn't grow on trees. If the business failed after just a few months, her only option would be to go back and take over the family business. Just the thought of it is so frustrating!

"I don't have any experience running a shop," An Lan said, puffing her chest out confidently, "but I'm very sure about my culinary skills, so… leave this to me!

"Chef Lin, you'll be our shop's technical director! You'll be in charge of the kitchen, and I'll handle all the miscellaneous duties!"

Seeing An Lan with her chest puffed out, full of fighting spirit, Lin Feng couldn't help but smile. "Alright, it's settled then!"

「Noon.」

Zhang Yuxi returned from her class to find An Lan dressed and ready to go out and scout for a shop location.

"Are you really going to open a shop?"

"Mhm."

Zhang Yuxi nodded, not saying much else. One was her best friend and the other, her husband. Whether out of friendship or her desire to support her husband's career, she wouldn't stand in their way.

An Lan was out the entire day.

At eight in the evening, she stormed back into the villa, tossed her Gucci bag onto the sofa, and kicked off her high heels. She slumped onto the couch, fuming.

"No, this isn't enough to make me feel better! I need to find something else to cheer me up..."

With that, An Lan walked barefoot to the crib. She picked up the now-awake Treasure Three, holding him close. She kept nuzzling her nose against his cheek. Combined with Treasure Three's adorably dazed expression, An Lan felt instantly healed.

Just then, Zhang Yuxi walked over. "Are you okay?"

By now, An Lan had vented all her negative energy. She shook her head and laughed. "I'm fine. Some idiot just really pissed me off!"

"Haha, what happened? Share it and cheer me up," Zhang Yuxi said playfully.

An Lan immediately rolled her eyes, nuzzling Treasure Three's cheek again. "I'm not telling you!

"Look at your mother, Treasure Three. She's a bad egg," An Lan cooed, "picking on your godmother like this. Quick, help godmommy beat her up and get me some justice."

Zhang Yuxi snatched Treasure Three back. "My baby would never hit me! He's more likely to hit you!"

An Lan pouted. "Yeah, yeah, you're so amazing. Maybe one day I'll have quadruplets myself!"

Zhang Yuxi burst out laughing. "How are you going to do that by yourself?"

"Well, obviously, I'd find a guy!" An Lan declared. "As long as the price is right, forget quadruplets—I could arrange any 'position' you want!"

Seeing An Lan's frenzied state, Zhang Yuxi couldn't help but ask, "What on earth happened to you today?"

"What else? I just got a harsh lesson from society, that's all!"

"Hahaha, do tell! I could use a laugh!"

"Get lost! I'm going to eat!"

Zhang Yuxi knew she wouldn't be able to hold it in for long. Sure enough, at the dinner table, the more An Lan thought about it, the angrier she got, until she finally burst out cursing.

"You have no idea what kind of top-tier moron I ran into today! Absolutely infuriating!"

Zhang Yuxi covered her ears, pretending not to listen. "Don't say it, I don't want to hear."

An Lan was just about to unload all her grievances, and now Zhang Yuxi didn't want to listen? "You were just begging me to tell you a minute ago, and now you don't want to hear it?"

"Yep!"

"No way! You have to listen!"

Zhang Yuxi sighed. "Fine. Since you're insisting, I suppose I'll reluctantly listen."

An Lan's face darkened. For some reason, that just made her even angrier!

This is what happened. An Lan had gone out looking for a shop in the afternoon and came across a barbecue restaurant with good business. The owner claimed a family emergency made them eager to transfer the lease. The shop was suitable in both location and size, so An Lan was interested in taking it over.

The owner had an honest-looking face and said an elderly family member was sick and needed a huge amount for surgery fees. That was why he had to transfer the shop. "As he was talking," An Lan said, "he even pulled out the surgical report to show me."

At this, Zhang Yuxi interjected, "Could you even understand it?"

"Of course not!" An Lan replied. "But I'm a born actress, so I pretended to read it. The owner was crying his eyes out, and he almost had me crying with him. But then he told me that the transfer fee and other costs would be a million, all in!

"A million! Where am I supposed to get that kind of money? So, I figured I'd borrow some from my dad.

"And guess what happened next? Just as I was about to step outside to call him, the cleaning lady in the shop secretly pulled me aside.

"She told me the restaurant's five-year lease was about to expire in a few days and the landlord wasn't renewing it. The owner was just looking for some poor sucker to swindle. When I heard that, I was absolutely floored!

"Later, I checked with the shops next door, and what the cleaning lady said was true! If it weren't for her, I would have been scammed!"

After she finished, Zhang Yuxi remarked, "You were so lucky you ran into that cleaning lady. Otherwise, your million would have gone right down the drain."

Lin Feng cut in, "Not 'would have.' It 'definitely' would have."

An Lan crossed her arms, still fuming. "The more I thought about it, the angrier I got. In the end, I gave that owner a piece of my mind! I even announced what he was doing in front of all the customers. The people who were about to sit down and eat all got scared off. That finally made me feel a little better..."

Hearing this, Lin Feng consoled her. "Try not to be so angry. It takes all kinds to make a world; you just have to be more careful."

Zhang Yuxi nodded. "That's right. From now on, you can't just believe everything people tell you."

Speaking of which, Zhang Yuxi shared her own experience. "When I first came to Yangcheng, an agent showed me an apartment. The layout and renovations were both great. I decided to rent it on the spot and gave him a five-thousand-yuan deposit.

"But when it was time for me to move in, the agent said the landlord wasn't renting it out anymore and offered me a different place. That new place was just a rundown shack. Of course, I refused and asked for my deposit back.

"Not only did the agent refuse to refund my money, but he also yelled at me, saying women are always so much trouble!"

An Lan exploded. "Son of a bitch! How could he be so shameless?"

Zhang Yuxi sighed. "With no other choice, I had to call the police. I only got my deposit back with their help."

"That sleazy agent has probably pulled that scam countless times," An Lan said indignantly.

"The apartment complex I lived in before that, I had to find all on my own. The only bad thing about it was that it got no sunlight, but the environment was nice otherwise."

Thinking back to that time, Zhang Yuxi couldn't help but frown. She had to run all over the place looking for an apartment, all while heavily pregnant. She had never mentioned any of these hardships to Lin Feng.

Lin Feng knew that life without him had been very hard for Zhang Yuxi. Now, he wanted to make up for her sacrifices over the past two years with his actions and give her and their babies a happy life.

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