Financial Independence through Cracked Apps

Chapter 570: Chapter 275: A Long Phone Chat

It was an adaptation of background music from F1 racing, with a strong rhythm and a soul-stirring melody.

Paired with backup dancers performing a popping routine, it instantly ignited the venue’s atmosphere.

Zheng Yanfei eagerly took out her phone to record, then started editing a post for her social media feed, wanting to show off that she was attending the Ferrari owners’ club gala dinner.

Lin Shen, on the other hand, wasn’t very interested in such things. He opened his phone to chat with Qin Yuenan.

[Lin Shen: Nan, are you off work?]

[Qin Yuenan: Yeah. How are things over there? Have you eaten?]

[Lin Shen: I’m eating now.]

[Qin Yuenan: Photo.jpg]

After Lin Shen sent the check-in photo, Qin Yuenan replied instantly with a picture of her own.

It was a selfie of her eating chicken hot pot. She’d even flashed a peace sign, looking like a completely different person from her usual cool and aloof self.

Seeing this, Lin Shen smiled knowingly.

[Lin Shen: You really love your chicken hot pot! You know what, I should just buy a shop near Huamao and open a place that only serves chicken hot pot.]

[Qin Yuenan: Oh, yeah? I was just thinking the same thing. By the way, are you free to talk? There’s something about the company I need to tell you.]

[Lin Shen: Okay.]

Lin Shen waved his phone at Zheng Yanfei, then found an excuse to slip out of the venue quietly.

She blinked, instantly understanding that Lin Shen was going to make a call.

However, after he left, Zheng Yanfei couldn’t seem to calm down. She felt flustered and lost, as if she had lost her anchor.

After all, the only reason she was sitting here at the Ferrari owners’ club gala was thanks to Lin Shen.

Now that he was gone, Zheng Yanfei felt like she didn’t belong in a place like this, and she couldn’t help but feel nervous.

So, she could only quietly observe the people around her, especially Song Ya.

Whatever Song Ya did, she would do. She followed her lead, terrified of making a mistake in etiquette that would cause trouble for Lin Shen or make him lose face.

Seeing how cautious Zheng Yanfei was, Song Ya smiled and leaned in closer.

"Don’t be nervous. Just quietly watch what they do. By the way, how did you and Lin Shen meet?"

"Oh, that’s a long story."

Zheng Yanfei knew Song Ya was deliberately making conversation to ease her anxiety, so she gratefully began to share the details of how she and Lin Shen had met.

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「Outside the venue.」

After finding a deserted corner, Lin Shen called Qin Yuenan.

It connected quickly.

"Hello."

"Nan."

Hearing Qin Yuenan’s familiar, cool tone, Lin Shen felt an inexplicable sense of peace and satisfaction. The corners of his mouth even turned up in a slight smile without him realizing it.

"Can you finish that whole chicken hot pot by yourself?"

"Are you underestimating my appetite? You used to tell me I ate too little and should eat more. What, are you sick of me now?"

"Not at all."

Lin Shen smiled warmly. Even through the phone, he could hear the playful, coquettish tone in Qin Yuenan’s voice.

"You’ve worked hard on company matters. What did you want to talk to me about?"

"About business partners."

Qin Yuenan said softly.

"When I was working at Pet Guardian Home, I got to know some people in the pet industry. Now that I’ve resigned, I was thinking of inviting them to dinner to discuss a partnership. I was wondering when you might be free?"

"Anytime works for me."

Lin Shen agreed readily.

"Let’s have Xu arrange it. I have plenty of free time."

"Are you sure?"

Qin Yuenan said, her voice tinged with jealousy.

"You don’t need to make time to appease your other women?"

"Nan, you get jealous so easily."

Lin Shen said with a wry smile.

"This is a critical period for Shennan’s development. How could I possibly have time for fun and games?"

"Hmph."

Qin Yuenan snorted, then started chatting with Lin Shen about everyday things, acting cute like a lover from time to time to relieve her work stress.

She finally understood why a healthy relationship was so good for one’s mental and physical well-being.

Before, whenever Qin Yuenan was stressed from work, she would usually work out to deal with it.

Running, training her abs, doing glute workouts.

Relieving internal stress through physical transformation—that had always been Qin Yuenan’s method.

But ever since she started dating Lin Shen, whenever she felt stressed, she usually preferred to talk to him.

Even if it was just idle chatter, like talking about the weather or playfully teasing each other, Qin Yuenan still felt incredibly happy.

’Perhaps this is how love changes a person.’

Qin Yuenan felt she had changed a lot. She considered things more thoroughly now, because she had someone else in her heart.

"So, who have you run into at the gala?"

"Lots of celebrities and singers. I would have brought you if I’d known."

Lin Shen laughingly listed the people he’d met at the gala. Just then, however, he spotted Zheng Yanfei creeping over, searching for something.

’The little girl?’

Lin Shen couldn’t help but freeze for a second.

’What’s she doing out here?’

"What’s wrong?"

Hearing Lin Shen trail off mid-sentence, Qin Yuenan grew curious. He quickly explained.

"It’s nothing. Where was I?"

"You were talking about that internet celebrity."

"Oh, right."

Lin Shen continued his conversation with Qin Yuenan while waving Zheng Yanfei over.

When she saw Lin Shen, she crept over with a wide grin, then gently threw herself into his arms, pressing her face tightly against his chest.

It looked like she was being intimate with Lin Shen, but in reality, she was eavesdropping on his conversation with Qin Yuenan.

The moment she heard the cool and exceptionally pleasant female voice on the other end, Zheng Yanfei understood at once: the person Lin Shen was talking to must be his girlfriend!

And so, a trace of resentment and jealousy filled Zheng Yanfei’s heart. Her right hand moved from Lin Shen’s chest and traveled downward. Then, she lifted her little face, a mischievous and meaningful smile playing on her lips.

Seeing this, Lin Shen froze. His brow furrowed slightly, and he reached out to pinch Zheng Yanfei’s delicate cheek.

Clearly, what she was doing was interfering with his phone call.

"Wow, so many people."

Qin Yuenan commented from the other end of the line, following up on what Lin Shen had said.

"Well, when you get back, you’ll have to show me how you all have fun there."

"Sure."

Lin Shen, still holding Zheng Yanfei, took a few steps into a darker corner. He then wrapped an arm around her slim waist and said into the phone with a smile.

"Nan, I’m going back inside the venue now. We’ll talk more when I get back."

"Okay."

After hanging up, Lin Shen slammed Zheng Yanfei against the wall, caressing her white-stockinged legs as he questioned her in a low voice by her ear.

"What are you doing here? Trying to cause trouble on purpose?"

"No, of course not."

Feeling Lin Shen’s hot, moist breath against her neck, Zheng Yanfei’s heart began to race, and her legs felt a little weak.

After all, the feeling of Lin Shen’s rough hand exploring her thigh sent a jolt through her, making her whole body go limp.

"The auction has started. I thought there might be something inside that you’d like, Brother Lin Shen, so I came out to get you."

"I see."

Lin Shen released Zheng Yanfei from his embrace. He stroked her pretty, slightly flushed face and warned her.

"Next time, don’t bother me when I’m on the phone. Or else you’ll have to face the family rules!"

’Family rules?’

Hearing this phrase, Zheng Yanfei froze for a moment. Then, a strange sense of secret delight welled up inside her. She immediately hurried after Lin Shen, linking her arm with his and asking in a coy voice.

"Brother Lin Shen, what are the ’family rules’?"

"What do you think?"

The corners of Lin Shen’s mouth curled up. He leaned down and whispered a few words in Zheng Yanfei’s ear, making her blush beet-red and mutter under her breath.

"Brother Lin Shen, you’re so bad! Who could possibly handle those kinds of ’rules’? I don’t want them!"

"That’s not for you to decide."

Lin Shen said leisurely.

"Today is the first day the Lin Family rules have taken shape. I might as well test them out on you tonight."

"Brother Lin Shen!"

Zheng Yanfei, her face completely flushed, began to shake Lin Shen’s arm. She bit her lip and put on a pitiful, wronged expression.

"Then... you can’t be too rough. Be gentle~"