I Treat You as My Sister, But You Want to be My Wife?!
Chapter 430: The Entrepreneurial Path_1

Chapter 430: Chapter 430: The Entrepreneurial Path_1

Shen Dong’s ambition was to trigger an entrepreneurship craze with Huaxu as the medium, drawing the nation’s and even the world’s youth to Hai City to do business.

Collaborating with officialdom was meant to achieve this purpose.

Ding-ling-ling.

Engrossed in his ambitions, Shen Dong completely missed his phone ringing three times until Su Qingyu knocked on the door.

"Coming." Shen Dong turned off the computer monitor with one hand and turned around to open the door.

"A girl is looking for you." Su Qingyu had an expression like she was looking at a creepy man, her eyes playfully squeezed and occasionally drifting towards the hallway.

Shen Dong raised an eyebrow and looked outside, "Who is it, let... why is it you?"

Wang Wei.

It never crossed Shen Dong’s mind that this girl would show up at Silver Moonlight; he hadn’t meant to invite her. Leaning on the wall with one arm, he asked, "What are you here for?"

"A reading response." Wang Wei took out an envelope, looking a bit unnatural.

Shen Dong slapped his forehead, having completely forgotten about this affair. He’d asked Wang Wei to wash his father’s feet and then write a reflection.

"Alright, then come in." Shen Dong took the envelope casually, feeling inexplicably happy.

This is interesting.

He opened the envelope. The 400-word essay paper was filled over three pages, the handwriting graceful, a fair representation of Wang Wei’s beautiful face.

Shen Dong skimmed it and turned around, "What would you like to drink?"

"Our house was taken, and now we live in a hotel," Wang Wei said, unwilling to sit, her gaze fixed on Shen Dong, her fists tightly clenched.

One cannot understand without experiencing it firsthand.

Wang Wei seemed to have gained a layer of maturity, and that princess-like pride had vanished.

Shen Dong had been planning to tease the little swan, but seeing Wang Wei’s demeanor, he swallowed back his jest. After a moment’s thought, he pulled a set of keys from a drawer, "You definitely can’t let you and your grandpa stay at a hotel, this..."

"What do you mean?" Wang Wei’s face changed at the sight of the keys, as if deeply insulted, "What is this? Charity?"

She snatched the keys, throwing them fiercely at Shen Dong, "Was Yuchan blind? Is this how you solve problems?"

The keys struck Shen Dong’s face, showing red immediately.

Wang Wei, still furious, didn’t care. She knocked over the books on the table like throwing a tantrum, overturned a picture frame, and the ink bottle fell to the floor as well.

Shen Dong frowned, wanting to be angry but unable to summon it.

He saw his own past reflected in Wang Wei, a rebellious child of a single parent, seeking his father’s attention with both good and bad deeds, as if always challenging his father to a match.

But when his father was truly in trouble, it was still himself who was the most anxious.

It was the same for Wang Wei.

Shen Dong picked up the keys and placed them on the table, pointing to the sofa, "If shouting and screaming could solve the problem, then Bola Deng wouldn’t have blown up the Hexagon Building. Take the keys, and sit there."

"You..."

"What ’you’?" Shen Dong raised his voice, speaking sternly, "If you want to relieve your father’s worries, sit there properly."

Wang Wei held back, glaring at Shen Dong, and sat down on the sofa sulkily.

"What would you like to eat?" Shen Dong pulled up his office chair, sitting across from Wang Wei.

"Nothing."

"If you don’t eat, we can’t get things done." Shen Dong crossed his legs, looking at Wang Wei with a hip-hop vibe.

Wang Wei inwardly cursed ’scoundrel’ and said angrily, "Whatever, anything will do."

"Alright." Shen Dong smiled as he walked to the door, gesturing to the hallway waiter, "Tell the kitchen to prepare a simple but tasty meal for two."

The back and forth from the sofa to the door was a very short time, but Shen Dong thought about a lot.

He needed to take care of Wang Wei’s pride and also keep Xia Dongqing’s secret hidden.

"Ah, when did your parents get divorced?" Shen Dong wondered and turning around, he threw out the topic.

The question was sensitive, and Shen Dong didn’t intend to listen to Wang Wei’s answer. Seeing her unfriendly gaze, Shen Dong hurriedly said, "My parents also divorced when I was four, I haven’t seen them since the day I started remembering things, I grew up in my aunt’s house."

Upon hearing this, Wang Wei’s expression grew dim, "Me too, I grew up at my grandfather’s house."

She was, after all, just a child.

Watching Wang Wei rest her chin on her hands, her bright eyes filled with melancholy, "They all envied me for having pretty dresses, for being picked up by a car, for everything I had."

"But I, really didn’t like those things."

"Saying that, you’re just asking for a beating," Shen Dong responded without any good humor, leaning back, "I had nothing when I was young, I didn’t even taste spicy strips before junior high, and I had to save for chips and cola from my living allowance."

"At that school in Hai City, most of the students were like me, living on thirty yuan a week, buying a box of instant noodles for sixteen, and the remaining fourteen yuan would be spare change."

"You must’ve seen it."

Wang Wei was abruptly taken out of her depression by Shen Dong, "Seen it, there were some in my class, and I always wondered, don’t they get sick of eating instant noodles every day?"

"Sick of it?" Shen Dong scoffed, his gaze reminiscing as he looked at the ceiling, "I have to say, by the end I felt like throwing up."

"You would sacrifice your health to eat some snacks? I really can’t understand that." The light in Wang Wei’s eyes gradually became more natural as she was led by Shen Dong into a new topic.

Shen Dong also looked puzzled as he made an excuse to set a trap for Wang Wei, "I don’t understand either, you’re so clever, analyze it for me, why is that?"

"I don’t know, you had nothing when you were a child?"

Then Shen Dong began to talk about his journey of starting his own business.

Wang Wei was truly shocked as well, the legendary stories of starting from scratch had always been in inspirational books, she never expected it to happen right beside her.

Having been exposed to ’capital’ from a young age, she understood very well how difficult everything in Hai City was without financial backing.

"How did you do it?" Wang Wei’s eyes were full of admiration, she leaned forward, her eyes sparkling like a starry galaxy, staring at Shen Dong.

Building resonance with the topic, laying the groundwork for trust with impressive skill.

Shen Dong felt the atmosphere was about right, and pretending to be mysterious, he said, "It’s all just the surface, here, take the key."

As he said that, he placed the key on the coffee table, speaking earnestly, "Trust me, I have the capability and will definitely help your father. Be nicer to him during this period, this is the trough of life when care is needed the most."

Wang Wei’s attitude toward the key completely changed.

She picked up the key, looking at Shen Dong with the admiration of a little woman in her eyes. She blushed and glanced at the desk, thinking of something.

There was a ’reading response’ that could embarrass the dead.

"That..."

Wang Wei didn’t used to feel much about it, but now, she suddenly wanted to take the reading response back. Just as she was about to speak, the door was knocked on.

Su Qingyu came in holding a black tray, with two bowls of rice and four dishes, "You’re chatting, come on, eat while you talk."

It’s uncertain whether it was because she had been around banquets for a long time, but Su Qingyu’s gaze carried that kind of tease, glancing once, sweeping over, and then retreating out of the room backward.

Girls are naturally sensitive, Wang Wei picked up on Su Qingyu’s gaze and sneaked a peek at Shen Dong.

Shen Dong didn’t notice at all and was busy arranging the dishes on the table, "Come on, try it, the chef at Silver Moonlight is quite extraordinary, for a while, Hai City was the only place you could get shark fin and bird’s nest."