The King of Urban Mercenaries
Chapter 176 - 176 176 Auntie

176: Chapter 176: Auntie?

Uncle?

176: Chapter 176: Auntie?

Uncle?

Lin Fei didn’t stay too long in Penny’s office, not because he didn’t want to, but because he was driven out by the enchanting Penny.

After all, Penny was the head of the marketing department, and Mu Group’s business operations were quite extensive; Penny’s daily workload was considerable.

Of course, that wasn’t the main reason.

Obviously, Penny wouldn’t drive someone out just because Lin Fei was taking up her working hours.

This kind of thing often happened between Shanshan and Lin Fei.

“Although I don’t know why you argued with your wife, no woman hates jewelry.

Go buy a piece for your wife to calm her down.”

That was the primary reason Penny drove Lin Fei out of her office.

For this reason, Lin Fei was quite surprised.

After all, logically, an argument between Lin Fei and Shanshan should have been favorable for Penny.

However, it was clear that Penny’s thoughts were too complex.

She threw her credit card at Lin Fei, claiming she couldn’t foster his ability to argue with women, because she was a woman herself.

In short, she was ready to become Lin Fei’s woman.

Thus, she wanted to cultivate Lin Fei’s ability to apologize to his own women.

For Penny’s mindset of having him buy jewelry for the president’s wife as an apology and reconciliation, Lin Fei clearly disagreed.

The marital relationship between Lin Fei and Shanshan was too complex—too complex to be explained in a sentence or two.

It’s true that women love jewelry.

However, even if Lin Fei bought the jewelry, whether it suited Shanshan’s taste or whether Shanshan would accept it were both questionable.

Even if President Shanshan was momentarily moved by Lin Fei’s sentiment and accepted the jewelry he bought for her, she would certainly not let him continue his flirtations just because of one or two pieces of jewelry.

Most importantly, if Shanshan ever found out that Lin Fei bought her jewelry with Penny’s money, it would definitely lead to another war without gunfire.

In short, it wasn’t that Lin Fei didn’t want to give jewelry to his wife, the president.

Rather, the time was not right.

Even if someday their relationship progressed to a point where he needed to buy Shanshan jewelry, Lin Fei would use his own money.

However, Lin Fei still ended up taking Penny’s credit card.

Not because Lin Fei was short of money, but because of something Penny had said.

“I’ve just been promoted to the head of the marketing department, and it seems that a certain someone hasn’t yet given me a gift.”

Penny had made herself so clear, how could Lin Fei not understand that she desired him to give her jewelry?

With Penny’s status and charm, merely by letting it be known a little, there would be no shortage of men wanting to buy her jewelry.

However, what she hoped for and valued the most was evidently something bought by Lin Fei.

Whose money was used to buy the jewelry didn’t matter.

What was important was that she enjoyed the process.

She wanted to see Lin Fei hustle for her, she longed for the feeling of Lin Fei presenting her with jewelry.

And clearly, what Lin Fei needed to do was to fulfill Penny’s expectations.

For this, Lin Fei once again honorably skipped work.

…

Zhonghai City, Oriental Department Store.

First floor, jewelry hall.

“Sorry, ladies and gentlemen, this is the last necklace left,” said the saleswoman in a plain white professional outfit, her face filled with apologies.

Lin Fei frowned slightly and was about to speak when the woman beside him, who was wearing large sunglasses and a face mask, spoke first, “Please wrap it up for me.”

Her voice was somewhat hoarse but had an indescribable charm.

To an ordinary person, it might seem like this woman had a cold.

However, Lin Fei immediately recognized that the woman beside him, who was wrapped up tightly, definitely wasn’t hoarse because of a cold; it was a falsetto!

Covering herself up during the day and using a falsetto, this woman was clearly no ordinary person.

In fact, as a well-known upscale shopping mall in Zhonghai, ordinary salary earners generally wouldn’t shop at Oriental Department Store.

In short, those who could afford to shop at Oriental Department Store were either rich or noble.

However, Lin Fei obviously didn’t care about this woman’s identity.

If she had arrived before him, Lin Fei probably wouldn’t have argued with her.

Lin Fei understood the principle of ladies first.

However, the fact was that Lin Fei had seen the necklace first, and this woman who had wrapped herself up tightly came later.

Everything had an order of arrival; having finally found a necklace suitable for Shen Peini, Lin Fei certainly had no intention of yielding it.

“This lady—”

“Who did you just call ‘lady’?!”

As soon as Lin Fei said the word “lady,” the tightly wrapped woman immediately retorted.

Although it was a retort, this voice was much more pleasant to the ears than the previously hoarse falsetto.

Although there was a significant change in the woman’s voice from before, neither the saleswoman nor Lin Fei were too surprised.

As a well-known upscale shopping mall in Zhonghai, the place often saw all kinds of celebrities and elites; the saleswoman was obviously not seeing a tightly-wrapped woman using a falsetto for the first time.

And Lin Fei had quickly realized that this woman was deliberately disguising her voice, so he naturally wouldn’t be surprised.

“I’m asking you, who did you call ‘lady’?!”

Seeing that Lin Fei didn’t respond immediately, the tightly wrapped woman, with eyes hidden behind black sunglasses, stared intently at Lin Fei and coldly asked a second time.

If one listened carefully, they could detect a sense of oppression in the woman’s tone, somewhat similar to the authority Mu Shanshan commanded in the CEO’s office.

This type of oppression only belonged to those who were accustomed to giving orders from a high position.

The oppressive undertone in the tightly wrapped woman’s tone when she interrogated Lin Fei was even more intense than that of Mu Shanshan, the icy CEO, and was even more firm.

Lin Fei naturally recognized and felt the unusual identity of this woman due to the oppression in her tone.

However, this did not stop Lin Fei from looking the tightly wrapped woman up and down with his eyes several times before uttering four words that could instantly shatter a woman’s composure.

“This gentleman?”

“Pfft—”

Before the tightly wrapped woman could deliver an acceptance speech, the saleswoman in the plain white professional outfit couldn’t help but laugh out loud first.

It wasn’t the saleswoman’s fault for having a low laughter threshold; rather, it was Lin Fei’s award-worthy acting, along with his exaggeratedly appropriate facial expressions and body movements, that seemed to suggest that Mr.

Lin indeed had no clue about the gender of the woman in front of him.

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