I started as a spirited young man, and the system made me a male god.

Lin Jingyi saw the group message, let out a soft "Ah," and her face was full of disappointment.

She said to Shen Shaoting, who had just finished her treatment and was looking at herself in the mirror with a contented expression, "Tingting, Fei-ge said he has something urgent to attend to and has to leave first."

"Huh? They're leaving already?" Shen Shaoting's face fell instantly, and she exclaimed in disappointment, "I was thinking of pestering him to treat us to a nice meal after my treatment! What a waste of all the restaurants I had in mind!"

Lin Jingyi playfully slapped her: "You! Fei-ge treated us to such high-end treatments, and you're still thinking about making him treat you to dinner. How can you be so shameless!"

Meng Sixian, who was tidying up the equipment nearby, heard the conversation, smiled and said, "It's okay. We got along so well today, I'll treat you to dinner tonight."

She paused, then remembered that her probationary salary wouldn't be paid until next month, and added with a hint of apology:

"But I just got a permanent position and haven't received my salary yet, so I don't have much money. I can only treat you guys to something like spicy hot pot. A big hot pot feast might have to wait until next month."

"Mala Tang?!" Shen Shaoting's eyes lit up instantly, her previous disappointment vanishing. "Great! Sister Sixian is awesome! Mala Tang sounds delicious!"

Lin Jingyi nodded vigorously, a smile returning to her face.

Meng Sixian was amused by their enthusiastic reaction. While tidying up the products Lin Jingyi would be using later, she asked curiously, "Can eating some spicy hot pot make you all this happy?"

"Of course we're happy!" Shen Shaoting leaned closer, affectionately hugging Meng Sixian's arm, and said with a grin, "And since you're treating, we feel even more at ease!"

"Reassured?" Meng Sixian was even more puzzled. "Why would you feel at ease if I'm treating?"

Shen Shaoting winked and said, "Oh, there's this old joke, something about 'six yuan for spicy hot pot, thirteen times a night,' so we usually don't like letting guys treat us to spicy hot pot, it feels weird."

After saying that, she chuckled mischievously to herself.

Meng Sixian was completely bewildered, her face showing utter confusion: "Six yuan? Thirteen times? What does that mean? I still don't understand..."

Shen Shaoting waved her hand, giving her a "you're too naive" look: "If you don't understand, you don't have to. It's a secret code between us sisters!"

After saying that, he chuckled to himself twice.

Meng Sixian turned to Lin Jingyi for help. Lin Jingyi's eyes darted around, a blush rose on her face, and she said shyly, "I don't understand what Tingting is talking about either."

Seeing that she couldn't get a clear answer, Meng Sixian stopped asking.

Looking at the two girls in front of her, who had very different personalities but were both lively and lovely, she remembered that the store was recently recruiting a hair care assistant, and the pay was not bad.

She hesitated for a moment, then asked:

"By the way, Shaoting, Jingyi, do you two have jobs right now? Our shop is hiring recently, and they provide accommodation. I think it sounds pretty good. Would you like to consider working together?"

Shen Shaoting waved her hand without thinking, reverting to her usual nonchalant demeanor:

"Going to work? Forget it, we're used to being free, we can't stand that kind of constraint. Anyway, we won't starve, and we can play every day, it's pretty good."

Meng Sixian was silent for a few seconds, then looked at them and said in a gentle tone, "We talked so much just now, and I feel... you two seem to have feelings for Chen Fei, right?"

Neither Shen Shaoting nor Lin Jingyi responded immediately; their eyes flickered, which was taken as tacit agreement.

Meng Sixian continued softly, "I feel like Chen Fei is quite busy; he has his own plans and goals. If you two continue like this... without any change, won't the distance between you and him grow further and further?"

Shen Shaoting's carefree smile faded, and Lin Jingyi subconsciously bit her lip.

The two fell into an unusual silence, with only the faint hum of the nursing equipment and the faint noise of the city outside the window.

......

The taxi sped along, and Chen Fei leaned back in his seat, seemingly resting with his eyes closed, but his mind was racing.

His plan was very clear.

The first step was to use my Xiaohongshu account as a stepping stone, along with my years of accumulated operational skills, to help Jiang Che for free.

This might seem like Jiang Che got the better deal, but for Chen Fei, it was precisely the perfect opportunity to gain more charm points.

The second step is that once the collaboration begins, he can naturally utilize the resources of Jiang Che's company to provide content for his "makeover" video series.

This way, you can improve video quality, gain more followers faster, and make another profit.

This back-and-forth is equivalent to using Jiang Che's resources to make money and enhance one's charm, forming a perfect closed loop.

"After this series of operations, I should be able to save up 100,000 yuan to start a company."

As Chen Fei pondered the matter, he couldn't help but smile at the thought of the million-dollar reward for "The Road to Entrepreneurship".

Of course, he had also figured out the company's direction: to focus on what he was best at—self-media operations—and his first existing client was Jiang Che.

If he doesn't want to manage the company at that time, he can hire someone to help him.

After all, with a million-dollar reward in hand, the cost of hiring someone to manage it is nothing.

Chen Fei took out his phone and glanced at the navigation. He found that they were only one kilometer away from arriving, so he told Jiang Che.

Jiang Che replied to the message very quickly:

Sorry, I'm getting ready and can't leave. I'll have the company photographer come down to pick you up. Just contact him when you get to the entrance of the creative park.

"Okay, no problem," Chen Fei replied.

A dozen minutes later, the taxi stopped at the Yunshang Creative Park.

This is a creative industry cluster built after the old factory buildings were demolished. The decoration is very trendy, which is quite in line with Jiang Che's style.

Chen Fei got out of the car and sent a message to Li Hengkang, whom Jiang Che had mentioned, while standing at the door.

Li Hengkang is a photographer at Jiang Che's company.

He and Jiang Che knew each other since college, and he had always wanted to pursue her but couldn't.

After graduating, I heard that Jiang Che had started a company, so I immediately quit the job my family had given me and joined "Lemon Tree", and the salary was very low.

When Jiang Che asked him to pick up his friend, he subconsciously regarded Chen Fei as a rival and wondered what kind of person could make his goddess value him so much.

After all, he knew that Jiang Che was busy with work every day and had almost no social life, let alone inviting ordinary friends to his company.

Li Hengkang strode out of the park, his gaze sweeping across the entrance, and quickly locked onto Chen Fei, a man with striking blond hair who was standing there looking around.

"Heh, I thought he was some big shot, that Jiang Che would specifically ask me to come down and pick him up," Li Hengkang thought to himself. "Turns out he's just a spirited young man. The way he walks and his demeanor, he's definitely been around a lot."

He strode forward, maintaining a polite facade: "Hello, are you Chen Fei? I'm Li Hengkang, Jiang Che's photographer."

Chen Fei, with his keen senses, immediately perceived the other party's hostility, but remained outwardly calm, offering a friendly smile and extending his hand:

"Hello, my name is Chen Fei, and I'm Jiang Che's friend."