Transmigrated into a lewd little pervert, the crazy boss's kiss made his legs weak.

Li Yaoyao immediately smiled.

The two of them snuggled together in the back seat for a while, and then Li Yaoyao tilted her head and fell asleep with the honey badger in her arms.

The honey badger poked half its head out from her arms and looked at Qi Yuge in the driver's seat.

Then he pulled his head back in and let out a soft snore.

Qi Yuge started the engine, and the rearview mirror reflected the two figures huddled together in the back seat.

He reached out and adjusted the air conditioning vent in the back seat to prevent the cold air from blowing directly on her.

He then pulled his coat, which was draped over the passenger seat, and covered her with it.

As the car turned onto the overpass, Li Yaoyao suddenly opened her eyes groggily.

Her eyes were half-open and half-closed, her pupils were cloudy, and she was clearly not truly awake.

She looked up at the blurry profile in the driver's seat ahead, her lips moved slightly, and she mumbled something in a nasal, sleep-talking voice.

"Why is there a mission in my dream...?"

After saying that, he tilted his head to the side and fell asleep again.

Qi Yuge paused for a moment while holding the steering wheel.

A mission? What mission?

He glanced at the girl curled up in the rearview mirror; her face was half-buried in the honey badger's belly, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and her breathing was even and long.

He thought about it and realized it might be a task to take care of small animals.

After all, she's been incredibly busy at the resettlement site these past few days.

He smiled faintly, his lips curving into a tiny arc.

Looking at her adorable cowlick—

I really want to kiss her.

·

After several days of rest, Li Yaoyao compiled her clinical notes from rescuing small animals into a thick book.

Then I finally made up my mind—

She wants to open a pet hospital.

It is a professional clinical institution that can vaccinate not only cats and dogs, but also exotic pets and wild animals.

The system praised her grand plan, then promptly poured cold water on it.

Your current money value is 78,421.30. A storefront in downtown Beijing large enough to fit an X-ray machine would cost approximately 40,000 to 60,000 yuan per month, with a deposit of three months' rent and one month's rent in advance. The initial investment would be at least 250,000 yuan. You are approximately three times short of this goal.

"So now I need to find a cheaper shop space."

Li Yaoyao sat cross-legged on the sofa, her laptop on her lap, with more than a dozen tabs open in her browser, all of them listings for shops for rent.

She sorted the rental prices from low to high in the filter, skipping those that were obviously basements, unfinished, or too small to fit a consultation table, and finally her eyes landed on a page of posts.

The storefront is located on an old commercial street near Beijing's Second Ring Road. It's not large, but the layout is square. It used to be a pet grooming shop, and the water, electricity, and sewage pipes were already in place, so no major changes were needed.

The rent listed in the post is almost half that of similar properties in the same area.

The poster wrote very sincerely: The shop owner has an urgent family matter and needs to recover funds urgently, so he is subletting at a low price. First come, first served.

The post also included several real photos.

Li Yaoyao zoomed in and out of the photo several times, becoming more and more excited with each look.

This location is not far from the university town, and there are several mid-to-high-end residential communities nearby, so there is no problem with finding customers.

Most importantly, the price was within her budget.

She called the number on the post.

The person who answered the phone was a middle-aged man with a friendly voice, like a friendly uncle next door. He introduced himself as Zhao and told her to just call him Brother Zhao.

"This shop is my own property, not sublet by a landlord, so you can rest assured. My elderly family member is currently ill and I urgently need money, otherwise I definitely wouldn't rent it at this price."

"If you're really interested in renting it, I can give you a discount. Several people have already asked about it, so it's first come, first served."

Li Yaoyao was increasingly satisfied with what she heard, and the next morning she took the subway to look at the shop.

Brother Zhao was already waiting at the door. He was in his early forties, wearing a crisply ironed light blue shirt and frameless glasses. When he smiled, there were gentle crow's feet at the corners of his eyes.

He seems more reliable than he does on the phone.

He led her around the entire space, which was bright and clean.

Brother Zhao explained as he walked.

"To tell you the truth, the room next door that's the same size as mine costs 15,000 a month, but mine only costs 8,000. You only need to pay one month's rent as deposit and three months' rent in advance. If you sign the contract today, I can give you a half-month rent waiver as a transition period."

Li Yaoyao did some mental calculations: 8,000 a month, plus a deposit of one month's rent and three months' rent in advance, plus the cost of equipment and medicine, the start-up capital would be around 50,000 to 60,000.

She currently has over 70,000 yuan in savings, and she can recoup her investment by treating just a few cats and dogs after opening her clinic.

Seeing that she was interested, Brother Zhao's eyes revealed a cunning and shrewd glint, and he added fuel to the fire.

"If you can finalize the deal today, I'll give you all the cabinets and beauty stations in the shop, so you won't have to buy new ones." He took out a printed lease agreement, the terms of which looked fairly standard.

The information about Party A, the address of the property, the rent and deposit, and the liability for breach of contract are all clearly written down.

Li Yaoyao read through the contract item by item and found no problems, except for a handwritten note at the end: "Please pay the first installment of rent in cash."

"Why does it have to be cash?" Li Yaoyao asked, pointing to the note.

Brother Zhao sighed, his expression both helpless and sincere: "To be honest, there's a bit of a property dispute with this house. It's not a big problem, it's just that I'm in a lawsuit with my ex-wife, and the court has frozen my bank cards."

"So I only accept cash now, no transfer of ownership or bank account processing. If you mind, that's fine... There are two more people in line behind me, and I have to show apartments to people this afternoon."

"If you're interested, pay an 8000 yuan deposit first, and I'll hold it for you."

Li Yaoyao hesitated for a moment.

She gritted her teeth and decided to take it.

"Here'll give you 8000 yuan first. Brother Zhao, wait for me for two days while I go and raise the money."

After she got home, she took out all her passbooks and bank cards and calculated them over and over again.

There is still a funding gap of about 20,000.

Not many.

She was considering whether to request an advance on her salary when the system hesitantly spoke up.

[Host, something about this Brother Zhao seems off... Could it be a rental scam?]

"But his contract was written very formally..."

[You don't understand the loopholes in the contract; perhaps it would be more direct to ask him to produce the property ownership certificate.]

【Why don't you... give Qi Yuge a call and ask? That ruthless businessman would definitely see through this kind of trick immediately.】

Li Yaoyao held her phone, turning it over and over, hesitating for a long time.

The system's point wasn't without merit; a seasoned veteran like Qi Yuge, who had grown up in the business world, was highly skilled at spotting scams.

She took a deep breath and dialed Qi Yuge's number anyway.

I answered the phone after it rang twice.

"Yaoyao?"

There was a rustling sound of documents being turned in the background on Qi Yuge's end, probably from the company.

Li Yaoyao recounted the events, trying to be as objective as possible in repeating all the details.

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone, followed by an extremely contemptuous sneer.

"That shop is most likely a short-term rental specifically for 'fishing.' Once you pay, they'll run off with the cash, and when the real landlord comes to take back the property, you won't even have any bank transfer records to report it to the police."

"Don't contact him anymore. I'll handle the rest."

He spoke the last few words in a cold tone, with an uncompromising decisiveness.

It seems they've already decided how to tear this swindler to pieces.

Li Yaoyao: ...

Why do I suddenly feel so calm and at ease?

Li Yaoyao sat on the sofa with her phone in her hand, and suddenly realized that the way she had haggled with Brother Zhao in the shop earlier was probably pretty stupid.

She tilted her head back and sank into the sofa cushions, burying her face in them.

Her eight thousand yuan!!!

Three seconds later, she lifted the cushion again, opened her laptop, and reopened the shop rental page.

Scammers may be scammers, but the pet hospital will still be open.

This time, she moved her search area from the Second Ring Road to the edge of the Third Ring Road and started looking at the next shop.