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

Qi Yuge hung up the phone without a moment's delay.

He leaned back in his office chair, tapped his fingers twice on the armrest, and dialed a number.

When the call connected, his voice carried a nonchalant languor.

"Boss Zhao, right? I heard you have shops for rent? Tell me, how many do you have?"

"I bought them all, in cash."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a long time, so long that even the static seemed jarring.

Then Brother Zhao's voice rang out, trembling, as he tried to remain calm.

"You're joking. I'm just a small landlord, and I only have one shop left..."

"Okay, one set will do. Wait for me at the shop, I'll be right there."

Qi Yuge hung up the phone, picked up his suit jacket draped over the back of his chair, and stood up with his usual lazy smile on his face.

He Ming peeked out from the next workstation and, after seeing his expression, silently made the sign of the cross for that liar in his mind.

In less than forty minutes, Qi Yuge arrived at the commercial street.

He didn't call any extra people, only his bodyguard and He Ming. But the moment he stood at the shop entrance, his natural sense of oppression was enough to make all the shop owners on the street pretend to lower their heads and organize their goods.

Brother Zhao rubbed his hands as he came out to greet him, his face now visibly pale, a stark contrast to his feigned composure on the phone.

He clearly knew Qi Yuge.

In Beijing, who doesn't recognize the Qi family's business signboard?

He bowed and scraped as he ushered the person into the shop, his lips trembling as he tried to say something polite, but he opened his mouth several times without uttering a single word.

Qi Yuge didn't sit in the chair offered to him. Instead, he leaned against the front desk, picked up the contract that Li Yaoyao had only signed halfway, casually flipped through a couple of pages, and chuckled.

The laugh was soft and short, and Brother Zhao's back was pressed directly against the wall.

"Boss Zhao is quite shrewd in business. He sublets the property for half the market price, only accepts cash and doesn't transfer ownership, and the court has frozen his bank accounts..."

He threw the contract onto the table, and the paper slid across the surface and landed with a thud at Brother Zhao's feet.

"Where did you copy this script from, from an anti-fraud brochure?"

Brother Zhao's lips trembled like a leaf.

He thought of that innocent, harmless, and easily deceived girl, and he was filled with deep regret.

Of all people to fool, he had to try and deceive Qi Yuge.

Who would have thought that the simpleton type would be Qi Yuge's type?!

"Young Master Qi, I didn't know that was one of your people..."

He took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his forehead, his voice sounding like it was being squeezed out of his throat.

"I'll refund the money! I'll refund it all! And I'll also pay... I'll pay another sum as compensation for my losses..."

Qi Yuge looked down at the man who seemed to want to shrink into a crack in the wall, and put away all the expressions on his face.

He took out his phone, opened the payment QR code, and showed the screen to Brother Zhao.

"Eighty thousand. Sweep."

Brother Zhao was stunned for a moment.

Li Yaoyao gave him eight thousand, and now she's asking for eighty thousand in return—it's pure extortion!

But he didn't dare say a word, and shakily took out his phone to scan the code.

With a ding, the transfer was successful.

Qi Yuge put his phone away, turned around, and walked out. He paused for a moment as he passed the bodyguard.

"Sit with Boss Zhao for a while, and let him go only after he has figured out the number of strokes in the four characters for 'legitimate business'."

The bodyguard nodded expressionlessly, pulled the shop's roller shutter door down halfway from the outside, and then moved a chair to sit at the entrance.

That afternoon, Li Yaoyao was nestled on the sofa, reviewing shop rental listings again, when her phone suddenly vibrated.

The screen lit up, displaying a bank notification that the money had been deposited.

The savings card ending in 80000.00 RMB received.

She stared at the line of numbers for a long time, then jumped up from the sofa and blurted out a sentence to the person on the other end of the phone.

"You...you...robbed Brother Zhao?!"

"What are you saying? It's legally ours to get it back."

Qi Yuge's voice was languid.

"Hmm... Won't you get arrested for doing this?"

"Compensation for emotional distress, lost wages, and liquidated damages for delaying Mrs. Qi's shop opening. I say it's legal, and it's legal."

Li Yaoyao was momentarily speechless at the title "Mrs. Qi" and decided not to argue with him about how he addressed her.

Just as she was about to hang up, he suddenly said something.

"Change into something you can wear outside, and come downstairs in ten minutes."

Ten minutes later, Li Yaoyao was taken by Qi Yuge to a street near his company.

This street is famously prime real estate in Beijing, lined with neatly trimmed ginkgo trees, and the shops along the street are either high-end bespoke suit stores or imported home furnishing showrooms.

Qi Yuge stopped his car in front of a shop with a sign that read "Opening Soon" and pushed open the glass door to let her in first.

The store was bigger than any other shop she had ever seen.

The light gray non-slip floor tiles were polished to a shine, and animal anatomy diagrams and pet care flowcharts were already hanging on the wall.

Go further in, and you'll find the treatment area.

The examination room, operating room, pharmacy, infusion area, and isolation observation room are all clearly divided. Most of the equipment has been put in place, and a brand-new digital X-ray machine is parked in the X-ray room. Even the radiation protection lead screen has been installed.

Further inside, a row of low-pressure sockets specifically for felines had been pre-installed in the corner of the infusion area, and even the height of the ultrasound room's operating table was adjusted according to her height.

Li Yaoyao stood in the center of the consultation room and spun around three times, her mouth opening and closing repeatedly.

She turned her head sharply to look at Qi Yuge, her mind filled with so many questions that they almost overflowed her eyes.

"What is this...? What are you doing...?"

"Didn't you want to open a pet hospital?"

Qi Yuge leaned against the row of seats in the waiting area, one hand in his pocket, watching her run from the consultation room to the operating room and then to the pharmacy, just like a rabbit hopping around in a vegetable garden.

He pressed his lips together repeatedly.

"I've found you a doctor and assistant that Qin Lin poached; that's enough for now."

He said this in a flat tone.

But his right hand was in his pocket, clutching a piece of notebook paper that she had already torn to shreds.

That piece of paper was a floor plan of the pet hospital that she casually drew while working at the resettlement site.

The drawing was crooked and messy, with several circles drawn around the examination room using a ballpoint pen, and various instruments labeled next to it.

She didn't know when he took the paper away.

Li Yaoyao pulled the paper out of Qi Yuge's pocket and looked at her crooked drawing from back then.

The location of the operating room, the observation room with its constant temperature system, and even the details like placing calming pheromones in the corners of the infusion area—all were meticulously replicated one-to-one.