Be reborn and be happy to the fullest

In the end, Li Shuo did not agree to take over Lu Ailin's studio. He liked beauty, not money. Besides, Ailin's studio was only famous for its "artistic achievements" but did not actually make any money.

However, Li Shuo agreed to merge the two studios into one and let Yuan Ke take charge of it temporarily. During this period, he would recruit in the open talent market, hoping to find a qualified manager to take charge. As for the "equity distribution", "personnel, finance" and other matters after the merger, they were naturally thrown to the secretariat.

"From now on, you will be the studio's nominal art consultant. When you are in a good mood, you can choose your favorite art projects in the studio. When you are in a bad mood, just ignore everything. The profits of the new studio will be deposited into your account every month. Just enjoy your wonderful life..."

If some women heard this, they would be excited to fight Li Shuo for another 300 rounds, but Lu Ailin was different. She was originally a foreigner and her thinking was more westernized. At this time, she couldn't help but frown and said, "I don't want to be your canary. Even if I no longer manage the studio, I still hope to participate in some cultural and artistic festivals in Lenghai... By the way, there is a very interesting food tasting meeting recently. Do you want to join me?"

Li Shuo said with a smile: "Food tasting? What does that have to do with culture and art?"

Lu Ailin rolled her eyes at him: "Most of the culture of a civilization is deposited in people's daily habits, especially the Chinese. Their attention to food, clothing, housing and transportation is part of this splendid culture of this civilization..."

Then he added: "However, most of the guests invited to this food tasting event are gourmets from overseas, but there are very few gourmets from China, so I didn't want to go..."

Now that she has plenty of time, she can do whatever she wants.

When Li Shuo set his goals before, he also thought about cultivating some hobbies like racing. Tasting delicious food is a good hobby. After all, who doesn’t have a little appetite?

"Okay, when will it be held?"

"I haven't thought about participating before, so I don't know the time. I have to ask Cheng Cheng for the details..."

"Yu Chengcheng? He, the number one young master in Lenghai, is holding a food tasting event?"

"The first son? Oh, so you know the one who founded the SV Club. I'm talking about Yu Chengcheng, the Cheng of program... He is the cousin of Yu Nuannuan and her brother. Well, he is a very interesting son. He can't be called unlearned, but he is a lazy guy who likes to play around."

"Tsk tsk, Irene, I'm really jealous when you say that..."

“It’s just an objective assessment.”

"No, you are not allowed to praise any man in front of me from now on! No, you are not allowed to praise him except in front of me..."

"What? Why are you so overbearing?"

"Hehe, I am so domineering! Do you accept it?"

"I don't accept it! Hey, what are you doing? No, I'm so tired..."

Li Shuo soon realized a truth: no matter how tough a woman may be in words, her body is still soft.

When the two woke up the next day, the cruise ship happened to be docked in front of the pier. The metropolitan scene in the early morning made Lu Ailin so impressed that she even wanted to find a drawing board on the cruise ship to sketch on the spot.

Unfortunately, although the cruise ship was well prepared, there was no drawing board. In the end, Lu Ailin had to settle for the second best and hold a laptop and concentrate on painting on it.

Li Shuo was a little bored at first, and even warned himself not to date girls who were into art anymore. But when he saw Lu Ailin's stunning appearance, all his dissatisfaction instantly disappeared:

In front of the skyscraper behind the dock, Lu Ailin's long hair fluttered slightly in the sea breeze, and under the morning sunlight, it showed a hint of golden brown. Her angular facial features were delicate but different. Her eyebrows were not as thick as those of Westerners, nor as beautiful as those of Chinese people. Her eyes were typical Chinese-style almond-shaped. Her nose was high, but the tip of her nose was not as wide as that of Westerners. Her red lips painted with vermilion lipstick carried the charm of an oriental woman...

She is the most beautiful woman Li Shuo has ever seen since his rebirth. If beauty is rated as perfect, Li Shuo thinks it must be Lu Ailin. Just for this beauty, Li Shuo even regained the feeling of being a bootlicker in his previous life...

Time passed, but Li Shuo didn't notice it at all until Lu Ailin finished her painting and turned to him with a bright smile: "Finally the outline has been finalized. Are you bored? Let's get off the boat first."

Li Shuo glanced at her computer screen and said in distress, "How can I praise this thing?"

"Hehe, the unfinished painting is originally piece by piece, but I have memorized the picture in my mind. Well, if my memory is unclear, I can also make some artistic processing..."

When talking about her paintings, Lu Ailin's words became noticeably more frequent. After being shocked by her beauty just now, Li Shuo didn't feel bored anymore. He just nodded and responded with "hmm, oh"...

By the time the two got off the cruise ship, it was already past 10 o'clock in the morning. Today was Monday, and Li Shuo was racking his brains to think of how to call Jiang Shuying to ask for leave. The main purpose was to prevent Jiang Shuying from associating the person he was with with Lu Ailin through the leave request. He had a hard time dealing with this pair of sensitive best friends.

As a result, Lu Ailin did not get in the car. Instead, she waved to Li Shuo and said with a cool smile: "Li Shuo, I won't go back to the college. I will discuss the merger of the two studios after I return..."

Li Shuo was stunned. Among the women who had been with him, there were very few like Lu Ailin. Basically every woman wanted to stick to Li Shuo all day long.

"No... this, what are you going to do now?"

Because he was a little surprised and even doubted his own charm, Li Shuo stuttered when he spoke!

In the end, Lu Ailin just smiled mysteriously, put her jade finger in front of her lips and said, "It's a secret!"

"Okay, see you later, my dear junior..."

As she spoke, Lu Ailin waved on the road, and three taxis came over in an instant. She chose one and got in...

Li Shuo was stunned for about 3 seconds, then he let out a breath and got into the Bentley:

Just now he just couldn't accept that Lu Ailin was not like other women who would obey him in everything after in-depth communication and wanted to rub into his body all the time. But when he thought about it carefully, Lu Ailin had the thinking of Europeans and Americans after all, and a free and easy personality. When she was in love, she wanted to devour him alive, but when she entered the state of life, she could keep a certain distance so that the relationship would not turn into boredom because of being too close.

"This is pretty good..."

In the car, Li Shuo laughed, shook his head, and forced himself to clear Lu Ailin's beautiful figure from his mind.

He knew that if he continued to be deeply obsessed with Lu Ailin, he would only return to the state of licking Jiang Menghan in his previous life. Although the level of licking the goddess has become higher today, there is no difference in essence.

More importantly, Li Shuo, who has experienced the feeling of being licked on his knees, knows that excessive licking will only make people disgusted. If he wants to truly win Lu Ailin's heart, Li Shuo needs to be that strong, confident and charming male god from beginning to end!

It was already past 11 a.m. when he returned to school. The last class of the morning had already begun. Li Shuo simply did not go back to the classroom, but went to the college asset management office.

"Hey, Brother Shuo is here?"

"The matter of Lengwen is over. I came to see all the teachers and thank you for your support and encouragement..."

"I dare not say that. I heard that you have already taken control of Leng Wen. You should help us more in the future."

"No, no, no, in the academy, I am always a student... Let's not talk about this. Where is Dean Lu?"

After chatting with the office staff for a while, Li Shuo knocked on Vice President Lu's office door.

As the college's permanent agent for Leng Wen, Vice President Lu naturally knew what happened to Leng Wen. After seeing Li Shuo, he first enthusiastically led him into the office, and then said with a sigh:

"I never thought that the boss would fall into the hands of a young man like you... Brother Shuo, you are really the most formidable young man."

Li Shuo quickly said modestly, "Lengwen is currently leaderless, and the future development still needs more guidance from the academy."

Vice President Lu looked at him with a half-smile and said vaguely: "That's not necessary. After all, the college doesn't hold as much shares in Leng Wen as Leng Yi. Besides, we have you. I personally trust you very much, and I also believe in President Liu's vision..."

Li Shuo smiled bitterly and said, "You are slapping me in the face. The reason why this shareholders' meeting was able to achieve good results is entirely because I have the academy behind me. Without the academy, what am I? I am just a student..."

"Hahaha, that's good of you to think so. But there's no need to underestimate yourself. We do recognize your abilities..."

With Vice President Lu's loud laughter, he finally opened up - what he said before was just official words and clichés! After all, although Li Shuo held the shareholders' meeting under the banner of the Academy of Drama, he never let the Academy of Drama intervene. As the Academy's agent for Leng Wen, it was impossible for Vice President Lu to have no grudges in his heart!

However, Li Shuo now took the initiative to communicate, which showed great respect. Plus, their relationship was already good, so the "misunderstanding" was naturally resolved very quickly.

The following conversation between the two is not something that outsiders should know:

Li Shuo once told Dong Shanchuan that he would completely defeat Leng Wen within one year, but this was based on the premise of depriving the interests of the Academy of Drama. However, the interests of the academy are not the interests of the school leaders. Just like when Li Shuo visited Dean Liu with gifts, when Li Shuo walked out of Vice Dean Lu's office, he had already got the answer he wanted from Vice Dean Lu.

Of course, the matter of "the college transferring Lengwen shares" involves "XX asset transfer" and needs to be handled with extreme caution. Therefore, although Li Shuo has reached a verbal consensus with Vice President Lu, the structure of Lengwen shares will not change in the short term!

After a month or two, when the rumors have completely died down, the college will quietly "reduce its holdings of Lengwen shares", and the "reduced shares" will only be transferred to Zhou Haiqiong, Min Yuerou and other natural persons who have "no nominal connection" with Li Shuo, and the latter will pay a full share premium. Everything will be run on a reasonable, legal and compliant basis. It will not be until several years later that someone who is interested accidentally turns to Lengwen's share structure and finds that Lengwen has unknowingly completed the "institutional reform"...

After finishing the talk with Vice President Lu, it was already noon. Li Shuo naturally could not leave immediately, so he took Vice President Lu to have lunch together, of course, in the college cafeteria.

Along the way, Li Shuo received surprised looks from many classmates, and also met acquaintances such as Mr. Saito, his lackey Wei Xun, Bai Lu's roommate Lu Xin, etc. However, none of these acquaintances dared to step forward and say hello. At most, they gave Li Shuo a respectful look, and that look was full of the word "awesome"!

To ordinary students, Vice President Lu, who is in charge of the Student Union, is often more majestic than President Liu!

It was not until the two of them went up to the third floor of the cafeteria that someone shouted at Li Shuo, "I finally caught you, kid. Tell me, where did you go this morning? You don't even bother to call me now, right?"

It was Jiang Shuying who "roared" at Li Shuo. She actually kept an eye on this kid every day. She knew very well that Li Shuo hadn't come all morning! What's more, this kid actually went to the 4th floor to eat at noon. Let me see how I can deal with you!

Jiang Shuying rushed forward aggressively, and then...

"Um, Dean Lu"

Vice Dean Lu looked a little strange, and waved his hand with a smile, saying, "Teacher Jiang, Li Shuo was with me this morning. He had something to deal with... But, this kid didn't even ask for leave from you? This is indeed something you should say. How about giving him a punishment later?"

Li Shuo was not at all panicked when he heard this. He just narrowed his eyes and watched Jiang Shuying's reaction.

"No, no, no, it hasn't come to that yet... Um, what I mean is, since Li Shuo is with you, it must be a misunderstanding."

Jiang Shuying glared at him fiercely, but finally chose to hold her nose and defend this dead man!

"Hahaha, just kidding. Teacher Jiang, would you like to have dinner with me?"

"Uh, okay"

They said they were going to have dinner together, but Vice President Lu, the smart guy, went straight into the inner box after finishing his meal without greeting Li Shuo, so he naturally got together with Jiang Shuying.

"Ying'er, you are so cruel. I just missed class this morning, and you actually want to punish me!"

Seeing this dead man's pretentious look, Jiang Shuying rolled her eyes at him fiercely: "The villain is the first to complain! I already regret stopping the dean just now!"

"Haha, it's just a joke. You see, I wouldn't joke like that to other female teachers."

"Pooh!"

Jiang Shuying spat, but her expression was obviously relaxed, and she even had a happy smile from the bottom of her heart. However, she quickly realized that something was wrong, so she stopped talking immediately and changed the subject, saying, "What did you talk about with Dean Lu? Was it about Leng Wen? I heard that there was a big fuss yesterday. Did you openly argue with Dong Shanchuan on stage?"

Li Shuo raised his eyebrows and asked, "What have you heard? How did this spread in the academy?"

"There are a lot of rumors in the college. The students all think that you are speaking for fairness and justice. Everyone supports you. The campus forum is full of voices supporting you. You, the person involved, will probably be able to show off for a while after reading this..."

At this point, Jiang Shuying showed a worried look: "But I think you may have hit a wall this time. After all, our school doesn't have much control over Leng Wen..."