E-Ladies: Navigating the Wired World
Chapter 191: Episode 191: Rare drunkenness brings out the truth

Chapter 191: Episode 191: Rare drunkenness brings out the truth

"Yinyin! Let’s go get some food!"

Zhou Xueyin had hardly begun to enjoy the pleasure of her sea-view room when Li Ji’s mother was knocking on her door, calling her to go eat.

"What time is it already? Time to eat?" Zhou Xueyin glanced at her watch. Even though it wasn’t quite mealtime yet, she hadn’t felt hungry until the mention of food, which immediately made her stomach feel empty.

"Damn, if you come to Hong Kong and don’t go out to eat, then you’ve come for nothing!" Li Ji’s mother was still calling out from the doorway.

"Kk, stop packing up, we’ll talk about it when we get back!" Zhou Xueyin closed the balcony door, drew the curtains, locked her valuables in the safe, and followed Li Ji’s mother and the others downstairs to eat.

"Isn’t there a Chaoshan Pot with a really good reputation in the small alley next to this restaurant? Why don’t we solve it there?"

However, as Yang Ye led everyone according to the map’s markers, they went around in circles several times without finding the place.

"Senior brother Yang, did we pass it again?" Li Ranxu, looking at the familiar streets they had passed several times, directly took the map from Yang Ye’s hands. "According to the map, the Chaoshan Pot is in the small alley behind the building... Follow me!"

Everyone followed Li Ranxu back to the hotel entrance and then, with a turn, he led them into an inconspicuous alley, and the rest followed him in.

Twisting and turning, he led the group straight to the location of the Chaoshan Pot. "The streets on the map of Hong Kong are just these kinds of alleys... You definitely can’t use the Beijing mindset to look for places here, otherwise, you could circle around eight times and still not find it!"

As expected of Li Ranxu, he really did have experience.

"Shit... I should’ve bought a Hong Kong data card for my iPhone so we could just follow the navigation on my phone! Oversight, oversight! I’ll get one when we go back to the hotel! It seems you really shouldn’t skimp on certain expenses!" Yang Ye said, blaming himself.

"Senior brother Yang, it’s fine, no one expected Hong Kong to be so small..." Kang Siyin comforted him.

"No, Hong Kong is really small! Even smaller than Beijing! That’s why you absolutely can’t use the Beijing way of thinking to look at the map of Hong Kong!" Li Ranxu sternly corrected.

"Alright, alright, let’s order! After all that circling, I’m really hungry!" Zhou Xueyin hastily picked up the menu.

’Damn, this is really fucking expensive; the cost of living in Hong Kong is so much higher than back home... Won’t this meal cost over a thousand?’ Zhou Xueyin took a quick glance at the prices and was too shocked by the prices to know what to order.

But when you’re out having fun, you’re spending money to enjoy! What the hell! Money spent can be earned back, and who knows when I’ll get to enjoy this again if I don’t indulge this time!

"Order whatever you want! I’m picking up the tab for this meal!" Zhou Xueyin said generously.

With someone offering to pay, everyone no longer treated Zhou Xueyin as an outsider and ordered the dishes they wanted to taste.

After the orders were placed, the pot was brought to the table, bubbling away and steaming, the pork bone broth aroma wafting appetizingly.

The waiter was serving the dishes and calling out the names in Cantonese, and luckily Kang Siyin was there, otherwise, everyone would have had no idea what they were eating.

Once all the dishes had been brought out, Zhou Xueyin called everyone to attention, "Come on, cheers! Let’s eat!"

"Cheers!" The eight people raised their glasses together, celebrating the arrival of a relaxing vacation.

How long had it been since they had eaten so freely? Always worried about work, afraid of missing a customer’s call that could mean a deal while away from their desk.

Or it would be receiving Zhang Yongzhong’s work reports, which were not worth a read, just before going to sleep...

Li Ji’s mother was helping Li Ranxu with some ox penis, Guo Yu was getting some fish roe meatballs for Yao Shanshan, Kang Siyin was putting shrimp and fish pastes into the pot for everyone...

Zhou Xueyin looked down to find that her plate had, at some point, acquired several slices of hand-cut beef.

"Stop daydreaming, if the beef stays in too long, it’ll be too tough to chew!" Wei Jingzhu fished slices of meat from the pot to share with everyone.

Yeah! No matter what kind of pot, eating together is always the best!

Everyone ate, drank, and chatted away...

"Yinyin, weren’t you the first one to get a buzz cut at Yuyuantan High School?" Li Ranxu suddenly exposed Zhou Xueyin’s past.

"Yeah, how did you know? You’re not a spy from No. 57 High, are you?" Zhou Xueyin joked in response.

"You had a buzz cut?" Wei Jingzhu looked at Zhou Xueyin in surprise. He knew she had always been full of personality, but he hadn’t realized she was quite that bold.

"Yeah, back then our school banned girls from having long hair, and my hair grew so fast. I didn’t have extra pocket money to get a haircut every month... BURP..." Zhou Xueyin let out an unladylike burp, "Excuse me, hehe, continuing on, I just decided to spend the same amount of money to get a buzz cut! And then I didn’t have to cut my hair for a whole year!"

"Yinyin, that’s a great idea! Worth spreading around!" Li Jinlang raised her glass approvingly and downed it in one go.

"Right? I also think it’s worth promoting, but our head teacher said that if I cut my hair short next semester, they wouldn’t let me use the girls’ bathroom anymore, hahahahaha..." Zhou Xueyin continued her story, laughing heartily, "Then later, the younger girls all followed me and got buzz cuts, and the teachers didn’t say anything..."

It was precisely because of Zhou Xueyin’s childhood experiences that she did not want women to be discriminated against for their appearance, and also why she was scared of being poor and eager to earn and save as much money as possible.

So when the company was sold and she received her share of the money, she didn’t buy a car or a house but put it in the bank instead. Because only by seeing those numbers grow day by day did she feel truly at peace.

After dinner, everyone happily went back to their rooms, but Zhou Xueyin wasn’t ready to return. She took the initiative to pull Wei Jingzhu to the beach. The night sea, bathed in moonlight, was extraordinarily serene.

Zhou Xueyin picked up a stone from the beach and threw it with all her might, yelling as she did so, "Fuck work!"

She picked up another and threw it again, "Fuck idiots!"

"I founded the damn company! All the idiots, go chill where it’s freaking cool! Drop dead!" Zhou Xueyin shouted at the top of her lungs.

Releasing years of pent-up frustration.

Wei Jingzhu stood behind her, silently watching her vent on the beach.

Indeed, after being acquired by the group, life at 51buy was not easy, with seemingly impossible annual sales targets every year.

Every day, a diverse array of idiot netizens would post illegal and non-compliant content on forums.

Constantly having to watch out for Zhang Yongzhong doing something erratic or making a mess.

Occasionally having to guard against malicious competitors creating trouble and clients with ulterior motives.

Although it appeared glamorous on the surface, it was not as satisfying as being independent.

Wei Jingzhu watched Zhou Xueyin’s petite figure unleashing her emotions in the darkness, his heart aching for her.

Fuck hierarchical notions, fuck that idiot Zhang Lei! A real man shouldn’t let the woman he loves work so hard!

"51buy is mine! What does it have to do with you! Ah! Ah! Ah! Fuck work! Fuck CBIS!" Zhou Xueyin, tired from yelling, sat down on the beach.

Wei Jingzhu sat down next to her and immediately pulled her into his arms, "Yinyin, you’ve worked hard... Be my girlfriend! If there comes a day when you no longer want to struggle in the internet industry, I’ll join you in exploring a new field! No matter where you go, whatever you want to do, I’ll always be by your side! I won’t let you get so tired anymore!"