Chapter 61
He Renyuan registered an account, using his real name as his ID, and chose the rare green peacock as his pet, which required a top-up.
Top-up. The tea deity definitely preferred ancient peacock breeds.
[Please set your peacock’s personality]
He Renyuan entered: “High IQ, rational, wife first.”
A mess of lines appeared above the peacock egg. The system seemed unable to process these conflicting personality traits.
He Renyuan clicked “confirm” regardless. As a new player, the game kept recommending him to explore the manor and make new friends.
He Renyuan clicked the close button impatiently. A message popped up in the top right corner, “The Peacock Display Contest is about to begin, dress up your peacock!”
Completing tasks or spending money could change the color of the feathers. Only adult peacocks above level 12 could participate.
He didn’t necessarily have to participate in this silly contest, but he had to prevent others from showing off to his wife.
He Renyuan secretly registered and then handed the account to his assistant, “Upgrade it by any means.”
He would secretly level up, surpass his wife, and then dazzle her, descending gracefully as a mature and beautiful male peacock. This time, he would be the older one.
Bai Qingyu answered some quiz questions in the game to increase his peacock’s intelligence, but he couldn’t answer many questions about the human world, so his intelligence was stuck at 59. After using up his energy for the day, Bai Qingyu ignored the game’s constant prompts to spend money and logged off.
“Ah, you’re done drawing blood?” Bai Qingyu turned around and saw that He Renyuan was already pressing the cotton ball to stop the bleeding. He hurriedly helped him press it, “You have to press it for half an hour.”
He remembered the bruises on both of He Renyuan’s arms before and felt distressed.
He Renyuan, “It was only two milliliters, there’s no need.”
Bai Qingyu, “There is.”
He Renyuan felt his wife’s concern again and smiled, “Okay.”
The doctor left the private examination room without a word and closed the door.
He Renyuan lay down, and Bai Qingyu lay beside him, his fingers holding He Renyuan’s arm.
“Tea deity, I’m a little thirsty.”
Bai Qingyu was about to get up, “I’ll make you some tea.”
He Renyuan pressed him back onto the bed, “Come kiss me.”
The two of them cuddled under the covers and kissed. Bai Qingyu’s mouth became dry, and he had to push He Renyuan away to drink some water.
He took a gulp of plain water, his red lips glistening, and protested to He Renyuan, “Can you drink tea properly? My hair has grown so long.”
He Renyuan had stopped drinking real tea, kissing him whenever he wanted tea. This wasn’t right. He hadn’t asked him to cut his hair once in such a long time.
He used to demand Cha Bao’s hair when he wouldn’t give him any, and now he didn’t even drink tea for a whole day.
He Renyuan, “I’ll reflect on it.”
Bai Qingyu, “Then will you change?”
He Renyuan didn’t answer, trying to pick up his phone to change the subject.
Bai Qingyu found an excuse for him and asked in a low voice, “Are you scared by the scholar’s story? Because that scholar always cut the tea deity’s hair, so you want to be different and not cut it at all?”
He Renyuan didn’t take the bait and said honestly, “No, compared to tea, I just crave your body more, I’m a pervert.”
Bai Qingyu fidgeted, muttering, “Why do you say that about yourself? You’re not that perverted.”
He Renyuan pushed his luck, “I actually also want to drink tea, but it’s during working hours, at the company. When I get home, I only want to kiss you.”
Bai Qingyu was happy again. He preferred He Renyuan to drink tea made from tea leaves, not from the tea tree itself. The latter did sound a bit perverted. He was determined to change it, just like how He Renyuan cultivated Cha Bao’s correct eating habits, “Then I’ll give you lots of tea leaves, take them to the company and brew them.”
He Renyuan, “I’m very busy with work, I don’t have time to brew tea properly, it would be a waste.”
Bai Qingyu, “Just brew it casually, it’s okay, I have a lot.”
He Renyuan, “No, that’s disrespectful to the tea deity’s produce.”
Bai Qingyu, “Then let your secretary brew it.”
He Renyuan played with words again, “I don’t want others to brew you.”
Bai Qingyu, “Then what should we do?”
He Renyuan coaxed, “Didn’t you open a tea house downstairs from my company? You can go to work often, and when I’m thirsty, you can bring me a cup.”
The tea house was opened by He Renyuan, it was his building anyway, he opened it for his wife to play with. The name of the shop was “Big Tea Little Tea.” Every time he passed by after work and saw the name, He Renyuan felt genuinely happy.
Bai Qingyu was called “CEO’s wife” by the secretary before, such an embarrassing title, he was so embarrassed that he never went to He Renyuan’s office again. Occasionally, he went to the tea house, but he stayed in the office playing games, not helping at the front desk.
Because He Renyuan had the mute sisters trained to be shop assistants, and these two employees could handle all the business—
A cup of pure tea was priced at 49 yuan, only available for in-store purchase, like robbery, very few people bought it.
Not to mention there was a famous chain coffee shop nearby with 9.9 yuan coffee, and for those who didn’t like coffee, there were also milk tea shops.
Bai Qingyu had suspected from the beginning that the price was too high, it was embarrassing for the tea deity that he couldn’t compete with a coffee shop.
If the business was too good, his wife would be tired. He Renyuan had his own plans, “Wife, we have to target high-end coffee shops, we can’t compete with cheap coffee shops on price, it would damage the tea deity’s noble image.”
“Besides, the tea leaves used are all authentic high-quality goods from the storage room at home, each brew costs at least a few dozen yuan.”
He Renyuan persuaded Bai Qingyu to open the shop because he didn’t drink the tea he collected before, and it would expire, so it was better to open a tea house. “The rent, supply, and labor are all free, selling a cup for 49 yuan, we earn 45.”
The frugal tea deity immediately fell for it.
Because they didn’t sell many cups, there was no need to consider purchasing. Bai Qingyu just had to take some from He Renyuan’s storage room each time.
Bai Qingyu originally refused to appear in He Renyuan’s office during working hours, but now, to encourage He Renyuan to drink tea normally, he started actively going to Big Tea Little Tea, waiting for He Renyuan’s order.
If he had enough tea during the day, he wouldn’t be allowed to lick him at night.
He Renyuan was increasingly satisfied with his life. He went out with his wife and child every morning, first sending his son to kindergarten, then his wife to the shop, always within five hundred meters of Big Tea Little Tea.
Bai Qingyu was doing tasks in the game while keeping an eye on his phone.
Ding-dong—
[Personal Lawyer]: One cup of tea. [Transfer 49 yuan]
Bai Qingyu immediately stood up, took out some tea leaves from his bag, and brewed it himself.
The mute sisters were idle all day. The tea house wasn’t like a milk tea shop that needed to prepare toppings and milk. They only needed to boil water to 85°C and brew tea when there were customers.
It was more accurate to say that they were the madam’s bodyguards than tea masters – the sisters were already tall and strong, and He Renyuan even paid for them to learn self-defense.
The sisters watched Bai Qingyu brewing tea. Madam’s tea-making posture was so elegant, Young Master was so lucky. Big Tea Little Tea didn’t offer delivery service, only the young master in the whole building could enjoy tea delivered to his door, personally by Madam, it was incredibly blissful. Anyone could see how high-spirited Young Master He was after falling in love, as if he had returned to his eighteen-year-old self.
Bai Qingyu finished brewing the tea, put it in a glass, and took the CEO elevator upstairs. As soon as he exited the elevator, he turned a corner and saw President He working in his suit.
“Here.” Bai Qingyu placed the cup on the table, “Drink it.”
He Renyuan picked up the teacup and took a sip, “Thank you, wife.”
He couldn’t imagine the days when he could see his wife for just 49 yuan.
“President He.” The assistant came in, seemingly with something important to say, saw Bai Qingyu, and stopped talking.
Bai Qingyu was puzzled, “Is there something you can’t say in front of me? Then I’ll go out, you report first.”
He then said to He Renyuan, “I’ll come back and collect the cup after you finish your tea.”
The assistant hissed, thinking that President He probably fell for this roundabout tactic.
As expected, He Renyuan said, “Just say it.” He was open and honest, he had nothing to hide from his wife.
The assistant said straightforwardly, “President He, the peacock account you asked me to raise has reached max level. Here’s its data.”
They used some money and connections, the game company was also a friend of theirs.
Bai Qingyu looked up, he didn’t expect He Renyuan to also be raising a peacock, and said with interest, “Let me see.”
He Renyuan signaled for the assistant to leave and logged into the game.
Bai Qingyu sat on He Renyuan’s lap and looked at his computer. A green peacock appeared on the screen, its intelligence, energy, and charm all maxed out, dazzlingly gorgeous.
“Level 100! I’m only level twenty.”
He Renyuan said casually, “The peacock has reached the required marriage level, we can go to the matchmaker and apply for a marriage certificate.”
“You can also get married?” Bai Qingyu only knew how to diligently feed the chickens, he didn’t know about other gameplay. He logged into his account and “married” He Renyuan.
He Renyuan happily applied for marriage. The next moment, the word “failed” popped up on the screen.
?!
He and his wife were a match made in heaven, what did this broken game mean? Give him his money back!
He looked closely and saw a line of small gray text: One party’s intelligence must be above 60 to get married, underage players are prohibited from marriage.
“…” So humane?
“Wife, why is your intelligence below sixty?”
Bai Qingyu was embarrassed and blushed, “The questions are too difficult, I can’t answer them.”
Because He Renyuan always acted like he hated the game, Bai Qingyu didn’t ask him for help with the questions.
He Renyuan was annoyed, he shouldn’t have shown disdain for what his wife liked, causing Bai Qingyu to struggle alone and not dare to ask him for help. He softened his tone, “It’s okay, I’ll help you.”
He Renyuan helped Bai Qingyu answer the questions, easily crossing the sixty threshold, successfully obtaining the marriage certificate, and earning countless admiring gazes from his wife, a true winner in life.
After getting married, there were many fixed rituals to participate in. He Renyuan watched with him for a while and said, “I’ll go to the restroom.”
Bai Qingyu stood up, let He Renyuan out, sat back in the boss’s chair, and clicked on He Renyuan’s peacock, each click prompting a love confession.
As he was clicking, he accidentally opened a webpage and entered the Shu He Group’s internal employee forum.
[Is the new Big Tea Little Tea downstairs a rip-off? 49 yuan for a cup of tea, who’s actually drinking it?]
[Haven’t seen anyone buy it, it’ll probably close down soon.]
[My boss treated me to it, she said it’s top-quality tea, I couldn’t tell, which means their target audience isn’t us ordinary people.]
[Monthly rent of fifty thousand, they wouldn’t break even even if every executive bought a cup a day.]
[It might not close down, the boss isn’t charging rent.]
[Which executive’s mistress is this? Clothing stores, flower shops, tea houses, I heard big bosses love to open these for their mistresses.]
[Bad news for the person above, this isn’t an anonymous forum, you’re using your real name on the company’s internal network.]
[Hilarious, already preparing to resign?]
Bai Qingyu blinked. The rent was so expensive? He Renyuan could earn fifty thousand if he rented it to someone else.
He had to find a way to improve the business.
He saw He Renyuan return and said, “I want to add more variety, sell original fruit tea and milk tea, what do you think?”
He Renyuan was startled. Baby, does your “original” mean adding fish soup to the tea? Our employees’ stomachs aren’t as strong as mine and Cha Bao’s.
He Renyuan now showed the responsibility of an entrepreneur protecting his employees, “I suggest sticking to pure tea, it’s refreshing, suitable for business people.”
Bai Qingyu wasn’t fooled, “You clearly prefer milk tea and fruit tea.”
He Renyuan paused, speechless.
