Chapter 40: Lin Lu's First Time
“Teach you?” Cheng Zhu was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
How could he not tell what Wang Anquan’s teenage mind was thinking?
It wasn’t that he had intended to show off, but Wang Anquan was still impressed.
Wang Anquan said earnestly, “Brother Zhu, when you went to the bathroom, I reflexively put on the headset. That senior sister said a Fiora line. She’s incredible!”
“I see. I forgot to mention. She’s a voice actress, a professional one,” Cheng Zhu briefly explained.
In his mind, Wang Anquan was his most loyal follower, and he would definitely meet Lin Lu in the future. A quick introduction now wouldn’t hurt.
But when the words fell into Wang Anquan’s ears, it was a whole different story.
“Voice… voice actress? She’s that amazing?” He didn’t expect her to be a professional.
Wow, she has so many traits. She has the campus trait of a senior sister and the professional trait of a voice actress.
If her looks and figure are decent, she’ll definitely be a girl that many college students can only dream of!
With this thought, Wang Anquan suddenly thought of something and asked, “Brother Zhu, since she’s a voice actress, we should be able to find stuff about her online, right?”
“Right.” Cheng Zhu realized he didn’t even know what roles Lin Lu had voiced.
He opened Baidu and typed in ‘Lin Lu’. But then he suddenly realized and laughed at themselves. “We’re really idiots. She definitely has a stage name, just like how writers use pen names.”
He scrolled down the page but didn’t find anything related to her voice acting. Instead, he came across posts with Lin Lu’s name on Tieba.
It made sense to Cheng Zhu that Lin Lu’s name appeared on Sci-Tech University’s Tieba forum.
Even though he had seen countless women, he had to admit she was at the top among sweet girls.
What surprised him was that Lin Lu’s name also appeared in a few posts on the forum of the neighboring Jiliang University.
Hangzhou’s Xiasha area was a famous college town, with schools densely packed together.
Some universities were even just a street apart.
So Lin Lu is famous even outside her school? She’s that popular? Cheng Zhu was surprised.
He casually clicked on a few posts and skimmed through them.
One of the posts was actually the legendary ‘Campus Belle Contest’, which amused Cheng Zhu.
“I think Lin Lu is definitely the campus belle of our school. How can there be such a sweet and adorable girl in this world?”
“I don’t agree at all. Shen Qingning is the campus belle! The goddess who drives a Land Rover to school!”
Wow, there’s even someone supporting Shen Qingning.
“Cuteness doesn’t hold a candle to sex appeal. I think Jiang Cen is the campus belle.”
Cheng Zhu silently noted down the name Jiang Cen.
Next time, Wang Anquan looked at the monitor and became even more dumbfounded. Brother Zhu, weren’t we looking up this senior sister’s voice acting work? How did you end up finding a post about campus belles?
And there are so many comments!
Although the posts showed some controversy, it was normal. After all, everyone’s aesthetics were different.
It was impossible for any girl to be universally recognized as the most beautiful by all the students and faculty.
However, you had to understand, ordinary people weren’t qualified to join this kind of campus belle battlefield.
No matter how naive Wang Anquan was, he could still infer the beauty level of this voice actress.
—Beauty Level: Ninth Degree!
“Brother Zhu! Really, teach me!” Wang Anquan shouted, almost kneeling down and hugging Cheng Zhu’s leg. “I’ll even pay for it. Deduct it from my salary!”
He had completely elevated Cheng Zhu to a god in his mind.
Brother Zhu, hurry up and tap me. Just tap me once and turn me into gold!
* * *
In the end, Cheng Zhu didn’t teach Wang Anquan, feeling that with his current experience, Wang Anquan wouldn’t understand a word even if he did.
On the contrary, he thought, You still have the energy to think about these things. Looks like you don’t have enough work.
Should I up the difficulty of your tasks?
The next half-hour was the first internal meeting of the sexy lingerie store, Keep Coming.
Although there were only two participants in the meeting, Cheng Zhu remained serious throughout and even took photos to commemorate the moment.
In his impression, many entrepreneurs who documented every step of their early days, like filming a documentary, often ended up becoming big shots.
During the meeting, Cheng Zhu pointed out some of Wang Anquan’s shortcomings. Wang Anquan listened attentively and even jotted down several key points in his notes.
This was one of the reasons why Cheng Zhu valued him, both in his previous and present life.
Emotionally, Wang Anquan was his best friend, his childhood buddy. Wang Anquan’s father, a firefighter, had once helped put out a fire at Cheng Zhu’s house.
Logically, Wang Anquan harbored no ill intentions towards him, was trustworthy, obedient, down-to-earth, and diligent.
Cheng Zhu had never thought that Wang Anquan was a particularly smart person who immediately grasped concepts.
But he had worked with Cheng Zhu for many years in his past life and had been growing steadily, which was genuinely commendable.
At the end of the meeting, Wang Anquan asked, “Brother Zhu, where did you learn this knowledge and experience?”
Cheng Zhu chuckled. “I learned it in my dream.”
Wang Anquan didn’t ask further. He planned to digest and reflect on what Brother Zhu had taught him before going to bed.
* * *
Meanwhile, in a high-end neighborhood in Hangzhou.
Lin Lu was wearing a white knee-length nightdress, half-reclining on a rocking chair in her bedroom.
Her room was over forty square meters and included a small balcony.
During renovations, the balcony had been enclosed with one-way glass, turning it into a small sunroom that further expanded the room’s area.
She had decorated the space with a soft, comfortable rocking chair and a small tea table.
As the rocking chair gently rocked, Lin Lu hummed a tune, her fair calves and delicate feet swaying slightly in the air.
She picked up her phone and sent Shen Qingning a video call request.
When she was playing the game earlier, Shen Qingning had messaged her. She had intended to reply after her glorious in-game demise but became so engrossed in playing that she forgot.
This gave the voice actress newfound insight into why so many boys forgot to reply to their girlfriends’ messages while gaming.
Unsurprisingly, the video call was rejected, and Shen Qingning switched to a voice call.
“How many times have I told you not to send me video calls out of the blue?” Shen Qingning’s cold voice came.
“Woman, I missed you,” Lin Lu said in the tone of a domineering CEO speaking to her beloved wife.
“I’m not buying that, so cut it out,” Shen Qingning said, still indifferent.
“Then which one do you want? I can do any of them!” the voice actress said with absolute confidence in herself.
Shen Qingning said helplessly, “Save those talents of yours for your future boyfriend. I don’t have the fortune to enjoy them.”
“Ah, I wonder which lucky guy will win that jackpot. Dating me will definitely be like a dream. I can use my voice to simulate all kinds of women and scenarios. Wow!” Lin Lu bragged shamelessly.
Shen Qingning was helpless against her. “Why did you take so long to reply? Were you napping?”
“Nope, I was playing a game with Cheng Zhu and forgot to reply.”
Then she said in the tone of a domineering CEO to her beloved wife, “Woman, let’s just say it’s my fault this time.”
“You were playing a game with him? Online or offline?” Shen Qingning asked sensitively.
“Of course it’s an online duo. What, did you think we played online games in an internet cafe?” Lin Lu said.
Shen Qingning said in a seemingly casual tone, “This is the first time I’ve seen you play games with a boy.”
“Oh, right!” Lin Lu seemed to just realize this and immediately declared, “Wait, I have to record this!”
She stood up from her rocking chair and searched for her slippers on the floor with her bare feet.
Only then did Shen Qingning recall that Lin Lu had a journal where she recorded significant moments in her life.
Lin Lu was someone who loved to document her life, be it through photos, videos, or little diary entries.
This habit started when she was sixteen, after her grandmother passed away. Before that, she hadn’t shown much interest in it.
At this moment, she took out her locked journal from her drawer and unlocked it using the four-digit combination code.
She quickly flipped through the pages. In the most recent entries, the words that appeared the most often were Shen Qingning or her nickname, Ningning.
Soon, she reached a new, blank page.
Initially, she hadn’t thought that playing a game together was noteworthy enough to record, so it never occurred to her to write it down. But after what Shen Qingning said, she suddenly felt it was worth noting after all.
Lin Lu picked up her pen and wrote: “August 3rd, my first time duo-queuing with a boy.”
After finishing, she lightly poked her cheek with the top of the pen and quickly drew a line through the word ‘boy’, crossing it out.
Underneath, she added a set of parentheses and wrote Cheng Zhu’s name inside.