I suddenly remembered that when I bought the phone, I considered the team's future funding issues and had thought about organizing them for live streaming. So, I decided to define it that way.
"It's like this, Lulu, I'm planning to start my own business. I've used my savings to assemble a team of streamers, and we're aiming to enter the live streaming world," I said with a serious expression.
"Oh? Is it for live commerce, or talent streaming, or something else?" Chen Lu asked, seeming quite knowledgeable.
"I haven't decided on the specifics yet, but I've gathered the team using my connections in Jinling to round up the people..." I fabricated, figuring Chen Lu didn't know much about how I'd spent my years in Jinling anyway. In their Northeastern dialect, it was like "blowing smoke."
Chen Lu immediately became interested and offered to meet my team.
Since she was so close, I couldn't refuse. I asked Chen Lu to drive to the courtyard of that restaurant herself, saying my team should be doing an audition, and I'd call them to get ready before meeting her.
After Chen Lu got into her car, I immediately called Zheng Bingbing and told the yāomen about this, asking them not to let anything slip later.
As I was about to hang up after giving instructions, a voice from off-mic suddenly came through, "We're all women, will she be jealous?"
I didn't know which yāomen said it.
Zheng Bingbing replied, "Yeah, and they're all so pretty. I'm the ugliest, hahaha!"
That remark reminded me of what happened in the hotel room earlier, where Shen Xingyue's beauty surpassing Chen Lu's and her greater age had angered Chen Lu.
"Then what should we do?" I asked. "Can you make yourselves look uglier?"
The yāomen who had spoken earlier took the phone. "We can't, but I can turn into a man."
"...Who are you?" I still couldn't tell. Except for the older sister's calm voice and the fourth sister's cute one, the others sounded similar.
"I'm the sixth sister."
The sixth sister, a fox yāomen, was indeed quite alluring, ranking in the top three for appearance among the eight yāomen. But I didn't expect her to be able to turn into a man!
"Alright, you do that..."
Having a "man" on the team could help me deflect half the suspicion. Otherwise, with just me as a man, Chen Lu might easily misunderstand it as my harem.
After hanging up, I jogged across the street to the back alley where Chen Lu was, guiding her to the hotel and opening the private room door.
Before Chen Lu could be surprised, I was!
This! Xiao Zhan? Yang Yang? Wu Lei? Peng Yuyan?
They looked like them, but none of them were. It was a perfect combination of these four handsome men! Taking their best features and discarding the flaws, it was practically a perfect god of charm!
If she weren't still wearing the casual shirt with the Mickey Mouse pattern from that morning, I wouldn't have recognized her!
"Boss," the fox yāomen greeted. Realizing her voice sounded wrong, she quickly pinched her throat, making a Adam's apple appear, and said in a deep, magnetic voice, "Boss."
"Ah... everyone, let me introduce you. This is my college classmate, Chen Lu." I swallowed, and for a moment, I even started to doubt my own orientation. So, male beauty could be this stunning!
"Miss Chen, hello!"
"Wow, you're so beautiful!"
"Our boss has always mentioned you, saying you were the campus belle back in college. It seems to be true!"
"If Miss Chen becomes a streamer, we'll have no livelihood!"
The yāomen, having learned flattery from somewhere, left Chen Lu stunned. But I noticed that her gaze was fixed on the handsome man transformed by the fox yāomen for almost 90% of the time, her eyes revealing a gentle affection as soft as water, flowing uncontrollably everywhere... Could she have fallen for the fox yāomen?
I coughed lightly. "Everyone, have you eaten enough? Let's go, Miss Chen will take us to develop in the provincial capital!"
Chen Lu looked taken aback. After a final glance at the fox yāomen, she turned and walked out. I followed her out, and she opened her mouth several times, finally unable to resist asking, "Is that young man also your employee? What's his name?"
Damn it, I hadn't even asked the fox yāomen her name yet. I always called her "Sixth Sister," and that's how I saved her on WeChat. In reality, they all had names, like the fourth sister named Xiong Xiaomeng, but I just hadn't asked.
"Uh... do you mean her real name or her stage name?" I equivocated, glancing back peripherally. Just then, the fox yāomen followed out.
"Either is fine,嘻嘻," Chen Lu said shyly.
I turned around and pulled the fox yāomen over. "Brother, Miss Chen wants to know your name. Tell her yourself."
The fox yāomen assumed her deep announcer-like voice again. "Miss Chen, my name is Hu Sihai."
Most likely, she made it up. How could she, a female yāomen, have such a masculine name...