I was exposed for adding my female boss to my group of female friends.

After Miao Aoxue apologized, she stared at Chen Ya with eyes that seemed to be spitting fire.

Not daring to vent her anger on Lu Qingxuan, she turned her anger entirely on Chen Ya.

Chen Ya completely ignored her and said:

"Young Master Li, do you know how much we charge for a single video now?"

Li Jia asked, "How much?"

Chen Ya took out a pen from his pocket and a napkin from the table next to him.

"Let me give you a few simple figures and you'll understand. Pricing is generally calculated based on active users and total traffic. Considering the damage sponsored content can cause to our brand image, and that revenue also takes a portion, the final result is..."

He listed many numbers, and finally wrote down a few final results, saying:

“一篇图文的单价是76万元，一条2分钟以内短视频的单价是690万，一条长视频1210万。而你们给我们开出的价格是105万。”

Li Jiayi's expression turned somewhat unpleasant.

This price was vastly different from the price he had previously proposed; every number felt like a resounding slap in the face.

“Don’t get me wrong, I’m not mocking your pricing,” Chen Ya said. “If you don’t believe me, I can provide you with Cloud Jinghua’s recent performance data.”

He turned on his phone screen and slid it over.

Li Jia looked down, and on her phone screen, the recent data performance of Yunshang Jinghua was displayed in a very simple and clear way.

If he had been skeptical before, seeing the data before him completely dispelled his doubts.

"Alright, I didn't expect Cloud Capital to rise so quickly. It's completely transformed in the blink of an eye. In that case, our budget might..."

“I accepted it,” Chen Ya said.

Li Jiayi looked up: "What?"

“I told Yunshang Jinghua about your proposal, and they accepted it,” Chen Ya said. “105 million yuan, two advertorials, and one video.”

Li Jiayi was a little surprised.

With such a huge difference in prices, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it was a losing deal. How could he accept it so easily?

He turned to look at Lu Qingxuan and asked, "Miss Lu, are you really willing to accept this? You have no objection to his proposal?"

Lu Qingxuan pressed her forehead and said, "I just said, he's the boss, and he makes the decisions. I have no right to disagree with his decisions."

To be honest, she didn't understand at all why Chen Ya had accepted the offer.

But since it was Chen Ya's decision, he must have had his reasons.

Although she was dissatisfied with Chen Ya in other aspects, she was completely convinced of Chen Ya's abilities in the operation of Yunshang Jinghua.

Anyway, she doesn't own any shares.

Miao Aoxue, standing next to her, twitched the muscles on her face.

She had initially been somewhat skeptical that Chen Ya was truly the controller of Yunshang Jinghua.

Lu Qingxuan was surprised to find that she listened to Chen Ya's every word.

Chen Ya smiled slightly and put the pen back in his shirt pocket.

Of course he had to take the order.

It's far better to infiltrate the enemy's ranks than to wait for them to make a move.

Besides, this is really fun.

Chen Ya said, "We'll take this job, but only on the condition that we're deeply involved in your planning. Whatever information you have, I need to have the same information; otherwise, I won't join."

Li Jiayi hesitated: "This..."

Chen Ya said, "If I join, Yunshang Jinghua will be the biggest KOL in your project. Don't we have the right to know the progress of the entire project?"

“Of course, of course…” Li Jia nodded repeatedly.

Although he didn't know why Chen Ya was willing to take the job, he had just looked at the traffic of Yunshang Jinghua and realized that being able to find such a big influencer with so little money was like picking up free money.

He didn't want to give Chen Ya time to regret it.

"Then it's settled. We can pick a date to sign the contract, but before we do, I need to talk to the person in charge of your project."

Li Jiayi said, "It just so happens that we are about to have a progress meeting with Mr. Wu Liangzhi. Can you attend?"

"Okay, I'll participate."

After the matter was settled, the atmosphere became much more relaxed, except for Miao Aoxue, who was still angry.

Miao Aoxue excused herself to go to the restroom and left the table, then quickened her pace. Li Jiayi noticed something was wrong, caught up with her, and grabbed her arm, saying:

"Aoxue, why are you so angry?"

"Why would I be so angry? You're asking me why I'm so angry?" Miao Aoxue looked at Li Jiayi with displeasure. "Didn't you see how Lu Qingxuan talked back to me like that?"

Li Jiayi said, "Lu Qingxuan is Lu Yuanbao's daughter. Although the Lu family has declined, it's not good to offend them..."

"You think you can't offend Lu Qingxuan? Li Jiayi, let me tell you, I'm not angry at Lu Qingxuan, I'm angry at you! As her boyfriend, everyone else has been saying such things about me, and you haven't said a word!"

Although Li Jiayi acted like a young master, he was raised with strict discipline, so he was essentially quite honest. He couldn't handle this kind of woman's tactics and said, "...Then what do you want?"

“I don’t care, you have to win back the face I lost today,” Miao Aoxue said, pointing her finger at his nose. “I apologized to Chen Ya, and I want him to apologize to me too.”

Li Jiayi scratched her head.

He had just finalized a deal and gotten a great deal, but his girlfriend was about to embarrass him.

He himself felt it was a bit strange.

Li Jiayi said, "Aoxue, think about it. Yunshang Jinghua was originally just a relatively well-known regional KOL in Beijing. But Chen Ya came in and increased its revenue by more than fifty times! What does that mean?"

Miao Aoxue sneered, "What concept?"

Li Jiayi lowered her voice: "This means two things: either Chen Ya has someone backing him, or he has extremely strong production capabilities. We are still cooperating with him now. If we hurt him too much, it will be a loss for us."

Miao Aoxue continued to sneer: "Let me tell you, you don't understand him. When I was studying at Peking University, he sat in the Peking University library for a year. Do you think I don't know if he has someone backing him up?"

Li Jiayi was slightly taken aback: "Really?"

“I know him too well,” Miao Aoxue said. “He’s just a poor kid from the countryside, with no connections and no production skills whatsoever. Do you know what his education is? He dropped out of junior high school!”

"Dropped out of junior high school?"

“Yes,” Miao Aoxue nodded, poking Li Jiayi’s chest hard with her finger, “So, you coward, I’m really… to be honest, I’m very unhappy today, and eighty percent of the reason for my unhappiness is because of you!”

Li Jiayi thought for a moment and said:

"Let's find out what his relationship with Lu Qingxuan really is first. If he's really just a marginal figure in the Lu family, someone picked up from the countryside, then there's nothing to be afraid of. Don't worry, I'll make him pay back double for any disrespect he's caused you."

Miao Aoxue was finally satisfied.

After a while, the two returned as if nothing had happened, with smiles on their faces.

"Hey, where's Chen Ya?" Miao Aoxue asked.

Lu Qingxuan didn't like this woman very much, and her reply was not enthusiastic: "He said that his aunt is getting married and he went to buy wedding supplies for her."

Miao Aoxue said with a smile, "Miss Lu, it was all a misunderstanding just now. Chen Ya and I used to be very familiar with each other. I just said that to him on purpose, it was all just a joke. You see, he doesn't seem to mind."

Lu Qingxuan felt even more annoyed after hearing this and said, "Really?"

“Yes, I used to talk to him like that all the time,” Miao Aoxue said with a smile. “I used to say things like, ‘Hey, you there, return the book,’ ‘Hey, give me that book, Introduction to Literature,’ ‘Hey, bring me breakfast,’ and he got used to it.”

Lu Qingxuan pursed her lips: "Is that so? What was he like before? What happened between you two? Were you really that close?"

Miao Aoxue smiled and pulled Lu Qingxuan aside, keeping her a little distance from Li Jiayi, and said:

"We have a good relationship, but not good enough to be a couple. To be honest, I have high standards and I wouldn't be interested in him."

She paused for a moment, then added, "At the time, he was wearing very rustic clothes, like he had just arrived in the city. He couldn't even find the library, so I had to point him in the right direction."

Lu Qingxuan asked, "So that's how you two met?"

“That was only the first time we met, but we got to know each other later,” Miao Aoxue said. “Back then, he wasn’t as composed as he is now. He liked to brag and talk big.”

"Bragging?" Lu Qingxuan asked, tilting her head.

Miao Aoxue nodded: "Yes, back then we often took walks at night, and he would talk all the time about how he was conceiving some kind of controlled nuclear fusion, and also about some kind of space conjecture... It was very outrageous."

Lu Qingxuan laughed, sounding a little annoyed: "Really?"

"Yes, at the time I thought to myself, this guy is really good at bragging to get my attention, so I pretended to be a little fangirl and kept agreeing with him, saying, 'You're so right!' But actually I was laughing so hard I almost burst out laughing."

She grabbed Lu Qingxuan and asked, "Are you and him... together?"

Lu Qingxuan's face turned cold: "Do you think that's possible?"

Miao Aoxue felt relieved and patted her chest, saying, "I thought you were dating him because you were so angry with him."

Lu Qingxuan was speechless.

She had only stood up for someone once, and people had misunderstood her like this. What would happen if people knew that she and Chen Ya got along quite well at work?

Miao Aoxue's words made her never want to speak up for Chen Ya again.

"I absolutely did not date him, and it wasn't because I was angry... well, although I don't think much of him, I believe that we should have some basic respect for him. If you were just joking around with him, then I misunderstood you, um, I apologize."

"Nothing, nothing," Miao Aoxue waved her hand. "Then how did he suddenly manage to make Yunshang Jinghua so big? Was someone pulling the strings behind the scenes?"

Lu Qingxuan was about to speak when she suddenly changed her mind:

"No, it's mainly because the Lu family was willing to provide resources. Those data were actually built up by resources. Anyone else could have done the same."

Of course, none of what she said was true.

Because she didn't want Miao Aoxue to know that Chen Ya was very outstanding.

In her opinion, Miao Aoxue seemed to be Chen Ya's ex-girlfriend, and this kind of relationship was already dangerous. If she knew about Chen Ya's abilities and that the two of them were still flirting and entangled, it would disgust her.

Miao Aoxue, unaware of her thoughts, was overjoyed upon hearing her words and pressed for an answer:

"Really? Didn't he himself use his abilities to enable Yunshang Jinghua to achieve a transformative breakthrough...?"

“No, not at all,” Lu Qingxuan immediately said, “He was just lucky.”

After she finished speaking, she embellished the story, exaggerating Chen Ya's background and only telling the bad parts.

The more Miao Aoxue listened, the more relaxed her expression became.

She's completely adopting an ex-girlfriend mentality now; the worse Chen Ya's life gets, the happier she is.

This shows that she made the right choice.

After a while, she returned to Li Jiayi's side, pulled him aside, and said smugly:

"See? I told you I couldn't have misjudged Chen Ya."

Li Jiayi asked, "What's wrong?"

“I just asked Lu Qingxuan, and she said that Chen Ya was just lucky to have the Lu family's resources, which allowed Yunshang Jinghua to develop well. It has nothing to do with Chen Ya's ability, and he doesn't have any background.” Miao Aoxue said, “I always said that Chen Ya couldn't possibly have that ability.”

Li Jiayi thought for a while.

As the manager of Yunshang Jinghua, Lu Qingxuan would be more likely to praise Chen Ya's abilities given the cooperation between the two sides, and it's unlikely that she would deliberately lie to belittle him.

Moreover, judging from how she stood up to defend Chen Ya just now, it seems she doesn't want to have a bad relationship with him, so what Miao Aoxue found out is most likely the truth.

He was worried that Chen Ya's quick acceptance of their order might be due to his cunning and hidden agenda. If Chen Ya turns out to be a complete idiot, then he's completely relieved. That would mean Chen Ya had indeed lost his mind.

He smiled and said to Miao Aoxue, "You're really something. I'm relieved now. It seems that he didn't take our order for any particular reason; he probably just wanted to show off and curry favor with you."

Miao Aoxue glared at him: "Why are you jealous? I haven't had anything to do with him for a long time!"

Li Jiayi said, "Why would I be jealous? You already have me, how could you possibly be interested in someone else?"

"That's right, no one can compare to you!" Miao Aoxue slapped him on the chest.

"By the way, your old classmate took our order at a low price for you. How do you feel about that?"

Miao Aoxue rolled her eyes: "How do I feel? I think he's an idiot. We're just picking up free money, isn't that great?"

"Haha."

Miao Aoxue smiled along with Li Jia. At the same time, she felt extremely fortunate.

Fortunately, I didn't give myself to Chen Ya in a muddle back in school.

If that were the case, she wouldn't have achieved her current status.

……