Chapter 54 – Great Strength
When Mo Zhen woke up, the sunlight out the window was already shining brightly. The sounds of several birds tweeting could be heard flying over the balcony. Mo Zhen scratched his hair as he rose from the bed.
Although Kenny Manor is quite a distance from the urban district, though there are benefits, one can still hear the tweeting of birds.
After washing up, Mo Zhen opened his room’s door, subconsciously directing his gaze towards Li Yan’s room. Her door remained closed shut. Mo Zhen stood in place pondering a bit before deciding to walk up and knocking on Li Yan’s door: “Ah Yao, are you up?”
Since it has already been exposed yesterday, Mo Zhen has also decided to address Li Yan with a name he’s most familiar with; Ah Yao.
There was no response. Mo Zhen knocked two more times on the door, sounding out: “I’m coming in then?”
Before even finishing his words, Mo Zhen opened the door, causing a *kacha* sound as he went inside for a look. On the bed, the quilt has already been folded up neatly. However no signs of life could be sighted.
Mo Zhen knitted his brows. Where could she had run off to this early in the morning?
Arriving on the first floor, Mo Zhen still saw no trace of Li Yan. He knitted his brows further as he opened the front door, arriving at the courtyard: “Ah Yao?”
“Zhen Zhen, are you looking for me?” A head popped out of a corner at the right side of the house, looking at Mo Zhen with energetic, blinking eyes.
Mo Zhen turned his head, facing towards Li Yan and walked over: “Where did you run off to?”
“I went for a run. Dr. Fang said I must remember to exercise often.” Li Yan walked out of the corner, her eyes containing a trace of excitement, “When I ran earlier, I discovered a small garden behind the house!”
“Oh, that.” Thanks to Li Yan, Mo Zhen was able to remember the uncultivated garden. “It was at first meant to be a plot of land to be sold for business development.”
“Oh.” Li Yan nodded her head. “Then why are you not using it at all? Leaving it here like this makes it look rather pitiful.”
“When would I have time to plant and take care of it?” In fact the truth is, Mo Zhen can’t grow plants for his life.
“I can plant vegetables!” Li Yan gave an expectant look towards Mo Zhen. “Eating home-grown vegetables helps protect the environment and is healthy too!”
“Vegetables?” Mo Zhen completely did not think Li Yan would propose such an idea, “But this is a flower garden.”
“Flower gardens and vegetable gardens are practically the same thing!”
Mo Zhen: “…”
She’s right, there’s only a one word difference!
“Whatever you want.” Mo Zhen turned around and began heading back into the house, “First eat breakfast. In a bit we’ll be heading to the studio.”
“Roger!” Li Yan excitedly rushed to the front of Mo Zhen, grabbing onto him before heading into the house, “Today I’ll make toast! How’s lemon juice?”
Mo Zhen closed the door behind him, giving her a look of doubt: “Are you sure you can make toast?”
“I learned from my mother, trust me!” Ah Yao turned her head towards Mo Zhen, revealing an honest-to-god expression.
“… All right.”
Li Yan went and took a lemon out of the fridge, washing it and cutting it into two halves. She picked up a half and bit on the side of it. The expression in Mo Zhen’s eyes changed, walking over in front of Li Yan and asking her: “Do you also like eating lemons like this?”
“Uh, not sure why, but when I woke up in the morning I found myself to like eating lemons directly like this.” Regarding this, Li Yan herself couldn’t seem to figure it out. Perhaps she slept for so long that her genes had gone through mutation. “Do you also want a bite?”
Mo Zhen’s eyes flickered, subtly raising the corners of his lips: “Alright.” He leaned over, biting down on the lemon that Li Yan held in her hand, lightly biting off the part which Li Yan had bit off of.
Li Yan: “…”
As if the temperature along with the lemon transmitted to her face,[1] Li Yan’s entire face burned red. She quickly shrunk her hand back, turning her face away as she nudged the other half of the lemon which rested on the cutting board. “I, I meant this half…”
“But I felt that this half would be more sweet.” From Li Yan’s hands, Mo Zhen snatched whatever remained of the bitten lemon with his mouth. He then walked towards the living room in a good mood.
Li Yan: “…”
If you wanted sweet then eat a sweet orange! Why a sweet lemon!!
Li Yan then toasted a piece of bread, spreading some jam and squeezing out the juices of the remaining half of the lemon onto the toast. Trying it out, Mo Zhen appeared very satisfied. “Not bad. You’ll be able to marry.”
Li Yan. “…”
This… she didn’t even bother rebuking.
After finishing breakfast, the two headed towards the film studio. Of course, with Mo Zhen driving. Li Yan glanced at the person next to her whose eyes were completely absorbed on the road. She tentatively asked: “Zhen Zhen, when will I have vacation?”
Mo Zhen’s eyebrows fluttered, turning his head towards her: “Why? Are you tired?”
“It’s not that. I want to take time learning how to drive. I can’t always have you driving me around.” Other celebrities are able to rest in the car. It’s only Mo Zhen who drives. Li Yan was ashamed of her capabilities as an assistant.
“It’s nothing. Before I’ve always drove myself around.”
“But before you didn’t have an assistant.”
“You’re so foolish, how can I be at ease with you driving?” With this sentence by Mo Zhen, the conversation concluded.
Li Yan: “…”
#IntelligenceOfAMonkey#[2]
Mo Zhen paused, adding: “But if you’re ever tired, you can tell me. I will give you vacation.”
“Oh.” Li Yan refrained from acting excessively, softly replying with a single sound.
Arriving at the studio, Wen Xiaoxiao was putting on makeup. When she noticed Li Yan, she indiscreetly glared at her. Li Yan’s mouth twitched. Glaring like this, this brat is lacking in discipline! Li Yan glared back.
In the midst of crossing swords, the phone in Li Yan’s bag suddenly sounded.
It’s Tang Qiang.
Encountering this high-level boss, Li Yan used a hundred and twenty thousand mana to respond: “Tang Qiang, hello!”
“Come to the company. The things Mo Zhen ordered has arrived; you’ll need to transport them.”
“Ok.” Hanging up the phone, Li Yan reported the matter to Mo Zhen. Li Yan then took the taxi and headed towards Kaihuang. When the taxi was nearing the company building, Li Yan asked the driver to drop her off a distance away from the building. Li Yan, like a thief, began inching her way into the company building.
If she were to be found out by Tang Qiang that she couldn’t drive a car, Tang Qiang would definitely pan-fry her. Though, it’s not that she couldn’t drive. It was just that she was out of practice.
Riding the elevator up to the 36th floor, Li Yan wanted to enter Tang Qiang’s office. However she was stopped at the door by Han Meimei: “Director Tang is currently in a meeting. I’ve been instructed that on your arrival to bring you to Emperor Mo’s lounge area to retrieve the items.”
“Oh, ok.” Li Yan followed from behind, somewhat cautiously walking down the hallways of Kaihuang. Although Li Yan is an employee here, she has only been here three times.
“That… Han Meimei?”
“Is something the matter?” Han Meimei turned her head around, eyeing at Li Yan.
“Are you really called Han Meimei?”
“… Yes.”
“Oh.” Li Yan puckered her lips, “Actually, I’m not called Li Lei. I’m Li Yan.”[3]
“… I know.” Han Meimei spoke, then halted in place, “We’ve arrived.”
Li Yan followed her into the lounge. On the floor sat two boxes. Pointing at the boxes, Han Meimei said: “These are the items.”
Li Yan walked over and took a look, realizing that they were the snacks they ordered online.
“Is Emperor Mo fond of ordering snacks online?” Han Meimei blinked, cautiously gossiping.
“Yeah. He said that every month he would order them once. His favourites are all from foreign snack shops.” Li Yan leisurely exposed some of her boss’s information.
“Oh, what does he like to eat?” This unwary little newbie, she really liked it!
“He likes eating fruit pudding. Also chocolate cookies and the like.” Li Yan then revealed a troubled expression for a split second. She was answering every question free of charge, “Hey, what’s that?”
Han Meimei’s eyes traced the direction she pointed towards: “That’s a pennant.”
“Pennant?”
“Do you not know? This is something the police department personally sent.” Han Meimei spoke proudly, as if the pennant was sent to her instead, “At that time Emperor Mo assisted the police force in capturing a cat gang.[4] He was also in the newspaper headlines!”
Hearing her speak, Li Yan felt a bit impressed. Before when Li Yan was going through Mo Zhen’s data, there seemed to be something like this mentioned.
Seeing Li Yan blankly staring at the pennants on the wall, Han Meimei poked her back. “What’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing.” Li Yan was brought back to earth, eyeing at the two boxes sitting on the ground, “Well I’ll carry these away now.”
“Ok. Do you need someone from security to help you carry them?” These two boxes should be quite heavy.
“No need, I can move them.” Finishing her words, Li Yan squatted down and easily carried the two boxes up. Han Meimei chuckled.
Han Meimei pleasantly watched the Hercules at front, both eyes sparkling: “Can you help me replace the water jug at the water dispenser?” This morning when she arrived at the company, the water dispenser was empty of water. The staff member who came with a new water jug didn’t help replace it, simply leaving it on the floor.
“So easy![5]” While carrying the two boxes, Li Yan followed Han Meimei out the door.
Putting the boxes down Li Yan carried the water jug, then suddenly hearing a male voice sounding from behind: “Are you Mo Zhen’s assistant?”
Li Yan subconsciously turned her body around, hands still carrying the water jug.
In front of her eyes stood a man who wore a well-ironed suit, on his face revealed a pair of golden eyes, and his entire body emitting an elegant air. But not knowing why, Li Yan found him to be quite dislikable.
“Luo, Director Luo!” By her side, Han Meimei eyed at Luo Tiancheng, straightening her body upright and began behaving primly.
Luo Tiancheng didn’t pay notice to Han Meimei, only eyeing at Li Yan with interest: “I heard that Mo Zhen picked you, though you don’t look like anything special.” Finishing his words, Luo Tiancheng’s gaze fell onto the hands that held the water jug. “Besides having strength.”
While Han Meimei was in the midst of considering to rush off and notify Director Tang to come down, Luo Tiancheng walked two steps closer towards Li Yan. Li Yan watched Luo Tiancheng easing his way over. She then hefted up the water jug: “Don’t you dare get any closer. If you do I’ll bash you!”
…
In the hall, the other two remained silent. They just quietly stared at Li Yan with her water jug in hand.
Han Meimei: “…”
Warrior! Please accept my knee![6]
“Director Luo, did you need me?” Though she had no idea when Tang Qiang had arrived, when Han Meimei saw him she could finally let out a breath of relief.
Tang Qiang spotted Li Yan carrying a water jug. Puckering his lips, he placidly said: “You may first replace the water jug.”
“Oh, ok.” Li Yan vigilantly shot a glance at Luo Tiancheng, before turning around to replace the water jug.
“I’m here to see her.” Luo Tiancheng casted a glance at Li Yan, then similarly turning his body around, “A wonderful performance.”
“Next time you’ll be charged.”
Hearing Tang Qiang’s order, Luo Tiancheng laughed as he walked into the elevator. Tang Qiang glanced at Li Yan who stood to one side in a silly manner. He then walked towards his office: “Follow me inside.”
1: 就像是热度顺着柠檬一直传导到了脸上
2: #智商君已体无完肤#
3: I believe this is a reference to a series of English-learning textbooks for middle schoolers in China, who contain two characters named Li Lei and Han Meimei. Source: http://en.people.cn/90782/8137585.html
4: I recall that the previous translation termed it as “cat gang”. Nonetheless, it is in reference to a group of people who kidnapped and abused cats.
5: This was in English in the raws.
6: I believe this refers to the act of kneeling down in respect for someone.
Chapter 54 – Great Strength
When Mo Zhen woke up, the sunlight out the window was already shining brightly. The sounds of several birds tweeting could be heard flying over the balcony. Mo Zhen scratched his hair as he rose from the bed.
Although Kenny Manor is quite a distance from the urban district, though there are benefits, one can still hear the tweeting of birds.
After washing up, Mo Zhen opened his room’s door, subconsciously directing his gaze towards Li Yan’s room. Her door remained closed shut. Mo Zhen stood in place pondering a bit before deciding to walk up and knocking on Li Yan’s door: “Ah Yao, are you up?”
Since it has already been exposed yesterday, Mo Zhen has also decided to address Li Yan with a name he’s most familiar with; Ah Yao.
There was no response. Mo Zhen knocked two more times on the door, sounding out: “I’m coming in then?”
Before even finishing his words, Mo Zhen opened the door, causing a *kacha* sound as he went inside for a look. On the bed, the quilt has already been folded up neatly. However no signs of life could be sighted.
Mo Zhen knitted his brows. Where could she had run off to this early in the morning?
Arriving on the first floor, Mo Zhen still saw no trace of Li Yan. He knitted his brows further as he opened the front door, arriving at the courtyard: “Ah Yao?”
“Zhen Zhen, are you looking for me?” A head popped out of a corner at the right side of the house, looking at Mo Zhen with energetic, blinking eyes.
Mo Zhen turned his head, facing towards Li Yan and walked over: “Where did you run off to?”
“I went for a run. Dr. Fang said I must remember to exercise often.” Li Yan walked out of the corner, her eyes containing a trace of excitement, “When I ran earlier, I discovered a small garden behind the house!”
“Oh, that.” Thanks to Li Yan, Mo Zhen was able to remember the uncultivated garden. “It was at first meant to be a plot of land to be sold for business development.”
“Oh.” Li Yan nodded her head. “Then why are you not using it at all? Leaving it here like this makes it look rather pitiful.”
“When would I have time to plant and take care of it?” In fact the truth is, Mo Zhen can’t grow plants for his life.
“I can plant vegetables!” Li Yan gave an expectant look towards Mo Zhen. “Eating home-grown vegetables helps protect the environment and is healthy too!”
“Vegetables?” Mo Zhen completely did not think Li Yan would propose such an idea, “But this is a flower garden.”
“Flower gardens and vegetable gardens are practically the same thing!”
Mo Zhen: “…”
She’s right, there’s only a one word difference!
“Whatever you want.” Mo Zhen turned around and began heading back into the house, “First eat breakfast. In a bit we’ll be heading to the studio.”
“Roger!” Li Yan excitedly rushed to the front of Mo Zhen, grabbing onto him before heading into the house, “Today I’ll make toast! How’s lemon juice?”
Mo Zhen closed the door behind him, giving her a look of doubt: “Are you sure you can make toast?”
“I learned from my mother, trust me!” Ah Yao turned her head towards Mo Zhen, revealing an honest-to-god expression.
“… All right.”
Li Yan went and took a lemon out of the fridge, washing it and cutting it into two halves. She picked up a half and bit on the side of it. The expression in Mo Zhen’s eyes changed, walking over in front of Li Yan and asking her: “Do you also like eating lemons like this?”
“Uh, not sure why, but when I woke up in the morning I found myself to like eating lemons directly like this.” Regarding this, Li Yan herself couldn’t seem to figure it out. Perhaps she slept for so long that her genes had gone through mutation. “Do you also want a bite?”
Mo Zhen’s eyes flickered, subtly raising the corners of his lips: “Alright.” He leaned over, biting down on the lemon that Li Yan held in her hand, lightly biting off the part which Li Yan had bit off of.
Li Yan: “…”
As if the temperature along with the lemon transmitted to her face,[1] Li Yan’s entire face burned red. She quickly shrunk her hand back, turning her face away as she nudged the other half of the lemon which rested on the cutting board. “I, I meant this half…”
“But I felt that this half would be more sweet.” From Li Yan’s hands, Mo Zhen snatched whatever remained of the bitten lemon with his mouth. He then walked towards the living room in a good mood.
Li Yan: “…”
If you wanted sweet then eat a sweet orange! Why a sweet lemon!!
Li Yan then toasted a piece of bread, spreading some jam and squeezing out the juices of the remaining half of the lemon onto the toast. Trying it out, Mo Zhen appeared very satisfied. “Not bad. You’ll be able to marry.”
Li Yan. “…”
This… she didn’t even bother rebuking.
After finishing breakfast, the two headed towards the film studio. Of course, with Mo Zhen driving. Li Yan glanced at the person next to her whose eyes were completely absorbed on the road. She tentatively asked: “Zhen Zhen, when will I have vacation?”
Mo Zhen’s eyebrows fluttered, turning his head towards her: “Why? Are you tired?”
“It’s not that. I want to take time learning how to drive. I can’t always have you driving me around.” Other celebrities are able to rest in the car. It’s only Mo Zhen who drives. Li Yan was ashamed of her capabilities as an assistant.
“It’s nothing. Before I’ve always drove myself around.”
“But before you didn’t have an assistant.”
“You’re so foolish, how can I be at ease with you driving?” With this sentence by Mo Zhen, the conversation concluded.
Li Yan: “…”
#IntelligenceOfAMonkey#[2]
Mo Zhen paused, adding: “But if you’re ever tired, you can tell me. I will give you vacation.”
“Oh.” Li Yan refrained from acting excessively, softly replying with a single sound.
Arriving at the studio, Wen Xiaoxiao was putting on makeup. When she noticed Li Yan, she indiscreetly glared at her. Li Yan’s mouth twitched. Glaring like this, this brat is lacking in discipline! Li Yan glared back.
In the midst of crossing swords, the phone in Li Yan’s bag suddenly sounded.
It’s Tang Qiang.
Encountering this high-level boss, Li Yan used a hundred and twenty thousand mana to respond: “Tang Qiang, hello!”
“Come to the company. The things Mo Zhen ordered has arrived; you’ll need to transport them.”
“Ok.” Hanging up the phone, Li Yan reported the matter to Mo Zhen. Li Yan then took the taxi and headed towards Kaihuang. When the taxi was nearing the company building, Li Yan asked the driver to drop her off a distance away from the building. Li Yan, like a thief, began inching her way into the company building.
If she were to be found out by Tang Qiang that she couldn’t drive a car, Tang Qiang would definitely pan-fry her. Though, it’s not that she couldn’t drive. It was just that she was out of practice.
Riding the elevator up to the 36th floor, Li Yan wanted to enter Tang Qiang’s office. However she was stopped at the door by Han Meimei: “Director Tang is currently in a meeting. I’ve been instructed that on your arrival to bring you to Emperor Mo’s lounge area to retrieve the items.”
“Oh, ok.” Li Yan followed from behind, somewhat cautiously walking down the hallways of Kaihuang. Although Li Yan is an employee here, she has only been here three times.
“That… Han Meimei?”
“Is something the matter?” Han Meimei turned her head around, eyeing at Li Yan.
“Are you really called Han Meimei?”
“… Yes.”
“Oh.” Li Yan puckered her lips, “Actually, I’m not called Li Lei. I’m Li Yan.”[3]
“… I know.” Han Meimei spoke, then halted in place, “We’ve arrived.”
Li Yan followed her into the lounge. On the floor sat two boxes. Pointing at the boxes, Han Meimei said: “These are the items.”
Li Yan walked over and took a look, realizing that they were the snacks they ordered online.
“Is Emperor Mo fond of ordering snacks online?” Han Meimei blinked, cautiously gossiping.
“Yeah. He said that every month he would order them once. His favourites are all from foreign snack shops.” Li Yan leisurely exposed some of her boss’s information.
“Oh, what does he like to eat?” This unwary little newbie, she really liked it!
“He likes eating fruit pudding. Also chocolate cookies and the like.” Li Yan then revealed a troubled expression for a split second. She was answering every question free of charge, “Hey, what’s that?”
Han Meimei’s eyes traced the direction she pointed towards: “That’s a pennant.”
“Pennant?”
“Do you not know? This is something the police department personally sent.” Han Meimei spoke proudly, as if the pennant was sent to her instead, “At that time Emperor Mo assisted the police force in capturing a cat gang.[4] He was also in the newspaper headlines!”
Hearing her speak, Li Yan felt a bit impressed. Before when Li Yan was going through Mo Zhen’s data, there seemed to be something like this mentioned.
Seeing Li Yan blankly staring at the pennants on the wall, Han Meimei poked her back. “What’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing.” Li Yan was brought back to earth, eyeing at the two boxes sitting on the ground, “Well I’ll carry these away now.”
“Ok. Do you need someone from security to help you carry them?” These two boxes should be quite heavy.
“No need, I can move them.” Finishing her words, Li Yan squatted down and easily carried the two boxes up. Han Meimei chuckled.
Han Meimei pleasantly watched the Hercules at front, both eyes sparkling: “Can you help me replace the water jug at the water dispenser?” This morning when she arrived at the company, the water dispenser was empty of water. The staff member who came with a new water jug didn’t help replace it, simply leaving it on the floor.
“So easy![5]” While carrying the two boxes, Li Yan followed Han Meimei out the door.
Putting the boxes down Li Yan carried the water jug, then suddenly hearing a male voice sounding from behind: “Are you Mo Zhen’s assistant?”
Li Yan subconsciously turned her body around, hands still carrying the water jug.
In front of her eyes stood a man who wore a well-ironed suit, on his face revealed a pair of golden eyes, and his entire body emitting an elegant air. But not knowing why, Li Yan found him to be quite dislikable.
“Luo, Director Luo!” By her side, Han Meimei eyed at Luo Tiancheng, straightening her body upright and began behaving primly.
Luo Tiancheng didn’t pay notice to Han Meimei, only eyeing at Li Yan with interest: “I heard that Mo Zhen picked you, though you don’t look like anything special.” Finishing his words, Luo Tiancheng’s gaze fell onto the hands that held the water jug. “Besides having strength.”
While Han Meimei was in the midst of considering to rush off and notify Director Tang to come down, Luo Tiancheng walked two steps closer towards Li Yan. Li Yan watched Luo Tiancheng easing his way over. She then hefted up the water jug: “Don’t you dare get any closer. If you do I’ll bash you!”
…
In the hall, the other two remained silent. They just quietly stared at Li Yan with her water jug in hand.
Han Meimei: “…”
Warrior! Please accept my knee![6]
“Director Luo, did you need me?” Though she had no idea when Tang Qiang had arrived, when Han Meimei saw him she could finally let out a breath of relief.
Tang Qiang spotted Li Yan carrying a water jug. Puckering his lips, he placidly said: “You may first replace the water jug.”
“Oh, ok.” Li Yan vigilantly shot a glance at Luo Tiancheng, before turning around to replace the water jug.
“I’m here to see her.” Luo Tiancheng casted a glance at Li Yan, then similarly turning his body around, “A wonderful performance.”
“Next time you’ll be charged.”
Hearing Tang Qiang’s order, Luo Tiancheng laughed as he walked into the elevator. Tang Qiang glanced at Li Yan who stood to one side in a silly manner. He then walked towards his office: “Follow me inside.”
1: 就像是热度顺着柠檬一直传导到了脸上
2: #智商君已体无完肤#
3: I believe this is a reference to a series of English-learning textbooks for middle schoolers in China, who contain two characters named Li Lei and Han Meimei. Source: http://en.people.cn/90782/8137585.html
4: I recall that the previous translation termed it as “cat gang”. Nonetheless, it is in reference to a group of people who kidnapped and abused cats.
5: This was in English in the raws.
6: I believe this refers to the act of kneeling down in respect for someone.
