Chapter 660: Are You Going to Punish Me in the Name of the Moon Tonight? After Three Years of Hard Work, I Finally Bought a House

At 10:30 PM, Chen Yansen left Luzhou Prefecture and was driven back to Meng Jie’s residential complex.

In the end, Liang Zhirong had gritted his teeth and agreed, reserving a portion of the production capacity at the Shencheng City Number Two Factory.

To be fair, the new energy subsidies in 2013 were truly generous. If not for the immature market and supply chain, Chen Yansen might have actually gone ahead and created Orange Car.

However, he could slowly build up the prerequisite technology. Through collaborations with Tesla and Jianghuai, he could also familiarize himself with the industry’s unspoken rules and how the game was played.

The night was a hazy blur, the neon lights dazzling.

The Ghost sped across the overpass before coming to a smooth stop in front of a garden-style apartment building.

The building was six stories tall, with two apartments per floor served by a single elevator. In the Luzhou of 2013, it was considered a fairly decent mid-range residential complex.

Chen Yansen took the elevator to the third floor and rang the doorbell.

TAP-TAP-TAP! The sound of hurried footsteps approached.

Chen Yansen glanced at his watch. 10:51 PM.

CLICK!

The door swung open.

Meng Jie slowly peeked her head out, her body hidden behind the door. Her eyes were sparkling as if they held starlight.

“Are you naked?” Chen Yansen asked teasingly, a strange expression on his face as he stood in the doorway.

“Do you want me to be, or not to be?” Meng Jie looked quite different from three years ago. Her old buzz cut had grown into long, silky hair, and her delicate features were smaller than the palm of his hand. But the words that came out of her mouth still had the same tone as back in high school.

She was just short of dropping her pants to see who was bigger than President Chen.

“Half-dressed would be best,” Chen Yansen said with a smile, resting his hand on the door.

‘Leaving something to the imagination is more interesting!’

“Then come in and see for yourself.” Meng Jie giggled, pulling President Chen inside.

With a THUD, the door closed again.

“Do you like it?” Meng Jie lifted the hem of her skirt and gave a little twirl.

She was wearing a short-sleeved sailor uniform top with a palm-sized red bow tied at her chest, and a light blue pleated miniskirt below.

She had on a pair of white, elbow-length gloves and her calves were wrapped in peach-pink stockings.

Chen Yansen’s heart warmed and his body hardened. He pulled Meng Jie into his arms. “So, are you going to punish me in the name of the moon tonight?”

“I couldn’t bear to,” Meng Jie said, tilting her head up to look straight into Chen Yansen’s eyes.

“The outfit’s perfect, but Tsukino Usagi’s hairstyle is twin ponytails. This isn’t accurate enough. Let me help you fix it.”

His moment of being touched was over. Not wanting to let Meng Jie’s good intentions go to waste, he began to help her change her hairstyle.

“You know how to do a girl’s hair?” Meng Jie asked, looking at him suspiciously.

“I only know how to do twin ponytails.”

Chen Yansen shrugged and said honestly.

But soon, Meng Jie understood his true intentions and silently grumbled to herself, ‘This guy is just the worst.’

The next day, Chen Yansen dropped Meng Jie off at the Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Bank, then had Lao Huang drive to Baohe District.

「Meanwhile.」

After receiving the news, Luzhou’s local print, television, and new media outlets—including the *Luzhou Daily*, *First Time*, and *Luzhou Traffic Radio*—all dispatched field reporters to the Senlian Group headquarters.

Before long, the entrance was completely surrounded.

“The Senlian Science Park is probably about to open. I see half the office buildings already have their glass curtain walls installed. That must be Phase One, right?”

“Senlian Capital is finally coming to Luzhou! This is great news for local university students!”

“Don’t get your hopes up. Given Senlian Capital’s hiring standards, ninety percent of Luzhou’s university students wouldn’t even make it past the resume screening.”

“Isn’t that an exaggeration?”

“Try it if you don’t believe me!”

The reporters chatted in small groups.

They knew full well that once Senlian Capital established itself in Luzhou, it would bring enormous changes to the city.

Sectors like GDP, finance, internet, real estate, and technology would all see significant growth, and top talent from all over the country would flow continuously into Luzhou.

This convergence of talent would also drive the development of supporting industries such as education, healthcare, and cultural entertainment, further enhancing the city’s quality of life and overall competitiveness.

The shrewdest people had already bought up residential or commercial properties nearby, either to rent out or to use for their own businesses.

But they had forgotten that the contractor for the Senlian Science Park was Xin City International.

As a state-owned urban development company, the one thing Xin City International did not lack was housing.

As early as six months ago, Senlian Capital had leased a batch of commercial apartments from Xin City International at a low price to use as employee housing.

Of course, employees who didn’t want to live in the same complex as their colleagues were free to rent or buy their own places separately.

To ensure the steady progress of the Senlian Science Park project, an Infrastructure Engineering Department was established first. It handled full-cycle project management, cost control, schedule monitoring, and coordination with design institutes and construction units.

After that, an Administration and Asset Management Department was formed to handle things like conference room allocation, employee cafeteria capacity, and liaising with the property management company.

Then, dedicated Finance and Procurement departments, as well as a Technical Committee, were successively established. They were responsible for auditing the science park’s eco-friendly materials, budget, supplier compliance, and construction payment milestones.

Before Phase One construction had even begun, the total number of employees across all departments already exceeded two hundred.

After some thought, Chen Yansen decided to just establish a separate company: Orange Construction Development Company.

The person in charge was a vice president he had poached from Vanke. The position wasn’t particularly high-ranking, but his strength was his technical background. He knew the business, wasn’t easily fooled by his subordinates, and knew construction costs inside and out, which ended up saving Chen Yansen a lot of money.

At a quarter past nine, a Ghost appeared in the media’s line of sight.

Seeing this, the reporters quickly raised their cameras, fingers hovering over the shutter buttons, waiting to snap the first photo the moment Chen Yansen opened his car door.

For a moment, the crowd surged.

Guards held the reporters back behind a cordon, their expressions full of vigilance.

It wasn’t entirely because of Chen Yansen!

They had received word that Meng Yuanzhi of the Central Bureau would also be personally attending that morning.

Chen Yansen didn’t stop at the entrance; he had Lao Huang drive directly into the science park.

Through the car window, he could see a skyscraper of about a hundred meters standing in the center of the campus. This was the main headquarters building for Senlian Capital—27 stories tall, 108 meters high, a symbol of the group’s image.

It was surrounded by five mid-sized office buildings of a uniform height, none exceeding 60 meters. All were 13 stories high and intended for core business divisions like Pinbei Mall, Today Technology, Orange Pay, and Tiangong Technology.

On the outermost ring were seven smaller office buildings, each designed with 8 floors and standing at around 32 meters tall.

In addition, there were three three-story auxiliary buildings, reserved for future use as cafeterias, supermarkets, gyms, exhibition halls, and so on.

In total, there were 13 office buildings, plus 3 smaller auxiliary buildings.

The park covered an area of 430,000 square meters with a total construction area of 747,000 square meters. Its plot ratio was approximately 1.7, making it a low-density, comfortable science park.

Huang Boxiang parked the car in front of the main building. Before Chen Yansen could even get out,

Gao Weilin and a gaunt middle-aged man led the senior executives of Orange Construction Development Company and hurried over.

“Boss!” The synchronized greeting was extremely loud in the empty science park, even echoing slightly between the buildings.

“Old Wang, how have you gotten so much thinner?”

Chen Yansen said, clapping Wang Kangshuo on the shoulder.

This was none other than the CEO of Orange Construction Development Company!

“I haven’t lost weight. It’s just that for the past month, ever since President Gao came to Luzhou, he’s been dragging me to the gym every day. I’ve lost some fat, but I’ve put on a bit of muscle.”

Wang Kangshuo explained with a wry smile, his words implying that Gao Weilin was putting him through the wringer.

“Boss, don’t you believe Old Wang’s nonsense. He’s worn out from working overtime,” Gao Weilin said, seeing through his act and playing along.

In his opinion, Wang Kangshuo was a truly relentless worker. If it had been anyone else, the project would have been delayed by at least another six months.

So, there was no harm in putting in a good word for him with the boss.

“Take care of your health. I personally don’t advocate for overtime. Old Gao knows me—five days a week, I leave on time four of them.”

Chen Yansen said to Wang Kangshuo with a calm expression.

He knew in his heart that if he seemed happy about it, the employees of Orange Construction Development Company would suffer in the future.

It starts from the top, and the overtime would only become more intense.

Too much work to finish?

Then hire more people. They shouldn’t be trying to save him money.

“Yes, Boss. I understand.”

Wang Kangshuo had been navigating the worlds of bureaucracy and business for over twenty years. He’d clawed his way up from construction sites to an office, and then to a senior executive position. His ability to read people was in no way inferior to a shrewd operator like Gao Weilin.

In that instant, he understood. This young boss before him was very different from those in the traditional construction industry.

He was considerate of his subordinates and offered generous compensation, but at the same time, he did not lack swift and decisive methods.

In the first quarter of last year, a manager in the purchasing department had only inflated the price of one material by 12%, but Chen Yansen had immediately sensed something was wrong.

Keep in mind, the excuse the manager gave had fooled even him, but it hadn’t gotten past Chen Yansen.

The final result was: the manager had to repay all of the company’s losses and then do a five-year stretch.

From that point on, Wang Kangshuo understood one thing: someone who could amass a fortune of hundreds of billions by the age of twenty-one, and from scratch at that, could not possibly be simple.

Ever since then, Wang Kangshuo had become even more cautious and meticulous in his work. He would review every procurement contract repeatedly and compare prices from three different parties, only sending it to the boss after confirming there were no issues.

Before long, well-known local entrepreneurs from Luzhou began to arrive one after another.

Around 11:30 AM, Meng Yuanzhi finally arrived fashionably late with Tao Jingwen, stepping out of a Hongqi sedan with a gleaming paint job.

Chen Yansen and Meng Yuanzhi walked side-by-side through the campus, letting Wang Kangshuo give the tour.

The ground had already been leveled, and the flowerbeds were planted with greenery like cherry blossoms, camphor trees, sweet osmanthus, and southern magnolias.

The renovation work for the main tower and the five mid-sized office buildings was nearing completion, while the seven smaller office buildings of Phase Two were currently just structural frameworks.

“When do you plan to move in?” Meng Yuanzhi asked.

“Next June. Gives it some time to air out the formaldehyde,” Chen Yansen replied casually.

Meng Yuanzhi understood in a flash. The man was planning to move the company to Luzhou after he graduated from university.

The two of them toured all of Phase One, chatting as they walked.

Just before noon, Chen Yansen, Meng Yuanzhi, Xu Minggang, and the others walked onto a small, temporarily erected stage. After saying a few simple words, they took up scissors and cut the red silk ribbon.

A sign reading ‘Senlian Science Park’ was unveiled before the cameras.

Next, Chen Yansen answered a few questions from the reporters and then invited Meng Yuanzhi, Xu Minggang, and the others to a nearby hotel for a meal.

「Meanwhile.」

On Chen Yansen’s personal Weibo, Toutiao, Mimo, Douyin, and Facebook accounts, a new post went live—some with images and text, others with video.

“After three years of hard work, I finally bought a house! Senlian Science Park: 13 office buildings, 747,000 square meters, total price of 4 billion!”