Chapter 212: Chapter 131: Traveling a Thousand Miles, Just to Give Mom a Grand Feast

After treating the gym staff to a meal and then heading to karaoke for a while, Li Jinshu didn’t get back until very late.

However, Su Mu and Yu Xuan were still awake at home.

She smiled and asked, "Why are you two still awake?"

"We were waiting for you."

Su Mu asked, "Where did you go with Xu Yun? What kept you out so late?"

"I wasn’t with Xu Yun."

Li Jinshu asked in confusion, "He didn’t come home tonight?"

"No," Su Mu said. "I thought you two were together."

"No, we went our separate ways at the gym entrance a little after 5 PM. I haven’t seen him since."

Li Jinshu turned to Yu Xuan and asked, "You don’t know where your boss went either?"

"I don’t know. My boss didn’t tell me."

Su Mu stopped worrying about Xu Yun and asked curiously, "So what did you do tonight?"

"I treated the gym employees to dinner, and then we went to karaoke for a bit."

"Why would you treat the gym staff to dinner out of the blue?"

"It wasn’t my idea. Xu Yun asked me to treat everyone on his behalf."

Li Jinshu sat on the sofa and answered with a smile, "Xu Yun bought the gym today.

He’s the owner now."

Su Mu was speechless.

As was Yu Xuan.

’It’s only been one afternoon, and he’s already bought the gym near our house?’

"But why?"

Su Mu asked in confusion, "Why on earth would he buy a gym? Was it for one of the trainers?"

"No, it wasn’t that."

Li Jinshu explained, "The gym was being poorly managed and was about to close. Xu Yun said he didn’t want to lose his place to work out, so he figured he’d just buy it to continue his daily training."

"He bought an entire gym just so he’d have a convenient place to work out?"

Su Mu didn’t even know what to think of him anymore!

Yu Xuan, on the other hand, was thinking, ’The boss really is capricious, but this just goes to show he’s definitely not short on cash.’

Su Mu asked with concern, "So how much did he pay for it?"

"8.5 million."

As if remembering something, Li Jinshu pulled a contract out of her bag and handed it to Su Mu. "Here, look. I still have the purchase agreement."

Su Mu took it and glanced over it. "Did you have someone review this? Are there any problems with the contract?"

"He said he had Lawyer Luo look at it. There weren’t any issues, so it should be fine."

"What about managing the gym? Who’s going to do it?" Su Mu knew Xu Yun all too well. He was so lazy, he’d never be willing to do it himself.

But she wouldn’t trust the original staff to manage it either, since they weren’t one of their own.

"About that~"

Li Jinshu gave a little cough and said, a bit bashfully, "Xu Yun said that as of today, I’m the manager. I’ll be fully responsible for the gym."

Su Mu fell silent.

Hearing this, Yu Xuan immediately smiled. "Congratulations!"

"Oh no, it’s just a title. I don’t know the first thing about it."

Li Jinshu said humbly, "So for the near future, whenever you two have time, you have to help me brainstorm some ideas on how to turn the gym around.

Even though Xu Yun doesn’t care if it makes or loses money, I don’t want to embarrass myself in front of him."

"Running a business isn’t that simple."

Su Mu smiled. "You’re going to have your hands full from now on."

"I won’t be as busy as you are with your big company."

Li Jinshu said happily, "This is just a little something Xu Yun bought for me to dabble in. It can’t compare to the scale of your company."

"Alright then, start by telling us the details about the gym—its policies, salary structure, promotion tracks, business model, and so on."

"Okay."

That dinner tonight hadn’t been for nothing. Li Jinshu had managed to gather a lot of useful information during the meal.

The three women then began discussing the gym’s future, drawing on their own ideas and experiences.

As for Xu Yun? Nobody was particularly concerned whether he would come home that night or not.

He was a grown man, after all. It’s not like he could get lost.

Though none of them said it out loud, they were all privately guessing he was probably out fooling around with some woman again.

...

And Xu Yun was, in fact, fooling around—with Ning Qian.

When he woke up the next morning, the beautiful woman had already left for work.

Breakfast was already laid out on the table.

After washing up and finishing the lovingly prepared breakfast, Xu Yun started scrolling through his phone.

In this day and age, you can’t really face the world without your phone.

The first thing he checked was his social media feed.

The first post was from Zhang Jiaxin.

"A woman who smiles often is bound to have good luck. I believe the days ahead will only get better and better."

Beneath the text was a picture of her doing yoga.

She was in a difficult-looking front split. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Looking at the picture, some strange thoughts suddenly popped into Xu Yun’s mind.

’What am I thinking? I’m a respectable person!’

’Besides, it looks pretty difficult. Not easy to get into... you could easily pull your back.’

He scrolled past that post and kept going.

Yu Xuan and Ning Qian had both posted a nine-photo grid of beautiful pictures from dinner last night.

An elegant setting, exquisite dishes, and in the distance, a handsome shot of his own back.

It was all very tastefully done.

Anyone seeing the picture would get one message loud and clear: she was taken.

He had to admit, women really had a talent for taking pictures.

’If you asked him to take the photo, it definitely wouldn’t have turned out this well.’

This was also why most men didn’t like to post on social media.

The men who did like to post—showing off their wonderful lives, occasionally letting a car logo slip into the frame—were the ones with no real substance who were desperate to project an air of superiority.

They were just trying to get the attention of the women on their feed to achieve certain... objectives.

Just as he was thinking this, he saw a post from his old high school class president, showing off his new Mercedes and "unintentionally" letting the logo peek into the shot.