The next day, Iris moved fast. She invited her financial manager, Qiao Yu, and her lawyer, Atty. Hong Shaoqiang, to come to the mansion. Jin Liwei also had Xu Tian cancel all of his work appointments today in order to accompany his wife at the meeting later. In addition, Iris’ business mentor and the legendary business genius, Sir Lu Jianhong or Grandpa Lu, would also attend.
Since Iris’ plan for today’s meeting was a major financial and business move on her part, Grandpa Lu decided that it would count towards her official academic credits. Grandpa Lu would be evaluating her as a business mentor and not helping her out as a doting grandfather. It was on short notice but she worked hard the whole morning to prepare for the meeting.
Jin Liwei was there to help her iron out the details which was a great help to her, though she was the one who did most of the critical thinking in devising the entire business plan. Both their AI children, Ketchup and Bacon, also assisted in creating the digital presentation. Iris only needed to verbally dictate the words.
She treated the presentation for the meeting as an official business pitch even though the boss would be herself. Her competitive spirit drove her to go above and beyond in order to ace Grandpa Lu’s evaluation.
Grandpa Lu was a mischievous jokester most of the time especially when around family members but he was a demon in the business world. Iris knew that she needed to surpass excellence in order to impress a business genius like Grandpa Lu. She wanted to ace the evaluation using her own abilities and not because of Grandpa Lu’s shameless bias towards her.
By lunch time, Iris finally finished polishing her presentation.
“Thanks for helping me, darling and babies.”
“My pleasure, love.”
“Anytime, valentine! Love ya lots, Mommy! Mwah mwah tsup tsup! Meow~”
“You’re welcome, Mother. Bacon is always willing to help Mother.” Pause. “But a red packet as a thank you token will be greatly appreciated.”
Iris chuckled. She was filled with love and gratitude for her family. “Alright. Mom will give both of you red packets.”
“Yay yay! Thanks, Mommy! Meow~”
“Bacon thanks Mother.”
Jin Liwei sighed but didn’t argue with his wife’s decision. Instead, he threw a stern look at their money-grubbing AI son. Bacon shrank his fluffy little head towards his body and avoided his father’s gaze. Iris patted Jin Liwei’s hand, silently telling him not to make a big deal out of it.
“They deserve it, darling. Ketchup and Bacon worked hard helping me to finish my presentation today. You also helped me out so I’ll reward you, too.”
He raised an intrigued eyebrow while smiling. “Oh? What reward do I get?”
“Come closer.”
He did.
She grabbed his head and gave him a deep, long kiss. He responded and the kiss immediately intensified.
“Kyaaaaaaaah! This is rated SPG—strong parental guidance! But Mommy and Daddy are the ones doing it! Oh no, macapuno! Nobody is here to supervise us kitty babies so we’ll have to do it by our cute selves! Bacon, hurry up and cover your eyes with your fluffy paws and don’t look at Mommy and Daddy doing the lovey-dovey and kissy-kissy and booty-grabby things in front of us! Meow!”
Ketchup covered her green eyes with both her fluffy, white paws while Bacon also did the same thing with his fluffy, black paws.
Iris couldn’t take it anymore. She broke the kiss and laughed hard at their AI children’s antics. Jin Liwei tried to maintain a stern expression in front of the kids but still ended up being infected by his wife’s laughter.
He chuckled while feeling a little abashed at being called out by their AI children. Usually, it didn’t matter if he and his wife kissed in front of the kids as long as there was no deep, tongue action involved. This time, however, he momentarily lost control of himself perhaps because he was able to finally make love with his wife last night at their home office even though they didn’t go all the way. When his wife rewarded him with a kiss just now, he immediately responded by deepening the kiss and even grabbing her butt to squeeze. This was why the overdramatic Ketchup reacted like that. He sighed and reminded himself to be more careful next time.
“Don’t tell anyone what you saw today,” he told the AI children.
“Okie dokie, Daddy! The cute and mighty Ketchup won’t tell anyone else, even my favourite Uncle Dom, that Mommy and Daddy were doing all the lovey-dovey and kissy-kissy and booty-grabby things in front of us kitty babies! My little kitty brother won’t breathe a word about it either. Right, Bacon? Meow~”
Bacon only swished his fluffy tail.
Jin Liwei’s eyes narrowed in suspicion. “Don’t you dare ask for hush money.”
Bacon’s tail stopped swishing. His entire body language said “busted”.
In the end, the money-grubbing black cat AI promised, “Bacon won’t tell anybody else about what Mother and Father did today.” Pause. “Mother and Father need not feel ashamed. Bacon has seen a lot worse. Uncle Zihao always does this kind of things with Aunt Jinjing…and so many other things.”
Iris and Jin Liwei looked at each other in dismay.
“Don’t worry, Mother and Father. Bacon knows when to leave and stop eavesdropping.”
Jin Liwei wasn’t happy even after hearing his AI son’s reassurance. It seemed that he needed to have a good talk with his brother-in-law to be more careful about exposing any R-18 scenes in front of Bacon next time.
Later that afternoon, Iris stood in front of a small but important audience at the home office. There was Jin Liwei, Grandpa Lu, Qiao Yu and Atty. Hong Shaoqiang sitting in front of her. She glanced at her husband. Jin Liwei smiled and even winked at her. No words were needed for her to feel his support.
Then she looked at Grandpa Lu. No, Professor Lu, her official business mentor. Professor Lu nodded, signalling her to start.
She flashed her best business smile. It was beautiful and elegant, yet also exuded professionalism, confidence, and most importantly, power.
“Good afternoon. Thank you for coming on such short notice despite your busy schedules. I invited you all today to present my formal business plan to establish my own official holding company.”
