Curse back: Gender-swapped cosplayers always meet the real person

Chapter 518: The New Year’s gift is actually——? ? !

"So, this is the New Year's gift you bought me?!"

On the afternoon of January 2019, 1, I was standing on a busy street in Roppongi, looking up at a two-story independent shop that had obviously just been renovated and had not yet started business, but already looked brand new. My eyes widened and widened.

"Even if I can barely be considered a second-generation rich, the New Year gifts given by their families are usually a sports car or a house at most. Why would they give me a shop?"

"Hey, don't you like it?" The originally excited female voice on the other end of the phone lowered a little, and said with a little disappointment, "The decoration inside is all designed according to your favorite style."

"I also learned from the owner of the dessert shop next door. The first floor is modern and simple, and there is a glass flower house on the second floor. When spring comes, a bunch of flowers will bloom. It's so beautiful!"

It sounds like a composition written by an elementary school student, and it's quite nice.

"You guys, have you forgotten one thing?"

"What's the matter?"

"I'm just an ordinary college student. I have to go to class from Monday to Friday and do homework on weekends. How can I have the time to run a store?"

"Didn't you say that you already know almost everything taught in school without the teacher teaching you much?"

"That's true, but you can't just increase my workload because of this." What normal person would like a task that comes out of nowhere? I'm not a masochist.

"And you didn't even give me an employee. I'm the only one doing this part-time as a boss." I held my forehead, looked up at the sky in silence, and said to her, "How can this be done?"

"Hey, baby, you are an adult now, your parents can't do everything for you." She said confidently, "If there are no employees to hire, there will definitely be plenty of people willing to work for you if the salary is high enough."

"......Aren't you afraid that I will shut down this store?"

"No." Mom patted her chest confidently and assured loudly, "Your father and I made a lot of money last year. On New Year's Eve, we directly transferred 100 million yuan into your account. This year, all we ask of you is that you don't lose it all."

"...What about next year's requirements?"

"There will be another 100 million next year."

"That is to say..." I asked with difficulty, "In your eyes, as long as I don't lose 100 million in a year after opening the store, it will be considered a great success?"

"Yeah." Hearing my weak voice, she even asked in confusion, "What's the problem with that?"

"The problem is that the requirements you set are too low. Even if you don't require a profit, you should at least ask for no losses. Who can squander billions of dollars worth of assets at will?"

"And." I took a deep breath and tried to suppress my excitement. "Is our family so rich?!!!!!!"

"What else?" Hearing my question, my mother was even more surprised than I was. "You don't always think that our family is poor, do you?"

“I’m not very poor…”

It's just that I suffered a great mental shock.

I have never been able to equate myself with the so-called "daughter from a wealthy family."

From childhood to adulthood, although I had much more pocket money than my classmates, I could buy whatever I wanted, occasionally, and I could also go out for a trip on holidays, but that was all.

I often go back to Li's house to watch TV. When we see the chaebols on TV arrogantly spending 50 million or 100 million or something like that, we would exclaim "Wow" in unison.

Now, everything has changed. I am the chaebol myself!

"Hey, Lily, don't be so stressed." She said, "It's only 100 million. Your father and I only have one precious daughter. Isn't the money we earn to spend on you?"

Me: “….” Oh, is that so, haha.

"But, having said that." At this point, she suddenly changed the subject and her tone became serious. She said seriously, "Lily, Mom only asks you one thing."

“There’s really only one.”

"Hmm?" I asked curiously, "What's the matter?"

"I have prepared all the menus and recipes for the drinks in the store and put them in the safe at home. You can take them out and use them when you get home," she said. "You just need to take them out and follow the steps above to prepare them step by step and serve them to the customers."

“Don’t, don’t, don’t suddenly have an idea and come up with some new variety for customers to taste.” She said, “It will kill people. It will really kill people. Even if you have a lot of money, mom and dad won’t be able to help you settle it - bloop…”

The last sound was the one I heard after I hung up the phone expressionlessly.

"What? Obviously, among the 129 drinks I mixed, there are still quite a few that are drinkable," I said indignantly, "How can parents be so mean to their daughter!"

"You mean that weird rose-and-herb flavored drink?"

Li Zi, who had been eavesdropping for who knows how long, turned around, looked at me dimly, and said with resentment in her tone: "Although I managed not to vomit after drinking it, I ran to the toilet four times, and the whole house smelled like grass. I might as well just vomit it out!"

"Then... you must have drunk the whole pot to have this effect, right? If you only drank a small cup, it shouldn't have happened—"

"Our whole family drank it, one small cup each."

"Ahem..." I touched my nose, turned away guiltily, and finally coughed a few times and said, "What should we do about this store? Do you have any idea?"

"What else can we do?" Li Zi pointed at the door and said angrily, "Can't you see I'm almost deformed by jealousy?!"

"This is 100 million! 100 million! You can spend it however you want. You still have no problem running a store."

"That being said, how can I find employees I can trust and hire?" I complained to her, "I don't have any experience, and I have no idea at all.

"About that." Jiujiu Yuki, who had been acting as a bodyguard and listening silently for who knows how long, suddenly raised his hand with an overly bright smile on his face, "I have a good idea!"

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