Chapter 22
What Does It Even Mean to "Work" if You Don't Fish for Time or Boss Around?

——Pfft~! I thought Su Bai was going to pay for everything himself, but who would have thought, Su Bai knows how to play the game!

——I have to fleece someone, but I can't fleece Le Yan, and I can't fleece myself, so tell me who should I fleece?

——The production team: Feeling the bullet?

——The production team checked their accounts and found that a bill of 2,600 yuan was unaccounted for. They later learned it was for buying twenty ice creams, they were even more dumbfounded!

——If we let Su Bai keep running up this tab, by the end of the trip, the production team will be out of funds for the next few episodes!

——You still say the Aston Martin supercar worth millions is yours? You little rascal, Su Bai! Le Yan, you're just not calling him out on it, hahaha!!!

...

“Alright!”

Knowing that someone was footing the bill.

The old man happily and cheerfully packed twenty popsicles.

He knew someone was filming a show here, and they say filming doesn't lack money, so he deliberately sold them for so much.

He didn't expect to really score a big one!

Carrying the ice cream.

Su Bai turned his head and walked onto the cruise ship with Sun Le Yan.

As for how the old man would go about getting paid from the production team, that wasn't his concern.

Only Sun Le Yan turned her head back, a little preoccupied.

“Su Bai, isn't what we did a little unethical, charging it to the production team’s account?”

“Ethics?”

Su Bai's expression didn't change at all. He directly opened an ice cream and handed it to Sun Le Yan.

“Can ethics put food on the table? Can it let me eat a 130 yuan ice cream?”

Then, with a knowing look, he continued.

“You see, you're just the kind of person who doesn't know how to slack off at work.”

Sun Le Yan was taken aback and couldn't help but be speechless.

She didn't know how Su Bai figured that out.

After all, she was a host, and she couldn't make mistakes in front of the camera. She always worked diligently and prepared her scripts meticulously.

She really didn't slack off much.

“I've seen right through you.”

Su Bai raised his eyebrows playfully and said with a chuckle, “Want to know why I can tell?”

Sun Le Yan was full of curiosity.

“Why?”

“Because, if I was at work, I'd only do three things: sleep, go to the bathroom, and scold the boss!”

“And after work, I'd only do three things: follow the water, follow the electricity, and follow the keyboard!”

“You see, you feel distressed eating an ice cream bought by the production team, I just know you can't do that, you're not the type to slack off either!”

Pfft~!

Sun Le Yan couldn't hold back a laugh.

“Then you're still going to work? I feel like you're going to be the boss instead!”

“And I understand everything else, but scolding the boss, you actually scold the boss at work?”

She didn't know where Su Bai came up with all these bizarre ideas.

But somehow, there was some truth to his bizarre logic!

But, that said, going to work is to make money for the boss, and scolding the boss, wouldn't that be defying the heavens?

“That's right!”

Su Bai smiled and spoke eloquently, “Everyone thinks that going to work is working for the boss.”

“But that's not necessarily the case. I took this job because the pay was in line with my expectations, so I agreed to go.”

“It doesn't mean that I went there willingly to become a horse and ox, and he could just pay me.”

“So, in that case, if I don't scold him, how can he pay me on time? If I don't scold him, how can he constantly know that I'm the client?”

“If he angers me, snap! I quit, who else will make money for him?”

“Then he'll have to treat me with good wine and good food!”

“But then again, in this process, work is to make money for the boss, only slacking off is to make money from the boss!”

“So, how can you call it work if you don't slack off, if you don't scold the boss?”

???

“Pfft~! Hahahahahaha~ You're too funny.”

This time, Sun Le Yan couldn't hold back any longer and laughed out loud.

“Su Bai, I think I understand why you don't have a job.”

Who would hire Su Bai into their company.

They're not hiring just an ordinary employee, but a living father!

Who would dare to take him on?

——Wow! That makes sense, what Su Bai said is so reasonable!

——I thought what people said online about Gen Z reforming the workplace was fake, but now after hearing Su Bai, I'm completely enlightened. It's not that no one is reforming it, it's that the reformers haven't found a job yet!

——Hahahahahaha!!!

——Anyway, I believe him, what Su Bai said was so right, I'm going to make my boss pour me a cup of tea now!

——Brother, don't be impulsive!

——I'm already impulsive, the boss said, you, what kind of horse and ox are you, you deserve to drink tea?

——Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter!!!

The entire live chatroom was filled with laughter.

.........

Su Bai tilted his head proudly.

He exuded an air of arrogance.

“Whether I have a job or not, I'm not going to eat the production team’s ice cream for nothing.”

“So, don't feel guilty, I've contributed so much laughter to the production team, why shouldn't I eat their 130 yuan ice cream.”

Sun Le Yan, still smiling uncontrollably, nodded repeatedly.

“Okay okay, I'm listening to you, eat! Eat big bites!”

“That's right!”

“Come on, let's go upstairs, this little master is going to make a grand entrance!”

Meanwhile.

On the top floor of the cruise ship, in front of the outdoor restaurant.

The new guest, accompanied by a group of female guests, met with Peng Gao and the others.

Everyone greeted each other politely.

Then, they were about to take their seats, but they clearly encountered a huge problem!

That is, how to arrange the seating?

The seating here was divided into double soft seats and single soft seats.

Besides, they wanted to sit next to the person they were interested in, and even more importantly, they wanted to sit on a double chair with them.

But who could directly say, I want to sit with you?

If they were rejected, that would be a huge loss of face. They couldn't say it directly, they had to cleverly achieve their goal through positioning.

But no one took the first step, the scene inevitably fell into a stalemate.

“What are they doing?”

“Do they need to be so polite? They’re standing there waiting for me?”

Su Bai, biting his ice cream, squatted at the corner of the cruise ship stairs with Sun Le Yan, noticing this scene.

Sun Le Yan shook her head with a playful smile.

“You idiot~! They’re not waiting for you.”

“It's obvious that they all want to sit with the people they want to sit with, they're figuring out where to sit.”

Su Bai chuckled.

He knew exactly what was going on, he was just looking for something to say.

“Where do you want to sit?”

“I...um~….”

Being asked by Su Bai, Sun Le Yan lowered her head slightly, a little shy, she didn't know whether to say that she wanted to sit with Su Bai.

If she said it directly, wouldn't that be a little too straightforward?

But thinking about it, she had already been straightforward enough yesterday.

Why should she hesitate? She was about to speak.

Su Bai's deliberately teasing voice slowly appeared.

“Oh~! You want to sit with me, don't you?”

Sun Le Yan instantly understood, Su Bai was deliberately asking the obvious, just to see her embarrassment.

She pinched Su Bai's waist with her hand.

But her ears were still slightly flushed, and she softly hummed in a low voice.

“Okay, let's go!”

Su Bai, satisfied, no longer hesitated. He stood up and took Sun Le Yan directly to the group who were still deliberating.

He didn't forget to greet them.

“Oh, hello everyone, the banquet hasn’t started yet.”

“Sit, sit, sit, why are you being so polite, standing there? You're welcoming me?”

“It's okay, it's okay, we're all friends, come, have some ice cream, 130 yuan a piece, the production team is treating you.”

A set of smooth combos.

He casually threw the ice cream in his hand on the table.

He also took Sun Le Yan and sat down in the double main seats on the left and right sides of the long table.

He didn't forget to wave his hand, with a big brother-like air, signaling everyone to stop being so polite!

——I'm dying of laughter, how can Su Bai be so smooth at taking seats?

——I declare that this is the most interesting seat-taking in the seven seasons of Heartbeat!

——Everyone else is still deliberating, you, on the other hand, just sit down like you're taking the throne.

——You know what, that's right, you see, this is called directness, everyone else is twisting and turning, but Su Bai's method is the best!

——You know what, it's really good, you see, after Su Bai's operation, the awkward atmosphere between Peng Gao and the others has eased.

——That's high EQ, he can break the ice without being awkward, and he can also make people laugh, he's amazing! Now I understand why Su Bai is so likable even though he's so sarcastic.