Lu Lin’s expression shifted slightly.
“Are you saying the milk tea shop was yours? And that self-media company too?”
Bai Xia’s face was expressionless.
“Is that a problem? I already said I borrowed the money from you, it’s not like I won’t pay you back. Worst case, I’ll even give you interest.”
Lu Lin stared at her for a long while, unable to accept this information.
A three-year-old child starting a company?
And not just one, but two companies in completely different industries, both running pretty well, even starting to expand with new branches.
So, when she got Grandpa to help promote it before, that was her idea too?
Even though his daughter was smart, every step of running a company needed to be implemented.
No way could a three-year-old manage that.
In an instant, he looked at his daughter with a strange expression, trying to keep his tone gentle.
“I’m not asking you to pay me back, you can have however much you want. I just want to know, you have classes every day, how did you come up with all this?”
“Schoolwork is so easy, the lessons at home are easy too. When I have nothing to do, I just start my own business. That way, I can earn money to support myself and won’t have to spend yours. I’m just young, it’s not like I don’t have the ability to learn. Plus, I have Mother to help me.”
She said this calmly, her expression unchanged.
She hadn’t planned to hide it from the Male Protagonist anyway.
After all, with money flowing around, it’d be easy to spot a loophole.
In the original story, the Original Protagonist hacked the Male Protagonist’s entire company at age three, and he accepted it.
Now she was just opening a company—what was the big deal?
It was already pretty normal.
Lu Lin took a deep breath.
He’d thought it was Song who was egging his daughter on, but he never expected the company was actually his daughter’s doing.
She was only three and a half!
A mix of surprise and astonishment rushed through him. He could only force down his shock, then smiled and patted his daughter’s head.
“I’ll keep this a secret for you. From now on, don’t ask your Mother for help, just come to me.”
“No.”
Bai Xia shook her head without hesitation.
“I don’t trust you. I only trust Mother.”
The company registration had to be under the Female Lead’s name.
With anyone else, she’d be worried about conflicts of interest.
Lu Lin paused, then smiled and compromised.
“Alright.”
His daughter being cautious was a good thing.
He should be happy.
But the thought that his daughter had secretly started two companies left his feelings more tangled than ever.
And that marketing plan—she’d even known to ask Grandpa for promotional resources, saving a ton of money.
To be able to use all the resources around her at such a young age…
His daughter was truly a genius.
Bai Xia put the bank transaction records into a document folder and handed it to him.
“You have to keep this a secret for me, don’t let Great-Grandpa find out!”
With that, she turned and walked out of the study.
Of course, she couldn’t let Lu Jinnian know.
She couldn’t be sure everyone could accept this.
At least in everyone else’s eyes, she was still just a kid with strong learning ability.
Lu Shuo was still in the living room, head hanging as Lu Jinnian lectured him.
Everything he said was about making him study properly, at the very least learning to read, or else he’d never be allowed to go anywhere.
“Great-Grandpa!”
Bai Xia ran over and smiled.
“Maybe the teacher’s words don’t make sense to him. Why don’t I teach him? I already know all the material for second and third grade anyway.”
Upon hearing this, Lu Shuo’s eyes widened in resistance.
“I don’t want to!”
Lu Jinnian, however, chuckled.
“Alright, alright. But you have to take your own classes and tutor Shuo Shuo too. Won’t that be too tiring?”
Bai Xia blinked.
“I’ll just set aside an hour a day to teach him. But my time is valuable—twenty thousand per hour.”
“You’re robbing me!”
Lu Shuo stared at her in disbelief.
Bai Xia rolled her eyes at him.
“Shut up. Great-Grandpa’s hired so many tutors for you, did you think a lesson is cheap? I’m just saving costs for the family. Keeping the benefits in the family, I haven’t even complained about how dumb you are!”
Lu Jinnian’s face was full of undisguised relief.
This brat could only be handled by Xia Xia.
With her tutoring Shuo Shuo, he was more than happy.
Besides, Xia Xia even knew how to make extra money with her time—she was so much smarter than her dad.
Well, as long as there was one smart kid in the family, that was enough.
“Come with me!”
Bai Xia glanced at him, then headed upstairs.
Lu Shuo fumed in place, but thinking of how many times he’d lost, he finally followed, getting led to his game room.
Bai Xia turned on the light and swept her gaze around.
The room was filled with computers and game consoles.
At this rate, he’d definitely be nearsighted in two years.
That wasn’t the main issue—the real problem was that she had to guide this wild child properly.
She couldn’t let him keep running wild, or he’d just turn into a lawless, spoiled third-generation rich kid.
“So many tutors are hired for you, and you don’t listen, just wasting money. It’d be better to give it to me. I’ll charge twenty thousand, and give you back three thousand. You’d still be making money, right?”
She raised an eyebrow.
Lu Shuo’s eyes changed.
It could work like that?
This brat really was clever!
“But why do you get twenty thousand and I only get three thousand?”
His face was full of dissatisfaction.
Bai Xia folded her arms.
“If you don’t want to, you won’t even get the three thousand. This is my deal with Great-Grandpa. If you get money, you should be happy about it. Not satisfied?”
At her words, Lu Shuo could only turn his head away, flopping onto the sofa and tearing open a bag of chips.
Three thousand it was—better than nothing.
“I’m not just saying I’ll teach you, I’m actually very responsible.”
Bai Xia picked up his gaming tablet from the table and pulled up a multiplication table.
“You have to memorize this in two days.”
“Why should I listen to you?”
Lu Shuo snorted.
Bai Xia walked over and snatched his chips.
“Don’t forget your place. You’re just a servant. If you don’t listen to your master, have you forgotten you’re just a loser?”
Lu Shuo glared at her, gritting his teeth, but after a long moment he finally frowned.
“But I can’t memorize it. If I could, I would have done it already. It’s so long, how am I supposed to remember it?”
“Just treat it like a game, memorizing the rules. If you can recite it, I’ll teach you the secret to mastering games quickly.”
Bai Xia raised an eyebrow.
At her words, Lu Shuo’s eyes lit up.
“Really?”
He’d always wondered why, no matter what game he picked, Bai Xia only needed an hour to get better than him.
There had to be some trick. If he could learn it, who at school would dare challenge him again?
“I’ll definitely memorize it!”
He immediately started looking for his math book, but after a long search, all he found was a pile of snacks.
Bai Xia handed him the tablet and glanced around.
“Gaming is about talent, not effort. The more you play, the more you use up your talent. From now on, keep it to two hours a day, so you stay energetic. Got it?”
He didn’t really get it, but Lu Shuo nodded earnestly.
Sometimes, after playing too much, he did feel tired, and played worse the more he played.
He was better at the start.
So that was talent?
Bai Xia didn’t say much more.
She left the game room and headed up to the third floor.
She still had a judo class—she couldn’t miss that.
Yao Yun had just changed clothes and was about to head to a gathering.
Passing by the game room, she heard noises, stopped, and opened the door to see her son clutching a book, reciting the multiplication table.
To her, this scene was like a meteor falling from the sky.
Her son was actually studying on his own?
“Did your dad scold you again?”
She went in, touched her son’s forehead, but he wasn’t feverish.
Six?
“Don’t bother me, I’m on a tight schedule.”
Lu Shuo clutched his head, staring at the ceiling, racking his brains.
“Where was I? Seven times eight is thirty-six? Is it thirty-six? Or fifty…”
Yao Yun frowned and left, finding the butler downstairs to ask more details.
Only then did she learn that the old man had asked Bai Xia to tutor her son.
There should be a limit to Grandpa’s spoiling.
How could a kindergartener teach her son?
But thinking of the scene just now, her expression changed again.
In the end, she didn’t say anything, checked the time, and left for her gathering.
After dinner that night, Bai Xia sat in her room checking the day’s revenue.
Business was booming more and more each day.
Milk tea really was a low-cost, high-profit industry.
Once she expanded the stores nationwide, maybe she could even go public someday.
“Knock knock knock——”
Hearing the knock, Bai Xia immediately closed her laptop.
“Come in.”
As the door opened, Lu Lin walked in carrying a glass of milk.
Bai Xia’s eyes flickered—Male Protagonist really had improved.
He actually knew to knock now.
“I’ve already met my daily milk intake. Clearly you haven’t read my meal plan.”
Bai Xia frowned.
Lu Lin hesitated.
He had read it, but figured a little more milk wouldn’t hurt a kid.
“I had people analyze your company. The brand positioning is spot on and it has great prospects, but the competition among major brands is fierce right now. I can arrange professionals to manage your public relations for free,” he said gently.
It was her first time starting a business, so mistakes were inevitable.
And with no capital backing her, trying to take a share of the market would definitely attract pushback from others in the industry.
He couldn’t let his daughter be wronged.
Bai Xia looked at him expressionlessly.
“I already have staff handling that. Besides, it’s normal to face malicious competition in business. Only by going through these things can you gain experience. The hardest thing to get in entrepreneurship is social experience—that’s what I really need.”
If trouble came, she’d handle it herself.
If she relied on others for everything, what was the point of hiring people?
A solid entrepreneurial team had to be forged through real challenges.
“You’re so interested in entrepreneurship. It just so happens I have a very promising project in need of investment. Want to consider it?” Her eyes lit up.
Her daughter’s thinking was so clear that Lu Lin felt even more conflicted.
Hearing she wanted to pull him in as an investor, he was intrigued.
“What is it?”
He also wanted to know how his daughter did business.
Her first move was to seek investment—very precise.
“I’ll definitely give you the project plan. This project is guaranteed to make money and will become a huge trend in the future. I wouldn’t tell just anyone.”
Bai Xia blinked.
Mainly, the initial investment was too much and required a lot of talent reserves.
She couldn’t let the Female Lead spend that money.
The Male Protagonist was perfect as an angel investor.
Looking at the serious girl, Lu Lin chuckled and finished the milk he’d brought her.
As long as his daughter was happy, even throwing some money at her to play with wasn’t a big deal.
“What project?” he asked casually.
Bai Xia replied, utterly serious, “Artificial intelligence.”
Lu Lin’s eyes flickered.
“That’ll take a lot of money.”
Bai Xia blinked.
“If you don’t have money, I’ll just ask Great-Grandpa.”