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Chapter 174: Chapter 126: A Lucky Cat Squeezed Under the Car

"Mr. Chen, you’re here!"

Old Liu greeted him politely the moment he saw him.

"Thanks for your hard work, Old Liu."

Chen Mo smiled and gave him a nod.

What happened before was in the past, and he hadn’t held a grudge.

"You’re too kind, Mr. Chen. It’s what I should be doing."

Old Liu waved his hands dismissively, but his smile still held a trace of awkwardness.

"Sorry for the trouble," Chen Mo said to the driver.

Chen Mo took out four packs of Hua Zi cigarettes, giving two packs each to Old Liu and the driver.

The gifts that Liu Jianjun and his brother had brought to his door previously also included Hua Zi cigarettes.

However, he hadn’t sent them back, figuring they might come in handy at some point.

And sure enough, he had grabbed a few packs on his way downstairs just now.

"Thank you, Mr. Chen!"

Accepting the two packs of Hua Zi from Chen Mo, Old Liu and the driver were flattered and thanked him profusely.

Afterward, they were even more careful as they helped load his supercar onto the tow truck.

"Mr. Chen, why don’t you ride with me? We’ll have the driver tow your car back to the shop."

Old Liu had deliberately driven a separate car just to spare Mr. Chen from having to ride back in the tow truck.

"Alright, thanks."

Chen Mo glanced at him with a smile. ’He’s so thorough.’

Then, Chen Mo rode in Old Liu’s car back to the 4S dealership.

"Mr. Chen, let’s go to my office for some tea. The mechanics will take care of your car as soon as it arrives at the shop."

The moment he arrived at the dealership, Manager Zhou pulled him into his office for tea.

"Mr. Chen, we rode your coattails again a few days ago."

Manager Zhou poured Chen Mo a cup of tea and spoke in a joking tone.

"Rode my coattails how?"

Chen Mo took a sip of tea, giving Manager Zhou a surprised look.

"Didn’t you help an elderly person on the street a few days ago? A picture of you getting out of that 911 was captured, and the incident got a lot of attention."

"Considering you’re an owner of our brand, and your act of kindness could bring positive publicity to our brand, we decided to piggyback on the hype a little."

Manager Zhou explained the whole story to Chen Mo in detail.

"So that’s why I saw people spamming your brand name under that news story online. Turns out you hired online shills."

After hearing Manager Zhou’s explanation, a look of realization flashed in Chen Mo’s eyes, and he glanced at him with amusement.

He had indeed noticed people spamming the brand name back then, but he hadn’t made the connection.

Now that Manager Zhou mentioned it, it all made sense.

"After all, a car owner’s actions can also influence the public’s impression of the brand, so we rode the wave of your popularity."

Manager Zhou smiled and poured Chen Mo another cup of tea.

Because of this incident with Chen Mo, their brand had even trended twice.

You could say they really milked the hype for all it was worth, saving who knows how much in advertising fees.

"That’s a double-edged sword. Sometimes an owner can make a brand, but they can also destroy one."

Chen Mo took a sip of his tea and chatted with Manager Zhou.

"You’re right about that."

Manager Zhou nodded in deep agreement with Chen Mo’s statement.

Previously, Maserati was basically on the same level as their brand, also an international ultra-luxury brand.

It was even a little stronger than theirs, in fact.

But after a wave of tacky online merchants started driving them in China, the brand was basically toast.

"So I basically did an ad for you. Aren’t you going to give me some advertising fees?"

Chen Mo laughed and joked with Manager Zhou.

"How about this: from now on, all your maintenance at our dealership will be free of charge, and you’ll get priority service."

Manager Zhou said with a smile, without a moment’s hesitation.

"That works too."

Chen Mo smiled. Free maintenance wasn’t a bad deal.

Supercar maintenance wasn’t cheap, so this would save him a good amount of money.

"KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK~"

Just then, there was a knock on Manager Zhou’s office door.

"Come in."

Hearing Manager Zhou’s voice, Old Liu pushed the door open and walked in.

"Mr. Chen, your car has arrived at the shop. The mechanic is inspecting it now."

Old Liu first greeted Manager Zhou, then updated Chen Mo on the situation.

"Okay, thanks for the trouble."

Chen Mo nodded at him in thanks.

"No trouble at all, it’s my job. I’ll get back to my work, then."

Old Liu quickly waved his hands and left the office.

Chen Mo continued to chat and drink tea with Manager Zhou.

"DING~"

As they were chatting, his phone suddenly chimed.

He glanced at it and saw it was a message from Wei Luyao.

’Is she asking me to play a game?’

After picking up his phone and unlocking it, he opened the chat and saw her message.

Turns out she wasn’t asking him to play a game.

"Some rich guy in the residential complex across from our university lost his cat. He’s looking for it everywhere and has even put up ’lost cat’ posters."

"And you know what the interesting part is? This rich guy is offering a 1 million yuan reward for the cat. Anyone who helps find it gets the 1 million right away!"

"Now none of the students at my school can focus on class. Everyone’s out looking for the cat, trying to earn that 1 million, hahaha."

Seeing Wei Luyao’s message, Chen Mo couldn’t help but freeze for a moment.

’A rich guy lost his cat in the complex across from her university?’

’I remember parking my car right across from that complex last night, didn’t I?’

And this rich guy was offering a 1 million yuan reward.

The more Chen Mo thought about it, the more he felt that the cat in his car was probably the one the rich guy had lost.

Because the cat wasn’t from his own neighborhood.

So it was either a stray, or it had come from somewhere else.

If it were a stray, there’d be no lucky windfall involved.

But if it had come from somewhere else, it was highly probable that ’somewhere else’ was the complex across from the university.

Because he had parked his car right across from that complex last night.

It was very likely that the cat had climbed into his car at that time.

He just hadn’t known it at the time and had driven the cat all the way home.

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