Chapter 246

After having lunch at Jean's residence, Shermaine grabbed some gifts and headed off to see Summer and Lily. She hadn’t brought presents for all her classmates, but Summer was one of her closest friends, so she definitely deserved something special.

These days, Summer wasn’t off partying or anything like that. Instead, she was working at Oliger Company as Lily’s assistant, mostly doing basic errands and grunt work, but she was picking up tons of useful skills along the way.

Summer had chosen computer science as her major, and ever since she found out that Shermaine and Lily had started their own business together, she’d been dead set on working with Shermaine someday. Of course, she knew she’d need to bring some real skills to the table first.

Oliger Company had already made a huge name for itself back home. Their products just worked incredibly well and appealed to tons of people.

But according to Shermaine’s future plans, they weren’t going to stick with just cosmetics forever. She had all sorts of research directions in mind, including something that only existed in movies so far–gaming pods.

Gaming pods were basically like the VR headsets people used in real life, except way better. The problem with VR headsets was that they had major limitations–they couldn’t handle touch sensations properly, and there were tons of restrictions on what people could actually do.

But with gaming pods, one’s mind would connect directly to their brain, making it feel like they were literally inside the game world. That was a completely different experience from just using hands to play games on a screen.

It was like when people tried out those 5D experiences nowadays. People’d feel like they were actually right there in the middle of it all.

When Shermaine got to Oliger Company, the front desk just waved them through. They found Summer eating lunch while watching some variety show on her phone.

“Oh my gosh, Sheary! You’re back from Rodunst,” Summer’s face lit up with excitement.

Shermaine nodded. “Where’s Lily?”

“She went out to lunch with her boyfriend.” Summer looked totally annoyed. “That Warren is such a pain. It’s bad enough he comes here to pick up Lily, but he acts like he owns the place and keeps bossing me around.”

Summer really couldn’t stand Warren. She had no idea why Lily hadn’t dumped him yet.

Summer continued, “He told me to go buy him coffee, so I did. Then he said he didn’t like that place and made me go to some shop three miles away to get him a different one.”

“Did you go?” Shermaine raised her eyebrow.

“Hell no. Lily finished her meeting right then and they left for lunch together.”

“He doesn’t even work here. Next time he tries to order you around, just ignore him.”

“Yeah, totally.”

Around two in the afternoon, Lily came back from lunch. She was thrilled to see Shermaine at the office–perfect timing since she wanted to talk about relocating the company.

The company was growing fast with more and more employees, so they needed to move somewhere bigger and more impressive-looking.

“Sheary, I had Roy check out two possible locations for the company move. Take a look and tell me which one you think is better,” Lily said.

Shermaine didn’t ask about things between Lily and Warren. If Warren turned out to be unreliable, they’d break up sooner or later anyway. She figured Lily was smart enough to see through people.

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Chapter 246

Time flew by, and within a couple of days, Shermaine and Lily headed back to Maple Leaf Ville. The village had completely transformed. All the 200 houses were built now, nothing like those old mud houses from before.

They were currently developing livestock farms and orchards. The climate in Maple Leaf Ville was perfect for raising cattle and sheep, plus growing huic trees. This would become one of their major income sources down the road.

Of course, they were running a high-tech operation with really advanced equipment. Some of the technology Shermaine borrowed from other companies, and some she invented herself.

Before they knew it, September was right around the corner. Shermaine was constantly traveling back and forth between Besterel and Maple Leaf Ville. Joshua would go two or three days without seeing her sometimes.

Not only was she nowhere to be found, but after her big appearance at the tech conference, tons of people wanted to partner with her.

All these academics from the tech world couldn’t track down Shermaine, so they came looking for Joshua instead. His place was packed with visitors every single day.

They all wanted to see Shermaine.

Right now, Shermaine and Joshua were video chatting. It was late August, and the weather was getting even more brutal.

Shermaine wore a dark green nightgown while towel-drying her hair, showing off her delicate collarbones. “Isn’t anyone looking for me to solve their problems?”

Joshua nodded. “Yeah, but I turned them down.”

Shermaine paused. ‘The guy who’s blocking me from making money is my own husband. What am I supposed to say about that?’ she thought. “Why would you turn them down?”

Joshua stared at her through the video screen. “Sheary, it’s been two weeks since I’ve touched you.”

The implication was clear. She was already swamped with work, so if she took on more cases, she wouldn’t have any time left for Joshua.