“Black Pearl needs forty minutes to breathe? Forget it. The wine’s structure has already fallen apart. It’s like a girl whose makeup has run.”
At one in the morning, aboard the yacht Paradise in Victoria Harbour, Shang Lu swirled a glass of Louis XIII and delivered a scathing critique of everything around him.
As the only son of the Shang family of Shencheng, he had impeccable taste, a razor-sharp tongue, and a way with women.
But twenty-four hours later, his family went bankrupt and the yacht was seized. He fell from the clouds into the mud, penniless.
To survive, the once fabulously wealthy young heir put on a yellow delivery vest and hopped on an electric scooter plastered with pictures of pretty girls.
Think all he does is deliver food? No. He delivers social savvy, an understanding of the circles that matter, and emotional value.
Over the course of a meal, he makes a picky rich woman concede defeat. In three sentences, he turns back an Australian mining magnate trying to drive down the price. With a few words, he secures a ticket to a private dinner worth millions.
“Don’t let this mouth go to waste.”
That’s Shang Lu’s philosophy. Even penniless and living in an urban village, he can turn a ten-yuan plate of fried noodles into a Michelin-worthy experience and carve out a path from the bottom with his exceptional people skills.
One woman after another, each with a very different personality, enters his life:
There’s the ex who was the first to hand him ten thousand yuan after his family went bankrupt; the alluring streamer who is lonely inside; and the female CEO who once rejected him but now offers him charity...
As love and business pull him in both directions, Shang Lu discovers that the hardest thing isn’t making a comeback. It’s figuring out who truly deserves to be cherished.
From food-delivery rider to guest of honor among the elite, he uses nothing but his words to tear open a crack in the class divide.
