My Perfect Female CEO

Ye Fan and Mengyao returned to the villa to find a heavyweight guest waiting for them.

The visitor was Zhang Lu’s dad, Zhang Jiefang.

"Uncle Zhang." Mengyao greeted him.

Because of her grandfather Chu Erzhu, she knew this elder Zhang Jiefang. The last time she saw him wasn’t long ago; she had accompanied Ye Fan and Zhang Lu to have a meal with Zhang Jiefang and Chu Erzhu.

"So it’s Mengyao. When you were little, I even held you in my arms, remember?" Zhang Jiefang said with a big smile, his gaze sweeping over Ye Fan and Mengyao for a moment, his expression full of kindly affection.

"Uncle Zhang, did you need something?" Mengyao ignored his obvious attempt to close the distance and directly asked why he’d come.

"I don’t go to the temple for no reason. I believe you’ve already noticed I’m not here just to reminisce." Zhang Jiefang was very straightforward.

"How about we sit down for a game?" Ye Fan cut in at just the right moment.

Zhang Jiefang’s face immediately darkened as he recalled how Zhang Lu had dragged Ye Fan to the Zhang Family to pose as her boyfriend.

Back then, with the mindset of teaching the younger generation a lesson, he’d played three games against Ye Fan. The result was that Ye Fan cleaned him up so badly he didn’t even have a temper left. In order to sabotage the game, he’d racked his brains, and just thinking about it now made his heart bleed from that embarrassing experience.

Back then, he’d only managed to avoid losing in public by shamelessly cheating.

The outcome, of course, was that he made a fool of himself and got laughed at plenty by his family.

For someone who prided himself on his superb skill at the board, getting utterly crushed by Ye Fan—who didn’t even bother to save his face—was humiliating. Remembering those bloody memories, he couldn’t help thinking Ye Fan had no sense of tact and didn’t know how to behave.

"Why’d you have to bring that up? Get out, I don’t want to talk to you." Zhang Jiefang’s expression shifted again, full of embarrassment.

Mengyao was directly amused.

Zhang Jiefang’s face grew even more awkward. He reined in his emotions and lectured righteously, "As a junior, you need to learn to be modest and low‑key, understand? Do you understand?"

"I don’t." Ye Fan shot back immediately.

"You, you..." Zhang Jiefang’s temper flared up at once, leaving him both exasperated and amused.

"Let’s not bring up the past. How about we talk about what Uncle Zhang is here for." Mengyao stepped in to smooth things over.

She could see clearly that Ye Fan and Zhang Jiefang’s tempers didn’t mesh.

Well, Ye Fan couldn’t stand Zhang Jiefang’s habit of acting all high and mighty for no reason.

Naturally, Zhang Jiefang didn’t get along with the man who’d given him that scar.

"Mengyao’s the sensible one. Look at you—what kind of attitude is that? Not a trace of respect for your elders." Zhang Jiefang grinned.

"Go on, I’m also curious what you want." Ye Fan asked calmly.

"Here’s the situation. I’m in charge of a case handling hostile spy network members, and I’d like to ask for your assistance." Zhang Jiefang looked at Ye Fan, speaking with heartfelt sincerity: "I genuinely came to ask for your help, so please don’t turn me down."

The case he was in charge of was exactly the mission Li Tong was currently carrying out.

"Your organization is full of talent. Why come to me?" Ye Fan was puzzled.

"This time the enemy is extremely arrogant and doesn’t play by the rules. I need someone who also doesn’t play by the rules, so I thought of you. Another reason is that I want to minimize our losses and maximize the blow to the enemy. I feel very at ease having you handle this, and I believe you’ll do a perfect job." Zhang Jiefang said earnestly, "The crisis is at a research institute north of Dongfang City. You’ll be operating within our own borders, so you don’t have to run around outside suffering wind and rain, and you won’t have to be separated from Mengyao for long. You can literally take care of it in between dates and couple time. How about it?"

"This..." Ye Fan fell into thought, a little hesitant.

"You mustn’t turn me down, son‑in‑law. I’ve never asked you for anything before. This time you have to help me and resolve the situation as soon as possible. The longer it drags on, the worse it gets, and the impact and losses will be hard to recover from." Zhang Jiefang rattled on.

Before he could finish, Ye Fan’s brows furrowed and he demanded, "Son‑in‑law? What son‑in‑law? I’m not your son‑in‑law. Make yourself clear, so people don’t get the wrong idea."

"What’s there to clarify? When Zhang Lu brought you home, you were her boyfriend. Did I say anything wrong?" Zhang Jiefang’s mind spun quickly, and he jumped in eagerly.

In fact, he already knew Zhang Lu had asked Ye Fan to pose as her boyfriend; he was just pretending not to know.

"Back then I was..." Ye Fan had just started to explain when Zhang Jiefang didn’t even give him the chance, brusquely saying, "Whatever the reason, I’m not wrong, am I?"

"You’re not exactly wrong, but you’re not exactly right either." Ye Fan replied coolly.

"You even lived together, sharing the same room. You have to take responsibility for our Zhang Lu." Zhang Jiefang said overbearingly.

"Alright, alright, I’ll help you. I’ll help, okay?" Ye Fan said, feeling a bit of a headache. "As an elder, could you maybe not be this shameless? You might not care about your face, but other people still do."

"As long as it gets you to agree, a little shamelessness is no big deal." Zhang Jiefang’s smile was downright sly.

Now that Ye Fan had agreed to his request, everything else was easy to discuss, and his mood improved a lot.

"You know exactly what my relationship with Zhang Lu is, and yet you still drag this out. You’re something else." Ye Fan was helpless. Back then, he’d had his reasons for agreeing to Zhang Lu’s request.

When it came to matters involving Zhang Lu, Ye Fan really didn’t want to say too much. After all, it concerned a young woman’s reputation. If he let Zhang Jiefang run his mouth, who knew what kind of trouble might follow.

So he had to take Zhang Lu’s situation into account.

Since Zhang Jiefang had come all the way here to badger him, he had no choice but to agree.

"This trip of mine can finally be considered a huge success, and I can rest easy." Zhang Jiefang said lightly. "Tomorrow you can start on the job. Once you understand the nature of the work, it won’t be too late to make your move."

"I’ll go along with your arrangements. I’ll give you this face, so you don’t have an excuse to keep picking on me as an unfilial junior." Ye Fan said politely.

"Can you not use the word ’picking’? Makes me sound like some kind of dog." Zhang Jiefang’s face darkened, and he said helplessly, "Zhang Lu will come pick you up then. She’ll explain the details to you."

"Mm." Ye Fan nodded.

"Now that my business is done, I’ll head out. If you need any help or support, just tell me. I’ll do everything I can." Zhang Jiefang added.

"I won’t be polite." Ye Fan said lightly.

"That’s exactly what I want." Zhang Jiefang smiled beautifully.