CHAPTER 689: CHAPTER 685: THE ’AWESOME’ BIG SHOT!

Clearly, this benefit is more practical than anything else, offering double, triple, or even higher salaries, which equals a temptation.

Those who had complained about revising the drawing plans before, now slapped their chests promising to finish the revisions within the designated time.

Listening to his assistant’s meticulous report on the situation of the design department, Shen Cheng responded with a sound of acknowledgment.

Afterwards, he instructed his assistant on some matters and arranged the upcoming work schedule before leaving the company.

"Lao Liu, can you turn down the air conditioning anymore? It’s unbearably hot!"

Ye Jin sat in the back seat, continuously fanning her face with a magazine, looking at the congested traffic ahead, and feeling utterly miserable.

It was already eleven o’clock, and the car was still stuck on the road under the scorching sun. Despite the air conditioning, the temperature inside kept rising.

"Madam, the air conditioning is set to auto-regulate, and it’s already at the lowest setting," replied the driver.

"So annoying!" Ye Jin complained petulantly, turning to glance behind her. Seeing the increasing number of cars piling up, she regretted, "Had I known it would be this jammed, I wouldn’t have come!"

As her gaze returned forward, she caught sight of the insulated mug next to her, which only aggravated her displeasure: "Why choose a time to enter the hospital neither early nor late, it’s downright disgusting!"

She was grinding her teeth as she spoke these words, not yet losing her reason, hence she kept her voice very low.

Driver Lao Liu only heard some mumbling from the back, unable to understand what she was saying, so he asked, "Madam, what did you just say?"

Ye Jin casually replied, "I said, seize the gap when you see one. People shouldn’t be so rigid. Look ahead, there are maybe fifty cars, right? If we honestly wait our turn, how long would that take? Move a bit to the right, overtake that car in front of us..."

"Madam, it’s easy to scratch another car if we overtake like this, and it would be troublesome if an accident happened, so we should follow the traffic rules," he cautioned.

Lao Liu was a very cautious man, never engaging in unassured actions, especially now that he was past the age for taking risks.

Yet, Ye Jin was somewhat dismissive, "What’s there to fear? Yaoguang has a life-saving bond with the captain of the Traffic Police Team. Even if we did bump into someone else’s car, no one would dare do anything to us."

"But still..."

"Lao Liu, no offense, but you’ve been driving for the Shi Family for thirty years now; how can you still doubt your own skills? It’s just overtaking a few cars, what’s there to fear." As Ye Jin spoke, she began to direct him: "Turn on the overtaking light, honk twice, move ahead of the car to our side."

Generally, during traffic jams, some people do adopt such tactics, seizing any available space, hoping to get ahead before traffic clears.

Ye Jin was adamant about overtaking, and Lao Liu had no choice but to follow her instructions.

He assessed the distance to the next car and the space available in front of the vehicle beside them, making sure it was accurate before he signaled to turn out.

But the moment he slightly turned the steering wheel, a red Mercedes sports car sped from behind and raced up beside them.

Lao Liu reacted quickly, straightening the steering wheel just in time to avoid colliding with the Mercedes next to them.

"Who is that? Have they no decency at all?"

While complaining, Ye Jin rolled down the window and turned her head to look at the cool Mercedes racing beside them.

She wanted to see just which ’big shot’ was seated inside!