My Life as an Awoken

Chapter 123: Talk with Layla

While I was outside working on clearing the area around the windows I finally got a message from Layla.

She sent, "Sorry I missed your call, I have been busy working."

When I got the message I decided to call her right away.

Which she picked up, saying, "Hello."

"Hey, it’s been a while."

"Yeah, it has. Sorry I have just been super busy."

"What have you been working on?"

"Well, I sold that one car to Aerial. Then, the Metube channel popped off. The second video I posted went viral, it’s at ten million views. That means that my channel got verified, so now I can make money from it.

Really good money at that. A thousand views is $3. So 10,000,000 views is $30,000. The first video is sitting around two million views, so $6,000 for that one.

Because of that I have been pumping out videos. I have also been offered lots of sponsorships, which also pay really well. I have only taken one sponsorship so far. I want to make sure they are good products if I am going to endorse them.

Oh! Right! I have also been working on a secret project for Aerial. Which I can’t tell you about. Not until I complete it."

"Wow, you have been busy. Congratulations. I have only just gotten the permissions for renovating the factory. Oh, I also bought an old inn."

"You bought an old inn? Why?"

"Well, I was bored. I thought it would give me something to do. I figured I could fix it up. But, as I’ve been here I have been thinking about turning it into a house. Now! Whether we could move here, or treat it like a summer house, is something to think about.

It would be a lot of work, and I know you have friends where you are. But, this place really is spectacular. The views are stunning. Plus you could work on YDMs here."

"While that does sound nice. I have only just started to have things under control here. I don’t know if I would be able to..."

"Yeah, no, of course. It’s just something to think about for the future. It’s not like it is something that’s going to happen in the next few days. Think like months, to half a year."

"Sure... I’ll think about it."

"Yeah... Anyway, I also got approached by a few companies trying to hire me. Apparently, they found out I used AI to make all of that money, now they want me to work for them.

However, so far the offers have been ridiculously low. Like, I made almost $200,000,000. The company I’m starting is projected to make like $22,000,000 a year, if I’m remembering the estimate correctly.

But, the offers so far have been for company housing, company cars, company provided staff, and don’t forget the $500,000 to $10,000,000 a year salary they were offering.

Like you aren’t even offering half of what I am projected to make. I really don’t know why they are low balling me so much?"

"Wow. That is crazy. I guess they think they can get you for a cheaper amount if they make their offer first?"

"I guess?"

"Or they think you aren’t worth that much? Maybe they think you wouldn’t be able to make them that much money in the short term? You did say that it would be hard to make money from stocks in the short term."

"That’s probably it. They think my AI abilities are limited to the stock market. So, I am more like a tool they can use to slowly undermine the stocks of their competitors. Or to manipulate the market for their benefit. They don’t really want the money making aspect of it."

"Yeah. That has to be the reason. Otherwise it wouldn’t make any sense."

Yeah... I just hope that’s all."

"It has to be. Don’t freak yourself out over something you don’t know. Anyway, I have to go, I have a meeting."

"Oh, ok. Then I guess I will talk to you later."

"Yep, see ya."

"See ya."

Like that the call came to an abrupt end.

But, a meeting? What time is it over there? It is the early afternoon here.

Hmm, it could be a foreign company sponsorship with a video call meeting.

Regardless, it’s not something I can worry about right now. I need to focus on the windows. That way tomorrow I will be able to kick back, relax, and wait for the windows to be delivered.

The rest of the day proceeded like normal.

...

The next day, I couldn’t relax.

I started thinking about how the cars have always been unable to come up the driveway.

With that thought and the rage of having to do this when I thought I was going to have a day off fueled me to finally clear the lane. It can only fit one car at a time, but now cars can finally reach the front door.

I actually managed to finish in the mid afternoon.

While I was walking back up the driveway, I got to the entrance of the old inn, when I heard a few cars pulling up the driveway.

I turned around to see yet another convoy of cars driving up the lane.

The driveway is a single lane but the end at the entrance of the inn is a roundabout. There is a scenic Yamato Maple Tree growing out of a small rockery.

The maple tree is a bit overgrown and has some dead branches. It is in need of some pruning, but I am going to deal with that later.

The convoy pulled around the roundabout and the middle car stopped right in front of me.

The driver got out and opened the door to reveal an absolutely stunning woman inside. She wasn’t at Xue Qing’s level but, this woman could still be called flawless.

The difference between the two was apparent. While Xue Qing was glamorous, this girl was bordering on lascivious.

Her clothes were much more revealing.