“Uh…” Xu Jingshu paused, then said slowly, “You know your father’s personality. He’s incredibly stubborn. In the past twenty years, he hasn’t given me a kind look. But do you see how good he is to me? Every time I go out, I’m always in a great position. People have to respectfully call me Mrs. Yan.”
Yan Shenyu gave a forced smile: "Hello, Mrs. Yan."
"Well……"
"You kid, you're just trying to annoy me, aren't you?" Xu Jingshu slapped his arm, picked up her purse, and turned to leave. "I'm going to the foundation. You can have lunch by yourself."
The foundation she mentioned is short for the Phoenix Charity Foundation. After achieving financial independence, Xu Jingshu, along with some female entrepreneurs and wealthy women, established a charity foundation aimed at helping women start businesses, find employment, and grow together. As one of the board members, Xu Jingshu spends most of her time at the foundation.
After everyone left, Yan Shenyu sat back down at the table and peeled a boiled egg to eat.
The cooled soft-boiled egg had a slightly fishy smell, and Yan Shenyu had to drink two large gulps of milk before she could barely swallow it.
Just as he was hesitating about whether to eat another egg, his cell phone on the table rang.
His hands were dirty from peeling eggs, so Yan Shenyu extended his middle finger, which was barely clean, to press the answer button. Unexpectedly, it was a video request. As soon as the video connected, his slender middle finger covered the entire screen.
"What are you doing?" Wu Yun asked, sounding aggrieved. "You're giving me the middle finger first thing in the morning!"
Yan Shenyu withdrew his middle finger and calmly said, "I was just reminding you to remember to do Kegel exercises to prevent hemorrhoids."
“You’re talking nonsense! I don’t have hemorrhoids,” Wu Yunyi retorted righteously. “My hemorrhoids were completely removed last year!”
Yan Shenyu: "..."
There was no need to expose themselves like that.
Fearing the other party might say something even more shocking, Yan Shenyu asked directly, "What do you need me for?"
"Of course! I was stunned when I woke up this morning!" Wu Yun's eyes widened in disbelief. "How did you come up with this idea? You actually undermined the problem by pointing out that the hospital that diagnosed Xie Xiaoling with depression was a fraudulent Putian-affiliated hospital that didn't even have proper qualifications. Because of this, people online are now suspecting that Xie Xiaoling got a fake diagnosis and is deceiving people. Some people are even saying that her cancer diagnosis is fake."
"I did all of this?" Yan Shenyu didn't quite understand. He had only been lying in bed sleeping last night.
Did he sleep with Xie Xiaoling in his dream? That can't be right. If he could do something like that in his dream, then this story would have to be categorized as fantasy romance instead of urban romance.
"Are you still pretending to be confused with me?" Wu Yun grinned. "I thought you chickened out, but I didn't expect you to come up with something big right away. Xie Xiaoling is probably too busy to deal with you right now."
Yan Shenyu was still completely bewildered. After hanging up the phone, he checked Weibo again and realized that what Wu Yun said was true.
The hospital that issued Xie Xiaoling's diagnosis was exposed for having incomplete qualifications, tax evasion, and medical malpractice. Netizens are not just tools to point fingers; they quickly discovered loopholes in Xie Xiaoling's diagnosis and began to question the authenticity of his depression, thus reducing their attention to him.
It now appears that someone did help him. But who was it?
Yan Shenyu looked through all the people he knew and regretfully found that, given the original owner's social circle, there didn't seem to be anyone who could stand up for him.
Suddenly, he remembered what Xu Jingshu had said to him when he left that morning: "I've taken care of all those things."
At the time, he didn't take it seriously, thinking it was just a casual remark. Now it seems very likely that he was referring to this matter.
Yan Shenyu sent a WeChat message to probe: "Mom, did you arrange that hospital?"
Xu Jingshu was driving and replied via voice message: "The foundation has been keeping an eye on that hospital for a while now. Some girls have reported to us that this private hospital is engaged in illegal activities such as surrogacy and egg retrieval. We have collected evidence and submitted a report to the authorities. The case is already in the process of being filed, and it is just a coincidence that it has come to light now."
Although the other party only said it was by chance, the fact that it came out at this critical juncture really helped him a lot.
Yan Shenyu felt a warmth in her heart and replied: 【Thank you, Mom! I love you the most =3=】;
Xu Jingshu's voice tinged with amusement: "You're always so glib. I'm driving, so I'll stop here for now."
Later, Yan Shenyu posted her WeChat chat history with Xiao Zhenliang on Weibo.
From Xiao Zhenliang taking the initiative to add him on WeChat, to his later attentive advances, subtle hints, and confessions of love... Yan Shenyu revealed the entire process of how they met and fell in love.
Netizens aren't blind either; it's obvious that Xiao Zhenliang was the one who took the initiative from beginning to end. He frankly stated that he had already broken up with his ex-girlfriend and was even heartbroken because of the breakup. Fortunately, he met Yan Shenyu.
At this point, Xie Xiaoling's accusation that he was a mistress was also debunked.
It is said that Xie Xiaoling was greatly disappointed after seeing this Weibo post and had a big argument with Xiao Zhenliang.
However, none of this mattered to Yan Shenyu. He stretched, looked up at the clear blue sky outside the window, and thought: What a beautiful day!
...
Since morning, the Phoenix Charity Foundation has been busy. The project to report the private hospital yesterday is still ongoing, and with the summer vacation approaching, free physical examinations and physiological knowledge popularization for left-behind children also need to be put on the agenda.
Xu Jingshu was handling her work methodically. Around noon, she rubbed her tired shoulders and prepared to go to the tea room to get some water and relax. Just as she reached the door, she heard a gasp.
Xu Jingshu pushed open the door, somewhat curious: "So lively?"
“Director Xu,” the secretary outside the door immediately stood up and explained excitedly, “someone delivered flowers to the company. I heard that a total of 100 bouquets were delivered. The receptionist just told us to go to the front desk to choose one, saying that everyone can take one bouquet.”
"You've chased him all the way to the company?" Looking at the bouquets of flowers on the desk, Xu Jingshu sighed, "Youth is truly wonderful."
“No,” the secretary shook her head. “The receptionist said that these flowers were given to all employees as a token of gratitude to the Phoenix Charity Foundation.”
"In the name of gratitude?" Xu Jingshu was somewhat surprised. "Then it's probably someone who has received help from the foundation before."
“Yes, although we’re doing a charity event, this is the first time I’ve felt so directly that I’m helping others.” The secretary smiled with satisfaction. “What kind of flowers do you like? I’ll go get you a bouquet.”
Before Xu Jingshu could speak, a voice rang out from afar: "Secretary, no need. I've taken Director Xu's."
A man's voice?
But their foundation never hires men.
The secretary turned around curiously and saw a young man in a suit with long hair walking towards them. He was carrying a large bouquet of pink roses, which mostly obscured his body. His head was tilted slightly to the side, revealing his delicate and handsome features, and his smile was bright and radiant.
“This beautiful lady,” Yan Shenyu walked up to Xu Jingshu, her smile widening, “You must be tired from your work. Would you do me the honor of inviting you to lunch?”
Is he pursuing Director Xu?!
The secretary next to him widened her eyes in surprise.
"You really are..." Xu Jingshu paused, then couldn't help but laugh, "Why did you suddenly think of contacting me at the company?"
“Of course I missed you,” Yan Shenyu placed the flowers in Xu Jingshu’s arms, smiling and revealing a set of white teeth. “Shall we go out to eat? The kind that we can do without Yan Zhengang knowing.”
secretary:"!!"
Chapter 11: The CEO's Double Standards.
Unlike Wildfire Technology, which built its industrial park on land outside the Fifth Ring Road, the foundation is located in Beijing's CBD, where land is extremely valuable, and is surrounded by foreign banks, law firms, investment banks, and the like.
Inside a light-meal restaurant downstairs from the Phoenix Foundation, white-collar workers taking their lunch break chatted quietly, with the occasional soft clinking of knives and forks.
Yan Shenyu led Xu Jingshu through the main entrance, gave them the last four digits of their reserved phone number, and was then led by a waiter to a table by the window.
"You even know I like this place?" Xu Jingshu finished cooking skillfully, handed the tablet to Yan Shenyu, and went straight to the point, "Why did you suddenly decide to try to please me?"
Yan Shenyu ordered a high-protein fitness meal and looked up, saying, "I was thinking of getting in through the back door."
Xu Jingshu raised an eyebrow: "Out of money again?"
Yan Shenyu: "..."
Why did they assume he was after money from the start? It seems the original owner's reputation is somewhat worrying.
But that makes sense, since the original owner had used all his money to subsidize Xiao Zhenliang, whose "company was in crisis." The money he used to invest in the ski resort was originally intended to be transferred to Xiao Zhenliang.
It's hard to change a person's impression in a short time, so Yan Shenyu didn't explain. He simply said, "I don't want to borrow money. I want to work at your foundation."
Xu Jingshu raised her eyebrows even higher. She stared at Yan Shenyu for several seconds until she realized he wasn't joking, then said, "The foundation doesn't recruit men."
Yan Shenyu: "That's why you wanted to use the back door."
Xu Jingshu: "No way."
"Then what if I wear women's clothes to work?" Yan Shenyu smoothed the hair at the back of her head and sincerely suggested, "Anyway, my hair is so long, and I'm often mistaken for a woman when I go out."
“Uh…” Xu Jingshu kept a straight face, trying to maintain her dignity as an elder.
But in the end, he couldn't hold back and couldn't help but laugh and scold, "Stop bragging and speak properly. Also, what's wrong with you today?"
Yan Shenyu swallowed the beef slice in his mouth and said calmly, "Isn't it because I'm heartbroken and want to focus on my career?"
Xu Jingshu didn't answer, she just looked at him quietly.
“Okay,” Yan Shenyu gave in, putting down his knife and fork and saying seriously, “Didn’t Dad tell me to go to work this morning? But I really have no interest in real estate.”
Xu Jingshu: "So what are you interested in?"
Yan Shenyu: "I don't know."
"Don't know?" Xu Jingshu raised an eyebrow.
“Yes,” Yan Shenyu nodded, his tone quite sincere. “I’m quite interested in many professions, but when I think about it carefully, it seems like there’s no reason why I absolutely have to do them.”
"Giving up being an internet celebrity?"
"It depends on my mood."
"What about jewelry design?"
"I'm out of inspiration for now."
"Well……"
“You,” Xu Jingshu said with a sigh of disappointment after a moment of silence, “you take advantage of us to support you and go all out. Do you know that among your peers, only a minority can earn more than 10,000 yuan a month?”
Yan Shenyu: "That's right, I'm better at being born into the right family than they are at being born into the right family."
Xu Jingshu was also rendered speechless by him. After thinking for a moment, she asked, "Do you really want to come to the foundation?"
"Hmm..." Yan Shenyu hesitated, "It doesn't seem like it's absolutely necessary to go."
"Well……"
"Then get lost." Xu Jingshu wiped her mouth, got up and left.
"mom!"
Xu Jingshu picked up her bag and turned around.
"Director Xu!"
Xu Jingshu walked out without looking back.
"The most beautiful woman in the world!"
Yan Shenyu had a loud voice and wasn't afraid of being watched. His shout drew the attention of everyone in the restaurant.
Xu Jingshu had been elegant for most of her life, and she had never lost face like this before. She glanced at Yan Shenyu, then turned around and sat down again, her high heels clicking loudly as if she wanted to stomp on the floor as if it were her stinky son's face.
Yan Shenyu pulled out a chair for her in a flattering manner before speaking in a kind tone: "I admire what your foundation does, and for a moment I was so excited that I mistakenly thought I wanted to join the foundation. But after calming down, I realized that I only admire your spirit, and I don't have much enthusiasm for the specific tasks."