“It’s still being processed,” Yan Shengyi said coldly, lowering her eyes. “I will return the money I’ve spent raising them over the years, and once we’re even, I can leave.”
“How could such a scoundrel possibly settle things with you?” Yan Shen shook his head, disagreeing. “For example, if you had an ATM that could withdraw unlimited cash, would you allow someone to settle things with you just because that ATM gave you a million?”
Yan Sheng didn't speak, but her fingers tightened around the Coke can, and her expression gradually darkened.
“Besides, you’ve already given them a lot of money over the years, haven’t you? If we’re really talking about settling accounts, it’s more than that.” Yan Shenyu suggested, “If you feel it’s difficult to handle, just go home and have Yan Zhen’o, who is also our father, help you with it. Although he has a bad temper, he’s quite reliable.”
"No need." Yan Sheng finished her cola in one gulp, crushed the wrapper with her bare hands, and threw it into the trash can.
With a "clang," the compressed aluminum can went straight into the trash can.
Yan Sheng stood up, her expression as cold as ever: "I'll come find you after I've dealt with things here."
“Okay,” Yan Shenyu said without pressuring him, “then contact me in advance.”
The two said goodbye and left separately. After leaving the hospital, Yan Shenyu sent the psychiatric evaluation report to Xu Jingshu.
Xu Jingshu: [?]
Yan Shenyu: "It's between me and Yan Sheng."
Xu Jingshu: "..."
Xu Jingshu: "Are you brothers?"
Yan Shenyu: "Genuine, no doubt about it."
No one knows how Xu Jingshu spoke to Yan Zhengang, but Yan Zhengang was extremely excited and flew over that very night.
Yan Shenyu, on the other hand, returned to Beijing and spent nights at his senior's jewelry design studio. He wanted to finish the necklace before Wu Yun's mother's birthday.
Faceting, grinding, polishing... a week later, the necklace was finally completed. On the day Yan Shenyu asked Wu Yun to pick it up, the other party excitedly ran around him several times.
The senior student was also very reluctant to part with him and asked again, "Are you really not considering jewelry design?"
Yan Shenyu wasn't actually that resistant, but he couldn't stand being stuck in this small room every day. He shook his head and said tactfully, "I don't really want to go to work."
"Don't want to work? That's easy!" The senior student suggested, offering a different approach. "Since you don't want a 9-to-5 job, you can be a guest designer at my studio, specializing in custom-made products for high-end clients. This doesn't require you to be in the office, our prices are high, and we probably won't have many clients throughout the year, so it's a pretty good part-time job."
Seeing that Yan Shenyu was still hesitating, the senior student earnestly said, "You have studied jewelry design for four years and are so talented. It would be a real pity to give up now. I don't know what you want to do in the future, but I hope you will not waste your talent in this area."
Yan Shenyu ultimately couldn't refuse, and he signed a contract to become a guest designer for Hoya Carnosa Studio's jewelry design studio. He doesn't have to work normally, and only occasionally takes on some high-end custom-made pieces for wealthy families.
After leaving the studio, Yan Shenyu gradually learned about Yan Sheng's reunion with his family online.
The dramatic storyline of wealthy families recognizing each other is always a popular topic of conversation. Once exposed, it spreads across the entire internet.
However, since Yan Sheng has just debuted, her popularity is not as high as it was when she was criticized by the entire internet in her previous life, and the plot is not as dramatic, so she is not as popular as she was in her previous life.
Netizens just treated it as a novelty, but after watching, they couldn't help but sigh, "When will my wealthy parents come to pick me up?"
Some marketing accounts did suggest that the Yan family might be about to start a new round of power struggles, and even spread rumors that the brothers had a bad relationship with Yan Sheng. However, netizens didn't care about such unfounded old news, and it quickly lost its popularity.
In addition, the police investigation into Yu Chun Media has yielded results, and official media outlets have published numerous news articles about it.
[YuChun Media has been accused of abusing its artists; 12 artists have now spoken out in support.]
[The board of directors of YuChun Media stated that this incident was the work of a senior executive surnamed Du, and the board had no prior knowledge of it. The executive involved, along with several employees, has been dismissed.]
[On the eve of its IPO, YuChun Media was exposed for abusing its artists and is suspected of illegal sex trafficking, which may affect the company's IPO.]
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has launched an investigation into YuChun Media, and the company's listing has been suspended.
Several contracted artists of YuChun Media have spoken out, stating that they have never been treated in this way before.
...
What follows is the company's whitewashing statement.
Yan Shenyu didn't believe a single one of these words. For Yu Chun Media to have gone this far, the entire company must have tacitly approved it. Now that things have gone wrong, they're forced to sacrifice a high-ranking executive to save the king.
As for those celebrities who spoke out, regardless of their personal character, it's true that many of their accounts were controlled by their management companies when they were celebrities. What they said and didn't say was not up to them.
Yan Shenyu had no interest in investigating who supported and who opposed these people. The only consolation was that, at least after this incident, no other artist would end up in such a predicament.
Yan Shenyu parked the car in the garage, took out the key, and then received a message from Rami.
Rami: "I've seen the news online, and I feel sorry for you."
Yan Shenyu: "What do you mean by feeling sorry for me?"
Rami: "My crush turned out to be my brother, this is just too damn heartbreaking."
"Uh..." Yan Shenyu then remembered that when he approached Rami, he used the excuse that he was a fan of Yan Sheng. But Rami had all sorts of wild imaginations and directly created a whole romantic drama between him and Yan Sheng.
It would be terrible if Rami, that big mouth, went around saying that he liked Yan Sheng.
Yan Shenyu quickly called him to explain: "I've known for a long time that Yan Sheng is my older brother. I only said I was his fan because things weren't settled yet and I was afraid of complications. I'm sorry I didn't tell you back then, but I really don't have any feelings for him!"
Rami, with tears in her eyes, said, "Don't say anything, I understand."
Yan Shenyu was speechless: "I really don't like Yan Sheng!"
"Please, stop talking," Rami was already crying, "I really understand, sob sob sob sob, it's so angsty..."
"What do you know?!" Yan Shenyu retorted angrily. "Use your brain! What kind of relationship do I have with Yan Sheng? How could I possibly like him?!"
Rami: "Waaaaah..."
Yan Shenyu: "..."
It was completely irrelevant. Yan Shenyu angrily hung up the phone and took the elevator upstairs.
He walked in such a hurry that he didn't realize there was another figure in the shadows next to the garage.
—What's my relationship with Yan Sheng? How could I possibly like him?!
Yan Sheng stared blankly at the closing elevator doors, the gift in her hand fell to the ground with a "thud," and her face was already deathly pale.
It was all a scam all along; it turns out Yan Shenyu was lying...
I still hate him like I would in another world.
A note from the author:
Yan Sheng: My younger brother hates me again. TAT;
Yan Shenyu: ? ?
Yes, as some of you may have guessed in the previous chapter, Yan Sheng is from a parallel world, and is the original owner of this body in a tragic version.
Chapter 31 I Like You.
As Yan Shenyu was secretly looking for food in the refrigerator, Aunt Chen from the nanny's room heard the noise and came over.
"Haven't eaten yet?"
"You're back late," Yan Shenyu smiled, but seeing the other person rolling up their sleeves to start a fire, she shook her head, "You go and rest, I'll just grab something to eat."
“No trouble at all, I’m too old to sleep anyway,” Aunt Chen said, opening the refrigerator and taking out a handful of wet rice noodles. “How about I cook you some beef rice noodles? They were brought by a relative from my hometown, they’re very chewy.”
Aunt Chen's hometown is a karst landscape scenic area, where the rice noodles are famous throughout the country. Hearing this, Yan Shenyu no longer declined and even reminded her to add extra chili.
"I know," Aunt Chen nodded with a smile. "Knowing you love spicy food, I secretly prepared some chili oil for you."
Aunt Chen deftly heated the pot, boiled water, and prepared the ingredients. Seeing that Yan Shenyu hadn't left, she chatted with him casually.
"By the way, Young Master Yan Sheng is back today." Aunt Chen said as she took out the stewed beef. "That boy is very nice, very polite, and he even prepared some local specialties for us servants."
She had only brought up the matter because she heard that Yan Shenyu had gone to Haishi to pick up Yan Sheng and assumed that the two had a good relationship.
Yan Shenyu was somewhat surprised: "You're already back?"
"Yes," Aunt Chen nodded, then added, "He came downstairs just now with something, saying he wanted to give you a gift. Didn't you see him?"
"No, he probably didn't see me go back," Yan Shenyu said, not taking it to heart. "I'll go ask him. Just call me when the beef noodles are ready."
"Okay, take care."
The Yan family villa is very large. The first floor and below are all functional rooms. The second floor is where the couple and their eldest son Yan Yu live. Yan Shenyu lives on the third floor by himself, and Yan Weiwei lives on the fourth floor, away from everyone else.
Besides the third floor, there are still many rooms on the second and fourth floors. I didn't expect Yan Sheng to specifically choose the same floor as him.
Yan Shenyu went to the room next to hers and knocked on the door.
He knocked twice before the person inside opened the door. Yan Sheng's hair was a little wet, as if he had come out halfway through taking a shower, but he was dressed completely, with not a single inch of skin showing.
Yan Shenyu smiled at him: "How does it feel to be back? Are you settling in well?"
The latter grunted in a cold voice, "It's alright."
“I didn’t expect you to live right next door to me,” Yan Shenyu said again. “I sometimes stay up late, so just tell me if it bothers you.”
In the original novel, Yan Sheng suffers from neurasthenia and cannot fall asleep even with sound or light.
"good."
"Also, there's a large lake behind our villa, and the mosquitoes there are extremely vicious, so remember to close the windows when you go to sleep at night."
"Um."
Yan Shenyu chatted with him for a few more minutes, but Yan Sheng responded coldly. In the end, he couldn't even be bothered to respond anymore.
He really didn't understand what Yan Shenyu was thinking. He would rather Yan Shenyu show him malice directly like in the previous life, or pretend to be a brotherly friend like he did now, even though he clearly disliked him.
Yan Sheng frowned and said impatiently, "Is there anything else? If not, I'm going to take a shower."
"Why are you suddenly so temperamental?" Yan Shenyu asked in surprise, spreading her right hand at him. "Didn't you say you brought me some local specialties? Where are they?"
Yan Sheng pursed her lips, her voice even colder than before: "No."
"Aunt Chen just said you specially brought this to me, but I didn't see you," Yan Shenyu said, glancing into the room and seeing a bag of local specialties from Shanghai on the cabinet. "That's for me, right?"
Yan Sheng said with a straight face, "It's for the pig."
Yan Shenyu's eyes widened in surprise: "You actually called me Little Piggy? Isn't our relationship progressing too fast?"
"Uh..." Yan Sheng was too lazy to complain and let Yan Shenyu go in and take the things away.
The pastries were a sweet and glutinous flavor unique to Haishi, and they hadn't been damaged during the long journey, showing the care the carriers had taken. Yan Shenyu didn't particularly like sweets, but he was so hungry that he couldn't resist taking a second one.
Insincere and pretentious.
Yan Sheng sneered and said coolly, "Eat as much as you want, I poisoned it... um..."