Yang Yajing felt her life was utterly worthless—single at 36; meager salary absolutely insufficient to cover her mother's medical expenses.
Her best friend not only stole the man she...
With only two or three days left until summer vacation, Yang Yajing arrived at school that morning to collect her credits and sensed that the atmosphere around her was somewhat different.
Finally, after class, a girl who was relatively familiar with her told her what had happened—her name was Zhao Jie.
Yang Yajing still hoped to get along well with Zhao Jie.
Her father is the daughter of an investment manager at Huaxia Consortium. She has been very good with numbers since she was a child and wanted to follow in her father's footsteps and become an investor.
Yang Yajing once asked Xu Wenbin if he knew Zhao Tianqing, and the answer was yes.
Zhao Tianqing is Xia Changlong's direct subordinate and someone he can trust, so he won't pose the same danger to Xu Wenbin as last time.
Since Zhao Jie was someone she could trust and there was a possibility that they would become colleagues in the future, Yang Yajing was quite friendly towards him.
"Yang Yajing, what exactly happened?" Zhao Jie asked Yang Yajing in a low voice.
"What do you mean, what's going on? You're the ones who're wondering, aren't you?" Yang Yajing shook her head.
"You didn't know?" Zhao Jie exclaimed in surprise, "The bulletin board is covered with them!"
"The bulletin board? What's posted there?" Yang Yajing asked.
"Hey! You should go see for yourself!" With that, Zhao Jie grabbed Yang Yajing and ran downstairs.
You wouldn't believe it until you see it; once you do, Yang Yajing doesn't know whether to laugh or cry.
A banner was posted on the bulletin board that clearly stated: "Freshman from an ordinary family at the University of Finance and Economics suspected of being kept by a sugar daddy! There are pictures and evidence!"
As for the evidence, it consisted of several photos taken a few days ago:
She opened the car door and got in at Jinda;
Her car drove into the commercial and residential building;
There was a photo of her hugging Xu Wenbin at the front desk;
There was a scene where he had his arm around Xu Wenbin's;
There was also the scene where she was hooking her arm around her dad's downstairs;
There's even a photo of her getting into the car before she drove Zhou Pengfei to the beach!
Who is stalking her?
"Look! Did you offend someone?" Zhao Jie asked, pointing at the photos. "And isn't that Assistant Xu from the Xia family? You weren't really being kept, were you? He's a married man!"
"Zhao Jie! You're overthinking it!" Yang Yajing smiled, and seeing that a crowd had gathered around, she playfully asked everyone, "The photos are really good! Don't mind if I take them down and keep them as a keepsake?"
"Yang Yajing! Be serious!" Zhao Jie got anxious before Yang Yajing could even react.
"Want to know who these are?" Yang Yajing tilted her head as she looked at everyone. "This is my dad, this is my uncle, this is my best friend since childhood, and this is the secondhand car my dad bought for me."
"Hey! Who is it? Making such a big fuss, turns out it's just filming your own family members being all lovey-dovey! What a waste of people's gossip spirit!" A particularly curious boy spoke the truth, and also expressed everyone's regret at this moment.
"I'm sorry to disappoint you! Don't blame me, okay? Blame the guy who wasted everyone's feelings!" With that, Yang Yajing put the photos away and into her backpack.
"How boring! If you're going to cause trouble, at least find someone trustworthy! At least get photos of a sports car or a Beetle or something. A used car? Who's going to give a college student a used car as a gift?"
Yang Yajing drives to school, which is familiar to everyone. More than half of the students in her department drive themselves, and their cars are all more luxurious than hers.
However, the students didn't cause any trouble, but the principal still needed to explain things clearly.
Principal's Office.
"Yang Yajing, what exactly happened? This kind of thing is having a very bad influence on our school!" The principal frowned. "How can you, a top-scoring freshman, be so incomprehensible?"
"Principal? You also think I've been given a used car for maintenance?" Yang Yajing asked calmly with a smile.
"A used car?" The principal looked up, his expression changing.
"If we're talking about being kept, I've been kept for twenty years!" Yang Yajing said with a grin. "There's a middle-aged man named Yang Guohua who has always been very obedient to me, giving me whatever I want!"
"Yang Guohua?" The principal thought the name sounded familiar, then said, "Yang Yajing, isn't Yang Guohua your father?"
"Yeah! The person who raised me for twenty years?" Yang Yajing took out a photo from her bag. "Look! This one, handsome, right?"
"Yang Yajing, you took a picture of your father and didn't say so earlier, and then let the photo hang up all morning?" The principal sighed.
"Didn't we just find out?" Yang Yajing pouted.
"Oh! It's good that nothing like that happened! I was wondering, how could a top student like you be kept by a sugar daddy?" The principal also felt that believing those rumors was a bit ill-considered.
Now that the misunderstanding had been cleared up, the principal didn't say much more, but he was still quite concerned about Yang Yajing, the top scorer: "You're going on vacation soon, what are your plans?"
"Work to gain experience."
"Okay! Keep it up!" The principal encouraged him and then released him.
The principal released her, but Zhao Jie, who was waiting outside the principal's office, had no intention of letting her off the hook: "Yang Yajing, tell me quietly, what exactly is your relationship with Assistant Xu?"
"Didn't I say that's my uncle?"
"Really? You're not kidding me!"
"Really! Should I call him?"
"Yes!" Zhao Jie really wouldn't give up until he got to the bottom of it.
The call was connected on speakerphone, and Xu Wenbin's voice came through: "Girl? What's up?"
"Uncle Xu, you've become famous!" Yang Yajing said this seemingly random sentence as soon as she opened her mouth.
"Famous? Famous in what way?" Xu Wenbin was completely confused.
"After photos of me with you were taken, gossip spread at school saying that you're keeping me as a sugar daddy!"
"Kept? You're all students, how can your minds be so dirty?" Before Xu Wenbin could finish speaking, Xia Changlong's stern voice came through the phone, "Who said you're keeping your niece? Investigate! Cut off any collaborations!"
"Is Boss Xia here?" Yang Yajing asked Xu Wenbin.
"They're discussing something!"
"You've calmed down Boss Xia, and all the ridiculous misunderstandings have been resolved!" Yang Yajing said with a smile.
"That's good, is everything alright now?"
"It's alright, go ahead and get exploited by your boss! Just remember to make him buy you lobsters!"
"You little brat, all you do is kill me!" Xia Changlong roared from afar on the phone. Yang Yajing hung up without saying a word, secretly laughing.
Turning around, I saw that Zhao Jie was already petrified.
"Hey! Zhao Jie! Are you alright?" Yang Yajing waved her hand in front of Zhao Jie.
"He! He! He!" Zhao Jie stammered, swallowing hard before managing to speak clearly. "Is Assistant Xu really your uncle? And you call Xia Changlong 'Boss Xia'? Are you a hidden rich second-generation?"
"Shh!" Yang Yajing hissed. "A distant relative, hardly a rich kid. As for Boss Xia, he lost a bet and's just trying to spite me!"
"Oh my god! Don't call me 'Boss Xia' anymore! It gives me the creeps!" Zhao Jie shuddered. "What if I let it slip in front of my dad? That would be incredibly disrespectful!"
"Don't worry! Boss Xia doesn't eat people!"
"I don't know if he eats people, but my dad does!" Zhao Jie patted her heart, now completely admiring Yang Yajing. "You're so brave!"
"Keep a low profile, I don't want to be the center of attention!" Yang Yajing hooked her arm around Zhao Jie's shoulder and led her to the cafeteria.
Yang Yajing didn't expect that while things had already gotten out of hand at the University of Finance and Economics, the trouble was just beginning elsewhere.