Chapter 11

"President, Mr. Xu from Dingsheng Group has arrived. Should we bring him in?"

"Let him in."

A short while later, a young man dressed casually with flowing long hair strolled in, hands in his pockets, led by Secretary Feng.

"They said you went back to work, and I didn't believe it, but it's true!" The man wore gold-rimmed glasses, had a refined and handsome appearance, but his every move exuded a casual and carefree attitude.

He plopped down on Xu Qingyan's desk, turned his head to the side, and tapped his knuckles rhythmically: "Why did you suddenly come back?"

Xu Qingyan looked up and met the man's interested face, and said briefly, "Go back if you want."

"that's all?"

"Um."

"You're really sparing with your words, aren't you?" Xu Yue retorted speechlessly. "You're keeping things from me."

Xu Yue is Xu Qingyan's only friend. The two have known each other since childhood and attended the same school from kindergarten to university.

Xu Qingyan is aloof and reserved, while Xu Yue is outgoing and unrestrained. Despite their contrasting personalities, they get along surprisingly well. As they are both heirs of top conglomerates, their relationship is even closer.

Xu Yue: "I went to the hospital again yesterday. The hospital said that Aunt Rou was discharged a month ago. What happened? Did you send Aunt Rou abroad?"

Aunt Rou is naturally referring to Xu Yirou.

The two families' parents have known each other for a long time, and Xu Yue is a child that Xu Yirou has watched grow up. Xu Yue cares for Xu Yirou no less than the three of them.

After Xu Yirou fell ill, Xu Yue would visit her every few days, no matter how busy he was.

Xu Yirou never returned to the hospital after turning back into a cub, and he went there several times but came up empty-handed.

"I did not go abroad."

"Which hospital did they send him to?" Xu Yue asked, puzzled. "Are there any better hospitals in China than Beijing Municipal Hospital? Tsk, can you stop giving me vague answers and just tell me the whole story? Why are you keeping me in suspense?"

"I didn't go anywhere, I just stayed at home." Xu Qingyan added a few more words to save face, "It's a long story."

Xu Yue raised one of his handsome eyebrows: "Take your time. Besides having plenty of money, I also have plenty of time. I guarantee you'll have plenty to talk about."

Xu Qingyan glanced at the time on the screen and said in a serious tone, "This is my work time, I won't talk about personal matters."

Xu Yue just chuckled when a childish cry suddenly entered his ears, followed by a green, fluorescent moth fluttering over.

"Dabao, my magic wand isn't working! It doesn't do anything no matter how I press it, waaaaaah, is it broken?!"

"Don't rush, let me see."

Xu Qingyan's perpetually icy demeanor vanished, replaced by a gentle glow akin to melting snow, so tender that Xu Yue hardly recognized him.

"It's nothing, the battery just died. I can just replace it." As he spoke, he made a call to the front desk. "Secretary Feng, could you come in for a moment?"

Upon receiving the summons, Secretary Feng seemed to appear out of nowhere, instantly materializing in the office.

Xu Qingyan waved his hand: "Go buy a box of batteries and bring it up. Make sure you know the model number."

Secretary Feng leaned closer to examine the toy batteries on the table, carefully picked up a battery and put it in her jacket pocket, nodding solemnly: "Yes, President, I'll bring it to you right away."

Xu Yirou stared intently.

Feeling the gaze fixed on him, Xu Qingyan braced himself and called out to Secretary Feng, who had already reached the door.

Under Secretary Feng's watchful gaze, Xu Qingyan coughed lightly and said with a forced smile, "Thank you for your hard work."

Secretary Feng: ! !

As expected, here it comes—the CEO's deathly smile!

Although it was a little creepy, I was mostly flattered: "President, you're too kind. It's no trouble at all. If there's nothing else, I'll head out now."

Xu Yue was dumbfounded... What the hell?

He'd known Xu Qingyan for twenty years and never managed to make him smile, but after only a month apart, this guy not only had a drooling look in his eyes, he actually smiled! Like an iron tree blooming?

Even his subordinates can make him smile, so why can't he? Is he unworthy?

Is he some kind of despicable person?!

Xu Yue gazed at Xu Qingyan with a deep, lingering resentment, his body radiating a suffocating aura stronger than that of a ghost who had been dead for three days.

"Dabao, you're getting better and better! You're not only a delicate little pig boy, but also a smiling little pig boy. You're the cutest pig boy in the whole world!"

Xu Yirou gave her son a thumbs up and showered him with loving compliments with a beaming smile.

Xu Yue's attention was successfully diverted. He was stunned for a moment, then suddenly slammed his fist on the table and burst into laughter: "Can't he just be a person?"

Xu Yue leaned on the table, laughing so hard he was shaking: "Ayan, where did this little moth come from? Is it a relative of yours? I must say, it's quite eye-catchingly green, even greener than my old man's green hat."

Xu Qingyan glared at him coldly, clearly annoyed: "Shut up."

Xu Yirou then noticed Xu Yue. Her eyes widened, and she was overjoyed: "You rascal, what brings you here? Did you come to see me?"

Xu Yue: ...

Xu Yue's forehead vein throbbed, and he performed a smile-disappearing act, turning to Xu Qingyan with a blank expression: "How many people have you told?"

Xu Qingyan remained calm and composed: "It wasn't me. I didn't say anything."

Xu Yue clearly didn't believe it, and he gritted his teeth angrily: "Then how did this little moth know my nickname? Who else besides you three siblings would know it?"

When Xu Yue was a child, he loved to eat roasted sweet potatoes. Once, he ate too many and went to Xu's house to play with Xu Qingyan. He couldn't hold it in and let out three loud, smelly farts.

The smell almost made the three siblings faint. Xu Yue was so disgusted that he almost died on the spot, his face turning as red as a pig's liver, wishing he could find a hole to crawl into.

Tears streaming down her face from the stench, Xiao He Nianzhu was both shocked and frightened, blurting out, "Brother Xu Yue is such a stinky fart king, he stinks so badly, waaaaaah!"

Xu Yue, who had just earned the nickname "Stinky Fart Egg" that day, ran home crying.

This is the childhood trauma that will haunt Xu Yue, the heir of Dingsheng Group, for the rest of his life. It's a childhood social death scene that makes him want to dig his toes into the ground and smash his head against a tofu block every time he thinks about it.

"Me too, I know too!" Little dumpling Xu Yirou raised her hand high. "I was there."

Xu Yue: "You? Don't joke around. You weren't even born yet back then, you little moth."

Upon hearing this, Xu Yirou wrinkled her little nose angrily and said in a cute but fierce way, "I'm not a little moth, I'm a flower fairy, a flower fairy who can fly and use magic!"

She turned around, revealing a pair of large, shimmering green wings on her back.

Xu Yue raised his hand: "Ouch, my eyes."

This thing is brighter than a 24-watt light bulb!

Xu Yirou's small body trembled, and her large wings immediately began to flap, as if she was about to take off.

"Alright, alright, stop shaking. Your moth wings are blinding me."

"It's not a fluttering moth, it's a flower fairy!"

Xu Yirou stomped her foot in anger, her little bun on her head trembling, her cheeks slowly puffing out like pufferfish, and her grape-like eyes burning brightly.

"You're not my brother, you're a brat, and a brat is a big idiot, hmph!"

Xu Yue choked, then felt both annoyed and amused; the little moth was quite sharp-tongued.

Xu Yirou was still not satisfied, and she grabbed Xu Qingyan and complained tearfully, "Son, you stinky brat bullied me!"

"Mom, don't worry." Xu Qingyan had just finished gently comforting her when she instantly switched gears, glancing at her friend with a sinister look.

"Xu Yue, this is my mother, please show some respect."

?

Xu Yue had six points to make regarding Xu Qingyan's words: "..."

In a flash, his rusty brain began to work at high speed.

"Ayan, how long...how long have you been like this?"

Xu Yue carefully straightened up, putting away his playful demeanor and staring at his friend with a serious expression.

As Xu Qingyan's closest friend, he became increasingly anxious every day after learning that Xu's mother was ill.

Considering that Xu Yirou has been discharged from the hospital for a month, under what circumstances would a late-stage cancer patient be discharged from the hospital?

It's simply that he knows he's powerless to change anything and his time is up, so he wants to spend his last moments with his family in his familiar home.

He didn't want to speculate that his friend had gone insane from the shock, but calling a little baby "Mommy" was a bit much.

Xu Yue was heartbroken: "My aunt is one of the top psychiatrists in the country. It's hard to get an appointment with her, but don't worry, I'm here. I will definitely help you get back to normal."

Xu Qingyan refused decisively: "No need, I'm not sick."

Xu Yue thought he was avoiding medical treatment and continued to persuade him, but Xu Yirou jumped out and said: "You brat, when you were a kid, you wet the bed in Da Bao's bedroom and told me not to tell anyone. I didn't tell anyone."

She patted her chest, beaming with pride.

Xu Yue felt a deafening roar in his head, and he was stunned, as if struck by lightning.

[Waaaaah, Auntie, I didn't mean to... I'm so sorry.]

[It's okay, Yue, don't feel guilty. Every child wets the bed at some point; it's normal.]

[But it's so embarrassing... The other kids will definitely laugh at me if they find out, waaaaah, Auntie, can you please keep this a secret?]

[No problem, this is Auntie and A-Yue's secret. No one else will know except us.]

The little boy who cried so much back then is now standing in front of Xu Yirou.

That was the first and last time Xu Yue had ever wet the bed.

After the incident, no one mentioned his bedwetting from beginning to end, and he knew in his heart that Xu Yirou kept her promise and did not publicize his bedwetting.

Two previously unknown secrets were revealed by a little baby.

"You...you..." Xu Yue was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

"And another thing, the first time you were heartbroken, you got drunk and picked up a puppy from the roadside, telling us it was your son. You insisted that the puppy call Da Bao 'godfather.' The puppy couldn't talk, so you lay on the ground and barked like a dog, saying that was bilingual teaching! But after you sobered up, you left the puppy at my house."

Xu Yirou flashed her little baby teeth: "Your son is still at my house, do you still want him?"

Xu Yue could talk for three days and three nights about the embarrassing things he did at the Xu family, but besides himself, only the people present could point them out so accurately.

Judging by its age, that little fluttering moth definitely hasn't been born yet, so...

"Okay, okay, I believe you, I believe you!"

Xu Yue's face turned bright red, and he felt so ashamed that his scalp tingled. He took a deep breath and looked at the little fluttering moth.

"No need to say anything more, I believe you now, you are my Aunt Rou, my dear aunt!"

...

"Actually, I came here this time because of Aunt Rou. My uncle's team recently developed a cancer drug that is effective. I originally wanted to ask Aunt Rou if she would like to try the new drug, but since Aunt Rou has recovered her health, let's just forget about it."

"Ah Yue, I remember your uncle did research on human genes?"

Xu Yue nodded: "That's right. My uncle was a biology professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and later he switched to the medical field to do cancer research."

Xu Qingyan frowned and pondered for a moment, then said in a low voice, "Could you help me find out from your uncle if there are any other cases like my mother?"

Rejuvenated overnight.

Xu Yue couldn't help but look at the little girl waving a sparkler and having a great time not far away, and sighed, "This is probably one of a kind."

Xu Qingyan also looked in the same direction, her voice very soft: "As long as Mom is healthy, it's all worth it."

Just then, Xu Yirou looked over and, seeing this, warmly invited, "Do you want to play too? Come join us!"

Before the two could react, she ran up to Xu Qingyan, waving her magic wand and muttering, "Guna La Dark God, Uhu Lahu, Dark Demon Transformation!"

"Now I'm the Dark Fairy! I'm going to turn you all into little pigs! Hurry up and transform!"

Xu Qingyan: "...How will it change?"

"Idiot, chant the spell!"

"What incantation? How do you pronounce it?"

Xu Yirou exclaimed, "How can you be so stupid? You can't even recite the incantation! I'll turn you into little pigs!"

"Hahaha, now you're little pigs, hurry up and squeal like pigs!"

Xu Qingyan and Xu Yue: "..."