Chapter 15

Ye Lingchen had no idea that his fan base was growing rapidly. He was busy eating the small cakes that Lu Yijin made for him. Lu Yijin took quite a few of the cakes, and he shared the rest on a few small plates. Everyone politely took one. Even though He Qingshui liked to eat it, as an artist he had to control his weight.

Ye Lingchen burped after eating. He took the fruit tea that Lu Yijin had made for him and slumped back on the sofa. Lu Yijin followed him with sparkling eyes. "Ye Chenchen, what do you want to eat tonight? I'll make it for you."

"Burp~ I'm full. I won't eat tonight." Ye Lingchen showed off five or six small cakes in a row. If he wasn't full, he would have continued showing off. The food made by Lu Xiaojin was really delicious. It was a pity that he was penniless now. If he were still a prince, he would definitely give Lu Xiaojin a lot of jewelry.

"Okay, then if you don't want to eat, I won't cook. I'm full too." Lu Yijin also sat down next to Ye Lingchen with a cup of fruit tea.

When Jing Jianchen came downstairs, he saw the two of them sitting together, whispering to each other. He had no idea what they were talking about. "Ye Lingchen, I'm going out for a while."

Ye Lingchen nodded, "Yeah, yeah."

After Jing Jianchen went out, he turned off the live broadcast, leaving his fans staring at the black screen and crying.

Jing Jianchen drove all the way to a quiet little winery in the suburbs. The guy in a suit at the door took the key from his hand and went to help him park the car. Jing Jianchen walked along the secluded path to the door of a private room.

"Achen, long time no see." A stern-looking man in a black suit sat in the private room. He poured a glass of red wine and placed it in front of Jing Jianchen. "Thank you for this variety show."

Jing Jianchen put down his coat and sat down. "You're welcome. I drove here."

Jing Jianchen and Qin Jinyan have been brothers for more than 20 years. He took on this dating show just to help Qin Jinyan.

Jing Jianchen took a sip of boiled water and said, "Bai Tingfei's matter has been dealt with."

"It's been handled. It seems I've been too good-tempered lately, and some of the artists in the company are starting to get restless."

Qin Jinyan looked calm and didn't seem to care about Bai Tingfei smashing his signboard, but Jing Jianchen knew that the more calm Qin Jinyan looked, the more ruthless he would be when he attacked.

"That Ye Lingchen, please help me take care of him in the variety show, Achen, and make sure nothing goes wrong." Qin Jinyan said.

Jing Jianchen nodded, "I know."

Jing Jianchen looked up at Qin Jinyan. At this time, Qin Jinyan was turning his head to pick up something beside him. He was suddenly stunned. This profile looked like Ye Lingchen.

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing. I suddenly felt that you and Ye Lingchen look a bit similar." Jing Jianchen didn't take it to heart and just joked.

Unable to see Jing Jianchen, his fans climbed over the wall and ran to the live broadcast split screens of other guests. Most of them ran to the live broadcast split screens of Ye Lingchen and Lu Yijin, and some ran around in various split screens.

Lu Yijin took out his phone and prepared to order a midnight snack for the two of them. If Ye Lingchen didn't want to eat, he wouldn't bother to cook. He asked while swiping his phone, "Ye Chenchen, do you want some crayfish?"

"Yes." Ye Lingchen didn't know what it was, but whenever Lu Yijin asked, he would say he wanted to eat it. He held the straw in his mouth and glanced at Lu Yijin, "Ye Chenchen? You called me?"

"Yeah, everyone calls you that, so I want to call you that too." Lu Yijin knew that some of Ye Lingchen's fans called him Ye Chenchen. He thought it sounded nice, so he followed suit.

"Okay." His royal brother used to call him so affectionately.

Lu Yijin held up her phone to show Ye Lingchen, "How about this one?"

"What are you doing?" Ye Lingchen asked curiously.

"Order takeout using your phone." This question made Lu Yijin feel a little unsure. Is there something wrong?

“This thing is amazing.”

"You've never ordered takeout?"

"No." Ye Lingchen shook his head.

The netizens in his live broadcast split screen immediately condemned the Ye family again. What kind of family is this? The child can't even order takeout!

Ye Lingchen remembered that he also had something called a mobile phone. "Wait for me, I'll take my phone."

He went upstairs and took out his phone to show Lu Yijin, "Why isn't mine lit?"

"The battery is out, let me charge it for you."

Ye Lingchen has a strong learning ability. He understood a little bit when he saw Lu Yijin swiping on his phone. Things in this era are really amazing.

When Han Zeyu came downstairs, he saw that there was no dinner on the table and asked, "Lu Yijin, what are we having for dinner tonight?"

"I ordered takeout. I want to eat crayfish with Ye Chenchen." Lu Yijin turned his head and said.

"Why don't you cook? Ordering takeout is so unhealthy."

Ye Lingchen didn't tolerate his bad habits. "Cook whatever you want to eat yourself. Don't treat Lu Xiaojin like a maid."

"Ye Lingchen, you treat Lu Yijin as a maid." He found that he and Ye Lingchen were incompatible, and Ye Lingchen often embarrassed him.

"Well, stop arguing. I want to make something to eat for Ye Chenchen." Lu Yijin's tears began to accumulate when they quarreled.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't cry." Ye Lingchen saw that his little chef's eyes were red again, and quickly put down the fruit tea in his hand to comfort him.

When He Qingshui went downstairs, he heard the two arguing, "I'll make dinner, do you want anything to eat?"

Lu Yijin shook his head, "Ye Chenchen and I ordered crayfish."

He Qingshui put on an apron and started to cook dinner. Han Zeyu also came over and said, "Qingshui, let me help you cook."

Ye Lingchen stroked Lu Yijin's fluffy hair and said, "Alright, if anyone dares to bully you, I'll twist their hair off."

Ye Lingchen grabbed his sleeve and wiped his tears. Lu Yijin blushed embarrassedly, "It's okay, I just do this when we have an argument."

Seeing the tears on Ye Lingchen's sleeves, Lu Yijin sighed, "Don't wipe them with this piece of clothing. This is the clothing Brother Chen just bought for you today. It seems to cost more than two thousand yuan."

"Is it expensive?" Ye Lingchen had no idea about the currency of this era.

"It's expensive, but an average person's salary is only three or four thousand."

Ye Lingchen only then realized that the clothes Jing Jianchen bought him today were not cheap. He rubbed his wet sleeves and said, "It's so expensive! If I had it, it would be equivalent to a month's salary for a palace maid. And this was bought for me by Jing Jianchen."

Seeing that Ye Lingchen was so nervous about the dress, Lu Yijin burst into laughter, a bubble of snot popped up, and Ye Lingchen chuckled.

Lu Yijin's face flushed red, and he quickly took out a tissue to wipe his nose, "Ye Chenchen, stop laughing! If you laugh again, I'll be angry!"

"Hahaha, stop laughing, stop laughing, hahaha~"

The crayfish that Lu Yijin ordered were delivered very quickly. Ye Lingchen was still amazed that food could be delivered in this day and age. The red crayfish were opened and placed on the table.

Lu Yijin peeled one for Ye Lingchen, who nodded, "Delicious!"

He was too lazy to peel it himself, so he just pulled the head and started eating it, skin and all. He chewed and spit out the shell. Lu Yijin quickly stopped him, "Hey, hey, hey, let me help you peel it."

Lu Yijin peeled the peels one by one. He found that Ye Lingchen seemed to be ignorant of many things, as if he was encountering many things for the first time. His personality was straightforward and simple. Lu Yijin was immediately inspired to feel a fatherly love in his heart, and he wanted to protect Ye Chenchen well!

While Ye Lingchen was happily eating crayfish, Ye Chengan's social media account exploded, with comments scolding him for bullying others and usurping their position.

Ye Chengan fought back arrogantly at first, but as more and more people came over, he realized that he seemed to be trapped. He was just bullying Ye Lingchen, so why did so many people stand up for him?

As soon as he logged into the social platform, he discovered that Ye Lingchen had actually gone to film a variety show, and the video of him bullying Ye Lingchen was hanging on it. He was so scared that the flesh on his face trembled, and he quickly cancelled his account.

"Mom, mom! That little bitch Ye Lingchen actually entered the entertainment industry!" Ye Chengzong crawled to find his mother.

The mother and son then realized that Ye Lingchen had gone to film a variety show, and that their son was being chased and scolded. Li Yao pretended to be calm, "It's okay, it's okay. Your father is abroad now, he won't know."

"Mom, Ye Lingchen has become successful now, and he even dares to scold me." Ye Chengzong said indignantly.

"His mother is paying for his living expenses. How will he survive without them?" Li Yao said. "This little bitch must be just like his mother, relying on a facade to pretend to be innocent."

Ye Chengzong threw his phone away and felt that it was nothing. It was just someone scolding him through the Internet cable. As long as he didn't read it, it would be fine. He was still the powerful young master of the Ye family.

The next day, Li Yao wore a dress to attend a tea party for noble ladies. She dressed up carefully and took expensive jewelry with her. She had worked hard to get into the upper-class circle of noble ladies. Although the Ye family was also a wealthy family, it was still a long way behind those real wealthy families.

Li Yao was walking through the crowd, holding a glass of red wine. Everyone moved out of the way wherever she went. Li Yao was completely confused. She found a friend she was relatively close to and asked, "Xiao Rou, what's going on with everyone today?"

In the past, when she attended tea parties, everyone was happy to have her chat, but today when she raised her glass, some wealthy wives turned their heads away arrogantly.

The lady in a white dress took a step back. "Don't you know what you did? Now everyone knows it. You actually destroyed someone's family."

Many people looked over and started whispering to each other. What these rich wives and daughters hated most was the mistress taking the position. Not only did Li Yao become the mistress, but she also treated the legitimate young master harshly. Many people saw the trending searches online and felt that such a beautiful child was really pitiful.

"Xiao Rou, what are you talking about?" Li Yao was confused. What was going on?

A sister in a red, wavy dress came over, holding a red wine glass. "Li Yao, don't you know what you've done? Your Ye family is a well-known family. Don't you know how you got to the top? And you teamed up with your ugly son to bully the young master of the Ye family."

Li Yao's face paled twice as much. She pretended to be calm and said, "Everyone has misunderstood. My husband and I only got together after Sister Fu passed away."

"What about your son? Isn't he the son of the Ye family?"

Li Yao gritted her teeth and denied, "No, Chengzong is my ex-husband and my child, and the surname Ye was changed later."

Li Yao could only insist that her son was not Ye Zhendong's child, otherwise her shameful history of rising to power would be exposed. She did not expect that Ye Lingchen, such a taciturn person, would actually run into the entertainment industry. Her past must not be exposed.

The sister in the red dress took a sip of red wine. She lifted her eyelids and glanced at the lotus-like woman. Tsk, men just like this kind of pitiful and delicate woman. "But it's true that you treated Ye Lingchen harshly, Mrs. Xu. People like this don't deserve to be in our social circle."

An elderly lady nodded and said, "Mrs. Ye, please go back."

Li Yao walked out of the venue in a mess. Many people cast unfriendly glances at her along the way. Li Yao, who was sitting in the car, scratched her fingers with her nails. Fu Qingyang had been dead for so many years, and he still jumped out to make things difficult for her!

Ye Lingchen just entered the entertainment industry, but without money and power, how can he survive?

The car had just gone a short distance when Ye Chengzong called, "Mom, I got into a fight at school. Please come to the Academic Affairs Office to pick me up."

"Chengzong, are you okay? Mommy will be there soon."

"It's okay. I was hit by someone on purpose while playing basketball, so I fought with them." It was more than okay. Ye Chengzong's eyes turned into panda eyes.