Chapter 57

Ye Lingchen snorted coldly and squeezed in with the security guard. Mother Lu wanted to stop them but was pushed aside by the bodyguard standing beside her with his arm outstretched.

As soon as Ye Lingchen entered the house, he ran upstairs, "Lu Xiaojin, where are you?"

"I'm here, here." Hearing the voice, Lu Yijin knocked on the door anxiously.

Ye Lingchen walked quickly to the door, he pulled the door handle and it was locked. Ye Lingchen strode downstairs, and his eager-to-eat look frightened Mother Lu so much that her legs went weak and she fell onto the sofa.

Ye Lingchen put his hand in front of Lu's mother with a cold expression, "Give me the key."

"No, no."

"Don't refuse the face I'm giving you. Believe it or not, I'll kick the door down."

The security guard on the side also advised: "Mrs. Lu, if you have anything to say, please talk to her nicely. The child is already so old, how can you lock him up?"

Mother Lu was speechless and had no choice but to hand the key to Ye Lingchen. Ye Lingchen glared at her after receiving the key. As soon as Ye Lingchen opened the door, Lu Yijin threw herself into his arms and started crying, "Ye Chenchen, you're here."

Seeing his young chef's pale face and eyes swollen like walnuts, Ye Lingchen felt heartbroken. He wanted to give that woman eighty lashes to vent his anger. Ye Lingchen patted Lu Yijin's back soothingly and said, "It's okay. Let's go."

Ye Lingchen glanced at the untouched breakfast on the table. He grabbed Lu Yijin's slender wrist and walked towards the door. Lu's mother caught up and blocked their way, "Let go of my son."

Wow, what a familiar line, it seems like his cheap dad said it yesterday.

"Don't force me to hit a woman." Ye Lingchen said angrily.

Seeing that she couldn't stop Ye Lingchen, the woman turned around and grabbed Lu Yijin's wrist, "Xiaojin, go back with mom. Mom is doing this for your own good."

Lu Yijin's tears fell again. Mom is doing this for your own good, Dad is doing this for your own good. He didn't know how many times he had heard this sentence since he was a child. He was like a fruit living in a glass bottle, growing into the shape exactly as his parents wanted.

He was almost suffocated by this suffocating love. He obviously liked literature, but his mother thought that computer science was more profitable and insisted that he choose it. He liked to make all kinds of desserts and cakes, but his mother thought that he was not doing his job properly. However, he just wanted to open a small cake shop.

Why can't he do all the things he likes? The only time he rebelled was when he secretly signed up for "Love in Progress". He knew how furious his mother would be when she knew he liked boys, but he didn't want to follow the life planned for him by his mother.

Lu Yijin's tears fell even harder. He lowered his head, tears dripping down his arms. Seeing that Lu Yijin didn't say anything, his mother thought that her son agreed. She pulled Lu Yijin's wrist and said, "Little Jin, be good and go back with your mother. You will be corrupted if you play with people like this."

"What are you talking about!" Ye Lingchen was angry. "Didn't you see he didn't want to?"

Lu Yijin pushed away Mother Lu's hand that was pulling him, "Mom, I don't want to be good anymore. Ye Chenchen is my friend."

Lu Yijin raised his head. This time he wanted to be brave and be himself. Among so many guests, he liked Ye Lingchen the most because even if he made an ugly cake, Ye Lingchen would praise him for being delicious. The longer they got along, the more attracted he became to Ye Lingchen's personality. That was something he wanted but didn't have.

He could never learn the courage to express himself and the domineering aura, because he had been growing up according to his mother's requirements.

This time, Lu Yijin took Ye Lingchen's hand and strode towards the door. "Mom, I've always liked boys. I wasn't led astray by others."

"Xiao Jin, Xiao Jin, come back!"

Lu Yijin left with Ye Lingchen without even looking back.

Lu Yijin sat in the car with tears still falling. Ye Lingchen was almost heartbroken. "Don't cry, don't cry. If you cry your eyes blind, you won't be able to see my handsome self anymore."

Lu Yijin nodded with red eyes, "I like boys, but my parents didn't agree so they locked me up."

"What's your parents' business if you like a guy? You just like him and it pissed them off. They've even gotten a marriage certificate from the Civil Affairs Bureau, and they're still trying to figure it out!"

Lu Yijin chuckled and a bubble of snot popped out of his nose. Ye Lingchen saw it and laughed too. He took out a few pieces of paper and wiped his little chef's nose. "My family still has the throne to inherit. Now the throne is gone. No, I forgot to ask about my brother's later life."

Lu Yijin just thought he was going crazy again, and he felt much better after Ye Lingchen's disturbance.

Ye Lingchen took out a small brocade box as if presenting a treasure, "This is given to you by my cheap royal brother." Ye Lingchen had always been skeptical about Qin Jinyan's claim that he was his royal brother, but considering Qin Jinyan's generosity, he had no choice but to admit it.

"It's top-notch jadeite, so beautiful." Ye Lingchen stuffed the dragon-patterned jade pendant into Lu Yijin's hand.

Although the Lu family was only a small wealthy family, Lu Yijin also recognized that this piece of jade was much better than his mother's treasured jade worth tens of millions of yuan. "I don't want it, I don't want it, it's too expensive."

"Here, I also have a jade bracelet, one for each of us." Ye Lingchen stuffed it into his hand again. It was just a piece of jade, but he still thought it was not enough. It was a pity that he was reborn, but his babies were not!

"Lu Xiaojin, let me tell you, we are rich now. Ten million is enough to buy a small house, right? When we buy it, we can live together."

Lu Yijin thought he was joking and nodded obediently, "Okay."

"I'm staying at Jing Jianchen's house now, you can stay there first."

"Are you and Teacher Jing serious?" Lu Yijin's eyes turned red again. He didn't expect that just one day later, his little cabbage was taken away from the nest by someone else.

"What's true or false? Jing Jianchen and I have been friends for thousands of years."

Lu Yijin originally didn't want to go to Jing Jianchen's house because he was afraid that his cabbage would be eaten up, so he nodded and agreed to stay at Jing Jianchen's house for a while. He would go out and rent a house after two days.

"Uncle, let's find a place to eat first." Ye Lingchen said as he took out a bottle of yogurt from the snack cabinet in his car for Lu Yijin.

Lu Yijin finally stopped crying, "Ye Chenchen, call Teacher Jing first and tell her."

"Okay, I'll tell him right away." Ye Lingchen called Jing Jianchen in front of him, and the phone was picked up before it rang twice.

"Ling Chen, what's wrong?"

"Jing Jianchen, I'm taking Lu Xiaojin home to live with us."

The word "go home" made Jing Jianchen's mouth curl up on the other end of the phone, "Okay."

"Lu Xiaojin, you heard me, right? You can stay there as long as you want." Ye Lingchen said into the phone again, "It's okay, hanging up."

Listening to the busy tone on the phone, Jing Jianchen chuckled, "You little heartless boy, just throw it away after using it."

"Teacher Jing, would you like some water?" A boy at the side handed over a bottle of water.

"No, thank you." Jing Jianchen got up and left, leaving Zhao Zeyu alone with a look of surprise. He seemed to be in a good mood when Teacher Jing called just now, so why did he leave as soon as he came?

*

Knowing that Ye Lingchen was going to give a gift to the little crybaby today, Qin Jinyan had been thinking about it since morning. Finally, after the meeting, Qin Jinyan called Ye Lingchen and asked, "Xiaochen, where did you go today?"

"Stop talking. I went to play with Lu Xiaojin today. I was so pissed off. His mother actually locked him in the house." Ye Lingchen became furious when this topic was brought up.

Qin Jinyan's heart skipped a beat when he heard that Lu Yijin was locked up at home. He calmed down and asked, "What about now? How is Lu Yijin?"

"I brought Lu Xiaojin out of the house a long time ago. He is sleeping in the house."

If Qin Jinyan remembered correctly, Ye Lingchen was currently living at Jing Jianchen's house. He had brought him out for him, but he was dragged to Jing Jianchen's house. "Brother, go over there now. Open the door for me later."

After Qin Jinyan hung up the phone, he went to Jing Jianchen's house. Along the way, he urged the driver three times to drive faster. The driver was still wondering. Their President Qin has always been steady. He has been driving for President Qin for such a long time, but this is the first time he has seen him so anxious.

Ye Lingchen was almost asleep when Qin Jinyan arrived. As soon as he came in, he stuffed the milk tea in his hand into Ye Lingchen's arms. He glanced at the living room and didn't see the little crybaby. He pretended to be nonchalant and asked, "How is your friend?"

"I'm sleeping." Ye Lingchen sipped his milk tea and felt a little better. "Brother, why are you so concerned about Lu Xiaojin?"

"Because he is your friend." Qin Jinyan suppressed the urge to go and see, and sat in the living room with Ye Lingchen to watch TV series.

Qin Jinyan quickly got the whole story out of Ye Lingchen. Hearing that the little crybaby hadn't eaten the entire day, Qin Jinyan felt incredibly distressed. How could someone he loved be bullied so easily? He immediately pulled out his phone and messaged his assistant, asking him to research Lu Yijin's family background.

The two of them just sat in the living room. Ye Lingchen was watching TV so much that his eyelids were fighting. After a while, he fell asleep hugging the pillow. Qin Jinyan then got up and gently pushed open the door of the guest room. Sure enough, the little crybaby was sleeping soundly in the quilt, with half of his little face sunken in the pillow and his eyes swollen from crying.

Qin Jinyan felt very distressed. He reached out and gently touched the little crybaby's hair, then stood by the bed and looked at him before leaving.

The assistant worked quickly and found the little crybaby's family information in a short while. From kindergarten to university, it was filled with various awards of all sizes. His mother was a housewife and his father was a small manager in a company. Their family could be considered a wealthy family.

But from what happened today, it was not difficult for Qin Jinyan to see that the little crybaby's parents actually had extremely strict control over him. His parents should be thankful that Lu Yijin did not have a mental illness, but now they actually locked him up because of the little crybaby's sexual orientation.

Qin Jinyan felt distressed after reading Lu Yijin's information. He saw a familiar name on it, Shengtian Media. The little crybaby's father actually worked in his company.

"Ye Chenchen." A soft and tender voice pulled Qin Jinyan out of his thoughts.

"woke up."

Lu Yijin looked at the person who stood up. His sleepy brain was a little slow to react for a long time. He looked familiar. Who was this?

"Why don't you remember me?" The sleepy little crybaby was dazed, like a lost little rabbit. Qin Jinyan was shamefully cute. How could he be so adorable?

Lu Yijin shook his sleepy head and remembered who the imposing man in front of him was. He remembered that it was the man who bullied Ye Chenchen that day. Lu Yijin's face immediately fell, "Why are you here?"

Qin Jinyan chuckled. This little guy was quite vindictive. It seemed that he still remembered that he pushed Ye Lingchen that day. How could he not remember that he pulled him up that day? Not only was he crybaby, but he was also vindictive.

"I'm here to look for Xiaochen." Qin Jinyan deliberately called Ye Lingchen by his nickname. "Didn't he tell you about our relationship?"

Lu Yijin shook his head warily.

Ye Lingchen, who was sleeping on the sofa, was awakened by the sound of the two talking. He poked his head out from the sofa and said, "Lu Xiaojin, you're awake."

Lu Yijin squeezed next to Ye Lingchen and whispered in Ye Lingchen's ear, "Why is he here? Could it be..." An absurd yet somewhat reasonable idea popped up in Lu Yijin's mind. Could it be that Qin Jinyan wanted to take advantage of Ye Chenchen?

"He's my royal brother." Ye Lingchen admitted directly, "Let me tell you, in my previous life, I was a young prince of the Dasheng Dynasty. He is my royal brother."

Lu Yijin's mind was now filled with the word "over". Ye Chenchen's paranoia was getting worse, but what about this royal brother?! Lu Yijin glanced at Qin Jinyan unkindly. He reasonably suspected that Qin Jinyan was lying to his little girl. "Really?"

"Of course, how could I not recognize my royal brother? I was wondering how someone could look exactly like him. And Jing Jianchen also knew him. He also knew what my royal brother looked like." Lu Yijin was also skeptical about Qin Jinyan's identity at first, but Jing Jianchen would never lie to him. If he was a fake, his family's tutor would have blown the guy's head off long ago.

Lu Yijin was now half-believing and half-doubting. Could it be that time travel and reincarnation really existed in this world? But this was too much of a coincidence, to travel through time and be reborn three times in one go?

"Xiaochen, are you hungry? I'll take you to eat." Qin Jinyan said. The little crybaby's eyes rolled around, and it was obvious that he didn't believe what he said.

"Wait for me to find some clothes." Ye Lingchen said and ran to his room.

Although Lu Yijin was a little afraid of this person in front of him who looked difficult to deal with, he still mustered up the courage to look Qin Jinyan in the eye. "I don't care if you are real or fake, or what your purpose is. If you dare to hurt Ye Chenchen, I will never let you go!"

This cowardly and fierce look made Qin Jinyan feel itchy, and he really wanted to rub the cute red-eyed rabbit a few times.

"Why won't you let me go?" Qin Jinyan teased the little crybaby in front of him.

This cold tone sounded malicious to Lu Yijin, and tears welled up in his eyes again, "I, I won't let you go even if I become a ghost!"

When Qin Jinyan saw that he had made the other person cry, he quickly whispered to him, "I was just teasing you, don't be angry. Ye Lingchen is my brother, how could I bully him?"

"You're the best!" Red-eyed Bunny said stubbornly, raising his head. He raised the back of his hand to wipe his tears, and the jade pendant on his wrist came into view. Lu Yijin remembered that this thing also belonged to this annoying person. He took off the pendant and threw it on the sofa, "I'll give it back to you."

Qin Jinyan felt a little helpless. He didn't do anything, so why did he make the other person cry again? Now the relationship did not ease, and it seemed that the other party hated him even more.

"Royal brother, let's go." Ye Lingchen came out after changing his clothes. He had just opened the wardrobe in his bedroom, which was full of clothes. There were also a few pajamas hanging on it, some of which had small animals on them. It was obvious that the style was not the pajamas that Jing Jianchen wore, so why did he say he didn't have pajamas yesterday?

Ye Lingchen looked unhappy with his face. He wondered if his tutor had brought other boys to live here before.

"Remember to call me brother when you go out next time, remember?" Qin Jinyan said.

"I know." Ye Lingchen looked up and saw that Lu Xiaojin's eyes, which were already swollen, were red again. "Lu Xiaojin! Why are you crying again? Did my brother bully you?"

"No, no, I just thought of my mother." Lu Yijin lied.

"It's okay. If you're still sad, I'll go and help you beat up your dad."

Lu Yijin shook his head and changed the subject, "Ye Chenchen, I'm hungry."

"Come on, let's go eat."

Qin Jinyan took the two of them to a private restaurant specializing in healthy eating. He ordered some light and stomach-nourishing dishes, then handed the menu to them and said, "Order whatever you want."

Ye Lingchen ordered his favorite spicy chicken and garlic shrimp. Lu Yijin sat next to Ye Lingchen and poured tea for the three of them. His well-behaved appearance was completely different from his fierce look just now.

As soon as the dishes came, Qin Jinyan served a bowl of pigeon soup to the crying boy opposite him. The crying boy handed it to the person next to him without giving him face, "Ye Chenchen, you drink it."

Qin Jinyan poured him another bowl and apologized to him sincerely: "I'm sorry, it was a misunderstanding before."

That's why Lu Yijin didn't take the soup away.

The three of them were having a great time eating. Jing Jianchen, who had returned from the crew early, found the house empty and no one was there. He called Ye Lingchen and found out that Qin Jinyan had taken the two of them out for dinner.

Jing Jianchen went downstairs to look for someone again. Qin Jinyan, the old fox, took advantage of his absence to destroy his house.

When Jing Jianchen arrived, the three of them had already finished eating. Jing Jianchen took off his coat and put it aside, wiped his hands and naturally started peeling the shrimps on the table.

"Why did you bring the person out without telling me?" Jing Jianchen said somewhat dissatisfiedly.

"People are living in your house, but you didn't tell me." Qin Jinyan replied in a low voice.

Jing Jianchen placed a small bowl of peeled shrimp in front of Ye Lingchen and asked, "Would you like to join me on the set tomorrow?"

"Okay." Ye Lingchen was immediately interested when he heard that he was going to join the crew. His tutor always told him that the martial arts dramas he watched were fake, but he didn't believe it and decided to go and watch it tomorrow.

"Which crew is it?" Qin Jinyan asked.

"A film and television drama adapted from the novel 'Nan Sang Dynasty'."

Qin Jinyan nodded. This crew was still under his company. If Ye Lingchen went there tomorrow, the little crybaby would definitely go with him.

After dinner, everyone went back to Jing Jianchen's house together. Qin Jinyan asked his assistant to buy some clothes and snacks for him and brought them up. Of course, one for each of Lu Yijin and Ye Lingchen, otherwise, given the little crybaby's personality, he would definitely not accept them.

Qin Jinyan watched the little crybaby move the things into the house before leaving with satisfaction.

When Ye Lingchen saw the clothes, he remembered that there were other people's clothes in the room where he slept. He felt disgusted, "Jing Jianchen, I want to change rooms."

"What's wrong? You don't like that room?"

"I don't like it. I hate it. How can I live in a room that has been lived in by someone else?" Ye Lingchen said with his arms folded.

Jing Jianchen was confused by this person who suddenly lost his temper, "No one has lived here before. You are the second person to live in my house."

"Then why are there other people's clothes in my room!"

Jing Jianchen finally understood what he was fussing about. He chuckled, "Those are all your clothes. I asked my assistant to buy them for you yesterday, but he forgot to tell me."

The assistant said, I won’t take the blame.

Only then did Ye Lingchen realize that he had misunderstood Jing Jianchen. He said "oh" and ran to Lu Yijin's room awkwardly.

He threw himself onto Lu Yijin's bed in frustration. Why did he look so much like the jealous concubines of those officials just now?

"Ye Chenchen, what's wrong with you?"

"fine!"

Lu Yijin also lay down next to Ye Lingchen. The scent of Ye Lingchen's shampoo, which smelled of green orange, wafted into his nose. He hesitated for a long time before asking, "Ye Chenchen, are you and Teacher Jing really going to the second season of the variety show together?"

"Not really."

"Do you like Jing Jianchen?"

"I don't like it...I don't know." When suddenly asked this question, Ye Lingchen didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Lu Yijin sniffed and felt like crying again. The cabbage he had worked so hard to raise seemed to be about to run away.

Ye Lingchen turned over and saw that his little chef's eyes were red again. He quickly got up and said, "Hey, hey, hey, Lu Xiaojin, don't cry. Is it okay if I don't go?"

"I heard the penalty for breach of contract is very high. I can't afford it even if I sell both of them."

"Then what should we do? Oh, right, isn't my brother the boss of this variety show? We'll talk to him someday and try to get you in."

Lu Yijin shook his head. He always felt that Qin Jinyan approached Ye Lingchen with some ill intentions, but he couldn't see it now.

"Don't cry, my brother bought snacks for us two. We played games and ate snacks, and then called Meng Zhanyang and the other two to play together."

"Um."

The two played together until midnight. Ye Lingchen originally planned to sleep in the same room with Lu Yijin, but Jing Jianchen knocked on the door and took her back to his room.

Ye Lingchen, who was so sleepy that he was crying, was still mumbling, "Master, why are you going through so much trouble? Lu Xiaojin and I can just sleep in the same room."

"Have you forgotten that you have a bad sleeping posture? What if you push Lu Yijin out of bed in the middle of the night?"

Ye Lingchen thought so too. He yawned and rolled back to his room, leaving Lu Yijin sitting alone on the bed, wishing she could stare a hole in Jing Jianchen's back.

The next morning, Jing Jianchen woke them up and went to the crew together. Ye Lingchen was a little excited along the way and was a little sleepy at first, but he couldn't fall asleep.

Jing Jianchen handed the two people he brought over to the assistant to look after first, and reminded them: "Don't run around, I'm going to put on makeup first."