Chapter 111 Something Happened at Home

After Yan Yuchuan returned to China and settled down, he sent a message to his adoptive father Yan Jiru.

Yan Jiru looked at the video with a nostalgic look on his face: "I never thought that after so many years, China has developed to this point."

When Yan Jiru left China, he was still a young man in his twenties. Now he is already middle-aged. He has not set foot on this homeland for twenty years.

Because of the influence of Yan Jiru, although Yan Yuchuan did not live in China since he was a child, he had all kinds of beautiful imaginations about this land.

After coming here this time, Yan Yuchuan found that this place is really beautiful. People can walk on the street with expensive jewelry without worrying that someone will suddenly rush out and rob them.

The people here all have faces similar to his and his adoptive father's, and look very friendly.

The most important thing is that there are so many delicious foods here! Before, my girlfriend always complained that the food in the United States was hard to swallow. Yan Yuchuan didn’t quite understand. After all, he grew up here and was used to these foods. He didn’t think they were bad.

It was not until he came to China and experienced the delicious food here that Yan Yuchuan was instantly amazed. He also understood his girlfriend and said with emotion: "Baby, you have been wronged before, and I have been wronged too."

His words made Chu Tianyan laugh out loud.

Although Yan Yuchuan grew up in the United States, he is still a Chinese through and through, so he had no difficulty adjusting to Chinese food and quickly became addicted to it.

He now understood why his adoptive father always mentioned China with nostalgia and reluctance, as well as an emotion he could not understand.

At this time, Yan Yuchuan was still persuading Yan Jiru: "Dad, haven't you always wanted to come back to visit? Why not take this opportunity to take a good look at your hometown."

Yan Jiru was stunned for a moment, and was somewhat tempted, but then hesitated: "Let me think about it."

Yan Yuchuan didn't quite understand. It was clearly just a matter of a plane ticket, why did his adoptive father take so long to make a fuss about it?

He once asked Yan Jiru this question, and Yan was silent for a long time before answering: "There is someone I want to see there. As long as I set foot on that land, I can't help but want to find her, but she said she doesn't want to see me in this life."

Yan Yuchuan asked curiously, "Is that the person you like, Dad? Maybe that's just a girl's angry words, but you've been away for so long, maybe she's already married and has children. Then you'd better not go back, it would be bad if you cry. Now at least you still have a beautiful fantasy."

Yan Jiru: “…”

This son is good in every way, except that he grew up in the United States and has no idea that sometimes there are things that cannot be said so directly.

Yan Jiru shook his head and didn't want to bother with him. He knew better than anyone that the other party might have married and had children. After all, so many years had passed and he couldn't expect the other party to still think about him.

Moreover, he still remembered how resolute the other person's back was when he left.

Yan Jiru turned around and went back to his room, opened the drawer that he often rummaged through, took out a slightly yellowed photo from it, and stared blankly for another afternoon.

Yan Yuchuan has long been accustomed to his adoptive father's behavior, but he still doesn't understand. If you like someone, shouldn't you boldly pursue them?

He sighed, hoping that this time his adoptive father would come to his senses and come back to China to take a look.

Qi Nian was about to go to school, but when he passed by the yard, Yan Yuchuan, who was playing badminton with Chu Tianyan, said, "Brother, wait!"

Qi Nian was stunned for a moment and stopped: "Brother Yuchuan, is there something wrong?"

"Nothing." Yan Yuchuan was very familiar. He put his arm on Qi Nian's shoulder and asked curiously, "Brother, I want to ask you a question. Have you ever been to the United States before? I don't mean anything else. I just think you look familiar. I always feel like... I've seen you somewhere before."

Although Chu Tianyan said that this might be his illusion, Yan Yuchuan's character is like this. When he has doubts in his heart, he always can't help but want to figure them out.

So when he saw Qi Nian, he didn't even bother to play badminton and hurriedly stopped him to ask.

Qi Nian didn't care that Yan Yuchuan thought he looked familiar. After all, it was normal to meet two people who looked alike but had no relationship.

Moreover, perhaps because Yan Yuchuan grew up in the United States, he is more face-blind to the appearance of Chinese people.

Qi Nian shook his head: "You may be mistaken. I have never been to the United States."

"Oh, okay, maybe I really remembered it wrong." Yan Yuchuan was a little disappointed and half-jokingly said, "Maybe I saw you on a Chinese program. After all, you are very beautiful."

It turns out that Yan Yuchuan has been influenced by foreign culture since he was a child, and he is particularly straightforward when praising people.

"I'll tell you, you must have remembered it wrongly." Chu Tianyan saw that he had finished asking questions, and then said, "Nian Nian has never been to the United States, how could I not know this?"

Yan Yuchuan scratched his head embarrassedly.

Chu Tianyan waved at Qi Nian and said, "Niannian, go to class quickly. Don't be late. Big Brother is waiting for you outside."

Qi Nian: "Oh, right, I'm leaving now. Bye."

He waved his hand and walked away quickly.

Chu Tianyan smiled and shook her head, waving her badminton stick, and said to Yan Yuchuan, "Come on, continue."

Not far away, two sneaky figures took in everything that happened.

Chu Tianheng was the first to voice his dissatisfaction: "Tsk, he's obviously my brother, yet he calls me brother so affectionately."

"Who said it wasn't true?" Chu Zhen was very dissatisfied with the brat who kidnapped his daughter.

He simply walked over and said, "Tianyan, the sun is so strong, don't let it get you sunburned. Let dad fight him."

Upon hearing this, Chu Tianyan put her hands on her hips, panted and stopped moving. She was tired and wanted to rest for a while, so she gave the badminton racket to Chu Zhen.

Chu Zhen took the racket, looked at the big sun above his head, and shook his head: "It's really sunny, it's really heartless, such a big sun, and let Tianyan stay under it."

"Uncle, I heard what you said." Yan Yuchuan raised his voice not far away.

Chu Zhen showed some embarrassment on his face and coughed lightly.

Yan Yuchuan seemed not to notice his embarrassment and continued, "But uncle, I still have to correct you. The sun is not that big, and it is good to get more sun. Look at Tianyan, oh, she is so healthy."

Chu Tianyan exercises regularly and sunbathes, so her skin is close to wheat color and has a healthy beauty.

Chu Zhen felt that Yan Yuchuan was even more troubled. As expected, this foreigner just couldn't speak!

Although Yanyuchuan has a Chinese appearance, its interior has been completely eroded by foreigners!

Chu Zhen swung his racket, intending to teach Yan Yuchuan some lessons, thinking back to when Yan Yuchuan was young, he was a well-known badminton prince!

However, after all, that was a thing of their youth. After a short while, Chu Zhen was sweating and panting from exhaustion, while Yan Yuchuan, who exercised frequently, was only slightly out of breath.

Because of the opponent's various showy playing styles, Chu Zhen's exercise volume increased sharply and he ran all over the court.

Chu Zhen was very tired, but Yan Yuchuan had no idea about the ways of the world and was so tired of his future father-in-law that he cursed his mother in his heart.

Chu Tianyan winked at him frantically, and Yan Yuchuan smiled with his white teeth, and said caringly: "Baby, if your eyes are uncomfortable, don't look here, I can do it!"

Chu Tianyan lowered her head and slapped her forehead hard.

"Tsk tsk, your boyfriend must be a fool, right?" Chu Tianheng said faintly.

Chu Tianyan rolled her eyes: "He doesn't really understand the ways of the world."

Before the two of them could say anything more, Chu Zhen cried out "Ouch!" and they hurried over to see. It turned out that Chu Zhen's waist was twisted while playing badminton with Yan Yuchuan.

After a while, Chu Zhen lay on the bed. Ning Min applied medicated oil to him and couldn't help muttering, "How old are you? You're still comparing yourself to young people. It's okay now. Your waist is sprained. It hurts you so much!"

Chu Zhen: "Hiss...be gentle! Who knew this guy wouldn't even give way to me, and even deliberately hit me so far every time!"

"Puchi... let you show off again!" Ning Min couldn't help laughing.

On the other side, Chu Tianyan was also educating Yan Yuchuan: "You are really something. You don't even know how to give way to my dad."

Yan Yuchuan was puzzled: "Why should I give in when playing badminton? I have to show myself in front of my father-in-law."

Well, in order to show off himself in front of Chu Zhen, Yan Yuchuan played in a showy way from beginning to end, but it ended up making things difficult for Chu Zhen.

Seeing that Chu Tianyan was silent, Yan Yuchuan smiled ingratiatingly and said, "But uncle is old now, so he should exercise in moderation. Don't be so stubborn in the future."

Chu Tianyan: “…”

She said, "If you tell my dad that he is old, he will be so angry that he will die."

Yan Yuchuan expressed his understanding, well, it turns out that Chinese people also care so much about age.

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On the other side, Qi Nian quickly got into the car, turned his head and looked at Chu Rongshi with shining eyes: "Brother, why didn't you go to the company?"

Chu Rongshi explained: "I took a few days off after my business trip."

"Oh, so you still know how to rest." Qi Nian deliberately snorted and glared at him.

Chu Rongshi pretended not to notice his strange tone and said with a smile: "I'm not a machine, how could I not know how to rest?"

"That's good to know." Qi Nian added, "Oh, by the way, just now Brother Yuchuan called me and asked me if I had ever been to the United States. Guess why?"

Chu Rongshi raised his eyebrows slightly, looking very interested.

Qi Nian continued, "He said that I looked familiar to him, as if he had seen me somewhere before. But I have never been out of China, and he has never been to China either. I think he may have remembered it wrongly, after all, there are many people who look alike."

"Does he think you look familiar?" Chu Rongshi frowned slightly, then smiled and shook his head: "Like you said, maybe he just remembered it wrong."

"Yeah." Qi Nian just said it casually and didn't take it to heart at all.

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Qi Nian received the long-awaited good news from Cheng Yelei that the various departments of the paparazzi company founded by the other party had finally been set up.

Cheng Yelei shared the company's situation with a smile: "Now I have found professionals to train them. Of course, there are also professionals who have joined our company. My welfare benefits are just a little more conscientious. They are all very moved. They are all eager to dig up big gossips about celebrities. Now we have a lot of gossips in our hands. We are just waiting for the time to warm up and go live directly."

It has to be said that no matter which industry, especially the money-making industry, there are always capitalists who exploit workers. Qi Nian even took a special look at Cheng Yelei's welfare benefits.

At first glance, the treatment seems to be very good, but if you think about it carefully, it is actually within the normal range, it is just that it is made particularly outstanding by other capitalists.

Qi Nian felt a little sad when he heard it.

"By the way, Qi Nian, do you want to listen to the content of these gossips? As your friend, I still believe in your character, as long as you don't tell anyone secretly." Cheng Yelei obviously knew what his friend liked and made faces crazily.

Unexpectedly, Qi Nian rejected her request this time: "No, although I really want to listen, I have to go to class later. If I get too addicted to it, I won't be able to concentrate on the class."

Qi Nian secretly asked, "When are you going to broadcast live? I will go to your broadcast room and watch it to increase your popularity."

Cheng Yelei thought it was a good idea. He was very confident in the effect of this live broadcast, so there was no need to increase popularity. He just wanted his friends to witness that his first entrepreneurial success!

Perhaps for others, this success is worth celebrating, but it is nothing. But for Cheng Yelei, who has failed every time he started a business, this is a sign of his comeback!

Because of this, Cheng Yelei, who used to be carefree all day long, has had trouble sleeping in the past two days. When he couldn't sleep well, he could only stare at the company's publicity department every day to see how the preheating enthusiasm was.

He felt somewhat relieved only after he noticed that the number of followers on his paparazzi company's Weibo account was rising sharply.

As for those people who lost their patience and cursed them as unscrupulous spectators in the comments below the Weibo, Cheng Yelei was not angry at all when he saw their comments, and even revealed a mysterious smile.

After all, these are the cornerstones of his success!

“By the way, I also have to say hello to the relevant persons in charge on Weibo, to prevent other people from not knowing my background and blocking my live broadcast room.” After Cheng Yelei finished speaking, he hurried off to make arrangements.

Qi Nian opened Weibo and was about to search for Cheng Yelei's company and prepare to follow him, but then he remembered that he didn't know the name of the other party's company, so he could only send a message to Cheng Yelei.

【Qinian】: What is your company's Weibo account? I'd like to follow it.

【Cheng Yelei】: Paparazzi company.

【Joint thoughts】：?

[Cheng Yelei]: It’s called “Official Weibo of Paparazzi Company”.

【Joint Thoughts】：……

[Cheng Yelei]: What do you think? I picked the name myself!

Although they were just words, Qi Nian had already imagined them to be Ye Lei's smug tone.

Qi Nian smiled, opened the emoticon package, and sent a thumbs-up.

He searched for "official Weibo of paparazzi company" and found an account named Jin Cancan.

As Cheng Yelei said, because of the good preheating in the early stage, the company’s Weibo already has nearly 100,000 followers.

Although it doesn't sound like much and can't be compared with those celebrities and internet celebrities, you have to know that this account was newly registered not long ago, and most of the fans are active fans.

Cheng Yelei felt that his account was not that of a celebrity or internet celebrity, so he didn't need to use data to buy fans, so the comments under his Weibo post were all typed by real people one by one.

Qi Nian curiously looked through the previous Weibo posts of this account and soon understood why it attracted so much attention.

Because of the existence of the entertainment industry, paparazzi has now become a mature industry.

However, the paparazzi always hide the information they reveal, using terms such as "a top star", "an artist with the surname x", "a big star", or "a movie emperor" to replace the information.

At the beginning, the crowd was very interested and would guess who was being exposed. As a result, they were excited for several days, but in the end, the melon they ate was completely different from what they had imagined.

Artists who just have a little bit of traffic are called "top-tier", and some artists who have no acting skills at all are called "Best Actor" just because they won a water award?

Isn't this just misleading?

The crowd of spectators seriously suspected that these paparazzi did not tell them the real names of the artists before breaking the news, in fact, they did so in order to let the teams of these artists pay to buy the material they filmed!

In the end, the only ones who get hurt are those who are sincere and watch the show from the bottom of their hearts!

So now the crowd of people who like to watch the gossip have become immune to this. In the past, the comments under the paparazzi’s Weibo posts were all kinds of speculations, but now they have turned into ridicule towards the paparazzi.

However, Cheng Yelei’s paparazzi company is completely different. Compared with the above ones, they are simply a clear stream in the industry!

Because before they broke the news, they actually revealed the name of the person who caused the melon!

This approach not only made the gossipers trust them and willing to believe that they really had gossip, but also made the fans of these gossipers come to the paparazzi's Weibo one after another to rush to them. Unfortunately, the more they jumped, the more they only added heat to Cheng Yelei's subsequent live broadcast.

Although the fans of the melon owner said firmly that "I will definitely not watch it when the time comes" and "This is just a rumor", they were actually very nervous and went to the melon owner's studio one by one to ask them to clarify.

The studio staff were speechless: He just said the name and nothing else, how can we clarify it!

Some studios were left with no choice but to send a lawyer's letter as a token of their respect, but it was of little use and only added to the popularity of the subsequent live broadcast.

Moreover, the fans of these melon owners will definitely watch the live broadcast. If they don’t watch them, they will be anxious! How can we fight back if we don’t know what they are criticizing?

Qi Nianjian understood the current situation clearly, and as a mere spectator, he was simply laughing.

Originally, he just followed Cheng Yelei's company's Weibo out of friendship and a bit of curiosity, but now, he is no different from those people who are jumping around to watch the show.

He even couldn't help but want to poke Cheng Ye Lei and ask him to tell him the content of these gossips. However, seeing that the teacher of this class had come in, he quickly turned off his phone and forced himself to focus on the class.

As for eating melons and stuff, just wait and watch the live broadcast.

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After a day's classes, Qi Nian stretched a little and yawned.

"What were you looking at before that made you so excited?" Lu Ze had wanted to ask for a long time, but there were too many classes today and they were busy on the way to the next class, so he didn't have the chance.

Qi Nian immediately told Cheng Yelei about starting a company with great interest, and said that he would announce the big news in a live broadcast in a few days.

Lu Ze immediately took out his phone and said honestly, "Wait, I'll pay attention to it too."

"You are so busy, how can you find time to read this?" Qi Nian asked while arranging the books.

Lu Ze: “You need to relax once in a while.”

In his eyes, Jiang Yi was no longer competitive, but his cautious character made him not take the opponent lightly.

After all, Jiang Yi also has an advantage that he can't compare with, that is, the favoritism of Jiang's father.

But at the same time, Jiang's father's favoritism is limited, especially when it comes to the interests of the company. He cares more about who can bring greater benefits to the company.

So, what should I say? Be careful, but not too careful.

Qi Nian nodded in agreement.

At this moment, Lu Ze's cell phone rang urgently. He turned on the phone and found it was his mother calling. He frowned, had a bad feeling, and quickly answered the call.

Over there, Lu's mother cried, "Xiao Ze, something happened to your cousin!"

Qi Nian didn't hear clearly what was said on the phone, but when he saw Lu Ze's face suddenly turned bad, he couldn't help but become nervous.

Lu Ze exhaled, immediately stood up and walked out of the school: "Mom, don't worry, tell me what happened first."

Qi Nian was a little worried, so he hurried to follow.

Father Lu took Mother Lu's phone away. Father Lu seemed calmer: "Your cousin from your aunt's family secretly gave birth to a child with a man. Now that family wants to take the child away. Your cousin doesn't want to, and there's a commotion at home! Please think of a solution for us. What should we do now?"

Lu Ze's cousin had just reached adulthood, but she dropped out of school early. Although this situation is not common nowadays, it is not uncommon.

However, his cousin had already given birth to a child, and Lu Ze only found out about it now.

As Lu Ze grew up and was able to handle many things, he was no longer a child at home, but was regarded as the pillar of the family.

However, some things that seemed trivial to Lu Ze were never told to Lu Ze by his parents, for fear of affecting his studies. Unless there was really no way out of the chaos at home, they would not call Lu Ze.

That's what happened to my cousin.

Lu Ze's cousin disappeared some time ago, but because she had been like this since she was a child and often left home, she could not be contacted. Her parents were careless and didn't care.

Unexpectedly, this time she disappeared for more than half a year. When my cousin came back again, she was holding a child in her arms. No matter how her family asked, she refused to tell them what happened.

Until today, a whole family suddenly ran to my cousin's house and wanted to take her child away.

That family was very vicious and evil. When Mr. and Mrs. Lu heard the news, they also ran to help. In the end, when they saw that the situation was about to get out of hand, they had no choice but to call Lu Ze to ask him what to do.

Lu Ze frowned: "Call the police first, I'll be back soon."

Upon hearing this, Mr. and Mrs. Lu hurriedly stopped him and told him not to go back, as they were still afraid that it would delay Lu Ze's studies.

They called because they were at their wits' end. Lu Ze was smart, so they wanted him to give them some advice. How could they let their children's studies be delayed?

Lu Ze didn't say much, but repeatedly reminded them to call the police and then rush to the station immediately.

Qi Nian immediately said, "I'll go with you. Tomorrow is Friday and there aren't many classes. I'll ask my counselor for a day off."

Lu Ze thought about it and thought Qi Nian might be able to help, so he didn't refuse: "Thank you."

Qi Nian shook his head to indicate that it was not necessary.

Seeing that Lu Ze was in a bad mood, he didn't say much. He lowered his head to send a message to his family and also sent a message to his counselor to ask for leave.