Chapter One-Hundred and Forty-Six: The World Really Is Small (2/2)
Finally, Xiao Yu realized why Nan Wei seemed familiar. Thinking back, he had seen the young man back at the Four Season Manor.
Speaking of that time…
“Shouldn’t you have realized there was something wrong with my identity long ago?” Xiao Yu asked the question that had been bugging him and took the design draft. “Then why did you still help me out?”
“Something’s wrong with your identity?” Nan Wei looked confused. He thought about it and suddenly realized, “Don’t worry! I grew up in a very progressive place overseas. I don’t mind having another male sister-in-law.”
Xiao Yu choked. He had meant Nan Wei should have discovered he wasn’t SI’s chief designer “FISH”, but instead Nan Wei misunderstood him as this.
Although Nan Wei misunderstood, he really knew too much.
“Yan Jin, is there anything you want to explain?”
Xiao Yu directly asked him. His furious stare bore holes in the newspaper.
“Hey hey hey, don’t get so emotional, Master. I know that you two can’t announce your relationship. I won’t tell anyone. Actually, Cousin wasn’t the one who told me.”
Nan Wei normally was quite loose-lipped. With Yan Jin around, he was even more emboldened to reveal the heaven-defying secrets of the upper class, “My blood-related brother told me. His name is Nan–, erm, wait that’s not right. He now goes by Chu Ge. Master should have seen him before.”
Xiao Yu: ……
Originally, Xiao Yu had planned for today to be a happy meeting between teacher and student. After quickly getting familiar with one another, they’d formalize their master-disciple relationship. Regardless of whether Nannan wanted to leave his xxxbao shop, he’d continue to be his teacher.
But unexpectedly, he’d instead been listening to the secrets of the upper class for the last five minutes.
Xiao Yu glanced again at the newspaper not far away.
Not a peep was heard from the newspaper, but upon closer observation the newspaper moved back one centimeter.
Long before, back when Xiao Yu was still a hamster in Yan Jin’s eyes, Xiao Yu had his suspicions regarding Chu Ge’s identity.
Whether Chu Ge was Yan Jin’s or the Yan Family’s private doctor, Chu Ge’s relationship with Yan Jin was far beyond that of a normal employee and employer. It looked more like the relationship between close friends or brothers of many years.
Before, Xiao Yu had guessed that Chu Ge was from a family of low-profile officials or from a very well-off family that he didn’t want to rely on.
He definitely would never have guessed that Chu Ge was actually from the Nan Family.
In S City, the Nan Family far surpassed the Yan Family. Didn’t that mean Chu Ge should be of higher status than Yan Jin?
Xiao Yu thought back to when Yan Jin had been swamped with too much work and had resorted to calling Chu Ge over to help.
That time, Xiao Yu had wondered how a doctor like Chu Ge could handle company matters. But now, things were slowly starting to become clear.
“Aside from the design drafts, I don’t have anything else that needs to be done here. Master, any other issues?” Nan Wei sat obediently on the sofa like a disciple ready to receive instruction.
“I’ll look at these later and message you online with any feedback.” Xiao Yu put away the design drafts. Inhaling deeply, he broached his main topic, “In a few days I’ll be joining YL. I wanted to ask you if you wanted to join as well. You’d start as an assistant designer…”
Xiao Yu couldn’t continue after halfway. He’d prepared so many arguments to help convince Nan Wei such as coming to terms with his talent, not wasting his prime in selling pirated copies and replicas, developing himself in the professional world, the increased potential along this path, that it would only be for a short while of decreased income, that realizing his dreams would stay with him for a lifetime, and that Xiao Yu was willing to help him as much as possible to secure a good position.
He’d originally planned it like this.
But now…
Would the successor of NN worth tens of billions care about an xxxbao store’s income? Would Nan Wei, who was from such a powerful and influential family, never have been exposed to the path of a professional? If the cousin of YL’s chairman had come for a position in YL, would he even need to worry if the position was good or bad?
Frankly, Xiao Yu wouldn’t be needed at all. If Nan Wei wanted to do it, he would have done so long ago.
Xiao Yu felt even worse because everything he had enthusiastically been planning was for naught. On one hand, he blamed Yan Jin for not telling him sooner, and on the other, he was still wondering how Yan Jin could have been so thoughtless.
That scoundrel had probably been laughing…
But then, unexpectedly, Nan Wei appeared very happy and responded, “Of course I’d be willing. Master, you’re really too nice.”
“What?”
“If not for Master, I definitely wouldn’t be able to become a proper designer. I’m really really thankful.”
Xiao Yu felt embarrassed from the praise. He hurriedly waved his hands and said, “No, no. You’re already really awesome. I didn’t think you would have wanted to start from such a low position.”
“*Sigh*, Master, like I already said, the Nan Family is the Nan Family. I am me. There’s no relationship at all between us.” Nan Wei seemed to be entirely unaffected. “Being the second son of the Nan Family isn’t a reason to get things for free. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have needed to open my xxxbao shop.”
“I’m sorry…”
“Nono, I’m not blaming you. It’s just an example.”
“I’m joining YL next week. Will you be free at that time?”
Nan Wei thought for a while before awkwardly responding, “I probably can’t. I have business that will take me at least till the middle or end of next month. I’m very sorry that you already arranged everything…”
“No problem. I know that you need to clean up your internet store,” Xiao Yu responded.
“Erm, it’s actually not because of that. I stopped running the store long ago.” Nan Wei scratched the back of his head before smiling naively.
“It’s actually because next month, I’m going to get married. So I’ll be busy for a while.”