Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Four: About His Elders (2/2)

“Waitwaitwaitwait!”

Before Madam Fang could continue with her lecture, Xiao Yu finally found an opportunity to interject, “Actually, I’m already seeing… someone.”

Xiao Yu hadn’t thought too much and had almost blurted out that he had a boyfriend.

Shocked silence came from the phone. After a while, she said pleasantly, “Really? That’s great! How long have you known her? Is she reliable? What kind of person is she? What does she do?”

Instead of asking why he hadn’t told her something so important earlier, Madam Fang reacted like a normal mother digging for more information about her son’s girlfriend. Her happiness seemed so natural.

Faye let out a very timely meow which woke Xiao Yu up from his slightly sour feelings.

“We’ve known each other for about a year now but we only formalized our relationship recently. The person I’m going out with treats me very well and works in… operations management.”

There would only be more problems if he revealed the title of “Chairman”, so he had no choice but to downgrade Yan Jin. In his heart, he apologized to Yan Jin.

In a market not far away, Yan Jin, whose social status had been lowered by about ten levels, sneezed.

“Hmm, so it’s an administrative job. Not bad, it should be pretty stable. The only thing is that the pay might not be as high.”

“It-It’s still pretty high.” Xiao Yu recalled that long ago in a magazine, he’d seen that Yan Jin’s net worth was at least eight figures.

Speaking of which, that was three years ago. YL had developed so much in the last few years. How much was Yan Jin worth now?

Xiao Yu felt it was better not to think too much about it.

“For someone you’re going to be spending a long time with together, don’t look took too much into these details. It’s fine as long as you like her.”

Madam Fang, who had always given Xiao Yu the impression that she haggled over every cent, now appeared like she was incomparably open-minded. Just from her tone, she sounded very accepting and magnanimous about her future daughter-in-law.

“Although I said that it’s fine as long as you like her, do bring her over so I can sound her out for you. As a child, you were always very simple. Seeing that you make so much now, if you get swindled, you’re not the type of person to argue either… Don’t worry, when you marry, Little Hao and I won’t keep hanging onto you. I’ll follow Little Hao; I don’t need a daughter-in-law to come take care of me. Whoever you marry will be the only person you need to care about day-to-day. You won’t have an evil demanding mother-in-law. I promise not to bother or harm you…”

For someone who didn’t like to talk about family matters, Madam Fang’s long monologue was the equivalent of an entire year’s worth of normal conversation with Xiao Yu.

However, her words gave Xiao Yu an extremely uncomfortable feeling. It was as if introducing his “girlfriend” to Madam Fang would be his last interaction with her.

After that—after that, would his life be meaningless to her?

“Even if I form my own family, you’ll always be my close relative.” Xiao Yu gripped the phone tightly.

It was clearly a statement that revealed all of his thoughts, but the tone on the other end suddenly became stiff.

“I understand your intentions. There’s no need to say pleasantries.”

“I…”

“Alright, I’ve already said everything that I should say. The two of you should come over for a meal. Let me know ahead of time when you’re getting married. As the elder, there’s still much I need to prepare.

“Aunty Fang, if…” Xiao Yu gnashed his teeth as he considered revealing Yan Jin’s identity. However, Madam Fang’s next words dispelled this idea.

“Right, I almost forgot the most important thing. In this age, there’s no longer a need to have children in order to take care of you when you become old. However, you still must have children to ensure that there will still be people to remember and recount your life and think about. Don’t you dare follow that new trend of having two bread-earners in the household without any kids. Your Aunty is old now and cannot tolerate that stuff. If your father’s spirit is still around, he’d definitely want to see his future grandchildren.”

Xiao Yu’s indicated his assent so softly that it was hard to hear.

“Okay, if there’s nothing else, I’m hanging up then. I’ll go to your house in a couple days to deliver some stuff to you.”

“Hey, wait a moment. Umm, I’ve moved houses. I’m at the Golden Age Gardens area now.”

Xiao Yu racked his brains for a normal address, but couldn’t quickly come up with one. He could only first give the approximate location of Yan Jin’s villa.

He could only hope that Madam Fang didn’t have a strong understanding of City S’s housing market distribution. Hopefully from these tiny clues, she wouldn’t be able to work out his exact location.

Rather surprisingly, Madam Fang quickly accepted the response.

“That’s true, you two have been dating each other for a year now. It’s about time you two move in together. Let’s drop the issue for now; I’ll come find you at a later time. Alright, I’m hanging up now.”

“Goodbye.”

After hanging up, Xiao Yu sank into a blank but happy state.

This was probably the first time Madam Fang had cared for him so much. Like a normal mother, she had called in to check on her son and urge him to get married. Similarly, Xiao Yu was also like a normal son confused at what do from the urging.

If it wasn’t for the issue with Xiao Zihao…

Sighing, Xiao Yu prepared to head out to transfer the money. He didn’t have that much on his Alipay card. Furthermore, for such a large sum of money, going directly to the bank was more convenient. Because he also needed to convert currencies, it was safer to talk to someone at the counter.

It was raining outside. Although the villa was in a very good neighborhood, it was a little remote. There wasn’t public transportation available nearby, and the nearest bank was a pretty long car drive away.

Xiao Yu gave up on trying to resolve the issue on his own and quickly thought of Yan Jin’s secondary card.

Speaking of which, Yan Jin had once mentioned that the card’s maximum spend limit was extremely high, but was it enough…?

Xiao Yu quickly navigated to the appropriate app on his phone. He thought it was quite unlikely that he’d be able to move so much money in one go. There’ll probably be a pop-up saying insufficient funds or re-authentication required, right?

Unexpectedly, there was no pop-up after he’d entered the payment passcode.

Payment success.

Waitwait, what?

Xiao Yu looked stupefied at the “spending” of over six hundred thousand RMB and unconsciously squeezed Faye.

Faye hissed as her claws gleamed.