Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Five: Improvemen (1/2)

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At the same time elsewhere, Yan Jin received his second ever notification that his secondary card had been used. He was extremely moved.

Goodness gracious, had his little Fishy finally swallowed his pride and learned to rely on him?

Yan Jin excitedly checked what the money was spent on. Huh??

The amount wasn’t the issue. Why was the money transferred to a personal account?

It couldn’t possibly be for company matters, right?

Just as quickly as he’d thought of this, he immediately ruled it out.

Today is Saturday, so that’s not possible. Xiao Yu should be waiting for me to return home and make dinner.

Then what had happened?

Yan Jin never wasted time making conjectures without sufficient information, so he dialed his little hacker.

There wasn’t an immediate response. Yan Jin hurriedly finished buying the rest of the groceries he needed for the night’s dinner. Just as he returned to the car, he received a return call.

“Aside from the recipient being an overseas personal account, there’s nothing special about it. It’s probably for a relative. Stop micromanaging him so much… Well, now that you’re here, let me tell you to stop looking to me for every small thing. I’m a busy person too.”

“I’ve already settled the most important event of your life for you. What else are you unhappy about?” While holding onto his phone with his left hand, Yan Jin skillfully turned the steering wheel with his right and reversed his car out.

“…Your rare good intentions leave me more uneasy than anything else.” The other party’s tone was clearly scathing.

“Haha.” Yan Jin chuckled simply.

“I’m hanging up. I still need to handle some stuff. When you’re done—”

“We can talk about it then,” Yan Jin interrupted and concluded the call. “Okay, see you soon.”

……

Xiao Yu looked at his phone. He was extremely confused.

Actually, all things considered, it shouldn’t have been too surprising. The amount of money Yan Jin had was still an unsolved mystery in the industry. However, Xiao Yu couldn’t believe that so much money could be transferred in a single breath. He wasn’t sure how he’d developed that belief either. Perhaps it was because all his purchases needed to go through Yan Jin when he was a hamster. But Xiao Yu still couldn’t understand how such an enormous sum could be moved without so much as a confirmation check.

Then again, the reasoning could be worked out if he thought carefully. The only reason Yan Jin gave Fishy a maximum daily spending amount was because Yan Jin had bought his story of being a hamster spirit. What if the little demon spent millions on something he shouldn’t have bought in a single purchase? If it were something illegal, it might have revealed to the world that Yan Jin’s hamster was a sentient demon. Yan Jin didn’t really care about the wasted money itself.

But the current Xiao Yu was a regular human being that wouldn’t do anything not permitted by society. Naturally, Yan Jin had removed the maximum daily spending amount.

Xiao Yu hadn’t completely thought everything through when Yan Jin arrived home.

“What do you say about having simmer-fried carp for dinner tonight? I was too late to get the Crucian carp,” Yan Jin asked Xiao Yu in a very ordinary tone while placing the grocery bag onto the table.

Xiao Yu hesitated for a moment and then decided to clarify things sooner rather than later. “It’s raining outside…”

“I was in the car for most of the time, so I didn’t really get wet.” Yan Jin was under the impression that Xiao Yu was concerned for him. He quickly added with renewed vigor, “Well, it’s a little cold from the wind today. Maybe we can take a bath together before dinner.”

“…Today’s lowest temperature is 15 or 16° C. Furthermore, you’re wearing a thick wool coat.” Xiao Yu didn’t believe him at all. “On a more serious note, I didn’t want to go out today to transfer money because it was raining. That’s why I used your card. I’ll return the money in a few days.”

Yan Jin was already disappointed that he didn’t get to bathe with Xiao Yu. Now that Xiao Yu announced his intention of returning the money, Yan Jin’s spirits sank to rock-bottom. “I think you’re lacking in a few areas.”

“Hmm? Is there something wrong with the designs?” Xiao Yu was clearly on a different wavelength.

Yan Jin reached his arm out and looped Xiao Yu into his embrace before giving him a ferocious kiss. “You’re lacking a lot of the qualities as a chairman’s significant other.”

Xiao Yu laughed. “Which qualities? Hitting the maximum spend limit on your card?”

Xiao Yu clearly was joking, but when he raised his head, Yan Jin’s expectant eyes made him feel quite helpless.

Yan Jin was so childish about these issues that Xiao Yu really felt speechless.

“I still haven’t asked you yet. I remember that you said that there was a daily limit of two hundred thousand on the card. How come no warning popped up when I moved so much money at once?”

“The daily spend limit is in the past. To make it a little harder for you to max out the card, I cancelled the spending limit. This isn’t a credit card either, so feel free to swipe as you please.”

Xiao Yu didn’t know if it was his own misperception, but he felt that Yan Jin acted completely like a nouveau riche person.

What had happened to his refined nobility? Where was his icy arrogance and elite persona?

Just from Yan Jin’s current manner, calling him a despotic chairman would still be praising him. Where did this rich upstart come from?

Xiao Yu wriggled free of Yan Jin’s hug in discomfort. He turned and seriously addressed Yan Jin, “I don’t want to be seen as a completely dependent lover living off of you. I want to proudly stand next to you with my own strength, so—”

“My dear little Fishy, have some confidence in yourself.” Yan Jin rubbed the curls of Xiao Yu’s hair. “Your annual salary is over ten million. You’re the once-in-a-century genius designer. You’ve rescued YL out of the frying pan so many times. You don’t need to prove yourself to anyone because you’ve completely earned everything yourself.”

“…Then if I have so much money, I need your card even less,” Xiao Yu stubbornly said.