Ch111.1 - Future (1/2)
What is the future?
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Yu Hao’s vision of the future was very simple: each of them will find a job and settle down in a city where the sunlight shines resplendently. Two people together, buy a house, keep a Golden Retriever, Zhou Sheng can walk the dog in the morning when he goes out for a run, then bring him breakfast when he comes back. When the time comes, he would then crawl out his bed and wash up with a head of mussed hair. Zhou Sheng would pat his butt before taking a bath and going to work.
After night falls and they get off work, they would buy groceries, cook, and eat dinner as they sit at the dining table. Zhou Sheng would smoke as he washed the dishes, Yu Hao would do some household chores, then they would both browse the internet once they were done to either play games or watch anime. Once it hits 11pm, they’d do it once on the bed, then sleep. During the holidays, they would carry their backpacks and leave hand in hand to go on a vacation……
All of this was the ideal life that Yu Hao formed from his barren powers of imagination. On the day they die of old age, they would lie in bed and say, “Thank you for your love in this life, let’s meet again in the next.” Then close their eyes in peace, die together, and their current life would end.
However, after Chen Yekai reminded him that the “Golden Crow Wheel could be a separator that splits the soul and the body”, Yu Hao suddenly had a vague sense that he no longer feared death. After his life span was up, would they remain in the Golden Crow Wheel and meet once again in that grand, beautiful palace hall while maintaining their youthful appearances?
“So if we want to live that kind of life.” Yu Hao asked in high spirits, “How much would we need without your father’s help?”
Zhou Sheng didn’t know if he should cry or laugh as he looked at Yu Hao calculating the costs at the dining table and answered, “Your dream’s really simple. A few million ba.”
Yu Hao, “A few million?”
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A two-bedroom apartment, one room for them with the other for a study, and a dog as well, seventy to eighty square meters, and they could get it on a loan. If the two of them worked hard together, would they still not be able to earn enough to buy a house in this life?
“2,200,000 including renovations.” Yu Hao said, “Then we would be able to live comfortably in Ying City.”
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“Un……” Zhou Sheng glanced sideways at Yu Hao’s form. As long as people aren’t too greedy for material things, life doesn’t actually seem so difficult. In this case, they would just need to find a job that paid 6,000 to 12,000 a month within five to six years after their graduation, then their family’s total income would sum up to about 15,000 yuan, and they would be able to barely afford Yu Hao’s ideal life.
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At the same time, this also made them feel like a huge rock had been lifted off their hearts. They no longer needed to fear the gesticulation and discussion of teachers and students behind their backs. Zhou Sheng wasn’t even afraid of his own parents, so why would he be afraid of Xue Long? If you have something to say, then say it, otherwise just shut up. They can now be together right out in the open.
On the third day of the New Year, Mama Zhou called them and finally snapped out of her daze as she gave Zhou Sheng a good scolding. However, what left the deepest impression on Yu Hao was that Mama Zhou had actually said in the end, “Forget it, just let it be then. In any case it’s better to give birth to a char siew than to give birth to you, let him die without descendants.”
Yu Hao didn’t dare to interrupt. In the end, Mama Zhou even offered to increase Zhou Sheng’s living expenses from 2,400 to 3,200. Zhou Sheng was about to refuse when Mama Zhou said, “If you have no money, do you intend to let him eat shit with you? This is what your mother’s lending you, pay it back when you start working.”
“Okay then.” Zhou Sheng was planning to find a part-time job to earn some money, but he understood Mama Zhou’s intentions.
After he hung up, Yu Hao said, “I don’t want to spend your mother’s money.”
“She already said it’s a loan.” Zhou Sheng said, “It’ll be fine to return it to her with the accrued interest after graduation, don’t you think she’s actually pretty happy?”
Yu Hao blew up, “How in the world is she happy?! Why can’t I tell that she’s happy??”
Zhou Sheng said earnestly, “She’s quite satisfied, because I’ve cut off ties with my Dad. Sometimes I think, ai, she just has to compete with that old man all her life, and she will never stop.”
After Yu Hao thought about it carefully, he realised that it was true. Zhou Sheng’s mother proves the value of her existence through constantly opposing Zhou Laichun. Zhou Laichun wouldn’t admit that his son was being gay with another guy, so Mama Zhou insisted on doing the opposite. Zhou Laichun cut off all financial support to his son, but Mama Zhou was willing to do her utmost within her abilities to raise Zhou Sheng’s living expenses. Zhou Laichun’s attitude was “get lost”, while Mama Zhou’s attitude was “let the Zhou family die off without descendants this is great hahahaha”, in any case, she just wanted to piss him off to death.
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