Chapter 41 : Patron, Please Keep Me 21 (2/2)

The old man organised his thoughts for a bit before speaking, “A very smart child. Her background is clean too. She deals with problems calmly and doesn’t speak like a normal person. She doesn’t seem… like a young lady.” She was more like someone who had experienced many trials and tribulations.

‘But she’s just a young woman, how would she have been able to experience a lot of trials and tribulations?’ The old man felt this was a bit absurd so he didn’t say it out. But Grandpa Lu had been in the business world for nearly his entire life, would he have missed this?

“Are you done investigating yet?”

“We’ve managed to dig up some of her information. She does have an entertainment company under her name. Her personal wealth should be quite hefty but we haven’t managed to find the exact figures yet.” Some of her assets weren’t placed under her own name so even with the Lu family’s ability, they could only make a rough estimate of the large part of her assets but were unable to make an accurate guess.

Grandpa Lu didn’t seem surprised by this as he laughed, “Let the young people go deal with their own issues.”

He didn’t think a young lady who could build up so much wealth on her own would have ulterior motives for Lu Qingyun since she would be able to cause that money to multiply as much as she wanted.

……

Once they had left the place Grandpa Lu was staying in, the first thing Shi Sheng did was to drag Lu Qingyun to a deserted corner and glare fiercely at him. “Lu Qingyun, shouldn’t you have informed me that we were going to see your grandfather before we actually went to see him?”

Lu Qingyun escaped her grip before unhurriedly straightening out the clothes that had gotten wrinkled when she had just dragged him off. “You did very well. Grandpa is very satisfied with you.”

“If I had…” Shi Sheng humphed before puffing up her cheeks. “This won’t do. I received a scare just now so you have to compensate me. I want to buy clothes, bags, luxury cars and mansions!”

‘If I(bbb) had weaker nerves, I(bbb) would’ve already been scared to death, okay?! I(bbb) had to experience mountainous pressure when facing Grandpa Lu but this bastard didn’t even give me(bbb) a warning beforehand!’

Lu Qingyun suddenly rubbed her head before smiling, “If you manage to get Grandpa to leave the country and not interfere in my affairs anymore, I’ll buy you anything you want.”

‘Who said you could rub my head?’

Shi Sheng was about to slap Lu Qingyun’s ‘paw’ off when she heard him say this and her eyes lit up. “Really? I can buy anything I want? I can spend as much as I want?”

‘Buy buy buy buy buy…’

This was all that was left in Shi Sheng’s head…

Lu Qingyun took back his hand calmly. His ink-like eyes reflected the image of the woman’s whitened face as he smiled. “Really.”

Only later would Lu Qingyun come to know that the decision he made today, was the one he would regret most in his life. Not one of, but the most.

Lu Qingyun sent Shi Sheng back to the site where filming was taking place.

In a short amount of time, news of Shi Sheng having a handsome patron made its way amongst the crew. Though Director Lin didn’t know Lu Qingyun, he did know Su Yixiu.

Su Yixiu had sent Fang Liqiu and the rest back to the set so he left together with Lu Qingyun.

‘The only one Su Yixiu would be willing to follow can only be THAT person from the Lu family.’

Since last year, there had been rumours circulating about that person from the Lu family returning, but no one had actually set eyes on him, so the authenticity of the rumours hadn’t been verified before. Today though, it appeared that person really had come back. Director Lin was rejoicing inwardly that he hadn’t thrown stones down the well[6] at Shi Sheng before.

[1] Used on someone who’s about to or tempted to commit suicide.

[2] It could have been robe but I don’t think even the most old-timey of old-timers would wear it. Unless they were cosplaying. I think it looks something like this (not sure about the colour):

[3] In case you didn’t know, this refers to one introducing one’s girlfriend/boyfriend to their parents/elder generation.

[4] Figure of speech for arduous trials/difficulties/tribulations.

[5] Figure of speech to express how little she has compared to him.

[6] Idiom (?) for mocking someone when they’re down.