novelraw Chapter 34: May You Remain Childless, Ptui!
Chapter 34: May You Remain Childless, Ptui!
Qian left the store without heading straight home, considering that Ni Jianren was probably on his way. She didn’t want to hear her mother crying, nor did she want to hear Chen Lin’s ranting.
She rode her bike to the stock exchange; she wasn’t interested in the stock market herself. In her past life, all her investments were based on tips from her patients.
The patients who came to her studio were all top elites of society, and their information was always very well-informed. Qian would casually follow them in buying real estate and playing with stocks. When recounting their experiences, they would often talk about their entrepreneurial histories.
These people would repeat their stories over and over, so Qian was well-versed in the different phases of the domestic stock market. Now, it should be a major bull market. She withdrew Yu’s money and invested it in the stock market to gather enough startup capital to repay him later.
The money should have come from that jerk in the first place, but Yu insisted on giving it to her.
Forget it; if Yu was willing to give it, she’d take it. Using his money was indeed better than using the jerk’s.
Qian opened an account. It’s early August, and she remembered a patient mentioning that in the millennium, there was a stock called Qinling Cement that skyrocketed from October and could rise to about 40 yuan by next year. It was just a little over 10 yuan now. She threw all the money Yu Minglang gave her into it. After six months of investing, it would quadruple. By next year, when she pulled the money out, the stock market would almost be a bear market.
By then, she could use this money to invest elsewhere. When she graduated from school, she’d open a clinic just like in her previous life and make a fortune off wealthy people.
Yourself a woman who, with just a little startup capital, would never go hungry. Although she was not a finance major, the information she had accumulated was enough for her to live in comfort her entire life.
As for the favor she owed Yu...
Qian shook her head, thinking there’s no need to repay! In her past life, she even gave him such a wonderful daughter and never asked him for a penny in child support. Thinking this way made her feel guilty.
After buying the stocks, Qian was riding her bike home, but what she saw on the pedestrian street slowed her bike speed in surprise.
Yu Minglang was holding a pile of things, with a tall woman beside him. The woman had a slim figure and looked particularly sweet.
Qian looked at the woman’s face again and again. She was an elegant and familiar woman.
Oh right, she was a famous singer in the future, seemingly called Shu Xi. She’s often on shows singing folk songs, with a great voice.
Yu Minglang didn’t see Qian across the street as he was opening the trunk to put the items inside. That woman also placed the things she had purchased into the trunk. The two said something to each other.
A handsome man and a beautiful woman, quite pleasing to the eye. The "pleasing" sight almost made Qian ride into the curb.
Yu Minglang’s tall stature and extraordinary demeanor unexpectedly matched well with that woman. Passersby stopped to take another look.
Qian noticed that they seemed to have bought quilts and kettles, among other things. Haha, was he planning to nest a love home with another woman?
She shouldn’t have felt any guilt toward this fool just now. She shouldn’t have felt receiving his money was such a big favor!
Look at this fool, buying bedding with Hello Kitty on it for another woman, and damn, it’s from ×× Home Textiles! You’d even buy such an expensive brand. May you end up lying on a bed endorsed by a childless celebrity, remaining infertile forever!
Qian hadn’t realized that her thoughts seemed a little malicious, but whenever she saw Yu with another woman and smiling like a blooming flower, she felt an urge to slap him.
Go ahead, everyone’s free. You can be infertile with whoever you want! It has nothing to do with me!
Qian pedaled her bike like a whirlwind, deciding that she shouldn’t call him a fool anymore. He was a love interest, the kind of shameless man who couldn’t walk past pretty girls!
"Minglang, this should be enough." Shu Xi said to Minglang.
"Alright, I’ll take you back to the office. Do you have a performance tonight?"
"Yes, after the show here, I have to keep busy. I’m not going back to see Dad, please tell him for me."
"Dayu’s story says he didn’t visit home three times during his work, but you’re harsher than Dayu. You pass by home N times a year without going in. Dad’s going to be furious."
"The old man isn’t happy with the stage name he gave me, still holding a grudge that I didn’t follow his arranged path. My profession develops best here, and using my original name would reveal my background, which doesn’t fit the family’s low-key nature. I want to make my own way without others looking at me through colored lenses."
Shu Xi’s real name was Yu Mingxi, the only little princess of the Yu Family, doted on by everyone. She grew up under her father’s protection. At the age of fourteen, she quietly relied on an art school, and once she started her starry career, it couldn’t be stopped.
Moreover, she even changed her name. Yu Shaojiang was both annoyed and unable to lay a finger on his little princess.
"You’re just an ignorant girl stuck in a never-ending rebellious phase." Yu Minglang was not courteous in his speech to his twin sister.
"Don’t talk about me! You’re not any better — By the way, you called me here, picked out so many things, all in pink. What exactly are you up to? Tell me, are you dating someone?!"
"You’re overthinking it, just a friend."
"Oh haha~ what kind of friend, calling your sister over, let me check it out. Oh, how bitter my life was, when I was in art school in my teens, why didn’t I have such friends who’d buy quilts and basins for me?"
At home, Shu Xi was entirely different from her stage persona, her nosiness quite like Mrs. Yu’s, just like mother and daughter.
"You have a dedicated manager, you don’t need to buy these."
"Besides household items, you bought food too. Tell me, what does it mean when a man buys snacks for a woman? How come I didn’t have friends bringing me food?"
Yu Minglang felt a stomach ache from her questioning, pulled out ten yuan from his pocket and stuffed it into her hand, pushing Yu Mingxi aside.
"You take a cab back yourself, I’m not driving you."
Yu Mingxi pouted. "A bridge-breaking fellow."
Her brother was the most scheming man in the family, and extremely petty, always holding grudges.
Yu Minglang’s car passed by her. He lowered the window to add.
"If you dare tell Mom about this, I’ll tell Grandpa about the time you stole Grandpa’s Daughter Red wine."
"Got it, go on now, hurry up and bring warmth to your little girlfriend!"
After Yu Minglang’s car drove off, Yu Mingxi took out her phone, displaying a particularly mischievous smile.
"I won’t tell Mom, I’ll tell Sister-in-law. Once Sister-in-law knows, then Mom knows, and then our entire family compound and the whole hospital will know... Yu Laomao, trying to outplay your sister, you’re still too green, hahaha!"