Xu Chenghao said three months, but in reality, he was also worried about their throats. At most, they only ate once every two or three days. For two people who preferred bland flavors, this was already devilish.
As a result, when the assistant heard the boss calling, he automatically picked up the thermos filled with Pu’er tea and put a piece of candy in his mouth before daring to come in and ask, “Boss, is there something?”
Jing Yicheng, holding a small cloth bag filled with deformed chili peppers, sat in his usual seat. “Just the usual chili pepper activity.”
Assistant: “…”
Truly, when a couple quarrels, others suffer.
The assistant regretted eating chili as part of his daily routine and wondered why he had chosen to be a good person in the first place! He feared that his overtime pay, ten times the usual, would all be spent on protecting his throat.
As the assistant complained, he silently opened his thermos and took a sip of tea.
Jing Yicheng frowned, “Why didn’t you prepare one for me?”
The assistant replied softly, “You have someone to care for you, no need for preparation.”
Jing Yicheng: “…”
The assistant whispered, “If you betray your teammates like this again, no one will help you.”
Jing Yicheng also lowered his voice, “I wouldn’t dare lie to him.”
The assistant questioned, “Isn’t your identity well concealed?”
Jing Yicheng: “That’s because he never asked me.”
The assistant: “…”
This boss is beyond help, give up!
After ending their daily chili activity, the assistant left behind a box of lozenges before swiftly leaving the ward. Jing Yicheng tucked the lozenges into his pocket and sat beside Xu Chenghao, opening his mouth: “Ahh—”
Xu Chenghao handed him a strawberry and teasingly asked, “How’s the taste of eating chili?”
Jing Yicheng: “I feel like my chili-eating abilities have skyrocketed. Next time, I’ll accompany you to eat spicy hotpot.”
Xu Chenghao instantly changed his expression, roughly shoving a strawberry into Jing Yicheng’s mouth, “Don’t tease me!!”
Jing Yicheng obediently closed his mouth and ate the strawberry.
While eating, his hands weren’t idle. He skillfully grabbed the remote and turned on the TV. The once quiet ward was now filled with the song of a little yellow duck, “Quack~ quack~ quack quack quack~ I’m a lovely little yellow duck~~”
Jing Yicheng bobbed his head to the rhythm, and casually brought over a yellow duck plushie in front of Xu Chenghao, wanting to cheer him up.
But Xu Chenghao just gave him a look: “…”
Interpret that as you will.
As Xu Chenghao was hesitating whether to grab the pillow and beat him up, his phone placed beside the pillow suddenly rang.
Jing Yicheng instantly stopped any movement, highly focused: “Who is it?”
“Li Nian.” Xu Chenghao glanced at him, “Probably work-related, why such a reaction?”
Jing Yicheng muttered, “I thought it was Ruan Chenxuan again.”
“You’re overthinking.” Xu Chenghao ignored him and directly answered the phone, “Nian-ge, what’s up?”
Li Nian’s suppressed voice was filled with uncontrollable excitement, “Oh my god, I have to tell you something! Extremely important, extremely explosive, extremely unbelievable!”
Xu Chenghao: “Alright, go ahead.”
Li Nian: “Han Haofeng and An Ruotong are together!”
Xu Chenghao: “Ah???”
Li Nian: “Are you surprised? Do you find it unbelievable? Oh my, An Ruotong has always had high standards and low abilities. No one expected her to choose to marry an illegitimate child with an unstable status.”
Xu Chenghao frowned: “Are you sure it’s her choice to marry, not influenced by her family?”
Li Nian: “Let’s say it’s half and half. An Ruotong likes Ruan Chenxuan because of her sister An Rouyu, and also because Ruan Chenxuan comes from a wealthy family. But now Ruan Chenxuan’s situation is unstable, the illegitimate child is taking advantage of the situation, and Ruan Chenxuan’s uncle is adding fuel to the fire. I guess they’ve scared the An family into thinking Han Haofeng is a promising stock.”
Xu Chenghao pondered for a moment, furrowing his brows: “Is the Ruan family’s situation really bad now?”
Jing Yicheng, sitting across from them, immediately raised his head, locking eyes with Xu Chenghao. Xu Chenghao made a silent gesture to indicate quietness, listening carefully to the phone call.
Li Nian said: “On the surface, Ruan Chenxuan’s amnesia is causing him to fall behind in company affairs, having a falling out with his family without elders to mediate, and coupled with the illegitimate child and uncle taking advantage of the situation, it is indeed very dangerous.”
Xu Chenghao added: “More importantly, after his amnesia, he doesn’t have many people he trusts, and many things will be more troublesome for him to handle.”
Li Nian: “Yes, people outside have started to speak ill of Ruan Chenxuan.”
Xu Chenghao: “But it’s too difficult to bring down Ruan Chenxuan. Losing one year of memory doesn’t turn him into a fool. His business acumen and methods cultivated since childhood are still intact. How could a halfway-born illegitimate child compare to him?”
Li Nian also sighed, “From our experience dealing with him, I also feel he has some big moves up his sleeve.”
Xu Chenghao: “We just need to stay out of it. If Han Haofeng and An Ruotong have an engagement banquet, we’ll just decline directly, saying I’m injured and need to recuperate.”
Li Nian: “That’s for sure… Oh, Miss Zheng Yunyun called yesterday to apologize. She said she’ll handle the matter with Zheng Xiaoxiao and as for President Jing, it’s up to you… You should take care of it.”
Xu Chenghao frowned and glanced at Jing Yicheng, “Alright, I got it. Hang up.”
“Okay, bye.”
After hanging up the phone, Xu Chenghao began to sort out the relationships in his mind. It’s definitely not part of the plot for the illegitimate child to be involved with An Ruotong. Otherwise, the latter part of the plot wouldn’t have the main female lead bringing back a genius son to compete with Ruan Chenxuan for An Ruotong.
It seems that the matter with Zhuo Meixue has become a turning point, giving the illegitimate child an opportunity after the male lead’s amnesia, and also giving An Ruotong, the illegitimate child of the An family a chance to turn things around.
There are many illegitimate children who have risen to prominence. An Ruotong and her mother are a combination of a mistress and her illegitimate child, so it’s not hard to understand why An Ruotong or the An family might believe it.
But they don’t know that the male lead has a trump card called “hitting rock bottom and bouncing back”!
Xu Chenghao sighed deeply. Basically, he could already determine what the future of the An family would be like.
Jing Yicheng nervously asked, “Did something happen? Why did you look at me like that before hanging up?”
Xu Chenghao glanced at him. “Why do you look so guilty? Did you do something bad and not confess?”
Jing Yicheng: “No, I didn’t.”
Xu Chenghao: “If it’s not you, then what’s the matter with the Zheng family?”
Jing Yicheng: “…”
The feeling of being caught red-handed on the spot was really awkward. Jing Yicheng silently picked up a strawberry and tried to feed it to Xu Chenghao.
Xu Chenghao turned his head away. “I’m not eating.”
Jing Yicheng brought the strawberry to Xu Chenghao’s mouth again. “Eat it, or I won’t dare to say anything.”
“… ” Xu Chenghao sighed helplessly, lowered his head, and mumbled with the strawberry in his mouth, “Go ahead.”
Jing Yicheng hugged his little yellow duck pillow, looking timid. “She’s been thinking about you, and it started from a long time ago at that banquet. The way she entered the hospital room that day was like she was claiming my spot. I couldn’t help but confront the Zheng family and tell them to keep an eye on their daughter.”
Xu Chenghao: “How did you confront them?”
“Their stocks fell to the bottom, causing a loss of 46 billion…,” Jing Yicheng said, then began to justify himself confidently, “I didn’t physically harm anyone, I just gave a little lesson.”
Xu Chenghao looked at him in silence.
Jing Yicheng’s momentum instantly weakened, “Are you angry?”
“No,” Xu Chenghao replied, “Compared to how you were before, being able to endure for so long without harming anyone while giving a lesson is already great. In theory, you should be rewarded.”
After Jing Yicheng confirmed that this was not sarcasm, he immediately smiled, “Then you owe me two rewards.”
Xu Chenghao sighed, “I can’t prepare rewards right now. Write them down and I’ll fulfill them when I can.”
Jing Yicheng earnestly noted in his phone’s memo: “If I collect ten, can I exchange for a big reward?”
Xu Chenghao replied, “You can try summoning Shenlong1dragon.”
Jing Yicheng joked, “Summoning a little yellow duck riding Shenlong!”
Xu Chenghao couldn’t help but laugh, “That’s enough from you.”
Jing Yicheng saw him smile and felt relieved, “You look better when you smile.”
Xu Chenghao was accustomed to this level of conversation, calmly stating, “I look good even when I don’t smile.”
Jing Yicheng cooperated: “Yes, you look good no matter what. My Haohao looks the best.”
When Xu Chenghao heard the word Haohao, he immediately showed a strange expression, hesitated for a while, and still spoke: “Do you know? Only my parents called me Haohao when I was a child.”
Jing Yicheng pondered for a moment: “Then what about Chengcheng?”
Xu Chenghao: “Chengcheng is you.”
Jing Yicheng’s eyes lit up: “Then I’ll call you Chengcheng and you can call me Chengcheng too.”
Xu Chenghao refused bluntly: “No, that’s too confusing.”
Jing Yicheng was helpless: “Then I can’t call you Xu Xu either.”
Xu Chenghao instantly changed his expression: “You’re just teasing.”
Jing Yicheng felt both amused and helpless: “Then what can I call you? Only ‘Haohao’ remains.”
Xu Chenghao found it strange: “Why do you insist on using repetitive sounds? You can call me Hao-ge, President Xu, or Chenghao.”
Jing Yicheng was not happy: “But other couples in love call each other affectionate names like ‘darling husband’ or ‘sweetie’. I’m afraid you’re not used to it yet and I didn’t mention it.”
Xu Chenghao had a headache: “Why are you observing other people’s relationships? Experience comes from living our own lives. Don’t imitate others’ ways of getting along.”
Jing Yicheng: “I’m not imitating, I just like repetitive sounds because it makes us seem very intimate.”
Xu Chenghao was speechless: “But my name with repeated sounds doesn’t sound good. If you call me by a bad name, I won’t agree.”
Jing Yicheng looked at his little yellow duck pillow: “Then can I call you Huanghuang?”
Xu Chenghao had a confused expression: “What’s that supposed to mean?”
Jing Yicheng picked up the little yellow duck pillow and shook it, “Little Yellow Duck, if not Huanghuang2Huánghuáng translated Yellow yellow doesn’t just mean the color yellow it’s also a slang for pornography, lol. , how about Yaya3Yaya also translated Duck duck is even worse since yā which means duck is also a slang for male prostitute XD?”
“????”
After being puzzled for a while, Xu Chenghao instantly got furious: “Jing Yicheng, dare you try calling me that!”
Jing Yicheng suddenly realized the ambiguity of his words and quickly tried to salvage the situation, “I didn’t mean much by it, I was just joking. Don’t be angry, I’m sorry…”
Xu Chenghao grabbed the little yellow duck pillow and fiercely beat him up, saying angrily, “No need to think about it, it’s fine if you just call me Mr. Xu in the future. I won’t agree to anything else, even if you call me, I won’t respond!”
Jing Yicheng: “…”
How many times has he suffered because of his big mouth? Why doesn’t he ever learn from his mistakes?!
The author has something to say: Jing Yicheng: Having a cheap mouth everyday.jpg
T/N: JYC don’t worry I support you. You should call him HaoHao lol
Seriously JYC’s mouth can start a war!
