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1Raw 勤工俭学(Qíngōngjiǎnxué); to work part time while studying, work-study program
Shen Ran was a little surprised by Cheng Yu’s appearance. If he remembered correctly, in the original book, Cheng Yu appeared after Shen Ran’s death.
But it may not be the case, it goes without saying that Cheng Yu and Shen Ran have no intersection.
If it wasn’t for Shen Ran’s disturbance to manipulate and fight over a painting with him, he probably wouldn’t know him now.
Alright, he probably already messed with the three men in this book who can’t be messed with.
Compared with the first two, Cheng Yu made Shen Ran even more uncertain. After all, he didn’t know Cheng Yu at all.
Because he only has Shen Ran’s memory, and Shen Ran’s memory does not contain Cheng Yu.
Judging from his appearance, Cheng Yu was a gentle person, wearing a pair of metal-rimmed glasses, actually a talented person.
He was also someone with a fertile constitution, and after Shen Ran’s death, he took the place of the mistress of the Min family.
And within three years, he and Min Xinchuan gave birth to two children.
Yes, this was the plot in the original book.
Facing the real Mistress2Raw 主母( Zhǔ mǔ); Mistress/ Matriach/ Queen mother. In this case, I guess Mistress more approriate ^_^” of the Min family, Shen Ran, an impostor, felt a little lacking in confidence.
But he was not afraid, after all, he was still Min Xingchuan’s official partner, even if Cheng Yu wanted to take the position, he has to wait for him and Min Xingchuan to divorce.
Shen Ran smiled lightly at Cheng Yu and said, “Thank you, Mr. Cheng, for start off leniently3Raw 手下留情(shǒuxià liúqíng); lit. start off leniently (idiom); please do not be too strict with me/ Do not judge me too harshly./ Look favorably on my humble efforts. SR was talking about the painting that he won in auction, stating that CY was letting him win. At first I thought SR was trying to be sarcasm here, but we know SR want to avoid these 3 men so it doesn’t make sense. But in the next paragraph, I assume SR was only trying to be polite…….. So, why am I reading this single short paragraph back and forth for half an hour ne? _(:_」∠)_.”
Cheng Yu pushed his glasses and said warmly, “No, It’s Young Master Shen who is very powerful.”
The two were just being polite and didn’t say much.
Shen Ran turned around and knocked on Su Su’s ‘door’ in a low voice: “Su Su, are you there?”
There was a beep sound, and Su Su immediately replied: “I’m here, Dear one, your exclusive one-to-one customer service Su Su will serve you wholeheartedly 24 hours a day.”
Shen Ran immediately asked, “Can I ask about Cheng Yu’s plot line?”
Su Su replied: “Of course can! Dear one, Cheng Yu met Min Xingchuan again at an exchange meeting three months after Shen Ran’s death. Later, under the arrangement of Elder Min, he married Min Xingchuan.”
Elder Min again?
What’s the matter with this old man?
For his grandson’s marriage, he spare no effort to match?
Shen Ran was confused, the old man likes him now, it doesn’t seemed like a fake.
But why did he arranged for someone else to marry Min Xingchuan only three months after his death?
And still have children?
And Su Su was talking about a reunion. Since it was a reunion, then the other party must know Min Xingchuan.
Shen Ran asked again, “Then, is it Cheng Yu who cured Min Xingchuan’s phobia of intimacy?”
Su Su replied bluntly: “That’s not true, Cheng Yu failed, he failed to cure Min Xingchuan. Their children were also born through IVF technology. Originally Min Xingchuan only wanted to have one, but since their first child was also a fertile constitution, they had a second child.”
There were introductions in the following original works, but the previous original works did not go into details.
He originally thought that Cheng Yu and Min Xingchuan gave birth to a child through natural methods, but he did not expected it to be an IVF baby.
In this way, Cheng Yu actually was not as good as himself?
At least Min Xingchuan promised him that after he graduated, he would give him a child through normal methods.
In that case, he(CY) was very pitiful.
However, according to the text in original works, Min Xingchuan and Cheng Yu has mutual respect for each other and lived very harmoniously.
It was many times better than the days of chaos4Raw 鸡飞狗跳( jī fēi gǒu tiào); idiom. hens flying and dogs running, (fig.) utter confusion, great disorder, general turmoil, chaos, disarray when he was with Shen Ran.
Maybe if this goes on, the two of them will also be able to develop feelings for each other.
But this has nothing to do with Shen Ran. Their affairs can only be handled by them in the future.
He only wanted to stay away from them and stop meddling with these nasty things of H city’s famous rich and powerful families.
Not far away, Ruan Letian was waving at Shen Ran.
He was holding a long brocade box in his hand, he should have got the painting already.
Shen Ran ran forward a few steps and asked, “How is it? Have you seen the painting?”
Ruan Letian looked excited and said, “I’ve seen it, your brother will definitely like it!”
Shen Ran said: “You take it! Didn’t you want to give it to my brother?”
Ruan Letian immediately put the painting into his hand and said, “You bought it, of course it’s yours. I want to give something to Brother Shen, do I still need your intervention?”
Shen Ran was helpless and said, “Then I will send to him as gift myself? Don’t say I didn’t help you! If you want to be my sister-in-law, I will support it with both hands.”
Ruan Letian said angrily: “What nonsense are you talking about? Who wants to be your sister-in-law! I just want to be your dad!”
Shen Ran said: “How about I go home and ask my dad if he agrees? If he wants to remarry, I have no objection.”
Ruan Letian: “Fuck! Get lost!”
Shen Ran: “Hahahahahaha!”
Ruan Letian was a little absent-minded by Shen Ran’s laugh, and he said, “Ran Ran, do you know how long it has been since you laughed so happily?”
Since Shen Ran started madly chasing Min Xingchuan and was rejected again and again by Min Xingchuan, he seldom laughed like this.
Shen Ran put away his smile and said solemnly: “Don’t worry, I will laugh more in the future. In life, happiness is the most important thing.”
Ruan Letian happily put the long brocade box in Shen Ran’s arms and said, “I’ll sent you back?”
Just as Shen Ran was about to agreed, he saw Min Xingchuan walking towards him, paused when he passed by, and said to him, “Let’s go! We are going home.”
Shen Ran had no reason not to take Min Xingchuan’s car, and asked Ruan Letian to make a trip again, and replied, “I’m coming5 Actually SR reply “马上” which is means; at once/right away/immediately/on horseback (i.e. by military force). Except the last one, all have the same meaning, that is SR agree to go back with MX. So, I take liberty to change it to I’m coming. In my understanding, it has the same meaning?? (￣▽￣).”
He turned around and said to Ruan Letian, “I’ll show you something fun another day, but it will be kept secret for the time being. When you’re done working this time, and it’s officially a holiday, I’ll take you to play with me.”
When Ruan Letian saw how mysterious he was, he also become intrigued and asked, “Is it true? Then don’t be perfunctory towards me when I come back.”
Shen Ran tapped him on the shoulder and said, “Don’t worry! When did I ever lie to you!”
An auction ended just like that. Shen Ran got into Min Xingchuan’s car, and the driver drove in the direction of Min family’s house in South Bay.
In places where Min Xingchuan was, the air basically will become colder and colder.
Shen Ran suddenly felt as if he should say something?
But he opened the task panel in the sea of knowledge and took a look, and found that his personality fit was still at 70%, so he gave up.
As long as he doesn’t lose his personality value, Shen Ran think that he can still live.
However, he didn’t expected that Min Xingchuan actually opened his mouth. He asked Shen Ran, “Why did you bought a painting all of a sudden?”
Five million was not a lot, but it was not less either.
Shen Ran in the past would never spend so much money on a painting.
Shen Ran replied: “It’s my brother’s birthday next month, he likes these calligraphy, paintings, and porcelain. Ruan Letian boasted this painting into the sky, so I just bought it.”
It was just that the five million that he just got, haven’t heat up yet already seen the bottom.
Min Xingchuan paused for a moment and asked, “So you work part-time just to make money to buy a birthday present for your brother?”
“Work……. work part-time?”
Shen Ran: Where did this come from ah?
Min Xingchuan said, “It’s okay, ask me if you are short of money. I have never said that you will be restricted from spending money.”
As Min Xingchuan was saying, he took out his mobile phone, Shen Ran instantly received a transfer reminder.
After seeing the transfer reminder, Shen Ran almost bit his tongue.
Well, as expected of Min Xingchuan, one shot was 10 million.
After transferring the account, Min Xingchuan added: “Say happy birthday to Shen Jue for me.”
Shen Ran nodded stupidly: “Okay, thank you Brother Chuan, I will definitely convey it.”
It was just that Min Xingchuan’s tone, he always felt that something was not right.
Back at the Min family mansion, Shen Ran did not continue to pester Min Xingchuan.
As long as the personality fit was not fall, Shen Ran was happy to be his own wealthy salted fish.
Min Xingchuan also went upstairs. Seeing that it was still early, he turned on his computer to handle some emails.
Shen Ran clicked on Shen Jue’s WeChat and began to keep his eldest brother on tenterhooks.
Shen Jue: “I’ll go back to H City next week, and the movie will be finished immediately. You stinky boy, you still learned to keep your brother on tenterhooks?”
Shen Ran replied, “Are you coming back next week? Brother, I miss you so much, you have to take me to eat hot pot when you come back!”
Holding the mobile phone, Shen Jue’s face showed infinite doting, and the smile almost overflowed the entire nanny car.
The assistant was not surprised. Every time Shen Jue sent a message to his younger brother, he would smiled like an old father.
Shen Jue replied: “You are married already, and you are still like a child. When you were a child, you were making a scene about asking your brother to take you to the amusement park, and now you are making a scene for your brother to take you to eat hot pot. It’s over, is brother can’t get rid of you this little follower in this life?”
Shen Ran sent a coquettish emoji and replied, “Brother, do you still want to get rid of me? I don’t care, even if I’m too old to walk, brother will also have to take me to eat hot pot.”
Shen Jue couldn’t stop laughing, and replied, “Okay, okay, where do you want to eat? After go back, you can choose any place you want.”
Shen Ran looked up at the calligraphy6Raw 字帖(zìtiě); copybook (for calligraphy) But, isn’t SR just bought a painting??? (‘｀;)？ on the desk, smiled knowingly, and said, “Brother, are you dating someone? When will you find me a sister-in-law?”
He asked this on behalf of Ruan Letian, this childhood friend of his has never trying to hide whenever he had something on his mind.7At first I thought SR was talking about himself, but according to yabla, 发小 is a dialect for close childhood friend whom one grew up with; or a couple who grew up as childhood friends. So we can confirm SR was talking about RL. The raw context also confused me bcoz I thought it should be “always hide” and I wonder if there are some typos in it Orz.. But raw is 不藏着掖着; which means did not trying to hide for fear of someone known. So, I can only assume that it wasn’t typo, and that RL never hide anything when he was with SR. Just in case, here’s the full raw context; 这话他是替阮乐天问的，他这位发小向来有心事不藏着掖着.
If he hadn’t been interested in his brother, he would never put so much thought into preparing a birthday present for his brother.
Shen Jue replied: “Stinky boy, where to get your sister-in-law? Your brother is so busy like this, where did I have the mind to date8These are so complicated to translate into a proper English!! T.T But for reference, here’s the raw context 哪儿来的嫂子？你哥忙成这样，哪儿来的心思谈恋爱.?”
Shen Jue, known as the Ten Billions Movie Emperor, has truly created a box office of 10 billion yuan.
Shen Ran smiled and replied, “Then brother can’t just focus on his career and ignore the important events of his life. Our Shen family always needs to have a successor, right?”
Shen Jue replied without thinking: “After you graduate from college, you and Xingchuan have a few more children, and you can let brother adopt one.”
Shen Ran didn’t want to say that he and Min Xingchuan were almost break off now.
Only replied: “Then I will wait for you to come back!”
Shen Jue replied with a ‘yes’, he was just about to turn off the screen of the phone to continue filming, after thinking about it, he sent a long voice message: “By the way, was money given to you enough? You don’t have to go to work part-time if you have nothing to do, when has brother restricted you from spending money? Do you want to prepare a birthday present for Min Xingchuan? You have already started to think it through about this time in previous years, why haven’t you moved this year? If you are short of money, tell brother, tens of millions are still no problem.”
Shen Ran: ???
Wait, Min Xingchuan’s birthday?
No wonder just now when he said to said happy birthday to Shen Jue for him, there was such an inexplicable eccentric tone in his voice.
So, is President Min is jealous? (*≧▽≦)
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