I Became Super Rich After Resigning

Chapter 88: Chapter 88: The Father Leaves, The Son Remains

Yuan Xi woke up to find that Fan Yan’s wedding as CEO was still dominating the trending searches online, and she didn’t have the time to bother with some of the discussions about her.

The day after the wedding, Gu Hanchen was set to go to the United States for an IPO roadshow, a critical event for Michen’s future stock price, with Monica accompanying him.

The entire pressure of managing Michen Company fell on Yuan Xi.

Coincidentally, Special Assistant Wang’s grandmother received bad news at this time.

Special Assistant Wang had been with Gu Hanchen for more than four years; it was only right and proper for the company to express their condolences.

But Yuan Xi simply couldn’t find the time, so she had Zhong Xiaoyi go on behalf of Michen’s CEO office along with the administration department to deliver a wreath, seeing the old lady off on her last journey.

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Yuan Xi, since becoming pregnant, hadn’t been this busy before, but fortunately, her morning sickness had gotten a lot better and hadn’t delayed too many things.

On Friday evening, as Yuan Xi was looking over Michen’s half-year financial report in the mansion’s study, she received a call from Gu Hanchen.

Gu Hanchen complained about Monica on the phone, “Where did you find this Monica? Is the schedule she arranged even reasonable? I have reason to believe you’re taking revenge on me. I should’ve insisted on you coming with me; you have no idea, Monica hasn’t given me any time to adjust to the jet lag, let alone rest!

She even says I can sleep on the plane, sleep on the road. You absolutely can’t call me Gu ‘Flay Skin’ anymore; Monica is the real ‘Flay Skin’!

The food at American restaurants is so horribly inedible. These past two days, I couldn’t find one decent meal. Thank God I didn’t study abroad in the United States, or I would’ve gone from two hundred pounds to nothing but eighty pounds of skin and bones.”

Yuan Xi laughed lightly, “When you come back, you can eat the sweet and sour pork ribs I just finished cooking at my place.”

Gu Hanchen vented for quite a while on the phone, while Yuan Xi softly and gently comforted him.

She was afraid that Gu Hanchen might suddenly throw in the towel.

Huo Shiyan entered the study, hearing Yuan Xi’s gentle voice, he walked over and placed his hand on Yuan Xi’s shoulder, “Who?”

Yuan Xi hung up the phone, “Gu Hanchen, complaining to me about the hectic itinerary that Monica arranged for him.”

Huo Shiyan, “A tight schedule is naturally better; it allows him to come back earlier. Otherwise, do you expect to work overtime until midnight every day while pregnant?”

Yuan Xi softly chuckled.

Huo Shiyan stepped closer to her, “This weekend is for you to rest and recuperate properly.”

Yuan Xi nodded, “Okay.”

During the weekend, Yuan Xi planned to work from home.

Early in the morning, Liang Hao came over with a basket of freshly picked bayberries, “Sister, these are grown by our family. I’m going to the market later with Grandpa to sell bayberries; I brought you a basket first.”

Yuan Xi looked at Liang Hao and asked with a light laugh, “Have your scores come out?”

“Not yet, in a few more days, but I think I did pretty well. Getting into Jiang University should be a sure thing.”

Yuan Xi said, “Let me know when your scores come out to share the good news.”

Liang Hao nodded, “Will do.”

Just as Liang Hao had left, Fu Qin came over with clothes for Huo Shiyan, and several outfits for Yuan Xi.

Yuan Xi quite liked Fu Qin’s design style; although they were not suitable for professional settings, they were perfect for private occasions, especially since Fu Qin’s clothes focused on material quality. Their comfortable yet trendy design was indeed rare.

Huo Shiyan frowned at the increasingly youthful clothes, “You don’t need to bring me clothes anymore. Your clothes are only suitable for college students to wear.”

Fu Qin replied, “If you get to wear it for free, you should consider yourself lucky. My boyfriend looks really cool in these. The fact that you can wear the same as him is an honor for you.”

“It’s just that he said he was going to help Grandpa pick bayberries these past few days, didn’t have time to be with me. Well, he’s pretty filial anyway.”

Fu Qin eyed the basket of bayberries on the coffee table, grabbed one to eat, and grimaced, “Yikes! So sour.”

Yuan Xi laughed softly, “These bayberries are from my grandfather’s own garden. They’ve never been sprayed with pesticides, so they are a bit sour.”

Yuan Xi looked at the shirt Fu Qin brought, wasn’t that the short-sleeved shirt Liang Hao had worn over just now?

“Fu Qin, how did you meet your little boyfriend?”

Fu Qin smiled and said, “About half a year ago, I went to Liang Suisui’s house to look at fabrics. I got chased by five dogs in the village, and he rushed out on his bicycle to help me drive away those five dogs. After I added him on WeChat, we started chatting more and gradually hit it off.”

“Yuan Xi, let me tell you, you must try dating a younger brother; younger brothers are just so sweet.”

Yuan Xi chuckled lightly, “I’m afraid I won’t have the chance.”

Huo Shiyan frowned, “It’s not that you might not, it’s definitely not going to happen, and besides, how can younger brothers be sweeter than older brothers?”

Xiao Shihuo rushed down the stairs and hurled himself into Yuan Xi’s arms, “Of course, little brothers are sweeter than older brothers, right, Sister?”

Fu Qin touched Xiao Shihuo’s head, “Xiao Huo? You’re this big already, and you can talk and walk?”

Xiao Shihuo said, “I’m almost five years old!”

Fu Qin said to Xiao Shihuo, “Right, little brothers are so much sweeter than older brothers. Being young is great, a twenty-year-old man, apart from having strength, just has strength!”

Listening to Fu Qin talk about having strength, Yuan Xi thought she shouldn’t be taking it the wrong way…

Huo Shiyan did not argue with Fu Qin anymore about whether younger or older brothers were sweeter and asked, “Does Uncle Fu still plan to find that private child?”

Fu Qin hummed, “But my aunt is also looking for this private child, and the measures taken by the Qian Family are not mild, so the private child probably wouldn’t dare to show up so easily.”

Fu Qin touched his belly and said, “My aunt has now decided not to let my brother have children, and plans for me to have one instead. After my child is born, they will also carry the Fu Family bloodline, and by then they can inherit the Fu Family assets.”

Huo Shiyan said, “Aren’t you against marriage and having children?”

Fu Qin said, “Yeah, I’m against marriage, but I also can’t stand the idea of a bastard swaggering into the family. Just thinking about letting a bastard take over the Fu Family businesses in the future makes me sick! My recent little boyfriend has pretty good genes; not nearsighted, six foot one in height, and a Jiang University student. Most importantly, the little brother does not think about getting married. After having the child, I’ll break up with him, leaving the child while the father departs…”

Yuan Xi said, “Doesn’t that seem a little unfair to the little brother?”

Fu Qin said, “What’s unfair? To have a child, he just has to contribute a seed, not get pregnant.”

Yuan Xi: “…”

Fu Qin said, “Rather than ending up like my aunt after marriage, who still has to guard against a bastard inheriting the family business when she’s old, it’s better to just leave the father out. Just like Gu Nuan, having a cute daughter and no troublesome husband, her life can’t be too comfortable.”

Yuan Xi was somehow a bit persuaded.

After Fu Qin left,

Huo Shiyan asked Yuan Xi on the sofa, “When you first found out about the baby, did you ever think about not letting me know its existence, leaving the father out?”

Yuan Xi shook her head, “You have the right to know about the child’s existence, and I don’t want to risk suddenly having two children disrupt your future life.”

Huo Shiyan pulled Yuan Xi into the study, not letting Xiao Shihuo follow them, and asked softly, “So, what do you think, is a little brother better, or an older brother?”

Yuan Xi looked into Huo Shiyan’s affectionate eyes and suddenly felt an illusion, as if he liked her for who she was, and not because she was just a shadow of a childhood sweetheart.

Huo Shiyan’s voice was husky, “Yuan Xi, call me ‘Brother’.”

Yuan Xi recalled the time over two months ago at the Shiyi Hotel…

When she was intoxicated… Huo Shiyan also kept insisting that she call him ‘Brother’.

She wondered what kind of fetish Huo Shiyan had?

Could it be that Huo Shiyan’s childhood sweetheart really liked calling him ‘Brother’?