I Became Super Rich After Resigning

Chapter 89: Chapter 89 The photo is of my elder sister when she was a child

“Big brother!”

“Big brother!”

The sound of Xiao Shihuo’s knocking on the door came from outside.

Huo Shiyuan frowned deeply as he went to open the door.

Huo Shiyuan looked at Xiao Shihuo, who was knocking outside, his tone quite impatient, “You’d better have something important.”

Xiao Shihuo said, “I want to watch Paw Patrol.”

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Yuan Xi said, “You can only watch for half an hour.”

“Then can I watch half an hour of Paw Patrol, half an hour of Bear, and half an hour of My Little Pony?” Xiao Shihuo asked.

“No, you can’t,” Huo Shiyuan frowned as he looked at Xiao Shihuo.

Xiao Shihuo pouted, “I don’t like big brother, I hate big brother!”

Huo Shiyuan responded, “Then go back to City A.”

Clinging to Yuan Xi’s leg, Xiao Shihuo protested, “No, I like sister.”

Yuan Xi ruffled Xiao Shihuo’s hair, “You’re only allowed half an hour of TV, or else you’ll have to wear glasses, and glasses won’t look good. When I was young, I had a friend who wore thick glasses and looked very ugly.”

Pointing at Huo Shiyuan, Xiao Shihuo declared, “Big brother also wore glasses when he was little, ugly ones. I don’t want to look like big brother. Half an hour is enough for me.”

Yuan Xi curiously looked at Huo Shiyuan, who wasn’t wearing glasses, “Are you still nearsighted?”

Huo Shiyuan explained, “I wore glasses to control the degree of my shortsightedness when I was little, but now the degree is not severe, and I can go without glasses on a daily basis.”

Yuan Xi then understood and took Xiao Shihuo downstairs to adjust the TV for him. It had been a long time since Yuan Xi had watched TV herself, and she found that the TVs now were completely different from when they were children. After some fiddling, Yuan Xi finally found Paw Patrol.

Xiao Shihuo watched Paw Patrol with relish.

Yuan Xi returned to the study, where Huo Shiyuan was also dealing with work matters.

Now that Xiao Shihuo was calling him ‘big brother,’ Yuan Xi thought that Huo Shiyuan probably wouldn’t want her to call him ‘big brother’ anymore, at least for a while.

Yuan Xi opened her laptop, only to find that it was out of power. She then remembered that her charger was still at the office.

“Shiyan, can I use your computer?”

“Yes.”

Yuan Xi opened Huo Shiyuan’s computer and logged into her OA account to check the financial plans for several games for the second half of the year.

Mi Chen’s hottest games were Forest Pursuit, Interstellar Voyage, and the otome game Fall in Love with the Stars, along with the second-generation game Antiquity. These games were known to everyone.

The person in charge of Antiquity was a pure second-generation fan; Yuan Xi often had to consult resources to understand the second-generation terms in the texts he sent her.

Since second-generation terms change every year, Yuan Xi saw the word Guzi appear multiple times in the plan and didn’t understand what it meant. She opened the browser to search for this newly coined second-generation term.

As soon as she opened the browser, Yuan Xi saw the search history at the bottom.

[Nutritional recipes for pregnant women]

[How should a newbie dad take care of a pregnant woman?]

[How many months into pregnancy is it safe to have sex?]

[Can you have intercourse in the third month of a twin pregnancy?]

[Precautions for having sex during pregnancy]

Yuan Xi’s face heated up, surprised that Huo Shiyuan, who seemed so serious on the surface, was actually searching for these things!

Yuan Xi felt the hand holding the mouse began to sweat.

After finishing a phone call, Huo Shiyuan walked over to Yuan Xi and noticed her discovery of his search history.

They looked into each other’s eyes, and Huo Shiyuan inexplicably started to feel somewhat anxious.

This was the first time Yuan Xi had seen Huo Shiyuan look shy, flustered, and out of sorts since she had known him, a departure from his usual calm and collected demeanor as CEO Shiyan.

Yuan Xi had no intention of discussing this embarrassing topic with Huo Shiyuan. Pretending she had not seen the search history, she typed in “What is Guzi?”

When it was almost dusk, Yuan Xi received a call from an unfamiliar number.

Yuan Xi answered the phone, “Hello, who is this?”

“It’s me, Yuan Xi.”

Yuan Xi, listening to Chu Yan’s voice, had thought that after so much happened at the wedding, she could have some peace for a few days.

Just as Yuan Xi was about to hang up, she heard Chu Yan say, “Yuan Xi, do the words you said at the wedding still count? You said if my Pink Aurora Diamond is natural, you would give me a hundred million.”

Yuan Xi responded with an “Mm-hmm,” “Yes, it counts.”

Chu Yan said, “Then let’s meet at Jiang City Jewelry Identification Center tomorrow afternoon at one.”

Yuan Xi, “… I’m not free. Just go for the appraisal yourself. If it’s real, come find me on Monday at Mi Chen with your appraisal result.”

After hanging up the phone, Yuan Xi went downstairs for dinner. Huo Shiyuan wasn’t there.

Yuan Xi checked her messages on her phone. There was a meeting at a company invested in by Huo Shiyuan, where he was participating and also dining out.

Yuan Xi didn’t save any food for Huo Shiyuan and simply had dinner with Xiao Shihuo.

After dinner, with Huo Shiyuan not around, Xiao Shihuo took Yuan Xi’s hand, wanting to go to their room.

Yuan Xi simply let Xiao Shihuo into the room.

Xiao Shihuo, seeing the photograph of a little girl on the bedside table, said, “Sister, this little miss is so pretty. Who is she?”

“She’s the one your brother likes,” Yuan Xi replied.

Xiao Shihuo looked at Yuan Xi, “I got it. That’s a picture of you when you were little.”

“No, it’s not,” Yuan Xi shook her head.

“But, Sister, didn’t you say it’s the person Brother likes? Isn’t the person Brother likes you?” Xiao Shihuo inquired.

Yuan Xi laughed lightly as she patted Xiao Shihuo on the head, “Your brother just mistook me for the girl he likes, but I’m not that girl. Put the picture back properly; don’t damage it.”

Xiao Shihuo gently set the picture down, “Oh.”

After Xiao Shihuo took a bath, he climbed into Yuan Xi’s bed, “Sister, I want to sleep with you tonight.”

“Okay,” Yuan Xi smiled in agreement.

With Xiao Shihuo by her side, Yuan Xi read him a picture book story, giving her a sense of what it was like to be a mother in advance.

She just hoped her two children in her belly would be as well-behaved as Xiao Shihuo.

Once Xiao Shihuo fell asleep, Yuan Xi found herself unable to sleep.

Even as she tried her best not to think about it, Huo Shiyuan’s search history kept surfacing in her mind.

Only a little over twenty days were left until she would be three months pregnant.

Close to midnight, as Yuan Xi was sleeping in a daze, she heard deliberately slow footsteps.

Then came the faint sound of a kiss on the cheek.

Yuan Xi opened her eyes and saw, through the dim bedside light, Huo Shiyuan kissing Xiao Shihuo’s forehead, his face showing a brother’s deep affection…

“Brother! Mmm… Brother!”

Huo Shiyuan heard the eagerly awaited call of “brother,” but clearly, the voice wasn’t Yuan Xi’s.

After Huo Shiyuan turned on the light in the room, he saw a freshly awoken Xiao Shihuo on the verge of crying.

And there was Yuan Xi beside him with a slight smile.

Huo Shiyuan picked up Xiao Shihuo and took him back to his room, then returned and firmly closed the door to their room.

Yuan Xi smelled the alcohol on Huo Shiyuan and asked, “Did you have some drinks?”

“I did have a bit, but I’m not drunk. Is the smell bothering you? I’ll go take another shower.”

Yuan Xi watched Huo Shiyuan’s retreating figure as he moved to the bathroom, recalling the sensations of someone kissing her in her dreams. So, it wasn’t just her imagination.

Yuan Xi turned her head to look at the photograph of the little girl on Huo Shiyuan’s bedside table, her heartbeat returning to a normal pace.

She silently admonished herself to stay clear-headed and not to harbor any hopes for love, as seeking love from a person like Huo Shiyuan seemed rather amusing.

Their marriage was merely the result of an unexpected pregnancy. She had grown up in a complete family and, if possible, she also hoped her own children would have both parents.

Huo Shiyuan married her for the sake of the children, and because she looked like his childhood sweetheart, nothing more.