Chapter 1255

"Didn't we just eat together last night? Why are we meeting up again today? Let's get this straight, you're treating today. You earn more than I do."

In the small restaurant outside the campus they frequented, Xiang Nan sat opposite Hua Zi, who had arrived early and was already drinking by himself.

Hua Zi opened a bottle of beer and placed it in front of Xiang Nan: "You're treating today, and I'll tell you a piece of news. This news is very important to you."

"What news?" Xiang Nan asked in return, "Yang Xiaoyun? Let me tell you, buddy, I stopped counting on that a long time ago. I don't have a single thought left about it."

"Tsk..."

Hua Zi shook his head, unimpressed. "Latest news: Yang Xiaoyun and Brother Yan are together. The two of them are going home tonight to buy groceries and cook for themselves. They're probably busy right about now."

"Then they'll be even busier in a little while. Damn it..." Xiang Nan threw the tissue he had just used to wipe his mouth at him, annoyed. "Hua Zi, you really have no conscience, do you? How can you still say things that make me treat you?"

"Look at you, I'm just teasing you. Would I really let you spend money?"

"It's a good thing I knew when to retreat. No way, I have to eat well today. Boss, add two more dishes..."

"You really don't have any thoughts left?"

Hua Zi leaned in close, staring at Xiang Nan with wide eyes, and before Xiang Nan could speak, he drew his own conclusion: "Fake. You're just putting on an act for me."

"I did like her quite a bit before, so it'd be strange if I felt comfortable knowing they're off flying together now. I don't care, you're definitely treating today."

"Fine."

Hua Zi laughed, then picked up his phone to make a call.

Seeing Xiang Nan's confusion, he said, "I'm asking if Lu Tao is coming. I figure he doesn't have much going on either."

"They're in the middle of a passionate romance, and you're saying they don't have anything going on?"

"Let me tell you, passionate romance is just a fleeting feeling; it's definitely not a long-term state. It's been almost two months for those two now; the novelty is about to run out."

Hua Zi, a single man, shared his views on Lu Tao's relationship.

Xiang Nan didn't agree, but he didn't say anything either. He drank a glass of wine on his own and even took the cigarette Hua Zi had left on the table to smoke. He had his own cigarettes, but of course, he chose to smoke Hua Zi's...

Regardless of whether Lu Tao had anything going on, he and Xia Lin arrived quite quickly; they basically set off the moment they hung up the phone.

"What's the occasion? Didn't we just finish drinking yesterday?" Lu Tao was a bit puzzled.

"Does there have to be a reason to drink?" Xiang Nan opened beers for Lu Tao and Xia Lin, then turned to say, "Hey, I have a question for you and Xia Lin: is it interesting for you two to be together right now?"

"Yes, it's very interesting." Lu Tao replied, then asked, confused, "What do you mean?"

"Hua Zi said that passionate romance is a fleeting feeling... He figures you two don't have much going on right now."

"You're being superficial, Hua Zi. The most important thing when two people are together is mutual companionship..."

Xia Lin wanted to explain further, but was interrupted by Lu Tao, who looked at him with disdain: "Why explain anything to him? Let me tell you, among us, he's the one who's dated the most, so what kind of 'feeling' could he possibly have?"

"Hey, you're being boring now." Hua Zi tilted his head toward Xiang Nan on the side, "There's still someone here who's been single until now."

"No way, you're bringing me into this?" Xiang Nan was truly hurt.

Hua Zi laughed and turned to say: "Let me tell you a piece of news: Brother Yan and Yang Xiaoyun are together."

"So fast?" Xia Lin asked in surprise, "Didn't there seem to be no indication last night?"

"That must have been after we finished eating." Lu Tao winked at Xia Lin with an ambiguous look, earning an eye-roll from her.

Lu Tao didn't mind and asked Hua Zi, "Brother Yan told you?"

"No way. Just two hours ago, Yang Xiaoyun came to our shop. They left with their arms around each other, and she even said they were going to Brother Yan's place to cook and eat, basically starting their life together."

"No, why are you all looking at me?" Xiang Nan twisted his face in annoyance, "If you keep doing that, I'm leaving."

"Can't we stop looking? Seriously, you're so narrow-minded, getting worked up at the drop of a hat." Lu Tao raised his glass, "Let's have one."

The four of them drank a glass together, and Lu Tao said: "With such a big thing happening, I think we should get together again to celebrate, and also congratulate Brother Yan and Yang Xiaoyun, right? Xiang Nan?"

"Get lost, get lost, get lost."

Hua Zi laughed, then waved his hand and said: "It's tough lately. Brother Yan has been very busy. Our company is expanding its business again, and Brother Yan says he wants to do something with the internet. He's been running around outside all day today, and even went to the university to trick those students into working for free."

Under the questioning of Lu Tao and the others, Hua Zi briefly revealed some of what Wang Yan had told him. He wasn't stupid; of course, he knew what could be said and what couldn't.

Of course, Lu Tao and the others were just curious; they didn't have any other intentions, as their ambitions didn't lie there. Xiang Nan had a stable job, Lu Tao was dreaming of being a great designer, and Xia Lin was still just a hostess, which of course wasn't a proper profession either, since she should have been at work by now...

After talking about this for a while, Lu Tao sighed: "Brother Yan really has vision, and guts too."

"He has too much vision and too much guts. Let me tell you, every week when we take inventory and hear the debt figures, I go numb." Hua Zi shook his head, "Anyway, I just believe Brother Yan won't lie to us. If we're going to be rich, we'll be rich together; if we're going to die, we'll die together. Both Zhu Tou and I think this way."

Lu Tao nodded: "That's a pity, we don't have any serious business either, and we can't hold Brother Yan back."

Xia Lin said: "It's fine. In a couple of days, I'll go find Yang Xiaoyun to go shopping. It's hard to say about Hua Zi, but Yang Xiaoyun definitely won't have a problem. To use Hua Zi's words, the two of them are in the middle of a passionate romance right now."

They laughed and giggled.

After eating and drinking for a while longer, Lu Tao said: "Let me tell you something. This thing that happened to me is really bizarre, like something out of a movie."

Watching Hua Zi and Xiang Nan's curious gazes, Lu Tao continued, "My biological father came back from abroad, and I heard he's the boss of a real estate company. He seems to be quite rich..."

The next day, Wang Yan didn't go to work early. For the first time in a long while, he ran to the market, got a freshly slaughtered old hen, and stewed it in a clay pot.

The rich aroma wafted out, filling the entire courtyard.

It also drifted into the nose of the sleeping Yang Xiaoyun, waking her up.

She opened her eyes groggily and stretched. Although the slight soreness in her body made her uncomfortable, she still felt it was a beautiful morning.

"Awake."

Yang Xiaoyun turned her head at the sound, meeting Wang Yan's smiling eyes.

She pouted and hummed: "Men really are all liars."

"This is a white lie."

"This is still a white lie?"

"Of course, for the sublimation of our love, how can it not count?" Wang Yan shrugged.

"Shameless."

Wang Yan didn't mind, asking with a chuckle: "Feeling okay?"

"It hurts."

"I stewed chicken soup for you. This is a great tonic, guaranteed to restore your vitality and take you to the next level."

"No wonder it smells so good." Yang Xiaoyun then asked, "What time is it now?"

"Eight-thirty."

"What?"

Yang Xiaoyun sat up abruptly, not even noticing the quilt sliding off her body, and said in a panic, "I'm late for work, it's all your fault."

"Call in and ask for leave. It's no big deal to miss a day."

"That's my hard-earned money!" Yang Xiaoyun glared at Wang Yan, then realized what was happening and quickly used the quilt to cover her charms, "You pervert, you only know how to take advantage of people."

"You said you loved me yesterday."

"Oh~"

Seeing Wang Yan acting like he was surrendering, Yang Xiaoyun picked up her phone, turned it on, and asked, "Then what do I tell my mom? Look, she's called me dozens of times."

"Just tell the truth. You've graduated and started working, aren't you allowed to date?"

"That doesn't mean you get to take advantage of me."

"You yesterday..."

"Oh~ are you ever going to stop?" Yang Xiaoyun glared and pouted, her face slightly flushed.

Wang Yan laughed: "I see you've got your energy back. Get up quickly. Do you need me to help you get dressed?"

"Get out!"

Wang Yan made a move to pounce, scaring Yang Xiaoyun into squealing. He then turned and left the room, went outside to light a cigarette, and checked on the progress of the old hen soup...

A while later, having dealt with her mother and asked for leave from her boss, Yang Xiaoyun walked out slowly, already dressed.

Seeing Wang Yan squatting there shirtless, she still felt very angry and slapped him on the back again.

Wang Yan didn't feel a thing and said with a smile: "Ten more minutes and it'll be ready. Go wash up. I bought you toiletries this morning."

Yang Xiaoyun took the items, brushed her teeth and washed her face in the room's sink, and asked: "What time did you get up?"

"Before six, I think."

"You're really something. You're up this early every day?"

"I'm used to it. I go out for a couple of laps, do some boxing, and exercise to keep my energy up. Otherwise, how could I subdue a little goblin like you?"

"You're the goblin."

Just as the two were flirting, Wang Yan's phone rang. He took a look and then answered it.

Under Yang Xiaoyun's gaze, he started chatting happily.

Yang Xiaoyun asked curiously: "Who is it?"

"Mi Lai. Let Yang Xiaoyun say a few words to you." Then Wang Yan handed the phone to Yang Xiaoyun.

All one could hear was Yang Xiaoyun saying, 'Yes, we're together', 'Just the night you left, didn't you tell me to take the initiative? So I told him, and he didn't refuse', 'What? Why am I at Wang Yan's place so early in the morning? Oh, why are you so annoying'...

Wang Yan knew that at this moment, a beautiful girl on the other side of the ocean was quietly breaking apart...

This phone call lasted quite a while. By the time Yang Xiaoyun hung up, Wang Yan had already served the food and placed it on the table, and the two of them started eating breakfast.

"Why did Mi Lai call you so early in the morning?"

With their relationship having developed to this point, Yang Xiaoyun's territorial awareness had awakened.

Wang Yan served her some chicken soup and said with a smile: "Maybe she missed me. Actually, I'm quite charming. I think that after she went abroad, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that I'm a pretty good guy."

"Pah, so narcissistic."

"Then weren't you attracted by my charm?"

"Hehe, yes." Yang Xiaoyun smiled in an instant, "I'm actually a bit strange, I can't say exactly what's good about you, but I just feel it's good. If this were before, I wouldn't even dare to imagine it. How long have we known each other? And you've already taken such a big advantage of me."

"You're already home, do you still want to leave?"

Pouting, Yang Xiaoyun drank the chicken soup and, unsurprisingly, expressed her feelings, praising the chicken soup for being delicious.

Of course, she didn't need to praise it; Wang Yan could say with certainty that, just regarding this dish, no one in the world could beat him. He was a master among masters.

Yang Xiaoyun was just going through the motions.

After praising it, she turned the conversation back: "Don't say, Mi Lai has only been gone for two days, right? I actually really miss her a bit. I don't have many friends, and Mi Lai is the best."

"And yet your mom still cheated her out of money. She really showed no mercy at all."

"Don't talk about her, my mom cheats me too. The week before last, I gave her five hundred yuan to give to my grandma when she went to see her, but she only gave her two hundred. It wasn't until my grandma called me that I found out.

When I asked my mom later, she actually had a point. She said my grandma doesn't lack money, so giving two hundred is enough to show her heart. She saved the rest for me and told me not to spend money lavishly..."

Yang Xiaoyun was also full of resentment.

"I'm her own daughter, and she pinches my money. My grandma is her own mother, and she still gives her less money. You tell me, who can take advantage of her?"

"Impressive." Wang Yan offered his approval.

"Actually, Mi Lai knows what my mom is like, she just doesn't say anything. Besides, she has money, so she doesn't care. Mainly, my mom isn't bad to her either. In middle school and high school, she often came to stay at our house, and my mom never treated her poorly. Even now, she still has a lot of things in my room."

Yang Xiaoyun said: "I told my mom."

"Hmm."

"And that's it?"

"Yeah, what else would there be?"

"Let me tell you, I'm angry, I'm really angry."

"How can you have so much anger?" Wang Yan shook his head with a smile, "We have to get along, right? How long has it been? We still don't know each other well enough, not deep enough."

"Pah, you just want to take advantage of me and don't want to take responsibility."

"Do I look like that kind of person?"

"That's what I see."

"That's because we don't know each other deeply enough." Wang Yan waved his hand and said, "Alright, stop acting like you're about to cry, as if I've committed a capital crime. We'll go to your house this afternoon to sit for a while. Anyway, it's not like we're strangers. We'll eat at your house tonight, and I, the master chef, will personally take charge and make a table full of dishes."

"Let me tell you, my mom has an opinion about you. She had a pretty good impression of you at first, but then you went and had ulterior motives and bad intentions. She scolded you quite a bit on the phone just now."

"I still have the ability to endure. Besides, I've taken such a big advantage, haven't I? If I have a good attitude, your mom can't really chop me to death. Besides, doesn't your mom like money? We'll go buy some gifts in a while, she definitely won't be able to find fault with me. It's not a big problem."

"Buy what? Let her say a few words to you. Just endure it and it'll pass. You should save that money to buy a house. It's so uncomfortable having to dump the chamber pot when you go to the bathroom. If you don't want to dump it, you have to walk a hundred meters outside. If you walk a lap at night, you'll be wide awake, how will you be able to sleep?"

"You really are your mother's good daughter."

"No, why does that sound like an insult?"

"I'm praising you."

Wang Yan smiled and said, "But things should still be bought. Besides, I mainly want to buy them for you, and incidentally, curry favor with my future mother-in-law."

"I don't want them."

"If the corners of your mouth weren't pulled up so high, I would have believed you."

"Oh, you saw through it but didn't say it, didn't you know that?"

Wang Yan raised his eyebrows ambiguously and ate his food in big mouthfuls without saying a word.

"Hey, Brother Yan." Yang Xiaoyun leaned in, lowered her voice, and said like a thief, "Can you please reveal to me a little bit, how much money do you have?"

"Eyeing my assets?"

"I'm just very curious, I don't even know how you survived these ten-plus years."

Wang Yan shook his head with a smile: "That license plate of mine is from the municipal government, it could sell for quite a bit. I really don't have much money in my hands, maybe two hundred thousand or so, less than three hundred thousand. As for the car dealership, if we were to distribute dividends now, I could get over a hundred thousand."

"You're really rich. Hey, that's not right, Brother Yan, didn't your car dealership owe several million?"

"That's under the condition of not affecting repayments, not affecting our normal operations, and retaining a considerable amount of funds. There's absolutely no impact. We've only been open for less than three months, it's already not bad to have this much money. It's just that the time is short; if it were the end of the year, there would be even more."

Yang Xiaoyun nodded as if she understood. She talked to Wang Yan again about paying the down payment, taking out a loan to buy a house, and so on. Wang Yan discussed some issues about the house with her, and they ate breakfast while laughing and talking like that.

After washing the dishes, they didn't go anywhere and just lay on the bed, being lovey-dovey until the afternoon, when they finally drove to the mall.

Wang Yan was very generous. When they got to the mall, he first bought Yang Xiaoyun an outfit, then bought her a gold necklace, bought her mom a jade bracelet, and other messy nutritional supplements. In short, he didn't spend little money.

Without a doubt, Yang Xiaoyun was not a materialistic person. If she were materialistic, she wouldn't have married Xiang Nan so rashly. Although Xiang Nan's family conditions were actually quite good, it was true that they weren't wealthy.

And the down payment for the house she and Xiang Nan later bought in the development built by Lu Tao's biological father was paid for by her family...

But not being a materialistic person doesn't mean she doesn't like material things; these aren't contradictory.

Wang Yan used material things to show his feelings. Yang Xiaoyun said she didn't want them and kept trying to stop him, but when the shopping was done, in the parking lot, in the same posture and with the same actions as that night on the street outside Mi Lai's residential compound, she was much more attentive than Mi Lai...

As mentioned before, Wang Yan arrived at Yang Xiaoyun's house with a huge pile of things. Although Yang Xiaoyun's mother was indeed very unhappy, when he greeted her enthusiastically and went to the kitchen to cook without acting like a stranger, and Yang Xiaoyun showed her all the things she had bought and put the bracelet on her, she was left with nothing but smiles.

Not only that, she even specifically called Yang Xiaoyun's biological father, asked him to take time off to come back, and eat dinner together. This meal was very harmonious...