Chapter 5

The next day, Xu Nian got up early to accompany Li Fang to undergo dialysis. Hospital beds were currently very tight, and the doctor came and discussed with him about moving out, as they couldn’t have them taking up a bed anymore.

When Xu Nian went down at noon to buy lunch, he found an ATM that was close by and checked the balance in the card. He was basically over the moon as he looked at the five zeroes behind the one. 

He withdrew some money and directly went and paid the deposit for that house he’d seen and liked. They didn’t even eat dinner, just bundled themselves and moved in at once.

In the middle of holding a meeting, Chen Di felt his phone, which was in his pocket, vibrate to let him know he had a message. He took it out, then when he looked at the screen, his eye twitched.

Cheng Chen usually didn’t participate in meetings and would instead just listen to the results. The managers would gather around his office desk and give their reports, then if he felt that there were no issues he would sign the documents.

Just as he was almost done signing all the documents, Chen Di came in, took out his phone and motioned for him to take a look.

Cheng Chen finished looking at the contents of the phone screen with a frosty face. He snorted, and a stack of contracts got run through by the pen he was holding.

Chen Di was watching his expressions and testingly asked, “Do you want me to go talk to him?”

“Talk what?! Talk shit?!” Cheng Chen furiously said, “In the first place, I’m his patron, if I give him money then it’s for him to spend!”

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Cheng Chen held it in for a while, but in the end he couldn’t. “He’s really not a fucking bit polite, is he?!” 

Chen Di thought silently, what did you think? That this was a chick lit web novel on Jin Jiang ? The type where the female lead is loyal and loves you with all her heart, so that even when she and you have a sugar daddy and sugar baby relationship, she’d make it clear that she’s not after your money but your heart and just use a little money?

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Chen Di continued flipping. “In two days there’s a dinner party, although it’s with  your usual friends, President Cheng. For this type of event, you don’t need to bring…..”

He hadn’t even finished speaking when Cheng Chen angrily said, “Call him out. Getting paid without working, how would such a good thing exist!”

Chen Di：“……” 

Xu Nian explained to Li Fang that the money was from a bursary that the school had organized.

This wasn’t actually all that wrong. After all, he was a first year student at B university, and his student ID was still with Cheng Chen. He’d just think of it as Boss Cheng sponsoring him.

Even if Li Fang had any doubts, thinking on the fact that her son had been clever and reliable since young, and the fact that she was now a sickly patient, having money was a god-given good thing for both her and Xu Nian. If she were to be so picky on where the money came from, then that would be a bit too phony and hypocritical. 

Xu Nian bought some groceries and cooked up a feast. Because of the problems with her liver, Li Fang couldn’t eat some dishes, but just looking at them made her happy. The two happily finished the meal, and after Xu Nian got Li Fang settled down, he went to wash the dishes.

Just as he was washing, he received a phone call from Chen Di.

Xu Nian hurriedly wiped his hands dry and picked up. “Secretary Chen?”

In truth, Chen Di quite liked Xu Nian, who wasn’t unreasonable or bratty and was a ‘second master’ with good manners and temper. And so when he spoke to him his tone was very polite. “The day after tomorrow Boss Cheng has a dinner party at night, at the appointed time after class I’ll go to pick you up.”

Xu Nian said, “Wait a moment,” as he flipped through his class schedule, and then drew a star under the two classes on the day after tomorrow. “Do I need to wear new clothes?”

Chen Di paused at that. “Do you have new clothes?” 

Xu Nian oh’d and replied, “I used the boss’s money to buy some.”

Chen Di：“……”

The boss didn’t say anything wrong! You really are not one bit polite with money! 

Rinrin: Surprise! A sporadic posting! This chapter was pretty short, and is in between the coming chapters, timewise (in novel universe)

edit: To the ppl who find Chen Di and Cheng Chen’s reactions to Xu Nian’s money using, as you can see in this chapter (the paragraph about the cliche in a chick lit JJ novel), this is a cliche that’s very rampent in this genre of novel–the sugar daddy relationship genre. These don’t go by irl logic, and stays with the premise of love and ‘dignity’….you can see that type of mary sue female lead in a lot of novels and dramas….

Either they first start loving the ml at the very start/early on, or they are very prideful and go 'oh, is being rich so great/有钱了不起呀?' and ‘don’t disrespect my feelings with your stupid money!’ and the like—while still accepting the money in the end by a series of events

Ofc, this novel is a parody on this trope (that’s why the name of this even used to be ‘Unusual sugar daddy/benefactor relationship’)