Stepmom Male Lead Villain

Chapter 52

Boss Zhou introduced himself, “Hai, Master Lin, my surname is Zhou. Nice to meet you."

He was so friendly and even knew his last name, Master Xiao Lin felt more confident about his speculation and shook hands with him more excitedly. "Hi, Mr. Zhou."

Zhou also returned a friendly smile. “Thanks for keeping Yuanbao.”

Now that he appeared as an old man, of course Master Xiao Lin also replied expertly, “You are too good, Mr. Zhou. Here's what's expected of me.”

Seeing how the two interacted with each other enthusiastically, Yan Shuyu, as the biological old man standing beside the boss, wondered if he should interrupt them. The bell that indicates the class is about to begin has already rung.

Now, Master Xiao Lin had also heard the bell. He quickly pulled out Yuanbao, nodded at his parents, and said, “Class is about to begin. I'll bring Yuanbao into.”

When he looked towards Yan Shuyu, he said randomly, "Congratulations."

"Thank you?"

Teacher Xiao Lin was already walking inside the school with Yuanbao behind him. Yan Shuyu recalled herself and looked at her boss, dumbfounded, “Why did she say 'congratulations' to me? Is it because we are no longer single?”

Zhou Qinhe gave him a surprised look. As soon as he confirmed that he was completely confused, he could not help but smile and say, "Maybe."

Yan Shuyu did not pay attention to the appearance of her boss. He was still lamenting, "Well, he must be an observant, able to tell that I'm no longer a dawg."

Boss Zhou, "......"

He did not respond to that one but Zhou Yi looked up curiously and asked, "What kind of dog is a single dawg?"

Yan Shuyu was just about to patiently explain to the little male lead about how she became a single dawg etc., etc. But he's a little late. The boss had covered Zhou Yi's ears and said, “Nothing. Yan Shuyu was just blabbering. Don't listen to him.”

"Hi!" Yan Shuyu could not help but complain. “There is nothing wrong with my choice of words, okay?”

Why should he make it look like he has used some very inappropriate terms?

***

That afternoon, when Manager Yang arrived at the shop, Yan Shuyu followed him into the office and grumbled along the way. “How did he have such a severe case of idol syndrome? Is the underground love affair too insulting to her classy status?”

Manager Yang almost slipped and fell flat on his back when he heard that. He turned around, surprised. "Is that really what you think?"

“What else can?” Why else would he deliberately make their relationship known to everyone?

He was not so Foolish, White, and Sweet that he did not know the boss had exposed their relationship intentionally today.

Yang Zifeng looked at him with an extremely complicated gaze for a while and thought that Boss Zhou had better things to do than that. As someone who would see ten steps ahead at any moment, his every move had a reason behind it. His little friend is still too sweet.

Pondering for a few seconds, Yang Zifeng finally decided to save himself. He nodded firmly and agreed with her, “You were right. It was so horrible that he did something like that.”

***

When the weekend comes, Yan Shuyu has to go take her exams at the music institute.

Zhou Qinhe has been very productive in the past few days. Not only did he get all the work done since he was on his business trip, but he also finished some of his work first so he could spend his weekends. She finally told Yan Shuyu on Friday night that she would be available to go with him to the examination for the next two days.

"Thank you?" Yan Shuyu was really surprised. “So that's why you worked overtime the last few days? So you can free up the weekend to come with me?”

Yan Shuyu felt a little less confident now. If he had a boss accompanying him everywhere, would it make him feel that he was not a very independent person? Or, to go a step further, would he feel that he was even somewhat childish and being with her was like playing house?

He felt that adult men would prefer women who were beautiful and intelligent, attentive, and with high emotional intelligence. It may not be the childish type that makes them feel like they are just playing house. Yan Shuyu hoped that he was such a type as well, but seeing how busy the boss was these days, he was, she suppresses her little ideas and decides to become a little elf who is good at what she does and not get sticky.

Zhou Qinhe did not deny it but chuckled. "I can't hide anything from you, can I?"

Yan Shuyu was already proud of herself and the slight praise in Boss Zhou's voice increasingly made her tail stick out into the air. Yep! That'sthat's true! He's really smart!

After being a little proud of himself, Yan Shuyu seemed to remember something else. “Why don't you stay with Yuanbao outside the exam room tomorrow? That way you two can take care of each other.”

Zhou Qinhe asked casually, "Are you planning on making Yuanbao wait for you outside, even though I didn't say that I would go together?"

“Oh, I might take it down from the music institution first.”

Boss Zhou sounded somewhat disapproving. “Wouldn't that mess up his study schedule?”

“Um... not that serious, I guess.” Yan Shuyu did not know, but this was not the study time before the college entrance exam.

As if hearing his subtext, Zhou Qinhe revealed how serious it was, “It is precisely because he is young, that we need to train him to follow through on the plan and have good self-control. Children who can complete what they have planned independently will excel both academically and in their careers later in life. So we don't want him to think that he can take time off if he's tired. He would become lazy once he got used to it. ”

Perplexed, Yan Shuyu asked, "So you mean?"

"We should keep him on his schedule," Boss Zhou said casually. “I will ask Xiao Yi to join him as well. Xiao Yi likes to attend classes with Yuanbao.”

Yan Shuyu looked at her boss in terms of raising a child. In the original novel, both the male lead and his half-brother were raised and trained by him. Judging from how the two struggled with their lives, it was easy to see how successful the boss' upbringing was.

Yan Shuyu hesitated for only two seconds before she happily accepted his suggestion. "alright. Tomorrow, we'll drop them both off at the music institution first.”

Yan Shuyu received a call from the boss the next day right after she finished putting on her makeup. He was waiting downstairs and brought their breakfast. Yan Shuyu quickly walked down with Yuanbao behind her. He thought the boss had stopped by somewhere and bought them breakfast, but instead, there was a thermos waiting for him in the car.

“Perhaps hot. Be careful," Zhou Qinhe said.

"You didn't bring this from home, did you?" Yan Shuyu took out a flask with curiosity and she could smell the beautiful scent of thick porridge as she twisted it.

Zhou Qinhe has already started the car. Smiling, he said to her, “It looks like you are quite enjoying the porridge. I asked our housekeeper's aunt to make it in the house earlier. ”

The smell had already made Yan Shuyu hungry. He picked up some with a long-handled spoon, blew it cold and tried it. He exclaimed right then and there, “Yes Lord! This is so good!

“Why do you still have porridge outside all the time when your housekeeper's aunt's cooking is so good at home? It's very futile.” Yan Shuyu really felt that his cooking was as good as the expensive seafood place they had visited twice.

Hearing his words, Boss Zhou turned around and. With a smile that was not a smile, she asked, “You want to come and have it in my place next time?”

Yan Shuyu: Oh…

It was not a simple question to answer, not to mention that he was the one who put it first. Yan Shuyu was forced to lower her head and continue with her porridge.

Zhou Qinhe was not at all surprised by his reaction. He pursed his lips and refocused on driving. His appearance was indifferent, and there was no way to tell if he was happy or not. Yan Shuyu did not dare to spend too much time studying it but slowly placed all her focus on her breakfast.

He enjoyed his delicacy without any distractions, but Zhang Yuanbao, who was also hungry, started to complain. He had stretched out his neck for a while now but his mother never remembered to turn around and feed him. The little boy was hungry and greedy. She finally licked her lips and asked, "Mom, is the porridge good?"

"Yes!" Yan Shuyu turned around reflexively and seeing her son drooling behind her, she finally remembered and gave him a spoonful that she had just cooled down. Zhang Yuanjia has a spoonful. Mimicking how his eyes curved into the shape of a moon, he nodded forcefully and said, "It's really delicious."

"really? Right?" Yan Shuyu was also excited. After scooping another spoonful for his son, just as he was about to eat it himself, another small mouth appeared next to him suddenly, "Ahhhhhhhh~~"

The little young master did not respond to him but curled his eyes and nodded. "Nob."

Yan Shuyu turned around to look at her boss. “Eh?”

The boss, who was focused on driving it, said simply, "He did it."

As soon as Yan Shuyu found out about it, he was less willing to feed the little male lead. He shared it with his instant son for the most part and would feed Zhou Yi occasionally when "Ah~~~~" - he was very excited.

With the three of them and only one flask in the car with very limited space, breakfast took them almost half an hour to complete. After finishing, Yan Shuyu wiped the faces of the two boys with a wet napkin before she took out her foundation to re-polish herself.

He had just finished applying his lipstick when the car stopped in front of the music institution. By the time he put away his lipstick, Zhang Yuanjia and Zhou Yi had already been taken out of the car by Zhou Qinhe and said goodbye to Yan Shuyu while holding hands with each other. “See you, Mom. We go inside now.”

Yan Shuyu waved her hand towards them from inside the car. They were both very capable of going inside by themselves, so he had no intention of getting out of the car. “Be a good boy and listen to your teacher. We will be here to pick you up later in the afternoon.”

Boss Zhou was a little more responsible than him. He waited outside until the children came in and met some workers before he returned to the car. A familiar person walked out from inside while holding one child in each hand and greeted him from afar. "Boss Zhou, are you the only one here to drop them off today?"

Ever since Yan Shuyu's relationship was revealed in the Sunshine House, Yan Shuyu had already realized that she would not be able to keep it a secret in a musical institution. He had given up even trying and just waved at her from inside the car. "I'm here."

“Ah, that's what I think.” Liu Ci did not even bother pretending to be surprised. "Boss Zhou will accompany you to your exam?"

Yan Shuyu nodded and Liu Ci teased, "Then, you should be ready for today?"

Yan Shuyu got what she was insinuating but said proudly, "I feel very confident even if she doesn't come with me."

Liu Ci was in no hurry just to tease her. He especially wanted to remind her of what she needed to pay attention to. Then, she saw them off after checking them out to make sure that she had all her IDs, etc. “Hopefully succeeded. I'll wait for your good news.”

Under the encouragement of her boyfriend and his future boss, Yan Shuyu finishes the exam in her best condition. It would be a few days before he knew the result, so Yan Shuyu did not pay too much attention to him and continued her normal life.

The winter holidays were getting closer for Zhang Yuanjia and the teachers started arranging the children for their performance practice before the holidays. They further told Yan Shuyu that she should attend the exercises as much as she could and she could even bring one or two friends with her.

Yan Shuyu replied that she would do it.

Christmas was coming soon before the show and Yan Shuyu, recalling the bracelet her boss had given her, went to discuss with Manager Yang with her bank deposit.

“Christmas Gifts, yes?” His little friend, as the Second Generation Rich, asked him directly. "Why don't you tell me first what your budget is?"

Yan Shuyu stretched out her shivering hand and finally gave her a number. Manager Yang was startled speechlessly, "Your budget is 10,000 yuan?"

Yang Zifeng was surprised by his generosity. She looked at him with great suspicion and asked, “You recently earned money or what? How are you so generous?"

Yan Shuyu could not help but laugh. He then rolled up his sleeves mysteriously and showed a bracelet on his wrist.

The gifts from the boss are astronomical jewelry and also the first gifts after they start dating.

Yang Zifeng came from a fine family, but he was not so rich that he could spend money without even thinking about it. He was still shocked by the bracelet after he saw it. “This is from Boss Zhou? He must be a benefactor. Is it for your birthday or something?”

"No. This is a gift he brought back for me after his business trip, ” Yan Shuyu said happily as she lowered her sleeves and shook her head.

"Wow. That's what he brought home from business trip?” Yang Zifeng could not help but make fun of him. “I guess you didn't find some money but hit the royal jackpot. No matter how busy Boss Zhou is, he should travel easily more than 100 times a year.”

Yan Shuyu thought of his words and finally lamented, "I wish he would do 365 business trips a year."

Yang Zifeng, “...”

Manager Yang finally couldn't help but say directly, "You're really shameless."

“Why should I be so worried when I daydream? What's the point of that?” yan Shuyu said without regret.

After he finished teasing Yan Shuyu, Yang Zifeng said very seriously, “Well, this will be challenging. Your 10,000 yuan budget is a pretty good amount for an ordinary person, but this is Boss Zhou we are talking about.

Yan Shuyu also knew that. “That's why I need your help.”

Yang Zifeng thought about it for a few seconds and gave him his honest opinion. “Well, don't think about something big. Choose something small and smooth like a tie clip, cuff, or cologne.”

After thinking about it for a while, Yan Shuyu also revealed her own thoughts. “Maybe I should start with a tie clip. Cologne will be hard to choose from as well. His taste will go up there. ”

Yang Zifeng smirked at him. “This may not be your only time to give him something. You can rotate through these ideas.”

Yan Shuyu gave him a thumbs up. “Good idea~”

After they made their decision, Yang Zifeng decided to go with him to the shopping mall. He had met Boss Zhou several times now and recalled some of the brands that Boss Zhou usually wore. Once they arrived at the mall, he brought Yan Shuyu directly to a certain counter. Yan Shuyu finally broke the tie with a wine-red pattern that cost a total of 15,000 yuan.

He was still saddened by the amount he spent when Manager Yang asked, doubtfully, "Are you sure this will be one?"

Yan Shuyu nodded confidently. "Yes. The color of his skin is pale. Red tie will make it look more handsome than before.”

Therefore, Yan Shuyu could already see before his eyes how his boss would be so handsome that he could make the knees of others weak. Suddenly, he stopped mourning his money. With a wave of his hand, he told the salesperson, “I'll take this one. Wrap that. Thank you." Thank you."

Yang Zifeng's lips twitched. It was not that he did not believe Boss Zhou's appearance. But he was the one who attended all sorts of sumptuous banquets with other successful businessmen. Is he really going to use a tie that's so "striking"?

Nevertheless, seeing how confident and excited his little friend was, he finally decided not to say anything.

Carrying an expensive Christmas present with both hands and gripping her now half-empty purse, Yan Shuyu planned to return home with her little friend. He suddenly stopped as he walked away from the counter and looked in a certain direction seriously.

Yang Zifeng asked curiously. "What's that?"

“It looks like I've seen someone familiar.” Yan Shuyu thought about it for a moment, then quickly ignored the thought. “I definitely saw a lot of things. Let's go."

Yang Zifeng also dropped the topic of conversation and the two of them went to the underground garage to retrieve his car.

Shortly after, Yan Shuyu discovered that the silhouette he saw in the afternoon was not just his imagination.

After she returned to the coffee shop, Yan Shuyu changed her uniform to finish her day.

Now that her relationship with the boss had started to stabilize, if they had not made plans beforehand, she would have continued to have dinner with her little friends at work and work until 8pm. And today is one of them.

After dinner, he noticed a familiar car parked outside the coffee shop. He was not surprised but got into the car with a smile. “You're done for today? Have you had dinner?”

Zhou Qinhe nodded gently, started the car, and headed to his place as he casually asked, "You went shopping this afternoon?"

"Yes." Yeah." Yan Shuyu had just finished by bending herself. He looked at her when he heard her words and asked, "I think I've seen someone familiar in the afternoon but it doesn't look too much like you?"

Boss Zhou glanced at him and said indifferently, "That's not me."

“Then who?”