Chapter 77

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They sat opposite each other while they ate.

His dad didn’t say anything, but Lin Yanchen suspected it was a covert blind date. eCJLQP

Lin Yanchen looked for an excuse to dodge it.

The girl went over to him and said, “You’re deliberately avoiding me. I also feel very awkward. This is just the wishful thinking of the elders. Don’t be so nervous, I won’t eat you.”

Lin Yanchen breathed a sigh of relief, and politely apologized like a gentleman. “I’m sorry, I’ve made it embarrassing for you…”

“What kind of person do you like?” the girl asked Kc UgI

When Lin Yanchen thought of Chu Xun, he smiled softly. “I like ones a little older than me. They need to wear glasses. Although they have a sharp tongue, at the bottom of their heart, they are actually very tender. They’re very good at cooking. Sometimes, they can be excessively stubborn…”

The girl chuckled and asked, “Do you already have a lover? Why didn’t you tell uncle?”

Lin Yanchen said, “His family background isn’t as influential as yours.”

The girl said, “You may be thinking too much. I think your father is someone who is very easy to talk to.” 80InRH

Lin Yanchen was incredulous. “You think my father is easy to talk to?”

The girl nodded. “Yes; I also feel that your father is the sort of truly good man that is rare.”

Lin Yanchen couldn’t help glancing at his father on the way back.

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Father Lin thought it was odd and asked, “Is there something on my face?”

Lin Yanchen said, “It’s nothing… Don’t do this this next time. I don’t like it.”

“What?” Father Lin asked. 8Lw1g7

Lin Yanchen said, “Didn’t I say last time that I’m not willing? Don’t trick me by saying it’s for business. It was actually a blind date. Did you want me to marry the young lady of that family to further the Lin family?”

Lin’s father replied with a sigh, “I never thought that way.”

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Lin Yanchen: “But that’s what you were doing. I don’t want to use my marriage as a bargaining chip to make money.”

The father and son didn’t shout and scream, but Lin Yanchen initiated a cold war. His relationship with his father had improved in recent years, but it seemed that it still wasn’t good; Lin Yanchen had to be more cautious if he wanted to marry Chu Xun. He didn’t want Chu Xun to be hurt at all. z9Z1xT

Chu Xun discovered that recently, someone had been tailing and secretly photographing him.

He almost caught the person once, but his physical stamina wasn’t strong enough, and the other person escaped him.

Chu Xun was very gloomy. Who would like their privacy invaded all day long? Furthermore, his private life was an especially sensitive matter, and he had always closely guarded his secret.

He didn’t know who had hired that man, why the latter was photographing him in secret, and what pictures he had taken. 29vuln

Only the unknown was the most frightening.

Jiu Jiu was tired from playing and fell asleep.

Today, he slept in a strange position. He clutched his father’s clothes, leaned against his chest, and stuck his little butt out.

Chu Xun hugged the baby and smelled the scent of milk powder mixed with heat rash medicine on him. imvLtx

Teacher Chu whispered to him, “Why hasn’t Lin Yanchen taken you to see his parents yet? Why is he dragging it out?”

In fact, Chu Xun was also very worried, but he had to comfort his father. “It’s only been two months or so, don’t be so worried. He even introduced me to his friends.”

Teacher Chu complained, “How did I raise a son who turns his elbows out (side with outsiders and not the family)? Still saying it’s not urgent – it’s less than two months to Jiu Jiu’s first birthday!”

He said earnestly, “I know the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks; Xiao Lin really likes you, he’s actually pretty good… Just… ai, at most, you’ll just break up with him; we aren’t even scheming to get anything from him.” s85ov1

The more Chu Xun thought about that person who was secretly taking photos of him, the more he felt that something wasn’t right. Who would go to great pains to track, secretly photograph and investigate him?

It seemed… it could only be Lin Yanchen’s father.

Maybe Lin Yanchen had already told his family about him, but his father didn’t approve, which was why Lin Yanchen was dragging things out and didn’t say that he would take Chu Xun to see his side of the family.

Chu Xun never said anything to press the matter, not even half a sentence. What good would it do if he opened his mouth to ask? Wouldn’t it seem like he was just hurriedly trying to climb the social ladder? 1OEcnj

Sometimes, he wished Lin Yanchen really was a male prostitute; the situation wouldn’t be as difficult if that was the case.

Misfortune always came in twos and threes.

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There were also issues in the company.

Even though his mentor was very kind to him, not everyone accepted him. One Manager Tang felt that Chu Xun wasn’t very pleasing to the eye, and deliberately delayed the work on his side. E0NMXn

When everyone went out to dinner, someone patted Chu Xun on the shoulder. Manager Tang asked in a peculiar tone, “Don’t do that, how can you do that to Manager Chu? Don’t you know that Manager Chu likes men; aren’t you sexually harassing him?”

He immediately made the atmosphere awkward.

At that time, however, Chu Xun replied, “Manager Tang, I find that really strange. What’s your definition of sexual harassment? When you touched a girl’s thigh last time, I told you to put your hand somewhere more decent, and you even said that I was being too serious, not allowing other people to play with the girls. That doesn’t count?”

Manager Tang: “…” 0aASzX

In any case, Chu Xun was a bad-tempered gay man; what was the point of being polite?

Lin Yanchen told Chu Xun that he would come back to Y City to see him and take care of the child when he was free on Wednesday.

But before Lin Yanchen came, Chu Xun “saw” Lin Yanchen elsewhere.

It was now the age of the Internet. Oemd5

Lin Yanchen took part in an exchange meeting, which was photographed by the media and broadcasted on TV.

It was reasonable to say that it wasn’t much, since it wasn’t the first time he had been photographed. This time, however, a lot of big-shots were photographed together, which drew a lot of attention. The photo was of him amidst a group of middle-aged men with ordinary looks and not very fit figures; it was as if the painting style wasn’t right (because he’s really good looking but everyone around him isn’t). It was just a picture of him standing and turned to the side slightly as he spoke to the secretary beside him with his eyes down, solemn and unsmiling.

This photo inexplicably blew up. All kinds of entertainment marketing organizations kept up with what was trending. They quickly snatched up the media photos that they hadn’t paid attention to before and put them together, and each article was shared tens of thousands of times.

Countless people expressed how love-struck they were. ycDd10

There was actually such a rich, handsome, young and decent president in this world; he was truly worth keeping an eye on.

Lin Yanchen’s bad friends immediately told him: Ha ha ha ha, you have become a trending topic!

Lin Yanchen actually had a work Weibo account which the company had gotten him. Once in a while, he would go have a look. He found that the comments section had already exploded, with many people who were already jokingly calling themselves “wife of the young master”…

Lin Yanchen’s head was even about to explode. He was finished. gErKBf

Chu Xun would definitely be angry…

Shit, these people were really bored.

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He was just handsome and rich; was it necessary to make such a fuss…

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