Chapter 345 - Happiness That Belonged To Her
"I… got the money……" Tang Yin said softly. "Thanks……."
"Ah… how're you gonna thank me?" Lin Yi could imagine what Tang Yin looked like, a young girl standing in her yard, phone carefully in both hands as she talked to him in a lowered voice…
He could tell where she was from the crickets on her end of the phone…
"I……" Tang Yin wasn't sure how to respond- her breathing grew heavy and her face reddened. "How… what do you think I should do……"
"You're the one thanking me, right?" Lin Yi teased with a smile.
"Then I… I'll… give you a kiss..?" Tang Yin said a little shakily after some hesitation.
"Sure." Lin Yi wasn't looking to get anything from Tang Yin in return- he wasn't one who took advantage of people like that, especially so when it was a girl he liked.
"Okay……" Tang Yin felt her heart thump faster, embarrassed of how forward she'd been.
"When?" Lin Yi asked.
"Y… You choose……" Tang Yin said tensely.
"How about now?" Lin Yi asked.
"Ah? Now?" Tang Yin paused- how was she supposed to kiss him now? Did he mean through the phone..? Wouldn't that make it a fake kiss?? Would this Lin Yi really be satisfied with something like that?
"Yeah, I'm waiting……" As much as Lin Yi wanted a real kiss from Tang Yin, it'd feel like he'd bought it with money if it happened for real now.
"C-Come on… I'm not ready yet……" Tang Yin said shyly.
"When will you be ready then?" Lin Yi smiled. "Two hundred thousand- your kiss sure is expensive, isn't it?"
"Hmph, so wouldn't you go bankrupt if I kissed you a couple more times?" Tang Yin smiled as well.
"Yeah, I gotta start budgeting- with the money I have now I can still get a couple more kisses." Lin Yi said seriously.
"Then you'd better start budgeting!" Tang Yin hmphed. "By the way, how come you sent me two hundred thousand?"
"Didn't your mom say your dad still needs a surgery?" Lin Yi said. "I added fifty thousand after hearing that."
"Thank you……." Tang Yin's tears dripped down that instant- it was the first time in her entire life that happiness made her cry… He'd thought of it when she never even said anything!
Was Lin Yi a gift to her from god?
Tang Yin had this urge at that moment, the urge to stay with Lin Yi- she felt like she'd found happiness at this eighteenth year of her life…
A happiness formed from being cared for, being warmly protected…. It was a happiness and bliss that she wouldn't forget for years to come.
Tang Yin's hands were shaking as she held the phone, but she managed to give the phone an audible kiss after she'd gathered her courage. "T-There, that's today's kiss, I still owe you one, I'll return it some other day……"
With that, she hurriedly hung the phone up, her body burning and covered with sweat.
"Fuu……" Tang Yin didn't want to go back in the house too quickly- she must've looked really embarrassed and red as she tried to calm herself down in the yard.
A mosquito flew by, lured in by the white of Tang Yin's skin when she reached her hand out with killing intent. "Lin Yi you idiot!! Why are you so nice to me?! I'm gonna slap you to death!"
Tang Yin had been out for a while, and Mrs. Tang sent Wei to go check on her- he was greeted with Tang Yin swinging at the air talking about slapping Lin Yi to death. He stared at Tang Yin, shocked. "Is brother-in-law a masochist? Why do you wanna slap him when he's nice?"
"What do you know, you're just a kid!" Tang Yin said, completely caught off-guard. "Get back inside!"
"Oh… I get it, hitting is intimacy and scolding is love, right? Dan says that all the time too." Wei nodded understandingly, embarrassing Tang Yin even more.
(chinese saying)
Wei and Dan then happily went home together- Mrs. Tang had promised to go withdraw the money the first thing tomorrow morning.
Naturally, Wei wasn't thinking of selling any kidneys anymore.
Somewhere in a villa in Songshan was a man covered in tattoos, very pissed after he received a phone call. He ran up to a young man, a frown on his face. "Wen Bro! That kid's going back on selling his kidney!"
"What?!" The young man frowned in response as well. "What's the matter with you, can't you even do something so simple? I'll tell you something, if those Firewolves get pissed none of us are getting away, even my own father!! If the rate of kidney sellers continue dropping like that my brother's gonna pass us soon!"
"But Wen Bro… People nowadays are getting smarter, only those who really desperately need the money would sell their kidneys……" The tattooed man explained carefully.
"You fucking pig! There's no way we'll ever have enough kidneys from sources that small! You know what I saw when I was studying overseas? A proper organization that cuts kidneys off of people! Do you people not know how to do the same if we don't get any customers?" Wen Bro scolded.
"Wen Bro, isn't that too much..? What if the police starts paying attention to us, we'd be screwed!" Wen Bro was quite taken aback from Wen Bro's suggestion. "Even when De Bro was still here he didn't go that far……"
"Shut the fuck up about De Bro, it's Wen Bro's house now!! Stop bringing my brother up all the time!" Wen Bro hmphed coldly. "Songshan's kidney source wouldn't be this tight in the first place if it weren't for him making everyone sell their kidneys to him!"
"Y-Yes……" The tattooed man remembered that De Bro and Wen Bro were competitors, despite being brothers.
"If you're scared of the cops then go target those beggars and hobos! No one will care as long as they don't die from having a kidney cut off!" Wen Bro said disdainfully. "Who's the underground boss in Songshan? Make contact with him, I'll pay a visit myself."
"Songshan's underground boss is Li Cihua, but he's not the shot caller… He has a boss behind his back, but I don't have any details on him… I heard that he's quite a powerful man……" The tattooed man said. "Wen Bro, will you be visiting tonight?"
"Not tonight, I've something more important to deal with. I'll visit this Li Cihua tomorrow!" Wen Bro nodded. "The person backing him up is none of our business, so we're not gonna involve ourselves with him, just like how nobody has to know that the Firewolves are backing us up!"
Chapter 346 - Uninvited Guest
"Understood!" The tatooed man nodded respectfully. "Where are you headed tonight, Wen Bro? Should I drive you there?"
"No need, it's a private matter." Wen Bro waved his hand. "Don't follow me."
"Yes, Wen Bro! I'll prepare the car for you, then?" The man said carefully.
"Yeah, go pull that Ferrarri out." Wen Bro ordered.
That night, in Chu Mengyao's villa, came an uninvited guest…
She was trying to lecture Yushu when the doorbell rang, quite displeased at how her friend always ran around naked in the house. "Shu, you're nineteen already! You can't go on like this, you know!!"
"Hehe, I get it, Yao Yao……" Yushu nodded with a grin.
"Look, you're still grinning! Lin Yi's the one who benefits in the end!" Mengyao glared. "You'll be in trouble if he takes a nude pic of you one day!"
"Oh……. Yao Yao, there's someone at the door downstairs! Maybe we should go take a look?" Yushu was trying to change the subject again.
"For what? We have our lackey Lin Yi to answer the door for us, what's the rush!" Mengyao said, uncaring.
"Oh…… It must be Uncle Fu though, and I'm hungry! Let's go!" Yushu rubbed her stomach, looking like she'd faint from the hunger anytime soon. "I'm starving..!"
Mengyao shook her head before walking downstairs with Yushu.
(so I always translate it as "Mengyao pulled Yushu upstairs with her", but it sounds a lot more forceful in English than it does in Chinese. Just something to keep in mind)
Lin Yi walked over to the door and opened it- it wasn't Uncle Fu, or anyone he was close with… It was An Jianwen, that guy he'd met at the theme park the other day!
"An Jianwen?" Lin Yi blinked- why had he come ringing?
Jianwen, on the other hand, had an unnoticeable dark look flash across his face when he saw that it was Lin Yi who answered the door- why was he in Mengyao's home?! Jianwen didn't like this one bit. Was he at that stage with Mengyao already?
Did Pengzhan know about all this?
Yet Jianwen remembered to keep a warm smile on his face- these emotions inside him weren't something he'd want exposed. "Oh, isn't this a coincidence! You're here too, Mister Lin?"
"I live here." Lin Yi said faintly after one look- of course he'd sensed the probing way Jianwen asked that question.
The bad feeling in Jianwen's stomach had proved accurate- he'd still been a bit hopeful before Lin Yi made the confirmation.
He held his fists tightly- three years overseas and someone else had set up a nest with Mengyao!! One of the four Songshan young masters, taken advantage of in his absence!
"Haha, so you two live together now." Jianwen felt his heart bleed… Even if he won Mengyao over from Lin Yi, he'd be bringing home a second-hand…
"What're you doing, checkups?" Lin Yi frowned. This guy sure liked to bullshit a lot. "What do you need?"
"You see, I'm here to say thanks in person after you and Yao Yao saved me that day." Jianwen pressed down the displeasure stirring inside of him before handing Lin Yi a gift, a smile on his face. "See, I brought a gift as well… Can I come in first?"
Lin Yi smiled coldly inside- say thanks in person? The guy didn't even know he lived here one minute ago, what was he even talking about, pretending that he wasn't here to hit on Mengyao?
But Lin Y wasn't interested in exposing him- what he was here for didn't have too much to do with him. He opened the door and let Jianwen in.
"I wonder if Mister Chu's home?" Jianwen prodded once more.
"Who are you here for, actually?" Lin Yi looked at Jianwen disdainfully. "Uncle Chu doesn't live here- you can go look for him in the company!"
"Oh? He doesn't live here anymore, I see……" Jianwen actually wanted to know where Pengzhan was this time around- after all, he lived with his daughter before Jianwen went overseas.
Lin Yi ignored him and stepped into the villa first, thinking that Jianwen could just follow him. He didn't bother taking the gift, either- who knew whom it was for?
Mengyao and Yushu had come downstairs as well, surprised to see Jianwen behind Lin Yi.
"Jianwen Bro, why're you here?" Mengyao didn't like Jianwen too much anymore- he no longer gave her that brotherly feeling he once did… There was a dark air about him, too, something she couldn't explain. It made her uncomfortable.
"Haha, I'm just too grateful for what you and Mister Lin did for me at the restaurant that other day- I'm here to say thanks in person!" Jianwen said with a smile sa he put the gift on the coffee table.
It was a couple of foreign health supplements and other similar products, clearly not something meant for young people. Lin Yi inferred that this dude had come today to visit Pengzhan, not knowing that he didn't live here anymore.
"Jianwen Bro, when had you become so hypocritical? You would never do anything like this in the past." Mengyao said faintly. She felt like the distance between Jianwen and her was increasing- they didn't feel like brother and sister anymore. "Wouldn't you do the same if I got sick?"
"Haha, I guess I'm being cheesy!" Jianwen felt like he hadn't thought this through, too, visiting with a bunch of gifts without making sure if Pengzhan still lived here. These gifts didn't suit Mengyao at all, but it'd be worse if he took it back now. "But here are some stuff I brought back from overseas, think of it as trying out something new."
"Oh! Yao Yao, those gotta be quite expensive, right? Why don't we sell them?" Yushu eyed the gifts curiously.
"Shu!!" Mengyao glared at her. Wasn't that too disrespectful, even if she didn't like Jianwen?
Jianwen's lips twitched, but there was simply nothing he could do regarding Chen Yushu. She was even Mengyao's soulmate, too.
"Hehe……" Yushu smiled, not bothering to deal with Jianwen anymore. She went to the sofa and turned on the TV- the atmosphere grew cold all of a sudden.
"You guys have fun, I'm going back to my room." Lin Yi stood up and left, thinking that it was a waste of time to talk with Jianwen.
Jianwen found that odd. "Do you live downstairs, Mister Lin?"
Chapter 345 - Happiness That Belonged To Her
"I… got the money……" Tang Yin said softly. "Thanks……."
"Ah… how're you gonna thank me?" Lin Yi could imagine what Tang Yin looked like, a young girl standing in her yard, phone carefully in both hands as she talked to him in a lowered voice…
He could tell where she was from the crickets on her end of the phone…
"I……" Tang Yin wasn't sure how to respond- her breathing grew heavy and her face reddened. "How… what do you think I should do……"
"You're the one thanking me, right?" Lin Yi teased with a smile.
"Then I… I'll… give you a kiss..?" Tang Yin said a little shakily after some hesitation.
"Sure." Lin Yi wasn't looking to get anything from Tang Yin in return- he wasn't one who took advantage of people like that, especially so when it was a girl he liked.
"Okay……" Tang Yin felt her heart thump faster, embarrassed of how forward she'd been.
"When?" Lin Yi asked.
"Y… You choose……" Tang Yin said tensely.
"How about now?" Lin Yi asked.
"Ah? Now?" Tang Yin paused- how was she supposed to kiss him now? Did he mean through the phone..? Wouldn't that make it a fake kiss?? Would this Lin Yi really be satisfied with something like that?
"Yeah, I'm waiting……" As much as Lin Yi wanted a real kiss from Tang Yin, it'd feel like he'd bought it with money if it happened for real now.
"C-Come on… I'm not ready yet……" Tang Yin said shyly.
"When will you be ready then?" Lin Yi smiled. "Two hundred thousand- your kiss sure is expensive, isn't it?"
"Hmph, so wouldn't you go bankrupt if I kissed you a couple more times?" Tang Yin smiled as well.
"Yeah, I gotta start budgeting- with the money I have now I can still get a couple more kisses." Lin Yi said seriously.
"Then you'd better start budgeting!" Tang Yin hmphed. "By the way, how come you sent me two hundred thousand?"
"Didn't your mom say your dad still needs a surgery?" Lin Yi said. "I added fifty thousand after hearing that."
"Thank you……." Tang Yin's tears dripped down that instant- it was the first time in her entire life that happiness made her cry… He'd thought of it when she never even said anything!
Was Lin Yi a gift to her from god?
Tang Yin had this urge at that moment, the urge to stay with Lin Yi- she felt like she'd found happiness at this eighteenth year of her life…
A happiness formed from being cared for, being warmly protected…. It was a happiness and bliss that she wouldn't forget for years to come.
Tang Yin's hands were shaking as she held the phone, but she managed to give the phone an audible kiss after she'd gathered her courage. "T-There, that's today's kiss, I still owe you one, I'll return it some other day……"
With that, she hurriedly hung the phone up, her body burning and covered with sweat.
"Fuu……" Tang Yin didn't want to go back in the house too quickly- she must've looked really embarrassed and red as she tried to calm herself down in the yard.
A mosquito flew by, lured in by the white of Tang Yin's skin when she reached her hand out with killing intent. "Lin Yi you idiot!! Why are you so nice to me?! I'm gonna slap you to death!"
Tang Yin had been out for a while, and Mrs. Tang sent Wei to go check on her- he was greeted with Tang Yin swinging at the air talking about slapping Lin Yi to death. He stared at Tang Yin, shocked. "Is brother-in-law a masochist? Why do you wanna slap him when he's nice?"
"What do you know, you're just a kid!" Tang Yin said, completely caught off-guard. "Get back inside!"
"Oh… I get it, hitting is intimacy and scolding is love, right? Dan says that all the time too." Wei nodded understandingly, embarrassing Tang Yin even more.
(chinese saying)
Wei and Dan then happily went home together- Mrs. Tang had promised to go withdraw the money the first thing tomorrow morning.
Naturally, Wei wasn't thinking of selling any kidneys anymore.
Somewhere in a villa in Songshan was a man covered in tattoos, very pissed after he received a phone call. He ran up to a young man, a frown on his face. "Wen Bro! That kid's going back on selling his kidney!"
"What?!" The young man frowned in response as well. "What's the matter with you, can't you even do something so simple? I'll tell you something, if those Firewolves get pissed none of us are getting away, even my own father!! If the rate of kidney sellers continue dropping like that my brother's gonna pass us soon!"
"But Wen Bro… People nowadays are getting smarter, only those who really desperately need the money would sell their kidneys……" The tattooed man explained carefully.
"You fucking pig! There's no way we'll ever have enough kidneys from sources that small! You know what I saw when I was studying overseas? A proper organization that cuts kidneys off of people! Do you people not know how to do the same if we don't get any customers?" Wen Bro scolded.
"Wen Bro, isn't that too much..? What if the police starts paying attention to us, we'd be screwed!" Wen Bro was quite taken aback from Wen Bro's suggestion. "Even when De Bro was still here he didn't go that far……"
"Shut the fuck up about De Bro, it's Wen Bro's house now!! Stop bringing my brother up all the time!" Wen Bro hmphed coldly. "Songshan's kidney source wouldn't be this tight in the first place if it weren't for him making everyone sell their kidneys to him!"
"Y-Yes……" The tattooed man remembered that De Bro and Wen Bro were competitors, despite being brothers.
"If you're scared of the cops then go target those beggars and hobos! No one will care as long as they don't die from having a kidney cut off!" Wen Bro said disdainfully. "Who's the underground boss in Songshan? Make contact with him, I'll pay a visit myself."
"Songshan's underground boss is Li Cihua, but he's not the shot caller… He has a boss behind his back, but I don't have any details on him… I heard that he's quite a powerful man……" The tattooed man said. "Wen Bro, will you be visiting tonight?"
"Not tonight, I've something more important to deal with. I'll visit this Li Cihua tomorrow!" Wen Bro nodded. "The person backing him up is none of our business, so we're not gonna involve ourselves with him, just like how nobody has to know that the Firewolves are backing us up!"
Chapter 346 - Uninvited Guest
"Understood!" The tatooed man nodded respectfully. "Where are you headed tonight, Wen Bro? Should I drive you there?"
"No need, it's a private matter." Wen Bro waved his hand. "Don't follow me."
"Yes, Wen Bro! I'll prepare the car for you, then?" The man said carefully.
"Yeah, go pull that Ferrarri out." Wen Bro ordered.
That night, in Chu Mengyao's villa, came an uninvited guest…
She was trying to lecture Yushu when the doorbell rang, quite displeased at how her friend always ran around naked in the house. "Shu, you're nineteen already! You can't go on like this, you know!!"
"Hehe, I get it, Yao Yao……" Yushu nodded with a grin.
"Look, you're still grinning! Lin Yi's the one who benefits in the end!" Mengyao glared. "You'll be in trouble if he takes a nude pic of you one day!"
"Oh……. Yao Yao, there's someone at the door downstairs! Maybe we should go take a look?" Yushu was trying to change the subject again.
"For what? We have our lackey Lin Yi to answer the door for us, what's the rush!" Mengyao said, uncaring.
"Oh…… It must be Uncle Fu though, and I'm hungry! Let's go!" Yushu rubbed her stomach, looking like she'd faint from the hunger anytime soon. "I'm starving..!"
Mengyao shook her head before walking downstairs with Yushu.
(so I always translate it as "Mengyao pulled Yushu upstairs with her", but it sounds a lot more forceful in English than it does in Chinese. Just something to keep in mind)
Lin Yi walked over to the door and opened it- it wasn't Uncle Fu, or anyone he was close with… It was An Jianwen, that guy he'd met at the theme park the other day!
"An Jianwen?" Lin Yi blinked- why had he come ringing?
Jianwen, on the other hand, had an unnoticeable dark look flash across his face when he saw that it was Lin Yi who answered the door- why was he in Mengyao's home?! Jianwen didn't like this one bit. Was he at that stage with Mengyao already?
Did Pengzhan know about all this?
Yet Jianwen remembered to keep a warm smile on his face- these emotions inside him weren't something he'd want exposed. "Oh, isn't this a coincidence! You're here too, Mister Lin?"
"I live here." Lin Yi said faintly after one look- of course he'd sensed the probing way Jianwen asked that question.
The bad feeling in Jianwen's stomach had proved accurate- he'd still been a bit hopeful before Lin Yi made the confirmation.
He held his fists tightly- three years overseas and someone else had set up a nest with Mengyao!! One of the four Songshan young masters, taken advantage of in his absence!
"Haha, so you two live together now." Jianwen felt his heart bleed… Even if he won Mengyao over from Lin Yi, he'd be bringing home a second-hand…
"What're you doing, checkups?" Lin Yi frowned. This guy sure liked to bullshit a lot. "What do you need?"
"You see, I'm here to say thanks in person after you and Yao Yao saved me that day." Jianwen pressed down the displeasure stirring inside of him before handing Lin Yi a gift, a smile on his face. "See, I brought a gift as well… Can I come in first?"
Lin Yi smiled coldly inside- say thanks in person? The guy didn't even know he lived here one minute ago, what was he even talking about, pretending that he wasn't here to hit on Mengyao?
But Lin Y wasn't interested in exposing him- what he was here for didn't have too much to do with him. He opened the door and let Jianwen in.
"I wonder if Mister Chu's home?" Jianwen prodded once more.
"Who are you here for, actually?" Lin Yi looked at Jianwen disdainfully. "Uncle Chu doesn't live here- you can go look for him in the company!"
"Oh? He doesn't live here anymore, I see……" Jianwen actually wanted to know where Pengzhan was this time around- after all, he lived with his daughter before Jianwen went overseas.
Lin Yi ignored him and stepped into the villa first, thinking that Jianwen could just follow him. He didn't bother taking the gift, either- who knew whom it was for?
Mengyao and Yushu had come downstairs as well, surprised to see Jianwen behind Lin Yi.
"Jianwen Bro, why're you here?" Mengyao didn't like Jianwen too much anymore- he no longer gave her that brotherly feeling he once did… There was a dark air about him, too, something she couldn't explain. It made her uncomfortable.
"Haha, I'm just too grateful for what you and Mister Lin did for me at the restaurant that other day- I'm here to say thanks in person!" Jianwen said with a smile sa he put the gift on the coffee table.
It was a couple of foreign health supplements and other similar products, clearly not something meant for young people. Lin Yi inferred that this dude had come today to visit Pengzhan, not knowing that he didn't live here anymore.
"Jianwen Bro, when had you become so hypocritical? You would never do anything like this in the past." Mengyao said faintly. She felt like the distance between Jianwen and her was increasing- they didn't feel like brother and sister anymore. "Wouldn't you do the same if I got sick?"
"Haha, I guess I'm being cheesy!" Jianwen felt like he hadn't thought this through, too, visiting with a bunch of gifts without making sure if Pengzhan still lived here. These gifts didn't suit Mengyao at all, but it'd be worse if he took it back now. "But here are some stuff I brought back from overseas, think of it as trying out something new."
"Oh! Yao Yao, those gotta be quite expensive, right? Why don't we sell them?" Yushu eyed the gifts curiously.
"Shu!!" Mengyao glared at her. Wasn't that too disrespectful, even if she didn't like Jianwen?
Jianwen's lips twitched, but there was simply nothing he could do regarding Chen Yushu. She was even Mengyao's soulmate, too.
"Hehe……" Yushu smiled, not bothering to deal with Jianwen anymore. She went to the sofa and turned on the TV- the atmosphere grew cold all of a sudden.
"You guys have fun, I'm going back to my room." Lin Yi stood up and left, thinking that it was a waste of time to talk with Jianwen.
Jianwen found that odd. "Do you live downstairs, Mister Lin?"
