TWEHGC Chapter 9

Ning Luo held the milk, not knowing how to ask Ning Yang not to go.

[Chen Chuan’ang is Ning Xibai’s biggest side piece, and Miss Chen Er is his way of showing his affection to Ning Xibai.]

The information in these words is worth exploring. Ning Yang, who was called a pig twice, pursed his lips tightly and endured the pain and did not interrupt.

[Miss Chen Er is actually an illegitimate daughter, and her biological mother’s life is in the hands of the legal wife. She has to do whatever Chen Chuan’ang asks her to do.]

[For example, pretending to love you to death, asking to be your personal secretary, making you think that you can take this opportunity to have a legendary office play.]

Ning Yang choked as soon as he took a sip of coffee: “Cough, cough cough.”

He quickly grabbed a tissue to cover his mouth.

How could Ning Luo dare to think of anything!

Ning Luo looked at him with sympathy, as if he had become a fish on the chopping board, a pig for the New Year feast, a freshly split watermelon, and a Bald Qiang about to be beaten. [mfn]1. Bald Qiang” is a cartoon logger from the Chinese show Boonie Bears, often outwitted and beaten—used jokingly to describe someone repeatedly tricked or helpless in a situation.[/mfn]

Then his tone suddenly became fierce:
[Just when you, a makabaka, fell in love, she stole your official seal, your documents, and your trade secrets! Even your underwear gets stripped off and is put on sale. It was marked second-hand with a description saying, “CEO’s body-scented briefs, lightly used, 90% new”! ]

Ning Yang clenched his fists.

Ning Yang is seriously contemplating whether it was illegal to kill his brother.

Ning Luo gave the final blow.

[Then she handed over your company secrets to Chen Chuanang, causing you to suffer losses in your next business investment so that Dad would doubt your ability and push Ning Xibai to the front instead.]

[What is this? This is the price of being a love-brain! Happiness is like a donkey meat pancake; it is not suitable for you at all. Brother Stuck Phlegm] [mfn] 2.The joke compares being blinded by love and “love-brain” to chasing an odd food (donkey meat pancakes), implying it’s not a good match—while also calling him “Brother stuck phlegm” (a jab at his constant throat-clearing).[/mfn]

Ning Yang’s heart skipped a beat after hearing the first sentence, and he didn’t realize that he had also won a new title after the green tea brother.

Did Xibai and the Chen family set up this trap just to make him step down and vacate the position?

No, wait—how did he end up being led by the nose by Ning Luo again?

What if this is just a blind guess based on some manual like yesterday? Didn’t he misunderstand Xibai?

Ning Yang was so confused that he didn’t even notice when Ning Xibai sat down next to him.

“Brother? Brother!”

“…Hmm?”

Ning Xibai complained: “I’ve called you several times. What’s wrong, brother? Are you in a bad mood?”

“No, you’re seeing things.” Ning Yang picked up his coffee, hiding his emotions.

Ning Xibai felt that something was off, though he couldn’t say exactly what. Seeing that Ning Yang didn’t want to talk, he turned and said, ” Auntie Zhang get me breakfast”.

Ning Luo saw Ning Xibai, and his train of thought was immediately interrupted.

[Early rising green tea, guess a food]

Ning Yang subconsciously started guessing.

[West Lake Longjing. Because Longjing is spring tea, the earliest batch of green tea, hahahahaha! ][mfn] 3. The joke combines a sarcastic insult with a real tea’s name—calling someone an “early-rising green tea” is like calling them a top-tier, early-blooming manipulator—just like Longjing is the top early-blooming tea.[/mfn]

Ning Yang: “…”

He thought about it in vain.

Now that all three brothers were here, even if Ning Luo really wanted to reveal something, he couldn’t, so he held it back for now, resting his chin on his hand and looking at Ning Xibai, smiling with his little tiger teeth exposed, like a pure and innocent high school boy who knows nothing about the world: “Oh~, now that I am seeing you up close, Xiaobai’s skin is really good.”

Do I need you to tell me? Ning Xibai didn’t know what he was up to, so he looked at him warily and didn’t answer.

Ning Luo didn’t need him to answer; he continued to talk: “With such good skin, you have to apply more sunscreen in Africa, otherwise you will be tanned into a black coal ball, and you will lose a lot of fans.”

“Oh, by the way, you should pay more attention to it in normal times. There are many mosquitoes and small wild animals in Africa. If they bite and scratch your face, it will be very troublesome.”

Ning Luo applied what he learned, pretending to be worried and saying hurtful words. He also frowned slightly and pretended to be puzzled at Ning Xibai, who was getting angry: “Xiaobai, I care about you; aren’t you happy?”

Ning Xibai squeezed out the words from between his teeth: “Happy.”

Ning Luo was very satisfied: “Then thank your brother quickly.”

“…Thank you, brother,” Ning Xibai laughed, “but I think second brother will be disappointed. Dad just said it casually last night; it doesn’t mean he really wants me to go.”

Ning Luo understood.

Why was Ning Xibai acting like nothing happened? It turned out that he wanted to start with Ning’s father to make him give up on the idea.

How could that be possible? Ning Luo was the first to disagree.

His life cannot be without the entertainment that is Ning Xibai!

Before he could say anything, Ning Yang, who had been silent all the time, stood up and said, “You guys eat; I’m leaving.”

Business is more important. Ning Luo quickly put down the milk, tapped on his phone a few times, and then chased after him.

Ning Xibai also wanted to follow and ask; he always felt that Ning Yang’s attitude these two days was very strange, which made him a little uneasy. But when he saw Ning Luo go out, he sat back down.

Forget it, it’s not an important matter. Better focus on persuading Father Ning to drop the idea first.

–

Ning Yang’s heart was very confused, and his emotions and rationality kept pulling him in opposite directions.

Emotions told him that it was impossible; that was his younger brother, who he had taken care of since he was a child.

But rationality was saying, what would Ning Luo gain by thinking this way? He didn’t even know Ning Yang could read minds.

… And he wasn’t his biological brother; he has a different father and mother.

“Brother, wait!” Ning Luo caught up with him, panting.

Ning Yang lowered the car window, ready to listen to what he wanted to say.

Ning Luo shook his phone at him: “Brother, I’ve shared something good with you; you can listen to it on the way. You must listen to it!”

“Okay.” Ning Yang guessed that there must be a hidden message in there.

He expected to repeatedly and earnestly remind him, but he didn’t expect Ning Yang to agree so readily. Ning Luo was stunned for a moment, then smiled: “Go ahead then; be careful on the road.”

This is his golden thigh, and he can’t let it get bumped or knocked down for the time being.

The car drove away.

The driver said: “The second young master cares about you very much.”

Ning Yang said, “hmm”, and for the first time he felt that this extra brother was not so bad.

He turned on his phone and found that Ning Luo had indeed sent him a lot of recording files and noted that he should listen to them when he was relaxing.

Ning Yang pinched his eyebrows, feeling increasingly annoyed the more he thought about it. He asked the driver to connect to the Bluetooth in the car and clicked on the first recording file.

“I’m reborn! I’m the CEO’s personal secretary and his contracted lover. This man would never have thought that I was his abandoned ex-wife. This time, I must take back everything! I want him to kneel down and lick my toes like a dog…”

Ning Yang’s face was panicked for the first time. His fingers quickly tried to close the recording, but it automatically switched to the next one, forcing him to listen.

“…The CEO looked at his personal secretary, who was as cute as a little white rabbit and smiled evilly, ‘Woman, you are the first person to reject me.’ The little white rabbit shook her head in panic, ‘CEO, I’m just a 211 university student, I’m not worthy of you.’

‘Oh, that’s easy.’ The CEO snorted.

A month later, the personal secretary was promoted from a 211 university to a 598 university. Because the president who graduated from a 985 university merged the two schools, 211+985 divided by two is 598. ” [mfn]4. In China, 211 and 985 are real designations for top-tier universities. The punchline mocks the “CEO fixes everything” trope by inventing a ridiculous “598 university” through fake math logic (211 + 985 ÷ 2 = 598), pretending the CEO created it just to make the secretary “worthy” of him.[/mfn]

Ning Yang furiously realized that Ning Luo had basically sent him a virus. He couldn’t pause or exit at all and could only loop through the list.

The driver was stunned and laughed: “Hahahaha! Hahahaha 598 university hahaha…”

His laughter became smaller and smaller in Ning Yang’s frighteningly cold eyes and finally shut up.

Ning Yang squeezed his phone so hard that it creaked: “Your bonus for next month is gone too.”

The driver weakly defended: “But I haven’t stepped into the company yet.”

Ning Yang sneered: “You are disturbing my eyes. Is there a problem?”

The driver was wronged, but he couldn’t say it.

The young man’s flat, robotic voice on the tablet was still reading those brain-dead lines with full dedication.

“…The president looked at the woman affectionately. ‘Yaoyao, I have lost my fertility, but you still stick with me and have been my personal secretary for many years. ‘

The woman interrupted him crying, ‘Don’t feel inferior, I am willing to transplant my uterus to you and give you a new reproductive organ.’ ‘Yaoyao, you are so kind, I love you’…”

Ning Yang disconnected the Bluetooth, lowered the volume, and turned off the phone.

The world was finally quiet.

He looked at the chat box and gritted his teeth and blurted out two words: “Ning, Luo.”

Take back what I said just now. Ning Luo is just terrible.

Is he sick? He is so noisy all day long!

For Ning Luo, no matter what the method is, it’s fine as long as it works.

The effect is indeed outstanding. When Ning Yang saw Miss Chen Er, the president who kneeled and licked toes, and the other president getting a uterus transplanted flashed through his mind, and his chest tightened.

Regardless of whether what Ning Luo was thinking is true or false, he will never let Miss Chen Er be his personal secretary in the short term.

Ning Yang pulled out a chair and sat down, thinking desperately.

…

This is not the first time Miss Chen Er has met Ning Yang. They went on several dates, and the woman has clearly expressed her affection.

She thinks she is beautiful and has a good personality and was deeply in love with the other party. If it were someone else, wouldn’t they have fallen for her long ago? But Ning Yang is just blind and heartless.

No wonder he is still alone. Miss Chen Er gritted her teeth and followed the previous topic and said, “It would be great if I could be your secretary.”

After saying that, her face turned red, as if she felt that she was rude and unrestrained, and she hurriedly made amends: “I don’t mean anything else; I just want to say that you often work overtime and stay up late, and your secretary certainly dares not interfere with your choices, but your body will not be able to bear it for a long time. I think if I go…”

Miss Chen Er stopped talking here and left the rest to Ning Yang’s imagination.

She didn’t expect to succeed all at once anyway, so she tried to test the waters first.

Ning Yang lowered his head to stir the coffee.

The drooping hair on his forehead blocked the surging emotions in his eyes.

Every word was the same.

Every word was the same as Ning Luo said.

He put down the spoon and looked at Miss Chen Er: “Okay. ”

…

After seeing off the overjoyed and incredulous Second Miss Chen, Ning Yang loosened his tie and suddenly felt suffocated, as if he had lived in a transparent water tank for the first half of his life, with his every move being seen through by others.

He sent a message to his assistant: [Have you found out what I asked you to check?]

An hour later, the assistant replied: [Mr. Ning, I found out.]

[Chen Yan is indeed an illegitimate daughter. The Third Young Master is indeed too close to Chen Chuanang.]

They had never hidden this fact, and Ning Yang had never suspected anything before.

When the dust settled, Ning Yang found that he was actually relieved.

In Ning Luo’s words, that would be: emotionally stable.
Stable… like a dead man.
–

The crew was on holiday, and Ning Luo had a rare break. He was lying on the sofa, eating the cookies that Aunt Zhang made for him, and counting his savings.

The original owner had just returned to the Ning family not long ago. Although he had good food and accommodation now, he didn’t have much money. Especially since he spent all his savings on his adoptive mother’s medical treatment, and the original owner was a spendthrift.

Ning Luo calculated and found that he only had 23,000 yuan in savings.

If the crew could transfer his salary, it would definitely be more than that, but Wang Lin was also very poor now.

Ning Luo sighed faintly: “I don’t know how I can work hard to make money every day, but I am still penniless. Who stole my money?”

Before he could finish his sigh, a dark shadow loomed over his head.

“Brother? You are back so early?” He sat up with his hands and feet.

Ning Yang pulled the corner of his mouth when he heard his question.
Because he agreed too quickly, Chen Yan was too happy and left early to report the progress to Chen Chuan’ang.

But he didn’t say anything and glanced at Ning Luo’s online banking page: “Lack of money?”

Honesty is one of the few good qualities of Ning Luo. He nodded vigorously: “Very lacking, so lacking that I think the northwest wind is fragrant.”

Ning Yang was speechless: “Don’t act like the Ning family is abusing you.”

Ning Luo looked up at him, blinking his watery eyes; the suggestion was very obvious.

“…” Ning Yang lowered his head and operated a few times on his mobile phone. “Transferred it.”

Ning Luo picked up his mobile phone to check the message notification, and a series of zeros rushed in.

He swallowed his saliva, counted three times, and his hands began to tremble with excitement.

Five million!

A full five million!

He was so happy that he jumped up from the sofa and hugged Ning Yang, wishing he could kiss his big money sponsor: “Brother, I love you so much!”

Ning Yang pushed him away and frowned in disgust: “Stay away. You just love money, right?”

“I love them all. Buddha is merciful, and all beings are equal.”

“Hehe, you are quite generous.”

Ning Yang saw him biting his thumb with joy and tilted his head with a slight smile on his face.

The new brother… seems to be pretty good.

“By the way,” he said, “how can a man get pregnant after a uterus transplant? Tell me about it?”

Ning Luo’s excited smile suddenly froze on his face.