I was exposed for adding my female boss to my group of female friends.

Chen Ya lowered his head and ate his food: "Just an ordinary worker, no job title."

"Oh, is it a permanent employee or a temporary worker? It's not outsourced, is it?"

Chen Ya shook his head.

Chen Sheng felt a little relieved and asked, "You just said you know President Qin. Does that person, President Qin, know you?"

"I guess we know each other."

Chen Sheng seemed even happier and said, "Then could you make a connection and give my family President Qin's contact information? Introduce us or something?"

Chen Ya looked up in surprise: "Why do you want to know her?"

"Hey, never mind that, just tell me if you can or can't you?"

Chen Ya said, "This is something Qin Yun Chu herself is willing to do. Nobody likes someone they have no connection with suddenly bothering them."

Chen Sheng's tone turned colder: "So that means it won't work?"

"Not for now. We need to see why they want to get to know each other," Chen Ya said.

It's not that President Qin didn't want to get to know him.

Chen Ya didn't want to do this favor by acting as a go-between.

He and Qin Yunchu had little contact before and didn't know each other very well.

At the time, he treated achieving milestones in Hongtu as a short-term task and didn't intend to get involved in worldly affairs or build too many interpersonal relationships.

Later, when he joined the group and observed many of her posts, he gradually came to understand her better.

One of the biggest discoveries was that Qin Yun Chu had a great fondness for imagining things.

If he were to introduce his family to Qin Yun Chu, who knows what she might misunderstand.

He has a constitution that attracts romantic relationships, and he tries to avoid contact with the opposite sex whenever possible.

He wouldn't want to message Qin Yun Chu unless absolutely necessary.

Chen Sheng thought for a moment, then said in a low voice:

"Well... it's like this, your younger brother is of marriageable age, and the family is currently helping him find a suitable match..."

Mentioning his younger brother brought back distant memories for Chen Ya.

"Dad, waaaaaah, my brother stole my things!"

"Dad! Take me away, Dad! I don't want to stay here!"

"Goodbye, brother! Sister! I'll come to see you again!"

……

It seems that Chen Ya did have a younger brother when he was a child.

His name is Chen Hai.

Chen Ya's memory of him was that he liked to throw tantrums and steal other people's things, claiming that they had been robbed.

My deepest impression of him is that on the day Chen Sheng left, he resolutely went down the mountain, leaving only his back view for his family.

Chen Hai followed behind him, falling down every few steps, stubbornly refusing to leave.

At that moment, Chen Ya was holding Chen Xi, watching blankly as his younger brother chased after their father's retreating figure, only then belatedly realizing—

So he really hates this small mountain village that much?

Later, Chen Hai finally got to sit in his father's Santana. When he leaned out of the back seat, there was no trace of tears on his face. He waved and said he would come to see them in the future.

Then, he disappeared from Chen Ya's memory.

Even now, Chen Ya suddenly remembered that he did indeed have a younger brother.

"Chen Hai? If he's going to find Qin Yun Chu, isn't it a bit...unsuitable?"

"Hehe, not really. It's just that we'll try anything that meets the criteria, like casting a wide net."

"..."

Chen Ya lowered his head and ate.

He wasn't someone who cared too much about family background.

If we're really going to talk about it, based on his status as "Chen Ya's younger brother," there's no family in the world that Chen Hai wouldn't be a match for.

However, Chen Ya didn't know why Chen Sheng would think that Chen Hai was able to get in touch with Qin Yun Chu, aside from his own identity.

Moreover, to be fair, this man's ideas are somewhat unconventional and impulsive.

If he were truly working for Hongtu, and he asked him to act as a go-between and introduce his younger brother to Qin Yunchu, what would Qin Yunchu think?

Chen Ya pondered for a moment, then said, "I think you should be more practical and focus on the concept of daily life first..."

“No, you probably haven’t seen your brother in a long time, so you don’t know him very well,” Chen Sheng said with a smile. “It’s mainly because your brother is really outstanding now.”

"Oh? How outstanding?" Chen Ya raised his teacup.

"He's handsome and now runs a contract manufacturing plant, earning a monthly income of 100,000 to 200,000 yuan."

Chen Ya frowned and asked, "Is there still any profit in running an OEM factory now?"

"Yes, his OEM factory takes orders from Beichen Group."

"..."

Chen Ya remained silent for a long time, but ultimately did not say anything.

“Beichen Group, do you know them? They’re now considered one of the top companies in the country,” Chen Sheng said. “Not long ago, they announced a new breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion. Do you know what controlled nuclear fusion is? You can think of it as an artificial sun…”

Chen Ya picked up a piece of scrambled eggs with tomatoes and put it in his bowl:

"We've already made breakthroughs. This time, the breakthrough is that it has achieved stable operation for over 3 seconds, but it's still far from commercial application. The media likes to create big news stories, but we've actually been making progress all along. They just use this as a gimmick to make the news more marketable."

Chen Sheng smiled but didn't say anything.

He figured Chen Ya must have seen the news on some marketing account.

……

After the two finished their meal, Chen Sheng took Chen Ya to the parking lot, took out his car keys, and pressed the button with a flourish.

Not far away, a red Audi flashed its lights.

"How did you get here?" he asked, turning around.

Chen Ya, with his hands in his pockets, said, "I came by shared bicycle."

"No wonder." Chen Sheng glanced at Chen Ya's hair, which was blown by the wind into a bird's nest, and waved his hand casually. "Get in the car, I'll take you for a ride in an Audi A6."

Chen Ya got into the passenger seat and closed the car door.

"Okay, be gentle," Chen Sheng said.

It's his own son, after all. If it were anyone else, he would have said on the spot, "You've been farming in the countryside too much, haven't you? Why are you slamming the door shut with so much force?"

...the journey was silent.

Chen Sheng's home—or more precisely, the home of Lu Ruixiang, the "heiress" of the Lu family—is a detached villa.

"Put on shoe covers first, I'll buy you slippers later." Chen Sheng was unexpectedly very careful and attentive.

"Oh." Chen Ya saw four pairs of slippers on the ground: two pairs of gray men's slippers and two pairs of pink women's slippers.

It wasn't that Chen Sheng was meticulous, but rather that Lu Ruixiang was very strict; guests couldn't wear the family's slippers to avoid spreading athlete's foot.

"Besides you, Aunt Lu, and your younger brother, who else is in your family?" Chen Ya asked.

“It’s not ‘your home’ anymore, it’s ‘our home’ now,” Chen Sheng said.

After saying that, he waved his hand and said, "Come in. They're not home yet. Let me show you around the room first."

Chen Ya followed behind: "So who else is in your family?"

He still insisted on using "your family".

Chen Sheng stopped worrying this time and said softly, "Your Aunt Lu and I have a daughter, which means you also have a younger sister who is also very outstanding. Her name is Lu Qianzi."

How old are you?

"I was 20 years old when I went to university in Beijing, at Jinghua University, studying music," Chen Sheng said.

"Oh." Chen Ya nodded casually.

"She can even compose music now. A few days ago, she presented her original composition to a highly respected old professor at Jinghua University, and the professor nodded in approval."

"Yes, that's great."

Chapter 183 Not everyone can own a villa within the Fourth Ring Road of Beijing.

(Based on reader feedback, the first two chapters have been slightly revised, and the parts that were not well-written have been rewritten. I am now quite satisfied with them. The author has learned from this experience. Some readers are worried that the later chapters will fall into clichés, and I feel quite ashamed to read such comments. It seems that while the author prides himself on his profound knowledge, he has failed to reassure readers with the quality of his writing. Needless to say, I simply ask that readers have some trust in the author's abilities. This paragraph is not included in the paid word count.)

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"Oh, that's great."

Chen Ya said it was great, and he wasn't just being polite or sarcastic.

His praise was genuine.

Every creator deserves respect, and Chen Ya has no intention of looking down on anyone in this regard.

Even if he is JX.

"What piece of music did she write? Let me see it. Maybe I can offer some suggestions," Chen Ya said.

"You...you little brat." Chen Sheng thought he was joking.

After a while, he seemed to remember something and nervously added:

"Don't make jokes like that in front of Qianzi later. She takes her work very seriously."

"Who's joking? I'm serious."

"That's enough! I'm serious. If you joke with her and make her angry, I'll get mad at you!"

"pity."

Chen Ya shrugged.

He wasn't disappointed that he couldn't guide Lu Qianzi.

He felt sorry for Lu Qianzi.

Mr. Chen raised an eyebrow and smiled, but said nothing more.

Children from single-parent families are often a bit temperamental, and he was worried that Chen Ya's personality might be the same. Unexpectedly, he was able to take a joke.

In this way, it's not advisable to have conflicts with the other two.

You should know that neither of them are easy to deal with.

Chen Ya, with his hands behind his back, looked up to admire the mural beside the spiral staircase on the second floor, and asked casually:

"By the way, do you know what Chen Xi does?"

"Chen Xi? What does she do?"

"nothing."

Fortunately, Chen Xi didn't come along.

Chen Ya secretly rejoiced.

If Chen Xi had come over, she would be crying now because of his favoritism.

She's a lyricist and composer with a decent reputation in the industry, yet Chen Sheng had never heard of her.

"By the way, there's something I wanted to ask earlier: why does your daughter, who is with Aunt Lu, have the surname Lu and not Chen?"

Chen Sheng paused, his face turning slightly red:

“I made an agreement with her that if we had a son, he would take my surname, and if we had a daughter, she would take her surname. And it just so happens that we had a daughter.”

"Oh," Chen Ya said expressionlessly, "Why not have another one?"

"I'm getting old, I have both a son and a daughter, I'm content, and I don't have the energy for that anymore."