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

"Uh uh..."

Liu Ruyan never expected that the other party would be so reasonable and able to say such philosophical things.

“But marriages that combine material things and love are hard to withstand tests and temptations,” Chen Ya said. “From this perspective, marriage is really a troublesome thing. I’m not getting married.”

"Hmm..." Liu Ruyan looked down and played with the new dress she had bought today. "But, if we don't get married, won't we miss out on a lot of wonderful things..."

"What could be better than waking up free and unrestrained every day?" Chen Ya said, then frowned. "So, you sleep on my sofa every day, and I still have to worry about what clothes you're wearing. That's really unpleasant."

This was the first time in Liu Ruyan's life that she had been treated with such disdain. She cried out with an expression as if she had been stabbed with a knife, "Huh? Huh?"

"I don't usually wear clothes at home."

These words surprised Liu Ruyan even more than the earlier disdain: "Huh?"

Chen Ya suddenly remembered something, got up and took a bag of potato chips from under the TV:

"By the way, eat if you want, don't sneak around; and since you're going to sneak around anyway, don't eat every last chip, or you'll definitely get caught."

"Ugh..." Liu Ruyan wanted to cover her face and run away.

Then, a fragrant aroma wafted into her nose, and she quickly grabbed several potato chips from the bag.

"Crack, crack..."

In the Liu family, all the snacks that Liu's father considered junk food would never appear in Liu Ruyan's sight.

Last night, Chen Ya left the leftover potato chips in the living room. Out of curiosity, she tasted one of them.

Unexpectedly, after eating one piece, I wanted two, and before I knew it, I had finished the whole bag.

It's definitely because these snacks contain some questionable additives that she keeps wanting to eat them, not because she's greedy. Yes, that's absolutely right.

It wasn't until the two of them finished a bag of potato chips that she suddenly realized she had been completely led astray.

"So, how do you make money?" she asked, looking up at him.

Chen Ya stared at her for a long time before finally letting out an impatient "tsk".

The voice seemed to be saying, "How come you haven't forgotten about this topic yet?"

Liu Ruyan puffed out her cheeks.

She almost got tricked again.

Chen Ya put his legs on the sofa and said:

“I don’t need to work. I’ve already done all my work in my previous life. Now I can just lie down and make money.”

Liu Ruyan hugged herself: "Robbery of a bank?"

Chen Ya glanced at her sideways.

"That's what the bad guys on TV always say," Liu Ruyan said.

"Your life experience is so limited that all you can think of is robbing a bank." Chen Ya went back into the house, took out a small, dark red notebook, and placed it on the table.

"Take a look at this."

Liu Ruyan picked up the booklet, opened it, and read:

"Disability Volunteer Certificate?"

Liu Ruyan looked Chen Ya up and down suspiciously: "Where are you injured?"

Chen Ya clutched his chest: "Here."

He took the certificate back, put it in his pocket, and said, "There is a volunteer foundation that gives volunteers, firefighters, soldiers and the like who are disabled due to work injuries a subsidy of 5000 yuan per month. That's how I make a living."

Liu Ruyan's mouth dropped open: "But you weren't injured or disabled!"

Chen Ya winked at her: "Of course, I used some adult methods, no need to ask too many questions."

After saying that, he got up and went back to his room. Liu Ruyan stood up and followed behind him, clenching her fists.

"What you're doing, what you're doing, this is really wrong!" she finally managed to say, her face flushed. "Isn't this misappropriating the money that should belong to the volunteers?"

Chen Ya put her certificate into the box: "My heart is also very broken."

"But, but... this is a lie!" Liu Ruyan stamped her foot in frustration, but finally calmed down and said, "If you want money, I'll give you money, okay? Please stop lying to me."

"You?" Chen Ya turned around and glanced at her, then held out his hand to her. "Fine, then give me back my pre-determined salary first."

"..."

Liu Ruyan stood there, only then realizing that she was no longer a rich family's young lady.

If she wants to give the money, she has to go home, explain to her parents where she has been all this time, and face a whole host of other troubles that will follow.

She was dismayed to discover that after leaving home, apart from the subsidies that Chen Ya had swindled, she was a useless person who couldn't earn a single penny.

"I give you 5000 a month, but you only pay me 3000 a month? Isn't that more than you take home for yourself?"

Liu Ruyan suddenly discovered a blind spot.

"It's okay, we'll find a way to deduct it."

"???"

Chen Ya looked at her clothes and frowned: "Right, take them off quickly."

"Huh?" Liu Ruyan suddenly panicked.

"Take them off, take them off." Chen Ya waved his hand. "You can't wear new clothes right away, take them off and soak them in water."

"Why?" This was another point of knowledge she didn't understand.

"These clothes were dragged out of the warehouse. Cockroaches and rats usually crawl all over the place. If you wear them without soaking them in water, you'll get skin diseases."

Liu Ruyan shivered all over and suddenly didn't even want to put on her clothes anymore.

"Take it off quickly."

"Ah, okay..." Liu Ruyan hurriedly unzipped the dress and took it off.

Then, she saw Chen Ya's wide eyes.

"Miss, I didn't ask you to take your clothes off in front of me."

A blush rose to Liu Ruyan's cheeks: "You...you didn't explain it clearly..."

"Oh, it's okay, I've already checked it anyway. I'll just throw the clothes in the washing machine and go take a shower."

As if fleeing for her life, Liu Ruyan grabbed her clothes and ran quickly into the bathroom. After locking the door, her chest was still heaving.

……

After emerging from the restroom, Liu Ruyan's expression was haughty, stern, and serious.

She decided to change her demeanor.

For some reason, ever since she came here, she's been like a complete idiot, unable to do anything, and completely manipulated by Chen Ya.

She decided to find her former self again.

Sitting at the dining table, she said solemnly, "I think you shouldn't have cheated the disabled volunteers' foundation out of money. If the founder of the foundation finds out that someone is cheating him out of his money, wouldn't he be very upset?"

Chen Ya tapped the plate in front of her with his chopsticks: "What's there to be sad about? Why are you worrying about others? Hurry up and eat, it's getting cold anyway."

"Oh."

Liu Ruyan ate her meal in silence, unwilling to give up.

Chapter 56 Hyacinth

In this world, everyone is equal. But everyone's value is different.

Otherwise, things in the world wouldn't be so varied.

Some people are easy to deal with, while others are difficult.

The way of man is to take from those who are lacking and give to those who are in excess. The power of those who are easy to please will be used to flatter those who are difficult to please.

Over time, people who are difficult to manage will become increasingly irritable, while those who are easy to manage will become less and less irritable.

Liu Ruyan knew very well that she was someone who was easy to deal with.

Especially in Chen Ya's home turf, he felt like he was full of weaknesses.

She is not reconciled.

Other things were fine, but she felt she had to take a stand on the matter of deceiving the volunteer fund.

So she decided to get angry.

But every time she tried to stand up for herself and talk to Chen Ya seriously, she was either instructed to do this or that, and then messed things up because of her clumsiness, or she was teased and had her face rubbed or being thrown around.

So Liu Ruyan pondered how to find a suitable opportunity to express her dissatisfaction to Chen Ya with her head held high.

...These past two days, Chen Ya has been saying he'll only demonstrate once a day, but he's been demonstrating something completely new every day.

Yesterday, I demonstrated stir-fried green peppers with eggs, ants climbing a tree (a dish of minced pork and vermicelli), steamed fish pieces, steamed meat cake, and green beans and eggplant.

Today I also demonstrated Kung Pao Chicken, Steamed Egg with Minced Meat, Smashed Cucumber, Stir-fried Pork, and Dry Pot Tofu.

Moreover, after Liu Ruyan broke two plates, he wouldn't let her near the sink in order to protect the remaining plates in his house.

When he went grocery shopping this morning, he didn't take her with him again.

She considered protesting by going on strike, but there was no work to stop, so she could only squat on the sofa, eating the crispy roasted sausages that Chen Ya had bought yesterday, sulking in silence.

Just then, Chen Ya pushed open the door and returned.

She quickly finished the last two bites, quietly threw the packaging into the trash can, walked over, and reached out to take the ingredients Chen Ya handed her.

This was her latest idea: Chen Ya had never asked her to do this, but she did it anyway.

If one day he suddenly stops doing it, Chen Ya will feel lost.

"Here you go." Chen Ya placed a heavy object in Liu Ruyan's hand.

It is a pot of hyacinths.

Liu Ruyan looked up at him expectantly.

“I’ve noticed you’ve been a bit withdrawn lately, so I’m giving this to you,” Chen Ya said.

Liu Ruyan looked down, staring incredulously at the pot of hyacinths in her hands:

"Autism... How did you figure out I'm autistic?"

"Are you homesick? Everyone feels that way a little."

Chen Ya went to the restroom.

Holding the hyacinth, Liu Ruyan walked outside and said loudly, "I'm not autistic!"

A loud urination sound came from the restroom.

"Oh, then the cost will be deducted from your salary."

Liu Ruyan blushed, angrily picked up the hyacinth, hesitated for a long time, and then placed it outside on the balcony.

She rested her face on her hands, looking at the white hyacinths, her expression growing increasingly strange.

After Chen Ya came out, she walked up to him and said, "Why did you give me this?"

"Don't you like hyacinths?"

"how do you know?"

"You wrote it in your suicide note."

Long-forgotten, shameful memories were stirred up, and Liu Ruyan felt embarrassed.

"I...I...I just happened to have a hyacinth plant. If I had had something else, I would have mentioned it in my suicide note. It doesn't mean I just liked it..."

She explained at length, but Chen Ya opened a newspaper and looked at it, as if he hadn't listened to her at all.

Liu Ruyan's temper flared up even more.

She stamped her foot and stood next to Chen Ya, saying, "And why did you give me a white one?"

Chen Ya looked up: "Can't we give it as a gift? Is white for the dead?"

"No!" Liu Ruyan said, "Do you know what the meaning of white flowers is?"