Su Yao and the Rich Second Generation

While chatting with Red Leaf, Su Yuan heard the "cough cough" notification again. When she looked, it was the person who had added her as a friend earlier sending another message.

"So persistent?" Su Yuan was surprised by his persistence and casually accepted the request.

A chat window soon popped up: "Wife!"

"Who's your wife?!"

Su Yuan frowned. She hated people who started making random teasing remarks the moment they became friends. She found his avatar in her friend list and clicked on it. If he spouted any more nonsense, she would blacklist him!

"You, of course. I'm your husband, Ye Huang..."

"Uh." When Su Yuan saw him call himself "Ye Huang," she froze. Ye Huang from Zhu Xian 2?

She had never expected her in-game "husband" to come looking for her. Marrying him in the game had merely been a spur-of-the-moment decision. They were both easygoing people, so who would care about such things? But the current situation was rather strange. If she were still a boy, it would be fine—she could just shamelessly tell him the truth. After all, Ye Huang had said before that he did not mind.

But the problem was that she was a girl now. Having someone call himself her "husband" made her unusually sensitive, leaving her with an inexplicable sense of guilt.

"Why aren't you saying anything?"

Su Yuan stared at the screen, unsure what to say. She touched her nose, leaned back, and sank deeply into her cushioned chair. Reason told her that this romantic debt was so absurd that she needed to find a way to kill it off quickly.

"What should I do?" Resting her chin on her hand, her mind raced. She seemed to have made him spend several thousand yuan in the game. Although he had spent it willingly, ignoring him now felt a little unjustifiable. Otherwise, it would truly confirm Red Leaf's assessment of her as "heartless and faithless."

Several thousand yuan was no small sum. Su Yuan was a responsible person. If taking several thousand yuan from someone using a gender-bending account still counted as being responsible, then Su Yuan was definitely a person with a sense of responsibility.

Asking her to spit that money back out was unrealistic. Once something had been swallowed, how could she possibly spit it back out? A generous spender like Ye Huang was obviously part of the rich second generation; he definitely would not care about such a small amount. Besides, Su Yuan's living expenses were already tight. Where would she get money to return?

"Actually, I'm a guy..."

After a long while, unable to bear the torment in her heart any longer, Su Yuan told him the truth.

Then she waited for his reply. In her mind, even if he claimed not to care, who could truly be indifferent to whether their "wife" was a cute girl or a burly man scratching his feet in real life? She could practically picture him flying into a rage.

To her surprise, Ye Huang was not angry. Instead, he replied, "I can tell you're an honest person. If you don't mind, let's be friends."

The moment he said that, Ye Huang's image was instantly elevated in her eyes. With tears streaming down her face, Su Yuan said, "You're such a good person!!"

"!! 🤮"

"That change in attitude was way too fast." Su Yuan muttered.

Su Yao: "Hey, how did you get my QQ number?"

Ye Huang: "I asked someone for it."

Su Yuan's eyes rolled, and she immediately knew who the culprit was.

Red Leaf!!

She quickly brought up Red Leaf's chat window and demanded without ceremony, "You gave Ye Huang my QQ number?!!"

"Yeah. You should be thanking me!!"

Su Yao: "You jerk, he's come looking for me now!!"

Red Leaf: "Isn't that a good thing? You're a girl, and Ye Huang is rich, handsome, and tall. You have to seize the chance!!"

Su Yao: "Too late. I told him I'm a guy..."

Red Leaf: "!!"

Red Leaf: "Actually, you could give him a try."

Su Yao: "No thanks."

"Did you go settle accounts with Red Leaf?" Ye Huang sent her a message.

Su Yuan replied, "Of course. She gave my QQ number to someone else without my permission. It's only because I have a good temper that I didn't chew her out."

"Not playing Zhu Xian 2 anymore?"

"Yeah. This semester's schedule is pretty packed, so I don't have time to play."

"Coincidentally, I don't have time either. Since you're not playing anymore, I won't play either."

"Don't. You spent so much money on that account. It'd be such a waste not to play."

"It's no fun without people I know to play with. As for the account, I'll find someone and sell it."

"Huh!" Su Yuan's eyes lit up. Right, accounts she no longer played could be sold. Her Little Fox account, which had had so much money poured into it, should be able to fetch a good price. Su Yuan felt she was too poor to let any opportunity to make money slip by.

Su Yao: "Are you rich?"

Ye Huang: "?"

Su Yao: "Nothing. You're part of the rich second generation, right?"

Being willing to spend money in a game was no longer enough to identify someone as part of the rich second generation. But casually spending several thousand yuan on a randomly found "wife," then not caring whether that "wife" was male or female in real life—wasn't that the kind of behavior only an absurdly wealthy rich second-generation heir could pull off, purely for a moment of fun in a game?

After sending the message, Su Yuan felt that it was somewhat inappropriate. "Rich second generation" was not exactly a complimentary term these days, and it would be bad if Ye Huang thought she was mocking him. Her eyes blinked rapidly as she tried to think of a way to remedy it.

After a while, Ye Huang sent her a message: "I'm just a rich second-generation heir who eats and waits to die!"

Apparently, Ye Huang was not angry at all. Su Yuan could not help laughing. She had worried for nothing.

"Why aren't you saying anything?"

Su Yao: "I'm poor!!" A crying emoticon followed.

After sending it, Su Yuan felt that something was off and was a little embarrassed. Why had she started crying poverty to him?

If Su Yuan were a girl, then given how well Ye Huang had treated her in the game, it was entirely possible that he would send her money without asking for it back. But now that he knew Su Yuan was a boy, she clearly would not receive that treatment. It was only natural for a man to give money to a woman, because he wanted to pursue and cherish her. Between two men, though, money could only be borrowed. Giving it away for free would instead make things awkward.

Su Yuan grumbled inwardly. She should not have told Ye Huang she was a "guy." But on second thought, that would not work either. If Ye Huang gave her money for nothing, what would that make her? Was she really trying to hook a rich guy?

She casually chatted a few more lines with Red Leaf and Ye Huang, then told them she had something important to do and ended the conversation.

Su Yuan really did have something important to do. She opened a related website and began searching for part-time work.

Doctor Li had said that she needed to keep taking the medicine for a while. As a result, Su Yuan's once fairly comfortable living expenses immediately became strained.

Increasing income and reducing expenses was the best way to ease a financial crisis. For Su Yuan, cutting expenses was unreliable. Living too frugally was not good for her health, and how much could she really save in a month? As for increasing income, if she did not want to hook a rich guy, then finding a part-time job was her only option.

There were plenty of part-time jobs online, but finding a suitable one was not easy. Su Yuan searched for a long time before finding a job that was not too far away and looked relatively easy.

She nudged Ji Yehao, who was watching a movie.

"What?" Ji Yehao took off his headphones. Seeing Su Yuan browsing a part-time job page, he asked, "You're planning to work part-time?"

"Yeah." She pointed at the description on the page.

"Handing out flyers? That should be fine. You can probably make seventy or eighty yuan a day."

Su Yuan nodded. "Do you think I'll be okay? Is handing out flyers tiring?"

Ji Yehao thought for a moment. "Not too tiring. You can give it a try. With your looks, I'm sure you won't be at a disadvantage." Handing out flyers was also something of a face-value job. If the person was a handsome guy or a pretty, adorable girl, the results would definitely be better than for someone average-looking. At the very least, the chance of being turned away at the door would be much lower.

With Ji Yehao's support, Su Yuan felt delighted. She left a message in the other party's mailbox. After thinking it over, she opened the game forum and posted an ad to sell her Zhu Xian 2 account.

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