Aunt

After breakfast, Su Baizhou stood up and returned to her bedroom. She grabbed her bag, seemingly preparing to go shopping.

"Watch the house, I'll be back soon."

With those words, Su Baizhou left.

Luo Ye didn't know what his senior was up to, so he returned to his room to continue writing.

He was either writing or on his way to write; he was truly a diligent and capable little writing master.

In his novel, the male protagonist gave up on the second female lead he had a crush on for many years and grew closer to the female protagonist.

The comment section erupted in cheers, calling it incredibly satisfying.

Luo Ye began to conceive the next plot points: the male protagonist would fall in love with the female protagonist, and she would gradually fall in love with him.

It was a strange thing for someone who had been single for eighteen years to be writing a romance novel.

Soon, the morning writing session ended, and Luo Ye sat in his chair, ready to scroll through short videos.

However, he felt like he had forgotten something important.

What could it be?

Luo Ye fell into thought.

Just then, his phone suddenly rang with a video call. The name "Aunt" appeared on the screen.

Seeing this, Luo Ye looked flustered and quickly answered the call.

On the video, a noble-looking woman appeared. Her appearance could be described as exquisite. She wore expensive earrings and a necklace, and her clothes looked very costly.

Although there were some traces of age on her face, Chen Shaoman, who maintained her skin weekly, still looked remarkably elegant.

"Oh, isn't this our little Ye Ye?"

Aunt's opening line was enough to shatter her image.

With a noblewoman's face, she spoke in a cutesy tone, like a girl seeing a kitten, her eyes full of adoration.

Luo Ye's head went blank, but he couldn't bring himself to be angry.

In this family, no one would get angry at Aunt, nor would anyone dare to.

Chen Shaoman's personality when she was young was that of a high-society lady. To put it nicely, that's what she was; to put it bluntly, she had a "green tea" personality.

In Uncle-in-law's words, she wasn't "green tea," she was his dear little sister.

Because of this, Uncle-in-law was completely under her thumb. He was infatuated with Aunt day in and day out. The moment Aunt shed a tear, Luo Ye and Gu Mingxuan would be beaten severely by Uncle-in-law.

As a result, Aunt was treated like a treasure in the entire family, even though she was no longer young.

Seeing Luo Ye's expression, Chen Shaoman put on a sad face and mumbled softly, "Little Ye Ye hasn't seen Auntie in a month, and he doesn't even call. Auntie is so sad."

"No... I've been too busy, hahaha. Auntie, how have you been lately?"

"Not good."

Chen Shaoman shook her head, her face full of worry, and said, "I only have one grand-nephew. For the past month, I've been worried every day about whether my grand-nephew is living well and eating well at school. That scoundrel Gu Mingxuan actually went abroad when you started school. It makes me so angry."

(Gu Mingxuan: Am I not your only son?)

Seeing his aunt rambling on, Luo Ye gave a wry smile and asked, "Auntie, why did you call?"

"What? Little Ye Ye, I can only call you if I have something important now? Saying that really breaks Auntie's heart, sob sob sob."

A cold sweat trickled down Luo Ye's forehead.

He forced a smile and said gently, "Auntie, no, that's not it. I think about you every day too. You can call me anytime."

The reason Gu Mingxuan said Luo Ye was good at taking care of girls was because of this.

Having lost his parents, Luo Ye received even more pampering from the Gu family than Gu Mingxuan, which also meant he carried a greater burden than Gu Mingxuan.

That burden came from Chen Shaoman.

"Hearing you say that makes Auntie so happy."

Chen Shaoman's face immediately lit up, her mood shifting from gloomy to sunny as if she hadn't been sad at all moments before.

"Little Ye Ye, today is your birthday, and you're not home. Old Gu and I were thinking about what gift to give you."

Hearing this, Luo Ye's heart warmed, and he smiled faintly, "Auntie, you and Uncle-in-law raising me is already the best gift."

"That won't do. How can my Chen Shaoman's grand-nephew not have a gift on his birthday? Old Gu, give 50% of your company's shares to Little Ye Ye."

At this, Luo Ye's mouth twitched.

In the video, Luo Ye's Uncle-in-law, Gu Ransheng, also walked out with a wry smile and said helplessly, "Darling, even though I'm a director, I don't even have 50% of the shares myself."

"I don't care, you figure it out."

"Why aren't you acting yet?"

"You don't love me anymore."

"Sob sob sob, Old Gu, you don't love me anymore, sob sob sob."

Chen Shaoman's tears began to fall like little pearls, and Gu Ransheng immediately panicked, squatting down to comfort his wife.

The elderly couple, nearly fifty, were acting like young lovers, constantly calling each other "darling." It was too much for Luo Ye to bear.

While they were busy showing off their affection, Luo Ye exchanged a look with his uncle-in-law and hung up the phone.

Although Gu Ransheng's company in Beijing wasn't a top-tier conglomerate, it was among the best in the country for game development.

Excluding the company behind "Chicken Dinner" and "King of Glory," no one could challenge Gu's position as second best.

Gu Ransheng and Gu Mingxuan held fifty-five percent of the company shares, giving them the primary decision-making power.

Luo Ye didn't own a single share.

Anyone could see that Luo Ye's personality wasn't suited for managing a company or holding a leadership position.

If Luo Ye were in charge, he'd probably help people count the money even after they'd sold off the entire company.

So, Luo Ye just needed to grow up carefree. He himself had no desire for that kind of responsibility, so Chen Shaoman's words earlier were just a joke.

Besides, given Luo Ye's personality, it wouldn't be suitable for him to have nominal shares, meaning owning shares without being involved in company affairs.

He was too easily manipulated.

A young man not yet twenty couldn't possibly deal with those company shareholders in their forties and fifties.

But Gu Mingxuan was different. Gu Ransheng had been grooming him as the company heir since he was a child, so his resume was outstanding, as if he had the protagonist's halo.

Meanwhile, Luo Ye grew up carefree.

Having lost his parents, neither Chen Shaoman nor Gu Ransheng wanted to burden him with any pressure. They just wanted him to grow up according to his own wishes and do what he wanted to do.

After ending the video call, Luo Ye realized he had forgotten something.

Today was his birthday.

But he was currently in Jiangcheng. It was the start of a seven-day holiday, and his roommates were all away.

It seemed like he would have to celebrate his nineteenth birthday alone.

No, that wasn't right...

He still had his wonderful readers.

At the end of today's update, Luo Ye wrote a sentence.

"Happy birthday to me."

Soon, in the comment section below the post, readers flooded in with their blessings.

Even though these readers were usually very critical of the plot, sometimes even scolding him fiercely, they were all very gentle when it mattered.

What a group of lovely readers.