Brother, I Advise You to Know Your Place

Xu Yanche was woken by the ringing of a phone in the morning.

He reached under the pillow and felt around.

Pulling it out, he groggily answered, "Hello, who is this?"

A flippant voice came from the other end. "Old He, I heard that the country bumpkin the Xu Household sent over dazzled you the moment you woke up? Is that true?"

Xu Yanche became a little more awake.

He looked at the phone. It was not his.

He reached out and patted He Qing's face. "Hey, hey, wake up. Someone saved as Zhan Yushan is calling you. He also said I'm a country bumpkin."

[This guy must've eaten a suppository. Can't he just talk without making personal attacks? Damn it, if I see him next time, I'm definitely beating him up.]

[The way he addressed He Qing just now means they're probably good friends. If his good friend talks like that, then He Qing must have said something disrespectful about me in front of him. Tsk, and here I thought He Qing was handsome as hell. Turns out he's a beast in human skin.]

He Qing woke up and immediately cleared his name. "I'll call the old man of the Zhan Household later and have him teach Zhan Yushan a lesson."

Satisfied, Xu Yanche kissed He Qing on the lips before getting out of bed to wash up.

Zhan Yushan, on the other end of the line: "..." He had miscalculated.

He hung up at once.

He planned to quickly pack up and leave.

He had previously heard from others that the Xu Household had arranged for the real young master they had found to marry He Qing.

On top of that, He Qing had not taken the real young master out anywhere lately, and the Xu Household had said that Xu Yanche disrespected his elders and was crude beyond measure. That was why he had assumed as much. Now, it seemed it had all been rumors.

Damn it, judging from He Qing's tone just now, he clearly treasured the man like the apple of his eye.

While Xu Yanche was brushing his teeth, his phone rang.

He came out of the bathroom.

Still brushing his teeth, he answered the call. "Hello, Tiger Bro. Have you thought it over?"

This Tiger Bro had once pursued his mother. For the past few years, he had been in the debt-collection business. He was built like a tank, with well-developed muscles that made him look capable of punching a cow to death.

Four years ago, Xu Yanche had planned to use the prize money awarded by the province to take his mother to live in a new city. However, that scumbag father-and-son pair kept coming to harass them because of gambling debts.

In the end, Xu Yanche gave them 150,000 yuan to pay off their gambling debts and told them not to bother them again.

That scumbag father-and-son pair had kept their promise and had not come looking for them these past few years.

Besides, he and his mother were no longer people they could find just because they wanted to.

A few days ago, when his mother was discharged from the hospital, he immediately hired three bodyguards to protect her.

He had also messaged Tiger Bro, asking him to beat up that scumbag father-and-son pair ten times. He would pay 300,000 yuan as compensation.

Thinking about it now, using his prize money to pay off that scumbag father-and-son pair's gambling debts had truly been the stupidest decision.

Tiger Bro was lifting weights on the other end of the call. "Uncle agrees. There's no need for the money."

Xu Yanche insisted, "If you won't take the money, I'll find someone else."

Tiger Bro relented. "Fine. I'll arrange for someone to beat those two up good."

Xu Yanche told Tiger Bro to send him his bank account number.

He transferred 300,000 yuan to Tiger Bro. "Tiger Bro, when you have someone beat them up, don't run. Just wait right where you are for them to call the police. At most, you'll be detained for a couple of days. Even if they want to make trouble, they won't be able to."

Tiger Bro laughed. "Yanyan really knows his stuff. Fine, I'll arrange it now. I'll have someone beat them up tonight."

Xu Yanche said, "Okay."

Xu Yanche hung up and washed his face.

He had never been a weak person. Anyone who had taken advantage of him or bullied him and his mother, he would slowly get his revenge on them all.

After all, he had money now.

In high spirits, Xu Yanche went to change.

When he came out of the bathroom, he happened to see He Qing changing clothes.

[Damn, that body looks so good. I want to touch it. But He Qing is such a cool boy—he definitely won't let me.]

He Qing lifted his eyes and glanced at Xu Yanche, who stood by the bathroom door looking at him with lecherous eyes. "Does it look good?"

Xu Yanche nodded sincerely. "Yes."

He Qing stepped forward, grabbed Xu Yanche's hand, and placed it on his abs. "Touch."

His attitude was very indifferent, and he still wore his usual expressionless face.

But his bright red ears gave him away.

Xu Yanche reached out and touched them without the slightest hesitation.

[Hehehe, I didn't expect He Qing to be pretty proactive. Not bad, not bad.]

When the two went downstairs to eat breakfast, He Qing received a message from his dear little sister.

I Just Want Some Peace: Brother, I advise you to know your place and treat my sister-in-law better. You're not worthy of her. If it weren't for the fact that she likes you, I would have disagreed with this marriage long ago.

He Qing, who was drinking porridge: "????" Had studying turned his sister's brain to mush?

I Just Want Some Peace: If I find out that you treat my sister-in-law badly, I'll immediately go complain to Mom and Dad.

I Just Want Some Peace: I have important matters to attend to now. When I'm released from prison next June, I'll reclaim everything that belongs to me. I won't let you take advantage of the situation again.

I Just Want Some Peace: Got it? I know you can see this. Reply already.

He Qing now understood why Xu Yanche had blocked He Jing.

Because she was too annoying.

He set He Jing's messages to Do Not Disturb.

The world instantly became much quieter.

After breakfast, He Qing bought Xu Yanche three packs of AD Calcium at the supermarket.

Xu Yanche happily hugged one pack of AD Calcium to his chest, stuck in a straw, and drank them all.

Giving each one equal attention.

When Xu Yanche strolled into the filming set with He Qing, the female lead had already arrived and was reading the script.

Hugging his AD Calcium, Xu Yanche pulled over two chairs and sat down beside Zhang Nianke.

He even patted the chair beside him, signaling for He Qing to sit there.

Then, with a serious expression, he looked at Zhang Nianke. "Benefactor, you and I are fated. Today, I'll give you a free fortune-telling."

Zhang Nianke put down her script and looked at Xu Yanche, who resembled some charlatan fortune-teller, then directly refused.

Over the past week or so on set, she had come to understand Xu Yanche's mental state.

It was too good, too ahead of its time, too unhinged.

"No need."

[Tsk, why isn't she following the script? I saw that this little girl seemed pretty pitiful and wanted to tell her something, but she actually refused me.]

But Xu Yanche had a rebellious streak. The more she did not want him to speak, the more he insisted on speaking.

He cleared his throat and put on an act, imitating the charlatans on television as he pinched his fingers and pretended to calculate.

Then he took a sip of AD Calcium milk and looked at Zhang Nianke with pity. "Do you have someone pursuing you named Zhang Juncai, who is currently interning at your family's company?"

Zhang Nianke, who had originally intended not to listen, looked at Xu Yanche upon hearing that. "How did you know?"

Then she saw He Qing sitting beside Xu Yanche and figured the He Household might have investigated it.