Big Brother Is Already Bald!

Yan Yi'an's brow twitched.

A bad feeling curled around his heart.

His body involuntarily tilted slightly toward Yan Xianjue.

Yan Xianjue's voice was clear, his tone full of exasperation at his second brother's failure to live up to expectations.

* [Sigh! Second Brother too—can't an esports player just focus on playing games properly?!]*

[Are games no longer fun enough?]

[Big Brother might look glorious, but at such a young age, he'd already been categorized as one of those old men from wealthy families!]

[Having to deal with those old geezers on the board every day...]

Yan Xianjue paused strangely, staring at Yan Yi'an's head for several seconds.

At last, he came to a heartbroken conclusion:

[How tragic! Big Brother was already bald!]

*

Father Yan and Mother Yan were stunned. Where had that voice come from?

"Cough... cough, cough, cough..."

Father Yan, who had happened to be drinking tea, suddenly began coughing without stop.

The fingers resting on Mother Yan's lap trembled incessantly.

Father Yan and Mother Yan could no longer ignore the oddity surrounding their youngest son.

That familiar voice, that punchable tone.

The genuine emotion in those words was simply too infectious.

So much so that Father Yan and Mother Yan immediately looked at Yan Yi'an's head.

Really?

Was he really going bald?

Could he be wearing a wig now?

For once, Father Yan felt a trace of guilt.

Even though he could not hear Father Yan's thoughts.

Yan Yi'an still understood their meaning from Father Yan and Mother Yan's expressions.

His face visibly darkened.

Father Yan guiltily shifted his gaze away.

*

Mother Yan tentatively called Yan Xianjue's name.

"Hm? What's wrong, Mom?" Yan Xianjue looked up at Mother Yan naturally.

Mother Yan was completely certain that this was her youngest son.

Lazy by nature, and as the youngest child, he was still childlike even at eighteen.

Yan Ci's seriousness and anger had been utterly shut out of his world.

He sprawled on the sofa without the slightest bit of posture.

Holding his phone while yawning repeatedly, he fiddled with it absentmindedly.

He looked thoroughly bored.

If he had not occasionally voiced an opinion in his heart.

They would have thought he did not care at all about what was happening at home.

*

Yan Yi'an exchanged looks with Father Yan and Mother Yan.

Seeing the astonishment on their faces, he guessed that they too had heard Yan Xianjue's thoughts.

Although Yan Xianjue did not appear to have spoken at all, the voice had undoubtedly been his.

After understanding the meaning conveyed through the others' gazes.

The three of them simultaneously had a bold idea.

Yan Yi'an decided to test it out.

His gaze fell on the only person present who was still completely out of the loop—Yan Ci.

Yan Yi'an had never intended to explain anything to him.

A fool who had been used by someone else.

There was no harm in using him as a tool to test Yan Xianjue.

As for Yan Xianjue slandering him as bald and repeatedly lumping him in with old men.

Heh!

*

Yan Yi'an casually loosened his collar and said lightly, "Yan Ci, the board jointly decided that I would become the president of Yan Corporation."

"Not because my surname is Yan, nor because I am Dad's son."

"But because I can lead Yan Corporation to greater heights."

"I can bring greater profits to those troublesome shareholders on the board."

Yan Xianjue kept nodding as he listened.

In his previous life, he had not yet graduated, so he could only find internship-level jobs.

He had never come into contact with senior management.

But no company was ever ruled by a single person's word.

That was true of Yan Yi'an now, just as it had been true of Father Yan back then.

[What a pity. Big Brother really was a once-in-a-generation business genius.]

Yan Xianjue sighed regretfully:

[But no matter how gifted he was, he couldn't stand against the male lead's protagonist halo! Big Brother had a sharp eye and realized early on that green technology would inevitably become the main theme of future technological development. He worked hard to persuade the board and personally led the development project for Solid-State Electrolyte Lithium Battery Technology. Yan Corporation spent five years and over ten billion on it, only for everything at the final step to become a wedding dress for the male lead!]

When Yan Xianjue had read the novel, this plot had felt incredibly satisfying.

After all, who would not like getting something for nothing, a gift dropped from nature itself?

But when his own family became stepping stones for the male lead.

Yan Xianjue: My fists were clenched.

[Damn it!!!]

He swiftly found the only soft target present that he could bully:

[Furiously punches Second Brother's dog head.JPG]

"Pfft!" Mother Yan covered half her mouth and laughed.

Father Yan was also amused by that vivid tone.

But he suppressed it through sheer force of will.

He had been observing the whole time.

Despite that barrage of rapid-fire thoughts, Yan Xianjue had not moved his lips even once.

*

Yan Ci: ???

Yan Ci's pupils abruptly contracted as he stared at Yan Xianjue in shock.

He quickly swept his gaze across everyone else's expressions.

He could basically confirm that he was not the only one who could hear Yan Xianjue's thoughts.

At the same time, this little brat was clearly and firmly on Big Brother's side!

Even though he knew that Big Brother might not even be a Yan!

Yan Ci frowned, but he did not take Yan Xianjue's abnormality seriously.

He earnestly refuted Yan Yi'an. "If your surname wasn't Yan, could you have entered Yan Corporation as a mid-level intern in your freshman year?"

"Could you have gone from a mid-level intern to president of Yan Corporation in just a few years?"

"Then what do you think I should do?" Yan Yi'an asked with an amused expression.

"Resign as president of Yan Corporation and have Dad go back to work?"

Yan Yi'an looked at Father Yan, who shook his head in resistance.

He was already retired!

This unfilial son actually wanted him to go back to work.

Attending one board meeting a week was already the last concession he would make!

Yan Yi'an shrugged, completely unsurprised. "Or do you think you can enter Yan Corporation and shoulder the burden?"

Yan Ci's palm unconsciously dug several pale crescent marks into itself.

He really did not have that ability.

*

The spacious living room of the Yan Household fell silent for a brief moment.

Whether it was Yan Xianjue's thoughts or the confrontation between Yan Ci and Yan Yi'an.

Everyone in the Yan Household needed some time to accept it.

This strange silence did not last long.

Because one of them had awakened a terrifying talent for speaking without using his mouth.

[Second Brother, you idiot!]

The swelling pain brought on by his awakened memories was still lingering.

Rather than sitting here, he wanted to return to his bedroom and get some proper sleep.

At that thought, Yan Xianjue's tone became irritable as well.

His physics homework was not finished yet. Yan Ci was wasting his time!

Yan Ci frowned deeply. He simply could not be bothered to argue with Yan Xianjue.

That did not mean he was willing to let Yan Xianjue insult him in his heart.

"Yan Xianjue..."

Before he could finish, Yan Xianjue's thoughts cut him off.

[Why not have Big Brother cut off his investment in that club directly?]

[He was going to be scammed out of every last cent sooner or later anyway. Better to cut the losses in time.]

[With Second Brother's one-track mind, he couldn't turn a corner even if he tried. A little sweet talk and he'd get fooled again.]

[If you ask me, Second Brother should be sent to take an anti-fraud course!]