Spring in Rinzhou was brief, and summer arrived in the blink of an eye.
In a private room at the Speedy Internet Café.
Yuan Su had barely sent the message announcing that the project was finished when the group chat exploded.
[Ren Jia: Boss, are you even human???]
Over the past month, besides the project's main tasks, Yuan Su had taken on several extra outsourced projects through a few senior students. They weren't big jobs, but they were technically demanding. Work that took other people a week took him two days.
[Senior A: @Yuan Su Do you not need sleep?]
[Senior B: You were working when I went to bed at three last night, and you were still online when I woke up at seven??]
Watching the messages flood his screen, Yuan Su replied without a change in expression:
[Need money.]
The group went silent for two seconds.
Then Ren Jia sent a string of exclamation marks:
[Ren Jia: ...So real!!!!!]
[Senior A: Got it, got it. A boss who's short on cash is the real deal!]
Song Jinnian frowned slightly when he saw this and sent Yuan Su a private message:
[Didn't you already pay off that eighty-thousand-yuan debt? Sui Sui received Pu Yu's transfer last week. Why are you still working yourself so hard?]
Yuan Su replied with just two words: [Not enough.]
They didn't know.
It wasn't money to repay his debts that Yuan Su lacked.
He needed money for the future, for the journey that would take him to her side, for the security of their life together in Dongzhou, for the tuition that would let him pick up his textbooks and return to school.
He would use these few months to pave a road toward their future.
Summer break soon arrived.
Summer in Small