Chapter 59 The Next Plan
The next day, Ye Chen got up early.
After he headed to the market to buy fresh pork sausage, pork liver, bacon, green onion, coriander and other ingredients,
he carefully prepared everything and started to cook.
The moment Chen Yinuo and Youyou woke up,
the room had been filled with wonderful smell of the noodles freshly from the pot.
"Daddy!"
Seeing Ye Chen taking off his apron,
Youyou rushed over immediately.
"Hey, Youyou. Good girl. Now, hurry up and go get washed with mom. After you finish your noodles, daddy will send you to school, okay?"
Ye Chen dotingly hugged Ye Youyou and said with a smile.
"Goody, mom, I want daddy to take me to school today!"
Ye Youyou turned her head and shared her plan excitedly with Chen Yinuo.
"Did you go shopping for the ingredients and cooked for us so early this morning?"
After nodding at Yoyo's proclamation, Chen Yinuo asked Ye Chen. She felt everything was being unreal.
"Yeah. You see, I woke up quite early and I couldn't fall asleep again. So, I figured that I might as well go get some ingredients for your breakfast. Go wash up, eat while they're hot. And then go to work!" Ye Chen Han answered with a honest smile.
"OK."
This time, Chen Yinuo decided not to reject Ye Chen's kindness.
After washing up, the family of three sat down to their noodles.
"You, uh, you gave your bank card to my mother yesterday. Do you still have any money on you?"
With mixed feelings, Chen Yinuo asked him in a low voice.
"Yinuo, you don't have to worry about it. I got this!" Ye Chen said.
"Just out of curiosity, where did you get that money from? You know, you have spent a lot to pay back the loan sharks, and my mom took around 300,000 yuan to 400,000 yuan from you yesterday. I understand you've made a fortune from reselling the bracelet. But all you got from it is just 300,000 yuan. Plus, there was Youyou's tuition fee, too. Everything considered, I just can't stop myself from thinking it the awful way!"
Chen Yinuo tried her best not to ask him if he got those money from gambling.
In just a matter of days, Ye Chen went from owning nothing to squandering hundreds of thousands.
If it was not gambling, she really couldn't think of a reasonable explanation for it.
"You think I went gambling again?" Ye Chen asked with a wry smile.
Immediately after seconds of silence between them, he started to explain. "Do you know that the house price in Jinling Mansion has skyrocketed?"
"What does it have to do with your money?" Chen Yinuo was puzzled.
"I happened to learn from an insider that of the relocation and development plan around the Jinlin Mansion. So, I went to the Jinlin Mansion and paid the deposit of two houses, 100,000 each. Meanwhile, they agreed to sign a series of price-insurance agreements with me. And just as predicted, three days later, the official announcement of the relocation and development project sent the price of Jinling Mansion skyrocketing. And it was hardly possible to get one. That's when I took the opportunity and resold the subscription certificates!"
Ye Chen described his story.
And then he concluded that he sold them at four million yuan, two million for one.
After listening to it, Chen Yinuo sit still, eyes wide open.
He turned the 300,000 yuan from reselling the bracelet in the Antique City into 4 million in just a few days?
No, wait...
Ye Chen also took out 100,000 yuan as a settlement fee for Yihao's accident.
Did that mean if it hadn't been because of Yihao at the time, he could've made extra two million yuan?
"If you didn't spend 100,000 yuan that day for the settlement of Yihao, would you be able to pay the deposit of a third house and earn 2 million more?" Chen Yinuo asked, trembling.
Two million yuan was such an amount that she could not even imagine.
It was just astronomical numbers!
But Ye Chen gave up the chance to win two million yuan for helping her brother?
"That's what it is. But it doesn't matter. The point is to keep clean the record of Yihao. I can always make money in the future anyway." Ye Chen chuckled lightly.
"So, what's your plan next?" Chen Yinuo hesitated for a while and asked, with a tone different from the cold former one.
"How do you feel about the flawless cream?" Ye Chen avoided her question and asked her.
The moment he brought the flawless cream up,
she was reminded of the instant magical effect of it.
Chen Yinuo seemed quite surprised.
"I have only used it for two days, and its effect of removing the scars is shocking. Is that flawless cream developed by you indeed?"
Ye Chen smiled and said, "Or who do you think made it?"
Although she knew that's a stupid question,
after hearing Ye Chen's affirmation, Chen Yinuo gasped.
Because she knew too well what such a magical flawless cream would mean once it got publicized.
"So, do you plan to focus on the development the production of flawless cream next?"
"Definitely! The other so-called flawless cream currently on the market is all about hyping, with hardly any real effect. Therefore, once our flawless cream made its appearance, it will quickly dominate the entire market. I'll never miss this opportunity!" Ye Chen responded confidently.
"Well, since you have planned all of it, you should know better than me that this is where you are in dire need of money for your career! Why did give my mom that much money? No way. I am going to get back the money she took from you. I will!" Chen Yinuo worried.
It was as if she had forgotten that she had long since given up on this marriage in utter despair.
But that's the way a woman was.
As long as she still had him in her heart, and there was still a ray of love and hope for him.
Just a little of it could cheer her up and then she would never wipe out the possibility to rekindle the love and marriage that seemed to have been dampened.
Therefore, no matter how deeply hurt by the man she once loved and how much disappointment or even despair she has suffered, as long as she could see hope again, she would return where she started.
It was especially true for Chen Yinuo, a sensual woman who was raising her loving child alone. If she was as hard-hearted as she claims to be, she would have sued for divorce long ago, instead of leaving it in suspense this day.
She did want to divorce, but only because Ye Chen always made them live in despair. There seemed to be no way out of their gloomy situation.
If a ray of light could penetrate this darkness that illuminated her life and marriage, she would never make Youyou a child of a single-parent family. She wouldn't want to be a single-parent mother, either.
Now, that ray of light made its presence because of Ye Chen's unexpected changes.
"It's alright, Yinuo. Let it go. Mom should take that money. Like I said, it is to make up for the past. As for the money for my career, I have it under control. So, don't worry about that!" Ye Chen quickly consoled her.
In a few days, Sihai Group's stock would hit rock bottom.
His short-selling operation meant that he would have income of at least 20 million yuan in his account.
Therefore, he was not worried at all about the money he needed for starting a factory to produce flawless cream.
"You don't have to make it up in this way. Anyway, I will find a way to get it back!"
Chen Yinuo shook her head firmly,
and finished the noodle soup in her bowl.
"It's about time. You take Yoyo to school, and I head off to work!"
Instructing him, Chen Yinuo hurriedly got up, picked up the bag and walked out.
"Yinuo, would you come back here after work tonight? Don't go back to your newly rented house with Youyou, please?"
Facing Chen Yinuo's back, Ye Chen begged.
Pausing and hesitating for a bit, Chen Yinuo eventually nodded before walking out.
Her nodding sent Ye Chen over the moon right away.
"Youyou, we going to be late. Step on it and then let's head to school!"
"Gotcha!"
After half an hour,
at the entrance of Bauhinia Kindergarten,
Ye Chen watched Youyou walk into the school till he lost sight of her.
It was the first time for him to send his daughter to school during two lives.
With mixed feelings, he started to get filled with the unprecedented sense of fulfillment.
Just as he was about to turn around and leave.
His phone rang.
"Brother Ye, are you available now? Can I go pick you up now!"
Ye Chen checked the time. It was only half past eight.
He went speechless immediately.
But since Zhang Jingshan had already called, he should just go with him.
"Okay, I just sent my daughter to school. Now I'm at the gate of Zijing Kindergarten, you can come now."
"OK, in twenty minutes!'