Ye Chan adapted to her new job very quickly; those who had criticisms dared not voice them in front of her. Once everyone recognized her abilities, the rumors and gossip about her vanished into thin air. The only thing that troubled her was the temporary interview about Li Pengcheng and his wife Gao Juan—that day’s events had spread, and people were still speculating about whether her father was truly a gambler or not.
"I’ve said it’s not true, but they still don’t believe it," Ye Chan vented to her good friend Gu Mingi.
"If they don’t believe it, let them be. Eventually, they’ll co to know the truth. If a man like Uncle Ye was really a gambler, then there’d be no good people left in the world," sighed Gu Mingi.
The first ti Gu Mingi t Ye Chan’s father was the previous weekend. Mr. Ye had said it was rare for his daughter to make a good friend and insisted on inviting her over for a visit to cook a delicious al. Gu Mingi couldn’t turn down the invitation, so she went.
She still rembered the scene from their first eting and what Mr. Ye looked like in his pale blue robe. If he had been holding a folded fan instead of a spatula, he would have looked just like a scholar—or rather, a well-read teacher or steward—straight out of a book. She swore she had never seen anyone with such a scholarly air in any movie—no, it couldn’t just be described as scholarly, it was more like an educated scholar or a steward.
How could such a refined, talented man possibly be a gambler? Gu Mingi absolutely refused to believe it.
And as it turned out, Ye Chan’s father was not a gambler at all, but a highly respected traditional Chinese dicine doctor who could tell at first glance that she suffered from insomnia.
This insomnia was an old problem for her family; not only sleeplessness but sotis sleep talking or sleepwalking too. Due to so family secrets, no one outside of their family doctor knew about these issues. To her surprise, Mr. Ye had diagnosed her imdiately.
Not only had he made the diagnosis, but he also prescribed a few herbal redies for her to drink regularly. Miraculously, she had a good night’s sleep the very day she took the dicine, with no sleepwalking or nightmares, waking up refreshed in the morning.
Later, she had even wondered if the dicine contained any sleep-inducing drugs, but after getting it checked out, she found that although two of the ingredients did have sedative properties, they were absolutely harmless to the body. After drinking it for a week, she even felt lighter overall.
So, whenever soone slandered Mr. Ye, Gu Mingi would never agree with them—that was a man like an immortal, okay?
"Ye Chan, aren’t you off work tomorrow? Can I co over and visit your dad?" Gu Mingi reminisced about the soup she had the previous week and couldn’t help swallowing her saliva.
"I think you’re just missing the soup my dad cooked!" teased Ye Chan.
Not embarrassed at all, Gu Mingi retorted, "Yes, yes, Ye Chan, soone like you who gets to drink the immortal soup your father makes every day can’t understand the feelings of those of us who can only eat als made by a housekeeper."
"Then co over. Isn’t Xiao Hao ho alone all the ti? Bring him along too. I really don’t understand how your family does it, raising such a cute and lovely child in that manner," Ye Chan said, shaking her head and sighing.
Gu Mingi shrugged her shoulders: "Then you should bla his father and mother; they’re the ones who created the issue."
The next day, as agreed, Gu Mingi and Xiao Hao arrived at Ye Chan’s ho, where they were greeted by an enticing fragrance that rumbled their stomachs.
"Uncle Ye, if you were to open a restaurant, I’d definitely be a regular custor every day," Gu Mingi said without any sha as she flattered him.
Mr. Ye was indeed very pleased: "If you like it, then co more often. There are only Chanchan and at ho; it’s nice to have so company."
"Then we have a deal, and Uncle Ye, you can’t get tired of ," Gu Mingi said.
"Of course not, of course not. Dinner isn’t ready yet. This is so cake I made early in the morning. Children can’t go hungry, have so to tide you over," Mr. Ye said as he took out a pastry made with Chinese dicinal herbs. Although it slled of herbs, the scent was strangely appealing, and it tasted unexpectedly sweet.
Gu Hao’s eyes widened as he ate, looking at Ye Qiu with great curiosity, as if he wanted to ask how he made the dish.
"If it tastes good, eat more," Ye Qiu said, rubbing Gu Hao’s head with a look of affection.
Gu Hao didn’t shy away or dodge; he even comfortably squinted his eyes. Gu Mingi revealed a look of surprise. She knew this young boy; when she first approached him, it took two days for him to accept her. She didn’t expect that the first to get close to Gu Hao was Ye Chan, and the second was Uncle Ye, both of whom beca endeared to the boy.
"Alright, take your ti eating, I have an appointnt with two patients, I’m heading to the clinic first," Ye Qiu said as he put down his chopsticks.
Gu Mingi quickly stopped him: "Uncle, can we co and have a look later?"
"Of course, you can. Once you’re ready, have Ye Chan bring you over."
As Gu Mingi watched Ye Qiu walk away, she was still a bit dazed, sighing, "If Uncle were twenty years younger, no, even just ten years, I would definitely pursue him."
"Co on, you can’t be serious with that joke," Ye Chan knocked on her head.
"I am so envious of you, not only is your dad handso, but he also has such great dical skills and cooking abilities!"
"Is your dad really that bad? You’re so pretty, so Uncle must also be a handso guy, and a money-making one at that!"
"Hehe, that’s true."
While Ye Chan’s side was rry, Li Xinyi’s feelings had hit a snag, all because ever since that day, she had been subtly complaining about Ye Chan in front of her Brother Ming Shen.
"Brother Ming Shen, how could your elder brother hire Ye Chan as the general manager, and with such a high salary, too? He couldn’t have been deceived, could he?" Li Xinyi asked doubtfully.
Gu Mingshen was a bit helpless: "Xinyi, the pharmaceutical company is under my elder brother’s managent; he has his reasons for the decisions he makes."
"But I just can’t stand people like Ye Chan. She’s received so much preferential treatnt from our family and still isn’t satisfied. When she married my elder brother, she had nothing, and now she says she wants a divorce as if it’s nothing. I really feel it’s so unfair for my elder brother," Li Xinyi said huffily, her words may be inappropriate, but she still looked pretty and cute.
"Xinyi," Gu Mingshen spoke with a hint of helplessness, "whether it’s getting married or divorced, it’s a decision between your elder brother and her. You’re still young, you don’t quite understand these things. They’re adults; matters of marriage are not about being worthy or not."
"But my elder brother drowns his sorrows in alcohol every day, whereas she’s all carefree finding another job, looking so bright and shiny all the ti, it just irks !"
"If I’m not mistaken, wasn’t it your elder brother who cheated first?" Gu Mingshen maintained his good temper.
"But my elder brother realized his mistake and apologized!" Li Xinyi argued vehently.
"Has the other woman been sent away? Has the child in her womb been aborted?"
Li Xinyi hesitated for a mont: "Although she hasn’t been sent away yet, my parents and elder brother said that once the child is born, they will sever ties completely."
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