CHAPTER 236: CHAPTER 236: YUN MU: SO ANNOYED

At nine in the evening, the others were outside cleaning, while Ai Jie and Yi Heng were tidying up the kitchen.

They had been busy all day, and after deducting costs, they surprisingly made quite a bit of profit.

The orphanage mentioned that tomorrow a few staff members would come to help, one of whom was skilled in cooking, and the others could work as waiters.

Moreover, over the years, a restaurant owner had been donating grain to the orphanage. During the summer holidays, he closed his restaurant. However, he’s quite a good cook and expressed willingness to take on the head chef role at the restaurant.

After discussing over the phone, they agreed that he could come by to help during the show. Once the show concluded and the restaurant gained popularity, they could officially hire this chef, avoiding any negative impact on the chef’s career if the restaurant had no profits.

The former restaurant owner also mentioned that he had a few apprentices, and if needed later, they could introduce these apprentices for employment.

With the restaurant on its way to normalcy and the chef and waiter issues resolved, everyone was exhausted yet in a great mood, enthusiastically cleaning the place.

Occasionally, laughter could be heard from outside.

"Miaomiao, do the heavenly maiden’s scattered flowers again!"

"No, this is the heavenly maiden’s sprinkling water!"

Yi Heng was wiping the tables, and upon hearing this, he said resignedly, "Kids do have energy."

He was so tired he could barely straighten his back or lift his arms, yet these kids were still giggling around.

Ai Jie, mopping the floor, laughed at this and said, "They can play now, but after washing up, they’ll definitely be asleep as soon as they hit the bed. But that’s good, no need to coax them to sleep."

The cameraman following them went for dinner, and both of them didn’t want to bother with any shots at the moment, so they just refused any new cameramen coming over.

Without cameras on them, the two felt at ease.

Ai Jie finished wringing the broom and resumed mopping. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Yi Heng tidying up, and after a moment of thought, she still said, "Thanks for earlier."

Yi Heng paused for a moment.

"It just happened to fall into my hands, no big deal."

Ai Jie smiled and didn’t say more.

Both didn’t speak directly, but were well aware of the matter.

The day before, Shan Hao used his trump card and Ai Jie retaliated. The matter was in uproar until yesterday morning.

Being in the center of trending topics, many people also gossiped about Ai Jie’s two kids, seemingly sympathizing, but their words mixed with malice as if watching a drama unfold.

Then yesterday noon, suddenly a marketing account revealed that Shan Hao’s ex-wife, the internet celebrity who intervened in their marriage back then, was a lover to two people at the same time.

Shan Hao had been determined to divorce after the mistress got pregnant, but it turned out the child wasn’t his at all.

The marketing account exposed specific timing, when Shan Hao and company staff had a comprehensive physical checkup and discovered some issues, leading him to secretly do a paternity test due to parts of his wife’s behavior.

Not long after, the two divorced, and the child went with his ex-wife. Shan Hao took most of the couple’s property.

Also, not long after, the infertile Shan Hao started to fight for custody of Ai Tanbo and his siblings.

Previously, he ignored and disliked the twins, but after being infertile, he desperately wanted custody back.

With this gossip out, netizens flocked to eat up Shan Hao and his ex-wife’s drama. Along the way, they uncovered that the internet celebrity also intervened in another family’s marriage.

People mocked Shan Hao and despised the behavior of that internet celebrity.

The internet celebrity, feeling cornered, confessed that the child’s father knew the child was his and persuaded her to marry someone else to bear the child, promising extra money for it.

So this cheat was also dragged down, and his wife, seeing the internet celebrity’s public evidence, realized she had been deceived and directly filed for divorce.

This matter blew up significantly, diverting the gossip consumers’ attention so that few discussed Ai Jie’s kids.

Ai Jie breathed a sigh of relief and asked her agent to investigate the marketing account, tracing it back to Yi Heng.

Nowadays, entertainment companies and more prominent stars usually run several marketing accounts for self-promotion and, at times, expose others’ scandals to divert attention.

Yi Heng, being only a second or third-tier artist with just a personal studio, didn’t really run a marketing account. But Yi Fei had high hopes for his son to become famous and earn him money for film production, so he had already set up marketing accounts. Previously, he even used those accounts to hype rumors about him and others.

Ai Jie didn’t speak, so Yi Heng emphasized, "That woman wanted to break into the entertainment industry and almost set up a friend of mine. My friend investigated and dug up this matter."

He clarified that he didn’t intentionally help investigate and use his dad’s marketing account to expose it.

"Hmm," Ai Jie didn’t bother to distinguish, having been in the industry a few years longer than Yi Heng and knowing how to differentiate sincerity from pretense, "I owe you one."

Yi Heng felt a bit irritated but chose not to say anything in the end.

At half-past nine, everyone finally cleaned the first floor of the villa until it was spotless.

Tuanzi went with Gu Chi to take out the trash.

On their way back, she suddenly stopped and twitched her little ears.

The young painter glanced at her expression.

"What did you hear?"

He bent over, joking, "Looks like you’re eating some juicy gossip."

"Miaomiao hasn’t eaten any gossip," Tuanzi quickly turned her head, almost bumping into Gu Chi’s face. She quickly stepped back, pouting, "Miaomiao wants to eat melon, but we didn’t buy any."

[Ancient Martial System: By ’eating melon,’ he means people watching hot gossip events]

Tuanzi suddenly understood.

"It’s Yun Mu calling Qize,"

Tuanzi snickered, "Yun Mu is persuading Qize to come over for a vacation and also to support the restaurant."

This way, she could see her cousin and bring more income to the restaurant. Wonderful!

Upon hearing this, a peculiar expression appeared on Gu Chi’s handsome face.

"Indeed, many companies are starting to organize employee tours lately, so there’s a high chance Qize will agree."

After all, when Gu Cheng made a call, Gu Qize had no hesitation in investing in "Let’s Transform Together."

"But, his employees might come, he himself won’t."

"What? Why?" Tuanzi looked disappointed.

"Because he’s someone who never slacks and barely participates in any entertainment."

Tuanzi was puzzled, her face almost scrunching into a frown.

Not far away.

Gu Yunmu was still persuading his older brother.

Gu Qize quickly agreed, setting this year’s company vacation destination for Sea City, "in two groups, next week and the week after."

"So when will you come?" Gu Yunmu asked casually.

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone.

Irritation crept onto that delicate face.

"Don’t tell me while the employees are out traveling, you have to stay at work. What about the old man? Let him work for once!"

Gu Qize avoided the topic: "It’s almost ten, go to bed. Didn’t you say late nights ruin your looks?"

Gu Yunmu was infuriated, "I’m staying up tonight and heading to the club to dance till dawn, come to Sea City if you dare stop me!"

He angrily hung up the phone.

Seconds later, the phone buzzed with a message, opening it, he found his older brother advising him to sleep early.

"He’s driving me mad!"

He nearly threw his phone.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He sent a message to Gu Yu, mocking him as an uncle, for not meeting his niece after her return to Sea City and lacking any semblance of being an elder.

He mentioned that Gu Miaomiao was currently in Sea City for a show.

The frustrated handsome guy turned back to the villa, only to meet his smiling cousin and brother at the entrance.

"Your smiles are like carbon copies of each other."

Gu Yunmu rubbed his arms, "Are you both little foxes?"