“Stinky Couple”
Jiang Zhi just came back, and what he faced were thousands upon thousands of eyes; every occasion he attended, someone would ask him.
Old Mr. Fu passed away, why has Fu Yunting not shown his face once?
The recent internal turmoil in the Fu Corporation, is it because Fu Yunting has completely torn his face with his father and brother?
Now that Fu Yunting’s situation at Fu Corp is worrying, will the engagement between the Jiang family and the Fu family continue?
Jiang Zhi had a headache, felt depressed, but had no way to deal with it.
Yesterday, Zhang Ru’an and Jiang Zheng went to the mourning hall to pay respects, but they were mocked and sarcastically ridiculed by Hu Xiaoxiao for a long while. The association between the two families originally started because of the connections from the grandfather’s generation.
Now they are associating again because the Jiang family’s company was in a precarious situation, and Fu Yunting took the initiative to extend a helping hand.
If they were to ignore them at this time, it would be ungrateful. Just like how Jiang Zhi couldn’t propose breaking off the engagement with Fu Yunting back then.
Seeing that the mourning hall was about to be dismantled, Jiang Zhi secretly went once in the middle of the night. That night, Fu Jiayang was keeping the wake, and he fell asleep in the outer room before dawn.
Jiang Zhi called the housekeeper and went straight in. After lighting incense, he specifically called Fu Yunting.
At this time, it was already middle of the night, and the other side picked up after only two rings. Jiang Zhi guessed that he hadn’t slept at all.
“Hmm?” The man’s voice came through the electric current.
“Thought you would be asleep,” Jiang Zhi said.
“Thinking I was asleep, but still made the call?” There was a hint of helplessness in Fu Yunting’s tone, “So you did this to deliberately wake me up?”
“…” Jiang Zhi curled his lips, “Grandpa is going to be buried tomorrow. I am at his mourning hall right now.”
Fu Yunting was silent for a moment, “…You are a public figure now, didn’t I tell you not to run around?”
“There is no one in the mourning hall right now, I just came to light incense for Grandpa,” Jiang Zhi said, “And, I also lit some for you.”
“Why are you so well-behaved today?” The man said after a two-second pause.
“You are changing the subject again. Forget it, if you are not coming, then don’t. The media in Yuncheng is crazy now,” Jiang Zhi couldn’t help but complain.
“Are they bothering you?” Fu Yunting asked him.
“Not just bothering me, now everyone in your family is on the headlines. This one crying, that one scolding. I want to suggest they just debut in the entertainment industry.”
Fu Yunting was originally in a gloomy mood, but hearing Jiang Zhi’s childish grumbling, he relaxed for a moment.
“I think that could work. I remember you still have friends in the entertainment industry? You can help introduce them.”
Jiang Zhi twitched his lips, “…You are actually joking?” Halfway through speaking, he sighed helplessly, “Forget it, mood is more important than anything right now.”
“Go home. Do you have any schedule tomorrow?” Fu Yunting asked.
“Okay, I have an announcement in the afternoon,” Jiang Zhi said.
“Did you bring a driver?”
“There’s no one on the road in the middle of the night, why would I bring a driver?” Jiang Zhi knew he would say this.
Fu Yunting had a headache, “Is your car repaired?”
“My brother’s car. He said the safety is better, it won’t be an issue if there’s a collision.”
The man laughed, “It seems your brother really dotes on you. Go back, pay attention to safety on the road, send me a message when you get home.”
“Got it, you are really nagging.”
Jiang Zhi hung up the phone and walked out of the mourning hall. Before leaving the outer hall, he glanced at Fu Jiayang who was sleeping like a pig, and really wanted to give him a flying kick.
Grandpa was not only Fu Yunting’s grandfather, but also Fu Jiayang and Fu Jiayue’s. He cried quite joyfully on the headlines during the day, but at night he showed no signs of grief and even slept like this.
These two in the Fu family were indeed spoiled by their parents, heartless and ungrateful.
Early the next morning, the old man was buried in the cemetery. The Fu family members were all present, and to put on an act, there was even a media outlet there.
Jiang Zhi flipped through the news articles from top to bottom, then threw the tablet aside. With a breath held in his chest that he couldn’t get up or down,
“This family is truly incredible!”
Jiang Yan laughed, “Are you lamenting that the Fu family members are drama queens, or are you feeling aggrieved for Fu Yunting?”
“…It’s this time and you’re still making fun of me.” Jiang Zhi felt that this brother might have been picked up from a trash can, “It’s lucky that Mom and Dad didn’t go today.”
“Dad knows Fu Yaoming best, he wouldn’t go at this time,” Jiang Yan said.
“So what exactly happened between Dad and Fu Yaoming back then? Brother, do you know?”
Jiang Yan shrugged, “I’m only a few years older than you. If you don’t know, how could I possibly know?”
“Forget it, I’m not talking to you anymore.” Jiang Zhi picked up his coat and got up angrily, “Life is about continuous struggle. I have to go make money.”
Jiang Yan frowned. He had long felt that this kid was not right. In the past, this lazy little brother was basically a salted fish. He didn’t know when it started.
He became diligent at work, earned money with vigor, and occasionally when he went out to eat, he would study some strange money-saving tips online.
However… where did the money go?
Jiang Yan had reason to suspect that Fu Yunting was really not coming back, and was so poor that he needed his own stupid brother to support him.
Fu Yunting stayed in Yi County until the seventh day after the old man passed. During this time, Jiang Zhi went to the mourning hall once, and after the burial, he went to pay respects in front of the tomb with his parents.
In those seven days, Fu Yunting did not appear in front of people once, and it was precisely because of this that these people from the Fu family could act out the drama of being the vulnerable ones in front of the camera.
On the seventh day, Jiang Zhi was blocked on the way back from work again.
“Jiang Zhi, you have been working as usual these seven days without missing a single announcement. Do you really have no feelings for the Fu grandfather? Or was it instructed by your fiancé Fu Yunting that you do this?”
Jiang Zhi raised his eyes to look at the reporter in front of him, and a breath of air popped out from his chest.
“Did you install a surveillance camera in our house? How do you know I didn’t miss a single announcement? How do you know how Fu Yunting treats me? Are you a high monk in a temple or have you become a refined fairy?”
“Can you stop meddling in other people’s business?!”
“Is Mr. Jiang denying it? When did you and your family pay respects to the old Mr. Fu? Or is there some other inside story?” Seeing that Jiang Zhi finally spoke, the reporter quickly pushed the microphone in front of Jiang Zhi.
Seeing this, the assistant directly blocked in front of Jiang Zhi, “We are not responding to private family matters, please excuse us.”
Chang Ran protected him all the way to the car before taking a big breath.
“I said Zhizhi, usually you don’t care about this news. What’s wrong today?” The assistant scratched her head, “How am I supposed to explain this to Brother Xiao?”
“These people are almost blocking my door. If I don’t care about it now, the next ones they bother will be my family,” Jiang Zhi said angrily, already being driven crazy by these people.
The assistant looked at Jiang Zhi cautiously, “Zhizhi, are you worried about President Fu?”
Jiang Zhi narrowed his eyes and scanned her, “You know that too?”
“It’s not that I’m overthinking, it’s that you have indeed been very wrong lately. If you are really worried about President Fu, why not go see him? Wouldn’t all these things be solved when he comes back?!”
Jiang Zhi looked out the window, lost in thought. After he returned, he talked to Fu Yunting twice, once in the mourning hall and once at the cemetery.
Both times his tone was normal, as if he had already recovered.
However, why is he not coming back? Did he really give up on the Fu Corporation?
And then, behind the scenes, he started something new, perhaps some black industry, getting rich overnight, then quickly controlling those heartless father and son, and engaging in some forceful takeovers?
“Show me the itinerary.” Jiang Zhi said to the assistant.
Chang Ran handed him the phone, “The recording starts tomorrow afternoon. You only have tomorrow, and must rush back by tomorrow morning at the latest.”
Jiang Zhi’s eyelids jumped twice, “Book a flight, the faster, the better.”
“Should I book tomorrow morning, or a bit later?” Chang Ran opened the app to look for tickets.
Jiang Zhi picked up his cup and took a sip of coffee, trying to make himself more awake, “Today’s.”
“Ah?” Chang Ran blinked her eyes and understood, “Oh…”
It was already past ten o’clock. Chang Ran used all the ticket-grabbing software, and only then bought two tickets for one o’clock.
“I tried my best.”
Jiang Zhi waved his hand, “Don’t go home, go straight to the airport.”
Chang Ran accompanied Jiang Zhi until boarding, “Don’t go as a girl, I have a rough understanding of the road conditions there. Renting a car at the airport will get us there in an hour or so.”
“It takes over an hour to drive? Then no, I definitely have to go with you, otherwise Brother Xiao will really skin me alive.” Chang Ran shook her head like a rattle-drum.
“That’s fine, as long as you don’t feel tired.” Jiang Zhi let her be.
“I am your assistant, it’s only right to be tired,” Chang Ran said, “I’ll help you drive.”
The two of them went through such twists and turns to get to Yi County. Unfortunately, Jiang Zhi didn’t remember the road very well in the middle of the night, and they circled the town for most of the night without finding the entrance to the village.
Chang Ran was dumbfounded, “What kind of ghost place is this? Are you sure President Fu really lives in this kind of place?”
“Of course!” Jiang Zhi fiddled with the navigation and got out of the car to look at his phone, “Otherwise, shall we walk to the left a bit?”
Chang Ran, “.”
After circling for a long time, there were deep mountains in front and winding paths in the back. The two of them really had no way out.
“Zhizhi, I beg you to give President Fu a call, okay?”
Jiang Zhi, “…Is it a bit embarrassing?”
Chang Ran touched her nose, “…Seems like a little bit, but believe me, not much at all!”
Jiang Zhi, “…”
Half an hour later, an SUV came out from a side path, and the car lights could be seen from far away.
Jiang Zhi was shoved into the passenger seat of Fu Yunting’s car, and Chang Ran drove behind them.
Upon arriving at the small courtyard, Fu Yunting didn’t care about Jiang Zhi and directly took Chang Ran to the guest room on the second floor, “The quilt has just been sun-dried, make do for one night.”
Chang Ran didn’t dare to breathe out loud and quickly agreed, “Not making do, not making do at all. You go check on Jiang Zhi quickly.”
Fu Yunting returned to the room. Jiang Zhi had already very naturally gone in to wash up. Having been here once, it was just like his own home, without any hesitation.
He rubbed his forehead, feeling a bit annoyed, even thinking if he should have gone back sooner.
At this moment, Jiang Zhi’s voice came from the bathroom, “Fu Yunting, I didn’t bring a change of clothes. I’ll wear yours?”
“Wear it!” Fu Yunting said.
I don’t know if he sensed Fu Yunting’s low air pressure, but Jiang Zhi took this shower much longer than the previous few times, so long that the man thought he was going to live inside tonight.
The sky outside began to turn white, and Fu Yunting had no choice but to get up to call him.
“Jiang Zhi, come out.”
Knowing he couldn’t hide, Jiang Zhi sighed and shook out the clothes on the rack and put them on.
When he came out, Fu Yunting was leaning by the bed reading a book, um… his expression was the same as usual, ah no, if it weren’t for the stupid thing just now, it should indeed be the same.
“Why are you not asleep yet? Not tired?”
“I was tired, but I was woken up by being angry.” The man glanced at him.
Jiang Zhi smiled awkwardly, “That can’t be, I just wanted you to come out to pick us up, and I didn’t ask you for money.”
“You might as well ask for money,” Fu Yunting said, “In the middle of the night, this is enough to worry me. If your parents knew, I want to see if I could break your legs.”
Jiang Zhi’s expression drooped, and he stopped pretending.
“I brought an assistant, I didn’t drive myself.”
“Then you are truly smart,” Fu Yunting said coldly.
Jiang Zhi raised his eyes and glared at him, “You’re still fierce to me. If I wasn’t worried about you, who would want to come to this ghost place.”
The man’s expression froze. He thought he would never hear Jiang Zhi say such words in his life.
“Worried about me, so you also wanted me to worry about you?” Fu Yunting put down the book in his hand, raised his hand to pull the person over and let him sit down, “Jiang Zhi, if you are this willful next time, I will really beat you.”
Jiang Zhi looked down, it was indeed quite exhausting along the way. When he couldn’t find the place earlier, he once wanted to turn back. It would have been better to sleep in a warm blanket than to suffer in the countryside.
But now…
He raised his eyes and secretly glanced at Fu Yunting. This plot development seems not quite right.
Why is there an illusion of a “stinky couple” flirting?