Perfect Heir

Weird. They've been together for so long, but its all empty. Fen Yichen likes to join him in eating all kind of things. Plus, he never once asked him. 

For some reason the whole thing was just weird. 

"Standing there forever won't stop your fate Ming. Come on, walk."

Hearing someone talking near his ears, Mingze finally snapped out of his thoughts and turned to look at Yichen. He must be the same with him anyways, it wasn't common to know your friend's favorite food anyways. 

"I'm just thinking about something. I'm not thinking about running away."

Of course Mingze won't just say he was thinking about how to shut his mouth and then suddenly realized he doesn't know Fen Yichen's preference. This was a bit of frustrating situation for him. 

If he can't bribe him then so be it, he have no choice but to face his parent's wrath. His shoulders drooped down. Imagining his mother's rapping makes Mingze want to cry. Mama Xie doesn't usually nags, but when she does she turns into a rapper. She can speak a lot of words in one breath, Mingze have no choice but to buckle himself up while Papa Xie would silently go back to his room. 

***

"Xie Mingze, you're telling that happened last night and you didn't tell me?! I'm your mother, that's your bad habits. Why do you keep on keeping secrets? That time too when you got injured, you didn't want Yichen to tell us. It's not like you could hide your mummified feet though."

"I-"

"Hush your mouth young man, I know you're going to make excuses to extinguish my anger. Now, listen to me I clearly told you to bring the pepper spray. What did you do? You just left without it. If you had brought it with you, you might have a weapon when that man tried to attack you. If the worst happen then…"

This time Papa Xie did not go back to his room, he was frowning supporting his wife. Like Mama Xie he was angry. A moments after his son left him, Mingze met a crazy guy. When Mama Xie started crying, he can't speak anymore or have any energy to mutter excuses. 

Mingze felt a bit guilty for making his mother cry and his father worried. This was exactly why he doesn't want them to know. 

"Go back to your room. Your mom and I would talk for a while. Thank you Xiao Yi for taking care of Xiao Ming"

"It's no problem uncle, it's what I ought to do."

Mingze technically having nothing else to do in his room, he decided to the group project. The demo he prepared was almost done and they would need to present it soon. Since Mu Bai didn't bother to reply with them on chat and go on their meetings they can finally kick him out. 

Although, Fen Yichen told Mingze to give Mu Bai a heads up. He planned to talk with him first and tell him he would be removed from the group. That was supposed to be today, but since it felt like he can't leave for the day then he would just do the demo. 

***

With nothing to do, Yichen called the driver to go back to the company. There are a lot of pending files he need to take care of. 

His phone started ringing inside his pocket, seeing the caller he was not surprised. He did use his connection.

"Hello, grandpa you've called."

-I see that you've called the chief. I'm here to asked what's wrong?

"I met a creepy stalker at the park. He had been following my friend, this time we saw him at the park where we hang out."

-Then you shouldn't hang out with that friend of yours instead. 

"The mother of my friend is a helper in our house. She is also mom's friend. Also didn't you told me to take care of my subordinates."

-Yichen, you should've told me he was a subordinate instead of friend, that's two different things. You're still wet behind the ears.

"..."

-If you see the chief, tell him I said hi. Goodbye.

"Thank you granpa, goodbye."

Although he said he wanted Mingze to pretend to be dating him because of an arranged marriage, he was not lying. There really was a supposed to be fiance, but it was not his mother pushing it to happen. It was his grandfather, he believed the marriage would further solidify his standing in the company. 

Since his father would rather go with his wife around the world, his grandfather put his faith on his grandson to properly inherit the company. 

After ending the call, he saw some messages from Kim Sinian, "Are you done with your assignment? Can I peek at it?"

While his college batchmates are still struggling with school paperworks. Fen Yichen was used to signing big contracts and doing sales, that's the reason why he doesn't struggle with school anymore. He has really life experience under his belt. 

Since he was young, his grandfather sent him a bunch of tutor to make sure he was on the top, he was number one. By the age of five, while everyone around him are still playing with mud, he was forced to study college mathematical equations. Striving to be the perfect heir was the only thing he was good at.

By the time he realized it, studying wasn't hard anymore. In highschool everything was a breeze. Nothing was a challenge, but he still need to maintain his number 1 spot. He was like a robot doing the same thing over and over again. His only solace was Mingze, with him and his family it felt like he could atleast breath and act like his age. 

The only thing that could move him was Xie Mingze. 

"Sir, we arrived at the company." The driver respectfully said while opening the door for him. 

"Go home. I won't be coming back, I'll stay at the company."