Chapter 94: Chapter 94: Their Missing CEO Is Back! Chapter 94: Chapter 94: Their Missing CEO Is Back! Lu Youxi said, “Xiaohui is considering my situation. My family isn’t doing well financially. This ti when I ca, my parents couldn’t even gather enough for my tuition. If I hadn’t received a scholarship, my dad would have had to go to the city to sell his blood. Later, they managed to scrape together and borrow enough to provide with two thousand yuan for living expenses. Although they didn’t specify how long this money should last, our annual inco is only five thousand yuan, so that two thousand yuan represents half of our annual inco. I certainly can’t spend it all in one sester. I planned to save it until I found a part-ti job.”
“Frankly speaking, the educational level in our town is average, and I wish for my younger brother to go to university, no matter where, as long as he can attend. So I thought about bringing him to the Imperial Capital for school once I earned enough from part-ti work.” Lu Youxi openly shared her plans.
“Ah, I didn’t know, I’m sorry…” Xia Jinqiao was tongue-tied and regretted having spoken too quickly without first understanding her roommate’s family situation.
“It’s not like you knew about my situation, so there’s nothing to apologize for,” Lu Youxi said with a smile.
Seeing that she truly didn’t mind, Xia Jinqiao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“Youxi is very generous, not a nitpicker at all. Like I said, she’s very straightforward and doesn’t hide things,” Lu Xiaohui stated after wiping the table and climbing to wipe her bed.
“So… Youxi, may I ask you a question?” Xia Jinqiao asked hesitantly.
With an easy-going smile, Lu Youxi responded, “Just ask.”
“Although your family’s annual inco is low, having saved over many years, there should be so money by the ti you started schooling, right?” Xia Jinqiao hurriedly clarified, worried Lu Youxi might misunderstand her, “I an, at least enough for living expenses or tuition, not having to scrape and borrow like now, scrounging up two thousand while unable to contribute a penny for tuition.”
Lu Youxi gave a bitter smile, “Because my uncle took all my family’s money to pay for my cousin’s tuition and living expenses at Jing University. And he took enough for four years straight away. It was agreed to give it all to him at once, but just after a year, he asked my family for more.”
Mo Yuchun gasped, catching the critical point, “Your cousin is also studying at Jing University?”
“Yes.” Lu Youxi once again provided details about Lu Youbang.
This really upset both Xia Jinqiao and Mo Yuchun.
Their reaction was similar to what others had when they heard Lu Youxi’s story on the road earlier.
Lu Youxi took out her backpack and water bottle from her luggage, “Although my grandparents favor boys over girls, and my cousin is like that too, but the village chief and the uncles and aunties in our village are really nice.”
“Today when I set off, they all ca to the village entrance to see off. The backpack was a gift from Aunt Liu next door, the water bottle was from Aunt Lin next door. The village chief and Grandma Xu gave food for the road, and this phone was supposed to be a gift from a friend, but I thought it was too expensive, so he said I could pay him back slowly once I started working. He said it would be inconvenient for without a phone while studying here.”
“Even outsiders are better than your cousin!” Xia Jinqiao noticed, and realized that the items Lu Youxi ntioned were actually not expensive.
A backpack like that cost just a few dozen yuan at the night market, and the water bottle had a credit union’s na on it, probably a promotional gift.
As for the phone, it cost around a thousand yuan.
Yet, Lu Youxi’s parents couldn’t even afford these.
It was the uncles and aunties in the village who gifted them.
This clearly showed how difficult her family’s situation was.
Lu Youxi had been admitted to Jing University under such tough circumstances.
Yet Lu Youbang still exploited them like this, literally bleeding them dry.
“I always thought that to be admitted to Jing University, one must have put in a lot of effort and have such perseverance, and thus couldn’t be bad as a person,” Mo Yuchun shook her head, “But I was naive.”
“Good grades don’t necessarily equate to good character,” Lu Xiaohui added.
anwhile, the three guys who had traveled with Lu Youxi had also found their respective dormitories.
They started chatting with their roommates.
The simplest and most direct way for strangers to bond is to gossip about others.
Male Student A: “Did you know? On my way here, I t a girl from the School of Economics, it’s really tragic. Her family favors boys over girls, and about her cousin…”
Male Student B: “I just arrived, and there was this pretty girl with . But living is not easy for her.”
Male Student C: “Do you guys know about our school, School of Journalism and Communication, a sophomore nad Lu Youbang in Journalism…”
This spread around, and gradually, every dorm got wind of it.
*
Xia Jinqiao and Mo Yuchun despised Lu Youbang and were interested in the stories about Hexing Village.
They, along with Lu Xiaohui, were city kids, even their elderly family mbers were born in the city.
They had rural relatives but weren’t closely connected, rarely interacting.
From birth until now, they had only seen so rather one-sided depictions of rural life on TV.
Including dramas and so short films on various platforms.
It all seed a bit unreal.
They thus eagerly asked Lu Youxi for more.
Lu Youxi, having spoken until dry-mouthed, promised to continue during dinner for a bit of rest.
Lu Youxi had finished unpacking her things.
All four girls were nimble and diligent, quickly tidying up the dormitory neatly and cleanly.
Lu Youxi sat on her bed resting, and inadvertently began to daydream.
Wondering what the situation with Zhou Shuyan might be.
*
At Chengzhou Group.
A black Bentley stopped in front of the group’s building.
Yu Zeqin got out and opened the car door for Zhou Shuyan.
He then followed Zhou Shuyan up the steps leading to the building’s entrance. The security guard started to stop them, but upon seeing Zhou Shuyan’s face, his expression changed dramatically, eyes widening in shock.
“CEO… The CEO!” It was their missing CEO who had returned!
Zhou Shuyan had been missing nearly two months without a trace.
Rumors spread throughout the company that Zhou Shuyan might be gone for good.
So even speculated that Zhou Xueyi wanted to declare Zhou Shuyan dead.
But Zhou Shuyan’s mother, Xu Jingmin, vehently disagreed, insisting on continuing the search for Zhou Shuyan.
She declared that as long as Zhou Shuyan’s body wasn’t found, his death couldn’t be confird.
And that the position of Head of the Zhou family remained Zhou Shuyan’s.
Zhou Xueyi could only be the acting Family Head.
It was unclear where these rumors had originated from, but everyone in the company had heard them.
From security to staff, everyone privately speculated that Zhou Shuyan was probably no more.
Two months had passed, and there was no sign of him, which was troubling.
After all, Zhou Shuyan was a significant figure—if he was alright, he should have been able to return.
Why would he disappear, leaving his mother alone here without showing up at all?
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