The Jilted Second Young Master (38)

"Second young master, six of our employees applied for leave."

A few days later, a solemn-looking Wang Han approached Lin Yitian with an unexpected request.

Lin Yitian looked up in surprise.

"Applied for leave? What for?"

These kind of things usually didn't surprise him because his volatile temper often scared off any potential employees. But Lin Yitian recently didn't had an outburst, so Wang Han's request gave him a slight surprise.

"They said they want to find a match in Tantan [1] and search for true love," said Wang Han.

In truth, even his own old face had turned gloomy, putting more wrinkles around his eyes. In these past few days, Wang Han had greatly missed his wife.

Since the plan of swapping with her twin sister fell through, Song Jia just decided to go all out and flirt with Lin Yitian so that she could leave him with good memories. The result of all this was...

Lin Yitian completely became a generous giver of dog food.

Not only that, but despite the numerous light bulbs inside the mansion, this abuser of single dogs completely treated them like air, giving them dog food while abusing them.

Wang Han intensely felt, this was simply the cruelest form of animal torture.

He was in much better condition because he was already married, but as for those maids who didn't have any partner...after enduring it for a few days, they finally broke down, and decided to apply for a vacation leave.

Wang Han could still remember their crying faces, saying that they would go straight to Yue Lao's shrine, and pray for the red string of marriage.

Wang Han strongly emphatized with their feelings.

Lin Yitian's face was still blank. "Search for true love?"

Wang Han nodded, not saying out loud, Second young master, this was actually your fault.

Sometimes, Wang Han would see his second young master suddenly stop walking and laugh to himself, slapping the wall a few times before dissolving into giggles.

Other times his second young master would hug the pillow on the couch and roll back and forth, hiding his red face while peeking at Song Jia.

But, Wang Han felt that all of these were still acceptable. After all, it was the second young master's first time to be in love, so all of them should be more understanding.

However, it didn't stop at that. Second young master became practically inseparable from Miss Su. Wherever they went, they would hold hands together. When Miss Su was watching TV, the second young master's head would be on her lap. And when Miss Su was eating, the second young master would insist that they share it together...

Bathing together, reading a book together, falling asleep together...

Even a monk would become jealous of this never-ending honeymoon atmosphere.

And at night, it was even worse. After ten o'clock, every maid and servant would instantly rush back towards the servant quarters. It was not because they had a curfew, but because if they were only a little bit late, they would hear sounds that they should never hear...

Once, Wang Han became late because he was busy planning the menu for their breakfast tomorrow. Suddenly, he heard a loud banging sound, and then Miss Su's tearful crying...when he looked at the second young master's bedroom, he saw that the door was abnormally creaking, as if something was striking it at a high speed.

Wang Han, "..."

He suddenly had a troubling worry. Would his two masters even wake up on time for breakfast?

After that, Wang Han also didn't dare to be late and left even faster than the maids once it became dark. He was so fast that the maids could only see his afterimage. Youthful people were really fierce and vigorous, ah. Wang Han felt that his old bones couldn't take it.

After Lin Yitian signed the maids' requests for leave, Wang Han was about to go when he remembered something.

"Second young master, about the specialist you told me to find..."

Lin Yitian's eyes that were already searching for Song Jia's silhouette suddenly focused on him.

"What happened? Did you find one?"

"Second young master, I did find the best specialist in the field, but he lives abroad and is currently busy doing his research. He agreed to come here, but it would take about half a month for him to arrange his papers and arrive."

Lin Yitian's eyebrows were scrunched tightly in frustration. "Half a month? That's too long."

"Second young master, it's already good that he's willing to come this far. After all, he agreed to suspend his research to go and examine Miss Su. Besides, when I spoke to him on the phone and told him about Miss Su's condition, he already confirmed that Miss Su shouldn't have the disease. He was only willing to come here and examine Miss Su because of the amount of money we're willing to pay him."

Lin Yitian's tense shoulders slightly relaxed. "You should still try to negotiate with him if he can arrive even earlier. Raise the amount of money until he agrees."

Wang Han's heart jumped inside his chest. One had to know, the amount of money he had already promised to the specialist was three times more than the salary Lin Yitian earned in a month. Wasn't the second young master afraid of becoming broke?

But, Wang Han was just Lin Yitian's butler. He knew better than to question his own master's decision.

Wang Han only bowed his head and said, "Yes, second young master."

He quietly exited Lin Yitian's study.

Lin Yitian watched the door close with his chin resting on one hand, his eyes deep and thoughtful.

Ever since he met Song Jia, all of his diseases healed one by one, until he almost felt like a normal person. Even Wang Han could now enter his study, which used to be his sacred place.

But when meeting with Nie Poan, Lin Yitian still pretended to be ill.

The reason for this?

It was because he knew Nie Poan was Lin Shenglan's spy to monitor him.

Lin Yitian's lips slightly curved upwards. He knew his older brother's mixed feelings for him. Inferiority, because Lin Yitian was better than him, and also a trace of disgust and scorn, because he was autistic. Lin Yitian's autism was actually on the milder side, but for him to get worse and worse as time passed by, how could it not have a trace of Lin Shenglan's malicious intentions behind it?

Lin Yitian knew that Lin Shenglan hid most of what he had done for the company from their father. That was why Lin Shaofeng forever viewed Lin Yitian as a useless son, someone who could only drag down the company.

Lin Yitian leaned back on his chair and slowly exited the various tabs he had clicked on when Wang Han entered. On the various computer monitors, only one of them was running the codes for the software app that Lin Shenglan wanted for the Lin company. The rest of the computer monitors...were companies that were slowly rising in the market.

And all of them...were all Lin Yitian's.

All of these companies were operating without knowing who their founder was, only knowing that he was rich and powerful. None of them knew that they were owned by the same person, except for Lin Yitian. He didn't even tell Song Jia about this, wanting to surprise her.

If Lin Shenglan wanted the Lin company, then Lin Yitian was very willing to let him have it. Just...he was hoping that his older brother could keep up.

After all, it was a competitive market. Who knows who would be on the top and who would be on the bottom after a few years.

Lin Yitian's eyelashes lowered to a half-mast, shielding his expression.

If his father thought that Jia was dragging him down, then fine.

He could afford to raise her.

And make sure everybody would see, with her, he would be able to reach the top of the world.

Only for her.

Would he be able to do everything.

[1] Ch. equivalent of Tinder

...

Little theater:

Zhao Cheng: I became an emperor because Jia'er wanted me to.

Xiang Feng: I became a king because that was what Jia wanted.

Lin Shaofeng: Yitian, she would only drag you down...

Lin Yitian: ...alright, challenge accepted.