Title: The Jilted Male Lead Hires a Mother for the Cute Shapeshifters
Translator: Fringe Manatee
Chapter 18 - Happy Drama-Watching Life (3)
Second Aunt, sitting next to her, lowered her head and snickered.
He received a few offers? He hasn't received ANY offers! He might have graduated a prominent college, but his ability was just so-so. At the last company that he joined, he didn’t even make it through probation period before he was let go.
Big Aunt was lying through her teeth here!
Big Aunt continued, “Ah Qing, you didn’t even graduate high school, but you were able to buy your own condo in the city. You must have made good money.”
Ye Qing smiled humbly and dangled a bait, “Oh, I was making around $300,000 a year, give or take. But I was only making that much in recent years…”
She wasn’t lying. The original owner did make $300,000 a year. That was why she was able to buy the condominium with cash with her savings for the past 9 years plus all her income from her side jobs.
But behind that $300,000 a year was nonstop working for 9 years. She was even hospitalized a few times from working too hard.
Original owner was a designer, but she didn’t pick up her designing skills from school. She learned it from someone more senior than her at work 9 years ago.
In her memory, the original owner went to the city was she was 16. After that, whether she was still an apprentice or after she had started working independently, she had maintained a schedule of one day off a month.
She did not rest on weekends, nor did she rest on public holidays. She even stayed inside her rental room and did her side jobs for extra income over the new year holidays.
Ye Qing felt that the original owner’s stamina was incredible. She would never have been able to do that herself.
Of course, the only thing the two aunties gleaned from what she said was the amount -- $300,000.
They would never think about the kind of hardship that went behind that amount.
Big Auntie’s crow feet laden eyes widened subconsciously. “$300,000?!”
In the small town that they were at, $2,000 - $3,000 a month was quite good already, but Ye Qing was making $300,000 a year? That meant she was making $25,000 a month! That’s $25,000!
Second Aunt had the exact same reaction. Her face was full of surprise and yearning.
Ye Qing only smiled shyly.
Big Aunt gulped, and her smile became more genuine. “Ah Qing, you are so amazing. No wonder you were able to buy a condo in the city! I knew it was the right decision for me to come to you! Do you remember, when you were a kid, your little cousin was just this tall?” She gestured the height with her hand. “Even at that age, he already knew to give you a portion of food from his share!”
Ye Qing thought about it for a little while.
Oh, to be exact. He took away her share, then begrudgingly gave her back a small portion of what was “hers”.
See? This was a prime example of the art of speech!
Her mouth curved and she said softly, “Of course I remember. I remember little cousin was very cute when he was a child. Where did the time go?”
“Right?” That was exactly what Big Aunt wanted to hear. “How did a kid grow so fast? He is still that little boy in my eyes! Aye, never mind that. Ah Qing, if you were making so much, that must be a great company that you were with. We are a family and we should help each other out. Do you think you can make an introduction and get your cousin a job in that company?”
Before Ye Qing could even respond, Second Aunt chimed in right away, “Ah Qing, your little cousin’s current company isn’t very good either. Maybe you can refer her as well?”