With some money in hand, Yan Shuyu no longer felt panicky. She still had to work on the regular workdays but she refused to work overtime and insisted on having her weekends off. At most she would go to her part time gig for an hour at night on Saturdays and Sundays at Sunshine House.

When her new profession going up and up and money kept on rolling in, Yan Shuyu didn't really need to keep this part-time gig anymore. She was merely kept on going owing to her relationship with Manager Yang. It was, after all, something that they had agreed upon in the past and that she got along nicely with her buddies at the coffee shop so her going there would also double as meeting up with them once in a while.

The boss was the exactly opposite of her. Yan Shuyu was not an ambitious one. She was very pleased and contented with her current income. The boss, on the other hand, had money enough to last him a few lifetimes and yet he still worked very hard. It seemed he would only be happy if he had worked for half a day over the weekends.

As such, on this in the bitter cold Saturday morning in the middle of winter, while Yan Shuyu was still sound asleep in bed, the boss was already full dressed and said to her while sitting next on the bed, "I have a meeting in the morning and meeting with some customers in the afternoon. I might be home late. You should have lunch at home without me."

Yawning, Yan Shuyu pulled her head out from under the blanket but otherwise showed no signs of wanting to get out of bed. "What time are you leaving?"

"9:30." Without her asking again, Boss Zhou looked at the time on his watch and said, "It's almost 9 now."

He needed to go eat breakfast and head out.

And that was exactly what Yan Shuyu was waiting for. She quickly said cheerfully, "Yuanbao has a class at 9:30 as well. Can you drop him off on your way out?"

Zhou Qinhe,“.... ”

"What about you?"

"I have no class today. I am going to go back to sleep," said Yan Shuyu very matter-of factly. "Speaking of, come with me to the coffee shop tonight?"

Her love life with the boss was no longer a secret so Yan Shuyu no longer bothered trying to hide it. She had been going to Sunshine House with her "entire family" the last few times. To a point that she felt sad when the boss and the kids didn't accompany her.

To think that she was so independent when she first transmigrated over. =.=

"Alright." Zhou Qinhe paused and agreed to both of her requests. Seeing how she was about to tuck her head under the blanket once again, he pulled the blanket over and said to her gently, "At least eat breakfast first before you go back to sleep."

The boss's voice might be gentle but his tone allowed no room for disagreement. Yan Shuyu, too, was starting to get hungry. Her routine had been set every since she had been raising a child and had always had her three meals a day. It was only natural for her to feel hungry at this hour. She grabbed onto the hand in front of her decisively and said, "Can you please have the aunty bring my food into the room? I don't want to go downstairs."

Zhou Qinhe, "It's only a few steps."

Yan Shuyu blinked and gave him the perfect reason, "It's snowing outside. I'm cold."

Truth was, the heater worked very well even in her original little apartment. The heating in this new and luxurious mansion would only be better. Surely it was snowing outside and sowing heavily at that. Nevertheless, that had absolutely nothing to do with the temperature indoor. The indoor maintained a very comfortable temperature year round.

Zhou Qinhe, after looking at her for a while, finally nodded. The very next second, Yan Shuyu happily curled up under her blanket once again.

Boss Zhou,"

Boss Zhou had a seriously look on him when he walked over to the kids' bedroom next door. He probably felt that the older one was already beyond help so the best he could do was to stop her from rubbing off on the two little boys.

The two children at home were perfectly fine taking care of themselves. By the time Zhou Qinhe walked inside, they have already bathed and dressed themselves. In fact, the two of them were straightening out each other's collars!

Zhang Yuanjia and Zhou Yi no longer got up as early as they used to but, Zhou Qinhe was very pleased that the two of them, being just 5-6 years old, were able to get up on their own and get ready and get dressed without needed to be waken up by their parents. As much as Boss Zhou was someone who set the bar very high, he still felt that the two boys were very mature. Having a bad example at home, made Zhou Qinhe appreciation their effort that much more.

Walking inside of the room, Zhou Qinhe straightened out the two little boys' collars in person.

Yan Shuyu felt that their current lives couldn't be any better. Boss Zhou, on the other hand, felt a lot of inconvenience. He used to be somebody who did no work at home. It had barely been a month and he was already very familiar with dressing and undressing the children. In fact, he was very skilled with it by now.

Once he was done with them, Zhou Qinhe stood up, held their hands, and said, "Let's go have breakfast. Yuanbao, Mommy is still sleeping. I'll drop you off the musical institution on my way."

He didn't not mention the little male lead because he was already starting with his evil plan but that his son had tutors coming inhouse. There was no need to drop him off anywhere.

As such, neither one of the little boys thought too much about Zhou Qinhe dropping off Zhang Yuanjia. In fact, the two little boys exchanged a look and giggles when they heard that Yan Shuyu had refused to get up.

When he was done laughing, Zhang Yuanjia said seriously, "Mommy had been saying that she is going to hibernate for a few days now. I guess she is finally going to start today."

The little male lead had always been respectful toward Yan Shuyu but, even so, he couldn't help but asked, "How long is she going to hibernate for?"

Boss Zhou did not want to respond to that question so he finally said what was really on his mind, "Don't learn from her."

And that was probably as blunt as Boss Zhou had ever been.

Yan Shuyu, who said she was going to hibernate, was actually already awake. It was just so cold outside that she decided to play on her cellphone under the blanket.

The boss kept to his words and brought breakfast upstairs shortly thereafter - that was right, he brought it in person instead of having the domestic help did it.

By then, Yan Shuyu had already washed up and even finished applying her lotion. She was, after all, going to be a delicate stay-at-home girl.

When Zhou Qinhe placed the breakfast down on the end table, Yan Shuyu had already bounced over at him. Dangling from the boss familiarly, she was going to give him a peck. But he blocked her with his hand as soon as her head got close to him. With hesitation, he asked, "You haven't washed up yet."

Yan Shuyu had, indeed, already washed up. Yan Shuyu, who always thought of herself as a little fairy, was immediately annoyed by the boss's resentfulness toward her. With both of her hands gripping the boss tightly, she was going to kiss him by force as she said, "Oh yeah? Take this!"

Unfortunately, she had just planted her kiss when the boss took the lead and kissed her back. Along with that, a pair of arms also wrapped around her waist, rendering her helpless immediately. By the time Yan Shuyu realized that she had been tricked by the boss again, her knees were already weak from the kiss. By the time the boss let go of her, she collapsed straight into the couch, sitting across from her steaming breakfast.

Yan Shuyu, who didn't want to appear weak, decided to start eating her breakfast.

When it came to faking, Yan Shuyu was at most a newbie at it. The boss, on the other hand, was the grand master. He could return to his ascetic self in zero second flat though the sparks and fireworks from the kiss just a moment ago never happened. Straightening himself out, he said to her, "Eat slowly. I told aunty to come pick up the bowls and utensils in half an hour."

The boss was still very attentive after all. Yan Shuyu waved at him, gesturing to him that she got it and that he could go.

But, before the boss took off, they heard a familiar knocking sound.

The knocking was very unique in that it was made from a few little hands at the same time. The knocking sound wasn't very sound but was definitely very lively.

Sure enough, the little kiddos' voices came from outside of the door, "Mommy/Aunty Yan

Yan Shuyu responded to them, "C'mon in."

The little kiddos bounced inside and went straight over to her. Zhang Yuanbao gave her a very enthusiastic hug and said, "I am going to class now. Bye, Mommy."

As though they were standing in line, little Zhou Yi, after seeing that his little buddy was done hugging Aunty Yan, also threw himself into her arms as he said to her, "Aunty Yan, I am going to my class too. Byee."

Looking at him with her eyes bright, Yan Shuyu thought to herself: Darling, your little big brother Yuanbao is leaving home to go to a class. Your class is right here at home. Is it really necessary to say goodbye to me?

She was, however, able to stop herself from saying that out loud. Like a mature elder, she stroked both of them on their heads and said to them, "Okay. Alright. Study hard."

And the boss left with one boy in each hand. Yan Shuyu quickly finished her breakfast, placed her dishes in the little living room area outside and happily crawled back into bed to play on her cellphone.

***

With Yan Shuyu's hard work, she finally got paid at her new job. She had made a shocking total of 40,000 yuan in the first month!

Even though that included her previous 20,000-yuan bonus, it was still an amount that well exceeded her expectation.

She never expected that she would, one day, become a high-earning person herself. She felt that, at this current rate, she wouldn't even need to wait for her son to get rich and benefit from him. She could become a rich woman and keep little fresh meats all on her own. With her current class load, her income would at least be doubled on the next payday.

Yan Shuyu wasn't one who was good with planning. With her financial pressure being lifted, she immediately tried to come up with ideas to spend this "large sum" that had just come into her possession.

She had initially thought about buying a more presentable gift for the boss but she was more hesitant about that idea now. It wasn't so much that she was being frugal but that she knew whatever amount she could spend on the boss would not remotely measure up to what he had spend on her and her son.

Came to think about it, it had already been a month into the winter vacation and all other kids were probably fully enjoying themselves but her son's schedule was even more packed during his winter vacation, having both academic and piano classes lined up every day from morning till night. And still have homework on the weekends. She felt bad for him just thinking about it.

It would be New Year in another two weeks so Yan Shuyu thought about taking him on a vacation with her new-found wealth. With this amount, they could afford to head to one of the tropical islands for a few days.

Then she thought about it some more. She couldn't possibly just bring her so along; she would need to take the little young master along as well, in the name of being fair.

She had totally learned that from the boss. When they had first moved in together, Yan Shuyu was still a little worried that the boss would behave like how it was described in the novel - play the game of praising one while knocking down on the other so make the two boys more competition in order to achieve his goal of nurturing his son.

Truth was, she had overthought it. The boss was much better than her when it came to raising the two boys. He had always been fair to the both of them and never favored one over the other. She was the one who'd occasionally favor one of them - not that she did it on purpose, but more that she wasn't one who'd pay close attention to details and would sometimes overlook certain facts.