Chapter 29 Blind Date 3
Gao Yuhong glanced into the hall, his eyes meeting Ning Yan’s, who was trying to sneak away.
The person in charge didn’t notice this and continued muttering, “It doesn’t matter how beautiful she is, with your stinginess, she wouldn’t be interested in you!”
This morning, he and his cousin’s breakfast cost Twelve yuan and fifty cents in total, and his cousin wasn’t even willing to pay, so he, the poor one, ended up paying!
He had never seen a rich person as stingy as his cousin.
Gao Yuhong: “What? Does she have high demands?”
The person in charge repeated what Ning Yan had just said.
Just then, someone came to find him, and he hurriedly left with his booklet.
He didn’t notice his stingy cousin sauntering into the hall, then purposefully sitting down in front of Ning Yan.
At that moment, Ning Yan was about to get up and leave.
“Excuse me, I apologize for the interruption, but I am very satisfied with Miss Ning. I wonder if Miss Ning would be willing to give me a chance to pursue her?”
Ning Yan said, “You, has no one ever told you not to judge a person solely by their face?”
Gao Yuhong smiled, “Then what else do I need to look at?”
Ning Yan: “…”
“To be honest, this blind date was arranged by my mother. She hopes I find a suitable partner and get married as soon as possible.”
Gao Yuhong: “I am thirty-two this year, and I’ve long reached the age when I should be getting married.
Moreover, I heard your requirements, and I believe I can meet them.”
Ning Yan shifted, leaning back in her chair, tilting her head to look at him, “Are you serious?”
This man is quite handsome; could there be something wrong with his head?
“Of course.”
“What’s the earliest you can accept getting married?”
Gao Yuhong glanced at the watch on his wrist, “Do you have your household registration book with you? The Civil Affairs Bureau still has over two hours before closing.”
Ning Yan: “…”
Getting a marriage certificate was impossible, as Ning Yan didn’t have the habit of carrying her household registration book when she went out.
That same day, she brought him home to meet her parents.
“Are you sure our marriage doesn’t need your family’s approval?”
Ning Yan asked Gao Yuhong, as she didn’t want to bring him home to meet her parents only for his family to object to their marriage later; she found that troublesome.
Gao Yuhong said, “My mother is currently enjoying a sunbath in the Maldives with her young boyfriend, and my father went deep-sea fishing with his old friends last week. When they divorced, they said they hadn’t managed their own marriage well, so they didn’t intend to ruin the rest of my life.”
The situation of the Gao Family was quite messy. Gao Yuhong’s parents had an arranged marriage, or rather, two families with a bit of wealth, feeling their children were of suitable age and knew each other well enough, brought the two children together for marriage.
However, after marriage, their life philosophies differed too much. They endured it for over a decade, and finally, unable to bear it any longer, they divorced with their son’s consent after his college entrance exam.
There was no third party involved; it was simply a lack of affection that made them unable to live together.
Gao Father didn’t love his wife but loved his only son. To ensure a smooth divorce, he directly gave all the company shares to his son.
Gao Mother also loved her only son and didn’t dispute assets with her husband, only taking her original dowry. The two divorced peacefully.
After the couple separated, their lives were vastly different. After Gao Yuhong graduated, Gao Father handed the company over to his son to manage, and he directly enjoyed life, drinking tea, going to bars, fishing, doing everything except playing with women.
Gao Mother was impressive; since divorcing her husband, she founded an entertainment company. After several years of effort, the company’s assets had multiplied, now worth at least several billion, and she had a constant stream of admirers, some younger than Gao Yuhong.
But she never remarried and had long stated that since her husband gave their son a company, she couldn’t fall behind and also had to give her son a company.
Therefore, Gao Yuhong wasn’t a top-tier second-generation rich, but he was definitely a wealthy person.
Anyway, he was richer than the one willing to give Ning Yan two thousand yuan in pocket money each month.
Of course, he was also richer than Ning Yan!
Ning Yan’s bank card balance was only 10,928.76 yuan, which the Original Host earned during her internship. After she graduated, her family stopped giving her any pocket money.
Gao Yuhong didn’t hide these matters of the Gao Family from Ning Yan; he told her everything on the way to the Ning Family home.
“Then why aren’t you working today?”
Gao Yuhong: “Working is too tiring. I found a professional manager to help manage the company; I just need to collect the dividends.”
“What’s your family’s company called?”
“Hongyu.”
Ning Yan wasn’t very familiar with famous companies in her hometown, so she didn’t recognize the name Hongyu. She looked it up online and found that it was a company with a market value of over five billion yuan.
In a city like theirs, a company worth over five billion might not be top-ranked, but it was certainly not low; at the very least, one could live comfortably.
“Then later, when my mother asks where you work, just say you’re a senior executive at Hongyu, with an annual salary of five hundred thousand.
Your parents don’t live with us, and you have a ready-made marital home in the city center.”
Gao Yuhong: “…” “Why?”
Ning Yan said, “In this world, everyone around you hates you when you have and laughs at you when you don’t. If your salary is two thousand a month, they’ll laugh at me for finding a poor partner and look down on us.
If they find out you’re a second-generation rich, it won’t be long before they come knocking, asking you, the young master, to arrange jobs for their children.
An annual salary of five hundred thousand is better than most people, won’t make people look down on us, and won’t make them have too high expectations. That’s enough.
Having the marital home ready beforehand means my mother won’t force you to add my name to it.”
Gao Yuhong was surprised; this didn’t quite match her persona at the blind date event.
But he still nodded honestly: “Okay.”
The two bought gifts on the way. Gao Yuhong wanted to buy something high-end, but Ning Yan wouldn’t let him, “Just something decent is fine; even if you buy bird’s nest and ginseng, they won’t eat it.”
“But they’ll have to attend our wedding, won’t they? Won’t they find out then?”
Ning Yan thought for a moment, “Then we won’t have a wedding; we’ll have a destination wedding.”
Gao Yuhong: “…” No, is something not right here? Wasn’t his nickname ‘Old Stingy’? Why did it feel like his future wife was even better at saving money than him?
However, a destination wedding was fine too; it was comfortable and free, and a wedding was just a formality for outsiders anyway.
Carrying the items, they went upstairs. They had called ahead, and the elderly couple was waiting at home. There were two fruit plates on the coffee table, and juice was also prepared.
“Little Gao is here, quickly, sit down, sit down. Oh, child, why did you buy so many things? When you two get married, there will be many places to spend money!”
They said not to buy anything, but both of them were smiling brighter than anyone.
Ning Dad sat as steady as a mountain, asking Gao Yuhong about his basic situation, “I bought a marital home in the city myself. If you two elders are willing, you can live with us after we get married.”
Ning Dad and Ning Mother quickly waved their hands. Their combined monthly pensions after retirement amounted to nearly ten thousand yuan. Living expenses in the county town were low, and the elderly couple couldn’t even spend all of that on daily expenses, plus they had savings.
They were living comfortably on their own; who would want to get involved with young people?