CH 4

Nine to five was non-existent in the financial industry.

Su Zhong, who had worked overtime last night until the early hours of the morning, still needed to attend a morning meeting at 8:30 today. Of course, Rui Lei, Kevin, and Jones also had to attend the morning meeting punctually. Before Kevin could even get home, his wife had told him a whole bunch of stuff about some kindergarten parent-child activities requesting for the father to sign in. As soon as Kevin heard “kindergarten”, he thought of Xin Qianyu and became annoyed. 

Originally, Xin Qianyu was regarded as one of Kevin’s “sources for a sense of superiority”. Now, Kevin not only had no sense of superiority toward him, but he also had to be respectful. Kevin couldn’t swallow this implication.

Incidentally, Kevin was also very dissatisfied with Su Zhong.

But after careful examination, it was not that “Kevin was incidentally dissatisfied with Su Zhong because of Xin Qianyu”. The truth was that “Kevin was incidentally dissatisfied with Xin Qianyu because of Su Zhong”.

People like Kevin were under too much pressure. De-stressing depended on getting a sense of superiority over others, and self-contentment by looking down on others. When Su Zhong first entered the industry, Kevin was the one who brought him in. But now, Su Zhong had already surpassed the teacher. This made Kevin very resentful, but because Su Zhong’s business ability was too strong, Kevin still smiled at him outwardly and maintained a friendly relationship. It was difficult for Kevin to gain a sense of superiority from Su Zhong because Su Zhong was also exceptional. After waiting and waiting, Kevin finally had an opportunity to feel a sense of superiority toward Su Zhong because Su Zhong was actually a stinking gay. Not only that, his gay partner was not that great. Kevin’s own wife was quite good, and she even gave birth to a chubby son. On that front, Kevin felt like he had finally won Su Zhong once. 

The originally small flame in Kevin’s heart soared up and blazed. This was why he had opened fire on Xin Qianyu so fiercely.

He himself had probably never carefully investigated this subtle and twisted mentality of his.

He had simply classified his emotions as “I just don’t like him”.

During the morning meeting that day, Kevin sat with Jones, Rui Lei, and Su Zhong as usual. Although Kevin did not care for any of them, he was still outwardly friendly to them. After all, Jones and Su Zhong were the two “data madmen” of their company, and they were very strong in analysis and modeling. Kevin could also benefit from associating with them. As for Rui Lei, she was the number one beauty in the company, and she had a good relationship with Jones and Su Zhong, so Kevin also hung out with her.

Su Zhong went to bed late last night, therefore got up a little late this morning, so his white shirt was not ironed well, and the hem was a little wrinkled. Kevin saw that his old friend, who was always the perfect image of a prince, had “wrinkles”. So he couldn’t help but point out, “Your clothes are wrinkled here!” Of course, Kevin did not dare to ridicule Su Zhong as he did Xin Qianyu. So, he said in a joking tone, “Xiaoyu didn’t iron your clothes for you?”

Su Zhong thought it was very strange. “Why does he have to iron my clothes for me?”

“…” Kevin was suddenly speechless. He had subconsciously felt that Xin Qianyu took on the role of a “wife”. As the “wife”, of course, he had to iron his husband’s clothes!

Rui Lei pursed her mouth, smiled, and said, “Lao Su irons his own clothes?” 

“Yes.” Su Zhong said. Su Zhong felt that there was nothing wrong with ironing his own clothes by himself, just like tying his shoelaces by himself. This was a very normal thing.

Kevin was a little bit embarrassed and just said, “I mean, it’s quite romantic for a man to have someone in his family who helps iron his clothes.”

“Really?” Su Zhong thought for a while and decided to iron Xin Qianyu’s clothes when he went back.

When Su Zhong went back, without any delay, he picked up a particularly wrinkled white shirt that was in the cloakroom to iron. What Su Zhong did not know was that this wrinkled white shirt was actually made from heavy-weight mulberry silk fabric. So he used the ordinary technique for ironing cotton shirts and soon turned this delicate white shirt into a yellow shirt. 

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Xin Qianyu said, “Don’t talk about the ten thousand. Even if it’s a hundred thousand, so what? How could it be compared to Su Zhong ironing my clothes?” 

Zhu Pu said, “A hundred thousand? If you take a hundred thousand to the clubhouse for a young master, he can iron all the curtains in your house.”

With this, Zhu Pu paused, then said, “With your quality of life such as having this random piece of thousand-dollar clothing, Su Zhong still really believes that you are a poor boy who can’t afford to rent a house?”

When Xin Qianyu heard Zhu Pu say this, he laughed. “Look at his attitude of ironing immediately upon starting. Do you think he can tell if the clothes are expensive or cheap?”

Zhu Pu was shut down for a while, but soon, she said seriously, “Don’t dislike what I’m going to say. Besides the clothes you wear, whatever you eat and use, and the manner revealed in your everyday speech show a guy who doesn’t lack money. If he can’t see that you are pretending to be poor, he likely didn’t pay attention to you. Probably because he didn’t notice how you live at all.” 

Xin Qianyu’s original excitement when he came out holding the yellow shirt was immediately broken up by Zhu Pu’s words. His heart felt like a strong wind had just blown past, and all good emotions had been swept away, leaving only a mess.

When Xin Qianyu returned home, he was surprised to find a significant change. This change had occurred in Su Zhong – Su Zhong’s hairstyle had changed.

Many people thought that Su Zhong was a person who loved to dress up, but in fact, Su Zhong was not. Su Zhong was simply handsome and with good personality traits, so he was fashionable and handsome no matter what or how he wore something. In the past when studying, Su Zhong had a crew cut, so it was easy to manage. While waiting to join the company and to meet the company’s dress code, Su Zhong grew his hair a little longer, and combed it back every day when he got up, revealing a smooth forehead. Because this was the simplest and easier to do than any other hairstyle.

Su Zhong’s current hairstyle seemed to be very straightforward but was in fact full of ingenious strategy – the fluffy crown, the chaotic yet orderly curled hair ends. No matter how you looked at it, it was the end result of something carefully done by only a professional. Xin Qianyu looked closer and also discovered that Su Zhong’s beautiful skin was covered with a thin layer of nude makeup. Even his eyebrows had been carefully fixed. His already handsome face was even more attractive than before. 

Xin Qianyu not only sighed at the extraordinary beauty of his man but also wondered, was a man’s sudden love for dressing up a precursor to cheating?

Naturally, Xin Qianyu would not put his doubts on display, so he smiled and said, “You seem to look different from usual today.”

Su Zhong was not one to beat around the bush, and replied very directly, “David asked me to be a resident guest on a financial show. I went to do my makeup today.” David was Su Zhong’s big boss, and Su Zhong usually accepted any assignment from him.

Xin Qianyu was taken aback. “Are you going to be on a show?” 

“Yes.” Su Zhong nodded. “Actually, I don’t want to go either.”

Su Zhong was not interested in things such as showing off on the show. He preferred to study data behind closed doors.

However, many companies like to push several “star fund managers” and “star analysts” to appear on the show. For one, it could promote the company, and secondly, these “stars” could be used to influence the market. However, this also had many practical benefits for the “star” himself.

This time, David chose Su Zhong, who had not been in the industry for that long, to be this “star”, causing many people to be jealous. Kevin was naturally jealous too. Using the speaking tone of Su Zhong’s old friend, he just said, “Su Zhong’s temperament is not that suitable, right?!” 

This comment was quite relevant.

David agreed, nodded, and said, “Su Zhong’s personality is really not suitable for socializing.”

Kevin was secretly overjoyed, thinking he could change David’s mind.

But who knew David would continue. “But he is handsome.” 

“What?” Kevin was stumped for words.

David said, “Handsome people don’t need a lot of social skills.”

Seeing Kevin was still stunned, David patted Kevin on the shoulder and said, “A more awkward-looking person like you may not be able to understand!”

Kevin almost vomited blood. He asked himself, since he also had regular features, why was he “more awkward-looking”? But in the end, David was his big boss, so he had to smile and nod. “Ah, yes, the boss is too wise.” 

It could be said that David was indeed very wise. His move indeed won a wave of attention for the company. Su Zhong sat in front of the camera. Without saying anything, he had already gained a wave of attention. David took the opportunity to pay for #most handsome fund manager# to trend. Netizens clicked for a look, and discovered “oh fuck, he’s really handsome”. So the company and Su Zhong himself quickly gained a wave of popularity.

Netizen A: Is there any direct way to designate Manager Su to serve me?

Netizen B replied: Manager Su does not do people worth below 200 million.

Netizen A: So I’m not worthy…… 

Netizen C: I have now changed my name to “More than 200 million”. Will Manager Su be able to do me?

Netizen D: …Reported.

……

Because Su Zhong’s “star effect” was good, it also allowed the company to get better profits. David was very satisfied and said that he planned to promote Su Zhong to the position of investment director in the company at the end of the year. 

Kevin became even more envious. It could be regarded as jealousy. He made a difficult decision and posted anonymously on the Internet, breaking the news that Su Zhong was gay.

The social climate was now more open, but there was still a large portion of people who looked down on homosexuality. The fact that Su Zhong was a gay man naturally aroused the disgust of many homophobic people.

Kevin was very happy, but very soon he would not be able to be happy.

Because most netizens were not so conservative in their thinking, they were not so repulsed by homosexuality. 

For investors, their idea was even simpler: as long as Su Zhong did a good job of trading during the day, he can do whatever he wanted at night, let alone fuck a man. He could even fuck a boar!

If fucking boars could make Su Zhong work better during the day, investors were even willing to contract a pig farm for Su Zhong!

However, there were still some criticisms of him on the Internet. After all, bees always follow the most beautiful flowers.

Fortunately, Su Zhong was a person who was not so sensitive to external evaluation. It was just that he was also tired of being on the show, which was “meaningless overtime” for him. Taking advantage of this wave of criticism, Su Zhong brought up to David that he did not want to continue on the show. 

David had no choice but to agree, so he replaced the guest of the show with Rui Lei.

Kevin was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood. How could it be changed to a woman? No matter what, it should have been my turn, right?

He couldn’t help asking David, “Why did you choose Rui Lei to go?”

David smiled and said, “Rui Lei is beautiful.” 

Kevin was speechless. This leader was not good. Why do you look merely at the face and not innately?

The repeated blows stunned Kevin, and he had to vent. However, David was the big boss, rich and powerful. Kevin did not dare to be angry with him. But Su Zhong was as immovable as a mountain. Kevin was not Yu Gong, and he could not move this mountain.

When he thought about it, he felt that Xin Qianyu was a pushover, and he could give him a pinch. He plotted for most of the day, thinking about it: if Xin Qianyu’s sexuality was exposed, there must be many parents who would disagree with having a gay person as a kindergarten teacher.……