369: Yan Ran's Anxiety

“Let's put the furniture matter aside for now and get the gold bars first.”

In Ye Su's field of vision, a dazzling azure light was shining from the kitchen ceiling, which was clearly where the gold bars were located.

The kitchen had a common aluminum gusset ceiling.

Ye Su searched online and found that there were specialized suction cups that could easily remove these aluminum gusset panels.

So Ye Su had no choice but to go out again to buy tools at a hardware store, picking up a toolbox and a ladder along the way.

After tossing and turning back and forth, another half an hour passed.

“Time to get to work.”

Having specialized tools certainly made things convenient.

After locking the front door from the inside, Ye Su placed the ladder right under the area behind where the gold bars were. With his backpack on, he quickly disassembled several aluminum gusset panels in no time.

“Achoo— Achoo—”

Choking on some dust while removing the panels, Ye Su couldn't help but sneeze a few times before sticking his head up into the ceiling cavity.

With the help of the faint light filtering through, Ye Su saw at a single glance a neat layer of gold bars laid out near the wall!

Although he already had ten million in cash in his bank card, this was his first time seeing so many gold bars, so Ye Su was still somewhat excited.

“One piece, two pieces, hehehe—”

“Three pieces, four pieces, heeheehee—”

Acting like a gold miner, he stuffed the gold bars into the backpack on his chest, grinning foolishly on the ladder like a monkey.

After spending some time packing all the gold bars hidden in the ceiling by the previous owner into his backpack, Ye Su felt their heavy weight, his face almost wrinkling with joy.

After putting the aluminum panels back, he folded the ladder and leaned it outside the kitchen. Only then did Ye Su carry the backpack of gold bars over, pull off the dust cover on the sofa, and dump them out with a loud clatter.

“100 grams from Construction Bank, 200 grams from ICBC...”

These gold bars hidden by the previous owner included investment gold bars from several major banks, and they were all in weights of either 100 grams or 200 grams.

It seemed the previous owner had bought them in multiple installments from different banks out of caution.

Ye Su did the math; there were 40 gold bars in total, adding up to exactly 6,000 grams.

Since this wasn't his place after all, once he made sure he had all the gold bars, Ye Su didn't linger any longer.

Gathering the gold bars back into his backpack handful by handful, he covered the sofa back up with the dust cover. Carrying the heavy backpack, Ye Su went downstairs and left Xingyue Community.

Choosing not to go home, Ye Su took the gold bars to his rented apartment and put them all inside the safe.

Ye Su had already considered that since he had just guessed the Lucky Dice correctly last night, he probably wouldn't have the luck to guess it right again today.

After reporting the spy this morning, the one-million-yuan reward from the hidden easter egg had arrived and was already counted toward today's intelligence earnings.

So, Ye Su planned to only play for 1.1 million with the Lucky Dice today.

If he guessed the Lucky Dice correctly again tonight, he could win another 1.1 million yuan in prize money.

In case he didn't guess correctly tonight, he could sell some of these gold bars worth over four million tomorrow for one million and continue playing big.

With over four million in gold bars, a one-million reward for reporting the spy, and another one million from the hidden easter egg...

Playing with one million every day, he could play for six consecutive days.

Ye Su refused to believe he could be so unlucky as to not guess the correct number even once in six consecutive days.

Since he now had the System Gold Shop to help recycle the gold and the money would arrive instantly, Ye Su didn't have to worry about the hassle of selling the gold bars in multiple batches.

After putting away the gold bars, Ye Su thought for a moment, took the Working Cat out of his storage space, and placed it back inside the safe.

Tonight, he was going to spend the night at Yan Ran's place.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, he would probably sleep at a different place every night in the future.

Therefore, it was better to keep the Lucky Dice in his storage space to carry around, making it convenient for him to take out and use whenever he wanted.

After finishing these tasks, Ye Su ordered a takeout delivery, setting the address to Yunqi Garden Community, before locking the door and leaving.

...

At 5:30 PM, Ye Su, who had finished his seventh and eighth period classes long ago, had already driven to Villa No. 9 in Yunxuan Villa District.

During class, Ye Su had already mentioned in their three-person group chat that he would be spending the night at Yan Ran's place.

When Yan Ran saw the message, she was naturally extremely welcoming, and Chen Xinyi also expressed that the two of them didn't need to worry about her and should just enjoy their two-person world.

What the two of them didn't know was that when Chen Xinyi saw Ye Su saying he was going to spend the night at Yan Ran's, she didn't feel disappointed at all; instead, she let out a long sigh of relief.

The two of them had indeed played a bit too wildly last night.

Ye Su had a strong body and was perfectly fine after getting up, but Chen Xinyi didn't have such a good Physique.

If they were to do it again tonight, Chen Xinyi doubted she could even hold up.

Now that Ye Su said he was going to spend the night at Yan Ran's, Chen Xinyi could finally get some proper rest.

She was even secretly glad that Yan Ran was also with Ye Su, so someone could finally share the firepower with her.

Combining work with rest, working one day and resting the next, was the most comfortable way to live.

When Ye Su entered the villa, Yan Ran had already returned ahead of him and was waiting inside.

That was the beauty of being the boss—she could go to work when she wanted, and no one dared to say anything if she wanted to leave early.

Seeing Ye Su enter the living room, Yan Ran greeted him affectionately:

“You're here.”

“You didn't come back early specifically to wait for me, did you?” Ye Su snuggled up next to Yan Ran as they huddled together on the sofa.

“I don't treat myself as an outsider anyway. If you're busy, I can just hang out here by myself. You don't need to come back early to wait for me.”

“There hasn't been much going on at Joyful Gathering lately. There's a professional team handling the management, so it doesn't really matter whether I'm there or not. I might as well come back early to rest.”

Looking at Ye Su who was right beside her and smelling his scent, Yan Ran felt a wave of peace in her heart.

Over the past decade or so, relying on Joyful Gathering, she had already earned enough money to last several lifetimes.

Having lost her backing, it was difficult for her to continue expanding Joyful Gathering. Being able to maintain the current situation was already the best possible outcome.

Therefore, Yan Ran had also come to terms with it now. She shouldn't take Joyful Gathering too seriously and should just let the management team run it normally.

As for herself, she had finally met a man like Ye Su at the age of 34.

Instead of continuing to spend her time and energy on Joyful Gathering without being able to develop it into a chain brand, she might as well cherish the person in front of her and focus her time and energy on Ye Su.

Most importantly, Yan Ran could tell that although Ye Su kept saying he was relying on her as his sugar mommy...

In reality, he had absolutely no interest in her money and was purely lusting after her body.

In response to this, besides being delighted, Yan Ran actually felt quite a bit of pressure.

Although she maintained herself well and her skin was no different from that of a girl in her twenties, she was, after all, 13 years older than Ye Su.

Yan Ran was also worried that as she aged and could no longer maintain her beauty, Ye Su might lose interest in her.

So Yan Ran could only try her best to spend more time with Ye Su within her limited time.

She was even wondering if she should get some medical aesthetic procedures done to slow down her aging.