My stand-in (The original story)

Chapter 58

The next morning, ZhouXiang called the auntie with the surname Wang and told her about ChenYing’s condition. His main intent in hiring her was for her to look after ChenYing and take her to the hospital for her treatments.

Aunt Wang cried on the phone upon hearing ChenYing’s condition and said that this mother and son’s lives have really not been easy. She agreed to it.

Finally, they agreed that she would come twice a week to go with ChenYing to the hospital. In addition, she will also help ChenYing clean up the apartment. She will be paid ¥80 each time she comes.

As long as ChenYing adhered to the dialysis treatment, doing ordinary cooking and other work were not a problem. Because of limited money, ZhouXiang can’t afford a full-time caretaker. Since the pay is based on the number of times the caretaker comes, if he has time on Saturday, he can take ChenYing himself and save the money. But, in fact, he has never had a full weekend off after he started working.

Now he must turn like a spinning top to finds ways to make more money. At the same time, he would find some free time to check and see if ChenYing could get any medical benefits.

He felt that when he opened his eyes now, there is a bunch of things waiting for him to do. He’s never felt so exhausted nor worked so hard before.

He arrived at the company a little later. CaiWei called him directly into the office.

CaiWei handed him a bank card, “There is ¥50,000 inside. Use this to take care of urgent needs first. President Wang went to Tibet for his Buddhist seclusion. No one can contact him at this time. When he comes back, I’ll surely talk to him. I believe he will definitely help. However, you guys have no relationship so President Wang’s assistance will be limited. You still have to quickly find a way. I will introduce as much work to you as possible but you must not casually tell others in the company or else other people will be jealous.”

Ever since he entered the company, CaiWei had taken extra care of him. Other people were inevitably suspicious. ZhouXiang faintly felt that he owed CaiWei too much.

If this didn’t happen, maybe after a year and a half, after he had adapted to his identity and cast away all his layers of defenses, maybe… maybe he would tell CaiWei the truth. After all, with such a big secret weighing heavily in his heart, he didn’t know if he would collapse one day. But he definitely can’t reveal it now. He didn’t want to cause CaiWei any injustice.

CaiWei’s expression is very deep, “Ah Xiang, you have to be strong. You’re young after all so don’t be discouraged about the future.”

ZhouXiang forcefully smiled, “I understand…”

He naturally understands but reality is just too cruel.

CaiWei’s desk phone rang. He reached for the handset, “Hello? Yea, it’s me……what?” CaiWei frowned and looked at ZhouXiang, his eyes full of astonishment.

ZhouXiang asked, “What is it?”

CaiWei hung up; his expression strange. “JiangYuan is waiting for you downstairs and said that YanMingXiu is looking for you for some matters.”

“Downstairs?”

“Yes, downstairs.”

ZhouXiang looked at his cellphone; there was no message. It seemed that YanMingXiu knew what to do to force him to give in.

CaiWei knocked on the table irritably, “ZhouXiang, what the hell is up with the two of you? You……are you hiding something from me?” CaiWei’s eyes flashed brightly, glaring at ZhouXiang.

ZhouXiang smiled forcefully, “Wei Ge, what YanMingXiu wants to do, I really don’t know. I’m also very confused.”

Strange thoughts rose in CaiWei’s mind. Could it be……could it be that YanMingXiu took ZhouXiang as “him”?