Mr. Rong's Lovelorn Diary

C16. Mother always knows best.

It is said that one depends on one's parents when at home and one's friends when away from home.

Far away from home, having no money at all, Rong Yi had to borrow from friends for the time being.

Rong Yi went through his contact book and had a slight headache. Among his good friends, one had just gone broke buying a house to get married a few days ago, one was a well-known 'moonshine' person (spent all his earnings every month) and the last one was obsessed with savings but was an avid buyer of regular wealth management products.

He called the last one with a glimmer of hope, but received a vehement recommendation of a fund before he had spoken. Although not a very high return rate, he had already invested all his spare money in it, and even recommended Rong Yi to stop spending so much money and start to make serious plans for the future.

After Rong Yi hung up the phone in despair, he simply sent out a post in his social media asking if anyone had any money to help him out.

He blocked out some people when he sent it. For example, parents, Chen Keyao, some colleagues and Zhou Li, who he had not known for very long.

The parents were blocked because he didn't want them to worry. Rong Yi never returned to his hometown after graduation and had been trying to make a living for himself alone in this city. As parents tend to worry naturally, he had already got into the habit of only counting his blessings instead of unloading his problems. As long as he hadn't really reached the point where he had no way out, he would not want to alarm the two old people.

As for Chen Keyao, it was just embarrassing. Asking the landlord for money to pay the rent would sound ridiculous.

As for Zhou Li, although Rong Yi was quite fond of this Omega, he was always worried that that guy might still be harbouring a little more than friendly intentions about himself. Zhou Li mentioned before that he was also poor, and Rong Yi feared the possibility that he would starve himself just to save Rong Yi. Surely that would be too much a debt for mere friends like them?

Quite unexpectedly, within five minutes of his post, his mother called him up and asked what was wrong: he'd been all fine so far, but how come he needed to borrow money now?

Rong Yi was dumbfounded.

At first he thought someone had leaked this information to his parents, so he checked his friends circle settings when trying to explain to his mother. He almost blacked out when he realised that in his haste to send the post he had set it to be visible to this group of people rather than blocking them from seeing it.

Rong Yi panicked. He quickly deleted it, then secretly prayed that the rest of that group of people had not seen it yet. Otherwise, it would be extremely embarrassing to be found out by a few colleagues that he was so miserable right now.

His mother sounded quite alarmed on the phone as well.

The retired woman had a rich imagination, asking if he had borrowed some dodgy loans or had become involved in pyramid sales schemes.

Rong Yi had originally wanted to hide the truth from his mother, but as his mother started to worry that he was going into a financial scam, was out of work and about to sell himself out on the street, he had no choice but to tell her the truth.

After that, there was of course a load of nagging.

To prove that he did not just live in a place but was actually living in a nice place, Rong Yi turned on the camera and walked around his room and the living room to show his mother. Just as he was going to return to his room, Chen Keyao's door suddenly opened.