The mysterious CEO's endless pampering

If Xu Fan hadn't waited downstairs for Li Zhanting to come down, he wouldn't have called to urge him, since things were also quite urgent on the American side.

But Li Zhanting ignored it and hung up after the phone rang once.

When the second time it played, Li Zhanting frowned slightly, and Shen Yanran gently nudged him, "Secretary Xu must be getting impatient, you should go down now."

Li Zhanting reluctantly released his hands that were tightly holding Shen Yanran. "Okay, I'm leaving now. You have to think of me every day."

She didn't know when it started, but Li Zhanting became unusually clingy, yet Shen Yanran was happy to accept it, saying, "I know, I dream about you all the time."

Li Zhanting gently kissed Shen Weihong's fair forehead before finally leaving.

With Li Zhanting gone, the only happy person is probably Gu Zitong, because now he can spend more time with his Aunt Yanran.

Shen Yanran took on the task of taking Gu Zitong to school, and fortunately, Li Zhanting left her a driver.

When Gu Zitong arrived at school, before she could even enter the teaching building, Lü Yan blocked her way and began to loudly mock her: "Gu Zitong, you're something else! You've only just arrived at school and you're already bullying your classmates. What kind of upbringing did your parents give you? Oh right, I forgot, your father is dead, and I heard your mother ran off with someone else!"

Although Lü Yan is not old, he is strong and looks quite intimidating. He is bad at studying and likes to bully his classmates, making him a little tyrant in the class.

He ran into Jin Fang on his way home yesterday and saw that her eyes were red, so he asked her what happened.

Jin Fang looked aggrieved and said that Gu Zitong looked down on her and bullied her.

Lu Yan and Gu Zitong were already at odds, and now that old grudges had been compounded by new ones, he wanted to show off in front of Jin Fang and stand up for her, so he deliberately picked a fight with Gu Zitong.

Anyway, he has no parents now, so he's not afraid even if the teacher complains.

Gu Zitong thought Lü Yan was a lunatic. He wasn't even in the same class as her, yet he still meddlesome other people's business.

He gave Lü Yan a cold glance, then turned and walked into the teaching building.

Lu Yan immediately chased after her, "Gu Zitong, what do you mean? I'm talking to you, didn't you hear me!"

Gu Zitong was only willing to waste her time with such an idiot.

He didn't want to get into trouble because of him, and end up making Shen Yanran worry.

So he continued to ignore Lü Yan and walked towards his own class.

Lu Yan grabbed Gu Zitong unhappily, saying, "Gu Zitong, you stop right there."

Gu Zitong impatiently withdrew her hand, then called out to him from behind, "Hello, Teacher Tang."

When Lü Yan heard that a teacher had arrived, he didn't dare to do anything to Gu Zitong. He lowered his head, said a harsh word to him, and ran away, "If you're so capable, don't leave after school."

However, apart from the students, there were no teachers in the corridor at all.

The subject teacher did not enter the classroom until the school bell rang.

Jin Fang was a little surprised to see Gu Zitong walk into the classroom unharmed. Didn't Lu Yan say yesterday that he would help her teach someone a lesson? How come Gu Zitong was completely unharmed?

Is it that they forgot or that they dared not?

Gu Zitong sensed someone looking at her with ill intent, so she looked up and met Jin Fang's gaze.

When Jin Fang saw Gu Zitong's handsome appearance, she blushed for no reason. He really was the most handsome male classmate she had ever seen.

She really wanted to be good friends with him, but why wouldn't he?

Gu Zitong's face darkened when he realized that Lü Yan had caused him trouble because of Jin Fang, the girl who had cried to him right away. His gaze turned gloomy, and he no longer looked like a child.

The teacher, who was giving a lecture, noticed that Jin Fang's attention was not on him, so he tapped the blackboard and reminded her, "Some students are not looking at their books or the blackboard. What are you looking at? Don't you know that the monthly exam is coming soon? Don't come crying to me when your grades drop!"

Jin Fang quickly turned her head towards the blackboard, no longer daring to look around.

After class, Gu Zitong continued reading in the classroom, while her classmates laughed and played around.

But someone started the conversation, bringing up the new student, "Have you heard? Gu Zitong didn't transfer here; he repeated a year to come to our class."

Some classmates were skeptical. "Repeat a grade? That's impossible. He answered all the teacher's questions correctly in class. He seems quite smart."

"How could it be impossible? I only found out yesterday when I went to my cousin's house. I told him that a new student named Gu Zitong had transferred to our class. My cousin said that there was a classmate in his class named Gu Zitong before, but his father died in a car accident and his mother ran away with another man and didn't want him anymore. Later, my cousin saw him once by chance on his way to tutoring class. Guess what he was doing?"

"What are you doing?"

"He's rummaging through the trash looking for food!"

"Oh? That's disgusting! Trash cans are so filthy, why would he pick up trash to eat?"

"Who knows? Anyway, I'll have to stay far away from him from now on. What if he accidentally catches some virus and infects me!"

The students who heard him say that felt a chill run down their spines. Then they glanced at Gu Zitong, who was still studying with his head down, and imagined him eating garbage. They felt disgusted.

Soon, the story of Gu Zitong picking up trash to eat after school spread throughout the class, and even the students sitting in front of him moved their chairs a considerable distance away.

Later, all his classmates began to isolate him without prior arrangement.

Gu Zitong wasn't deaf, so she naturally overheard their gossip.

But he didn't care; on the contrary, he was happy to have some peace and quiet so that no one would disturb his studies.

When school was over, Lü Yan wanted to continue waiting for Gu Zitong to teach him a lesson, but when he got to his classroom, he found that Gu Zitong had already left.

It's all their teacher's fault for keeping him after school, making him a step late.

That kid was fast.

But he can run away, he can't hide. We can come and ambush him early tomorrow.

At the school gate, Gu Zitong spotted Shen Yanran who had come to pick him up. Just as he was about to walk over happily, he heard someone next to him say, "Dad, he's the new transfer student in our class. I heard he picks up trash to eat every day."

"Picking up trash to eat? You must have misheard. He looks like a clean-looking kid."

"It's true, my classmate's cousin saw it with his own eyes, it was so disgusting."

"If that's really the case, what if he ate something unclean and caught an infectious disease? No, I have to call your teacher in a bit to ask."

After hearing this, Gu Zitong's handsome eyebrows furrowed unhappily. He wasn't afraid of parents contacting the teacher, but rather he was afraid of the teacher contacting Shen Yanran.

Shen Yanran saw Gu Zitong take a few steps and then stop outside the door. Thinking that he hadn't seen her, she waved to him and said, "Tongtong, I'm here."

Upon hearing this, Gu Zitong reverted to her innocent and adorable demeanor and ran to Shen Yanran's side, saying, "Aunt Yanran."

Shen Yanran nodded and reached for his backpack. "Hmm, your backpack is quite heavy, isn't it? Let me help you carry it."

The academic pressure on these elementary school students seems to be no less than that on high school students. Their schoolbags are so big and heavy that they're almost making the children look shorter.

Gu Zitong dodged for a moment, then took Shen Yanran's hand and urged, "It's okay, it's not heavy, let's go."

He didn't want Shen Yanran to hear those meaningless "rumors".

Shen Yanran asked the driver to park the car a little further away from the school.

Firstly, it's really hard to find parking spaces near the school, and secondly, the car Li Zhanting had his driver drive was far too high-profile—a Rolls-Royce Phantom, clearly a luxury car worth tens of millions.

She didn't want people to think she was showing off her wealth; after all, this was the cheapest car in Li Zhanting's garage.

Shen Yanran had thought it through. During the time Li Zhanting was away, she would go to a driving school, learn to drive, get a driver's license, and then buy a regular car with her own money.

Half an hour later, Shen Yanran and Gu Zitong arrived home.

However, as soon as she opened the door, she heard someone say with dissatisfaction, "Shen Yanran, why aren't you home after get off work? What have you been doing?"

Upon hearing Jiang Meiling's voice, Shen Yanran subconsciously frowned, then regained her composure and said, "Mom, you're here. Why didn't you tell me beforehand?"

Although Li Zhanting forbade her from coming to the apartment again, out of respect for his elders and because she was his daughter-in-law, he couldn't really kick her out.

Jiang Meiling only dared to go directly to Li Zhanting's door to question him because she knew he was abroad and not at home.

She glanced at the unfamiliar boy behind Shen Yanran, her displeasure deepening. "This is my son's house. I can come whenever I want. What, do I have to report to you?"

Shen Yanran said helplessly, "Mom, that's not what I meant."

Jiang Meiling had lost her patience. "I don't care what you mean. I'm asking you what you were doing just now, who that boy behind you is, and why he was at my son's house?"

Shen Yanran understood immediately. These words kept coming up with her son's family, and they really didn't respect her, their daughter-in-law.

Has she forgotten that the house was already registered in her name?

Never mind, there's no point in talking about this...

However, no matter how she listened, it seemed that Jiang Meiling hadn't come by chance, but rather had come specifically to confront Gu Zitong.

Who told her that?

Shen Yanran shifted her gaze to Aunt Chen, who was diligently serving Jiang Meiling.

Jiang Meiling waited for a while but Shen Yanran didn't answer, so she got even angrier. "I asked you a question, didn't you hear me!"

Shen Yanran didn't want to reveal Gu Zitong's background and hurt his young heart, so she came up with a reason and said, "His name is Gu Zitong. He is the child of a friend of mine. Something happened in his family, and he asked me to help take care of him temporarily."

Jiang Meiling clearly didn't believe it. "Your friend's child? What's his name? What does he do? Why should you take care of him?"

The day after Li Zhanting said he and Shen Yanran got their marriage certificate, she secretly had someone investigate Shen Yanran's personal information and couldn't remember having any friends with the surname Gu.

Shen Yanran was clearly lying to her on purpose!