Transmigration: Lady Chi Woos The Ice cold Professor Jun
Chapter 671: I am a family woman

Chapter 671: I am a family woman

The leaves continued to fall, and days passed, and Chi Lian continued to stay home with her children. It had been a full week since she last stepped her feet into the office. Still, she was kept updated on all the office news, the official and the unofficial.

Official was the return of the companies which were not pressured by city bank anymore, the open auditions for single’s inferno and the attempted bribing of entertainment companies to get their , D and E list actors and actresses on the list.

Unofficial was the news of Ehuang suddenly taking on a new job as a host for a brand new show ’Tea with a beauty’ on Htv. It was speculated that she had a backer in the company which made no sense because why then had she joined Phoenix Tv?

Chi Lian simply laughed when she saw that nonsense because Htv would be no more in three to five months, she would make sure to obliterate it just as she had done the Chu tea plantations.

She was not alone in staying home, Muyang too worked for half a day or simply worked from home. After many years of living in the office or on campus, he could comfortably take time away from the office, especially. He was still reporting to the university for his classes.

They planned their children’s birthdays and spent time together as a family while keeping an eye on the aftermath of the unfortunate drowning of the affluent on the yacht. The emperor had gone so far as to have a few unrecognizable bodies dumped into the water. No one was allowed to see the bodies, not even family members saw their loved ones before cremation.

They could not make too much noise about the matter because they were dealing with accusations left and right about the supposed corruption their relatives had been involved in. For some, evidence of such corruption was found in their homes, offices and secret accounts.

The aristocratic families which were quick to catch on kept their heads low and advised their children to behave during this clamorous time. Nobody wanted this wave to sweep them away.

On this morning, Chi Lian was outside the house, watering the crape myrtle trees that were now as tall as her leg thanks to fertilizer from the virtual farm. While she did that, she engaged in a gratifying conversation on the phone with her best friend Xue Lili.

Lili had just mentioned how elusive Chi Lian had become lately.

Chi Lian laughed and said, "I am a family woman, I should balance my time well for all of our well being."

"Yaaaa!, I can’t help but feel insulted, it sounds to me like you are boasting." Lili answered.

"Why boast about spending time with family? Lili, you know that I tend to travel but do you know how guilty I feel each time I do? My babies are still young. Rose is also at a tender age and she needs supervision. Besides, my Mei-Mei has a ballet recital today, in an hour in fact. They are performing swan lake."

"Haha-ha, " Lili broke into a loud laugh immediately. "Chi-Chi, are you telling me that little kids are expected to perform something as complicated and time consuming as swan lake?"

"They will do it like toddlers, I am sure." Chi Lian told her. She was not expecting the professional difficult style of dancing. They were kids of two to ten years, nobody expected perfection from them.

"I have checked online Chi-Chi, the dancing studio, the Lito dancer is selling tickets to the recital."

"Yes," Chi Lian confirmed. "The Lito dancer and the the Lito gym are owned by someone from the Si family. I have never seen toddler classes so expensive!!! they charge for everything. Even Mei-Mei’s outfit for the recital, we paid twenty thousand yuan for it. The shoes cost ten thousand yuan and the hair decorations, fifteen thousand."

"What??" Lili screamed.

Chi Lian chuckled and replied, "I am beginning to consider building my own children’s gym or dance studio because it’s a good investment among the wealthy. No other parent in the class batted an eye when we were handed the price list. Others even came ready with cash and cheques. It was my first time attending a parent-teacher conference so I was a bit lost in there."

She stopped watering the trees and handed the hose to Qi Qing, then, she went and sat down in one of the wicker chairs with her feet up.

"Not all parent-teacher conferences are like that, believe me." Lili assured her.

"Lili, hold on for a second." Chi Lian said, and she put the call on hold.

This was because she had a guest, an unexpected guest.

"Yifei," she said, in surprise. "What brings you here? Not that I mind receiving a visit from any of my friends?"

Yifei who was escorted to where she was sitting by nanny Fang and Qi Qing shook the small silver box which she had carrying in her hands.

"I came to give you a pedicure, you called and sent for someone from the spa so I came personally."

"Why?" Chi Lian asked her. "You are the director of the spa, don’t you have to supervise the other workers?"

"I still attend to some of our VVIP customers personally and you my friend are VVVVVIP." Yifei answered as she unpacked the box.

Another maid brought warm water, towels, oils and other things Chi Lian used normally when she did a pedicure or manicure from home.

"Oh, I was on the phone with Lili," Chi Lian said aloud, as she recalled what had briefly escaped her mind.

"I will start with your toe nails." Yifei said. "Tell Lili that I said hi."

"I still don’t like having you personally do this," Chi Lian mumbled.

"And I insist that you let me do my job." Yifei told her.

Chi Lian briefly thought that Ehuang would have had a field day running her mouth if she saw Yifei, who was considered to be one of her friends doing this.

"Is that Yifei?" Lili asked on the other end of the call.

"Mmm, she is here to help me do my nails and eat my food, I am sure." Chi Lian joked.

"Aah, it’s unfair, I want to eat the food in your house too. I am even running out of honey and jam. Let me take a two hour break from work and join you."

Lili hung up before Chi Lian could stop her.

"She is so impulsive." Yifei said, "I heard that she is equated to pd Rao in phoenix Ent. Her sharp tongue is so ruthless when she is reprimanding their celebrities for doing foolish things online and offline."

"Has Pd Rao’s reputation spread so far?" Chi Lian asked, surprised in turn.

"Of course, don’t you know that the phoenix family is now? There is even an official chat group for all Phoenix employees from the different companies, you have to use your employees badge Identification as a password. Everyone swaps stories from there, it’s how I know that you fired three female employees."

"Really, why am I not a part of the chat?" Chi Lian asked her.

"If you join, others will leave immediately." Yifei looked at her, giggled and looked at the nails she was working on again.

Chi Lian pursed her lips and told Yifei, "This must mean that you all think I am a buzz kill."

Yifei laughed and said without shame, "All bosses are buzzkills."

"Hey!" Chi Lian poked Yifei with her foot and they laughed together.

Lili arrived soon as she promised, she found them laughing and immediately joined in. The three women engaged in more conversation, as Chi Lian enthralled them with tales of her first parent-teacher conference for the wealthy and Lili and Yifei compared it to a normal PTA meeting.

They helped Chi Lian and little monk to get ready for the recital and then said goodbye.