Gold Medal Mediator [Quick Transmigration] 37

Chapter 37: Being the Boss’s Woman (11)

Si Hai Garden, Yin family villa.

Hua Baihe and Yun Yeman returned from the training ground. She was still thinking about what kind of posture to use to get away from the couple when she received a pile of school brochures from Uncle Bo.

Hua Baihe: “…?”

“Miss Yin, please take a look. Which of these Ivy League schools do you prefer?” Uncle Bo said to her with a slight smile.

Hua Baihe actually felt that any of them would be fine. After all, these were all world-class schools, and both the faculty and the student body were top-notch. But she didn’t understand why Uncle Bo was having her look at them.

“I’m only in my first year of high school?” Hua Baihe said tentatively.

Uncle Bo smiled and just told her to choose, not answering her question.

Hua Baihe could only return to her room with the stack of materials, completely bewildered. And Yun Yeman had been watching from the beginning to the end. Yin Zhi didn’t understand, but she already had a vague idea of what was going on.

Yin Xiao wants to send his daughter away…

She had worked so hard to regain her memories, thinking she could slowly and surely lure the person into her arms, but she hadn’t expected…

Yin Zhi was so quickly going to a place she could no longer reach.

Yun Yeman couldn’t quite describe the disappointment in her heart. By the time she came to her senses, she was already standing at the door of Yin Zhi’s room.

This was the first time she had come to Yin Zhi’s bedroom door outside of tutoring hours. But since she was already here, she could only raise her hand and knock on the door.

Because of the good soundproofing, the crisp ‘enter’ from inside was much softer.

Yun Yeman pushed the door open and saw the person sitting at the desk, flipping through the materials in her hand, as if she were in a state of indecision.

Hua Baihe, seeing her come in, cast a look in her direction: What is it?

Yun Yeman was speechless for a moment, her eyes darting around. She tried to make her tone as light as possible and asked casually:

“Are you going to study abroad?”

Hua Baihe had thought of this. After all, she was mindful of the mission content, so she admitted it. “I hadn’t thought of it, but since Uncle Bo brought it up, and I just looked at the information of these schools, I feel it would be good to see different cultures and customs abroad.”

She had made her decision in a few sentences. Her words seemed to leave room for discussion, but she gave Yun Yeman no chance to interject.

Yun Yeman moved her lips, as if she wanted to say something, but when she met her faint smile, she swallowed the words back down.

She remembered that she was just the child of an ordinary servant of the Yin family and had no right to persuade Yin Zhi to change her mind.

She couldn’t even say the simplest request a friend would make, like ‘Can’t you stay in the country?’

—Because she and Yin Zhi were not even friends.

As if to confirm her words, Hua Baihe suddenly added, “But you can’t come with me, can you? Mm, then I’ll just have to find a few more people over there who are easy to order around.”

Her words were tinged with a hint of regret, but it was so insignificant, as if she were casually mentioning that something she was used to was gone, but it was fine, it wasn’t hard to find a replacement.

After all, studying abroad was a huge expense. Although it was not a problem for Yin Xiao to bear his daughter’s expenses, it didn’t mean he was willing to spend this money on Yun Yeman as well.

Besides, Qi Ran was still working as a helper at the Yin family and hadn’t gotten rid of the mess that was Yun Jin. If Yun Yeman went abroad, she couldn’t keep in touch with her mother frequently. What if she ran into Yun Jin when she went out…

Yun Yeman tried to convince herself that there were many other reasons why she couldn’t go with her.

She silently took several deep breaths, lowered her head, and left the room in silence.

Leaving Hua Baihe completely baffled, she asked the System, “Is she addicted to being my underling? She’s not happy that I’m giving her her freedom?”

System: “…” Should I tell the truth or a lie?

Fortunately, Hua Baihe didn’t care about the System’s answer. After asking this, she went back to looking at the schools.

**

Downstairs.

It was Qi Ran’s break time. She was tidying up the bed in her room, a lunch she had brought for her daughter on the table. Hearing someone come in, she said without even turning her head:

“You must be tired from playing with the young lady this morning. I saved you some lunch. There’s braised pork. It’s delicious.”

Yun Yeman subconsciously said, “The young lady took me out to eat.”

Qi Ran immediately praised, “The Yin family is so good-looking and kind-hearted. They really never treat us poorly—but I’ve already gotten an extra portion for you. It’s not good to waste food. You should eat more. You’re at a growing age. Didn’t you say you had a leg cramp last night?”

She muttered to herself about getting some calcium tablets for Yun Yeman on her next day off and asked her how the box of milk she had bought last time tasted.

Yun Yeman sat down at the table and replied in a low voice, “It’s good.”

Only then was Qi Ran relieved. She then said from behind her that she had recently received a bonus for perfect attendance and would take her to buy something better next time. There were so many brands of milk in the supermarket, she had to let her daughter try all the most expensive ones.

Yun Yeman listened in silence, reached for the still-warm meal on the table, but found that Qi Ran had forgotten to prepare a spoon and chopsticks for her. She could only find a pair of disposable chopsticks from the pen holder on her desk and tear open the plastic packaging to use them.

The background noise in her mind gradually faded, and what finally emerged was a sentence she had heard upstairs just now:

“But you can’t come with me, can you? Mm, then I’ll just have to find a few more people over there who are easy to order around.”

Yun Yeman pulled apart the bamboo chopsticks, her mind invaded by this voice. The emotions she had deliberately suppressed before now came rushing back with double the force.

See, you are not unique to Yin Zhi.

Because you are too ordinary, the other can easily find a replacement.

It’s just someone to order around. With Miss Yin’s personality, where can’t she find a follower?

At this time, the ends of the bamboo chopsticks she had separated were stuck together too tightly. Because her attention was not on her hands, the point of force was completely off, and she directly broke one of the chopsticks in the middle. She was completely unaware and was about to use the one long and one short chopsticks to get the meat in her bowl.

And the more she thought of Yin Zhi’s words, the angrier she became.

…It was because she was not strong enough now that she couldn’t make that person’s gaze stay only on her, that she couldn’t be the only one by that person’s side.

She tightened her grip on the chopsticks but suddenly felt a sharp pain.

Yun Yeman’s gaze lowered. She saw the splintered end of the short chopstick had pierced the pad of her right index finger, causing a sharp pain.

Soon, dark red blood beads seeped out from the wound, drop by drop, flowing down the bamboo chopstick.

She moved her hand slightly, looking at the splinter that had pierced her flesh. For a moment, it was as if she saw Yin Zhi’s words turn into a sharp knife and stab into her heart.

**

At the same time.

Hua Baihe was in her bedroom upstairs, torn between two schools. But she still couldn’t help but praise the beautiful scenery, the well-preserved cultural and historical buildings of these universities, especially the student dormitory treatment, which was fully furnished, had air conditioning, a private bathroom, a kitchen, and a single room bedroom—

“Is this the legendary paradise…?” she remarked, resting her head in her hand.

Just as she was about to compose a poem for this occasion, the supervision mode suddenly spoke. “The Child of Destiny’s affection level for you is 1. Activating blackening mode.”

Hua Baihe was stunned for a moment.

Then she jumped up from her seat. “Wait? Are you malfunctioning, little brother? That’s 1, not -1, not -100. Why blackening? How did it blacken?”

Are you sure it’s the blackening that turns black fertilizer gray, and gray fertilizer black???

But the supervision mode was only responsible for issuing missions and reporting various data to the host and did not have a communication function.

Hua Baihe bombarded it with words for a long time but couldn’t get it to speak. She could only switch to a different target. “System! System, don’t play dead! Speak up. Are you feeling guilty?”

The System sneered. “I’m not the one who made her blacken. What do I have to be guilty about?”

Hua Baihe said righteously, “It wasn’t me either!”

System: “…If you say it wasn’t, then it wasn’t. 【you happy is ojbk.jpg】”

Hua Baihe said to herself in disbelief, “This is the most unambitious Child of Destiny I’ve ever had. Just because I won’t let her continue to be my underling, she has to blacken.”

Is that all you Childs of Destiny aspire to?

The more Hua Baihe thought about it, the more creeped out she became. For the first time, she felt that the supervision mode’s mission was absolutely correct. So she immediately scrambled downstairs to find Uncle Bo and shoved the information of the two schools into his hands.

“Just these two, Uncle Bo. Whichever one sends me an offer first, I’ll go to that one.”

Uncle Bo smiled and assured her.

“Of course, Miss, rest assured. I have already prepared all the materials on my end. I will submit the application for you right away.”

Hua Baihe nodded in satisfaction and was about to turn and leave when she remembered to turn back and ask:

“By the way, Uncle Bo, if I suddenly skip grades and go to university abroad, what if I can’t keep up with the courses? What major am I studying?”

Uncle Bo smiled and guaranteed her, “Miss, rest assured. The master has already considered this. To help you keep up with your studies, the major the master has decided to enroll you in is—”

Hua Baihe: ?

Uncle Bo: “Chinese Language and Literature.”

Hua Baihe: “…”

Hua Baihe: “…………”

She really wanted to raise a hand and clean out her ears, to know if she had misheard. But her big boss persona stopped her, so that in the end, she just pointed at herself and tried to keep her voice from rising too high.

“Uncle Bo, you mean to say—my dad wants to enroll me in a foreign university, have me go through a hellish English language course, and then listen to a teacher teach Chinese in English in class? Is that what you mean?”

Uncle Bo praised, “Miss is so smart.”

Hua Baihe: …She was starting to not recognize the word smart anymore.

**

That night, Hua Baihe stayed up all night in the living room, trying to have a chat with the old cadre Yin Xiao, who had come up with the genius idea of sending his daughter abroad to study Chinese.

But she waited all night, and even until breakfast the next day, she had not seen the master of this villa.

Hua Baihe stirred her bowl of seafood congee, sat at the dining table, and asked Uncle Bo thoughtfully, “Uncle Bo, what business has my dad been busy with lately? I feel like he’s neglecting the family more and more.”

Could it be that now that she was grown up and sensible, he could go out and fool around!

Hmph, men.

Uncle Bo, seeing the speculation on her face, couldn’t directly reveal Yin Xiao’s whereabouts and could only let Hua Baihe imagine her old father as a philanderer who spent his nights on a woman’s belly.

He skillfully served Hua Baihe breakfast and said, “Mr. Yin has a deal to discuss in Australia recently, so he has been there for a while longer.”

Hua Baihe nodded, reluctantly accepting this result.

The next second, she spoke. “Then when my dad comes back, will he bring me a kangaroo?”

Uncle Bo: “…”

#Excuse me, how can he get a kangaroo from the duty-free shop at Jiao City airport? Online, waiting, it’s urgent.#

But nothing could stump a professional butler. He smiled and agreed. When Hua Baihe had finished her breakfast and left, he immediately turned and called his brother, who was on vacation abroad.

“Bring a kangaroo back with you when you come back.”

“What? A kangaroo? Do you want the skin or the meat? A whole one might be a bit difficult, Old Yang. That’s their national treasure.”

Yang Bo: “…”

He felt that the people of this region were really not particular. A national treasure was even allowed to be skinned and eaten…

Yang Bo relayed the message with a blank expression. “Anyway, the young lady wants one. You figure it out.”

**

A month later.

Yin Xiao, dusty from his travels, got out of the car. Just as he was about to enter the Yin family villa, he opened the door and was hit in the face with his daughter’s… pillow.

“You’re willing to come back?” Hua Baihe sat cross-legged on the sofa, looking at him with a profound expression.

Yin Xiao subconsciously dodged, and as he turned sideways, he met her expression and felt a little helpless. He deliberately skipped over his own matters and asked about another.

“How are your things packed? I heard from Uncle Bo that you’ve already completed all the procedures over there, and you’ve gotten the school’s application. You’re going to start language classes early next week, right?”

Hua Baihe got off the sofa, walked up to him, and looked him up and down. She found that he was in good spirits, but there was a layer of weariness in his eyes that he couldn’t shake off.

And so she stood on her tiptoes, hugged Yin Xiao, and didn’t answer his question. She just looked up at him and said seriously:

“You don’t have to see me off next week. I only have one request—when I come back to the country next semester, you have to come and pick me up at the airport.”

She didn’t ask a single question about Yin Xiao’s work, nor did she press him about not coming back for so long. She even magnanimously said that he didn’t have to see her off from home.

All of this was to tell Yin Xiao:

You have to be well.

You have to come and pick me up on time, every time.

The emotion in Yin Xiao’s eyes paused for a moment, and then it all turned into tenderness. He raised a hand and loosely wrapped it around Hua Baihe’s back, like a tall mountain, shielding her from the winds and rains of life.

Hua Baihe heard him give a low “Mm.”

**

【Become the biggest obstacle to the destined relationship. Host, please stay away from the destined relationship in a timely manner (1/1)√】

“Attention passengers, attention passengers. Your flight IR2342 to Manhattan is now boarding.” As Hua Baihe heard the mission completion sound, the airport announcement also repeated in her ear.

She leaned back on the cold public bench with her eyes closed and remarked to the System with an unreadable meaning:

“Yin Xiao is my first father.”

The System had a feeling this was a bit strange. It was about to ask again when it heard Hua Baihe mention another person. “Hey, do you think this Wild Grass is really cold? I’m about to leave, and she’s not even going to see me off?”

The System was very calm. “Because she has to go to class today.”

Hua Baihe thought for a moment. That was true. After all, it was a Monday.

She sighed. “Sigh, I don’t know. When I’m gone, will those little brats at Yun Ding fight to be the king? If she gets bullied again, I won’t be able to help her.”

The System now wanted to borrow Yun Yeman’s water gun and spray her—

Wake up. You’re a mission agent, worrying about a female lead after she has blackened?

It felt that its host needed to worry more.

But Hua Baihe had no sympathy for the worries of her System-dad. She walked onto the plane with her hands empty, as if she were going on vacation.

**

Upon arriving in Manhattan, Hua Baihe felt that this place was very similar to Jiao City. There were many Chinese people living here, which made her feel as if she were not too far from home.

But before school started, she found that she had already started to miss Yin Xiao, and even had the thought of secretly going home.

—In the end, these thoughts were all cleanly electrocuted by the supervision mode.

Hua Baihe could only obediently go and study Chinese.

And begin her devilish journey of learning Chinese grammar.

Until three years had passed.

During that time, every time she wanted to go home for the holidays, she would be soothed by Yin Xiao’s smile. “Even if you come back, I won’t be here. Didn’t you say you wanted me to pick you up when you came back?”

And so Hua Baihe could only suppress her impulse and stay in the United States for two years. During the holidays, she would travel all over the country and occasionally go to Europe to attend shows.

At the end of this vacation, she made her routine long-distance call to Yin Xiao.

Before she went to study abroad, Yin Xiao had said that if she had anything, she should just contact Uncle Bo directly. He would only be transferred to him when he was there. When he was not there, it was Uncle Bo who chatted with Hua Baihe.

So this time, Hua Baihe was already prepared, waiting to see her dear old father on the other side of the camera, or Uncle Bo’s smiling, wrinkled old face—

But when the video call connected.

On the other side was a very cold face.

It was a little familiar to Hua Baihe, but she couldn’t remember where she had seen it.

Fair-skinned, with quite three-dimensional features, especially that aloof expression, paired with the dark light in her eyes, at first glance, it was quite attractive.

Hua Baihe was slow for a few seconds and asked:

“Who are you?”