Chapter: 745

Xiao Chu Ran smiled slightly, "Okay, alright."

Stepmother Ma Lan scolded with a black face, "Hey, Ye Chen, do you have friends in Jinling to celebrate birthdays? They're quite old already, aren't they?"

Ye Chen nodded, "Eighty already."

Ma Lan teased, "You're just starting to use your tricks and deceive those elderly gentlemen? Deceive people's coffins?"

Ye Chen said calmly, "I haven't deceived anyone."

"What's going on?" Ma Lan sneered. "The big shots in Jinling who were fooled by you still haven't figured it out? I'm telling you, I've already seen through your future, and you're no different from those old qigong masters, waiting for only two possibilities: either getting arrested or being hunted down."

Ma Lan has been extremely annoyed with Ye Chen lately, the core reason being that Ye Chen gave all her money to Hope Engineering after losing it to He Lian and Qian Hongyan.

Now, she's struggling to make ends meet, having spent all her beauty parlor credits, and is worried about how to explain things to her husband and daughter if they find out.

In Ma Lan's eyes, Ye Chen is the culprit behind everything!

So, of course, she's extremely annoyed with Ye Chen.

Xiao Chu Ran heard Ma Lan start to take aim at Ye Chen again and quickly stood up to defend him. "What kind of person are you? You're always picking on people like Ye Chen for no reason! Ye Chen has been doing really well lately, hasn't he?"

"Good riddance!" Ma Lan didn't know that Xiao Chu Ran had relied on Ye Chen to get a fake ID during their high school reunion and was still grateful to him.

As her husband started talking to Ye Chen, she immediately opened her mouth to scold. "Xiao Chu Ran, don't fall for this guy's tricks! Otherwise, you'll be sold out without knowing it!"

Xiao Chu Ran didn't bother responding and instead handed Ye Chen the keys to his BMW, saying, "Ye Chen, Dad has booked a suite at Tianxiang Hotel tonight, and we'll all have dinner together with the leaders of the painting association. When that time comes, I won't be able to drive, so you take the car keys and come pick me up from Tianxiang Hotel around then."

Ye Chen nodded and took the keys, asking, "Dad, what time should I go pick you up?"

Xiao Chu Ran said: "We're having dinner at seven o'clock, so you should get to Tianxiang Hotel around eight thirty to nine. Just come pick me up then."

"Okay."

Ye Chen was still agreeing when Ma Lan's eyes lit up and she blurted out, "Xiao Chu Kan, are you inviting people to Tianxiang Hotel? Where are you getting the money?"

Xiao Chu Ran didn't dare say that Ye Chen had given him the money, so he dodged the question, saying, "What do you care about this? As long as it's not your money, that's all."

Ma Lan was furious and said, "Even the worst suite at Tianxiang Hotel costs at least two or three thousand. Do you have that kind of money?"

Xiao Chu Ran was also upset and said, "I told you already, I'm going to compete for the position of director general, and two or three thousand won't even be a drop in the bucket. Besides, it's not your money."

Ma Lan's face turned red with anger and she blurted out, "Two thousand could get me a facial and body treatment at the spa several times! You're using this money to invite people to dinner?"

Xiao Chu Ran shot back, "You spend one or two thousand on beauty treatments for a month, I'm not bothering you about that! We have over two hundred thousand at home, you spend your own, I'll spend mine. If you don't give me the money, I won't ask where you got it."

Ma Lan was taken aback by Xiao Chu Ran's words.

Indeed, the two hundred thousand or so is all in my hands, but now it has already been donated to the Hope Project! JrNovels.com