CHAPTER 362: CHAPTER 78: MOM’S HAPPINESS, REN YAN: MY SON IS ALREADY SO OUTSTANDING?

The morning classes continued.

Xu Lin received a message from Ms. Ren during class and opened it casually.

His mom asked him, "Is this person you?"

Attached was a screenshot.

Upon looking, it turned out to be a screenshot of his novel.

Xu Lin: "It’s me!"

Ms. Ren: "Is it really you?"

Xu Lin: "It’s me!"

Ms. Ren: "Then why did you write me as the antagonist?"

Xu Lin: "Did I?"

Ms. Ren: "You say you didn’t? I ended up being a vicious mom in your novel! I want to knock your head!"

One of Ms. Ren’s greatest hobbies in life is bragging about her son to others.

In the past, during middle and high school, Xu Lin didn’t perform well academically. Ms. Ren was embarrassed to talk about his grades, but Xu Lin was tall, handsome, and masculine, and was good at basketball, so his mom bragged about that.

The Xu Family is all high in looks. People around Ren Yan have basically met Xu Lin’s dad. Although the two have been divorced for many years, their relationship is good, they haven’t remarried, and occasionally Xu still comes to see her.

People’s impression of Xu is a tall, handsome middle-aged man with a bit of a beard.

With genes like those, naturally their son’s looks wouldn’t be bad either.

Ren Yan would show people around her, "This is my son, isn’t he handsome?"

Upon seeing the photo, many wanted to introduce Xu Lin to girlfriends.

After all, in the photo, Xu Lin is really handsome, exuding that youthful, fresh, and masculine vibe.

Even women in their forties couldn’t resist, feeling that just looking at the photo could make them feel younger.

After Xu Lin went to university, because it’s a top-tier university and he was a representative of the freshmen, Ren Yan gained another avenue to show off her son.

Later, when people talked about their kids, Ren Yan would say Xu Lin is studying at Jiangdu University of Finance and Economics, and currently performing well, but Ren Yan didn’t mention that Xu Lin had already started making money during the summer break.

Until last night, Ren Yan was dining with two colleagues from the law firm and a group of people from a certain public service system in the city.

A section chief mentioned that his son is a senior in high school this year, and has a chance to be in the top ten provincially, and everyone said that’s impressive. Although it’s a possibility, his son has already made it into the top twenty in the province, right? That’s a top university prospect nationwide, so almost everyone there genuinely envied him. After all, with this kind of university background, getting into the system later on, promotions would be much smoother than for most common people.

Ren Yan was unmoved, thinking her son wasn’t bad either.

Then a civil servant said her son, who’s just a college freshman, is starting a business at university, following someone in a project, and recently made tens of thousands.

The people there weren’t doing badly, in a city’s employment system, civil servants are absolutely considered well-off, and they were in the provincial capital city, so earning tens of thousands from entrepreneurship isn’t a big deal, and besides, it’s not stable.

The civil servant said, "Actually, I hope my son enters the system after graduation, not asking for riches, but stability is good too. Now that he’s entrepreneuring, I feel it’s unstable, tiring, and he’s been staying up late a lot, making this mom worry. His dad thinks since he’s just a freshman, it’s fine to venture out, so we’ve discussed it and feel respecting our child’s personal development is more important."

This civil servant has always been at odds with Ren Yan. Back then when Ren Yan was in the system, it was well-known that the system’s circle is small, pretty much all units would occasionally connect.

In short, the two women clashed, especially since their sons were born in the same year, so there’s always been something to compare.

After bragging about her son, she looked at Ren Yan: "Yan, how about your son? Heard he’s at Jiangdu University of Finance and Economics? I remember your son’s grades weren’t ideal? Has he suddenly improved? Made it to a top university?"

Ren Yan thought, if you want to belittle me, I’ll show you!

"It’s not so much sudden improvement; he enjoyed himself for six years in middle and high school. His college entrance exam score just reached the threshold, but he then lucked into Jiangdu University of Finance and Economics. I didn’t expect my son to be so lucky!"

"Luck brought him to Jiangdu University of Finance and Economics, a top university. Can he keep up?"

The civil servant continued her attack.

Ren Yan added, "He was even a freshman representative at the beginning. Wasn’t he the one who acted bravely? You can still find the news now; of course, that’s past and not important. My son is now in university, managing to keep up with his studies, and most importantly, he’s been making money recently, quite a lot actually!"

"How much?"

The opponent inquired, thinking could your son be better than mine?

"He’s been writing novels lately. You’re forty-one, not sure if you’ve heard of online novels? My son writes online novels, and he’s now a staple of the site, the one that makes a lot of money. He told me a few days ago, last month’s royalties were over eight million, just the tax was a million, and he got over seven million!"

Ren Yan didn’t forget to comment on the other’s age, saying she might not know about online novels because of her age.

"Getting over seven million? Paying over a million in taxes?"

Even though provincial system salaries and benefits are good, among them were three leaders who had some power.

But, getting over seven million, that’s a month’s royalties.

People were unsettled.

After all, as long as they don’t commit corruption or bribery, this kind of money has nothing to do with them.

"Yan, isn’t that an exaggeration?"

The civil servant couldn’t help but pursue further, also because Ren Yan commented on her age—what woman can stand being called old?