Son, “Mom” Will Back You

BUZZ!

The girl who was all over the table writing in deep concentration looked up.
Her hair cascaded down her slender shoulder and revealed her delicate and pretty face.
She looked over at her cellphone sitting at the corner of her desk.

There was a text message.

Gu Nian closed up her dark brown softcover notebook and, before she could even put it away properly into her drawer, a call came in after the text.

It was the rushing curse from Lin Nantian.

Gu Nian sighed, placed her notebook on the upper left-hand corner of her desk and answered the call.
Her voice was languid

“Hello?”

“Why aren’t you here yet?”

“I thought I still have,” Gu Nian turned her head and looked.
“Another half an hour.”

The person on the other side of the phone gritted her teeth.
“You are here for an arranged date.
Have you mistaken it for being on time for a class or something?”

“……” Gu Nian rested her face on her desk.
Her side profile curved listlessly.
“Okay.
I’ll be there soon.”

Gu Nian placed the greeting card that she had just completed carefully on top of the handwritten notebook before she casually pulled out a floral dress, put it on, and walked out of her bedroom.

Inside of the living room, Jiang Xiaoqing and Qin Yuanyuan, the two other girls on her screenwriting team were happily chatting with each other.

“Eh, heading out to your arranged date?” asked Jiang Xiaoqing as she looked up.

“Yeah, my package that needs to be sent out tonight…”

“I know.
I know.
The gifts for your precious son.
You mean those two large boxes, right?”

“And the greeting card and the notebook on the table.”

“Okay.
Okay.”

Gu Nian felt reassured and a slight sign of energy was finally injected into her eyes.
Her lips always curved a little bit upward.
Walking over to the foyer, she sat on the stool to put on her shoes.

She had just put one of her shoes on when she heard Jiang Xiaoqing’s voice, sounding like it was spoken through gritted teeth, came from the direction of the living room.
“Fine.
We’ll have Gu Nian be the judge!”

“?”

A few seconds later, the two women stood in front of her.
“Alright, Gu Nian.
If it was you, which one of the Luo’s two young masters would you vote for?”

Gu Nian, her shoe in one hand, was baffled.
“What Luo’s? What young masters?”

Dumbfounded, Jiang Xiaoqing turned around.
“How do you not know about the Luo’s? Have you been living in a cave in a mountain?”

Qin Yuanyuan reminded her softly, “That’s the one that I’ve mentioned to you a while ago.
The Luo’s in City K is the one I’d always use as my reference when I write about prestigious family in my screenplays.”

“Oh, I vaguely remember it then.” Gu Nian bent down nonchalantly and put on her other shoe.
“What about them?”

“Oh my gosh! You!”

Jiang Xiaoqing sat down next to Gu Nian’s stool and said, “We’ve always thought that the two brothers were fighting internally over which one of them is to succeed the family’s fortune.
Turned out that neither one of them wants to succeed the family’s fortune and that’s what they were fighting over!”

“And?”

Looking at Gu Nian’s what-does-that-have-to-do-with-me weary look, Jiang Xiaoqing wiped her face in defeat.
Resigned, she said, “Yuanyuan and I were arguing about which one of them would win out in the battle and we want you to be the judge.”

Gu Nian turned and looked at Qin Yuanyuan.

Qin Yuanyuan said, “I vote for second young master Luo.
He graduated from the elite class of K University and is the up and coming in the AI field.
That and he is handsome too!”

Jiang Xiaoqing looked very decisive.
“I vote for the mysterious first young master Luo.
Mystery always makes a man charming.”

“?”

Jiang Xiaoqing couldn’t maintain her straight face for over three seconds.
She rolled into Gu Nian’s arms.
“None of the media had ever captured an image of first young master Luo.
No way he’s an ordinary person being the oldest grandson of the Luo’s and whatnot.
The more mysterious a man is, the mightier he is.
That’s how it goes in all scripts!”

Qin Yuanyuan rebutted, “You read too many scripts.”

“Hrm! Even Old Mister Luo said he is reticent!”

“His exact words were: he’s distant, deep-minded, and wantless.
That’s not exactly a compliment.”

“I don’t care!”

Gu Nian did not let the two’s bickering bother her.
Finished putting on her shoes, she stood up and said casually, “If he was truly wantless, why didn’t he go and become a Taoist priest?”

“Eh? How did you know?”

Gu Nian turned around.

Jiang Xiaoqing looked like she was in distress.
“Words had it that first young master Luo didn’t care about materialistic goods or beautiful women and only want