Chapter 84 - If it was still painful
Edited by Noks
“You mean they haven’t sent you the contract yet?”
In his office, Yu Minyang was wearing a suit and squinting at the Weibo on the cellphone. “What kind of habits do people have nowadays? What legal effect is there if they don’t go through the proper procedures and just post everything on the Internet?”
Yu Yan took a sip of tea and nodded. “…they didn’t send it.”
Yu Minyang asked, “Have you been contacted in private?”
Yu Yan replied, “No.”
Although Yu Minyang’s law firm was small, it did have several promising lawyers. Currently, some of them were sitting at their desks outside, often glancing into the office. The office blinds weren’t closed, so everything happening in the office could be seen through the glass.
“Is this really Yang Ge’s nephew? Biological nephew? So handsome, they don’t look alike at all.”
“Who says, you haven’t seen Yang Ge when he was young ba. You can see him in the picture hanging there of the honorary graduates of our school, and he’s pretty handsome.”
“That’s still a little bit different from this nephew of his. The way he’s wearing that white T-shirt, if it weren’t for my age…”
“Hey, wake up. Your husband is still waiting for you at home.”
Yu Yan didn’t know that he was being talked about. He pursed his lips and asked, “Uncle, in this situation, do I count as being guilty of breach of contract?”
“No!” Yu Minyang said directly, “When you signed, you weren’t even 15 yet ba? I remember you just went to play in the junior year of middle school… went to play professionally?”
Yu Yan let out an “en” and said, “Yes.”
Yu Minyang said, “Then you can rest assured, we have a fair chance of winning this lawsuit. Although Uncle’s company isn’t very large, we still have some talented people here. We have a lawyer who just recently won a case involving a breach of contract. He was hired to represent the platform and won quite magnificently. He’s been in M city for business these few days, but he’ll be back tomorrow. You come back tomorrow, and I’ll take you to have dinner with him. You two can talk it through.”
“Okay.” Yu Yan said, “Thank you, Uncle, then I’ll come back tomorrow.”
Yu Minyang nodded, and then switched gears to become a concerned family member again. “This matter didn’t scare you ba?”
Yu Yan shook his head and replied, “No, I was just a bit surprised.”
“This company is really shameful. Setting aside the fact that they hadn’t paid you any salary, they then dared to come out and steal money now…” After speaking this far, Yu Minyang realised that he seemed to have stepped on a big mine, and so closed his mouth tightly before he instinctively defended, “I mean…”
“Yeah.” Yu Yan pulled out a smile. “…That’s why it was unexpected.”
Before Yu Minyang could say anything more, he stood up and said, “Uncle, then I won’t disturb your work here any longer. I’ll come back tomorrow, and let me treat you to that meal.”
Yu Minyang frowned, and a trace of sadness flashed through his expression.
After a long time, he nodded. “Okay. Then see you tomorrow.”
The uncle and nephew pair walked out of the office and passed by the desks of the other staff members. Yu Yan politely nodded at them and counted the number of people present, thinking that he would bring them some milk tea or coffee tomorrow.
After being sent to the door, Yu Yan said, “Then Uncle, I’ll head back first.”
“En.” Yu Minyang had been holding back all the way until here, but he couldn’t help raising his hand and patting Yu Yan on his shoulder when he was about to exit the office. “Xiao Yan, you can’t be blamed for the matter of the medical expenses. Definitely don’t overthink it, understood? Back then, your parents were already…”
“I know,” Yu Yan interrupted him, and finally couldn’t continue to keep the smile on his face anymore, and his voice also dropped several registers lower as he said, “Then I’ll go. Uncle, goodbye.”
After getting into a taxi, Yu Yan let out a breath and looked at his cellphone. It was already half past ten.
Today, for some unknown reason, there were still traffic jams on the streets even at this time. After nearly 10 minutes of being stuck at one such congested intersection, Yu Yan decided to make a post first to ask his stream followers for a vacation.
Yet as a result, as soon as he entered Weibo, his eyes were drawn to the 999+ unread messages present in his account.
Usually, he received a lot of private messages, but he cleaned them up once every two days, and the ones he had left unread definitely numbered less than 999 last night. Yu Yan rolled down the car window as he clicked on it in confusion. He then saw the Weibo post that had @him the most in these past few hours&#k2014;&#k2014;
[It’s New Year’s Day for 1YanTang Girls: These past few days have been like I’ve been watching a big movie, the kind that can score 9.9 points on Douban. That bas*ard company announced that it would sue my son for breaking his contract, and replied to the questions asked by antis with various comments. Then those antis once again conducted a bloody massacre by posting all kinds of super long threads about my son.
To be honest, Jies/Meis, at that time, I had already made mental preparations to pack up and go wherever my son went, I was very sad.
Unexpectedly, early in the morning… The officials suddenly gave me fluff and almost choked me to death.
There’s nothing to say.
Boss 1 is awesome, and Xiao Yan is also awesome.
I will always love 1YanTang.
Mama, I ran into a real one this time. [picture]]
The picture contained the Weibo posts Yi Chen had published, in which he had @Zhou Mi Entertainment nonstop.
Yu Yan’s eyes went wide, and opened his own list of followers in disbelief.
Sure enough, the id ‘Yanyan’s Daddy’ was gone. Instead, there was a big yellow V next to the name Yi Chen on the account, and it now had tens of thousands of followers.
He clicked into the other party’s Weibo, and the top post there was still the remarkable @person message, while the comments underneath it had broken through ten thousand in number.
[Although I don’t watch livestreams or understand any contracts, but this face-slapping is too cool ba 23333]
[What about Zhou Mi’s Entertainment’s official Weibo? Keep replying ya, weren’t you being very hard-headed before? You’re not about to keep us fans waiting? We’re waiting.]
[yanxyan’s backdoor is too wide open ba, so blatant and brazen? I’m really worried about other StarTV anchors.]
After confirming that the picture attached to the Weibo post was real, Yu Yan had no intention of reading it again. He opened up WeChat with the aim of sending Yi Chen a message. Yet in the end, as soon as he opened the app, he saw that there was a small 1 in his friend’s list.
[Ruoruo has applied to be your friend with an additional message: Yanyan, I’m Liu Ruoruo.]
Another familiar name.
Recently, all of his old acquaintances seemed to be acting as though they had all made appointments, and were coming up to him one by one.
This person had been the life assistant of Yu Yan’s team before. Their relationship could count as okay, but she had never contacted him after he had left the team.
He hesitated for a moment before clicking accept.
It was as though the other party was waiting and watching in front of her cellphone. As soon as the friend request was accepted, she immediately sent a message.
Ruoruo: Xiao Yan, do you still remember me? I’m the person who helped you make noodles every day.
Yu Yan: I remember.
Ruoruo: You’re okay ba? I saw Zhou Mi Entertainment’s post. They are really too shameless! StarTV’s people have already contacted me, don’t worry, I will definitely testify for you when the time comes! We must make Feng Xiong give us back the salary he owes us!
Ruoruo: Even though it’s not much, having him owe us will always make you feel bad inside! What’s more, you were in such a difficult situation back then, he really can’t be called human.
The platform had contacted her? Contacted her for what?
Yu Yan didn’t understand, but he didn’t ask for more details. He hesitated and instead replied with a smiley face.
Ruoruo: I’m relieved to see that you are living so well… I couldn’t even believe it when I saw you some time ago.
Yu Yan: Saw me?
Ruoruo: Yes ah… Right now I’m working as an assistant for the CN7 team, and so I also went to StarTV’s annual gala. Speaking of this, we almost became colleagues again.
Ruoruo: I originally wanted to say hello to you, but I was temporarily called away by President Yi. Next time we get the chance, let’s have a good chat.
Yu Yan froze, catching the main point from her messages—
Yu Yan: President Yi?
Ruoruo: Yes, he values you very much. He even called me over to the lounge specifically to ask about you.
Yu Yan hadn’t expected that the woman who went to the lounge with Yi Chen actually turned out to be Liu Ruoruo.
He held his cellphone, and was lost on what to say for a while.
Before he could ask anything else, the other party took the lead in throwing the following words out—
Ruoruo: When he asked me about the team, I thought he was very interested in matters regarding the staff so I told him all about it.
Ruoruo: I was still worried after that conversation about whether I had been too talkative…. I didn’t expect that President Yi would really put himself out there for us!
Ruoruo: This matter is absolutely Feng Xiong’s and his company’s fault! Now that even President Yi has made a move, that company is absolutely done for!
Yu Yan looked at the many emoticons that the other side sent after this message in a dazed manner, and didn’t snap out of it for awhile.
Ruoruo: Yanyan? Did you go start livestreaming?
Yu Yan: No. There’s some other stuff here on my side that I have to finish, let’s talk next time ba.
After saying this, Yu Yan exited the chat box and looked out of the window subconsciously, a little distracted.
Yi Chen already knew? How much did he know? All of it?
His reaction after he found out was…
Yu Yan recalled the day of the gala——
Yi Chen had confessed to him.
A faint inkling of an uneasy thought appeared in his mind.
At that time, he had felt that that kiss had come as a surprise, falling upon him without any warning.
When the taxi suddenly slammed on the brakes, he returned to his senses.
“At last we’ve arrived.” The driver was tired from driving. “This shabby road is too jammed.”
Yu Yan snapped out of it and scanned the QR code in front of him to pay. Without saying a word, he left the taxi in a hurry.
When he got home, he sat in his gaming chair and turned on the computer, thinking all the while.
His cellphone was in front of him. He had originally wanted to ask Yi Chen about the matter with Weibo, but now suddenly, he didn’t want to ask.
He was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to keep himself from asking him about his doubts.
Before the livestream, he specifically went to greet the stream moderator. Today’s livestream was doomed to not be peaceful, so he let the stream moderator know that they had to get ready to ban people.
He had thought it all out before. If he could bear it, he would bear it. If he couldn’t bear it, then he would just ban them.
Who knew that as soon as he entered his livestream, he would find the barrage singing a completely different tune——
[After reading your story, I feel very sad. It’s not easy for anyone to live in the world. Smashing a little star at you, keep fighting!]
[Son… Do you want to kill me through heartache?? QAQ I really want to rush through the screen and hug you!!]
[All bad people will be punished!!]
Yu Yan had no idea what was going on. He asked as he started the game, “…What are all of you talking about?”
[Everyone knows about your situation, don’t worry! We will all help you! Will never let unscrupulous enterprises succeed.]
Yu Yan frowned. As soon as he was about to continue asking, a message from Lu Xiuhe arrived.
Your Great Lord Lu: WTF! Xiao Yan!! I don’t know which idiot put up your entire situation online…WTF! [webpage link]
It was another Weibo post link.
Currently, Yu Yan could feel a headache starting to build up whenever he saw the Weibo app icon.
In the era of nationwide Internet, information was updated too fast. During the time that he had been chatting with Liu Ruoruo, another Weibo post had been released.
It was a marketing account who had posted this, and they had even paid for promotion, so this post soon became popular——
[Livestream Express: (anonymously contributed) I have been observing yanxyan’s situation for two days now, and I finally can’t stand to just watch anymore. I have to come out to avenge Xiao Yan! Xiao Yan did play professionally before. The team was called Beast, and I believe that that generation of old Manyang players who remember a little should recognize it, because the team won many prizes in Manyang at that time.
Xiao Yan seemed to be less than 15 years old when he was playing professionally at that time. He worked very hard, always being the last one at night to stop training. He often got the MVP title in the game. If this happened in the present, he would probably be more popular than any big professional player. So why did he quit??
It’s very simple—because the senior managers wouldn’t pay. Xiao Yan had been playing for a whole year, and the salary he received was even less than four figures. If it was you, would you want to leave or not?
However, Xiao Yan really hadn’t planned to leave in the beginning. He just stuck to the living expenses being given and kept playing for the team. Until one time, when something happened to his family. It seemed that someone in his family was in the hospital, and during that time, he urgently needed money. He went to our management, Feng Something, to ask for his salary, and finally got only several hundred yuan.
That’s right, just a few hundred yuan. The little boy’s eyes were as red as blood at that time, looking extremely pitiful. I couldn’t bear it, and I went back to get my own living expenses to give to him to use, but by the time I returned, he had already left.
This matter left a deep impression in my heart, and I have never forgotten it.
Later, I heard from his classmates that he had dropped out of school and his family… didn’t make it. I thought this was the end, a tragedy.
Yet in the end, several years later, this team unexpectedly jumped out and said they would sue him for breach of contract???
Feng Something, I’m going to ask you, do you feel ashamed or not? And those who don’t know the truth and are still trying to blacken him, does your conscience really not hurt???]
Yu Yan looked at the long Weibo post, and then at the comment section that was full of heartbroken words. His head was blank, and he didn’t know what to say for a long while.
This whole thing was like a bloody mouth. After going through all the trouble of letting the wound form a scab, someone flipped it open in a recent month and year, vigorously breaking it open again, and then sprinkled some painkillers on it, after which they had the nerve to ask if it was still painful.
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Juurensha: Yanyannnnn, don’t think that Boss Yi is dating you out of pity! No one would pity-date someone so long or so devotedly! And if it was 66 who made the post, shame on him, he should have let Yanyan handle the situation the way he wanted to.
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