OVTTGTBE Chapter 51

Making a Living

Making a Living

“Heh, I knew you looked down on me.”

Bai Yao turned his face away, gritting his teeth and forcing himself to say, “I can earn my own money, who cares about spending yours.”

He felt like his heart was bleeding. Liu Yucheng clearly meant well, yet he was using these kinds of words to push him away.

But if he didn’t act tough and provoke Liu Yucheng at this moment, he was afraid Liu Yucheng would really shove that card into his hand. No matter what, he couldn’t accept that card.

Liu Yucheng wasn’t angry, he just quietly asked him, “Then what kind of job are you planning to find? The milk tea shop across the street from the school should be hiring right now.”

“No rush.”

Bai Yao said, “I’ll go back to my house first today and move all my things to the dorm.”

If possible, he wanted to see if he could rent out that house, but he figured that if he could think of it, his mom could too, and would most likely send someone to stop him.

But he still had to try.

After the afternoon lab class, Liu Yucheng accompanied Bai Yao back to the previous house, packed up his daily necessities, books, computer, and some clothes and brought them back to the dorm.

Bai Yao also conveniently grabbed the guitar that had been collecting dust in the house. This was something he had instructed the two bodyguards to bring from home.

“You can play this.”

Liu Yucheng praised softly, “Amazing.”

“I even have a certificate,” Bai Yao said confidently.

In the past, he always thought that getting this kind of certificate was useless because it didn’t give you any extra points for school admissions.

But now, this certificate might not be his bread and butter, but it should be fine as an extra pair of chopsticks.

The next afternoon, Bai Yao calculated that the elementary school nearby would be letting out soon, and he went out alone with his guitar on his back.

The weather outside was very hot and sunny. Before he even left the university gate, Bai Yao was covered in sweat.

But as long as he thought that he might be able to find a suitable part-time job today, Bai Yao mustered his strength and quickened his pace towards the elementary school.

When he arrived, Bai Yao became a little overwhelmed.

There were many parents gathered at the school gate, but there were also many people maintaining order.

He saw that several young people handing out flyers across the street had already been chased away. For a moment, he was a little afraid to go up and ask the parents if they needed to sign their children up for a 1-on-1 art extracurricular class…

“You snuck away from me and Li Jinyang to come here, are you here to pick up a child?”

A familiar voice sounded behind him.

Bai Yao turned around and said in surprise, “You’re following me??”

“Actually, it’s not the first time.”

Liu Yucheng glanced at the guitar on his back and said calmly, “I was a little worried, so I followed you to take a look.”

“Heh, thanks for your honesty.”

With him following, Bai Yao was even more embarrassed to “solicit customers.” It wasn’t because he was shy, but because this was different from performing and singing normally.

If he wasn’t careful, he might be kicked off this street along with his guitar.

“I haven’t heard you play before.”

Liu Yucheng pointed to a slightly less crowded spot not far away and said, “Let’s go over there, no one will chase us away. Can you play a song, “XXXX,” for me?”

Since he was just standing around anyway, Bai Yao agreed. He just didn’t know why Liu Yucheng wanted him to play this song. Could it be that Liu Yucheng’s abs were developed by dancing square dance with those aunties? Haha, how could that be…

“Damn, this is a bit like street performing.”

Bai Yao sighed, “I should have brought a bowl out, put it next to me, and put up a sign.”

Liu Yucheng silently glanced at the designer shoes on his feet—he really had the nerve to come out and perform on the street wearing such expensive shoes.

“Bai Yao, you have to remember, you should never attract the kids.”

Liu Yucheng leaned close to his ear and said in a low voice, “The parents who come to pick up their children are your target. You must first attract their attention, and then attract the children’s attention.”

“I think I understand a little.”

Bai Yao looked at him with shining eyes, “Come to think of it, I didn’t want to learn guitar when I was a kid… My mom forced me to learn it.”

“Yes. It’s still like this now,” Liu Yucheng said.

“Does the dragon slayer eventually become a dragon… Then I don’t want to do it.”

Bai Yao reluctantly picked up the guitar and strummed it casually, “I’d rather go live stream, I bought the stand and brought it with me, can you help me set it up?”

Liu Yucheng was already stunned and licked his lips subconsciously, “You like this are indeed very amazing…”

Before he even started playing, several aunties around him started looking over here.

“Great, there are three people in the live stream room.”

Bai Yao operated his phone and said excitedly, “One is Tao Lin who is in class, one is… um, Zhang Yifang, and one is called a user with numbers, I don’t know who it is, but he gave me a reward!”

“Of course it’s me.”

Liu Yucheng gave him several gifts, “I’m your top fan.”

Bai Yao: “…”

Tch, excited for nothing.

“Now, play a song for your top fan, you have to sing while playing, I already requested a song, I’ve been waiting for a long time.”

Liu Yucheng looked at him with a light smile.

“Sing, then sing!”

Bai Yao played a few times and quickly found the feeling. A popular square dance song played on the guitar was sung by him with great emotion.

It must be said that the song Liu Yucheng requested… was very popular with the parents.

After one song, many parents had gathered around the two of them.

“Oh my, this young man is so handsome!”

“Sings so well, come again, don’t stop, come again!”

Bai Yao’s interest also gradually rose, pointing to Liu Yucheng, and said generously: “If you want to request a song, you can line up with him, I can do most of the popular songs on the market, we are not begging, just come to show some support!”

After speaking, Bai Yao played a theme song from a certain anime that is currently popular among children, which also attracted many children.

“Big brother, can you sing the X-Men theme song?”

“Brother, I want to listen to “XXX”!”

Until the first parent came over to ask if they were recruiting for extracurricular classes, Liu Yucheng stepped forward and introduced: “Teacher Bai is just a college student who wants to earn a living by his own efforts. He also knows that it is not easy for parents, so the fees are much cheaper than outside extracurricular classes. And he has a professional guitar certificate, and used to study with a famous guitar master in China…”

Liu Yucheng seemed like a different person, his sales pitch was endless.

Bai Yao couldn’t help but sigh in his heart—did this Liu Yucheng also do sales before?

He was too good at packaging, packaging to the point that Bai Yao almost didn’t recognize himself.

This afternoon, Bai Yao was responsible for playing and singing, and Liu Yucheng was responsible for introducing.

Both of them were almost hoarse, and they added a total of more than 30 parents’ friends on WeChat.

…

“President Bai, young master is recruiting students on the street.”

In the distance, Qianqian hid in the car, turned on her phone camera, and filmed a video of Bai Yao and Liu Yucheng on the street: “What should I do?”

“Heh, his wings are really hardened.”

Bai Junyi said directly: “Send someone over and tell him to stop immediately. Live streaming is okay, but recruiting students is unlicensed operation.”

“President Bai, you are a little too cruel, it is normal for college students to do part-time jobs outside.”

“I have something more cruel, do you want to hear it?”

“Uh, goodbye President Bai~”

…

In the evening, Bai Yao dragged his exhausted body and followed Liu Yucheng into a restaurant to solve the dinner problem, Bai Yao drank several glasses of water in a row.

“It’s really hard to earn money.”

Bai Yao glanced at his live stream income, “Excluding the gifts you gave me and the platform’s deduction, I only earned 30 cents.”

Liu Yucheng took out throat lozenges and handed them to him.

“You even carry this thing with you?” Bai Yao quickly put a piece in his mouth, “As expected of someone who has worked as a CV, you have experience.”

“What are you going to do next?”

Liu Yucheng said silently, “Generally, this kind of thing is rarely reported so quickly… I think there should be spies from Aunt Bai around us.”

“Needless to say.”

Although Bai Yao looked indifferent, his emotions had reached the extreme, “Being so ruthless is also in line with my mom’s style of doing things.”

“But, the more this is the case, the less I can bow my head to her.”

Bai Yao said firmly, “Even if we didn’t break up, I didn’t do anything wrong. I just fell in love with a man.”

“Bai Yao…”

Liu Yucheng presumptuously regarded this sentence as a confession and was touched to death.

He wanted to hold Bai Yao’s hand on the table, but Bai Yao dodged it.

“Don’t always think about grabbing me. My mom’s spies might be staring at us right now.”

Mentioning this, Bai Yao couldn’t help but push him away: “I haven’t seen you so active before, when I pulled your hand, you couldn’t wait to hide to the end of the world.”

“That’s because I didn’t know any better before.”

Liu Yucheng looked at him pitifully, “Even in Aunt Bai’s perspective, we have slept in the same bed. Can’t we even hold hands now?”

“Don’t, what if she misunderstands that we’re back together?”

Bai Yao suddenly had an idea and joked, “If she uses means again to introduce you to a few beautiful wives, will you follow her wishes or refuse?”

“Won’t happen.”

Liu Yucheng said silently, “If she really intends to do that, she will only introduce you to me. After all, you are the only son of the Bai family, and you will probably inherit the family business in the future.”

Bai Yao frowned and thought carefully for a while.

“Then if I really want to inherit the family business.”

Bai Yao asked him tentatively, “Are you planning to back down and watch me marry someone else and have children?”

Liu Yucheng did not answer.

When he first approached Bai Yao, he didn’t think so much at all, and he didn’t expect that the two would confirm their relationship so quickly.

He didn’t even know that Bai Yao was a rich young master at that time, he just felt that Bai Yao looked particularly conspicuous in the crowd.

“Why don’t you talk?”

Bai Yao’s face gradually turned livid, “Is that what you really think?”

“If that would make you feel happier…”

Liu Yucheng said softly, “Maybe…”

“Enough, don’t say it, I don’t want to listen anymore.”

Seeing Liu Yucheng’s hesitant attitude, Bai Yao’s heart was completely cold.

He wanted to tell him to get lost. But considering that Liu Yucheng had just paid, Bai Yao simply stood up, carried his guitar and left.