This time, Ye Lu’s jaw dropped to the floor, even more unbelievable than hearing about a million.

"A hundred bucks? Are you serious?"

Ying nodded earnestly: "Hmm, holding onto the money, I don’t even know what to do with it, if you insist on giving, then just give a little."

"Don’t you have any places you want to go, anything you want to buy, anything you want to do?"

"No." He felt his mind was empty, lacking any persisting desires; he wasn’t that concerned about money.

Anyway, no matter how much he was given, he felt nothing.

On the contrary, it’s not that she needed him now, but he needed her—to have someone to dominate him, command him to do things, only then would he feel stable and at ease.

"..." Ye Lu simply couldn’t understand this person, feeling that he really was quite dull.

Not dull in intelligence, but in the sense of having no desire for life, no thoughts of his own, almost like an outsider, living on the fringe of society.

"Alright, let’s eat first, afterward I’ll find someone to train you."

Heading to the dining room, ready to eat.

Yet Ye Lu noticed that Ying was standing behind her, motionless.

"Aren’t you going to eat?"

Ying looked at her blankly: "I... eat with you? But you are the master, and I am the guardian. When you eat, I should stand guard behind you." 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Ye Lu was flabbergasted, was he serious? Master and guardian? This isn’t the ancient times with such a clear class distinction.

"What master? I’m not your master, I’m just your employer. Did you travel from ancient times or something, harboring such an old-fashioned mindset? What are you standing there for, sit down!"

Hearing her commanding tone, Ying obediently sat down.

In fact, he himself didn’t know why he stood behind her, it was just an instinctual habit—he thought he must have done the same thing many times before.

Ye Lu looked at him with eyes full of puzzlement, thinking that this person really was a strange one, seemingly so accustomed to following orders, and with regards to those orders, his obedience was absolute, without any resistance.

Just like an obedient robot, he would never act out of line.

It seemed too eerie, how could such a person exist, like those loyal subordinates from ancient times, absolutely submissive without defying, completely devoid of their own will and thoughts.

She just didn’t understand, what kind of life he must have led in the past or what kind of twisted education he must have received to so deeply inculcate such an absolute sense of obedience, completely losing his self.

"Eat more, you’re so strong, why is your face always so pale, and you’re so skinny." Ye Lu looked at him with pity, sighing silently in her heart, and put a chicken leg into his bowl.

Ying stared at the chicken leg in his bowl, utterly dazed, glanced up at her, then silently ate the chicken leg, leaving it bone clean, without a trace of meat.

Ye Lu looked at him with an even more pitiful gaze, this person must have had a hard past.

To lick a chicken leg so clean, he must have been a child from a poor family, scarcely having had a bite of meat.

...

Recently, Yiren has been busying herself amongst the upper echelon of society, inviting various political and business celebrities to attend the Hua family’s banquet.

She was determined to have everyone at the banquet acknowledge her as the most legitimate existence of the Hua family, naturally exerting her full effort, without minding anything else.

Just as she was studying the Hua family’s materials in the villa, the head of security hurried in and whispered something in her ear, and Yiren’s expression suddenly changed.