From Wage Slave to Tycoon novel Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Son, Is This Car Really Yours?

Su Chen hummed a song, feeling quite pleased with himself. After all, he had just flexed a little in front of his old classmate, and that feeling, he had to admit... was damn satisfying!

He was finally starting to understand why the protagonists in novels, once they got rich, loved to go around showing off and putting people in their place.

After driving for four or five minutes, Su Chen remembered something. His parents had apparently bought an apartment in Fuzhou a couple of years ago, but he wasn’t sure if they had moved in yet.

Pulling the car over to the side of the road, Su Chen took out his phone and called his mom.

"A valiant eagle flies in the deep blue sky, I watch from a high ridge..."

Hearing the ringtone coming from his phone, the corner of Su Chen’s mouth twitched.

The phone rang for about seven or eight seconds before the call connected.

"Hello, son!" The voice of his mother, Chen Shufen, came from the other end, mixed with other sounds.

"Three of Characters! Pong! Five of Bamboos!"

"Five of Bamboos! I win!"

"Mom, are you playing mahjong again?!"

"Mhm, it’s the holidays, isn’t it? Just playing a little mahjong with a few neighbors in the complex. What’s up? If it’s nothing important, I’m hanging up!"

Su Chen was speechless. His mom worked as a bona fide chef in a university cafeteria. She didn’t have many other hobbies—she just loved to play mahjong.

It wasn’t that she was a gambler; she just purely loved the game. Perhaps it was a hobby etched into the very bones of people from the Sichuan-Chongqing region.

Su Chen didn’t beat around the bush and said directly, "I’m back in Fuzhou!"

"What? Son, you’re back?!" Chen Shufen’s voice shot up several octaves.

"Yeah, I’m on Binjiang Road right now. I was calling to ask where the apartment you guys bought is!"

"It’s right on Binjiang Road! Haiyi River View!"

"Haiyi River View?" Su Chen was stunned. ’Isn’t that complex right near the Jinke Hotel?’

He’d even driven right past it just now.

’So I drove right past my own home and didn’t even realize it!’

"Got it, Mom. I’ll be right there!" He hung up immediately after saying that.

On the other end of the line, Chen Shufen glanced at the disconnected call, then turned excitedly to her three mahjong buddies. "Let’s stop for now. My son is back!"

"Shufen, your precious son is finally willing to come home. Looks like he’s made some big money, huh!"

"We’re always hearing you talk about how... outstanding your son is. Why don’t we all go take a look in a bit!"

"Exactly! Your son is 24 this year, right? We should all go see him. We can even help you keep an eye out for a suitable daughter-in-law!"

They say middle-aged women love a bit of drama. The three of them had been listening to Chen Shufen boast about her son for so long their ears were about to fall off.

In private, the three of them had often complained about it.

’If Su Chen were really that outstanding, how could he have failed to even get into a university?’

Now that they finally had this opportunity, how could they possibly let it pass?

Chen Shufen’s expression soured. Their words might have sounded nice, but she knew they just wanted to see her make a fool of herself.

Who knew her family’s situation better than she did? At that moment, Chen Shufen wanted to slap herself. ’Why do I love boasting so much?’

But you couldn’t really blame Chen Shufen. After all, who wouldn’t want others to have a good impression of their child?

"What’s wrong, Shufen? Is it not a convenient time? If not, we can just forget it," one of them said with feigned regret.

Hearing this, Chen Shufen agreed without thinking.

"It’s convenient, of course it’s convenient! I’ll be counting on you aunts to introduce him to some potential girlfriends later!"

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