HDRDTH -Chapter 2 That Ridiculously Powerful Aura… Was Just So He Could Sleep Peacefully?

“Yu Xian! Can you act like a man for once?!”

Su Wanyi’s eyes were red, her voice sharp like a saw as she desperately grabbed Yu Xian, who was trying to return to his room and resume lying around like a corpse.

“That’s 680 yuan! The rice jar at home is already empty! What are you going to use to pay it? Those empty liquor bottles piled in the corner?!”

Yu Xian’s head throbbed painfully.

Rubbing his temples, his eyelids drooping halfway shut, he looked utterly exhausted, practically begging to be left alone.

“That person… Su…” He paused awkwardly, apparently too lazy to even remember his bargain wife’s name. “If you keep yelling, I really won’t be able to get up tomorrow.”

After saying that, he dragged his badly worn plastic slippers and turned to leave.

“Stop right there!”

Su Wanyi cried out in despair, her nails nearly digging into his sleeve.

“You promised XiXi you’d go to the parent meeting! If we can’t pay the money, XiXi will be forced to stand in the hallway during class! I’m begging you… even if you have to steal…”

“Let go.”

Yu Xian sighed and glanced at the wrinkles she’d made in his sleeve.

“If the clothes get torn, I’ll have to buy new ones. Waste of money.”

While Su Wanyi was momentarily stunned, he slipped into the moldy storage room.

Three seconds later—

Clang!

A chipped metal cookie tin traced an arc through the air before slamming heavily onto the folding table.

“Take it.” Yu Xian yawned and collapsed back onto the sofa without looking back, pulling a newspaper over his face. “It’s not locked.”

With trembling hands, Su Wanyi opened the tin.

A stale smell of old banknotes mixed with sweat rushed out.

Inside was a stack of money.

Hundred-yuan bills.

Fifty-yuan bills.

Mostly crumpled tens and fives.

There was even a pile of coins.

Every single bill had been carefully smoothed flat, corner aligned with corner, edge aligned with edge.

Su Wanyi counted it once.

1,230 yuan and 50 cents.

In this slum where even buying cheap liquor required credit, it was a huge fortune.

Su Wanyi suddenly raised her head, her voice shaking.

“Where did you get this money? Did you do something illegal?!”

“Do I look like I have the energy for that?”

A muffled voice came from beneath the newspaper.

“What was left from being an extra actor… and selling recyclables.”

Selling recyclables.

Those three words hit Su Wanyi’s heart like a hammer.

So this man who spent all day drunk and half-dead… had also been supporting the family in the humblest way possible?

“Originally wanted to buy a carbon fishing rod with it. Now… tch.”

Yu Xian rolled over, sounding annoyed.

“Don’t overthink it. I’m lending this to you. Once you make money, pay me back with interest so I can buy my fishing rod. Alright, shut up. I’m sleeping.”

Su Wanyi bit her lip as tears silently fell onto the money.

No matter whether he did it for a fishing rod or something else, this money had saved Su Xi.

“Wake me up at seven tomorrow morning,” Yu Xian’s voice grew softer and softer. “If I’m late, the teacher will start preaching again. Annoying.”

…

The next morning, seven o’clock.

Yu Xian finished his porridge in two gulps, stood up, and wiped his mouth.

“Let’s go.”

“Huh?”

Su Wanyi looked him up and down, her entire expression turning terrible.

“You’re wearing that?”

A gray oversized T-shirt.

Faded jeans washed nearly white.

And a pair of worn-out Warrior sneakers with flattened heels.

Everything he wore combined probably cost less than fifty yuan.

This was Yucai Elementary School!

The richest parents in all of Jiangcheng sent their children here. Dressed like this, wasn’t he basically offering his face up to be slapped?

“Problem?”

Yu Xian raised an eyebrow, looking completely justified.

“I’m going to a meeting, not a beauty pageant. As long as it’s clean, it’s fine.”

With that, he stuffed his hands into his pockets and swaggered out.

Even though he dressed like a construction worker, the careless confidence he carried somehow made him seem like a billionaire.

An hour later, outside Yucai Experimental Elementary School.

Luxury cars packed the entrance, horns blaring nonstop.

Yu Xian and the others squeezed off a crowded bus, immediately attracting several disdainful looks.

Su Xi shrank back and tightly grabbed her mother’s clothes.

“There sure are a lot of nouveau riche idiots these days.”

Standing at the school gate, Yu Xian squinted at the endless traffic jam and clicked his tongue in disgust.

“The road’s completely blocked. Even the bus is faster.”

“Big words coming from you, huh?”

The window of a brand-new Mercedes-Benz S320 rolled down beside them, revealing a fat man with a fleshy face. The gold watch on his wrist gleamed in the sunlight.

The rich boss looked Yu Xian up and down with contempt, practically spitting as he spoke:

“You don’t like traffic? Then fly in! Poor trash like you deserves to come to Yucai? Where the hell is security?!”

Su Wanyi’s face turned pale as she hurriedly prepared to apologize and smooth things over.

But Yu Xian didn’t even lift his eyelids.

He ignored the fat man entirely and turned toward Su Xi, speaking earnestly.

“XiXi, remember this. In the future, don’t date men who drive cars like this.”

“Why?” Su Xi asked instinctively.

Yu Xian pointed lazily at the shiny Mercedes and yawned.

“This car accelerates sluggishly, burns too much fuel, and the suspension’s softer than cotton. Other than showing off, it’s useless.”

“The hell do you know?!”

The fat boss laughed angrily and pointed at the Mercedes emblem.

“This car costs over a million yuan! Imported from Germany!”

Yu Xian ignored him completely.

His gaze swept calmly over the man’s swollen eye bags, weak posture, and finally settled on the slightly trembling fingers of his hand.

“Most importantly…”

Yu Xian curled his lips into a meaningful smile.

“People who like driving soft-suspension cars usually have weak backs.”

“In general, their kidneys aren’t very good either.”

Dead silence.

The entire school entrance instantly became quiet.

Su Xi’s eyes widened, while Su Wanyi covered her mouth in shock.

The surrounding parents who had been enjoying the show all turned their gazes toward the fat boss’s lower back, their expressions becoming extremely strange.

The fat boss froze for two seconds before his face turned the color of pig liver. His finger pointed at Yu Xian while trembling like a Parkinson’s patient.

“Y-you… you’re full of shit! My car…”

“Not only weak kidneys. Excess liver fire too.”

Yu Xian interrupted lazily, his tone calm as though delivering a terminal diagnosis.

“Recommend drinking less alcohol and more wolfberry tea. Otherwise… heh.”

That soft chuckle wasn’t very harmful—

But it was deeply insulting.

After saying that, Yu Xian stuffed his hands into his pockets and walked straight through the stiff crowd into the school.

Leaving the fat boss standing there, his face alternating between green and white. He wanted to curse back, but suddenly felt soreness in his lower back and subconsciously reached down to support it.

The moment he did, the surrounding whispers grew even louder.

“Holy crap, who is this guy? He’s insane!”

“Dressed like a bum, but he instantly spotted President Wang’s kidney deficiency? He’s a miracle doctor!”

“Look at his aura… totally fearless in front of President Wang. He’s definitely not ordinary. Maybe some hidden big shot traveling incognito!”

Following behind, Su Wanyi stared at Yu Xian’s lazy back as stormy waves erupted in her heart.

That certainty in his tone earlier.

That gaze that treated a million-yuan luxury car like scrap metal…

You couldn’t fake that!

He genuinely looked down on that car!

Even the top-tier Mercedes of this era—the legendary “Tiger Head Benz”—meant nothing to him…

Yu Xian, just how wealthy had you once been?!

Meanwhile, Yu Xian himself only had one thought in mind:

So noisy.

That damn fat guy’s stupid car had blocked the school entrance and forced him to walk an extra fifty meters.

What a nuisance.

Finish the meeting quickly and get home for more sleep.

He was exhausted.