Old Xu actually did send Xu Ye a red packet — two hundred yuan.

Once Xu Ye had it, he turned around and sent one back for two thousand. He had been going to add "go easy on it," but he smiled and changed that line to: "Don't let Mom find out."

Old Xu opened the packet at once, withdrew the money to his bank card, replied with an OK emoji, and cleared the chat history.

In excellent spirits, Old Xu started humming to himself without a care in the world, and even went off to the kitchen of his own accord to wash the dishes.

Seeing this, Zhang Hong assumed Xu Ye had sent Old Xu something nice, and she reached out and smacked him on the back, laughing as she scolded him. "Look at the state of you~"

Old Xu didn't even turn his head. He kept wiggling his backside and singing: "You're my little, little apple, no matter how much I love you, it's never too much~"

...

With Tang Bowen on board, the contract for the Journey to the West project was quickly nailed down.

The film's release was finally set for the tenth of July. By Lü Cheng's estimate, as long as it took more than a hundred and fifty million at the box office, the company's first investment would turn a profit.

Two days later the curtain went up on the second-semester finals for the first year. Xu Ye picked up one pen and was ready to head for the exam hall. Seeing that he hadn't prepared anything at all, Yang Fei stared and asked, "You're going to the exam hall with one pen?"

"What else should I take?"

Besides several pens, Yang Fei had prepared an exam board and a set of notes on the key points copied from Li Tongwen.

Xu Ye laughed. "The worse the student, the more stationery. However much you bring, you still won't do better than me."

"You damn—!"

Zhang Xinzhou pulled his drawer open, took out a Pilot gel pen and handed it to Xu Ye. "Take…