My crush wants to be my sugar daddy.

Chapter 168 That child's name is Chi Yuan

Jiang Haochen slept until noon the next day before waking up, his head throbbing as if it were about to split open from the hangover.

After resting for a while, Jiang Haochen regained some strength and got up to look for his phone.

On the sofa in the living room, Jiang Haochen found his coat and took out his phone. But there was no message on the phone that he longed to receive.

Chi Yuan didn't send him a message.

A hint of desolation flashed in Jiang Haochen's eyes, which quickly turned into a bitter smile. If Chi Yuan wanted to avoid him, why would he take the initiative to contact him?

But there are some things he still needs to ask.

Jiang Haochen looked at his haggard and worn-out face in the mirror and laughed self-deprecatingly: "Jiang Haochen, you're really ugly. You're not a young man in your early twenties anymore, how could you let yourself get like this?"

After washing up, Jiang Haochen went out of the bedroom, opened the refrigerator and took out the milk. Just as he was about to pour a glass to cool it down, he suddenly heard Chi Yuan's instructions.

"Mr. Jiang, if you have a hangover, don't drink ice water, it will upset your stomach. Let me heat up some milk for you."

Jiang Haochen slammed the milk back into the refrigerator, replaced it with a bottle of ice water, and gulped down half of it.

I'll just drink ice water, that's all.

Then, unsurprisingly, I started having stomach pains.

After all that commotion, Jiang Haochen didn't enter the company until 2 PM, his face ashen and clutching his stomach.

Assistant Chen, who had been waiting anxiously all morning, felt his heart sink when he saw his boss's attitude.

That's it.

Assistant Chen held the prepared documents in his hand, torn between sending them in immediately and sending them in a little later.

"Ring ring!"

The internal phone suddenly rang, startling Assistant Chen, who hurriedly answered, "President Jiang."

Jiang Haochen's somewhat weak voice came from the other end of the phone: "I have some urgent documents to deal with. Please prepare them for me in the next couple of days, and then book me a plane ticket... to the United States."

Assistant Chen: "Yes, I'll do it right away..."

Before I could finish speaking, the phone was hung up.

Assistant Chen: "..."

She's still angry, as expected.

In the office, Jiang Haochen was indeed angry, but not at Assistant Chen; he was angry at himself. Chi Yuan had already so clearly rejected him, but he still wanted to ask.

Jiang Haochen never imagined that he would one day offer his heart to someone to be trampled on, but he was unwilling to accept it. He couldn't get over this hurdle in his heart without asking them in person.

If he asks Chi Yuan in person and she still refuses him, then from now on, he and Chi Yuan will just have a normal boss-employee relationship.

But if Chi Yuan had even the slightest hesitation towards him, then he…

He wanted to try again.

About half an hour later, there was a knock on the office door, and Assistant Chen walked in carrying a pile of documents.

Although Jiang Haochen did not continue to vent his anger on Assistant Chen, his expression was somewhat cold.

Assistant Chen carefully placed a large stack of documents on the desk and began his report: "These are the documents that need to be signed today. This is the payment list for the final installment of 'Eternal Life,' which must be delivered to the finance department tomorrow morning. And here..."

After Assistant Chen finished explaining all the work-related matters, he pointed to the last stack of documents and said quietly, "This is... some information about Mr. Chi..."

Assistant Chen paused for a moment when his boss suddenly looked over, but he still forced himself to continue, "It's quite a coincidence, you even sponsored the middle school that Mr. Chi attended."

A flicker of surprise crossed Jiang Haochen's eyes: "I sponsored you?"

Seeing that his boss was indeed interested, Assistant Chen felt relieved and his tone became cheerful: "Yes, you sponsored school canteens in impoverished mountainous areas in your early years, and Shancheng No. 2 Middle School, where Mr. Chi studied, was one of them."

As he spoke, he handed the relevant documents to Jiang Haochen.

The first thing Jiang Haochen saw was a photograph, a group photo of students and several adults. He recognized one of them; it was his former manager, Xu Mo.

Jiang Haochen remembered the sponsorship; it was the first charity project he had ever done. He still remembers that the average meal cost per student at that school was only three hundred yuan per semester.

At that time, his career was just starting out and he was extremely busy, so he had his agent, Xu Mo, handle many things.

Is Chi Yuan studying at the school he sponsors?

Jiang Haochen's eyes searched for Chi Yuan's figure among the students in the group photo: "Which one is Chi Yuan?"

The students in these pictures don't look like the Chi Yuan we know now.

Assistant Chen wasn't surprised at all that his boss didn't recognize it, because he hadn't recognized it either: "This one."

Assistant Chen pointed to the smallest, shortest, darkest-skinned child in the photo, who looked like a primary school student.

Jiang Haochen asked incredulously, "This is Chi Yuan?"

Assistant Chen: "Please take another look at this photo."

Assistant Chen didn't offer any further explanation, but instead pulled out another photo from the documents and showed it to Jiang Haochen.

The photo shows a handsome young man holding a certificate for first prize in the city's physics competition. He is smiling brightly at the camera, and his two shallow dimples are so familiar.

Chi Yuan has changed a lot, but Jiang Haochen still saw a resemblance to him in the boy's eyes and brows.

Seeing that his boss was engrossed in reading, Assistant Chen continued, "Mr. Chi used to have excellent grades and even won first prize in the city's physics competition, so many teachers remember him. When I asked at the school, the principal remembered him and gave me this information."

"Mr. Chi is good-looking and academically excellent, so every time your team makes a follow-up visit, the principal uses Mr. Chi as a case study. It is said that Mr. Chi was less than 1.5 meters tall in the first year of junior high school, but by the time he graduated, he had grown to 1.75 meters, which is why he has changed so much."

Jiang Haochen stared at the boy in the photo, who looked completely different from someone else. His eyes widened slightly, and even his breathing became heavy.

Assistant Chen breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that President Jiang would be interested in this. It was worth calling back to the principal last night to ask for more detailed information.

Jiang Haochen stared at the photo for a while before continuing to flip through the documents below.

Assistant Chen hurriedly continued, "Mr. Chi's hometown is a village called Huangtu'ao. This village is surrounded by mountains and has no roads, so it is very poor. The children there have to walk for several hours every day to get to school."

The name Huangtu'ao sounds familiar.

Jiang Haochen frowned, trying to recall the events carefully.

Jiang Haochen continued flipping through the documents, his gaze sweeping over a line of text at the top, and his eyes immediately narrowed.

"Returning to the village after two years of disappearance? What do you mean?" Jiang Haochen asked Assistant Chen. "Chi Yuan was missing before?"

Assistant Chen explained, "That's what the village chief says. In reality, Mr. Chi should have run away."

Jiang Haochen: "Run away?"

Assistant Chen: "When Mr. Chi graduated from junior high school, his father did not plan to let him continue his studies and wanted to send him abroad to work. Mr. Chi refused and ran away overnight. He never returned to the village until he was eighteen years old and went back to reissue his ID card. Only then did the villagers hear about him again."

When Assistant Chen heard this story, he felt a pang of sadness. He had gone to Chi Yuan's school first and then to the village, so he knew very well how good Chi Yuan's grades were back then.

When Chi Yuan won first prize in the city's physics competition, he was already guaranteed admission to Yueyangshan High School, a top-tier high school in the city at the time. Not to mention his middle school entrance exam scores: first in the county and thirteenth in the city. All of this was without ever attending any tutoring classes.

If Chi Yuan's father had been more farsighted and had properly supported Chi Yuan through university...

Jiang Haochen: "Chi Yuan didn't go to high school? I remember Chi Yuan has a college degree."

Assistant Chen explained, "That was Mr. Chi's self-taught adult undergraduate degree. Two months after high school started, the teachers from Yueyangshan High School even went to the village to look for Mr. Chi, but they couldn't find him."

Yueyang Mountain? Going abroad to work? Running off overnight?

Don't send me back; my dad's going to sell me.

I was admitted to Yueyangshan High School through a special admission program.

[Moon Sun Mountain, that's a very unique name.]

[This is a tourist attraction in our area; the scenery is very beautiful.]

A distant memory suddenly appeared in Jiang Haochen's memory.

He suddenly pulled back the two photos he had just looked at, his gaze fixed on the boy holding the certificate.

No way, could it be him?

So much time had passed that he could hardly remember what the dusty-faced child looked like.

Jiang Haochen's hands suddenly trembled slightly.

He took out his phone and, under the puzzled gaze of his assistant Chen, dialed a number he hadn't contacted in a long time.

"Brother Jiang, why did you suddenly contact me?"

"Xiao Cui, do you remember the child I picked up in G Province a few years ago?" Jiang Haochen asked his former assistant.

"G Province? Isn't that the kid who rolled down the mountain halfway and said he was going to the provincial capital to find his mother?" Xiao Cui clearly had a deep impression of this incident.

Jiang Haochen tightened his grip on his phone: "Yes, do you remember his name?"

Xiao Cui: "It's been too long, I don't remember the name."

Jiang Haochen: "Think about it again."

Xiao Cui thought for a moment and said, "Brother Jiang, I'm sorry, I really don't remember. Why don't you ask Brother Xu? You said that the kid was pitiful, he had never even eaten a hamburger, and he didn't have money to go to school, so you donated a scholarship fund to his school, saying that if his mother didn't care about him, you could sponsor his schooling. I should have given Brother Xu my name back then, he should have a record of it."

Jiang Haochen: "Okay, thank you."

Jiang Haochen hung up the phone, quickly found his agent Xu Mo's number in his contacts, and dialed it.

While waiting for the call to connect, Jiang Haochen asked Assistant Chen a question.

"Where are Lin Fang and Gao Wanfu from?"

At the time, he knew that Lin Fang and her husband were taking their youngest son to S City for medical treatment, so he flew directly to S City without carefully looking at other information.

Assistant Chen quickly replied, "The provincial capital of G province."

Jiang Haochen's heart skipped a beat, so heavy it almost pierced his chest.

"Haochen?" Xu Mo's voice held the same surprise as Xiao Cui's. "Why did you suddenly think of contacting me?"

Before Jiang Haochen retired from acting, Xu Mo and his family had immigrated abroad and had not been in contact for many years.

Jiang Haochen tried to make his voice sound calm: "Brother Xu, do you remember about seven or eight years ago, I asked you to donate some money to a high school called Yueyangshan in G Province?"

Xu Mo: "It seems there is such a thing. Why are you suddenly asking about this?"

Jiang Haochen: "I think I designated a specific donor at the time. Do you remember that child's name?"

Xu Mo: "You asked me so suddenly, how would I remember? Is it that important?"

Jiang Haochen said in a deep voice, "It's very important, Brother Xu, thank you for your help."

There was a moment of silence on the other end, followed by the sound of footsteps.

"Wait a minute, I remember I sent an email to the principal there. Let me check the record and I'll call you back when I find it."

Jiang Haochen: "Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Haochen was completely stunned.

Assistant Chen sensed that something was wrong, but dared not speak, so he just stood there blankly.

Xu Mo called back very quickly:

"Found him, the child's name is Chi Yuan."