The Male Lead’s Villainess Stepmother

Chapter 294 – And the four of them wrapped dumplings on New Year’s Eve like one big happy family (3)

The Zhou’s annual party for upper management was held a week after their regular annual party. New Year was two days after the annual party. Naturally, Yan Shuyu would be spending New Year with the Zhou’s father and son.

Speaking of, Yan Shuyu was quite surprised as well. Her and her son had nowhere to go but it would seem that the boss and the little young master didn’t need to spend their New Year at the rental. As much as the rental was still luxurious and there was nothing shabby about but it was still sad that they weren’t going to go home for New Year.

Yet that didn’t bother the boss or the little young master at all. The four of them were putting up couplets and making dumplings on New Year’s Eve. It was very festive.

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Picture: couplet

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Over the New Year’s time frame, all four of the family members had different length of vacations. Zhang Yuanjia and Zhou Yi’s kindergarten would not be resuming until the 20th on the lunar calendar. Yan Shuyu’s musical institution was much earlier than theirs and would resume on the 8th.

Nevertheless, when compared to her vacation, some other’s was mortifyingly short, such as the boss’s.

It’d make sense that the boss had very little time off. Chinese New Year were holidays in China but the Zhou’s Corporation had businesses all over the world. Chinese New Year had no effect on the businesses overseas. The company was still running and, as such, Boss Zhou, as the big boss, was still busy as usual. He had a quiet New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day at home and had to go on a business trip on the 2nd.

Yan Shuyu was quite surprised at this situation as well. It was mentioned in passing in the novel that the boss had a very small family. There were no more on their main branch other than himself and the little male lead. Now that she had been with the boss for so long, she had learned some more about his family. The Zhou’s had only had one offspring each generation for a few generations until the boss. His father had no siblings and, as such, he was the only one left after they had passed away in a car accident.

And the little male lead was the only one after him.

When she found this out, Yan Shuyu had lamented about the boss’s and the little male lead’s rough life. This must be the challenges that were put on them by fate to prepare them for their responsibilities in life.

And then it all made sense to her. She seemed to have figured out why the boss had to train his son in such an extreme way. The Zhou’s had no more relatives within three generations. If the male lead could not take on the responsibilities of the family business, then the “throne” would end up outside of the family. Then the boss would become the sinner of the royals, no, the Zhou’s.

Granted, if there was even one more person remaining from the older generation, then the little male lead wouldn’t have end up with such a pitiful life in the novel. Even if his own father could train him the way that he did, his grandparents would not have let that happen.

But she had digressed. Even learning some more about the boss’s family, Yan Shuyu still didn’t understand why he needed to go on a business trip on the 2nd.

The boss’s father and son looked to be just the two of them much like she and her instant son but that was still not the same as a single person. The Zhou was, after all, a prominent family for generations. Even without close relatives, wouldn’t he still have some distant relatives or friends that he should be visiting over the New Year? Even she was prepared to visit Manager Yang and her Boss Liu on the 4th.

The boss, on the other hand, did not let these bog him down. He even brought with him Yan Shuyu and the two little kiddos with nothing better to do on his private plane and said he would take them to have fun.

The boss went over to England this time. Yan Shuyu was not a well-travelled one and it was her first time to England. Zhang Yuanbao and the little male lead had a fabulous time there, going out with the chauffeur and the bodyguards every day. Yan Shuyu, on the other hand, did not experience the joy of traveling overseas.

Perhaps her appearance at the annual party allowed the boss to see her potential as a vase. He solicited her help in all of the social events in England.

Foreigners seemed to enjoy balls a lot. The few events that Yan Shuyu accompanied the boss to were all in the format of balls. Perhaps that was also the reason why he needed to bring her with.