Chapter 119: 119 – Ren Explains Things
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Ren was at a loss. He honestly had no idea how to lay Fang's worries to rest. Fang was already extraordinary enough – and in Ren's eyes, the boy was far superior to himself, in any case.
So Ren could only hug his fiancé and rub his back for the time being.
Fang buried his face in Ren's shoulder, feeling rather stupid. Wasn't this rather childish of him, to complain to Ren like this?
"I didn't put any money into your account," Ren said after some time. "That much I can confirm. Whatever money is in your account, it's all yours. I didn't touch your account, and I never will. It's entirely yours to do with as you please, all right? It's the money that solely belongs to you, that you have earned."
Fang blinked. "But – but I haven't earned that much…" he murmured.
Ren frowned. "Did you invest somewhere? Or did you ask Pax to invest for you? Pax is an extraordinary money multiplier, you know – and he's the reason why I never bother to look at my own bank accounts," he said. "Ah, yes, there should be dividends from your Sirocco shares as well, right? We did well recently, so there should be a decent pay out there as well."
Fang looked like a metaphorical tonne of bricks had hit him suddenly. Sirocco dividends! How could he have forgotten those!
Fang felt incredibly idiotic – and now he knew why Pax had repeatedly asked him to check his account statements!
"I'm sorry," Fang murmured.
Ren blinked. "What for?" Then he frowned. "Well, I don't like the idea of you going to a shady bar to get drunk by yourself even if there are members of the Blue Wolves protecting you – but I can definitely understand the need to vent and let loose. May be choose a better outlet next time?"
Fang shook his head. "Not that," he said. "I'm sorry I was being such an idiot."
Ren sighed. "My big darling, if you, with your IQ and talents are to be called an idiot, what are the rest of us going to be? And what will the normal people be?" he asked.
Fang smiled slightly. "You are too biased when you look at me," he said. "Your judgement is impaired."
Ren glared at him. "What is your IQ?" he demanded.
"197," Fang said. "You know this already."
"And how old are you?" Ren asked.
Fang was a bit confused now. "Eighteen," he replied.
"What was your national rank in the school tests?" Ren asked.
"First," Fang replied.
"And what is your current level at medical school?" Ren asked.
"Halfway," Fang said. "But why…"
Ren held up a hand to interrupt him. "How old are regular medical students by the time they are at your current level in medical school?" he asked.
"About twenty one or so," Fang replied.
"And how many years would they have studied to get to that level?" Ren asked.
"Three years," Fang said. He knew this because Professor Klaus had told him this specifically a few days ago.
"And how long has it been since you started medical school? How long did it take for you to reach this level?" Ren demanded.
"Six months," Fang replied.
A triumphant gleam appeared in Ren's eyes. "And you dare call yourself an idiot after all this?!" he accused.
Fang blinked, surprised. When Ren put it like that – didn't it make it look like Fang was a super cool and super accomplished person, despite his young age?
"And that's not all," Ren continued victoriously. "You should speak to Pax and he will give you the data on how much direct contribution you have made to Sirocco's profit lines with your work with us – and the modelling as well. Similarly, we can get the data from the governments in the Dragon Nation and Sand country as well. How many eighteen year olds do you think have made this kind of achievements?"
Fang smiled. "I can only think of one," he said.
"Yes, and that's you!" Ren crowed triumphantly. "Now you see how amazing you are? How can you forget all this with your eidetic memory? You are this precious, precious treasure that I am carefully guarding with ulterior motives – and you are thinking that you are worthless? My naïve little darling – do you have any idea how many people would run to your door regardless of my presence if we made your involvement with Sirocco public?! As it is, I'm batting off birds and bees around you all the time despite the tight security and the close protection of the Blue Wolves!"
Fang blushed. "Speak about yourself!" he retorted. "I'm the one chasing away birds and bees from around you all the time!"
Ren rolled his eyes. "I'm an old man now, I'm yesterday's news. And everyone knows that I'm hopelessly in love with the extraordinary Fang, who is the brightest new sun on the horizon! Half the people that hover around me are there because they are simply waiting for a chance to get close to you, and because they know that the only way to you is through me! I'm the dragon guarding the prince in the tower!" he declared.
Fang stared at Ren with wide eyes for a moment and then burst out laughing. He laughed so hard that tears pooled in his eyes.
"You – you – did you just call yourself a – a dragon?! Ha ha ha!" Fang doubled over in laughter, clutching his stomach.
Ren huffed. "Well, I'm older and much less accomplished than you!" he accused. "Obviously there are a ton of people thinking that the moneybag Chairman Ren is not worth the young genius Fang!"
Fang rolled his eyes. "No one thinks that!" he countered.
Ren shook his head and held out his hand. "Give me my phone and I will show you the proof!" he said.
Fang shrugged, not believing Ren at all. But he still handed Ren's phone over to him.
Ren quickly opened a few social media pages where the recurring theme seemed to be how Chairman Ren is an old horse trying to eat tender grass, and how Chairman Ren was a cradle snatcher by tying young Fang to himself as soon as he was old enough to get engaged, and how Chairman Ren was such a creep and so unnecessarily possessive about his young fiancé that he even followed him into medical school and used his influence to make sure that young Fang didn't go to the best medical school in this world to study, and instead, had to stay back in Cosmopolis and was forced to study at the newly established SIMS just to appease Chairman Ren because Chairman Ren was too insecure and wanted to keep Fang to himself as he was worried that Fang would find a much better and much more suitable partner once he went out of the sphere of influence created by Chairman Ren to brainwash young Fang into staying with him!
Ren had known about these anti fans who loved to bash him day in and day out for quite some time – and to be honest, while some comments pinched him, overall, he didn't care about their opinion at all. Ren was wise enough to know that these people's opinion wouldn't make any difference to his relationship with Fang anyway, and that not everyone would be in favour of his relationship with Fang. Besides, why would Ren and Fang need validation from other people? As long as they cared about each other and loved each other deeply, there was absolutely no need to bother with other random people. And there would always be haters anyway.
Besides, this bunch of people really seemed to admire Fang, and the online Ren bashing was alternated with Fang appreciation, so Ren didn't want to take any steps to stop them. If people were admiring Fang, then Ren was quite satisfied with that.
Of course, the pages and discussion boards where Ren was admired and Fang was bashed – those were shut down immediately with a heavy hand from Sirocco's legal team – that was a standing instruction given to all the lawyers in the team. And, by now, all of Ren's fans knew that they would only be allowed to admire Chairman Ren if they admired young Fang along with him!
And now, Ren had finally even found a use for these idiots to convince Fang, he thought happily, and handed his phone to Fang so that Fang could see for himself what some of his die hard fans had to say about Ren!
Fang had no idea that pages and discussion boards like these existed – so he took Ren's phone from him and started browsing through them.
Fang's face reddened with anger as he read the comments on the pages.
"How dare they slander my Ren like this?!" Fang cried, jumping up from the chair he was sitting on. "Ren, we have to sue them! How dare they?!"
Ren shook his head.. "Well, it's not entirely untrue."
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Ren was at a loss. He honestly had no idea how to lay Fang's worries to rest. Fang was already extraordinary enough – and in Ren's eyes, the boy was far superior to himself, in any case.
So Ren could only hug his fiancé and rub his back for the time being.
Fang buried his face in Ren's shoulder, feeling rather stupid. Wasn't this rather childish of him, to complain to Ren like this?
"I didn't put any money into your account," Ren said after some time. "That much I can confirm. Whatever money is in your account, it's all yours. I didn't touch your account, and I never will. It's entirely yours to do with as you please, all right? It's the money that solely belongs to you, that you have earned."
Fang blinked. "But – but I haven't earned that much…" he murmured.
Ren frowned. "Did you invest somewhere? Or did you ask Pax to invest for you? Pax is an extraordinary money multiplier, you know – and he's the reason why I never bother to look at my own bank accounts," he said. "Ah, yes, there should be dividends from your Sirocco shares as well, right? We did well recently, so there should be a decent pay out there as well."
Fang looked like a metaphorical tonne of bricks had hit him suddenly. Sirocco dividends! How could he have forgotten those!
Fang felt incredibly idiotic – and now he knew why Pax had repeatedly asked him to check his account statements!
"I'm sorry," Fang murmured.
Ren blinked. "What for?" Then he frowned. "Well, I don't like the idea of you going to a shady bar to get drunk by yourself even if there are members of the Blue Wolves protecting you – but I can definitely understand the need to vent and let loose. May be choose a better outlet next time?"
Fang shook his head. "Not that," he said. "I'm sorry I was being such an idiot."
Ren sighed. "My big darling, if you, with your IQ and talents are to be called an idiot, what are the rest of us going to be? And what will the normal people be?" he asked.
Fang smiled slightly. "You are too biased when you look at me," he said. "Your judgement is impaired."
Ren glared at him. "What is your IQ?" he demanded.
"197," Fang said. "You know this already."
"And how old are you?" Ren asked.
Fang was a bit confused now. "Eighteen," he replied.
"What was your national rank in the school tests?" Ren asked.
"First," Fang replied.
"And what is your current level at medical school?" Ren asked.
"Halfway," Fang said. "But why…"
Ren held up a hand to interrupt him. "How old are regular medical students by the time they are at your current level in medical school?" he asked.
"About twenty one or so," Fang replied.
"And how many years would they have studied to get to that level?" Ren asked.
"Three years," Fang said. He knew this because Professor Klaus had told him this specifically a few days ago.
"And how long has it been since you started medical school? How long did it take for you to reach this level?" Ren demanded.
"Six months," Fang replied.
A triumphant gleam appeared in Ren's eyes. "And you dare call yourself an idiot after all this?!" he accused.
Fang blinked, surprised. When Ren put it like that – didn't it make it look like Fang was a super cool and super accomplished person, despite his young age?
"And that's not all," Ren continued victoriously. "You should speak to Pax and he will give you the data on how much direct contribution you have made to Sirocco's profit lines with your work with us – and the modelling as well. Similarly, we can get the data from the governments in the Dragon Nation and Sand country as well. How many eighteen year olds do you think have made this kind of achievements?"
Fang smiled. "I can only think of one," he said.
"Yes, and that's you!" Ren crowed triumphantly. "Now you see how amazing you are? How can you forget all this with your eidetic memory? You are this precious, precious treasure that I am carefully guarding with ulterior motives – and you are thinking that you are worthless? My naïve little darling – do you have any idea how many people would run to your door regardless of my presence if we made your involvement with Sirocco public?! As it is, I'm batting off birds and bees around you all the time despite the tight security and the close protection of the Blue Wolves!"
Fang blushed. "Speak about yourself!" he retorted. "I'm the one chasing away birds and bees from around you all the time!"
Ren rolled his eyes. "I'm an old man now, I'm yesterday's news. And everyone knows that I'm hopelessly in love with the extraordinary Fang, who is the brightest new sun on the horizon! Half the people that hover around me are there because they are simply waiting for a chance to get close to you, and because they know that the only way to you is through me! I'm the dragon guarding the prince in the tower!" he declared.
Fang stared at Ren with wide eyes for a moment and then burst out laughing. He laughed so hard that tears pooled in his eyes.
"You – you – did you just call yourself a – a dragon?! Ha ha ha!" Fang doubled over in laughter, clutching his stomach.
Ren huffed. "Well, I'm older and much less accomplished than you!" he accused. "Obviously there are a ton of people thinking that the moneybag Chairman Ren is not worth the young genius Fang!"
Fang rolled his eyes. "No one thinks that!" he countered.
Ren shook his head and held out his hand. "Give me my phone and I will show you the proof!" he said.
Fang shrugged, not believing Ren at all. But he still handed Ren's phone over to him.
Ren quickly opened a few social media pages where the recurring theme seemed to be how Chairman Ren is an old horse trying to eat tender grass, and how Chairman Ren was a cradle snatcher by tying young Fang to himself as soon as he was old enough to get engaged, and how Chairman Ren was such a creep and so unnecessarily possessive about his young fiancé that he even followed him into medical school and used his influence to make sure that young Fang didn't go to the best medical school in this world to study, and instead, had to stay back in Cosmopolis and was forced to study at the newly established SIMS just to appease Chairman Ren because Chairman Ren was too insecure and wanted to keep Fang to himself as he was worried that Fang would find a much better and much more suitable partner once he went out of the sphere of influence created by Chairman Ren to brainwash young Fang into staying with him!
Ren had known about these anti fans who loved to bash him day in and day out for quite some time – and to be honest, while some comments pinched him, overall, he didn't care about their opinion at all. Ren was wise enough to know that these people's opinion wouldn't make any difference to his relationship with Fang anyway, and that not everyone would be in favour of his relationship with Fang. Besides, why would Ren and Fang need validation from other people? As long as they cared about each other and loved each other deeply, there was absolutely no need to bother with other random people. And there would always be haters anyway.
Besides, this bunch of people really seemed to admire Fang, and the online Ren bashing was alternated with Fang appreciation, so Ren didn't want to take any steps to stop them. If people were admiring Fang, then Ren was quite satisfied with that.
Of course, the pages and discussion boards where Ren was admired and Fang was bashed – those were shut down immediately with a heavy hand from Sirocco's legal team – that was a standing instruction given to all the lawyers in the team. And, by now, all of Ren's fans knew that they would only be allowed to admire Chairman Ren if they admired young Fang along with him!
And now, Ren had finally even found a use for these idiots to convince Fang, he thought happily, and handed his phone to Fang so that Fang could see for himself what some of his die hard fans had to say about Ren!
Fang had no idea that pages and discussion boards like these existed – so he took Ren's phone from him and started browsing through them.
Fang's face reddened with anger as he read the comments on the pages.
"How dare they slander my Ren like this?!" Fang cried, jumping up from the chair he was sitting on. "Ren, we have to sue them! How dare they?!"
Ren shook his head.. "Well, it's not entirely untrue."
Ren was at a loss. He honestly had no idea how to lay Fang's worries to rest. Fang was already extraordinary enough and in Ren's eyes, the boy was far superior to himself, in any case.So Ren could only hug his fianc and rub his back for the time being.Fang buried his face in Ren's shoulder, feeling rather stupid. Wasn't this rather childish of him, to complain to Ren like this?"I didn't put any money into your account," Ren said after some time. "That much I can confirm. Whatever money is in your account, it's all yours. I didn't touch your account, and I never will. It's entirely yours to do with as you please, all right? It's the money that solely belongs to you, that you have earned."Fang blinked. "But but I haven't earned that much" he murmured.Ren frowned. "Did you invest somewhere? Or did you ask Pax to invest for you? Pax is an extraordinary money multiplier, you know and he's the reason why I never bother to look at my own bank accounts," he said. "Ah, yes, there should be dividends from your Sirocco shares as well, right? We did well recently, so there should be a decent pay out there as well."Fang looked like a metaphorical tonne of bricks had hit him suddenly. Sirocco dividends! How could he have forgotten those!Fang felt incredibly idiotic and now he knew why Pax had repeatedly asked him to check his account statements!"I'm sorry," Fang murmured.Ren blinked. "What for?" Then he frowned. "Well, I don't like the idea of you going to a shady bar to get drunk by yourself even if there are members of the Blue Wolves protecting you but I can definitely understand the need to vent and let loose. May be choose a better outlet next time?"Fang shook his head. "Not that," he said. "I'm sorry I was being such an idiot."Ren sighed. "My big darling, if you, with your IQ and talents are to be called an idiot, what are the rest of us going to be? And what will the normal people be?" he asked.Fang smiled slightly. "You are too biased when you look at me," he said. "Your judgement is impaired."Ren glared at him. "What is your IQ?" he demanded."197," Fang said. "You know this already.""And how old are you?" Ren asked.Fang was a bit confused now. "Eighteen," he replied."What was your national rank in the school tests?" Ren asked."First," Fang replied."And what is your current level at medical school?" Ren asked."Halfway," Fang said. "But why"Ren held up a hand to interrupt him. "How old are regular medical students by the time they are at your current level in medical school?" he asked."About twenty one or so," Fang replied."And how many years would they have studied to get to that level?" Ren asked."Three years," Fang said. He knew this because Professor Klaus had told him this specifically a few days ago."And how long has it been since you started medical school? How long did it take for you to reach this level?" Ren demanded."Six months," Fang replied.A triumphant gleam appeared in Ren's eyes. "And you dare call yourself an idiot after all this?!" he accused.Fang blinked, surprised. When Ren put it like that didn't it make it look like Fang was a super cool and super accomplished person, despite his young age?"And that's not all," Ren continued victoriously. "You should speak to Pax and he will give you the data on how much direct contribution you have made to Sirocco's profit lines with your work with us and the modelling as well. Similarly, we can get the data from the governments in the Dragon Nation and Sand country as well. How many eighteen year olds do you think have made this kind of achievements?"Fang smiled. "I can only think of one," he said."Yes, and that's you!" Ren crowed triumphantly. "Now you see how amazing you are? How can you forget all this with your eidetic memory? You are this precious, precious treasure that I am carefully guarding with ulterior motives and you are thinking that you are worthless? My nave little darling do you have any idea how many people would run to your door regardless of my presence if we made your involvement with Sirocco public?! As it is, I'm batting off birds and bees around you all the time despite the tight security and the close protection of the Blue Wolves!"Fang blushed. "Speak about yourself!" he retorted. "I'm the one chasing away birds and bees from around you all the time!"Ren rolled his eyes. "I'm an old man now, I'm yesterday's news. And everyone knows that I'm hopelessly in love with the extraordinary Fang, who is the brightest new sun on the horizon! Half the people that hover around me are there because they are simply waiting for a chance to get close to you, and because they know that the only way to you is through me! I'm the dragon guarding the prince in the tower!" he declared.Fang stared at Ren with wide eyes for a moment and then burst out laughing. He laughed so hard that tears pooled in his eyes."You you did you just call yourself a a dragon?! Ha ha ha!" Fang doubled over in laughter, clutching his stomach.Ren huffed. "Well, I'm older and much less accomplished than you!" he accused. "Obviously there are a ton of people thinking that the moneybag Chairman Ren is not worth the young genius Fang!"Fang rolled his eyes. "No one thinks that!" he countered.Ren shook his head and held out his hand. "Give me my phone and I will show you the proof!" he said.Fang shrugged, not believing Ren at all. But he still handed Ren's phone over to him.Ren quickly opened a few social media pages where the recurring theme seemed to be how Chairman Ren is an old horse trying to eat tender grass, and how Chairman Ren was a cradle snatcher by tying young Fang to himself as soon as he was old enough to get engaged, and how Chairman Ren was such a creep and so unnecessarily possessive about his young fianc that he even followed him into medical school and used his influence to make sure that young Fang didn't go to the best medical school in this world to study, and instead, had to stay back in Cosmopolis and was forced to study at the newly established SIMS just to appease Chairman Ren because Chairman Ren was too insecure and wanted to keep Fang to himself as he was worried that Fang would find a much better and much more suitable partner once he went out of the sphere of influence created by Chairman Ren to brainwash young Fang into staying with him!Ren had known about these anti fans who loved to bash him day in and day out for quite some time and to be honest, while some comments pinched him, overall, he didn't care about their opinion at all. Ren was wise enough to know that these people's opinion wouldn't make any difference to his relationship with Fang anyway, and that not everyone would be in favour of his relationship with Fang. Besides, why would Ren and Fang need validation from other people? As long as they cared about each other and loved each other deeply, there was absolutely no need to bother with other random people. And there would always be haters anyway.Besides, this bunch of people really seemed to admire Fang, and the online Ren bashing was alternated with Fang appreciation, so Ren didn't want to take any steps to stop them. If people were admiring Fang, then Ren was quite satisfied with that.Of course, the pages and discussion boards where Ren was admired and Fang was bashed those were shut down immediately with a heavy hand from Sirocco's legal team that was a standing instruction given to all the lawyers in the team. And, by now, all of Ren's fans knew that they would only be allowed to admire Chairman Ren if they admired young Fang along with him!And now, Ren had finally even found a use for these idiots to convince Fang, he thought happily, and handed his phone to Fang so that Fang could see for himself what some of his die hard fans had to say about Ren!Fang had no idea that pages and discussion boards like these existed so he took Ren's phone from him and started browsing through them.Fang's face reddened with anger as he read the comments on the pages."How dare they slander my Ren like this?!" Fang cried, jumping up from the chair he was sitting on. "Ren, we have to sue them! How dare they?!"Ren shook his head.. "Well, it's not entirely untrue."
