Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 316 - 311 Restarting (6)

"Yan Ling, what’s the situation? What classmate did you introduce to my parents? How could you lure someone to New York without saying a word? Suddenly you’ve sold two apartments to my mom, my dad, and Senior Brother Lei’s family. And you said they could move in directly? What’s all this about?" Yan Yan was very annoyed and called Yan Ling right away from the car.

The purchase of the apartment wasn’t actually Yan Yan’s main concern; what was most important was, why did everyone know about it except for her, the one left in the dark?

Yan Yan really didn’t know how to react now.

"Did your parents buy an apartment in New York? When did that happen?" There was a hint of surprise in Yan Ling’s tone.

"Don’t play dumb with me. The real estate agent was your referral; how could you not know?" Yan Yan could hardly contain her anger after hearing this.

"I really didn’t know. The last time I returned from New York, your parents called me to ask if I had delivered a message, and then I just told the truth.

I definitely delivered the message, but don’t get your hopes up because it was useless.

Your parents didn’t react much at the time either.

They just told me that they’d go to Paris to have a proper talk with you in a few months, which just so happened to be when your college senior also arrived in Paris.

I advised your parents not to go, to give you more freedom and not to interfere too much in your life.

I also told them that as soon as the shoes were released in July, you would be settling down in New York.

Even if you really went to Paris, they might not be able to find you.

Your brother has always been on your side.

You should have confidence in your cousin on this point." Hearing his cousin’s irritated manner, Yan Ling gently soothed Yan Yan’s ruffled feathers with a gentler tone.

"Who wants to be in cahoots with you? What’s the deal with the apartment? My parents said they’ve bought it over a month ago, how come you didn’t tell me?" Yan Yan’s feathers weren’t so easily smoothed.

"They’ve already bought it? That kid took the commission and didn’t even think to treat me to a meal, really unreliable." Yan Ling continued with the tone of mild surprise from before.

"Knowing he’s unreliable, why would you introduce him to my mom and dad? What’s your logic?" Yan Yan was genuinely getting angry now.

"Reliable, very reliable. I wouldn’t dare introduce someone unreliable to your parents. If you don’t finish me off, my own parents wouldn’t let me live in peace either." Yan Ling didn’t want to take the blame.

"But just a moment ago, the words ’unreliable’ seemed to come out of your own mouth," Yan Yan’s speechlessness deepened.

"That guy is just stingy with me. He used to be my assistant for a while when I worked at McKinsey.

Every day he called me a capitalist, and when it came to money in his hands, he wouldn’t spare me a single cent.

But as a real estate agent, he’s very reliable. Later, when a Wharton classmate of mine wanted to buy an apartment in New York, I also introduced him to her.

Don’t worry, he wouldn’t scam your parents on behalf of the American landlords.

He definitely found a house that your parents liked and negotiated a very good price; otherwise, your mom and dad wouldn’t have agreed so easily to buy it.

It must have been just a few days after I persuaded your parents that they asked me if I knew any friends who sold houses in the United States.

They said that previously in Melbourne, your good friend Bao Bao had introduced an apartment, and they bought it.

They asked me to introduce a friend from New York with good connections,

so I pulled your parents and my friend into a group chat to consult.

After that, I really didn’t get any news about this matter."

"Is there more to this?" Yan Ling genuinely didn’t know about the matter of Yan Yan’s parents buying a house.

In the past two months, Yan Ling had been shuttling back and forth between China, New York, and Paris, not knowing how many trips he had made. Yan Yan was busy, but Yan Ling was hardly less stressed.

While Yan Yan was primarily busy with design, Yan Ling had to handle everything, both big and small, beyond design.

Company operations, brand promotion, plus the fact that star entrepreneur Yan Ling had long become "famous" and needed to take interviews from all kinds of media.

Patents, production lines, studio management—none of these tasks could be completed easily.

It was lucky that Yan Ling was the kind of person with a lot of energy, not so fond of sleeping; otherwise, Brother Yan of the Yan Family would have collapsed from exhaustion by now.

After hanging up the phone with Yan Ling, Yan Yan also knew that her parents tried not to bother her and Yan Ling, who were so busy lately that they had no time to sleep.

But such a decision now—was it too rash?

Moreover, if the person buying the house doesn’t come to the United States themselves, they have to handle everything through a Power of Attorney.

How much trust does that require?

If her cousin’s classmate was reliable, then it wouldn’t matter much if her parents bought the house at a slightly higher or lower price.

But the key issue was getting the neighbors involved—what was that about?

Did they consider money to be dirt?

Yan Yan thought carefully and realized that there was an even more serious problem.

She had been busy lately, but Qi Yi wasn’t—such matters, her parents would rather hand over to a friend of Yan Ling’s than bother Qi Yi.

It seemed that Yan Ling had been very subtle when talking about this matter to her parents.

But wasn’t Lei Pili supposed to be working in Paris?

It couldn’t be that her parents had so much luggage to bring from Australia that they had drafted Lei Pili into service as well.

Yan Yan sighed helplessly—how had things suddenly taken this turn?

The car Lei Pili rented had a row that could seat three or four people.

There were three people in Yan Yan’s row, and after she and Elsa sat down, separated by a small aisle, there was one single seat left.

The young girl by the window, Yan Yan closer to the aisle; she felt that it didn’t matter who took the seat next to her, as long as it wasn’t Lei Pili.

Because for the moment, she suddenly didn’t know how to talk to Lei Pili, whom she hadn’t seen in three years.

Luckily, Lei Zhaodi quickly and nimbly took the seat next to Yan Yan.

But Yan Yan soon realized she had thought wrong.

Instead of having Lei Pili’s mother sitting beside her, it would have been more comfortable and easygoing to have Lei Pili himself.

Wei Fengsui’s mother, whom Yan Yan had come to know well during her time in Melbourne, was very cheerful and warm, an easy conversationalist, and most crucially, a master at finding topics to chat about.

Since her parents had already purchased the house, there wasn’t much for Yan Yan to say.

As for the specific legal documents and transfer procedures for the house, Yan Ling would surely have gone back to confirm with his former assistant by now.