It’s rare to see Jiaojiao so enthusiastically planning something, so naturally, her happiness comes first.

As for Jiaojiao, she actually knows that when they accept the IOU so smoothly, they don’t really intend for her to repay it, but she doesn’t mind because she trusts her brother, believing that in the future, this money will surely be paid back in double!

At this point, Jiaojiao has gathered funds, along with the money Ruan Hao later instructed the finance department to transfer, totaling seven hundred thousand yuan, which she feels is sufficient.

Yet somehow, her other brothers found out about this matter.

A few days after this matter, Ruan Chi, as a representative, brought ten thousand yuan to Jiaojiao. Within this ten thousand, there’s five thousand from Ruan Chi, and one thousand each from Yang Xiaona, Ruan Lei, Ruan Jun, and Ruan Bo, making it a total of ten thousand yuan.

Previously, Jiaojiao hadn’t considered borrowing money from them. Except for Ruan Chi, who is doing relatively well in his law firm, the other brothers are still in the early stages, especially Ruan Lei, who’s only a senior in college. Although he’s gained some fame these two years, the salary for actors isn’t high at this time, not to mention he hasn’t signed with any company and lacks a team to operate for him. Whatever he does is all self-managed, and she can almost imagine how he saved up this one thousand yuan by being frugal.

And Yang Xiaona’s one thousand yuan also surprised her slightly.

Yang Xiaona has been modeling at Shu Wen’s company for years. Her aunt offers her good pay, but she has to support her two younger sisters’ education; one is in high school, and the other in college now, which is quite an expense. This one thousand yuan must have been saved with considerable effort.

Jiaojiao accepted the money from her brothers, but she wanted to return it to Yang Xiaona because she didn’t want her to struggle too much.

She’s had a stable relationship with Ruan Chi over the years, but they are financially independent. They’ve been together for years and are not young anymore; theoretically, they should’ve been married by now, but Yang Xiaona hasn’t married Ruan Chi.

Initially, she thought there might be some issue in their relationship, but later, after indirectly asking Ruan Chi, she learned that Yang Xiaona insisted on waiting until she has supported her two sisters before marrying him, not wanting to burden Ruan Chi with her original family’s troubles.

Such a Yang Xiaona makes Jiaojiao quite empathetic.

However, when she called her and hadn’t spoken about the money yet, Yang Xiaona already said, "Jiaojiao, I don’t have much money now, but keep the one thousand yuan for now. I have a show at the end of the year with a pretty high performance fee, and I’ll send you the money then."

Upon hearing Yang Xiaona’s words, Jiaojiao’s heart felt pricked, realizing that if she really returned this money, would it hurt her?

Thinking of this, Jiaojiao changed her words to, "Alright, Xiaona, I’ll be waiting for you. Do you have time soon? Come over and hang out."

Yang Xiaona chuckled lightly, sounding particularly joyful: "I’ll be back next month, for your birthday."

Jiaojiao’s eighteenth birthday is at the end of next month, at the end of November. Eighteen symbolizes adulthood, so even if Jiaojiao is unwilling, both the Ruan Family and Shu Family will host a grand celebration for her, which cannot be refused.

Jiaojiao nodded and chatted with Yang Xiaona for quite a while before hanging up.