I'm reborn and I'm an international student again?

Chapter 199 Back Home, Love-Brained Mother Chen

Victoria Manor, Lushan District, Xinlu City.

This is a quiet and beautiful area of ​​single-family villas. Each villa is surrounded by lush green gardens, like a small private kingdom.

The winding driveway is lined with tall sycamore trees on both sides, like a solemn guard of honor, welcoming every visitor.

The sunlight shines through the treetops and onto the road, creating mottled light and shadows, adding a bit of liveliness and vitality to this quiet villa area.

In the garage of a three-story villa, Chen Xi stroked the wall gently, with a complex emotion in his heart.

He finally returned to this familiar place. He had never set foot here since he completed his studies and returned to his country in his previous life.

The house was later occupied by his father, and he could only live in a small house of more than 100 square meters.

This villa has nine bedrooms and a total area of ​​nearly one thousand square meters. It is considered a spacious and luxurious mansion in Xinlu City.

Stepping into the house and looking around, everything he saw was familiar: a spacious and bright living room, exquisite furniture, an elegant staircase... everything made him feel an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

He couldn't help but recall the good times he had spent here, the laughter, the warm family gatherings, the carefree childhood... However, as time went by, everything had changed.

His parents divorced, his family was broken up, and this villa became an eternal pain in his heart.

"My dear son is back!" A beautiful woman ran over, hugged Chen Xi, and then touched him all over.

Looking at his young mother, Chen Xi felt mixed emotions.

My mother was once a recognized beauty and the campus belle during college.

He could never understand why his father chose to leave his mother and be with a woman who was not as beautiful as his mother.

Later I thought that my father’s behavior might be due to his deep-seated inferiority complex.

As a son-in-law who marries into the family, the father may have been trying to prove his own worth, but he was bound by those ridiculous chauvinistic ideas.

In fact, my mother was not an arrogant and rude rich girl. She was very considerate of my father's feelings. She only set up three tables for the wedding and didn't even take wedding photos. She also insisted on going to work during her pregnancy. She could be said to be a very good wife.

However, his father betrayed his mother's trust and swindled her money to support a concubine, which Chen Xi could not understand.

He once told his analysis to Chen's father, but Chen's father became furious as if someone had torn off his fig leaf, and then accused his mother of having someone else outside.

However, after the two divorced, he has been single until now, while Chen's father got married again soon.

"Son, what are you thinking about? Your hairstyle is so ugly. You looked more handsome with long hair!" said the mother, touching Chen Xi's cheek.

"What's so handsome about that? I used to be a hairy freak, isn't that good?"

"Nonsense, don't the male stars in those Wanwan idol dramas all have the same hairstyle?" Mom said with her hands on her hips. She usually likes to watch those idol dramas, just like Zhang Ruoxi, a typical love-brained person.

At this time, most of the male protagonists' hairstyles in Wanwan's TV dramas were the same as F4 in Meteor Garden, all with long flowing hair, such as Hua Ze Rui.

The TV dramas in the Sakura Country and the Korean Country all have similar styles. Chen Xi's new hairstyle now looks a bit rustic in the eyes of Chinese people.

"Why didn't you say anything when you came back this time? The meal will be ready soon." Mom pulled him into the kitchen, where chicken soup was stewing on the stove.

Uncle Li had already left at this time.

The Chen family is different from other families. Even though they live in a big house, they do not hire a nanny.

There is just an auntie who comes to the house regularly to do cleaning work.

These aunties have been working in the Chen family for more than ten years. They go to different empty houses to clean every day and ensure that every room is kept clean and tidy.

Chen Xi's family owns a lot of real estate in Xinlu City, nearly twenty houses.

"Do you have a girlfriend?"

"No!" Chen Xi touched his nose with a guilty look on his face.

"Ah? Not yet? You're so handsome, but no girl has confessed to you?"

"Yes, I refused."

"Do you look pretty?"

"Ah."

"Then why don't you accept it?"

"It's boring."

"You don't like men!"

"Pfft~"

Chen Xi was choked by his mother's words and quickly put down the drink in his hand. He really admired his mother's imagination.

"Ah? You really like men!"

"I don't know what's going on in your mind."

"You have no respect for your parents. How can you talk to your mother like that?" After saying that, Chen's mother tapped his head with her hand.

"Did you meet Shanshan in Australia?"

"I saw you last time."

"Oh, her mother called me the other day and asked you to go to Xi Village to study! You were originally going to Xi Village, but why did your father ask you to go to Mo Village... By the way, I don’t know when your father will come back. I don’t see him every day." After the mother finished speaking, she sighed.

"I told you to keep the money safe, don't let him swindle it away." Chen Xi sneered with his arms crossed.

"How could you say that to your dad? It doesn't matter! As long as there's enough money to spend." Mom was cooking and she looked like she didn't care. This love-brained mom wouldn't listen to any advice and was later cheated of money by her friends. It was because she trusted the people around her too easily.

Thinking about how he had to depend on his mother in his previous life and lived a life worse than that of ordinary people, he felt sad.

He felt bad when his mother, who used to spend lavishly, hesitated for a long time over a few hundred dollars when buying things. "Well, forget about not having a girlfriend. I originally wanted you to date Shanshan, but you've always been so lazy since you were a child. I'll introduce you to someone else later."

"I'm just in college! You're already busy finding a girlfriend for me."

"Aren't I just worried that there might be something wrong with your sexual orientation?"

"..."

Chen Xi couldn't convince his mother, so he had to go upstairs with his luggage by himself.

Pushing open the door and looking at the familiar room, an inexplicable sense of intimacy surged in my heart.

He walked to the bookshelf, touched it gently, and then took out a comic book from the gap between the bookshelves.

"Ha, it's still here." Looking at the blue fat man comic in his hand, he couldn't help laughing out loud.

This comic book was one of his early collections. Its content was relatively explicit, and he even used to regard it as a pornographic book.

In order to avoid being discovered by his parents, he deliberately hid the comic book in the gap between two bookshelves.

Chen Xi opened the comic, browsing through the familiar images and words page by page, and a faint feeling of nostalgia surged in his heart.

"Xixi, it's time to eat!" Mom's voice suddenly sounded from downstairs, and he quickly got up and stuffed the comic book back.

There were already quite a few dishes on the table downstairs.

"There are so many dishes, it's a waste if we can't finish them."

"Then you should eat more."

Looking at the table full of dishes, he could only sit down, pick up a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs and put it in his mouth.

It still had the familiar taste, but it tasted better. It seemed that he had a hard life in his previous life and had no mood to eat. Now the same food tasted even better.

"Did you meet up with your former classmates this time? Let's meet up."

"What's there to see? What's going on with your company?"

"It's not so good. I can't handle it." Mom sighed, holding her forehead.

"I have a good idea. Let's continue with your old business, the advertising company, but we need to change the way we do it and open a chain of graphic stores." Chen Xi said while eating.

"What's the point? Those small shops don't make much money." Mom blinked in confusion.

"You can dispose of your printers and other equipment at the same time. I've seen that the owners of graphic shops don't have the money to buy them. You can find a financial leasing company or do it yourself, and then provide the equipment to those graphic shop owners, then create your own brand and start franchising."

"Considering the current credit system and legal issues, it is better to open a self-operated store first, and then join a franchise after it is established. Leasing equipment requires collateral. My classmate's mother is one of the four major lawyers in Huajing. When the time comes, we can ask her for help. Financial leasing company..."

Chen Xi talked incessantly.

"Son, the food is cold, you should eat quickly. Why are you talking to me here? Why are you doing this and that?" Chen's mother was very confused. In the past, her son would go straight to his room to play games when he came home, but now he was always talking about business issues.

"We have to seize the opportunity. If Lao Chen doesn't get married and find someone else, it will be strange if he doesn't make us miserable. I've told you a hundred times before, you have to pay attention to him."

"Oh, my son is excellent." Chen's mother held up her chin with one hand and pinched Chen Xi's face.

"Oh~" Chen Xi shook his head. It seemed that he had to build the framework himself.

"Speaking of Huajing... forget it, I'll tell you when the time comes, hehe~" Chen's mother started laughing halfway through her words, leaving Chen Xi feeling confused.

"I got you a new computer. I know you want to play games."

"I don't want to play anymore. I don't have time."

"You're not in a relationship, but you're just saying you're busy."

"Hey, how much money do you have at home?"

"Why? I don't know."

"You don't even know how much money it is? Can you pay attention?"

"Oh, so annoying, she's even more talkative than me, she's already been nagging as soon as she got home."

Chen's mother covered her ears with her hands, just like a little girl, which made Chen Xi laugh and cry. His mother is like this, just like an 18-year-old girl. No wonder she is always cheated of her money.

"Okay, go play your game. I'm going to watch my idol drama."

“I said I don’t want to play games anymore.”

"Hmm." My mother seemed not to hear me and directly picked up the TV remote control. Then I could hear her various silly laughs.

Chen Xi shook his head helplessly and began to clean up the dishes on the table.

"Buzz~Buzz." His cell phone kept vibrating while he was washing dishes. When he picked it up, he saw that they were all text messages from his old friends.

When he was studying abroad, every time he returned home, his friends would enthusiastically invite him out to play.

At that time, he was financially well-off and generous, and was often the one who paid for the events.

However, as living conditions changed, he gradually could no longer afford such expenses.

Perhaps it is because everyone has started a family and their own life, or perhaps it is because people have become more realistic, the influence of money on interpersonal relationships has gradually become apparent.

Since he became financially strapped, his friends at home gradually distanced themselves from him.

Chen Xi looked at his phone and found several unread messages. He replied to them one by one and put it back in his pocket.

Most of these messages were insignificant chats, but he still replied to each one seriously, as if he was maintaining the few remaining friendships in the country.

(End of this chapter)