C14 Is She Crazy? 

"I..." Nanny Zhang hesitated. After all, she had signed a non-disclosure agreement the moment she stepped into the Mo Family household. All the servants were given different salaries in proportion to the jobs that they had taken under the estate. Although she'd consider her wages to be above average as compared to the others, she certainly wasn't going to blab about them in fear of losing such prestige.

"She's being paid ten thousand," Luo Wanyi interrupted. "If you could assure me that you'd be able to wake him up, I'll give you one million yuan per month."

"Are you crazy, Mom?" Mo Jingxi immediately stomped her foot in disagreement. Her shadowed eyes had narrowed over at the young woman in front of her, regarding her as nothing more than a stranger. Her small hands balled up into fists. "How special is she anyway? My own pocket money is a million a month, and you're putting her up to par with me? Are you serious?"

"Shut up, or that pocket money of yours goes out the window," she snapped. Nothing was more important to her than waking up her son.

Previously, she had thought that Mo Jingyao would wake up immediately after being brought home, so she had delayed the renominations for the CEO position back at Mo's. But seeing as her son had shown no signs of waking up, the shareholders were already pressuring her to make a choice. Although she might not care for her company–at least, not at this time–she didn't want her son to lose such an opportunity just because of an oversight.

All thoughts of getting dinner was thrown out the window as they turned to Yu Se, thinking that she would agree to such a high price.

After all, where in T City could you get a salary as high as a million yuan per month? Millions would've died to be in her position.

"Director Luo," Yu Se said. "I can't agree to this."

Silence.

The moment the words had drifted from Yu Se's lips, everyone stared at her as if she was a woman who had just gone blind. Perhaps, she truly had gone crazy. Their arms had fallen to their sides in helplessness as they tried to rack their brains as to why such a young and capable woman would refuse such a prized task. Besides, other girls would've done it for free if it meant getting close to Mo Jingyao! And now that she was being paid...

Or was the rate not enough? Was it too little?

"I'd suggest you don't agree to something then back right out after," Mo Jingxi snapped, sneering. "Or do you think a million's too low for you?"

Yu Se shrugged in response. "It's not that I want more. It's that I can't have that much," she responded calmly. "I've already promised that I'll visit him every week till he wakes up. I don't need a million yuan to do that. As long as I'll have the same salary as Nanny Zhang here, that's enough for me. I don't really have the time to do any other negotiation above that count."

Interesting. Luo Wanyi stared at her for a long time, obviously not expecting her to refuse such a high price. "Do as you please, but if Jingyao does wake up, I hope you won't be refusing a reward." If he were to wake up, she would happily throw a hundred million into the Yu Family's bank account.

After all, her son's life was worth far more than that.

'God, she really was crazy! Did she think that she could get Mo Jingyao that easily with that brain of hers?' Yu Mo suppressed the urge to sneer. Although she didn't know what her sister was planning, she couldn't really care less.

Besides, Mo Jingyao would walk right into her arms sooner or later.

"Although I accept the ten thousand, I still have more conditions," Yu Se spoke up, surprising everyone in the room.

Luo Wanyi's face immediately darkened, but even then, she still conceded. "What other conditions do you have?" She had assumed that all this difficulty was because of their past experience with one another back at the grave. Perhaps the young woman was deliberately trying to make things difficult for her. Either way, she wasn't going to budge with her request.

"I'm in senior high school, and I'll be taking up my college entrance exams real soon," she said calmly. "I won't be able to stay around the Mo Family estate as much as I would've wanted to. This is why I want someone else to take the lead in my absence. I wouldn't want his condition to gradually get worse just because I'm not there, and I certainly don't want the blame to be upon me when it does."

"That's no problem."

"You can pick out a doctor and a nurse–I don't really care, but as long as they try to wash his body, I would want another family member present during this process," she listed. "Just to make sure that there wouldn't be any funny business."

"No problem." Luo Wanyi was more than pleased to follow suit. After all, all of her suggestions were for Mo Jingyao's sake.

"Perhaps Nanny Zhang can be assigned to the task. I mean, she's honest, and she does her job right. What do you think?" Yu Se suggested casually. Although she thought that the maid was capable of watching over him, she also wanted to get another person within the estate on her side. She may already have blackmail material over the older woman, but she didn't want their relationship to stem from such anxiety and anger. And perhaps, this would reap her some benefits in the future as well.