Reaching the age of thirty, my income randomly doubled

The matters at home are still progressing in the predetermined direction.

An'an comes over every few days, firstly to see her son Chen Jiye, and secondly to chat about the current state of the family.

Of her closer relatives, her cousin Hu Qilin, like Chen Lu, is about to graduate from university soon.

This kid Hu Qilin inherited his father's personality, being honest and down-to-earth, without much of the pampering often seen in the second generation of wealth.

As for Xiao Le and Xiao Ya, they are advancing smoothly within their system, fully backed by group resources, and currently doing quite well.

It's different for the two from Aunt Song Wu's family; raised by their grandmother Liu Fen and never lacking money thanks to their mother Song Wu.

Their two cousins, Song Chaoqun and Song Siming, have caused quite a lot of trouble, both in school and likely in society in the future.

Old Chen Family has developed into the second generation now; the best part of having more family members is being able to selectively cultivate them.

No longer needing to pin all hopes on a single person as before.

Chen Pingsheng has a clear small goal: in the third generation, there must be five with the Chen surname.

Each person should have two or three children; this standard would have been considered quite sparse back in the sixties.

When Song Yanxi returned, after the family finished dinner, Chen Pingsheng took Chen Jiye for a walk.

The village-in-the-city was still bustling with activity, mostly emanating from its market-like atmosphere.

There's Old Zhang with his stall, crowded streets, and Liu Wang running around looking for a girlfriend.

This hustle and bustle of people coming and going collectively make up the village-in-the-city.

The buildings in the village-in-the-city lacked unified planning, with many being early resettlement apartments.

Now that the real estate industry is sluggish, housing prices haven't dropped to a level that ordinary people can accept.

Especially in such mega-cities, a decent apartment outside starts at thirty to forty thousand per square meter.

Far beyond the average income of ordinary people.

These hardworking migrant workers, unable to afford apartments within the community, often crowd into these packed resettlement areas like the village-in-the-city.

Peng City, within the four mega-cities, has the smallest land area.

But it has a significant number of factories and migrant workers, being the earliest area for reform and opening up, close to Xiangjiang.

With such an advantageous geographical position, it's hard not to develop.

Little Ji Ye has quite a few friends in the village-in-the-city. One is Yang Peng, whose mother is a nanny and father works on a construction site.

Another one is Liu Chao, both not yet five years old.

Liu's father, like him, works as a security guard in the community, while his mother runs a stall there.

Little Ji Ye likes to play with these two in the evenings; all a bit naughty and mischievous.

The home of Chen Pingsheng could be considered the best living condition in the village-in-the-city.

With a tea room on the rooftop and some plants, the living space is quite large. Many people joke with Little Ji Ye that if there's ever demolition, his family would be on their way to riches.

The big demolition has been going on for decades, and what could be demolished has already been demolished, leaving what's left stubbornly resistant to change.

Little Ji Ye hasn't felt much impact; his most vivid memories are of an unreliable mom, a dad collecting junk, and a grandfather holding up the family as a security guard.

It's roughly this situation; a broken family he's destined to save in the future.

The safety of the village-in-the-city can't compare to high-end communities; primarily because most people here come from all sorts of places.

Family safety isn't a concern for Chen Pingsheng.

The village-in-the-city itself has at least a hundred hidden bodyguards.

These people live in various corners of the village-in-the-city, with real-time monitoring of the entire area. They rarely appear but turn into good Samaritans the moment something happens.

Ensuring they can reach an incident site within three minutes.

And whenever an outsider comes in, the security affairs team immediately conducts a background check.

To ensure no dangerous individuals come within two kilometers of Little Ji Ye and his family.

That's the benefit of having money; the efficiency exceeds dialing 110 by more than ten times.

All the bodyguards are retired military personnel, possessing exceptionally high reconnaissance skills.

They work in three shifts a day to ensure there are no lapses in time coverage.

Each bodyguard earns a minimum annual salary of three hundred thousand, with performance bonuses bringing that total up over six hundred thousand annually.

The only performance criterion is that no accidents occur at home.

Such a level of family security is undoubtedly one of the highest in the world.

Just within the village-in-the-city, their family's annual security expenses are no less than 150 million.

The little housekeeper Liu Qingqing naturally knows about these things, which lets her live peacefully in such a crowded and noisy place.

And… take care of Chen Family's legitimate heir, Little Ji Ye.

The next day, when Chen Pingsheng went to work at nine in the morning, most of the security team had arrived.

All except Chen Pingsheng are mostly middle-aged or older, and the few young ones leave soon due to the boring routine of security work.

Besides watching the gate, they usually just patrol around the community.

"Old Chen, do you have any cash on you? Lend me five hundred."

"Sure, I'll send it to you later."

"Hey, thanks, I'll repay it as soon as I get paid."

This guy comes and goes quickly and has borrowed money several times.

He hasn't really repaid it.

"Old Chen, why lend money to Old Zhou again? You know he spends all that on tipping female streamers."

Times have changed, but many still enjoy tipping female streamers online.

The difference now is, in the same city, tipping over three to five hundred usually gets you an add on WeChat.

As for those one-time private services, it all depends on the negotiation of the price.

An open secret, one-time services are a no-go unless wanting to fool a fool into tipping.

"I know!"

"You know and still lend?"

"What's the problem, it's just a few hundred bucks?"

"You are generous indeed."

It's trivial; some folks are just like that, liking to borrow a little money here and there.

You lend to them, and they really appreciate it.

It's way better than some relatives.

Security routines are limited too, drinking together after work, or chatting about which female homeowner looks better during work.

If she were to take a liking to old Zhang, he'd make sure she wouldn't be able to leave the bed for three days.

Yeah… lots of cheeky words too.

But it's all just fantasies; those wealthy and beautiful female homeowners wouldn't even glance at them.

Even if they helped them, a simple "thank you" would already be polite.

People may say there's no class distinction, but work has already classified people.

Chen Pingsheng does this work primarily for Little Ji Ye to see, while also finding something to do with his retirement time.

It's quite alright.

Before he could finish speaking, something came up at the property management.

An idle drunk resident aggressively reported security for not helping him carry his garbage upstairs.

This isn't even in their scope of duty.