Chapter 23

Translated by boilpoil Edited by boilpoil

Shao Yanxi doesn’t reply. After a short while, he looks up at Liu Yu’an who is staring down at him from on high with an angry expression.

He is slightly taken aback, and is also slightly angry, and even feels a bit wronged.

He thinks that Liu Yu’an is the one to suddenly like him and suddenly tell him he can’t look for other people. So when he finally replies he just coldly says, “yeah.”

“…Yeah?! You seriously saying you’re busy???” Liu Yu’an is so furious he’s sniggering.

He does not notice how Shao Yanxi feels wronged at all, and turns his chair to face him directly, “Shao Yanxi, just one thing first. We are still in a marriage relationship right?”

Shao Yanxi does not reply, nor does Liu Yu’an wait for him to. He says, staring straight into his eyes, “we haven’t divorced, so do you know what this action is called? This is called having an affair. Shao Yanxi, you’re having an affair.”

Hearing that makes Shao Yanxi suddenly recall his own father and his face goes pale.

Liu Yu’an notices it and knits his brows slightly, but is still determined to finish what he’s saying, “in business terms, you’ve betrayed our contract.”

Shao Yanxi bites his lips a bit and then leans back into his chair, saying directly to Liu Yu’an, “yes, I’m having an affair.”

“And you feel there’s nothing wrong with that?” Liu Yu’an is positively fuming.

“Is there?” Shao Yanxi says coldly, “if you don’t even like me then why can’t I look for somebody else.”

“What? I don’t even like you???”

Liu Yu’an bursts. He leans onto Shao Yanxi and grips his chin, and says, “Shao Yanxi, do you even have a heart in that chest? Ever since we’ve married, you don’t want to sleep with me so I went to the guest room. You don’t like others in your house so I ended up doing all the chores. Every day I kept coming up with good recipes for you, pick you off work, try to make you happy. Do you seriously think that I, Liu Yu’an, would fucking do that for just anybody? With all the effort I spent even a wolf’d be tamed into a dog, and you dare say I don’t like you? What the hell? And you, what did you do? You wanted to divorce me on day one after marriage. Then you always gave me that cold expressionless face like I was your enemy. Great, now you’ve gone straight ahead to look for a toy boy…”

Meanwhile, Shao Yanxi starts to well up in his eyes. And Liu Yu’an is, as expected, shocked.

“Shit!” He quickly lets his grip go and starts wiping his tears, “please stop crying! I was wrong, ok? I shouldn’t have yelled, I’m not going to yell anymore, so don’t cry.”

Liu Yu’an is seriously in shock.

The original novel only wrote about how cruel and unforgiving Shao Yanxi was, but there was nothing about him crying.

And… He has never had to cheer a crying person up!

That is when Shao Yanxi orders with a nasal tone, “kiss me.”

“Let’s wipe that snot off first,” Liu Yu’an reflexively says.

Then, his heart freezes for a moment, oh no.

Shao Yanxi pushes him off the next second, yelling, “leave!”

“Alright alright, I’ll kiss you,” Liu Yu’an quickly leans in and kisses Shao Yanxi.

To be honest, Shao Yanxi just had rather active tear glands. There isn’t actually snot.

Shao Yanxi’s lips felt different from him. It’s soft, with a refreshing, minty taste.

Liu Yu’an is hooked, and kisses for a rather long while, but Shao Yanxi doesn’t push him away until he has difficulty breathing.

When their breathing goes back to normal, Liu Yu’an pushes Shao Yanxi’s boss chair to the sofa and he himself sits on the sofa’s armrest, and asks him, “tell me, why did you look for celebrities?”

Then, a lightbulb suddenly flashes in his head and he asks further, “could it be that I wasn’t fulfilling your needs?”

Why else would one need a toyboy.

Shao Yanxi does not answer, and turns his chair away and says expressionlessly, “I’m going to work.”

“Come back,” Liu Yu’an pulls him back along with his chair.

“Answer me.”

“I’m 26.”

Shao Yanxi answers rather indirectly, but Liu Yu’an gets it, and then he sniggers again, saying, “who was it that told me to sleep in the guest room?”

Shao Yanxi does not answer. He told him to go to the guest room, but didn’t say he didn’t want him touching him. So isn’t it he who doesn’t want to…

Liu Yu’an does not ask any further and says, “fine, we’ll make up for the last stage of the wedding ceremony tonight.”

“But before that, I think I should make something clear. One, no more celebrities or toyboys or hustlers or whatever. Two, when I’m off at work I’d video call you at least three times a day. If you’re busy when I called, you must reply as soon as you’re free. Three, from today onwards, if I’m not at work I’d deliver you meals and pick you up from work. If I’m at work then every week you must at least come visit me once… Don’t say you’re too busy. I know you promoted lots of vice executives.”

“Any questions?” Liu Yu’an asks.

“No.” Shao Yanxi replies. He also wants to see Liu Yu’an anyway.

“Good. Then if any rule is breached, especially number one, then I’ll film you being slapped on the buttcheek and put it on loop on the LED display outside your company building for a week.”

“You can’t,” just imaging that scene makes Shao Yanxi’s face go red then green then red again. What a colour display.

“What, so you still want a toyboy or you don’t want to see me?”

Shao Yanxi “…”

“Whatever.” He’s a bit mad again.

“Good,” Liu Yu’an pretends he doesn’t see Shao Yanxi getting angry, “I’ll use your computer for a bit.”

Then, as Shao Yanxi looked on curiously, Liu Yu’an opens a new Word file and writes down the rules one by one.

“What are you doing?” Shao Yanxi asks.

“Write it down so that we don’t forget.”

Shao Yanxi “…” You’re just bullying me at this point, and you make it sound like you’re the victim.

The contract is written, with the proper technical terms for all parties involved. Liu Yu’an prints out two copies and takes Shao Yanxi’s pen, singing them, then handing it over.

“Sign it.”

Shao Yanxi does not move.

“You don’t like them?” Liu Yu’an asks.

Shao Yanxi writes down his own name with a scary face.

He thought it’d be done with this, but Liu Yu’an then points to his drawer, “stamp.”

“I’ve signed already!” Shao Yanxi glares at Shao Yanxi angrily.

“You’ve signed already so you might as well stamp it,” he pulls the drawer open and puts the stamp into Shao Yanxi’s hand, and raises his chin at him, “do it.”

Shao Yanxi’s anger is reflected in how angrily he stamped onto his own name.

Then Liu Yu’an says, “my stamp isn’t here so I’ll do it later, but don’t worry, I’ll never betray you,” he says, praising Shao Yanxi as well, “look at how handsome and capable our Yanxi is over here. I would have to be mad to look for toyboys. Don’t worry.”

Then he hands one of the contracts to Shao Yanxi, “keep it.” And keeps the other one for himself. After that he asks, “it’s noon already, are you hungry? What do you want to eat?”

“I don’t want anything,” he’s angered enough to be full already.

“That wouldn’t do,” Liu Yu’an chuckles seeing how dark Shao Yanxi’s expression is.

“Let’s go, we’ll eat outside today,” he pulls Shao Yanxi out of his chair and walks out of the office.

Outside, the celebrities have been sent away by assistant He already.

It’s pretty unfortunate for them too, to be woken up early in the day by their agents and some not even knowing what’s going on before heading to the company, since the whole sugar daddy culture isn’t widespread there. The ones doing it had to pull their own connections. They only knew it was such a deal when CEO Ning informed them of such. Many were reluctant then, but of course, there’s still the few that’s willing.

But then CEO Ning just says, “don’t worry. You’re just going to meet him for once. He probably wouldn’t think any of you are good-looking enough anyway.

“…”

“Seriously, he’s more handsome than anyone present. I suspect if you’re there you might be the one begging him to have a go. And don’t worry, even if he does somehow like one of you, if you aren’t willing he would never force you to.”

With that, other than a few hardliners, most of them chose to at least go and see. Then, they ended up meeting Shao Yanxi.

That Shao Yanxi had sent most of his family into jail is not something known outside of high society. All they know is that Shao Yanxi is this year’s fresh wealthiest man of the world, and is better-looking than any of them. They’re moved.

Unfortunately, they couldn’t move much before Liu Yu’an chased them out.

Some of them are reluctant to let the chance go and someone decides to try capitalise on that ‘name in registry’ thing Liu Yu’an said, and asks the assistant about it.

Since Assistant He isn’t sure whether both his boss and Liu Yu’an wanted to go public, he decides to skirt the topic and says, “it is best that you forget what happened today. The company will compensate you for the trouble.”

In other words, if they poked this out then the consequences might be more than they can handle.

Although the celebrities aren’t afraid of Liu Yu’an, but the words of Shao Yanxi’s assistant is still pretty effective. Besides, they’ll be compensated, probably in the form of work, which is what they’d have wanted coming to see Shao Yanxi for anyway.

So everyone leaves obediently, but still, a few of them complain along the way, “no wonder Liu Yu’an can keep freeloading and act pompously without the company doing anything. If he has that big of a connection who would blablabla …”

Some of them murmur agreement, but others have sensed something from how Liu Yu’an just went in and said they’re formally registered, which means they’re a couple, which means… Liu Yu’an himself is likely from the same upper circle of society as Shao Yanxi is to be able to do that.

While they calm their shocked selves down they decide that if they saw Liu Yu’an in the future they must at least keep it cordial even if they can’t be friends.

If not, then not just the entertainment industry, but they might meet trouble way beyond what they could handle.

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