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Chapter 5




Translated by boilpoil Edited by boilpoil
Liu Yu’an has no idea he’s been ripped to shreds somewhere online.
He got the coffee, one with extra sugar for Shao Yanxi too, then makes his way back to Shao Yanxi’s office.
In the office, there’s a bald middle-aged man reporting on his work. He pauses on seeing Liu Yu’an.
Liu Yu’an puts the coffee by Shao Yanxi’s side and points to the resting room, “I’ll be inside,” and enters it.
At about four, Liu Yu’an bought some health supplements in the supermarket outside.
He can go home empty-handed, sure, but that’s not the case for Shao Yanxi who’s visiting the in-laws for the first time after marriage.
But then when he’s back with the stuff in hand, Shao Yanxi tells him, “I had assistant He buy some earlier.”
Liu Yu’an “…”
When he sees the carnation and cosmetics for his mother, the for his father and the red wine for his older brother, he’s pretty surprised.
His mother loves doing make-up, his father loves tea, his older brother loves alcohol.
These…
Shao Yanxi really did put thoughts into it, unlike him, who’s clearly just fulfiling a social obligation.
He turns to look at Yanxi, saying, “Yanxi, thanks.”
Really, genuinely, thanks.
The person is pretty cold in appearance, but he’s actually… A really caring person.
A really, really good person.
It cannot be stressed how retarded the original cannon was.
Shao Yanxi doesn’t say anything in response, he merely enters the car, taking the driver’s seat.
Liu Yu’an follows onto the passenger’s seat.
Shao Yanxi starts the car and the two heads towards the Liu family house.
Along the way, Liu Yu’an transfers a sum of money to xiao-He, mentioning, “xiao-He, nobody else would know about this, alright?”
Xiao-He replies, “An-ge, I know, don’t worry, I wouldn’t tell anybody else.”
Then, Liu Yu’an logs onto .
He planned to directly terminate his account, but when he recalls the two ladies’ conversation back in Shao Yanxi’s company, they said the whole thing has blown up online.
So Liu Yu’an decides to take a look at the original videos to ascertain the situation.
Zhao Xian can help deal with the rest of the fallout of the news.
When he opens the creator studio, of the 32 videos uploaded, 27 depict him and Yue Zhun, and the 5 remaining depict Yue Zhun alone.
Liu Yu’an “…”
There is one with a thumbnail depicting a kiss with a creepy posture.
Liu Yu’an happens to accidentally tap it open.
He almost goes into shock but then he realises… The voice isn’t playing.
Thank goodness he already shut the voice earlier.
Thank goodness.
It feels a little bit like watching AV behind a romantic partner’s back.
He feels really guilt-ridden for some reason.
He quickly glances over at Shao Yanxi before deciding to look a few more seconds at the videos.
The kiss feels impossible as Yue Zhun is the protagonist Bottom, and the protagonist Top, Jiang He is a very overbearing, possessive person. Yue Zhun’s kiss can belong to no one but him.
A cannon fodder definitely could not have successfully kissed Yue Zhun.
And that was it, as Liu Yu’an realises that… jeez, both faces on the characters were copied and pasted.
“…”
The cannon fodder sure is good at video editing if nothing else. Just as he was thinking that, Shao Yanxi glances over at him, and happens to see ‘him’ kissing with ‘Yue Zhun.’
It’s probably a psychological feeling, but Liu Yu’an almost feels as if the atmosphere in the car has cooled by several degrees, and quickly explains as his survival instincts kick in, “Yanxi, listen, this is faked. Some fan has edited these random videos; I’ll contact the uploader to delete the videos right now.”
Shao Yanxi doesn’t say anything. When Liu Yu’an thought he’s convinced him, he suddenly says, “isn’t the uploader you?”
Liu Yu’an “…”
He says it in a tone that says it isn’t a question.
Maybe it’s better to be honest and directly apologise, so Liu Yu’an says, “I’m sorry, I really didn’t know what I was thinking before…” And quickly promises, “I promise to only make videos of you and me from now on…”
“No need,” says Shao Yanxi.
At Liu Yu’an’s home, as Shao Yanxi got off work early, his father and older brother aren’t home yet. Only his mother and several maids are home.
His mother is smiling brightly seeing the two of them.
It turns creepily big when Shao Yanxi hands the flower over saying “mom, this is for you.”
She greets him warmly, asking all about how he’s been.
As if he’s her own son, and he himself is a bonus gift from charging up the phone service.
Though Liu Yu’an is happy to see this situation, so he doesn’t interrupt.
He is carrying the gifts behind and follows them into the living room.
Liu Yu’an thought the greetings would be over soon, but it was the exact opposite, as the two engage in even more conversation.
Or rather, his mother is blabbering and Shao Yanxi is replying with concise words. He’s a good listener, though.
Nobody in their family would listen to his mother blabbering, so now that Shao Yanxi is showing receptiveness, she gets energised and is going on and on and on.
Liu Yu’an can feel his head throbbing looking on the side.
Especially when the topic shifts onto him… or rather, to the original cannon fodder.
His mother talks a whole bunch about him.
——Though at least she did remember to only mention good things about him to leave a good impression for Shao Yanxi.
He quietly listens and goes ‘mm’ every so often. Liu Yu’an can’t tell whether he likes or hates him.
It isn’t until his father is back that his mother finally stops.
Liu Yu’an thought he was finally going to get some time with Shao Yanxi.
Then, he realises he was wrong.
His father drags Shao Yanxi along to talk about investment and stuff.
Liu Yu’an “…”
He feels like he’s .
The kind that’s ignored by both parents.
The thought really manifests itself as his older brother, Liu Yuxi is home, because he also joins in on the financial conversation.
It goes on until Mrs. Ning, the maid has finished with the meal and his mother tells them to get ’round the dining table.
The three finally stop.
Then, Liu Yu’an hears Liu Yuxi ask, “eh? Since when were you here?”
Liu Yu’an “…”
Liu Yu’an thought they’d be going home after they finished dinner, but then his mother calls him over, “Yòuyòu, come over.”
“What is it? Plumpy, move over alright?” Liu Yu’an pushes the family dog away slightly with his feet, as it’s trying to cuddle him.
“Why kick it? Come over plumpy,” his mother is displeased and criticises him a bit. Then, she carries the dog upstairs.
Liu ‘ Dou E ‘ Yu’an follows.
On the third floor, Liu Yu’an sees his mother push open the door of ‘Liu Yu’an’s room.
He follows inside.
The room is tidy enough, clearly often cleaned, but the style is really, really painful to the eyes. Leopard-striped sofa, and matching bedsheet, and matching blanket…
The taste of ‘Liu Yu’an’ really is…
Thank god he doesn’t live here.
He’d have nightmares.
Or he’d puke up blood just from waking up to this scene.
And that’s not just Liu Yu’an. His mother is clearly very unimpressed with it as well. The moment she sees them, her brows are so furrowed it can probably squeeze a fly to death.
Though she must have been well-trained against them. She quickly looks over to Liu Yu’an with a normal expression and asks directly, “Yanxi and you…”
Liu Yu’an says, “we’re fine.”
“I see, good to hear,” she nods, petting Plumpy’s fur, “you’ve stopped seeing that idol, right?”
She’s the most worried about this.
Marrying Shao Yanxi meant a lot of benefits for their family, but also carried a great deal of risk.
Shao Yanxi’s personality is too black-and-white.
If there’s a grudge, he will never let it go.
If his son did anything untoward to Shao Yanxi, then not just Liu Yu’an himself, but their family would be over.
Shao Yanxi might be young, but it doesn’t show at all in his methods in the field of commerce.
“No.”
“Alright, that’s good,” she sighs in relief, “don’t contact him from now on, remember. Yanxi really is a good person, and he likes you. He will be good to you.”
It was Shao Yanxi who proposed in the first place.
Their family business happened to be running into liquidity problems, and Shao Yanxi helped then offered a lot of contracts for them as well.
They saw how sincere he was, plus Liu Yu’an hasn’t fallen in love with Liu Yu’an back then. They all agreed to it.
Nobody knew about… all the things that were to happen.
She sighs.
Liu Yu’an doesn’t know what she’s thinking, but she sounded really like a mother who’s marrying off her daughter on her wedding day.
He doesn’t say anything though, and says, “I know.”
“As long as you do,” then, she says, “alright, let’s go back down then.”
Then they exit, with Liu Yu’an following.
Downstairs, Liu Yu’an realises his father and his older brother are still bothering Shao Yanxi about investments.
Liu Yu’an “…”
His father and his older brother really… don’t know when to stop, do they?
Of course, Shao Yanxi is talented in commerce. While his family was rich, but it really was Shao Yanxi’s own work to end up the most wealthy man.
Apparently, it costs tens of millions of dollars just to arrange a meeting with Shao Yanxi according to online sources.
He really did save a lot of money for his family, didn’t he?
Maybe he can ask for some money from them?
Because he realised how poor the original cannon fodder really was.
Speaking of, Liu Yu’an suddenly recalls the numerous work he anonymously offered Yue Zhun through Zhao Xian’s company.
“Ah, my head hurts…” The original ‘Liu Yu’an’ really did a lot of dumb things, didn’t he.
He’ll have to get it all sorted tomorrow. Cut off whatever he could.
“Are you done?” Shao Yanxi raises his head to ask seeing Liu Yu’an downstairs.
Liu Yu’an isn’t sure whether he’s reading correctly from the unchanging expression that he wants to leave.
He chuckles and asks, “yeah, are you done? Want to go now?”
Then, he quickly adds just in case his father and older brother are not giving up, “it’s late today, don’t you want to talk about investments or whatever another day? We’re already family, aren’t we?”
“…”
They take a look at the clock.
20:19.
Late?
Their dissatisfaction is almost solidifying, especially his father who glares fiercely at him.
Though he doesn’t scold him in front of Shao Yanxi.
In the end, Liu Yu’an successfully drags Shao Yanxi away from his home.
On the car, Shao Yanxi ends up mute again.
To liven up the atmosphere, Liu Yu’an jokingly mentions the fact that it says online it takes tens of millions to meet Shao Yanxi.
Though Shao Yanxi unexpectedly answers, “it does.”
Liu Yu’an exclaims, “wait, what? It does?!”
“So, one and a half hours in total with both your father and your older brother. 10 million dollars per person per hour, so 30 million. I’ll offer you a 20% discount, so 24. You can just give me 25 million dollars. I want it by card.”
Shao Yanxi says, all serious in tone.
Liu Yu’an would like a word on how bad the joke is.
“I don’t have money, so I guess I’ll have to sell myself to you.”
“Too ugly, no…”
Liu Yu’an quickly retorts, “accusation denied.”
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