Edited by: Akane, Fallen, Pierce, Vic
Warning: child (? if a twenty-plus man still counts as a child….) beating
Zhao Gongzi said, “Let’s just jump down from here, maybe there’s a chance of surviving. When my dad’s angry, he’ll beat people to death.”
“Shut up.”
Zhao Gongzi said, “Fuck, it’s all your fault. You’re the one making a fuss every day.”
“I didn’t force you to come.”
Zhao Gongzi said, “You even gave away Laozi’s dog.”
“You and I are about to die, stop thinking about the dog.”
“Fuck, you never take charge of things, it’s always Laozi who has to take charge. Getting a dog was your idea too, but after two days you gave it to me. You’re the one who wanted to sleep together too, but then after we slept together you just said a bunch of stuff about the new societal way of thinking, new your mom’s head!”
“Back then I was drunk and mistook you for someone else.”
Zhao Gongzi asked, “Where the hell can you find another person who dares to have the name Zhao Long in the whole city? You screamed Zhao Long for half the night.”
“Shut up, I can see the Old Master.”
Master Zhao Si and co. were at the harbour this whole time and hadn’t left, once they saw that the ship was coming back, they had even less reason to leave.
“You’ll be beaten to death by my dad.”
“Zhao Long, protect me.”
Zhao Gongzi asked, “Can you make a telephone call on this ship?”
“I don’t remember Thirteen madame’s telephone number.”
“Fuck, this time I’m going to get killed because of you. I’m going to be beaten to death by my dad too, everytime my dad hits me, it’s your fault, fuck.”
“In times like this, we need to stick together.”
“Fine.”
“Actually, I remember Jin Xian’er’ telephone number.”
Zhao Gongzi swore at me, “Once Laozi gets down, Laozi’s going to kill you!”
It’s not as if I memorized it on purpose. It’s just that, one time, Jin Xian’er had made a song with his phone number and would sing it whenever he saw me. Jin Xian’er’s voice is so nice.
“Go to hell.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Zhao Gongzi and I were detained and taken into the back seat of the sedan, fell silent for a long time, and decided to fight.
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Master Zhao Si put the gun above the dashboard of the sedan. Me and Zhao Gongzi fell silent and calmed down at that.
I said, “I’m sorry Old Master, my feelings for Xiao Long are serious.”
Zhao Gongzi said, “It doesn’t have anything to do with him, he’s not the boss of me, I wanted to do this myself.”
Master Zhao Si said, “Shut up.”
Zhao Gongzi and I kneeled in the study, and were being beaten.
Zhao Gongzi was hugging me, so it was mostly him that was being beaten. Yet he still yelled at me, “Fuck, can’t you even pretend as if you’re taking on some of it for me?! OW! It hurts, Dad, not so hard!”
I’m afraid of pain, Master Zhao Si would definitely hit me harder than he would hit Zhao Gongzi.
“I love you, Zhao Long.”
Zhao Gongzi cursed at me, “Fuck, hide better and tuck in. Don’t move, or else you’ll get hit!”
Uncle Da Li cursed at me, “Qiu Yixin, you bastard!”
Zhao Gongzi cursed at him, “You’re the one who’s a bas——dad that hurts! You hit my skin again!”
Master Zhao Si cursed at him, “You need a good beating, Laozi’s beaten you too little, and got you spoiled! If Laozi doesn’t beat you to death today I swear, Zhao Long, your mother ……”
“What is this about Zhao Long’s mother?”
I telepathically told Zhao Gongzi to hang in there, we had hope of being saved.
We heard Thirteenth Madame before seeing her. “Ah, my Xiao Long! I was in labour for a whole day before giving birth to you! If I knew early on that you were going to be beaten and suffer after I gave birth to you, then why did I have to give birth to you?! Husband, keep hitting! Hit me first! I didn’t raise your son properly! There’s no use hitting him, hit me! Otherwise, who knows, I’ll do a bad job of raising this future child of yours too! After all, it’s alright, there are plenty of young girls outside! Oh, girls who graduated from the European academy are much better after all. They’re much better at bringing up children than me, a backwards old societal woman like me who climbed out of a window, eloped and married someone to become a wife among wives! Those that elope should be punished by pig caging! I should have been caged a long time ago! That way I wouldn’t have given birth to a little bastard that would make you angry, oh husband!”
All steps for Master Zhao Si were wrong right now, so he put on a gruff face and said, “It’s all because he was spoiled by you, who told you to come here? Weren’t you at the hospital awaiting delivery?”
Thirteenth Madame replied, “Mother and child are connected. When my Xiao Long is hit, I feel pain. Xiao Long, if you’re beaten then it’s your mom’s fault for not teaching you properly, in the next life——”
Master Zhao Si, expression dark and stormy, asked her, “In the next life what?”
Thirteenth Madame rubbed her stomach, and calmly said, “I’m going into labour, hurry up and get me to the hospital. I’m not going to give birth at home, last time I gave birth to Zhao Long at home I nearly died. Yixin, hang in there. Don’t let them scare the doctors, I’ve heard that there are some doctors that take revenge on the job.”
Mother and daughter are both safe.
Oh! A daughter! It was over for Zhao Gongzi, not only was he not the youngest anymore, he was also getting a little sister. His dad and mom won’t love him anymore. If his little sister was spoiled and unruly then that would be seen as cute and spirited, if his sister was gentle and caring then he was going to be completely given up on.
Zhao Gongzi was completely silent as he sat in the waiting hall of the hospital. He was unwilling to accept this reality.
Master Zhao Si will no longer give him money to buy those expensive and ugly clothes, and I wasn’t going to give him money to buy those expensive and ugly clothes that took up space either.
Zhao Gongzi was so pitiful.
I bought a bottle of soda for him.
He looked at me.
I said, “Your mom asked me to buy it for you, she said that before the age of three, the kid will be using your hand-me-down clothes and toys. You still win.”
Although that was in preparation for a little brother, now that it’s a little sister, everything will be newly bought.
It’s really over for Zhao Gongzi.
I said, “We’ve moved out since a long time ago. In the future, you have me. I’ll have five jobs. Apart from living expenses, the rest of the money will be for you to buy clothes. In the future, I won’t play with your little sister, I’ll avoid her with you.”
Zhao Gongzi immediately said, “Okay.”
Is he still human?
I grabbed his hand, then stayed with him sitting in the quiet hospital hallway. The room next to us was filled with Master Zhao Si’s sons, daughters, grandsons and granddaughters. They were all joyously laughing and congratulating Thirteenth Madam, complimenting her and saying her daughter was pretty, adorable and sweet.
In truth, I felt like they were too noisy and irritating too. Together with Zhao Gongzi, I’ll avoid them.
A few students walked past us, but when they saw us, they stopped and asked about San Ge’s situation. They seemed to be San Ge’s friends, friends that passed out flyers on the streets advocating the abolishment of the corrupt generals and government.
I told them that San Ge went to the capital’s university. They too longed to go, and said that that was the center of the country where the talents gathered to push forwards the winds of change and the ideas of the new era converged with passion. They were also planning on going, that place was full of passion, independence, and the pursuit of freedom; any youth of the new era would want to go there.
I watched as they passionately discussed the issue as they walked away, and had a crazy idea.
I asked Zhao Gongzi, “Have you ever been invited to——”
Zhao Gongzi said, “Shut up.”
Zhao Gongzi said, “I don’t want to trick my mom and dad.”
Zhao Gongzi said, “But they were wrong first, so they can’t blame me for being unfilial. I’m not listening to them anymore.”
Zhao Gongzi said, “Let’s wait three months until my mom’s done with her nursing period, then we’ll go.”
“Then let’s wait half a year, and let Thirteenth Madam rest for a while so as to not anger her.”
Zhao Gongzi replied, “No, my mom won’t be angry. Three months is enough, as long as my mom can get out of bed and walk over to stop my dad from beating us to death, we can try out a road. After San Ge and Zhao Wu ran away, my dad’s been warier and warier, and right now he’s even more so towards me. At most it’ll be like San Ge, getting a broken leg or a concussion, it’ll heal in a few months. Don’t be afraid.”
Me: “………”
I was a little afraid now.
Zhao Gongzi cursed at me. “Fuck! Spineless coward! Laozi’s never seen someone as spineless as you!”
“Don’t always swear at me.”
Zhao Gongzi swore at me. “You deserve it! And should get hit! ”
I said if he had the courage then he should hit me right now, if he didn’t hit me then he had to take on my last name.
Zhao Gongzi took off his coat, unbuttoned some buttons and rolled up his sleeves, then collapsed onto the bench. He said the place he was hit by Master Zhao Si started hurting, ah it hurts so much, so very much, he was in agony, it hurt so much he couldn’t breathe.
How could anyone become as annoying as this?
I had no other choice than to continue helping him apply the medicine. What’s more, he even asked me to blow on the boo-boo. Blow the heck blow. I checked and saw that there were no bystanders, and so randomly blew a few breaths. He said that my breath was too strong and that it had blown away all the medicinal powder, and asked me if I didn’t want his wounds to get better and was purposefully trying to kill him.
I’ve truly never met anyone more annoying than him.
Rinrin: I agree. You’re both so cute.
Akane: Don’t know whose IQ has gone offline… Maybe both?
Vic: deffo both
thank you for the chapter ❤❤❤
These two clowns.. 😍
I shared it because I think whilst the interaction between them might seem toxic or seems like there is no love…that isn’t true actually. Yixin truly loves his annoying Gongzi so much so that he sometimes hurts him with words. Other hand the himbo Gonzi is like a fool who is madly in love with him but also likes to annoy Yixin. Though one thing is for sure with their interactions I feel like I’m reading about a couple who are at their wits end. That’s why translator was right. They have low IQ lol
The more they fight, the closer their hearts get, ah <3
thanks for the chapter <3