Annoying Zhao GongziCh13 - Cause and Consequence

End of Season 1! Warning: child (? if a twenty plus man still counts as a child….) beating

Edited by: Akane, Fallen, Junyans, Pierce, Vic Y1qynQ


I moved back to mine and Zhao Gongzi’s apartment, then went to get our dog back from Jin Xian’er. Jin Xian’er was unwilling to return him. When we were at his door he told us that Hamm had run away by accident once when the door was open. Just as he finished speaking, the sound of a dog barking came from inside. We all felt very awkward. 

 

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Jin Xian’er could only open the door and let Hamm out.

Hamm came out and wagged his tail when he saw me and Zhao Gongzi, then once he finished wagging his tail he stuck to Jin Xian’er’ legs. He wouldn’t let go even if we dragged him. Now, we were even more awkward.  9gMtIp

 

Zhao Gongzi said, “Let him continue taking care of it, this way we save money.”

 

 

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It’s true that we should save money now, Master Zhao Si isn’t giving Zhao Gongzi any allowance anymore. What’s more, he didn’t let him continue working as a manager and his office was even given to Hao Da.

But I don’t believe we need to be too worried though, Hao Da was going to be scared to death by Zhao Gongzi’s expression very soon. 

But Zhao Gongzi was very worried, when he went and helped me move my luggage back home, he observed the place I’d been renting earlier. Then he had nightmares for a full week, afraid that he and I would have to move into a place like that when we ran out of money. 

I comforted him, but he still didn’t want to believe it. And so I didn’t know how to tell him that when we ran out of money we very likely wouldn’t even be able to afford a place like that. Ig7v9r

 

Before things got to that level, I decided not to tell him. 

 

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Master Zhao Si thought that the nursery was too small, and wasn’t big enough to house his darling daughter. So, he told Zhao Gongzi to take his stuff from his room at the manor and move it down to the attic with Zhao San, Zhao Wu and Qiu Yixin’s stuff. Zhao Gongzi was no longer his obedient, considerate youngest child, that infant who could only blow bubbles was. 

We took advantage of the time when Master Zhao Si wasn’t at home to go over and clear out the stuff, and I saw the marathon champion trophy. 

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I have some not-so-great memories. 

 

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At that time, I was too jealous of Zhao Gongzi. Not only was I jealous that he’d gotten first place, I was also jealous that Master Zhao Si had paid from his own pocket and gotten through with the marathon community to switch the first-place trophy with one that was made out of pure gold, in order to reward him for getting his first and very possibly last first place.  mqrt1A

Good thing that I had pushed Zhao Gongzi, and hadn’t accepted his yield back then, otherwise I would have become a first-place winner with a gilded gold trophy, and Zhao Gongzi would have become the second-place winner with a pure gold trophy. The newspapers would have mocked me for a month. 

 

Zhao Gongzi really was annoying. 

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That day, I was keeping a fake smile on and trying to appear cheerful. At night, when I  could finally go to my room, I found that the trophy was on my desk. 

 

In order to prevent others from saying I’d stolen the trophy out of jealousy, I took the trophy to Zhao Gongzi’s room and asked him what the situation was.  7hKCgN

Zhao Gongzi said, “You have so many trophies, why don’t you just put them together? I just have this one anyway, so there’s no fucking use in keeping it.”

I didn’t want it, so I put it on his desk, then walked away. 

 

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He swore at me, “Fucking hell, do you have a problem?! Don’t you want it? If you want it then just fucking take it!”

“If you didn’t participate, then I would have won.”

“Do you have a problem?! Obviously Laozi is going to participate, gotta anger you to death! If you have the guts, then hit Laozi!”

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This type of invitation was really interesting, so I punched him. 

 

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He stopped cursing at me and even completely stopped moving. 

If he didn’t move, then I was too embarrassed to hit him one-sidedly, so I could only stop moving too and put my all into kissing him.  Gj k7K

 

After a long while, I heard Master Zhao Si in the living room smashing things and cursing at San Ge. It was only then that my mind cleared, I let go of him and sat with him on the bed. The situation was extremely awkward. 

 

Zhao Gongzi coldly asked, “Who did you learn that from?” tnw96D

I said, “Instinct.”

Zhao Gongzi coldly said, “How come I don’t have such a skilled instinct?”

I said, “It’s ok, you just need to diligently practice.”

Zhao Gongzi coldly asked, “Who did you diligently practice with?” 3Bs2kR

I said, “It’s natural for me, but you need to diligently practice.”

 

Zhao Gongzi turned around and grabbed my shirt collar to start diligently practicing. 

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That time was drab and gloomy. It was the first time Zhao Gongzi was interested in his studies, it was also the first time he’d gone over any new material before the teacher’s next class. When he thrusted against me, I realized that things were not quite right, but he said that in the future he would wash my pants, so I endured it. Afterwards, I found out that he still just threw my pants, as well as his pants, and all his other clothes and shoes to the servants to wash. I fought with him again, and didn’t hang out with him for a long time after that. 

 

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What happened on my 18th birthday was an accident. I didn’t invite Zhao Gongzi, I only invited my friends to go out on an outing to admire the spring. After some time went by as we went on the outing, Professor Lin said that he would invite us out for drinks. As we were drinking, Zhao Gongzi passed by for some reason, and by his side was a fashionably dressed lady.

Doing as Zhao Gongzi did is wrong, he and I weren’t people of the same crowd, and I wouldn’t be outside on a date with someone wandering about in the middle of the night. As such, I woke up, bade everyone goodbye and departed for home.

 

Only when I got home did I remember that today there was a blackout, Master Zhao Si and everyone all went to stay in hotels.  5dG7gr

 

Zhao Gongzi swore at me, “Fuck! It’s your fault again!”

“I didn’t ask you to come back with me,” I said. 

“Does Laozi need your permission to come back home? Who the hell do you think you are? You’re just someone Laozi picked up, the day that Laozi’s not happy, Laozi could even kill you!” LZ o1x

 

He swore at me for fifteen minutes and seemed like he had no plans of stopping. 

 

The darkness and alcohol made me furious, the rage made me brave, the bravery made me turn towards evil, and so I wanted to take advantage of such a good opportunity and do him in.   xm3MTS

 

We started fighting again. 

As we fought, I was done in by him. 

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The next day we both awoke to the sounds of things being smashed. There were many people crowded around the sofa. The scene was very awkward, and also very dangerous.

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Why didn’t I really die yesterday night when I thought that I was going to die? Why couldn’t Zhao Gongzi have gone to his bedroom to sleep? Why is the Earth round? Why is the Sun hot? Why is everyone just staring at us? Why can Zhao Gongzi cover my face with only one hand?  Afhd96

 

  

 

Master Zhao Si had almost beaten me to death.  TmZECb

 

Zhao Gongzi said that yesterday he bumped into some weirdo who seemed to be someone Master Zhao Si had gone on a date with. That person insisted on dragging Zhao Gongzi somewhere to have a drink, then once he finished drinking he went home and found that I was asleep on the sofa. He thought back to the way that I usually riled him up, and so the darkness and alcohol made him furious, the rage made him brave, the bravery made him turn towards evil, and so he wanted to take advantage of such a good opportunity and do me in, and then successfully did me in.  

Forced by the situation, and also because yesterday night I drank too much, I even wondered if what he said was what had actually happened. So I nodded and said, yes that’s right, that’s what happened. 

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Master Zhao Si was still angry, but a call came and interrupted him. It was the mayor, so he had no choice but to lock me and Zhao Gongzi in the office and go take the call.

 

 

After he’d left, Zhao Gongzi looked at me. “What are you thinking? Let’s chat.” Gp5o8w

This is the first time that he suggested having a chat with me, if this chat didn’t go well, this could well become the last time in my life that I’d ‘chat’ with someone. 

 

 

And so I thought about it for a long time and said, “Last night we were both drunk.” f2Uzhr

Zhao Gongzi interrupted me, “I wasn’t drunk.”

“Then what were you thinking?” I asked. 

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“Fuck, I’m asking you what you were thinking.”

“In this new era, there are new ideologies and worldviews, we shouldn’t be too traditional and backwards.” 6L580c

Zhao Gongzi coldly asked, “What do you mean?”

 

“We’ll just act as if it didn’t happen, messing around after getting drunk is something that is inevitable in life.” 

Zhao Gongzi coldly asked, “How many times have you messed around then?” NTSX6f

“At the moment, only once.”

Zhao Gongzi coldly said, “There won’t be a second time.”

“That’s what I was thinking too. There won’t be a next time.” 

Zhao Gongzi coldly said, “I’m saying there won’t be a second time. If you mess around with someone apart from me, then I’ll kill you.”  isHjyp

Zhao Gongzi said,“Only Laozi can sleep with you.”

Zhao Gongzi said,“I still want to sleep with you.”

 

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I didn’t want to stay in this type of relationship with him, and so subtly hinted at him, “Although I advocate for the new ideologies and ethics, I’m still unable to completely do away with the old traditions. Last night we were drunk, so that’s that, but now that we’re both sober, I don’t want to be together without ample preparation and ceremony.”

Zhao Gongzi tightly furrowed his brows, and stared at me for a long time.  Vq3lE4

 

I continued to remain kneeling on the floor, back straight like a rod. 

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Zhao Gongzi finally opened his mouth. “I got it, you’re so fucking fussy.” AbYHVu

 

Just as I was about to ask him what he ‘got’, Master Zhao Si opened the door and walked in, then asked, “What do you ‘get’, hmm?”

 

Zhao Gongzi straightened his back and continued to kneel. He said he’d suddenly changed his mind. At first, he only wanted to give me some money and tell me to scram, but now he decided he wanted to marry me.  AiNV7q

 

Master Zhao Si said, “You’re fucking crazy!”

Zhao Gongzi said that even if they beat him to death, he wasn’t going to change his mind. 

I was afraid that Master Zhao Si was going to beat me to death!  qyb0I6

 

Master Zhao Si did indeed want to beat me to death. He got people to drag Zhao Gongzi out of the room and got others to put a burlap bag on my head, in preparation for throwing me into the ocean and drowning me. 

 

Zhao Gongzi screamed and screeched with all his heart, and finally got Thirteenth Madame to arrive.  AuBL8f

 

Thirteenth Madame was thankful towards me for having helped Zhao Gongzi slim down as well as many other things, added with seeing as how torn up Zhao Gongzi was about it, plus, the resentment and anger that was caused by Master Zhao Si going on a date with a lady who worked at customs two weeks ago rose to the forefront of her mind– all this stacked together and caused extreme discontent in her heart. And so, she burst out

 

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I was locked away in the basement. Zhao Gongzi was dragged away by Master Zhao Si to some other location to break one of his arms. He then came down to the basement to open the door with a cast on. 

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If this was a movie, then he and I would have hugged each other while romantic music played in the background, then kissed and gotten entangled together. But we did not do that, not only because I believed that this was a huge misunderstanding, but also because I hate being locked down in the basement.  eKiIA3

 

So when he opened the door, I was recalling, face filled with terror, my childhood traumas in a dark corner of the basement. The instant that the light shone in from the opened door, I was not only extremely excited, but my eyes were also pierced by the light, and my tears started to fall uncontrollably. 

I didn’t even get to explain before Zhao Gongzi had already further misunderstood.

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He turned his head back and shouted, word by word, to Master Zhao Si, “I’m! Not! Breaking! Up! With! Him! Anymore! I’m! Going! To! Marry! Him! Even! If! You! Beat! Us! To! Death!!”

Master Zhao Si’s expression darkened, and I sincerely cried in fear. 

Yet Zhao Gongzi was still swearing at me. “Don’t fucking cry! Goddamn coward! Whatever happens, I won’t leave you, don’t cry, if worse comes to worst we’ll die together!” vWXLNV

Go die by yourself! 

 

Master Zhao Si broke one of Zhao Gongzi’s ribs right in front of me. 

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Trapped by morals, though mainly because of threats and bribes, because of all these numerous reasons, Zhao Gongzi and I started living together. 

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Reminiscing about the past is really unbearable.

 

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Zhao Gongzi asked me, “What are you thinking about, looking at that trophy?” 27d1kE

“I’m thinking that you really are very annoying.” 

Zhao Gongzi cursed at me, “Fu——mph.

 

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I wiped my mouth with my hand, then continued moving things. 

 

Zhao Gongzi muttered softly, “What a weirdo.”


The author has something to say:  wGz9Pa

First season of this slight republican era au setting comedy (?) is complete

If there’s a second season it’ll depend on fate/, 233(laugh), if there is then I’ll just randomly post (in any case, this was a sporadic posting anyways -W-)


Rinrin: Season 1 is done~~ Off to the next hhh. This season’s plot is more present to the story, the next season’s content is more slice of life and stuff, now that we’ve gotten to know the main charas we’re just getting more info on them and the people around them

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强颜欢笑=forcefully express a happy smile; to put on a mask of happiness and normalcy when you feel anything but happy

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气死你=anger you to death; means to piss you off to an extreme; a common phrase, (also it’s a hyperbole, so it’s not as harsh as it sounds

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踏青

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醒悟=woke up as in waking up from a trance-like state

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(off the streets)

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老子哪天不高兴都可以抽死你= as in, if a day comes when Zhao Gongzi’s not happy, he would even be able to beat Yixin to death (in bed, maybe, except Yixin is a lot more….adventurous than Zhao Long, so that’s also unlikely)

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恶向胆边生; a part of the phrase 怒从心上起,恶向胆边生=Anger surges and an intense hatred suddenly arises; meaning when extreme anger is felt, a person could be pushed to do any damn thing, even when it’s illegal or wicked

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干掉他=the pun is that this can both mean to ‘end’ him, in a killing death way, but it can also be another way to say 干他, which is ‘do him’; as in a sexual way

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我以为我快死了的时候; this is referring to NSFW ‘dying’ of course. E.I. dying from the pleasure

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无媒苟合=指结婚没有明媒正娶“三茶六礼”=a (archaic) term where you marry without the proper customs (明媒正娶=properly wedded) where the customs are to have 三茶六礼=which are gift-giving traditions (six) and meetings(three) you are supposed to go through

A link to an article with more in-depth explanations into the traditions= https://popcultureanthropology.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/the-resilience-and-flexibility-of-chinese-traditions-three-letters-six-etiquettes-and-tea-ceremonies/

Anyways, the important thing is, this term is something 100% about marrying, which someone of Yixin’s academic background would absolutely know

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你妈的屁事好多; while my choice sounds smoother, in the original it’s more like ‘you fucking have so many fussy problems’

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你知道了什么?=What do you know, hmm?; because 知道 is know; but since I used got it before, I had to keep consistency

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撕心裂肺地叫喊=scream and shout as if ripping their heart and tearing their lungs

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发作了=had an outburst

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 往事真是不堪回首=Past happenings cannot be reminisced

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cute

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sound of Zhao Gongzi getting kissed and the rest of his sentence getting muffled

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有病吧=are you a weirdo/crazy

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6 comments

  1. Thanks for the hard work!

    So does his dad “accept” their relationship or not? Cuz sometimes it seems like he does and then sometimes not.

  2. In those days , it’s lawless, only those “generals” and rich traids rules. But both ML and MC are just too awkwardly cute. Thank you

  3. Their relationship is complicated but beautiful, you can feel the depth of it, if it weren’t for their circumstances maybe things would be “easier” for them, anyway, I wasn’t expecting this as I laughed in the first few chapters at their dynamic. Thanks! 😊