Edited by: Pierce, Vic
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Zhao Gongzi is a rich spoiled brat, so he just had to phone me during his work hours and talk to me for an hour about his wish to have a cat.
Zhao Gongzi also had to throw a fit while on the call. “Today’s Saturday, why the hell does Laozi have to work overtime?”
“Probably because you didn’t want to go to Sixth Young Miss’ birthday party, so you purposefully scheduled the company meeting for today.”
What I said was perfectly reasonable, so Zhao Gongzi switched to a different method of fit-throwing. “Laozi doesn’t want a cat, Laozi’s just telling you that Da Jie has a cat. That cat’s way better than your dog, Laozi wants to throw that shitty dog of yours away.”
“He’s yours,” I replied.
“Fuck! You’re the one who wanted to raise him, and you wouldn’t even let Laozi touch him, then after taking care of him for three months he became Laozi’s pet!”
I didn’t want to keep talking to him, and so subtly reminded him, “I’m going to take an afternoon nap.”
Zhao Gongzi was very angry. “You’re not allowed to sleep. If I can’t sleep, then you can’t sleep either!”
He’s so annoying.
Zhao Gongzi made another demand, “You didn’t go, right? You’re not allowed to go.”
I reminded him, “You’re calling our home phone, so unless Sixth Young Miss had her party at our apartment, then that would be impossible.”
Zhao Gongzi was very smug. “It’s good that you’re listening to me. Anyways, you’re not allowed to go. She’s the one I detest the most.”
That’s mostly because Sixth Young Miss was the most willing to argue with Thirteenth Madame, and also the most fearless about beating up Zhao Gongzi. That’s why I respect Sixth Young Miss enormously. So after I hung up Zhao Gongzi’s call, I went out the door and went to Sixth Young Miss’ house to give her her present.
Sixth Young Miss smiled sweetly and accepted the present. “Thank you very much.”
Sixth Young Miss’ husband asked, “Is Xiao Long not coming?”
“There just happened to be a meeting at work today, so he’s working overtime.”
Sixth Young Miss smiled as she said, “I bet he was the one who moved the meeting to today, making the poor workers have to do overtime with him.”
I said, “No, that’s not it. This present was even hand-picked by him.”
Sixth Young Miss’ husband said, “These two siblings are just like this, Yixin, you don’t have to mind her. Recently, your Liu Jie went out of town to have fun and specifically brought back specialty dishes and snacks that Xiao Long likes. Later, when you’re about to go, remind me to get them for you to bring back with you.”
Sixth Young Miss said, “Eat dinner before you go.”
Good thing Zhao Gongzi’s assistant had told me early on that Zhao Gongzi already had something planned for tonight.
Sixth Young Miss was charming, unlike Zhao Gongzi who was so grandiose and overdramatic. She didn’t invite too many people to her birthday party, everyone invited was amoung her close friends, and that was the reason why I had to accept her invitation.
Her friends are as charming as she is, their conversations so broad and varied, making for a very enjoyable experience.
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And so I picked up, “Hello…..”
“Qiu Yixin, you fucking–!!”
My hand slipped and I hung up the phone.
The phone rang again, so I had no choice but to get Sixth Young Miss’ husband to come over and deal with Zhao Gongzi.
Sixth Young Miss’ husband placated him, “Xiao Long, aren’t you supposed to be in a meeting? How come you can still make a phone call? Oh, Yixin huh…….Yixin didn’t come. I think you must have misheard it just now? The one that answered the phone just now was one of my friends. Will you come over to have dinner later?”
Sixth Young Miss’ husband hung up and, then said to me, “He said he’ll come over later.”
Although I’m not afraid of Zhao Gongzi in such matters as these, it doesn’t mean that I want a capricious Zhao Gongzi to ruin Sixth Young Miss’ birthday party. So, I bade farewell to Sixth Young Miss’ husband and went back home.
After all, my and Zhao Gongzi’s apartment was just one floor below Sixth Young Miss’ apartment.
Back then, Zhao Gongzi was almost going to kill me because of this matter.
I went back home and the phone started ringing. Zhao Gongzi asked me, “I phoned multiple times just now, but you didn’t pick up. Where did you go?”
I replied, “I went out and walked the dog for you.”
“Fuck! Don’t fucking shove off that dog onto me anymore! It rips up my clothes every day, I’ve wanted to stew it for a long time now!”
While replying on the phone, I grabbed Hamm’s tail and dragged him over, then tugged Zhao Gongzi’s sock out of his mouth.
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After three years passed, when his little sister could talk and walk, if Zhao Gongzi even slightly brushed past her, she could sit down and say that Zhao Gongzi had bumped into her on purpose. If Zhao Gongzi ate a piece of chocolate, she could burst into tears and cry out that he had taken her snacks. Everyone would all point and mutter at Zhao Gongzi, saying that he was almost thirty years old already but he was so petty that he’d bully his little sister and wasn’t a good person.
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The Zhao family manor caught fire.
The cause? Unknown.
Fortunately, though, no one was hurt.
After the incident, Zhao Gongzi’s older brothers and sisters all came back home. One reason was to comfort the main manor’s family members, the second reason was to get their stuff. Everyone had a lot of stuff that wasn’t being used at the moment at the main manor. Now that the main manor had caught fire, Master Zhao Si decided to tear it all down and build a brand new manor. As such, a lot of things had no place to be put.
For Zhao Gongzi, this was bad news that came out of nowhere.
He habitually viewed his older brothers and sisters, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, nephews, nieces, and everyone else as enemies. During the big holidays and family gatherings, he had no choice but to go back, and that was already his limit. Now, he had to go back another time.
He naturally directed his anger at me, and hollered, “What the hell’s the use in having you?!”
Well, it’s not as if you can expect me to extinguish the fire.
And anyway, it’s not as if those people wanted to see him either.
I continued reading.
He saw that I was ignoring him, and so flew into a fury born of embarrassment. “I’m not going! Go by yourself!”
I said, “Okay.”
“Fuck! Zhao Wu is going too, isn’t he?! You’re trying to fucking run off with him when Laozi’s not paying attention, aren’t you?! You’re doing this on purpose!”
His imagination sure was great. If his imagination was so great, why doesn’t he just make the leap in thinking and say that Wu Ge and I were accomplices who had committed the arson together?
I continued to read.
He hollered at me, “I’m going too!”
I said, “Okay.”
“You aren’t even fucking listening to me, are you?!”
I wasn’t going to argue with him.
I was going to be the bigger person. I’m a generous, magnanimous person. So, let’s first trick him into coming back home and complete the mission Master Zhao Si gave me.
Numerous people were at the family manor. They ate, drank, and made polite conversation. Apart from San Ge, who was far away in the capital city and couldn’t make it back here (and who didn’t dare come back here, as he was afraid if he did come back he wouldn’t be able to leave), as well as Wu Ge, who no one knew where he had gone, everyone else came back.
Master Zhao Si, as expected, was all smiles, his arms filled with his children and grandchildren, not letting go.
Zhao Gongzi impatiently watched all this, and when we had finished eating, he rushed me into going and packing up our stuff.
Our stuff was all in the basement. The belongings of San Ge, who had asked me to help him sort his things, as well as Wu Ge, who no one could locate, were also in the basement, so we saved quite a bit of trouble.
We four, as well as our belongings, were now, in Master Zhao Si’s eyes, only fit to stay in the basement.
The basement hadn’t been as seriously burned as upstairs had been, so if they were really going to rebuild, we didn’t actually have to do much sorting.
Zhao Gongzi impatiently said, “Throw it all away, otherwise it’ll just be troublesome. It’s all trash anyways.”
I ignored him and took out the things, getting them ready so that they could be taken back.
He coldly said, “My house doesn’t have anywhere to put them, either.”
If we threw away all of those things he was scammed money out of when buying, then we’d have space.
I brought a lot of things over to our apartment. The living room was stuffed full of things, so much so that it was hard to move around.
Zhao Gongzi coldly said, “I told you to throw it all away, but you just had to move it all back home. You sort it out yourself, don’t ask me for help.”
What could I possibly count on him for? I wasn’t planning on asking him for help in the first place.
After all, I’d been planning on making use of this great opportunity to throw away the junk that he’d bought.
Zhao Gongzi didn’t do any work, yet he kept his eyes glued tight on me, so in no time at all, he started hollering at me, “Why are you taking out my things?! Put them back! That’s Laozi’s cabinet! We have three cabinets, Laozi only uses half of one and you still want to throw away my things?!”
“It’s all just empty cigarette packs, empty matchboxes, old movie tickets, old opera tickets, and soda bottle caps.”
Zhao Gongzi hollered, “What’s it to you what Laozi puts in there?! Even if Laozi puts dirt inside it’d still be none of your business!”
I could only place his collection back in place.
When Zhao Gongzi collects things, he does it so very carelessly. After he’s collected them, then that’s that. He never goes and looks at them a second time. Sometimes when I’m looking for things, I’ll play with them and look at them and even attempt to talk to him about the history behind his collection, yet he says that I’m being a busybody.
Zhao Gongzi really is a very annoying person.
I suspect that he actually doesn’t care about his collection and just wants to protect his half of the cabinet.
I carried the things we had moved over from the main manor’s basement. After that, I wiped them clean and looked for places to put them.
The first object was Zhao Gongzi’s pure gold marathon trophy. If it weren’t for the fact that this was the only trophy that he’d obtained with his own talent, then I would have wanted to sell it.
I placed the trophy on the top of the piano.
Zhao Gongzi asked me, “Why did you put it there?”
“It looks nice.”
Zhao Gongzi walked over, tilted my chin up and kissed me. “Hmmph, you’ve got good taste.”
His thoughts were so hard to understand.
I continued tidying up and took out the photo album again, inside it was pictures from the past.
Zhao Gongzi wandered and paced around me.
Rinrin: This is the end of the full extras, the next one is a kinda mini one
Sighs, the trophy makes an appearance once again, it really is a token of love hahaha
thanks for the chapter <3
I suspect the little trash collection was the things he and MC shared together. Lol. Thank you
thanks for the chapter!