Chapter 146: Intelligence Brings Harm to Oneself
Qi Yu asked Tang Weiye if he knew who else had invested in Si Hang’s technology company, and how those people were doing now.
Tang Weiye hesitated, not knowing what was taboo. He merely said that he wanted to meet with Qi Yu and talk about it in person.
Qi Yu agreed and made an appointment to meet him at a western restaurant in the city center at noon the day after tomorrow.
After arriving home, Qi Yu saw Qi Feng and Ling Ke playing with Xue Niu in the living room. He asked, “Where are Mom and Dad?”
“In the study upstairs,” Qi Feng replied and asked him, “Why have you only come back home now?”
Qi Yu: “I was busy with work.”
Qi Feng muttered, “You’re busier than Dad…”
Qi Yu glanced at Xue Niu and asked, “How’s the dog?”
Qi Feng sighed. He squatted on the ground and rubbed Xue Niu’s ears. He said, sounding disheartened, “She’s not doing very well. Her responses are very slow and her memory’s getting worse and worse.”
Qi Yu: “Has she gotten lost again after the last time?”
Qi Feng grabbed the small mobile phone pendant around her collar and said, “This thing you gave me is very useful. I asked Auntie Liu to install the app on her phone too. I told her that every time she can’t find her, she can find out her location by looking at it.”
After chatting with his younger brothers, Qi Yu went upstairs to find his father, intending to discuss with him about his plan to headhunt Su Jing to join Si Yuan.
When he arrived at the door of the study, he saw that the door was ajar. Qi Yuancheng’s voice came out through the slight gap. “I thought Fu Yansheng might be an investigator from the Securities Regulatory Commission. But after thinking about it carefully, if it was just to investigate insider trading, did he really have to expend that much effort? Insider trading can be determined by the Securities and Exchange Commission after just a few phone calls… Several from their group have been lurking for such a long time and the scope of their investigation wasn’t just limited to business operations and the stock market situation… Today, when I heard you say that one of the people above also met an incident, I think I’ve figured it out. The Si Family’s case probably involves political struggle… ”
Jiang Ying: “Looking at it this way, Fu Yansheng’s background should be quite special.”
Qi Yuancheng: “I also don’t think he’s an investigator from some regular institution. But apart from the Public Security Economic Investigation Group and the Securities and Exchange Commission, I really don’t know where he could have come from…”
Jiang Ying: “I have a guess…”
Qi Yuancheng: “What is it? Let’s hear it.”
Jiang Ying: “You know about the Ministry of Stat* Sec*rity, right? This is the unit with the deepest government involvement in our country’s intelligence and public security system. The Ministry of Stat* Sec*rity has several bureaus, including the Political and Economic Intelligence Bureau and the Enterprise Bureau. Each bureau is divided into several departments and branches. The vast majority of the intelligence personnel stationed outside use journalists, scholars, and businessmen as their cover to collect information for the government…”
Qi Yuancheng: “You think Fu Yansheng is an intelligence officer of the Ministry of Stat* Sec*rity?”
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Jiang Ying: “It’s inevitable. You’re just a business owner. You can’t be poaching people from the state.”
Qi Yuancheng: “It’s fine with me. If he wants to leave, you can’t force him to stay. I’m afraid it’s Qi Yu who’ll have a hard time of it. This child may appear calm and composed on the surface but in fact, he values friendships more than anyone else. Do you know Xu Jing? Qi Yu considers him an older brother. He has a lot of respect for him. You could say that I promoted this person, thinking that he could help Qi Yu in the future. I would slowly give him some equity. As a result, Qi Yu hadn’t even graduated and now, he’s leaving… I mentioned Xu Jing to Qi Yu a few days before and he’s been frowning every since… To tell you the truth, I think he has deeper feelings for this teacher of his than he does for Xu Jing. Regarding the Si Family’s affairs this time, if I didn’t immediately agree to help him provide cover for Fu Yansheng, he probably would have despised me, his own father!”
“Deep affection doesn't last and intelligence brings harm. I just hope that Qi Yu will be able to get over it in the future,” Jiang Ying sighed and added, “However, when I had dinner with Xiao Fu last time, I tried to probe him. He promised me that if Qi Yu needs him, he would protect Qi Yu for the rest of his life.”
Qi Yuancheng snorted, “Would my son value his protection?”
Jiang Ying: “If Fu Yansheng really comes from the kind of background we suspect, him saying such a thing is tantamount to making a great promise. Qi Yu will help you run such a big business in the future, having someone who understands the bottom line of the industry to check on him is always better than not having that.”
“It would be good if the two of them could maintain their friendship forever,” Qi Yuancheng said with emotion, “Speaking of which, I have never seen Qi Yu like anyone so much…”
Speaking of, the study room suddenly became quiet.
A few seconds later, Qi Yuancheng suddenly asked again, “Hey, since Xiao Feng likes men, do you think Qi Yu does too?”
When Qi Yu, standing outside the door, heard this sentence, his heart rate suddenly passed 180!
He heard Jiang Ying say calmly, “You brought up Qi Yu. He’s twenty-two this year. You don’t know whether he likes men or women?”
“He’s always been obedient since he was a child and he’s always been by my side. He has never been particularly close to anyone of his age. There was only Xu Jing and the two always talked about studies and work together. Xiao Feng found a boyfriend the year before. I told Qi Yu he couldn’t do the same and he agreed with me…” Qi Yuancheng mumbled for a while, then asked in doubt, “Am I just being overly-suspicious? Why do I feel like Qi Yu’s treatment of this teacher of his is different?”
Jiang Ying: “Whether it’s true or not, what does it matter? So long as our child likes the person.”
Qi Yuancheng hurriedly said: “What are you saying? I have two sons, one I’m already marrying off as a daughter. How can the other like a man as well? If Qi Yu also gets together with a man, that will be the last of our Qi Family!”
Jiang Ying: “If they really like each other, how can you ignore the happiness of your child?”
Qi Yuancheng resolutely said, “Don’t say it! I can’t have Qi Yu be another Xiao Feng. I wasn’t by Xiao Feng’s side for more than ten years. I know I was lacking as a father. He can do whatever he wants but Qi Yu absolutely cannot. If he really feels that way about Fu Yansheng, then the sooner that surnamed Fu leaves the better!”
Jiang Ying: “…”
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Qi Yu quietly left the door of the study and returned to his room. For a while, his mother’s words “He will protect Qi Yu for the rest of his life” surfaced in his mind. And then, for a while, it was replaced by his father’s words “Qi Yu absolutely cannot.” He felt like his emotions were a small skiff on surging waves, ceaselessly moving up and down.
After he’d been sitting there for a while, his phone rang.
Qi Yu took out his mobile phone and saw that the caller was the very person his parents had been discussing just now.
“Hey……”
Are you home? Send me your address.” Fu Yansheng said on the other end of the phone.
Qi Yu’s heart tightened: “My home address? What are you going to do?”
Fu Yansheng: “Go and find you.”
Qi Yu glanced at the time and frowned, “It’s already ten o’clock…”
“But I want to see you.” Fu Yansheng interrupted him.
These six words blocked the words of refusal from coming out of Qi Yu’s throat. He whispered, “Okay.”
After hanging up the phone, Qi Yu sent his location and sat in the room for about ten minutes. Remembering that if Fu Yansheng was coming, his parents might be surprised when the property calls Auntie Liu to answer the door, he hurried downstairs and walked out the door. He walked outside the gated community to wait.
This villa was bought by Qi Yuancheng and Jiang Ying before they divorced. It was located in the southern suburbs of Haicheng. They bought a villa in this area precisely because of the quiet environment. However, with the more than ten year long urban expansion, commercial buildings and shopping malls were also gradually built. Only this villa area was shielded by plants and foliage, becoming a wealthy area famous for being a solace in the middle of the noise.
After a while, Qi Yu saw a black Mercedes-Benz coming from a distance. Fu Yansheng probably saw him too and the car stopped directly beside him. The man got down from the back row and asked him, “Why are you waiting here?”
Qi Yu put his hands in his pockets. He raised his eyebrows and said, “If you come looking for me at my house at this hour, my parents would know. How would you want me to explain?”
Fu Yansheng: “Are your parents at home?”
Qi Yu: “Of course they’re at home. They’re ‘newlyweds’. If this incident hadn’t erupted at this time, they’d probably still be on their honeymoon.”
A trace of guilt flashed in Fu Yansheng’s eyes and he said softly, “Where should we go sit?”
Qi Yu turned around and said, “There’s a small garden inside. Let’s walk…”
Fu Yansheng followed him into the heavily guarded community. The two walked side by side to the artificial garden at the back of the property. A grove of trees and some rockery were to the left; on the right was a manmade waterway. The sound of chirping crickets and murmuring water could be heard. On this summer night, there was a special kind of romantic mood about it.
July was hot and although the temperature drops slightly at night, very few people would go out for a walk at this hour.
Qi Yu asked, “Did you come here to say anything in particular?”
Fu Yansheng didn’t answer. He immediately grabbed his wrist, pulled him into his arms and holding the back of his neck, kissed him.
The villas were low and there were trees blocking the view. There was no danger of being seen by anyone. Qi Yu only struggled for a moment before he was pulled into lowering his guard by the feel of Fu Yansheng’s body and his skilled mouth.
While in other’s arms, while Qi Yu accepted Fu Yansheng’s kisses and caresses, he remembered what his mother said, that “He said he would protect Qi Yu for the rest of his life”.
…Did Fu Yansheng really say that? However, if Fu Yansheng really was someone from the Ministry of Stat* Sec*rity, when the time comes and he goes undercover somewhere else, he might meet other “children” who need teaching. With his heart somewhere else, how was he going to protect him?
He also remembered how his father said that while Qi Feng could, he couldn’t. Although he clearly knew this to be fact, thinking of how Qi Feng and Ling Ke could so openly show their affection at home while he and Fu Yansheng could only resort to “stealing chickens and dogs” here, he couldn’t help hugging the other tighter, kissing him more and more desperately.
After ten minutes of kissing, the two separated. Fu Yansheng still refused to release him from his arms, chasing after his lips and pecking it a few times. This sort of crazed fascination was completely unlike his reserved and restrained elite persona during the daytime. It was as if they were two completely different people.
“…Are you in a bad mood?” Fu Yansheng asked in a hoarse voice.
Qi Yu lowered his eyes and said, “After all that’s happened, is it even possible for me to be in a good mood?”
Fu Yansheng instantly put his finger on it. “Is it because Xu Jing is leaving?”
Qi Yu thought that this man was quite likable when he didn’t speak. Why was it that as soon as he opened his mouth, things he didn’t want to hear come pouring out of it?
Qi Yu took a step back and said impatiently, “Can you not mention Xu Jing?”
Fu Yansheng grabbed his wrist again and pulled him towards him. He asked, “What are you running away from?”
Qi Yu’s temper flared up and the long-standing resentment was stirred up by Fu Yansheng’s words. “Run away!? He’s the one who’s leaving without even a single word. He’s the one abandoning me. Are you hoping I’ll beg him to stay? Or are you expecting I’d be ecstatic to send him off?”
Fu Yansheng stared into his eyes and said, “Why don’t you go see him and tell him how you feel?”
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【Little Theater】
Qi Yu: My brothers can kiss openly while we can only have a secret affair. So angry!
Fu Yansheng: Baby~ A secret affair also provides its own special brand of joy. Believe it or not, their kisses aren’t as intense as ours~~
Qi Yu: I don’t believe it.
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Qi Yuancheng: I have two sons, one I’m already marrying off as a daughter.
Qi Feng: ? ? ? ? Dad! I am the gong!
Ling Ke pushes the glasses: Payday.
So unfair on our little fish. He gets all the pressure and his brother can just relax…
sigh The stubbornness of dads… Can’t say I don’t understand. They have a weird pride/sense of duty I just can’t comprehend but also, it’s not like I can’t understand where it’s coming from. And also, Fu Yansheng being the person who can pry Qi Yu’s shell open and scrape out the emotions he’s been stuffing inside and letting brew- What a bitter-sweet sugar I am chewing here TwT
sigh
hug lil Fish (o´･_･)っ
thanks for the chapter!
why is his father so unfair? qi yu is an obedient son from the very start, and though he owe a lot to qi feng for not being there for years, why did qi yu have to be treated as if he didn’t deserve to choose who to like?
So if xiao Fu marrying in as a daughters-in-law, that’ll be ok for Qi papa ma?
Ik it’s half way because his personality repressing at all but it really upsets me that he can’t express his feelings.
Everyone is leaving him and his father is alienating him😭
i thought their father grew to understand but he still thinks that qi feng being gay is a result of him not being raised with his dad.. ☹️ i guess beliefs really are hard to change 😔