Chapter 154: To Join in the Fun
The Jiang Xu whom Fu Yansheng mentioned came to Haicheng two days later. They met up at Shanyu and Fu Yansheng directly negotiated with him.
When Qi Yu learned that Jiang Xu had agreed to stay and lead the team, he was delighted and offered to invite the other party to a meal.
Fu Yansheng was taken aback. “You want to see him?”
Qi Yu: “Although he’s doing this for you as a favor, since he’s here for my business, I should personally meet him and invite him to a meal. Why? Is it inconvenient to meet him?”
No… After hearing what he said, Fu Yansheng had no good reason to refuse. So he arranged for the three of them to have dinner at Fengmao’s Japanese restaurant.
Different from his “rouge” persona revealed by his loud voice over the phone, Jiang Xu in person appeared very upright and proper, with thick brows and big eyes. Except for a few fashionable pieces here and there, from the inside to the outside, he displayed an elite temperament completely out of tune with Xiao Ye, Bai Cao and their group of chuuni teenagers.
Because Fu Yansheng had fooled him over the phone by saying “It’s my wife who wants to do it”, since seeing Qi Yu, Jiang Xu had been looking at Qi Yu curiously. He would occasionally glance at Fu Yansheng, shooting him playful glances, as though in his mind, he had already taken a full set of wedding photos from Berlin to Seattle for the two of them.
When Qi Yu wasn’t paying attention, Jiang Xu leaned in to Fu Yansheng and joked, “Tsk, I didn’t expect you to be like this…”
Fu Yansheng looked at him askance. “Like what?”
Jiang Xu winked, “Why are you pretending to be stupid?” Afraid that Fu Yansheng wouldn’t understand, he whispered the word he had mentioned on the phone: “Him?…Your wife?”
“Stop it with your nonsense.” Fu Yansheng put a stop to it, saying, “What wife? He’s my boss.”
Jiang Xu: “…”
Qi Yu glanced at the two of them with a smile, pretended not to understand what they were going on about. He made a toast to Jiang Xu, asking, “Is Mr. Jiang married?”
Jiang Xu smiled “hehe”. “No, I’m used to wandering around and it’s not easy to find a stable partner.”
“You don’t have a stable one but,” Qi Yu raised his eyebrows, “does that mean that Mr. Jiang has had a lot of dewy relationships?”
Jiang Xu was natural and unrestrained, “Of course, life is like a play. Being able to join in the fun in every place you go to is simply chef’s kiss, don’t you think so?”
Fu Yansheng reached out for the sushi in front of Jiang Xu with his chopsticks, and said, “A greasy middle-aged man in his thirties, what’s so ‘chef’s kiss’ about that? If you keep going on like this, no one’s going to want to act along with you in your ‘play’ except for those who are just after your money.”
“Damn…” Jiang Xu didn’t know what muscle Fu Yansheng pulled wrong, why he wasn’t giving him any face. He immediately gave as good as he got, “Stop thinking that you’re young just because you went to college two years earlier than I did. In a year, aren’t you also going to be passing the 30-year mark? And don’t you drift around yourself? Every time I contact you, you’re in somewhere different. The first few years of graduation, you were in Harbor City, the year before last, you were in Haicheng; when I was talking with you this afternoon, you might go to Shencheng in a bit…”
Hearing the phrase “Go to Shencheng”, Qi Yu’s brows twitched slightly. His father had asked Fu Yansheng to look after Shangyu. He didn’t know that Fu Yansheng was had any business in Shencheng.
He looked at Fu Yansheng. He saw Fu Yansheng’s chopsticks pause, finally turning over that innocent piece of sushi. The scarlet roe piled on top of it, spilled onto the plate, making the fish-shaped plate look as though it had its inside spilling out.
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The atmosphere at the dinner table suddenly became a little heavy but Jiang Xu was still talking, “I heard from Steven that during your time in Huansheng, loads of rich young ladies pursued you. Don’t try and pull my leg and say that after all these years, you haven’t had your share of ‘joining in the fun’. This time, you even fooled me into thinking you had a wife. Ah, where is the wife? You’re a pot and I’m a kettle.”
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After finally finishing their meal, Jiang Xu noticed something was wrong. While Qi Yu went to the bathroom after settling the bill, he whispered to Fu Yansheng, “What’s the matter, what did I say wrong? Why does it feel like you two are in a bad mood?”
Fu Yansheng sneered, “So you can actually that we’re in a bad mood? I told you to stop with that ‘joining in the fun’ nonsense…”
Jiang Xu had a belated realization. “F*ck, so he’s really your ‘wife’!?”
Fu Yansheng was filled with regret. “I should have never brought you to this dinner…”
Jiang Xu was depressed for a couple of seconds and then the urge to gossip re-ignited in his eyes. “Your ‘wife’ is so young. Which family’s noble son is he? Shanyu Investment belongs to him? Sigh, I was wondering why you wouldn’t even look at any of those rich ladies in Harbor City before. Turns out this is your type…”
Fu Yansheng couldn’t bear it anymore. He reached out his hand and pushed away the other’s face which had gotten too close. “You better leave quickly later. If you keep talking, I won’t give you the salary we negotiated today.”
Jiang Xu: “…”
When Qi Yu came back, he exchanged a few words with Jiang Xu and the other party sensibly took his leave.
Fu Yansheng asked Qi Yu what he was going to do after and Qi Yu said, “I’m a little tired. I want to go home first.”
Fu Yansheng hurriedly said he would take him home and Qi Yu didn’t refuse. When they got in the car, Qi Yu said, “Thank you for this today.” He was talking about Fu Yansheng helping the Weeds Team to find someone to help set up the team.
Fu Yansheng felt uneasy. “It was nothing, no need for you to be so polite.”
After that, the two of them were immersed in their own thoughts and remained silent the rest of the way.
Arriving at the villa, Fu Yansheng got out of the car with him and proposed going inside to the small garden with Qi Yu. Both of them knew what was meant by what Jiang Xu had let slip at the dinner table. It was impossible to pretend that nothing had happened and Fu Yansheng also didn’t even dare to leave like that.
Qi Yu took Fu Yan into the villa area, went around to the courtyard where they had kissed a while ago and finally asked, “Are you leaving?”
Fu Yansheng replied bravely, “I just received the notice. There still hasn’t any final confirmation.”
Qi Yu: “When?”
Fu Yansheng: “The end of next month…”
Qi Yu nodded: “I see.”
Great. Xu Jing was leaving at the end of this month and Fu Yansheng was at the end of next month.
Qi Yu behaved quite calmly, but the calmer he was, the more uneasy Fu Yansheng felt. The man grabbed his wrist lightly and said in a depressed tone, “Qi Yu, don’t be upset. I’m still applying with the higher-ups to delay my post transfer for a few months…”
Qi Yu thought to him, it turns out that they call this kind of thing “post transfer”.
Well, Fu Yansheng did solely belong to the higher-ups of that mysterious organization. He will go to whichever company those people tell him to go to. Isn’t that exactly what a “post transfer” was?
Qi Yu said indifferently: “It’s alright. I’m going to go back to Stanford after August. Since you won’t be going back with me, what’s the difference between Haicheng or somewhere else?
Fu Yansheng was dumbfounded: “I…”
Qi Yu turned his head to look at Fu Yansheng and interrupted him, “I just want to know, if I hadn’t guessed your true identity by now, would you have used some other reason to leave me? Like maybe, you weren’t satisfied with my performance so you can’t remain by my side or would just disappear like Song Puxin and Xu Yizhou?”
Fu Yansheng opened his mouth, tightened his grip on him and said, “I wouldn’t.”
Qi Yu lowered his eyes and as though saying it to himself, “Then you should just tell me as it is. I’m pretty accepting and I don’t like others lying to me.”
Fu Yansheng was heartbroken. He took Qi Yu into his arms and spent a while just embracing him. He murmured into Qi Yu’s ear, his tone filled with affection and forbearance, “I’m sorry…”
Qi Yu stood with his hands behind his back. He was so tired, he just wanted to lean on this man. But the pride rooted in his bones made him refrain from revealing his inner fragility, from making his reluctance to let go be too obvious.
At this moment, he suddenly saw, not far away, two people walking side by side. With a single glance, Qi Yu could already tell to whom these familiar silhouettes belonged to.
A flash like the spark of a flint appeared in Qi Yu’s mind. The battle between heaven and man was completed almost instantaneously. He slowly raised his arms and wrapped it around Fu Yansheng’s waist. He closed his eyes like he was taking a gamble.
Fu Yansheng felt Qi Yu’s response and hugged him even tighter. He was so immersed in blaming himself and his distressed feelings that he didn’t even notice that someone was coming until Qi Yuancheng’s voice came from behind——
Qi Yu…? You…!
A jolt went through Fu Yansheng’s body and turned his head sharply to look at the people who had come.
Qi Yu also opened his eyes. He slowly took a step back and faced his parents. “Dad, Mom.”
Fu Yansheng was inwardly flustered but still pretended to be calm. “Director Qi, Aunt Jiang…”
What he’d been worried about a few days ago, appeared in front of him like this and Qi Yuancheng simply didn’t know how to face it. But what puzzled him was that even though Qi Yu and Fu Yansheng had clearly been embracing affectionately just now, at the moment, they acted so calmly, as if the hug just now was just a normal hug between two men. There were a couple of seconds when Qi Yuancheng was a little confused, maybe he was simply thinking too much.
But just as he was debating whether to be angry or to observe calmly, Jiang Ying subconsciously grabbed his arm, as though afraid that he wouldn’t be able to bear it.
Qi Yuancheng gave a start and came to his senses. For a moment, he felt it laughable at how he’d tried to deceive himself.
This man in his 50s turned pale and then blue with anger. He gave Fu Yansheng a fierce look, but only ordered Qi Yu, radiating viciousness, “Come with me!”
Jiang Ying glanced at them worriedly. Shen followed after her husband and turned around to head back home.
Qi Yu said to Fu Yansheng, not a single expression on his face, “Go back first.”
Fu Yansheng was anxious. “I’ll go with you to explain to your father…”
Qi Yu gave him a sidelong glance and coldly spit out two words, “Go back.”
Fu Yansheng was so overwhelmed by Qi Yu’s imposing manner that he couldn’t speak. He remained rooted on the spot, watching Qi Yu leave. He couldn’t help him, couldn’t protect him; he could only suffer the feeling of mental anguish.
Qi Yu followed his parents into the house. Ever since Xu Jing saw him kissing Fu Yansheng in Shanyu the day before yesterday, he knew that he had to face this sooner or later. Instead of constantly worrying about being discovered and being “caught in the act” in a panic, it was better to take the initiative into his own hands.
Qi Yuancheng didn’t head to the study upstairs. He walked directly to the sofa in the living room, stared at him and said, voice trembling, “Tell me, what was that just now!?”
Qi Yu stood by the coffee table, looking back at his father. He didn’t cower at his imposing manner but he wasn’t blindly confronting him either. He just answered frankly as though he were stating facts, “Dad, ever since I came to know Teacher Fu, I have always had the greatest esteem for him. In the past two years, our relationship has gone far beyond the boundaries of normal friends, of teacher and student… I don’t want to lie to you. I have to admit, I love him.”
Qi Yuancheng’s face stiffened. He grabbed a cup of cold tea off the coffee table and, unable to control himself, poured it over Qi Yu.
Ever since he was a child, Qi Yu had never seen his father get so angry. For a while, he was just stunned.
“Yuancheng!” Jiang Ying, standing to one side, shouted sharply. She begged softly, “Use your words…”
Qi Yuancheng was so angry, the blood was rushing to his brain. His voice trembling, “What-what did you say? Say it again!”
Qi Yu wiped the tea off his face. He came back to his senses and eyelids drooped slightly, he repeated in a low voice, “I love Fu Yansheng.”
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【Little Theater】
Qi Yuancheng: I caught you two right in the act! And you’re still so calm? Simply shameless!
Fu Yansheng: Sigh, you'll get used to it soon enough. I’m sorry, father-in-law…
Qi Yu: Sorry, Dad, I did it on purpose for you to see.
Fu Yansheng: ? ? ? (Sighing for a while…the student has surpassed the master…)
Qi Yuancheng: Unfilial son! Where’s my bat to beat these dogs! ! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
What a cliffhanger! Thankfully it’s the start of the week…
EEP GOD I AM GETTING PTSD FROM THE TEA 😭😭
ty for the chapter ❤️
Waaaargh! Can’t wait for tomorrow. Thanks for the update 💜
Qi Yuancheng attributing QF being gay because he left is so…. dang and now this child is too hahah, let’s not do anything regrettable. Poor Qi Yu maybe he should keep a pet that can accompany him till he is old.
Thanks for the chapter <333
thanks for the chapter!
Funny how he could admit to others that he (QY) loves FYS but never told the man himself.
Oooohhh DRAMA!!!!!
💔💔💔
Can he catch a break?!? Thus reaction
WTF 😭😭😭 QI YUANCHENG, YOU ARE LUCKY THAT TEA WAS COLD IF IT WASNT YOU’D REGRET IT FOR THE REST OF UR LIFE..