Chapter 156: To Reap What One Has Sown
Fu Yansheng was about to leave, so finding someone to take over Shan Yu became another problem.
After discussing it with Qi Yuancheng, they decided that Qi Yu would personally take up this heavy responsibility.
Because of Fu Yansheng’s two years of teaching and the practical experience he’d gotten from the Technology Development Department last year, it wouldn’t be too difficult for Qi Yu to manage an investment company. All he needed was to find an in-country proxy manager. The other party would give timely reports to him regarding various affairs and have him attend to only the most important matters.
As for this proxy manager, Fu Yansheng had a recommendation — Chu Meng, who had been his subordinate at Mingtai Securities the year before and who was currently a deputy director at Mingtai Investment.
Chu Meng herself had graduated from a prestigious school specializing in finance and economics. At the age of 26, she got a master’s degree and began working in investments. She worked step by step, from a mere analyst, to achieve her current position. In terms of qualifications on paper, she was no less qualified than Fu Yansheng.
It’s just that Chu Meng was a woman. In the investment banking industry still dominated by men, women had obvious disadvantages in terms of expanding their networks and participating in social niceties. Naturally, she couldn’t compare to Xu Jing or Fu Yansheng, who were skilled in almost every fields and who had power and money backing them up. But she was more careful and prudent in her work. In the year that Fu Yansheng worked with her, so long as it was an analysis she had done, it was almost always correct. Fu Yansheng decided that she was the best person to assist Qi Yu in managing Shanyu Investment.
Of course, Fu Yansheng had thought of recommending Chu Meng, also because of the current situation at Mingtai Securities. He’d heard that the chairman of Mingtai Securities had been arrested over Hangfan Technology’s illegal listing and several incidents of corruption and bribery among the company’s top management had been exposed.
With how unstable things were at the top level, the people below suffered untold hardships. After taking the position of deputy director for only a year, Chu Meng’s company encountered one problem after another. She felt disheartened and wanted to find a new way out.
Qi Yu trusted Fu Yansheng’s eye for people and had no objections. After discussing the matter with his father, Qi Yuancheng read Chu Meng’s resume and agreed after some deliberation.
After the government took over Si Holdings, almost all assets under its name were frozen by the banks. Cash flow in the Siyuan Group was tight. They had to be very careful with every single one of Shanyu’s expenditures. In selecting a proxy manager for Shanyu Investment, they weren’t aiming to achieve the best possible result, but rather, they were trying to avoid making any mistakes.
After receiving Fu Yansheng’s invitation, Chu Meng was flattered and hurriedly went to meet them.
Fu Yansheng briefed her on Shanyu’s situation. Chu Meng was surprised to learn that the owner of this company was actually the “little fresh meat” she had seen in Skyline back then. Thinking of her once unrealistic conjectures, her face flushed and she felt really embarrassed.
After receiving Fu Yansheng’s olive branch, Chu Meng formally met with Qi Yu in Shanyu once again.
To her surprise, Qi Yu’s actions were measured, his every movement was that of a powerful executive. Chu Meng chatted with him for a while and couldn’t help but think of the deep impression he had left on her when she’d seen him at the bar two years ago. She also couldn’t help but think of the kiss Qi Yu and Fu Yansheng had shared. While she speculated on the current relationship between the two, she also couldn’t help but feel the stirrings of love for this “little gold master”. Afterwards, bowing down to Qi Yu proved to be no problem at all.
After settling everything for Qi Yu, Fu Yansheng finally handed over all of Shanyu’s execution rights.
The night before leaving Haicheng, he invited Qi Yu out to eat. The two went to the “Pure and Fresh Grouper Fish House” where Fu Yansheng invited Qi Yu out to eat for the first time.
The same location, the same chilled fillets; a stone pot with fish soup, cooking over a low fire.
Fu Yansheng looked at Qi Yu through the steam rising in spirals. He said apologetically, “I’m sorry, I thought I could stay in Siyuan for at least the first half of the year. I never expected the higher-ups to be so impatient…”
Qi Yu boiled a couple of fish fillets and said, “It doesn’t matter. I heard from my dad that the current situation is still under our control. Besides, even if you are here, you can’t reveal any confidential information, right?”
Fu Yansheng gave an “en” and said, “But don’t worry, even if I go elsewhere, I’ll always be keeping an eye on the Siyuan Group’s situation.”
Qi Yu smiled lightly, “It’s fine, if you pay too close attention, it might cause another bad situation.”
Fu Yansheng: “…”
Qi Yu asked again, “Where in Shencheng are you going? What are you going to do there?”
Fu Yansheng took a sip of bamboo-green liquor in the cup and said, “Shencheng Wanqi Securities, taking on my old profession.”
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Fu Yansheng couldn’t tear his eyes away from Qi Yu’s vivid expression, he couldn’t bring himself to take his eyes off the other’s face for even a second.
He couldn’t help but ask: “What did you tell your father that day?”
Fu Yansheng had asked Qi Yu this question more than once. But for a whole month, Qi Yu refused to answer. He also told him not to dwell on it.
That morning, Fu Yansheng had gone to hand over his resignation report with Qi Yuancheng — this was also the first time that Qi Yu allowed Fu Yansheng to see his father since Qi Yuancheng discovered their relationship — Qi Yuancheng was not surprised by his departure. He kept his face straight the whole time, his eyes like knives slashing at him. Qi Yuancheng had asked HR to get him sorted out as quickly as possible, as though wishing he’d disappear immediately.
But Qi Yuancheng’s behavior had been so “generous and indifferent” that Fu Yansheng began to have a bad premonition. — He was worried that Qi Yu would break up with him.
These days, Fu Yansheng was like a criminal waiting to be sentenced. He kept thinking what he should do if Qi Yu wanted to break up with him.
Seeing Qi Yu bowing his head to eat the fish, Fu Yansheng reluctantly asked, “I’m leaving, why don’t you give me a treat?”
Qi Yu held the chopstick’s hand for a while, and then said, “I just told my dad that you were leaving soon.”
Fu Yansheng: “What else? It can’t be that’s the only thing you said.”
Qi Yu: “I asked him to give me some time.”
Fu Yansheng: “Some time… how long is that?”
Qi Yu: “I don’t know, maybe a few months, a year, a few years…”
Fu Yansheng breathed a sigh of relief when he heard “a few years”. But his heart was quickly jumped up again, “So you think we’re going to break up in the end?”
Qi Yu put down his chopsticks, looked directly at Fu Yansheng. He asked back, “Fu Yansheng, do you really think that if we’re in different places, our relationship would still be as good as it is now?”
Fu Yansheng gripped his glass tightly, his face darkened.
Qi Yu: “I begged my dad to give us some time, because I know that in the eyes of someone like him who has experienced strong winds and heavy rain, our two-year relationship might not be able to withstand the test of time and distance…”
Fu Yansheng stared at him, a cold light flashed in his eyes. But the depths of that cold light seemed to be filled with a flame. “What about you? What do you think?”
I don’t know, Qi Yu said, avoiding the other party’s gaze, “I don’t want to forcibly break up with you. That would be hard to bear for me. But I have thought about it. If we’re in a different place, our feelings may weaken and if that happens it would be better for both of us to just split up.”
Fu Yansheng: “…”
Though he’d gotten a better than answer than he’d expected, Fu Yansheng felt more distressed — distressed for Qi Yu’s sensibility and maturity, distressed for Qi Yu’s reality.”
He was clearly aware that his background made him unable to give his lover a sense of security but Fu Yansheng still asked impulsively, “Qi Yu, why won’t you ask me to stay?”
The moment he asked this, Fu Yansheng felt that he’d been extremely childish. He knew all too well that he couldn’t make a decision, so he wanted to use Qi Yu’s words to force himself to see how far he was willing to compromise for Qi Yu.
Qi Yu was momentarily stunned. He then said calmly, “Teacher Fu, there’s no need to force yourself. You have never promised me anything and you have never owed me anything. Do you remember, we were here last year when I asked you what I should do to get you to come willingly to me. You said that if you told me, I would be forced… That’s also what I want to tell you now.”
Qi Yu looked at Fu Yansheng, a faint smile at the corner of his lips. “If you have to go, then go. If you want to stay, stay. What I want is your willingness.”
He said these words calmly; he wasn’t deliberately provoking like he had been in Linyuan Apartment or at the Holiday Hotel.
He didn’t get angry; he didn’t hold grievances; he was open and honest. He was sincere.
Fu Yansheng only felt a throbbing in his liver. Thinking about the past and looking at Qi Yu’s confident and easy demeanor now, he completely understood what it meant to reap what one has sown.
The man grabbed his wine cup and said one word, “Okay.”
Feelings of reluctance flooded his heart, Fu Yansheng raised his hand and drank all the liquor in the cup in one go.
— Willingness. What the f*ck.
After their meal, Qi Yu took the initiative to pay, claiming it to be ‘Fu Yansheng’s farewell dinner’. Fu Yansheng accepted it.
The two walked out of the restaurant. Qi Yu glanced at the time. It was nine o’clock. He was about to call Wang Meng, but Fu Yansheng stopped him and said, “Come back to the hotel with me tonight.”
Qi Yu: “…Huh?”
Fu Yansheng approached him and pointed out, “Since this is supposed to be my farewell dinner, how could one meal be enough? You have to make a full set, right?”
Because he had come out last month, Qi Yu was worried he might provoke his father again and so he’s been following the compass and going with the set square for a month. He’d been holding back for an entire month. Seeing Fu Yansheng suddenly acting like a hooligan with him at this moment, Qi Yu’s face flushed. He tiled his head and smiled: “Okay, then I will satisfy you this time.”
The two took a taxi to the hotel. Fu Yansheng couldn’t wait to shove him onto the bed. Surrounding him, he said, “It’s been a month, Little Fish. You’re going to drive me crazy. …You and your father, you’ve both had me so worried I can’t eat or sleep in peace. My stomach’s been in knots. When I heard what you said just now over dinner, I just realized, I’ve suffered such a big loss! We haven’t broken up! Why should I hold back from going to bed with you…”
Qi Yu raised his neck and hummed, “Stop with you talking. Are we doing it or not? I have to get home before twelve.”
Fu Yansheng was startled. This little bastard was still planning to go home?
“Yeah, we’re doing it…” Fu Yansheng pushed him onto the bed, leaned over and touched Qi Yu’s earlobe. He felt the person in his arms tremble. He whispered into his ear, “We’re doing it the whole night.”
Qi Yu snorted with a smile. Doing it the whole night? He sure know how to talk big.
Even so, the one-month abstinence period really made the two of them more excited in their love-making. The interaction was unusually intense. Thinking of how, after tonight, he and Fu Yansheng would go their separate ways, Qi Yu, too, felt like indulging.
Only after they’d done it over and over again for half the night did Qi Yu realize that there was something not quite right with Fu Yansheng…
This man seemed to be drunk!
The first time Fu Yansheng leaned in to whisper to him, Qi Yu could actually smell the alcohol in his breath already. But he had never seen him drunk before and Fu Yansheng was acting so normal that he hadn’t suspected him at all.
By the time Qi Yu realized that “Fu Yansheng had gone a little crazy”, it was already too late.
Qi Yu didn’t know how much of Fu Yansheng’s lewd and obscene words he was forced to listen to that entire night. He had also lost count of how many times he’d had to beg for mercy. After being tossing about until the early morning, the two were exhausted and they fell asleep in each other’s embrace.
The next day, Qi Yu was woken up by a phone ringing. He was so surprised that he reached out and grabbed the phone, picking it up without even looking at it. “Hello?…”
Fortunately, it was only Ye Qinru who called and the other party came to talk to him about business.
Qi Yu answered in a hoarse voice and Ye Qinru noticed his poor condition. He thoughtfully asked if he had a cold. He told him that if he wasn’t feeling well, he should rest at home.
Qi Yu gave a perfunctory response and hung up the phone to check the time, only to realize that it was almost ten o’clock.
The curtains in the room were closed and the light was dim. He had been confused, thinking that it was still dark.
Qi Yu checked his unread messages and missed calls. When he found that none of them were from his parents, he breathed a sigh of relief and slumped back sluggishly.
Fu Yansheng had also been awakened by that phone call just now. He was half-squinting, looking at him affectionately. Seeing him put down his phone, he leaned over to kiss him.
Qi Yu remembered what had happened last night and his face burned once again. Scolding him for being a “drunk demon”, Qi Yu pushed the person away. Then, gritting his teeth, he sat up.
Fu Yansheng wrapped his arms around his waist from behind, and whispered, “Don’t go…” He pressed his lips against the back of Qi Yu’s neck. Qi Yu’s scalp tingled and he couldn’t help himself from leaning against the other’s chest.
After spending a moment kissing him, Fu Yansheng then put his chin on his shoulder and asked, “Where’s your phone?”
Qi Yu: “…what are you doing?”
Fu Yansheng: “Lend it to me.”
Qi Yu reached for his phone, plucking off the pillow. He unlocked it and put it in Fu Yansheng’s hand.
Fu Yansheng searched and downloaded a piece of software. When Qi Yu saw it, he saw that it was the corresponding app the positioning pendant that Su Jing had given them.
The man opened the app, entered a string of code in it and said, “This is the pendant Su Jing gave me. I will take it with me. No matter where I am in the future, you’ll be able to see it. If you want to know what I’m doing, you can ask me at any time. I’ll tell you whatever I can… While we’re apart, I’ll send you messages every day. I’ll greet you good morning and good night. I’ll call you every day to say ‘I love you’. I can’t change my job posting, but in my heart you’re first. I can’t sign a contract this time but remember my promise. I will definitely fulfill it.”
Fu Yansheng returned the phone to Qi Yu and said affectionately into his ear: “Qi Yu, even to the ends of the earth, I won’t let you go. Test me to your heart’s content.”
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【Little Theater】
Qi Yuancheng: The bastard Fu is finally leaving! I’ll have to keep an eye on my little fish at night. I can’t let him go to that dog. Hmph!
Twelve midnight.
Qi Yuancheng: He hasn’t come back yet!? I’m gonna explode!
Eight in the morning.
Qi Yuancheng: What? He didn’t come home last night?! What the hell did they do! QAQ
Translator’s note: Hello, guys! I’m taking a break from tomorrow (May 11) to May 17. Releases resume as usual on May 18. News around the world has got me depressed and anxious. Normally, translating is my escape from all that but I just can’t focus. I’m not going to elaborate on what’s got me down but everything just seems so bleak, like we’re all heading for disaster. And, of course, no one can really foretell the future but…sigh…anyway, I’m sure I’m not the only one who gets like general anxiety and depression about the state of the world (I mean, don’t any of you?) and I guess it’s just our reality now that we get like this sometimes. Don’t let me get you guys down. Go and enjoy some of the other works here on CG. I’ll see you guys next week! =)
Take care of yourself, Sleepy Mushroom! Thank you for your hard work.
thank you and take care ☺️🥺
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Take a break for as long as you need, we’ll wait for as long as you need ❤️
Ty for the chapter ❤️
thanks for the chapter!
Yeah, it seems like whenever I look up politics I get into a rabbit hole of unproductive depression for a few days.
I know it’s been 5 months but hope you rested well!
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this chapter made me tear up. qi yu has really grown up.