Chapter 173: To Be Influenced
After getting confirmation from Fu Yansheng’s own mouth, Qi Yu called Jiang Ying and told his mother the “good news”.
Since Wu Yongtian truly intends to become a shareholder in the Si Yuan Group, for the Si Yuan Group it was equivalent to having the support of another large group. The hidden dangers they had previously been worried about could no longer possibly threaten the Group.
Qi Yu put down his phone and when Fu Yansheng brought a shrimp dumpling to his mouth, he tilted his head slightly and said, “It’s already past lunch time. I really don’t have any appetite.”
“Just eat it.” Fu Yansheng coaxed him, “You haven’t even tasted it yet. How do you know you don’t want it?”
Qi Yu was amused by how Fu Yansheng said it as though he were swearing. He opened his mouth and accepted the shrimp dumpling. His appetite was stimulated and was forced to eat half a bowl of lean meat porridge as well.
After eating, the two returned to the bed. However, they didn’t do anything, simply snuggling together and chatting.
“Tell me what it was like those few years you were working in Harbor City…” Qi Yu said.
Fu Yansheng: “What do you want to know?”
Qi Yu asked casually, “Was it your superiors who arranged for you to go to Harbor City?”
Fu Yansheng: “Not really. I was the one who chose Harbor City. My superiors only gave me a scope. I could go where I wanted. I chose Huan Sheng because a school senior of mine was there. I worked as an analyst for the first two years. It was all dirty work…”
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“What’s ‘dirty work’?” Qi Yu asked curiously, “Shady work?”
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“Because of mixed qualification. You think everyone can be twenty-year-old bosses like you, with a group of elites working for him?” Fu Yansheng glanced at him with a smile and said, “Back then, I was the same age you were when you first met me. Everyone in the team were all older than me. One, I had no experience and two, I had no resources. What was the use of having just brains?”
“Were you busy with work?” Qi Yu asked.
“I was.” Fu Yansheng sighed and said, “I worked every day from 9 to 9. At first, I was just like Wu Shuang in Mei Wei now. The main thing was to show that I was working, to cooperate with my seniors. When I started to be familiar with the environment, I began to get a bit involved with the core assignment…”
Fu Yansheng stopped his narration. Qi Yu knew that it probably involved something that he couldn’t say.
He didn’t ask any further questions. After waiting for a while, he heard Fu Yansheng tilt his head and say, “Help me get a cigarette…”
Qi Yu bent over and took out the cigarette case from the same old place. He got one cigarette out and handed it to Fu Yansheng. He wanted to take one for himself as well, but Fu Yansheng stopped him. “You’ve already smoked one. You’re going to have another one?”
Qi Yu: “Weren’t you the one who taught me?”
Fu Yansheng snatched the cigarette case away from him and said, “I taught you many, many things but I didn’t teach you to smoke. That time I overturned the wine, I ever urged you not to. You’re the one who insisted on…”
Qi Yu still wanted one. “As they say, ‘One is influenced by what one sees and hears’, right?”
“Fine.” Fu Yansheng said as he hid the cigarette case under the pillow on his side, at the same time pressing Qi Yu back. “Lie down, I’ll let you have a puffs or two later.”
Qi Yu: “…”
Fu Yansheng lit a cigarette and took a puff himself before passing it to Qi Yu’s mouth.
Qi Yu was stunned. Lowering his eyes, he took between his lips the cigarette end that the other party had already held between his lips aw well. Narrowing his eyes, he took a puff of smoke, feeling this was all inexplicably quite romantic.
Seeing his intoxicated expression, Fu Yansheng gave a low laugh, “When did you become so addicted?”
Qi Yu breathed out a puff of white smoke. He’d been thinking of the same question.
After a few seconds, he looked at the ceiling and said, “This doesn’t count as an addiction…”
He never brought cigarettes with him nor did he have a smoking habit. When he has smoked occasionally, it might have just been that he missed the smell of Fu Yansheng’s body or when he was troubled, the image of Fu Yansheng smoking came to his mind and feeling like he was the same as the other party could help him easily solve his problems…
And the reason why he enjoyed it so much just now was because this was the cigarette that the person he loved had smoked.
Qi Yu remembered how Fu Yansheng had stopped himself from speaking just now and said in a low voice, “I sometimes wonder if you doing this job, guarding so many secrets and having these things you can’t even tell the people you’re closest to, don’t you feel lonely?”
Fu Yansheng was silent for a while, and then said, “Before I met you, I never doubted my choice. I never felt like I had to sacrifice anything for it because I’d done all of it out of my own accord…”
Qi Yu looked at him. “What about now?”
“Now,” the man took another puff from his cigarette and smiled, “I feel lonely every day.”
“…Why?” Qi Yu asked.
Fu Yansheng’s hand brushed against the back of Qi Yu’s neck. He had Qi Yu rest his head against his shoulder before saying, “Because I’m not near enough to you. I have no way to make you understand me better. I’m always afraid that one day you’ll lose interest in me or maybe you’ll grow impatient, dump me and leave.”
Qi Yu’s heart skipped a beat. He chuckled and said, “Oh, where did all your self-confidence go? You actually think like that?”
Fu Yansheng: “No matter how highly I think of myself, meeting someone like you, I’m simply left with no way out.”
Qi Yu: “…”
At that moment, Qi Yu was tempted to ask, ‘Since you think so, why don’t you give up that job and come stay with me? Come to the Si Yuan Group, I’ll to give you the best position by my side…’
But he thought once again, Fu Yansheng had probably made his choice based on his principles. Human affairs were just filled with dilemmas, that’s all.
So, in the end, he still said nothing.
The two of them, passing it back and forth, slowly finished the cigarette.
After lying down for a while, Qi Yu rolled over on top of Fu Yansheng and said, an affectionate look in his eyes, “Now, do you want us to be closer?”
Fu Yansheng smiled and said, “Let’s go again?”
Qi Yu: “Let’s go again…”
Resentment and parting must not be sought. Only joy and love can part a hundred sorrows…
I feel so heartbreak hearing how hard it is for Little Fish and Fu Yansheng to be apart from each other 😭
And thank you for the update!!
Thank you for the update!!
I love them talking this way .. even though they still have to hold back a bit cuz of job, principles etc.. incredibly intimate..
Thank you for the chapter ❤️
thanks for the chapter!
So sweet, bitter sweet but still sweet ♡ I like how they are opened to each other as much as the conditions allowed them to. /also can’t help wondering if this secret service job is something one can decide to quit (just in case one day Fu dage came to conclusion that he’d like to be with xiao Fish completely.)