Chapter 046: Pretending To Be Oneself
After thinking about it, Qi Yu suspected that Fu Yansheng must have been trying to draw him out. But, since he wasn’t able to explain it at the time, there was no longer any need to explain it. Once again emphasizing to the other that he “hadn’t bought it” would only seem too argumentative…
Qi Yu calmed down. He felt that Fu Yansheng’s actions towards him just now went a little over the line!
— Among normal male friends, who would use such a way to comfort someone?
If it were someone else of the same sex, just thinking about the other person holding him and scratching his palms sent goosebumps all over Qi Yu’s body.
Not even Xu Jing. If Xu Jing were to do something like that, he would definitely suspect that Xu Jing had strange thoughts about him.
But how could Fu Yansheng dare to be so unbridled? Did the other party realize that he likes him? Or did he want to use this to test his feelings?
Qi Yu inwardly said ‘this is not good’. If he continued to indulge the other, Fu Yansheng would probably reach for a mile after being given an inch….If he were to be taken so easily, wouldn’t it be too convenient for this man?
Qi Yu anxiously paced around his bedroom a couple of times. In the end, he decided to give the other party the cold shoulder for the next three days. It would also give him time to cool down his emotional state that had been teased by the other into turning a bit abnormal.
***
After going to bed that night, Reporter Yang sent him a report of Qiu Rusong’s whereabouts after they parted ways.
Qi Yu only saw it the next morning. The report showed that after he left the clubhouse, Qiu Rusong went in and stayed for another forty minutes. It was nine o’clock by the time he left by car.
Within half an hour after that, more than 20 people came out of the club one after another. Reporter Yang secretly took photos of each one and asked Qi Yu to see if he recognized anyone.
Qi Yu was a little puzzled. What did people who came out after that have to do with him?
He clicked on the photos and when Qi Yu saw the sixth one, he was shocked!
He circled the person in the photo and forwarded it to the other, saying, “This is Liu Qi‘s secretary, Zhang Jian.” He then asked Reporter Yang, “How did you know that someone I know might be among the people who came out afterwards?”
Reporter Yang sent a voice message to explain to him. Basically, Qiu Rusong’s behavior of returning to the clubhouse after sending him away was fundamentally very strange.
Assuming that they really were a criminal group, the possibility of Qiu Rusong acting alone was very low.
“Think about it from his point of view. If you were doing something harmful to the company’s interests, or even possibly something illegal and then at this time, the shareholder’s son wanted you to invite you to dinner. How would you react?”
Qi Yu realized at once—it was feeling guilty!
Even if Qiu Rusong appeared to be calm, they were afraid of him; afraid that he would find out, afraid that he would continue to investigate, afraid that this meal would be a Hongmen feast, that it was going to be Qi Yu criticizing him violently.
And Zhang Jian’s presence there also proved indirectly that Qiu Rusong and Liu Qi were in together among a group of those sharing beneficial interests. At that vital point in time, they needed to act as a group to respond promptly in case the situation turned dire.
Reporter Yang said, “Looking at it from the behavioral logic of criminals, this kind of arrangement is nothing new. We’ll stand watch patiently and continue filming. They’re still underestimating you. By my guess, they still haven’t suspected you of hiring people to do counter-surveillance. It was why they were so easily caught on camera.”
Qi Yu remembered what Fu Yansheng had analyzed last night, and asked Reporter Yang if he had seen Qiu Rusong sending him off at the door.
Reporter Yang: “Wait, let me have a look.”
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After a while, Reporter Yang send a short video clip to him. Although the picture was a bit blurry, Qi Yu could still recognize at a glance the figures in the video.
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It was early in the morning, but Qi Yu felt a layer of cold sweat on his back from looking at this picture.
He thought he was just meeting Qiu Rusong for them to get acquainted with each other. He didn’t expect that they had really set up a dragon's pool and a tiger's den…
Because of his exchange with Reporter Yang that morning, Qi Yu was 20 minutes late for work. This was the first time he was late since his return to China. It was so unexpected that Guo Qiao at the front desk even stalled in her greeting.
Qi Yu didn’t care about what others thought of him. For the entire day, he continued to play the role of a rich second generation ancestor who did nothing bit idle his time away in his office.
After work that evening, he ran into Chief Qin in the elevator.
“Qi Yu, it seems like you aren’t as busy this week as you were before?” Qin Hanyao said.
“A bit. I’ve pretty much done everything I wanted to do.” Qi Yu said with a smile.
“Haha, last month, I saw you drag your assistant to work overtime even during on your days off. How very responsible.” Qin Hanyao suggested, “When it comes to working, you should also pay attention to the appropriate balance of stress and relaxation.”
“What Chief Qin says is true.” Qi Yu smiled, “I’ve been in Haicheng for a month but I’ve never taken the time to have fun. It’s time to relax a bit.”
Qin Hanyao sighed with emotion, “I really admire Director Qi for being able to raise a son like you. If my son was half as energetic and motivated as you are, I would be burning a lot of incense to Heaven.”
Qi Yu tilted his head. “Your son?”
“He’s in his first year of high school this year. During this summer vacation he does nothing but play games at home all day. He even said he wanted to attend a university abroad…” President Qin shook his head and sighed. Then suddenly he thought of something and said to Qi Yu, “Qi Yu, would you be free to have a meal at uncle’s house this weekend? I’d like to have my son meet you. You’re both young people and with how outstanding you are, I hope he can learn from you.”
Tomorrow was Saturday. Qi Yu thought to himself, he seemed to have no good reason to refuse this matter. He could also use this visit to Qin Hanyao’s house to learn about the other party’s real life situation.
After weighing the pros and cons, he nodded and said, “Okay, but I have something to do with my family this weekend. Will next week be ok?”
Chief Qin: “Of course.”
***
For the two days that weekend, Qi Yu stayed in the hotel to communicate online with Wei Tianrui and Reporter Yang.
He had decided to give Fu Yansheng the cold shoulder for a few days and made no move to contact the other person. However, Fu Yansheng also seemed to be very busy. Except for chatting with him a bit on WeChat, he didn’t take any initiative at all to ask him out.
On Sunday night, Qi Yu called his younger brother, Qi Feng. “Come over to my place tonight.”
He’d been putting on an act at the office for the past few days, deliberately letting the way he worked look more like Qi Feng’s. After these few days of excess, people at the office probably won’t notice any sort of abrupt change if he lets Qi Feng go to the company as his doublt tomorrow.
“Do I need to start working tonight?” Qi Feng asked.
“No, you’ll be coming here to sleep. You’ll go tomorrow. There’s a secretary from Mei Wei who picks me up from the hotel every day. You’ll have to start from here.” Qi Yu said.
“Oh…” Qi Feng said nervously, “Then what should I bring?”
“No need to bright anything. I’ve got everything here,” Qi Yu thought for a while and said, “But on your way here, can you buy me a new mobile phone and a sim card to go with it.”
“What brand do you want?”
“Just buy one that’s exactly the same as the one I’m using now.”
An hour later, the doorbell rang.
Qi Yu walked to the door and look through the peephole. He saw Qi Feng wearing a black fisherman hat, with face his face covered with a black gauze mask, standing outside, looking left and right.
Qi Yu hurriedly opened the door to let him in. He said, feeling dumbfounded, “What are you doing wrapped put so tight?”
Qi Feng took off his mask and said, “I’m afraid of being seen!”
Qi Yu frowned, “If anyone sees you, they’ll just think it’s me. What’s there to be afraid of? Summon some courage. It’s sneaking around like that that will make people suspicious.”
“You…” Qi Feng was so angry that he toss him the new mobile phone. He said, “You’ve got some nerve talking like that to someone you’re asking for help!”
While Qi Yu was unpacking his cell phone, Qi Feng took the opportunity to stroll around in his suite. He exclaimed, “Dang, why is your room so big? Isn’t this bathroom a bit too luxurious? How many bedrooms are there? Just one. Where am I going to sleep?”
Qi Yu: “Sofa.”
Qi Feng put on his mask: “I’m leaving!”
Qi Yu looked up at him. “The bed’s huge. Why can’t you sleep with me?”
Qi Feng took off his mask again. “Ge! We’re all grown-up now! Is it appropriate for us to be sleeping on the same bed again!”
Qi Yu said, finding it strange, “What’s inappropriate about it? It’s no problem with me even if you’re gay.”
“What are you f*cking…” Qi Feng just now had wanted to say ‘What are you f*cking pretending for? Like you aren’t!’
But when he thought about it, something seemed fishy and it felt even more perverted to say it. What was the difference between two gay brothers sharing the same bed and a pair of normal brother and sister sharing the bed? Did his brother not have any common sense in this area? Even if he were willing to share a bed, Ling Ke might be jealous if he finds out!
Qi Yu saw his brother’s face change colors like an overturned color palette. He said impatiently, “Why are you so fussy? Fine, I’ll sleep on the sofa, alright?”
And he’s even calling him fussy!?
Qi Feng…In light of his brother’s generosity in letting him have the bed, resisted the urge to walk away.
After setting up the new mobile phone, Qi Yu put in a few steps and handed it to his younger brother. “Take this. Some calls that are not convenient for me to answer outside will be directly transferred to this mobile phone.”
It was like Qi Feng was picking up a hot potato. Panicky, he asked, “You want me to answer the phone for you?”
Qi Yu: “You don’t need to answer. Just put it on the office desk and bring it around with you. If you get a call, you just need to take a look at it. This creates the illusion that I and my mobile phone are both in the office.”
Qi Feng clicked his tongue. “You’ve really thought this through…”
Afterwards, Qi Yu began to explain to Qi Feng his specific itinerary for the day. “You have to get up at about 7:30 in the morning, wash and change clothes,” he opened his wardrobe to show to him, “These are what I usually wear to work. When you go to work, you can just pick whichever one you want.”
“F*ck, so many? Are all these shirts and suits?” Qi Feng ruffled through the clothes hangers and suddenly became a little excited, “It’s like doing cosplay!”
Qi Yu: “What’s cosplay?”
“Nothing,” Qi Feng waved his hand, too lazy to explain to his outdated brother, “Go on.”
“At around 8:20 in the morning, the car arranged by Secretary Cheng will pick you up at the hotel entrance.” Qi Yu opened the iPad to give Qi Feng a remedial lesson. “It’s this AL980 Mercedes. This is a photo of Secretary Cheng. Familiarize yourself with it.”
“…So advanced.”
“I arrived at the company at around 8:40 to 8:45. My office is on the 28th floor.” Qi Yu stuffed the ipad into Qi Feng’s hand to help him familiarize himself with the people. “This is Guo Qiao, the company’s front desk receptionist. This girl’s a little bit lovestruck, please keep a bit of distance from her.”
Qi Feng murmured, “She’s really cute.”
Qi Yu narrowed his eyes at him: “Don’t forget that you are pretending to be me. Remember to exercise some restrain in the company. Don’t go smiling at everybody like Xue Niu.”
Qi Feng: “???”
Qi Feng: “When have I ever been like Xue Niu!?”
Qi Yu looked at him contemptuously, “Every day, especially when you’re with Ling Ke. You keep smiling like an idiot.”
Qi Feng was so angry that he placed the ipad on the sofa cushion, got up and said, “You’re asking me for help and you’re still giving me that kind of attitude? I’m not doing it!”
Qi Yu grabbed his arm and pulled him to a stop. “Alright, stop with the tantrum. In any case, remember that you’re pretending to be me. Smile less and talk less and you’ve already won half the battle!”
Qi Feng: “…………”
Qi Yu then introduced him to the company’s people, placing particular emphasis on Wu Shuang. He then had Qi Feng memorize all the people in his ipad photos and later, he did a random test.
“You’re even testing me on this!?” Qi Feng cursed, but he remembered their faces quickly and he got them memorized in less than half an hour.
“You’ve memorized them all?” Qi Yu was a little surprised. He walked over and quizzed him on a few, but he remembered all of them correctly.
“What’s so hard about remembering faces? Everyone looks different. Just don’t ask me to look at any of your documents and we’ll be fine. You once brought home a pile of documents and even just glancing at them made me go dizzy!”
Qi Yu: “……”
Was this the talent of a social expert? Why was it that even though they were twins he wasn’t gifted with even a shred of this skill?
After passing the test, Qi Feng took a nice relaxing bath in his brother’s “luxury bathroom”. He then climbed onto the two-meter-wide “director’s bed”, took out his mobile phone and called Ling Ke before going to sleep.
As a result, as their chat was filling with emotions and getting honey-sweet, Qi Feng suddenly felt the bed dip slight.
He sat up and saw his brother in his pajamas lay down on the bed. He even pushed him more to the side, and said, “Scoot over. The sofa’s uncomfortable. I want to sleep on the bed too.”
Qi Feng: “???”
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【Little Theater】
Qi Yu: Scoot over. I also want to sleep on the bed.
Fu Yansheng & Ling Ke: Lemon fruit on the lemon tree, you and me under the lemon tree.
Qi Feng: No! I don’t want this! QAQ
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Ah, this might go better than I thought?
thanks Mushroom for putting description of the name because honestly, eventhough i read this daily, i still forget many names ( ╹▽╹ ;;;)ゞ
suit for Qi Yu is uniform, but for Qi Feng it becomes cosplay costumes… what kind of play have you done with Keke in suit, Frngfemg
*Fengfeng??
What’s wrong with Qi Feng’s brain cells keke it’s okay for brothers to sleep on the same bed lol
Thanks for the chapter 😊
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Thanks for the chapter^_^
thanks for the chapter!
Back in the early part when FYS calling him stupid, that just resonates how QY has also been looking down on other ppl, like his bro QF too.