Chapter 009: The Omnipotent Secretary
Without him knowing, several hours had already passed and it was already eight o’clock in the evening by the time Si Hang contacted Qi Yu.
“I overslept!” Si Hang obviously hadn’t shaken off his jet lag. Raising his spirit, he said, “Let’s go. Let’s go! Let’s go drinking to clear our heads! Xu Yizhou, are there any bars around here?”
“There’s one on the third floor of this hotel. You can drink and order food. It faces the outdoor swimming pool and the scenery is very good.” Xu Yizhou said.
Their group arrived at the third floor. Sure enough, they were met with the sight of gleaming, clear and crystalline waters through the floor to ceiling windows at one side of the bar. The swimming pool glowed with the color and lustre of a blue crystal under the illumination of the night lights. Reflected on the glass and ceiling, it created a romantic sight.
Many foreigners were sitting there drinking and watching the swimmers’ vigorous forms in the water. The girls who accompanied them cheered and walked quickly to the window. They picked a big table with a good view, and then waved them over.
“Not bad…” Si Hang sighed. When he took his seat, he looked at the menu on the table, and cursed “F*ck”. They looked around and then impatiently picked up his phone. He dialed a number, “Xu Yizhou, where are you? Come here and order for us!”
Xu Yizhou might have still been dealing with something and wasn’t able to follow them in time.
Qi Yu reacted and couldn’t help being startled. He took the menu and calmly said, “I’ll order for us.”
Si Hang heard him and hurriedly said to the person on the other end, “No need, no need. Qi Yu said he’ll order. I forgot he can speak English, haha!”
After ordering a bunch of food and drink, Si Hang smiled and praised Qi Yu, “It’s simply not the same when you’ve got a scholar-tyrant on hand.”
He was practically begging to be roasted but Qi Yu really didn’t have the energy to banter with him.
In any case, this guy was still quite tactful, and after this remark, he immediately changed the subject, “I heard from Xu Yizhou that you went to watch them play this afternoon? How are they? They’re great, right?”
Qi Yu didn’t know how to tell whether they were great or not, but he heard from Manager Huang that Xiao Ye was one of the best at this game in China. Then, he should be quite amazing. So, he said to Si Hang, “They are. Why’d you think of starting a game company? You’re keeping up with the latest trends?”
Si Hang spread his hands and leaned against the back of his chair. Feeling very pleased with himself, he tooted his own horn and told Qi Yu about how he met Xiao Ye and how he pestered his brother into buy this small unknown company; how he then spent a lot of money to dig out Xiao Ye and a bunch of other talented players from other teams and in just one short year, created this god-level team, even managing to get into the top four in an international competition… He was practically proclaiming himself as particularly insightful modern-day Bo Le and a master investor.
“The top four in the world? Your team’s that awesome?” Qi Yu pretended to be shocked.
“That’s right. Si Hang’s team is the second strongest team in China.” Qin Han said while popping some roasted almonds into this mouth.
“The second strongest in China? Who’s the first?” Qi Yu asked.
“Lin Huan’s team.” Zhu Lin said.
“Who is Lin Huan?” Qi Yu asked.
“The son of the richest man in Yancheng.” Qin Han narrowed his eyes at Qi Yu; a “You don’t know even something this?” expression on his face. “If you search for our Si Hang’s name on the Internet, you’ll see him and Lin Huan being mentioned together in eight out of ten entertainment news. Anyway, these two are the most famous bankrollers in the domestic “Hero Battle Tower” e-sports circle.”
Si Hang snorted and said arrogantly, “That Lin Huan is older than I am. He’s been doing this for three years. If my dad hadn’t forced me to study for college during those first two years, first place would be mine already.”
“Did they make the semifinals this time?” Qi Yu asked.
“Yeah, they did. Otherwise, we wouldn’t only be second. The national league has entered two teams, and we’re both here. When you go to watch the game with us on the 15th, you can see them too.” Si Hang said.
“But I heard that Lin Huan didn’t come to West City this time.” Zhu Lin said.
“Haha, Young Master Lin is different from idle college students like us.” Qin Han raised his chin to Si Hang, “Just take a look at how busy his brother is and you’ll understand.”
Qi Yu didn’t understand what he meant and asked for the reason. Qin Han explained to him that it was because Lin Huan and Si Hang’s brother, Si Ze, were the same age and those two are considered rivals.
Qi Yu listened to them discuss about the latest gossip in the domestic second-generation circle — whose family was having a b*tch fight with whose family, whose family was on the way out, who robbed whose resources, and who’s been arrested again. From time to time, they also mixed in obscene jokes… Listening to them made his head hurt.
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Si Hang also noticed that he was struggling a bit to keep up with their conversation and teased him, “Yu Ge, seeing you really makes me feel like you grew up in a Land of Peach Blossoms.”
Moving a thousand catties with four ounces, Qi Yu fired back, “Are you laughing at me for having no experience?”
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But he did a bit of self-reflection. Was there really any need for him to understand these messy matters?
Instead of listening to them talk about these things, it was better to chat with Xu Yizhou.
Thinking of this, Qi Yu couldn’t help being stupefied. “Oh, yeah.” He looked at Si Hang and said, “Speaking of, I’m a little curious about your secretary. Where did you find this person?”
“You mean Xu Yizhou?” Si Hang smiled, “One of my brother’s assistants found him for me. Didn’t I start a game company last year? But I had no idea how to manage it, so he said he could hire someone to help me, someone who’ll make sure to keep things in order for me.”
Qi Yu found it strange. “Then shouldn’t he be the company’s general manager?”
“He’s that too. Because I’m the chairman of the company, naturally, he’s my secretary. As long as I ask him to something, he’ll do it.” The food arrived. Si Hang took a bite and had a thought. He asked, “What are you asking about him for?”
Qi Yu: “I chatted a bit with him this afternoon, and I felt that he knew a lot of things.”
“Of course,” Si Hang said, showing off, “He master’s degree from R University’s Department of Economics and Management. He’s very capable.”
Qi Yu cast him a sidelong glance. “If he’s so capable, why would he be willing to be a secretary for a clueless college student?”
Si Hang: “Haha, for the money. Money will make the Devil turn millstones.”
Qi Yu asked: “How much do you give him?”
Si Hang made a gesture. “He makes a million a year.”
Qi Yu didn’t know much about the salary of domestic company executives. He asked him, “Is that a lot?”
Qin Han, to the side, laughed, “A lot? Beibei ‘earns’ more in a year that he does.”
The “BeiBei” he mentioned was Si Hang’s girlfriend. But the way he used “earns” really drew people…into imagining things.
Zhu Lin also smiled and said, “We’ve all said that Xu Ge is probably the most cost-effective person around Si Hang. He can do anything except accompany him to bed.”
“He can’t play games either and his cooking is very…” Si Hang sighed while shaking his glass. “So, you guys tell me. What’s the point of studying? As long as you’re willing to spend money, who can you not find? I really don’t understand my dad. He himself only has a junior high school degree and every day, he still talks my ear off about the importance of studying. He even insisted that I learn management…”
No one knew whether he deliberately said this to let Qi Yu hear it. In any case, immediately after, the other two glance casually at Qi Yu, looking as though they were anticipating a good show.
But Qi Yu’s control over his expression was good. He acted as though he hadn’t taken it to heart.
“Come on, drink. Drink…” Si Hang quickly adjusted the mood once again.
They drank until eleven o'clock in the evening. Everyone then dispersed.
Qi Yu returned to his room. After closing the door, his face quickly sank. He rubbed the space between his brows and lay on the bed, too lazy to even take a bath. He took out his mobile phone, and saw that Qi Feng had already replied to his message.
Feng: “I play. Why?”
What he answered was Qi Yu’s question before about whether he played Hero Battle Tower.
There were still four more messages after that——
Feng: “You want to play?”
Feng: “I won’t take you to play. You didn’t play games before. You’re definitely going to be a pit your first time playing!”
Feng: “I only play with Ling Ke now~”
Feng: “[Two kittens turn around.gif]”
Qi Yu: “……”
Qi Yu originally wanted to ask Qi Feng his thoughts about this game. But he had just been holding back his impatience at Si Hang and now, after coming back, he saw his younger brother walking right in front of the muzzle of a gun. He couldn’t help venting his anger at him.
Yu: “You should play less. Don’t you know? The pursuit of petty pleasures thwarts high aims!”
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The next day, same as the day before, Si Hang asked him to go out to have fun.
Their group, led by Xu Yizhou, visited several of the famous scenic spots in West City. They ate, drank and went shopping.
As soon as the girls saw the brand name stores, they twined around their respective boyfriends, urging them to buy these luxury bags. They spent tens upon tens of thousands of dollars without even blinking.
That night, they went to another bar. Maybe because he was tired, after drinking for a bit, Qi Yu seemed a bit in low spirits. He wasn’t feeling very willing engage in conversation.
Si Hang asked him, “Qi Yu, do you have a girlfriend?”
“No.”
“Why don’t you look for one?”
“It’s troublesome.”
“Tsk, why so frigid, huh?”
“……”
Si Hang was world-wise. He quickly saw that he wasn’t interested and after a few words, he stopped inviting a snub.
Although Qi Yu looked down on them a bit, Si Hang was still the son of his father’s friend and he still dutifully accompanied them.
However, he was also a normal man. He wasn’t really unfeeling. Nineteen, twenty, it was around this age that one was likely to be impulsive. He couldn’t help watching the three couples hugging and embracing in front of him, doing all kinds of lovey-dovey things out in the open. He too felt a little flighty and impetuous.
Once he was tipsy, that kiss he shared with that strange man at Feng Mao’s Skyline bar a few months ago, unexpectedly surfaced in Qi Yu’s mind.
…What was the name of that person?
He already forgot.
He only remembered how the feel of the other’s tongue, gentle and lingering. It was just like the wine in front of him. He didn’t think much of it at first taste, but in retrospect, it was full of energy…
At this moment, Qi Yu suddenly felt something moving on his body. He lowered his head to take a look. What he saw was that a hand had stretched towards that place without him noticing.
“…!” Qi Yu was startled and turned ferociously towards the owner of that hand. “What are you doing!?”
It wasn’t someone else touching him just now, rather it was Si Hang’s girlfriend, Bei Bei!
Everyone heard him and turned to look. Being stared at by Qi Yu’s knife-like eyes, the girl became a little scared. She hurriedly apologized, “I’m sorry, Yu Ge…”
Qi Yu forced down the nausea in his heart and coldly retracted his gaze.
Because she was Si Hang’s girlfriend, he also didn’t want to overreact. Otherwise, they were all going to be embarassed.
To his surprise, Si Hang, to one side, said calmly, “Bei Bei, I asked you to properly take care of Yu Ge. Don’t tell me you can’t even do that? And here I thought you were very good at it. In the end, he wouldn’t even let you have a touch. Tsk.”
Qi Yu frowned as he looked at him. Tone so cold he could freeze people to death, he said, “Si Hang, she’s your girlfriend.”
“What?” Si Hang’s eyes curved with his smile. “Yu Ge, women are like clothes, and brothers are like one’s hands and feet. If you want to play, don’t hesitate to ask her to ask her to let you eat meat. I was just concerned when I saw you looking like that so I let her serve you. Maybe, it’s even to her advantage. Didn’t you notice? She’s been following me these past two days but all her attention has been on you.”
Qin Han joined in, smiling as he mocked, “Haha, if you can spend the night with Qi Yu, Bei Bei would probably be willing to pay him money instead. Isn’t that right, Bei Bei?”
The people around the table laughed. Si Hang then poured another glass of liquor and pushed it to the flushed Bei Bei: “Okay, okay, don’t go scowling and crying like that. Yu Ge doesn’t want to bother with you so what are you sitting there for? Here drink this. I’ll be your penalty.”
Qi Yu, devoid of any expression on his face, watched them put on their act. In his heart, he was already holding back rivers and overturning seas…
Just what kind of f*cking bastards are these people? F*ck.
No matter how much self-restraint he has, he already couldn’t tolerate being tossed about like this. Qi Yu got up and said to them, “I’m going to the bathroom”, and went straight out of the bar to take a breather.
The night life in West City wasn’t as lively as Newtown’s and the street outside the bar was relatively quiet.
Qiyu bought a bottle of S. Pellecrino at the bar. He stood alone on the street, drinking ice water to settle his irritability.
The decked out young men and women entering and leaving the bar turned their heads to look at him from time to time. Their ambiguous eyes were filled with the enthusiasm to hit on him but they were all deterred by Qi Yu’s indifferent reaction.
“Young Master Qi, are you here?” Xu Yizhou had come looking for him. He approached him with an ingratiating look on his face. “Did Si Hang make you angry? Ai, calm down. He just wants you all to have fun together. He has no other intention. See? Now that you’ve left, he’s feeling uncomfortable inside. He specially asked me to come out and find you. He asked me to apologize to you…”
Qi Yu tilted his head to look at him, this man with the forced smile on his face. He asked calmly, “Xu Yizhou, is a million a year worth it to follow him like this?”
Xu Yizhou’s expression stiffened and when he wanted to answer, Qi Yu had already turned around and reentered the bar.
The author has something to say: [Little Theater]
Qi Yu: “You should play less. Don’t you know? The pursuit of petty pleasures thwarts high aims!”
Qi Feng: “…” Damn, you f*cking set me up! You better not get carried away! Is my playing getting in your way! QAQ
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Poor Qi Yu, to be surrounded with scummy people, it’s truly overbearing.
Thanks for the translation!❤️❤️❤️
I really wanted Qi Yu to blow up and show them but Qi Yu is not like them 🤧 poor baby, someone better teach those people and I mean someone hot, undercover and a boss ✨
Poor. bai Bai too 😔
that misogynistic and useless person si hang, he makes me want to throw up
si hang’s misogynistic behavior and general uselessness makes me want to throw up
gross
thanks for the chapter <3
“Qi Yu listened to them discuss about the latest gossip in the domestic second-generation circle — whose family was having a b*tch fight with whose family, who’s family was on the way out,”
qi yu is on the edge of snapping i can feel it
thank you for the chapter 💙
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Wow Si Hang’s gross 🤢🤢🤢
Thanks for the chapter~
thanks for the chapter!
Ew… why are these people so disgusting?
People like Și Hang and his gang with ‘women are like shoes’ or whatever really disgust me. You’re a ducking shoe. Your whole group is made up of nothing but stinky, athlete’s foot-filled, broken shoes.
Ironically, they then turn around and get depressed that everyone is chasing them just for their money. Do you, stinky shoe, have anything else to offer other than your money and athlete’s foot?! 🙄