The plane took off and the landscape from the window changed from the open fields to the vast blue sky.
Cen Nan propped his head up with one hand while looking down through the half-opened window. Beneath the plane was the shrunken city of Yandu. He had no special connection to the city but because Liang Muqiu was here, an unwillingness to part had surfaced in his heart.
People were always greedy for more.
In the United States, he felt satisfied just being able to hold Liang Muqiu’s hand. When he was trapped in a corner with no way to escape, hearing a few words about Liang Muqiu could comfort him.
But now that he had reunited with Liang Muqiu, he had held his hand, tasted his lips and become more affectionate, giving birth to more desires.
He knew that he was insatiable.
But he also thought that his swelling desires were being indulged by Liang Muqiu.
After landing in Bincheng, the first thing Cen Nan did was call Liang Muqiu.
He hadn’t left the airport yet and was still waiting for his luggage.
Meanwhile, Liang Muqiu was already on set and busy discussing with Liu Fengtao whether to change a scene, not caring about him at all.
However, Liang Muqiu still gave Cen Nan some attention.
It was undeniable that when he heard Cen Nan’s voice on the other end of the phone, his heart that was hanging in the air finally fell into place.
Cen Nan hadn’t left.
“I’ll pick up Edamame later,” Cen Nan said. “We’ve been gone for a few days and wronged it.”
Liang Muqiu took a sip of sparkling water and said, “That’s not necessarily the case. Don’t think that your son is so filial. He’s used to staying in the pet clinic and is always served delicious food and drinks. He might be reluctant to leave.”
Cen Nan laughed, “No matter how good it is outside, he still has to come back home with me.”
His remark held a deeper meaning.
Liang Muqiu raised his eyebrows slightly but didn’t expose him.
When Cen Nan got off the plane, he was picked up by someone Ren Qihan sent from the law firm. The two didn’t put down their phones until Cen Nan entered the car.
Liang Muqiu hung up the phone and continued to think over the script. When he looked up, he saw the two teasing faces of Liu Fengtao and Wen Yang.
Recently, Wen Yang had taken a liking to the cold noodle dish from a local family. Right now, he looked far from the male god in his fans’ eyes. He was wearing a loose shirt with a ponytail tied. He sat with the bowl of noodles and smiled, “Teacher Liang and Cen Nan have such a good relationship.”
Liang Muqiu had also become familiar with him in the past few days. This guy was far from being gentle and friendly on the surface. When they first met on the blind date, they were both polite and pretended to be a gentleman.
As soon as he heard Wen Yang’s sentence, he knew that the following words would be nothing good.
As expected, Wen Yang spoke slowly, “I just don’t know how Lawyer Cen can rest assured. With my rival on set and Teacher Liang being so talented and beautiful, Lawyer Cen should be so anxious that he loses sleep every day.”
Liang Muqiu didn’t even move his eyebrows and said calmly, “If something was going to happen, it would have happened long ago, why bother waiting until now?”
Wen Yang was taken aback for a moment and then laughed, “Now I think you are like Liang Bian, humorous and intelligent.”
Liang Muqiu tilted his head, “Then what do you think I was?”
Wen Yang was not afraid of offending him and told the truth, “I thought you were boring at first. Although you had tea and dinner with me, your smile was lukewarm and it was awkward. I’m also a very proud person. If you can’t put me in your eyes, then why should I chase you? ”
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Liang Muqiu smiled.
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He tapped the script against his palm and reminded them, “You two, stop chatting, it’s time to work. Wen Yang, it will be your turn soon. If you have nothing to do, go and teach our little actors.”
Cen Nan went to the pet clinic to pick up Edamame.
Edamame now lived in both houses and Cen Nan’s place contained a kennel and necessary supplies for dogs. He fed Edamame a can of food which improved the relationship between father and son.
Petting Edamame, Cen Nan found that it had been nourished physically and mentally in the pet clinic. It hadn’t gotten thin and was still chubby. While eating, it didn’t lift its head at all and regarded his father as nothing.
Cen Nan recorded a few short videos which he planned to send to Liang Muqiu at night and then started to unpack his luggage
After a few days of absence, the appearance of the house hadn’t changed much. There was no dust on the table but it appeared deserted while the flowers and plants on the balcony looked desolate.
Cen Nan took out his phone and looked at Liang Muqiu’s WeChat avatar.
Liang Muqiu’s profile picture was a handwritten “Liang(梁)” character, which seemed old-fashioned. It was tinged with an indifference and solemnity that did not match his age.
A lot of people in the crew joked that Mr. Liang was old and serious just by looking at his profile picture, but they didn’t expect the person himself to be so good-looking and kind.
They probably thought that the character ‘Liang’ was casually written by him.
But only Cen Nan knew that in college, he had once held Liang Muqiu’s hand and taught him to practice writing his own name stroke by stroke.
In the end, Liang Muqiu still didn’t develop good handwriting, but the words “Liang Muqiu” were eight points similar to Cen Nan’s.
He also knew that Liang Muqiu was busy at the moment and didn’t want to disturb him. Instead, he decided to scroll past their previous chat records.
But after scrolling for a while, a call came through his phone.
On the screen were three familiar characters: Ruan Zhuxian.
Cen Nan was stunned and didn’t know why she suddenly called.
Although he and Ruan Zhuxian were childhood friends, they had gone their ways since childhood and didn’t contact each other unless necessary.
Not only was he not interested in Ruan Zhuxian, but she also didn’t take the initiative to call him either.
However, the two of them had similar personalities and were awkwardly pushed to be together by their families but they instead became close friends in times of need.
However, when he recalled that Liang Muqiu had mistaken him and Ruan Zhuxian as a couple when he returned to China, he felt a sense of relief that he wasn’t on the set right now. If not, he would have been interrogated in three joint trials by Liang Muqiu.
He pressed the accept button.
“Hey, Cen Nan, it’s been a long time since we last talked,” said Ruan Zhuxian who was typing away early in the morning. “What are you doing?”
“At home,” Cen Nan responded simply. “I just returned from a business trip.”
He thought about it for a while. The last time Ruan Zhuxian came to him, she asked him to be the legal consultant for a project and this woman would go to the Three Treasures Temple for everything, so he asked very politely and consciously, “Do you need me for anything? Need help with legal documents or is there a lawsuit?”
Basically saying, if you have something to ask for, you will go to the temple.
On the opposite end, Ruan Zhuxian chuckled. “I don’t always look for you for business, right? Your reaction makes me feel like a landlord squeezing a long-term labourer. Am I not allowed to be concerned about the younger generation?”
Cen Nan’s heart was as still as water. “I don’t think you have such rich emotions.”
Ruan Zhuxian laughed.
“I was concerned about you, I didn’t ask how you were doing for a while. Have you adapted to China? Did you catch Liang Muqiu?”
When Liang Muqiu’s name was brought up, Cen Nan’s face softened. “Not yet, but I’m almost there.”
Ruan Zhuxian was quite surprised. Cen Nan wasn’t the type to lie. Since he said so, there probably had been significant progress with Liang Muqiu.
She couldn’t help but click her tongue.
After all, if she were to switch with Liang Muqiu and put herself in his shoes, the grass on Cen Nan’s would be three meters high.
However, she was quite happy for Cen Nan, “That’s good. You should coax him more, treat him better, don’t be insensitive about his feelings.”
After that, they talked about other trivial matters.
Ruan Zhuxian finally got to the point, “I may return to China in two months, I’ll be staying for a month. My parents insisted on me persuading you to have a meal with your parents. Let me tell you first, I’m not going to play a villain, nor do I intend to convince you. I’m just informing you. If you don’t want to go, forget it. But we are old friends, we should make an appointment for dinner. And you should bring Liang Muqiu, I want to see him too.”
Cen Nan didn’t feel much when he heard this.
He laughed without any warmth, “Even if I am willing to eat this meal, my parents will not.”
His statement wasn’t self-deprecating but cold.
Ruan Zhuxian’s hand that was typing on the keyboard froze.
Cen Nan’s family was a mess and she was a witness to it, so she couldn’t refute his words.
She sighed, “I won’t persuade you to reconcile with your family, you can rest assured.”
Cen Nan hooked the corner of his lips, “I know, thank you for all you’ve done.”
“Don’t be so polite, if I approach you for a lawsuit in the future, just give me a twenty percent discount,” Ruan Zhuxian said. “Or you can help me escape from the constant pestering at home to get married, I’m about to die. Even if this old lady hides in the United Sites, I can’t run away from the blind dates.”
Speaking of urging marriage, Cen Nan remembered another thing.
He lowered his eyes and said, “I want to ask you something, were you aware that after we went abroad, there were rumours in school that the two of us were engaged?”
“Ah?” Ruan Zhuxian was completely stunned. “You’re joking with me, what are you talking about?”
“It was Liang Muqiu who asked me.” After he said this, his eyes became colder. “After I left the country, the news spread among everyone and reached Liang Muqiu’s ears. He thought I broke up with him because I fell in love with you.”
Ruan Zhuxian let out a ‘hiss’. Just hearing it gave her goosebumps.
Cen Nan’s tough bones should be reserved for a warrior like Liang Muqiu.
She said, “I swear to God, this has nothing to do with me.”
“I know.”
After Cen Nan said this, there was an awkward silence on both ends of the phone for a few seconds.
They knew someone who would do it.
When they first went abroad, their parents pushed them to get married like crazy, but neither of them was willing. But if one person compromised, they couldn’t say what would happen.
Ruan Zhuxian didn’t want to talk about this terrible issue anymore.
“Let’s not talk about this. You should explain it clearly to Liang Muqiu, I don’t want to be a mistress,” she pretended to be relaxed. “At least I got along well with him for some time and I still like him. I don’t want him to hate me when I return to China.”
“He’s not such a person, he won’t hate you,” Cen Nan said softly, and then his voice became more solemn, “You can meet him if you want to, but don’t talk nonsense in front of him.”
Ruan Zhuxian didn’t react at first.
After a while, she realized something, and her tone dropped, “You haven’t told him anything? Does he still not know why you separated from him?”
Cen Nan stayed silent for a while.
“How do I say it?” he asked Ruan Zhuxian. “Do you want him to pity me, or do you want him to experience my pain?”
“But…”
“No, he’s okay now and so am I.” Cen Nan said indifferently. “I should tell him and I’ll do it myself, I hope you don’t mention it to him. Otherwise, we won’t see each other again.”
Ruan Zhuxian clenched her teeth and fought back the urge to smack him.
Cen Nan was a good person.
But when he was close to people, he really looked like an asshole.
She knew that Cen Nan was not joking so she reluctantly agreed, “I know, I won’t say anything.”
After hanging up, Cen Nan stared at the opposite wall in a daze for a while.
After returning to Liang Muqiu’s side, he seldom recalled what happened in the United States.
Liang Muqiu was an effective medicine that could soothe all his pain and reluctance.
But after talking with Ruan Zhuxian, he seemed to have returned to the small room with white walls and white windows for a moment.
He recalled the medicine scattered in the pool, of him sitting on the edge of the hospital bed holding his grandma’s hand and the tombstone in the woods in America.
His stomach throbbed and nausea rushed up his throat.
He looked down at Liang Muqiu’s smiling face on the phone and finally suppressed the dark emotions in his heart.
Qiuqiu’s opinion of Ruan Zhuxian: a gentle and cute little fairy.
Ruan Zhuxian irl: King Kong Barbie.
When she was a child, she fought with Cen Nan for books and broke her head.
Hello everyone, it’s been a really long time since I updated since I got super busy. A lot of things happened during the time I stopped translating this novel but I’m not gonna start trauma dumping on the internet lol
Good news is that I finished school and I’m waiting for graduation which is in a few weeks and my goal is to finish translating this novel at the very least. I feel bad for just dropping off the face of the earth and leaving things unfinished is something I dislike a lot, so I’m going to continue translating BK and try to increase my updates QAQ. Also, kinda ironic that I stopped translating at the chapter where Cen Nan and Liang Muqiu separated at the airport 
Welcome back and thank you for continuing to translate this novel. I hope you’re doing great ❤❤❤
welcome back, hope everything is going well for you now dear translator!!
So there was indeed a person who didn’t wish them well and made the whole mess 🤔
Thank You for the new chapter ♡╰(⸝⸝⸝´꒳`⸝⸝⸝)╯♡ Good to see You again! Hope everything is alright at Your side now and Your life is going well ❤
Welcome back, take care and thank you for the chapter!!
Welcome back and congratulations for finishing your last semester! 🎉
Thank you so much for the translation 💕
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