Bonus Update (for Li Yu’s birthday)
Although Jian Suiying wanted to catch Bai Xinyu immediately and beat him up, he still couldn’t help but worry over his aunt. He ultimately decided to tell his aunt the news on a sunny day and brought gifts to her home. As Jian Suiying had anticipated, Bai Xinyu wasn’t at home. Even after entering their home, he never once mentioned what Bai Xinyu had done to him. Instead, he asked his relatives to send Bai Xinyu to the army, with the gesture of an elder brother who worried over his cousin’s future.
His aunt and uncle were hesitant at first, saying that Bai Xinyu had already shown an unwillingness to go in the past and how bitter life in the army was.
Jian Suiying reasoned that Bai Xinyu truly wasn’t talented in business. While he was in the capital, he would always meet terrible people that fueled his gambling addiction. If this continued, he would cause the ruination of his family sooner or later. Therefore, they must send him to a place that will discipline him well. In addition, they had connections in the army. He will undoubtedly have a successful future if he can keep going down that path. It i\was much better than him now, where he only knows how to spend money and mess around with women.
Although Jian Suiying also had selfish intentions of wanting to take revenge against Bai Xinyu, this decision was really for the best interests of the Bai family and Bai Xinyu. He already stole money from his own cousin because he had gambling debts. Who knows what other things he’d do next time? Jian Suiying must discipline his cousin before he makes an even bigger mistake. He hoped that the environment in the army would completely transform Bai Xinyu and have him turn over a new leaf.
The old couple finally got convinced. The point was that Jian Suiying was right. After they considered it, it was indeed the best path for their son. If he could work in the army, there would be connections formed, and their future would be limitless. They just had to be callous, it was for the future of their son.
The three settled the matter behind Bai Xinyu’s back.
In the evening, Jian Suiying had dinner and took a subordinate with him to stop him from drinking too much. Unexpectedly, the people he was dining with still drank so much. He brought someone to help drink for him, but he still got drunk.
When the driver took him home, he was sitting in the back seat and got a call.
He checked the caller ID and felt like he saw a mirage of a name. He laughed at himself and answered the phone: “Hello, Chief Zhao…”
The caller was the bureau chief of the XX Bureau in Beihai. This person was introduced to him by Li Xuan to help him handle the land. The two had two meals before, and Jian Suiying felt that this person was straightforward and friendly. They had established a good relationship from this. Although things in the Beihai project have gone wrong, he’d made a friend.
He was surprised at what Chief Zhao wanted, for him to find Jian Suiying.
“Yo, lao di, you’ve drunk too much.”
“No, most were poured down the table… When will Chief Zhao come to Beijing? Let me treat you to a meal…” Jian Suiying hiccuped, “… treat you…”
“Haha, you’re so drunk, that can’t all be under the table. But, I’ll think about it.”
Jian Suiying laughed, “Come on, don’t pour it on yourself then.”
When the two men casually talked, then Chief Zhao got to the point, and his words were very tactful, “Lao di, the land market has decided to approve you. It’ll be handled in a matter of days. But I recently read that new material. How did the shareholders change at this time? I don’t know what you were thinking, but it’s better to apply for more insurance in the name of the parent company. After all, your parent company has strong resources, so we could speak to you in the meeting.”
Jian Suiying was still drunk from the alcohol. After listening to what the other was saying, he straightened himself, but while he frowned and “ahhed,” he still didn’t catch the point. He knew there was important information, but he couldn’t analyze the situation at the moment.
Chief Zhao also knew that his state was not suitable for talking. He sighed, “Well, I’d better talk to you tomorrow instead. You better remember this call tomorrow. Alright, have a good rest.”
After hanging up, Jian Suiying slowly closed his eyes. He had a headache and was very confused. He knew that Chief Zhao had said something very important, but he couldn’t concentrate at all. He felt sad about it.
That night, Jian Suiying was brought back home by the driver and his subordinate. He hadn’t drunk so much alcohol for a long time. He vomited three times, which made him sleep the whole night and feel miserable.
The next day, he slept until 2:00 in the afternoon and got up with a terrible hangover. After he finished cleaning up, eating, and taking medicine, he finally felt more energetic. He checked his phone to see if he had missed any calls, then saw Chief Zhao’s name in the records.
Jian Suiying suddenly remembered what Chief Zhao told him last night. He carefully recalled what Chief Zhao said, and the more he thought of it, the deeper his heart sank.
Judging from what Chief Zhao said, they didn’t give up on the land, but removed his company’s name from the application materials and replaced it with the name of the private equity company, or some other puppet company that could be registered with little money.
After his analysis, he then understood that the two bastards took the materials he initially promoted to that point, kicked him out then turned to cooperate with another group instead, and used the old wolfish method to get a piece of land from the government.
Jian Suiying was so angry that he kicked a chair over.
He worked hard to pave that road, spent money and made connections, and when he finally got what he wanted it was snatched away by others. He got busy doing work for others in vain. With his arrogance, what could he do?
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He took another step further and thought that maybe this matter was designed by those two from start to finish. At the beginning of the negotiations between the two parties, Jian Suiying negotiated with them in the prospect that if he couldn’t get the land, he wouldn’t pay. Jian Suiying also didn’t sign any contract with them, but only intended to buy shares after he got the land.
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The project was about to happen. Unexpectedly, after they changed their minds and didn’t cooperate with Jian Suiying, the information they sent was already written with the name of the biological feed company. Without them, Jian Suiying couldn’t get the land. Jian Suiying established a relationship with the government and the leaders have decided to allocate land to the feed company. At this time, Jian Suiying was really in a passive position.
But Jian Suiying really didn’t expect that they had such courage to do this behind his back. Reasonably, Li Xuan should’ve known by the time after they cancelled the cooperation and no longer applied for the land. Li Xuan should’ve also been aware of the news of their replacement of shareholders and reapplication. Since Li Xuan knew about it, he should’ve let Jian Suiying know immediately!
However, he learned the news from a bureau chief who didn’t even know him that well. According to him, he had no idea that he had withdrawn from the cooperation and the land had nothing to do with Jian Suiying anymore.
As long as Li Xuan didn’t have a grudge against him, how could he take the risk of offending Jian Suiying and not report the matter? Besides, he and Li Xuan have been getting along very well.
Jian Suiying was confused. He didn’t know what went wrong, how many misunderstandings occured, and how much inside information he didn’t know. He smoked and reflected for a whole afternoon, unaware that the sky was already getting dark outside the window.
He didn’t know how long it took, but a phone call brought him back to reality.
He picked up the phone and saw that it was Li Yu calling him. Then he remembered that he invited Li Yu to his home today. But he was drunk yesterday and had a splitting headache today. How could he remember such a stupid thing, and so the swimming pool hasn’t been cleaned up.
He answered the phone stiffly.
He heard the sound of a door closing on Li Yu’s end, “I’m going there now. What do you want to eat? I’ll go to the supermarket to buy something.”
Jian Suiying said, “I’m sorry, Xiao Li-zi, but you can’t come over today.”
Li Yu just started the car, so he was holding the key. Hearing this, he let go. The engine stopped. “What’s the matter?”
“I had a work dinner last night and drank too much, I didn’t get to work all day, and now I still have a headache, plus the pool hasn’t been cleaned…”
Li Yu was silent for a moment, “Let me go and see you then, have you eaten?”
“I ordered takeout.”
“What do you want to eat for the evening? I’ll go there later.”
Jian Suiying wasn’t in the mood to see his little lover at all. His mind was still full of the Beihai incident. With his current suspicions on Li Xuan, he thinks that it isn’t a good idea to see Li Yu at this time. It wouldn’t be good if he ends up saying something wrong and annoy Li Yu. It’s better to understand the matter first.
“Baobei-er, you’d better not come here. I’m in a bad condition now. My face is swollen and I’m too lazy to move. I don’t want you to see me right now. Maybe drop by another day, okay?”
Li Yu also knew that Jian Suiying wasn’t lying just listening to the older’s weak voice. He replied disappointedly, “Fine, you can rest at home.”
Jian Suiying sighed with relief. “Alright, you don’t have to worry about me. I just haven’t been this drunk for a long time. Just rest and come over another day.”
Li Yu scolded him, “Don’t drink so much alcohol in the future.”
After hanging up, Jian Suiying continued to reflect on the issue. He knew that this matter shouldn’t be made public, but should be investigated secretly, so as not to carelessly offend others.
He was really irritated. No matter what tricks were hidden, someone really dared to play him like this. Let alone, he would never let the two men catch a stone.
He first contacted Chief Zhao and asked him to find a reason to delay the procedures for a period of time, then asked him not to tell anyone. Chief Zhao was very hesitant at first. As soon as he heard this, he knew that there must be something wrong going on, but he was still unsure of the bigger picture, whose interests were involved, and if it would have any impact on him. His relationship with Jian Suiying wasn’t particularly strong, so he had no reason to take any risks for Jian Suiying.
However, under the repeated assurances of Jian Suiying, he agreed to find a reason to delay the procedure for two weeks. Those two weeks were enough for Jian Sui Ying to cause a stir on the matter. He first asked people to check the background of the new shareholder and made several phone calls to acquaintances to bypass Li Xuan and contact the Beihai government.
Two days later, the investigators replied to him, saying that the current shareholder was a company that had just gotten registered two months ago, and the legal representative was a Beihai native who was completely unfamiliar to Jian Suiying. The registered capital was only 500,000 yuan, and there wasn’t any useful information on the industrial and commercial registration.
At first, Jian Suiying thought that since a private equity fund company invested in the feed company, the shareholder should’ve stated that it was a private equity company. He didn’t expect that it was a puppet company. Moreover, the puppet company has been registered for less than three months, as if it was specially created for this matter. This practice of covering up tracks made Jian Suiying feel even more convinced that there was something fishy in it. Otherwise, although the two companies have managed to go against Jian Suiying, they haven’t broken any laws. So why should they make a puppet company to hold the shares and hide the real investors, that was the question.
Did they want anyone to know the true face of that private equity company?
Jian Suiying was full of doubts about this matter, and every piece of evidence showed that this matter was planned from the very beginning. The feed company and private equity company planned to let him pave the way for them, then kick him off before he could even reap the benefits.
Jian Suiying’s mood worsened. He hated being played with the most in his life. It was a contempt for his ability and intelligence and a great insult to him. He could afford to lose money, but he could not afford to lose gracelessly. He knows that since this matter was already spoiled and he won’t get any benefits from it, he will also offend many people. But even if he offends everyone, he will never let anyone who dares to play with him be satisfied with themselves.
Since the identity of the private equity fund company couldn’t be revealed, the investigation into the company was met with setbacks. Jian Suiying considered the issue for a long time, but he still couldn’t rule out his suspicions about Li Xuan, so he sent someone to investigate the procedure steps of this kind of application material secretly. He wanted to know whether this document had been handed in by Li Xuan.
He was truly unwilling to doubt Li Xuan on this issue. Not only because of his relationship with Li Yu, but also because Li Xuan was a person who could be trusted, and was definitely not the type to put himself in an unjust position just for petty gain. Jian Suiying was unable to come up with any possible incentives Li Xuan would get for him to work behind his back and assist that company in managing the land at the risk of them turning on him.
This issue made no sense at all.
However, as a direct agent of this project, the possibility that Li Xuan didn’t see the materials for application was almost zero. If he did, he should immediately understand what happened when he saw the sudden change of shareholders on the premise that Li Yu had informed him that Jian Suiying would no longer be working with the feed company. How could he not inform Jian Suiying?
Does he even know?
Jian Suiying immediately shut down this idea. He knew Li Yu’s ability to handle business affairs. He wasn’t the type to delay anything that could be done the same day. He couldn’t have refrained from telling Li Xuan about such an important matter. But even after pondering about it, he was still full of doubts. He didn’t dare call Li Xuan rashly due to him having too many worries, so he was still clueless now.
There were too many possibilities for this matter to have developed to this point. However, each of them seems extremely unreasonable.
What was the private equity company’s background? When did they establish contact with the feed company? Did they plan to use him at the beginning, or did they work together halfway through the project? What role did Li Xuan play in this? Was he aware of the issue or not, to what extent did he know it, and why did he not report the truth to Jian Suiying?
Jian Suiying felt that there must be something he missed or failed to consider.
Generally speaking, whenever a person ponders over a matter, they list down various options. These options are from applying logical reasoning and deducing facts to one or more connected concepts and their causes and effects. Among them, there should be one option that he would believe is the most reasonable and closest to reality. However, Jian Suiying can’t catch the one closest to the truth. He thinks that none of the options were connected either.
This matter was a big headache to him; he’d been so immersed in investigating that he cancelled meeting up with Li Yu twice.
The third time, Li Yu finally got angry and slammed on his desk to vent his dissatisfaction, “What’s up with you recently? I also work for this company, but why do I feel that you’re busier than usual?”
Jian Suiying stared at him in confusion, he didn’t know how to explain it. He couldn’t say that he suspected Li Yu’s brother had taken money from others to pit against him.
Li Yu frowned and felt very unhappy. He felt that Jian Suiying had ignored him too much this time. He offered on his own volition, but he was rejected twice. He didn’t know if Jian Suiying was pulling a trick on him. Perhaps, when Jian Suiying saw that Li Yu intended to be with him formally, he lost his ‘freshness’ and so Jian Suiying started to pay less attention to him.
At the thought of this, Li Yu wanted to lift the table in anger. If Jian Suiying really managed to get him, but his value immediately dropped after achieving it, he would never let Jian Suiying go. This man dragged him into what his present life is like, made him satisfied and addicted to the feeling, then made him feel like he was unable to extricate himself from such a life. If Jian Suiying really dared to push him away at this time, he didn’t know what he would do.
Jian Suiying sighed, thinking about how he got so busy with this mess, that he really did neglect him. He took Li Yu’s hand and coaxed him, “Don’t be angry, I really am busy…” But he couldn’t say what he was busy with, so he hurriedly said, “Well, I’m no longer busy. So, where do you want to go?”
Li Yu gradually relaxed. He toyed with Jian Suiying’s slender fingers, then pulled them up to his mouth to bite them, “Has your swimming pool been cleaned?”
Jian Suiying smiled and took out his phone, “I’ll have someone clean it up, so drop by my house at night, okay, baobei-er?”
Li Yu smiled at this. He leaned down and pecked Jian Suiying’s lips. “Let’s go to the supermarket together. What do you want to eat tonight?” he whispered
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In a standard diving position, Jian Suiying intentionally dove into the water next to Li Yu. Li Yu’s face got splashed with water, and he couldn’t open his eyes for a while.
Li Yu wiped off the water on his face. Suddenly, he felt that his swimming trunks were being pulled down. On reflex, he held on to them and looked down. Sure enough, Jian Suiying was trying to pull his pants from under the water. Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, he simply went into the water as well and fought with the older. It ended with them trying to pull each other’s pants. At first, it was pretty fun, but since Jian Suiying went into the water first, he didn’t have enough oxygen left, unlike Li Yu did. After a while, he couldn’t hold it anymore, so he had to resurface.
Li Yu grabbed his chance and pulled his swimming trunks to the bottom of his feet.
Jian Suiying gasped as soon as he resurfaced. When his breathing calmed, he shouted, “Not fair, I dove down first.”
Li Yu also jumped out of the water and laughed, “How old are you? You’re still playing this kind of game.”
Jian Suiying simply kicked off his swimming trunks and said, “I still like to play around.” He took a deep breath, dove into the water again, and swam after Li Yu.
Li Yu didn’t want to be outdone, so he also dove down, and the two began to fight again in the water. Li Yu’s underpants haven’t been taken off yet, but Jian Suiying’s courage wasn’t enough. He simply wrapped himself around Li Yu’s waist like a water snake, locking lips with Li Yu and stealing oxygen from his mouth.
Li Yu opened his mouth and pushed his tongue, winding and sucking with Jian Suiying’s.
They thought they would have a romantic underwater kiss, but it wasn’t very fun. After a while, water got into their mouths. Both of them ended up drinking several mouthfuls. Finally, the kiss couldn’t last. They both resurfaced.
They gasped and wiped the water from their eyes. After that, Jian Suiying smirked, “You’re right. What are we even doing with this?”
Li Yu pointed to the opposite bank and said, “Go back and forth and see who is faster.”
“Alright, what should I do if I lose?”
Li Yu grinned, “What do you say?”
Jian Suiying frivolously pinched his chin and said, “Loser has to give the winner a bl*wjob.”
Li Yu was still unable to adapt to his vulgar mouth, so he looked away. “Okay.”
Jian Suiying laughed, “Come on, let me count.”
Li Yu readied to swim.
Jian Suiying shouted “One!” then quickly started swimming forward. He was as smooth as a fish, and had already swum for at least two meters.
Li Yu was stunned. He didn’t expect Jian Suiying to be so naughty and cheat. He also quickly swam to catch up.
Jian Suiying has liked swimming since childhood. When he was five or six years old, his grandfather threw him into the lake to teach her to swim. The lake in his grandfather’s backyard was like his bathtub when he was younger. Therefore, Li Yu’s swimming skills can’t even be compared to his own.
Sure enough, he had already swum back and forth, while Li Yu was still halfway and was slower than him.
Jian Suiying watched Li Yu, who was swimming towards him, and laughed, “Haha, Xiao Li-zi, you’re too slow.”
Li Yu feigned anger and said, “Aren’t you the cheater? You just counted one and you went off.”
“How can I cheat? I said I would count, but I didn’t say until what number.” Jian Suiying slyly blinked.
Li Yu stared at him silently.
Jian Suiying tenderly touched his face and said, “Anyway, you still can’t beat me at your speed. Just give up, huh? Serve your ge.”
Li Yu glared at him with some reluctance.
Jian Suiying was still happily focused on him, “Just admit defeat, come on.”
Li Yu went to hug his waist, bit his ear, and said, “Sit on the edge.” With both arms, he lifted Jian Suiying out of the water. Jian Suiying took advantage of his own strength, supported his arms on the bank of the pool, and sat down on the bank.
Li Yu then leaned over…
TL Note:
I’ve uploaded this on January 23, so happiest birthday to my favorite 188 gong who will always be Jian-da’s little (nagging) wife XD
In addition to this bonus chapter update, I also translated 1 of the 4 NQAZYGSB mini extras from the “188 Boys Group Online Short Extras Collection” on SQC’s iQIYI. It’s a very short fluff snippet of post-canon LiJian and doesn’t spoil the main story so I’m uploading my translation of it early as a treat. It’s on a gdoc file for now because I don’t want to mess up the chapters and order here. As soon as I finish the translations for the novel, I will properly upload it here along with the other extras.
You can read the extra here (also linked on the main novel page)
Here’s Li Yu’s birthday art posted by the manhua artist if you want to see (link to post)
Anyway, the plot thickens! Buckle up.
Thanks for the update
he can’t find the problem’s root because he doesn’t suspect him at all *sigh