After Playing the Fool and Marrying the Blind Villain [Transmigration] - Chap 11
In the blink of an eye, it was Friday.
Pei Yi intentionally hid his inadequacy by keeping quiet, and only changed into a formal banquet outfit with the help of the tailor.
There was no deliberate splendid ornamentation. The white suit was lined with black, and only a cravat at the neckline revealed a fluttering bright color. His hair was straighter for this occasion, and fell down softly.
He looked well-behaved and likable.
As early as the first day he learned about this banquet, Pei Yi’s heart was full of anticipation—
In the plot of the original book, apart from his “cannon fodder” self and Bo Yueming as the “villain” at this banquet, the protagonist gong and shou and supporting roles in the book also appeared one by one. This was an important juncture for the original start of their entanglements.
Where there were many people, there would be liveliness. How could Pei Yi miss this opportunity?
What’s more, both he and Bo Yueming were roll-called by Old Mr. Bo to attend.
After tidying up, Pei Yi didn’t procrastinate, opening the door and going downstairs.
Having gotten dressed, Bo Yueming stood beside the sofa in the living room, also wearing a simple three piece suit—
The suitable custom tailoring highlighted his body proportions, with wide shoulders, a narrow waist and long legs. Along with his curated hairstyle and mixed-race appearance, he was simply more outstanding than the first-class male models on international runways. No praise could be too much.
Bo Yueming heard movement. “Pei Yi?”
“En.”
Pei Yi’s eyes lit up faintly, and only after approaching did he realize—
While it looked pure black from a distance, the fabric of Bo Yueming’s coat jacket shimmered finely, low-key but not lacking in gorgeousness, and there was also a sense of subtle mysteriousness and understated personality.
Everything was great, only the tie was a little crooked.
Bo Yueming couldn’t see it, and it might not be easy to sort out if he wasn’t warned.
Pei Yi stared at the slightly crooked tie for two or three seconds, then the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder directly began and he quickly grasped the tie, moving it to the center position.
Warm fingertips seemed to rub against Bo Yueming’s Adam’s apple, creating a light and superficial tickle, like the faint scratch of a knife’s edge or the brief touch of a kiss.
His body’s instincts were greater than his reasoning.
Bo Yueming swiftly grabbed the troublesome hand in front of him, revealing a sharp and vigilant expression. “What are you doing?”
Pei Yi was pulled forward by the sudden force, and half of his body nearly fell into Bo Yueming’s arms.
He raised his head in confusion, and when he saw that slightly red Adam’s apple, he realized in surprise—
For most men, the Adam’s apple was a sensitive and dangerous spot. How could outsiders be allowed to touch it at will, ah?
“C-crooked.”
Pei Yi quickly withdrew his hand, his gaze and thoughts still on Bo Yueming’s throat.
Although, wasn’t this too sensitive? It became red all of a sudden like this! Did this mean that he was innocent? Or did it mean that in some respect…..
Bo Yueming realized his gaffe, and his tone quickly returned to normal. “Tell me if the tie is crooked. You don’t need to do it for me.”
Pei Yi’s incoherent thoughts were interrupted, and he gave a vague answer.
Uncle Kai’s footsteps sounded at once, ending this little episode without further ado as he hurried into the house with a staff member.
“Second Young Master, this thing has finally been delivered. Why don’t you try it on before going to the banquet?”
Hearing this, Pei Yi’s attention was drawn to the box in Uncle Kai’s hands. The other party approached and carefully took out the contents of the box—
They were special guide glasses for people with eye diseases.
“After a month-and-a-half wait, they were finally sent from abroad.”
Ever since he was blinded in the car accident, Uncle Kai had contacted foreign companies to buy this thing.
The cost of this sort of glasses was very high, and they had to be customized according to the needs of each customer. With exclusive positioning and sensing functions, and using a bone conduction voice mode, it allowed people to sense the surrounding environment without the use of their eyesight.
“…….”
Bo Yueming remained silent, and a trace of frustration flashed in the depths of his eyes.
In just two months, his mentality had changed several times with the treatment of his eyes, but now he had to rely on such a device to face up to the plight of reality.
“Second Young Master? Do you want to try them?”
“En.”
Bo Yueming was not inherently self-pitying. He swiftly suppressed his gloom, and with the help of the staff member, he put on and adjusted this special pair of glasses.
After a while, the adjustments were over.
Uncle Kai looked at Bo Yueming, who was finally able to move freely without being tripped up. Relieved and excited, he couldn’t help but seek approval from the people nearby. “Little Sir, look at the Second Young Master, isn’t this great?”
Pei Yi stared at Bo Yueming before them, saying simply and sincerely, “Good-looking.”
“……”
“……”
Bo Yueming and Uncle Kai were simultaneously taken aback, clearly not expecting him to answer like this.
Uncle Kai smiled in reaction and reconfirmed, “Little Sir, the Second Young Master looks good in glasses like these?”
Pei Yi nodded lightly.
It wasn’t that he hadn’t seen this type of guide glasses before. Due to limited data and research, these sorts of glasses would always look bulky and unsophisticated on the faces of ordinary people, but Bo Yueming was different—
The frame of the glasses had undergone a fashion upgrade. The black and gold glasses alighted on his mixed-race face and fit impeccably. Just like the most perfect artificial robot in a sci-fi movie, his appearance became more noble and formidable.
Good-looking?
This insignificant comment dispelled the gloom in his heart, and the corners of Bo Yueming’s mouth hooked indistinctly. “All right, let’s go to the hotel.”
. . . . . .
Old Mr. Bo’s birthday banquet was held at the largest five-star hotel in the Imperial Capital. When Pei Yi and the others arrived, there were already a lot of luxury cars lined up in front.
Uncle Kai, who was sitting in the front seat, turned his head. “Second Young Master, for this banquet, the Old Sir took great pains to invite many rich and powerful people to attend.”
As a strong woman, Old Mrs. Bo had been the head of the family for fifty or sixty years. Now that she was sick in the hospital and couldn’t get up, Old Mr. Bo had finally obtained the right to take charge of the family and the Bo Group. How could he not take pains?
Bo Yueming’s mind was like a mirror. “There are more people here today. This will completely cut off my way forward.”
The car stopped in front of the hotel.
“Uncle Kai, go with the driver to the parking lot. Pei Yi and I will go in first.”
“All right.”
The attendant who came to greet them took the initiative to open the car door. After clearly recognizing Bo Yueming’s face: “Second Young Master, the banquet is arranged in Jujin Hall on the 18th floor. I will lead you there.”
Bo Yueming refused the attendant’s supporting arm and asked Pei Yi word by word in a low voice, “Follow me closely later and don’t run off. Don’t mess around, understand?”
Pei Yi gave a very face-saving hum in response.
After all, he just wanted to watch the excitement, and didn’t intend to cause trouble and go crazy for no reason.
. . . . . .
The two followed the attendant and stepped into the banquet hall, attracting many eyes in an instant. The guests stood together in groups of three or four, conversing in low voices—
“Look, I just said Second Young Master Bo would come, didn’t I? Old Mr. Bo’s birthday banquet is tonight, could he be the only one missing?”
“Who’s that guy next to him? He looks a little familiar.”
“Who else? It’s that little fool of the Pei family, ah! I dare to bet that the news about the marriage between Bo and Pei is probably true. Perhaps they want to use today’s occasion to announce it.”
“Can these two people get married? Isn’t this clearly bullying?”
Bo Yueming and Pei Yi paid no mind to the baptism of gazes around them, walking slowly to the main guest area of the banquet hall.
When Old Mr. Bo saw the two people who had come late, there was a sudden deep dislike in his heart, but due to the presence of the Pei family, he could only don a straight face and place the blame on Bo Yueming.
“Yueming, where has all your etiquette gone? You came so late, and let your elders and in-laws wait for you!”
“……”
Elders and in-laws?
Bo Yueming frowned slightly.
Pei Yi was also choked up by these words, and glanced darkly at the people around him.
Pei Ruzhang was used to putting on airs in front of people, and smiled softly. “Old Mr. Bo, it is nothing serious. After all, the Second Young Master’s eyes are not convenient, and our family’s Xiao Yi is not ‘sensible.’ They’re here, aren’t they? It’s not too late.”
Old Father Pei, who always wanted to save face, felt ashamed of that messy thing that happened at the Pei residence some time ago. Afraid of being criticized at the banquet, he did not attend in the name of being unwell.
In addition to the Pei couple who attended on behalf of their elders, a young man followed after them.
Pei Yi’s pupils slightly contracted, and he recognized the other party without much thought—
This person was the nominal cousin of the original owner, Pei Huan, who was also the male protagonist shou in the original novel, “Misplaced Kindness of a Wealthy Family.”
Since he could become the “male protagonist shou,” Pei Huan’s appearance and aura naturally must not be much worse. According to the description in the book:
“His eyes were like the sky full of stars, particularly beautiful, and the teardrop mole under his eye was like a stray lone star, its radiance undiminished. As his name suggested,[1] he only needed to stop somewhere to radiate his own brilliance.”
“……”
Pei Yi glanced at Pei Huan, who had been transformed from a character on paper, and resisted the impulse to say on the spot: This is it?
His looks were okay, but nothing earth-shattering.
It could only be said that the author saw him through a mother’s eyes, wishing to pile up all the gorgeous rhetoric in the world onto this hero.
“Xiao Yi, how have you been doing at the Bo residence lately?”
Pei Ruzhang brought Pei Yi’s thoughts back with one sentence, his face still feigning kindness and concern. “You haven’t been away from home for so long since you were a child. The old man, me, and your aunt are very concerned about you.”
Deng Xiuya, who was by her husband’s side, breathed a sigh of relief. The incident with the nanny before had incriminated her, and caused her to be slapped by Pei Ruzhang for the first time after so many years of marriage.
Later, Pei Ruzhang personally apologized and brought her back from her natal home and temporarily turned the page on this matter.
But now when she saw Pei Yi’s troublesome little cheap self, Deng Xiuya felt that she hadn’t vented her anger completely!
She looked around at the people present and set up a stage for herself. “Yes, ah, Xiao Yi is not living at home, so my heart feels empty.”
“Old Mr. Bo, we feel terrible that Xiao Yi lost his parents as a child. As an aunt, I have always treated him as my own child.”
Deng Xiuya sighed, making her stance known with emotion, “For food and clothing, what Xiao Huan has, Xiao Yi must have, and what Xiao Huan doesn’t have, Xiao Yi must also have. I feared that he would be looked down on and snubbed by the servants in private!”
There was no affection in these words, it was all technique, and the volume was enough to attract the attention of the large group of guests around.
Sensing gazes from all directions, Deng Xiuya intended just this effect—
So what if the gossip about the nanny treating Pei Yi harshly had spread? Apart from Pei Yi, none of the guests had seen it with their own eyes.
They would not ask further questions in front of Old Mr. Bo.
After all, the relationships between rich and powerful families were all about sensibility.
If this matter was overturned, it was overturned, and they could still keep the title of “good uncle and aunt.”
“……”
How long had it been since the last face slap, and now they ordered another one?
Pei Yi stared at the faces of Pei Ruzhang and Deng Xiuya with disgust in his heart. He wanted to completely tear their hypocritical faces apart by “going crazy,” but then he thought of Bo Yueming entrusting him with a task before the banquet—
“Don’t mess around.”
Yes, ah, I won’t mess around.
The “marriage” that was certain to be announced later was already enough of a joke for everyone. If he “went crazy and made trouble again,” he only feared it would embarrass Bo Yueming.
Over the course of a few seconds, Pei Yi let his imagination roam, trying to come up with a better way to deal with the Pei couple.
“Pei Yi.”
There was a sudden slight coolness on the back of his hand, and Pei Yi lowered his eyes to see—
Bo Yueming blindly grabbed his wrist and pulled him back smoothly, while he took half a step forward. “No shortage of food and clothing? Feared he would be looked down on by the servants?”
Bo Yueming’s voice was very steady, but gave people a sense of pressure that came before an oncoming storm, and his superior height of 1.9 meters made it easy for him to shield Pei Yi with his body.
Pei Yi glanced at the lingering coolness on his wrist and suddenly felt less irritable, so he simply hid behind him without speaking.
Perhaps it was unexpected that Bo Yueming would suddenly speak up, because Pei Ruzhang and Deng Xiuya exchanged glances, feeling that something was wrong. “Second Young Master, what do you mean?”
“I heard that—”
Bo Yueming interrupted directly, tearing off their hypocritical masks in front of everyone. “The Pei family nanny personally admitted it, the two of you instigated her to beat and stimulate Pei Yi all year round, and as a result, his mental state has been unstable. How can this be explained?”
“……”
The calm and forceful questioning voice was like a loud slap, and in an instant, the Pei husband and wife were completely humiliated!
[1] Pei Huan’s given name, Huan (焕) means brilliant/lustrous. ⮐
