Mr. Dior - Chap 14
Zhang Chenfei went out to go to the toilet.
This is a relatively luxurious skewer shop, but the conditions of the toilet are unsatisfactory. It is full of strange smell of soot and smoke. Inferior quality tiles that were never cleaned have a layer of grease on them, making it somewhat look glossy.
Just two bottles of beer should not be able to make the president drunk. However, Zhang Chenfei was a little dizzy.
He went over to the bathroom sink and was preparing to wash his hands when suddenly, he staggered and almost fell into the giant trash bin beside the sink.
“Sir, are you all right?” The waiter who was throwing leftovers into the trash bin saw it and he quickly stepped forward to support him while holding a cleaning rag. Thus, a black fingerprint was stamped on the president’s snow white shirt.
Zhang Chenfei propped himself up on the sink and waved his hand, showing that he did not care about the issue of the waiter staining his shirt.
He splashed his face with cold water and instantly sobered up. He stared blankly at the mirror for a moment and then in a flash, the color of his face turned to look like it was scalding hot.
As realization dawned upon him, he turned and hurriedly walked back to the private room. As he came nearer, he heard the laughter inside.
“You’ve both been married for seven years and still, this is the first time we are meeting each other.”
“Come, one more round and we’ll go.”
“I can’t drink alcohol. Why don’t we play the Truth or Dare game instead?” The clear and bright voice came from his precious little wife, the great young master who should never appear in this kind of place, not even in ten thousand chances.
At this moment, Jiao Qi is talking with his senior high school brothers —— a security guard, a policeman, and a gangster who had just been released from prison. They are chatting happily with one another.
To Zhang Chenfei, this scene is more of like an illusion.
“Well, good! Come here…”
Bang! Zhang Chenfei pushed the door open. He grabbed the wrist of Jiao Qi and pulled him up.
“Elder brother Fei, what’s wrong?” Maomao saw that the look on his face isn’t quite right so he stood up to follow after them.
Zhang Chenfei slowed down after he recovered his usual expression and then awkwardly smiled. “I have a little bit of an urgent matter. I have to leave first. I’m done eating, so let’s get together again next time.” After saying that, he dragged his lovely little wife away and left.
The three brothers that were left behind have a depressed look on their faces.
“That… elder brother Fei… what’s up with him?” Maomao asked the policeman, the only person among them who has the ability to analyze the situation.
“Could it be that he heard us discussing about ‘sister-in-law’ being Jiao Yan himself?” Qiangzi took a bite of the skewer and said feebly.
Maomao heavily slapped on the table, and the roasted leeks that had not been eaten by Qiangzi fluttered. “So, he really doesn’t know that the substitute he got is xiao cao himself? Wow!”
Jiao Qi was taken to the parking space by Zhang Chenfei. He was just pressed down to sit on the front passenger seat when he was pulled up again.
“You drive.” The president, who had drunk beer and who abides by the rules, had better hand over the task of driving to his lovely little wife.
Jiao Qi cautiously looked at Zhang Chenfei’s facial expression, only to receive his impatient stare and fierce command. He talked no more and drove home.
Zhang Chenfei’s tone was not good when he ordered “back to the villa”. He no longer paid attention to his lovely little wife and turned his head to look outside the window.
However in his mind, he started to calculate. There are many people in the villa and Yanyan should be embarrassed to beat him up in front of everybody.
‘Ai, what should I do now?’ (silently crying inside)
Jiao Qi did not find anything wrong at first since the president with a hole in the head was the one who wanted them to go out.
While on the road, Jiao Qi sometimes turns his head to look at his husband. He then found out that Zhangda Diao is breaking open his fingers, an action that looks like he is counting with his fingers. At this, Jiao Qi suddenly narrowed his eyes.
As a matter of fact, Zhangda Diao is indeed currently adding up how many things he had done to get a beating from his wife. In retrospect, first, he ordered Jiao Qi to drink Coke saying that it was a contraceptive, then he forced him to wear a school uniform, and third, he told him that Yanyan likes to eat salt and pepper spare ribs.
‘Ahhh! Why don’t I just take a beating? Just take a beating, okay! Anyways, isn’t taking a beating easy to do? The question is, how would I explain to him about the matter of my secret love?!’
Not only was the secret that he has meticulously hidden for so many years already out in the open but also, he brought Jiao Qi with him to meet his senior high school brothers. Don’t know what those three bastards said to Yanyan, but he probably already knew that he used to be a delinquent. The feeling is the same like parading his bottom half naked on the streets. Just this thought alone makes him feel like he’d crumble down right at this very moment.
Upon returning to the villa, Zhang Chenfei felt downcast. The exemplary president had even forgotten about his stained clothes, and like a withered scallion, he sits on the sofa with his head hanging low.
Jiao Qi sat down on the single sofa which is diagonally opposite Zhang Chenfei. He rested his hand on the armchair and then looked at him as he asked, “Tell me, who is the White Moonlight in your heart?”
“Didn’t I already tell you?”
“That is, of course, the script of Mr. Dior Zhang. Not yours, Zhang… Chenfei…” Jiao Qi squeezed out that last name in between that gap of his teeth.
Hearing his name, the president suddenly raised his head and his eyes met with his lovely little wife’s cold pupils. At this moment, the despondent Zhang Chenfei has finally thrown everything into the back of his head and thought to himself repeatedly: Finished! Finished! Finished!
His wife had already realized that he had reverted to his original self. However, Zhang Chenfei still acted shamelessly and took advantage of the situation. “You also said it. It’s the script of Dior Zhang, that…”
“I remember you mentioned that there was a person you like when you were attending school. You never said who that person is. When you are Dior Zhang, do you mix up my former name with that person?” During this interrogation, Jiao Qi’s cold face assumed an attitude of having a ‘good chat’ with a close friend.
If he hadn’t looked inside the basement on impulse, he might have probably pulled Zhangda Diao away, at this time, to the Civil Affairs Bureau to divorce him.
“Hey! It’s not…” How did things turn out this way?
“You also said that your White Moonlight was not unrestrained in bed, huh? I have always had this style in bed since the beginning. So, who are you sleeping with?”
“I am not! I didn’t!”
The president, who was unable to clearly explain himself, was thrown away into the guest room to sleep. Holding the pillow and standing pitifully in front of the master bedroom’s door, Mr. Zhang continues to knock. “Baby, you listen to me okay?”
There were no signs of movement inside the room. No matter what he said, his wife did not open the door. Therefore, Zhang Chenfei had to go down to the guest room with a dejected expression. It was still a few days ago that he had told the butler to tidy it up, and now, it just came in handy.
“What are you looking at? Haven’t seen someone being thrown out by his wife?!” His imposing eyes swept over the servants who sneaked a glance from the corner, and everyone immediately scattered like birds and beasts.
Lying down on the ice-cold bed of the guest room, Zhang Chenfei was recalling the miserable first half of his life — from the pain of his mother’s death to him passing the university exam at Q. His happiness was short-lived at that time because he heard that Yanyan went to study abroad and thus, became depressed for a while. Traveling down the memory lane, he also recalled how anxious he was when he learned that Jiao Yan was forced by his family to go on blind dates, and then things happened. Finally, his reminiscing reached back to this evening when they ate skewers…
Skewers!
Immediately squatting up, Zhang Chenfei slapped his head as he remembered something important. Then, he hurried to the kitchen, and took a bowl of clear noodle soup.
“Yanyan, come out and eat this bowl of noodles then you can go back to sleep. If you don’t eat tonight, you’ll have stomachache tomorrow.” He kept on knocking on the door of the master bedroom but there was no reaction inside.
In the end, Zhang Chenfei could only sigh and say, “Eat the noodles first and then I’ll tell you who that person is.”
A few minutes later, the Jiao Qi in his pajamas sat at the dinner table, eating the clear noodle soup that his husband cooked.
Zhang Chenfei went to the basement and took the photo album with the cartoon cover. He was so embarrassed to hand it over to Jiao Qi. He looked like a primary school student who scored zero in his exam and waiting for his parents to sign.
Jiao Qi looked at his lao gong whose ears turned red, and suddenly he felt distressed. His husband is still sick and he still had to be angry with him.
“I have never gone to bed with others. That was just talking at random while following the script. When we just started going out together, you were very reserved for a little while. But as time passed by, every time we make love, I feel like bathing in ecstasy… I really like how proactive you are in bed, heh-heh…”
Jiao Qi: “…”
I really should’ve given him a good beating!