Mr. Dior - Chap 64

“… …”

Why did he still remember this part?!

Jiao Qi really had no idea how to reply. This fellow was a husky on top, a seahorse below and also, supposedly, a God of Sea – Jiao Qi simply could not imagine it. No wonder the little prince had not recognised the man at the seashore as Poseidon’s human form – it would actually be stranger if he did recognise him.

This was much too complicated, but before Jiao Qi could process it fully, the great God Poseidon dragged him into the water bed to create great waves of passion on it. The staunch little prince did not give in to Poseidon’s wishes to send his “little fish” into his body and insisted that Big Cock Zhang wear a condom.

Mr Dior felt great regret that he was unable to lay his eggs in his little merman’s body. He looked at the package bulging with his little fish being tossed unceremoniously into the rubbish bin, then sighed. “Do you know how valuable a God of the Sea’s little swimmers are?” he said.

“Shut up!”

These few days, Jiao Qi felt like he just couldn’t bear the thought of eating ikura sushi or caviar.

The new water bed was very comfortable to sleep in, but Jiao Qi had a nightmare about being chased by a sea monster, possibly because he had been engaged in vigorous activity just before sleeping. The sea monster had many tentacles, and it kept trying to either forcibly insert its little swimmers into his body, or grabbing hold of him and tossing him around amidst the waves.

Jiao Qi felt rather suffocated when he woke up. He opened his eyes and found that Guangzong had happily clambered on top of him in the night and was currently pressing down heavily on his chest. The water bed was lower than their normal bed, so the puppy had found it very easy to climb up, wanting to sleep in Zhang Chenfei’s arms. Unfortunately, he found that Zhang Chenfei was holding his little wife tight, so Young Master Zhang could only settle for the next best option, which was to squeeze himself between his two dads, that is to say, to sleep on Jiao Qi’s chest.

The puppy now weighed around ten kilograms. Of course he’d had a nightmare.

“Guangzong!” Jiao Qi admonished, tossing the little golden furball off the bed. He sat up, holding his throbbing head in his hands.

“Good morning, darling. Do you need some of Poseidon’s fresh little swimmers?” Lord Poseidon asked, his eyes still closed as he hugged his little wife tightly around the waist.

“No.”

“Fine. The God of the Sea still loves you even though you refuse to accept his blessing,” Zhang Chenfei said, sitting up and smiling as he gave his little wife an exuberant kiss.

Jiao Qi got pushed over a little by Lord Poseidon’s powerful kiss, and he glanced at Zhang Chenfei out of the corner of his eye. “Is this a thing with you? To say ‘I love you’ every day?” he asked.

Poseidon smiled enigmatically. “You could say that,” he said.

Jiao Qi and Zhang Chenfei had a charity dinner to attend that night. They left work early make sure they could go home to change into their formal clothes and get to the dinner on time. There were two types of attendees at the charity dinner – the first was the wealthy crowd, who was likely to spend money at the charity dinner, and the second was made up of celebrities. The wealthy families contributed some small, rare trinkets for the auction, and also spent money buying the trinkets auctioned off by others. The celebrities contributed personal belongings for the auction, performed items during the charity dinner, and also drew publicity when they walked the red carpet.

One of the honoured guests delivered a speech before the auction. Zhang Chenfei was one of the organisers of this charity dinner, and he had to give a pre-conference interview.

We organise a charity dinner like this every year, and the focus of each year’s dinner is different. We have raised funds for various causes, like supporting critically ill children, providing clean water to mountainous regions that don’t have ready access to it, and protecting endangered animals. Regardless of what it is, as long as we are able to contribute back to society, it’s something that we are very happy to do,” Zhang Chenfei said.

Zhang Chenfei spoke confidently as he looked straight into the camera. Jiao Qi heaved a sigh of relief on seeing Lord Poseidon do his best to pretend to be a human.

“Yes, my husband is also very supportive,” Zhang Chenfei said, turning to look at Jiao Qi, who was standing out of the camera frame.

Jiao Qi smiled at him, then suddenly felt someone’s gaze on him. He immediately turned to look in that direction. The handsome, angular face of a male celebrity was now looking intently at Zhang Chenfei.

Jiao Qi had some impression of this fellow. His name was Ling Yao, and he was currently very hot in the “manly star” category. The entertainment scene was now flooded with pretty boys, and manly stars were quite scarce. Ling Yao had become very popular after starring in an action film last year. This was probably the first time he had been invited to the charity dinner of the Science and Tech Alliance.

A manly celebrity staring at his Zhang Chenfei? Jiao Qi found this to be quite an odd situation, and he paid more attention as such.

The dinner began after the interviews. The celebrity guests went up on stage to entertain the guests, and Ling Yao was called up to do an activity with the host because he was presently very popular.

Jiao Qi took the chance to ask his Laogong about him. “Do you know Ling Yao?” he asked.

“Not at all,” Zhang Chenfei said, looking at him intently for a while. He really had no memory of ever interacting with the fellow.

In that case, perhaps Ling Yao was just a fan of Zhang Chenfei’s. Jiao Qi raised his eyebrows and cast this issue to the back of his mind, focusing on helping his dad bid for that box of cigars. Li Yingjun’s dad had done the same thing as Daddy Jiao and asked his son to bid at the auction on his behalf.

The initial asking price of the box of Davidoff cigars was 300,000 RMB, and the minimum increment per bid was 10,000 RMB.

Actually, Zhang Chenfei had already bought a box previously, with the intention of gifting it to his father-in-law to get in his good books. However, when Zhang Chenfei had been in his overbearing CEO character, he’d taken one cigar out and taken two puffs, so the whole box couldn’t be gifted any more.

Jiao Qi wasn’t in a hurry to put in his bid. He waited for others to place theirs, and when the price hit 400,000 RMB, he slowly raised his hand. “450,000,” he said.

Everyone looked over in his direction at once. When they saw that it was Young Master Jiao, they immediately knew that he was bidding on Jiao Zuoren’s behalf. The ones who were just bidding for fun gave up at that point. At that very moment, someone raised his hand. “460,000!” he said.

Jiao Qi looked in the direction of that voice. It was Ling Yao. He couldn’t help frowning when he saw this.

“500,000,” Zhang Chenfei said. He saw that his little wife wanted the cigars, so he raised his hand to place a bid. Meanwhile, Ling Yao called out again. “510,000,” he said.

A charity auction was a friendly one by nature, and things were always sold for much more than its actual worth. Everyone was also just having fun with the bidding, and if someone really wanted something, the others would usually let him have it. This kind of bidding war was extremely ungracious and unfriendly.

Zhang Chenfei’s brows knitted together and was prepared to make a bid for 1,000,000 RMB, but Jiao Qi stopped him from doing so.

“Forget it,” Jiao Qi said, shaking his head. This fellow obviously just wanted to attract Big Cock Zhang’s attention, and bidding again would just be playing right into what he wanted.

In the end, the box of cigars was sold to the manly celebrity Ling Yao. “What are you fighting with CEO Jiao for?” an older female celebrity from his company asked, her brows creasing slightly.

CEO Jiao was the boss of a video-streaming platform, after all, and even the directors and producers of their company didn’t dare to offend him. Ling Yao was but a little celebrity who had recently risen to stardom – what was he doing? Ling Yao didn’t care, however. He airily signed off on the confirmation slip for the winning bid. The media frantically snapped photographs of this scene – this Ling Yao was quite something; if he liked something, he went for it, regardless of whether his opponent was a CEO or the young master of an important family.

After that, it was Zhang Chenfei’s turn to contribute something to be auctioned off. He simply pulled off the cufflinks he was wearing and placed it on the auction table. He had specially chosen a pair of cufflinks that weren’t gifted to him by his little wife, and they weren’t particularly expensive, either. After a few rounds of bidding, Ling Yao emerged as the highest bidder again. Even if the audience wanted to ignore him, it would be very difficult to do so by this point. Ling Yao just smiled and said, “What a lucky fluke.”

Thereafter, he successfully bidded for a few more items. It did have the effect of making his bidding for the cufflinks less obvious.

A buffet meal was available after the auction, and less famous stars performed during this time as well. Everyone chatted as they ate. The cameramen stationed themselves at random in the crowd to get some stock photos of the event.

Lord Poseidon didn’t want to let his little prince walk and wanted to carry him to go and get food. Jiao Qi knew that this would happen, so before Zhang Chenfei could turn around, he got up and went to the dianxin section of the buffet to speak with Gao Shiqing, who was secretly stuffing himself with high calorie food.

“CEO Zhang, I accidentally put in the highest bid for the cigars earlier, and I wanted to apologise,” Ling Yao said quietly, smiling as he walked over to Zhang Chenfei. “When I receive the item tomorrow, I’ll send it over to Shifei.”

Zhang Chenfei looked up at him. As the ruler of Atlantis, a ridiculous number of people tried to butter him up every day. It was as plain as day that this man was deliberately trying to find a way to get close to him. He got up, pulled out a pair of diamond cufflinks, fastened the cuffs of his sleeves with them, then straightened his clothes. “There’s no need,” he said coldly.

Ling Yao looked at the new pair of cufflinks, which were obviously much more expensive and went much better with his current outfit than the ones he put up for auction, then clenched his fists. “Do you not remember who I am?” he asked/

“Huh?” Zhang Chenfei had walked two steps away from Ling Yao, and he paused and turned back on hearing this. He gave this tough-looking male celebrity a strange look and tried to remember whether he was one of the mer-citizens or fish-citizens of Atlantis.

Ling Yao saw that Zhang Chenfei really didn’t recognise him and looked rather upset. He got Zhang Chenfei to follow him to a more secluded spot to speak further.

There were several large pillars in the event venue, and to avoid the cameras, they stood behind one of these large pillars. Zhang Chenfei stuck one hand in his pants pocket and looked calmly at Ling Yao. “Out with it, who are you?” he asked. Dark skin and a hard outer appearance – was he a grouper fish or a sea turtle?

Ling Yao looked around to check that no one was listening in or looking at them, then suddenly struck an effeminate pose and batted his eyelashes at Zhang Chenfei. “Fei ge, do you remember now?” he asked.

Zhang Chenfei stared at him in shock. “You…”

Ling Yao looked at him with eyes full of anticipation.

“You’re the sea snake demon!” Zhang Chenfei exclaimed. The evil sea snake demon was an evil magical creature that had coveted his position as the King of the Ocean for many years now!

“No! That’s not it!” Ling Yao protested. All he heard was that Zhang Chenfei called him a ‘demon’, and thought Zhang Chenfei was saying that he was a woman disguised as a man. The tanned, tough-looking fellow stamped his foot in frustration, then tugged at Zhang Chenfei’s sleeve petulantly. “Fei ge, I’m Yaoyao Ling!”

This was precisely the fellow from the School of Arts with a tiny waist and orchid fingers who had chased Zhang Chenfei in the past. Because effeminate men were unpopular, his agent forced him to change into a manly star, which was the up and coming trend. His agent had made him tan his skin and train hard at the gym to become buff, and that was how he had become popular in the ‘manly man’ category of stars. Inside, though, he was still that weak, effeminate little Yaoyao Ling.

This bit of furore attracted some attention. The media couldn’t hear what the two were saying, but they could easily see how the two were behaving in a suspiciously ambiguous fashion. They quickly snapped a few shots with a view to making this into the next big scoop. The camera flashes went off, and Zhang Chenfei turned. The first thing he saw was his little wife gazing at him intently not too far away.

His little prince had seen what happened earlier!

Lord Poseidon’s face turned pale at once. He rushed over to his little wife’s side and wrapped him in his arms, champagne glass and all.

“Oh wow…” Everyone exclaimed in surprise, and the ones who were close to Zhang Chenfei started catcalling.

“CEO Zhang, you don’t forget to be romantic even when you’re just eating some dianxin, huh?”

Jiao Qi tried to push him away. “What are you up to this time?” he asked.

“I love you, baby. Don’t misunderstand,” Zhang Chenfei said, looking angrily behind him at the stunned Ling Yao, before turning back to gaze worriedly at Jiao Qi. His hands shook, and he looked despairingly at his little wife as he hugged him tight. “I love you. Don’t turn into sea foam,” he said, his voice husky with emotion.

Sea foam?

The little mermaid would turn into sea foam if she didn’t receive a human’s love.

This was a common feature of most mermaid and merman stories.

Jiao Qi finally understood why Zhang Chenfei kept professing his love to him every day without fail. It was both funny and touching at the same time. He didn’t care about the many eyes that were staring at them now, and he patted Zhang Chenfei back comfortingly.

Everyone realised now that CEO Zhang was now expressing his love and loyalty toward CEO Jiao to avoid any misunderstandings after having been seen speaking with a male celebrity in a secluded place. The cameras immediately flocked around Zhang Chenfei to record every last word that he was about to say to CEO Jiao.

“Believe me! I know that you’re the only one who truly loves me. Everyone else is just trying to get my precious little swimmers!” Zhang Chenfei declared. His little wife, who had firmly declined his little fish, was the only one who truly loved the dog that was the real him!

“… …”