Mr. Yuan is Always Unhappy - Chap 16
Edited by Yummers
When Zheng Qiuyang returned home in the evening, Yuan Rui happened to be opening his package.
He asked, “What did you buy?”
Yuan Rui answered, “I bought you a pair of jeans from Taobao.”
“I have a lot of pants already. Why did you buy another one?”
Yuan Rui took out the pair of pants and examined it seriously. Then, he said with joy, “The store had an anniversary sale, these were like over 100 yuans cheaper than the retail price. Try it on.”
Zheng Qiuyang took the pants from him and sighed while shaking his head. “Sigh, look at you, where do you look like a one million per episode fresh meat?”
Yuan Rui watched as he tried on the pants. “The money now isn’t even money, it disappears so fast. How can we not save up? My agent called me today, she said that Wang Xiaozhe and Huang Jingjing are having a wedding next month and I received an invite. I have to give them at least a ten thousand yuan red pocket, isn’t that scary?”
Zheng Qiuyang gave him an exaggerated shocked look. “Holy, those two invited you to their wedding? Looks like our Yuan Xiao Rui really is getting famous.”
Yuan Rui smiled, then quickly said heartachingly, “No matter how famous I get, I won’t ever get a chance to get that money back. Plus, I’ve never even met Huang Jingjing in person before, and I’ve only done one show with Wang Xiaozhe. Why do I have to give them ten thousand out of nowhere?”
Zheng Qiuyang didn’t reply. They couldn’t publicize their wedding to get red pockets, so he had no solution to this either.
Yuan Rui dragged him around to look at every angle before he spoke satisfyingly, “It’s pretty fitting, good looking too. What do you think?”
“Not bad.”
“Then I’ll confirm the order,” Yuan Rui picked up his phone to take a few pictures of his legs. Then, he looked down as he opened the Taobao app, saying, “Leaving a good review with pictures can also guarantee cashback.”
“……”
Because Yuan Rui didn’t have work today, he went a bit hard last night. Thus, he could only hold it in for today.
But due to the gossip he heard from Fang Shiqing during the day, he couldn’t fall asleep peacefully. He leaned up against the bed frame with his arm supporting his head as he went into deep thoughts.
Yuan Rui washed the new pair of pants and hung it up to dry. He skipped back from the balcony and shivered violently after closing the door, “Woah, autumn is really here. It sure is cold outside.”
Zheng Qiuyang reached out a hand, “Come over here, let your husband warm you up.”
Yuan Rui climbed onto the bed, he held onto Yuan Rui with one hand as the two pressed against each other.
He tightened his grasp a little and asked, “Did you get skinnier again?”
“It’s cold now, thermal expansion and contraction, you know?”
“……”
“Hahaha, isn’t it funny?”
Zheng Qiuyang went against his conscience. “Funny, haha.”
God, why is it that when Yuan Xiao Rui actually tries to make a joke, it’s never funny?
Zheng Qiuyang held his thoughts in for a while. But then, he still asked, “I passed by Fang Shiqing’s office today, so I visited him on the way.”
Yuan Rui said, “I haven’t seen him for half a month. Let’s hang out with him together sometime soon.”
Zheng Qiuyang agreed with a sound, then continued, “Did you say something to him?”
Yuan Rui had already forgotten the event that happened a while ago. “What thing? No?”
Zheng Qiuyang looked down at him, his eyes landed on his chest.
He asked, “Yuan Xiao Rui, do you not like it when I’m always touching your chest?”
Yuan Rui whipped his head around with a very weirded-out expression. “Did Fang Shiqing tell you that?”
Zheng Qiuyang purposely put on a stern face, “In the future, don’t tell him everything like that.”
Yuan Rui was a bit weary. “Oh. I didn’t tell him much either, I just mentioned it during our chatting.”
Zheng Qiuyang’s hand found itself patting the other’s stomach, he smiled. “While you’re trying to have a heart-to-heart talk with him, he’s just waiting for the gossip. Anything that goes through his ears will be known by half of Beijing in no time.”
“……Ah? He’s that unreliable?”
Zheng Qiuyang continued to damage his good friend’s reputation, “Of course, his nickname is the Great Loudspeaker.”
Yuan Rui thought of something that made his face red in an instant.
Zheng Qiuyang tried talking in a roundabout way, “Honestly, I do that all the time only because I like your reaction.”
“……”
Zheng Qiuyang cleared his throat. “I became like this because of you. As long as you’re with me, there’s no way I’ll turn back.”
“……”
Zheng Qiuyang questioned helplessly, “Are you too touched? Say something.”
Yuan Rui finally spoke in a low voice, “Um…does Wang Qi also know that you always rub my chest?”
“……”
Yuan Rui felt very ashamed. “How am I supposed to meet him in the future? He must think that I’m very weird.”
“Yuan Xiao Rui!” Zheng Qiuyang yelled, he gritted through his teeth, “Are you doing this on purpose?”
Yuan Rui, “What on purpose…ah! I was wrong! I’m sorry! It’s still swollen! Ow!”
Zheng Qiuyang only wanted to give Yuan Rui a little scare. He didn’t want to actually do anything.
He didn’t ask Yuan Rui anything else upfront either. He doesn’t even remember the night he lost his virginity, what gave him the right to interrogate Yuan Rui about his first kiss? Annoyed? Endure it!
Yuan Rui’s new show was recorded every Wednesday. In his spare time, Li Lingling filled in a bunch of side jobs for him. Ignoring all the indoor entertainment shows and acting as background characters in movies and dramas, the most important thing was that he got to shoot a men’s skincare product commercial.
He was a model who had competed in a national modeling show after all. Li Lingling paved a high-end road for him, she wouldn’t accept any endorsement work if they weren’t from big brands. Since he’d debuted, all this time, he’d only endorsed one phone brand when he wasn’t as popular back then. Although it wasn’t an internationally known brand, it was one of the top phone brands in the country. It was supported by the government and their ads were plastered all over the streets, this helped him gain a rather large quantity of fans.
The skincare product this time was a Japanese brand. The spokesperson for it was Bai Tu, who was widely accepted as the best actor. Yuan Rui was asked to be the image representative for their seasonal product. The signed contract was only half a year long, so it counted as a short-term collaboration. But to have his name appear next to the acting king’s made him seem very high-end.
Yuan Rui was overjoyed. He liked Tomas for his face, but for Bai Tu, he was a sincere fan. He loved Bai Tu so so so so so so so so much! The honor to endorse the same product as his idol was way more important to him than it being high-ended.
Before they entered the set to shoot for the commercial, he saw a human-sized cardboard cutout of Bai Tu by the entrance. Yuan Rui jumped over happily, asking Zhao Zhengyi to help him take a picture.
Zhao Zhengiy felt super embarrassed. He had one hand covering his own face while his spare hand took the picture.
Yuan Rui took back his phone to look at the picture, then proceeded to click on the Weibo app. Zhao Zhengyi saw from the side and he quickly tried to stop him. “Don’t post it on Weibo. Don’t you remember the last time that you reposted Tomas’ selfie and called him a male god? How many people left hate comments?”
Yuan Rui stilled a bit. He spoke with lingering fear, “Tomas’ fans are too scary.”
“That’s what an idol group’s fans are like. They can only accept ships within the group. For anyone who tries to intrude, their only ending is death.”
Yuan Rui looked down at the photo on his phone again, not wanting to give it up. “Bai Tu’s not in a group. The most I’ll get for posting this is that I’m trying to hug his leg, but I actually do want to hug him anyway.”
“……”
Yuan Rui continued to be a face-con. “I’ve met him twice before, he’s super handsome in person!”
Zhao Zhengyi asked with hidden intention, “Do you think Liang Xi’s handsome?”
“Of course.”
“Then why don’t you like Liang Xi the way that you like Tomas and Bai Tu?”
Yuan Rui didn’t answer right away. Instead, he lowered his voice for a question. “Xiao Zhao, Liang Xi likes men, right?”
“……”
“I can actually tell, he must be a top.”
“……”
Yuan Rui concluded, “That’s why I can’t like him. It’ll upset my boyfriend.”
Zhao Zhengyi thought to himself, Is he for real dumb or not? How is he so clever at times?
