Mr. Yuan is Always Unhappy - Chap 20
Edited by Yummers
Due to the doctor’s orders to give the area room to breathe, Yuan Rui stayed home to rest for a few days. He never left the house and only wore a pair of loose pajama pants, even his undies were off.
It’s a popular saying that gays would think about something sexual approximately every 7 seconds. Without clothing holding him back, or the concern of work, Mr. Yuan’s sexual activity frequency seemed to have gone up a little.
After a few days of continuous activities, he was very exhausted. Although it also felt very good.
He went to the TV station on Monday for a job. He was the special guest of an indoor variety show.
Zhao Zhengyi picked him up. When he saw him, he asked, “Didn’t you sleep at home for 4 days? How come you ended up with dark circles under your eyes?”
Yuan Rui hesitatingly told him, “It-it got too boring, anyway…I didn’t get a good sleep in.”
Zhao Zhengyi looked at him with slight licentiousness in his eyes.
Yuan Rui realized that he’d been seen through. His face flushed red immediately, he felt his waist becoming even sorer.
On the other side, Zheng Qiuyang was drawing a design sullenly. He had gotten a call from his mom, who asked him to come to the mall in an urgent tone. She said that her credit card was declined when she tried to pay for stuff. That wasn’t the first time something like that happened. As the rightful wife looked down on the third-wheeling wife, she liked to cause some trouble for the other from time to time.
Zheng Qiuyang had to stop his work at hand and hurry over.
Then, when his mom directed him to go to the cafe upstairs in the mall on the phone, he felt something was off. The moment he entered, it was just as he expected. Aside from his mom, there was also a middle-aged woman with a young girl. The three were having a pleasant conversation. There was no tone of abashment from a credit card decline anywhere.
He pretended to not understand the situation. “Mom, you were hanging out with your friends? Here’s my card, remember to go home soon after you’re finished.”
He wanted to leave right after tossing down the card. His mom pulled onto him. “What are you hurrying off for? Quickly sit down. This is your Auntie Zhang, we’ve been neighbors for a long while. This is Auntie Zhang’s niece, her name is Qianqian. It seems like you guys also played together as children.”
The girl greeted him with a bit of shyness. Mom Zheng and Auntie Zhang kept complimenting her on the side.
Zheng Qiuyang said nothing.
Mom Zheng pushed him, saying, “Auntie Zhang’s asking you a question. What are you doing?”
Auntie Zhang quickly spoke up, “It’s fine, it’s fine. Qiuyang, are you busy with work every day? What do you usually do during your free time? Qianqian does civil service so she’s usually not too busy with work. After work, she likes to read some books, very lady-like.”
Zheng Qiuyang looked at his mom, then said, “I’m not very busy usually. During my free time, I just do my partner.”
Auntie Zhang had no words.
Mom Zheng got hasty. “What nonsense are you spouting? You’re already this old yet you can’t hold a proper conversation.”
Zheng Qiuyang didn’t pay her any mind. He went on, “Auntie Zhang, I’m not afraid to be your laughingstock. The truth is, my partner doesn’t have a good family background, she has no parents. My mom keeps thinking that she can’t be compared to me and wants to find me someone better. Listen, I’m a man, what’s the point of finding someone with such good conditions? To be entirely dependent on the other?”
Auntie Zhang still had no words.
Instead, the girl spoke up, “Honestly, a person’s family background isn’t important. The feelings that the two have for each other is key.”
Zheng Qiuyang responded like he’d met an understanding friend, “Exactly. This young miss is obviously well-educated. Our generation isn’t like theirs, we don’t put so much thought into dating. You guys should be aware of our family situation as well, my mom was an exception. She probably didn’t give it much thought back then either.”
Mom Zheng’s face was pale at that point.
Seeing the situation, Auntie Zhang took a leave with her niece very quickly.
Right after they left, Mom Zheng scolded him ragingly, “Don’t you see I’m doing this for your own good?! What’s bad about that girl? I picked so precisely for you, wanting to find you the most reliable person, yet you even started to ridicule me in front of outsiders?!”
Zheng Qiuyang had a cold face. “I didn’t want it to turn out like this either. But don’t you know I have a partner right now?”
Mom Zheng showed disgust. “You call that a partner? Can you marry or have a child with him? Just having this out makes me embarrassed, I’ll never have the face to tell your dad when he asks me about it.”
Zheng Qiuyang was even more pissed. “If my dad asks again, just tell him the truth. With me and my partner’s situation, it’s obvious that I’m the one benefitting from him. I wish I could literally treat him like a God. Yet you…I’m not asking you to accept him, just stop trying to create obstacles for me every day. Why did you arrange a blind date without even telling me ahead of time? If I don’t end up having a child, are you simply not going to accept me as your child?”
The last sentence poked at Mom Zheng’s most pained spot, causing her to cry on the spot.
Zheng Qiuyang finally got her home after consoling her. He didn’t go to work in the afternoon either, he was in a horrible mood. He called Yuan Rui. It was Zhao Zhengyi who picked it up, he said, “We’re finished. Yuan-Ge met someone he knew when he came out, the two are still talking.”
Zheng Qiuyang just thought it was some other artist. He informed, “I’m not too far from the TV station. Tell him that I’m picking him up, you don’t have to worry about it.”
Zhao Zhengyi obviously had no objection to an early release from work.
After he hung up, he turned around, wanting to tell Yuan Rui, but he saw Yuan Rui standing face to face with that person. The atmosphere was a bit weird.
He called out, “Yuan-Ge, come over, I have something to tell you.”
Yuan Rui agreed. He told the other person, “Um…I think something came up…”
The other replied, “Go ahead. I’ll wait here for you.”
Yuan Rui had no choice but to walk over. Zhao Zhengyi said, “Mr. Zheng says he’s nearby so he’ll come to pick you up. Who’s that person?”
Yuan Rui said awkwardly, “An old classmate. You can leave first then, I’ll wait for him.”
The other was very tall, he may have been even taller than Yuan Rui. Zhao Zhengyi thought himself clever when he concluded the other to be a model as well. He handed Yuan Rui back his phone. “Then I’m leaving first. See you the day after tomorrow.”
He walked out just a bit, then turned around to look at Yuan Rui again with unease. For some reason, he felt like Yuan Rui was acting weirdly.
Yuan Rui and his old classmate were still standing face to face. The classmate rubbed Yuan Rui’s head, Yuan Rui shrank back very obviously.
“You grew taller,” the classmate said, “though your hair is just as soft as it was before.”
Yuan Rui felt extremely awkward. He said, “It’s a Japanese brand, Gardenia scent. It’s pretty good.”
“……What?”
“Shampoo.”
His classmate chuckled. “You’re really still the same as before.”
“But you just said I grew taller. I’m different.”
The two fell into silence.
A while later, the person said, “I watch your shows. Every episode.”
“……Thank you.”
“Aren’t you going to ask what I’ve been doing these years?”
Yuan Rui had no choice but to ask, “What have you been doing?”
“I’ve been thinking about you constantly.”
“……”
That person laughed. “I was just kidding. I’m pretty busy, having to fly everywhere all the time. There’s never enough money to make.”
Yuan Rui agreed, “Yeah, I think so too.”
The person stopped smiling. “But, it’s true that I’ve been thinking about you constantly.”
Yuan Rui’s face blushed madly. His head was bowed low, not daring to look into the other’s eyes.
The phone in his grasp rang, he picked it up in a little panic. Zheng Qiuyang’s voice came out of the speaker, “Yuan Xiao Rui, I’m at the TV station’s North gate. I got you ice cream, it’s waiting to be licked by you, hurry hurry.”
Yuan Rui stuttered, “I’ll-I’ll be there soon.”
The individual in front of him saw him hanging up, then asked, “Your boyfriend?”
“Yeah. I have to go, he’s waiting for me.”
He finally mustered up the courage to look at the other. Although his voice was still very small, his tone was firm, “Meng Lai, I stopped liking you since a long time ago. Seriously.”
Zheng Qiuyang really waited for him at the North Gate with ice cream. Upon seeing him, he spoke with laughter in his tone, “This is matcha flavored. Lick it for me first.”
“……”
Zheng Qiuyang stuffed the ice cream into his hand and pushed him into the car. “I’m just playing around. There are so many people around, who knows what pervert might be looking as well.”
Meng Lai, who tailed after Yuan Rui: “……”
On the road, Zheng Qiuyang confessed that he “went” to a blind date that day.
Yuan Rui’s brows furrowed. “Honestly, I wouldn’t know even if you didn’t tell me.”
Zheng Qiuyang smiled, “It’s nothing that I need to hide. Plus, I should tell you first in case you hear it from someone else in the future with some twisted details added.”
Yuan Rui was silent for a moment.
He inhaled then said, “I also have something to tell you.”
“What?”
Yuan Rui prepared himself for a few seconds before saying, “Today, at the TV station, I met my first love.”
“……Didn’t you say you’ve never dated? Isn’t your first love me?”
Yuan Rui lowered his head. “I didn’t. It was only me who liked him.”
Zheng Qiuyang was stunned for a bit. “These types of things occur often for adolescents. Then what happened?”
“Then I confessed to him, he rejected me. I confessed a second time, he still rejected me.”
“……”
He feigned his generosity, “That’s nothing. There’s no more to it, right?”
Yuan Rui’s head went even lower. “Then I confessed a third time. He kissed me, it was my first kiss. I don’t know if it was his. But the day after that, he still said he didn’t like me.”
“……”
“I thought I didn’t remember him anymore. Sometimes when I think about it, I can’t even remember his appearance that well, or what his name was. But when I saw him today, I realized that I actually remember him quite well.”
Zheng Qiuyang stepped on the brake abruptly.
Yuan Rui was caught off guard. After looking around, he exclaimed shockingly, “We can’t park here! We’ll get fined and have points deducted!”
Zheng Qiuyang responded furiously, “Getting my money fined and my points deducted, it’s my pleasure!”
Yuan Rui was even more shocked as he spoke, “What’s the difference between yours and mine?”
“……”
He started the car again in silence.
lol I loved this scene, it was hilarious I thought
