Mr. Yuan is Always Unhappy - Chap 32
Edited by Yummers
Yuan Rui instantly called Zheng Qiuyang to share his joy from receiving his pay. “The company gave me my paycheck! There’s 760 thousand!”
Zheng Qiuyang replied, “Come to the company now? But it’s Saturday today, I finally got some free time to go shopping with my mom.”
“…”
“Emergency? Alright, you guys hang in there for now. I’ll send my mom home first, then come over as soon as possible.”
Yuan Rui said, “You should just hang out with Auntie…”
“Don’t keep nagging me, wait at the company, I’ll be there in half an hour.”
Half an hour later, Zheng Qiuyang called him to come downstairs.
Afraid of being seen by others from the company, Yuan Rui sneakily jogged to Zheng Qiuyang’s car once he came downstairs. He checked to see that no one was looking his way before asking, “Did Auntie not realize that you were tricking her?”
“No, the moment she heard that something came up in the company, she wouldn’t even let me take her home. She called a cab and went home by herself.”
Yuan Rui felt guilty. “In the future, if she finds out how you always trick her like this, she’s definitely going to be sad.”
Zheng Qiuyang grieved his case, “I don’t always do this, only a few times. And this isn’t me being stingy, but she’s really gotten so much naggier in the past two years. She’ll talk at every given chance, we saw your picture at the counter of the skincare products in the mall, and she rambled on about it from the second floor all the way to the sixth floor. She had a drink that literally never came in contact with her mouth, listening to her the entire time made my head want to burst.”
Yuan Rui then sympathized with him as well. “What did Auntie say about me this time?”
Zheng Qiuyang copied her tone, “His legs are too long, he’s too skinny, he’s too tanned, his lips are too thick.”
“…”
He touched his leg then looked at his face in the mirror, asking, “Are my lips really thick?”
Zheng Qiuyang smiled, “Don’t mind her, what does an old woman like her know? The plumpness makes it nicer to kiss.”
His hand landed on Yuan Rui’s thigh and squeezed. “I like your long legs, I can play with them for the rest of my life.”
Yuan Rui wanted to laugh but he didn’t dare to do it loudly, his face reddened from the effort of trying to hold it in.
He liked Zheng Qiuyang so much, he liked him everywhere. How is it possible for him to like him this much?
The two ate, took a pleasant detour, then returned home.
Zheng Qiuyang watched the replay of a soccer game on CCTV5+ as Yuan Rui took out his little accounting book. He sat on the other sofa to record all the money he spent today carefully. Then, he held the little book with a smile, feeling jubilant.
Zheng Qiuyang looked at him for a while, then he stood up to go into the bedroom. He came out and handed him two cards.
Yuan Rui, “???”
Zheng Qiuyang pointed at one card. “This one has my savings, there’s not much, just around 200 thousand. I have some more and bought a future contract. It’s probably around a million, it won’t be available for a while though. This one’s a mortgage card, the loan will be all paid off in nine months. The house is in the 4th Ring, not too big, it’s 110 square meters. I paid for the down payment and the loan myself, I’ll put your name onto the ownership later too. If you think it’s too small, we can sell it and buy a bigger one, then we can just put both our names on it.”
“…”
Zheng Qiuyang spoke awkwardly, “The only thing is that my mom still has the property ownership certificate, I gotta go steal it sometime later.”
Yuan Rui quickly cut in, “Nonono, we can buy another house together when we’ve saved up enough money, leave this one for your mom.”
“Don’t underestimate her, she’s coaxed my dad into buying her like 2-3 houses in these past years. She probably has enough money in her hands to buy two more houses at full price. She wouldn’t care about this crappy little house of mine.”
Yuan Rui thought, Oh my god, then why does she call me a scheming bitch?
Zheng Qiuyang took his little account book to take a look. “Don’t think about saving up to buy me a studio anymore, my dad wouldn’t let me anyway. He still cares about others pointing out his biases behind his back. Instead, we can save up our money now, and then when you retire at thirty-five, we’ll get married. Then, we can open a Taobao store together. I’ll make ornaments and you can work with customer service. You can act cute and sell the ornaments. If we get to make money, then we do. If we don’t, it’ll just be a fun experience. After all, we have a house, a car, and food to eat. You have me, I have you, isn’t that all we need?”
Yuan Rui sniffled as he hugged him.
Zheng Qiuyang patted his back, saying, “Don’t cry.”
“I’m not, sobsobsob.”
“…”
Yuan Rui said as he cried, “I want to come out, I want to show off our love.”
“…”
“But Lingling-Jie would beat me dead, sobsobsob.”
“…”
Yuan Rui continued, “She just got me a male lead role too, she said the show would definitely be popular.”
Zheng Qiuyang said helplessly, “That’s pretty good.”
Yuan Rui released his arms around Zheng Qiuyang and sat up straight. He wiped his eyes with his sleeve, then couldn’t help but smile as he said, “I’m getting 300 thousand per episode, it’s so much more than the first drama I filmed.”
“…Incredible.”
“Hehehe.”
The Incredible Yuan Rui met the even-more-incredible IceDream group during his second to last film day for The Sparkling Friends on set.
The group had debuted later than him but they quickly rose to fame. They had countless crazy fangirls. Aside from music, their members also started stepping into films and reality shows as well. When they came to film The Sparkling Friends this time, it was a rare occasion where all of the members were present.
When Yuan Rui learned that they were the special guests of the day, he kept spouting swears from nervousness inside.
Then, during the teaming session, Tomas ended up in his group. Aside from him, the other stable guest on his team was the Taiwanese female artist.
Yuan Rui was even more nervous. He was a fan of Tomas’ face, the moment he sees Tomas, he wants to kneel and grovel at his appearance. He’d be done for if the cameras—which were everywhere—catches a glimpse of his drooling face!
Tomas was friendly to him. During the filming, he tried his best to finish the missions, which showcased his above-average athleticness and charm. Yuan Rui was able to control himself during the beginning, but then he gradually lost control, the Taiwanese girl stopped doing her tasks too. The two just followed Tomas around like with a drooling face.
During the last round, three teams had already arrived, but there was one team missing, so everyone else had to wait.
Yuan Rui bought three warm beverages. He gave the Taiwanese girl one and wanted to give the other to Tomas. He looked around and saw Tomas and Wang Chao chatting as they sat on the sofa in the corner. After some thought, it didn’t feel right to go over, so he gave the extra drink to the female director who was in charge of him.
He had his drink in his hand as he peeked at Wang Chao and Tomas from the side.
Wang Chao laughed in between his words, his hand reached out to touch Tomas’ face, but it was slapped away by Tomas. He didn’t give up as he kept reaching out, then Tomas slapped it away again. This repeated for a few more times until Tomas’ hand quickly flew out to pinch his face. It must’ve hurt as the other’s face contorted in agony. Tomas rubbed his face again and the other smiled dumbly.
The two seemed to have a very good relationship, there was even a bit of pink lovey-dovey atmosphere coming from that corner.
Yuan Rui was very conflicted as he thought, Does Tomas not know that Wang Chao and Liang Xi are a thing?
Once the game was over, IceDream had to catch the plane that night to arrive for a performance. They said their good-byes hastily, then left.
Yuan Rui didn’t get to ask Tomas for a signature. The only thing he got was a picture with him throughout the film; and it wasn’t just the two of them, the Taiwanese girl stood in between.
Zhao Zhengyi called out to him, “Yuan-Ge! Stop spacing off, Director Yang’s behind you, she might be leaving anytime soon!”
Yuan Rui promptly pumped himself to go look for Yang lu.
He signed the contract to the idol drama a few days ago. Li Lingling noted that he needed to show his gratitude to Yang Lu once he met her on set.
Yang Lu was talking to the production team at the moment, she turned to look at him when she saw him coming.
Yuan Rui began, “Director Yang, I-”
Yang Lu didn’t allow him to finish as she went, “We’re having a team dinner later, you’ll be going too.”
Yuan Rui didn’t really want to go. Zheng Qiuyang had just sent a message to him saying that he was already at home, waiting for him to come home for dinner.
He wasn’t even given the chance to refuse as Yang Lu continued, “If there’s anything, we can talk about it later. I’m busy right now.”
Everyone turned to look at Yuan Rui.
Yuan Rui couldn’t just refuse Yang Lu’s offer in front of everyone like that, so he could only agree. “Okay.”
He called Zheng Qiuyang to inform him that he couldn’t go home. Zheng Qiuyang was very understanding as he said, “It is a need to attend the meal if the TV show’s investors are there.”
“Yeah, I know. But I don’t want to go at all, that Auntie is so good at drinking. The last time we drank together, she was completely fine even though I had gotten that drunk..”
Zheng Qiuyang smiled, “Maybe she likes you. Don’t drink too much and come home calling me Ran-chan again.”
“Mn.”
Zheng Qiuyang joked with him, “Although she’s just an auntie, don’t get close too with her. In case she’s one of those weird aunties who’s into little fresh meats like you.”
Yuan Rui came home when it was past ten. Unexpectedly, he was very sober, he didn’t drink a drop of alcohol. Instead, he said with a peculiar look, “Qiuyang, you were right, the weird auntie actually is interested in me.”
“…How much is she willing to pay?”
“Not that type of interest…she says she wants to be my godmother.”
Zheng Qiuyang spoke irritatingly, “Does she think we’re dumb? All these “godmother” and “godfather” in the entertainment circle have no integrity, don’t give her any attention.”
Yuan Rui explained in a rush, “Ah, it’s really not like that. She declared that in front of everyone. When I was drunk last time, I said I didn’t have a mom so she took pity on me and wants to take me in as her son.”
“…”
“I didn’t dare to agree then. I asked Lingling-Jie on my way back and she said that this is a good leg to hug, I won’t ever get another chance like this if I let it pass, so I should grasp tight onto it. What do you think?”
Zheng Qiuyang didn’t know how to answer. Though, he thought inside, Fuck, I didn’t even have the guts to meet my father-in-law, and suddenly a godmother-in-law popped out of nowhere.
