Mr. Yuan is Always Unhappy - Chap 35
Edited by Yummers
Once the wedding was over, Yuan Rui went to say his goodbyes to the newlyweds and all of his classmates.
Not realizing the situation, the groom tried to urge him to stay, “Don’t go in such a hurry now, we have more things planned for later. It’s just going to be the people from our class, no outsiders.”
Yuan Rui lied, “I have work in the afternoon, I have to go now.”
The groom’s eyes scanned the other classmates and saw that everyone had an odd expression on their faces, even Meng Lai was silent. He could only give in, “Work is very important after all. We can just meet up in the future, it’ll be the same, at least we can finally contact you now.”
Once Yuan Rui left, the groom asked, “What happened? Didn’t we say Meng Lai was going to borrow my blessings today to conquer him?”
The physicist replied, “Sigh, Meng Lai didn’t carry through the fight.”
The girl from the Writers Association spoke up as well, “Right, he didn’t even get his WeChat.”
Everyone looked at Meng Lai with disappointment.
Meng Lai rubbed his nose and coughed, “We’ve still got time.”
When Yuan Rui came out to look for Zheng Qiuyang, he didn’t say much as he got into the car quickly. It’d be troublesome if someone recognized him.
He watched as the view of the five-star restaurant got farther and farther away in the rearview mirror. He said with a little aftershock, “My classmates are all so incredible, I’m kinda ashamed to be sitting with them. I couldn’t really understand their conversations, do you know what matter waves are?”
Zheng Qiuyang wasn’t over his jealousness yet, he replied irritatingly, “I know what waves are.”
“…”
Yuan Rui felt kind of dejected. “I didn’t even attend the gathering, why are you still upset?”
After talking for a bit, Zheng Qiuyang had realized that his attitude was not right. As he drove, his right hand reached out to rub Yuan Rui’s hair. “I’m not upset. Come on, let’s go eat first. What do you want to eat? I gave them two red pockets and yet we came out with empty stomachs.”
Yuan Rui was stunned, asking, “Didn’t you sneak in? You even gave them red pockets? How much?”
“…”
Yuan Rui fished out his wallet and started counting, the way his heart ached displayed on his face.
Zheng Qiuyang suggested sarcastically, “Should we turn around and eat back our worth?”
Yuan Rui stuffed his wallet back in his pants, distress in his tone as he spoke, “Whatever, if I go back now, my classmates will know that I lied.”
The two ate before going home. Yuan Rui noted down the red pockets in his little finance book, his heart ached with it for a long while until he finally remembered Zheng Qiuyang. The moment he lifted his head, he saw Zheng Qiuyang sitting across from him, staring.
“…”
Zheng Qiuyang said, “You’re finished? Let’s have a talk.”
Yuan Rui felt a little panicky. “About what?”
“At the restaurant earlier, wasn’t the one who sat on your left your first love?”
Yuan Rui nodded, but also quickly made a statement, “I’ve stopped liking him for a long time now, I told you before too.”
“What did he talk to you about?”
“Nothing much. He wanted my WeChat, but I didn’t want you to be upset so I blocked him.”
Zheng Qiuyang was content with his choice, however, he pretended to be generous. “You don’t have to be like that, it is just adding an old classmate on WeChat.”
Yuan Rui picked up his phone and said, “Then I’ll unblock him right now.”
“…”
“Hahaha!”
“…”
Yuan Rui made a silly face at him. “You’re so stingy.”
Zheng Qiuyang was riled up. As he walked over, ready to give him a lesson, the other stood up to run. However, his leg crashed against the table corner with a loud “bam”. He couldn’t run anymore as he held onto his knee, jumping up and down while he rotated in one spot, he blew air on it.
Zheng Qiuyang was stunned for a few seconds before he pointed at him, laughing out loud. “This is what you get for always running around like our house’s a track field!”
Yuan Rui squatted there, speaking pitifully, “It hurts.”
Zheng Qiuyang came over to roll up his pants and took a look, there was a purplish bruise on his knee. Zheng Qiuyang poked it with his finger, Yuan Rui instantly whined.
Zheng Qiuyang laughed at him.
Yuan Rui felt very sad.
Zheng Qiuyang also squatted down, he lowered his head to blow air onto his bruise with puffed cheeks.
Now Yuan Rui felt happy.
Zheng Qiuyang told him, “This won’t be a big problem, the skin didn’t tear either. It’ll be fine in a few days. When I used to get into fights in middle school, my knees always got hurt the most, blood would be dripping down my legs. But everything goes back to normal in a few months.”
After hearing his story, Yuan Rui was astonished, “Cool! That’s so cool!”
Zheng Qiuyang asked with an ulterior motive in mind, “What was your first love like in middle school?”
“Just a bit handsome, there’s nothing special about him other than that.”
Zheng Qiuyang was doubtful. “Really?”
Yuan Rui swore earnestly, “Really! It’d be nice if you were my classmate back then, I would’ve definitely liked you then, I would write you a love letter every day.”
Zheng Qiuyang couldn’t help but grin, feeling quite proud.
Yuan Rui grinned with him, thinking, I’m so smart!
That night, Zheng Qiuyang was exceedingly energized. Towards the end, Yuan Rui was basically seeing stars, he almost couldn’t take it anymore.
Zheng Qiuyang even asked him, “Does it feel good?”
Yuan Rui felt like he was one step away from death, but since he also wanted to please the other, he gritted the words out, “Too good, you’re awesome.”
With the encouragement, Zheng Qiuyang started to move as if he was on steroids, plowing all the way until midnight.
The next morning, Yuan Rui wanted to go to the bathroom, but his legs were so sore that he couldn’t stand upright. His butt fell right back onto the bed.
Zheng Qiuyang pulled him back in an embrace. He helped massage his legs as he said, “Sigh, it’d be really nice if we were classmates, I could’ve made you not be able to close your legs all the time.”
Yuan Rui was flustered by his words. “You didn’t like men back then.”
Zheng Qiuyang acted like he was about to pull his pants down again. He yelled in fear, “No more! Seriously!”
Zheng Qiuyang chuckled, he squeezed Little Yuan Rui through his pajama pants a bit. “If I’d met you sooner, I would’ve.”
Yuan Rui was already holding in his pee, the squeeze made him want to go even more. But he didn’t want to either, cuddling the other and flirting so early in the morning was so blissful.
Zheng Qiuyang asked, “When are you going out to eat with Suo Yue and your dad today?”
“Seven o’clock tonight, it’s the Hunan restaurant we went to last time.”
“Alright, I’ll drop you off then.”
Yuan Rui agreed, then added on, “I told my dad you had something to take care of at home, if you guys happen to run into each other, don’t expose yourself.”
Zheng Qiuyang smiled. “I actually do have to go to my mom’s place today.”
“That’s good then, remember to bring the heated wrist wrap for her. She must’ve been having problems with it since she sprained her wrist last time, it’ll happen again in this cold weather very easily. Don’t let it become chronic, it’d be very troublesome then.”
“Okay.”
The two continued to chat all the way from seven to nine.
Zheng Qiuyang suddenly said, “I can’t hold it anymore, if I don’t go now my bladder’s going to explode.”
“…”
Zheng Qiuyang smooched him, he said with a smile, “Waking up and talking to you while cuddling in the morning felt so nice, I couldn’t bear to go pee and break the good mood.”
Yuan Rui was touched. “Me too!”
Two streams of water intersected, both landing in the toilet.
Zheng Qiuyang and Yuan Rui both let out a relieved sigh at the same time, feeling a lot more relaxed.
Zheng Qiuyang commented as he peed, “Aren’t we dumb?”
Yuan Rui could only chuckle, “Hehehe.”
Once they were done urinating, the two washed their hands. Before they even had the time to dry them off, they made out in front of the sink impatiently.
The two were in their lovey-dovey space for an entire day until evening arrived. Zheng Qiuyang dropped Yuan Rui off at the Hunan restaurant, then he drove back to eat dinner with his mom, conveniently stealing the property ownership certificate.
Yuan Rui smiled the moment he saw Suo Yue. His sister got a haircut, the used-to-be long hair was now short and clean-cut. She also had some light makeup applied, very pretty. Now she truly appeared to be a mature young lady.
Suo Jianjun had gotten thinner since the last time Yuan Rui saw him. On his neck was the scarf he had given him last time. He truly had the image of a handsome middle-aged father.
During the meal, Suo Jianjun spoke with content, “Many people in my unit watched your show, not just the young ones, even my female co-workers who are around my age watched it too. They say you’re handsome with a good personality, very honest and not superficial. Truly a rare quality idol in the current time.”
Suo Yue also commented, “My classmates all like you a lot, I couldn’t help but tell one of my roommates that you were my brother. She begged me to help her get your signature, don’t forget about it later.”
Yuan Rui felt embarrassed by the compliments, only towards the end of the meal did he remember the matter he had to tell Suo Jianjun.
“Godmother?” Suo Jianjun was quite shocked, he found it strange. “I heard that these relationships in the current arts industry aren’t very proper.”
Yuan Rui explained, “That auntie is a director at my work, she’s a pretty nice and strict person. She’s not that gaudy type. I think she just really sympathized with me that I lost my mom so early on, she doesn’t have any other intentions.”
“If that’s the case, then it’s not a big problem. After all, she initiated it, it’d be bad if you refused. Times are different now, accepting any godparents back then had too many rules and etiquette to go through, now it’s just having one more kin walking around. But you should ask your agent first, see if there’s anything wrong with it.”
Yuan Rui nodded. Li Lingling had been wishing for him to accept her, what could go wrong?
They chatted for a little after the meal, then left. Suo Jianjun drove to the place himself, he sent Yuan Rui back home first before sending his daughter home as well.
On the way back, Suo Yue was rambling on about stuff back at her school as Suo Jianjun listened with a smile.
When they were almost at home, Suo Jianjun suddenly asked, “Yueyue, what did your brother say was the name of the person that wanted to take him in as his stepson?”
Suo Yue thought for a moment. “I think it was Yang Lu.”
“…”
