Mr. Yuan is Always Unhappy - Chap 38
Edited by Yummers
Zheng Qiuyang obviously understood his mom’s temper well. While Yuan Rui went to cook in the kitchen, he called his mom to apologize. He half-lied as he said, “Mom, I took the property certificate because I needed it for proof of assets, I forgot to tell you.”
Mom Zheng replied, “Oh, then are you done with it?”
Zheng Qiuyang was prepared to be scolded to no end already, but to hear such an indifferent tone in response now, had him a bit stunned. He took a moment before answering, “Not yet.”
“Then take your time, remember to tell me first if something like this happens again in the future, or else, how can I not be worried when something so important goes missing?”
“…”
She continued, “I went to your place this afternoon, the area’s not bad. Whose house is it? Is it under big or small property right?”
“There are no property rights, it’s rented.”
“By you?”
“It was rented to him by his company, we pay for the water and electricity bills ourselves.”
Mom Zheng’s tone finally changed. She raised her voice, “Which means you’re living in his house? When did I teach you to live off someone like that?”
“…”
“A grown ass man like you living in your partner’s house, what’s up with that? Don’t you find it a little shameless?!”
Yuan Rui had just finished cooking a plate of garlic stir-fried broccoli when he came to the table with the plate, he asked, “Did you call your mom?”
Zheng Qiuyang had an eccentric expression. “Yeah, I did.”
Yuan Rui was unsettled. “What is it? Did she insult me again?”
“Not you. She yelled at me. Said I was shameless for living off of you.”
“…”
Zheng Qiuyang couldn’t understand his mom, it was weird no matter how much he thought about it. He said, “She doesn’t like that we’re taking advantage of your company by living here. She says that she has a house around this place. It’s luxurious, has all the furniture ready to go, and wants me to go live there with you.”
Yuan Rui’s eyes widened, he said happily, “Does she not dislike me anymore?”
“She never disliked you in the first place, she even watches your show at home. It’s because of the mean things she said in the beginning and now her pride won’t let her take them back.”
Yuan Rui was even happier. “Then, should we move? Does she want to live with us?”
Zheng Qiuyang was surprised. “You want to live with my mom?”
Yuan Rui nodded enthusiastically. “Yeah!”
“…”
Yuan Rui was ecstatic as he hummed the title song of The Sparkling Friends on his way back to the kitchen to make more food.
When the two were eating together later, Zheng Qiuyang still felt that the whole situation was weird. He said, “Yuan Xiao Rui, ask your godmother next time what she said to my mom. I feel like my mom’s change in attitude is too sudden, something really feels off.”
Yuan Rui picked up some veggies and placed them in his bowl, as he spoke with all smiles, “Okay, I’ll call her tomorrow to ask.”
“What are you so happy for?”
Yuan Rui couldn’t help but chuckle, “Your mom even watches my show, hehe.”
Zheng Qiuyang pretended to be spiteful. “And you’re happy? Your mother-in-law has seen all those dumb sides of you now.”
Yuan Rui was still grinning. “That’s okay, I heard that mothers-in-law don’t really like it if their son’s partner is too smart, hehe.”
“…”
Zheng Qiuyang asked again, “Do you really want to live with my mom?”
Yuan Rui still nodded. “Of course I do.”
Zheng Qiuyang was speechless. “My mom’s super naggy, she’s also very demanding. Her health is still pretty good now, whenever she sees me, she shows her annoyance and distaste for me from day to night.”
Yuan Rui looked up at him. “She definitely doesn’t find you annoying. It’s because she can tell that you find her annoying so she said those things, that way you’d find a reason to move out. But once you do, she’ll miss you. She might’ve even cried in secret by herself before.”
Zheng Qiuyang held his bowl as he stiffened up a bit.
Yuan Rui sighed and said, “If she’s willing to then it’d be the best, we can live together with her. I think having a mom in the house is really nice.”
Zheng Qiuyang stared at him for a moment, then said, “Your mother-in-law will definitely be very fond of you in the future.”
Yuan Rui smiled. “Your father-in-law will also really like you.”
Zheng Qiuyang’s face instantly crumbled.
The next day, Yuan Rui called Li Lingling to let her know what happened. “When my godmother was dropping me off yesterday, we happened to run into my boyfriend’s mom. Now she knows I’m gay.”
Li Lingling immediately fired at him, “You—you—! Seriously! What am I supposed to say to you? It’s not like you’re the only one with this situation in the industry, why is it that others can hide it so well while you can’t?”
Yuan Rui felt guilty as he listened to her scold him. “I planned on calling her later, what do you think I should say?”
Li Lingling calmed down once she let some of her anger out. “Your godmother has seen all there is to see in the entertainment industry, she wouldn’t care about this. I’ve even heard that her…never mind, anyway, she wouldn’t see you any differently. Just act natural.”
Yuan Rui told her the news about Sand Between Your Fingers, then hung up. He took a sip of water, then called Yang Lu.
The waiting ringtone rang for a long while before Yang Lu picked up, “Yuan Rui?”
Yuan Rui quickly answered, “Auntie Yang, is now a good time to talk?”
“Yeah, go ahead. What do you need?”
Yuan Rui said with consideration, “I made you witness a laughable matter yesterday, I’m very sorry.”
“Don’t mind it too much, I know a bunch of youngsters like you. As long as you’re a good person, these private matters are no big deal.”
Hearing how she reacted just like Li Lingling had described, Yuan Rui let out a sigh of relief. He asked, “Um, Auntie Yang, I wanted to ask you. Yesterday, with my boyfriend’s mom…uh, did you two, have a nice talk?”
“It was rather nice. Did she go back to trouble you again?”
Yuan Rui thought, She definitely said something good about me! He replied, “No no, thank you. I won’t disturb you any further now, I’ll go look at the script as soon as possible. Goodbye, Auntie Yang.”
“Wait.”
“Hm?”
Yang Lu stopped for a few seconds, she said, “Although you’re my son now, you still say these things that regard me as an outsider. When I’m not busy sometime later, I’ll invite you to a meal.”
Yuan Rui nodded quickly as he said, “Okay.”
He thought about it, he’s gotta invite Yang Lu to a rather expensive restaurant when the time comes. He can’t use group-buying either, the budget should be around 2000 dollars…maybe 3000 dollars. The alcohol money has to be accounted for as well. His godmother loves alcohol and has such a high tolerance…he can’t let the other end up drinking RIO then.
He holed himself up at home for half the day to read the script. During lunchtime, he didn’t want to cook, so he went to the snack drawer. The snacks that Zheng Qiuyang had bought for him last time were almost all finished. Plus, since he didn’t have any work these days, he didn’t keep to a strict diet and ended up eating a bunch of snacks.
The weather outside wasn’t too good, so he put on a few thick layers before heading out to buy snacks from the supermarket.
As he came back with a polypropylene shopping bag in his hand, he saw a van parked near the apartment complex entrance. He thought it was either Liang Xi’s or the Olympic champion’s car. The Olympic champion has been going to a parent-child show with his daughter recently. He continued walking as he got two lollipops out from his shopping bag, prepared to give them to the champion’s kid.
Only when he got closer did he see that it was actually Bai Tu who had just returned from his filming in Guangxi. He was in the middle of transporting his luggage.
Yuan Rui jogged over joyfully to help him. “Male god, you just got back?”
Bai Tu answered him with a smile, “I just got off the plane.”
Yuan Rui nodded in response. “Let me help you with the luggage.”
Bai Tu dismissed his assistant as both he and Yuan Rui dragged a suitcase over to wait for the elevator.
“I was filming in Guangxi, the weather over there is pretty warm. The air there is good too.” Bai Tu didn’t have much on and his cheeks were getting a bit red from the coldness. He asked, “Why did you buy so many snacks?”
Yuan Rui was a little embarrassed to say, “I’ve been on a break lately, I couldn’t control myself.”
Bai Tu chuckled. “I can’t control myself sometimes either, I like sweet stuff. Everybody’s the same when the craving comes.”
Yuan Rui stiffened. Suddenly, he was reminded of Liang Xi who couldn’t control himself. His mood instantly diminished as he thought about how pitiful his male god Bai Tu was.
Bai Tu thought he was sympathizing with the light clothing he had on, so he said, “It’s fine, we’re almost here. Have you eaten lunch yet?”
“Nope, not yet.”
Bai Tu continued to smile as he asked, “Would you mind if I go freeload some food off of you? My fridge definitely has alcohol and other beverages right now, though nothing to eat.”
When Yuan Rui heard that, he got even sadder. He assumed that Bai Tu was probably aware of what kind of person Liang Xi was, but he had no power to refuse him, and thus he could only suffer. Yuan Rui pumped himself up, “Yeah! I have everything in my fridge, what do you want to eat? If I don’t have it I’ll go buy it.”
“Just a casual home meal is enough, I’m not picky. I’ll go put away my stuff first, get changed then come down.”
When they reached the nineteenth floor, Yuan Rui went back in first. He rolled up his sleeves, put on his apron, and started preparing lunch for his male god with 100% of his energy.
That night, Zheng Qiuyang came home from work to see a full table of leftovers. He said bitterly, “And that’s why you made eight dishes and two soups.”
“I didn’t know what he liked so I made a variety, this way if he didn’t like one thing, he could just eat the other dishes.”
“…”
“If you don’t want to eat his leftovers then just eat this one, this one, and this one. He didn’t touch these three dishes, I’ll eat everything else.”
“…”
Yuan Rui expressed in content, “I like eating my male god’s leftovers!”
Zheng Qiuyang tossed his chopsticks aside. “I’m not eating, I’m ordering takeout delivery.”
“…”
Zheng Qiuyang ordered takeout on an app, then sat on the couch to watch TV with his arms crossed. He had a displeased face on.
Yuan Rui walked over slowly, sitting down next to him. He asked, “What’s up?”
Zheng Qiuyang ignored him.
“I don’t like him in that way, I like him in a fan-liking-a-celebrity type of way.”
“Hmph.”
Yuan Rui took a moment to think, then said, “Let me tell you a secret, you’re not allowed to tell anyone else.”
Zheng Qiuyang wanted to listen, but also wanted to ignore him; so he sat there, not moving or making a sound.
Yuan Rui moved up against his ear, whispering, “Bai Tu’s gay.”
“…”
Zheng Qiuyang was close to combusting, “And you still go hang out with him?!”
Yuan Rui’s eyes widened as if he was scared that someone else would hear them. He quickly added, “He’s a bottom.”
“…”
Yuan Rui seemed like he knew it all as he said, “You don’t understand as a straight man, but I can tell. He’s the same as me, likes that to be done to him and not to others.”
“…And you still like him?”
“Of course, he’s so handsome!”
Zheng Qiuyang spoke irritatingly, “Your knees go weak the moment you see hot guys, it really makes me want to beat you.”
Yuan Rui grabbed his hand and patted it against his own face, “Now you have, are you still mad?”
Zheng Qiuyang couldn’t bear to release his anger on him. He said stubbornly, “You’ve never made eight dishes and two soups for me before.”
Yuan Rui immediately said, “I’ll make you even more tomorrow!”
Zheng Qiuyang still had an attitude as he said, “And then you’ll continue to eat the leftovers for dinner?”
Yuan Rui laughed in a pleasing manner, “Hehehe.”
Zheng Qiuyang wrapped an arm around him. “Yuan Xiao Rui, I’m your husband, don’t go out and flirt with anyone else, or else watch how I take care of you.”
Yuan Rui retorted, “I should be the one saying that to you. Don’t always look at girls with big chests, or else watch how I…I can’t really do anything to you.”
Zheng Qiuyang laughed out loud.
Yuan Rui came up with a solution. “I’ll tell my godmother.”
“…Why are you telling her?”
Yuan Rui explained proudly, “So she can introduce me to hot guys. She knows a lot of gay men…they’re all so handsome that you won’t be able to close your legs.” The latter half of the sentence was added by him on purpose, Yang Lu never told him that.
Zheng Qiuyang pushed him down on the sofa, his breath entered the other’s ear as he said, “I’ll make your legs unclosable right now.”
The two didn’t manage to get very far before Zheng Qiuyang’s phone rang, his delivery was here.
Zheng Qiuyang got the delivery, took two bites, then spat it out. He complained, “This tastes fucking disgusting.”
Yuan Rui, who sat there eating the leftovers, gleefully laughed, “Hahaha!”
