Mr. Yuan is Always Unhappy - Chap 40
Yuan Rui was super pumped, he wanted to start packing immediately, but Zheng Qiuyang suggested, “You’re going to Shanghai to film soon, let’s wait till you come back to move.”
“It’s fine, I’m not tired.”
Zheng Qiuyang held onto him, whining exaggeratedly, “When you leave, you’re going to be gone for around a month, and now you won’t even let me get a look at you during the last few days? That’s so cruel.”
Yuan Rui laughed. “Hahaha!”
Zheng Qiuyang feigned anger, “Laughing? Do you even understand the situation right now?”
Yun Rui held in his laughter, grieving to him, “I don’t want to be separated for such a long time either, but it’s work.”
Zheng Qiuyang sighed, saying, “I’ll go tidy up the new house after you leave. Although it doesn’t need any renovation, I can still add some household items. Then, when you come back, we can move right away.”
Yuan Rui doubted him. “Are you sure you can do it?”
Zheng Qiuyang squeezed his waist, twisting his words, “Do you think your husband can do it??”
Yuan Rui, “……”
Yuan Rui still didn’t feel reassured. “Let’s go take a look together after you get off work tomorrow. I can’t let you just fix it up however, you’d end up buying a bunch of expensive and unnecessary stuff. If that happens, I’d die from anger.”
Zheng Qiuyang smiled. “Alright, I’ll follow your orders. When the time comes, just give me a list. I’ll buy whatever you tell me to buy.”
The two kissed, then went to take a shower together.
The bed creaked all the way until midnight.
Zheng Qiuyang asked, “Do you want to take another shower?”
“No, my legs are too weak to stand right now.”
Zheng Qiuyang threw away the condom and went to pee. After he came back, he crawled onto the bed and spooned Yuan Rui from behind, prepared to go to sleep.
Yuan Rui suddenly expressed his sadness. “To think about moving places is making it hard to fall asleep.”
Zheng Qiuyang felt the same way. “I’m also starting to miss this place already.”
They got together right here. The first time they made love was also on this bed, right here.
Then, in this apartment that was about 100 square meters, they both found numerous other ways to love each other, to interact with each other.
Zheng Qiuyang was getting a bit touched, he’d never had such sentimental ties to a simple “residence”.
Yuan Rui spoke melancholy, “After we move, I won’t be able to go to the supermarket with my male god, Bai Tu, ever again.”
Zheng Qiuyang was speechless. “……”
Yuan Rui turned around, facing Zheng Qiuyang as he asked, “Can I invite my male god to hang out at our house in the future?”
Zheng Qiuyang took a moment before squeezing out the word, “Yes.”
Yuan Rui smooched him and said happily, “You’re the best.”
Zheng Qiuyang
flipped through the emotions of lifelessness and pride as natural as ever. For real, he was used to it by now.
The next day, Yuan Rui told Bai Tu the news about him moving out and expressed his unwillingness to part with him.
Bai Tu said, “What a coincidence, I’m also going to move before New Year.”
Yuan Rui was bewildered, thinking, Is it possible that male god has finally made the decision to break up with Liang Xi? Is he going to move out now?
Bai Tu told him with a bit of embarrassment, “We bought a house already, it’s going to be done soon. Liang Xi has been inspecting the construction workers recently. That’s why he’s always been coming home with a dirty face these days.”
“…”
Bai Tu told him the address, then smiled as he said, “It doesn’t seem to be too far away from you guys’ new house either.”
Yuan Rui was losing his footing, “Did you just say that ‘you guys’ bought a house? ‘You guys’? You and Liang-Ge?”
Bai Tu nodded. “When we get it set up, I’ll invite you and your boyfriend over to hang out.”
Yuan Rui wanted to make sure again. “You really just said you and Liang-Ge bought a house ‘together?’ With whose money?”
Bai Tu was a bit surprised, but he still answered, “We don’t really calculate these things that clearly.”
Yuan Rui thought, Someone call the cops! Liang Xi, that big liar! Not only did he trick the male god for his body, he even tricked away his money!
Bai Tu looked at him and asked, “Do you and your boyfriend separate your finances?”
Yuan Rui replied with entangled emotions, “No, we—we’re going to stay together forever.”
Bai Tu smiled, thinking that was for the best.
Yuan Rui felt like he couldn’t keep it in anymore. “Male god, I’m going to tell you something, please don’t be sad.”
“???”
Yuan Rui let himself go. “When you went to go film a while ago, one night, I saw Liang-Ge bring back a man. They were acting very…that in the elevator too.”
Bai Tu was shocked. “!!!”
Yuan Rui was afraid that he might not believe it, he nodded furiously and continued, “For real, for real! I saw it with my own eyes!”
Bai Tu was anxious and doubtful. “What do you mean by that?”
Yuan Rui gestured with his hands for a while, not knowing how to explain. Then, he said shyly, “Male god, pretend I’m Liang-Ge right now and you’re the other guy. Please don’t get mad.”
“…Hm?”
Yuan Rui threw his arms around him, copying Liang Xi’s actions from that day vividly. He patted Bai Tu’s pecs carefully as he sniffed Bai Tu’s neck, speaking with a drunk tone, “Wifey, are you wearing perfume today? It smells so good, hehehe…”
Bai Tu, “……”
Yuan Rui instantly let go of him in the next second, throwing his hands up in the air. “I wasn’t taking advantage of you! That’s just how Liang-Ge touched that guy back then!”
Bai Tu was still speechless. “…”
Yuan Rui accused again with his great imagination. “Didn’t you find a pair of underwear beneath the sofa mat the other day? It might’ve been left there when the two were together that night.”
“……”
Yuan Rui expressed earnestly, “Male god, you cannot allow him to manipulate you any further!”
Bai Tu finally couldn’t hold in his laughter anymore. He laughed so much that tears were about to come out from the corner of his eyes.
Yuan Rui was dumbfounded for a moment. He thought that Bai Tu might still not believe him, he spoke hurtfully, “I wasn’t lying, I was telling the truth.”
Bai Tu laughed as he said, “The guy that Liang Xi brought back, was he a singer from an idol group?”
Yuan Rui quickly nodded. “Yeah!”
Bai Tu felt both humored and hopeless as he said, “I know who you’re talking about. That guy’s a childhood friend of Liang Xi’s, it’s not what you think it is, they definitely wouldn’t…Liang Xi was probably drunk and mistook him for me.”
Yuan Rui’s heart ached. “Male god, you’re being too dumb. I get it, love can turn a person dumb, but I still think you should still separate you two’s finances. Or else it’ll be too cruel if you lose both your money and your heart in the future.”
Bai Tu laughed again. “Thank you, I won’t.”
Yuan Rui could tell from his eyes, how he looked like an ignorant boy brainwashed by love. He was full of sympathy and helplessness towards him.
Bai Tu had no other solution, he could only say, “Yuan Rui, Liang Xi and I are actually legal Swedish citizens now. By the Swedish marriage laws, both the properties before marriage and after marriage are to be common. Liang Xi is also richer than me, you don’t have to worry about him manipulating me.”
Yuan Rui’s mouth dropped. “…What marriage law?”
Bai Tu sat up straight, speaking seriously, “Liang Xi and I, we’re already married.”
When Zheng Qiuyang took Yuan Rui to their new house, Yuan Rui had a long face plastered on the entire time.
Zheng Qiuyang assumed that he was missing their old place, so he said, “Let’s not move after all. If my mom asks again, I’ll just tell her that I paid for all the housing bills. She just doesn’t like that I’m living at your place.”
“There’s no need, I want to move too. Having our own house is better compared to a rented one.”
Zheng Qiuyang observed his facial expression and teased him, “Then what are you upset over? Oh, I get it, because you’re going off so far to film, you’re already missing your husband, right? How about you bring me with you, hm?”
Yuan Rui chuckled. “Do you know Liang Xi who lives above us?”
Zheng Qiuyang answered, “Yeah. When Wang Chao had his birthday party, I ate with Liang Xi at the same table. They’re pretty close.”
Yuan Rui’s eyes widened, he wanted to cry, but no tears were available. “So you knew? I would’ve gossiped with you if I’d known, I wouldn’t have made such a fool of myself today either.”
Zheng Qiuyang found it odd, “Gossip about what?”
Yuan Rui said with a mourning face, “About Liang Xi, he and my male god are husbands.”
“…Ah?!”
“For real husbands, my male god even showed me their marriage certificate…my male god still looks super duper handsome in an ID photo!”
“……”
Although Wang Chao’s mouth always went on without rest from day to night, he was never a gossiper. He had no clue about Liang Xi and Bai Tu. Just like Yuan Rui before, he thought Liang Xi and Bai Tu were simply neighbors who both lived on the twenty-second floor.
“I already knew they were together but I couldn’t tell you. Sorry.” Yuan Rui felt a bit guilty. “Today, male god said that they’re also moving. He wants to invite me to his new place once it’s done and bring you along as well. I’m only telling you now because he doesn’t seem to mind you knowing about their relationship.”
Zheng Qiuyang wasn’t someone who was very interested in others’ private matters anyway. He responded indifferently, “That’s fine, I’m not like Fang Shiqing, that guy’s always looking for gossip like he’s addicted. They’re married?”
“Yeah, I just found out today too. I always thought that Liang Xi was fooling my male god, he looks too much like a bad guy.”
Zheng Qiuyang thought back to Liang Xi’s appearance, he couldn’t really understand Yuan Rui’s thought process. “I feel like they’re quite suited for each other.”
Yuan Rui said unhappily, “He doesn’t deserve my male god.”
Zheng Qiuyang said annoyingly, “Only you do, right?”
Yuan Rui’s mouth twitched, he spoke like a leaking balloon, “I don’t either.”
“……”
Yuan Rui searched through his brain for a while. Suddenly, he went, “Wang Qi would be a pretty good candidate.”
“……”
Yuan Rui paired them carelessly. “Only he can barely be deserving of my male god, Bai Tu.”
Zheng Qiuyang was a little irked. “Then what about Fang Shiqing?”
Yuan Rui was still for a second. Then, a moment later, he said, “Then I’ll be together with Fang Shiqing.”
“……”
Yuan Rui, “Hahaha, isn’t it funny?”
Zheng Qiuyang laughed along dryly, “…Hahaha.”
The house was bought over two years ago by Zheng Qiuyang. It was during the time when his mom was urging him to get married from day to night. She even offered to give him one of her houses, but he didn’t want it, so he quickly bought one himself with a three-year loan. Now, it was almost all paid off.
Although he bought it in a hurry, he did have some friends who were experienced in this field who checked out the place for him. Both the layout and neighborhood were pretty good, the only thing was that it was a bit small.
“It’s not, it’s not!” Yuan Rui skipped around the house happily. “This size is the best, it’d even be enough if your mom decides to move in later too. If it’s too big, cleaning it would be tiring.”
“You don’t have to think so far ahead, my mom probably wouldn’t want to live with us either.”
Yuan Rui smiled, “We have three rooms anyway. Let’s make one of them the study room and the two other bedrooms. Whenever she wants to move in, it’ll be all ready for her.”
Zheng Qiuyang recorded it in a notebook. “Alright, two beds.”
Yuan Rui circled the place multiple times, then started planning. “We’ll put the dinner table here, let’s buy a six-seated one so it won’t get crowded if we have guests over. This can be modified into a wine cabinet for you to keep all your red wine. The sofa will go over here, we’ll buy a synthetic one, not leather, that’d be too troublesome to maintain. We’ll get a 46-inch TV, no bigger. Once your mom comes over, too big of a TV will give her a headache. There’s no need to buy a tea table, we can use the one we have back at the apartment. I bought it myself, it’s pretty new still and matches with a bunch of settings…”
He went on and on about what to buy in the front as Zheng Qiuyang took a note of them all behind him. He smiled as he wrote them down, his heart was content.
T/N: Hello! Some people were bringing to my attention that 干妈 should’ve been “godmother” instead of “stepmother” and I didn’t want to use godmother at first because it seemed very out of place since I’ve barely ever seen the word used before but stepmom’s definition doesn’t fit Yang Lu’s situation either, so I’ll just be changing all the “stepmother” to “godmother” now. (I’ll also be changing it for the past chaps when I get the chance to)
