Mr. Yuan is Always Unhappy - Chap 53
CH53 – HELLO, MRS. ZHENG
Edited by Yummers
There were two players who looked to be higher in age in the basketball game. Looking at the sparse spread of their hair, they seemed to be at least fifty. After just half an hour, they strongly requested a break. Thus, the game was paused for a rest.
Yuan Rui had a pretty good physique, he simply felt a bit thirsty. He noticed a big basket of sports drinks on the side earlier and wanted to take one, but he wasn’t sure if it belonged to these people or the hotel with extra fees. Due to the uncertainty, he hesitated and endured. With his hands on his knees, regulating his breathing, he decided to see if anyone else would take a bottle first. It’d be best if it was served by the hotel for free.
Meng Lai gestured to a young guy and the guy ran to the side to grab two bottles of water, handing them to the two older men first. The rest of the players began to grab drinks out of the basket as well.
From the looks of it, Yuan Rui assumed that the drinks were bought by Meng Lai. In disappointment, he decided to not drink it. He stood up straight and wiped the sweat off his face with the hem of his shirt, then licked his lips. He tasted the salty flavor of his sweat, he was so thirsty he didn’t know what to do. If he knew it was going to be like this, he would’ve taken that unfinished coconut down here with him.
Maybe I should call Zhao Zhengyi and tell him to bring the coconut down for me, he thought as he reached towards his pocket—shoot, he’d forgotten his phone.
“Yuan Rui, you have some too.” The young guy ran over to pass him a Pocari Sweat sports drink. “It seemed like you were too shy to get it,” he said with a smile.
Yuan Rui beamed at him gratefully, but he still felt too embarrassed to drink it. “It’s fine…I’m not thirsty.”
It seemed like the young guy had already expected his answer as he replied, “This doesn’t cost anything. It’s provided by the hotel for free. Here, take it.”
Hearing that it was provided by the hotel, Yuan Rui suddenly didn’t feel bad about taking it. “Thank you.”
The young guy watched him gulp down half a bottle in one go after stating that he wasn’t thirsty. It was funny, but he didn’t point it out. He started a new conversation, “My girlfriend always watches your show, she likes you a lot. Can we get a picture together later? Then I can show off to her when I get back.”
Yuan Rui agreed. “Listening to your accent, are you also from Beijing?”
The young guy replied, “Yep, I’m here on a business trip with Director Meng. There’s going to be an international beauty competition here next spring, and our company is the only partner the host has in the country.” He gestured towards the two older men on the side with his mouth, speaking in a low voice, “Those two are the executive leaders of their department.”
Yuan Rui understood and also let out a sigh of relief inside. Meng Lai really was here for work, that’s great. He knew his thoughts earlier were too narcissistic. The other was such a wealthy man, there was no way he’d come all the way to the Southern side of their country just to set him up.
So the fact that Meng Lai expressed his unawareness about Yang Lang being his godmother was probably also real, right? Both of them were winners in life with barely any free time, so it was understandable for Yang Lu to not have time to tell her actual son about taking in another son.
The young guy went away. The acting king who came back from the bathroom went to grab a drink before coming over to Yuan Rui, gulping it down as he stood in front of him. He asked, “Xiao Yuan, did you and Meng Lai really used to go to the same school?
Yuan Rui tried to pass it off, though it didn’t work well. “Mhm, we were just acquaintances, we’re not really close.”
The acting king watched him with a smile, lowering his voice to say, “Don’t give me that. How would he know he was four months older than you if you guys aren’t close? Even I have no idea what month any of my high school acquaintances were born in.”
Yuan Rui’s eyes were wide now, he explained nervously, “He—he was the class president, he would usually see our birth dates when making student records and whatnot.”
“I was also the class president, why can’t I remember any?”
Yuan Rui tried his best to come up with another excuse, saying, “Maybe it’s because you’ve graduated for too long already?”
The acting king who was in his 40’s laughed out loud, then tried to act cute. “Oh come on, I only just graduated last year, okay?”
After that, he stopped mentioning the topic as well.
The acting king was known for both his IQ and EQ in the community, he was a social butterfly and good friends with Yang Lu too. The reason why The Sparkling Friends team was able to cast him was also because of Yang Lu. If he were to find out about Yuan Rui and Meng Lai’s past, then Yang Lu would probably be informed soon as well.
Cold sweat fumed from Yuan Rui out of nervousness. If his godmother knew, would she beat him to death? He thought about the various insults Zheng Qiuyang’s mom had thrown at him, “Shameless nympho” “Scheming bitch that seduced my son” and such. To replace Mom Zheng’s face with Yang Lu’s…that just got more than a hundred times scarier.
They took a 15-minute break, then played basketball for another half an hour until the two executive leaders finally said they couldn’t keep up anymore and had to go back to rest. The three to four of the guys who came with them also followed them back.
However, the acting king hadn’t had enough yet, he said, “Should we ask some more people from the production team to play with us?”
Yuan Rui quickly declined, “I’m gonna stop for now, I need to go memorize my lines.”
Since he was on break from another film for this one, this excuse would suffice. The acting king didn’t try to persuade him any longer. Meng Lai also didn’t say anything. Yuan Rui said his goodbyes to all the people there, then rushed back.
Back in his room, he got out his phone to see Zheng Qiuyang’s reply.
Zheng Qiuyang: “Damn, that’s a huge coconut.”
Zheng Qiuyang: “Is it good?”
Zheng Qiuyang: “The inside is probably delicious too.”
Zheng Qiuyang: “I was in a meeting earlier”
Zheng Qiuyang: “What are you doing?”
Zheng Qiuyang: “You’re just gonna send me two big coconuts then ignore me?”
Zheng Qiuyang: “[sob]”
Zheng Qiuyang: “[pout]”
Zheng Qiuyang: “Did your phone fall into the ocean?”
Zheng Qiuyang: “At least reply once!”
Zheng Qiuyang: “Is it because there are handsome guys in swimming trunks by the beach?”
Zheng Qiuyang: “[goodbye]”
Yuan Rui read each one of the messages, laughing like an idiot with the phone in his hand.
While Zheng Qiuyang on the other side was gloomily drawing designs after not receiving a reply. Finally, his phone rang. He picked it up to see Yuan Rui’s text.
Yuan Rui: “Hahaha, I really did see a handsome guy earlier!”
Zheng Qiuyang didn’t believe him, he couldn’t help but smile. He replied: “Don’t keep it to yourself then, sneak a picture for me as well.”
Yuan Rui: “Are you busy? Can I call you right now?”
Zheng Qiuyang went ahead and called him.
Yuan Rui picked it up. “Hi, hihihi.”
Zheng Qiuyang purposefully put on a “mad” voice, “What are you ‘hi-ing’ for? It took you so long to reply to me, why don’t you go off with that handsome dude.”
Yuan Rui laughed.
“How dare you laugh?”
Yuan Rui held back his laughter, saying, “No way I’m gonna go with him. I miss you so much, only if you were here too.”
Zheng Qiuyang could hear the disappointment in his voice so he stopped joking around and said to him seriously, “We’ll go there together next time.”
Yuan Rui agreed enthusiastically, “Yeah! We’ll buy even bigger coconuts then!”
Zheng Qiuyang chuckled. “I can also teach you how to surf.”
Yuan Rui’s tone was full of admiration. “You even know how to surf? That’s so cool!”
Zheng Qiuyang got a little proud, then commented, “Though the waves there might not be high enough, Sanya’s would be better.”
Yuan Rui was speechless. “…”
Zheng Qiuyang’s laugh rang from the other side.
After they talked for a good while, Yuan Rui said, “I was playing basketball with a colleague just now. I have to go shower, you should go back to work. We can FaceTime again when you get off work!”
Zheng Qiuyang said, “Alright. Are you going to start filming tomorrow?”
Yuan Rui got excited. “Yep, Tomas isn’t here yet.”
“Don’t you dare look at him!”
“Hahaha!”
“Wang Chao said he was going to go with him.”
Yuan Rui was shocked. “Really?”
Zheng Qiuyang tried scaring him. “You better be careful, cause if you keep eyeing his partner, then he might beat you up. I won’t be saving you then.”
Yuan Rui wasn’t scared at all, saying, “I’ve seen Wang Chao getting beat up before, he’s bad at fighting!”
“…”
Yuan Rui continued, “Wang Qi’s clearly super outstanding and handsome! How come his little brother so far off?”
“…”
Yuan Rui started insulting in an indirect way with Wang Chao as an example, “Though Wang Chao kinda does deserve his beatings. He already has such a handsome boyfriend and yet he thinks about other girls’ breasts every day. That’s horrible, he deserved to be beaten to a pulp.”
Zheng Qiuyang, “…”
Wang Chao and his “such a handsome” boyfriend arrived together by evening. He wasn’t there for the film, so he had to buy the plane ticket and reserve a hotel room himself. He only came along to hang out with his boyfriend.
The production team people who were in charge of picking them up didn’t realize that there were going to be two of them and were confused for a bit. They seemed pretty similar as they had dyed their hair similar colors. They were also wearing clothes of the same brand from the same collection, so the people couldn’t figure out who was who and were too embarrassed to ask as well. Thus, they simply took both of them back to the hotel together.
Yuan Rui, who had already finished his dinner, heard about the news of their arrival and went over to greet them.
Tomas was polite. “Hello, Yuan-Ge.”
Yuan Rui reached out his hand happily to shake with him, however, Wang Chao slipped his hand right in to shake with him energetically as he said in a low voice, “Hello, Mrs. Zheng.”
Yuan Rui’s face instantly flushed right. He could care less about drooling over Tomas’ handsomeness now. He stuttered out his reply, “He–hello.”
Oh my gawd! That title is so shameful! But why does it make me so happy? Hahahaha “Hello, Mrs. Zheng”! Yes!
Before going to bed that night, he FaceTimed Zheng Qiuyang. The two couldn’t resist as they both stripped naked and went on for an hour or two. By the end, both of them were panting.
Zheng Qiuyang smiled at him, saying, “Go to sleep. Good luck with filming tomorrow.”
Yuan Rui was thinking about how gentle of a person he was. As he thought, he decided to tell him what Wang Chao called him by. “To be honest, he’s not a bad guy,” he said bashfully.
Zheng Qiuyang, “…”
At the same time, Wang Chao and Tomas were having a fight in their room. To be more precise, it was Wang Chao getting beat by Tomas as he sobbed out pleads, “Stop! I’m sorry!”
Tomas asked coldly, “Sorry for what?”
“I shouldn’t have stared at the flight attendant’s boobs…but it was right there when she bent over, I couldn’t help it!”
Tomas was angered by that. “Then how come I could resist looking?”
Wang Chao pouted. “How would I know?”
Tomas hit him again, saying, “Because I’m too busy looking after you all the time!”
Wang Chao originally had a sad, sobbing face. Hearing that, he beamed brightly, “You had your eyes on me the whole way?”
Tomas, “…”
Wang Chao spoke narcissistically, “My new hair color is super good, ain’t it?”
Tomas turned to the side, not wanting to pay attention to him anymore. Wang Chao crawled over to Tomas with his butt full of spanking marks. He suggested with a super slappable face, “Are you tired from the beating? Should we relax together?”
The next day, Tomas went to film all pumped up.
Yuan Rui asked him discreetly on the side, “Where’s Wang Chao? Did he go somewhere to play by himself?”
Tomas replied with an unchanging expression, “No, he’s sleeping in.”
Yuan Rui thought about what he meant then nodded in understanding. There was greater esteem in his eyes. “You sure are capable, the way you can still jump around all lively like this.”
Tomas looked at him with a weird expression. Then he leaned in a bit, whispering, “Yuan-Ge, I top.”
Yuan Rui, “…”
