Mr. Yuan is Always Unhappy - Chap 58
CH58 – HARDCORE FAN
Edited by Yummers
Ever since his relationship with Zheng Shaoyang started getting better, Zheng Qiuyang’s work has been going well too. Once he was done with his tasks for the company, he would start to think about his competition piece. This tournament had attracted several of the greatest jewelry designers from all over the world; thus, even a slight mistake would be unacceptable and be overshadowed by all the other designs. Right now, he’s only got the creativity part down. As for the general work and the little details, he still needed to consider them carefully.
As he was sketching out his ideas, his assistant came to him to inform him that a jewelry sample of his was done, and he could go inspect it.
He was quite talented in this area to begin with. He had a fiercely distinct style that made him stand out from all the other designers in the company. Due to Zheng Shaoyang purposely oppressing his designs before, he didn’t have the chance to fully showcase his talent. Now that he’s finally free of the restraints, he has the opportunity to show off everything he’s got. Even during the half-month period that Yuan Rui hadn’t returned yet, he managed to get a whole series to pass. Now, the samples are done. If everything goes as planned, those designs will be released during New Year as Yun Chang Jewelry’s leading star item.
On the bottom floor of the Yun Chang Jewelry company, the receptionist smiled as she said, “Hello, how can I help…ah!”
The other receptionist who was taking a call on the side lifted her head to ask, “What happened? Oh my!”
The guest didn’t want to trouble them as he was already taking out his phone to make a call. It was a bit awkward to be recognized so quickly, but he walked over politely saying, “Hello, I—I’m looking for Zheng Qiuyang.”
The two girls looked each other in the eyes with a weird expression. One of them spoke up, “Would you like to go straight to Mr. Zheng’s office or should I call his office cellphone while you wait here for him?”
The guest was happy to hear that. “I’m allowed to go to his office?”
The girl smiled. “If it’s you, of course.”
As she led the guest upstairs to Zheng Qiuyang’s office, the girl who was on the phone finished the call. After that, she immediately sent a message in the company group chat: Yuan Rui is here! He’s going upstairs now!
After Yuan Rui sent Yang Lu off, he made himself lunch and started packing the things they needed to move into the new house. Maybe it was because of Yang Lu’s words, but he started to miss Zheng Qiuyang even more. Considering that Zheng Qiuyang was still at work, he would probably come straight home if Yuan Rui called him. A proper company had a lot of rules. Zheng Qiuyang just got back on track recently, it wouldn’t be good if he violated the rules again.
However, Yuan Rui really wanted to see him. He couldn’t resist it. He wasn’t in the mood to pack up the rest of the stuff either. Sitting on the ground, he thought about it and decided to go to his company. He’ll simply visit him and exchange a few words. That won’t be a disturbance, right?
To his surprise, the receptionist said he could actually go upstairs to his office.
Yuan Rui followed after the girl in joy, thinking about how surprised Mr. Zheng would be to see him. Plus, he can take a peek at the office that his boyfriend works in every day. That’ll be awesome!
When he stepped out of the elevator, he was met with an open office. About less than twenty employees were there. By the look of their work environment set up, they all seemed to be designers.
Yuan Rui could feel their eyes on him as regret suddenly started welling up inside of him. It seems like he shouldn’t have come to his office after all. Would this cause trouble for Zheng Qiuyang?
The girl who led him there called over a girl with short hair. The receptionist introduced her, “This is Mr. Zheng’s assistant intern.”
Once the receptionist left, the short-haired girl said with all smiles, “Please follow me.”
Everyone in the workspace was looking at Yuan Rui. He smiled back at everyone politely. Then, he went into a private office with the girl. Upon entering, he caught the sight of Zheng Qiuyang’s name tag hanging on the door, but no one was inside.
The employees outside the glass windows were still staring at him. Yuan Rui had no choice but to keep his back facing them.
The assistant girl said, “Mr. Zheng’s piece sample is out, so he went to take a look. He’ll be back soon. Go ahead and take a seat first.”
Yuan Rui nodded, “Thank you.”
He sat on the sofa that had its back against the window and observed the office. Various types of literature concerning jewelry were displayed on the seven-layered bookshelf that was pressed up to the wall. On the office table was a bunch of balled-up, used sketch papers. The huge pen container had dozens of various pencils as well. They came in different lengths, types, and colors. Aside from the mug on the table, there was a familiar Thermos mug. It had the design of Van Gogh’s well-known work The Starry Night from a series of mugs by Thermos. Yuan Rui was the one who bought it for him. He bought two of them, he himself was using the Impression, Sunrise designed mug.
He continued to look around. After a while, he finally noticed that the assistant was also looking at him with curiosity. He spoke a bit awkwardly, “You can go ahead if you need to do anything. I’m fine waiting for him by myself.”
The girl smiled, “No, no. I’m not busy. I usually just help Mr. Zheng with some side tasks. Um, so you and Mr. Zheng are good friends?
Yuan Rui muttered, “Mn.”
The girl said, “No wonder. Mr. Zheng always says that your TV shows and variety shows are super good. He always recommends them so intensely, like he’s forcing it down our throats.”
Yuan Rui was a bit happy to hear. “Really?
The girl chuckled. “Yep. We used to think that he was a hardcore fan of yours. He’s even got you as both his phone and computer wallpaper.”
“…”
The girl continued, “When he trained the interns, he would always put your show on the projector at the end. Then, he’d end up being intoxicated by himself.”
“…”
The girl smiled with her lips pressed together. “I might not be using the right vocabulary, don’t mind me. I’m a science major.”
It wasn’t like Yuan Rui was actually dumb. His face flushed blood red. No wonder why everyone out there looked at him like that. Zheng Qiuyang has been so careless. However, it did make him a little giggly, hehehe. He’s always wanted to show off their love to other people, now that the chance was here, he felt embarrassed. Maybe he should leave through the window later, but it seemed like he was on the twentieth-something floor. What should he do?
He was embarrassed for one moment, happy another, and then finally, he had a worried face. The assistant watching on the side was almost about to laugh out loud, but she forced herself to stay professional.
Zheng Qiuyang was walking back to his office after having seen the sample. Coming out of the elevator, he found multiple pairs of eyes looking in his direction with weird expressions. He asked confusingly, “What? Did my brother just come by?”
The employee closest to him told him in a mysterious tone, “You have a guest in your office.”
Zheng Qiuyang wasn’t expecting Yuan Rui to be there as he ran his mouth, “Is it a pretty girl? You guys are too much, it’s normal that pretty girls always come looking for—shit!”
He said as he pushed the door open and scared himself.
The employees outside couldn’t help but laugh. For a moment, the atmosphere became extremely awkward.
The assistant girl inside smiled as she said, “Then, I’ll leave now.”
She closed the door on her way out. Then, she did a motion signaling to the other workers outside to not overdo their teasing. Everyone seemed to understand her meaning. If they scared Yuan Rui so much that he never comes back, that wouldn’t be good.
In the office, Zheng Qiuyang spoke in both shock and delight, “Why did you come?”
Yuan Rui purposely said, “Are only pretty girls allowed to come?”
Zheng Qiuyang refuted innocently, “I was only joking with them.”
Yuan Rui knew he was only joking so he quickly dropped it. “I was bored at home, so I came to see you.” He looked outside. The other designers were still taking sneak peeks at them. He was a bit shy. “Pull the curtains down first.”
Zheng Qiuyang let the curtains down, then dragged a chair over to sit in front of him.
The couch Yuan Rui sat on was shorter. He looked up melancholily, saying, “My agent won’t let me come out, but both of our colleagues already know. She’s going to scold me again when she finds out.”
Zheng Qiuyang chuckled. “You guys’ company is depending on you to bring in revenue, there’s no way they’d really yell at you. Your coat looks pretty nice. Did you buy it in Shanghai?”
“My godmother gave it to me. She stopped by our house for a little bit this morning. She even got the coat washed and dried before giving it to me. It was very nice of her.”
After hearing that it was a gift from Yang Lu, Zheng Qiuyang’s expression turned a bit weird.
Yuan Rui added, “She said that she made some harsh comments towards you in Shanghai last time and thought that she said too much. She even wanted me to apologize to you for her.”
Zheng Qiuyang was suspicious. “Really?”
Yuan Rui wasn’t good at lying as he stuttered, “Really. She said—she said you’re pretty nice and handsome. You treat me well, and I should cherish our relationship.”
Without a doubt, Zheng Qiuyang saw through his lies. He knew Yuan Rui was trying to comfort him. It was both funny and heart-warming, so he didn’t show his doubts. He said, “She treats you well too. I don’t actually resent her or anything. What she said was somewhat correct anyways. I dawdled too much and didn’t try to improve myself. That’s also one of the reasons why I couldn’t bring myself to meet your dad.”
He couldn’t help his slightly dejected tone when he said those words. It made Yuan Rui want to hug him, but they shouldn’t get so intimate in his office. Yuan Rui said, “My dad was too busy anyway, so he didn’t have time. My godmother only said those things because she couldn’t see the potential of your talent. Once you win the tournament, we’ll show her the trophy and make her eat her own words.” After he finished speaking, he suddenly felt like he was too rude. He quickly added, “Not make her eat her own words; we’ll just show off a little.”
Zheng Qiuyang replied, “How do you know I’ll win? What if I don’t?”
Yuan Rui was full of confidence. “Don’t say things like that. Your design was so good, who else could the winner be?”
Zheng Qiuyang smiled. He had a hardcore fan, and his name was Yuan Xiao Rui.
Aside from himself, Yuan Rui was the only person who remembered and understood his proud designs like the back of his palm. Yuan Rui would even have all of the jewelry’s fancy descriptive introductions memorized word for word.
Every time Yuan Rui approved of his talent, his eyes would get sparkly. It was never biased or empty encouragement either. Yuan Rui sincerely thought that Zheng Qiuyang was super outstanding. Yuan Rui was like a hardcore fan, he saw Zheng Qiuyang as a treasure from every angle.
Zheng Qiuyang would sometimes think, was it a good thing to be so lucky that he could meet Yuan Rui? What if one day he suddenly wakes up and discovers that it was all just an illusion?
Then life really wouldn’t have much meaning left.
Yuan Rui stayed in his office for less than half an hour before saying he had to go back. “I won’t disturb you any longer.”
Zheng Qiuyang actually did have some work to attend to. There were some problems with the sample that needed to be fixed. But he was worried about Yuan Rui leaving by himself. He suggested, “I think I should send you back.”
Yuan Rui replied, “I was going to go shopping. I need to buy some clothes for Fang Shiqing. He gave me so much stuff last time, I need repay the favor”
“Don’t go by yourself. It’ll be Sunday in a couple days so I can go with you.”
Yuan Rui already had their weekend planned out as he said, “We need to move on Sunday!”
Zheng Qiuyang continued, “Give Zhao Zhengyi a call and have him go with you.”
However, Yuan Rui said, “He’s been out of the city for so long. Now that he’s finally back, let him stay home and spend some time with his parents.”
Zheng Qiuyang could only go along with him. “Take my car keys. Drive slowly, there are so many drivers nowadays who drive like psychos.”
Yuan Rui took the keys and said, “Then once I’m done, I’ll come to pick you up.”
Zheng Qiuyang pulled open his office door and walked out first as he quickly shot all his colleagues a malicious glare of warning. Everyone put their heads down with smiles on their faces. They all pretended to be busy and stopped staring at Yuan Rui.
Once the two were downstairs, Yuan Rui didn’t forget to say his goodbyes to the two receptionists before going to the parking lot. Zheng Qiuyang waited until Yuan Rui drove off before heading back inside.
He was in a great mood now. Yuan Rui suddenly came to the company because he heard about how Yang Lu treated him in Shanghai last time and decided to comfort him in person. It was hard to not be in a good mood when you had a lover like that. He hoped for a good outcome from this tournament. Whether he could appear proud in front of Yang Lu or not wasn’t important. At the very least, he would be able to meet Suo Jianjun properly. He also won’t let down Yuan Rui’s expectations.
Right after he returned to the floor he worked on, his colleagues all got rowdy. “You’ve hidden him from us for so long! Now we finally got to see him in person!”
To be honest, Zheng Qiuyang’s coming out wasn’t a recent event. Since he used to fool around with girls so much, everyone thought it was suspicious when he suddenly stopped. The way he started behaving properly and hurrying home every night after work. He barely went to nightclubs either. Everyone thought it was odd. In the beginning, they assumed that he had met the girl for him. Then during a meeting one day, he had the projector connected to his laptop to display his new designs. Once the display screen was turned on, his wallpaper of him and Yuan Rui could be seen. They weren’t doing anything special in the photo, it looked like they were just normal friends. But what kind of straight man would set a picture of him and a normal friend as his laptop wallpaper? Connecting that with the way he’s always discussing Yuan Rui’s shows with the other girls in the office—everyone could tell what was going on.
His coworkers teased him for a bit, but it didn’t make him mad. He bickered with them a bit before going back to his office. Just as he sat down, Zheng Shaoyang’s call came through the office landline. Zheng Shaoyang asked, “I heard that Yuan Rui was here?”
Zheng Qiuyang, “…”
Zheng Shaoyang continued, “Did he leave already?”
Zheng Qiuyang thought, Even you like to gossip?!
But he replied, “He just left. Did you need something?”
However, Zheng Shaoyang didn’t call him to gossip. He said, “Yunchang’s current celebrity endorser’s contract is almost over. Can you ask Yuan Rui if he’s interested in the position?”
