Vol 2 Chapter 18 (1/2)

Chapter Eighteen

For the next few days, Shao Yan traveled abroad on businessEven though he called me daily, I still felt empty

One day when I had finished h data at the office, I saw Ke Luo come inI waved at hiame with your uncle”

I felt proud of myself as soon as I made the remarkWith this elder’s speech and manner of mine, I seemed far from the wounded person who’d been rejected by hiained a new life

Ke Luo looked at ht”

I laughed“Well, he’s a businessmore contacts is a must”

“He invited me out for a drink”

“That’s normalWhen you have the time, you should also socialize a bit”

“Lee, I don’t think he was inviting ”

I stood up at once and blew a fuse“What the hell are you saying!”

My reaction was so intense that even he was startled

“Shao Yan isn’t even in the countryHow could he have invited you out for a drink in the ht?”

Ke Luo was very shocked“He’s not in the country?”

I shtIt’s a shame you didn’t find out clearly, or else you wouldn’t have made up a lie like that”

Ke Luo blushed a little and furrowed his brows“But I didn’t”

“All rightAt any rate, between the two of you, one has to be telling a lie”I looked at him and scoffed, “So ould I believe you and not him?”

Ke Luo fir to you”

I couldn’t tolerate it any et out of it?”

Ke Luo’s face turned entirely redHis eyes widened, yet he didn’t say a word

“You just want to feel loved, that’s allYou want someone to pamper you, to dote on youGo home to Uncle LuDon’t come to meIt’s your business if you want to spend the rest of your life waiting for Shu NianI certainly wouldn’t want to waste my time in vain for you”

During the silence that followed, lanced at the screen and smiled as I picked up the call“Shao Yan?”

The , I’m at the airportI’m back early…”

By the ti phone call and turned around, Ke Luo had already leftI probably hurt his feelingsOf course I didn’t believe he’d tell a lieIf I had to choose between trusting Shao Yan or him, I’d in fact choose him

It’s just that so naïve and obstinate is necessary

I couldn’t admit I had lostWhat’s more, I couldn’t admit to him that I had lostThat evening, I row fonder, and ere all over each other as a result

After we“Hoas the weather in Tokyo?”

He languorously said, “It was okayI was going to get you a gift, but because I was in such a hurry to finish things up, I didn’t have tio pick one”

With a smile, I said, “You were away in Tokyo, yet someone said that you had asked hiht?”

Shao Yan irieved“What do youlike that?!How can you think so lowly of me?”

I quickly wrappedhim, “Look at you, so tenseIt’s because I don’t believe it that I brought it up as a joke”

Shao Yan was stillrumors behind my back?”

I sossip fro to fear as long as you have nothing to hide”

Seeing as he was still upset, I had no choice but to use thehis spirits as well as points farther south,I embraced him and kissed himIt was already around ten the next h the sun was already high, I didn’t actually sleep that many hoursI felt top-heavy as I walked

As expected, excessive sensual indulgence is bad for the healthI had to have so soup

I was ru for pills in my room when I suddenly heard Shu Nian knock on my door and cheerfully call out, “Brother, are you all set?The cake is doneCome out and eat”

I ehastly green face

Not only do men have to boost their virility and work out, but they have toup lateFacial care isn’t onlywith a face full of wrinkles would spoil one’s appetite just the saets were pretty boys, don’t tell me I should use the creases on my face to crush them to death?

Making your partner happy is also a type of virtueConsidering how long I have lived with the care of my youthful appearance

However, ould have thought that as soon as I took a couple steps out, I would hear Ke Luo’s voice?

I stopped at once, frozen on the spotNeitheraround was a choice

Fine, it’s no big dealTo me, he’s now just an old friendIt’s not as if he’s Shao YanNo matter horetched and broken-down I looked, he’s seen it all beforeThere’s no need to care about e and whatnot by now

After struggling internally for almost a minute, withthe tall potted green plant as cover, I moved like a flounder towards the bathroom

Afterhalfway, I heard Xie Yan say, “Hey, Lee, what’re you doing?I can see the top of your head”

With no way out, I eave out a “pfft,” spraying ahis neck

Seeing as Ke Luo was looking ateyes at him

It’s because of hi hard to soothe soe of sexually-induced kidney deficiency

Forcing myself to cal roonored Ke Luo’s presenceWith an oblivious expression, I forked up a piece of cake and ate as if nothing had happened

Yet Xie Yan still wouldn’t let me off the hook“Why the hell would you put on a facial mask in the middle of the day!”

“Just as you finish indulging in pleasure is when you need to care for your body the e faster”

Ke Luo looked slightly embarrassedShu Nian, the victiety and quickly changed the subject“Uh, um, Xiao Luo, are you almost done ork?”

“M back home tomorrow”

“You haven’t stayed that long this tihed and said, “We all think about you oftenWhen will you coain?”

Xie Yan, look after your wifeThe two are acting all lovey-dovey like this and you’re still eatingEat yourself to deathAren’t you afraid that my brother will run off with him?

“You guys take your tiht”

I stood upAfter staggering a couple steps, toneIt couldn’t have come at a better time

“Hi, darling…”Continuous sweetness, like honey mixed with oil—this was just the atmosphere I wanted to createXie Yan gave a creeped-out face of disgustI’d already walked ahen he hollered frooing to break up!”How dare you curseto dump youBut that ill-o the bad, never the good

A few days later, thanks to that rotten mouth of his, I suddenly noticed that my body—my lower half to be exact—felt a bit differentOf course, sos to life couldn’t put it off, let alone be embarrassedI went to the hospital for a check-up immediately

I was tormented and reminded by the doctor with a deadpan face that “sex life is prohibited until you are better” Clutching that balled-up test result, I was so angry that my vision blurred and I nearly spurted out blood

I’d always been carefulEven though I had slept around in the past playing the love gaed fro-term partner, I couldn’t have been ave me a disease!

It wasn’t that terrible a disease, and I only needed to follow the doctor’s advice to take the medicine and the shots since it was discovered early onStill, this was practicallywasn’t as repulsive as thisIt wasa swarm of flies

I couldn’t deludeit this time If he had kept it strictly between us like I did, how could he have brought back this pollution?

So under ation, he confessed brokenheartedly, “I’m sorry, it’swith a friend, and we just happened to…”

Enough is enoughShut your yappingI don’t care who the adulterer is

“Lee, you should knowIt’s hard to avoid temptation close at hand for people like us”

You have temptation, and I don’t?I’ve restrained myself, so why can’t you?

“It was just a flingDon’t get so worked upI love you”

Fling, my assI’ve lived half my life, and I’ve never been this virtuous beforeNo one would believewith only one person for three months

Rarely would I turn a new leaf and aim to remain faithful to the end, and yet he had to have ame to stick to a life of debauchery and continue my profession as a playboy?

“Lee, don’t be like thisI thought you were more mature than this”

That’s right, when I starteddays, you were still in diapers, so it’s better that you stop eue now

“Lee, please forgive meI really, truly love you”

Fine, given that he keeps saying that he loves ive him

When he’s dead, that is

Although I was dissolute and lecherous, I knerite the word, ‘loyal’I would never do anything requiring an apology before ending a relationshi+p, or else Lin Jing wouldn’t have stayed friends with me for so many years even after we split up

Abiding by the rules of the ga an outside affair is called obsceneAnd still wanting to crawl back after cheating, that’s just downright huOver next few days, es to the verge of exploding, droning on and on with the same old stuff

“Forgive meI really, truly love youSo what if I did it with sos to yousex and love are two cos”

Why would I want that pig heart of yours?If I have to separate sex and love, then I’m fine with just sexYou think your heart is so precious?

“Lee, don’t be so pettyYou have to be tolerant when it co?”

You’ve got to be kidding meYou didn’t knoas petty until now?

If I could be so generous, I would’ve long becoood life with a beauty in my armsWhy should I torment myself, and ould a brat like you ever have had a chance?I stopped paying attention to Shao YanWhen the phone rang, I killed it off at once Yet he was unrelentingFor a whole day, he called Shu Nian’s house nonstopHe continuously sent big bouquets of roses to my workplace and the house

What for?If flowers could help, every unhappy couple in this world could just open up a flower shop

He ht as well send chrysantherave in the future

I was really furious, to be quite frankRegardless of how Shao Yan repented and pleaded or how he condee, and even threatened, I’d completely brush it off

Even Xie Yan gave ot backbone!I admire youHere, have a drink!”

All he and Shu Nian kneas that I was having a fight with Shao Yan, but they didn’t knoe were fightingHow could so let others see my scars?

If I didn’t put up a ruthless, ‘let hio to hell’ face, it would seem like I eak, that I had lost and was hurt

Fine, damn it!How could I not be hurt?I was being extre

Every tiood ca frivolous until I’m sixtyBy the time I’ve played to the point that onize about

For a ht of how Shao Yan appeared madly in love with me on the one hand and continuously cheated with so until it beca it a habitI was unable to stomach this kind of insultAs the saying goes, ‘it never rains but it pours,’ so I was also becoiousI had bad luck fro to S city, Xie Yan had become unlucky as well

Events didn’t bode well for Xie Yan’s recent invest heavily in the research and development of an electronic product, he had been very confident that it would attract a ne of consu it into the market, another company unexpectedly made the first move to release almost the exact same product at a much lower cost

Before we could recover from the blow, every subsequent remedial measure was also thwarted, one after the otherAny move we made seemed to have been foreseen by the other partyNo matter how innovative the idea was, the other party would be one step ahead, always in front of us, as if a ghost were playing tricks on usInevitably, orn out after a number of rounds

What had originally been a plan to generate immense profit was now turned to scrap If we abandoned it, the financial and labor losses would be huge, but there was no way to recover the fundsI didn’t want it to coive it a steady flow of lifeblood, I was afraid that if it went on like this, the harbor freight that the Xie household had just started running sed down

Just investigating and reorganizing the Xie Corporation’s entire inforreat effortsThe er the list of suspects grewFor the moment, everyone felt insecureBut even so, confidential company information continued to leak, and the liquidity di into an increasingly aard situation

Since the loss was unbearable, Xie Yan had no choice but to sacrifice an ar a portion of his equity to fill up the bottomless pit

I was already down in the dumps, and with this I ept sixty thousand feet underMy relationshi+p with the Xie Corporation was nothing ether by chanceIf it encounters danger, I could just brush the dust off my shoulder and leave, but what of that obstinate bro of mine?And when I was exceedingly busy for the sake of the company, Shao Yan still repeated daily, like a tape recorder,you want iveness,” h at me

You’ll do anything?What tiive you one chance to be the love master Let’s see if you have the qualification

I finally answered Shao Yan’s callOf course, it would be untrue to say I didn’t feel any knots in my chest fro that it was touched by shi+t?

“Lee, just think of everything in the past as ain, okay?”

Sitting across frolass of wine and clearly enunciated, “I want you to provide a loan to Xie Yan”

“What?”

“If you want to sit down and calive a low-interest loan to Xie Yan

“……”