Ch38 - Refusing to give up on their sinister schemes (2/2)
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Lin Yi was still unwilling to give up. He was red-eyed as he swore to his father that his feelings towards Bai Yue were really sincere, and he hoped that his father would help him settle the matter.
Father Lin was actually persuaded by him, and it was not known how he analysed the pros and cons, but he finally brought gifts to visit the Bai family, saying that he wanted to discuss the issue of marriage between the two children.
Grandpa Bai was so angry that he called people over to kick them out on the spot. He even stood at the door to curse them out – that son of yours dares covet my grandson? Did they not look carefully and see what kind of trash he was?
Many people in this rich area heard him cursing, and the entire upper class society began to joke about this matter. They all felt that the Lin family must have something wrong with their heads – who could bear to send the child that they had raised to be pressed down by others? Let alone one as rich and good looking as second young master Bai. How could Lin Yi match him?
The news was spread out, and many details were picked apart. Sun Jianan was brought up, and everyone agreed that this little actor looked somewhat similar to the second young master; Lin Yi’s guts were truly big, and he was really disgusting.
The life that Sun Jianan was originally already dissatisfied with reached an even more embarrassing point because of this discussion.
Unspoken rules were known but not spoken about within the circle, but because of the things that had happened with Lin Yi, Sun Jianan became embroiled in the mess. When people discussed this piece of gossip, they would either intentionally or unintentionally bring up the fact that Sun Jianan had a backer, and some people even pitied him. “Say, he’s so unlucky – he’s actually a substitute.”
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Once these words were said, there were others who came out to satirize him. “Hedidn’t refuse to be a substitute, and even climbed into Lin Yi’s bed. Of course he has to do as his golden ticket wants. Since he’s already sold himself, there’s no point in keeping his dignity and pretending to be pure.”
Sun Jianan turned pale as he stood to one side and listened.
The two words “sold himself” was already enough to make him hate the speaker to death, but the truth was, he really had sold himself.
Regardless of whether it was the ‘unintentional’ selling of himself to Lin Ye in his previous life or the ‘intentional’ selling of himself in this life, there was little difference. He waited for the highest bidder and then sold himself to Lin Yi, all under the banner of ‘true love’. It was no wonder that others laughed at him.
It was unknown what Sun Jianan was thinking about, but after that, his expression was always gloomy and depressed.
The shooting of “Male Consort” went very smoothly, and Xue Ling successfully cleared all the acting scenes in two months. He netted himself a lot of gifts from the crew, and returned home all tired out.
During this period, Bai Hao had come to visit once, and they spent the night together, applying for leave the next day and spending it cozied up before they separated again.
His family situation was still the same. Grandpa Bai called over his younger grandson for a chat and comforted him over Lin Yi’s affairs before telling him not to worry; Bai Hao would resolve everything. He just needed to shoot his films and act in his movies as he liked without any worries.
Xue Ling always found this kind of concern to be very beneficial, smiling as he accepted it. He then spent some time to coax Old Master Bai into laughter and gifted him with an ancient text that he had picked up while shooting before going to his room to take a bath.
Bai Hao came back at dinner time. Although he wanted to skip work to see his younger brother, the old man was still at home and the two of them could not go too far. He could only exchange glances with Xue Ling while pressing down the urge to respond to the small foot teasing him under the table, and when dinner was finished the two entered Bai Hao’s room after giving Grandpa Bai the excuse of discussing investments. The two locked the door and rolled together.
They had been reunited after a long separation, let alone the two of them were both young and vigorous. Xue Ling was tossed around once before lazily asking from within Bai Hao’s embrace: “How do you plan to deal with Grandpa’s side?”
Bai Hao rubbed his head and said, “During the time while you were gone, I already came out of the closet with Grandpa.” He said it casually, as though it was as easy as calling someone over for dinner.
Xue Ling looked up at him in some surprise and received a kiss on his eyelids. Bai Hao laughed and said, “Grandpa was not surprised. After all, I’ve been alone for so many years. He said that it was fine as long as I’m not asexual. As long as I give him a great-grandson, he doesn’t care whether I like men or women.”
Xue Ling squinted at him, before reaching out as though wanting to strangle his neck and said: “If you dare to find a woman to have a great-grandson with, I’ll kill you.”
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Bai Hao liked his unreasonable ‘as long as you betray me I’ll kill you’ desire for exclusivity. He bowed his head and kissed him again. “Should we find a surrogate? If you don’t like it, we can adopt a child from the family situated in the capital.”
Xue Ling held his hand and played with it. Bai Hao also did not speak to give him time to think. After a long time, he heard his voice: “I want twins, one for you and one for me.”
Bai Hao blinked, and then righteously rejected this proposal. “Let’s just wait for adoption within the family. I definitely don’t want to see any woman giving birth for you at all.”
Xue Ling pouted, thinking in his heart that it was only fair Bai Hao also got a feel for how unpleasant that would be, and hummed before finally saying, “I’ll tell mother that we hope they stop using contraception. If not… We can go to the orphanage and adopt a child. It’s weird for me to adopt other people’s children.”
Bai Hao expressed that everything was up to him, and he had no objections.
As long as the child’s last name was Bai, he was not so insistent about bloodlines. For a family to be able to exist for so long, it was not based on blood alone, but also relied on the Bai family’s methods of education. Even if they were not able to bring up a child as good as Bai Hao, they would definitely still be able to keep the businesses stable.
The next day, Xue Ling had not yet gotten out of bed when he received a message from Sun Jianan.
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Sun Jianan’s message was very simple. He just wanted to meet and talk with Xue Ling.
Xue Ling thought about this time point in relation to the plot to try and understand why Sun Jianan would invite him out, and then looked at the address of the bar that was to be their meeting point. His expression turned cold.
Ah, he had purposely left him some leeway, but he hadn’t thought that Sun Jianan’s malicious intent would be increasingly deep.
The system looked at its host’s face and silently lit a candle for Sun Jianan.
one more chapter to go in this arc~