Chapter Fifty-One: Autumn Waters in Spring (2/2)

Yan Jin lifted Xiao Yu above his head as the edge of his lips curved slightly.

Suddenly, Xiao Yu closed his mouth.

A person like Yan Jin rarely revealed his smile in front of outsiders. To be honest, at least in front of Xiao Yu, the chairman had never been stingy with his smiles. However, this was the first time that Xiao Yu had ever seen such a harmless, innocent smile on Yan Jin’s face.

In Xiao Yu’s heart, Yan Jin had never shaken off that image of an iceberg chairman who had daggers hidden in his smiles. No matter which situation he may be in, no matter how close a person was to him, Yan Jin had always maintained an impenetrable defensive exterior.

It was probably something that even Yan Jin himself was not consciously aware of.

Yet at this very moment, Yan Jin seemed to have taken off all his armor and revealed his gentle and fragile interior. The soft evening glow colored the side of his face golden. His smile was filled with gentleness and contentment that he had never shown before.

Yan Jin smiled as he watched Xiao Yu flailing his limbs around like a fool, then gently placed the hamster back onto the wooden basin.

Xiao Yu sighed in relief as his gaze continued to stick to Yan Jin’s body.

With the steam around them, Yan Jin’s expression did not seem to be real. Even so, the overflowing warm gentleness made Xiao Yu soften up completely.

“I didn’t sell off the Four Seasons Manor, nor grandfather’s inheritance…”

Yan Jin began to talk about the past out of the blue. The hamster pancake immediately perked his ears upright.

“In the future, if my lover prefers to live in the secluded mountains like the people from the ancient past, compared to the fast-paced lifestyle of modern society, then we will sell the villa in the city and move here together.”

Xiao Yu could feel his blood clogging up his throat.

That’s not how you use ‘secluded mountains’! They refer to the mythological days where there was no fixed residence with plain tea and simple food. But this lifestyle of yours is comparable to how an emperor would have lived, get it?!

That sentence should be corrected to ‘if my lover prefers living like an emperor in paradise on earth, compared to living like an all-powerful super tycoon in the modern city, then we will move to the Four Seasons Manor’.

However, somehow or another, Xiao Yu was unable to successfully raise a protest.

Perhaps it was because of how serious Yan Jin looked at that moment – He was so serious that it made Xiao Yu feel sad.

It was like a child telling an adult about fantasy-like pleasant and romantic dreams. The expression on Yan Jin’s face was of pure and innocent anticipation.

He seemed to be anticipating a word of praise, or even lying acceptance.

Xiao Yu simply could not imagine that one day he would witness such an expression on Yan Jin’s face.

“If he prefers a busy daily life, then we could come here for a holiday once in a while. If he prefers living abroad over staying in the country, then we’ll sell this place and build another villa overseas.”

At this point, Yan Jin seemed to look a little troubled: “It might be better to rent this place out instead. But nobody would rent this place long term.”

Xiao Yu was speechless at how far Yan Jin thought ahead – it was so complete. Yan Jin had covered almost every scenario. What else could Xiao Yu say? Should he give Yan Jin applause?

Come to think of it, all that seemed logical. Xiao Yu had both his front paws raised up. Just when he was about to clap, he heard Yan Jin’s next sentence.

“It would be really nice if such a person could really appear.”

That sentence made an extremely strong turn in the conversation. It was so powerful that it overthrew all the possibilities that were mentioned before this.

It turned every beautified thought into unrealistic rosy views.

Who was that person?

Did that person really exist?

Had anyone ever entered into your world, turned everything on its head, and then left free and easy?

Or perhaps, there wasn’t even a single person that had ever gotten close to this fort that seemed to be surrounded by an impenetrable steel defense……

At this moment, Xiao Yu knew that this person who was known to be a winner in life, the Yan Jin of the platinum nobility, had another secret aside from liking men. Yet Xiao Yu did not feel achieved and delighted like he imagined he would. Instead, he felt his heart clench.

How nice this man was. He had money, looks, talent, and everything else on the surface…

How could he be missing out on this tiny bit of love?

Was it because Heaven was fair? If a person was given something, then something else must be taken away?

But… he’s such a nice person.

How could he… Can’t he just have that tiny bit of love?

“Fishy, when do you think that person will appear? One year, two years?” Yan Jin looked at Xiao Yu with a serious expression, as if he was truly seeking an opinion from a hamster.

Xiao Yu replied coldly: “Squeakk.”

What if he doesn’t ever appear?

It was as if Yan Jin understood the conclusion that was not intended to contain malice. His body stiffened a little and quickly relaxed again.

“If he never appears, then all those preparation… I’ll let my Fishy take advantage of it.”

Let my Fishy take advantage of it.

The joke that seemed neither real nor fake continuously echoed in Xiao Yu’s ears, along with a sudden destructive gale, which carried the maple leaves off the ground, rippling the limpid autumn waters.