Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Four: Cancelling the Engagement and Coming Out of the Close (1/2)
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“Tell me clearly!” Xiao Yu pushed Yan Jin, who had been trying to cuddle and kiss to avoid the issue, aside.
“Talking about that doesn’t fit the mood…” Yan Jin looped Xiao Yu into his embrace extremely unreasonably. While rubbing Xiao Yu’s head, he said, “It’s been so long. How about we get some wine to celebrate?”
“Hey!” Xiao Yu yelled at him resentfully. “Answer my questions first!”
Yan Jin’s face fell. His gaze lingered on the top of Xiao Yu’s head. Even before he took out a small pocket-sized bottle, his intentions could already be clearly seen by anyone.
“What’s this?” Xiao Yu took the proffered bottle.
There were complex designs engraved on the palm-sized clear crystal bottle. The cap was shaped like a droplet and the body of the bottle was shaped like a diamond. Xiao Yu shook the bottle lightly, and the light pink transparent liquid sloshed around inside.
It looked like a video game consumable.
Yan Jin laughed softly. “A witch’s secret potion.”
“Hey, what’s that supposed to mean?” Xiao Yu prodded Yan Jin’s waist threateningly.
“…It’s a special wine.”
“No way. You didn’t need to do this.”
Xiao Yu didn’t need any further explanation from Yan Jin. He was shocked.
Before Yan Jin had left, he had indicated that Xiao Yu’s bodily changes were too unstable. With different wines, different alcohol concentrations, and different metabolic speeds, it would be much better if he could develop a more stable medicine which would cause Xiao Yu’s body to change. At the time, Xiao Yu hadn’t paid too much thought to it. He had thought that Yan Jin was just making small talk or joking. He had never would have expected that Yan Jin would take it so seriously.
Xiao Yu remembered that he had once thoughtlessly commented that FX’s latest tablet didn’t look nice enough, and that if he was the designer he could definitely do better. Seemingly in response, Yan Jin had had a lawyer send over an FX shareholder contract.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yu felt his grip unconsciously growing tighter. Yan Jin was forced to beg for forgiveness.
“It can’t be that you traveled out of the country just for this, can it?” Xiao Yu suddenly felt clear-headed and asked a crucial question.
“How can that be? I needed to attend an inheritance ceremony along the way,” Yan Jin said in deadly earnest.
“……”
Depressed, Xiao Yu fiddled around with the bottle in silence for a while. Then, he asked, “What does this do?”
“Precisely triggers a half-animal transformation.” Yan Jin proudly added, “It’s entirely safe and has no side effects. It only lasts for a short while and won’t harm you. It’s just like how drinking red wine occasionally can improve your appearance and have other benefits.”
Well, the answer was exactly as expected. Perhaps it was even embarrassingly obvious.
Improve your appearance, huh…
Xiao Yu wasn’t sure, but he felt that Yan Jin’s bottom line since coming back had lowered drastically.
Xiao Yu shook the small bottle again. He heard a sharp intake of air from next to him.
Well…
Yan Jin looked at him with expectant eyes. Xiao Yu opened the bottle and drained its contents in a single gulp.
It certainly was worthy of being called a secret potion. Yan Jin’s pharmaceutical company’s tireless research and manufacturing efforts hadn’t been in vain. Almost five minutes after drinking the potion, Xiao Yu felt the top of his head beginning to burn hot.
A pair of sensitive ears popped out.
Yan Jin’s gaze had changed entirely. His hands had involuntarily begun to move forward to the little ears he hadn’t seen in so long.
“I’ve sacrificed so much now. Where’s my reward?” Acting spoiled, Xiao Yu tugged at Yan Jin’s arm. “Mr. Gabriel?”
Yan Jin received a shock. In an unimaginably tender voice, he said, “You smartass, I’ll be teaching you a lesson when we get home.”
……
It’s said that secrets between lovers cannot be hidden in bed.
Xiao Yu had taken the opportunity to get all the answers he wanted. Satisfied, he rolled on the bed with the blankets. Before he could complete one full rotation, the person behind him firmly grabbed the blankets.
“I’ve told you so many times to not roll around on the bed with the blankets. How many times have you fallen off the bed now?”
“Hmph.” Xiao Yu rolled back into Yan Jin’s embrace. He jabbed Yan Jin’s chest and said, “Only you have so many issues. The emperor’s lack of worry makes his eunuch worry for him, Mr. Gabriel.”
For a while, Yan Jin couldn’t decide on which insult to hurl back.
On his phone, Xiao Yu searched for the Gabriel Family on Baidu. Perhaps not knowing would have been better. The more he knew, the more it scared him.
“Hmm… the world’s treasury… Oh, a conservative estimate of their net worth has one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten—oh forget it, I can’t count all the digits. Tsk tsk, they control eighty percent of Country M’s pharmaceutical industry. You used to be in this industry?” Xiao Yu looked up at Yan Jin.
“That’s what we publicly claim. Our most profitable ventures are in legally gray areas.” Such an explosive secret was tossed out so casually by Yan Jin.
Xiao Yu’s feelings were a little complicated. He kept feeling that something would happen to him now that he knew too much.
“Then, doesn’t hopping into the design industry not fit you well?”
“Maybe a little at the start, but it’s fine now.” Yan Jin rubbed Xiao Yu’s head. “Commercial business affairs don’t vary too widely.”
“Only you would feel that way.” Xiao Yu pointed at his phone’s screen. “Look, it says here: a genius and the youngest successor in history. A founder with unlimited glory. Wow, so awesome!”