73 – “Xingxing, thank you for taking care of me.”
An Xing watched with bated breath, and when he saw An Rong hanging up the phone, he came over to him.
“Brother, what did you mean by that just now?
Just now, An Rong said that the one to blame is the one who started it all, and then on the other end of the cell phone, Su Yiran’s breathing became heavy all of a sudden. An Xing vaguely felt, it seems that the sentence from the boy has a deeper meaning, but also with a bit of malice.
An Rong hooked the corner of his mouth, rubbed a handful of young man’s small curly hair, and said indifferently:
“Didn’t you say before that An Hao is in love with this person? Su Yiran was jealous of you and stole your design for Wei Qing Jewelry, which is probably related to An Hao ……”.
“Now that Su Yiran is going down the drain, do you think he’ll go to An Hao for help?”
The young man held HIS small round face, looked at his brother with admiration, and nodded his head over and over again.
“Definitely!
Stealing his design, he would never let Su Yiran go. Now that things have gotten so big, Su Yiran’s fate will not be good, and he will be expelled from the school to begin with.
If he doesn’t want to end up like this, Su Yiran can only look for An Hao to help him.
“Do you think An Hao will help him, brother?”
An Xing came over and pulled An Rong’s arm.
The young man’s light-colored eyes are bright, purely curious to see the fun, without the slightest hint of darkness. As if Su Yiran’s words had left no trace in his heart at all.
An Rong’s stern phoenix eyes softened, and rubbed a handful of the youngster’s small brain, but when he opened his mouth, he was indifferent.
“An Hao has no sense of responsibility, no commitment, how can he help Su Yiran? Believe it or not, he would even blame Su Yiran for his mistakes.”
An Rong’s judgment is very shrewd. Shen Ying on the side burst out laughing, An Zhaoming held down the twitching corners of his mouth, but did not criticize his son.
Between his own son and his nephew, he has to favor his son even if there is no reason, let alone having a reason.
To be honest, he also feels that his nephew is very uncommitted, simply not like their An family.
If you have ambitions, you will have ambitions, but you don’t dare to do it. What kind of “killing people with a borrowed knife”, this “knife” is still your lover. In An Zhaoming’s view, this kind of behavior is not only cowardly, but also despicable.
While Su Yiran, thinking that such an unscrupulous An Hao will help him get off the hook, is simply a fool’s dream.
On the other hand, just as the An family had guessed, An Hao didn’t intend to admit it at all.
“Ran Ran, your face has been photographed, now there is no way to deny. Even I……can’t help you.”
The man’s voice sounded on the other end of the cell phone, gentle with apologies and pain. Hearing this, Su Yiran’s eyes widened.
“But Brother Hao, I stole…… for you.”
“Don’t talk foolishly, Ranran.”
The man interrupted the young man’s terrified words and gently persuaded him.
“You are jealous of Xingxing, so you wanted to steal his design, Xu Xin also hated Xingxing, so he wanted to use his design to profit …… You were wrong, and since you did it, you have to admit it.”
A huge sense of absurdity welled up in his heart, Su Yiran simply could not believe that these words were said by An Hao, who was his nominal lover. For the first time in his conversation with An Hao, he did not care about his image and screamed out.
“Obviously you were the one who said that stealing the design and then selling it first could make An Xing lose this chance ……”
“Ran-Ran, even if you are my lover, you can’t stir up the relationship between me and Xingxing, I have never said such a thing.”
“You, you ……”
“Ranran, how did you become like this?” The man’s voice was full of disappointment.
“Even if you come from an ordinary family, you have always worked hard to get ahead, and you’re very understanding. I really didn’t expect it, now you not only did something wrong, but you also want to put the fault on me …… I’m too disappointed in you.”
Su Yiran understood, this is An Hao threatening him,
a man of ordinary background, to be more considerate and not to be ignorant of good and evil. It was best to admit all this honestly and not think about biting him out.
It was precisely because he understood that Su Yiran’s eyes were red, and he was so angry that his eyes were about to bleed.
He thought he could deceive An Xing, but he was set up by An Xing for a counter attack.
He thought he could play An Hao in the palm of his hand, but he didn’t expect that An Hao would abandon him without hesitation as soon as he was in trouble.
He has been calculating and planning for a long time, but in the end, he is the only one who will suffer the consequences.
*
With the evidence as solid as the mountain there was no need for a lawsuit, and Wei Qing Jewelry had to admit that Xu Xin’s work had plagiarized An Xing’s design.
Wei Qing Jewelry took down all the products, gave consumers a refund, and publicly apologized.
An Zhaoming did not file a lawsuit against Wei Qing Jewellery, and planned to take this opportunity to find out whether Wei Qing Jewellery was really related to An Zhaoyuan. After hearing his father’s plan, An Xing quickly agreed to settle the case privately.
In the end, Xu Xin was fired from Wei Qing Jewellery and had to pay a high fine. Su Yiran was also expelled from the school because the incident was too big.
The day Su Yiran moved out of the dormitory, An Xing did not show up at all. For him, Su Yiran paid the price for his own wrongdoings, and will not come back to trouble him, this is enough. It was not his style to throw stones to his face.
His entire focus was on his upcoming date on Friday.
That’s right, the date. Ever since Lu Tian Shen said he wanted to pursue him, every Friday the man would pick him up from class, go out for a nice meal, take a walk, and then take him home. Often, after the last class was over and he left the building, An Xing could see Lu Tian Shen waiting for him.
This morning, An Xing had already agreed with Lu Tian Shen to go eat hot pot together in the evening, so he was a bit distracted when he attended the last class. Although some person’s eyes are looking at the textbook, in fact, his brain is full of snowflake beef, beef shank, pork belly and mandarin duck hot pot.
When An Xing was about to drool, he felt a slight vibration on his cell phone. He looked at the podium, and then sneakily took out his cell phone and clicked on it to see that it was a WeChat from Lu Tian Shen.
Lu Tian Shen: I’ll eat hot pot with you some other day, okay? I’m not feeling well today.
An Xing:!
Heavenly Duck! His Shen gege will not accompany him to eat hot pot! This is a great misfortune for him!
So for the next half of the class, the two roommates saw that the teenager couldn’t sit still and kept twisting and turning. They watched silently, and after the class ended, the teenager quickly dialed the phone.
“Shen gege, what’s wrong with you? Are you sick?”
The man’s voice was a bit hoarse.
“I have a slight cold, it’s not a big deal. ……”
The man’s words were interrupted by An Xing before he finished speaking.
Lu Tianchen’s hand holding the phone paused slightly, as if honey was flowing through his heart.
The boy’s words blurted out, and the meaning behind them was that the boy was so sure that he was loved.
Even though he felt very uncomfortable, Lu Tianchen still couldn’t hold back and laughed.
“It’s really not serious. I just have a low-grade fever and don’t have much appetite. I don’t want to affect your appetite for hot pot, so…”
An Xing interrupted angrily. “What are you talking about hot pot now? I’ll go to your house!”
Lu Tian Shen froze. He said this is not to pretend to be pitiful and trick An Xing to come over to accompany him. He quickly said:
“No, it’s just a low-grade fever. I’ll rest at home for the night and I’ll be able to accompany you tomorrow.”
He said, “No, you can’t! It’s settled! I’ll go over to your house right now!”
The wealthy young master was very domineering and hung up the phone directly, leaving no room for the man to refuse.
Looking at the hung up mobile phone, Lu Tianchen was stunned. He was silent for a while, the corners of his mouth curved slightly, and he lay back on the bed.
Zhou Bin and Chen Fang watched as An Xing finished his phone call and packed up his things aggressively, not like he was going to take care of someone, but more like he ……
Go and act spoiled.
That Mr. Lu was quite generous, he was willing to let An Xing go to his house to cause trouble even when he was sick.
*
No matter how much the roommates teased him, An Xing kept his word. After reporting in the crowd of the loving family, he took a taxi to Lu Tianshen’s house. On the way, he bought medicine at the drugstore and some vegetables, preparing to cook for the man.
When An Xing was in elementary school, the Lu family had some problems. The Lu family’s husband and wife were on the road, and Lu Tian Shen was the only one at home. Although there were servants and bodyguards, they were not at ease, worrying that Lu Tian Shen did not have enough self-control and would be spoiled by others.
At that time, An Zhaoming and Lu’s father had investment cooperation, the relationship was not bad, and only the An family had a well-behaved child, An Xing. So Lu Tian Shen was sent to the An family.
An Xing was in primary school at that time, and developed late. He was still a pretty little dumpling. He was particularly interested in his gege, like a little tail, and followed Lu Tian Shen everyday.
Who can refuse a cute, cuddly, mindless little dumpling? Anyway, Lu Tian Shen couldn’t say no, and their relationship got better and better.
Then An Xingxing discovered a little secret of Tian Shen gege – this gege, he does not like to eat when he is sick!
How can he not eat when he is sick? How can you get well if you don’t eat? When you are sick, you need to eat more to make up for it!
So that year, when Lu Tian Shen was sick and didn’t eat, the little dumpling would come over and coax his gege to eat.
During the summer vacation when they lived together for half a month, An Xing recorded his fingerprint locks, and now he doesn’t need the patient to open the door, and he can go straight in himself.
The flower-armed kitten meows out from the direction of the bedroom and rolled around the boy’s feet.
“Hey, Huahua, wait a moment! Let me put my things down.”
When Lu Tianchen came out in his pajama pants, he saw the boy putting two bags of things on the table, then bending down to pet the cat. Seeing him coming out, the boy didn’t even care about the cat. He came over and circled him, spinning around like the cat just now.
“Shen gege, what are you doing here? Are you uncomfortable? Lie down quickly! Cover yourself with a shirt and don’t use the air-conditioner!”
The teenager had just come back from the outside and had carried a lot of things with him, his forehead was sweating from the heat and his fair round face was crimson. Even with the air conditioner on, he didn’t cool off, and his body was hot, like a scorching little sun.
Probably because of his illness, he was emotionally fragile. He could say words or do things that he didn’t dare to do in normal times. Looking at the young man who took the initiative to take care of him, he felt like he had an outlet and was being pampered to let him out.
The man took a step forward, shortened the distance between them, leaned over slightly, and gently hugged the young man in front of him.
His forehead rested on the boy’s shoulder, like a large canine predator that had put away its fangs and was close to its target.
“Xingxing, thank you for taking care of me.”
“I’m very happy.”
TRANSLATOR’S CORNER:
I am not a native speaker of either Chinese or English. I basically MTL and edit the text, sometimes I also use some sites for reference. I can’t guarantee that everything here is accurate, But I try to stick to the author’s work as much as possible. Please feel to comment any mistakes🙂🤗.
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