CH 9

The recording time was only one day and one night. In the afternoon, Ren Shuhan and Jiang Qingyue switched places. Jiang Qingyue took Qu Chong to visit other places in the villa to give him a brief explanation, while Ren Shuhan stayed in the kitchen to help Qiao Ningning cook.

There are two kitchens on the first floor, separated by Chinese and Western styles respectively. In the morning, Qiao Ningning only used the Chinese-style part, and in the afternoon Ren Shuhan taught her the use of many Western ingredients.

“I’ve never heard of these, ah …” Qiao Ningning looked at the rare ingredients everywhere. “Ice God, how do you know so much? You can film and you can cook. Assistant Jiang said that you are versatile in sports, and yet you haven’t studied in any of these branches. “

“My grades were simply average. My classmates pursued further studies after graduation, but I’m the only one who came back to manage the family business.” Ren Shuhan laughed. “Though, I’m indeed better at sports compared to other aspects. What did he tell you?” 

Qiao Ningning: “He said you like skating, swimming and rock climbing. All of which you’re good at.”

Ren Shuhan: “… I like watching him skate and swim, he’s good at it too.”

Qiao Ningning almost fell into a coma: “So why do you do that?”

“My parents don’t necessarily like those activities,” It was mainly because he could just inherit their network resources and make money quickly instead, so Ren Shuhan said without hesitation, “Actually, I don’t like anything in particular aside from rock or mountain climbing.” 

The original owner was set on tricking his parents and quit filming after obtaining his fortune. For now at least, he stayed in the circle to chase after Gu Weici.

Ren Shuhan doesn’t need to please fans, and unlike his parents, he doesn’t care about the amount of money he has. He hasn’t yet decided what kind of career or path he will take in his future.

The main task now was to get through the recording of this program.

In the evening, he went to the garden to check the gardener’s achievements. He was very unhappy, frowned and said a few serious words to Gu Weici: “Don’t say that it’s not easy for others to clean up after you’ve, yourself, made a mess like this. Even after you’ve cleaned it up, it will be hard for others to take care of it again.”

The whole garden was a mess, and most of the shrubs had been cut off.

Gu Weici, who chose to not care and played freely for a whole day decided to set up a “little confused” persona for himself.

“Sorry, Brother Han, I, I have no experience in pruning either.” He said, “I … you can scold me.”

Ren Shuhan: Alright, you said it yourself.

“Even while being inexperienced, there is a first time for everything. Didn’t I tell you to ask for help if you were unsure?” Ren Shuhan pointed to the house. “Qingyue was in the building all morning, and went out for a while in the afternoon, but came back three hours ago. You didn’t have the courage to ask for help, but you had the courage to randomly cut the bushes here?”

Gu Weici felt so wronged that he was going to cry at that time.

“You’ve done this to my yard, and I haven’t cried yet, but you’re aggrieved?” Ren Shuhan relentlessly said, “If you regret being on this program, go and tell the director now that we will re-record it, and there is no shortage of actors.”

All the publicity has been done, and there were even some roadshows programmed. At this time, if he got kicked out, it would just be too humiliating! Gu Weici, of course, did not agree to do so, and quickly choked back tears and shook his head again and again.

At dinner, everyone could see that his eyes were a little red, but no one made a comment….

Well, all except the slightly insensible Qiao Ningning: “Why are your eyes a little swollen?”

Gu Weici: “….Because of the sun.”

“Just wear sunglasses,” Qiao Ningning was puzzled. “I remember you asked Assistant Jiang to find you sunglasses for a long time this morning.”

Qu Chong has always been clever, but now he doesn’t interrupt, because it feels … like someone had been criticized. This was a good opportunity to make a hot scene! Come on, Ningning, fire this up so that they could be popular together!

In the end, it was Jiang Qingyue that helped him out of this problem by interrupting them to ask what they would like to do after dinner.

“What do you do in your spare time?” Qiao Ningning asked.

Gu Weici seized the last chance to express himself: “Do you want to listen to music?”

There is an antique piano in the living room. The real Gu Weici has played there before, but this transmigrator Gu Weici had in fact never played the piano. But since he had a golden finger, even if he wasn’t familiar with something, he could still manage.

In the end, the group chose a game of Scrabble that Ren Shuhan and Jiang Qingyue loved to play when they were young, but because they couldn’t compete with them, Qiao Ningning and Qu Chong didn’t take it very seriously, and Gu Weici simply walked over to the piano and played a song after not sitting down for a while.

During the prelude, Qiao Ningnig looked at his back with longing eyes.

The seriously playing Ren Shuhan and Jiang Qingyue also got stuck for a moment before continuing with their game.

Because Gu Weici, who was a transmigrator with a golden finger, had no actual knowledge relating to music, he chose a song that was neither a classic nor popular. Although it was beautiful, it wasn’t that impressive. Generally, students majoring in musical studies wouldn’t perform this kind of music that only amateurs could choose, let alone perform it during the recording of a program.

It was only Qu Chong who didn’t care about music at all, who wasn’t feeling anything weird from it. He was just busy pondering over the game instead.

When the song was over, Qiao Ningning leaned on the piano and waited to take over.

The melody was much more natural after she took over, and Gu Weici who had just returned to the sofa to continue playing saw Ren Shuhan stand up, bending slightly over towards Jiang Qingyue and extending his right hand to invite him to dance.

Gu Weici: …..I’ll tolerate this, I’m not jealous, I’ll see how long you can pretend.

Jiang Qingyue calmly placed his hand in his palm, got up and walked with him to the other side of the room.

The two of them slowly swayed and moved in a relaxed manner. Although it could not be said that Ren Shuhan was dancing with a woman, Jiang Qingyue’s hand was resting on his shoulder, and he was held lightly by the other man at the waist. 

Looking at the tender side of his face from the corner of his eyes, Ren Shuhan couldn’t help but be in high spirits.

“It’s been a long time,” Jiang Qingyue said softly, looking at his rolling Adam’s apple. “Last time we danced, it was at a university dance.”

Once upon a time, whether it was at home or at school, Jiang Qingyue was in self-denial, trying relentlessly to hide his inappropriate feelings towards the young master. But during his undergraduate celebration, there were many couples including men on the dance floor of the school, so Jiang Qingyue didn’t refuse the invite from him that time.

He had been waiting for a long time to find an opportunity to tell the young master that he still wanted to continue his studies.

The original owner had wanted to settle down for his family’s business, while Jiang Qingyue hoped to continue to study, which meant that two people had to be separated. The original owner didn’t know the true feelings he had for him, and thought that Jiang Qingyue finally wanted to leave his side, so he quarreled with him unilaterally.

That day, the two of them ended up in a bad disagreement.

Later, even though the original owner went to the school to find Jiang Qingyue several times in succession, the atmosphere between the two people was awkward, and it was as if an invisible wall separated the two of them. They could never return to the past.  

They both knew that their relationship had actually deteriorated a long time ago, and that this day was bound to come sooner or later.

A year after their last meeting, the original owner who had taken control of his family’s financial power thought he would be able to convince Jiang Qingyue to return to his side. However, he was devastated again. 

“Young master,” Jiang Qingyue had said without turning his head towards him, “Give me two more years, and I’ll come back after graduation, okay?”

Alright, the Ren Shuhan from his memories had promised, I’ll wait for you. 

However, that night, the original owner ended up meeting Gu Weici.

Actually, when one thought about it carefully, after meeting Gu Weici, the original owner actually seemed to forget many things that should not have been forgotten. It was indeed not normal to keep so many things belonging to Jiang Qingyue while he was relentlessly chasing Gu Weici. Therefore, he must’ve been influenced by Gu Weici’s protagonist aura.  

Thinking of this, Ren Shuhan asked the system whether he was no different from the original owner.

“Yes,” the system replied. “Actually, before the original owner met Gu Weici, he was almost the same as you, host. In a sense, the original owner and the host are somewhat the same.” 

Oh…. Ren Shuhan secretly thought… then he wasn’t actually a guest.

“Last time, you told me to wait for you and that you would come back after graduation, and I have been waiting.” He squeezed Jiang Qingyue’s fingers and murmured an explanation in his ear, “Gu Weici was just an accident, nothing happened between me and him.”

Jiang Qingyue’s pupils were somewhat distant, and he looked at Gu Weici, who was on the side.

“Do you trust me?”

Jiang Qingyue nodded his head slightly, and looked at his own feet

Ren Shuhan observed his expression, but he couldn’t guess what he was thinking.

“System prompt: You can enable the mind reading function.”

No, Ren Shuhan thought, I don’t want to bully him anymore.

He is pitiful and lovely enough … Ren Shuhan dealt with the system with a sanctimonious face, but his eyes looked at Jiang Qingyue almost greedily. The more he watched, the more he liked it, and he felt the urge to kiss him.

This feeling didn’t appear suddenly, but gradually brewed from the good feeling he had after meeting him for the first time and slowly remembering the past during the day. The more memories came to his mind, the stronger his repressed feelings grew. He didn’t want to let go of him, feeling as if he finally met his long-lost lover.  

But Jiang Qingyue acted very calmly. If he didn’t blush often, Ren Shuhan would’ve suspected that the love the system spoke about was just some nonsense it had randomly come up with.

The dance was about to end, and the evening would be over with it. Everyone was going to stay there to finish the recording for this night, and then it would be over after they had breakfast the following day.

The deacons were to sleep downstairs in the maids’ quarters, and Qu Chong and Qiao Ningning both noticed with a sigh that these quarters were even more luxurious than their own real homes. Gu Weici was dissatisfied with the living arrangements, but no one was paying attention to him. 

Ren Shuhan had an excuse for Jiang Qingyue and let him stay with him on the first floor. Jiang Qingyue was obedient and had no objection to it. After all, he had lived here before graduating from High School, and he even stayed there often after that. He only needed to go pick his own belongings from Ren Shuhan’s bedroom and put them in his own room. 

When he was packing, Ren Shuhan was annoyed to find that Jiang Qingyue’s didn’t have a lot to take. Whether it came to food or clothing, his things were all worse in quality compared to Gu Weici’s. 

“Check whichever things I gave Gu Weici.” Ren Shuhan took the opportunity to send a discreet message to Wen Xin. “Take back whatever can be taken back.” 

Wen Xin replied immediately: “I have a copy of the car’s keys here, I will drive it back as soon as possible to change them. I will also change the password of the credit card now.”

Ren Shuhan spoke to the system again: Just how much did that idiot spend on Gu Weici?

If you have so much money, why not donate it? Even burning it would be better than spending it on him.

System: “… at present, only a few hundred thousands were spent, because you have finished dealing with all his things this morning, and most of them have not been taken with him.”

Ren Shuhan immediately cooled down, he picked up Jiang Qingyue’s things and sent him back to his room, saying good night to the little beauty very gently.

“Good night, young master.”

Jiang Qingyue closed the door, leaned his back against the door, covered his face and stood for a long, long time.——

If it’s just to make Gu Weici jealous, then the young master has also gone too far.

“Gu Weici was dissatisfied with the living arrangements, but no one was paying attention to him.” Wow, this line was brutal lmao  ʕ •̀ o •́ ʔ