Ye Kai and Qu Zhongli came back around 3pm. Lan Man locked herself in the studio to draw the design, so he had to go to find Chen Youhan. Chen Youhan was holding a video conference on the third floor. Ye Kai was caught off guard and was caught in the camera while calling "Brother Youhan". Chen Weiyu and Gu Xiu were on the other side of the screen. Both of them saw Ye Kai's figure flash by. Chen Weiyu didn't react, "That's not..." Gu Xiu coughed and said quickly, "Two leaders, it's been almost half an hour, how about a coffee break." Chen Weiyu woke up as if from a dream. Chen Youhan said "hmm", raised his wrist to check the watch, "Continue at 3:45."
After hanging up the video, Ye Kai hugged him from behind: "Brother Wei Yu saw it, is it serious?"
"Brother Wei Yu?" Chen Youhan raised his eyebrows slightly: "Are you familiar with him?"
Ye Kai said with a smile: "You are jealous of this. He is your cousin. If you don't call him brother, do you call him uncle?"
After saying that, he wanted to slip away, but Chen Youhan grabbed his arm and pulled him into his arms: "Why don't you call Wei Yu brother?"
Ye Kai sat down on his lap and said with a smile, "I'm not familiar with him."
On the desk was a fruit plate prepared by Mary. Chen Youhan had praised the grapes yesterday, so she carefully served a whole bunch today. Ye Kai picked a few, but before he could put them in his mouth, Chen Youhan took them away from his palm and asked like he was interrogating a criminal, "So, do you call Lucas brother?"
Here it comes again.
Ye Kai was speechless: "No, that's too formal," he blinked, "We are usually honey, darling, sweetheart."
Chen Youhan looked at him with interest. Ye Kai felt a tingling sensation on his back and felt inexplicably weak in his heart. After seeing enough, Chen Youhan curled his lips and kindly stuffed a grape into his mouth. The scent of roses and the aftertaste of peaches were crystal clear in the sun. The sweet juice burst in his mouth. Ye Kai chewed it slowly and asked after eating it, "What did grandma ask you to do this morning?"
Chen Youhan ignored him and continued to ask, "When did you and Lucas get together?"
...It's not over yet, right!
Ye Kai's face darkened: "I'm not interested in reminiscing about my ex-boyfriend with you." He pushed his shoulder and was about to run. However, Chen Youhan held him tightly, with both arms wrapped around his back domineeringly and powerfully, apparently not giving him a chance to escape.
"Speak." Chen Youhan raised his eyes cynically and coaxed gently.
Ye Kai made up a story: "...Last summer vacation."
“In Vancouver?”
"What else?"
"Does Grandma like him?"
“…A little worse than you.”
This answer must have made Chen Youhan very happy. Seeing him smile in an ambiguous way, Ye Kai changed his posture, propped up his cheek with his right hand on the armrest, and asked slowly, "You haven't met his parents, have you?"
Ye Kai thought about it and made up a reasonable and logical lie: "It's not too late yet."
"Oh," Chen Youhan raised an eyebrow, "I didn't have time, that's what I planned."
Why is this person still arguing when he is jealous? Ye Kai adjusted his words and said seriously: "I don't have such plans. It's not to this extent. Is that okay?"
Chen Youhan's smile widened again, but he only smiled with one side of his lips, which looked full of ill intentions. Ye Kai instinctively felt the danger and wanted to run, but was stopped again. This time Chen Youhan hugged him and kissed him, sucking his lips and rubbing them. After a while, his voice became a little hoarse, his eyes became darker, and he stared at Ye Kai and asked, "Did he kiss you secretly in grandma's house?"
The eyes blurred by the kiss suddenly cleared up: "...Of course not!"
"Then..." Chen Youhan leaned close to his ear.
The young Adam's apple couldn't help swallowing, and Ye Kai heard Chen Youhan ask in the midst of his disordered heartbeat: "Did he... fuck you in grandma's house?"
It was clearly his own reaction, but he was still calmly asking such a question. Ye Kai suddenly felt absurd, and the shame tore him apart. In broad daylight, he felt ripples deep in his body.
He closed his eyes and heard Chen Youhan laugh. He returned to the serious question, "Did he give you a gift?"
"...Of course," Ye Kai felt relieved, but he tried to find a place to complain, "Wine, paintings, clothes, shoes, watches, a lot of other things."
Chen Youhan curled his lips playfully: "What watch?"
Ye Kai was completely led by him, and he didn't think about why he had to confess everything. In short, he racked his brains to make up whatever Chen Youhan asked him. He panicked and glanced at his wrist. He didn't have time to think about it, and said with a stiff upper lip: "Panerai..."
"This bronze?"
Ye Kai gritted his teeth and nodded.
Chen Youhan said, "Tsk!", "You're so stingy." Then she asked in a dandy way, "You're wearing the watch your ex-boyfriend gave you when you had sex with me?"
……Oh shit.
I was completely out of ideas, so I just threw in the towel and said, "You have a problem? Isn't it nice to be morally corrupt?"
Chen Youhan lowered his head and laughed: "Okay, let me see you--" He twisted Ye Kai's upturned nose: "You are too corrupt."
Ye Kai finally broke free from his embrace and ran away. It was time, and Chen Youhan wanted to continue the meeting. Chen Feiyi was already in semi-retirement. Chen Youhan would return to the board of directors as the managing director to actually manage and control the entire GC. He retired beautifully from the business group, both at the height of his career and after his success, but everyone knew that he would come back one day. The enemies around him never let down their guard, and his confidants never let go of their expectations for his return to GC. Whether it was flowers and applause, or doubts and questions and messes, he was ready despite the vast white fog and deep still waters.
Ye Kai also knew that this day would come.
He held the door handle and looked at Chen Youhan's back calmly, curled the corners of his lips slightly, and then helped him close the door gently.
When they went downstairs, Lan Man just came out of the workshop, looking like she had backaches and legs, and she had forgotten to take off her reading glasses. Ye Kai hurried over to rub her shoulders, and asked in a nice and flattering way, "Grandma, what did you say to Brother Youhan?"
Lan Man glanced at him and said, "Are you afraid that I will bully him?"
"Of course not!" He acted much more like a spoiled child in front of Lan Man and Qu Zhongli, "Grandma is the most gentle, the cutest and loves Brother Youhan the most. How could she possibly bully him?"
Lan Man tapped his forehead with her scallion-like fingertips: "Stop it, don't mess around tonight, do you hear me?"
Ye Kai nodded quickly, saying "yeah" repeatedly, and put his arm around Lan Man's shoulders and said, "Grandma, Youhan's mother passed away a long time ago. Can you change his fragrance? He won't be able to sleep."
Lan Man was startled, and with Ye Kai's help she went down the stairs and asked, "Why didn't you tell me yesterday?"
"I'm afraid you'll be disappointed."
Lan Man thought about it and said angrily, "How polite!"
The two sat down in the small side hall to drink tea. The golden sunlight just happened to shine in from the west, painting the classical furniture and carpets beautifully. The Mediterranean-style carved hanging spun yarn curtains were swaying in the air conditioning. Lan Man picked up a fashion magazine and asked while flipping through it: "When are you going back? Your mother called me today. She thought you were in Yunnan."
Ye Kai thought for a moment and said calmly, "Maybe the day after tomorrow."
Lan Man looked up at him, his eyes looking old but still clear through his reading glasses: "Aren't you afraid?"
Ye Kai laughed: "What are you afraid of? It's a waste to delay two years for something I wanted to do since I graduated from high school."
Lan Man lowered her head and flipped through the magazine again, lazily glancing at the model's outfit and accessories, and quickly scanning the exquisite and artificial copywriting and vocabulary. Judging from her stern eyes and slightly curled lips, it was another difficult issue to pass. After a while, she said calmly, "Call grandma if you have any questions."
Chen Youhan finished the meeting after more than an hour. The sun was about to set and it was not so hot outside. Ye Kai could not sit still and dragged two road bikes out of the warehouse to go around the lake with Chen Youhan. He leaned against the white fence to adjust the seat height. He took the white Polo shirt out of the closet. He didn't know when it was left here. Once he put it on, he looked like a high school student. He wore a black fisherman's hat on his head. The brim was not wide, and it didn't take long for his face to turn red from the sun. Chen Youhan was not stupid. He crossed his arms and leaned against the porch pillar to watch him toss.
After a while, Ye Kai ran back, took the ice sparkling water handed to him by Mary and drank half a glass.
The cold liquid flowed along the curve of the neck, across the rolling Adam's apple, and into the collar. Chen Youhan looked at him for a few more times before jokingly saying, "Comrade Pinocchio, I forgot to tell you, I--" He paused, curled his lips elegantly, and said regretfully, "I can't ride a bike."
Ye Kai was choked and stared at him while coughing. He didn't have time to realize what the Pinocchio joke was about.
"You can't ride a bike?" he asked again.
Chen Youhan confirmed the facts again.
Ye Kai found it incredible: "Don't you ride a motorcycle?"
Chen Youhan said coldly: "Two different things."
"Damn it," Ye Kai looked at him in shock, then exchanged glances with Mary: "Mary, have you ever seen someone who can't ride a bike?" Mary shook her head, and Ye Kai ran to the small living room like a gust of wind, his voice so loud that Chen Youhan could hear it clearly at the door: "Grandma! Chen Youhan can't ride a bike!" Not knowing what Lan Man said, he hurried to the study on the second floor, his footsteps seemed to shake the floor down. The window of Qu Zhongli's study was open, facing the garden, and Ye Kai's voice could be heard faintly: "Jesuschrist! Grandpa, do you know! Brother Youhan can't ride a bike!"
Chen Youhan touched his forehead under Mary's amused and complicated gaze. After a while, Lan Man and Qu Zhongli arrived at the lobby. He had to stand up straight and admitted again seriously and helplessly: "I really can't."
Ye Kai sighed and asked proudly, "Grandma, did I know how to do it when I was five?"
Lan Man nodded, and Chen Youhan clapped his hands in a respectful manner: "Amazing, smart, you are indeed a genius."
Lan Man pointed to the quiet road outside the door and said, "That's where I learned it."
Chen Youhan's nerves trembled, and he felt that something was wrong. Sure enough, the next second Ye Kai suddenly said, "Brother Youhan, let me teach you how to ride a bike!"
Lan Man and Qu Zhongli both said this was a good idea. Ye Kai struck while the iron was hot and said nonsense: "How can a person not know how to ride a bike! A life without knowing how to ride a bike is incomplete!"
Chen Youhan couldn't stand it anymore and turned away, thinking it was ridiculous. However, since his elders were present, he said in a restrained and cold manner, "Venus doesn't have any hands yet. Incompleteness is also a kind of beauty."
Ye Kai thought quickly and said to his back, "I want a cycling wedding!"
The scene suddenly became very quiet. Chen Youhan stopped walking, half turned around, and asked in disbelief, "What did you say?"
Ye Kai gritted his teeth and said: "A cycling wedding. Yes, we will lead the way in the front, and the guests will follow behind on bikes..." This is ridiculous. He felt embarrassed as he spoke, thinking to himself, what the hell am I talking about?
Qu Zhongli patted Lan Man on the shoulder. Lan Man looked at him, and the two of them supported each other and left secretly, holding back their laughter.
Chen Youhan took a deep breath, strode towards him, and lowered his voice: "Do you really want to see me make a fool of myself? Huh?"
Ye Kai lowered his eyes to avoid his interrogating gaze.
Chen Youhan smiled helplessly: "Don't bother with that." He leaned over and whispered in his ear: "Provocation is more effective."
Ye Kai fell into the trap again and asked ignorantly: "How to provoke me?"
Chen Youhan chuckled in his ear and slowly finished a sentence in a deeper and more magnetic voice close to his sensitive earlobe. The tone was cold and condescending, but Ye Kai seemed to be on fire all of a sudden.
His black pupils suddenly widened, and he was silent for a long while before saying softly, "...Okay."
Since they had made a bet, she was so distracted in teaching that she wished that Chen Youhan would never learn it in her life. She even deliberately dragged out Lanman's ladies' bicycle. It was white, with a retro design, a rattan basket in the front and a seat in the back. She had a lot of flowers at home, and sometimes she would fill a rattan basket and set up a stall on the street corner, asking for a price based on her mood, or bartering. The most interesting time was when a little girl sang a North American classical folk song to her, and she gave away a whole cart of flowers.
This car is out of tune with Chen Youhan, he can't even stretch his legs. As soon as he sat on it, Ye Kai laughed so hard that he had to hold on to the fence to stand steadily. He turned on the camera, the light was beautiful, Chen Youhan put his right hand in his pocket, his left elbow on the handbrake, and watched him lazily. The shutter was pressed, the picture froze, Ye Kai looked back, his playful smile slowly solidified, tenderness overflowed from his eyes. A series of bells rang in the quiet street at dusk, he looked up and saw Chen Youhan nonchalantly ringing the bell, "Are you still going to teach me?"
Ye Kai woke up as if from a dream. With his heart pounding, he ran over, put his arms around Chen Youhan's neck and kissed him.
The curtains on the second floor swayed, and with the sound of vinyl records, Lan Man danced quietly in the dusk, and slowly leaned her head on Qu Zhongli's shoulder. In the end, before the sun had time to set, Chen Youhan had learned this useless skill that "life would not be perfect if you don't know it." At night, his hands were tied to the head of the bed and he was tortured. He kept calling "husband" over and over again, which was the result of losing the bet. In his dizziness, he finally remembered with tears in his eyes, what was going on, why did he make a bet with Chen Youhan that was destined to lose?
At the most critical moment for him, Chen Youhan was still calm and condescending, and he didn't even take off his clothes. He had felt that something was wrong with Chen Youhan today, until he was on the verge of collapse, panting and teasing, "Baby, you and Lucas are not together at all, tell me, how should I punish you?"
Ye Kai's pupils dilated and he was sent directly to heaven.
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