Chapter 43 Like Men
At seven o'clock in the morning, Qi Xing opened his eyes and was confused for a few seconds. When he realized that he was still at Ye Xingzhou's house, he immediately got out of bed and rushed to the bathroom without caring about the pain in his body.
If he doesn't go home, his parents will really come to beat him up.
After taking a quick shower and washing up, he went downstairs and saw Ye Xingzhou eating breakfast. Qi Xing rushed forward and stuffed a steamed bun into his mouth: "Quick, take me home, no, take me to your company. My car is still there. I have to go home immediately after I get the car."
Ye Xingzhou looked up and saw the funny expression on his face, then handed him a glass of milk and said, "Sit down and have breakfast first."
Qi Xing nearly choked on the steamed bun in his mouth. He sat down reluctantly and thought, just eat it. It won’t take too long.
He turned on his phone which had been turned off all night and opened WeChat.
In the middle of the night, his mother sent him a message asking him to go back as soon as he got up in the morning.
Qi Xing frowned: "Whose phone did you use to send messages to my parents yesterday? What did you say?"
Ye Xingzhou: "I called your dad and told him that you were coming to the company to deliver documents. We'll have dinner together in the evening. If you're drunk, stay at my house for one night."
Qi Xing: "...My dad believed it?"
"Why don't you believe it?" Ye Xingzhou was not embarrassed at all, "Unless you feel guilty."
——How can you be so embarrassed?
Who lied to him last night and said that he was messaging his parents at a friend’s house? You didn’t say it was your friend!
Qi Xing didn't say anything when the words came to his lips. Ye Xingzhou has always been thicker-skinned than a city wall. This is not the first time he has known this, so forget it.
After breakfast, Ye Xingzhou held the man down and applied some medicine before he was willing to take him out.
It was not yet eight o'clock when they arrived at the Ye's building. Ye Xingzhou got off the car with Qi Xing in the underground parking lot. Qi Xing waved to him and said, "Go to work. Don't worry about me."
Ye Xingzhou stood beside his car without moving. Qi Xing got in the car, started the car, rolled down the window, and poked his head out: "Why don't you get in?"
"Going back to your hometown today?" Ye Xingzhou suddenly asked.
Qi Xing nodded: "It's already February 28th, and the Chinese New Year will be here in two days."
Ye Xingzhou looked at him for a moment, then bent down and kissed him through the car door.
Qi Xing was caught off guard and was kissed. Ye Xingzhou's tongue pushed into his mouth, stirring it forcefully. When Qi Xing impatiently tried to push him away, the kiss turned into an intimate entanglement. Qi Xing's breath became unstable from the kiss, so he simply gave up resisting and let him kiss him.
Anyway, it's in public, and that's his Ye's office building. Ye Xingzhou is not afraid of being embarrassed, so what is he afraid of?
After the kiss, Ye Xingzhou still didn't pull away, his lips pressed against hers and they panted softly. Qi Xing sneered and reminded him: "What would your company's employees' expressions be if they saw your big boss kissing a man here?"
Although it is still early, there are few people in the parking lot and their location is relatively remote, but what if? What’s more, there are cameras everywhere.
Ye Xingzhou looked at him calmly.
The distance was so close that Qi Xing could clearly see the man's eyes, which were filled with his own shadow.
That subtle emotion came up again, and he retracted his head into the car: "No more kissing, I'm leaving."
Ye Xingzhou raised his chin slightly: "Have a good trip."
Qi Xing couldn't stand his clingy attitude anymore, so he quickly rolled up the car window to shield his face from outside the car.
After the car drove out, he looked in the rearview mirror again at the person who was still standing there.
This bastard Ye Xingzhou is getting weirder and weirder.
He is just going back to his hometown to celebrate the New Year, why is it like this?
But then again, Chinese New Year is only two days away, how is this bastard going to celebrate? Are you alone?
Qi Xing thought about it and shook his head...Why should he feel uncomfortable? It was none of his business.
Putting aside all those complicated thoughts, he stepped on the accelerator and drove the car out of Ye's underground parking lot.
When he got home, his parents were waiting for him. Qi Xing felt a little guilty, so he walked in and asked cautiously if they were leaving now. Qi Ronghua glanced at him, said nothing, and called the driver to get ready to leave.
Wang Cuilan scolded him for a while, and suddenly seemed to notice something, so she came closer to look at his face: "What's wrong with your face? Why is the skin broken, and there is a red spot here? Did you fight with someone again?"
"No," Qi Xing said immediately, "I was drunk last night and fell while walking. I hit my face. It wasn't a fight."
Upon hearing this, Wang Cuilan felt sorry for her son again and kept asking him if he was still in pain and if he had fallen anywhere else. Qi Xing responded with a few perfunctory questions.
Qi Ronghua's eyes moved around his face twice. Qi Xing felt more and more uncomfortable when his father looked at him. He looked away and smiled at his mother: "Mom, I'll help you with your luggage."
He suspected that his father had seen something, but his father obviously did not intend to ask directly, so he could only pretend to be ignorant.
Afterwards, the family took a bus back to their hometown in the neighboring province, a prefecture-level city with an underdeveloped economy.
Qi Ronghua's business in Huaicheng has been growing over the years, and he hasn't taken his wife and children back to his hometown to celebrate the New Year for a long time. This year, an uncle who used to take care of him was going to celebrate his birthday, so he took this opportunity to come back with his family.
The home of this great uncle Qi Xing was even in a village below the city. After spending two days in the village, Qi Xing felt like a fish in water and had a great time. He immediately forgot who Ye Xingzhou was and never contacted him again.
Until the night of New Year's Eve, he followed a group of children outside to set off fireworks boxes. Suddenly he remembered that the poor little Ye Xingzhou had probably never played with this, so he took a photo and sent it to him.
When the photos on WeChat came in, Ye Xingzhou was at the Ye family's main home, lazily sitting alone on a single sofa. Opposite him, a circle of people were standing or sitting, led by the uncle who acted like the patriarch of the family. They were asking him for an explanation, or rather, criticizing him.
"It's a great shot, have fun."
"Where are you? Are you spending the New Year alone at home? So pitiful [crying loudly]"
"At the Ye family."
"Wow, you're still spending the New Year with those black-hearted people [Shocked.jpg]"
"Just to watch a show."
“[Applause][Applause][Applause]”
Qi Xing liked to add expressions to every reply. Ye Xingzhou was amused by his few words and raised the corners of his lips.
The others saw that Ye Xingzhou, who had just ignored them, suddenly smiled, but was looking at his phone, as if he didn't care about them. They couldn't help but feel more indignant. Uncle Ye knocked the ground with his cane: "Xingzhou, did you hear what we said?"
Ye Xingzhou raised his eyes nonchalantly, the smile on his lips faded, his expression cold: "I heard it."
Uncle Ye: "What do you mean?"
Ye Xingzhou: "It's boring, and I don't agree."
Uncle Ye: “You——!”
Of course, this family did not gather together to have a reunion dinner. In fact, Uncle Ye was using the name of Ye Xingzhou's dead father to demand that Ye Xingzhou must come back tonight to pay homage, otherwise Ye Xingzhou would not have come at all.
These people just wanted him to give them a chance to live and not kill all the Ye family members. However, they still put on a high-handed attitude and used the so-called family reputation and bullshit family ties to hold him hostage, and even proposed to let Ye Wanqing and Ye Wanqi's brother Ye Wanyao return to the head office.
But Ye Xingzhou didn't even want to pretend. He directly rejected their request and there was no room for negotiation.
"Don't go too far. We all have a stake in this company. It's not just yours. Do you really think you can cover the sky with one hand?"
Ye Wanqing gritted his teeth. He had pretended to be the grandson in front of Ye Xingzhou for so long, but in the end he didn't get any benefit at all and was kicked out of the company in public with disgrace. He wished he could tear Ye Xingzhou to pieces, but unfortunately things were different now. Ye Xingzhou was no longer an "honest man" that anyone could step on at will.
Ye Xingzhou glanced at him coldly: "If Ye Wanyao feels uncomfortable staying abroad, he can resign and leave the company. I am not capable of covering the sky with one hand. I can't stop him from going wherever he wants after leaving Ye's, and I won't stop him."
"Does it have to be like this? We are all members of the Ye family..."
Uncle Ye tried to persuade him with all his heart and played the emotional card, but Ye Xingzhou didn't buy it and interrupted him directly: "I have something else to do tonight, so I won't have dinner. If you don't have anything else to say, I'll leave first."
When Ye Wanqing stood up, he raised his voice and asked him, "I went to see my mother yesterday. Why didn't they let me in to see her? I'm her biological son, but I can't even go to see her? What do you want to do?"
Ye Xingzhou reminded him indifferently: "It was you who signed the document yourself to send your mother to the sanatorium. The sanatorium has its own rules and regulations. It's useless for you to ask me."
As soon as the words came out, everyone in the room was in an uproar. Uncle Ye frowned and looked at Ye Wanqing in surprise.
Ye Wanqing's face flushed red in an instant, and his eyes widened. It was obvious from his reaction that what Ye Xingzhou said was the truth. Perhaps it was Ye Xingzhou who instigated the hint, but the one who sent the person in personally was indeed Ye Wanqing, his good son.
Most of the Ye family members are good-for-nothings, but there is someone like Ye Wanqing who, in order to please Ye Xingzhou, actually signed a document to send his own mother to a "nursing home". He is truly heartless.
Ye Xingzhou is heartless, and Ye Wanqing is a complete beast.
The old man, who always valued the family's reputation more than anything else, was so angry at the misfortune that he didn't even have the face to teach Ye Xingzhou a lesson anymore.
Ye Wanqing's face turned red and his neck became thick. He stammered for a long time without saying anything. He was exposed by Ye Xingzhou in public for his beastly deeds. He was embarrassed and his expression was gloomy and almost ferocious. He couldn't say a word of rebuttal.
Ye Xingzhou was too lazy to pay attention to him and the other people in the room, so he just left, and no one dared to stop him.
When walking out of the Ye family’s gate, Qi Xingxin sent him a photo. It was a selfie of him holding a firework stick and making a face.
The fireworks sparkled brightly, and Qi Xing, with only half of his smiling face visible from behind, was even more dazzling.
Ye Xingzhou paused, stared at the photo on the screen for a moment, and clicked save.
After teasing Ye Xingzhou, Qi Xing contentedly put away his phone and continued to set off the fireworks box until his mother called him back to the house.
The elders in the room all looked at him with smiles on their faces. Qi Xing had a strange feeling: "... Is there something wrong?"
Wang Cuilan called him to sit next to her and told him excitedly that she would take him to the city to meet a girl tomorrow. She asked him to think about how he should behave tomorrow so as not to embarrass himself when they met.
Qi Xing: “Huh?”
To put it bluntly, it's a blind date.
The introducer was one of his cousins who was present at the meeting. She smiled and said that the girl was a niece of her sister-in-law, 25 years old, who had just graduated with a doctorate from a prestigious foreign university and also worked in Huaicheng. She was quite pretty and happened to be back for the New Year so they could meet her and just make friends.
Qi Xing was completely speechless.
Qi Ronghua looked at him coldly: "Why are you still not satisfied? She's a 25-year-old doctor, and you can't even catch up with her. What are you dissatisfied with?"
"Why did you ask me to meet her when you know I can't even catch up with you?" Qi Xing grumbled in dissatisfaction, "I'm only 23 years old, do I need to rush for a blind date? I'm younger than her, I'm far less educated than her, and I'm useless. What can she see in me?"
Unless you are attracted by his family's money or his face.
My cousin's aunt smiled and said, "Xiao Xing, you are pretty. Girls only look at appearance. She was reluctant at first, but after seeing your photo, she agreed to meet you."
Qi Xing: “…”
I really like his face.
"I'm not going."
Qi Ronghua frowned: "Why not go?"
Qi Xing: "If I'm not going, I'm not going. I don't want to go, I don't want to go on blind dates, and I don't want to have a girlfriend."
Qi Ronghua: "How can you not have a girlfriend or get married when you are old enough? Are you just like you, doing nothing all day long, just hanging out outside drinking and fighting with others? Look at what you look like!"
Qi Xing guessed that his father had been holding this grudge for several days, so he didn't argue: "Anyway, I'm not going."
Wang Cuilan quickly pushed her son's arm and tried to smooth things over: "It's okay to meet him. It doesn't mean you have to do anything. What's wrong with making more friends?"
Qi Xing: “No.”
Qi Ronghua was so angry that he almost threw the teacup at him: "You have to go if I tell you to. You have no choice."
"You guys go by yourselves. I won't go. Even if you tie me up, I won't go." Qi Xing was adamant and refused to give in. It was not that he couldn't fool his parents, but it was pointless. He could fool them for a while, but not for life.
Wang Cuilan: "You are such a stubborn kid. What's so stubborn about this matter..."
"Mom, I really don't want to go." Qi Xing insisted.
Wang Cuilan: "What's the reason? You must have a reason for not wanting to go, right?"
Qi Xing glanced at his father and said nothing more.
Qi Ronghua was furious and glared at Qi Xing, but considering the other people present, he did not lose his temper on the spot.
Seeing that the atmosphere between the father and son was not right, the relatives in the room stood up and said goodbye.
The cousin who introduced them also helped to smooth things over before she left: "If Xiaoxing really doesn't want to go, forget it. It's all my fault. You two should stop being unhappy during the New Year."
Qi Xing lowered his head and said nothing. The screen of the phone in his hand lit up for a moment, and a new message from Ye Xingzhou came in: "Are you still setting off fireworks?"
Qi Xing pressed the black screen and did not reply.
After there were no outsiders around, Qi Ronghua spoke again: "Are you going or not?"
"No," Qi Xing raised his head and looked at his father. He paused and finally told the truth, "Dad, I won't go. I don't want to harm others. I like men and I can't change it."
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