Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Lu Chengyu didn’t expect to meet classmates when he went out to play. He looked at Chen Ya, who was wearing light makeup. In just a few months, the other party had lost a lot of the immaturity of a school student and slowly transformed into a member of society. He had never liked any girl in his previous life, but Chen Ya was the type he admired very much. She was not arrogant or impatient, knew what she wanted, and got her happy life.
“I haven’t seen you for several months. It seems that you have been doing well recently,” Chen Ya took a step back, looked Lu Chengyu up and down, and said with a smile, “My mother was still praising you a few days ago, saying that you usually call to care about her and my father’s health, which is better than me as a daughter.” She had been on a business trip recently. And when she came back, she heard her mother praising Lu Chengyu for being warm and considerate, which made her as a daughter feel a little embarrassed.
“Auntie is always very energetic on the phone. Basically, I feel relieved when I hear her voice.” Lu Chengyu knew what kind of personality Chen Ya’s mother Auntie Du had. When he was in the most difficult time in his previous life, this auntie often asked Uncle Chen to bring him food. She was still concerned about his marriage a week before his death.
Chen Ya nodded and said, “My mother is just like that. If we were destined to be together, I’m afraid your status would surpass mine.”
“Sister Ya is so beautiful and capable now. The good men chasing you can line up from Beijing to the seaside. Don’t waste it on a toad like me,” Lu Chengyu pointed to the top of his head with a smile, “I’m afraid God won’t be able to see it.”
“That’s right,” Chen Ya crossed her arms, stepped on thin high heels, and raised her chin like a queen, “You should go and harm other women.”
“Okay, Queen.” Lu Chengyu cooperated and saluted. When he looked up again, the two laughed at the same time, and the past disappeared in the laughter.
Chen Ya looked at the man with a gentle smile in front of her. Which woman hadn’t had a crush on one or two impossible men in her life? Turn around and let go. Maybe the next person she met would be the one that suited her best.
“Xiao Lu, is this your friend?” When Yan Mu walked over, he just heard Lu Chengyu calling Chen Ya “Queen”. He walked to Lu Chengyu and stood shoulder to shoulder, while nodding to Chen Ya, “Hello, I’m Xiao Lu’s colleague.”
“Hello,” Chen Ya noticed that the person in front of her had an unusual aura and guessed that it might be Lu Chengyu’s boss. She was worried that she would cause trouble for Lu Chengyu, so she said very politely, “I’m Lu Chengyu’s classmate. I just happened to meet him. I don’t know if I disturbed you.”
“We have come out to play too. Since you are Xiao Lu’s classmate, why don’t you come sit together,” Yan Mu tilted his head to look at Lu Chengyu, “Why don’t you invite your classmate to sit together?”
“Thank you, but no, we were just chatting casually,” Chen Ya realized that this boss seemed to have a good relationship with Lu Chengyu, and her expression became much more natural. Then she smiled and pointed in a direction, “Our whole family is still waiting for me over there, I’ll go first.”
Seeing that Chen Ya really had no intention of staying, Lu Chengyu said, “Please say hello to uncle and aunt for me.”
“No problem, come to my house when you have time,” Chen Ya nodded, said goodbye to Yan Mu, and walked away slowly on her high heels.
Yan Mu looked at Chen Ya’s back and slowly said, “Your classmate looks pretty good.” He could sense the meaning of Chen Ya’s actions just now. Although he didn’t like her words about inviting Lu Chengyu to her house, he couldn’t deny that this kind of woman was attractive to many men.
After hearing this, Lu Chengyu glanced at Yan Mu up and down with a scrutinizing look, and said hesitantly, “Uncle and aunt prefer a son-in-law with a gentle personality and more expressive expressions.” He looked away, looked up at the sky and said, “But if you really want to, I can also say some good things for you.”
Yan Mu was silent for a long time: “I don’t mean that, I don’t like this kind of thing.”
Lu Chengyu nodded with a smile: “I understand.”
Yan Mu saw that he was smiling and knew that he didn’t take what he just said to heart, and frowned slightly, “I’m really not interested.”
“I really understand,” Lu Chengyu saw that Yan Mu really didn’t have that intention towards Chen Ya, and said with a smile, “It’s a joke, boss, don’t take it to heart,” he pointed in the direction of the toilet, “Are you going to the toilet?”
Yan Mu nodded very calmly: “Yes.”
“Then I won’t bother you,” Lu Chengyu waved his hand, watched Yan Mu walk towards the toilet, then turned around and went back to his seat.
Seeing Lu Chengyu coming back, Zhuang Yu pretended to be nonchalant and said, “Your classmate looks pretty and has a bit of charm.”
Lu Chengyu knew that Zhuang Yu liked beautiful women and was also very fickle, so he immediately looked at him warily, “My classmate doesn’t like fickle men.”
Zhuang Yu’s mouth twitched, “I think you seem to have misunderstood something.”
Lu Chengyu looked at him with a smile, “I just said it casually, I don’t mean anything else.” He looked like you say it, I will listen, but I will definitely not believe it.
“Forget it,” Zhuang Yu waved his hand, “I prefer big breasted girls.”
Lu Chengyu nodded: “Oh.”
Zhuang Yu: “…”
After three o’clock in the afternoon, when the sun was not so hot, the three ran to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables.
Zhuang Yu looked at the vegetable garden surrounded by the fence and with a strange smell, and his feet hesitated. He then turned around and saw that Yan Mu and Lu Chengyu had already entered. He couldn’t help but say, “Hey, I say you really want to do it yourself?”
Yan Mu bent down to pull out a green vegetable, then he looked up and said to Zhuang Yu, “I didn’t think you will ask such a question.”
Zhuang Yu’s mouth twitched, it appeared! Brother Mu’s sarcasm skill appeared!
“The phrase ‘asking knowingly’ has a derogatory meaning in a specific environment,” Yan Mu pulled up another small green vegetable and shook off the mud on the root neatly, “This is in the scope of the Chinese textbook for elementary school students.”
Zhuang Yu silently entered the vegetable field and wiped his face. Perhaps his biggest mistake was not asking knowingly, but being heard by Brother Mu when he was talking to Xiao Lu about big breasted girls.
If someone said how handsome others were in front of the girl he liked, he… would also be unhappy?
Thinking of this, he suddenly felt that Brother Mu was more pitiful than himself, a pitiful secret admirer who dared not confess. He couldn’t fall to the same level as such a pitiful person.
Because of the content of the conversation, Lu Chengyu couldn’t help but look up at the two of them. When he found that Zhuang Yu actually had a smile on his face, he couldn’t help thinking, the world of rich people is really weird. He can be so happy when being insulted by his friends. What kind of disease is this?
Several people played in the farmhouse until the evening, and after dinner, they prepared to go home. Lu Chengyu arrived at the parking lot and was about to open the car door when he saw Yan Mu walking towards him. So he stopped opening the door and asked in confusion, “Boss, is there anything else?”
Yan Mu touched his suit pocket inconspicuously, avoiding Lu Chengyu’s puzzled eyes. “I heard that the movie sold very well. I asked someone to book two tickets for me yesterday. If you haven’t seen it, can you go with me to see it?”
Seeing the other party’s serious expression, he thought it was a big deal. After listening, he smiled and said, “It just so happens that I am going to watch this movie, so I can save a movie ticket.” He actually had an internal ticket in his hand, but the boss had prepared it. If he said that he had an internal ticket, wouldn’t it be troublesome?
“Well, the company’s product sales have increased significantly in recent days. This movie has a great influence.” Yan Mu took out the movie ticket from his pocket and gave it to Lu Chengyu. “Let’s go.”
Lu Chengyu suddenly realized that it was because of the sales. He said that Yan Mu didn’t seem to be someone who would be interested in this kind of movie. Seeing that he seemed to be ready to take his own car, he didn’t ask much, opened the passenger door for him, turned around and opened the driver’s door, started the car and rushed in the direction of the cinema.
Yan Mu sat quietly in the passenger seat, looking at Lu Chengyu’s profile, and turned his head after a while, looking at the flashing neon lights on both sides of the street. He didn’t know why he inexplicably fell in love with this same-sex man who was six or seven years younger than him, but he didn’t think it was shocking, nor did he think it was something that should make him embarrassed.
In this life, how many people could you meet that you really liked?
“There used to be a hot pot restaurant on this road that tasted very good, but the boss is not running the store now,” Lu Chengyu saw Yan Mu didn’t say anything while waiting for the traffic light, so he started to find a topic to liven up the atmosphere. “How long was the boss abroad, and how do hot pot restaurants abroad taste?” His parents especially liked to come here to eat hot pot, and after the boss left, they still talked about it several times.
“I was abroad for seven or eight years,” Yan Mu looked at the pedestrians coming and going on the street, turned his head and saw a trace of nostalgia on Lu Chengyu’s face, as if this street reminded him of something. He wanted to say something to make the other person feel better, but he didn’t know what to say, so he had to say, “The hot pot outside doesn’t taste good. After I came back, I almost had gastrointestinal problems because I liked domestic hot pot too much.”
“Boss, you also had such an embarrassing moment?” Lu Chengyu looked at Yan Mu with some surprise, and when he saw that the traffic light had changed, he said while driving, “It’s unbelievable.”
“This is normal, almost all people who return from abroad will think that domestic food is the most delicious in the world,” Yan Mu saw that Lu Chengyu’s expression had recovered, and continued to talk about some of his embarrassing things abroad, “A friend once brought a bag of hot pot base from China, and we were reluctant to finish it all at once.”
“On TV, rich people always use airplanes to transport delicious fruits and other things, but they can still be greedy for a bag of hot pot base?” Lu Chengyu said with a smile, “Boss, you are too down-to-earth.”
Yan Mu thought for a while: “There are not many people around me who do this kind of thing. Even if there are, they are not in the same circle as us.”
Lu Chengyu sighed: “I have been deceived by the rich people in novels and TV dramas again.”
“Those rich people on TV may be a little noisy, but if there are such people,” Yan Mu comforted, “Don’t take them too seriously.”
“Pfft,” Lu Chengyu laughed, “I don’t care.”
Yan Mu’s serious personality was sometimes really interesting. He had to sigh again that such a good man was still single after eight years, it was really a sin.
When they arrived at the cinema, the movie was about to start. After getting their tickets checked, the two went in and found their seats and sat down. Although the big screen was still playing advertisements, the surroundings were almost full of people.
Lu Chengyu said to Yan Mu with some emotion: “It’s already past ten o’clock at night, and there are still so many people.”
Sitting next to him was a young woman holding a large bucket of popcorn, the young girl turned her head and looked at him after hearing Lu Chengyu’s words: “Don’t say now, this play is almost sold out till midnight.”
“So popular?” Lu Chengyu looked surprised, “Is it so exaggerated?”
“I haven’t watched it either, but my friends mentioned how popular this movie is on Weibo every day, so I came to see it.” The girl looked at Lu Chengyu and Yan Mu, but when she saw that the movie was about to start, she stopped talking and waited for the movie to start.
The movie started with a bustling street sewer entrance, and a hand that just stretched out, but fell down the next second. Just when everyone thought it was a thriller, the camera turned to the sewer, and a disheveled man was lying at the bottom of the gutter, holding his waist and cursing in non-standard Mandarin: “Go to your thief God!” As soon as the voice fell, heavy rain suddenly poured down.
Listening to the laughter coming from all around, Lu Chengyu looked at Yan Mu who had a serious expression beside him. He felt that he was sitting at the intersection of two worlds. On one side was a group of people laughing, and on the other side was Yan Mu with a studying expression.
Some people watched movies to kill time or promote the relationship between couples. His boss watched movies to study why a small plot could affect sales.
Was this the difference between successful people and ordinary people?
From the beginning of the movie to now, the whole cinema had been laughing continuously. Even Lu Chengyu, who had already watched it once, was amused by some plots several times, but Yan Mu still sat upright and did not show the slightest smile.
“If you have nothing to do, please stand up.” On the big screen, the young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses bent slightly, with his white palms stretched forward, which was out of tune with the bustling crowd. When his handsome face and the embarrassed male protagonist appeared in the same shot, it formed a very sharp contrast.
Lu Chengyu listened to the little screams of girls coming from behind, and silently touched his face. The lighting of this movie was good, and he was shot to look a lot more handsome.
After getting into the car, the rich and handsome man with a smile took out a fine handkerchief from the pocket of his casual suit and wiped his hands vigorously several times, even though the embarrassed male protagonist hadn’t touched him at all.
After wiping his hands, he threw the handkerchief aside with a look of disgust, quickly started the car, and left without looking back.
At the back of the car, the male protagonist held a one-dollar coin and ran happily to buy steamed buns.
At the end, the camera gave a clear shot of the rear of the rich and handsome car. It turned out that there was a black handprint on the rear of the car, which was out of tune with that car worth tens of millions, but it was unexpectedly funny.
Some people in the audience laughed again, but Yan Mu spoke up at this time, frowning and saying, “If this kind of thing really happens, the car owner can hold the person accountable.”
Lu Chengyu was still admiring his handsome shot. When he heard Yan Mu’s words, he realized that he was speaking up for the role he was playing, so he smiled and said, “This is the effect of movie creation. Don’t take it seriously. In reality, who would dare to touch such an expensive car? Wouldn’t that be asking for trouble?”
Yan Mu heard someone behind him praising the role played by Lu Chengyu for being handsome and was silent for a moment: “They are right.”
“What?” Lu Chengyu asked in confusion.
“You look good in glasses,” Yan Mu looked straight at the screen, “It suits you very well.”
Lu Chengyu touched his chin: “Really? This is all thanks to the cameraman, lighting master, and post-production.”
Oh, he was really embarrassed to be praised by the big boss.
The movie ended with laughter. Lu Chengyu and Yan Mu walked out of the cinema. Looking at the couples behaving intimately around them, he sighed, “We are surrounded by couples.”
Yan Mu looked at him puzzledly: “Surrounded by couples?”
Thinking that the other party did not understand his self-mockery, he said, “It’s okay, I’ll take you home.”
“Okay, thank you for your trouble.” Yan Mu nodded, hiding the emotions in his eyes. After getting in the car, he reported his address.
“Mingchong Community?” This place was a gathering place for dignitaries. If the people there had ordinary family backgrounds, they would be embarrassed to say hello to others when they went out.
The community with such a majestic and domineering name must be strictly managed. He immediately sighed, “I think my car may be stopped by the guard.”
“No,” Yan Mu paused and added, “I’m here.”
Lu Chengyu laughed and drove the car a distance away before saying, “Boss, fortunately I’m not a girl.”
Yan Mu turned his head and looked at him.
“If you talk to a girl like this, she will misunderstand you.” Lu Chengyu turned the car around, so he didn’t see Yan Mu’s expression change when he said this. By the time he drove into another road, Yan Mu’s expression had already returned to normal.
When Lu Chengyu drove his small Pentium worth less than 100,000 yuan to Mingchong Community, Yan Mu rolled down the window. The guard saw him and opened the electronic door for vehicles to pass through.
This community was built by the river, and almost all of the houses here were single-family houses and villas with gardens. When Lu Chengyu’s car drove to the door of Yan Mu’s house, looking at the small garden and garage equipped in the small villa, he thought that the developer of the place where he lived had also called it a high-end community, and this place was also called a high-end community, but the difference was too big.
Yan Mu got out of the car, turned around and walked to Lu Chengyu’s car window and said, “It’s late, stay here today and go back tomorrow.”
Lu Chengyu stuck his head out of the car window, shook his head and said, “No, it won’t take much time to get back from here. Anyway, I won’t go to work until the day after tomorrow, so it doesn’t matter if I sleep a little late tonight.”
“Okay, be careful on the road.” Yan Mu stepped back a few steps, watched Lu Chengyu back up the car, then stretched his hand out of the window to gesture goodbye to him. The corners of his mouth moved, and finally he watched the Pentium car disappear in his sight.
He stood there for a while, then he took out his mobile phone and called Zhang Zeyun.
“Zeyun, did you put the fish you brought back for me today in the refrigerator?”
“Okay, thank you.”
When he got home and turned on the lights in the living room, there were traces of cleaning by the hourly worker in the spacious living room. He changed his shoes and walked to the refrigerator. He opened the refrigerator door. In addition to two more fish, there was also a bunch of small green vegetables, which they picked together after four o’clock in the afternoon.
After closing the refrigerator door, he touched his pocket and found that the movie ticket he bought today was still there. He looked at the movie ticket several times, then he stood up and went back to the bedroom.
If only there was one more Lu Chengyu in this room.
As soon as Lu Chengyu got home, he turned on the computer to check the Liang family’s affairs. Sure enough, Liang’s had already started to ask some people to spread some remarks on the Internet that Liang’s was honest and could correct their mistakes. Some people even deliberately exposed other companies’ problems and how they evaded responsibility, in order to highlight Liang’s responsibility and create a positive image of the big company.
Although Liang’s online crisis public relations response was a little slow, this method worked well, provided that the Liang family had not said those words blaming netizens before.
Because of the Liang family’s previous behavior, the public relations effect was greatly discounted. Basically, if someone said something good about Liang’s, they would be asked by netizens in a friendly manner: Is Liang’s salary high? If you want to work for them, how high are their requirements for acting skills?
Lu Chengyu looked at these remarks and couldn’t help laughing. Then he heard the phone on the table ringing. He picked it up and found that it was Yan Mu’s call.
“Boss?”
“I’m home,” Lu Chengyu smiled, “It’s okay, don’t worry.”
After hanging up the phone, Lu Chengyu put the phone aside, shook his head and said to himself: “I didn’t expect that even though the boss looks serious, but he is very thoughtful.”
Sometimes people’s appearance and inner heart had many inconsistencies, which was normal. But for Yan Mu, the difference was too big. Even after working in the hotel for several years in his previous life, he might not have been able to see through to his true nature when he met someone like Yan Mu. But if such a person could open his heart, he would definitely become a good friend who could touch the heavenly dynasty.
No longer thinking about Yan Mu, Lu Chengyu posted some scraps about the Liang family on the Internet, such as how many girlfriends Liang Deyou had in the past and how domineering his personality was.
“If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked.” Lu Chengyu felt that the most amazing thing about Liang Deyou was not that he actually managed the Liang family later, but that such a philandering person actually nurtured such a seed of infatuation for Chen Jin.
In his cognition, those rich second-generations who were not afraid of playing with both men and women would generally find a suitable person to marry, and then the two would play their own games. As for words such as infatuation and loyalty, they were mosaics in their life dictionary, and they couldn’t be found even with a high-powered electron microscope.
Liang Deyou was able to stop his messy thoughts for Chen Jin. He didn’t know whether he should say that Chen Jin was capable enough or Liang Deyou was infatuated enough.
Opening Weibo and watching his number of fans increase by hundreds of thousands, he thought for a while and sent a Weibo.
“Niannian Youyou: Today is the second to last day of the National Day holiday. Students who have not completed their homework during the holiday should hurry up and complete it. You must believe that you cannot become a top student by scrolling through Weibo, and your homework will not be completed automatically.”
In fact, it was also interesting to occasionally remind these fans to study hard and watch “Day Day Up”. After turning off the computer, Lu Chengyu called the producer and director Zhang and asked them to help invite the entire crew to the Jiahua Hotel for the celebration banquet. After receiving a positive reply, he hung up the phone.
He would continue to invest in this area in the future, so he should show the right attitude, such as giving each person a red envelope in addition to the originally agreed salary and remuneration.
Although it cost more money, at least they could have a good relationship, so that it would be easier to do things in the future.
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