Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Zhou Hai and Qiao Yang had known each other for so many years, and he knew what Qiao Yang was thinking almost as soon as Qiao Yang rolled his eyes.
Seeing Qiao Yang confronting Xue Jue without saying a word at this moment, Zhou Hai was so frightened that all the hairs on his body stood up. He hurriedly turned back and calmly held Qiao Yang’s arm.
“By the way, don’t you still have something to do? Let’s leave quickly before it’s too late.” Zhou Hai turned his head and winked at Qiao Yang from an angle that Xue Jue couldn’t see.
“…”
In the past, Qiao Yang would have listened to Zhou Hai’s words and left wisely, but now thinking of all the good things Zu Qi did for him, and all the bad things Xue Jue was said to have done to Zu Qi in the rumors, he suddenly felt confused. It was hard to calm down, and he wanted to break into the room and drag Zu Qi out.
In fact, if Zhou Hai hadn’t secretly held back Qiao Yang, he was afraid he would have done this with passion.
Taking two deep breaths, Qiao Yang finally forced himself to calm down. He was slightly half a head shorter than Xue Jue, but he seemed to be completely immersed in the shadow cast by Xue Jue.
“Brother Zhou, please go back first. I have something to ask Zu Qi.” Qiao Yang took his arm out of Zhou Hai’s and whispered to Zhou Hai.
“…Oh, why can’t we wait until tomorrow? Mr. Xue rarely comes over. We can’t just stay here and be light bulbs.” Zhou Hai insisted on pulling Qiao Yang away.
Qiao Yang didn’t want to leave and stared at Zhou Hai with raised eyebrows.
Zhou Hai’s chubby face had already wrinkled into a bitter melon. He looked at Qiao Yang with almost pleading eyes, and then made a “please please” gesture.
It was a pity that Qiao Yang didn’t want to receive the radio waves from Zhou Hai at all. He looked up at Xue Jue, who always showed no expression at all, and said calmly: “Where is Zu Qi? I want to see him.”
This sentence could be said to be unceremonious.
Zhou Hai’s head ached when he heard it, and he thought that if a paparazzi video was posted online at this time, Qiao’s modest, polite and approachable persona would be lost in the Pacific Ocean.
Taking advantage of his height advantage, Xue Jue glanced at Qiao Yang coolly, and then snorted coldly from his nose: “He’s not free.”
After saying that, Xue Jue nodded to Zhou Hai with a cold expression and stretched out his hand to close the door.
Qiao Yang quickly grabbed the door with quick eyes and hands. He then took a step forward with a cold face and almost squeezed out three words through his teeth: “Where is Zu Qi?”
Xue Jue lowered his eyes and looked at Qiao Yang’s stubborn expression. He raised a corner of his lips and sneered, “What on earth do you want to do?”
“I just want to see him.” By the way, to make sure he was safe, Qiao Yang didn’t dare to say the next sentence.
Hearing this, the smile on Xue Jue’s face became more meaningful. He smiled and said, “What if I don’t agree?”
“…” Qiao Yang didn’t seem to expect that Xue Jue would refuse so bluntly, and he opened his eyes in surprise. With big eyes, he didn’t know how to react for a moment.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Zhou Hai hurriedly stepped forward to stand between Xue Jue and Qiao Yang, fearing that they would fight on the spot if they didn’t like it.
Originally, Qiao Yang had no intention of breaking up with Xue Jue, but when he saw Xue Jue acting so aggressively, he felt a burning anger rushing to his head.
What was Xue Jue’s attitude?
Zu Qi and he were just married, and they didn’t sign a contract of betrayal. Why should he not only be mentally abused by Xue Jue, but also have their personal freedom restricted by him.
Thinking of this, Qiao Yang’s face turned cold. So, he gritted his teeth and said, “What if I have to see Zu Qi?”
Xue Jue raised his eyebrows: “You can give it a try.”
In a few words, the air was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.
Zhou Hai was horrified by what he saw. Just as he was hesitating whether to knock Qiao Yang unconscious on the spot and take him away, he suddenly heard a loud cry of a child coming from the room. Before Zhou Hai could react to what was going on, he saw Zu Qi walk out in a hurry.
A closer look revealed that Zu Qi was holding a crying child in his arms.
“Xue Jue!” Zu Qi shouted in a panic, stuffing the crying child into Xue Jue’s arms as if he had seen a life-saving straw, “Quickly coax him, he is crying again…”
Zu Qi sighed and looked very frustrated.
Xue Jue, who was originally exuding a cold aura, immediately calmed down his aura after hearing Zu Qi’s voice, and instantly became friendly and peaceful again.
“What’s wrong?” Xue Jue hugged Xue Wanwan, his voice so gentle that he seemed to have completely lost the indifference he had shown when he was confronting Qiao Yang just now.
Zu Qi scratched his head at a loss and said awkwardly: “Maybe I accidentally touched him just now and woke him up.”
In fact, it was not just a touch, but a slight pinch on Xue Wanwan’s face. It was just that Zu Qi was embarrassed to say it.
“It’s okay.” Xue Jue held Xue Wanwan with one hand and smiled and rubbed Zu Qi’s hair, comforting him, “The little guy has been very temperamental recently, and he will be fine after a while.”
Zu Qi opened his lips, as if he wanted to touch Xue Wanwan’s hand that was waving in the air, but he didn’t dare to do so, so he retracted his hand and muttered: “It’s okay…”
Facts proved that Xue Jue, a qualified father, indeed knew his son well, he only coaxed him for less than a minute before Xue Wanwan’s loud and loud voice gradually weakened until there was no sound behind him.
Zu Qi breathed a sigh of relief, raised his head and met Qiao Yang’s unspeakable gaze.
“Teacher Qiao?” Zu Qi smiled in surprise, “You guys are back so early? I heard that you were still going to go to the club to sing?”
Qiao Yang looked stiff, looking between Zu Qi and Xue Jue in disbelief. After going back and forth several times, his gaze finally landed on Xue Wanwan who had quickly fallen asleep in Xue Jue’s arms.
After a moment of pause, he seemed to understand something in an instant, and a touch of embarrassment appeared on his handsome face that was slightly reddish from alcohol.
“We changed our minds temporarily and came back.” After saying this, Qiao Yang fell silent. After a long time, he finally spoke with difficulty under the push of Zhou Hai next to him, “Then we won’t disturb you. See you tomorrow.” Before the last word fell, Qiao Yang had already jumped out of sight like a rabbit.
Zhou Hai smiled awkwardly and nodded towards Zu Qi and Xue Jue, then turned around and ran towards Qiao Yang who had already walked some distance away.
“…” Zu Qi watched as Qiao Yang and Zhou Hai disappeared from sight, and asked Xue Jue inexplicably, “What did you just talk about?”
“Reminiscing about the past.” Xue Jue said briefly and comprehensively, being interrupted one after another, the temperature on his face was already approaching freezing point.
Zu Qi asked: “Do you know each other?”
Xue Jue nodded solemnly: “Yes.”
“Ah?” Zu Qi was even more surprised, “When did you get to know each other?”
Xue Jue: “We just met.”
Zu Qi: “…”
What kind of acquaintance was this?
But since Xue Jue didn’t want to talk, Zu Qi didn’t ask any more questions.
After such a farce, they finally gave up their desire for romance.
In addition, Xue Wanwan needed someone to hold him at all times after waking up. So, Zu Qi and Xue Jue stood in the romantically decorated room and stared at each other for a while. Then Zu Qi sighed and said, “I’ll call the front desk and let them come up to clean up the room.”
Xue Jue looked at him with a straight face, then reluctantly nodded after a while.
After the hotel staff cleaned up the room, Zu Qi called Xiao Dengzi and Duan Kai, cut the cake and delivered them to everyone in the crew.
Everyone was surprised and happy, thinking that today was Xue Jue’s birthday. Hearing this, Zu Qi smiled and shook his head. He just said that he wanted to eat cake, so he asked Xue Jue to buy a cake.
Hearing this, for a time, everyone’s expressions became meaningful.
On the way back after delivering the cake, Duan Kai asked Xiao Dengzi to go first. He then called Zu Qi aside, frowned and asked, “Is today really Xue Jue’s birthday?”
“No…” Zu Qi was a little helpless and simply recounted the misunderstanding between him and Xue Jue.
After Duan Kai heard this, he showed a strange expression that seemed to be a smile but not a smile: “Xue Jue gave you a watch for your birthday this summer. How quickly did he forget about it?”
After Duan Kai reminded him, Zu Qi also remembered this. Thinking about it later, he did receive a birthday gift from Xue Jue within two months of coming to this world, but he had no interest in watches, so he just put it in the drawer.
At this time, recalling the conversation between him and Xue Jue in front of the cake, Zu Qi finally discovered where the feeling of something wrong in his heart came from –
Xue Jue’s words did not seem to be stated straightforwardly, as if he was carefully testing something… …
If Xue Jue really remembered his birth date incorrectly, he shouldn’t say that the original owner told him, right?
Suddenly, Zu Qi was confused.
“Brother Duan.” Zu Qi asked in a daze, “My birthday is in the summer, right?”
Duan Kai saw Zu Qi’s face turning pale, but didn’t know what he was thinking, so he could only answer truthfully: “Unless you haven’t lied before, it’s summer, and you just told me that you received a birthday gift not long ago, so these words are not false, right?”
Zu Qi bit his lip and said nothing.
Duan Kai noticed something was wrong: “What’s wrong?”
Zu Qi shook his head: “It’s nothing.”
Seeing this, Duan Kai didn’t ask any more questions, but lightly patted Zu Qi’s shoulder: “Don’t think too much, someone like Xue Jue who has an awkward temper and doesn’t show it to others may have brought a birthday cake because he couldn’t find a reason to visit the crew.”
Zu Qi replied absently: “I hope that’s all it is.”
….
Xue Jue’s arrival caused a huge stir in the crew.
The next morning, during the holiday, many people who had a good relationship with Zu Qi came to knock on the door. Seeing that Zu Qi was safe and sound, with no missing arms or legs, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and then found an excuse to open the door and slip away.
Zu Qi was confused, turned around to face Xue Jue’s gloomy face, and shrugged his shoulders: “I don’t know what happened to them today.”
Although Zu Qi didn’t know, Xue Jue knew very well, thinking of those people looking at him with a wolf-like gaze, he suddenly felt like he was going to have a myocardial infarction, but he couldn’t say anything yet.
Because in the eyes of many people, he had such an image where he liked to bully Zu Qi and use cold violence against Zu Qi…
Xue Jue felt that he was more unjustly treated than Dou E[1].
Since there was nothing to do in the morning, Zu Qi was going to take Xue Jue and Xue Wanwan to visit the film and television city. The two thus simply packed up and then pushed the folding stroller that Xue Jue had brought along to get ready to go out.
When passing the hotel lobby, they bumped into Director Wang who was coming back from outside.
Compared to his drunken appearance last night, Director Wang was completely sober at this moment, but he looked sluggish and lacked energy. So, he just waved to Zu Qi from a distance: “Xiao Zu!”
Zu Qi said with a smile: “Director Wang, good morning.”
Director Wang hurriedly came over and asked worriedly: “Xiao Zu, are you okay?” After saying that, he looked at Xue Jue who was pushing the stroller next to him.
Zu Qi: “…”
Even with his back to Xue Jue, he could clearly feel the sudden drop in air pressure around Xue Jue.
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[1] Dou E Yuan, commonly translated as The Injustice to Dou E, and also known as Snow in Midsummer, is a Chinese zaju play written by Guan Hanqing (c. 1241–1320) during the Yuan dynasty. The full Chinese title of the play is Gan Tian Dong Di Dou E Yuan, which roughly translates to The Injustice to Dou E that Touched Heaven and Earth.
The story follows a child bride turned widow, Dou E, who is wrongly convicted of crimes by a corrupt court official for actions perpetrated by a rejected suitor, Zhang the mule. After her execution, three prophesied phenomena occur to prove her innocence, including blood raining from the sky, snow in June and a three-year drought. After a visit from the ghost of Dou E, her father eventually brings the corrupt court official, a doctor and Mule Zhang to justice, thereby vindicating his daughter.