Title: 不正经关系 (Improper Relationship)
Author：御小凡 (Yu Xiaofan)
Translator: K (@kin0monogatari)
Protagonists ：严海安 (Yan Hai’an – MC), 孙言 (Sun Yan – ML)
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Yan Hai’an gave himself a long vacation and accompanied the father and son for more than half a month. Thanks to Su Yin’s painstaking efforts, the itinerary was very rich and went on smoothly. All the bad things that could be encountered during the trip were not encountered.
According to Su Yin’s arrangement, it is not a problem to even hang out for another half month, but Yan Haijian proposed to go back home.
“Let’s hang around for a few more days.” Yan Hai’an hadn’t seen his family for a long time. When he heard that his brother wanted to leave, he felt a little reluctant and subconsciously wanted to keep him close. “Yan Jin and you rarely come out here.”
“No.” Yan Haijian smiled, but his habit of frowning made his smile look a little reluctant at any time. “Mom. That old woman has no one to help her take care of things at the house. Thank you for these past few days. It had been a long time. I’ve never seen Xiao Jin look so happy.”
Yan Jin’s mother had passed away early. Yan Haijian has to take care of the elderly, his own young son, and also a younger brother who is studying in a big city. With such a big financial burden, no woman wants to jump into the fire pit of their house to help him carry it together. So he kept fighting on as a single parent. In the past few years, Yan Hai’an kept sending money to his family, which made Yan Haijian feel a little more relaxed.
“Why should you thank me? We are brothers.” Yan Hai’an glanced at Yan Jin who followed Su Yin to line up to buy barbecue, “Brother, I told you to do a little business before. You should think about it. I can help you.”
Yan Haijian shook his head: “I have no knowledge and no culture of whatever kind of business. I only want to watch Xiao Jin growing up now, tell him to study well, and don’t learn from me who didn’t get his high education.”
As he said that, he glanced at Yan Hai’an. He seemed to lower his head unconsciously: “Brother, let me tell you. You are good at making ends meet. I know that you have a relationship with that Boss Sun. How could two men live together? Think about continuing the bloodline.”
“Don’t worry. He and I are both men. So who can suffer a loss, right?” Yan Hai’an knew that Yan Haijian had seen the situation. Isn’t Sun Yan just happy to see this happen?
Yan Haijian said earnestly: “It’s not like that. I can see that he is very rich. Even if he is in their 70s and 80s, there are still women who are willing to marry him and give him babies. We can’t compare to him. These days, aren’t we spending all his money?”
“Not really. It’s all mine. I just troubled Su Yin to arrange for me.” Yan Hai’an imagined when Sun Yan was seven or eighty years old and had become a bad-tempered old man surrounded by a group of bikini beauties. A surviving child was stuck in the middle. It is almost too hilarious.
Yan Haijian didn’t pay attention to the twitching on Yan Hai’an’s face and said bitterly: “Don’t waste your money. You send too much money to your family every year. Why don’t you save a little in City B? The money is enough for now.”
Yan Hai’an smiled: “This is what it should be. When you supported me with my studies, you didn’t think that your money would be enough, right? And I do have enough, you still need to support Yan Jin’s study. You saved the money for him for his studies later. He should go to study in City B. It is always better for him to study in a big city. He can come out early to see the world.”
Yan Hai’an has been keeping this matter in his mind and it is not that he can’t notice things at all.
Yan Haijian said: “Hey, why do you care so much? I’m telling you to make plans earlier. You are so good. You find a good girl and live your life in a down-to-earth way. What’s wrong with that?”
The two brothers are fifteen years apart. When they were young, their parents worked in the fields. Yan Hai’an was basically brought up by Yan Haijian. Yan Hai’an understands that Yan Haijian really meant what he had said for his own good. But, he has never understood homosexuality. He has never been educated about it: “Don’t worry about me. I know how to live my life.”
“Hey…” Yan Haijian knew that this time he couldn’t say anything about Yan Hai’an’s life anymore. He sighed, “You have had a lot of potential since you were a child.”
The two brothers were chatting there and Yan Jin on the other side looked back at them, with the same sadness as his father’s between his eyebrows.
He clenched his fist, feeling a little nervous: “Mr. Su.”
Su Yin was looking forward to seeing how many people there were and was thinking about whether he should pay a hundred yuan for each person to cut into the queue. Suddenly, the teenager called him Mr. Su from the back. It was very strange. He never spoke to him before.
He turned his head and asked kindly, “What’s wrong? Are you thirsty or hungry?”
Yan Jin raised his head and he asked in unfamiliar Mandarin, “Is Mr. Sun that day, your boss?”
Su Yin nodded: “Ah, yes.”
Yan Jin pursed his lips and hesitantly said, “I have something to talk to him about. Can I see him?”
Su Yin was surprised and smiled awkwardly: “What are you going to talk to him about? What do you want him to buy for you? It’s the same as telling me.”
The look of anticipation on Yan Jin’s face disappeared: “I can’t see him?”
“It’s not impossible. Let me tell you something,” Su Yin went through a circle in his head and made a decision. “Actually, it’s better for you to talk to your uncle. He and the boss are very good friends.”
Yan Jin looked to the side unnaturally and said nothing.
A new pot of roast meat was taken out and it is just their turn at the end, otherwise they will have to wait for the next pot. Yan Jin and Su Yin have one bag each and meet the two brothers of the Yan family.
Yan Hai’an said: “Assistant Su, you don’t need to come over tomorrow. Let them rest and they will go home the day after tomorrow.”
Yan Jin looked at him very quickly as if surprised and then quickly lowered his head.
Su Yin tried to persuade: “Why don’t you hang around for a few more days? There are still many places you guys haven’t been to.”
Yan Hai’an had already persuaded, to the unpersuadable Yan Haijian: “There is no one to take care of my parents at home and I have to go back for Yan Jin to review his studies.”
Su Yin’s enthusiasm is always closed as soon as it is good, so as not to be annoying. When the father and son were sent back to the hotel, Su Yin sent Yan Hai’an home and told him about what Yan Jin had asked.
Yan Hai’an frowned upon hearing this: “What does he want to do?”
He added, “Don’t tell Sun Yan about this.”
“I think it’s better to tell the boss that teenagers are not thoughtful in their actions. What if there is something that delays them?” Su Yin, for Yan Hai’an’s sake, naturally wants to give a good picture of his relatives to him. In fact, he wants to take care of the child’s affairs, but he can’t do it behind Yan Hai’an’s back. Otherwise, he will definitely be scolded. And not to mention, if something happens… Even if nothing happened, he still turned around and told Yan Hai’an what he said. He himself will still look good, “Anyway, you and the boss have a talk about it and decide on your own.”
Yan Hai’an thought about it again and again, but couldn’t think of what he should do with Yan Jin. But he insisted: “Don’t tell Sun Yan about this. I’ll ask him myself.”
Su Yin’s boss is Sun Yan and he knows who he should listen to in the end. Of course, he can’t refuse at this time: “Okay. Okay, then…”
Yan Hai’an said irritably, “Send me back to the hotel.”
“…Okay.” Su Yin didn’t expect Yan Hai’an to attach so much importance to this matter, so he turned around quickly.
Waiting downstairs in the hotel, Yan Hai’an sat next to the flower bed and called Yan Haijian.
Yan Jin was a little surprised when he saw him and he walked over with a gloomy expression on his face.
Yan Hai’an asked him straight to the point: “What is your business with Sun Yan?”
Yan Jin did not speak.
Yan Hai’an said: “If you don’t make things clear, I can’t let him come to see you rashly. Are you looking for someone to do things for you?”
Yan Jin bit his lower lip. He struggled with embarrassment on his face and he didn’t say a word for a long time.
“Yan Jin,” Yan Hai’an was rather anxious. In his opinion, the eldest brother’s child was akin to his own son and the old Yan family also looked up to this child, “What is the matter?”
The authority of the elders is very effective in front of the child. He took a few quick breaths and blushed: “I want him to find a way to keep me studying in City B.”
Yan Hai’an was taken aback for a moment. He didn’t expect such a situation at all: “You can tell me about this. Why do you want to find Sun Yan to help you?”
“It’s useless to find you. I know he’s a very powerful and rich man and people like Mr. Su only works for him.” Yan Jin finally looked up at him, his estimating eyes looked uncomfortable, “My dad often tells me not to bother you. But isn’t this what you owe to our family?”
His teenage tone was thin and cool at night: “If it wasn’t for you to study in City B, how could our family be so poor? Why should my father raise my grandparents at home and also supported you? When I was in high school, my dad went to work to make some more money.”
He seemed to have finally opened the floodgates in his heart and poured out his complaints about Yan Hai’an incessantly: “I understand. This place is so good. It has everything. You let your relatives find a way to get you here to study, but why didn’t you study hard? Being dropped out of school makes me unable to ask for help from you!”
After he finished speaking, his anger ran out. After all, Yan Jin was only a junior high school student and there was a look of fear in his eyes.
Yan Hai’an calmly digested these resentful words and said with a smile: “You still know a lot. I understand. You go back to study with a peace of mind and your father and I will find a way to do this. But no matter where you study, your own ability is the most important.”
After finishing speaking, he pointed to the fruits and snacks on the flower bed: “Take this and eat it with your father at night.”
He responded so lightly, as if a fist had hit the cotton. Yan Jin looked like he was suffocated as if he was about to bleed and the embarrassment of the young man almost gathered in his eyes: “What do you mean by that?!”
Yan Hai’an was very calm, without the anger that Yan Jin expected to receive: “I don’t mean anything else. You should have told me or your father these words earlier, but what we said today is just between us. I won’t tell anyone else.”
Although he pretended to be righteous, he was still a child in the end and he was obviously relieved to hear the words.
Yan Hai’an looked at him with a complicated mood: “Go back and rest. Lest your dad will be worried…”
Before he could finish speaking, Sun Yan called him: “What’s the situation? Are you still hanging out outside? I’ve gone home and haven’t seen you yet?”
“I’m coming home.” Yan Hai’an picked up the phone, waved at Yan Jin to motion him to leave quickly as he turned around and walked towards the car.
Yan Jin looked at his back and then looked at the plastic bag on the flower bed. He wiped his eyes with the sleeves of his shirt, picked up the plastic bag and ran back to the hotel.
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Next update: 2022.08.22
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*Translator’s Note: ‘Xiao’ is used to call someone dear to us. So, Yan Jin’s father called him ‘Xiao Jin’. Yan Jin didn’t know what Yan Hai’an had really gone through in school that resulted in his dropout so can’t really blame him for lashing out like that. *sigh*… -K
