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Translated by: Queen Dei Mos
He was exposed!
Mr. Shao learned about his sneaky and dishonest behavior!
Yu Lan’s heart was beating fast “thump, thump”. With sweat dripping from his face, he began to desperately think of all kinds of excuses.
“I don’t seem to hear any thunder over there either?” Shao Mingyu’s voice came out of the phone nonchalantly.
Yu Lan, “…!!!”
“Little Grape” the man paused and inquired meaningfully, “How many days has it been?”
Silence
A very delicate moment of silence.
Yu Lan was about to suffocate.
Knowing that if one continues to ask such questions, it wasn’t impossible for the little one to hang up the phone in a panic, but at this moment, Shao Mingyu simply didn’t want to stop.
He softened his voice with a less playful but more serious tone.
“Ah Lan, do you miss me a lot?”
That’s why he ran to sleep in his bed even on nights when there were no thunderstorms?
Yu Lan trembled.
A few moments later, he whispered, “En.”
‘Every day when I don’t have the chance to see Mr. Shao, I think of him.’
Nevertheless, the man gently asked, wanting to hear those two words, “Missed me a lot?”
Yu Lan opened his mouth, “……missed you a lot.”
“Me too, Little Grape.” The man sighed.
For a moment, Yu Lan always had an illusion.
As if his affection has already received a gentle response from the man.
In fact, no matter how slow-witted Yu Lan was, he sensed something.
‘I don’t know for sure, but I can feel it’
This thought made his heart flutter and caused him to pick up his phone again to look at the man on the screen.
In the dim light of the night, the man’s eyebrows were like a painting, etched with tenderness.
Those dark eyes were as dark as night, but dotted with starlight.
Yu Lan’s soul seemed to melt under the sight of the man.
After a few moments of gazing at each other in silence, the man spoke again and asked in a gentle voice, “What have you done today?”
“……exchanged shifts with the store manager, so I asked for time off from Teacher Bai during the day and didn’t go to class.” Yu Lan was in a daze and answered obediently.
“A daytime shift with that alpha?”
Yu Lan “En.”
Thinking of Wang Jialin, Yu Lan was hesitant in saying anything.
However, Mr. Shao was currently out of town and his schedule itself was hectic.
Whether it’s Wang Jialin, or the fact that he made an agreement with a modeling agent, all of them would have to wait until Mr. Shao returns.
With that in mind, Yu Lan put aside this matter and turned the tables around and began to ask the same question, “What about you, Mr. Shao……, what did you do today?”
Regarding Yu Lan’s tactics, Shao Mingyu was very satisfied. A smile emerged from the bottom of his eyes.
“After a whole day of meetings, I attended a reception in the evening–” Shao Mingyu reached out his hand, as if he wanted to take something from the side.
After stretching his arms, his coat was also slightly opened, which revealed a faint red mark on the left shoulder of his white shirt .
Yu Lan sharply spotted it and blurted out, “Mr. Shao, what’s that on your shoulder?”
Shao Mingyu had just fetched the wine glass which was placed on a small table to the side. Hearing this, he paused and seemed to think of something and lifted his left coat, which exposed the complete mark on his left shoulder.
Yu Lan’s small face immediately tensed up and stared: “……Mr. Shao!”
Shao Mingyu’s eyes wandered around Yu Lan’s face, his eyes moved slightly, and he said pleasantly, “What do you think this is?”
“……” Yu Lan sullenly said, “Isn’t it a lipstick mark?”
After saying that, he whispered, “……there are always a lot of people who like Mr. Shao.”
With a little bit of grievance.
He had even imagined a scenario where a waitress had accidentally fell on Mr. Shao’s body while handing him wine, leaving lipstick marks.
Yu Lan had seen that kind of scheme before on television, and it was usually done on purpose to strike up a conversation!
Seeing the appearance of Yu Lan, Shao Mingyu lost his smile and suddenly felt that he shouldn’t tease the little one with these things.
He sighed, “This is the ink stamp that Lin Yu accidentally rubbed on me when he took the stamp, it’s not a lipstick mark.”
Yu Lan froze and blinked his eyes.
The man gazed at him and said, “Ah Lan, don’t think wildly, the only person who has ever crashed into my arms is you.”
‘Whoosh’ Yu Lan’s face immediately turned red.
Shao Mingyu has never let irrelevant people come anywhere close to him.
The only exception was that encounter on the spaceship and that was purely an accident.
And now that he thought about it, at that time, even before the youth had crashed into his arms, he had already caught a whiff of the fruity grape pheromones a long time ago.
That perhaps, in fact, wasn’t an accident.
Looking at the youth’s dodgy eyes, Shao Mingyu raised his lips.
Of course – wearing a shirt with little grapes for a video may indeed have been poorly planned on his part.
As a result, after some thinking, he went in his room, closed the curtains and placed his phone on the bed.
Yu Lan saw that the scene in the video had changed, and in the blink of an eye, the man had taken off his coat on the screen, and then unbuttoned his shirt, one button after the other.
With a swoosh, Yu Lan’s face turned even redder and he stuttered, “Shao, Mr. Shao, you, you’re going to change your clothes now?”
“En,1(嗯) èn – used as an interjection to express agreement or pledge. wasn’t Little Grape angry?” Shao Mingyu teased.
“I, I wasn’t……” Yu Lan weakly argued, however, the man had already taken off his shirt. Yu Lan’s eyes couldn’t help but flicker, and even swallowed his saliva to boot.
Mr. Shao was in really good shape.
The muscle tones were very beautiful and sexy.
The mermaid line disappeared below the waistline of his trousers even Yu Lan, as innocent as he was, started to fantasize about it one after another.
No, under the guidance of the store manager, he has long since lost his innocence!
Shao Mingyu absorbed all of Yu Lan’s reactions with his eyes and raised the corners of his lips.
He picked up his phone again and went into the bathroom.
Yu Lan took a deep breath, “Mr. Shao, if you want to take a shower, I, let’s talk here! It’s time for me to go to bed as well!”
His line of sight started to shift from side to side again.
Shao Mingyu playfully replied, “Not watching anymore? It’s okay to talk while washing.”
“No, no need!” Yu Lan’s face directly exited from the frame.
He was afraid that Mr. Shao would see him turn red as a tomato.
Shao Mingyu originally wanted to go to the bathroom to get the bathrobe that was hanging there, however, he didn’t expect to directly frighten the person out of the frame, and at once the sound of laughter reached the other side of the phone.
Yu Lan knew that the man was teasing him again. His head “whoosh” up in anger and he said, “Mr. Shao, you’re playing with me again!”
“How can it be called ‘playing with you’?” Shao Mingyu threw on the bathrobe and casually fastened the belt, so that he could relax, “Chatting while washing is surely possible, so long as you dare to watch.”
Yu Lan choked2(噎住) yē zhù – unable to speak, to choke (on); to choke off (in speech).
He wouldn’t dare……he wouldn’t dare! He wouldn’t be able to hold it!
Yu Lan’s eyes became filled with resentment.
Shao Mingyu stepped out of the bathroom, a smile still hanging from the corner of his lips.
In the computer, there were constant calls from the social media applications.
There was still a lot left to do.
However, he didn’t pay attention to it.
For the first time in his twenty-seven years of life, Shao Mingyu had a strong desire to “go home” while on business trips.
His expression calmed down.
It was already getting late at night.
“Ah Lan.” He called out.
“En?” Yu Lan depressingly hugged his legs and looked at him.
Shao Mingyu sat down on the edge of the bed and said, “If you’re not happy, by the time when I return, shall I let you bite my shoulder?”
Yu Lan, “!”
He blushed and said, “……No need.”
Shao Mingyu looked at him almost indulgently and said, “Leave a mark with your teeth so that in the future, even less people will hit on me.”
“Mr. Shao is wearing clothes so they can’t see the bite marks,” Yu Lan whispered, “Mr. Shao, are you drunk again?”
‘Are you drunk again? So you started to talk nonsense.’
“Maybe,” Shao said softly, “It’s a pity that there’s no Little Grape on the side to support me this time.”
Yu Lan helplessly said, “Mr. Shao, if you are drunk, you should rest early.”
“Ah Lan.”
“En?”
“Stay there and sleep in my room.”
Yu Lan immediately blushed red again. His eyes also became moist because of blushing.
Shao Mingyu looked at the youth in the video and said with a soft chuckle, “See you in my dreams.”
*
Yu Lan was teased by the man, and went to sleep with a reddened face……Obediently, he met Mr. Shao in his dream.
As for what happened in the dream, when Yu Lan woke up the next day, he was extremely ashamed by this, panicked, checked the sheets, and confirmed that no traces were left. He was relieved and immediately went back to his room to take off his pants and wash them in the bathroom.
When she was hanging out to dry the clothes, Aunt Jiang was puzzled, “Why didn’t you throw them in the washing machine and instead wash them by hand?”
Yu Lan ambiguously replied, “I just hand-washed it in passing.”
Immediately after that, he escaped.
After a full day of honestly attending Teacher Bai’s class, Yu Lan waited outside the neighborhood for Fang Pingping’s mini car.
Yu Lan temporarily didn’t tell Uncle Liu that he was going to be a model and only said that he had something to do in the evening and would be back later.
There was no particular reason for not saying it, just that he himself wasn’t certain as to whether Fang Pingping was reliable or not, and thought it would be more convenient to wait until things had really settled down.
However, he told his bodyguard who usually drops him off and picks him up that he had to go somewhere else with a friend tonight, and sent the address that Fang Pingping gave him so he could be in touch with his bodyguard at all times.
Fang Pingping was very excited as he presented his grand plans for the future to Yu Lan along the way, with his saliva flying in the air. After thirty minutes, they arrived in a residential area on the edge of the main city.
The residential buildings here were all single-family houses, but they were very dilapidated, it wasn’t clear how many years had passed since these houses were built.
Yu Lan hesitantly said, “Shooting around here?”
“Yes,” Fang Pingping parked the car and led Yu Lan towards the alley, “My friend lives just right up ahead.”
The alley was dark with only an old street lamp located at a great distance and was barely lighting up the way.
Yu Lan, “….”
‘How to say, this uncle and his friends’ approach is so suspicious ah.’
Walking towards the end of the alley, there was a faint noise of rock music coming from the house at the end.
Fang Pingping walked up and knocked on the door, but no one answered, so he knocked again, but still nobody answered.
Under Yu Lan’s suspicious gaze, Fang Pingping yelled, “Lu Zhengzheng, open the door!!!”
This guy’s and Uncle’s names were similar3Fang Pingping and Lu Zhengzheng which shocked Yu Lan.
Then a few seconds later, the door slammed open.
A whiff of alcohol hit them in the face.
A burly man stood in front of them, wearing a dirty white shirt, and a scruffy beard on his chin that hadn’t been shaved for several days.
He was carrying a bottle of wine and was about to curse when he saw Fang Pingping, but as soon as he spotted Yu Lan, he belched and said in shock, “A fairy!”
“It’s the new model I brought!!!” Fang Pingping was pissed off, “Why are you drinking again? Didn’t I tell you to bring the kids over tonight? How can you meet people looking like a drunkard?”
Lu Zhengzheng wiped his face, dumbfounded, “I thought you were bringing in another one of those messy passersby from before……”
Yu Lan silently looked at the Uncle.
So it was just picking up random people from the street?
Fang Pingping was about to cry in tears as he explained, “You are different from the previous ones! I recognized it from the first moment I saw you, I definitely have to have you signed under me!”
He quickly kicked Lu Zhengzheng and scolded: “Hurry up and wash your face, do not waste our time! Do you still want to shoot or not?”
Lu Zhengzheng hurriedly said, ” Shoot–shoot –shooting!”
His eyes sparkled as he examined Yu Lan.
Yu Lan only felt a chill running up his back and cautiously said, “Hello, my name is Yu Lan.”
“Lan4(蓝) – lán – blue……” Lu Zhengzheng smiled and looked into Yu Lan’s eyes, “That’s a good name.”
He turned to Fang Pingping and excitedly said, “Instead of following the original shooting plan, I have a new idea-“
He pointed to Yu Lan and said, “It will definitely suit him.”
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