Yan Sui slowly fell back to his seat after hearing the words. The strong fierce aura on his body disappeared without a trace the moment he fell back to his seat, which was more shocking than the blooming of spring flowers overnight. Secretary Wang’s eyes widened. He thought he had seen a miracle, a miracle that he thought would never happen.
Who is on the other end of the phone? Is it still the little vixen who made his boss laugh not long ago? This is also too annoying, one moment they make his boss let out a cold air, and one moment they make his boss laugh. Secretary Wang was finally able to roll his eyes and think about it.
Yan Sui’s eyes fell on Secretary Wang, and then he gently raised his hand to let him leave.
Without any hesitation, Secretary Wang bowed his head and exited the office.
Just now, for a moment, he had the impulse to let Secretary Wang arrange for him to go to Meng’s residence to snatch someone.
“Meng Ting…” He called Meng Ting again in a low voice. He couldn’t quite say what he was feeling in his heart when Meng Ting confessed that he liked him so much. A bit worried that Meng Ting is too straightforward, worried that he will be hurt, worried that he will fail to live up to his deep affection. There is also some faint and secret joy that he cannot ignore.
“Um?” Meng Ting let out a puzzled sound, waiting for Yan Sui to continue.
However, Yan Sui still couldn’t say the words ‘I like you too’. There wasn’t enough emotion, and it also wasn’t solemn enough to say it on the phone. He exhaled slowly and softened his voice again, “What do you want to eat tonight? I’ll have someone bring it to you.”
“You don’t have to deliver it to me tonight,” Meng Ting’s voice was full of regret, but Yan Sui thought it was because he couldn’t hear what he wanted to hear. Because of Meng Ting’s loss, he suddenly felt like a bit of a scumbag?
“In the evening, I’m going to have dinner with the Meng family, so I should be able to get enough to eat, right?” He spoke from the bottom of his heart with a deep sense of worry, which made people feel he was pitiful and funny at the same time. At any rate, he was still considered the Seventh Young Master of the Meng family, but he even had to rely on his future husband to smuggle him food so that he could have a full meal.
Yan Sui raised his eyebrows slightly, and directly ignored those borderline self-criticisms from before, “I’ll bring you a midnight snack.”
It was no longer other people who sent it, but rather him delivering it himself.
It’s a pity that Meng Ting didn’t notice the difference. His attention was all on the ‘midnight snack’.
“That’s great…” Meng Ting subconsciously wanted to say thank you again, but he stumbled a bit and changed his words, “Yan Sui, you are so good, I like you.”
The reddish area at the base of Yan Sui’s ears quietly expanded, and he couldn’t help coughing again. He felt that after living to the age of twenty-eight, he could no longer withstand the enthusiasm and sincerity of a seventeen-year-old boy.
“What do you want to eat?” Yan Sui’s voice was muted unconsciously, and there was a softness in his lowered eyes that not even he himself was aware of. Every time Meng Ting said this, he felt that he had fallen a little more. He thought that it would not be too long before he fell in love with Meng Ting.
“I kind of want noodles that are a bit spicy…” Meng Ting’s eyes were shining as he was lying on the bed. He thought of an assistant in the base who was particularly good at making noodles. If it weren’t for her gender being female, and she likes women, he even wanted to just make do with her.
Of course, this thought only occurred to him when he ate the noodles she cooked for the first time. Then the female assistant announced to everyone that she liked women and planned to pursue another female doctor in the base.
It was only at that time that he learned that in their country, not only men and women could marry, but men and men and women and women could get married as long as they wanted to.
Therefore, when he decided to take the ‘waste’ marriage route, he was prepared to marry a woman as well as a man, so much so that when Yan Sui told him that he was his husband, he accepted it without any hesitation.
“Okay,” Yan Sui agreed. If Meng Ting were in front of him, with Yan Sui’s insight, he would definitely be able to find that Meng Ting was thinking of someone else at that moment. To be precise, it was the noodles cooked by someone else, but now that they were on the phone, he couldn’t see it, so naturally he couldn’t find out either, but he did make a mental note of another dish that Meng Ting liked.
“If Meng Qi still dares to touch you, there’s no need to hold back. Hit him hard. Remember, you are my person, you don’t need to be afraid of him.”
Even though he already knew that Meng Ting would not suffer much, he still couldn’t help but be angry when he thought that Meng Qi actually wanted to kiss him and touch him. The words he said also brought some seriousness with them.
“I remember,” not only did Meng Ting say this with his mouth, but his head unconsciously nodded as well. He also automatically interpreted Yan Sui’s words, “We are going to get married, and I’m going to be your person.”
With the seemingly powerful Yan Sui covering him, he will definitely live a well-fed, well-slept, and most desirable life as a good-for-nothing.
“Um,” Yan Sui’s emotions fluctuated so much during Meng Ting’s words that even he himself noticed them. He admonished again, “Call me if there’s anything, text me if it’s inconvenient.”
“Um, I remember,” Meng Ting answered obediently once again. He couldn’t think of any more exquisite love words, so he continued the one he had thought of before, “You also need to eat well.”
“Okay.”
Yan Sui waited for Meng Ting to hang up the phone before he hung up.
Meanwhile, Meng Ting who put down the mobile phone, directly rolled on the bed. He had a midnight snack, so he didn’t have to worry about not having enough to eat at night, “Yan Sui is so wonderful. I must repay him when I have the opportunity.”
Meng Ting thought about it for a while, yet he still couldn’t think of any good opportunities. However, the future is so long, and he will definitely come across such an opportunity.
He didn’t get to mull it over alone in his room for long before Uncle Wen brought someone over again to deliver the clothes he had ordered before. He also tactfully chose one for Meng Ting, but when he saw that Meng Ting, who didn’t hear what he said, was still thinking about which one to wear, he gave up on being tactful.
“This white one will definitely look good on you, and it’s also suitable for evening wear.”
Although it is a suit, it is not the kind of suit that is too serious. Its cut is very slimming. Although Meng Ting is still underage and his body is still growing, wearing it like this can make him more mature and refined.
Meng Ting was naturally happy that someone could help him decide such a difficult matter. He nodded repeatedly, “Thank you.”
Uncle Wen nodded gently and said again, “The dinner starts at six o’clock.”
“Um, I won’t be late,” Meng Ting nodded again and again at Uncle Wen. However, he had no intention of going downstairs before six o’clock.
His decision was not wrong at all. He came downstairs at six o’clock, but in the dining room, he and Meng Qi were the only people officially eating. Meng Ting looked at the dining table with only plates, bowls, and spoons. His eyes widened, they didn’t even serve him a side dish first.
Meng Qi sneered ‘heh, heh’ at Meng Ting, but found that he didn’t even give him a glance.
Meng Ting asked Uncle Wen, sat down in his seat, and then he stared at the empty table, feeling that he had been deceived by Uncle Wen.
Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted Meng Qi. He thought that Meng Qi was the culprit and that Uncle Wen was an accomplice who helped deceive him. He was untrustworthy and yet also so stingy, humph!
Meng Ting took out his mobile phone and complained to Yan Sui, “They tricked me into coming down, but there’s actually nothing to eat, I’m so angry.”
“Be good, I’ll bring you food later.” Yan Sui’s text message came back quickly.
Meng Ting stared at the word ‘food’ for a while, only then did he return his gaze to the word ‘good’ at the front. He didn’t know if he was good, but he still replied, “I’m good.” Try to be good!
***
Yan Sui, who was still in the company’s senior management meeting, raised his eyebrows when he saw these two words. Once again, confirming that he couldn’t resist Meng Ting’s ‘coquettish’ words. He hesitated for a moment before replying with the word ‘Um’. Afterward, he put down his mobile phone, and looked at the suddenly quiet crowd, his face cold, “Continue.”
The crowd paused again before continuing.
Their CEO would actually send a text message in the middle of a meeting. It must be a very important text message related to the lifeblood of the company!
Secretary Wang, who vaguely knew a bit of the truth, also followed Yan Sui’s lead and straightened his expression, showing no flaws. But in his heart, he felt that the person who could make his boss send text messages in the middle of an important meeting must be that ‘little vixen’ with great magical powers.
***
Uncle Wen is indeed suspected of deceiving Meng Ting. However, he asked him to come down an hour early, mainly because he had just returned to the Meng family. After half past six, people from the Meng family opened the door and came in one after another. The first one to come was none other than Meng Ting’s two half-brothers. The third and fourth young masters of the Meng family, Meng Jiang, and Meng Bo, were twenty-three and twenty-one years old respectively. One had just graduated from college, and the other was still in his second year of college.
After Uncle Wen introduced Meng Ting, the two people let out an ‘Um’ lightly, then sat aside and started chatting among themselves, completely ignoring Meng Ting. Meng Ting also has no opinion, he still sat in his own seat obediently… waiting for the food to be served.
Then after that came the other two children of his biological father, Meng Yide. Fifth Young Master Meng Xiao and Sixth Young Miss Meng Qin. They were twenty and nineteen years old respectively. There was less than a year difference between them and Meng Bo. This means that Meng Yide had affairs with at least three different mistresses at the same time at that time. It was also unknown how he could afford to have so many affairs at the same time.
Meng Xiao and Meng Qin made no secret of their appraising eyes and even harbored some vague hostility toward Meng Ting. It must be known that they didn’t have faces like Meng Ting’s. In addition, he ignored Meng Jiang and Meng Bo’s cold reception, which unanimously made them all feel that Meng Ting had a scheming mind and profound thoughts, and it was quite possible that he would stand in their way at some point.
After making some insinuations, Meng Xiao and Meng Qin rarely united, but didn’t manage to get anything out. In fact, they asked too quickly. Just as Meng Ting finished thinking about the previous question, and then they asked the next one. Naturally, he had to start thinking about the next question again, and so on and so forth. In this way, Meng Ting was about to be asked into a daze.
Meng Qi, who was sitting diagonally across from him, couldn’t help but curl up the corner of his mouth when he saw the confusion in Meng Ting’s eyes. He tried his best to hold his laughter. There is also confusion and cuteness. Although they both have beautiful skin, Meng Ting and Su Siyu are two completely different people with two different temperaments.
Then Meng Yide and his wife Han Xuejun arrived. When Meng Yide saw Meng Ting, he was obviously stunned for a moment. Obviously, his face reminded him of Meng Ting’s biological mother, and he was touched for a moment, but after this moment, he restrained himself again.
But except for Meng Ting, everyone sensed that his attitude was somewhat different toward Meng Ting’s biological mother. As to whether he would be the same towards Meng Ting, no conclusions could be drawn yet. But Meng Xiao and Meng Qin are definitely more wary of Meng Ting.
“Father, Mother.” Meng Ting called out in a proper manner. Han Xuejun asked a few more meaningful questions, and when she received a nod from Meng Ting, she didn’t continue talking. She turned out to be caring and attentive to her two biological sons, with a huge difference in attitude.
Meng Yide and Meng Ting looked at each other. In the end, he only gave a soft ‘Um’ and sat down at another table. Soon after that, he got up and went to see Old Master Meng and his mother, Li Yifei, treating Meng Ting with even more indifference than he did to Meng Xiao and Meng Qin, who had just returned to Meng’s residence. It was as if the previous daze was their illusion.
Meng Yihang and his wife, Gu Ping, and Meng Yigui and his wife, Shen Susu, the four of them arrived almost at the same time. The Second Young Master, Meng Hong, and the Third Young Miss, Meng Xiang, both studied abroad and could not return. The youngest, Eighth Little Miss, was still in primary school and went to bed early, so Meng Yigui and Shen Susu didn’t bring her.
As the time approached seven o’clock, Old Master Meng also appeared in the dining room on time.
Also appearing with him were his first wife, Feng Zejiao, as well as his little wife, Li Yifei, and Meng Yide who was supporting her.
“Serve the meal.”
He sat down, and everyone followed him, and then the servants served the dishes. Old Master Meng’s ancestors came from Hunan, and he loves spicy food the most. These Chinese dishes are all spicy without exception. While Meng Ting really likes spicy food, but he can only eat a little spicy food by nature. After taking two bites, he drank the soup fiercely and found that the soup was also spicy, so he had to lower his head and eat the rice.
But even though he was not used to the spiciness, it could not affect Meng Ting’s ‘glutton’ instinct. He truly lives up to his reputation as a ‘glutton’. In order to eat a few more bites of food, he had already filled three bowls of rice, becoming the one with the best appetite ever when the Meng family returned to their old home for dinner.
“Glutton!” Meng Xiao muttered in a low voice. Meng Ting himself didn’t respond, but Meng Qi glanced at him. The meaning was unclear, but it made him swallow back the words he was about to say to Meng Ting.
At the dinner table in the Meng family’s old house, there was no habit of chatting, but after the meal, the servants would also serve refreshments, and this was the time to talk. Meng Ting ate too much rice, he stared at the fragrant refreshments. He still had to leave some room in his stomach for the midnight snack Yan Sui gave him, which made him look forward to it even more.
“There are mainly two things to say at today’s family dinner.” After Old Master Meng said something, all the rustling and whispering movements disappeared. Even Meng Ting raised his eyes and looked at Old Master Meng, waiting for him to finish his words.
“The first is that Meng Ting has come home,” there was almost no pause in his words before he continued, “and the second is that the Meng family and the Yan family will be united in a marriage. The wedding date is on the seventh of next month. You’ll all have to be present. Gu Ping and Susu, remember to call Xiang’er and Hong’er.”
“Yes,” Gu Ping already knew something from Meng Yihang. At this time, she was not very surprised, but Shen Susu was stunned for a while before responding, “Yes.”
Old Master Meng also didn’t plan to keep everyone guessing for too long. He said directly, “It’s Yan Sui, the patriarch of the Yan family, and Meng Ting from our Meng family.”
That’s why Old Master Meng, who had never personally announced the return of an illegitimate child in the past, mentioned Meng Ting in the first sentence. Not because Meng Ting was special, but because of Yan Sui.
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Some jokes were lost in translation here:
‘This means that Meng Yide had affairs with at least three different mistresses at the same time at that time. It was also unknown how he could afford to have so many affairs at the same time.‘. If this was directly translated, it’d be ‘This means that Meng Yide was stepping on at least three boats at the same time at that time. It’s also unknown how he got an extra leg to step on them.‘. ‘Stepping on [number] boat’ means cheating with [number] people, and since Meng Yide stepped on more than 2 boats (cheat), the author joked that Meng Yide for some reason had an extra leg and could step on more than 2 boats (cheat). Also, the third leg often refers to *ahem* a male’s private part.
Another one was ‘glutton’, this was actually 飯桶 (fàn tǒng), lit. rice bucket; container used for storing cooked rice; (figurative) glutton; gormandizer; (figurative, derogatory) useless individual; imbecile (criticizing someone for being able to do nothing except eating). Therefore, when Meng Ting tries to ease the spiciness, he eats a lot of rice, and he becomes a real ‘rice bucket’.
List of Idiom in Chapter 008
不约而同 (bù yuē ér tóng): to agree by chance (idiom); to take the same view or action without prior consultation; to happen to coincide; act in concert without prior arrangement; (neologism, slang, humorous) to become gay or lesbian after a long period without dating.旁敲侧击 (páng qiāo cè jī): to express something indirectly by making oblique statements; to beat around the bush; to make insinuations; to take an indirect approach (in making inquiries) (idiom); attack by innuendo; make oblique unfavourable references to.
嘘寒问暖 (xū hán wèn nuǎn): to enquire solicitously about sb’s well-being (idiom); to pamper; to show concern for someone by asking about their lives; inquire after sb’s well-being; inquire diligently about other people’s living conditions and express concern for other people’s lives.
名副其实 (míngfùqíshí): live up to one’s reputation; not just in name only, but also in reality (idiom), carries a connotation of praise and accomplishment, like saying ‘to be worthy to be called’.
有史以来 (yǒu shǐ yǐ lái): since the beginning of history; throughout history; since ancient times.
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