Meng Ting felt the warm hand on his head and raised his eyes to look at the person. His lips pursed gently before revealing a slight smile, “You’re here.”
Counting last night’s meeting when Yan Sui gave Meng Ting a late-night snack, this was their third meeting. However, the familiarity and closeness between the two people made it completely impossible to tell that they had only known each other for a short while.
Meng Qi stared at Yan Sui’s hand with mixed feelings in his heart.
This beautiful brother of his is amazing. He seems to have captured Yan Sui’s heart even before he gets married, but he even lets Yan Sui touch his head. If he touches it with his own paw, he will get punched. This treatment is too different!
Even more shocked than Meng Qi were the other onlookers in the living room. When Meng Qi took Meng Ting for a walk before, although they didn’t make any explicit or implicit remarks about Meng Ting’s identity as an illegitimate child, the alienation they showed deliberately or unintentionally still separated Meng Ting from them.
They wanted Meng Ting to understand that it was impossible for him to fit into their circle, and it was impossible for them to lower their style because of him.
However, before this sense of alienation had dissipated, Yan Sui gave them a slap in the face. If even he treats the person so affectionately, how can they be qualified to put on airs, distance themselves, and draw clear boundaries?
Yan Sui’s gaze swept over Meng Qi beside Meng Ting. His eyes darkened a bit, and then his hand left Meng Ting’s head, grasped his wrist, and then directly held his hand.
“Come out for a walk with me?”
“Okay,” Meng Ting held Yan Sui’s hand back, then nodded gently, and then he was led out of the hall by Yan Sui amidst the attention of the crowd.
After walking out of the hall for a long time, Yan Sui didn’t let go of Meng Ting’s hand. After making sure that no one around could hear them, he stopped and also pulled Meng Ting’s hand, but he still didn’t let go of Meng Ting’s hand.
Meng Ting’s face is very good-looking, but his hands cannot be said to be good-looking. There is a thin and long scar on the palm of his right hand, and there are also some small scars between the knuckles. Some of them are probably very old, and some of them were left not long ago.
The information belonging to Meng Ting flashed through his mind. He originally thought it was detailed enough, but now it is not enough. At least the three years he went to the closed high school were too brief.
“Can you tell me now, why are you unhappy?”
Meng Ting didn’t expect Yan Sui to be so powerful, and even the little bit of unhappiness he had left could be seen.
His eyes lowered slightly and moved to their clasped hands, and only after a few more moments did he open his mouth.
“Yan Sui, I think you might soon have to regret what you promised me before.”
“I’m probably a bit more stupid than what I told you, no, a lot more stupid.”
Originally, he thought that all he had to do was marry Yan Sui and try his best to be good to him, and that would be enough. But reality told him that these were far from enough. He was not worthy of Yan Sui. He was far from worthy and he was as far as could be from being a qualified ‘wife’.
“There are some things that I may not be able to learn for the rest of my life.”
Meng Ting felt extremely frustrated. If he could be smarter, even just a little bit, there would no longer be a gap that he couldn’t cross between him and Yan Sui. At most, he would have to work a little harder and go a little farther.
“For example?” Yan Sui listened to Meng Ting’s words and remained very calm, even with a gentle smile overflowing from the corners of his eyes. At this time, he was no longer cold, but warm, and he was unconsciously warmed by Meng Ting.
“For example, talking,” when faced with situations where he needed to speak, he probably either said something wrong or couldn’t say a word at all.
“For example, fake smile…” He couldn’t learn that kind of smile. He was obviously not happy, so why should he smile?
“Also, I don’t even understand what they understand,” what fashion, what famous brand, in Meng Ting’s eyes, he only sees long-sleeved and short-sleeved clothes, summer clothes, and winter clothes.
Meng Ting thought for a moment and then added as if resigned, “Even if you had someone teach me, I can’t learn it either. I’m too stupid.”
Meng Ting’s eyes still didn’t dare to look at Yan Sui’s face. He was afraid of seeing regret in his expression. Even he himself felt that it was right for Yan Sui to regret, or rather, the earlier Yan Sui regretted, the wiser it would be for him. It would be cutting losses in time, at least he didn’t marry someone as stupid as him.
Yan Sui’s other hand touched Meng Ting’s face, then moved to his chin, lifting his lowered head.
“I said, I won’t go back on my word.” It used to be because of He Wan, but now it was starting to be more than just that. He looked at Meng Ting’s suddenly widened eyes, carefully discerning the color and light underneath those eyes, and once again revealed a faint smile.
“Who said you were stupid?”
“Many, many people have said this…” Except for his former mentor in university, among the people he came into contact with, even if they didn’t say it, their attitudes made it clear. No matter how good the fragrance he made was, those people still looked at him with pity.
But he actually didn’t like this kind of pity.
“I don’t think so,” Yan Sui’s thumb slowly moved upwards, and just when it was about to touch his cherry-colored lips, he pulled it back, “Everyone has what they’re good at and what they’re not good at. You just haven’t come across anything you’re really good at yet.”
Yan Sui let go of Meng Ting’s hand, turned to stroke his shoulder, and continued, “It doesn’t matter even if you can’t find it in this life. My wife doesn’t need to talk to so many people, and he doesn’t need to know about those either. You just need to do what you like.”
“I like eating and sleeping, is that okay too?”
The light in Meng Ting’s eyes became a little brighter again, and the gaze he used to look over him seemed to carry his entire world and was about to open up his entire world to him.
“Yes,” Yan Sui nodded gently, raised the hand that originally rested on his chin, and placed it on his soft hair. But only halfway through rubbing it, Meng Ting threw himself into his arms.
“I also like hugging you.”
What he actually wanted to express was gratitude, but for Yan Sui’s tolerance, he felt that it was not enough to express it with just the word ‘thank you’, and it was still not enough to express it with a hug. But this was the most intimate way of expression he could think of at the moment.
After a long time, Yan Sui gave another soft ‘Um’, and Meng Ting also found a more comfortable position, resting his head on his shoulder, and raising the corners of his mouth. He really liked it as he said.
Yan Sui lowered his eyes to meet Meng Ting’s gaze, and he quietly muttered again, “I want to hold you for a little longer.”
This was originally one of Meng Ting’s main purposes for coming to the banquet and waiting for Yan Sui. Hopefully, he will be able to sleep well tonight.
Yan Sui wanted to help him up because he noticed someone looking at him and Meng Ting, but after Meng Ting said this, he hesitated. After a moment of hesitation, he slowly put his arms around Meng Ting’s waist and patted his back gently. They were engaged, so this kind of embrace wasn’t inappropriate.
He hugged him for more than ten minutes last night. After hugging him for nearly half an hour tonight, Meng Ting finally let go of the person with satisfaction. His eyes sparkled, and he seemed to want to jump up and down with joy.
Yan Sui ruffled his hair again and then led him back to the hall.
He has already called Old Master Meng and arranged many things. There will be no further changes in his marriage to Meng Ting. As for He Wan, she will definitely be dissatisfied with Meng Ting again, but it won’t be before marriage either. She is so conceited, how can she easily deny her own judgment?
That is, even if someone was talkative enough to tell her what was going on here, she would only think that he deliberately created such a misunderstanding for her.
“This gentleman is…” A person of the same seniority as Old Master Meng asked Yan Sui. In recent years, Yan Sui has never brought any male or female companions to banquets. Although Meng Ting was not brought in by him, he was the only one who was being held and protected by him over the years.
“Fiancé, the invitation to the wedding banquet will be delivered to your house tomorrow.”
“Ah, okay, congratulations.”
The feeling of walking around with Yan Sui is completely different from walking around with Meng Qi. Before, those people’s gazes were eager to strip him clean inside and out, but now, except for a very few, not many people dared to measure him.
More importantly, he believed in Yan Sui and felt safe being held by him, he also felt safe being led by him. He was so powerful, he couldn’t even beat him, surely he was safe!
After Yan Sui talked to others for a while, his eyes would return to Meng Ting, and he saw that he was not looking around. He was either lowering his gaze or looking at him. He was no longer as depressed as when he saw him before.
“Bored?”
“No,” Meng Ting shook his head. He shook the hand they were holding. “It’s good to follow you. I like it very much.”
Meng Ting was very good at talking to him, and a casual remark easily disrupted his state of mind.
***
This was clearly a banquet where Yan Sui would return, so how could Su Siyu not come? And he was also lucky enough to watch the whole process from when Yan Sui appeared to when he took Meng Ting away. He followed them outside and, along with Meng Qi, saw the two people hugging each other. He wanted to step forward and pull them apart but was stopped by Meng Qi.
“That’s my younger brother and brother-in-law. What are you going to do? What right do you have?” Meng Qi’s sarcastic look and merciless words once again brought him back to the miserable years of his previous life when he was old and faded. He had no money, no people, he had nothing, he had nothing at all!
“What right! No one else has more rights than I do!” But as he said this, he did not step forward anymore.
When he and Meng Qi follow them back to the hall, they hear Yan Sui introduce Meng Ting to other people like this. His expression couldn’t help but about to twist again.
But this time, even Meng Qi didn’t try to persuade him. He raised a wine glass and went to find his own friends. He disliked being with such an irritable Su Siyu because he would lose his share.
***
Yan Sui walked around with Meng Ting for a while, then took him to the place where the food was. He picked up two plates that Meng Ting liked and found a secluded place. Meng Ting ate while he watched him eat.
“You eat so much, why don’t you gain weight?” It was because Yan Sui had been hugging him for so long that he had more say now.
Meng Ting swallowed the food and replied, “I run in the morning. I run every day.”
Yan Sui didn’t respond, but he took out a handkerchief from his pocket, leaned forward slightly, and wiped off the cream that was stuck on Meng Ting’s cheek.
Meng Ting blinked, then lowered his head and continued eating. After finishing the whole plate, he raised his eyes and glanced at Yan Sui, and then his cheeks turned red little by little. His reflex arc was so slow that it could circle the earth once, but in the end, it wasn’t like he didn’t know anything anymore.
And as promised to Meng Ting, Yan Sui also tried to like him. It wasn’t difficult, it wasn’t difficult at all.
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List of Idiom in Chapter 013
十萬八千里 (shí wàn bā qiān lǐ): lit. 108,000 li; describes a great distance; far off; describes a huge difference between two things; miles apart; distance of one hundred and eight thousand li ―poles apart; as far as can be; light-years (apart); a million miles (apart); a modern idiom, indicates a huge difference or a huge distance.不知不覺 (bù zhī bù jué): unconsciously; unwittingly; imperceptibly.
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