Meng Qi and Su Siyu had watched Yan Sui and Meng Ting embrace each other last time, and this time was no different. However, last time, they followed them out intentionally, while this time, they bumped into each other purely by chance.
Meng Qi felt quite annoyed. Originally, he and Su Siyu were in the period of passionate love, flirting with each other and feeling good. Suddenly, Su Siyu broke up with him, in a decisive and heartless manner.
Now that he was looking for him again, even if he wanted to rekindle his old romance with him, it was not impossible for him to accept it again. After all, Su Siyu was indeed a rare beauty in his opinion.
But it was obvious that Su Siyu didn’t mean this. When he found him again, the target was not him, but his younger brother, Meng Ting, and brother-in-law, Yan Sui, which made him feel uncomfortable.
Su Siyu deliberately blocked Meng Qi near the entrance of the Meng’s residence in the southern district. The people were blocked, but before the two of them could speak, they saw Meng Ting kissing Yan Sui. Yan Sui didn’t feel any disgust at all. At this time, he was still holding him in his arms as if he were a treasure and was as gentle as he wanted to be.
If it weren’t for Yan Sui’s face being so recognizable, Su Siyu even wanted to tell himself that he had recognized the wrong person. But no, that is Yan Sui. It’s just that the person he is hugging now is Meng Ting, not him.
It had only been a few days since he saw them, and the two of them had already reached the point of kissing each other… Shouldn’t they go to bed in a few more days? Maybe this Meng Ting relied on his skills in bed to win over Yan Sui? Su Siyu knew this was impossible, but he still couldn’t help but think so.
“You see, they have a good relationship. What are you meddling in for?”
Meng Qi also felt a little uncomfortable when he saw Meng Ting take the initiative to kiss Yan Sui. Meng Ting seemed so distant and guarded towards him as if he were a stranger. Why did he become a completely different person when he was in front of Yan Sui? He is Meng Ting’s elder brother, after all.
Su Siyu wanted to sarcastically smile but couldn’t. He really couldn’t tell whether Yan Sui was acting or serious. However, the person he thought he had in his grasp was kissed by someone who seemed to have popped out of nowhere in his eyes.
Of course, compared to this kind of discomfort and disbelief, what made him even more angry was Yan Sui’s actions today. That’s 10% of the Yan’s shares! He couldn’t figure out what was so special about Meng Ting that made Yan Sui give him something that he had never given to anyone before.
The more he looked, the more distressed he became. Su Siyu grabbed Meng Qi’s wrist and pulled him away from this corner.
He did have something in mind when he was looking for Meng Qi, but it wasn’t what Meng Qi thought it was, but a real serious matter.
“I want to purchase some of your Meng family’s perfume formulas,” Su Siyu leaned against a tree. His face was completely devoid of smiles, but the seriousness in his tone could be felt, “If you feel that you’re at a disadvantage, I can give you some shares, and we’ll count it as cooperation.”
Meng Qi raised his eyebrows and looked at Su Siyu with a somewhat inexplicable gaze, “How much money are you willing to offer?”
“Two million, that’s all I have on me for the time being. I can also use my shares to offset part of it,” Most of Su Siyu’s face was hidden in the dark, but his eyes were exceptionally bright as if he was certain that he would be able to make his money back from this deal with Meng Qi.
However, Meng Qi was genuinely surprised. His eyes sunk slightly. After a long time, he sneered, he felt that Su Siyu was playing tricks on him again.
“Perfume formula? Our Meng family does have a perfume company, but they are all mid- to low-end products. The annual profit is not enough for a few mesdames and ladies to buy two pieces of jewelry. Are you sure you want to spend more than two million to buy those formulas from me?”
Hearing this, Su Siyu stood up straight and took another step closer. His eyes were locked on Meng Qi. After a long time, he said again, but he was more serious than before, “What I bought for two million yuan is naturally not the ordinary formula. What I want is the ancestral formula of your Meng family.”
The Meng family’s perfume company later fell into the hands of the Meng family’s second house. Relying on a few top-notch formulas, it directly became the cash cow1搖錢樹 (yáo qián shù): (Chinese mythology) legendary tree which sheds coins when shaken; money tree; (historical) money tree, a kind of grave goods in ancient China; money tree (various plants in the genus Ficus, such as Ficus elastica and Ficus deltoidea); (figurative) person or thing which is or can be used as a source of easy money; money-spinner; milch cow; gold mine. of the Meng family. With this money, the second house naturally suppresses the main house, and Meng Qi’s inheritance rights pass into the others’ hands. Su Siyu thought it had a lot to do with the ownership of the perfume company.
Of course, he didn’t just seek out Meng Qi to change his fate. He also wanted to accomplish something out of it. He would let Yan Sui know that he was different from Meng Ting and that he was more worthy of him than Meng Ting or anyone else.
“Ancestral formula?” However, Meng Qi still shook his head, “I haven’t heard that our Meng family has any ancestral formula… If there is any, how can we hide it and not use it to make money?” Even if the Meng family is not short of money right now, they will not be dissatisfied with having too much money either. How could they hide it and not use it?
Meng Qi reached out and pinched Su Siyu’s chin, and looked at him a little closer, “Where did you hear this nonsense…”
“Or…you actually can’t forget me? Are you still thinking about me and deliberately using this kind of thing to attract me?”
Meng Qi started touching him all over again as he spoke, but Su Siyu’s reaction was much greater than he had expected.
“How is that possible! Obviously…” He bit his lip, almost saying something he shouldn’t. He pushed away Meng Qi’s improper hands on him, “You better go back to the Meng family and investigate thoroughly. If you let the second house gain an advantage, and they profit from it, you will regret it!”
Although Meng Qi was basically certain that the Meng family couldn’t possibly have any hidden ancestral formula, Su Siyu’s words concerning the dispute between their two houses made it impossible for him not to take it seriously.
He nodded, “I will look into it.”
“As for Meng Ting, you’d better not have any bad ideas. He’s also a member of my main house!”
Su Siyu almost laughed angrily when he heard this. Only after a long time did he put away his slightly uncontrollable anger and nodded to Meng Qi.
For now, he still needs Meng Qi and doesn’t want to fall out with him. Otherwise, with his protective attitude, he wouldn’t want to talk to him!
The two of them entered the living room on the first floor one after another. Yan Sui had already come back with Meng Ting a long time ago. The banquet is now entering the important part. A bunch of people are singing ‘Happy Birthday’ around a cake.
Meng Yide took the lead in singing. He also thoughtfully gave an expensive birthday gift and gave Han Xuejun a cheek kiss. Han Xuejun smiled happily, and most of the guests around her were also smiling and gave blessings. They were having a great time. Although almost everyone present knew that Meng Yide’s mistress and illegitimate children were all over the place.
“Ting’er, Yan Sui, come and eat cake too,” Han Xuejun suddenly said to the two people in the corner who neither spoke nor smiled.
Yan Sui glanced at Meng Ting and reached out to take the cake. He handed it to Meng Ting, “Eat it.”
Han Xuejun handed out another piece of cake with a stiff smile. Unsurprisingly, it was Yan Sui who took it, but he still refused to eat it. He took Meng Ting to the side and sat down, his plate was also pushed in front of Meng Ting.
“If you can eat it, eat it. If you can’t, we’ll have a late-night snack when we go home later.”
“I can eat it,” Meng Ting nodded. He didn’t have the bad habit of wasting food. Although this was a cake from the Meng family that he didn’t like, but the gifts Yan Sui gave them were enough to buy them many cakes, so he was not regretful about eating them.
Meng Ting is actually quite shrewd when it comes to the things he cares about.
He almost completely devoured the two plates of cake before he commented meaningfully, “It’s not as delicious as the chocolate cake you gave me last time, and the portion is too small.” He found both portions a bit unsatisfying and wondered if those who only had one portion could feel the taste.
“We can also make cakes at home. If you want to eat them, just tell Nanny Wang.”
Yan Sui said as he reached out and gently wiped the corner of Meng Ting’s mouth with the pad of his thumb.
There was still a little bit of cream that Meng Ting had missed. Meng Ting stared at Yan Sui’s thumb, then he turned his head. The tip of his tongue explored and licked back the bit of cream.
He smacked his mouth. Still sweet, he lowered his head and ate the last bite of cake into his mouth, and then raised his eyes to look at Yan Sui again.
Yan Sui pursed his lips and didn’t speak. He had already retracted his hand, but his index finger and thumb couldn’t help but rub each other, as if he was reminiscing about the strange feeling of being licked by Meng Ting just now.
“Do you want to eat it too?” Meng Ting looked down at the cake plate again as he spoke. He scraped hard with his spoon, but could only scrape a little bit of cream.
He tentatively brought it to Yan Sui. Just when he was about to take it back and continue eating, Yan Sui leaned forward a little, opened his lips slightly, and took the cream that Meng Ting had managed to scrape out into his mouth.
He savored it for a while, then the corner of his mouth slowly curled up, “It’s very sweet.”
Originally, Meng Ting didn’t think there was anything wrong with his actions. He likes Yan Sui, so it’s only right to share delicious food with him. But as soon as Yan Sui said these words, his cheeks turned red. It was as if Yan Sui was saying that it wasn’t the cake that was sweet, but rather, it was he who was sweet.
But he’s not sweet. He shouldn’t have any flavor.
Meng Ting lowered his gaze to look at the spoon, then finally scraped the remaining bit on the plate, licked the leftover cake from the spoon clean, and only then did he set the spoon down. When he raised his eyes to look at the person again, he noticed that Yan Sui’s gaze towards him was a bit hotter?
Ignoring the slight redness on Yan Sui’s ears, his demeanor remained calm throughout. Meng Ting understood it to some extent, but more so felt confused and calm.
Meanwhile, the expressions of the people watching around were extremely weird at this moment. Yan Sui wiped the corners of Meng Ting’s mouth, which was intimate enough. Meng Ting also licked back the bit of cream and scraped off the messy cream remnants he had eaten to feed Yan Sui.
What makes people’s jaws drop in astonishment is that Yan Sui didn’t show any anger at all, he just opened his mouth and ate, ate, ate…
The crowd was unexpectedly fed a mouthful of dog food, it left almost everyone dumbfounded at this moment.
Even if we know you guys are affectionate, there’s no need to show it off like this! It’s really too stimulating for people!
List of Idiom in Chapter 028.1
不可多得 (bù kě duō dé): to be hard to come by; to be rare to have; exceptional; very rare and difficult to obtain (many refers to talents or rare items).意料之外 (yì liào zhī wài): unexpected; unexpectedly; contrary to expectation; in a way different from what was expected.
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