When An Qiao’s words fell, the air seemed to freeze altogether.
Hei Che muttered, “Oh my God.”
He was silent for a while, and An Qiao stared at him for a long time.
Hei Che took a deep breath and raised a question.
“If I remember correctly, we haven’t done the last step yet?”
Could it be that while I was asleep, something happened that I didn’t know?
Hei Che gazed at An Qiao suspiciously.
An Qiao blushed. He mumbled some words like “lack of common sense” and “not safe” and gave a little basic science to Hei Che.
“In fact, just because you didn’t make it to the end doesn’t mean there’s no danger1Wait what? That’s not basic science. I know you shouldn’t question An An. But…….” An Qiao tried hard to restrain his worries as a lover, took out the doctor’s patience, and explained to Hei Che.
“Because in the process of our…… Well, in the process of experimenting, the molecules carrying gene segments that are needed to give birth to offspring have already been mixed…… Do you understand what I said?”
Hei Che was dumbfounded.
“Usually it’s fine.” An Qiao crossed his fingers and looked left and right, “But this medicine was specially developed for Mr. Lu, and it was too domineering for his special needs. You also know that Mr. Lu’s family genes are not conducive to the birth of an heir. So I have raised the medicinal properties to a hundred times the normal value! And you —”
An Qiao looked at Hei Che, “I remember that you have nine paternal aunts, four paternal uncles, six maternal uncles, and three maternal aunts. And the total number of your cousins is……”
An Qiao did a simple mental calculation and said a little unsure, “One hundred and two……?”
Hei Che’s phone rang for a moment, and he looked down at the screen.
“One hundred and four.” Hei Che said.
An Qiao paused for a moment, “Your paternal aunt gave birth again?”
“The picture was just posted in the WeChat group. Twins.” Hei Che replied, holding up his phone.
“……”
An Qiao looked at Hei Che’s blank face at this time. His heart sank and he wrapped his arms around him in a comforting hug, “Don’t worry. Whether you want to keep it or not, I will do my best to help you and reduce the pain.”
An Qiao apologised guiltily, “I shouldn’t have teased you so much.”
For Hei Che, pregnancy was tantamount to an unexpected disaster. And at this time, he was in great need of some care and love.
Hei Che sighed gloomily, “Don’t tell me that yet. I need to be quiet for a while. My mind is a mess right now.”
“Good.”
An Qiao thoughtfully closed the door softly. He came out of the house, before rushing to the garage and driving quickly to the Lu residence.
Chen Ma opened the door and was surprised to look at a face that was a little familiar but not very familiar, from top-down angle.
Why was it a top-down angle?
Because in the dim light of the early morning, this person was on his knees, not wearing a top.
Chen Ma was about to call 110, when she heard the gentleman’s plaintive and sorrowful voice calling, “Mr. Lu. Is that you, Mr. Lu?”
An Qiao looked up and saw a middle-aged woman with a probing expression. He immediately guessed her identity and introduced himself.
“I really have something very, very important that I need to tell Mr. Lu. Can I trouble you to inform him?”
Chen Ma said, “Sir, you might as well stand up and wait.”
An Qiao’s expression remained the same, “Thank you. But to tell you the truth, it is really necessary for me to do this.”
Without showing his repentance and trepidation, he would not be able to arouse Mr. Lu’s compassion.
In that case, he was likely to suffer merciless revenge from Mr. Lu.
Lu Mingshi appeared downstairs, and a grey figure appeared in front of him.
A lump of warm ** immediately flew up and hugged his knees. The speed was unimaginable.
Of course, Lu Mingshi kicked it up reflexively.
Unexpectedly, the dodge of this lump of ** was extremely sharp. And it stuck to his calf like a 5022I think it’s the name of a brand of super glue.
, and he couldn’t get rid of it.
If An Qiao hadn’t made any sound, Lu Mingshi was about to summon a biochemical weapon of mass destruction — His husband.
An Qiao did not know that his life had walked on the edge of the cliff and he cried out at the last moment in time:
“Boss Lu, I’m here to bring a bramble and ask for punishment3fig. to offer sb a humble apology!”
A series of question marks emerged on Lu Mingshi’s forehead.
……
An Qiao knelt down on the red carpet in the living room, refusing to get up no matter what Lu Mingshi said.
“If you won’t forgive my mistake, I will never get up!”
Lu Mingshi looked at the bundle of hay that An Qiao was carrying on his back.
“You call this thing vitex?”
An Qiao laughed mischeviously, “There’s no way. Vitex really can’t be found anywhere. So I can only make do with this for the time being.”
“What exactly did you do that you wanna apologise to me?”
Lu Mingshi saw that An Qiao simply wouldn’t get up. So he had to calm down and start questioning.
At this time, for some unknown reason, Gu Yixin passed by here.
This was actually a bit difficult. After all, the distance between the living room and the bedroom was no less than four hundred metres. And it wasn’t also the time for the after-dinner walk. So for the time being, it could be explained as an attraction generated by an inexplicable magnetic field.
An Qiao then tearfully explained the cause and effect to Lu Mingshi.
“That’s how it is.” An Qiao said uneasily, “Boss, I’m sorry. My impulse caused the whole plan to go down the drain.”
Lu Mingshi was obviously shocked too, especially at the part about Hei Che’s pregnancy.
This shock even diluted his dissatisfaction with An Qiao.
“That’s really amazing.” Lu Mingshi murmured.
Gu Yixin, who was passing by, was also very shocked.
It turned out that Lu Mingshi getting close to An Qiao during this period was actually for the development of…… This kind of medicine!
But he knew nothing about it and drank An Qiao’s vinegar4 to be jealous of him.
So now, Lu Mingshi must be very disappointed……
Lu Mingshi lowered his head in shock. An Qiao stepped forward after weighing up his words and observing his facial expression, and sincerely apologised while helping him squeeze his shoulders and massage his back.
An Qiao was upset, “It’s all my fault, Boss. If you want to punish me, just punish me.”
Lu Mingshi saw him in this state and felt that it would be of no good to accuse him again.
“…… Forget it.” Lu Mingshi did not know whether he was answering An Qiao or talking to himself, “Probably this is the arrangement of fate.”
He patted An Qiao’s shoulder forgivingly, “Take good care of Young Master Hei. It’s too hard for a man to get pregnant.”
An Qiao nodded, “In fact, when I was developing it, I also thought about whether to have an offspring with him that belonged to both of us. If it is necessary, I would rather be the one who bears the pain.”
Lu Mingshi raised his eyebrows, “I’m not surprised.”
After An Qiao was bid farewell, Gu Yixin came out from the shadows and quietly walked behind Lu Mingshi.
At this time, the sky was slightly bright.
Lu Mingshi sat on the sofa with his hands crossed behind his head and didn’t know what to think.
He had gotten up in a hurry. So he didn’t freshen up and his hair was curling up stubbornly. Gu Yixin stretched out his hand to press down Lu Mingshi’s ahoge5an exaggerated cowlick usually found in anime and manga.
Lu Mingshi turned his head and saw Gu Yixin stretching his waist.
Lu Mingshi then immediately yawned as well.
A cosy stretch and a long yawn because neither of them slept well.
Yesterday they tossed and turned until almost two o’clock before falling asleep, and at five o’clock in the morning, they were woken up by An Qiao. This situation was very rare for these two adult men who had a good routine.
Lu Mingshi yawned and asked, “Why are you down too? Go back to sleep.”
Gu Yixin, “En.”
He turned around and walked upstairs.
Lu Mingshi looked at his back and felt that he should go back to catch up on his sleep too. It was best to have another sweet dream to calm down the mood that was affected by the bad news that An Qiao had reported.
So Lu Mingshi got up naturally and followed Gu Yixin.
After the tossing last night, his legs had gone a bit soft, and he staggered when he stepped on the top step.
Gu Yixin was quick to grab Lu Mingshi and pick him up.
Anyway, he picked him up. So he just carried him all the way back to the room.
Gu Yixin felt that Lu Mingshi seemed to be a little heavier.
Recently, their diet structure was inclined towards high-protein and high-calorie foods. So there was nothing surprising about this.
When he woke up, the sun was already three poles high.
Gu Yixin got up to take a look at the time, quickly brushed his teeth, washed his face, changed his clothes, and went out. At the last moment, he ran back again and kissed Jiujin’s little face and Lu Mingshi’s forehead.
Lu Mingshi was sleeping in a mess and asked him in a daze what he was going to do, as if he couldn’t wake up at all.
“Work.” Gu Yixin said solemnly, then turned around and ran to the scene of the press conference.
Yes, during this morning rush hour, driving to the inner ring of the city could not be as fast as running.
Gu Yixin rushed to the scene of the press conference as scheduled, and then loudly announced to the impenetrable crowd of reporters the facts that had been posted on Weibo last night.
Of course, the reporters had a lot of questions to ask this legendary figure.
After Gu Yixin patiently explained the direction of his career development, the reporters couldn’t help but ask the topic they were most interested in.
“Is it true that your legal partner is Mr. Lu Mingshi of the Lu Group?”
……
Lu Mingshi had just gotten up at this moment. He rubbed his eyes and fed Jiujin milk for a while. Suddenly, he slapped his thigh as he remembered the press conference.
He laid the baby on the bed and reached out to the bedside to fumble for the remote control.
The large projection was quickly projected on the entire white wall in front of him, and the live broadcast picture went from blurry to clear.
Lu Mingshi saw a large number of onlookers behind rows of reporters and saw the reporters’ microphones and cameras pointed at the person sitting in the middle of the stage like a cannon.
“Is it true that your legal partner is……”
“Yes.”
Gu Yixin affirmed without any hesitation.
There were instant whisperings in the audience.
In this era, same-sex marriages indeed no longer attracted the attention of the world as it did in the early days of the bill. However, in the upper class, there were still very few same-sex couples who would announce their union in public in a high-profile manner.
Society will never be as tolerant as society claims to be.
Lu Mingshi crossed his legs, dragged his son in front of him, and held him high.
“Look at daddy.” Lu Mingshi said softly, “Isn’t daddy handsome in front of the camera?”
Lu Jiujin’s big dark and liquidy eyes rolled around. Of course, he couldn’t see the image so far away, but he could feel that Lu Mingshi beside him was very happy.
So Lu Jiujin waved his little hands and grinned.
After the commotion, the reporter asked an even more sensitive question.
“Mr. Gu, you said on Weibo that you already have a three-month-old son. Everyone wants to know about the origin of the baby!”
This was the issue that they were the most concerned about!
Beforehand, the reporters had already had enough psychological construction on the relationship between Gu Yixin and Lu Mingshi, and they were only surprised by his calmness and serenity when he made it public.
Everyone had also made a lot of conjectures about the origin of this baby.
Adoption or surrogacy was the conventional speculation, and there were some more daring theories, such as the one put forward by the young journalist at the end of March, “Mr. Lu is actually a woman. And the reason why he hid for months was actually to give birth to a baby.” remarks. Although it sounded funny, it had already been spread in the circle of journalists privately.
Gu Yixin was in a bit of a dilemma right now. He didn’t know if Lu Mingshi wanted him to tell the truth.
But one thing, Gu Yixin thought to himself. If one day the truth was to be told to the world, then the truth should be announced by Lu Mingshi. He was the one who had the right to decide.
Thinking of this, he smiled meaningfully at the camera, as if staring through the camera at all the people who were paying attention to him.
Lu Mingshi held the baby in both hands and tilted his head.
“No comments.”
Gu Yixin said.
It’s not that he wouldn’t tell, the time hadn’t come yet.
In the following period of time, Gu Yixin received a lot of entertainment industry-related job offers. He had to change his Weibo signature to “Long-term vacation. Do not disturb with work.”, and then focus on what he wanted to do.
The ones who were the most dumbfounded were no one else but the army of edamame fans of Gu Wumao and moving bricks fans of the Yi family of Gu Yixin.
On this day, the two big fan groups finally exchanged contact information and the great friendship between the fans of the idol and the fans of the idol’s sockpuppet began.
At the friendship meeting, both parties expressed their sorrows and astonishment one after another.
“It’s so damn humiliating. We couldn’t even recognize our own idol!”
“Now look at these two photos. It’s clearly the same person! Who took the lead in brainwashing people that these are two people?”
“That’s right. Our brother is so good-looking. Not to mention work clothes. Even if he wears sacks it will be luxury super seasonal high fashion on him!”
The sound of ”Right, right, right“ and ”Yes, yes, yes” were endless, and fans on both sides seemed to have found confidants.
The edamame army sighed with sorrow, “Ai, if someone else had deceived me like this, I definitely would have held a grudge against them for life! But what to do? Who made him my idol? I swore in front of the TV that I would protect Brother Wumao for the rest of my life!”
“It can’t be helped. The idol that we chose has to be pampered to the end even if we have to kneel. What’s more, our brother is so handsome and so chic when he moves bricks. Where can we find a second person like this in this world?”
The moving brick fans of the Yi family said so.
The fans on both sides had already been chatting very enthusiastically, but it was only after these words came out that they realised the problem.
There is only one big brother. If he goes to move bricks, he won’t be able to act, and if he goes to act, he won’t be able to move bricks.
How can this make us feel good?
This was like a movie star who had a never-ending dream of music or a supermodel whose lifelong goal was to become a good host of a children’s program.
The idol who was keen on crossing the boundary made the fan pace back and forth, not knowing what to do.
At this time, Director Wang once again took his friend, the winner of eight international directing awards, the super director Director Li, to find Gu Yixin.
Director Li once again took a handkerchief and blew his nose. His trembling hand pulled out the script he had covered for years,《You Who Move Bricks》, and once again held it up in front of Gu Yixin.
“It’s you.” Director Li said fondly, “At first, I wanted to find the model worker, Gu Yixin to be my protagonist, but then I met the newcomer actor Gu Wumao. However, I never thought that you were the same person. This must be God’s guidance, showing me that I must ask you to act in this show!”
Except for you, no other staff can do it.
You are unique and unmatched!
Gu Yixin was moved by Director Li’s sincerity.
And director Li told him that he only needed to be on set for two months to shoot this drama, and it will all be shot on the real location of a construction site. So the work he needed to do was no different from moving bricks in ordinary times, and he only needed to act in his true colours.
Gu Yixin picked up the pen and signed the contract under the eyes of Director Li that was brimming with tears of excitement on drawing a lucky number.
Although he was reluctant to leave Gu Yixin for two months, Lu Mingshi’s face did not show a bit of unhappiness.
“I support you to go.” Lu Mingshi said, “Film is the seventh largest art in the world, and Director Li is a very good director. I believe you will do a good job.”
Good work will be remembered by the audience for a long time.
“There will be many, many people who will love you.” Lu Mingshi poked the baby’s face as he watched Gu Yixin pack his luggage. His voice was a bit mixed as if he was looking forward to it, but also a little sour.
Gu Yixin closed the suitcase, stepped across the suitcase, and jumped onto the bed, pouncing on Lu Mingshi.
“Ba”, he stamped a kiss on Lu Mingshi’s neck.
Lu Mingshi resisted hard, “I have a meeting in the afternoon……”
Gu Yixin suggested, “Turtleneck sweater?”
Lu Mingshi, “It’s July!”
Gu Yixin had to give up.
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