RES Chapter 72

When Lu Ming arrived home, the hands of the clock on the wall pointed to eleven o’clock late at night.

When he stepped into the villa, his pace was steady and there wasn’t much sound.

Lu Ming saw that Auntie Zhang was holding a small blanket, tiptoeing closer to the sofa and covering Chi Qiu’s body. When she turned around, she was almost startled by Lu Ming. She hurriedly stretched out a finger “shhh” before walking and whispered: “Mr. Lu, why are you back so late today? Sir has been waiting for you. He refused to go back to his room to sleep. He was sleepy on the sofa for a long time, and now he finally fell asleep.”

“Didn’t we say we wouldn’t let him wait for me working overtime?”

Seeing Lu Ming’s stern tone, Auntie Zhang was afraid that he would be angry, so she explained on behalf of Chi Qiu: “Mrs. Chi came here today and talked with him for a while. He has something to tell you.”

“What is it, is it important?”

“I asked him, he said it’s not important, but just wants to talk to you about it.” Auntie Zhang smiled as she gently said: “You know, he just made a few dried flowers and asked me to take a picture to send it to you. He wants to tell you everything.”

For a moment, Lu Ming inexplicably thought of Ji Yanchen’s sentence: “He wants you to follow him from morning to night.”

Lu Ming unnaturally frowned. Some strange feelings welled up in his heart and he felt sour for no apparent reason. He saw Chi Qiu shrink into a ball on the sofa and breathing calmly. He seemed to have slept deeply.

If Lu Ming carried him into the bedroom now, he would definitely wake him up.

Auntie Zhang seemed to see Lu Ming’s distress and said thoughtfully: “He seems to have something on his mind these days and looks like he hasn’t rested well. Why don’t you let him sleep here tonight, the sofa is big enough.”

Lu Ming didn’t deny that Chi Qiu had really tossed and turned, and Lu Ming didn’t want to disturb his rare good dream.

Secondly, the quality of the sofa was good, and Chi Qiu could sleep all night.

Because of this, Lu Ming did not refuse Aunt Zhang. He had a layer of sweat on his body and wanted to take a shower first, so he went straight towards the bedroom, taking off his suit jacket as he walked.

But before Lu Ming could take a few steps, Chi Qiu suddenly woke up

“Lu Ming?” Chi Qiu half-opened his hazy eyes and asked blankly, “Lu Ming, you’re back?”

Lu Ming stopped untying his tie. He turned around without hesitation and walked towards Chi Qiu.

“Sorry, I woke you up.”

“It’s okay, I, I wasn’t asleep.”

Chi Qiu rubbed his eyes in a daze. As soon as he saw Lu Ming, he reached out and wrapped his arms around Lu Ming’s neck, hugging him, “What took you so long to come back? I’ve been waiting for you for a long time.”

“There was a problem at work, it took a while.” Lu Ming lied, he patted Chi Qiu’s shoulder, “You let go first.”

“I don’t…” Chi Qiu rubbed against him and refused to let go.

Auntie Zhang smiled helplessly. She didn’t want to see this pair of mushy partners so she took Lu Ming’s suit and went back to the room.

Lu Ming, on the other hand, gently touched Chi Qiu’s head: “Let go first, I smell of sweat.”

Chi Qiu’s willfulness was stopped by Lu Ming within a few seconds. He reluctantly let go and sat on the sofa with his head bowed in aggression. Lu Ming crouched down and asked him, and only then did Chi Qiu remember that he had something to say to Lu Ming.

But when he opened his mouth, he did not know how to say it appropriately. He hesitated for a long time, and finally concluded with a simple sentence: “My mother is getting a divorce.”

Lu Ming was not surprised, he seemed to have used only a second to accept this fact.

Because he understood that for the Chi family, and for Chi Qiu, Chi Lanyan’s divorce was not a bad thing.

Seeing that Lu Ming was in a calm mood, Chi Qiu spoke, “Starting tomorrow, I may have to go home for a while.”

“Okay.” Lu Ming agreed without hesitation.

Chi Qiu did not expect Lu Ming to agree so quickly, he did not even ask a single question about the reason. In order not to let this conversation end in embarrassment, Chi Qiu had to hurry to add the reason himself: “I feel that Mom is not in a good mood. She also looks very haggard, I want to spend more time with her these days.”

“I know.” Lu Ming squeezed his hand, completely understanding Chi Qiu’s behavior, “I’m not going to the office tomorrow morning, I’ll send you there.”

Chi Qiu hooked his fingers around Lu Ming’s, like when he was a child, and asked him in a small voice, “Do you want to come over with me for a few days as well?”

After asking, Chi Qiu immediately said: “Mom has a very good impression of you now. If we go over there to live together, she will definitely be happy. Besides, it doesn’t take long to get to your office from my house.”

Chi Qiu had just checked it in the daytime. A shortcut highway had been built, which happened to lead directly to Lu Ming’s company. It didn’t take much time to drive.

If it was in the past, Lu Ming would have agreed. It was the same wherever he lived, and he didn’t feel repulsive to Chi Lanyan.

However, recently Lu Ming needed to keep in touch with Lin Ye all the time. Here, he could easily hide it from Chi Qiu, but he was afraid that when he went to Chi’s house, his behavior would be discovered by the keen Chi Lanyan.

Lu Ming knew that Chi Lanyan was not easy to deal with, so he did not dare to take the risk.

After a moment of silence, Lu Ming, taking advantage of his business, bluntly rejected Chi Qiu: “I may be very busy during this time, and maybe I have to go on a business trip, so I won’t bother Mom.”

After Chi Qiu heard this, he was very disappointed.

Lu Ming apologized in a deep voice and assured him, “I will go over as soon as I’m free, okay?”

Chi Qiu was not an unreasonable person; he had always understood Lu Ming’s work so how could he say ‘no’. He nodded his head, and after reluctantly compromised, he said in a warm voice: “Okay, don’t work too hard, take care of your rest.”

“En.”

Chi Qiu reluctantly embraced Lu Ming and said in a muffled voice: “If you don’t have time to come over, remember to call me. If you don’t have time to call, send a voice message or a text, okay? I’ll miss you…”

“Okay.”

“If I miss you too much, I’ll ‘run away’ from home, okay?” Chi Qiu’s tone lightened up.

Lu Ming still replied, “Okay.”

“Lu Ming, I’m so sleepy, can you carry me to the room?”

Chi Qiu was too lazy to leave by himself, he liked Lu Ming to hold him, he didn’t think Lu Ming smelled of sweat at all.

And Lu Ming would not refuse him: “Okay.”

 

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After Chi Qiu moved to Chi’s house, the summer passed quickly.

Outside the Chi family villa, at the roadside path.

The lilac flowers hanging on the fence gradually withered away, leaving only a few curved vine leaves hanging on the wall, piling up into a light shadow.

The early autumn arrived silently like this. After the summer’s dry heat had fallen, it gently wrapped Xingxi City.

As Lu Ming said, his work began to be busy, and from time to time he would go to the company for a whole day during weekends to work overtime. If there was endless work at night, even if Chi Qiu lived in the Chi Family’s house, he would tell Chi Qiu in advance.

Auntie Su, who worked in the Chi Family’s house, often teased Chi Qiu: “Young Master Lu looks so serious, but he is still an attentive person. Young Master, you are smiling so hard you can’t even close your mouth.”

Chi Qiu blushed, not letting Auntie Su make fun of him.

Auntie Su had no choice but to say: “Okay, I won’t say anything. Seeing Young Master Lu is good to you, I am also happy.”

Chi Qiu responded generously: “He’s very good.”

But what he was hoping for in his heart was not quite the same…Chi Qiu grew up being taken care of by Auntie Su since he was a child, and had long ago treated Aunt Su as a member of his own family. So he spoke thoughtfully without defensiveness: “But I sometimes, very much hope that he will not be so good to me.”

Good enough to be considerate right down to the most trivial detail, yet good enough that it seemed to be full of distance.

Auntie Su didn’t understand.

Chi Qiu pursed his lips. It was difficult to explain his feelings clearly to others, he said in frustration. “Auntie Su, I met two friends a while ago. They are like us; they are both men, and they are also married. I, I think they have such a lovely life. They quarrel and bicker, but they also protect each other. Lu Ming and I have never been like this.”

Auntie Su listened attentively to him. Her eyes looked like the eyes of a person who had had the experience: “So, you also hope that Young Master Lu will quarrel with you? He looks so serious, how can he quarrel and bicker with you.”

Chi Qiu pursed his lips: “I may have been too happy, I always feel as if it is fake.”

Auntie Su smiled and said in a warm voice: “Aiya, little ancestor, every family gets along differently. Is happiness not good?”

“Of course it’s good, but…” Chi Qiu couldn’t explain the confusion in his heart.

Auntie Su thought he was overthinking. While arranging the dishes in her hand, she muttered: “It’s okay to live a happy life. It’s not good to fight every day, it hurts your feelings.”

“Auntie Su, am I weird to think this way?”

“No. it’s a marriage, it’s not strange to think more or less. It’s strange if you don’t think about anything. Don’t you think so?”

Chi Qiu nodded, giving a muffled reply and sighing heavily.

Auntie Su probably sensed that there was something hidden in his heart, and it wasn’t easy to expose it, so after a few words of comfort, she deliberately changed the subject: “I think Young Master Lu lost some weight when he came here two days ago. When he comes back for dinner next time, I’ll make a big meal to make up for him.”

Chi Qiu liked Auntie Su’s cooking the most, and he was very much looking forward to the big meal prepared by Auntie Su. He didn’t order dishes from other places anymore: “Remember to make the fish with scallion oil then.”

“Okay, I know.” Auntie Su had long memorized the recipe for fish with scallion oil.

“By the way, Auntie Su, how is the bone soup coming along? Lu Ming loves it, I’ll send some over to him this evening”

After saying this, Chi Qiu face was full of smiles again. He was really easy to satisfy.

 

 

During this month, in order to prevent Chi Qiu from being lonely or uneasy as before, Lu Ming specially told Xu Ling that if Chi Qiu contacted him behind his back and wanted to come to the company to deliver some soup, he would bring him upstairs directly.

These words were obviously a tacit consent to let Chi Qiu come to the company to find him.

Once Xu Ling heard this, he was so smart that he immediately relayed Lu Ming’s original words to Chi Qiu. At first, Chi Qiu thought he had heard wrong

So, after Xu Ling repeated again and again, Chi Qiu understood that Lu Ming was going to ‘publicize’ their relationship?

But he thought wrong, Lu Ming actually never forbade Chi Qiu to come to his own company to find him. It was just that in the past, work was more important than a partner, and Lu Ming didn’t like to mix personal matters with business matters.

Now, it was the partner who would outweigh the work most of the time.

It was precisely because of this that the employees of the company knew that the serious boss with facial paralysis was already married. Also, his partner was a very handsome man.

Chi Qiu was clear about these changes in Lu Ming’s heart, so he often told himself over and over again, convincing himself: be patient, as long as you wait patiently, nothing can go wrong.

Thinking about it, he reminded Auntie Su to make a bowl of braised pork and stir-fried vegetables, which were Lu Ming’s favorite dishes.

Auntie Su wrote down one by one. Recently, she also asked for Auntie Zhang’s contact information. When she was free, she would privately communicate with Auntie Zhang about their tastes to avoid mistakes.

The so-called excellent nanny must be prepared.

 

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