TAB Chapter 034.1

Shan Qihuan was taken aback by what Shen Yuhan said and looked him up and down: “Did they hurt you?”

Shen Yuhan shook his head and looked toward the beautiful junior sister standing in front.

Shan Qihuan finally understood what he meant this time, and was vaguely happy in his heart, Shen Yuhan actually started to care about the people around him, and briefly introduce the two of them.

“This is my junior sister from college, Ning Qiong.”

The beautiful junior sister’s surname is Ning, and her given name is Qiong, she is a junior sister whom Shan Qihuan met when he was a sophomore in college, they got to know each other because they had the same mentor, when they were in college, they formed a team due to their shared interests and developed an intelligent software, later, due to fierce competition in the industry, they eventually withdrew from the market, and pursued their own individual career paths.

After quitting the team, Shan Qihuan used the entrepreneurial funds provided by Shan Tianfeng to establish his current company, his company has been able to develop to what it is today, he have endured a lot of hardships in this establishment process, but it has also been quite tempering. Of course, he was also blackmailed by Shan Tianfeng because of the entrepreneurial fund, and it progressed to the point where he agreed to marry Shen Yuhan, Shan Qihuan thought at that time that he would be bound to the Shan family boat for the rest of his life, for no other reason than because his surname was Shan.

Ning Qiong is a smart and independent girl, she has always had her own ideas, both of her parents are intellectuals engaged in education, although she didn’t choose to start her own business like Shan Qihuan, but after graduation, she also entered the world’s top 500 companies, and has always been leading the top team, she is not even thirty years old, but she is already a strong and popular¹炙手可熱 (zhì shǒu kě rè): lit. burn your hand, feel the heat (idiom); fig. arrogance of the powerful; a mighty figure no-one dares approach; (neologism) popular; hot; selling like hotcakes; you feel the heat as soon as you stretch out your hands—extremely powerful and arrogant; From a poem by Du Fu: 炙手可熱勢絕倫，慎莫近前丞相嗔。, Heat that can burn the hands, power beyond all measure―Take care not to come close before the Minister’s angry glare! woman.

She and Shan Qihuan have always kept in touch, occasionally, when she come to Jiangcheng, the two will have a meal together, but nothing else, they have quite a simple relationship between senior brother and junior sister, Shan Qihuan’s appreciation for her only stems from her own ability and the courage to deal with people.

“Ning Qiong, this is my partner, Shen Yuhan, we just got married.” Shan Qihuan introduced Shen Yuhan to Ning Qiong.

Ning Qiong didn’t forget the defensive look Shen Yuhan had just given her, after hearing Shan Qihuan’s introduction, she was stunned for a moment, and then quickly put a smile on her face: “Hello, sister-in-law.” Maybe there was some misunderstanding about her?

This is the basic quality of a working person, able to remain calm in the face of crisis²臨危不亂 (lín wēi bù luàn): to remain calm when faced with a dangerous situation; be calm in the hour of peril; take a tense situation calmly. at any time.

“Hello.” Shen Yuhan was still being led by Shan Qihuan, after his introduction, his heart felt a little better, so he raised his head and asked him, “Are you going to have a meeting?”

Shan Qihuan explained to him the schedule for the meeting: “There is still half an hour of meeting, you go to the office first and play for a while.”

“Okay.” Shen Yuhan’s other hand gently rested on the back of Shan Qihuan’s hand.

After they finished talking, Ning Qiong saw the ring on Shen Yuhan’s hand, she recognized the ring, and also knew its price, she immediately know the importance of Shen Yuhan in her senior brother’s heart, she was surprised and said: “I didn’t even know that Senior Brother got married, I have to make up a wedding gift later.”

Shan Qihuan originally thought that it would be okay to accept the gift, but his fingers were pinched by Shen Yuhan and he said instead: “That’s not necessary, it’s only right that we treat you to dinner.” At the beginning, he didn’t think there would be any development with Shen Yuhan, so he never thought about inviting his junior sister.

Ning Qiong smiled and said, “That’s right, I’ll wait for you and your sister-in-law to treat me for a meal.”

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Only when Shan Qihuan, Ning Qiong, and the others reached the fork leading to the conference room did he let go of Shen Yuhan’s hand.

After losing the warmth covering his hands, Shen Yuhan began to feel a little lost again.

After Shen Yuhan entered Shan Qihuan’s office, he took off his down jacket, and sat on the office chair where his husband usually sat, the leather chair was quite comfortable.

He was not interested in the computer in front of him at all, instead, he propped his chin and stare in a daze.

He didn’t make a mistake, when Shan Qihuan introduced himself to Ning Qiong, there’s a flash of astonishment in Ning Qiong’s eyes, he guessed that Ning Qiong still had feelings for Shan Jiyun, this was based on his intuition, perhaps it was just a one-sided fondness.

However, this time he only felt a sense of powerlessness, this feeling was different from when he heard about the top student before.

After holding his chin for a while, Shen Yuhan lay on the table and continued to be in a daze.
Alas, he may not be able to reach Ning Qiong’s height in this life.

The person is good-looking, capable, and also has her own team, she’s good at handling people, treating people with courtesy, and have sense of propriety.

Feeling helpless, and unable to break through, he took a pen from the table, took a piece of paper and wrote on it, the characters used are not the modern simplified characters, but the characters of their Qi Kingdom, a poem from the Classic of Poetry³詩經 (Shī jīng): The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching, translated variously as the Book of Songs, Book of Odes, or simply known as the Odes or Poetry, is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC. It is one of the “Five Classics” traditionally said to have been compiled by Confucius, and has been studied and memorized by scholars in China and neighboring countries over two millennia. It is also a rich source of chengyu (four-character classical idioms) that are still a part of learned discourse and even everyday language in modern Chinese. Since the Qing dynasty, its rhyme patterns have also been analysed in the study of Old Chinese phonology..

Writing could divert his attention.

Without realizing it, half an hour had passed, Shan Qihuan also came back from the short meeting, he was only responsible for finalizing the cooperation relationship, the rest of the details were left to the person in charge of the project to communicate with Ning Qiong and her team.

When Shen Yuhan saw him come in, he put down the pen in his hand.

Shan Qihuan asked him: “What are you writing?”

Shen Yuhan’s mood is not high, so he replied gloomily⁴悶悶不樂 (mèn mèn bù lè): sulky; gloomy; in low spirits; depressed; moody; unhappy.: “Just write randomly, I’m cultivating my mind⁵修身養性 (xiū shēn yǎng xìng): to behave properly to improve one’s character; cultivate one’s mind; self-cultivation; cultivate one’s moral character..”

Shan Qihuan feels that he has really cultivated his mind recently, whether it is his daily life, food, clothing, housing and transportation⁶衣食住行 (yī shí zhù xíng): clothing, food, housing and transport (idiom); people’s basic needs; food, clothing, shelter and means of travel—basic necessities of life., he is very Buddhist, completely unlike what a twenty-year-old would do, he also discovered that Shen Yuhan didn’t even play mobile games, he only uses his mobile phone to read the news, even his typing is slow, still writes by hand⁷手寫 (shǒu xiě): Writes by hand. .

Shan Qihuan asked him why he didn’t use the nine-grid⁸九宮格 (jiǔ gōng gé): a kind of paper with square grids split into nine smaller squares in a three-by-three arrangement for practising Chinese calligraphy; (figuratively) a 3×3 grid; sudoku. or the twenty-six keys⁹二十六鍵 (èr shí liù jiàn): T/N: As you can see, there’s a lot of keyboard type for Chinese people, the nine-grid keyboard and this twenty-six keyboard can also be an alphabet keyboard (T9 or QWERTY), they can type the pinyin (alphabet) and the hanzi (Chinese characters) will pops out (This is also why many younger generation Chinese can’t write Chinese characters by hand, but have no problem chatting on phone, also why there’s many typo for similar sounding characters, not everyone could memorize 80,000 plus characters y’know). , Shen Yuhan said that he was practicing calligraphy, Shan Qihuan thought that there seemed to be no problem, he had indeed asked him to practice calligraphy before, now that he has developed this good habit, he still has a contribution, he is quite satisfied that Shen Yuhan has developed this good habit.

When Shen Yuhan saw that no one came in behind him, he asked: “Where is your junior sister Ning Qiong?”

“Went to have dinner with my subordinates, they’re going to continue to finalize the details of the cooperation in the afternoon.” Shan Qihuan is now willing to explain many things to Shen Yuhan.

Shen Yuhan breathed a sigh of relief, and as soon as he relaxed, he sneezed.

Shan Qihuan couldn’t help but frown: “Why don’t you put on your coat?”

“It’s hot in the room, wearing a coat will make people sweat.” Shen Yuhan also took off his coat because of the high indoor temperature.

Shan Qihuan went to the side to adjust the temperature of the air conditioner, when he turned around, he realized that Shen Yuhan’s inside sweater was a bit thin: “Why don’t you put on one more.”

“I wear a thicker coat outside, it’s also not that cold.” As he said that, Shen Yuhan sneezed again, the down jacket was indeed very warm.

Shan Qihuan was really afraid that he would get sick: “I’m going to find you a woolen cardigan, I remember there is an unused one in the closet.”

Shen Yuhan followed him into the back room, Shan Qihuan opened the wardrobe, hanging on it were the suits he often wore for various occasions, as well as daily changes of clothes, recently, he has added some new winter clothes, he remembered that there was a gray wool cardigan, which was suitable for wearing in the indoor heated room.

But before he could find the cardigan, a pair of beautiful white hands wrapped around his waist, the familiar fragrance invaded his nose, and his whole body froze slightly, the movements of his hands stopped for a moment because of him.

This little sticky thing.

“Honey.” Shen Yuhan’s voice was muffled, he leaned his head against Shan Qihuan’s shoulder and rubbed it, being close to his husband would make him feel very at ease, and he also liked to smell his scent.

Shan Qihuan couldn’t see him, but could feel him pressing against him, half of his weight on him: “Um, what are you doing?” The atmosphere at this time did not allow him to say anything too hurtful, so he simply didn’t say anything, he felt Shen Yuhan is a bit fragile in his heart, he is sticky at every turn, also loves to cry.

What does Shen Yuhan want to say?

He knew that Shan Qihuan actually didn’t trust him very much, te couldn’t say many things that were buried deep in his heart, they also haven’t talk without reserve with each other before, marriage has brought them to where they are now, Shan Qihuan is a very nice person, and treats him well, he wants to continue on this journey.

It’s just that he has just arrived in this world, it hasn’t been long, but he had actually begun to rely on this man a little bit.

He didn’t want Shan Qihuan to be separated from him.

Shen Yuhan’s eyes were filled with sadness, and he said in a voice that only he could hear: “I only have you.”

But after all, he was sticking to Shan Qihuan, Shan Qihuan heard his heartbeat beating faster and more chaotically, he also heard Shen Yuhan’s words, he replied without any ridicule or perfunctory words: “I know.”

He knew that Shen Yuhan had neither father nor mother, and his grandfather, who loved him the most, had also passed away last year, at this time, the only person he could really rely on was him, he still remembered how Jiang Ruolin described Shen Yuhan to him, ‘His heart and eyes are full of you’, if even he gives up on Shen Yuhan, wouldn’t it be the same as pressing his last straw.

He initially pursued Shan Qiyun crazily, was he just using this pursuit as a spiritual support?

He had no way of knowing the answer, and he wouldn’t ask such a stupid question.

When Shen Yuhan heard his response, he hugged Shan Qihuan’s waist even tighter, he didn’t let go until he sneezed again, then Shan Qihuan picked up the woolen cardigan, turned around and handed it to him.

“Put it on, if you catch a cold, I’ll have to take care of you.” At this time, he started to express disgust again.

“Oh.” After putting it on, Shen Yuhan smiled slightly at Shan Qihuan, this is not the first time he wore his husband’s clothes, but he still felt happy.

Watching Shen Yuhan put on his coat, Shan Qihuan stood in front of him, pretending to tidy up the wrinkles on his clothes, and explain to him.

“Ning Qiong is just an ordinary junior sister, if I wanted to have something with her, I would already have it.”

Shen Yuhan looked down at his husband’s hand pinching the edge of his woolen sweater, his thoughts were seen, he nodded gently: “Um.”

“Let’s go eat, ask the kitchen in the canteen for a bottle of vinegar, it’s enough.” Shan Qihuan said deliberately.

Shen Yuhan raised his head to look at him, and met Shan Qihuan’s smiling eyes, his ears were burning again, he turned around and walked out, whispering: “You’re the one who eat vinegar.”

Shan Qihuan smiled silently from behind.

Next part will be up soon.

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  炙手可熱 (zhì shǒu kě rè): lit. burn your hand, feel the heat (idiom); fig. arrogance of the powerful; a mighty figure no-one dares approach; (neologism) popular; hot; selling like hotcakes; you feel the heat as soon as you stretch out your hands—extremely powerful and arrogant; From a poem by Du Fu: 炙手可熱勢絕倫，慎莫近前丞相嗔。, Heat that can burn the hands, power beyond all measure―Take care not to come close before the Minister’s angry glare!
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  臨危不亂 (lín wēi bù luàn): to remain calm when faced with a dangerous situation; be calm in the hour of peril; take a tense situation calmly.
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  詩經 (Shī jīng): The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching, translated variously as the Book of Songs, Book of Odes, or simply known as the Odes or Poetry, is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC. It is one of the “Five Classics” traditionally said to have been compiled by Confucius, and has been studied and memorized by scholars in China and neighboring countries over two millennia. It is also a rich source of chengyu (four-character classical idioms) that are still a part of learned discourse and even everyday language in modern Chinese. Since the Qing dynasty, its rhyme patterns have also been analysed in the study of Old Chinese phonology.
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  悶悶不樂 (mèn mèn bù lè): sulky; gloomy; in low spirits; depressed; moody; unhappy.
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  修身養性 (xiū shēn yǎng xìng): to behave properly to improve one’s character; cultivate one’s mind; self-cultivation; cultivate one’s moral character.
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  衣食住行 (yī shí zhù xíng): clothing, food, housing and transport (idiom); people’s basic needs; food, clothing, shelter and means of travel—basic necessities of life.
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  手寫 (shǒu xiě): Writes by hand.
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  九宮格 (jiǔ gōng gé): a kind of paper with square grids split into nine smaller squares in a three-by-three arrangement for practising Chinese calligraphy; (figuratively) a 3×3 grid; sudoku.
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  二十六鍵 (èr shí liù jiàn): T/N: As you can see, there’s a lot of keyboard type for Chinese people, the nine-grid keyboard and this twenty-six keyboard can also be an alphabet keyboard (T9 or QWERTY), they can type the pinyin (alphabet) and the hanzi (Chinese characters) will pops out (This is also why many younger generation Chinese can’t write Chinese characters by hand, but have no problem chatting on phone, also why there’s many typo for similar sounding characters, not everyone could memorize 80,000 plus characters y’know).