Chapter 10

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Yan Yu’s operation schedule was full. Although Nie Jia did not accept appointments other than Ye Shuming’s after his arrival, Yan Su’s previous work still kept Nie Jia busy for a while.

Ye Shuming recovered quickly. After all, he was healed directly by Nie Jia’s powers. After meals, he would walk with Huo Yun’s help. In a few days, he was completely healed, but Huo Qing didn’t mean to let Nie Jia move back to the Jiang residence. Huo Qing turned the topic around even before Nie Jia mentioned going back to the Jiang house.

He always had reasons to refuse Nie Jia. For example, it was relatively close to the hospital from here. For example, the quietness here could let him take a good rest. For example, Ye Xiaojue felt reluctant to part with this beautiful uncle and so on.

Nie Jia realized that Huo Qing had such a strong desire to make him stay. He then stopped talking about returning to the Jiang family. Anyway, it was not him who slept in the guest room.

–

“Is Brother Qing pursuing Doctor Yan?” Ye Shuming murmured in surprise.

In the morning, because Nie Jia had an operation and had no time to have breakfast, Huo Qing did not enter the kitchen. He just took a cup of lean meat porridge to let Nie Jia eat on the road and drove him to the hospital.

Ye Shuming looked at the backs of the two people who were leaving together, and finally noticed something. It seemed that his brother-in-law had been driving Dr. Yan to the hospital these days. Sometimes, the two of them came home late at night, smelling like wine. He knew that the two frequently had dinner outside.

Huo Yun smirked when she helped Ye Xiaojue apply jam on the toast: “Have you ever seen brother send flowers to Dr. Yan? How did you think that he was pursuing Dr. Yan?”

“But I saw that Qing ge🔻 would rather sleep in the guest room every day than let Dr. Yan go back. Oh yes, I also saw that Dr. Yan often runs to the balcony. Because of the cold weather, Qing ge tends to enter his room during Dr. Yan’s working hours. Also, the balcony is usually closed.” Ye Shuming’s eyebrows gazed softly at his wife.

Huo Yun laughed: “I just think that my brother is driving a donkey🔻. He hasn’t said that he doesn’t want to let Dr. Yan go. It’s just a hint of slapstick.🔻 You see, Dr. Yan is not going back. And brother did not directly remind Dr. Yan that he has silently installed a screen door on the balcony. Instead, when it’s cold, he goes to the balcony to put more clothes on Dr. Yan. It may seem that this is for Dr. Yan’s benefit, but in fact, it is to push Dr. Yan towards his own territory step by step. One really can not tell.”

slapstick – a type of humorous acting in which the actors behave in a silly way, such as by throwing things, falling over, etc. So, it just means that Huo Qing is being silly and fluffy in his approach towards Nie Jia.}

“What do you mean, mom?” Ye Xiaojue asked in confusion.

Huo Yun and Ye Shuming smiled at each other. Huo Yun bowed her head towards her son: “I mean, you’ll probably have two uncles.”

Ye Xiaojue asked, surprised: “Why? I don’t want two uncles. I like my current uncle. If there is another uncle, it will affect my love for uncle. It will mean that I don’t like my current uncle enough. Then uncle will be very sad.”

“What if the second uncle is Dr. Yan?” Huo Yun asked.

Ye Xiaojue blinked twice and narrowed his eyes with a smile, “Then I would like to share my love with my new uncle.”

Ye Shuming looked at his unsteady son, “Aren’t you worried that your uncle will be sad?”

“No, Uncle Qing also likes Uncle Yan very much. Uncle will not be sad.” Ye Xiaojue seriously refuted his father.

Ye Shuming was surprised, and rubbed the child’s head with a smile. He was very touched by his son’s words.

–

This was Nie Jia’s last operation. It was a very difficult case. The operation lasted eleven hours. Nie Jia entered the operating room in the morning. When the operation was successfully completed, it was already night.

Huo Qing had been waiting outside the operating room. He looked at Nie Jia with some worry: “Are you all right?”

Nie Jia was exhausted and shrugged weakly. “The patient is in a good condition. Knowing this, I can rest.”

Huo Qing had originally booked a table for two at the riverside restaurant, but when he saw that Nie Jia was tired, he didn’t mention it, taking him home directly.

When the two came back, Huo Yun was making dumplings with Ye Xiaojue. Ye Shuming was rolling the dumpling skin on a plate, and the kitchen staff couldn’t help but whisper when seeing it: “Mr. Ye, should I help?”

“No, this is Xiaojue’s parent-child assignment. I will do it myself.” Then he rolled out a strange-shaped dumpling skin.

“Daddy, your style is like Picasso’s Cubism.🔻” Ye Xiaojue’s comments made his parents laugh. When he saw Huo Qing and Nie Jia coming in, he immediately waved his floury little paws at them excitedly. “Uncle! Uncle Yan!”

{T/N : Cubism is an artistic movement, created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, which employs geometric shapes in depictions of human and other forms.

Source of information : Wikipedia.}

Ye Xiaojue climbed off the chair and ran towards the two.

The dirty child rushed towards Nie Jia like a cannonball. Huo Qing made a stop gesture with helplessness. Ye Xiaojue hurriedly stopped in front of the two, showing a row of small white teeth and smiling. He said: “Today the school has arranged parent-child homework to be completed with family members. Uncle and uncle Yan will also help?”

“Uncle Yan is tired from work today. Uncle will send him to rest. Wait for uncle to come back to do your homework with you, okay?” Huo Qing said patiently.

Ye Xiaojue looked pitifully at Nie Jia, who was indifferent. “But the teacher said that the whole family should be involved. Mom said today that Uncle Yan will soon become my new uncle, so he is also my family.”

Nie Jia was startled, and his whole person froze. Huo Qing looked up, Huo Yun and Ye Shuming hurriedly stuffed their dumplings, pretending not to hear anything.

“…I’ll go up first.” Nie Jia ignored Ye Xiaojue’s pitiful look, hurriedly lowered his head, took two steps back, and left.

Huo Qing watched him leave, pursed his lips, and decided to coax Ye Xiaojue. “Uncle Yan is tired from work today. He needs to rest. He will help you do your homework next time, alright?”

Ye Xiaojue nodded grievously and took Huo Qing to participate in the assignment. Huo Yun and Ye Shuming did not dare say one more word and silently completed Ye Xiaojue’s assignment. When the kitchen staff had prepared dinner, Huo Qing went upstairs and called Nie Jia after washing his hands.

Huo Yun felt relieved. “I was really afraid that my brother would beat me up, just like when we were kids.”

“Brother Qing is unlikely to beat you. He’s more likely to beat me instead.” Ye Shuming smiled and kissed his wife’s fingertips. When he first pursued Huo Yun, he was abused by Huo Qing.

Upstairs, Huo Qing deliberately lightened his footsteps and walked into the room without knocking. He knew that the young man was exhausted today and he might have fallen asleep now. But as he walked towards the bed, he realized no one was there. The screen door of the balcony was open. Huo Qing walked towards the balcony with a helpless smile, “It’s time to eat, Susu.”

The person lying on the railing turned around, and the cold wind blew his dark hair into a mess. Nie Jia narrowed his eyes and looked at Huo Qing. He hummed a lazy syllable gently, then turned back and looked up at the sky. He drank a small sip of the red wine in his hand.

Huo Qing looked at the half emptied bottle of red wine that was lying on the coffee table, frowned and stepped forward to get the glass back, holding Nie Jia’s jaw with one hand and rubbing against his hot skin. “You haven’t eaten anything since noon, and drinking so much on an empty stomach will hurt your stomach.”

Nie Jia didn’t mean to avoid Huo Qing this time. He even tilted his head slightly, rubbing his cheek on Huo Qing’s hand, with red eyes just like a sleepy cat.

When he rubbed it like that, Huo Qing felt a current running into his heart. “Are you drunk?”

“No.” Nie Jia replied succinctly, but it looked like he was drunk. He smiled and said, “I just figured out something, and I’m in a good mood.”

“Huh?” Huo Qing raised his eyebrows, leant against the railing with Nie Jia. He spoke to Nie Jia with his head down, looking at him as if he(Huo Qing) was speaking intimately in his(Nie Jia’s) ears.

Nie Jia said: “Mr. Huo, earlier you said that if I can cure Ye Shuming, it will be no problem to give me Huo’s shares. Do you still stand by your words?”

“Of course, as long as it is your request, I will fulfill it.” Huo Qing raised his hand to take off Nie Jia’s glasses and looked closely at his star-like eyes.

The two were close together. Huo Qing could smell the faint aroma of the wine on the lips of the youth, which made him fascinated and he wanted to taste it. However, while he was just thieving but had no guts🔻, Nie Jia had already dragged his tie and kissed his lips strongly. He whispered: “I don’t want Huo’s shares, I want you to be my boyfriend.”

{T/N : The mtl said ‘just thieves and not guts‘. It probably means that Huo Qing wanted to steal a kiss but was still afraid of scaring Nie Jia. Sort of a coward.}

Huo Qing’s eyes were still dull and he was too late to respond to Nie Jia’s words, but his body could not wait to pull the man into his arms. He deepened the wine-flavored kiss.

It took a long time for Huo Qing to reluctantly release Nie Jia, but his hands were still tightly holding on to Nie Jia’s waist. He smiled happily, leaning his forehead against Nie Jia’s: “I thought I would have to pursue you for a while.”

“No. In fact, the first time I saw you, I was fascinated by you.” Nie Jia wrapped his hands around Huo Qing’s neck, and kissed him while tiptoeing on his own feet. “I like you very much now.”

“Why did you avoid me before? I thought you liked someone else.” Huo Qing was happy, physically and mentally.

Nie Jia was silent for a while, and said with a smile: “This is what I want to tell you.” He paused, his voice suddenly hoarse, and there was a trace of unspeakable sadness in his tone: “When you are awake, you’ll feel that I am different from before. That you don’t like me anymore. You don’t need to think about it, please give up on me directly. I won’t pester you and won’t see you again. So, you don’t need to come to me again, understand?”

Huo Qing frowned. He couldn’t understand what Nie Jia was saying, but there was a vague answering emotion in his heart.

“I won’t give up on you, no matter what happens.” Huo Qing looked uneasy and hugged the person in his arms tightly. “Don’t say that again.”

Nie Jia smiled, resting his head on Huo Qing’s shoulder. He gave up his resistance. He had liked Shi Chen for so many years and now he just wanted to live in the present. Even if in the future, Shi Chen was really bothered by his change, he would have no regrets.

~ge is Chinese for brother. It is usually used informally. Like, ‘bro’ when it comes to non-blood relationships (friends and acquaintances) and ‘brother’ when it comes to blood relationships (cousins, siblings and the like). In Hindi, ge is equivalent to bhaiya. Ge can be used for any older male, in the informal sense.🔺

~driving a donkey – most probably means being difficult. Or being slow. It implies that Huo Qing is doing things in a roundabout and slow way. He is pursuing Nie Jia sort of passively instead of being aggressive.🔺🔺🔺

~slapstick – a type of humorous acting in which the actors behave in a silly way, such as by throwing things, falling over, etc. So, it just means that Huo Qing is being silly and fluffy in his approach towards Nie Jia.🔺🔺

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