14 - Summon the rich to dote on me

As it turned out, the car was blocked at the elevated road before Gu Han decisively abandoned the car and madly ran. The assistant dispatched and monitored the command to report coordinates to him and eventually found Pei Xian in the underground garage.

With God blessing, the blind cat Gu Han in the giant parking lot randomly bumped into Zhou Kai, who was committing an assault. He sat in the car holding the little quail without letting go and now when he thought about it, he felt chill all over and had a moment of lingering fear.

Pei Xian obediently kept his eyes closed in Gu Han’s bosom and looked back at things. Every time he fell into a desperate situation in his life, he felt alone and helpless and never got the help of a pair of hands that broke through the darkness.

Today, when he was pressed against the cold wall, the entirety of his mind flashed Gu Han’s name as dense as huckleberries. Then, just like what was said on the TV, there would be a hero riding rainbow-colored auspicious cloud to save him, uhm… although this time there seemed to be a husky sitting on rainbow-colored auspicious cloud instead? Anyway, it’s about the same, hee hee!

When the Rolls Royce climbed onto the ring road and into the surging traffic, Gu Han then calmed down. Suddenly, he remembered that he had not balance the account with the little quail; whose car you dare to get on! Don’t you have a brain?

“Don’t wipe your saliva on my clothes. Come, tell me how nice was it to challenge my mother single-handedly?” Gu Han tapped him on the back of the head before lifting him away.

“Uhm…” Pei Xian hugged his small bag and had nothing to say. He couldn’t tell Gu Han that ‘ your dear mother paid me to destroy your relationship with Xiao Yuhang’ , right?

He bowed his head and the amber eyes turned around quickly, “Madame Gu and I…. went to feed the pigeons.”

“Har har, you got guts.” Gu Han coldly smile, “Feed pigeons? My mother pretty much made you into a Crispy Pigeon!”

Seeing his little ear tips red with head hung down without speaking, Boss Gu felt so angry that he grabbed his backpack and threw it on the ground. “Sit up properly and talk, don’t pretend to be dead!”

CRASH . The backpack that had suffered serious damages being dragged in Zhou Kai’s hands finally died of old age and its wide opened belly spat out trivial somethings.

Gu Han stared at the sprinkled pile of things beside his feet. His expression ranged from surprise and suspicion to anger.

He picked up a Montblanc’s [1] limited fountain pen with gold nip and asked word by word, “Feed pigeons?”

Pei Xian scooted back along the seat with panic on his face, “……”

Gu Han picked up another piece of Aston Martin’s [2] cufflink and sneered, “Is this also for pigeons?”

Pei Xian’s back was pressed against the car door, he shook his head but then nodded, “……”

Boss Gu finally picked up the electric toothbrush and was already out of anger. “Tell me what kind of pigeons are you feeding?”

Clothes, bank cards, valuable small things, toiletries, even underwear were not to forget, excellent! This was intending to sayonara [3] , ah! Gu Han’s hands shook; why did he keep such a little white eyed wolf [4] ?

Pei Xian was stuck on the car door like a big squid teppanyaki [5] , “Boss calm…. calm down.”

Gu Han was seethed with anger and evil rose to his gall [6] . He easily subdued the little quail, lifted him up and pressed him on his thighs. Without hesitation, he raised his hand and slapped it on the perky little bottom with a ‘pa’.

Pei Xian was so shocked that he forgot to shout. He only turned around and stared at Boss Gu.

That look when passed into Gu Han’s eyes was seen as provocative, so Gu Han gnashed his teeth and slapped the bottom again.

“AH——” Pei Xian finally knew that Gu Han was not playing around and began to scream in hysteria.

The driver remained firm and unperturbed driving the car and slowly raised the rear partition to leave a private space for the boss to enjoy as much as he liked.

“Say! With whom do you learn to run away from home?”

“AH——Mister Gu, I am wrong!

“With legs as short as a Corgi’s, still dare to run! Are you still running?”

” AH——No running! No running!”

“Still dare to run again in the future?”

“AH——I dare not! I really dare not!”

The not daring to reveal his moonlighting’s extra income Pei Xian, who was spank ‘pit-a-pat’ on the bottom by the utterly discomfited Gu Han in the car, ran into the bedroom with red-tipped nose and locked the door, not coming out for the life of him.

Gu Han stood at the door with his iron sand palm stretching out. Suddenly he felt that he was a little too much, but he was very angry! The little quail wanted to run away in less than a month! Where on earth did he not do well? He (GH) could change ah, so why should the little quail leave without notice? Didn’t the little quail know that he (GH) would die faster?

Pei Xian lay on the bed with face covered by his hands. What’s more important than pain was shame. In his last life, he was hardly touched by a finger. Now, he was pushed down and spanked until he cried for mercy. Slap by slap seemed as if hitting his cheeks to a painful heat like a fever.

Across the wall, Gu Han was both angry and regretful while Pei Xian was both ashamed and felt guilty.

The old butler saw that these two people were at odds. He quietly told the Aunty to cook some light meals at noon and send them to their rooms respectively. Young couple didn’t have overnight enmity and would be flustered if they didn’t see each other for some hours. It’s so nice to be young, ah!

As expected, Pei Xian couldn’t hold back until the afternoon. He had just got Madame Gu’s money and made her son half-dead with anger. This kind of work against professional ethics shouldn’t be done.

Thereupon, the industrial conscientious [7] Pei snuck to the door of the study, abruptly withdrawn the hand which about to knock on the door and stealthily opened a slit before squeezing in with his ruffled small head.

The sulking Gu Han was handling official business when he heard the noise, looked up and saw the little quail in front of the door, who had a head like a time report woodpecker had barged in it.

The gargantuan anger vanished like a thin smoke. Pei Xian’s expression of flattery, timidity and guilty conscience interwove together, making that small poker face lively.

Gu Han sighed and beckoned, “Come here.”

Pei Xian’s pale eyes all of a sudden brightened and he flew over like a little butterfly smelling honey.

“Does the butt still hurt?” Gu Han asked as he looked at the child, who was made to stand still as a punishment by the teacher, at the side of the table.

Pei Xian was suffocated as the sense of honor he had just thrown away splashed onto his face in situ. With red ear tips and neck, he stammered, “No pain no pain…”

Gu Han kept silence as he had a bit of a headache. Pei Xian at a young age bore much hardships and somehow hadn’t been to school was a big problem. It’s not a good thing to let him play so crazily.

“I’d like to invite you to dinner, Mister Gu.” Pei Xian said in a low voice. He had heard from Uncle Lin that Gu Han was so angry that he didn’t even eat two bites of lunch.

Prudent fawning let the softest part of Gu Han’s heart to abruptly skip for a few but his mouth still wanted to tease the other person, “The sun rise in the west ah? You want to invite me to dinner? Eat what? Bring your own saliva soaked cooked rice in soup?”

Pei Xian, who had been saving for his life, was so ashamed that he was about to show his true color. “Nonono, tonight we will have the whole reservation at Southern Fragrance Terrace.”

“Hm…” Gu Han’s heart burst with joy. Southern Fragrance Terrace was the best private restaurant in the city, because the maximum few tables of meal a day in Jade Pearl Bridge Pavilion were sky-high price. The stingy little quail was really determined to bleed. He was proud of his position in Pei Xian’s heart.

Upon seeing Gu Han didn’t say anything, Pei Xian giggled nervously. His heart thumping as he gripped onto Gu Han’s cuff and said, “Mister Gu, I have paid the deposit, I can’t get it back. It’s a lot of money ah!”

Gu Han burst into laughter and rubbed Pei Xian’s little head to his heart’s content. “Why do you have to reserve the restaurant? How expensive is the reservation? It’s not your style.”

Pei Xian was deadly earnest with hair that had been rubbed into a chicken nest, “I just want to have dinner with Mister Gu alone, don’t want be disturbed by others.”

The words uttered in a straightforward way were imperceptibly seductive. Gu Han made a long wheezing noise in the open air, so happy that his features turned fuzzy.

When the evening lights were lit, the lighting of Jade Pearl Bridge encircled the water surface was exceptionally enchanting. The amorous red lanterns on the attic on the bridge stirred up wind sound by the breeze, splendid and magnificent.

The Jade Pearl Bridge was also a tourist attraction in the center of the city and it was a big problem to park with the traffic bustling with incoming and outgoing pedestrians. Gu Han dropped Pei Xian at the entrance of the bridge before he drove to the parking lot at the back.

Pei Xian wore a new goose yellow sweater to make his complexion looked lighter. The little young master with red lips and pretty white teeth ran up the corridor quickly. They were later than the booked time because of the traffic jam.

He had his head lowered and accidentally bumped into a tall figure, “Excuse me, I’m in a hurry, I’m sorry.”

The entrance was very narrow. Xiao Yuhang leaned slightly to let him pass but was suddenly surprised that the young man in front of him looked similar to him. He pointed to the service personnel behind him. “Going to Southern Fragrance Terrace? It’s closed tonight.”

Southern Fragrance Terrace did not allowed reservation outside of advance schedule and opened business early to welcome the guests. Xiao Yuhang and his friends would like to talk about something good accompanied by fine food and beautiful scenery when they passed by. Who would have known that it’s not the right time to come? It’s very rare of him to kindly remind Pei Xian, who was coming over in a hurry.

Wearing a cap and sunglasses in the dim light of night, Xiao Yuhang was not easy to recognize, but Pei Xian recognized him at a glance because the most unusual parts of him were exactly the eyes; with the eyes and nose hidden, the curves of the lips and chin were like drawn by a painter.

Pei Xian’s heart felt like there was a groundhog slapping the table and shriek. Gu Han was parking the car and would come right away. Don’t tell me that the certified goods, counterfeit goods and consumer will have a three in one happy gathering tonight?! No! This baby doesn’t want to!

He was boiling inside but on the surface he said calmly, “I reserved it.”

Hoh! The tone is loud enough!

Xiao Yuhang didn’t regard it as true but him talked big. Southern Fragrance Terrace couldn’t be reserved with money alone but it had to be a group customer of the catering company he belongs to.

He took off the sunglasses which revealed a handsome face and half-genuinely and half-sham made things hard for him, “Then, how about I pay you to transfer the reservation to me? Or we share it tonight?”

This person Xiao Yuhang favored the rich and disdained the poor, bullied the weak and feared the strong and sometimes was a very cheap person. He totally couldn’t believe that a wimpy kid who left home alone and not even grown pubic hair could spend great few hundreds of thousands to reserve such a cultured snob place?

In addition, he was very confident about his celebrity status and was also considered a skilled actor and popular among the youngsters. He really wanted to see the surprised expression on Pei Xian’s small face.

“I’m sorry I don’t know you. Today is my father’s birthday and my boyfriend has a second pregnancy, so we want to surprise him and doesn’t want to be disturbed. Excuse me, but I must be leaving now.” Pei Xian’s beautiful face was seasoned cold as if nobody on earth could beat him to the peak [8] .

Xiao Yuhang: “…..”

The amount of information was too large that Xiao Yuhang’s system crashed.

They stood not far from the front desk and Pei Xian’s voice was loud. The service staff was really afraid of something gone wrong and rushed over, “Are you Mister Pei?”

Pei Xian used Gu Han’s information to complete the reservation, but filled the contact person with his own information. He absolutely couldn’t book Southern Fragrance Terrace by his own.

Pei Xian raised his chin and glanced at Xiao Yuhang, whose brain was still knotted. “Yes, I’m sorry to be late.”

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“It’s not too late, just in time. Your reservation and service are in place. Please come in.” The service staff kept peeping at Xiao Yuhang, whose face was still pale under the warm light.

CREAK . The archaic veranda door and inner door of Southern Fragrance Terrace were entirely closed with the sign of “VIP Reception, Business Suspension” hung up.

In front of his friends, Xiao Yuhang lost his face to a grandma’s house and almost fainted facing the tightly closed entrance. Fortunately, his friends were better at persuading people and eventually persuaded him to leave.

After the entrance door was closed for a while, Pei Xian jumped up and ran to the veranda, stretched out his neck, put his palms together in a prayer as he mumbled some words, looking at the intersection of Jade Pearl bridge and saw Xiao Yuhang disappear in a hurry on the sidewalk while Gu Han walked up in big steps. They destined to meet but not fated to be together and brushed past each other.

Letting out a long breath, he wobbly walked inside and drank a cup of tea. Still suffering from the shock, he patted his chest and then grabbed his mobile phone to send a message to Madame Gu:

[ Hello, madame. I’ve seduced Mister Gu to have dinner with me tonight. Unfortunately encountered with Xiao Yuhang, but everything had been successfully neutralized without mishap. ]

Gu Han felt the atmosphere was wrong as soon as he entered the door. He was a frequent visitor of Southern Fragrance Pavilion and he was mostly familiar with the service staffs. Why did they look constipated? Even peeking at him?

“Is there anything on my face? Why are you guys looking at me?” Boss Gu was a little upset and asked the manager on duty.

“Nothing-nothing, we are… admiring you, Mister Gu.” The manager on duty explained with a smile. People would die comparing each other and goods would be thrown comparing with others [9] . It seemed that Gu Han was rich and powerful, in his thirties, unmarried and childless, but already pregnant with the second….

“……” Gu Han felt a chill ran up his back.

In his last life, he didn’t eat any delicacies from land and sea. The dishes in Southern Fragrance Terrace didn’t arouse much interest to Pei Xian. Instead, Gu Han ordered a pot of home-made rice wine to arouse his appetite.

Pei Xian had drunk a bottle of Private Estate wine worth a few hundred thousands, tried Veuve Clicquo champagne wrapped in gold foil and opened the tequila specially brewed for him but they never left an impression from the tip of his tongue.

But a cup of muddy, inconspicuous pure rice wine brought him endless happiness, uhm… It’s also possible that the smiling handsome man across him was appropriate to have with alcohol.

The moonlight was beautiful and the person was even more beautiful. Pei Xian thought he was going to fly to heaven.

When Gu Han saw Pei Xian holding his chin and his eyes looked misty, he knew Pei Xian was drunk. He grabbed the cup and put it aside. He shook the wine pot and said to himself, “It can’t be? You can get drunk at 15%? Are you pretending?”

“I’m so miserable, you have no idea.” Pei Xian felt dizzy, holding his face in both hands and looking at him directly. “I died at the age of 28!”

Gu Han: “Meow meow meow?”

“Ding!”

The “care and concern for villain’s IQ system” prompted a task:

[ Energy task: I’m your Aladdin; Task requirements: Requesting host to realize Xianxian’s small wish tonight; Task duration: 12 hours; Task reward: Granting energy reward according to Xianxian’s satisfaction. It’s everyone’s duty to take care of Xianxian! ]

Before Gu Han responded, Pei Xian went on with drunken hazy and affectionate eyes: “I just want to be a carefree without worries alpaca in my next life…”

Before his voice had died away, he banged and lay on the old-fashioned square table seated for eight people.

“What the fck…” Gu Han slowly cursed the street and hurriedly picked up the little quail, “Xianxian, wakey wakey ah! My task hasn’t been done yet!! Spare me ah!”

Note:

[1] In the raw, it’s written as ontbc.

[2] 马蹄翡翠[mǎ tí fěi cuì] literally horseshoe jadeite but I felt like it was a hint of brand name like Montblanc? Aston Martin maybe? Because the cufflinks PX put in the bag in chapter 12 was sapphire. UWU forgive my incompetence.

[3] Japanese for Goodbye

[4] thankless wretch; an ingrate

[5] Squid grilled on hot iron plate (fast grilling)

[6] So angry that one has the dare to do anything

[7] In this case, PX was very professional

[8] Insufferably arrogant

[9] Don’t compare people with each other. Everyone has their own strengths

This project will be updated randomly. Modern setting is very difficult for me it seemed.. UWU