6 - Being haughty because of one's master's love and indulgence

At the end of the week, Boss Gu carried Pei Xian to sweep all the high-end clothing stores, and finally cleaned up the little quail to be the little prince, all the more pleasing to the eyes. He seemed to have an illusion that this was Pei Xian’s original appearance, with a refined temperament.

On Monday morning before Gu Han went to work, he grabbed Pei Xian, who had just gotten up and had toothpaste foam on the corners of his lips, and rubbed it off him hard.

While he rubbed, he sighed, “Too skinny. I’ve lost a lot of money to buy 30 million yuan of meat [1] , which is so little. Uncle Lin, later go get some high-end food for feeding (pets). The little boy’s side profile is almost as thin as a calendar.”

“Don’t worry, Young Master. Our food has fed the wandering cat from next door until it weighs 20 jin [2] . It can’t even jump on the windowsill.” The old butler answered with a smile.

As expected, just after breakfast, Uncle Lin came to ask Pei Xian what he liked to eat. Pei Xian had come in a short time, so the aunts [3] hadn’t known what he likes to eat.

Pei Xian suddenly remembered a time when he was a child when the driver picked him up. The traffic jam on the road was very severe, so they just took a shortcut path and happened to arrive at the most bustling old street of fly restaurants [4] .

Being a teenage boy was the most curious time. He stealthily lowered the car window, and in the evening, the wind came in with a strong gust of mixed with aroma, which greatly stimulated people’s appetite.

He was a delicate and noble little young master with rosy lips and pretty white teeth, living in the most luxurious villa in Shangcheng District, wearing a three piece suit and Italian pure hand-made leather shoes, who usually eating standard and exquisite Chinese food, elegant French food, carefully selected Japanese food, and even drinking water which airlifted from the mountain’s pollution-free mineral spring.

The aroma made him lose his sense of smell, and he lowered the car window completely, only to feel the world’s smoke and fire [5] hit him in the face.

Then his grandfather leaned over to raise the window and wiped his face with a handkerchief full of strange cold fragrance. He inadvertently pointed out the window and told him: you can never eat such things. Those are not food but garbage and swill. If you eat them, I will have to call the doctor to wash your stomach.

The teenager slowly shrunk back. That was the closest distance between him and the world’s smoke and fire. Later, in his whole life, he gained fame and fortune which were fickle, vain and laborious and never saw the world’s…..

After catching the flying thoughts, Pei Xian stealthily moved up the two meters long food list in his head and said shyly, “Uncle Lin, can I… eat hot pot at home? Authentic spicy hot pot, especially spicy, abnormal spicy!”

“Oh… Young Master Pei likes spicy food. It’s just so happen that an aunt here used to open a hot pot shop. She’s famous all over the world. Why don’t you try her craft?” The old butler had watched Gu Han grew up. The child (GH) had always been lonely and now it’s a good thing for him to have someone to accompany him. So, as the saying ‘love for a person extended even to the crows on his roof’, the old butler loved Pei Xian and chose the best for him. Sometimes even Gu Han had to stand aside.

In the early morning, the aunt specially went to the familiar old shop and asked for spicy soup. A pot of strong fragrant red soup bubbled in a boiler the size of a washbasin. There were twenty to thirty kinds of meat and vegetable dishes around. They were arranged in a neat array like a soldier line up, where there were hand-made beef wrapped in fresh red pepper, tender duck intestines, aorta as white as magnolia, and all kinds of bean products of fresh vegetables. Pei Xian felt dizzy at the sight of them.

On one side of the ice plate; thin slices of Australian’s abalones, hand-shredded French’s blue lobster meat and the nation’s giant conch whose meat was slightly trembling. These high-grade raw materials for sashimi also looked like they have to be cooked together with garland chrysanthemum and baby Chinese cabbage.

Eating hot pot should have been a very lively thing; it would be a little embarrassing to eat it alone. Gu Han lived alone all year round, so there was no disorderly rule in Bolin Road as in the old house yonder. For the sake of atmosphere, Uncle Lin simply called for the aunts and bodyguards on duty to eat together with Pei Xian.

At the first bite, Pei Xian bitterly cried. His previous heroic words were nonsense. However, the smell of strong fragrances and the dip material made of sesame oil made it hard for him to give up.

Hence Pei Xian, who ate hot pot for the first time in his two lives, cried and ate while crying. Ice cola and ice soy milk took turns to soothe his on-the-verge-of-being-crippled taste buds. What a thrill!

Self-indulgence was often the happiest, but after self-indulgence, Pei Xian’s small and pitiful stomach protested. He felt a dull pain all afternoon. Although it was not very serious, Uncle Lin still found out the stomach medicine for him to take and banished the spicy hot pot into the cold palace [6] .

Pei Xian was like an incompetent Emperor who had lost his concubine. He wanted to cry but failed to shed tears.

At home, the hotpot big party was in full swing; meanwhile, Boss Gu only ate a simple business meal before he started to work hard to earn money to support his family.

The last residential land in the city was the real core grand project. He was a little inexperienced in the last life. After his grandfather left, he chose the biggest project alone for the first time. It was a 10 billion yuan investment which consumed five years. As a matter of fact, he was quite diffident. One step wrong and he would lose all his family fortune.

So he chose the stable joint development at that time, but in the end, the popularity of the project exceeded everyone’s expectations, and then there was dispute under the interests, which also laid a hidden danger for his later failure.

Starting over once he came back, Gu Han had made a decision to develop independently in front of the board of directors. The corporation; a listed company made all-out efforts to raise funds and enlarge leverage ratio, which was an extremely crazy and dangerous move in the eyes of outsiders. The board of directors had aroused thousands of waves, the executives had constantly opposed it and the Chief Financial Officer looked at astronomical figures and sweated spontaneously.

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Gu Han inherited all the shares of his family’s patriarch, accounting for 74% of the group’s shares, so he had absolute control of the listed company. He didn’t go out of his way to convince the directors and executives, because it wouldn’t work. He had experienced it. If someone persuaded him to lick the blood on the tip of his knife [7] to make money at that time, he would directly spray [8] that idiot until he couldn’t find his mama!

It was hard to overcome the fear of the unknown risks. Gu Han could only speak of a beautiful victory in the future.

After a busy afternoon, it was nearing the end of work. Boss Gu stretched his arms to unfurl his stiff shoulders and back and suddenly thought of little quail. The appearance of this little guy brought him a little indescribable joy on his tragic road of rebirth. It’s so amusing to look at that small deadpan face!

His working brain had stopped and be lazy, then his heart itched. It would be better to go home early to play with little quail. Boss Gu had disrupted the whole company to a worry state and very shamelessly closed the computer to get ready to go off work on time.

The ‘concern and care for villain’s IQ system’ released a task:

[ Task name: Xianxian and I are truly a pair made in heaven, bless on earth! Task time: 30 minutes; task requirements: 1 . The host must find Xianxian within 30 minutes; 2 . Each person that the host meets in the process of finding Xianxian, the host must tell them your love for Xianxian; 3 . The content must be more than 40 words; 4 . The content must be full of affection, positive and moving; 5 . After the host found Xianxian, you must retell all the words in the process of the task, verbatim. Task reward: reward the system ability according to the performance of the host. Countdown start: 00:29:45 ]

Fcuk your Uncle [9] made in heaven, bless on earth! Gu Han swept through the task list at a glance and had only one thought in mind: I’m damn afraid that I’m going to be disappointed!

However, Boss Gu, who had experienced many battles, quickly calmed down. On the thirtieth floor, there was a president’s special elevator to go down to the basement. If he left fast enough, he would meet up to three or two people at most. Haha, Daddy I can still afford this face [10] !

As he thought so, he grabbed the suit coat on the sofa and strode towards the door with a triumphant smile on his face.

Who would have expected, as soon as he opened the door, he met an emaciated face, holding report forms outside the door while wavering; the CFO!

“Ding!”

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

[ The task includes one person, please finish the task as soon as possible. Task Countdown: 00:27:33 ]

“F* me!” Gu Han wished he could throw the chubby CFO out like a bowling ball.

He looked around at the president’s office in the thirtieth floor. There was no other department except the president’s office. It was very quiet at this time.

“Mr. Lin!” Gu Han clenched his teeth, pressed his hands heavily on his shoulders as he said, “I want to tell you something. I hope you forget it when you leave, okay?”

The CFO’s head began to sweat like a stewed spiced corned egg, “B-B-Bo…Boss, is there anything I didn’t do well enough? Y-y-you can tell me.”

Gu Han looked up to the sky and sighed. After brewing in embarrassment for a spell, he opened his mouth: “I, Gu Han, give up treatment (of illness) unconditionally to love Pei Xian until the end of my life! My heartbeat tells me that every second I love Pei Xian and only he can make me crazy for love!”

Chief Financial Officer:???

Gu Han grabbed him firmly by the shoulder with a sinister look as he said, “Mr. Lin, you didn’t hear anything, did you?”

“Don’t know, don’t know! I don’t know anything!” The Chief Financial Officer trembled like a sieve.

After Gu Han was satisfied, he left the man behind. He turned into a virtual shadow in the corridor and ran to the elevator hall. He looked left and right nervously before he quickly flashed into the president’s elevator.

Boss Gu pressed to descend the floor and took a long breath as his hand nervously shook. He had never done such a shameful thing at such a big age! He then continued to do psychological construction. Fortunately, it was only one person. Endure, Daddy I!

The elevator descended rapidly and stopped on the second floor. The door of the elevator opened slowly. Before Gu Han could react, he saw the opposite elevator stopped, too. The door of the elevator also opened slowly; it was full of off-duty employees. They were all staring at the personification of invincible, handsome, brilliant and courageous Boss in the president’s elevator!

“Ding ding ding ding ding ding…”

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

[ The task includes 21 people, please finish the task as soon as possible. Task Countdown: 00:23:09 ]

The death breath shrouded Boss Gu. He looked down and saw that what he just pressed in panic was not the Floor 1, but Floor 2! Instantly, tears of regret and unwillingness flew out like a river!

The poor employees helplessly looked at the usually easy-going boss, whose face was ghastly pale as he walked like a man who disdained to recognize his kinsmen. With slaughter on top of his head, he walked into the employee elevator and pressed the close button in silence.

The narrow space doggedly squeezed out a bright and spacious place for him. The employees looked as if they were pinched flat onto the bottom of the sea, leaned against each other as they were at a loss of what to do.

Gu Han propped one hand on the wall of the elevator, swept back his hair with the other hand and forced to open his mouth: “to be honest, I suddenly feel that you guys and I are especially brought together by fate today. As long as you guys can forget something that will take place in a while, you guys can go to the finance department to get this year’s special contribution reward.”

The confused employees could only nod their heads.

Throwing caution to the wind, Gu Han pulled his tie loose, opened his collar and breathed in and out. “For the rest of this life, I, Gu Han will always love, protect and take good care of Pei Xian! Xianxian is the stop scenery that I fell in love with in this life, my life’s most beautiful season and only with him can I usher in the best years!”

There was uproar in the elevator. The female employees who listened were blushing with heart thumping as they bowed and whispered to one another.

The company knew from top to bottom about the matter of the boss indulged in the pursuit of Xiao Yuhang, but out of nowhere Pei Xian? Who ah ? It’s too awesome! This year’s tough as nails ‘insert knife’ [11] hero!

Gu Han had no face to see people. He opened the elevator door with the last stiff smile. “Get out!”

The employees rushed out quickly but the bold one looked back at the boss, not knowing what went wrong with him. What a thrill!

The world finally quieted down. Gu Han pressed down the Floor 1, and slowly looked up to the surveillance camera. His face was full of vicissitudes of life; life is not easy, I miss mama….

The risk coefficient of escaping to the basement had decreased. Gu Han was cold-sweating as if he was fighting guerrillas in Iraq, roving about as he moved towards his car.

Just as he was about to enter a short period of safety on his horrific journey near his car, a familiar female voice burst into his eardrums.

“Hanhan’s car is still there. He should work overtime upstairs. I’ll go straight up and you wait here.” The wealthy old lady with excellent demeanor just got out of the car as she told her assistant.

“Damn it, it can’t be?!” It was too late for Boss Gu to turn around. He bumped into his own mother’s nose to nose and eyes to eyes.

“Hanhan!” Madame Gu stopped her son.

“Ding!”

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

[ The task includes one person, please complete the task as soon as possible. Task Countdown: 00:20:14 ]

Sometimes life was very hard just like this. It took courage to live…

The author has something to say:

Boss Gu: Face is something that can be regenerated. Do you think my new face is beautiful?

Note:

[1] meant Pei Xian

[2] Catty=0.5 kg

[3] The housemaids are usually called aunts

[4] restaurants with simple decoration and relatively cheap price

[5] refer to: the market is full of state, ordinary life, can soothe the thoughts of the worldly people.

[6] ban/forbid

[7] Devote every effort to do something

[8] Like spraying insects with aerosol to get rid of them

[9] arrogant idler/self-centered show-off

[10] Preserve one’s reputation

[11] Internet term of backstabber which had occurred in real entertainment industry. Link for more detailed explanation