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

Gu Han met with his partners in the morning and then he had tea with several senior executives to discuss the financial arrangements and sent off a group of bad characters. Only after working hard half of his life, he remembered his mother’s fatal request.

Wearing a dark grey three piece suit with shoulder to sleeve flattened, meticulously attentive Boss Gu sat on the sofa, beside which was a huge French window. The warm autumn sun set off his whole person in glowing spirits, like a sculpture of God with rapt attention on a job search advertisement.

He was like a well programmed computer, analyzing every search result.

[How to tell your boyfriend that your mother wants to meet him?]

[How to take your boyfriend to your parent’s home?]

[How to cheat your boyfriend to go to your parent’s home?]

[How to coax your boyfriend to go to your parent’s home?]

The stylus was fluttering on the work memo. Boss Gu, who had a rigorous style, kept the main points firmly in mind. In fact, he was as flustered as a dog. Pei Xian was the sort of exotic flower [1] produced by the split thought of the Creator, which he still didn’t know what would happen; one cannot be too careful.

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

[ Non energy task: scatter a field in your arms; task requirements: coax Xianxian to sleep for ten minutes; task time limit: twenty-four hours; task key points: unlimited ways, have a good interaction with Xianxian before he sleeps and successfully make him sleep; task reward: male protagonist’s unlucky package once; note: the task is a choice task, the host can give up actively without affecting energy collection; note: the unlucky package for male protagonist includes and not to be limited to the following situations: male protagonist breaks leg (including the third leg [2] ), male protagonist is bitten by a dog, male protagonist is beaten violently by elders, male protagonist bursts negative news, etc. Host, please choose whether to accept the task. ]

Gu Han had been so overwrought recently that he almost forgot the existence of the mad dog Zhou Kai, the nauseating plaything.

The Zhou family was now in a complete mess. Old Zhou Fengliu had married three wives. In addition to a few underage children who hadn’t yet graduated, even Zhou Kai and his four children were all staring at the family business. Although Zhou Kai barely won the takeover of the company, it was still not peaceful in private. This year, Old Zhou was in poor health and had become a frequent visitor to the hospital. The brothers then rolled up their sleeves to fight with each other.

Gu Han knew that Zhou Kai would win the ugly battle in the end. At the same time, he would retreat from being green and immature to become unscrupulous in his efforts [3] ; the ultimate mad dog by any means.

However, Gu Han was not strong enough to resist the “male protagonist’s wisdom reduction halo”. He dared not touch the event line of the male protagonist. Otherwise, he would be directly added firewood to the fire for the brothers to make him into BBQ!

Anyhow, now was the critical period of the Zhou family’s struggle. If he didn’t block the male protagonist now, how could he be worthy of this big wok [4] of the villain boss?

Gu Han accepted the system task decisively while he imagined Zhou Kai’s third leg killed in battle and all of a sudden, the insidious smile slowly solidified on his face. Wait a minute…. Pei Xian can sleep 14 hours a day after counting to three immediately at anytime and anywhere; coax him to sleep? It’ll be like coaxing a pig to eat!

日 [5] !! Boss Gu felt that he had been fooled again!

It was hard for Gu Han to go home from work to complete the special task, but things turned out to be different than he expected…..

Gu Han sat on the sofa and spread out his arms. “Pei Xian, want to sleep?”

As expected, the little quail rushed to him and found a comfortable position in his arms. Then ‘puchi’ he stopped moving.

“Pei…” The pressed down human mattress on the sofa fell silent.

Fail!

{T/N:This is the part that I didn’t know if I was missing a paragraph here because the scene wasn’t elaborate…forgive me}

Unswervingly, Boss Gu moved to the solid wood dining table, then banged and clapped on the table. “Pei Xian, come here and I will coax you to sleep.”

Xianxian, who dedicated himself to eating honeydew melon, put down the melon but didn’t wipe his mouth. Then he ran to the dining table and opened a chair before he sat beside Gu Han and rested his upper body on the table. “Mr. Gu doesn’t need to coax me to sleep. I’ll sleep for you now if you don’t believe me.”

“Don’t sleep…” Gu Han didn’t have time to finish saying ‘yet’, Pei Xian had already fallen asleep with his head tilted and mouth slightly opened.

Fail!

Boss Gu, who had been defeated repeatedly, summoned up the last courage to break into Pei Xian’s bedroom before going to bed, ready to fight for honor under the system’s warning of “Fail! Trash!”!

Once industry conscience Pei Xian saw Gu Han, he quickly opened the quilt and patted the mattress warmly to welcome the boss to sleep!

Gu Han, who wore home clothes with a tightly fastened collar, didn’t think it was a strange scene. Pei Xian’s every movement was like the boss of a brothel house calling out to sell ducks [6] .

He walked slowly to the side and leaned on the head of the bed. He didn’t dare to drill into Pei Xian’s quilt, so he pulled open the thin blanket at the side and covered himself, “Pei Xian, can you listen to me honestly for ten minutes before sleeping?”

“Yes, hubby. I will try my best.” If the mountain doesn’t come, I’ll go over . Pei Xian crawled with the quilt wrapped around him. When he reached Gu Han’s side, he suddenly drilled out and hugged Gu Han, snuggled up to his nice and warm lower back.

Boss Gu’s whole body shook as if he was electrified. “You…. What do you call me?”

“Hubby!” Pei Xian looked up at him, eyes heavy with sleep. “Don’t you like it, Mr. Gu?”

“Heh! You are actually capable of calling me hubby?” That was what Gu Han said but his lips had a strange curvature. His whole person was floating as he sensed the adrenaline was in whirlwind. His hand slowly circled around Pei Xian’s shoulders. “You, you can call me that again.”

The answer to that was an even and steady breathing. The little quail had fallen asleep on his back.

Gu Han: “……”

No, he couldn’t fail. Possible or not if he could get rid of male protagonist’s third leg was to be determined tonight!

“Oh ancestor! I beg you! Please be merciful and don’t sleep!” Gu Han hugged Pei Xian and shook him violently while shouting in despair.

Pei Xian was jolted awake by the violent shake. He rubbed his eyes and with an innocent face, said, “Mr. Gu does not have the power to persist.”

“What do you want? Say it!” Gu Han was going crazy.

Pei Xian licked his lips while having a smiling face that said ‘nothing’. His eyes however, flashed the light that meant his trick had succeeded.

He broke away from Gu Han’s arms, jumped out of bed and ran into the cloakroom. There were successive sounds of crackling inside.

Sitting at the head of the bed, Gu Han had an ominous premonition.

As a matter of fact, Boss Gu treated the little quail very well. Moving to the walk-in cloakroom of the master bedroom on the second floor, one could see it was full of new clothes. It had everything one could think of from formal clothes to leisure and sports, even the ceremonial robes. Pei Xian even suspected that Gu Han had a special hobby and treated him as a Barbie doll.

Before long, Pei Xian dragged a suitcase out of the cloakroom and directly dragged it to Gu Han. Then he took out the set of gemstone ledger book and gold pen before he placed it in front of him. “Mr. Gu, the cashing out can be 100%.”

“…” Gu Han’s breath stuck and he almost fainted. He covered his face with his hands as he gritted out the word “okay”.

Pei Xian was very happy to be able to cash out successfully. He drilled into Gu Han’s arms with his mouth slightly raised, “Mr. Gu, you are really a good man. You are the best boss I have ever worked with!”

Gu Han was at a loss whether to cry or laugh when he caught the big sugarcoated cannonball. He had never seen a little lover who was so calm about asking for money and was very happy after he was given the money. This was probably the peak of “fresh and pure without pretense”.

“Don’t sleep. I won’t pay if you sleep!” Gu Han warned him.

Pei Xian nodded his head like a pestle on a mortar and began to count money in his mind.

When everything was ready, Pei Xian looked at him with bright eyes and lips slightly cocked. The sealed beauty-con in Gu Han’s heart howled and he forgot what to say.

The considerate little lover found that the boss forgot his words and so he said, “Mr. Gu, why don’t you sing a song for me? I love listening to you singing the most.”

Uncle Lin had turned out many videos of Gu Han when he was young to show them to him. Boss Gu had an impressive voice; a singing voice that could make wolves be defeated and flee 500 miles away!

As long as he sang a song, Pei Xian guaranteed that he could not sleep at all, but also by the way guaranteed that the whole Bolin Road from No.1 to No.39 could not sleep at all!

Nevertheless, Gu Han still knew about himself and didn’t faint by Pei Xian’s rainbow fart. He smiled in self-mock as he said, “Forget it, I’m afraid you can’t bear it.”

“Hey, can you tell me why you are so short of money?” He asked suddenly.

Pei Xian was barely 19 and was of the age of wanton profligacy [7] of his youth. In other families, whether it was a young secret lover or a young second generation, they all spent money like water for branded bags, branded watches, grand cars and grand mansions. So, how come when he got here, he became the stingy little miser? He wasn’t forced to do something at his home, right?

Boss Gu’s genuine feeling was a little worried. This kid doesn’t look scatter-brained, but in fact he has his own idea.

This time (after rebirth) Pei Xian’s shell had changed. Pei Xian wouldn’t tell him (GH) that he was going to make enough money before running away. It was a pity that he couldn’t take those things with him, so he wanted to cash it out?

“Well…” Pei Xian hesitated and perfunctorily answered at will, “how long can I work? If I want to live to be 70 or 80 year-old, of course I need a lot of money.”

The sleeping light in the bedroom was dim, yellow and ambiguous. Gu Han looked at his thin neck and suddenly felt a little pain in his heart. “That….. I’ll buy you a million yuan comprehensive endowment insurance. Don’t think about those you don’t have. At a stretch, you can live up to 99 year-old and someone will take care of you, rest assured.”

“Um???” Pei Xian’s little ears perked up; wasn’t this too easy to cheat him? No wonder you went bankrupt. You’re a Sudhana Kumāra [8] ah, big bro?!

He raised his head and embraced the fool genuinely and sincerely; he is truly so silly . “Mr. Gu, it’s very kind of you.”

“Ah… She who has milk is the mother; he who has money is the father. You think I don’t know?” Gu Han hugged him for a while and did not expose him. He silently ridiculed, “Forget it, who let you be a charging baby. I have spoiled you, bei [9] .”

Pei Xian closed his eyes as he rested on the other person’s shoulder socket and sighed, thinking: “Aside from Villain Gu is blind and stupid, as a matter of fact, he doesn’t do anything harmful in this book. When I have saved a lot of money to avoid the battle with the mad dog, I can raise you when you are down and under, so please raise more money for me now. Don’t give the money to Xiao Yuhang! He won’t keep you! Fool!”

They hugged each other harmoniously for a while. Gu Han looked at his watch and it had passed ten minutes. “Do you want to sleep?”

“Hmm…” Pei Xian had started to get dazed. He dragged his nose and chin to the other person’s shoulder and rubbed against it, “Mr. Gu, I’ll go to sleep first. It doesn’t matter what you want to do with me.”

Gu Han gently tucked him back into the bed. “Thank you. I don’t have that special hobby.”

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

[ Host has successfully completed the system task and gets one male protagonist’s unlucky package, which will randomly carry out penalty to the male protagonist. Please check the reward results within 10 days. ]

“Oh yeah!” Gu Han put on a victory pose beside his bed. Not a while later of being happy, his face fell. There was still a huge difficulty in front of him. How to cheat the little quail to go to his parent’s home?!

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In addition to the natural chasm [10] , how could he make his mother not to stew the both of them into a soup for the New Year’s feast?

At the side, Pei Xian slept while not knowing what was going on, completely unaware of the incoming danger. Boss Gu stroked his soft hair and turned off the light before he went out in the silent corridor, alone in distress.

Note:

[1] marvel

[2] t/n:*wink* you know which leg

[3] use unscrupulous divisive tactics

[4] blame/ big trouble

[5] 日 [ri] i think this is an emoji of shock

[6] Prostitute (slang)

[7] the act of spending money or using something in a way that wastes it and is not wise

[8] Child of Wealth. It was said that when Sudhana was born, many rare treasures suddenly appeared in his parent’s home.

[9] modal particle indicating lack of enthusiasm; modal particle indicating that things should only or can only be done a certain way

[10] A barrier which meant he still have to cheat PX to come home with him