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

Gu Han was not of an escapist personality but he really didn’t want to face this magical reality. Not until his mother texted him again to confirm, he couldn’t hide even if he wanted to and so he had no other option than to brace it.

On Friday, Boss Gu, who left work ahead of schedule, took a bath with incense and changed to a proper home clothes with a sense of ceremony [1] . It was rare of him to play games on the giant screen TV with Pei Xian on the sofa.

Pei Xian was very devoted to playing everything, quick in response and good in techniques. Gu Han was absent-minded and annoyed. He was quickly beaten the shit out of him that he couldn’t even found the north.

“Is there something on your mind, Mr. Gu?” Pei Xian put down the controller. He played the games which were all taught by Gu Han, so even if his talents improved rapidly, he didn’t want to beat his teacher to this look.

“Ah…” Gu Han sighed and pretended to be miserable. “It would take too long to tell that in full.”

Pei Xian leaned into the sofa with his arms crossed and caught an unusual smell. Gu Han was used to act in a tyrannous manner since he was a child. He didn’t care about other people’s feelings except for his parents and naturally didn’t beat around the bush when he spoke. What would he be asking now?

Gu Han twisted his hands like a crab was slowly walking over. “Xianxian, you say that our relationship should be on very intimate terms with each other; sharing weal and woe, right?”

“…” Pei Xian was perplexed. As he remembered the mad dog Zhou Kai who didn’t want to share his difficulties, he quietly backed away.

The body language of the other person mercilessly lashed the heart of Boss Gu. However, time waited for no one and every second was counted. He raised his hand to show his pinky and mocked, “It’s just a small thing like a fart. I want to ask you for help.”

Pei Xian felt goose bumps all over him and slowly rubbed against the armrest of the sofa, “You say it, I…. am listening.”

Gu Han grabbed his hand. “Come home with me this weekend, my mother wants to meet you!”

“Mr. Gu’s contract doesn’t say that I have to provide this service?” Pei Xian struggled hard to get rid of his grip.

Seeing that the other person could not stay still, like a loach hopping in confusion, Gu Han leaned forward and held him down. “Rebate! Rebate Ferrari 488!”

Pei Xian’s struggle slowed down gradually and he asked with a serious face, “Really?”

“80% rebate!” Gu Han’s face was red with an 80 front of him.

“No.” Pei Xian struggled to come out from his arms while brandishing his claws. “85%!”

This brat raised the price on the spot! Gu Han ground his teeth as he let go of the other person’s small hands. “Deal!”

“Mr. Gu, I like the way you throw money about; domineering!” Pei Xian blew rainbow fart loudly.

“ Har-har , thanks to you!” Gu Han forced himself to laugh. “You can’t go back on your words; otherwise you are going to pay ten times as compensation!”

Pei Xian nodded repeatedly and made a pledge with three fingers erected, “That is to go to your house tomorrow and see only your mama, bei . Don’t worry; I’ll take care of it.”

Gu Han shook his head with a mysterious smile. “Plus my…. Maternal aunt.”

“Oh… two people ah, okay fine.” Pei Xian frowned; he actually was not good at dealing with women.

Boss Gu still shook his head, slowly raised his hand and put his open paw in front of him. “Five people; I have four maternal aunts and all will be there tomorrow to make sure you show up your card.”

“…” Pei Xian was completely dumbstruck. “Is it too late for me to change the charge to per head now?”

“Haha, it’s too late. You have to pay me 27.03 million yuan for breach of contract!” Having succeeded in the trick, Gu Han displayed his white teeth and laughed extraordinarily rampant.

Touching the dried out wallet in deep regret until he suffocated, Pei Xian had nothing to say. If he could fight, he wanted Gu Han to experience the speed of the hospital’s WiFi! (note [2] )

“Uncle Lin, bring me the file I have prepared.” Before a wave calmed, another wave came. Gu Han suddenly shouted towards upstairs.

Like a ninja, the old butler sprang out of the corner from upstairs, holding a foot high file as he walked down the stairs gentlemanly and leisurely.

Gu Han patted the treasured file, “Come, Xianxian. This is the learning materials I specially prepared for you. It’s about the past and present life of my mother and four aunts. Why don’t we study it today?”

“Har-har….. Har-har…..” Sat on the sofa, Pei Xian was expressionless as he let out a laugh without love.

The next day was an invigorating autumn climate; there was not a cloud in the sky and occasionally the breeze blew was refreshing and pleasant.

Gu Han’s preparation for the coming home was quite grand. In the early morning, the stylist and hairdresser surrounded the bewildered Pei Xian and made a fuss like a celebrity was going to attend an event.

Pei Xian had typical bones like a young beautiful woman. The curve of his lateral frontal bone was beautiful and well worth a second look. Each glance was closer to a layer of beauty. His calm and distant temperament made him stand out from the rest without too much dressing up.

Madame Gu and her four sisters were all elegant and dressed luxuriously. Naturally, Gu Han had to tidy up in a proper manner; a dusty blue suit with the same color of button up satin lining vest and a shirt with a trace of lavender ash make his very straight heroic posture especially elegant and unconventional.

When Pei Xian finally escaped from the claws of the perfectionist stylists, he bumped face to face with Gu Han, who was wearing a smile looking at him with arms crossed and head tilted. Suddenly, his heart beat for a few and the words ‘so handsome’ were fluttering in front of him with pink bubbles.

They went to the door with one before and one after the other. Gu Han turned back to pull Pei Xian’s hand. “Did you remember the key points of last night’s study?”

Pei Xian held his hand tightly and nodded his head cleverly. Without much extra effort, he kissed up to the other man, “Remembered, it’s all thanks to the teacher!”

Gu Han lowered his head as he chuckled and caught the sight of the amber pupils under his long eyelashes were as bright as little stars. “Let’s go.”

Neither of them realized how gentle and meaningful the words “let’s go” were at this time; full of affection, or realized how serious it was to be so carefully prepared to go home and deceive the mother. They only felt that each other was beautiful from the bottom of their hearts and smiled like flowers….

Gu Family’s old house was on the west side of the mountain. It was more accurate to say that the house was too modest. It was designed by Elder Gu himself when he was young and gifted it to Madame Gu.

After the death of Elder Gu, Madame Gu refused to go back to the city with her son because time flew like a dream here. Occasionally, when she turned around a flower and a tree, there would be a lover’s smile bursting in without warning.

Hence, Madame Gu lived in a paradise with her sisters, driver and bodyguards. Gu Han would come to accompany her on weekends and festivals. It was not lonely with having several sisters in the family came and went.

The Rolls Royce Phantom slide down the main road into the quiet side of a fork road and continued until the end where the old house gate slowly opened. The water side courtyard slowly unfolded in front of the eyes, which looked particularly domineering as it leaned on three mountains swarming a lake.

Although it was late autumn, the evergreen trees still embraced the green; the dense green opened up bright and cheerful atmosphere. Together with the golden autumn maples and the old brown dead leaves of the climbing vine intertwined; in picturesque disorder, elegance and sprightly were reflected in exquisite.

The car slowly drove into the courtyard. Two or three peacock ran away overcautiously, seemingly not accepting as they stood at the side and shook out their big tail feathers. Once the car reached the entrance of the big residence, two fawns jumped out from behind the bush and curiously watched their car. They were not afraid of people at all.

“They are all raised by my mother. She likes small animals. There are even call ducks on the other side of the lake. They’re fat and fun. I’ll take you to see them later.” Upon seeing that Pei Xian was absorbed on looking at the small animals, Gu Han added a sentence ostentatiously.

Pei Xian lived in a luxurious Island Villa in his last life, but it was a cage of reinforced concrete. His grandpa lost his life support after his father died and became cold-hearted. He didn’t like any small animals as they had to be taken care with gentleness as they were fragile and vulnerable. Therefore, Pei Xian had never seen such a leisurely and unorganized place with a poetic charm.

“Madame Gu is a strong and open-minded person.” Pei Xian filled his mind with a myriad of thoughts as he thought in silence.

After Gu Han watched Pei Xian get off the car while keeping silence, he thought Pei Xian was scared and so he went to his side. He put his hand firmly in Pei Xian’s hand. “Don’t be afraid, let’s go back after dinner.”

“Don’t you want to show me the ducks?” Unconcerned, Pei Xian looked up discontentedly as he asked.

Gu Han nodded, “Show, show. As long as we can walk out alive today, don’t say call duck, I’ll even get 200 Donald Ducks for you to play with.”

Concealed at the second floor’s terrace of the villa, a boy wearing a new starry sky themed suit of JL looked at the interaction of the “dazzlingly” saccharine people downstairs, “Eldest Aunt [3] , is Brother Gu Han bewitched? Madame Gu doesn’t want him to be good with Xiao Yuhang, he even found a substitute to bring home? Is he intentionally making a scene?”

“Then, it’s not that you are without use.” He Manyun words were as light as feather. “Gu Han and Xiao Yuhang took you all over the school to have fun. They both doted on you. In the end, it’s none of your business for them to get together? I don’t even dare to believe it.”

He Manyun was Madame Gu’s—He Manxi’s second younger sister and Wen Zhuo was the child of her husband’s younger brother. As a child, Wen Zhuo was Gu Han’s follower. His father was incompetent in the Wen family and so the authority lay in the hands of He Manyun’s husband.

In the eyes of He Manyun, Gu Han was the only blood of her elder sister and Gu family. Therefore, his marriage must be with a family of equal social standing. The best way was to get married in a circle of their wealthy and influential relatives to ensure that they would be flourishing.

Wen Zhuo’s parents were extremely satisfied with the Gu family. The adults also thought that as the two children had grew up together, their emotional foundation was solid and it was simply a godsend marriage.

Who would have thought that Gu Han would go after Xiao Yuhang wildly later and frightened a lot of relatives of the wealthy and influential family? Fortunately, Xiao Yuhang had a unique posture of dedicating himself to art. He had not really entered the Gu family’s gate after so many years.

Everyone thought that when Young Master Gu accepted the reality, Wen Zhuo’s marriage would come. As a result, Gu Han issued the final declaration of love in front of his mother and a Pei Xian, who looked like Xiao Yuhang, fell out of the air? Eventually, Madame Gu couldn’t stay still; her son was possessed and going to take off to the heaven!

“Eldest Aunt, in fact, Brother Gu Han has always regarded me as his younger brother and has no other ideas at all.” said Wen Zhuo, abandoning himself.

He Manyun was capable and well-experienced. She exasperatedly said, “It doesn’t matter if he treats you as his younger brother, as long as my elder sister doesn’t let you be his younger brother; otherwise why would you be called here today? You child are really block-headed!”

“You mean Madame Gu asked me to….. to drive away this Pei Xian?” Wen Zhuo wasn’t bright so he asked directly.

He Manyun turned her head and showed the whiteness of her eyes [4] as she thought to herself; no kidding . “Granted that you can’t deal with Xiao Yuhang because he is a man with extensive experience, but if you can’t deal with the fake goods whose origin is unknown, once Madame Gu see to it, neither you can enter Gu Family.”

Wen Zhuo bit his lips as he took it under consideration that it seemed reasonable. Weren’t people saying ‘first come, first serve’? Why was he the first to know Gu Han, but the first ousted?

Gu Han led Pei Xian into the living room by hand where the atmosphere was not so happy.

The huge European styled chandelier in the middle of the doom roof was shining brightly. Madame Gu sat in the retro high back sofa, elegant and serious, accompanied by the usual life secretary.

“Gu Han, follow me talk to your papa.” Madame Gu didn’t give them a chance to speak at all. She stood up slowly. It seemed that Pei Xian was just a small thing, so she didn’t need to pay attention to him.

“Okay.” Gu Han gently patted Pei Xian’s small back. His eyes were cold as he said, “I’ll come back as soon as I go. If someone makes trouble for you, don’t worry. Just turn around and leave. I already instructed the driver, he will take you back home.”

Gu Han was a man, who had a sense of propriety and plans. As a child, he had to listen to what the parents say, but it was another matter whether to heed it or not.

The words ‘back home’ made Pei Xian’s eyeballs shrunk and he faintly grasped Gu Han’s fingertips.

The author has something to say:

Xianxian QAQ: Mr. Gu, if you do this, you will lose me , yingyingying (crying in spoiled manner)

Note:

[1] proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion

[2] PX wants to beat GH until GH ends up in the hospital

[3] wife of father’s elder brother

[4] Be angry