Chapter 89:
Extra 5: Living Treasure | Childish Devil
Another spring passed, and autumn came. Li Ge finally moved into his new home with his family.
The small Western-style house had a large footprint, enough for Li Ge to make use of. The first floor was reserved for his wife and pets. He specifically built a gym and a home theater for Chen Shuo, and the little Rhodeus fish and the two little golden coin turtles also had their own separate rooms.
The entire second floor was the two-person world that Li Ge had been looking forward to the most, all designed by him personally. Just one bathroom was as big as the master bedroom, and he had even added a hot spring room, his intentions self-evident.
Moving into a new home was so exciting that Li Ge threw a big housewarming party, inviting all his close relatives and friends to a banquet in his own courtyard.
The scene was so lively that Fei Fan teased his brother, “People who don’t know would think you’re getting married today. How many days is this banquet going to last?”
Qiao An followed up with a tease, “This banquet is pretty good, more interesting than in a hotel.”
His wedding with Chen Shuo was already in Li Ge’s plan, but he had been keeping it a secret from his wife.
He ignored the two brothers’ teasing and chuckled, “Did you think I invited you two over to eat and drink for free? I only hired a chef today, not a housekeeper, so you’ll have to help serve the dishes later.”
Qiao An & Fei Fan: “…”
Fei Fan asked again, “Where’s Assistant Chen? Wait, why haven’t I seen your wife?”
Chen Shuo was helping to prepare the ingredients. Li Ge couldn’t stop his diligent wife, and he also guessed that Chen Shuo was shy and might not be used to facing so many people at once.
He praised him lavishly in front of his brothers, not forgetting to mock the two single dogs. Qiao An and Fei Fan’s ears were about to bleed, and they were too lazy to deal with Li Ge. Seeing He Yan’s family arrive, they both turned to greet He Yan and tease the little girl.
He Yan wanted to put his daughter down, but little Yuanbao acted coquettishly, hugging her father’s neck and refusing to get down, whining in a childish voice that she wanted her daddy to hold her. If her daddy didn’t hold her, she would want her mommy to hold her.
“Mommy!” little Yuanbao shouted at the top of her lungs.
“How about Uncle Qiao holds you?” Qiao An extended his hands.
Little Yuanbao turned her head, obviously not wanting to.
“Are you still good or not?” Fei Fan chuckled and clapped his hands at little Yuanbao, “Little princess, how about Uncle Fei holds you? There are candies, do you know what candies are?”
Little Yuanbao seemed a bit tempted and stared at Fei Fan in a daze, but her daddy wouldn’t let her eat candies, it would ruin her teeth. She suspected that this Uncle Fei was doing it on purpose, to make her daddy angry, so she snorted and turned her head to shout, “Mommy!”
“Don’t call your mom, Daddy will hold you.” His daughter was quite a handful, eating and sleeping, and He Yan was worried about tiring his wife’s small frame, so he could only hold her himself.
Little Yuanbao kicked her two chubby legs, wanting to get down.
It was Yuan Feng’s first time visiting Li Ge’s new house, and he was captivated by the huge courtyard and the Western-style house, not hearing his daughter’s call at all, and sighing at Li Ge, “This house of yours is really beautiful.”
Li Ge: “That’s right, it’s even more beautiful inside. Brother-in-law, I’ll give you a good tour after dinner, I basically designed it myself.”
“Alright.” Yuan Feng was about to go and find Chen Shuo when his daughter suddenly hugged his leg.
Li Ge hadn’t seen his little niece in a while. The little girl’s big round eyes were curiously looking around. He squatted down and clapped his hands at Yuanbao, “Oh, our little Yuanbao seems to have grown taller, let uncle hold you for a bit.”
Little Yuanbao didn’t resist and directly pounced into Li Ge’s arms, making Qiao An and Fei Fan, who were not far away, jealous. The late-arriving Aike was smiling on the side.
Li Ge picked up the little girl and found that she had gotten heavier. Her little butt and legs were chubby, so endearing. No wonder Chen Shuo often went to help Yuan Feng take care of the child.
Thanks to Chen Shuo, little Yuanbao was also close to him.
“In a flash, little Yuanbao is so big, uncle can barely hold you anymore.” Li Ge teased the little girl and asked her, “Do you miss your Uncle Chen?”
Little Yuanbao remembered the Uncle Chen who always took her to the amusement park and nodded. She also remembered the super delicious candy that Uncle Li had secretly given her, and her mouth started to water, “Candy.”
“Shh.” Li Ge winked at his little niece, “Let’s go find your Uncle Chen. Brother-in-law, you and my cousin can look around first, I’ll take the child.”
Through the window, Chen Shuo saw Li Ge coming over with the child. As soon as he went out, he saw Jing Hai’s family of three at the main gate of the courtyard. Li Ge’s parents were also there, a few people chatting and laughing, it seemed they had arrived together.
When his sister Mengmeng saw him, she cheerfully waved at him, calling him “brother” from a distance, and then ran towards him.
Chen Shuo had come out to his family in Jiangcheng before the Spring Festival. Actually, there was no need to tell Jing Hai, but since the two families’ elders had contact, it was inevitable that they would face each other one day, so he took the initiative to come out.
Now facing Jing Hai again, he still disliked him, but not as much as before. His biological father was more like a stranger with blood ties to him.
He now had a home of his own.
A complete home.
But in the new home, Chen Shuo and Li Ge’s harmonious little life hadn’t even lasted a week when Li Ge suddenly had to go to Xicheng for a half-month business trip.
Chen Shuo couldn’t accept being separated for so long.
It wasn’t that Li Ge hadn’t had business dinners before, and he had also gone on short trips of two or three days. As long as the distance wasn’t far and Chen Shuo had time, he would usually be responsible for picking him up and dropping him off.
He was still teaching Yuan Feng now and couldn’t accompany Li Ge to Xicheng. Chen Shuo had considered asking for leave, but actually, there was no need to insist on this job anymore. It was too easy, and he was embarrassed to ask for leave. He had to teach Yuan Feng as much as he could.
Chen Shuo didn’t tell Li Ge that he had gone to see He Yan at the beginning of the year. It was He Yan who hoped he would continue to be a tutor, and also to help Yuan Feng, who insisted on not hiring a housekeeper, to take care of the child together. He would let him go when Yuanbao was a little older.
He was still confused about his future career, so he agreed.
Watching Yu Rui’s car come to pick up Li Ge, Chen Shuo was really reluctant. Before they parted, he repeatedly told Li Ge, “If you have a business dinner, drink less, I’ll check.”
“Don’t worry, wife, there are no business dinners. I’m the investor, who would dare to make me drink?” Before getting into the car, Li Ge hugged Chen Shuo tightly and couldn’t help but kiss him again, “Half a month will pass quickly, I’ll video call you at night, miss me.”
Yu Rui sat in the car, not daring to look, afraid that his job would not be guaranteed if he took a glance. Of course, he didn’t dare to tell Chen Shuo that Mr. Li wasn’t here to work on a project, he was clearly here to cause trouble. He hoped the drama wouldn’t fail when it was released.
Beicheng and Xicheng were separated by more than a thousand kilometers. It was the first time the young couple had been separated for so long, and neither of them was used to it. The first night, they video-called for a full three hours, until Li Ge’s phone ran out of battery.
And before hanging up, Li Ge had already fallen asleep. Chen Shuo lay in bed and watched him sleep, hugging the pillow Li Ge had used, smelling the lingering scent of Li Ge, and fell into pain alone, missing his little treasure so much.
After only five days on a business trip, Li Ge was exhausted. He was creating music in a temporarily rented studio during the day, and when he returned to the hotel at night, he couldn’t even complain to his wife, so he could only take his anger out on his assistant.
Yu Rui was miserable. On Friday afternoon, he gently knocked on Mr. Li’s door and suddenly received a text message from Chen Shuo, asking for the hotel address and room number.
He didn’t dare to say, but who knew that Chen Shuo would send another text message.
Assistant Chen: [I’m at the airport, don’t tell Mr. Li.]
If Mr. Li was really here for a project, Yu Rui would have helped Chen Shuo keep it a secret. He helplessly replied: [I’m sorry, Assistant Chen, I can’t tell you, can you ask Mr. Li yourself?]
Soon, Yu Rui received a new text message. After opening it, his vision went black and he almost fainted.
Assistant Chen: [Assistant Yu, I remember you said last year that you would kowtow to me. I helped you get your job back, shouldn’t you repay me?]
What kind of person was this? As expected of a couple.
With a wolf in front and a tiger behind, as the saying goes, wealth is sought in danger. After careful consideration, Yu Rui thought that Mr. Li was a henpecked husband, and as long as he pleased Assistant Chen, it shouldn’t be a big problem.
The plane landed in Xicheng, and Chen Shuo took a taxi to the address Yu Rui had sent him, which was a film and television base. Yu Rui only told him that Li Ge would be at the film and television base at night, not for a business dinner, but he didn’t dare to say what it was.
When he arrived at the film and television base and found the location with the help of Yu Rui’s shared location, he saw Li Ge in a magnificent prince’s costume in the crowd, filming a scene, arguing with a female star dressed as a concubine. Liu Dasen was there shouting, “Cut—!”
Liu Dasen: “Mr. Li, your emotions are a bit off, can we do it again?”
Fuck, Li Ge couldn’t film anymore. From the corner of his eye, he caught sight of a figure, and when he turned his head, he met a familiar cold funeral face, it was his wife from Beicheng.
It was ruined.
Chen Shuo didn’t know that Li Ge actually had a passion for acting. He had told him he was on a business trip, but he had run off to Xicheng to play a prince, leaving him alone in Beicheng, sick with longing.
With so many people around, Li Ge went on strike on the spot. He didn’t even have time to change his clothes and quickly dragged his wife to a less crowded place to coax him, “Listen to me first, I wanted to give you a surprise. Don’t you love watching palace dramas? I just wanted to make a cameo as a prince or something, so when this drama airs, you can see me on TV.”
“…” Chen Shuo stared at Li Ge with an expressionless face.
“I really wanted to surprise you,” Li Ge explained, “you don’t know how tired I am, how much I’ve suffered here alone, I’m busy with creative work during the day, and at night I miss you so much that I have to masturbate, it’s so fucking painful.”
Chen Shuo still had an expressionless face and asked, “Do you think it’s a very big surprise?”
Li Ge: “Why isn’t it a surprise? Your husband is playing a prince in a palace drama, how magnificent is that?”
Chen Shuo: “…”
Li Ge: “If you were a girl, I would have let you play my princess.”
Chen Shuo: “…”
Li Ge: “But don’t worry, wife, I don’t have a partner in the drama. That woman just now was a concubine in the harem, she wanted to seduce the prince, but I’m not moved by beauty, my heart is only for you.”
Chen Shuo was originally quite angry, but after Li Ge’s rambling, he didn’t know how to be angry anymore, only feeling that he had found a treasure. He was already thirty years old, and he was still playing such childish surprises. He could barely call it a surprise.
Chen Shuo: “When will you finish filming?”
Li Ge was surprised, “You agree to let me film?”
“Yes,” Chen Shuo said, “but lying is not right, I’ll deal with you when we get back to the hotel.”
Li Ge: “…”
