I’m Keeping the Overbearing CEO After He Went Bankrupt [Rebirth] 35

Chapter 35: Qingbao’s Dependence

The scene was, for a moment, very chaotic.

As soon as Yu Weixi pushed open the door, he saw Chu Qing with his hands and feet tied, his eyes blindfolded, while that man who was supposedly a canary was squatting to the side, staring at him with a perverted look.

W-T-F.

Yu Weixi immediately exploded. Fearing that if he were a step too late, Chu Qing would be taken advantage of, he directly bent down, took off his shoe, and threw it fiercely at Huo Li, as if he wanted to kill him on the spot.

“I’ll f*ck your grandfather!! Get lost!!! Don’t touch Chu Qing!”

Huo Li dodged to the side. Before he could even explain, Yu Weixi had pounced on him, ready to fight him to the death.

The two exchanged blows. Huo Li found a gap and said, “Qingbao asked for it himself!”

Of course, even as he said it, he didn’t believe it himself.

Yu Weixi roared, “I’d have to be a fool to believe your bullshit!”

“Xixi…? Xixi!” Chu Qing, blindfolded and unable to see anything, could only hear the two of them arguing and a lot of things crashing. He said in a panic, “Xixi, you’ve misunderstood!”

“You f*cker!” Yu Weixi and Huo Li started fighting just like that.

Huo Li, of course, was unwilling to hurt him and didn’t really fight back, just dodging his punches and kicks.

An Yize stood to the side, clicking his tongue in amazement as he enjoyed the show.

“Xixi, Xixi!” Chu Qing was so anxious he stomped his feet and shouted towards the door, “Teacher An, are you there? Help me untie myself!”

An Yize suppressed his laughter and went over to untie him.

After his vision returned, Chu Qing saw that Yu Weixi and Huo Li had already fought their way to the balcony. The two were tangled together, their expressions fierce, like a primary school fight scene.

The scene was very unsightly.

Chu Qing hurriedly chased after them and explained, “I was willing! I was willing!”

“…??!” Yu Weixi was even angrier when he heard this and struggled to break free from Huo Li’s grip. However, Huo Li was very strong. Even though Yu Weixi himself was not weak and was a good fighter, he was naturally no match for Huo Li, who had really fought for his life at gunpoint.

“Kidnapping Qingbao in broad daylight, you’re shameless!” Yu Weixi said angrily. “You’re tricking him into doing those indecent things with you because he’s easy to bully, right?!”

“No, no…” Chu Qing’s face was flushed red with anxiety. “I really wasn’t kidnapped! I was willing!”

Wait…

Indecent…

Only then did Chu Qing belatedly get what he meant, and his face turned even redder.

“No, no! We didn’t… really didn’t…” he said, jumping up and down. “I was experiencing art!”

…

Yu Weixi and An Yize had “black man question mark” faces.

Huo Li was being choked by Yu Weixi. He blocked his elbow to stop his movement and said in self-defense, “Did you hear that? The theme for the next creation is people with disabilities, so Qingbao said he wanted to experience what it feels like to lose his limbs and sight.”

Yu Weixi: “………”

Are you guys crazy??

Who experiences it like this!

Yu Weixi cursed and let go.

Chu Qing hurriedly went over and took his arm. “Mr. Huo wouldn’t do that kind of thing to me.”

Yu Weixi resisted the urge to roll his eyes.

You fcking sold yourself, you’re already keeping this canary. What right do you have to say anything?*

Eh, wait…

Yu Weixi’s eyes widened. “Mr. Huo…?”

Is this Chu Qing’s Mr. Huo?

“Ah… this…” Chu Qing paused and lowered his head. “Yes…”

Yu Weixi’s mind couldn’t quite process it.

“Isn’t Mr. Huo the sponsor you’ve always liked?”

“…”

The worst part was the sudden silence in the air again.

An Yize: “Whoa~ oh~”

Chu Qing was so panicked he was about to cry. “I don’t like him, I really don’t!”

Why does it seem like in the eyes of Yu Weixi, Huo Liao, and everyone else, he is deeply in love with Huo Li, to the point where the seas run dry and the rocks crumble!

He, he really is just…

Just what?

Chu Qing paused, also a little confused.

And Huo Li just quietly put his hands behind his back, clenching his fists to hide his excitement.

“Um, um, okay…” Yu Weixi frowned and looked at Huo Li. “Mr. Huo…?”

“Mr. Yu, hello. I’m Huo Li,” he said calmly, introducing himself. “Because I went bankrupt in the US, I’m currently back in the country being kept by Qingbao. Please take care of me in the future.”

Yu Weixi: “………”

You’re so righteous about it?

Chu Qing explained and corrected, “It’s… it’s sponsoring, not keeping! Mr. Huo is my assistant and bodyguard.”

Yu Weixi frowned and confirmed, “Bankrupt…?”

“Yes. You can find out if you check,” he explained. “I have no money and need Qingbao’s sponsorship.”

Yu Weixi: “…”

Indeed, bankruptcy was a legal matter and couldn’t be faked.

It was just…

He just felt it was strange.

What is all this?

Looking at Huo Li’s rather pitiful appearance, he didn’t know whether to believe him or not.

“Xixi…” Chu Qing took his arm. “Let’s not talk about Mr. Huo. You’re here because…”

“Didn’t you send me a notice saying there was a duet segment?” Yu Weixi said with a matter-of-fact look, which made Chu Qing a little embarrassed.

“Oh… oh.”

After that, An Yize didn’t bother them anymore and went back to his own room. Yu Weixi, on the other hand, pulled Chu Qing to the living room to sit down, ready to get straight to the point.

“Come on. Do you have any ideas? A week is not a long time.”

Yu Weixi had always been swift and decisive.

“Ah… no,” Chu Qing paused. “But this time, I want to try a different style. I don’t want blues or gentle, slow music. I don’t want to go in the direction of selling misery.”

“So you mean,” Yu Weixi asked, “for this song, you don’t want to make it tragic and sell misery to gain sympathy, or some bullshit tune about warming people’s hearts and cheering them on together?”

“…Probably,” he said. Those adjectives are really…

He said gently, “Maybe everyone’s direction this time is to hope that society can give these groups more love and care, or to hope that society can understand their pain. Of course, there’s no problem with that… but…”

He tried to find the right words. “Since everyone is writing like that, what I want to write is that special groups are actually just ordinary people. Well, special groups also want to work hard. Those disabled people are also trying to maintain their passion for life. It’s not that special groups should be feared or pitied.”

Yu Weixi propped up his cheek and listened to him slowly.

“So I hope this song is very energetic. It’s not that special groups have to be tragic. Disabled people can also have a good mentality and live a good life.”

After listening, Yu Weixi kicked his leg and poked him with a smile. “Little Qingbao, you’re so eloquent. Why don’t you be a little more happy and passionate with me?”

Chu Qing’s face immediately turned red.

“N-It’s not about me… it’s about disabled people. I’m not…” he paused and lowered his head, his voice small. “I, I’m also working hard. I’ve improved.”

Yu Weixi was stunned.

From the moment he entered until now, he had indeed felt that Chu Qing was different.

Happier, more lively, and more daring to express his emotions.

He glanced at Huo Li, who was pouring milk for him and Chu Qing, paused, and said nothing.

“Then…” Yu Weixi rubbed his chin. “Do you want to try pop? American-style pop, like hip-hop or rock. Jonathan just came back from the US with me to have some fun. We can also have him help with the arrangement.”

Jonathan was a top-tier pop arrangement teacher from the US.

“Ah…” Chu Qing blinked.

This was really a big change…

“I guess… I can?” he said. “I hope I won’t be a burden to you…”

“It’s you who’s competing, not me,” Yu Weixi said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. “Besides, you’re a classical musician. It’s a piece of cake for you to lower yourself to my level. Who are you trying to fool?”

Yu Weixi was a good dancer and also wrote his own songs and choreography.

He had grown up in the US, so although he made M-pop, he had incorporated a lot of Western elements. His songs were all pop dance tracks, at the forefront of the market.

This was exactly what Chu Qing wanted to learn.

He said seriously, “I’m not lowering myself… music has no high or low.”

He was not afraid of people saying he had changed his style. After all, no matter what he sang, the song would become his exclusive style.

“Sigh… artists are just different,” Yu Weixi said, spreading his hands. “Then let’s decide on the style first, and then we’ll start arranging.”

“Okay.”

He felt that since Yu Weixi had pushed aside his own schedule to be with him, and his style was also what he wanted to learn and try, this was a new challenge. So he and Yu Weixi decided on a dance track.

At that time, they could present the theme with a catchy dance track, and also have Yu Weixi dance.

“Do you want to dance with me?” Yu Weixi said with a smile. “I can teach you.”

“…?” Chu Qing was stunned.

If we’re going to dance, it’s not the same as the social dancing last time. This is really moving your body…

Yu Weixi paused, then said with a smile, “You can take this opportunity to learn from me. If you don’t learn well, you don’t have to dance on stage. It’s just to let you move around in your daily life.”

“Okay…”

He had also just promised Huo Li to exercise every day.

“Then I’ll teach you a few simple moves first.”

As he spoke, he and Chu Qing spread a thin yoga mat on the balcony and started practicing.

Huo Li was on the side, ordering takeout for the two of them, bringing them water, and so on, acting as a competent bodyguard.

Chu Qing didn’t dare to act as cute with Yu Weixi as he did with Huo Li. He obediently did whatever moves he was told to do, and even when he was exhausted, he held on.

In the end, it was Yu Weixi who ended it when he saw that he really couldn’t hold on anymore.

“I’ll come tomorrow afternoon, is that okay?” he said. “I have to go home for a bit.”

Chu Qing knew that he was going home because of his child.

He said with a smile, “There are no cameras following us at the moment. You can bring Niangao to play together tomorrow. I haven’t seen him in a long time.”

[Translator’s Notes: Niangao:  is a type of rice cake, but here it’s the nickname of Yu Weixi’s child. It’s a common practice to give children cute, food-related nicknames.]

“Good.”

Yu Weixi then took his leave. Huo Li, out of courtesy, saw him downstairs.

Standing in the elevator, Yu Weixi paused. “Qingbao is getting better and better.”

“Mmm,” Huo Li also knew, and was naturally happy in his heart.

“I… also tried before, but it’s a pity that he was too resistant to the outside world,” Yu Weixi said, as if remembering something, and shook his head. “He rejected everyone’s approach.”

He actually felt mostly guilt and helplessness towards Chu Qing, because he couldn’t help him no matter what, and he didn’t know how to start.

“Because you don’t need him,” Huo Li said.

“What…?”

He said nothing more.

Looking at the tall and stern man in front of him, Yu Weixi raised an eyebrow. “I don’t know how you got close to him.”

I slept with him directly, Huo Li thought.

Of course, he would not say it.

He just said, “I will take good care of him in the future.”

“If you want to take good care of him, then solve the matter with that bastard Huo Liao first,” Yu Weixi said with a frown. “I don’t need to report what he did to Qingbao before, right?? He’s still being cursed for bed-climbing. Are you blind?”

The entire entertainment industry knew that Yu Weixi was a human diss machine. Huo Li was not surprised and just said, “Huo Liao, I have my own plans.”

It involved too much. He didn’t plan on just simply killing him.

“As for the rest… Mr. Yu, you’re a top-tier celebrity. You should know and understand public opinion the best.”

Yu Weixi was stunned.

“Do you think now is the right time?”

He paused, then shook his head.

There was no need to say more. Both of them knew.

In fact, most people were just following the trend. Most people hated someone not because of what they did.

It was just that a few accounts, a group of people, had said that Chu Qing had bed-climbed. The rumor that had spread was that he had bed-climbed. So whether he had done it or not, he had bed-climbed. Not many people would be willing to understand what kind of person he was, to understand the truth.

So what the truth was, was not important at all. Explaining the truth was just explaining to those who had already accepted him. It had no meaning at all. If you really wanted to clear your name to the outside world, you could only use your own public opinion power to cover the other’s.

The law of the jungle. Only by being stronger than the other could you protect yourself. Otherwise, no matter how sincerely you defended yourself, it was just a sophistry.

Ding-dong. The elevator door opened, and Yu Weixi left.

Huo Li watched his retreating back and was also lost in his own thoughts.

If I hadn’t gone bankrupt, would Chu Qing have also pushed me away?

He shook his head and pressed the floor button.

…

He went to the hotel restaurant to buy some food before going back to his room. When he returned, Chu Qing had just taken a shower and was sitting lazily on the sofa in a daze, looking really exhausted.

He was wearing a bathrobe, his hair was still dripping wet, and his whole demeanor was listless.

Huo Li frowned slightly, took a towel, and stood behind him to dry his hair.

He was stunned, then said a little embarrassed, “I’ll do it myself…”

“No need.”

Huo Li could feel his soft hair passing through his fingers. From his angle, he could see his white chest, with a few undried water droplets on it.

Huo Li: “…”

Calm down.

You’re already a mature canary. You should learn to digest your own desires.

He took a deep breath and continued to dry his hair.

“Are you very tired?”

He nodded slightly. “Xixi said it was simple. It wasn’t simple at all…”

Huo Li didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

“My legs hurt, my hands hurt, my whole body hurts.”

Huo Li dried his hair and asked, “Shall I rub it for you?”

Chu Qing: “…”

Huo Li: “It will be absolutely different from last time. It will be very comfortable.”

As he spoke, he went to the front of him and squatted down to knead his feet.

“Is it comfortable?”

“Mmm…”

It was indeed very comfortable.

He was so comfortable he even closed his eyes, like a contented cat.

Seeing him like this, Huo Li raised an eyebrow. “It seems Sponsor Daddy is very satisfied with my work.”

He was gradually getting used to his teasing and just found a comfortable position for himself, leaning against the sofa, drowsy.

“You haven’t eaten or taken your medicine yet. Don’t sleep,” Huo Li said with a frown. “It’s not good not to eat.”

“I don’t want to eat.”

“Be good.”

“But I don’t want to eat,” he said, and then directly leaned over, his body falling onto Huo Li, who was squatting in front of him. He hugged his neck. “I don’t want to eat.”

Huo Li: “…”

His nostrils were filled with the scent of his shampoo after just taking a shower.

Huo Li felt that as an adult, he was really having a hard time.