I’m Keeping the Overbearing CEO After He Went Bankrupt [Rebirth] 59

Chapter 59: Qingbao and Mr. Huo’s Jealousy

The next day, Chu Qing slept until noon.

“Good afternoon.”

Huo Li was holding Chu Qing with one arm, his other elbow resting on the bed, his hand propping up his cheek as he looked at him gently.

“Mr. Huo…?”

“Did you… just wake up too?” Chu Qing asked in a daze.

“I’ve been awake for a long time. I couldn’t bear to get up,” Huo Li said with a smile, and lowered his head to plant a kiss on his forehead.

“You… you just watched me like that?” Chu Qing said with a red face. “How long were you watching…”

“Not long.”

Huo Li smiled and brought up another topic. “Do you still remember what you said last night?”

Chu Qing paused and turned his back to him.

He wasn’t completely drunk last night. He still remembered a few fragments.

“You didn’t record it again, did you?” Chu Qing said, baring his teeth.

“No, but you scared me last night,” Huo Li said, and moved forward, hugging him again and wrapping his arms around his waist with a low laugh. “I was so scared I didn’t dare to leave your side for even a step.”

Chu Qing turned his head blankly and looked at him.

He vaguely remembered what he had said last night.

Ah…

He met Huo Li’s expression, paused, and then shyly turned around and hugged him, his voice low. “I… I won’t.”

He buried his head in his chest and smiled, his voice gentle. “I want to… wake up in Mr. Huo’s arms every day. The first thing I see when I wake up is the sunlight and Mr. Huo.”

His eyes lit up. “Does that mean you want to sleep with me every day?”

Chu Qing: “…”

He sat up with a blank expression.

“Did I say something wrong? Don’t go,” Huo Li said, suppressing his laughter and pulling him, who had already gotten up, back into his arms.

“Mr. Huo, didn’t you read a lot of books?” Chu Qing said, and was pulled by him, falling onto his lap and leaning against him with a complaint. “You have no romance at all…”

“Isn’t that the same thing?” Huo Li said, raising an eyebrow with a smile. “What? If you say it, it’s romance, but if I say it, it’s being a rogue?”

He didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

“Besides… where am I a rogue? Look, from the first time I saw you after I came back, until now…” Huo Li said, resting his head on his shoulder and whispering in his ear, “I haven’t had a single real bite of meat, right?”

“…”

The warm breath on his ear made him involuntarily shrink his neck.

His face and ears were red. “…You are a rogue!”

He pulled away his hand and ran to wash up and change his clothes with a “thump, thump, thump.”

…

After that, Huo Li took him to a music festival by plane. When they arrived, it was just about to enter the liveliest time—night.

The annual music festival attracted a lot of people. The streets were crowded, and there were street performers and stalls from time to time, most of them selling wine. You could smell the fragrance of wine just walking down the street.

His ears were filled with the noise and the sound of instruments, and his nose was filled with the fragrance of wine. He was about to get dizzy.

“Qingbao,” Huo Li said, walking behind him, his two hands on his arms to protect him as he walked forward. “I’ll follow you.”

“Mmm!”

He was not used to such a large crowd, and even less used to such a noisy and chaotic scene, but he couldn’t resist the temptation of the music festival and had to steel himself and continue walking.

He glanced at the map on his phone and took his hand. “There’s a supposedly very famous street band around the corner. I’ll take you to see it.”

“Good.”

The two squeezed through. He was accidentally bumped by someone, and his body tilted, about to fall.

“Qingbao!”

He quickly reached out and hugged him. He lay on him blankly and suddenly laughed out loud.

“You’re still laughing. You almost fell,” Huo Li was also laughing. The two held hands and shuttled through the crowd to their destination.

There was indeed a band performing in the open ahead. A group of people were gathered around, and many of them were holding wine.

“Ah…! It’s Skooters. They just emerged last year,” he said, and went forward with the others, wanting to hear it more clearly.

Three people, a jazz drum and two guitars, were playing music on the side.

He couldn’t hear anything special anyway and was just a quiet listener. Not only did he listen to the performance, but he also listened to him commenting to himself in his ear.

The surroundings were noisy, but the way he was chattering in his ear was very cute.

He turned his head and looked at him blankly.

“Chu?”

Just as the two were being affectionate, he heard a call from the side.

He turned his head at the sound and was stunned.

“Chu, what a coincidence. I didn’t expect you to also make a special trip here to participate in this noisy festival,” the person who had come was a man with a delicate appearance, whose age was almost impossible to tell. His golden hair and emerald-green eyes, and his smile, carried a bit of impropriety.

Before he could react, he felt his wrist being held, and the person had also quickly and lightly scraped his palm.

“Teacher Monk…?” he was startled and subconsciously pulled his hand back.

Huo Li stood behind him, his eyes narrowing slightly.

Yo?

“And who is this?” Monk glanced at him and said with a grin, “A paramour? A lover? A boyfriend?”

“He’s… he’s…” he was a little shy.

Huo Li raised an eyebrow at him and deliberately said nothing.

He paused for a long moment and said to Monk, “He’s my lover…”

“Oh?” Monk raised an eyebrow slightly, and Huo Li was stunned. He hadn’t expected him to say that.

“Then isn’t it more fun and more exciting?” Monk’s eyes lit up.

Chu Qing: “?”
What does that mean??

He said with a grin, “You two are new here, and it’s your first time at this music festival, right? I’ll take Chu for a walk. I’m very familiar with it.”

After Skooters finished their performance, he pulled him to another place.

“You know the Play Band, right? They’re also here, but it’s a bit more remote.”

“Play? Is that the author of Summer?” he was immediately sidetracked.

“Yes. You also know his music. It’s as playful as his name. He recently released a new song…”

He and Monk started chatting just like that.

Walking next to him, unable to get a word in, Huo Li: “…”

He sneered.

Good, very good, heh.

The Play Band’s side was much more lively. A small stage had even been set up, and there were a lot of people.

Monk casually took a wine glass and handed it to him. “Here, a beauty with a fine wine.”

He strode forward, put his arm around him to block him, and took the wine glass from his hand, raising an eyebrow with a smile. “Thank you. Chu doesn’t drink outside.”

“Tsk.”

He knew that he was deliberately targeting him, and anyway, he was also deliberately trying to anger him.

Sigh, what a pity.

He glanced at him. How can such a beauty have a partner? And such a boring one at that.

The performance on stage continued, the music getting more and more exciting, and the audience below was also very excited.

He stood below the stage, sandwiched between Monk and him, completely oblivious, completely carried away to another world by the music.

“Beautiful, right?” he said, raising an eyebrow and reaching out to put his arm on his shoulder.

“Of course it’s beautiful. After all, Teacher Monk personally brought us here,” he said with a blank expression, and put his arm on his shoulder a step faster than him, pulling him into his arms.

At this moment, he had an oppressive aura that was not obvious, even though he was not deliberately doing it. He just stood there, not flustered, angry, or uneasy because of his overstepping, as if he were sure of his love and his own attraction.

At the same time, he was also silently warning the enemy who was trying to step into his territory, like a lion guarding its food, showing its claws even if someone just sniffed it.

He rubbed his nose and “tsked” in his heart.

“Let’s go. The next stop is the highlight of this musician’s festival. The Rocco Pie from the US and his team. Tonight, they’ll be singing with us at the big square until midnight!” he said with a smile. “Chu will definitely like it.”

“Mmm!” he said with admiration in his eyes. “I heard that Teacher Rocco Pie and you were classmates before?”

“Yes. If you like it, I’ll give you his signed album.”

“Thank you, teacher!”

He snorted on the side.

The three arrived at the most crowded big square and saw that the spotlight on the stage was dazzling, and a long-haired man was playing the guitar and singing on it.

This was the first time he had heard Rocco Pie’s unedited live performance, and he felt it was new.

He listened for a moment and didn’t hear anything special, but the phone in his pocket rang.

He took it out and saw that there were six missed calls before.

It was Mr. Pan.

He frowned slightly.

Is it that urgent…

He naturally wanted to stay by his side at all times. Otherwise, that shameless person next to him would do something again. But Mr. Pan would not usually be so persistent in wanting to talk to him. It must be an emergency.

He sighed, patted his shoulder, and said, “I’m going to take a call. You stay here and don’t run around. Wait for me to come back.”

“Okay.”

He left first and went to a quieter corner to take the call.

“What’s going on?” he said with a frown. “Long story short.”

At this moment, he was in an empty alley, pitch black all around, but he could still faintly hear the noise of the music festival.

“Z has found out that something is wrong. He’s trying to get out now.”

“What?” he said with a frown. “We can’t let him get out.”

The big net was not for that idiot Huo Liao, but for Z.

The Z who had killed him in his previous life and was now also ambitious.

“Don’t worry. It’s already gone this far. He can’t get out now. He can only try to remedy and cover it up, so that the government and more people don’t get involved.”

He paused. “But… be careful. Since he’s noticed something, he’ll definitely think of you. He might send someone to assassinate you.”

He sneered. “Don’t worry. I have many experts by my side. I’m not that easy to be passive either.”

“Mmm, I’m not worried about you, but the one next to you…”

He was stunned.

“In short, be careful,” he said.

He tapped his fingers lightly on the old, tattered wall on the side. “Of course.”

After he put down his phone, he turned around and looked at the endless dark alley, raising an eyebrow slightly.

He closed his eyes and slowly reached into his pocket.

As if he were listening to something.

Bang—

The next moment, he saw him take out a gun from his pocket and aim it directly at a certain direction in the empty alley, and fire!

He only heard a faint wail from not far away, and then the sound of something falling.

He walked over and saw a man clutching his leg, curled up on the side, trembling.

It seemed he had hit his knee, and he couldn’t walk.

“Good evening,” he said with a grin. “Your master is really fast.”

“You… when did you find out!”

He still smiled. “From the moment I left the square. It’s so quiet here. Your footsteps are too loud, you idiot.”

He glanced at the weapon in his hand. Although it was a legal BB gun, it was quite good after being modified.

He contacted the person hiding in the dark to deal with this man, while he himself quickly returned to his side.

Now was a special time. As Mr. Pan had said, it was better to be careful.

…

When he returned to the square, he saw that Monk had already started. He had his arm around his shoulder and was talking to him. It seemed they were talking about the performance on stage. He was happy to hear it, and he also had an idol and teacher filter for him, so he didn’t feel that they were too close.

He rubbed his temples helplessly.

“Qingbao.”

“Mr. Huo! You’re back!” he said with a smile. “Teacher Monk said he’s going to give us tickets for tomorrow’s performance at the XX Grand Theater!”

“Oh? Then thank you, teacher.”

He went over and directly pulled him over and planted a kiss on his cheek.

“Mr. Huo…!” he covered his cheek, his face flushing red.

Mr. Huo, how, how can you do this in public…!”

Monk stared at the two of them, dumbfounded.

Whoa.

“What? I can’t kiss you?” he raised an eyebrow at him.

“You…!” he turned his head, a little embarrassed, and pretended to watch the stage.

He thought, After all, Monk is his superior. How can he do this in front of him…!

Ah…

Mr. Huo is such a rogue!

He continued to watch the performance, his ears red.

He glanced at Monk, his eyes full of arrogance and provocation.

Monk: “…”

He rubbed his nose.

Tsk, so sour.

A moment later, Rocco Pie on the stage also finished a song. He looked at the audience and shouted into the microphone, “Oh my! Isn’t that my old friend? Monk! Come up and play a song for me!”

The music lovers below naturally all knew him. Every year, he would also perform with Rocco Pie. Now they were all excited and cheering.

He curved his lips and shouted, “I brought a talented friend. Let him show off! Participate!”

Lest the audience be unhappy, he added, “I’ll go up next!”

He patted his shoulder with a smile. “I’m talking about you. Go up!”

He was deliberately letting him perform, doing him a favor. He was very flattered. “M-Me?”

“Yes, you,” he said with a wink. “You have to thank me properly later.”

“I… can I perform with Rocco Pie?” he was still a little in disbelief.

“Hurry up and go up,” he said. He thought it was very cute.

“Good!”

He went on stage amidst a wave of cheers. Rocco Pie knew that he was someone Monk had recommended, and he basically knew that he would be able to do it. He didn’t even ask and just pointed to the piano with a smile. “Shall we play a ‘Bird and Fish’?”

“Good!” This was the first time he had performed in such an atmosphere and place, and he was inevitably a little nervous and excited.

The spotlight, the cheers, the stage by the street, the musicians he had once looked up to…

He closed his eyes, calmed down, and performed with Rocco Pie.

…

“Yo, as expected of Chu. He really dares,” he said, raising an eyebrow. “He even dares to tamper with and change the piece. We haven’t even discussed it.”

He said, “I’m a layman, but I also know that Chu’s changes won’t affect Rocco Pie’s singing. On the contrary, he’s modified it to be more suitable for his voice. Chu has the capital to change it for him.”

“I certainly know that Chu is doing it for Rocco Pie’s good, not because he’s proud,” he said, raising an eyebrow. “So fierce.”

He said with a smile, “Big guy, why are you standing so far away? Come a little closer.”

Huo Li: “…”

He went over and put his arm around his shoulder, his eyes flowing. “I’ve found… you’re also quite interesting.”

Huo Li: “????”
Huo Li: “………”

He sneered and looked at him with a sidelong glance. “Are all you musicians like this?”

“No, no, no. Only I’m like this. It’s not reasonable for you to kill everyone on our boat.”

He said with a blank expression, “I thought you were interested in Chu.”

He said with a meaningful look, “A threesome is endlessly interesting.”

Huo Li: “…”

And he had also finished his performance, and had received a thunderous applause and cheers.

“You’re amazing!” Rocco Pie said with a smile. “It’s the first time I’ve met a young man who dares to change my piece on the first collaboration.”

“I…”

“I know you’re cooperating with me,” he said with a smile. “Next time, if there’s a chance, have Monk introduce us. Let’s get to know each other.”

“Good! Thank you, teacher…!” he said, and bowed.

He came off the stage and saw him with his arm around his shoulder, teasing him.

Chu Qing: “…”

He remembered that although Monk’s musical accomplishment was undeniable, his love history could fill a book.

He was immediately a little anxious and angry. Don’t tell me he’s taken a fancy to Huo Li?

After all, Mr. Huo is so handsome, tall and mighty, and his skills… no, wait, I mean, Mr. Huo’s looks and figure are both very good. Monk must have had some crooked thoughts!

He immediately ran over and used all his strength to pull him away from him.

“Mr. Huo! What are you guys doing!”

He was like a mother hen protecting her chick, afraid that he would be snatched away by him.

Mr. Huo is so outstanding, and it’s said that Monk has never failed. He’s a philandering artist who has passed through a hundred flowers without a single leaf sticking to him.

Ah…!

No wonder he was so attentive today, always following them!

He didn’t care about anything else and felt that he had to declare his sovereignty first. So he stood on his tiptoes…

And kissed him.

Monk: “…?”
He also stared with wide eyes.

He stood on his tiptoes, his hand on his collar, and clumsily pressed his lips against his.

The foreign customs were open, and many couples would also be moved to kiss by the atmosphere and music of the music festival. At this moment, when the people around saw the two of them, they immediately started to cheer and tease.

He had originally just wanted to steal a kiss, but he hadn’t expected it to be like this. He was about to pull away, his face red, but he immediately wrapped his arm around his waist and deepened the kiss.

The cheers grew louder, and Rocco Pie on stage also started to sing a love song to tease them.

In the depths of the night, they… were kissing amidst the clamor of the crowd.