An Luoyu ran away and Lu Mingshi stared at his back in wonder. He said inexplicably, “Why does this back look so familiar1Cause he is running away like this in front of you for the second time now.?”
Gu Yixin, “…… That was An Luoyu in women’s clothing. I don’t know why, but he particularly wanted me to drink this glass of wine.”
The two stared at the bottom of the cup with only a shallow layer left. Lu Mingshi took out a small bottle and poured the remaining liquid into the bottle.
“I’ll take this back to An Qiao for a lab test.”
Gu Yixin scratched his head, “Is that really necessary?”
Lu Mingshi solemnly said, “It is really necessary? If this is poison, we can sue him.”
Gu Yixin said, “I’m afraid that this evidence won’t be really sufficient.”
Lu Mingshi sneered and said, “If I make it sufficient, it will be sufficient.”
Gu Yixin felt that the “It’s getting cold. So let the Wang family go bankrupt!” kind of Mr. Lu seemed to be back again. But what was up with the sour smell that filled the air?
Obviously, he was not the only one who smelled it. The customers around him began to twitch their noses too.
“Did the restaurant’s vinegar jar spill over?”
“Honey, did you order apple cider vinegar?”
The tongues of the guests began wagging and Gu Yixin was confused. Lu Mingshi also smelled it, and then after a short period of time, his eyes widened.
And then he dashed out without any further explanation!
As Lu Mingshi left, the smell in the air gradually dissipated.
Only then did Gu Yixin suddenly see the light and he chased after him after receiving the bill.
An Luoyu staggered along the restaurant with his head covered with a thick napkin and eyes tightly shut. It looked like he was about to have an accident. So, the Gambling King’s subordinates rushed up to help An Luoyu back to the control room.
The Gambling King hated the iron for not becoming steel2to feel resentful toward sb for failing to meet expectations and impatient to see improvement (idiom), “There is not enough success while there is an abundance of failures.”
But in any case, it was still his son. The Gambling King sat down and ordered his subordinates to work together to find a solution.
Many hands make work light. So everyone got together and came up with a lot of ideas.
“If the Young Master already has someone in his heart, then it’ll be fine.”
An Luoyu’s tears suddenly wet the napkin.
He almost succeeded in getting to home plate with Wei Junshan. But he missed it for various reasons that day. When he washed and dressed up beautifully to apologize and express his earnest hopes of renewing their relationship, Mr. Wei told him righteously —
“This Young Master has already fallen in love with someone else.”
An Luoyu thought of his countless failed blind dates and wept inwardly.
“Uh, if the person you love doesn’t love you, back, then you might as well choose the person who loves you? This can maximize the guarantee that the Young Master’s future life will not be so miserable……”
“Oh right. The Young Master is a big star after all. It’s not like he doesn’t have any fans.”
When An Luoyu heard this, he cried even more bitterly.
“But. My fans. They, they are all girls.”
Everyone fell silent.
Only An Luoyu’s sobbing and sniffling voice still echoed in the room.
After a while, a bold subordinate said out loud, “In fact, girls are also……”
The Gambling King fell into contemplation.
An Luoyu was terrified on hearing this, “Absolutely not. There is no way I will become a couple with a girl.” Even if medicines can change his feelings, it can’t change his physiology. If he falls in love with a girl, wouldn’t his future life be equivalent to chemical castration? None of them would be happy!
The Gambling King fixed his attention on the monitor and the revenue turnover, and waved his hand, “Hurry up and come up with an idea. Or you will all be fired.”
The subordinates began to brainstorm and listed all sorts of methods.
“Young Master, are you chasing any star? How about looking at a picture of your idol?”
“As they say, no matter how good a boyfriend is, he can’t guarantee to love you for a lifetime. But a paperman32-D characters will never betray you! It’s better to find a few excellent full-body standing drawing of characters from otome games. In this way, Young Master can fall in love on the mobile phone and it will not affect his day-to-day life……”
Everyone chatted for a long time, and the more An Luoyu listened, the more distraught he became. Will he still have a s** life for the rest of his life?
When every hope was turning to dust, An Luoyu’s attention was attracted by a bold idea put forward by one of the subordinates.
“Young Master, there is a huge basilisk in Harry Potter, and a living person will die if they look at it. But none of the four witnesses died. Because they did not see the basilisk directly, but through a mirror, camera, glass, or reflection from the water on the floor.”
The subordinate paused and said his suggestion, “It’s better to put on a pair of pitch-dark sunglasses on the Young Master. Maybe it can weaken the fanatical love that the Young Master will have after seeing the first person, and weaken it into a kind of ordinary affection that can be endured.”
The Gambling King waved his hand, “Just a pair of sunglasses is not enough. It’s not as good as this.”
After half an hour, the highly active subordinates of the Gambling King found the props and assembled them systematically and meticulously.
Finally, An Luoyu, who had closed his eyes tightly and didn’t dare to move at all, wore a pair of pitch-black sunglasses and attached a cannon viewfinder with a telephoto lens to the sunglasses. A mirror was then placed obliquely in front of the cannon’s lens. The mirror was tilted at an angle and it pointed far at a pool of stagnant water on the ground. Above the stagnant water was a poster of the legendary and most popular super-beautiful paper man that was urgently printed out by the subordinates.
The best-case scenario was that An Luoyu would be in love with the paper man after the reduction. But he would not be too engrossed in it, and there will still be a day of soberity.
“Is it ready?” The subordinates enthusiastically counted down to three, “Three! Two! One!”
An Luoyu opened one eye tremblingly and pressed the shutter.
……
An Luoyu, who pressed the shutter button, was sweating profusely. He sat on the chair in a daze as if he had collapsed and completely emptied his mind.
He totally felt as if he hadn’t changed anywhere, but he didn’t feel the same at all.
“Father.” An Luoyu asked with his heart in his mouth, “Is it possible that this medicine is fake?”
The Gambling King said that it was impossible and had his men hold the poster in front of An Luoyu.
“Do you feel anything when you look at the cartoon character on this paper?”
An Luoyu shivered and took a closer look. It was indeed a painting of a handsome guy and the painting could be said to be very well painted. It was almost within the limit of human aesthetics and it was in between two-dimensional and three-dimensional pictures. The lines and contours were exaggerated but not overly exaggerated. The brushstrokes were delicate and the coloring was realistic.
Huh, that’s not right.
An Luoyu thought: I praised him for so long. Is it because the emotional function area of my brain has already been taken under control?
An Luoyu who became extremely scared after thinking about it, replied in a daze, “My palm hurts a little.”
The Gambling King glanced at his son’s palm, “You pinched it yourself. What other feelings do you have?”
An Luoyu shook his head in confusion and said feeling perplexed, “Maybe…… A little familiarity?”
The Gambling King glanced at the paper man, and he actually felt it to be a little familiar too.
“From where did you find the ranking?”
“Report to the boss. We searched for it on Weibo.” The subordinate picked up the iPad and showed the popularity ranking to the boss.
This was by a Doujin painter4A person who makes fan art. who had produced a series of extremely popular paintings.
“I have already sent the series of pictures to the Young Master’s mobile phone, hoping that the Young Master can gradually withdraw and ultimately desensitize completely.”
An Luoyu then held this set of pictures and looked at it all night.
At first, he thought it was good-looking, and he suspected that what he had drunk was really a fake medicine. But this painter did draw it very well. And the more you look at it, the better it looked.
Finally, An Luoyu felt that having a paper man boyfriend was also pretty good and fell asleep while resting his head on his phone.
Lu Mingshi returned to the cabin and turned on the cooling system of the air conditioner to the lowest level. It was so cold that Gu Yixin sneezed as soon as he came back.
Lu Mingshi hid in the bathroom without coming out at all. Gu Yixin stood at the door feeling amused and knocked on the door.
“It’s okay.” Gu Yixin tried to persuade him, “I’m used to it. Compared to the bitter smell, this sourness is quite new.”
It was like frozen lemons with fresh orange peels, and it smelled refreshing in summer.
Lu Mingshi’s depressed voice came out through the door, “I don’t like this feeling of being out of control.”
Gu Yixin said, “You come out and we’ll make it sweet together.”
Lu Mingshi pushed the door open. His whole body was wet and it was evident that he had just taken a very long shower. The sour lemon smell on his body had already diluted and had been replaced by a fresh, sweet, and sour smell of orange soda. He rubbed his hair with a little annoyance.
“You don’t have to worry about me.” Lu Mingshi said, “The evening ball must be wonderful. So don’t miss it.”
Gu Yixin shook his head, “My dance partner ran away. So I don’t want to go to the ball.”
Lu Mingshi tilted his head and seemed not to care as he looked out through the window at the sky that had completely gone dark. There was also a crescent moon in the sky.
“If you hook your fingers, there will be many people who want to be your dance partner.”
Gu Yixin said, “I can’t dance.”
Lu Mingshi stretched out his hand to him.
When Lu Mingshi who was only wearing a pair of slippers stood next to Gu Yixin who was neatly dressed, there was no height superiority anymore. The intense music on the lower deck of the cruise ship was already playing. And Lu Mingshi opened the door of the balcony, the hot air of the summer night rolled in along with the faint sound of dance music, filling up the large suite.
“I will teach you.” Lu Mingshi said.
Lu Mingshi hugged Gu Yixin’s waist and demonstrated the male steps to him. He had only loosely wrapped a soft bathrobe around his body and the water dripping from his hair sank into the ravines of his back muscles. His eyes were deep. And even though his dress was not formal at all, his expression and movements could be regarded as a textbook of a mature man. It seemed as if at this moment, he was not in a cabin of the cruise ship, but on a dance floor of the annual meeting. It seemed as if he was not wearing a bathrobe, but rather a complete dinner suit.
Gu Yixin was led by Lu Mingshi to follow the melody and rotate as he quietly admired his calmness. After a period of the strong sound of stormy rain, the rhythm of the dance music gradually turned from rapid to slow — At the end of the song, they somehow arrived on the balcony without them even knowing.
The fragrant sea breeze of the summer night swept through the hair of the two of them and the scattered hair blocked a part of their sight. Lu Mingshi slightly released Gu Yixin’s waist and as soon as he was about to say something, the back of his waist bumped against the hard railing; Gu Yixin had pressed his prey against the snow-white railing and leaned down a little.
Lu Mingshi was forced to lean back. It was dozens of meters above sea level. He could feel the warm breeze of the summer night and the backdrop of his eyes was the dark blue sky.
The hazy crescent moon and the countless stars that were sprinkled converged in Gu Yixin’s light-colored eyes and shone slightly.
Lu Mingshi thought to himself that it was a little dangerous. He could hear the rattling of the railings that couldn’t bear the heavy load.
But he didn’t want this moment to stop too soon. Lu Mingshi thought that it was really strange: I turned out to be a romantic person……
“Do you know what I saw?” Lu Mingshi softly asked Gu Yixin before he could touch him.
Gu Yixin nodded his head and continued his movements.
……
“How did you know?” Lu Mingshi asked breathlessly.
“What you see in your eyes.” Gu Yixin replied, “Are all stars in the sky.”
The air became really sweet.
The railing issued a danger warning of being overwhelmed by the heavy load. This time, Lu Mingshi didn’t dare to neglect it anymore and hurriedly pushed the person into the room.
“Come on hubby.” When he was flipped over, Lu Mingshi encouraged him uncontrollably.
Although he was already in a daze, he always remembered that there was something very important, and he insisted on motivating Gu Yixin.
“We still have unfinished tasks, we haven’t completed them yet. We cannot stop till we complete the mission.”
Translator’s corner
“The Gambling King glanced at the paper man, and he actually felt it to be a little familiar too.”
Could it be someone that we know too?
Thank you so much for reading the chapter. If you liked my translation and wanna support me, you can comment down your thoughts about the chap or send me a Kofi.
KO-FI
Don’t feel shy to let me know in the comment section or in the discord of Knoxt if you find any mistakes~
1Cause he is running away like this in front of you for the second time now.2to feel resentful toward sb for failing to meet expectations and impatient to see improvement (idiom)32-D characters4A person who makes fan art.
An Luoyu ran away and Lu Mingshi stared at his back in wonder. He said inexplicably, “Why does this back look so familiar1Cause he is running away like this in front of you for the second time now.?”
Gu Yixin, “…… That was An Luoyu in women’s clothing. I don’t know why, but he particularly wanted me to drink this glass of wine.”
The two stared at the bottom of the cup with only a shallow layer left. Lu Mingshi took out a small bottle and poured the remaining liquid into the bottle.
“I’ll take this back to An Qiao for a lab test.”
Gu Yixin scratched his head, “Is that really necessary?”
Lu Mingshi solemnly said, “It is really necessary? If this is poison, we can sue him.”
Gu Yixin said, “I’m afraid that this evidence won’t be really sufficient.”
Lu Mingshi sneered and said, “If I make it sufficient, it will be sufficient.”
Gu Yixin felt that the “It’s getting cold. So let the Wang family go bankrupt!” kind of Mr. Lu seemed to be back again. But what was up with the sour smell that filled the air?
Obviously, he was not the only one who smelled it. The customers around him began to twitch their noses too.
“Did the restaurant’s vinegar jar spill over?”
“Honey, did you order apple cider vinegar?”
The tongues of the guests began wagging and Gu Yixin was confused. Lu Mingshi also smelled it, and then after a short period of time, his eyes widened.
And then he dashed out without any further explanation!
As Lu Mingshi left, the smell in the air gradually dissipated.
Only then did Gu Yixin suddenly see the light and he chased after him after receiving the bill.
An Luoyu staggered along the restaurant with his head covered with a thick napkin and eyes tightly shut. It looked like he was about to have an accident. So, the Gambling King’s subordinates rushed up to help An Luoyu back to the control room.
The Gambling King hated the iron for not becoming steel2to feel resentful toward sb for failing to meet expectations and impatient to see improvement (idiom), “There is not enough success while there is an abundance of failures.”
But in any case, it was still his son. The Gambling King sat down and ordered his subordinates to work together to find a solution.
Many hands make work light. So everyone got together and came up with a lot of ideas.
“If the Young Master already has someone in his heart, then it’ll be fine.”
An Luoyu’s tears suddenly wet the napkin.
He almost succeeded in getting to home plate with Wei Junshan. But he missed it for various reasons that day. When he washed and dressed up beautifully to apologize and express his earnest hopes of renewing their relationship, Mr. Wei told him righteously —
“This Young Master has already fallen in love with someone else.”
An Luoyu thought of his countless failed blind dates and wept inwardly.
“Uh, if the person you love doesn’t love you, back, then you might as well choose the person who loves you? This can maximize the guarantee that the Young Master’s future life will not be so miserable……”
“Oh right. The Young Master is a big star after all. It’s not like he doesn’t have any fans.”
When An Luoyu heard this, he cried even more bitterly.
“But. My fans. They, they are all girls.”
Everyone fell silent.
Only An Luoyu’s sobbing and sniffling voice still echoed in the room.
After a while, a bold subordinate said out loud, “In fact, girls are also……”
The Gambling King fell into contemplation.
An Luoyu was terrified on hearing this, “Absolutely not. There is no way I will become a couple with a girl.” Even if medicines can change his feelings, it can’t change his physiology. If he falls in love with a girl, wouldn’t his future life be equivalent to chemical castration? None of them would be happy!
The Gambling King fixed his attention on the monitor and the revenue turnover, and waved his hand, “Hurry up and come up with an idea. Or you will all be fired.”
The subordinates began to brainstorm and listed all sorts of methods.
“Young Master, are you chasing any star? How about looking at a picture of your idol?”
“As they say, no matter how good a boyfriend is, he can’t guarantee to love you for a lifetime. But a paperman32-D characters will never betray you! It’s better to find a few excellent full-body standing drawing of characters from otome games. In this way, Young Master can fall in love on the mobile phone and it will not affect his day-to-day life……”
Everyone chatted for a long time, and the more An Luoyu listened, the more distraught he became. Will he still have a s** life for the rest of his life?
When every hope was turning to dust, An Luoyu’s attention was attracted by a bold idea put forward by one of the subordinates.
“Young Master, there is a huge basilisk in Harry Potter, and a living person will die if they look at it. But none of the four witnesses died. Because they did not see the basilisk directly, but through a mirror, camera, glass, or reflection from the water on the floor.”
The subordinate paused and said his suggestion, “It’s better to put on a pair of pitch-dark sunglasses on the Young Master. Maybe it can weaken the fanatical love that the Young Master will have after seeing the first person, and weaken it into a kind of ordinary affection that can be endured.”
The Gambling King waved his hand, “Just a pair of sunglasses is not enough. It’s not as good as this.”
After half an hour, the highly active subordinates of the Gambling King found the props and assembled them systematically and meticulously.
Finally, An Luoyu, who had closed his eyes tightly and didn’t dare to move at all, wore a pair of pitch-black sunglasses and attached a cannon viewfinder with a telephoto lens to the sunglasses. A mirror was then placed obliquely in front of the cannon’s lens. The mirror was tilted at an angle and it pointed far at a pool of stagnant water on the ground. Above the stagnant water was a poster of the legendary and most popular super-beautiful paper man that was urgently printed out by the subordinates.
The best-case scenario was that An Luoyu would be in love with the paper man after the reduction. But he would not be too engrossed in it, and there will still be a day of soberity.
“Is it ready?” The subordinates enthusiastically counted down to three, “Three! Two! One!”
An Luoyu opened one eye tremblingly and pressed the shutter.
……
An Luoyu, who pressed the shutter button, was sweating profusely. He sat on the chair in a daze as if he had collapsed and completely emptied his mind.
He totally felt as if he hadn’t changed anywhere, but he didn’t feel the same at all.
“Father.” An Luoyu asked with his heart in his mouth, “Is it possible that this medicine is fake?”
The Gambling King said that it was impossible and had his men hold the poster in front of An Luoyu.
“Do you feel anything when you look at the cartoon character on this paper?”
An Luoyu shivered and took a closer look. It was indeed a painting of a handsome guy and the painting could be said to be very well painted. It was almost within the limit of human aesthetics and it was in between two-dimensional and three-dimensional pictures. The lines and contours were exaggerated but not overly exaggerated. The brushstrokes were delicate and the coloring was realistic.
Huh, that’s not right.
An Luoyu thought: I praised him for so long. Is it because the emotional function area of my brain has already been taken under control?
An Luoyu who became extremely scared after thinking about it, replied in a daze, “My palm hurts a little.”
The Gambling King glanced at his son’s palm, “You pinched it yourself. What other feelings do you have?”
An Luoyu shook his head in confusion and said feeling perplexed, “Maybe…… A little familiarity?”
The Gambling King glanced at the paper man, and he actually felt it to be a little familiar too.
“From where did you find the ranking?”
“Report to the boss. We searched for it on Weibo.” The subordinate picked up the iPad and showed the popularity ranking to the boss.
This was by a Doujin painter4A person who makes fan art. who had produced a series of extremely popular paintings.
“I have already sent the series of pictures to the Young Master’s mobile phone, hoping that the Young Master can gradually withdraw and ultimately desensitize completely.”
An Luoyu then held this set of pictures and looked at it all night.
At first, he thought it was good-looking, and he suspected that what he had drunk was really a fake medicine. But this painter did draw it very well. And the more you look at it, the better it looked.
Finally, An Luoyu felt that having a paper man boyfriend was also pretty good and fell asleep while resting his head on his phone.
Lu Mingshi returned to the cabin and turned on the cooling system of the air conditioner to the lowest level. It was so cold that Gu Yixin sneezed as soon as he came back.
Lu Mingshi hid in the bathroom without coming out at all. Gu Yixin stood at the door feeling amused and knocked on the door.
“It’s okay.” Gu Yixin tried to persuade him, “I’m used to it. Compared to the bitter smell, this sourness is quite new.”
It was like frozen lemons with fresh orange peels, and it smelled refreshing in summer.
Lu Mingshi’s depressed voice came out through the door, “I don’t like this feeling of being out of control.”
Gu Yixin said, “You come out and we’ll make it sweet together.”
Lu Mingshi pushed the door open. His whole body was wet and it was evident that he had just taken a very long shower. The sour lemon smell on his body had already diluted and had been replaced by a fresh, sweet, and sour smell of orange soda. He rubbed his hair with a little annoyance.
“You don’t have to worry about me.” Lu Mingshi said, “The evening ball must be wonderful. So don’t miss it.”
Gu Yixin shook his head, “My dance partner ran away. So I don’t want to go to the ball.”
Lu Mingshi tilted his head and seemed not to care as he looked out through the window at the sky that had completely gone dark. There was also a crescent moon in the sky.
“If you hook your fingers, there will be many people who want to be your dance partner.”
Gu Yixin said, “I can’t dance.”
Lu Mingshi stretched out his hand to him.
When Lu Mingshi who was only wearing a pair of slippers stood next to Gu Yixin who was neatly dressed, there was no height superiority anymore. The intense music on the lower deck of the cruise ship was already playing. And Lu Mingshi opened the door of the balcony, the hot air of the summer night rolled in along with the faint sound of dance music, filling up the large suite.
“I will teach you.” Lu Mingshi said.
Lu Mingshi hugged Gu Yixin’s waist and demonstrated the male steps to him. He had only loosely wrapped a soft bathrobe around his body and the water dripping from his hair sank into the ravines of his back muscles. His eyes were deep. And even though his dress was not formal at all, his expression and movements could be regarded as a textbook of a mature man. It seemed as if at this moment, he was not in a cabin of the cruise ship, but on a dance floor of the annual meeting. It seemed as if he was not wearing a bathrobe, but rather a complete dinner suit.
Gu Yixin was led by Lu Mingshi to follow the melody and rotate as he quietly admired his calmness. After a period of the strong sound of stormy rain, the rhythm of the dance music gradually turned from rapid to slow — At the end of the song, they somehow arrived on the balcony without them even knowing.
The fragrant sea breeze of the summer night swept through the hair of the two of them and the scattered hair blocked a part of their sight. Lu Mingshi slightly released Gu Yixin’s waist and as soon as he was about to say something, the back of his waist bumped against the hard railing; Gu Yixin had pressed his prey against the snow-white railing and leaned down a little.
Lu Mingshi was forced to lean back. It was dozens of meters above sea level. He could feel the warm breeze of the summer night and the backdrop of his eyes was the dark blue sky.
The hazy crescent moon and the countless stars that were sprinkled converged in Gu Yixin’s light-colored eyes and shone slightly.
Lu Mingshi thought to himself that it was a little dangerous. He could hear the rattling of the railings that couldn’t bear the heavy load.
But he didn’t want this moment to stop too soon. Lu Mingshi thought that it was really strange: I turned out to be a romantic person……
“Do you know what I saw?” Lu Mingshi softly asked Gu Yixin before he could touch him.
Gu Yixin nodded his head and continued his movements.
……
“How did you know?” Lu Mingshi asked breathlessly.
“What you see in your eyes.” Gu Yixin replied, “Are all stars in the sky.”
The air became really sweet.
The railing issued a danger warning of being overwhelmed by the heavy load. This time, Lu Mingshi didn’t dare to neglect it anymore and hurriedly pushed the person into the room.
“Come on hubby.” When he was flipped over, Lu Mingshi encouraged him uncontrollably.
Although he was already in a daze, he always remembered that there was something very important, and he insisted on motivating Gu Yixin.
“We still have unfinished tasks, we haven’t completed them yet. We cannot stop till we complete the mission.”
Translator’s corner
“The Gambling King glanced at the paper man, and he actually felt it to be a little familiar too.”
Could it be someone that we know too?
Thank you so much for reading the chapter. If you liked my translation and wanna support me, you can comment down your thoughts about the chap or send me a Kofi.
KO-FI
Don’t feel shy to let me know in the comment section or in the discord of Knoxt if you find any mistakes~
1Cause he is running away like this in front of you for the second time now.2to feel resentful toward sb for failing to meet expectations and impatient to see improvement (idiom)32-D characters4A person who makes fan art.
