TL: snaggletooth

Chu Yi was truly surprised.

Before learning that Zhao Xin was Qin Yiheng’s cousin, the impression Zhao Xin gave Chu Yi was that he was difficult. Difficult to talk to, difficult to discuss with, unreasonable, poor aesthetics, but rich.

And the impression Chu Yi gave Zhao Xin is that he is good at talking, responsive, and able to understand his point immediately, very outstanding all in all.

After obtaining the identity of Qin Yiheng’s cousin, Zhao Xin’s impression of Chu Yi had not changed, but a lot of content was added. For example, this designer is actually so talkative, or for example, this designer is actually quite cute.

Of course, Chu Yi’s view of Zhao Xin had also changed a lot due to his relationship with Qin Yiheng. It changed from those impressions from the past to someone that’s easy to get along with, can tell jokes, have common interests, and can chat and laugh with him.

However, because of this gift right now…

Chu Yi couldn’t help gulping, Chu Yi should put another label on Zhao Xin.

Improper. Very improper.

Given that it was the first time in Chu Yi’s life that he received such a gift, his face was stimulated by his nerves and quickly turned red.

And this lovely cousin had obviously been scheming for a long time. Right after Qin Yiheng took the bag, he began to observe the two people in front of him. When he saw Chu Yi’s expression change, he also became extremely excited.

Just great, Chu Yi was even blushing.

Zhao Xin got excited, screamed, and then pointed to Chu Yi, “My god! Sao-zi is blushing!”

Chu Yi’s face became even more reddened after hearing this. He coughed twice and hid behind Qin Yiheng.

Qin Yiheng still didn’t seem to understand what this thing in his hand was. He wanted to take out the manual to have a look, but when he heard Zhao Xin teasing his husband, he put it back.

“What are you doing?” Qin Yiheng pulled Chu Yi, looked at Zhao Xin, and gave him a warning with his eyes.

Zhao Xin immediately covered his mouth.

Qin Yiheng stopped getting caught up with the thing in his hand, he conscientiously put it back in the box and covered the lid.

During this process, both Zhao Xin and Chu Yi were staring at Qin Yiheng’s hands.

Chu Yi didn’t know what to say, while Zhao Xin didn’t dare to say anything.

It was until Qin Yiheng finished repacking it, Zhao Xin said with a smile, “Ge, you have to use it.”

Qin Yiheng said perfunctorily, “Mn, thank you.”

Zhao Xin tilted his body happily and winked at Chu Yi.

Chu Yi, “…”

With Chu Yi’s presence, Zhao Xin was obviously much more open. After they were all seated at the table, Zhao Xin asked the waiter to bring the menu over and gave one to each person.

Chu Yi, “Qin Yiheng still has a dinner event at night, he can’t eat much.”

Zhao Xin said, “Oh, it doesn’t matter, it’s just for gestures.” Then he suddenly said, “Ah, ge, you’re not free at night?”

Qin Yiheng, “No.”

Zhao Xin waved to Chu Yi, “I’m free tonight. Sao-zi, are you free?”

Chu Yi nodded, “I don’t have anything tonight.”

Before Zhao Xin could say anything, Qin Yiheng suddenly held up the menu and directly blocked the line of sight between Chu Yi and Zhao Xin.

Qin Yiheng asked Zhao Xin, “What do you want?”

Zhao Xin said, “Aiya, let me borrow sao-zi and let him play with me tonight.”

Qin Yiheng asked, “Playing what?”

Zhao Xin, “I haven’t thought of it yet.”

Qin Yiheng, “Think of it now.”

Zhao Xin, “…”

Qin Yiheng put down the menu a little and turned to Chu Yi, “It’s not that I’m not letting you play. It’s that Zhao Xin is very rebellious. He used to run away from home, stay up all night in the internet cafe, skip classes to go to arcades, and go to the bar at night. He often gets scolded by my aunt.”

Chu Yi was surprised, “Really?”

“What really!” Zhao Xin got agitated and pressed Qin Yiheng’s menu on the table, “How long ago did that happen? Ge, I’m grown up now. I’m 28 years old, ge!”

Qin Yiheng turned to look at Zhao Xin, “Have you learned to behave?”

Zhao Xin choked.

He did indeed spend a lot of his family’s money pursuing Zhou Ze. About a month ago, he was scolded by his mother, who talked about it in the family WeChat group, which attracted a lot of ridicule.

But now he was working hard and had already pretty much made up for it.

“No wait.” Zhao Xin moved his chair over a little. “Ge, you are prejudiced against me. I haven’t even said where I wanted to bring sao-zi tonight.”

Qin Yiheng said neither hurriedly nor slowly, “Which is why I wanted you to think of it now.”

Zhao Xin, “…”

Zhao Xin felt very unwilling to give in, “Didn’t you also meet sao-zi at the bar? Why can’t I go to the bar?” 

Qin Yiheng, “That’s different.”

Zhao Xin, “How is it different?”

Qin Yihengc “Chu Yi is much more behaved than you. That was probably his first time at the bar.” He said as he turned to ask Chu Yi, “Right?”

Chu Yi thought for a bit, “I went there once during university.”

Qin Yiheng looked at Zhao Xin, “The second time.”

Zhao Xin, “…”

So angry, so angry, so angry.

Qin Yiheng continued to mend his knife, “I was there when Chu Yi went to the bar. What about you? What did you obtain?”

Zhao Xin almost fainted.

Didn’t he only request to go play with his sao-zi? How did the situation develop like this? What did he do wrong?

Zhao Xin angrily picked up the menu, “Ordering!”

In this conversation, Chu Yi observed the whole scene from the perspective of a half bystander. Finally, seeing Zhao Xin like this, he couldn’t help laughing.

He suddenly remembered the scene of Qin Yiheng arguing with his mother.

Qin Yiheng was clearly the one who needed to do the explaining, but in the end, he took over everything.

Chu Yi was curious and poked Qin Yiheng’s hand, “Have you ever participated in debate competitions before?”

Qin Yiheng shook his head, “No.”

Zhao Xin heard this and suddenly raised his head, “Go compete, ge. You’ll take first place for angering the opponent to death.”

Chu Yi laughed harder.

This is great.

Their only CP fan is going to leave from anger.

The three didn’t order a lot. When the waiter took away the menu, Zhao Xin asked, “Are you guys drinking?”

Chu Yi asked Qin Yiheng, “Are you drinking?”

Qin Yiheng, “I might drink a bit later, but I won’t drink now.”

Zhao Xin said, “Aiya, sao-zi, if my brother won’t drink, we can drink. We have nothing to do later.”

Having said that, Qin Yiheng conveniently asked Chu Yi, “How’s your alcohol tolerance?”

Chu Yi shook his head, “Not very good.”

Qin Yiheng remembered a certain memory, nodded, and said to Zhao Xin, “He’s not drinking.”

Zhao Xin blew up, “You get the say for this as well?”

Qin Yiheng turned to ask Chu Yi, “Are you drinking?”

Chu Yi smiled at Zhao Xin, “Sorry, I won’t be drinking.”

Zhao Xin collapsed on the chair.

Chu Yi added with a smile, “I’m not good at drinking.”

Zhao Xin was discouraged, “Fine then.”

He sat properly and continued, “I’m so miserable today.”

Because there were very few dishes and no alcohol, and the fact that Qin Yiheng had something else to do later, this meal ended in less than half an hour.

Before it ended, Zhao Xin and Chu Yi finally found a well-behaved yet unboring game to chat about.

They’re going home to play games.

The game console was the one he brought over because of Zhang Kai. In the beginning, Chu Yi bought an upgraded version. Later, due to the manufacturer’s problem, this version that Chu Yi bought sold out and stopped selling. So this game console became out of print.

There were many games on this game console. Zhang Kai played one last time, but Zhao Xin was interested in another.

“What I bought was the ordinary version. They said that there was more player equipment in the upgraded version.” When Zhao Xin came out of the restaurant, he put his arm around Chu Yi’s shoulder, “Is this true?”

Chu Yi nodded, “I’ve also heard this, but I haven’t played the ordinary version.”

Zhao Xin clicked his tongue, “There’s definitely more, otherwise it’s unreasonable for it to cost thousands of yuan more.”

…

The more the two chatted, the more enthusiastic they became. After talking about the equipment, they talked about the strategy. After talking about the strategy, they talked about the skins. Qin Yiheng put his hands in his pockets and watched the two people gradually walk further away without saying a word.

Only when they were about to leave the plaza, did Chu Yi look back at Qin Yiheng.

Qin Yiheng knew that as long as they weren’t alone, eight to nine times out of ten, Chu Yi’s attention would be on others.

Chu Yi had already stopped to wait for Qin Yiheng. But after Qin Yiheng walked slowly to his side, he noticed that Zhao Xin was still talking.

Qin Yiheng raised his head and pulled Zhao Xin’s collar, pulling him apart a little.

“Aiya, aiya, who is it? Ge?” Zhao Xin took several steps back and asked Qin Yiheng, “Why are you pulling me?”

Qin Yiheng let go of his hand, “Walk properly.”

Zhao Xin, “I’m walking quite well.”

After Zhao Xin said this, he was about to stick to Chu Yi again. Qin Yiheng suddenly took a step forward and stood beside Chu Yi.

Zhao Xin didn’t mind, he walked around to the other side of Chu Yi, but this time he didn’t take Chu Yi’s shoulder, he obediently finished saying what he had yet to say.

When they were about to arrive at the door of the mall, Chu Yi finally remembered about Qin Yiheng.

Also finally brought him into the topic a little.

“Qin Yiheng.” Chu Yi leaned closer to Qin Yiheng, “I remember you said you wanted to play games with me.”

Before Qin Yiheng said anything, Zhao Xin, who had been excited all this time, became enthusiastic.

“What? Ge, you also want to play?” He said as he walked around from Chu Yi’s to Qin Yiheng’s side, “You never play games before.”

Qin Yiheng said, “Accompanying him.”

Zhao Xin let out from the bottom of his heart, “Wow.”

He then asked, “But do you know how to? It’s kinda hard.”

Qin Yiheng said, “Chu-laoshi will teach me.”

“Chu-laoshi.” Zhao Xin almost laughed, “Okay okay.”

Thanks for the sugar, thanks for the sugar.

These expressions from Zhao Xin all leaked into Chu Yi’s eyes.

In addition to being surprised, Chu Yi felt that he and Qin Yiheng’s CP fan might be preserved.

Because Qin Yiheng had to go back to the company first, the three were separated into two different routes at the mall entrance.

Before long, Chu Yi and Zhao Xin had returned home. They took out the game console from the guest room and installed it to the TV.

Then they played for the whole night.

But in the middle of the game, Chu Yi will look at his phone from time to time.

Probably because it’s been too long since he’s been at home so early at night. He kept feeling like he was lacking something.

After he played two more rounds, he understood what he was lacking.

Usually, when he’s at home at night, Qin Yiheng would also be there. He was lacking a husband at home.

And his husband was currently experiencing the end of a dinner event.

Right now, a group of people was sitting around and chatting about this and that.

Sitting next to Qin Yiheng was the boss of a listed company in City A. And this boss had already picked up his phone for the tenth time.

This frequency was so high that people couldn’t help teasing him for it.

“President Zheng, is it your wife’s texts again?”

President Zheng replied to the text, then said, “Yeah, she likes to check up on me when she has nothing to do at home after work, so she keeps chatting with me.”

That person smiled, “How nice, it means that your wife is always thinking of you.”

Speaking of this, Qin Yiheng silently took out his phone and looked at it.

The screen of his phone was empty, there was nothing.

Another person also noticed the situation here and also teased,  “It’s not the first time for President Zheng. Every time I go out with President Zheng, President Zheng would always leave some time to chat with his wife.”

President Zheng smiled and shook his phone, “It hasn’t even been a few years since we got married, so we’re still in the honeymoon phase.”

Qin Yiheng took out his phone again.

This time he directly unlocked it and tapped into WeChat. Only locking it after seeing that the signal was good.

He glanced at President Zheng’s phone, saw the new texts that were coming in constantly, then looked at his phone, and sighed gently.