Su Huanyi finally understood why the original owner was so lonely.
What was the use of beauty?! The original owner was a stunningly beautiful fool!
He snuggled in alone in his chair, even missing Su Chi's coldness for a moment. Su Huanyi blocked out the stares and conversations around him, bowing his head to play a *Xiaoxiao game on his phone to pass the time.
*A strategy game
The people at the banquet were happily waiting to see the excitement, but there was only one piece of land remaining in the village of Xiaoxiao.
Thump, thump, thump... The squares were eliminated one by one on the screen. There was only one move left on the target display, but he still had three blocks.
Su Huanyi frowned and strategized. *Surround Wei to save Zhao, **cross the river and tear down the bridge....
*to relieve a besieged ally by attacking the home base of the besieger
**To abandon one's benefactor upon achieving one's goal.
A shadow suddenly fell in front of him. He thought that it was Su Chi, so he said, "You first wait for me...."
Looking up, a young man was standing in front of him that he did not recognize.
'Who was this?'
The young man put his hands in his pockets and his eyes fell on his mobile phone. "It can't be cleared. Wait to die."
Su Huanyi raised an eyebrow. 'Did he come specifically to give me game instructions?'
The young man raised his chin and insinuated, "You should have some self-awareness. That is obvious at first glance. Even if you spend more effort, it will not change the outcome. Giving up early is the only..."
'Wow, so he's just here to teach me how to do things. There's no point in listening then.'
Thump, thump, thump ... Su Huanyi lowered his head, bought three small hammers, and knocked the remaining cubes to pieces.
"Stage Clear!"
Krypton gold players were fearless.
*Krypton gold players refer to players who pay for the content products in the game.
The young man: "..."
From the moment the young man and Su Huanyi started talking, gazes from around the room gathered.
The gentry and ladies still held their stance, only whispering and holding airs, while the company they brought along was much more blatant in comparison.
"Isn't that Sun Heyu, the second youngest of the Sun family? What is he saying to the one of the Su family?"
"He looks like he's defeated!"
"Woah Woah Woah! What's happening? Isn't the little train going backwards today?"
Su Huanyi looked at the young man. He couldn't match him to any of the people the original owner contacted. As he had touched too many porcelains, he didn't know which one he was.
"Hello." To be on the safe side, he used a respectful tone.
The young man said, "Hello?"
Sun Heyu frowned and looked at him. "You seem to have changed."
Su Huanyi felt the same way, saying, "Yeah, I never used to be kryptonite member."
"....." Sun Heyu got a lump in his throat. 'Who the hell is talking about that!'
Seeing that nothing exciting could be seen, the people watching gradually took back their sight. Su Huanyi made a strategic retreat. "I'll go first…"
"Hoo, what are you doing here?"
A voice full of interest suddenly rang out next to him. The surrounding eyes once again regrouped!
"....."
Su Huanyi looked over and saw a young man with flowers on his chest walking over with long legs. First impression: pompous, mischievous.
Sun Heyu directly called out the name of the speaker, "Zhou Qingcheng?"
Zhou Qingcheng was excited. "Sun Heyu, have you been "bumped" into again?"
This "again" was very spirited.
Su Huanyi got the gist of it: it turned out this was the second youngest Sun and the newcomer was from the Zhou family. He couldn't figure out if the latter was the second, third, or fourth.
Zhou Qingcheng stopped in front of Su Huanyi and put his long arm on the latter's shoulder. He was tall and had to bend down considerably to carefully look at Su Huanyi with a kind of playful mischief.
"Won't you be bumping into me today?"
As soon as his words fell, there was laughter around him. The meaning was clear, as they were waiting to see the good play.
"No."
"Wow, really!" Zhou Qingcheng's smiling face came up as if he had seen something interesting. "Why?"
Su Huanyi lamented, "Got bored of it."
Zhou Qingcheng, "..."
Sun Heyu, "Pfft."
The people around: "...." 'Crap! Is this still the same little train?'
Zhou Qingcheng's dangling smile couldn't hang on anymore. He pushed Su Huanyi with a hint of annoyance. But the force was not too strong, and after pushing, he yelled at Sun Heyu, "Which side are you on? What are you laughing at?"
Sun Heyu shrank up and gathered the corners of his mouth. "I was just laughing."
"Shit!" Zhou Qingcheng turned to Su Huanyi, trying to save his face. "Weren't you the one who pestered me last time and asked if I wanted to go to the exhibition?"
The people around him perked up their ears again: 'Whoa, there's some gossip here!'
Su Huanyi narrowed his eyes. As expected, he really couldn't get out of it easily.....
He said faintly, "That is from my sales group. The middleman earns the difference."
"..."
Zhou Qingcheng was angry, and he walked away looking like a pufferfish. Sun Heyu left with his friend. He wanted to laugh but didn't feel it would be right to do so, so he ended up looking very twisted in the face.
Su Huanyi looked at the smile on Sun Heyu's face and realised something. This was probably a case of "although I've been defeated, I can't contain my joy when I see that you've also been defeated."
He mentally applauded the friendship between the two men in the same boat, going through thick and thin.
Su Chi finally returned three minutes before the party started.
Like a tired bird returning to its nest, Su Huanyi flew to Su Chi's side. "Big Brother."
His voice was like a crisp oriole's song, and Su Chi's hair almost stood up. "What?"
Su Huanyi, "I missed you!"
'You're the only person I know in the whole fucking world!'
Su Chi couldn't stand this sudden stickiness and said, "Don't say disgusting words."
Su Huanyi shut his mouth, "..." 'I'll take note of it.'
As the party was about to start, Su Chi briefly told him about the functional areas of the venue and added, "Remember to let me know before you go anywhere."
Su Huanyi immediately leaned closer. "Don't worry, I won't be separated from you."
Su Chi looked at him suspiciously...
......
At six o'clock, the party officially started. The organiser spoke a few words on stage and then let the guests do as they pleased for the rest of the day.
The venue's interior was several hundred square feet with a black and gold ceiling above. Flower clusters and white feathers decorated the room, and the floor had champagne-coloured marble paving, making it bright and spacious.
The lively sound of the fiddle glided through the mingling social scene, and the ladies' long dresses carried a fragrant breeze as they passed by.
Su Huanyi was glancing at the desserts on the middle table when Su Chi leaned in slightly closer. Su Huanyi turned his head and met his manly Adam's apple that was exposed above his buttoned collar.
"Luckily, there is no smell of safflower oil." Su Chi leaned back. "You're going to greet people later, so I don't want you to smell like medicine."
Su Huanyi withdrew his envious look. "I washed my hair."
His Adam's apple was not too obvious. If Su Chi was a male falcon, he was not even a fledgling, just an egg at best.
There was a wildness and bloodiness about him that he longed for, and it was particularly attractive.
"What are you looking at?"
"I'm thinking that you're handsome, Big Brother."
Su Chi held back a snort. "Now you know how to please me."
Su Huanyi said, "I'm speaking from my heart. You need to be confident."
Su Chi was rendered speechless. He wisely chose to end the conversation and took a cocktail away from the waiter, saying, "Walk around and greet people one by one."
Su Huanyi also followed suit and picked up a glass in an elegant manner. Su Chi took him towards the other end. "You don't need me to introduce you, do you?"
Su Huanyi honestly admitted, "I don't know him."
Su Chi paused in his footsteps. "How come you don't know him? You've met him before." He finished with an intention. "You made a big impression previously."
Su Huanyi, "..."
His gaze was sincere. "When I look at the entire venue, there are only two types of people in my eyes: Big Brother and others."
Su Chi glanced at him. "Then what are you?"
Su Huanyi was quick. "Big Brother's man."
Su Chi, "..."
Su Huanyi was like a little tail beside Su Chi, clinking glasses with the famous young ladies and gentry in the room one by one. With Su Chi next to him, all eyes on him were much more restrained.
Su Huanyi found that even though it was an upper-class circle, there was no shortage of naive people among them—when they clinked glasses with him, they called out, "I've heard a lot about you," and were then alerted by the eyes of their companions.
When the two Feng brothers were greeted, they exchanged a few pleasantries, and then Su Huanyi wandered off after Su Chi. When he turned around, he heard the whispers of the two brothers behind him.
Younger Feng: "He's changed quite a lot."
Older Feng: "He's just cute and dumb."
Younger Feng: "It's enough to just be cute, isn't it?"
Su Huanyi, "...." 'I heard it all. Thanks.'
The glass was refilled three times, and the field was finally almost finished with a circle.
When it came to the last one, Su Chi stood sideways and motioned to Su Huanyi. "This is Xu Zheng, Xiao Yi."
Su Huanyi's glass was handed over. "Hello, I'm Su Huanyi."
It's the small train! Xu Zheng's whole body went stiff with alert, as the memory of being touched by porcelain still remained. He probably suppressed his emotions because of Su Chi's presence, carefully raising his glass and clinking it. "Hello little train er... lad."
Su Huanyi sighed from the bottom of his heart and praised, "This title is vibrant."
Xu Zheng was stunned: "..."
Su Huanyi curved the corners of his mouth and smiled faintly.
His looks were truly outstanding, and the lights overhead were particularly attractive on his bright, vibrant face.
Xu Zheng could not help but look at him twice more, and the wariness in his heart gradually faded. He thought that if this man hadn't done those stupid things before, there would probably be many people who liked him.
How nice it would be to always greet him normally like today. Alas, it's a pity. "Young Master Su is much more sensible today."
Xu Zheng subconsciously shut up immediately after saying that! He darted a glance at Su Chi, saw that he had little reaction, and then turned his gaze back to Su Huanyi. His eyes then went wide...
'Is it an illusion? Why does it feel like this person is now very happy?'
Su Huanyi was indeed quite happy. Wasn't that a compliment that he was better than the original owner?
Su Huanyi was happy and didn't forget to put gold on Su Chi's face. "My eldest brother taught me well!"
Men like saving face, and on such occasions, they have to be praised.
The corners of Su Chi's eyes twitched. "I don't dare take credit for it."
Su Huanyi again brought up that line of argument. "You have to be confident."
Xu Zheng was stunned.
What's going on? The true character of the Su family's young master seemed to be very different from what they thought!
Just as he was about to find out more, the crisp slamming of glass broke the elegant atmosphere of the meeting room—Clang!
Not far away, the glass goblet shattered to the ground, the melodious fiddle sound came to a screeching halt, and the light yellow wine spilled onto the polished floor.
Su Huanyi was startled and reflexively took a step closer to Su Chi.
A man and a woman stood where the glass was dropped. The man looked to be young and rich, the red-skirted woman beside him looked furious, and the woman across from them was like a crying lotus tinged with rain.
Wow, it smelled like a dog blood melon! Su Huanyi unconsciously pulled Su Chi's arm. The latter flung his hand away, but he didn't care. He poked his head into the melon field.
The red-skirted woman's curses resounded throughout the inner arena, and the gossiping upper-class circle all sniffed over and watched from near or far.
"Stinking shameless white lotus! Your little tricks have long since gone out of fashion!"
Su Huanyi was enjoying his melon when two more people suddenly appeared beside him. Su Chi and Xu Zheng stood left and right of him, and so he felt very secured.
Su Huanyi gently nudged Xu Zheng with his elbow. "You're here to eat melons too?"
The two of them looked like good friends.
Xu Zheng, "... mm."
The woman in the red dress was still cursing, and the young man could not take it anymore. He pulled her. "Zheng Qin, you have made enough noise!"
"I'm making a scene?" The tone of Zheng Qin's voice instantly rose several degrees, and her plum-coloured fingertips pointed at the woman across the room who was softly wiping her tears. "It's her who is shameless! This kind of play has been done for a long time, and you still believe that she didn't do it on purpose?"
Su Huanyi,"....." What a familiar scene.
He secretly moved a small step next to Su Chi.
The woman who was scolded was delicate and wiped her tears. "I didn't mean to... my shoes don't fit, so I fell on this gentleman by accident. The wine was also spilled by accident. I have apologized."
Zheng Qin shivered with anger and cursed angrily, "I've never seen a whiter lotus than you!"
A gaze abruptly fell on top of Su Huanyi's head.
Su Huanyi raised his head and met Su Chi's meaningfully downcast eyes.
".....Why are you looking at me?"
"Heh."