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Don't Be a Kept Man - Chapter 2

Published at 8th of June 2022 04:35:22 AM


Chapter 2

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People have always had the desire to live. Even if your mouth says you don’t want to live, your body will always be honest and try to find ways to make you survive.

Lu Qi left the hotel empty handed, with his shadow looking very pitiful. In the dark hours of the night, he contacted his landlord to end his rent. He formulated a plan to wait until the second day of school and then live in the dormitories. Then he’ll just find some part time jobs. If he really can’t find anything, he can sell his kidney to return the fifty thousand dollars he borrowed.

Huo Ming Chen propped up his body, looking out the hotel window, and dialed a number. The howling wind outside was blowing the smoke from his cigarette, its embers glowing and dimming in a cycle.

The sound from the heavily raining storm could not cover the laughter from his phone.

“HAHAHAHA, I can’t, no, I’m going to kill myself laughing. He brought you to a hotel, opened a room and just left?!! Nothing happened? I am saying, Mr Huo, are you sure you didn’t find a straight guy? Or are you saying your charisma has dropped?”

Fanq Qi on his end was laughing and punching the wall, with tears streaming down his face. This Huo Ming Chen has always been so handsome, with endless pursuers for his love from his youth to now. He can’t believe this guy can taste defeat like this.

Compared to Fang Qi’s unstoppable laughter, Huo Ming Chen was very calm. He doesn’t know if he is just trying to protect his dignity, and stomped out his cigarette.

“If he had dared do anything, you can bet I would have made him impotent.”

And then said,

“Have you never played this game? You are let go, and once your guard is down, you can be captured easily. If you haven’t, you have at least seen it right?”

Fang Qi said,

“I am too lazy to argue with you. Go sleep, just go sleep. School starts tomorrow.”

There are way too many beautiful ladies at school waiting for him. Who is going to be like Huo Ming Chen who is dumb enough to go after men?

As soon as school began, there was military training for half a month. What was supposed to be a three month deadline to pay back his debt has turned into two and a half. Lu Qi was frustrated for once, and he laughed in spite. He asked the system,

“How many kidneys do you think I should sell to pay off forty thousand yuan in 2 months?”

[ My dear host, just don’t be a kept man and it’s all good. ]

The system was still very stiff in its reply. Lu Qi looked like he was smiling but inside, it was a different story,

“If I can be kept, that is my business. There are some people who want to be kept, and they can’t even be picked up.”

He pulled out his phone and looked at his bank account, finding that there is not much money left. He patted his pants, and accepted his fate as he stood up. He was going to sneak out at night after the training to find a part time job. If he has to wash dishes, he will wash the dishes.

The training officer blew his whistle to gather everyone. After he saw the group taking their time to stand in order, his face turned ominous,

“Who is your class leader?!”

Lu Qi felt like he swallowed a fly. When he registered on the first day of school, he had familiarized himself with the teaching assistant. So when it came to choosing the class leader, the teaching assistant had directly recommended him to the teacher in charge.

Before he even finished, he realized what he had said and stopped for a moment. He wanted to give the orangeade back, but heard the owner say,

“Five kaui and five mao*, but since it looks like you are new, just give me five kuai.”

Lu Qi hesitated before finally grabbing both bottles,

“……Then thank you.”

The training center next door was for those in finance, and from afar, Fang Qi could see Lu Qi. He grabbed Huo Ming Chen’s arm,

“Ah ah ah, isn’t that Lu Qi?”

Having a good appearance and a great body is very important. Lu Qi already had a long torso and a lean body, and with the training uniform that fitted to them very well, especially at the waist, he stood above the average crowd.

School hasn’t started for very long, and there were already girls trying to get his information.

Huo Ming Chen was just playing with his phone, and hearing Fang Qi, glanced over for a second. Then he quickly said without moving his head,

“What, did you want me to grab his signature?”

The relationship between the two was still considered a secret, under wraps from the public eye. When they see each other on the streets, they pretend they do not know each other. For Huo Ming Chen to be coming over to meet up and just to drop off a jacket, that is very strange.

He doesn’t even have to look very hard before he spots an expensive car that has stopped by the roadside. It was very evident in its arrogance. Lu Qi squinted his eyes, and automatically calculated how much yuan its parts were worth, and he sighed for what he could have.

Right now to Lu Qi, Huo Ming Chen is a mountain of gold that he can only see and cannot touch. If it wasn’t for that system pulling his legs, If only that system did not hinder him……

He has always been greedy, for Huo Ming Chen……’s money.

Lu Qi pulled his hat down and knocked on the car window with his knuckle. Huo Ming Chen could see from his point of view his sexy jaw line, and his eyes like the dark abyss, like the sky after a fire that has been burning for a long time, and in its silence bringing a gleam to its ashes.

Huo Ming Chen lowered the window, and from the passenger seat gives Lu Qi his jacket back. His fingers tapping on the wheel in no particular rhythm.

“If you have time, let’s go eat.”

Fang Qi and the gang did not support Huo Ming Chen’s relationship with Lu Qi. They believe that Lu Qi wants to leech money off Huo Ming Chen. They think that Lu Qi has a twisted heart, but Huo Ming Chen did not think much of it. It’s a transaction. It’s best when you pay, and you get what you want, but when you tie emotions into this, you then have a problem on your hands.

He was not afraid of Lu Qi wanting money, he was afraid that Lu Qi wouldn’t want it.

Notes:

*1 cents: I don’t really know a good translation for the structure of money, so I just substituted cents >.changed the translation from five yuan and five cents to five kuai and five mao as per feedback

Also!! Thank you for all your support on Chapter 1! As stated in my reply for a comment, I’m going to try update this once per weekday (no updates on the weekend for a bit of a buffer for me, which means chapter 3 will be posted on Monday). I’ve also revised the volume 1 protagonist’s name from Lu Liu Qi to Lu Qi as per feedback. Please continue to let me know if there are other translation changes I should make or about mistakes I should fix (as I am but a fledgling in this forest m(” – -)m ). Once again, thank you for reading my translation and I really hope you will continue to like this story by the amazing author!)




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