Cat Part 6
“Is Beta obedient?”
Li Sinian washed and dried both the cat and the man and tucked both of them under the duvet. He had just dried the duvet today and the sheets smelt freshly of washing-up liquid. Beta was already asleep, in the nest between the two pillows, the white fur on its belly and the pink pads of flesh on its paws exposed. The bedside lamp was on, a very dim light that shone on Beta’s transparent little whiskers.
Fang Daichuan leaned against the headboard while browsing Weibo, when he heard the words, he raised his head and said while gnashing his teeth in anger, “Guess what?”
Li Sinian smiled and stuffed Beta’s little claws into the quilt.
“Fortunately, I have the audio you recorded for me,” Fang Daichuan said proudly. “When recording the program, if it doesn’t obey me, I let it listen to it. Before 28 pieces are used up, we finished shooting.”
The smile on Li Sinian’s face froze: “While shooting? … You, you play my audio in front of the camera?!”
“Yup,” Fang Daichuan answered rightly, “What else can I do? Oh, I introduced you to everyone at the beginning, saying that you are Beta’s father.”
“You, in front of the camera, play my audio and call me, Beta’s father?” Li Sinian break the sentence in parts while talking.
Fang Daichuan nodded: “What is wrong with that?”
“You… Forget it, do you know the phone number of your PR team?… No, you definitely don’t have a PR team. You should know the phone number of your agent. Deng-ge, give me his phone number.” Li Sinian had a headache.
Fang Daichuan handed him the phone: “It’s not a big deal, right? I don’t said Beta’s mother, what’s wrong with saying father, also I don’t look gay, no one will think something is off.”
“Have you ever checked your Weibo, when the first Beta appeared?” Li Sinian was almost angry at him, “You’ve lived in the same room with Beta’s dad for so long, you think the fan is blind like you!”
“What’s wrong? How’s the filming going this past two days?” Deng-ge quickly answered the phone.
Li Sinian cleared his throat: “Hello Deng-ge, it’s me, Li Sinian.”
There was a pause, then Deng-ge‘s voice continued with a strange tone: “What’s the matter, you want to take it to the next level? Are you going to get married? Are you reporting to me in advance?”
“That’s not the case, just relax, we won’t do it.” Li Sinian replied with a smile.
(T/N : Yeah, they don’t get married even until the extra ended…Oh well, open ending means you are free to imagine what happen. Who knows, maybe after Chuan’er retired they will travelling around the world or something like that…)
Deng-ge relaxed and felt that Fang Daichuan was okay, at least he still had common sense. He wanted to ask then what’s going on, what you are calling me for, when he heard Li Sinian’s voice coming from the receiver: “But… Chuan’er-ge may have come out of the closet.”
Here comes the trouble!
At 2:30 in the morning, Deng-ge was frantically ringing the doorbell outside the door. Fang Daichuan hurriedly got up from the bed, put on his clothes and went to open the door.
As soon as he opened a crack in the door, Deng-ge‘s slightly chubby body squeezed in from the outside.
“You rascal is so good! You have to pay liquidated damages if this kind of thing happens during the contract period, do you know that?!” He yelled angrily.
Fang Daichuan didn’t hesitate and handed him a can of Ice Coke: “How much, I’ll pay you the money.”
Deng-ge: “…” I almost forgot that he now have a third-generation husband* and he is no longer a small unnoticed artist who was so poor back then.
(T/N : The raw only said 3rd gen so I guess this is like those 2nd generation rich?)
Deng-ge was so angry that he opened the can and poured it.
“Chuan’er-ge didn’t do it on purpose,” Li Sinian came out of the bedroom, dressed in neat pyjamas, with obvious creases on it, proof that he usually didn’t wear it at home and just wear it temporarily to meet the guest. “Let’s discuss how to deal with this. I don’t want to cause Chuan’er-ge to lose his job.”
Deng-ge hated Fang Daichuan’s stubbornness and deliberately misinterpreted Li Sinian’s meaning: “Did you hear that! What are you so proud of, relying on your husband! If he don’t give you money, how can you pay the liquidated damages! “
Fang Daichuan was sitting on the sofa, peeling the apple with legs crossed: “I don’t need him to pay, I have a small savings.”
This time, even Li Sinian was stunned.
“The winner of the Werewolf Game can get a huge reward,” Fang Daichuan glanced up at Li Sinian and handed him the sweet apple that had been peeled, “You owe me 20 million, when are you going to pay it back?”
Deng-ge said that he could not understand the communication between the young people.
Everyone sat on the sofa in a row.
Fang Daichuan and Li Sinian shared an apple and they were not anxious at all, making Deng-ge so angry that he poured another Coke.
“Tell me everything, what have you done, don’t let out anything! Tell me from the beginning to the end!” He sat on the sofa angrily, like an angry Ox*. Fang Daichuan starts talking, beginning with Li Sinian jumping out of the window early in the morning.
(T/N : When I Baidu, apparently there is a belief that Ox people aka people who are born on Ox year are temperamental. I will give a link for people who want to read more about Chinese Zodiac.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_zodiac
Deng-ge was helpless after listening to it. He searched Taobao. The bottle of “hand cream” featured in the bathroom was a German brand of personal lubricant. There is no local retail and the price is more than 800 yuan per bottle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taobao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_lubricant
This way of coming out of the closet… Deng-ge simply didn’t want to talk to him.
“It doesn’t matter,” Fang Daichuan took a bite of the apple and didn’t care. “It is not a big deal, the worst is I’ll just come out of the closet. I’m definitely not going to lie or not admit it or stir up scandals with others.”
He knew the usual way everyone in showbiz hid their sexuality.
One time, there is a small zero* who got into a scandal. Before Fang Daichuan met Li Sinian, he once came up and flirted with him. Later, a kissing photo when he was travelling with a senior in Japan was exposed. His PR team turned the situation around by making him together with a young beautiful artist, it was hotly searched and pictures of the two shopping together were photographed by passer-by. He also deliberately exposed that he lives with his girlfriend in a reality show. Because of that the scandal in Japan got covered.
(T/N : That is shou/bottom/uke for people who don’t know, the author uses small zero so I won’t change it.)
The most he could accept was to ignore and not admit it, to let the rumours fester but he could not deny his sexuality.
“It already happened. Sooner or later, they will find out. It can be concealed for a while, but not for a lifetime. Besides, it’s not fair to Nian-ge.” Fang Daichuan threw the apple core into the bin and wiped his hands with a wet towel.
Li Sinian laughed at him: “Do you think I care about this?”
Fang Daichuan raised his eyebrows: “It’s up to you whether you care or not but I can’t do such a thing.”
Fang Daichuan retain a firm opinion and Deng-ge can’t change it. In the end, after thinking about it, he could only discuss with the people in the program team whether the footage could be removed.
Beta’s voice came from the bedroom, meow, very loud. It turned over and woke up in the middle of the night, only to realise that there was no one around and it panicked. Fang Daichuan ran into the bedroom and shouted, “Beta don’t be afraid, we are outside!”
——Have to be careful not to scare the child, you see how difficult it is to be a stepmother.
Cat Part 6
“Is Beta obedient?”
Li Sinian washed and dried both the cat and the man and tucked both of them under the duvet. He had just dried the duvet today and the sheets smelt freshly of washing-up liquid. Beta was already asleep, in the nest between the two pillows, the white fur on its belly and the pink pads of flesh on its paws exposed. The bedside lamp was on, a very dim light that shone on Beta’s transparent little whiskers.
Fang Daichuan leaned against the headboard while browsing Weibo, when he heard the words, he raised his head and said while gnashing his teeth in anger, “Guess what?”
Li Sinian smiled and stuffed Beta’s little claws into the quilt.
“Fortunately, I have the audio you recorded for me,” Fang Daichuan said proudly. “When recording the program, if it doesn’t obey me, I let it listen to it. Before 28 pieces are used up, we finished shooting.”
The smile on Li Sinian’s face froze: “While shooting? … You, you play my audio in front of the camera?!”
“Yup,” Fang Daichuan answered rightly, “What else can I do? Oh, I introduced you to everyone at the beginning, saying that you are Beta’s father.”
“You, in front of the camera, play my audio and call me, Beta’s father?” Li Sinian break the sentence in parts while talking.
Fang Daichuan nodded: “What is wrong with that?”
“You… Forget it, do you know the phone number of your PR team?… No, you definitely don’t have a PR team. You should know the phone number of your agent. Deng-ge, give me his phone number.” Li Sinian had a headache.
Fang Daichuan handed him the phone: “It’s not a big deal, right? I don’t said Beta’s mother, what’s wrong with saying father, also I don’t look gay, no one will think something is off.”
“Have you ever checked your Weibo, when the first Beta appeared?” Li Sinian was almost angry at him, “You’ve lived in the same room with Beta’s dad for so long, you think the fan is blind like you!”
“What’s wrong? How’s the filming going this past two days?” Deng-ge quickly answered the phone.
Li Sinian cleared his throat: “Hello Deng-ge, it’s me, Li Sinian.”
There was a pause, then Deng-ge‘s voice continued with a strange tone: “What’s the matter, you want to take it to the next level? Are you going to get married? Are you reporting to me in advance?”
“That’s not the case, just relax, we won’t do it.” Li Sinian replied with a smile.
(T/N : Yeah, they don’t get married even until the extra ended…Oh well, open ending means you are free to imagine what happen. Who knows, maybe after Chuan’er retired they will travelling around the world or something like that…)
Deng-ge relaxed and felt that Fang Daichuan was okay, at least he still had common sense. He wanted to ask then what’s going on, what you are calling me for, when he heard Li Sinian’s voice coming from the receiver: “But… Chuan’er-ge may have come out of the closet.”
Here comes the trouble!
At 2:30 in the morning, Deng-ge was frantically ringing the doorbell outside the door. Fang Daichuan hurriedly got up from the bed, put on his clothes and went to open the door.
As soon as he opened a crack in the door, Deng-ge‘s slightly chubby body squeezed in from the outside.
“You rascal is so good! You have to pay liquidated damages if this kind of thing happens during the contract period, do you know that?!” He yelled angrily.
Fang Daichuan didn’t hesitate and handed him a can of Ice Coke: “How much, I’ll pay you the money.”
Deng-ge: “…” I almost forgot that he now have a third-generation husband* and he is no longer a small unnoticed artist who was so poor back then.
(T/N : The raw only said 3rd gen so I guess this is like those 2nd generation rich?)
Deng-ge was so angry that he opened the can and poured it.
“Chuan’er-ge didn’t do it on purpose,” Li Sinian came out of the bedroom, dressed in neat pyjamas, with obvious creases on it, proof that he usually didn’t wear it at home and just wear it temporarily to meet the guest. “Let’s discuss how to deal with this. I don’t want to cause Chuan’er-ge to lose his job.”
Deng-ge hated Fang Daichuan’s stubbornness and deliberately misinterpreted Li Sinian’s meaning: “Did you hear that! What are you so proud of, relying on your husband! If he don’t give you money, how can you pay the liquidated damages! “
Fang Daichuan was sitting on the sofa, peeling the apple with legs crossed: “I don’t need him to pay, I have a small savings.”
This time, even Li Sinian was stunned.
“The winner of the Werewolf Game can get a huge reward,” Fang Daichuan glanced up at Li Sinian and handed him the sweet apple that had been peeled, “You owe me 20 million, when are you going to pay it back?”
Deng-ge said that he could not understand the communication between the young people.
Everyone sat on the sofa in a row.
Fang Daichuan and Li Sinian shared an apple and they were not anxious at all, making Deng-ge so angry that he poured another Coke.
“Tell me everything, what have you done, don’t let out anything! Tell me from the beginning to the end!” He sat on the sofa angrily, like an angry Ox*. Fang Daichuan starts talking, beginning with Li Sinian jumping out of the window early in the morning.
(T/N : When I Baidu, apparently there is a belief that Ox people aka people who are born on Ox year are temperamental. I will give a link for people who want to read more about Chinese Zodiac.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_zodiac
Deng-ge was helpless after listening to it. He searched Taobao. The bottle of “hand cream” featured in the bathroom was a German brand of personal lubricant. There is no local retail and the price is more than 800 yuan per bottle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taobao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_lubricant
This way of coming out of the closet… Deng-ge simply didn’t want to talk to him.
“It doesn’t matter,” Fang Daichuan took a bite of the apple and didn’t care. “It is not a big deal, the worst is I’ll just come out of the closet. I’m definitely not going to lie or not admit it or stir up scandals with others.”
He knew the usual way everyone in showbiz hid their sexuality.
One time, there is a small zero* who got into a scandal. Before Fang Daichuan met Li Sinian, he once came up and flirted with him. Later, a kissing photo when he was travelling with a senior in Japan was exposed. His PR team turned the situation around by making him together with a young beautiful artist, it was hotly searched and pictures of the two shopping together were photographed by passer-by. He also deliberately exposed that he lives with his girlfriend in a reality show. Because of that the scandal in Japan got covered.
(T/N : That is shou/bottom/uke for people who don’t know, the author uses small zero so I won’t change it.)
The most he could accept was to ignore and not admit it, to let the rumours fester but he could not deny his sexuality.
“It already happened. Sooner or later, they will find out. It can be concealed for a while, but not for a lifetime. Besides, it’s not fair to Nian-ge.” Fang Daichuan threw the apple core into the bin and wiped his hands with a wet towel.
Li Sinian laughed at him: “Do you think I care about this?”
Fang Daichuan raised his eyebrows: “It’s up to you whether you care or not but I can’t do such a thing.”
Fang Daichuan retain a firm opinion and Deng-ge can’t change it. In the end, after thinking about it, he could only discuss with the people in the program team whether the footage could be removed.
Beta’s voice came from the bedroom, meow, very loud. It turned over and woke up in the middle of the night, only to realise that there was no one around and it panicked. Fang Daichuan ran into the bedroom and shouted, “Beta don’t be afraid, we are outside!”
——Have to be careful not to scare the child, you see how difficult it is to be a stepmother.
