AMTWPICL Chapter 51

Tan Yue had eaten his fill at once and as a consequence, spent the night alone as Song Linchu returned to his own room.

The older man had just tasted meat and now felt the coldness of his bed without Song Linchu beside him.

Thinking back to everything that had happened in this bed last night, Tan Yue’s “belt” was stimulated again.

Meanwhile, Song Linchu, who was separated by two walls, emerged from the bathroom with a green face and threw the ointment he was holding onto the bedside table, feeling a slippery and uncomfortable sensation from somewhere.

Such a dog man should never have a partner!

However, on the one hand, he didn’t sleep with Tan Yue because he felt a little angry, amd on the other hand, he wanted to slow down the pace of their relationship. Sharing a bed together was just too intimate, especially when it came to that kind of thing.

In his opinion, only couples who had feelings with each other would do such a thing.

After all, Tan Yue, a workaholic who would probably be married to his work if he wasn’t so busy seducing him, probably didn’t care whether he slept with him or not. Perhaps he even complained about his bad sleeping habits, just like last time when he kept tossing and turning like a pig all night.

Thinking of this, Song Linchu lay on the bed with a clear conscience, unaware that Tan Yue was staring at his excited belt.

The next day…

Song Linchu was sitting in the sunny and warm courtyard, chatting with Liang Xinxin on Wechat while sketching.

Liang Xinxin was worried about finding a job after graduation, and joked that if she had money, she would start her own business. She wanted to avoid not only facing the dissatisfaction of the clients but also the demands of a boss.

The speaker had no Intention, but the listener had his own ideas.

Song Linchu was graduating next year so he also started to worry about his job. He had more than two million yuan with him, and perhaps he could consider starting his own business. One of his seniors from a well off family had opened a jewelry workshop with good results, earning over a hundred thousand yuan in a year. Perhaps he could do it too?

Although he did not understand business management, he could always seek Tan Yue’s guidance at any time. The more Song Linchu thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. Moreover, they had fewer courses in the second semester of their junior year. So he did not have to wait until graduation to start preparing.

Song Linchu immediately opened his mobile phone to see what preliminary work was needed for this. Just as he typed in the search keyword, the doorbell of the villa rang a few times, and not long after, Butler Liu greeted the visitor and opened the door.

“Young master Tan?” Butler Liu was surprised to see the visitor. “Why are you here?”

“I…” Tan Mingqing laughed dryly and said, “I’m here to find Linchu. Is he at home?”

“Yes, he is. But you know Master’s taboos.”

It was well known that unless they had a close relationship, Tan Yue did not like people coming to his house.

“I just want to talk to him for a few words, Uncle Liu, I’m a classmate of his. My uncle won’t mind.” Tan Mingqing lied. If it were not for Song Linchu not answering his calls, he would not have come to his house despite Tan Yue’s taboo. Now he was truly at his wit’s end and did not know who else to turn to except Song Linchu.

Butler Liu did not know about the matter between Song Linchu and Tan Mingqing, and was hesitating. Just then, Song Linchu’s cold voice came from behind him, “When did we become classmates?”

Tan Mingqing first stiffened when he heard the voice, then spoke hurriedly, “Linchu, I want to talk to you for a few words, just a few. Can I?”

It had been a while since he had last seen this once-vibrant young master. Now he looked haggard and worn-out, with sunken eye sockets and none of the arrogance that he had had as the young master Tan.

Song Linchu said coldly, “If it’s still about yesterday’s matter, there’s nothing to talk about.”

“No, Linchu, I was wrong yesterday. I shouldn’t have said that. I apologize to you. You can ask me for anything you want. Please, just help me this time. You didn’t like Su Zhan showing off his wealth in front of you. When school starts, I’ll break up with him and ask him to return everything I gave him so he can’t show off. Can you help me?”

Song Linchu remained silent.

“Please, Linchu, just talk to my uncle. Only you can help my uncle now. Shall I kneel down for you?”

As Tan Mingqing spoke, he actually knelt down on the ground with a thud, which startled Butler Liu.

“You can’t do that, Young Master Tan. You can’t do that.”

Butler Liu hurriedly went to help him, but Tan Mingqing remained motionless, desperately staring at Song Linchu with reddened eyes.

Song Linchu felt sorry for this person, not out of sympathy, but because he really was a pitiful person.

If he had any ability, he wouldn’t be kneeling before someone’s lover but rather try to find ways to save his uncle’s company.

Could it be that the only company they can cooperate with in the world is Tan Yue’s?

Can this cooperation help him for the rest of his life?

He knew very well that his uncle wouldn’t be around for long, so why not learn how to manage the company while he was still there? He wasn’t too busy with his studies to do so. All he did was talk about love and wander around with friends, thinking that his uncle’s inheritance made him a member of the elite.

Even if he helped him today, Song Linchu still believed that with Tan Mingqing’s character, he couldn’t keep his uncle’s business afloat.

Song Linchu was about to say something when the door of the villa opened with a “click” and Tan Yue walked in.

Tan Mingqing’s back instantly stiffened when he saw him.

“Little uncle.”

Tan Yue walked over to Song Linchu’s side and whispered, “Are you okay?”

Song Linchu nodded his head and said, “I’m fine.”

Tan Yue calmly took a look at him and saw that he was indeed unharmed. He put his mind at ease and then turned his gaze to Tan Mingqing.

His gaze was sharp and his voice was cold: “I don’t have any ancestors or Buddhas here, so why kneel?”

“I, I…”

For a moment, Tan Mingqing didn’t know how to explain.

It was a workday today, and he thought his workaholic uncle would be at work, so he dared to come over.

Who knew…

As the saying goes, when it rains, it pours.

Tan Yue said, “Hmm?”

Tan Mingqing’s forehead was covered in cold sweat. His uncle’s pressure was too strong that he couldn’t even think of a lie. So he simply closed his eyes and told the truth.

“I want Linchu to ask you to spare my uncle’s company and not to terminate the cooperation with him. I was wrong before and I’m willing to do anything to apologize. But please don’t involve my uncle’s career. Uncle, I’m begging you.”

Tan Yue lowered his eyes and looked at him with his dark and profound gaze, saying coldly, “Do you think I terminated the cooperation with your uncle’s company because of Linchu?”

Tan Mingqing stuttered, “Well, isn’t it?”

Tan Yue said, “Go back and ask Tan Yuming.”

“But… my uncle, he said it was because of me, that’s why I came…” Tan Mingqing’s voice grew lower as he spoke.

Initially, Tan Mingqing felt that his uncle’s exclusion from last year’s meeting hosted by Tan Yue was related to him, but he couldn’t admit it. However, terminating their collaboration was too serious so he confessed.

After his uncle found out, he didn’t blame him much. Instead, he told him to plead with Song Linchu to intercede on his behalf with Tan Yue.

That’s why Tan Mingqing mustered the courage to approach him.

Tan Yue chuckled, but there was no warmth in his eyes.

His voice was like ice: “I terminated our cooperation not because of anyone, but because his company provided inferior products that caused immeasurable losses to Wanuo.”

Tan Yue excluded Tan Yuming from any of the Tan family’s events solely because of Song Linchu. Although this had a certain impact on him, it was not fatal to his business.

As for the termination of their cooperation, it was entirely a business decision.

Due to health reasons, Tan Yuming’s company had been declining, and in order to reduce costs, they began to tamper with the raw materials. Many of their products were of poor quality, resulting in customer complaints and even a lawsuit against Wanuo last year.

They were supposed to end the collaboration last year, but during that time, Tan Yuming’s health was not good, and he had been hospitalized. Tan Yue allowed more time solely because he was a branch of the Tan family, which was already benevolent of him.

He never expected that Tan Yuming would be so ungrateful and even pull in Song Linchu.

Perhaps he thought that if Song Linchu talked to him, he would change his mind.

–Well, if Song Linchu blew some pillow wind, he would indeed change his mind. His bed was so lonely….

Tan Mingqing’s face turned pale. He never thought that his uncle, who had always been so good to him, would use him as a pawn. Now he was so embarrassed that he wanted to find a hole to hide in.

“I, I…” Tan Mingqing’s face alternated between red and white.

Just as he was stuttering and unable to explain himself, Tan Yue’s emotionless voice sounded from above his head, “I won’t interfere in your family’s affairs anymore. If you come to bother Linchu again…”

He didn’t say what he would do, but Tan Mingqing was already shivering.

Tan Yue instructed Butler Liu, “Uncle Liu, show the guest out!”

“Yes,” Butler Liu replied politely and said to Tan Mingqing, who was still kneeling on the ground, “Young Master Tan, please.”

Tan Mingqing was still thinking of pleading with Tan Yue, but upon meeting his cold gaze, he swallowed his words.

The once high spirited Tan Mingqing got up from the ground and left Tan Yue’s house with heavy steps, looking dejected.

Song Linchu’s mood was complicated.

He couldn’t help but ask, “Gege, will his uncle’s company really go bankrupt?”

Tan Yue replied lightly, “It depends on how they handle it.”

“If he reforms himself, produces quality products, and controlls his greed, they could naturally continue the cooperation.

Tan Yuming’s fortune was built with dirty tactics, but he hadn’t engaged in such behavior for years. Tan Yue thought he had changed, which was why he was willing to collaborate with him.

After the quality problems with the products emerged, Tan Yue realized that a leopard can’t change its spots.

Song Linchu nodded in agreement.

Tan Mingqing and Su Zhan’s dreams may be shattered now.

It suddenly occured to Song Linchu that, if he hadn’t pursued the wrong person, he would be the one struggling now…

Ahem.

Song Linchu coughed and glanced nervously at Tan Yue.

Tan Yue caught his gaze and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing,” Song Linchu flattered, “I’m just impressed by my gege’s dominance!”

A hint of amusement appeared in Tan Yue’s eyes. He looked at the young man bathed in the sun, as if he had a glowing halo around him, looking even more dazzling and radiant.

His gaze softened involuntarily and he said, “I would like to request something.”

Song Linchu immediately became alert and asked, “What is it?”

Seeing his reaction, Tan Yue felt like his request was going to be rejected.

But a true man never backs down from a challenge!

He said, “I want permission to go back to work tomorrow.”

Song Linchu breathed a sigh of relief.

Damn, he thought he was going to ask to share the same bed!

“I promise I won’t work overtime and I’ll come back on time,” Tan Yue asked despite the slim chance of success, “Is that okay?”

“Of course,” Song Linchu’s response surprised Tan Yue, and he smiled, “Gege, go ahead.”

Tan Yue: …

Why did he feel like someone is quite happy?!

He asked, “Really?”

Song Linchu nodded vigorously, “Really, as long as you take care of yourself and don’t work overtime!”

Tan Yue: …

Something’s not right, he just feels like something’s not right.

———————

Next, Tan Yue started going to work normally, preparing for the new product launch.

As promised, he didn’t work overtime and came back early every day to have dinner with Song Linchu.

However, he felt like Song Linchu had changed a bit.

How should he put it? Song Linchu used to create conditions to tease him almost every day, sending all sorts of flirty messages on WeChat, some even including suggestive things. He was quite skilled in this department.

But these days, he hadn’t teased him at all!

Not to mention suggestive words, he spoke in a very plain manner.

The difference was too great, and Tan Yue’s heart couldn’t help but feel a little off-balance.

Especially after experiencing the supreme pleasure of the body, he could practically recite all the details of that night.

Ahem.

The matter of relocating Song Linchu’s parents’ graves had already been taken care of, and before the winter break was over, he had to go back and move their ashes to the public cemetery. This would settle the matter.

Cheng Bin, who was in charge of the relocation, contacted a fengshui master had already made all the necessary arrangements, so Song Linchu only needed to show up, and he didn’t need to worry about anything else.

Now that Tan Yue was a legitimate “son-in-law,” he naturally had to participate in such matters. Even though he was very busy, he still had his assistant free up a day for him.

As a result, the fengshui master consulted his zodiac sign and found that it was in conflict with the zodiac sign of Song Linchu’s mother, so he couldn’t attend the ritual. After hearing Cheng Bin’s account, Tan Yue coldly said, “Then find another fengshui master.”

Cheng Bin was about to agree, but Song Linchu interjected, “Don’t bother, gege. You don’t have to go. You’re company is about to have a product launch during the Qixi Festival. Work is important.”

Tan Yue looked at him, “This is more important than work.”

Oh, so you can admit also admit that.

Song Linchu chuckled, but quickly added, “It’s not like that. In this line of work, people seem to attach great importance to zodiac signs, especially in this business of dealing with the dead. Let’s just respect their profession.”

Tan Yue didn’t say anything, but Song Linchu reassured him, “We’ll visit them during Qingming Festival.”

Tan Yue was still hesitant and asked, “What about your cousin and his wife?”

“Don’t worry. I’ll only tell my uncle. They won’t know that I came back.”

Although Tan Yue was a bit reluctant to give up, he couldn’t break the rules, especially when it concerned Song Linchu’s parents.

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, Song Linchu flew back to his hometown and stayed overnight in the city. He would have to go to his ancestral home early the next morning.

It was still Xiao Chen who picked him up at the airport and sent him to the hotel. It was the same five-star hotel as before. Xiao Chen had already booked the presidential suite for him, so he could check In directly.

After taking a shower in his room, Song Linchu remembered that he hadn’t contacted Tan Yue yet, so he picked up his phone and sent him two messages.

Little Songlin: [Gege, I’m at the hotel!]

Little Songlin: [Cute fox selling cuteness.gif]

Just a few seconds after he sent the messages, his phone vibrated with an incoming video call from Tan Yue.

Seeing the familiar profile picture, Song Linchu couldn’t help but smile. He patted his silly face and answered the call.

“Gege!”

Tan Yue was in the dining room of his house, having just finished dinner. He walked to his study, and his clear, pleasant voice came through the phone’s speaker, “How long have you been there?”

“I just arrived. I’m from taking a shower,” Song Linchu replied, tilting the camera down to show him his pajamas, indicating that he had just taken a shower.

Tan Yue’s gaze fell on the young man’s sleepwear. Song Linchu was wearing a milk-white coral velvet pajama with all the buttons fastened to the top.

He wondered how the buttons were designed as they covered half of the fair and slender neck of the young man, leaving no clue visible.

Such a design for a pajama, this company had to go bankrupt, President Tan thought coldly.

After a pause, Tan Yue calmly asked, “The other night, I accidentally left many marks on your neck. Are they healed?”

Song Linchu: ??

How dare you ask!

Because of those marks, I wore turtlenecks for several days!

How could you even ask!

Don’t you feel guilty at all!

Song Linchu said coldly, “They have disappeared.”

Even if they didn’t, he couldn’t let the old man know!

Especially the one on his collarbone, it was simply evil!

“Really?” The devil slowly revealed his claws, “Let me see.”

“…” If he showed it to him, wouldn’t it reveal his lie?

Tan Yue: “Hmm?”

Song Linchu rolled his eyes and suddenly said, “Let it be, we are so far apart. Even if you see it, you won’t be able to remotely help me get rid of them. Moreover, it might even hurt your eyes.”

With that, Song Linchu blinked innocently and said, “I’ll feel bad if my gege’s eyes get hurt.”

Tan Yue: “…”

Song Linchu saw the blank expression that flashed across the dog man’s face and he laughed inwardly.

Hmph, you didn’t want to look when I showed you before, and now you want to see it? Dream on!

Dog man! Just look at clothes!