It was about ten o’clock at night. He had shot several months of movies and just descended from the plane. Yi Chenyan was visibly very exhausted, the fans encircling the airport were also numerous, but he didn’t choose VIP route, knowing that the fans haven’t seen him in a long time, and have already waited bitterly for a whole day, Yi Chenyan once again mustered his spirits, and walked towards airport’s North Gate.
In order to let the fans take photos conveniently, Yi Chenyan even pulled down his sungla.s.ses and face mask, faintly smiling and waving his hand in greeting the whole way, then reminding them to observe order and be careful not to fall down.
Finally, Yi Chenyan and his manager Li Ye, under the cl.u.s.ter of fans, entered the protective car.
The car gradually moved, gradually distanced, the sound of emotional shouts became softer and softer. The silhouettes of the fans outside the car also gradually left his vision. Yi Chenyan then slowly kept his smile, and closed his eyes, leaning against the back of the seat.
The manager and also a.s.sistant beside him, Li Ye, looked at him. For the time being, he didn’t want to disturb him.
The Yi Chenyan who was closing his eyes and resting his spirit, the bridge of his nose was high and aristocratic, lips were very thin. Although presently, his whole face was weary, the facial features and contour of his entire face were still perfect. Already been eight years since his debut, Yi Chenyan’s handsome face was still the same as that year, without much change, but the immaturity in his features had long since faded.
In recent years, with the exception of Li Ye, when Yi Chenyan interacted with other people, the corner of his lips would forever hold an elegant cold smile, as if to let people become unable to find any vulnerabilities.
But Li Ye’s heart knew, gut understood, from beginning to end, Yi Chenyan had a kind of indifference and isolation inside his bones.
Li Ye couldn’t help but shake his head. More and more, he felt that Yi Chenyan acting too well sometimes, was actually not a good thing.
After the car interior was quiet for fifteen minutes, Li Ye glanced at the schedule in his hands, beginning to discuss with Yi Chenyan the following series of appointments.
Although he had just finished filming a movie, Yi Chenyan could not rest for too long, he still had many engagements to attend to. A few days later, he will be preparing to accept an interview with the magazine, Fashion YOKAME. Furthermore, he would need to conduct small interviews on Weibo* and interact with fans. After that, he will also be attending an important celebrity charity gala, where quite a few big names will appear to walk on the red carpet; and then after that, there is still the “Boxer” crew kick-off ceremony……
Li Ye’s face did not change expression as he finished speaking. Afterwards, Yi Chen pinched between his eyebrows. “En, I understand.”
The schedule was kept. As Li Ye stared at the gleam in Yi Chenyan’s eyes, suddenly, a somewhat more profound layer of meaning appeared in his voice; his tone had also changed. “There is one more thing.”
The two people have gotten along for many years. Yi Chenyan naturally had to have heard wrong, so he opened his eyes. “What?”
“Yang Anyu.”
S City, General Hospital.
“Very well, Director Yang, I understand now. It was I who have troubled you.”
Tang Guo’s voice had yet to fall when the other party hung up the phone first. Involuntarily, he tightly clenched the phone in hand. In his heart, he sighed.
Young master had been hospitalized due to an accident for more than a week already, during this, not one person actually came to visit. That gentleman temporarily could not be contacted, thus Tang Guo thought of letting Director Yang come over once, after all, he and Young Master were brothers, but……
He followed the path back to the ward, however, Tang Guo froze at the door. There was no one on the bed?
His eyes turned. The next second, he was standing by the side as he found Yang Anyu who doing a handstand against the wall.
“Young… Young master?” Tang Guo immediately stepped two steps forward and nervously said.
Hearing this, Yang Anyu flipped his body, then lightly and easily stood up. “Don’t worry, I was just exercising my bones a little.”
Under Yang Anyu’s broken fringe, a pair of clear pupils stood out in black and white contrast, his mouth also rising slightly. As such, although he was currently dressed in a baggy hospital gown, his whole person was still sunny and handsome.
Compared to before the car accident, that arrogant and mannerless vile young master, the current Yang An Yu was obviously much more lovable.
After he had his hands washed clean, Yang An Yu took a few bananas and oranges, sat down by the bed, then opened his mouth to ask, “Right, Tang Guo, Elder Brother… Big Brother, what did he say?”
Tang Guo helplessly smiled. “Young Master, Director Yang, he’s relatively busy, so when you leave the hospital two days later, he might not have time to come over either.”
“It’s fine, this is as expected.” Yang Anyu’s reaction was very mild. He leisurely peeled an orange. “Big Brother he has always disliked me, besides, stealing out alone in the middle of the night to drink is already wrong, yet I still drove after drinking.”
“Uh……” Tang Guo speech was a little stuck. These days, Young Master suddenly acquired a sense of self-reflection.
Tang Guo had been distracted for just several seconds, when suddenly, Yang Anyu’s voice came again, “Tang Guo, open your mouth.”
“Yes.” Tang Guo was a little puzzled why. However, still, he obediently opened his mouth.
“A little bigger.”
This little bodyguard is also really obedient ah. Yang Anyu furrowed his eyebrows, then from across a short distance, had one of the pieces of orange in his hands accurately and flawlessly thrown into the mouth of Tang Guo.
“… …” Tang fruit was baffled. His mouth contained an orange, so he didn’t dare to move.
“Haha…” Yang Anyu was brought to laughter by Tang Guo’s silly appearance, and two cute little tiger teeth revealed themselves. “Why are you in such a daze? Eat quickly, this orange is very sweet.”
Having heard this, Tang Guo then slowly started to chew. Indeed, really sweet.
Yang Anyu was grinning. Suddenly, he walked to Tang Guo’s side, looked up and down once to size him up. Afterwards, he reached out to pinch Tang Guo’s shoulders and hammered twice against his chest.
“Young…Young Master, what are you trying to do?”
Tang Guo had some nervousness. After the car accident, it was like Yang Anyu had completely switched his person. He too increasingly cannot understand what his master is thinking.
“Short and thin and dazed, Tang Guo, are you really a bodyguard?”
The anxious feeling in Tang Guo’s heart suddenly like smoke dispersed, clouds scattered, entering into a deep depression.
“Young Master, don’t look at me in this manner, I am still quite capable of fighting.”
Yang Anyu froze, and couldn’t help but snicker twice. He patted Tang Guo’s shoulder. “Then you’ve worked hard.”
Why did this tone sound a bit perfunctory? Tang Guo was anxious. “Young Master, you have to believe me ah!”
“En, en.”
Yang Anyu nodded casually, continuing to calmly and idly sit and eat oranges while flipping through and looking at the magazines on the table.
Like him, Tang Guo was someone who protected his master. Tang Guo was a modern bodyguard, while he himself used to be a general’s personal bodyguard. His martial arts and Qinggong* were all very good, was also called Yang Anyu. Although the name and face were still the same as before, he was not the original owner of this body.
The original Yang Anyu was an illegitimate child. His mother died young, and the year before he was brought back to the Yang family. Afterwards, he began to idle, and now, he thus became someone who only cared for eating, drinking, playing, the second-generation Young Master causing trouble everywhere.
The original Yang Anyu had already infuriated three successive bodyguards until they quit, and also made a pile of requirements: the other party must have a good temper, a name easy to remember, cannot look ferocious and vicious, cannot be quiet and taciturn, and the key matter is that he cannot be taller than him.
As a result, the Yang family found a face is innocent and kind, 1 meter 75, and have a little silliness, Tang Guo*.
So this little bodyguard truly was really special. Yang Anyu couldn’t help but deeply sigh more than once.
A week ago, Yang Anyu’s eyes had opened widely as he sized up this unfamiliar world.
On the battlefield, life and death are hard to predict. The sword was emotionless, everyone was fighting battles while soaked in blood. At the critical moment, Yang Anyu rushed out, replaced his own general and blocked the enemy’s fatal knife.
Yang Anyu thought he was dead, but his soul actually drifted to the future, and also into this body.
He and the original owner of the body not only had the same name and surname, even their faces were exactly the same. Just that, the original owner was twenty-one years old, and when he died he was only sixteen or seventeen years old.
In the beginning, he was indeed a little panicked, so Yang Anyu was. .h.i.t by the doctor with several tranquillizer injections.
The modern way of talking and dressing surprised him, and there were many things he had contact with for the first time. Even the usual gla.s.s of drinking water, Yang Anyu had repeatedly inspected it several times.
When he was confronted with mobile phones and iPads and other electronic devices, his whole person became baffled. He looked at them until the Tang Guo beside him felt his heart jolt, skin jump* The young Nurse Miss had also cast countless rather sympathetic looks.
Yang Anyu frowned. The feeling of being made to be seen as a fool truly was really bad.
Later, Yang Anyu gained many memories of the original owner in his sleep. This unfamiliar world he also gradually understood, he no longer made any kind of common sense ‘joke’, and also slowly adapted to a new ident.i.ty and life.
It was afternoon. Tang Guo had a matter and left. Yang Anyu closed both eyes and sat cross-legged in bed.
The many years of internal energy he had acc.u.mulated, after changing bodies, it was about all gone. He had to slowly practice from the beginning. However, the martial arts Yang Anyu had learned were engraved in his mind, and he found that the new body’s flexibility and jumping ability were both very good, so the future still held much promise.
After a long while, Yang Anyu slowly opened his eyes and picked up the martial-arts novel on the headboard of his bed.
Modern simplified Chinese was very convenient, the story plot and content were also immensely rich and lively. These few days, towards martial arts novels, Yang Anyu felt much interest, reading until he was very engrossed.
“Young Master! Young Master!”
At this moment, Tang Guo excitedly ran in.
Yang Anyu, who had been interrupted, sighed secretly. It would be great if this little bodyguard could be a little calmer. He reluctantly closed the book. “There’s a matter?”
“You see!” Tang Guo took out a ring and pushed it to Yang Anyu, laughing, “It was lost and recovered ah, Young Master, you quickly put on it, don’t lose it again.”
Yang Anyu froze, received it and glanced over. “Ring? Mine?”
Majority of the rings in the past were made of jade. However, the ring now was a piece of metal inlaid with diamonds. Prior to this, when Yang Anyu was reading the magazine, he had already seen a diverse variety of ring types.
“Of course it’s yours, this is your wedding ring ah, Young Master,” Tang Guo emphasized.
When the incident occurred with Yang Anyu, the ring was already not on his hand. Later on, the police did not find it at the scene of the car accident either. Originally it was believed that it would be lost like this; unexpectedly, a good-hearted man had it sent back.
“So I’m already married?”
Yang Anyu was shocked. Everything else he was basically clear on, but such an important matter of the original owner having a married wife, why didn’t he get it?
Seeing him having this kind of response, Tang Guo was even more worried. “Master, does your brain really have no problems? Want to check it once more?”
“……” Yang Anyu curled his lip. He didn’t know what would happen if he let others know that this body had already switched to the soul of an ancient bodyguard.
He slowly put on the ring, then used his thumb pad to stroke it a little. Yang Anyu began to determinedly search the memories in his mind. However, his brain suddenly had a piercing pain, as if the original owner was very resistant, and had this memory fragment buried deeply.
Yang Anyu rubbed his temple: “Tang Guo, who is the other party? At the moment I can’t really recall.”
“You…you actually forgot him?” Tang Guo’s eyes widened even further.
The prior accident had caused a concussion. Young Master temporarily forgot some people and things, but throughout this period of recuperation, his memories were already slowly returning. The doctor also gave the young master a thorough examination, saying that he was now totally normal and that after two days he could be discharged.
But why is it that he can’t remember that gentleman alone? Is this to say, prior to the car accident, the young master had truly suffered great trauma, the ring had also been deliberately thrown away, did he want to forget that gentleman?
Looking at Tang Guo’s expression – a face full of astonishment – Yang An Yu grew increasingly unable to comprehend him. “Tang Guo, why has she never come to see me, even though I’ve hospitalized for this long? Also, the matter about my wife, all this while why didn’t you ever mention it to me?”
The author has something to say: Dog-blood, silly white and sweet, cannot care too much, whole text is a sentimental drama, shou’s initial adapting will be quick, some psychological changes, includes the problem of the original owner, later will all be explained clearly, gong and shou will mutually spoil each other.
【New text, birthed a baby star, then was wrapped around by Mermaid Film Emperor】
*heart knew gut understood: 心知肚明. Meaning, to know deeply.
*Weibo: A popular Chinese micro-blogging website. Kinda like Twitter or Facebook.
*Qinggong: Movement Arts. The literal translation would be ‘lightness technique’. Qinggong refers to how those martial artists and ninja in movies can scale walls, jump really high, walk on air, and move swiftly. All fall under Movement Arts.
*Tang Guo: Tang Guo is 唐果 in Chinese. 唐果(tang guo) is h.o.m.onyms with 糖果(tang guo) which means ‘candy.’ As such, Tang Guo’s name is easy to remember and meets the conditions.
*heart jolt, skin jump: 心惊肉跳; Meaning when someone’s heart skips a beat from fright, and he/she jumps out their skin from fear.
T/N: For this series, I’ll be using another translation method since it’s way faster that way. For ECC (end of the world’s) translation method, I translate directly from the original Chinese source because it has highly complex sentence structures and cannot be easily edited from mtl. Film Emperor, however, I will mtl first and edit it from there while referring to the original text since it has way simpler sentences and can be easily mtled.