Chapter 19 - Gongzi
In order to get rid of the annoying reporters, the two went down from the fifth floor to pay, then went out to eat lunch.
His Majesty the emperor still didn’t ask what Song Xiao wanted to eat, instead deciding by himself. “Go to that French restaurant.”
Dugu An, who was sitting in the pa.s.senger seat, silently took out a small pink book from his pocket. This morning, the emperor had thrown this to him, ordering him to memorise the things inside. If the emperor happened to forgot, he could remind him.
The book was the size of the palm of the hand, on it was written in circular words ‘Love Guidebook’. Flipping to the meal chapter, what was written in it, the first time taking someone out, must treat the other to a high-cla.s.s meal, the best was picking out French food.
Song Xiao had never eaten French food, reading the menu that was pure French, he also didn’t know what to order.
“One A set meal for him, one B set meal for me.” Yu Tang directly and efficiently picked good dishes.
“Would you like anything for the aperitif?” The waiter wore an exquisite blouse and a small waistcoat, there was even a bowtie on his neck, smiling with a face of mildness.
“ ‘82 Lafite.” ‘Love Guidebook’ said to drink expensive red wine. If the other drank themselves tipsy, there could even be some unexpected benefits.
“Sorry sir, minors aren’t allowed to drink, how about I change it to juice for you?” The waiter smiled.
Song Xiao bit back a smile.
Yu Tang raised a brow. “Besides juice is there anything else?”
“There’s yoghurt.”
k2018;k2026;k2026;Then juice ba.”
This restaurant was extremely suitable for a date, located at the top of a skysc.r.a.per. Every table was an independent compartment, outside the French window was the panoramic view of the vast city. In the restaurant, there was a pianist playing a relaxing melody, so if they conversed in low tones, other tables won’t be able to hear.
Song Xiao looked out at the skysc.r.a.pers standing in great numbers, and sighed. “Never thought that a thousand years later, the change would actually be this big.”
“En.” Yu Tang replied, concentrating on Song Xiao.
Song Xiao turned his head back, the emperor was looking down while drinking his juice. “Today, the Taizi Newspaper’s reporter actually recognized me at a glance, this isn’t a good thing.”
Yu Tang swirled his gla.s.s, the sparkling pure orange juice swaying inside, as if what he was holding wasn’t freshly squeezed juice, but the court’s top quality wine. “Your father is of the entertainment industry, when this sort of matter starts, in the future perhaps it will be harder to avoid.”
Speaking of this, Song Xiao was a little dejected. “Family matters were told to others to watch and laugh about, but my family runs a theatrical troupe, so it was meant for people to watch…”
Hearing the two words ‘theatrical troupe’, Yu Tang immediately choked on the juice, “cough cough cough…” Picking up the napkin to wipe his lips, he took a sip of water and raised his eyes to look at Song Xiao seriously. His Majesty the Emperor sighed.
“It’s fine, zhen won’t abandon you,” Yu Tang reached out, grabbing Song Xiao’s hand tightly on the table, speaking honestly. “Marry zhen, and your status will not be the same.”
Song Xiao blinked, and was about to ask what the emperor’s family worked in. Just as he was about to ask, the appetizers arrived. Adhering to the habit of not speaking while eating, Song Xiao didn’t continue speaking, and started to focus on eating.
The emperor had ordered the A set meal for him, the main dish was lobster, and it was very delicious, and Song Xiao ate very happily.
While eating, Song Zicheng called, asking what Song Xiao was doing. After he had informed him that he was buying books and having a meal with a cla.s.smate, he didn’t ask any more, only telling him to ignore the reporters.
Song Zicheng put down the phone and rubbed his brow.
“The movie crew had just called, they made it clear that Qiu Mingyan was not needed. They’ve agreed to pay the breachment of contract damages.” Qiu Mingyan’s manager quickly informed him of her work schedule.
“Lara style cosmetics’ boss has notified us on Friday night to prepare to terminate the endors.e.m.e.nt contract, and requested for us to pay the endors.e.m.e.nt fee according to the expected loss.” The people from the advertising department put a notice letter in front of Song Zicheng.
“Boss, in our opinion, freezing Qiu Mingyan is more sound, now all of ma.s.s media has exploded, and we completely cannot seal it up.”
The morning meeting extended until one in the afternoon and still hadn’t ended. Qiu Mingyan who was waiting outside was distraught as she texting her agent nonstop.
The broker lowered his head to look at his phone and couldn’t help trembling. He raised his eyes to look at Song Zicheng’s uncertain face. “Boss, perhaps there’s a way.”
Everyone’s gaze turned over, looking at Qiu Mingyan’s agent.
The agent secretly felt scared. Actually, he shouldn’t say this, but Qiu Mingyan was represented by him, so he discarded his pity, and gambled on Song Zicheng’s feelings towards Qiu Mingyan. “The cause of the matter was Song gongzi’s denouncement of Qiu Mingyan, the key is Song Zheng’s ident.i.ty. We just have to prove that Song Zheng isn’t your daughter, and let Song Xiao come out and clarify…”
“Impossible!” Song Zicheng rejected it without even considering it. “Xiaoxiao is currently studying in high school, I won’t let him be involved in this type of matter.” Moreover, he knew very clearly, Song Xiao wouldn’t speak up for Qiu Mingyan.
“Gongzi is currently very popular online, if he’s willing to just come to our company that would do.” The beautiful director of the public relations department, in order to ease the atmosphere, spoke of this matter. In pa.s.sing, she smoothed over the agent’s lousy idea that ruined the mood.
“What popularity?” Song Zicheng raised his head and asked.
“Look at this.” The beautiful director connected the projector to her computer, a popular post immediately appeared on the big screen, ‘Let Me Worship Pudding Gongzi’.
This post was first published in the Haijiao forum, it was a collection of Song Xiao’s photos posted in the previous two posts, from the earliest sneak photo by the paparazzi to the candid photos by students in the school campus. The most eye-catching photo was one that was taken by a schoolmate.
In the photo, Song Xiao was holding a Norwegian fruit pudding which was made with dried black plums. The golden sunlight reflected his long eyelashes, the photographed curved eyes were particularly good looking. Even though he was smiling, that handsome face had a reserved manner that only n.o.ble princes had. This sort of temperament was too unique, it caught everyone’s eye at once.
Because of this fruit pudding and the media’s previous mocking of ‘Song Gongzi’, Song Xiao received the t.i.tle of ‘Pudding Gongzi’.
David is my life: Wow wow wow, such a good looking gongzi, yet getting that disgusting stepmother, how distressing!
Uchiha daisuke: Look at me, look at me gongzi, ying ying, that pair of eyes looked until my heart is melting
Xiao Lulululu: I’m going to eat pudding, you all don’t stop me!
……
The internet was condemning Qiu Mingyan one-sidedly, on one hand, it was because everyone deeply loathed the matter of a mistress, on the other it was thanks to Song Xiao’s face.
Song Xiao mysteriously became the internet’s star, but at that time he didn’t know, so when he ran into all kinds of strange girls in the cinema, he received a fright.
Baobao Notes
Imma be real, that ‘norwegian fruit pudding’ looks a whole lot like caramel pudding.
Also, previously I struggled between using Gongzi or Prince for this, but in the end i went for gongzi… sometimes no english words can capture the essence of chinese words..