Mr. Telephone
"h.e.l.lo? Are you listening? Da Shan1Huang Qishan"s nickname, literally "Big Shan"?" Yan Xijun nudged him several times but with no response.
"En… tell Dongqing ge to come too. I have something to tell you guys." Huang Qishan did not wait for Yan Xijun"s answer and hung up the phone. He went to the study.
When Lu Jiangyu woke up, he didn"t see Huang Qishan. He asked the ayi2can mean aunt, but also refers to the help who said he went to the study. Lu Jiangyu decided not to disturb him and went to the kitchen to help make breakfast.
After Liu Shenghao freshened up, Huang Yu was lying on the bed, eyes wide open.
"Hey! When did you crawl in here last night?" Liu Shenghao sniffed his clothes and frowned in disgust. In the end, he still started putting them on.
"After five this morning." Huang Yu saw Liu Shenghao frown, then stopped Liu Shenghao from b.u.t.toning his shirt. "I can get the butler to find you another one."
"No thanks, I"ll go home and change. Help me b.u.t.ton up." Liu Shenghao shook off his hand.
Huang Yu ignored everything else and happily b.u.t.toned Liu Shenghao"s shirt. Later he had to buy some clothes for Shengsheng so it would be more convenient when he came over in the future! Haha! I"m too brilliant!
Huang Qishan had completely forgotten about Liu Shenghao"s existence at the moment. His brain was filled with thoughts of only one person—Jiang Yuran3His surname Jiang and first character of his given name Yu, are the same Jiang and Yu as in Lu Jiangyu!
He had thought that this person had not affected him greatly, but now he didn"t know why he couldn"t think of anyone but that person! The first time they had met was at a wedding. When he heard that person"s name, the cold and numb Huang Qishan suddenly started. He had run from his table to that person"s table. He had thought it was "Jiangyu?" but it wasn"t him, just the name…
Huang Qishan turned around and left, but he had already spoken, giving the people next to Jiang Yuran the impression that they knew each other and started a conversation. "President Huang, you know each other? Yuran, go and talk to President Huang!" Without waiting for Jiang Yuran"s response, he pushed him over. At the time, many people were speculating that maybe Huang Qishan hadn"t married for so many years because he liked men, but Huang Qishan never gave any such indication. It wasn"t that he didn"t want to say, but rather he didn"t know if he liked men or women. He still only liked Lu Jiangyu…
Jiang Yuran displayed obvious embarra.s.sment at being pushed over. Because no one knew Jiang Yuran, and Jiang Yuran didn"t know anyone at this table. Actually, he had just been dragged along here. The only person he could say he was acquainted with was that person who had just run over to see him. Jiang Yu was not the kind of person to act coy. He had come over, so he would stay, and would ask if it was okay. Just going back was not his style. "Can I sit here?"
No one answered him. Finally, after almost a minute, Huang Qishan nodded. This table was not like other tables and was missing a few people, they only had four or five. There was an empty seat next to Huang Qishan. Jiang Yuran smoothly took a seat and that person did not stop them. Yan Jixun was sitting next to him and when he saw someone sit down, and he casually asked for his name.
"My name is Jiang Yuran…"
"What?" Jiang Yuran had not finished speaking when a loud voice startled him.
"Ji-jiang Yuran. What"s going on?" The normally cool Jiang Yuran became fl.u.s.tered.
"Oh, nothing, nothing." Yan Xijun poured himself a cup of water. "I"m Yan Xijun. This is President Huang, Huang Qishan, as you should"ve heard!" Yan Xijun pointed at Huang Qishan.
"No, I haven"t…" Jiang Yuran"s negation sent the table back into an awkward silence. There was actually a person who didn"t know of Huang Qishan!!!
Jiang Yuran seemed to be aware that he had spoken wrongly. He dipped his head in apology. "I normally stay at home and don"t go out. Today I was brought here by a friend, so I"m not too knowledgeable."
"I"m also not that famous. What"s the use in knowing about me," said Huang Qishan after taking a swig of alcohol. He didn"t know why he would say that now. Usually he wouldn"t say more then a phrase, because what other people said didn"t matter. But now he went to explain it for him.
"Yes, it"s no big deal to not know. But our Da Shan is a diamond bachelor4a highly eligible bachelor! If you want to you could snag him," teased Yan Xijun playfully.
Jiang Yuran liked men so hearing this it didn"t really mean much. But he still looked up at Huang Qishan and suddenly his heart skipped a beat…
After this, there was no reason for them to meet, until Huang Yu decided he didn"t want to go to elementary school. He still didn"t want to go even when he was almost fireman-carried by Huang Qishan to school. Huang Qishan was angry, but didn"t know what to do! Looking at that face so similar to Lu Jiangyu, how could he put his hand to him, but even if he didn"t look like him, but he still couldn"t lay a hand on him Because he was Lu Jiangyu"s and his precious son.
Huang Qishan was late for a meeting, and this d.a.m.ned brat was clinging to him while throwing a tantrum. No matter what he did he wouldn"t go. Maybe Jiang Yuran was dropping of a kid or just walking by or something, but he saw Huang Qishan and walked over.
"President Huang?"
"Oh…it"s you." For some reason, Huang Qishan was also amazed. Why did he remember this person?
"This is your son? What"s going on?" He patted Huang Yu"s head.
Jiang Yuran looked at the little boy hugging Huang Qishan"s thigh. So cute.
"Yup, this is my son. Right now he"s having a tantrum because he doesn"t want to go to school."
Huang Qishan "Really very cute!" rumors turned out to be true. That day, he had asked his good friend a lot of questions about Huang Qishan, and he had gone online to search, and found out that some people said "Huang Qishan had a son." But the person in question never confirmed or denied it.
"I"m not cute! I am handsome!" Huang Yu"s milky 5child-like voice was meng6cute enough to charm everyone around him. Actually, Huang Qishan had attracted a lot of the gazes from the pa.s.sersby. After all, the one dropping off the kid wasn"t the grandparents or mom. Dads came very rarely, and this one was a very handsome dad to boot!
"Ok, ok, you are handsome!" Jiang Yuran squatted down. "But if you don"t go to school, Mr. Telephone won"t give you a phone call?"
"Mr. Telephone?" Huang Yu c.o.c.ked his head.
"I am Mr. Telephone who can fulfill all of your wishes!"
Usually this kind of think would be useless against elementary kids, but Huang Yu had always been a child who liked fairy tales. Huang Qishan gave him a toy gun that he would play with, but every night he needed to read him an entire fairytale before he could sleep.
"Really?" Huang Yu started getting excited!
"Yes, really! If you don"t believe me you can ask your dad!"
"Dad?" Huang Yu raised his little head questioningly to Huang Qishan. Huang Qishan agreeably nodded his head.
"That"s right! If you go to school, maybe at night Mr. Telephone will give you a phone call!"
"Okay! I"ll go to school!" Huang Yu hugged his dad"s arm, then turned around and went into the kindergarten.
"Thank you." Huang Qishan took out his business card and gave it to Jiang Yuran. "I have something to attend to right now, if you need anything please call."
"Oh, it"s fine. You should go ahead," Jiang Yuran said with a smile.
"Right, which characters are in your name?"
"Ah? Oh! Jiang is that Jiang, Yu is that Yu, and Ran is from "apparent to the eye" (yi mu liao ran)!" Jiang Yuran explained nervously.
So its which Jiang? Which Yu?
"Never mind, just write it down for me. Anyways, tonight you are going to be calling my son." Huang Qishan fished out a pen and gave it to Jiang Yuran.
"Wh-what?" Jiang Yu looked at him blankly while holding the pen.
"Are you not Mr. Telephone?"
"Ah! Oh!" Jiang Yuran wrote down his name and gave it to Huang Qishan and walked off.
These characters, that Huang Qishan just watched him right down, were very graceful, but the elegant appearance was in disharmony with his aura. Huang Qishan covered up the last character and lifted up the paper. Lu Jiangyu, the characters of your name are still very charming.
Afterwards, Jiang Yuran was Huang Yu"s “Mr. Telephone”. Huang Yu would wait for Mr. Telephone"s phone call every night. Gradually, Jiang Yuran started coming to Huang Qishan"s house. In front of Jiang Yuran"s eyes, five years… six years… seven years… The time they knew each other started to surpa.s.s the time he and Lu Jiangyu were together. Even Ma Dongqing urged him not to wait and settle down. Perhaps you only cannot forget Lu Jiangyu because you cannot obtain him.
When he looked at that person, Huang Qishan would actually think like this too, but when he looked at Huang Yu"s face, Huang Qishan would feel his heart fill with longing, but it wasn"t unhappy. Later, when Huang Yu cried out for his mom, Huang Qishan actually asked Jiang Yuran.
"If you can forget him, I think I can."
Huang Qishan did not answer, just looked into Jiang Yuran"s eyes. Without moving a muscle, Jiang Yuran looked back at him. In the end, Jiang Yuran looked down in defeat. "You still cannot forget him."
"Sorry." Huang Qishan carried his son and left. Even if their names were similar, they weren"t the same person, not the person he longed for day and night.
"Qishan? Qishan?"
Called by Lu Jiangyu several times, Huang Qishan was awoken from his reverie.
"What"s going on?" Huang Qishan stood up and went over to embrace Lu Jiangyu.
"You need to eat breakfast!" Lu Jiangyu said with a smile. "What"s going on with you? Your expression isn"t good." Lu Jiangyu was worried.
"I"m fine. I"m just about to go eat. Is Huang Yu awake?"
"Yes, but…" Lu Jiangyu struggled with what to say.
"What is it?" Huang Qishan asked.
"Oh, um, Shenghao is in our house…"
Oh no! He forgot about this brat!