Ch40 - “You’re stronger than all of them.”

Edited by kat

“There’s not enough time.” 

Fu Mingyuan’s low and restrained voice and his scorching breath seemed to still linger in Shen Qi’s ear.

What was Gege thinking in order to say something like that. 

Shen Qi grabbed the blanket on the sofa, tilted his head up, and thought of his time with Gege in the morning. It had been pretty long.

This matter was about a man’s honor.

Shen Qi subconsciously pressed against his waist, and felt that he should start to exercise.

The sound of the water in the bathroom sounded especially clear at the moment. 

Fu Mingyuan took a much longer bath than usual, and he used the young man’s shower gel, so now his body had the same scent as the young man.

When he came out, his hair was still dripping with water. 

He was wearing a bathrobe, and the lines of his muscles were hidden under the belt he had fastened.

Shen Qi lay on the sofa, originally sending out messages, but when he saw him, his eyes lit up. 

He moved over and leaned his upper body off of the sofa.

Fu Mingyuan went over, kissed his cheek, and rubbed his hair. 

“Go take a bath and go to bed early.”

Shen Qi swallowed and slowly got up, his gaze moving to his Adam’s apple. 

“Gege, you were taking a bath for a long time.” Shen Qi looked at the time, and the corners of his lip suddenly quirked up. “With it like this, we really don’t have enough time.”

After speaking, he directly went to the bathroom without putting on slippers, just stepping on the carpet. 

Fu Mingyuan’s brows twisted, and his body stiffened a bit.

He really did do something in the bathroom. 

He dropped his gaze, and it took him a minute before he understood the young man’s meaning.

He stretched out his hand and pulled at the collar of his bathrobe. He felt that his breathing was a bit heavier. 

He said that they didn’t have enough time because he had to go to bed on time to get up early tomorrow morning, and he had to ensure the duration of his sleep.

But when the young man said it, such a simple sentence seemed to have taken on a slightly off flavor. 

This fire was burning very well.

After standing by the sofa for a while, the fire wasn’t burning as hot anymore, and he went to get pen and paper. 

When Shen Qi came out, Fu Mingyuan was leaning against the head of the bed, reading the script and holding a pen in his right hand, as if taking notes.

He stretched out his neck to take a peek and then immediately drew back. 

Shen Qi asked as he changed into his pajamas, “Gege, is this the script for the new movie?”

He had only glimpsed the word “Tomorrow,” while the other words were too small to see. 

Fu Mingyuan lifted his head when he heard him.

Then he lowered it again. 

The young man was bent over, his pale skin glowing under the lights. Everything from his neck down was visible at a glance, the butterfly bones at the base of his skull indistinct.

He didn’t seem to be aware that like this, he was actually challenging Fu Mingyuan’s bottom line. 

The young man’s legs were long and straight, but they weren’t too thin, and they were very beautiful.

Although they had already mutually helped each other, this was the first time that they had seen each other so frankly. 

Fu Mingyuan felt that his ears were buzzing, and the curves of his ears that hadn’t heated up for a long time now started to burn again. His big little friend, whose problem he had just solved, now started to act up again.

His breathing grew a bit heavier, he slightly shifted in place, stared at the computer screen, and let out an “en.” 

“How long will the shoot last ah, Gege?” Shen Qi put on his pajamas and went straight to the bed. His head rested against Fu Mingyuan’s leg, and his chin rubbed against it twice.

Fu Mingyuan still was looking down and didn’t look at him. 

“It’s expected to be about two months.”

“In A City?” Shen Qi felt around the quilt for a while, found his cellphone, and scrolled through Weibo a bit. 

Some time ago, Tomorrow had done some official publicity.

Tomorrow was a film about educated youths. 

It could be said to have been adapted from real events.

Shen Qi scrolled for a while, then found the promotional Weibo. 

The promotions had given a very close look at the lead actress, lead actor, supporting actress, supporting actor, etc.

He hadn’t paid attention to it before, but now he saw that the lead actress was Xu Piao, who had been a Film Empress before, and the supporting actress was the popular little flower, Ji Yin. Both were as beautiful as a flower. 

How were either of them like a rural female educated youth.

Shen Qi’s head on Fu Mingyuan’s leg suddenly became much heavier. 

Fu Mingyuan didn’t realize what he was looking at, and he answered him seriously, “We’re going to the countryside, a little far from the city.”

The conditions in the countryside weren’t very good. 

But Fu Mingyuan would suffer all sorts of hardships while filming and never took them to heart.

After all, to be an actor, you had to accept all of its challenges. 

Shen Qi had been thinking about the actresses, but his thoughts suddenly shifted.

“Then will it be very tiring?” He got up, shifted to the crook of Fu Mingyuan’s arm, and found a comfortable position. 

“Can I come visit? Gege~”

Fu Mingyuan rubbed his head. “It’s not tiring. 

“You can come visit, just tell me when you want to come, and I’ll ask Du Jing to go pick you up.

“But the place where I’ll stay isn’t very good, you…” 

Before he finished talking, Shen Qi chuckled. “Gege, I didn’t say I wanted to stay there ah~

“You just want me to stay with you that much~ 

“En, it’s also okay if you want me to stay, I wonder if the bed can squeeze in two people? If not, do I have to sleep on your body?”

He clicked his tongue twice without blushing at all. 

Fu Mingyuan’s arm, which he was leaning on, stiffened slightly. Then he relaxed a bit, put his palm on the back of his head, and pressed a bit with control.

“En, alright.” 

Shen Qi laughed again. After laughing, he finally remembered the actresses he had just forgotten about. He held up his cellphone to Fu Mingyuan, clicked on their Weibos one by one, and looked at their photos.

“This lead actress is very beautiful ah, Gege~ 

“The supporting actress is also good-looking~ Will you guys have a lot of rivalry scenes?

“Is there a love scene in this movie?” 

Fu Mingyuan placed the pen in his hand on the bed’s headboard, before narrowing his eyes and licking his lips.

Then he explained to the young man, “There are no love scenes. In these past few years, I pretty much haven’t taken any romance dramas, and I will not take them in the future either. 

“There are a lot of rivalry moments, but there aren’t any love scenes.”

Fu Mingyuan explained calmly with a gentle voice. After speaking, he pinched the back of the young man’s neck again. 

Shen Qi let out an “oh” and wrapped the quilt around his waist.

He actually wasn’t really jealous. 

He knew the other man was an actor, and he knew that he loved his career.

It was like him loving e-sports. 

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In the afternoon, Du Jing had already shown it to Fu Mingyuan.

He only glanced at it and then replied very firmly, “No, you’re right. 

“You’re stronger than all of them.”

He had meant it when he said before that he would help the young man solve this problem. 

“A legal notice has already been sent to the rumor mongers, and the lawsuit is waiting for them.

“The person who made the Weibo post didn’t want to give up the person behind the scenes, but they gave me the recording. 

“If you want, I can post the recording for you.”

Shen Qi looked up at him, and Fu Mingyuan’s face was completely serious. 

He grabbed the collar of the other party’s pajamas and gave Fu Mingyuan a kiss on the chin.

“I have also informed M1G’s investors.” 

Shen Qi couldn’t hold back and kissed him again on the chin.

“Gege, how are you so vicious ah.” He smiled and said, “Chen Ling should be going crazy with anger now. 

“Ah, suddenly it feels really cool.”

With that, he sat up abruptly and straddled Fu Mingyuan’s waist. 

“I also have the recording, but I always thought that since they were my old boss, I couldn’t just have a life or death struggle with them.”

He seemed to feel uncomfortable and shifted again. 

M1G was the place his dream had started.

Even if there was a lot of conflict in the beginning, he never thought that they would become what they were now. 

He wasn’t a softhearted person. Since Chen Ling and Rong Jing just had to step on him, then he also wouldn’t be polite.

During next year’s competition, he would viciously crush them underfoot, fair and square. 

A big reason why he hadn’t wanted to release the recording was that it involved his mother.

He didn’t want his mother to be taken out for gossip, even when she was already so far away. 

Fu Mingyuan’s eyes slowly deepened.

Instinctively, he moved his lower half. 

Then he lifted the quilt and said with a commanding tone, “Into the quilt, go to sleep early.”

He really wouldn’t be able to hold back if it kept going on like this. 

After having a little bit of meat after so many years of vegetarianism, when he smelt the slightest scent of meat, he found it hard to bear.

Shen Qi raised his eyes, the corners of his mouth drew up, and then he shifted again on purpose. 

He was very satisfied when he felt the other party immediately stiffen, and only then did he slip into the quilt.

He still didn’t feel sleepy. 

He grabbed the hem of Fu Mingyuan’s pajamas and told him about his mother.

“Because that recording mentioned my mother, I really didn’t want to post it.” His voice was much lower now. 

Whenever he talked about his mother, it seemed that his mood would always grow dark.

But this time, Fu Mingyuan lightly patted him on the back. 

Fu Mingyuan answered affirmatively.

He knew about Shen Bozong’s matter. 

However, he had only heard about it from other people, and he wasn’t clear on what had actually happened.

What he didn’t tell the young man was that Shen Bozong had invested in M1G. 

And that this recording incident had something to do with Shen Bozong.

He didn’t want the young man to know about these dirty matters. 

No matter what had happened before, but at least now and in the future, the young man had him to help solve matters.

The young man should be shining, his eyes always clear. 

He should be afraid of nothing and be able to do whatever he wants.

“My mother was a very gentle person.” Shen Qi closed his eyes and found that he already couldn’t remember what his mother looked like. 

This was because after his mother’s death, he often dreamed about that day, and he didn’t even dare to look at their old photos anymore.

“But she had always been in poor health and was in a wheelchair all year round.” 

Shen Qi felt that he was very quiet now.

His heart had also gone very soft. 

Fu Mingyuan had been rhythmically patting his back the entire time, as if he was coaxing a child.

Shen Qi gradually had a sense of sleepiness, and his grip on the other party’s clothes lessened a lot. 

“She loved me very much, and she also loved Shen Bozong a lot…”

Shen Qi’s mother, Qi Wanyun, was a very warm person. 

The Qi family and Shen family were united through marriage.

However, Shen Bozong and Qi Wanyun hadn’t married to unite their families, they had fallen in love with each other freely. 

But later, it seemed that everything changed.

Shen Qi had been called Shen Qi before. 

Qi Wanyun had often said to Shen Qi that he had to be a dedicated person. You should love a person wholeheartedly, and even if you don’t love her later, you should treat her well, because she has given you her whole life.

Shen Qi didn’t understand at that time. 

Later, Qi Wanyun committed suicide.

And only then did he understand. 

He began to hate Shen Bozong.

However much he used to like this father was now how much he hated him. 

It was only when Shen Bozong vainly tried to hurt him every time he was arranged to meet his “new stepmother” that Shen Qi realized something was wrong and contacted Shen Bozong’s personal assistant.

The person who was really sick was Shen Bozong. 

Shen Qi couldn’t say that he felt much about it at that time.

Shen Bozong looked like a normal person on the surface. 

But he always seemed to like to repeat things.

Such as the things that he had experienced with Qi Wanyun before. 

……

After Shen Qi fell asleep, Fu Mingyuan gave him a kiss on the forehead. 

The light in the room dimmed, and everything became quiet and warm.

…… 

The next morning, when Fu Mingyuan left, Shen Qi hadn’t woken up yet.

Shen Qi was blushing a little while fast asleep, and he looked much more obedient than usual. 

Fu Mingyuan made breakfast for Shen Qi and left a note.

On the way back to H City, Du Jing, who always paid close attention to Weibo, was filled with indignation. “M1G is too shameless. They just made a Weibo post this morning, saying that whether there were fixed matches or not, everything has already been handed over to the League to judge. 

“They also turned down the invitation to play a match against Angry.”

Fu Mingyuan was looking down at the script, but hearing what he said, he paused. “Since when did you pay so much attention to this?” 

Du Jing was driving and sighed. “Won’t he be the lady boss in the future? So don’t I have to pay a bit more attention.

“Ai, I’ve even invited hundreds of water armies to go in and comment.” 

Fu Mingyuan paused scrolling through Weibo. “Don’t call him ‘lady boss.’”

He frowned subconsciously. 

This name wasn’t good.

Du Jing let out an “ah.” 

If he didn’t call him “lady boss,” then what should he call him?

Fu Mingyuan continued, “He’s not a woman.” 

So he shouldn’t be called that.

Du Jing immediately changed his words. “So husband boss then.” 

In any case, he was his future direct boss, so calling him anything was the same.

Fu Mingyuan nodded slightly, the corners of his mouth slightly drawing up. 

He seemed to agree with him.

He looked down at Weibo again. 

Today was the third day for Group A.

M1G had made the Weibo post at a little past five this morning. 

The main gist was that they didn’t know anything about their former player Angry or the matter with the recording. As for whether or not fixed matches had been played, the League would make a judgment, and if they needed to cooperate with them, they would do their best to do so.

In addition, M1G did not accept their former member Angry’s invitation to play a match with their current captain RJJ. RJJ was busy with training and had no time to pay attention to these “irregular competition invitations.” 

If they had the chance, they very much welcomed meeting Angry in a formal competition.

Indirectly and directly, they expressed that they still suspected that Angry had played fixed matches. 

This made netizens suddenly think that Rong Jing hinting during the Asian Championship that Angry might have played fixed matches and M1G’s behavior now was very shameless.

As soon as this Weibo post was made, there were a whole pile of comments below. 

[??? Isn’t this wussing out]

[It’s just playing a match, what would it affect] 

[It’s not like we saw you guys rank anywhere ah]

[trashtrashtrash] 

[Supporting M1G, supporting RJJ!]

[Any trash thinks they can just arrange a match now?] 

[Laughing to death, a wuss is just a wuss. Anyone with some brains would know that RJJ can’t compare to Angry]

[The one praising Angry, how much money did Angry give you?] 

[Good luck M1G with the competition]

[……] 

Fu Mingyuan looked at it for a while and then sent a message to the Fu Group’s foreign division head.

Maybe Chen Ling thought that M1G’s life was too comfortable right now. So far at least, he hadn’t figured out where exactly he had gone wrong. 

……

“Rong Jing is really shameless!” On the way to the game, Lu Tun was carrying a bag on his back and swearing all the way. 

Shen Qi yawned. He didn’t wake up until noon today, and he didn’t dream all night long. He slept too well and for too long, so on the contrary, he was even more sleepy now.

When he saw the breakfast and post-it note on the table, he had sent a message to Fu Mingyuan. 

Hearing Lu Tun’s words, he grabbed Lu Tun’s hat and pulled him back.

“It’s fine.” He actually let out an indifferent laugh. “If they’re not willing, there’s still opportunities to make him regret.” 

As long as M1G was still there, they could meet at next year’s competition.

Lu Tun let out an “oh,” and his eyes fell on Shen Qi’s neck. He kept feeling that there was something weird there. 

A mosquito bite?

“Idol, are there any mosquitoes in the hotel?” He scratched his head and then also asked Xu Leng. 

Xu Leng followed his gaze.

A red flush spread from his face to his neck. 

What mosquito bite?!

Shen Qi felt that it was a little strange. 

He felt his neck.

Lu Tun found a small mirror in his bag, then handed it to him, and motioned for him to see it for himself. 

It was near his shoulder.

There was a tiny little light red mark. 

Shen Qi remembered that he had been confused when he felt a little bit itchy in the morning. The tip of his tongue touched the corner of his lips, and he suddenly showed a brilliant smile.

He lowered his voice and said slowly in a tone that could only be heard by their three people, “Gege bit it. Does it look good? 

“Tch, why didn’t he bite it more obviously?”

Lu Tun: ??? 

Xu Leng: ….

Great. 

Single dogs don’t need to live. 

Today’s competition would decide who in Group A could enter the quarter finals. 

On Group A’s first day, M1G was second to last, and YZS was dead last.

Compared with the first day, there were a lot more people holding up M1G signs. 

Before the opening ceremony, Shen Qi sent a “good luck” to his little apprentice.

Although M1G was this trashy, his apprentice was still great. 

Shen Qi didn’t sit in the front row today, as the ticket he had bought was for the back row. He changed his seat with someone else and sat between Lu Tun and Xu Leng.

Bo Li and Sun Fan in the front row looked at the members of the other team sitting between them, met each other’s eyes, and then turned their heads away. 

The enemy was the enemy.

EVE and HUOJ were roughly the same after yesterday. 

The first match.

Miramar, M1G changed their jump point to Puerto Paraiso at the lower right corner of the map. 

The team in Group A wasn’t really used to jumping to this point; the terrain was too low.

This match, M1G was given so much face. 

The circle refreshed around them, and they were always in the safe zone.

Rong Jing seemed to have changed his temper, restraining himself the entire time and not changing the pin. 

Even the casters were praising M1G’s composure. No matter how fierce the fighting was around them, they just stayed hidden there, not coming out!

When this match ended, M1G had relied on hiding to take second place. 

Although their ranking was high, they didn’t have any kill points.

After climbing up three places, they were about to grab onto the number ten’s tail. 

M1G’s fans began to act as if it was Chinese New Year, beginning to revel regardless of the venue’s rankings.

It was as if M1G had already won the championship. 

Shen Qi clicked his tongue in wonder.

“The coach is keeping a close eye on them ba,” he analyzed. 

Lu Tun nodded.

He had also played against Rong Jing before, and he had never seen him hold back so much. 

The M1G coach was really watching.

After going back yesterday, he had made a complete analysis, and Chen Ling’s censure made Rong Jing willing to listen to the coach for the time being. 

Rong Jing himself probably didn’t expect that their luck would be so good in this match.

But after the second match started, there wasn’t such good luck anymore. 

It was still Miramar, and they still used the same jumping point, but the safe area refreshed at top left of the map at the beginning.

M1G had no car and was directly intercepted by BIG on the way. 

Rong Jing was so angry that he threw away his keyboard.

Ye Lai, sitting next to him, lowered his eyes. 

This was the last time he would play using the name M1G-LAND.

Even though there were so many grudges and complicated feelings, he hoped he could leave M1G with a perfect ending. 

But Rong Jing didn’t understand.

Ye Lai felt very sad. 

But he was an e-sports player.

Rong Jing didn’t know what a real e-sports player should do. 

He turned his head and began to again enumerate all of Ye Lai’s wrongdoings.

Even the coach shook his head behind his back. 

After the end of the second match, M1G fell out of the top ten again.

The points of those ranked behind them were also closely gaining on them. 

Third match, Erangel.

M1G jumped to the upper right corner’s Kameshki, another remote point, giving up their usual Mylta Power Plant. 

This match, the circle wasn’t too far.

Rong Jing commanded that four people go to Yasnaya Polyana together. 

When they had just entered the safety zone, they were intercepted, and three of them were killed.

Ye Lai was the lone survivor. 

Rong Jing kept constantly directing where Ye Lai should go and what he should do in his headset.

Ye Lai directly muted the team’s voice channel. 

He was soft tempered, but he could also hold his own.

Otherwise, how could he have become Shifu’s good little apprentice. 

Ye Lai didn’t listen to Rong Jing’s commands. He clearly remembered each team’s jumping point and had analyzed where they should be now, based on where the gunfire was coming from and which teams were in the direction of the gunfire.

He left Yasnaya Polyana and went around to Mansion. 

He also took out two members of YZS.

Then he stayed in Mansion. Instead of going directly into the safe zone, he waited for the people in Yasnaya Polyana to come out and enter the circle, and he took two more kills. 

In the end, he was attacked by both sides and took four kill points.

After being eliminated, he let out a breath. 

The casters were also very excited and spared no effort in praising him for going out at a critical juncture.

Although this ushered in a vicious round of curses from Rong Jing, the other two players both gave him a thumb’s up. 

Ye Lai looked in the direction of the camera and smiled.

He didn’t know if this segment would be broadcasted, but he was very happy. 

…..

Shen Qi lowered his head and gave Fu Mingyuan a real-time report of today’s battle. 

The main point, of course, was to brag about how good his own apprentice was.

Lu Tun had been very nervous since Ye Lai was the only survivor, and he held onto Xu Leng’s arm and chanted, 

“Lailai is really good, no wonder he’s my family’s Lailai.”

Shen Qi glanced at him, then chuckled. 

Ah, his apprentice was excellent ah.

Sure enough, like teacher, like pupil. 

Your Qi Ge: Gege~ The apprentice Didi I taught~

Fu Mingyuan had just stepped through the door to his room and saw signs that his bedside table had been moved. He narrowed his eyes slightly. 

fmy: En, Baby is the strongest

Your Qi Ge: OWO Shy 

This name was really….

Shen Qi felt his scalp go numb again. 

Your Qi Ge: M1G can’t win today~

He knew that in the next two matches, Rong Jing would never let Ye Lai act alone again. 

He was someone who had to take full control of the actions of the players.

Fu Mingyuan replied. 

Then he looked in the drawer of the bedside table.

Of the autographed pictures Shen Qi had sent him before, only two were left. 

He took out the remaining photos and pinched between his eyebrows.

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The author has something to say: 

OWO

How long would be enough time ah 

Say it, single dogs don’t need to live, I can listen. I also want to go there and listen.

Wuwuwu, I love my cub so much 

Thank you for your mines and nutrient solution