Ch41 - What position do you want me in?

Edited by kat

When Fu Mingli came home, the lights were on. 

He bent down and crept in with his schoolbag on his back.

During this time when his older brother wasn’t at home, he had pretty much gone crazy while playing. 

The household auntie couldn’t control him and his parents didn’t watch over him, so who knew how happy he was.

Especially when he saw Angry come back, he was beside himself with happiness.

Angry was as handsome as ever!

Unfortunately, this didn’t last long. As soon as he entered the living room, he saw his older brother sitting on the sofa with a heavy look on his face and his hands on his knees. Although it was very similar to his sitting posture in primary school, Fu Mingli felt a sense of anger from his older brother. 

He immediately stood up straight, holding his heavy bag with a flattering smile. “Ge, you’re back!”

Fu Mingli’s feet brushed twice against the floor, and he rushed over to Fu Mingyuan. When he was near the sofa, he braked a bit. 

Fu Mingyuan knocked his fingers against his knee, frowned, and gave him a deep look.

The two remaining autographed photos were placed on the coffee table. 

Fu Mingyuan looked away from Fu Mingli, and his gaze fell on the autographed pictures.

The young man in the pictures was in high spirits. 

He pinched his brow.

It was a bit tiring to sit in a car for a long time, and in addition, he hadn’t slept much last night. With the young man in his arms, he really couldn’t quite fall asleep. 

He had come back to pack up his things, and he had to go to the countryside to join the group in the evening.

“Fu Mingli.” He was silent for a moment, before speaking very quietly. 

Fu Mingli rubbed the strap of his schoolbag, lowered his head, and obediently let out a sound of acknowledgement.

His older brother looked a little scary now. 

Obviously, he wasn’t blowing up, and was just sitting there quietly and not looking at him. The yellow light in the living room reflected on him, and even made him look softer.

However, Fu Mingli could tell that his older brother was angry. 

After a minute, Fu Mingyuan spoke again.

“How did I raise you before?” Fu Mingyuan was really angry. 

He lowered his head, his palms on his forehead, and closed his eyes, with a dull pain coming from his temples.

He wasn’t just angry because Fu Mingli had taken those autographed photos. 

He was more angry because when Fu Mingli did that, he didn’t ask him and also didn’t ask before entering his room.

Even if he had taken them first and then let him know about it, Fu Mingyuan wouldn’t have been as angry as now. 

Fu Mingli lowered his head.

He didn’t even let out a squeak. 

Fu Mingyuan sighed. “Didn’t I tell you before that when you go into someone else’s room, you need to knock on the door first, and if the person isn’t there, you need to ask for their permission?”

Fu Mingli bowed his head and nodded. 

The lower his head went, the more his wishful thinking of leaving things to chance disappeared.

“I was wrong, Ge.” 

He had just seen that his older brother’s door wasn’t locked, so he went in for a spin, pulled open a drawer, and saw many autographed photos of Angry.

His older brother didn’t even like Angry, so he just took them, and even left his older brother two pictures. 

“Fu Mingli, this isn’t a problem of you being wrong or not.” Fu Mingyuan looked up at him. Fu Mingli was already a junior high school student and had joined the ranks of adolescence, and his height had already started to shoot up.

The child who would hold his leg and cry to eat his cooking had now already become a big child. 

“I always thought you were already mature.

“But this was a most basic question of politeness. Why would you still make such mistakes? 

“Do I indulge you too much normally?”

His tone was really too calm, but his words made Fu Mingli feel aggrieved. 

Fu Mingli bowed his head and said nothing.

He was carrying his bag in his hand, and finally threw it directly to the ground. 

Fu Mingyuan caught a glimpse of his movements, and his right hand twitched.

They were silent for a while, then Fu Mingyuan continued to speak. His eyes were somewhat blood-shot, and he didn’t look at Fu Mingli again. 

“If you think anything I said was wrong, you can bring it up.

“Mingli, you aren’t a child anymore.” 

Fu Mingli felt very aggrieved.

Hadn’t he just gone to his room and taken a few autographed pictures. 

He had given all the autographed photos to his classmates. A boy at his age just liked to show off, and many of his classmates liked Angry. Today, when they were talking about Angry, he remembered that he had autographed photos in his schoolbag and split them among them.

They were all so happy. 

Fu Mingli himself also felt very happy. His vanity was satisfied, and he had made his friends happy.

He held it in for a while, but he couldn’t help crying. 

He couldn’t hold back his tears.

Fu Mingyuan didn’t notice that he was crying, and he put away the two remaining photos. 

His mind was still a mess.

Fu Mingli had been handed over to him by his parents, so he should raise him well, but he found that he couldn’t seem to understand his younger brother’s thought processes and couldn’t raise him properly. 

Maybe it was because he also didn’t have much time to accompany his little brother.

He thought for a while, and said, “For this year’s New Year, our parents won’t come home, and I’ll send you to our parents ba.” 

Fu Mingli suddenly looked up at him. His eyes were red from crying, but his older brother didn’t notice.

“I don’t want to go,” he sobbed. 

His voice was abnormal, so Fu Mingyuan looked up at him.

His finger twitched, but he didn’t stand up. 

“Why?”

“I just don’t want to. Didn’t you say I’m not a child anymore? Why can’t I choose what I want to do?” Fu Mingli stared at Fu Mingyuan’s profile. 

He always seemed to be like this. No matter what happened, his back was perfectly straight.

No emotional fluctuations could be seen in his eyes. 

Since Fu Mingli started to understand things, he had always been at his side. He may or may not need his parents, but his Gege was the most important.

He always felt that his parents didn’t love him. 

They also didn’t love his Gege.

But now, he didn’t understand. 

In fact, Gege also didn’t love him?

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Fu Mingyuan moved his body and stood in front of Fu Mingli.

He stared down at the back of Fu Mingli’s head and curved back for a while, but his hand still couldn’t reach out to pat him on the shoulder. 

Fu Mingli had made a mistake, so he had to know clearly where he was wrong.

Crying couldn’t solve any problems. 

Fu Mingyuan leaned over and hesitated in his steps. After looking at the time, he saw there was a message from Du Jing on his cellphone asking him when he would be ready.

He looked back at Fu Mingli, who was still crying, then pushed his suitcase and left directly. 

He thought that Fu Mingli needed to calm down a bit on his own.

…. 

After getting in the car, Fu Mingyuan was a little tired and leaned back in his seat.

Du Jing poked his head out of the front passenger seat to look at him. 

“What’s the matter?”

Fu Mingyuan shook his head. 

He pressed his thumb and middle finger against his temples for a while. He took out his cellphone, furrowed his eyebrows, and licked his lips. The redness in his eyes seemed to be even worse now.

His fingertips slid two times against the screen, and he suddenly relaxed his back that had been stretched straight this entire time, then sent a message to Shen Qi. 

fmy: I’m very sorry I lost the photos you gave me

He let out a breath after sending that. 

However, his back didn’t want to straighten out again after relaxing.

Shen Qi only saw this message after taking a bath. 

He had made plans with Lu Tun and them to play “Fight the Landlord” tonight, and they were going to meet up now.

Your Qi Ge: It’s okay ah, Gege~ There’s however many you want, and if you want to take pictures of me yourself, that’s fine too~ 

Your Qi Ge: Even autographing your body is fine ah, Gege~

There was movement from the other side very soon, and the “Typing” prompt appeared constantly. 

fmy: En

It took him about a minute before he sent the second message. 

fmy: What are you doing?

Shen Qi wrapped the towel around his head and sat cross-legged on the sofa to reply. 

Your Qi Ge: Just took a bath ya, Gege~

Your Qi Ge: I’ll go play Fight the Landlord later. Gege, are you in the car? 

Fu Mingyuan looked down and sat up straight again.

fmy: En 

Fmy: Go have fun ba

Your Qi Ge: Okay Gege~ 

Fu Mingyuan’s right hand supported his forehead with his elbow propped on his knee, and the corners of his lips drew down.

He fished out Fu Mingli’s cellphone number, then switched back to WeChat. 

Du Jing looked at him in the rearview mirror for a moment, then met the driver’s gaze.

In the end, he didn’t say anything. 

The atmosphere in the car seemed to grow depressed for a moment.

The driver even wanted to play a song to liven up the atmosphere. 

Five minutes later, the sound of a WeChat video call broke the silence.

Du Jing and the driver both felt that even breathing was easier now. 

Shen Qi had taken two minutes to blow-dry his hair and change from his bathrobe into pajamas before he made a video call to Gege.

Leaning against the head of the bed, after the video connected he pointed the cellphone camera directly at the junction of his neck and shoulder. 

His left hand pulled at the collar of his pajamas. He felt that it couldn’t be seen clearly, so he pulled it down some more.

Fu Mingyuan was shocked by this sudden excitement. 

He looked up at Du Jing who was trying to look back at him.

Du Jing immediately drew back. 

Like bullshit he should have been worried.

Fu Mingyuan adjusted his earphones. 

Shen Qi said with a smile, “Gege, do you see it? It’s the one you bit in the morning.”

Fu Mingyuan let out an “en” and didn’t refute him. 

Shen Qi moved the camera back to his face and stared at Fu Mingyuan’s face for a while.

He rubbed his hair and frowned slightly, but it was just a moment, and then he went back to his usual look. 

The corners of his mouth drew up a bit, and he first switched apps and sent a message to Lu Tun, telling him that he wasn’t going, and only then did he point the camera at his face again.

“Gege, if you don’t have the autographed pictures anymore, I’ll sign more for you.” He blinked at the camera. “What do you think of this expression? 

“Tch, not good, from what I can see, it’s really ugly.

“However I look at myself, I’m not as hot as you, what is with that.” 

He stroked his hair, raised his chin, and looked seriously at the camera.

The corners of Fu Mingyuan’s mouth drew up. 

He was in the car, and the light was dim, so he couldn’t be seen clearly.

But it was bright over on the young man’s side. 

The camera was so close that he could even see how long the young man’s eyelashes were.

Fu Mingyuan furrowed brows slowly smoothed, and he moved from the front row to the back row of the car. 

Du Jing, watching him switch seats: …..

Heh heh, luckily the van was this big.  

Shen Qi also noticed that he had changed seats and raised his eyebrows.

“What’s the matter, Gege? Are you going to whisper to baby?” He dropped his eyes and laughed twice. 

Fu Mingyuan paused, then answered.

“My little brother was the one who took the autographed photos.” 

He spoke in a lower voice, and neither of the two people in the car could hear him clearly.

Shen Qi let out an “ah” and said, “That’s also fine, I’ll take some more for you. What position do you want me in?” 

He thought for a while. “Improper ones are fine too. Look, my fragrant shoulder is half exposed, and my small pretty waist…”

Hearing his words deviate more and more, Fu Mingyuan coughed, and his expression was much more relaxed than just now. 

Shen Qi pinched his ear. “Gege, why are you unhappy? Let’s talk about it ba.”

Fu Mingyuan licked his slightly pursed lips. He didn’t try to cover up his expression. 

He also didn’t deliberately change his expression.

He pinched his brows and thought for a while. 

Only then did he tell him everything about Fu Mingli’s matter.

Fu Mingyuan had always kept these things to himself, so when someone suddenly asked him about how he was doing, he wasn’t used to it. 

He explained it very simply.

And Shen Qi understood. 

Fu Mingyuan thought that there was something wrong with the way he had raised Fu Mingli, so he wanted to send Fu Mingli to their parents at New Year’s, and their parents could raise him for a period of time.

Fu Mingli was indeed wrong, and it was right for him to admit his mistake. 

But he still didn’t realize exactly what he had done wrong.

Shen Qi listened to him and got into bed, feeling a little cold. 

He was now a bit unused to not having someone next to him holding him.

“Educating children really baffles me.” Shen Qi rubbed against his pillow. His cellphone was propped up on the pillow, and he was looking at the screen. 

“But I think ba, you two are both wrong.” He sighed. He didn’t expect that at this young age, he and Gege would already start raising a child.

And it was even a child already in junior high. 

“At this time, a child’s mind should be very sensitive. He may feel that you wanting to send him to your guys’ parents means that you don’t want him anymore.”

Shen Qi smiled and suddenly thought of Shen Bozong. 

Fu Mingyuan moved his arms and lowered his eyelids.

“He really is in the wrong, but you didn’t handle things between you both in the right way.” The tip of Shen Qi’s tongue touched the corner of his mouth, and he said carelessly, “If a child isn’t obedient, just hit him once and it’ll be fine. There’s no need for all these greater principles.” 

Fu Mingyuan looked at the young man’s smiling eyes and let out an “en.”

His fatigue had also lessened a lot. 

“Not going to go play Fight the Landlord?” he asked after a moment of silence.

Shen Qi let out a “wu” and said, “Not going, Gege is more important. 

“M1G didn’t even get into the quarter-finals today.” He clicked his tongue and sneered a bit. “The most important thing is that the MVP award was given to my apprentice. When the camera turned to Rong Jing, his face was green.”

Shen Qi kicked the quilt, flipped over, and continued, “Ah, his online image was suddenly overturned.” 

He seldom paid attention to these things before, but today Gege was in a bad mood, so he was willing to talk about them.

“In the past, Rong Jing was the most disobedient when playing in competitions and he liked to show off.” Thinking of that time, he felt as though it was a long time ago. 

From time to time, Fu Mingyuan would let out an affirmative noise, and the corners of his mouth contained a hint of a smile.

“Ah, I bought that Yearlings Zooming to Surrender team.” 

The YZS team also ended today.

The boss of the team already sent the contract to Shen Qi, and Shen Qi had already given it to the Qi family lawyer to check over it. There was no problem, and it was probably settled. 

An empty shell of a team.

During next year’s Summer Trials, it would be presented to everyone with the latest bearing. 

Fu Mingyuan let out a low laugh. “Do you still lack investors?”

…… 

When the call with Fu Mingyuan ended, it was already two hours later.

Shen Qi was a little sleepy. He had just closed his eyes when he was woken up by Lu Tun’s phonecall. 

He didn’t have so much patience with Lu Tun, so it rung for awhile before he picked it up.

“If there’s nothing big happening, bring me your head in your hands tomorrow morning.” Shen Qi’s whole person was buried in the quilt. 

Lu Tun was silent for a while, and then he said, “It’s just, um, Ye Lai is here.”

Shen Qi clicked his tongue and got up from his bed. 

Ye Lai had run out of the hotel where M1G was staying.

Rong Jing had specifically grabbed onto him and cursed him out all night. 

Chen Ling cursed out Rong Jing, and Rong Jing turned around and nitpicked Ye Lai.

He said that he shouldn’t have asserted himself and that he should have saved him. 

Rong Jing threw all of his anger at Shen Qi onto Ye Lai.

Even people who always had a soft temper would have times they couldn’t take it anymore. 

As soon as the door to Shen Qi’s room opened, Ye Lai threw himself onto him, grabbing at his clothes and crying.

He had cried to the point he had a runny nose and a face full of tears. 

Next door, Lu Tun, Xu Leng, Bo Li, and Sun Fan, who had all been playing cards, all met each other’s gazes.

Shen Qi raised his hands and didn’t dare to touch him. 

He had a family now, so he couldn’t just randomly touch others, even his apprentice wasn’t okay.

After he stepped back, he entered the room. 

When Ye Lai was crying less, he patted Ye Lai on the back of the head and let Lu Tun pull him away from him.

“Shifu, I’m sorry, I….I’m so disappointing.” Ye Lai wiped his nose and tears on Lu Tun’s body. Just now, he didn’t dare to wipe it on his shifu’s body and had been enduring it the whole time. 

Lu Tun: ….

Lu Tun patted him on the back. 

He’d go back and have a bath.

Shen Qi sighed. “Did you run out after quarreling?” 

After sitting on the sofa and thinking about it, he still gave a head’s up to Gege.

Bo Li and Sun Fan looked at each other and left one after another. 

This was their family business, so the two of them shouldn’t be involved.

After the people left, Ye Lai’s sobs had also stopped. It was just that his eyes were as red as a rabbit’s. 

Lu Tun wiped his tears away and fed him hot water at the same time.

Like a nanny. 

Ye Lai nodded.

Shen Qi chuckled. “You’re not going back tonight? 

“Rong Jing won’t come out to find you?”

“No.” Ye Lai shook his head. Rong Jing completely didn’t want to see him right now. Ye Lai just hated that he couldn’t disappear from M1G earlier. 

“Ah, then that’s alright ba. You three squeeze into one bed, okay?” He didn’t comfort Ye Lai.

Sometimes too much comforting was counterproductive. 

Ye Lai just needed a place to vent.

Ye Lai also just wanted to cry over at Shifu’s place for a bit. 

When the three of them left, Shen Qi dialed Chen Ling, who he had blacklisted for a long time.

Chen Ling was now badly battered. They had been eliminated from the competition, and all the remaining investors were thinking about divesting from them. 

Rong Jing also just kept on jumping in front of the gun, pushing all the blame onto other people.

Chen Ling truly kind of missed when Shen Qi was still there. He was able to make money and also had good game skills. 

Just when he was thinking about him, Shen Qi’s call came in.

“Chen Ling, Ye Lai is with me.” Shen Qi didn’t want to waste any words on Chen Ling. 

Chen Ling reacted after a while. “What wind swept you here?

“Sure enough, your apprentice is very good.” 

Shen Qi sneered. “My apprentice really is very good. Anyway, some time ago, someone contacted you to discuss buying Ye Lai, right.”

Chen Ling was a little surprised. 

It was true that someone had approached him, and their offering price had been very high.

He had been moved then. 

Ye Lai wasn’t irreplaceable.

There were still people in the secondary team who could replace him. Although their skills weren’t as good as his, their appearances were still passable. 

As soon as he wanted to speak, he heard Shen Qi say lazily, “I almost forgot to tell you, that was my person.

“I’ll also show Ye Lai the contract that you didn’t tell him about. 

“Hey, you see, for the sake of money, was it worth it?”

“You….” Chen Ling couldn’t speak anymore. 

Shen Qi hummed and laughed. “Boss Chen, see you next year ah. I hope M1G is as good as it is now.”

With that, he hung up without waiting for Chen Ling to respond. 

Then, he logged into his main Weibo account and posted a smiling emoticon.

All of a sudden, netizens poured in. 

WTF, Angry is publicly mocking that M1G didn’t even get into the second round!

What did Angry’s smile mean? 

That night, a Weibo account named “Once a champion team, now the third from the bottom” occupied the top spot in the e-sports Hot Search list, and netizens sent one smile after another.

Shen Qi was laughing mockingly. 

Bright and dazzling, he laughed mockingly in front of all the netizens.

He had called Chen Ling because first, Ye Lai was still a member of the M1G team, and it was actually against the rules of the team for him not to return at night. Reporting where he was now would prevent him from getting ferociously fined later. 

Second, it was also to ridicule Chen Ling.

The competition ended in ten days. 

Lu Tun had gone back to HUOJ’s hotel a week ago.

If he stayed longer, the manager was going to be angry. 

Shen Qi went back to A city alone.

It rained the day he went back. 

Fu Mingyuan had entered his filming period, and there was much less time for the two of them to communicate by voice.

Sometimes at night, he could tell that Fu Mingyuan was very tired when he heard his voice, so Shen Qi didn’t want to disturb him. 

The first time he dated, he experienced the pain of long-distance love.

Shen Qi scrolled through Weibo, plugged in his earphones, and sat on the bus while watching the scenery along the way. 

The headphones played the tune Fu Mingyuan had hummed to him before.

Refreshing the supertopic, he liked posts while saving Gege’s newest photos. 

Fu Mingyuan was dressed in a light blue shirt in the photo, and his hair had been shaved into a crew cut. His whole person looked more fierce, probably for the role, and he was a lot more tan.

He wasn’t looking at the camera, and he just stood in the middle of the rice field. 

After setting a new lock screen, Shen Qi refreshed Weibo again.

#Fu Ge and little fairy Xu Piao are a good match# 

The picture showed Fu Mingyuan standing under some old-fashioned eaves, looking out, while Xu Piao stood two steps away, smiling at him.

The photo was very beautiful. 

Shen Qi: ???

Shen Qi sneered. 

The comments below the Weibo post:

[Wuwuwu, it’s time to find a girlfriend for Fu Ge!] 

[Little Fairy Xu Piao’s acting is also good! She’s also good looking!]

[Don’t mess around ah! Xu Piao has a boyfriend, okay? Did you forget the leaked photos, with Fu Ge walking past Xu Piao without even looking in her direction?] 

[If Xu Piao isn’t okay, then what about Ji Yin ba! Ji Yin is also beautiful!]

[……] 

Shen Qi continued to sneer.

Very good. 

Then he pulled at his earphones and sent a message to Fu Mingyuan.

Your Qi Ge: Gege, I’m back la. Smile.jpg 

Your Qi Ge: [picture] You are so hot

He forwarded that photo to Fu Mingyuan. 

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The author has something to say:

Happy New Year!! Red envelopes for this chapter! 

Shen Qi: Oh, it’s impossible for Gege and I to take a picture together, but someone else just shoved themselves in instead?

Fu Ge: ….en, it’s impossible for us to take a picture together. When it’s with others, it’s a CP people like to ship. 

I love Fu Ge very much today.

Thank you for the mines and nutrient solution. Love you guys