SB: Chapter 9

Fu Ruien was in a rush so he hurriedly ate a few mouthfuls and had to leave. Qiu Qiu asked him where he was going for this business trip, only for Fu Ruien to purposely go in circles, and ask him in return: “You already blacklisted me, but you still concern yourself with where I’m going?”

Qiu Qiu knew he was in the wrong, so he could only go into his blacklist and let Fu Ruien out.

“Just adding me back as friends won’t do,” Chairman Fu gave a condition, wanting a mile after gaining an inch. “Pin my chat window.”

And just like that, “Dad as in Daddy” forever became Qiu Qiu’s WeChat NO.1.

Truth to be told, Fu Ruien’s WeChat username was an upright and proper “Ryan.” Those few wacky words were something that Qiu Qiu intentionally assigned him. Before, this was hidden quite well, but today, it was helplessly exposed to Fu Ruien’s very eyes.

“…..Did you give me this as a couple name?”

“No no no,” Qiu Qiu said hurriedly. “You can pretend it’s……a father and son endearment. We match.”

“……”

Due to Qiu Qiu’s filial piety, Fu Ruien took out his cell phone and changed this silly son’s nickname to “Second Generation”[1] right in front of his face.

[1]: Veteran readers would know this but for beginners, a “second generation” is a child who lives off of their parents’ wealth and has a bit of a negative connotation, similar to trust fund baby.

This time, it was Qiu Qiu’s turn to be speechless.

“A father and son endearment that has a sense of inheritance,” Fu Ruien looked at Qiu Qiu with a smile.

Before Fu Ruien left, he originally wanted to give Qiu Qiu a hug, but he worried that the dining hall had a lot of Qiu Qiu’s classmates present so he could only properly conduct himself, and pat Qiu Qiu’s head instead. When Fu Ruien’s hand slipped on the side of Qiu Qiu’s face, he deliberately tugged on Qiu Qiu’s earlobe.

Before, during the time the two of them were together, Fu Ruien would frequently grope Qiu Qiu. When the atmosphere was good, he would kiss Qiu Qiu’s forehead and dimple.

Ever since young, Qiu Qiu grew to be very beautiful, like a treasured jade carved with powder. His elders would hold him in their arms and kiss him. After he grew up to be a young man, no one could kiss him anymore, but he still thought that the formula “an elder kisses your face = they like you” was applicable. Every time Fu Ruien kissed his left face, he would turn the other cheek for Fu Ruien to nibble on.

When he thought about it now, he really dug a pit for himself.

Before leaving, Fu Ruien warned Qiu Qiu with a whisper, “if you still won’t reply to my WeChat messages, would you believe I won’t cut your guitar strings one by one?”

This threat was too ruthless. Qiu Qiu subconsciously clamped both of his legs together; it felt like what was being cut was not his guitar strings, but his family jewels.

Qiu Qiu was frightened to the point he looked like tender tofu mixed with shallots as he trembled and nodded. He swore to the heavens that he absolutely wouldn’t dare blacklist Fu Ruien again.

It’s with these parting words that Fu Ruien left with a perfectly contented expression with his secretary by his side.

When the two people’s silhouettes disappeared outside the dining hall, Da Xiong’s ass immediately moved from the opposite side of the table to Qiu Qiu’s side.

Da Xiong’s arm wrapped around Qiu Qiu’s neck and pulled him over to his side. With a blackened face that looked like Bao Qingtian[1], he asked: “Qiu! What did you call the vice president just now?”

[1] 包青天: Bao Qingtian is a fictional name for Bao Zheng, a renown Song Dynasty official for his honest nature.

“……Daddy[3], ah.”

“Do you know what Daddy means?”

Qiu Qiu stupidly replied: “……a non-blood related father?”

“That’s called father[3]! ……No, what I wanted to say wasn’t this. Just now that crafty president Fu ate your saliva and touched your head. With one look it’s clear he’s not a decent person ah.”

[3]: Qiu Qiu uses “干爹” while Da Xiong uses “养父.” Both mean “adoptive father,” although connotations are different.

Qiu Qiu couldn’t stand to have other people speak badly about his daddy, but his mouth was slow-witted, and didn’t know how to refute——not to mention, his daddy really was an improper old man——he could only use his face’s entire facial features to convey his indignance. 

Although Fu Ruien is a beast in clothes who has bagged countless white shirt-wearing handsome young men, he’s mature, calm, wise, and extraordinary. Even if he’s an old bastard[4], he’s a handsome old bastard.

[4]: 王八 can also mean an old brothel owner, or a pimp haha.

——Qiu Qiu, this sugar baby, truly didn’t know how many layers of filtering he put on Fu Ruien.

Da Xiong saw that Qiu Qiu was completely brainwashed by a highly eligible bachelor and almost lost his breath out of anxiety. He’s an artist who has seen some people who don’t delve into entertainment circles properly, insisting on taking a shortcut via the back door, putting their young selves through it before ultimately ending up fouling themselves. This good buddy of his looked clever, but in actuality, he was foolish and easily taken advantage of by others!

At the time, when a great red wolf [5] was with him, he treated the great red wolf well. Right now, he (QQ) painstakingly separated from the great red wolf, how could it be that a great grey wolf had suddenly appeared!!

Da Xiong still wanted to nag a few more words regarding this matter, but upon seeing Qiu Qiu’s stubborn expression, he realized no matter what he said, it would be useless.

Forget about it, he’ll find someone to embroider this adoptive father’s name onto a shoe sole for Qiu Qiu. Let Qiu Qiu step on this villain to dispel this evil ba.

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When Qiu Qiu returned to his dormitory, his phone rang. The person who called was the Fu Ruien who had already arrived at the airport.

Fu Ruien also considered himself quite strange. Even though he had already separated from Qiu Qiu for so long, he had started to miss everything about Qiu Qiu. His quick wit, his slow reactions, his look when he carried around his guitar singing love songs to himself, and the way he looked when he pulled a cart of bouquets while giving the audience flying kisses……obviously he had resolved to distance himself far away, but now and then he was unreconciled to letting Qiu Qiu leave his line of sight.

Qiu Qiu’s tone of voice was forever and absolutely full of vigor. When he said “Hi,” Fu Ruien envisioned the childish, smiling expression.

(T/N: “Hi” was written in English.)

Fu Ruien asked him: “I’m about to take off. You’re not going to say a few pleasant words?”

“Then how about I sing you the song 《Wishing You Peace》[5]?”

[5]: 《祝你平安》is a good song and may be a bit exaggerated for this situation lol. It’s like asking for a birthday wish, but your friend gave you 50k instead XD

“……You should save your effort. Leave this song for the top six elimination stage.”

“Eh, then I’ll wish you an early departure, and an early return, no delays and no missed planes?”

In reality, Qiu Qiu was not good at “saying pleasant words.” Even after racking his brain for half a day, the things he said were plain and guileless. How was he to know that the one phrase Fu Ruien wanted to hear——was the one phrase that would make him sneeze.

The two of them held a long winded conversation and it wasn’t until the stewardess came to remind Fu Ruien to turn off his phone did he reluctantly decide to hang up. 

“One last thing, you’re not going to wish me a pleasant journey?[6]”

[6]: 一路顺风: the direct translation is “a road with favorable winds,” and is a common phrase used to send someone off. Equivalent to “bon voyage!”

“Ah?” Qiu Qiu let out an awkward noise. “But, the airplane goes against the wind to fly and it goes against the wind to land, ah…”

“……”

Fu Ruien laughed——foolish, stupid, but honestly sincere, this person was truly worthy of being a daddy’s sweetheart.

Ai, this sugar daddy’s filters (on Qiu Qiu) were truly thick.

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Translator Notes:

As you can see the notes for this chapter is a bit different. This book is supposed to be a comedy but jokes in Chinese need to be explained—big sweat. I would use hidden notes, but those require a plug-in and plug-ins require professional wordpress…sigh.

Would you guys prefer footnotes to be footnotes, at the end of the chapter to keep immersion, or would you prefer these kind of notes that explain connotations, right then and there?

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