Transmigrated as My Best Friend's Ex

135. Your Sweetheart Is Very Rich

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Sitting in his office, Nancheng Lie curled his lips into a soft smile. ‘Xu has changed quite a bit, but he himself seems totally unconscious of that. In my opinion, Xu is by nature a spirited boy. If his parents hadn’t died so early, he wouldn’t have become a solitary child. For the past 20 years, I have been his only friend. But I’m thankful that he has no good friends except me. Otherwise, he might have become someone else’s boyfriend,’ Nancheng Lie thought to himself.

“Would you like to have dinner with me tonight?” He liked to be with Xu. Although they had been almost inseparable for more than 10 years, Nancheng Lie felt it was not nearly enough. He had a burning desire to spend every second and every minute with Xu. In a word, he was very possessive about Xu.

Holding the cell phone, Li Qinghao said nothing. He listened to Nancheng Lie’s quiet, regular breathing and slowly curved his lips into a faint smile. He looked straight ahead, his dark eyes shining with determination. Suddenly, he saw a figure. “Lie, I have other fish to fry. Bye.”

“Hello… Hello…”

Li Qinghao hung up the phone directly.

‘Fortunately, the car windows were made of the one-way glass. People outside can’t see me. But why is he here?’ Li Qinghao thought to himself. He watched that man walk into the elevator, as a strong sense of curiosity surged up from the bottom of his heart. ‘Maybe I should follow him.’ Li Qinghao’s instincts were telling him that he would discover something if he followed that man in, but he fought down the impulse and stayed in the car.

After a while, Mu Yinting came downstairs with the pizza in his hand. He was wearing the working clothes originally belonging to that pizza delivery boy. He opened the car door and met Li Qinghao’s smiling eyes. He gave Li Qinghao a dirty look and got in the car. “This suit fits you perfectly,” Li Qinghao said.

“If you like this suit, I can buy you a small one… By the way, did you see someone go upstairs just now?” asked Mu Yinting.

Li Qinghao raised a questioning eyebrow and didn’t know who he meant. “I saw several people go upstairs. Which one are you talking about?”

“I mean Max. Did you see him?”

Li Qinghao was surprised to hear that. “Do you know Max?” Mu Yinting was gay, and he liked Yingli. So… did Max have a romance with Mu Yinting?

A look of astonishment swept across Li Qinghao’s handsome face, but Mu Yinting didn’t notice it. He looked at Li Qinghao in surprise and said, “Of course I know him. He’s a famous male film star. Although I don’t watch TV series, I sometimes watch entertainment news. And as far as I know, Max works for MG Group. Why are you so surprise to hear his name? Do you know him?”

Max was a famous male film star?!

Li Qinghao was stunned. Max had been a poor college student many years ago, but now he was a famous star. “I first met him in high school. He’s Lie’s first lover.”

“What?!” Mu Yinting stared at Li Qinghao in wide-eyed amazement. “It must be fate. There is no doubt that Max is gay. So, why the hell did Lei Wen came here?”

“Did you find anything?”

“Max lives on the 13th floor, and so does Lei Wen. They are next-door neighbours.”

Li Qinghao knew what Mu Yinting meant. “As far as I know, Lei Wen is heterosexual.” He didn’t agree with Mu Yinting, because he was sure that Lei Wen was straight. Nancheng Yunsen had a good relationship with Lei Wen. If Lei Wen had been a gay person, Nancheng Yunsen would have mentioned it to Nancheng Lie and Han Mingxu.

“You used to be straight, but now…” Mu Yinting retorted.

Li Qinghao shook his head and replied, “Maybe I was destined to become gay from the first time I met Lie.”

“Oh? You admitted it so frankly?!”

“Unknowingly, I have become accustomed to his company. I’ve developed quite an affection for him. I myself am surprised that I love him so deeply.”

“People who are in love always display remarkable courage,” said Mu Yinting.

Li Qinghao’s thoughts took him on a trip down memory lane. When he woke up from a coma several months ago, he found himself transmigrated as Li Qinghao. Then he saw Keqi who looked exactly like Han Mingxu. His heart ached when Nancheng Lie’s cold eyes stared sharply at him. That was the first time Nancheng Lie treated him coldly. He was so sad that he could hardly resist the impulse to tell Nancheng what had happened to him. Now he finally realized that he only wanted to tell Nancheng the truth because he trusted and loved Nancheng. He never considered telling his grandfather or uncles what had happened to him, even though he was confident that they would believe him. Nancheng Lie was uppermost in his mind. He instinctively regarded Nancheng as the most important person in his life, although at that time he didn’t realize that he loved Nancheng.

‘Yes, people who are in love always display remarkable courage. That’s why I dare to be with him,’ Li Qinghao thought to himself.

“What shall we do next? Do we have to wait here until Lei Wen comes out?” Li Qinghao recalled the dinner invitation from Nancheng Lie. ‘If I can’t keep the appointment, Lie will be unhappy. He’s lovely when he looks at me with puppy dog eyes. Dogs are loyal to their masters. He is just like a cute puppy. I firmly believe that he will never betray me,’ Li Qinghao thought to himself.

Mu Yinting stretched himself and answered,”We can see nothing once they draw the curtains. So, let’s go home and rest. I’ll ask Zhang Wei to collect evidence.”

“I have a selfish request. If the evidence of Lei Wen committing adultery is found, could you just show it to me first?” Considering that Max was Nancheng Lie’s ex and Lei Wen was Nancheng Yunsen’s good friend, Li Qinghao felt the need to follow up.

“As the other boss of the detective agency, all your reasonable requests will be met. But you have to pay the initial fee first.” Mu Yinting’s face was set in an expression of unrestrained greed.

Li Qinghao gave a snort of laughter and said, “Alright, I’ll remit money to you straight away.” He took out his cell phone and remitted five million to Mu Yinting’s bank account. “Five million yuan. You are so greedy.”

“Haha…” Mu Yinting teased, “Don’t worry. Your sweetheart is very rich.”

“What do you mean by that?” Li Qinghao looked at Mu Yinting with cold eyes.

Mu Yinting was not afraid of Li Qinghao at all. With a triumphant smile, he said, “You are short and thin. Thus it can be seen that you are the bottom one. Besides, I think you are too lazy to take the initiative in sex.”

“Mu Yinting!” Li Qinghao grabbed Mu Yinting by the collar and pulled Mu closer to him. He squinted at Mu Yinting, his eyes shining sharply. Although he looked very young, he had the air of a commanding figure. A few seconds later, he smiled and let go of Mu Yinting. “It seems that you have a very harmonious sex life.” He was too proud to admit that he was in an inferior position when making love to Nancheng Lie. Although Mu Yinting was his best friend, he couldn’t tolerate Mu teasing him. So he answered back to what Mu Yinting said.

“Yeah, five times a night. We live in perfect harmony,” Mu Yinting replied with a triumphant smile.

“Congratulations.” Li Qinghao twisted his lips in to a smile. ‘How I wish I could give yo a sound beating!’ he thought to himself.

They separated. Li Qinghao went directly to Nancheng Lie’s company. He sat in the hall enjoying the tea served by the receptionist. He looked around the hall and then fixed his eyes on the brief introduction of Nancheng Group on the wall. He breathed deeply, savouring the silence. It was so quiet that he felt rather ill at ease. He couldn’t help looking out of the window.

It was close to the rush hour. There were a lot of people coming and going on the streets. Many people couldn’t resist glancing at the Nancheng Administrative Building as they passed by. Li Qinghao understood them. Not only was Nancheng Group the top enterprise in the city, but also it had a commanding lead in the world. Employees from other companies around all wanted to switch to Nancheng Group. That was why they looked enviously at the people inside the Nancheng Administrative Building.

Li Qinghao felt it was time for dinner, so he phoned Nancheng Lie and and said that he was waiting for him in the hall. Within a minute, the elevator door opened and Nancheng Lie rushed out. He ran towards Li Qinghao with an excited look on his face. “Xu!” Nancheng Lie sprang at Li Qinghao and held him tightly in his arms.

Li Qinghao struggled hard to escape from Nancheng Lie’s hold, but it was in vain. He gave up struggling and reminded, “Your employees are watching us.”

“It doesn’t matter. We are cousins in their eyes.” Nancheng Lie said in a definitive tone. “What would you like for dinner?” After a while, Nancheng Lie let go of Li Qinghao, took his hand and walked out of the hall.

The receptionist and security guards looked jealously at Li Qinghao’s retreating figure. It was well known that Nancheng Lie was gay. They were wondering whether the cousins were having a romance.

“It’s up to you. You invited me. It’s your treat.” Li Qinghai shook off Nancheng Lie’s hand. If he hadn’t turned into a teenager, he wouldn’t have minded walking hand in hand with Nancheng Lie. After all, they were a couple. But now he was a minor in appearance. If they were photographed walking hand in hand and the picture were posted on the Internet, citizens would mistakenly think that Nancheng Lie was seducing a juvenile, and reporters would target Nancheng Lie and try to discover the identity of his new ‘lover’. If the reporters found that Nancheng Lie’s new ‘lover’ looked exactly like Li Qinghao when he was a boy, both of them would be in trouble.

Nancheng Lie looked at Li Qinghao with puppy dog eyes. He thought that Li Qinghao was too shy to be so intimate with him in public. “I heard from a female colleague that an interesting activity will be held in Yuelao Temple tonight. The winner can get a red rope. It’s said that a couple will be together forever as long as they tie the red rope to each other’s wrist.

T/N note:

Yuelao: the god who unites persons in marriage in Chinese legends

“It’s just a folklore. Don’t tell me you believe it,” Li Qinghao said with disdain, but anyway, he didn’t refuse Nancheng.