Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66 - The Chaotic Opening Ceremony
Chapter 67 - Winner I
Chapter 68 - Winner Ii
Chapter 69 - Winner Iii
Chapter 70 - Designing Objects Other Than Jewelry
Chapter 71 - Needless Doubt
Chapter 72 - The Miserable Si
Chapter 73 - Moonlit Manacles
Chapter 74 - Jewelry Case
Chapter 75 - To Be A Self-Aware Hamster
Chapter 76 - The Correct Way To Use ‘A Man Of His Words’
Chapter 77 - A Special Way Of Confessing
Chapter 78 - Insomnia Is Also Contagious
Chapter 79 - The End And The Sequel
Chapter 80 - Weather Change
Chapter 81 - What It Was Like Having Split Personalities
Chapter 82 - An Unexpected Need To Break-Up
Chapter 83 - It Would Be Great If He Could Be Exposed Immediately
Chapter 84 - But It Would Be Awesome
Chapter 85 - Nannan’S Whispers (Ii)
Chapter 86 - Nannan’S Whispers (Iii)
Chapter 87 - Heart Lock
Chapter 88 - The Modelling Hamster
Chapter 89
Chapter 90 - What Goes Around Comes Around
Chapter 91 - It Was Over Just Like That
Chapter 92 - En Route
Chapter 93 - Revisiting Four Seasons Manor
Chapter 94 - How Misunderstandings Are Created
Chapter 95 - Who’S Paying For It?
Chapter 96 - Trump Card
Chapter 97 - Being Taken Advantage Of As Usual
Chapter 98 - Hacked
Chapter 99 - The Strongest Public Relations Team
Chapter 100 - A Tie-Break In Twelve Hours
Chapter 101 - Chairman Yan Plays A Game
Chapter 102 - The Wish Of A Lifetime
Chapter 103 - One Week
Chapter 104 - Battling Wits And Courage For Nothing
Chapter 105 - To Those Who Cannot Take Advice
Chapter 106 - Before Lunar New Year
Chapter 107 - There Are No What Ifs
Chapter 108 - How To Say Goodbye
Chapter 109
Chapter 110 - Omen
Chapter 111 - New Year’S Worries
Chapter 112 - New Car
Chapter 113 - Making Glutinous Rice Balls
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116 - The Truth Will Still Lead To Death
Chapter 117 - Mastermind
Chapter 118 - More Troubles Ensues
Chapter 119 - It Could Not Get Any Worse
Chapter 120
Chapter 121 - The Meeting Of The White Cat And Hamster I
Chapter 122 - The Meeting Of The White Cat And Hamster Ii
Chapter 123 - Discovering The Mystery Of Life
Chapter 124 - Panic
Chapter 125 - Forget It Then
Chapter 126 - (Real) Exposed
Chapter 127 - Twists And Turns I
Chapter 128 - Twists And Turns Ii
Chapter 129 - Twists And Turns Iii
Chapter 130 - The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Chapter 131 - Wrapped In Happiness
Chapter 132 - Do You Want To Become A Flaw?
Chapter 133
Chapter 134 - Come To Yl
Chapter 135 - “Lifetime” Contract
Chapter 136 - The Hideously Adorable Design
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139 - The Little Tail That Was Forgotten
Chapter 140 - What Could Happen In Two Weeks
Chapter 141 - The Smitten Scoundrel Who Forgot His Friends
Chapter 142 - The Unusual Faye
Chapter 143 - Earth Day
Chapter 144 - First Attempt At Drunk Play
Chapter 145 - So It’S Okay
Chapter 146 - The World Really Is Small
Chapter 147 - The Genius’ Shortcomings
Chapter 148 - It’S Not A Confession
Chapter 149 - An Unexpected Acquaintance
Chapter 150 - Something Feels Wrong
Chapter 151 - The Man Called Yan Jin
Chapter 152 - The Ups And Downs Of The Past Two Months
Chapter 153 - Discussion
Chapter 154
Chapter 155 - Settling In
Chapter 156 - : I Already Understand
Chapter 157 - Bad Friends
Chapter 158 - The Evolved Incapable Ruler
Chapter 159 - Chairman Yan’S Mark
Chapter 160 - Holding One’S Head High
Chapter 161 - Assets That Could Not Be Given
Chapter 162 - The Person He Should Have Thanked
Chapter 163 - At Every Step
Chapter 164 - About His Elders
Chapter 165 - Improvement
Chapter 166 - Nan Wei Starts His Job
Chapter 167 - The Person In Control I
Chapter 168 - The Person In Control Ii
Chapter 169 - The Person In Control Iii
Chapter 170 - The Aftermath Of The Dismissal
Chapter 171 - The Price Of A Bowl Of Noodles
Chapter 172 - Business Trip
Chapter 173 - A Storm Approaches
Chapter 174 - Explosive News
Chapter 175 - Sense Of Security
Chapter 176 - Outside The Cubicle
Chapter 177.1 - Retribution (I)
Chapter 178 - Retribution (Ii)
Chapter 179 - Retribution (Iii)
Chapter 180 - An Unexpected Development
Chapter 181 - A Powerful Comeback (I)
Chapter 182 - A Powerful Comeback (Ii)
Chapter 183 - A Powerful Comeback (Iii)
Chapter 184 - Cancelling The Engagement And Coming Out Of The Closet
Chapter 185 - An Inescapable Past (I)
Chapter 186 - An Inescapable Past (Ii)
Chapter 187 - An Inescapable Past (Iii)
Chapter 188 - Chasing Memories
Chapter 189 - From Triumph To Sorrow (I)
Chapter 190 - From Triumph To Sorrow (Ii)
Chapter 191 - From Triumph To Sorrow (Iii)
Chapter 192 - An Unprofessional Abduction
Chapter 193 - Escape
Chapter 194 - Surveillance
Chapter 195 - Planned And Unplanned
Chapter 196 - Alice’S Insanity (I)
Chapter 197 - Alice’S Insanity (Ii)
Chapter 198 - Alice’S Insanity (Iii)
Chapter 199 - The Result Of Overlooking The News
Chapter 200 - Marriage And Honeymoon
Chapter 201 - He’Ll Be Back
Chapter 202 - The Final Week
Chapter 203 - Problems Exposed And An Appeal
Chapter 204 - Emergence Of The Dead
Chapter 205 - Post-Wedding Realizations
Chapter 206 - Chess (I)
Chapter 207 - Chess (Ii)
Chapter 208 - Chess (Iii)
Chapter 209 - Seeing Is Believing
Chapter 210 - Not Taking Visitors
Chapter 211 - Summer Springs Third Clinic
Chapter 212 - Will Never Bloom Again
Chapter 213 - Blood Type Confusion
Chapter 214 - The Gene Project
Chapter 215 - External Help
Chapter 216 - Hard To Say (I)
Chapter 217 - Hard To Say (Ii)
Chapter 218 - Hard To Say (Iii)
Chapter 219 - The Rotten Family
Chapter 220 - Finally, The End
Chapter 221 - The Life That Could Be Saved
Chapter 222 - The Cat Clan (I)
Chapter 223 - The Cat Clan (Ii)
Chapter 224(End) - Epilogue
Categories Genre: All, Completed, Romance, Shounen Ai, Slice of Life Status: Completed ______
Total Chapters in book: 224
Estimated words: 535798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2679(@200wpm)___ 2143(@250wpm)___ 1786(@300wpm)
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Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2679(@200wpm)___ 2143(@250wpm)___ 1786(@300wpm)
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Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Four: Cancelling the Engagement and Coming Out of the Closet
“Tell me clearly!” Xiao Yu pushed Yan Jin, who had been trying to cuddle and kiss to avoid the issue, aside.
“Talking about that doesn’t fit the mood…” Yan Jin looped Xiao Yu into his embrace extremely unreasonably. While rubbing Xiao Yu’s head, he said, “It’s been so long. How about we get some wine to celebrate?”
“Hey!” Xiao Yu yelled at him resentfully. “Answer my questions first!”
Yan Jin’s face fell. His gaze lingered on the top of Xiao Yu’s head. Even before he took out a small pocket-sized bottle, his intentions could already be clearly seen by anyone.
“What’s this?” Xiao Yu took the proffered bottle.
There were complex designs engraved on the palm-sized clear crystal bottle. The cap was shaped like a droplet and the body of the bottle was shaped like a diamond. Xiao Yu shook the bottle lightly, and the light pink transparent liquid sloshed around inside.
It looked like a video game consumable.
Yan Jin laughed softly. “A witch’s secret potion.”
“Hey, what’s that supposed to mean?” Xiao Yu prodded Yan Jin’s waist threateningly.
“…It’s a special wine.”
“No way. You didn’t need to do this.”
Xiao Yu didn’t need any further explanation from Yan Jin. He was shocked.
Before Yan Jin had left, he had indicated that Xiao Yu’s bodily changes were too unstable. With different wines, different alcohol concentrations, and different metabolic speeds, it would be much better if he could develop a more stable medicine which would cause Xiao Yu’s body to change. At the time, Xiao Yu hadn’t paid too much thought to it. He had thought that Yan Jin was just making small talk or joking. He had never would have expected that Yan Jin would take it so seriously.
Xiao Yu remembered that he had once thoughtlessly commented that FX’s latest tablet didn’t look nice enough, and that if he was the designer he could definitely do better. Seemingly in response, Yan Jin had had a lawyer send over an FX shareholder contract.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yu felt his grip unconsciously growing tighter. Yan Jin was forced to beg for forgiveness.
“It can’t be that you traveled out of the country just for this, can it?” Xiao Yu suddenly felt clear-headed and asked a crucial question.
“How can that be? I needed to attend an inheritance ceremony along the way,” Yan Jin said in deadly earnest.
“……”
Depressed, Xiao Yu fiddled around with the bottle in silence for a while. Then, he asked, “What does this do?”
“Precisely triggers a half-animal transformation.” Yan Jin proudly added, “It’s entirely safe and has no side effects. It only lasts for a short while and won’t harm you. It’s just like how drinking red wine occasionally can improve your appearance and have other benefits.”
Well, the answer was exactly as expected. Perhaps it was even embarrassingly obvious.
Improve your appearance, huh…
Xiao Yu wasn’t sure, but he felt that Yan Jin’s bottom line since coming back had lowered drastically.
Xiao Yu shook the small bottle again. He heard a sharp intake of air from next to him.
Well…
Yan Jin looked at him with expectant eyes. Xiao Yu opened the bottle and drained its contents in a single gulp.
It certainly was worthy of being called a secret potion. Yan Jin’s pharmaceutical company’s tireless research and manufacturing efforts hadn’t been in vain. Almost five minutes after drinking the potion, Xiao Yu felt the top of his head beginning to burn hot.
A pair of sensitive ears popped out.
Yan Jin’s gaze had changed entirely. His hands had involuntarily begun to move forward to the little ears he hadn’t seen in so long.
“I’ve sacrificed so much now. Where’s my reward?” Acting spoiled, Xiao Yu tugged at Yan Jin’s arm. “Mr. Gabriel?”
Yan Jin received a shock. In an unimaginably tender voice, he said, “You smartass, I’ll be teaching you a lesson when we get home.”
……
It’s said that secrets between lovers cannot be hidden in bed.
Xiao Yu had taken the opportunity to get all the answers he wanted. Satisfied, he rolled on the bed with the blankets. Before he could complete one full rotation, the person behind him firmly grabbed the blankets.
“I’ve told you so many times to not roll around on the bed with the blankets. How many times have you fallen off the bed now?”
“Hmph.” Xiao Yu rolled back into Yan Jin’s embrace. He jabbed Yan Jin’s chest and said, “Only you have so many issues. The emperor’s lack of worry makes his eunuch worry for him, Mr. Gabriel.”
For a while, Yan Jin couldn’t decide on which insult to hurl back.
On his phone, Xiao Yu searched for the Gabriel Family on Baidu. Perhaps not knowing would have been better. The more he knew, the more it scared him.
“Hmm… the world’s treasury… Oh, a conservative estimate of their net worth has one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten—oh forget it, I can’t count all the digits. Tsk tsk, they control eighty percent of Country M’s pharmaceutical industry. You used to be in this industry?” Xiao Yu looked up at Yan Jin.
“That’s what we publicly claim. Our most profitable ventures are in legally gray areas.” Such an explosive secret was tossed out so casually by Yan Jin.
Xiao Yu’s feelings were a little complicated. He kept feeling that something would happen to him now that he knew too much.
“Then, doesn’t hopping into the design industry not fit you well?”
“Maybe a little at the start, but it’s fine now.” Yan Jin rubbed Xiao Yu’s head. “Commercial business affairs don’t vary too widely.”
“Only you would feel that way.” Xiao Yu pointed at his phone’s screen. “Look, it says here: a genius and the youngest successor in history. A founder with unlimited glory. Wow, so awesome!”
Yan Jin shook his head. “A real genius would have run off from the family without any consequences. Obediently inheriting the family business can only be considered one level down.”
“You want to say you’re the second type?” Xiao Yu laughed.
“Of course not.” Who was Yan Jin? Modesty wasn’t a part of his vocabulary. “I previously made a promise with someone else. I only stayed to fulfill that promise.”
“What promise?”
“Secret. If you want to know, you have to work harder.” Yan Jin rubbed Xiao Yu’s bare back. The implication was obvious.
Xiao Yu didn’t reply.
“Why aren’t you saying anything?” Yan Jin asked.
“I’ve been subdued by your shamelessness. There’s nothing to say.” Xiao Yu sincerely said while blinking.
……
The next day’s news was all about Yan Jin coming out of the closet.
Compared to the Gabriel Family successor’s powerful return that all the outsiders were talking about, the gossip about Yan Jin’s sexual orientation attracted much more attention.
After all, the Gabriel Family kept a very low and mysterious profile in Country M. Domestically, they were even more unknown. Industry insiders could see some traces, but the Gabriel Family was too remote for the masses to be emotionally invested in them. Even without the Gabriel Family, Yan Jin’s social status was already scary. Now, it grew by another level, or perhaps ten. To idle viewers, it made no difference at all. They wouldn’t be able to reach that level anyways.
In comparison, the discussion about how YL’s successor had denied the NN Family’s engagement announcement and come out of the closet for THE design super-genius Mr. Mystery a.k.a. Xiao Yu wasn’t just any newsworthy topic.
It had gone completely viral.
As a result, in the report about the super-serious press conference that had derailed off the ends of the earth, Yan Jin saw only three instances of “Gabriel” out of a thousand words. His feelings were exceedingly complicated.
Previously, whenever the Gabriel Family had transitioned to a new head, it would disrupt everything. In the more severe cases, it could send Country M or even the world into an economic crisis. The last few transitions had been intensely reported on both domestically and internationally. But this time…
Was too tragic.
Yan Jin casually tossed the newspaper aside.
He didn’t want to read it anymore. The more he read, the more annoyed he became.
Xiao Yu happened to be walking by. He picked up the newspaper and gave it a scan.
“That’s too much!” Xiao Yu shrieked. “Why’d they choose such an ugly picture of me?! My eyes are even closed in this one, and… Why do you look so handsome!”
“Thanks for your exaggeration.”
Yan Jin opened his arms for a hug, but received only a newspaper hurled at him.
“Who’s praising you? I’m talking about this picture! Why do you never blink in pictures?! Have you practiced before?! Tell me now!” Xiao Yu stormed over unreasonably and ended up getting caught in Yan Jin’s embrace.
“Nope.” Yan Jin earnestly said, “It’s because those reporters were invited by me and were funded by me. So, they have to use the best photoshopping software.”
“…Why do I feel like your style has entirely changed after coming back from overseas?”
“Has it?” Yan Jin narrowed his eyes. He grabbed Xiao Yu’s wrist with one hand and started to undo his belt with the other. “Do you want to personally check if it’s changed?”
Without waiting for a response, Yan Jin already planted a kiss on him.
After another session of PLAY in the office, Xiao Yu gloomily picked up his clothes and grumpily said, “I’ve already told you so many times that we aren’t doing this anymore at the office.”
“When did we decide that?”
“On the day you left. I texted you the news. Right, I still haven’t settled the FX issue with you—”
“—My phone has been broken since July. I haven’t found the time to go get a new one yet,” Yan Jin interrupted his next words.
Xiao Yu burst into laughter at Yan Jin’s utter nonsense.
After a while, his gaze landed on the newspaper, and his cheeriness began to fade.
“Hey, are you really planning on getting married?” Xiao Yu asked.
Yan Jin looked at him strangely. “I thought that the person receiving the marriage proposal usually can’t stop thinking about it.”
“Huh? I don’t care too much about it. Let’s just wait a while then—”
“—Sorry, but I’m one of the rare marriage proposers that can’t stop thinking about it,” Yan Jin interrupted.
Xiao Yu: “……”
Yan Jin calmly stared back at him.
“Well, you’ve already known for a long time, right?” Xiao Yu prodded Yan Jin in the head. “You thoroughly investigated me a long time ago and figured out my special identity. Oh, speaking of this, I haven’t gotten back to you yet for the matter of the GPS.”
Yan Jin maintained a neutral expression and earnestly replied, “Huh? What are you referring to?”
“You’re still pretending even after being exposed?” Xiao Yu rolled his eyes. “Fine, I’m not interested right now in the matter of the GPS. What I want to say is, I’m not ready yet for marriage.”
Because Yan Jin had always obediently granted all of his requests previously, Xiao Yu had thought that Yan Jin would back down after he said this. He didn’t expect that on this issue, Yan Jin would be so insistent.
Total Chapters in book: 224
Estimated words: 535798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2679(@200wpm)___ 2143(@250wpm)___ 1786(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 535798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2679(@200wpm)___ 2143(@250wpm)___ 1786(@300wpm)
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