Chapter 38: Can You Be More Proactive?
Shou Jiaxun rushed halfway around the globe to get home, seemingly just to smoke a few cigarettes with Uncle Guo.
Liang Bo thought… this must be love, right?
So Little President Shou wasn’t without love, nor did he not know how to love; he just hid his love away.
Since there were still more than two hours until Guo Duoyu’s scheduled dinner time, Uncle Guo immediately urged Shou Jiaxun to go back to his room to shower and sleep after entering the house.
Then he asked Liang Bo if he wanted to go to the guest room to rest a bit too.
Assistant Liang refused with a grin: “Many thanks, President Guoran, I slept enough on the plane.”
Then he suggested: “How about I play games with you for a while… You play games usually, right?”
Uncle Guo looked at him sideways, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and asked back: “Do I look like someone who knows how to play games?”
Liang Bo smiled awkwardly, speaking the truth: “Don’t know, how can one tell just by looking?”
Uncle Guo pouted: “Not only do I not know how, Shou Jiaxun doesn’t know either.” Then he mocked himself: “Are the two of us too outdated, a bit non-mainstream?”
Liang Bo shook his head quickly: “No, you guys are too busy with work, it’s normal not to play games.”
That’s what he said, but in his heart, he was still a bit surprised about “Shou Jiaxun not knowing how to play games.”
Their generation was born in the internet age. From adolescence to youth, a short ten years, they had perfectly witnessed the milestones of video games, online games, and mobile games.
Not playing games in one’s twenties, wouldn’t one lack even social topics with peers?
But thinking about Little President Shou changing his ID card to be ten years older, Assistant Liang suddenly felt his behavior was quite reasonable.
Uncle Guo walked towards the kitchen: “I’ll go cut some fruit, what do you want to eat?”
“Whatever.” Liang Bo followed him all the way into the kitchen: “Let me cut it, what do you want to eat?”
“Whatever.” Uncle Guo mimicked his phrasing, but after opening the fridge door, he quickly made a decision: “Oh my… this cantaloupe has been sitting here since last week.”
“Let’s have that.” Liang Bo was understanding, actively reaching out to hug the melon.
Uncle Guo turned to set up the cutting board and fruit knife on the counter, then stood aside with his arms crossed, smilingly admiring Assistant Liang clumsily cutting the melon.
“Those classmates who play basketball with you all sent messages to Little President Shou, asking if he could date them.”
Uncle Guo brought up a new topic off guard, making Student Liang a bit embarrassed. He could only respond vaguely: “Oh…? Is that so?”
“Back then, you were the only one who didn’t ask.” Uncle Guo added this sentence, as if thinking Liang Bo wasn’t embarrassed enough.
Liang Bo’s knife strokes got slower and slower, and finally, he sighed deeply: “Actually, I wanted to ask, but I was afraid Little President Shou would think I was the same as them.”
“Do you still want to ask now?”
Guoran pressed on with a smile in his eyes, making Liang Bo unable to make heads or tails of it.
He thought to himself, aren’t you two a “couple”? What do you mean by asking me?
He lifted the knife handle again, muttering with a sheepish smile while cutting the melon: “I feel like he might have someone he likes in his heart.”
“Wow…” Uncle Guo exclaimed softly: “Your feeling is really… quite outrageous.”
“Wow…” Liang Bo turned his head to tease, mimicking his tone: “I thought you would say, the one he likes in his heart is me.”
Uncle Guo raised his lips in a mocking smile, revealing a row of neat white teeth: “Little President Shou was indeed busy these past years, had no time, but the fact that he still can’t open his heart to fall in love even now might be hard for others to understand.”
Speaking to this point, he gradually restrained his smile, his face becoming much more serious: “But it shouldn’t be hard for you to understand, right?”
Liang Bo’s mouth was half-open, brows slightly raised, as if trying hard to piece together the word “confused” with his facial features.
Uncle Guo frowned and pursued: “Do you really like him?”
Liang Bo’s mouth twitched twice. It took him a long time to admit aggrievedly: “Like him, of course I like him, just don’t know… among the people who like him, where do I rank.”
Uncle Guo clicked his tongue, his expression looking a bit like he resented iron for not becoming steel: “Since you like him, you should remember what happened the night you met him.
Now try to put yourself in his shoes, stand from his perspective to feel…
Then tell me, do you think he has a ‘person he likes’ in his heart, or a huge ‘shadow’?”
Liang Bo was tongue-tied, completely stunned. On the surface, he was “frozen,” but inside he was roaring at the top of his lungs: “My god… I seem like an idiot! I actually suspected him of ‘Double O Love’.”
Talking about the past, Uncle Guo could only smile bitterly: “He doesn’t feel a spark with Alphas, mainly because he feels all Alphas are dangerous.
And you are a Beta…
But most importantly, he thinks you are a good person, he trusts you. I think this is a good beginning.
At least there is a possibility of a ‘start’.
If you like him, you can try… being a bit more proactive.
For example, ‘send a text message’?
…Don’t be like four years ago.”
Liang Bo turned back, hunching his shoulders and lowering his head to hide his shame under the pretense of plating the melon, stammering slowly: “I’m not that good… With that kind of experience, anyone would have a ‘shadow’. I stood so close, yet I never thought in that direction.”
Uncle Guo took a deep breath, speaking earnestly: “Child, you don’t need to blame yourself. Little President Shou isn’t anyone’s responsibility or burden.
I just want to give you a little confidence. If you like him, be bold and chase him to try.
Your starting point is higher than any opposite sex that has appeared around him in the past.”
Assistant Liang nodded dully, sniffing lightly: “Thank you Uncle… President Guoran.”
“Just call me ‘Uncle’, netizens call me that too.” Uncle Guo pursed his lips, still giving Student Liang an encouraging smile: “There is one more thing… might have to trouble you.”
Liang Bo turned around, nodding face-to-face at Uncle Guo: “Please speak.”
“Tsk… sigh!” Uncle Guo frowned, clicked his tongue, and sighed, struggling for a while as if it were very difficult to speak: “Actually it’s my responsibility… that is to say… if… I mean if, okay!
If he goes into heat and you happen to be beside him, try your best to stop him from injecting suppressants directly into the gland.”
“Ah?!” Assistant Liang was greatly shocked, incredulous: “Gland injection?! …This! This, this, this… who taught him that?”
Uncle Guo grinned awkwardly: “…Me.”
Liang Bo almost blurted out “Are you crazy?!” He suddenly clenched his teeth to hold back this accusatory question.
Uncle Guo’s face was tearful. He turned sideways to lift the semi-long hair draped over the back of his neck, showing Liang Bo the scar left by his gland removal surgery.
“Because of some… personal bad experiences, for a long time, I couldn’t see anything beautiful in this world. So I did some extreme things, and made extreme decisions.
Honestly, I don’t regret it… but Little President Shou is still young. He shouldn’t learn from me.”
Liang Bo held his forehead, pinching his brow, his expression breaking down. But he couldn’t accuse Guoran.
Given Guoran’s experiences, he was already facing life positively enough, with enough positive energy, enough of a good role model.
Uncle Guo chuckled awkwardly: “Didn’t scare you, did I?”
“Not that serious…” Liang Bo shook his head with a bitter smile, but changed his tune two seconds later: “Actually, a bit nervous. Sorry, I really didn’t expect…”
Uncle Guo lamented with an embarrassed smile: “You are really honest.”
Assistant Liang was not only speechless but also ashamed to look Uncle Guo in the eye.
He now had to rethink what consequences it would bring to everyone if he continued to approach Shou Jiaxun with the goal of acquiring the “Indeed Brand.”
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