Chapter 75: Cutting Losses in Time is What Should Be Done… [Wake Up, This is Not…]
“Xi Yun, are you crazy?!”
In Bai Xiaotong’s eyes, this wealth that should sooner or later belong to her was being squandered recklessly. She wished she could tear apart the two people in front of her who were acting like they were playing house with such a casual attitude.
Le Can, who had fallen into shock, suddenly snapped back to reality.
At first, Le Can had wanted to have some fun with this former Great-Aunt-in-law, but he didn’t expect her to step on his landmines frequently as soon as she opened her mouth.
First, Bai Xiaotong spoke rudely to him regardless of the occasion. In just two short sentences, one layer was satirizing his status as merely a tool, and a deeper layer was sowing discord in his relationship with Xi Yun.
Immediately after, she failed to recognize her own status. clearly having been kicked out of the Nian family, she still delusionally stood from the perspective of an elder to question and criticize Xi Yun’s decision.
Unfortunately, he, Le Can, held grudges and was protective of his own.
Instantly losing any mood for fun, Le Can pulled down Xi Yun’s hand blocking his eyes, his upturned eye corners filled with wonder.
He directly turned on the face-to-face mockery mode: “Great Aunt, I think you are the crazy one, right?”
He had originally thought the cruise ship under his feet was rented. Now knowing it belonged entirely to Xi Yun, Le Can was even more self-righteous.
“Xi Yun and I politely call you Great Aunt; it doesn’t mean you can stand on our turf and make presumptuous comments about our affairs.”
His lowered peach-blossom eyes were narrow and long, carrying a startling sharpness. The words spoken revealed a sense of amusement as if hearing a joke.
“People who don’t know would think your house is by the seaside… otherwise, why is your management so wide (Why are you minding other people’s business so much)?”
The surrounding people, hearing the “living by the seaside” joke for the first time in this other world, immediately burst into laughter.
Le Can raised his hand to check the time on his watch, cutting off Bai Xiaotong, whose face was flushed red, before she could speak.
Anyway, “ivory can’t grow out of a dog’s mouth”; he didn’t expect Bai Xiaotong to say anything pleasant. Since he didn’t want to listen, he simply wouldn’t give her a chance to speak.
“We’re in a hurry for the wedding; Xi Yun and I won’t keep you company.”
Le Can didn’t even bother calling her “Great Aunt Bai” anymore. Anyway, for people who went crazy regardless of the occasion and couldn’t understand human language, the best way to treat them was to ignore them.
He pulled Xi Yun’s hand beside him and walked out of the crowd. While walking, he glared fiercely at the man with smiling eyes using a look of disappointment that iron couldn’t become steel.
“You guys are still too high-quality (too polite); this kind of person easily makes you suffer losses!”
Le Can in his previous life was like this too, and as a result, he suffered the huge loss of dying early without spending his money. Having lived again, he understood that one must put aside personal quality and enjoy an immoral life.
Hearing the chattering inner voice by his ear, the smile on Xi Yun’s face deepened. This President Xi, whom the outside world saw as capable of formidable methods, obediently lowered his head under his wife’s admonishment.
“It won’t happen next time.”
Indeed, it wouldn’t, Xi Yun thought.
Whether it was the long-disappeared Xi Ziyu or this Bai Xiaotong who shouldn’t have appeared, these people who shouldn’t appear in front of the youth would not appear again in the future.
“Ah! Ahhhhh!!!”
Hearing the crazy screaming behind him, before leaving, Le Can stopped and looked back with kindness and pity in his eyes, giving two final reminders.
“Auntie, at such an old age, don’t be so possessive of other people’s money.”
“That stuff, you can’t take it down with you when you enter the coffin…”
The wedding venue was in the central location of the entire cruise ship.
Inside the massive creation of fully sixteen decks, one couldn’t feel at all that this was a ship situated in the ocean.
Here, restaurants and bars were numerous, providing delicacies and drinks from all over the world day and night. Huge marine parks, skating rinks, badminton courts, and other venues were scattered within—only entertainment methods you couldn’t think of, none you couldn’t see.
Cinemas, opera houses, karaoke halls, and shopping areas for various jewelry, beauty products, watches, clothing, etc., were bustling with people everywhere.
Standing in the 360-degree fully transparent elevator and looking around at the scene, Le Can thought he had blinked and transmigrated to some super-luxury mall on land.
Not knowing if it was fear of heights or some other reason, his eyes were dazed for a moment, and his two legs wrapped in suit pants began to go weak spinelessly.
Xi Yun, feeling someone suddenly hanging onto his arm: ?
Le Can grabbed Xi Yun’s arm with both hands, his eyes cautiously scanning the surroundings.
The people taking the elevator with them, including Xie Jun and Yuan Cheng, all stayed far away from the two standing in the middle, their bodies pressed against the glass, looking as if they were meditating on their noses and hearts.
Le Can heaved a slight sigh of relief and leaned close to the ear of the person beside him.
“This cruise ship is really yours?”
A soft smile flashed in the depths of Xi Yun’s eyes. He also lowered his head to get close to the ear of the youth, who was in stark contrast to just now, and imitated the other’s lowered voice.
“This was indeed an investment of the Nian family in the past; it brings in good profits every year.”
The subtext was, this cruise ship indeed belonged entirely to him now.
Le Can’s eyes slowly widened. In the amber pupils looking at Xi Yun, there was full wonder at a side of the world he had never seen.
[No wonder everyone wants to covet the money in your pocket.]
The scum dad and stepmother’s family, the great aunt raised in the Nian family without blood relation… jealous mad dogs came one after another, unable to be shaken off like dog skin plasters.
Every time Le Can thought the male lead was rich, he could always break his existing cognition with new things.
The unknown world was novel and exciting. And the person who seemed to bring him freshness every time was also always mysterious, unfathomable, and provoking constant exploration.
Le Can couldn’t deny that the inscrutable Xi Yun always had a great attraction for him. Especially since the other party also satisfied his two other hobbies—looks and wealth.
Cough, looks included face and body.
If everyone had lighting effects, Xi Yun, in his eyes, would be glittering gold. And gold, for every person who loved wealth, was simply a succubus existence that made one unable to walk.
In the eyes of the current Le Can, Xi Yun was at least succubus-level.
He gazed into those strange silver-gray double pupils, struggling to pull his gaze back, incidentally giving his swaying heart two punches.
[Wake up Le Can, this is not a man you can covet!]
Watching the youth’s dodging eyes and hearing the inner voice constantly warning himself by his ear, Xi Yun’s eye color suddenly deepened.
Pretending to know nothing, he reached out to place his hand on Le Can’s retreating lower back, applying slight force to bring the person into his arms.
Le Can’s body lightened, instantly pressing against Xi Yun’s broad and hot chest. He hurriedly reached out to prop himself up in front. “Why are you getting so close?!”
Catching a glimpse of the surrounding people lowering their heads even more out of the corner of his eye, Le Can’s face flushed red instantly. In his desperation, he actually looked up and bit the beautiful chin leaning over.
Xi Yun hissed lightly.
After feeling the force of the bite on his chin lighten, he abruptly lowered his head, affectionately rubbing his nose tip against Le Can’s nose bridge.
“I wanted to ask, are you willing to accept ‘Aphrodite’?”
“‘Aphrodite’?” Le Can asked hesitantly.
[What does it have to do with the Goddess of Love and Beauty?]
He even leaned back with difficulty, putting a distance between himself and Xi Yun. “I don’t believe in gods.” Especially Western gods.
Le Can suspected, did Xi Yun see through some of his thoughts and wanted to give him a warning? After all, for a lone king, feelings were always small stones on the road.
Not even stumbling blocks, just small pebbles that hurt the feet.
Thinking about it, if this stone was discovered in advance, it would only face the fate of being kicked away. Le Can wasn’t willing to be a stone that would be kicked away, so before things happened…
[Cutting losses in time is what should be done…]
Before the inner voice finished speaking, Xi Yun leaned in to chase the person trying to escape.
“Yes, ‘Aphrodite’, the ship beneath your feet.”
Le Can’s lowered eyelids lifted abruptly, his eyebrows, simply trimmed for the wedding, furrowing tightly. “Xi Yun… you’re not joking?”
Xi Yun looked seriously at Le Can in front of him: “I never joke with people.”
Especially the person standing in front of him right now.
Le Can’s brow furrowed with confusion: “Xi Yun, do you have too much money and it’s burning a hole in your pocket?”
Although Le Can loved wealth and didn’t consider himself a gentleman, acquiring wealth through proper means was still a principle he adhered to.
He took the two and a half million monthly pocket money Xi Yun gave him, and that promised 150 million villa, because that was the remuneration he deserved for giving two years of his time.
He extorted over twelve million from his scum uncle Le Wenxin without blinking because that was his “selling body money.” And since he didn’t even get two-thirds of the total amount, he was already very merciful.
Xi Yun shook his head helplessly: “No… You, don’t like it?”
Le Can felt it was absurd. He opened his mouth but didn’t speak at first. So, he slapped Xi Yun’s cold, handsome face again.
“Come, come, come, let me exorcise you.”
After slapping him, he rubbed rudely twice. “I think you’re just showing off your wealth too much, that’s why there are so many annoying flies chasing behind you.”
“Don’t like it?”
Le Can didn’t know why Xi Yun was obsessed with whether he liked the cruise ship or not.
His hand wasn’t pulled down by the other party but was held in the palm, covering that sinfully handsome face together.
[That’s fine too.]
Le Can sighed in his heart.
[If I can’t see it, I don’t need to test my willpower.]
The next second, the hand holding his suddenly pulled down, revealing Xi Yun’s heart-testing face.
Le Can’s heart was suddenly touched.
Not by amazement, but… strangeness.
However, facing Xi Yun’s probing gaze, he temporarily suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and answered, “Of course I like it.”
When Xi Yun attempted to speak, Le Can’s hand, which had fallen by his mouth, pressed up suddenly—manual shut up.
“I like it, but that doesn’t mean I will accept it.”
He looked seriously into those silver-gray eyes: “Xi Yun, what reason do I have to accept it?”
Seeing the eyes dim instantly, Le Can chuckled lightly and kissed the person in front of him through the back of his hand.
“I appreciate the kindness, but ‘Aphrodite’ should stay in your hands and make good money.”
Yes, besides having no reason to accept it, Le Can also had a clear understanding of himself. Even if he took the cruise ship, so what? He didn’t have the ability to manage it.
[This thing, better not let it be ruined in my hands. Isn’t it good to be alive?]
“Also,” Le Can’s eye corners turned up, alluring yet with a bit of unbridled freedom, “what I want, I will go get myself.”
[What others give is boring; a wild horse tamed personally has flavor!]
With his mouth covered, Xi Yun’s eyes flashed.
Le Can, seeing this expression on Xi Yun, suddenly had the thought of teasing him.
But suddenly, with a ding, the elevator doors opened slowly.
The others pressing against the glass suddenly glared in unison at Yuan Cheng, who was secretly poking the elevator close button.
Yuan Cheng, who felt like he could hear everyone cursing him as useless: “…”
Sorry, he didn’t control the time interval of the button well and failed to keep the elevator door closed, sob sob sob…
Le Can’s open mouth slowly closed, and the hand covering Xi Yun’s mouth also slowly came down.
Silent for a moment, he looked up weakly at the ceiling: “Forget it, let’s go out.”
The wedding and the good show were about to begin…
Author’s Note: Yaoyao (A bit tempted version): How about cutting losses in time? Big Xi overhearing inner thoughts: Cut what? Block the road completely.JPG
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