Chapter 56: Can He Rig the Male Lead’s Operations?
Du…
Le Can was sitting alone on a roadside bench when the call went through.
He tilted his head back to look at the towering modern architecture of Suihe’an International Hospital, narrowing his eyes slightly against the piercing sunlight.
His superior brow bone and thick, curled lashes finally found their use, blocking out the overly bright rays and casting a small shadow over his eyes.
The shadow protected those pupils—which seemed to have grown lighter after too much exposure to the light—and concealed the silent, surging undercurrents deep within them.
“Hello? Is this Xi Yun’s Yao Yao?”
The voice on the other end was full of vitality, carrying an undisguised, teasing tone. Le Can’s brows relaxed instantly.
He retorted briskly, “No, I’m not.”
What Xi Yun did last night… a single bowl of seafood porridge certainly couldn’t offset it.
He had given Xi Yun a chance, and since the man didn’t take it, Xi Yun could only blame himself for missing the one—and perhaps only—opportunity to take the initiative.
On the other end of the line, Xie Jun cackled upon hearing the denial. “Hahahaha! Oh, I have to record this part and save it. I’ll send it to your hubby later to deflate his recently inflated ego.”
“Inflated?”
Le Can was puzzled.
Xi Yun?
Did that man ever have a moment of inflated ego in his life?
If Le Can remembered correctly, “Sitting tight in the fishing boat regardless of the wind and waves” was the true description of the Male Lead, wasn’t it?
“Absolutely!”
Xie Jun’s tone was impassioned.
“He extracted a rare, world-class treasure worth over a hundred million from a piece of black pottery that supposedly sold for two hundred thousand. He single-handedly increased the foot traffic at the Helin Antique Market to the terrifying point where they had to limit entry.”
“If he doesn’t get a big head, then no one in this world is qualified to!”
“Over a hundred million? A rare treasure?”
Le Can finally recalled the small black bowl that had made him scratch his head in confusion the previous night.
At first, Le Can had been curious about the little object of unknown origin. But later… the things occupying his mind were forcibly replaced by a certain man whose thoughts he couldn’t read and who turned ruthless the moment he pulled his mouth away.
Xie Jun was surprised.
“Eh? You don’t know yet?”
“Southern Song Dynasty! Jian Kiln! Black glaze base, iridescent spots—a Yohen Tenmoku Tea Bowl! And the preservation is absolutely perfect!”
With every word, Xie Jun’s pitch rose an octave. When she reached “Yohen Tenmoku Tea Bowl,” her voice nearly cracked from excitement.
Assaulted by both dolphin-pitched squeals and a broken-gong voice, Le Can felt his brain buzzing. “…”
He tried to process the information, equally shocked into a daze. “Wait, the Jian bowl you’re talking about…”
“Is it the Yohen Tenmoku, of which only three and a half exist in the world? The one made with a silver-lead mixture technique, ranked first in glaze color among Jian wares, the ‘First Tea Ware of the Song Dynasty’?!”
“Huh?”
Xie Jun’s confused voice came through the static, slightly distorted. “Did I remember it wrong? Aren’t there four existing Jian Kiln Yohen Tenmoku bowls in our country?”
There was silence on the other end for a moment, followed by: “No, that’s right. I just searched it. The four tea bowls are all in the Capital Museum’s collection. The Yohen Tenmoku that Weiyuanjing temporarily promoted this time is the fifth one.”
“Oh, little Yao Yao. As the second boss of Weiyuanjing, not only are you uninformed about your own internal news, but you also got the external news wrong… Tsk tsk, looks like we need to let Xi Yun grab you for a few days of remedial classes!”
Le Can blinked, suddenly realizing.
In the book’s world, the Qing Dynasty became the Shen Dynasty. Naturally, that dark period of history never happened…
Those Jian Kiln Yohen Tenmoku bowls that had been lost abroad and unable to return home were naturally staying safely in their own country!
The young man in the sunlight slowly exhaled, a gentle smile spilling out of his beautiful peach-blossom eyes like water.
Xie Jun continued on the other end, “Knowledge first, then assessment. If you fail the assessment, your butt gets a spanking!”
As for how to spank?
How else do husbands spank each other?
“Hehehehehehe…”
A laugh so wretched it was known to all burst into his ears. Le Can’s mouth twitched uncontrollably as he quickly reached out to lower the speaker volume.
“Xie Jun, Heir to the Xie family. This laugh of yours is what should be recorded and sent out for everyone to hear.”
“Alright, alright, I’ll stop laughing.”
Xie Jun chided, “You really have been kissing Xi Yun too much. Look at you, even your way of speaking has caught his infuriating vibe.”
“Me… I couldn’t out-talk your husband before, and now I can’t out-talk the two of you. You two are truly a match made in heaven, born specifically to counter me!”
Well, now it was Le Can’s turn to be unable to laugh.
Le Can felt deeply that Xi Yun wasn’t there to counter Xie Jun… Xi Yun was there to counter him!
Did he and Xi Yun kiss?
They did, but only that one time.
Could Le Can use this to refute her? Refute what? Refute that he wanted to sleep with Xi Yun, but ended up unilaterally separated into different beds?
Le Can gritted his teeth while maintaining a smile. He swore, in this life, even if he had to pay for it, he would sleep with Xi Yun eventually!
And just like how the other party ran after kissing, he would turn his face and deny knowing him after sleeping with him! disappear directly the next day!
Harboring ambitious aspirations… kept secret and undeclared.
The joking session ended, and Le Can confirmed that the hospitalized person wasn’t Xie Jun. Slowly, he put away the expression on his face.
His long, slender fingers tapped the screen lightly, the display switching back and forth between the chat page and the call page.
“Sigh, haven’t seen you in days. I actually miss…”
The trailing sentence naturally drew a chuckle from the person on the other side. “What? Miss Jiejie?”
The young man leaned his head back against the seat, lazily stretching his limbs in the brilliant sunlight. Only after finishing this set of movements did he seem to suddenly remember the question.
So, he responded in a languid tone.
“I do miss…”
He dragged out the ending note leisurely, then suddenly pivoted before she could speak. “But I don’t miss Jiejie. I miss the handsomest cool-guy bodyguard by Jiejie’s side~”
The speaker’s tone was teasing, but if anyone had actually stopped in front of him, they likely wouldn’t dare confirm that this indifferent-looking young man… was truly the one speaking.
Xie Jun was silent for two seconds. When she spoke again, her voice through the receiver was a bit soft.
“Then you’re probably going to be disappointed.”
“He took leave recently because… the person he cares about most is sick.”
Le Can couldn’t help but frown, his expression turning heavy as he looked sideways at the building beside him.
A person he cared about was hospitalized; because he came to visit, he coincidentally entered the paparazzi’s lens… The logic was smooth and reasonable, but why did it feel like something was off?
But thinking about it again, as Xie Jun’s bodyguard, Yin Wuyu’s salary wouldn’t be low.
If it really was a cherished person, sending them to a hospital like Suihe’an, which gathered top-tier resources—even if it meant spending his life savings—made sense.
On the contrary, it proved Yin Wuyu’s good character even more!
Le Can felt he was becoming paranoid. Recently, because he couldn’t find any leads on the mastermind behind the injury to Yuan Cheng and the hostility toward himself, everyone looked like a bad guy.
But seeing that familiar face in the corner of the photo, the suspicion toward Yin Wuyu grew wildly like weeds—groundless, yet impossible to ignore…
During his hesitation, a large block of text from Xiong Anguo popped up on the chat interface. Le Can scanned it rapidly, absorbing all the content.
Younger brother, reunited after years of separation, coma, has not woken up yet… Scattered keywords combined in his mind, finally converging into Yin Wuyu’s reticent face.
Le Can reached out and rubbed the bridge of his nose, choosing to let go of the suspicion in his heart.
“Did you ask him?
About the identity of the person he cares about?”
Laying aside his own doubts for the moment, he still had plenty of other worries. For example, Le Can started worrying about Xie Jun’s love life.
Xie Jun laughed lightly, a laugh tinged with bitterness. “If he really wanted me to know, he would have told me…”
But Yin Wuyu mentioned absolutely nothing from start to finish.
He simply used the most calm, detached attitude, maintaining the distance that should exist between employer and employee, to apply for leave from Xie Jun.
So, the identity of that person wasn’t what was important. What was important was… Yin Wuyu had never given her a chance from the beginning.
Smart as Xie Jun was, how could she not see it?
Le Can didn’t speak up to tell Xie Jun that Yin Wuyu was visiting his seriously ill, comatose brother. With the Xie family’s wealth and power, if Xie Jun really wanted to know, she wouldn’t even need to give him the chance to speak…
Just as Xie Jun said, if you really keep someone in your heart, it’s impossible to have zero action or indication.
Xie Jun liked Yin Wuyu, true.
But this affection wasn’t enough to make her erase the current Xie Jun, to lower herself into the dust, to become hysterical and unrecognizable.
As the future heir of the Xie family, the name Xie Jun represented more than just herself.
“Enough about stinky men.”
Xie Jun didn’t wallow in her likely fruitless feelings. She quickly changed the subject and joked:
“As the new boss of Weiyuanjing, can Boss Le help pull some strings during the auction?”
“You know how it is. After our old man retired, he just loves tinkering with these antiques and paintings.”
Speaking of this, Xie Jun couldn’t help but sigh. “But he insists on treasure hunting by himself. He gets scammed repeatedly, suffers losses repeatedly, and never changes!”
They say the old become like children; the older they get, the younger they act. As a junior, Xie Jun really couldn’t control this willful, stubborn little old man at home.
“The moment your family released the news about the Yohen Tenmoku Tea Bowl, he couldn’t sit still.”
“I trust anything coming from Weiyuanjing; it’s definitely a good item.”
On this point, Xie Jun still had confidence in Xi Yun. Quality was guaranteed, so at least she didn’t have to worry about the old man being scammed out of money and secretly wiping away tears alone at night.
“But because the item is too good, he’s worried he won’t be able to snatch it. He hasn’t slept all night.”
From morning until now, he had been shouting about a headache right in her ear. Amidst the “Aiyo, aiyo” groans, there was some fakery mixed with genuine distress. Xie Jun was truly out of options.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have come begging to Le Can.
As for why not go directly to Xi Yun? Xie Jun still firmly believed in the power of pillow talk… Okay, fine, she was just chicken.
“Strings? Rig the operation?”
Le Can’s expression turned odd, and his voice distorted slightly.
No, seriously, he was very curious—who gave Xie Jun the confidence that he could rig the Male Lead’s operation?
Afraid Le Can would misunderstand, Xie Jun hurriedly added, “Not to reserve the bowl for him in advance! It’s just that if the old man doesn’t have enough funds, you husbands could… lend him some.”
Sigh, saying this made it sound like the Xie family couldn’t cough up the money.
Xie Jun felt awkward and added, “It’s not really lending to him. I’ll provide the money, but it’ll be lent in your names.”
Who told her family’s Old Master Xie to be so stubborn, insisting on only using his own portion of the money?
Usually, when he ran out of money, he could borrow from his old friends first. But these friends… had now all become competitors who couldn’t stand the sight of each other. Money? Not lending it!
Le Can didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
To coax the elderly, Xie Jun had really taken great pains.
Since it was just borrowing an excuse, he readily agreed.
Having settled a matter on her mind, Xie Jun’s tone became much lighter. “Thank you, our Yao’er. When you and Xi Yun have your cruise ship wedding, I’ll definitely give you two a huge red envelope!”
The young man, who was just preparing to stand up and leave, stumbled and fell heavily back into the public seat.
“Cruise. Ship. Wedding?”
What the hell was that?!
The person on the other end of the phone suddenly went silent, then said sheepishly, “Huh? Xi Yun hasn’t told you… yet?”
After a long silence, realizing she had spilled the beans, Xie Jun laughed dryly. “That… I have something to do, gotta go, bye!”
After the frantic goodbye came the busy tone of the phone. Du du du.
Le Can, slumped weakly in the middle of the seat, slowly, very slowly raised his hand to cover his speechlessly twitching mouth.
Xi Yun! What did he do again without notifying him?!
After collapsing silently for a good while, the young man, eyes tightly shut from anger and lips trembling, gripped his phone tight, ready to demand an explanation from the culprit.
Unexpectedly, a cheerful voice exploded in Le Can’s ear!
“Le Can?! What a coincidence, why are you also at Suihe’an for treatment?”
“0718. The hand sign I made to you last time was 0718. Think carefully, do you really have no impression of 0718 at all?”
Le Can, knowing the speaker’s identity in a split second: “…”
What if he didn’t want to open his eyes?
Could he just pretend to be blind?
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