Chapter 16: Feels Like Three Years ②
Translator: Aafkee
Proofreader: ChaiTea
After alighting the plane, there were already a few people from the branch office there to fetch Chen Yifei. But, Chen Yifei first gave Yan Yu a call to notify him of his arrival. It had only been three hours since they had parted from each other, but Yan Yu had so much to say, as though they had not seen each other for three weeks, that Chen Yifei could not quickly hang up the call.
There were many people at the office welcoming Chen Yifei once he had arrived, and everyone was courteous. Strictly speaking, Chen Yifei was merely a supervisor sent from the headquarters, his position was not even that high but, Chen Yifei guessed that perhaps Yan Yu had said something to the branch’s board members since everyone treated Chen Yifei as if he had graced their presence as an emperor.
Chen Yifei greeted each department and told the departmental managers the time of their meeting later on. When Chen Yifei arrived at the marketing department, he was greeted by the department head, who was a young man. The moment he saw Chen Yifei, the expression on his face changed, as if he had expected him all along.
The department head called out with excitement, “Chen Yifei! It’s really you!!”
Chen Yifei was surprised. He looked closer at the department head, but he could not recall him immediately. He finally recalled who this person was after seeing the name card on his desk with the name ‘Xu Yunfei’ written on it.
Chen Yifei thought as he read aloud, “... Xu Yunfei?”
Chen Yifei thought that he must have been blessed with a life that allows him to meet his ex-schoolmates often. Xu Yunfei was the chairperson of their university’s student union while he was the vice-chairperson. He and Xu Yunfei were often teased and labelled as the “perfect duo*”.
(T/N*: This is an extremely difficult term to translate to English, so let me try to explain the meanings behind it. Both of their names end with ‘fei’, as in 飞 in Chinese. The actual label used was 双飞人. There are three meanings behind this label. 1. The direct translation 双 = pair / duo. 飞 = fei (fly), 人 = human / person, so it can literally mean a pair of people who have ‘fei’ in their names. 2. 双飞 in Chinese means ‘having sex’. 3. 飞人 (fly + man) can be understood as a superman. This is why the label 双飞人 can be used to both praise and tease Chen Yifei and Xu Yunfei.)
Xu Yunfei, “It has been such a long time. I was so shocked when I heard Chairman Yan said your name. I thought it would be impossible for such a coincidence to happen, and it actually happened!”
Chen Yifei laughed helplessly, “Since when did you join this company?”
“It’s been quite a while now.” Xu Yunfei laughed, “As expected of Vice-Chairperson Chen, I’ve heard that Chairman Yan treasures you a lot.”
Chen Yifei replied dismissively, “Don’t tease me.”
Chen Yifei and Xu Yunfei had not been in the same major when they were in university, but because of their responsibilities as the chairperson and vice-chairperson of the student union, they had spent quite a lot of time together and became close friends.
Until a particular incident happened. Chen Yifei still felt embarrassed about it even when he recalled the incident. On that day, Chen Yifei’s boyfriend of that time went to the campus to look for him. The two were kissing on the empty basketball court at night, and it just happened that Xu Yunfei was playing basketball alone and saw them.
Xu Yunfei was shocked speechless and walked away straight away, embarrassed. Since then, the atmosphere had become very awkward between them. Chen Yifei thought that, perhaps, he could not accept things like that, so he did not mention it, either.
And then one day, Xu Yunfei dragged Chen Yifei into his bedroom, turned on his computer and said to him, mysteriously, “Chen Yifei, I am sharing my treasured collection of GV* with you. Don’t tell anyone else.”
(T/N*: Gay video)
Chen Yifei didn’t know what to say.
Xu Yunfei opened up his folder and Chen Yifei saw the compressed pictures of a few hundred videos. He was, momentarily, at a loss for words.
Xu Yunfei added gravely, “Now, you don’t have to worry about me telling others about you kissing another guy, right? You have something to use against me now.”
“Are you gay?” Chen Yifei asked.
“Strictly speaking, I am bi. I have many AV* too.” Xu Yunfei had admitted it with confidence.
(T/N*: Adult video)
After that, they had not once contacted each other since graduation until today. Chen Yifei recalled their memories together and could not help but laugh.
Xu Yunfei said, “I’m still single. Do you have a boyfriend?”
Chen Yifei nodded, “... Yeah.”
Xu Yunfei leaned closer, “Who?”
“Yan Yu.”
Xu Yunfei stepped back in surprise, “... Holy shit. No way… Were you forced into it?”
“No, of course not. Just a normal mutual relationship.” Chen Yifei smiled.
The first meeting was used to briefly arrange everyone’s tasks. At night, they wanted to celebrate Chen Yifei’s arrival so they decided to have dinner at a restaurant. Experiencing the bustling atmosphere in the restaurant, Chen Yifei suddenly, kind of, missed having a simple meal with Yan Yu at home.
Just as he’d thought that, Chen Yifei received a message from Yan Yu.
“Have you eaten?”
Feeling a sense of warmth in his heart, Chen Yifei quickly replied, “Eating out with everyone now. How about you?”
Xu Yunfei, who sat beside him, saw Chen Yifei’s expression and tutted, “You’re messaging Chairman Yan now, aren’t you?”
Yan Yu had replied, “Not yet. I want to eat what you make…”
Chen Yifei could not restrain his smile, “There’s still one more month left.”
Yan Yu replied with, “...”
Half a minute later, Yan Yu sent another message, “I want to have a video call with you.”
Chen Yifei couldn’t resist it, “When I get back. There are too many people in the restaurant.”
After chatting a while with Yan Yu, Chen Yifei had to say goodbye and entertain those board members. After putting away his phone, Chen Yifei could see Xu Yunfei’s ambiguous smile straight away. He asked, “What’s wrong?”
Xu Yunfei tutted, “Look at you, your aura is completely different when you’re talking to your boyfriend.”
Chen Yifei smiled. He and Xu Yunfei were not merely acquaintances, so he rebutted without much thought, “Jealous?”
Xu Yunfei acted as if he was making a fuss, “Whoa, how dare you bully the singles?!”
Seeing that it was the first time Chen Yifei had been to this city, everyone suggested having a walk at a nearby park after dinner while taking the opportunity to introduce the city to him briefly.
Everybody got excited once they arrived at the park and began taking photos. Chen Yifei was sent there by the main branch, and a handsome man no less, so there were many people who wanted to take pictures with him.
Chen Yifei did not like taking photos, in general, but he did not have a choice at this point. He could only smile reluctantly as he was asked by one person after another to take pictures.
Xu Yunfei helped Chen Yifei hold his phone and took up the responsibility as the cameraman, calling for the next person after he had finished taking pictures for one person, as if he was a professional working as the cameraman in theme parks.
When the group decided to go home, Xu Yunfei and Chen Yifei returned to the company. The marketing department needed to do well, especially at the beginning, so Chen Yifei made sure to tell Xu Yunfei of the situation beforehand.
On their way back, Xu Yunfei still held Chen Yifei’s phone and browsed through the photos he had just taken, boasting about how his friend looked so photogenic when he accidentally touched the ‘back’ button.
The screen returned to the photo album page, displaying the shrunk version of all the photos in the album. However, there was nothing much to see in Chen Yifei’s photo album. There weren’t many photos in there to begin with, and most of the photos were even related to work.
Just then, Xu Yunfei noticed a photo of a man at the corner of the screen. The photo was from a long time ago. A man’s jaw can be seen in the thumbnail of the photo, a glass of wine in the man’s hand.
Xu Yunfei knew that it wasn’t right for him to look through his friend’s photos, but his honour was lost to his own curiosity when he tapped on the photo.
The man in the photo was very delicate and good-looking, his smile filled with warmth. Xu Yunfei was instantly attracted by the man’s appearance; he was precisely his type. Xu Yunfei quickly tapped on Chen Yifei’s shoulder and asked, “Hey, let me ask you. Who’s this?”
Chen Yifei reached out, trying to take back his phone but Xu Yufei avoided him. He asked, astonished, “Why are you going through my photos?”
“Tell me who this person is, first.”
Chen Yifei sighed, “My ex-boyfriend.”
Xu Yunfei showed a ‘just as I thought’ expression and took a closer look at the photo, “This doesn’t look like the one you kissed at the basketball court.”
“I broke up with him when I was in year four.”
“Why is it that you always get the cute ones?” Xu Yunfei returned the phone back to Chen Yifei, “I’m not that much behind you in terms of looks.”
“Yeah, yeah.” Chen Yifei clutched his phone.
Xu Yunfei urged, “Give me his number. WeChat is fine, too.”
Chen Yifei paused, “Are you serious?”
“C’mon, help your old friend here. He is still single, right?” Xu Yunfei nudged.
“Probably.” Chen Yifei looked at Xu Yunfei, amused, “You only saw his photo.”
“That’s enough.”
Chen Yifei gave him Jiang Ge’s WeChat moments before Xu Yunfei requested to be Jiang Ge’s WeChat friend excitedly. He even added a direct message, “I am Chen Yifei’s friend. I want to get to know you.”
Xu Yunfei asked, “What is his name? What does he do?”
“Jiang Ge works in a bar.” Chen Yifei replied. “He’s not the type you think he is.”
“What type do you think I was thinking of?”
“I was only giving you a reminder.” Chen Yifei added, “I’m quite willing to play cupid.”
After half a minute, Xu Yunfei suddenly shouted happily, giving Chen Yifei, who was driving, a scare. “He added me! He added me!!”
Chen Yifei laughed helplessly.
Jiang Ge had, apparently, sent a message to Xu Yunfei. The latter read the message and got nervous in an instant, “He asked me to send him a picture of myself!! What should I do?!”
“Send him a picture.”
“Does he have high standards for a good face?” Xu Yunfei asked.
“... Probably.”
Xu Yunfei racked his brains, “Should I take off my top?”
“Just be normal.”
Xu Yunfei tried several angles for his selfie and finally decided on one before sending it over to Jiang Ge. Not receiving a reply for a long while, Xu Yunfei asked nervously, “Why is he not replying? Does he think I’m ugly? That can’t be though…”
Chen Yifei smiled, “If he really does think you’re ugly, he would have already deleted you from his list.”
Right at that moment, the phone in Xu Yunfei’s hand vibrated. He looked down and sucked in a huge breath once he had read the message. Xu Yunfei slowly lifted his phone to show Chen Yifei Jiang Ge’s reply, “Didn’t Chen Yifei give you my number?”
Xu Yunfei was extremely excited, “What does he mean?”
Chen Yifei answered, “It means you have a chance.”
Not long after, Jiang Ge sent his number to Xu Yunfei. Xu Yunfei could barely hold in his excitement and continued to chat with Jiang Ge for the rest of their trip back to the company.
Chen Yifei and Xu Yunfei decided to go home individually right after they had drawn out a preliminary plan for their marketing campaign. Just as Chen Yifei got into his car, he received a call from Jiang Ge.
Chen Yifei accepted the call and heard Jiang Ge asking him directly, “Are you trying to matchmake us?”
“He just happened to see your photo and took a fancy to you,” Chen Yifei replied. “Maybe you can try it out.”
Half-jokingly, Jiang Ge said, “I’m definitely willing to get in bed with him just based on his appearance.”
Chen Yifei paused, “I think he wants to, too.”
Chen Yifei took a shower and lay down on his bed after he returned to his accommodation. Staring at the unfamiliar ceiling above him, Chen Yifei missed his own room back at home. He picked up his phone and called Yan Yu.
Yan Yu picked up the call very quickly. Chen Yifei told him about his coincidental meeting with his university schoolmate while Yan Yu snorted in reply, “Mr Class President Chen, you have a lot of schoolmates and classmates, huh? Are they all good-looking?”
Chen Yifei could totally imagine the expression on Yan Yu’s face as he was saying that. If Yan Yu was in front of him right now, he would not be able to stop himself from giving Yan Yu a pat on his head.
Chen Yifei smiled, “Don’t misunderstand. He is pursuing Jiang Ge right now.”
Yan Yu sounded surprised, “... Huh? Really?”
After chatting with Yan Yu for a while, Chen Yifei suddenly heard Yan Yu’s voice becoming more constrained. He could even hear Yan Yu panting slightly during the short pauses in their conversation.
Chen Yifei asked, “What are you doing?”
Yan Yu confessed, “... You asked me to settle it myself.”
Although Chen Yifei could not see him right now, Yan Yu’s face was already ingrained into Chen Yifei’s mind. Chen Yifei teased gently, “So, am I disturbing you now?”
Chen Yifei suspected that Yan Yu must have buried his face into his pillow, his voice sounded muffled as he replied, “No… I want to hear your voice…”
Chen Yifei swallowed, “Don’t bury your face into the pillow.”
“... How did you know?”
Chen Yifei had not believed the day that he would do such a thing with his boyfriend over the phone had finally come. As he remained on the phone until Yan Yu finished, Chen Yifei was almost there as well.
Yan Yu asked, “Don’t you need to…?”
“Hmm, yeah.”
Yan Yu paused, “I want to watch.”
“... No.”
Yan Yu tried again, “But I want to see it.”
Chen Yifei could not bring himself to send nudes or that type of videos at all, “I don’t want to… Forget it.”
Yan Yu grumbled, “What a bummer.”
Chen Yifei laughed in response, “I’m hanging up.”
Yan Yu quickly warned,“You need to compensate me if you don’t show me this time.”
“I will compensate you twice the value.”
Yan Yu sounded hesitant, “... Fine, I’ll wait for you to come back.”
Chen Yifei put down the phone, laughing to himself. Yan Yu was too easy to coax.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Yan Yu hugged his blanket and rolled around the bed, smiling as he held his phone to him, as if his ploy succeeded. Yan Yu had, after all, been running his own business for so many years, he knew many more little tricks and gimmicks in comparison to the prim and proper Chen Yifei.
Chen Yifei must have thought him as easy to coax. Who knew Yan Yu was the one who was finding all sorts of excuses and opportunities to be intimate with his boyfriend.
Aww, so sweet (and hot) even when they're apart! Thanks for translating!
ReplyDeleteHeh! Glad that you enjoyed it!
Deletelmao if Yan Yu saw that photo instead I bet he'd be kicking a fuss XD
ReplyDeleteI'm happy we got to see more of CY's affection this chapter
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