“It's like this, do you remember that drama you invested in at the beginning of the year, 《Lost Winds of the Magnificent Tang》? Just recently, I don't know what problems the production team came across, but they altered the script, my scenes have been cut down a lot, and there are some scenes that are also not that appropriate… If filming starts with the way it is now, the discrepancy between the conditions of what I had agreed with when I first signed the contract is too big, I tried to talk with the production team, but it didn't work out (they won't hear it). You hold the main decision making authority for this drama, could you help me try to have a talk with the production team?”
If Liang Doukou was handling this matter, Qin Zhiai thought, she would definitely directly tell Lu Bancheng that Lin Yi stole her scenes, and demand him to snatch it back for her!
But, in the end, she wasn't Liang Doukou, when she talked to Lu Bancheng for real, she used an slightly implicit way to express what she meant. (expressed her meaning/what she wanted to say in a slightly more implicit way).
Despite this, after sending out the text, Qin Zhiai felt very apologetic and ashamed. She held her phone tightly, her face burning slightly as she pondered for a while, and then she sent Lu Bancheng another text. “Sorry to bother you with this, I'll invite you to eat some later date.”
……
The text “Liang Doukou” sent this time was a bit long. When Gu Yusheng finished reading once, the air between his brow had turned a bit cold.
The corners of his mouth tightened slightly. Staring at the screen, he read the text from beginning to end, word by word, phrase by phrase one more time, as if he was verifying something, even specially reading aloud every word in the message.
Gu Yusheng's expression turned uglier and uglier as he read. When he reached the last word, the expression on his face was as cold as the glaciers in the North Pole. The light in the depths of his eyes was a gloomy thick sharp layer of ice.
She had encountered some work related problem which she couldn't solve by herself, so she went to find Lu Bancheng for help?
She didn't go finding him, but went to find Lu Bancheng? Was she blind, or do she look down on him, thinking that he wouldn't be able to take care of a small matter like this?
The scene of her scooping soup for Lu Bancheng, and also talking and smiling at him when he went over to eat at the villa suddenly flashed across Gu Yusheng's brain, as well as her thanking Lu Bancheng when he helped her up. (Also, when Lu Bancheng helped her up, she happily thanked him) As for Gu Yusheng? As soon as he touches her, she'd act like a mouse that's seen a cat, wishing strongly that she could vanish in a wisp of smoke!
Gu Yusheng chest suddenly started heaving. An insuppressible surge of rage continued to bubble/soar/swell upwards from the bottom of his heart.
Just as he wanted to close his eyes and take two deep breaths, the phone received a new text message on the screen.
“Sorry to bother you with this, I'll invite you to eat some later date.”
Eat, she was also inviting Lu Bancheng out to eat?
Those words were like a flame instantly painfully burning Gu Yusheng's nerves. He was so angry he even had thoughts of wanting to throttle that girl on the other end of the phone. His grip on the phone gradually grew tighter and tighter, flesh digging so hard into the phone his palm was in extreme pain/the edges of the phone painfully digging into his palm. However, he didn't seem to be able to feel it, the only thing left circling in his brain was: “Liang Doukou” will go to find Lu Bancheng when she has a problem but won't go to find him, and even wants to invite Lu Bancheng out to eat…
It was unknown how long Gu Yusheng remained deadlocked in this gloomy and cold state, when the phone in his hand vibrated again. He slowly lowered his head, and saw that there was yet another new message on the screen from her: “Can you?”
The hell he can! Without thinking Gu Yusheng lifted the smartphone up high and violently tapped in three words, “In your dreams!”
After he finished typing, Gu Yusheng was about to press send but then suddenly stopped.
A Really Important Person (9)Breathing unstably, he stared at the phone screen, after thinking for a moment, he deleted those three words, and replaced it with, “Where are you?”
The person on the other end must have been struck dumb by those three words, and took a long while to finally reply, “I'm at home…”
The second Gu Yusheng saw those words, without any intention of replying, he suddenly slammed his laptop shut, stood up while holding it, and was about to walk off when the phone received yet another text, “What wrong?”
What's wrong? He hadn't even replied to her text, yet she still sent Lan Bancheng another one? She wanted to talk to Lu Bancheng that much? (Was she so desperate to exchange a few more words with Lu Bancheng?)
Gu Yusheng seethingly charged towards the door holding his laptop. When he was almost at the door, he finally remembered that he was still holding onto Lu Bancheng's phone.
He's practically become muddled from anger because of that woman!
Gu Yusheng angrily turned around, and violently threw Lu Bancheng's phone onto the sofa. He kicked off his slippers and changed into his leather shoes.
He directly pushed the door without even tying his laces. He was about to walk out, but for some reason he remembered that before Lu Bancheng went upstairs, Lu Bancheng had told that woman, “I'll call you back when I'm done.”
Oh, still want to get in touch through phone?
Gu Yusheng paused and then placed his laptop on the shoe shelf at the entrance. Without even changing his shoes, strode back to the front of the sofa, picked up Lu Bancheng's phone, found Liang Doukou's phone number, stared at it for a while and then pressed edit, and randomly changed the last number “4” to “7”.
You want to call back, then go ahead and call. Go on and ring some random stranger's number, shitty Lu Bancheng!
Gu Yusheng was about to throw the phone back onto the sofa again but suddenly seemed to realise something. He opened the SMS app (opened up SMS), and replied to “Liang Doukou”, “Busy, call you back later.”
He then waited for “Liang Doukou” to reply. After receiving her “OK” half a minute later, without saying anything else, Gu Yusheng deleted their entire SMS correspondence.
The number Lu Bancheng has saved is wrong, and you're still “OK”? Ok, your sister, let's see whether you'll be able to receive a call!
It was only after that that Gu Yusheng's anger receded a little. He threw Lu Bancheng's phone onto the sofa, shook his sleeve and left.
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When the car drove into the courtyard, the housekeeper was in the middle of watering flowers.
She put down the watering can with slight astonishment and stood up. When she was going to see who had arrived, she saw the back door of the car suddenly open, and Gu Yusheng got out, his face cloudy.
Wh-Why is Mr Gu back? And he even came back in a taxi… The housekeeper stood stunned for a long while before snapping out of it, hastily greeting him, “Mr Gu”.
Gu Yusheng looked like he didn't hear her. He threw the taxi driver a red note ($100), and walked into the house, one hand carrying his laptop.
The housekeeper immediately followed after him, and helped get slippers for Gu Yusheng.
Gu Yusheng changed into slippers and entered the living room. He dumped the laptop heavily onto the coffee table. The housekeeper was so frightened she trembled and instinctively shrank back two steps.
Gu Yusheng swept a glance over the living room. Not seeing that woman anywhere, he turned to ask the housekeeper, “Where's miss?”
“Miss is upstairs…”
Before the housekeeper could finish her sentence, Gu Yusheng had already disappeared around the corner of the stairs. He first went into the bedroom. It was absolutely empty; the person he wanted to find wasn't there. He closed the room door, and pushed open the door of the study which no one besides him would enter.
A Really Important Person (10)He first went into the bedroom. It was absolutely empty; the person he wanted to find wasn't there. He closed the room door, and pushed open the door of the study which no one besides him would enter.
It was also empty.
He then irritably took off his suit coat, carelessly threw it into the next room, pulling on his necktie while walking to the end of the corridor.
When Gu Yusheng had almost reached the sunroom, through the bright glass, he saw Qin Zhiai, crouched, in the middle of pruning flowers with clippers (scissors).
Gu Yusheng's pace slowed for a second, and then he took two quick large strides forward and abruptly pushed open the door of the sunroom.
The door opened without any warning, causing Qin Zhiai who was pruning to jump with fright. Her hand slipped and she cut of the head?? of a brilliant red rose (snipped a rose).
As Gu Yusheng only ever came home once in blue moon, Qin Zhiai thought that thought that the housekeeper had come bustling upstairs to find her for some matter. Staring at the scattering petals, her brows knitted. She turned her head around to look at the door while saying in a reproachful tone, “What's so urgent that…”
Qin Zhiai had only said four words when Gu Yusheng's face it entered her vision along the stream/ray of sunlight (note: Gu Yusheng is standing along/facing the path of sunlight streaming in through the sunroom's glass windows).
Her words suddenly choked up in her throat. She stared dumbly at Gu Yusheng for a while. Qin Zhiai's brain was a blank space for a few seconds, and soon after she noticed that his complexion did not look good, and there seemed to be a faintly ticking air of anger between his brow and eyes. Qin Zhiai had experienced him blowing up with anger at her too many times; her body unconsciously stiffened, and she unconsciously tightened her grip on the scissors.
Why did he suddenly come back? He also looks like he's really angry, it can't be that Grandpa…
Qin Zhiai trembled lightly inside; her entire person unconsciously became very vigilant/alert and wariness crept up into her eyes.
He stared at her, not saying anything for a long time.
The atmosphere in the sunroom became a bit silted/deadlocked. Qin Zhiai bit her lip with unease. Because she wanted to break this awkwardness, she didn't think it over much before blurting out, “Why… have you suddenly come back?”
This was his house, don't tell him that he needed a reason to come back to his own home?
Gu Yusheng's eyes faintly darkened, merely feeling that his anger was so big there was nowhere to release it (outlet). In the end, he laughed in anger. Staring at Qin Zhiai, he scoffed twice and blurted out without thinking, he blurted out, “What? It's my house, why can't I come back? Who do you want to come back? Lu Bancheng?”
His words were simply unfathomable. What did this have to do with Lu Bancheng? (why did he suddenly bring up Lu Bancheng?)
Even though Qin Zhiai was completely confused, she could still clearly sense that after the man laughed, the air his body was emitting was becoming more and more scarily icy-cold.
Her intuition told her that if she stayed here any longer, she would definitely suffer a calamity. She put the clippers down on top of the small stool on the side, stood up, inwardly deliberated on what to say, before saying to Gu Yusheng, “Does the housekeeper know that you're back yet? I'll go downstairs to tell her and get her to prepare dinner for you.”
As? she spoke?, she quickly lowered her head and headed towards the door.
Seeing her reaction, Gu Yusheng, who was standing at the doorway while leisurely leaning against the door, straightened his body.
Ignoring that fact that her expression became so alienated as soon as she saw him, now she's even wanting to randomly find an excuse to avoid him? How come she doesn't avoid Lu Bancheng like this?
Gu Yusheng felt that he was truly going to blow his top. He unexpectedly laughed again, even smiling as he said to her, “Yo, because I'm not Lu Bancheng you're in such a rush to leave?”
And that's the last of my translations of The Adonis Next Door. Really sorry that the last chapters are unedited.
As mentioned in the post Qidian International have picked it up under a new name: Back Then I Adored You, which can be found here:
Thank you for reading 🙂
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