Marriage contract (2)

When leaving home, Lu Yi glanced at the watch in his hand, now there were only 28 hours and 59 minutes left.

He dialed his secretary’s phone number: “Help me find someone, Yu Ke, Poppy’s Yu¹, Ke from Mu and Ke², gender male, birthday on March 18, 1990, he to studied at the No. 1 Middle School in City B, graduated from Class 12 of the 08-high school, you have ten minutes to give me his current contact information.”

After breaking up with Fang Chuan, Yu Ke transferred to another school and later he went abroad. He knew the other party’s birthday because of Fang Chuan. Thinking of Fang Chuan made Lu Yi’s expression unconsciously turn ugly.

“Okay, Director Lu.” Although there were many people in City B, the circle was so big, and the Internet was developed. As long as the person being sought wasn’t isolated from the world, it wasn’t difficult to find someone.

Otherwise, his good fiancé Fang Chuan would not have heard the news as soon as the other party returned to China, and escaped like this.

 When Lu Yi got into the driving seat of his car, the secretary sent him a text message: 138XXXX518, 4789XX77. The source is from the university classmate who picked him up last night. I have confirmed that it is the latest contact information of Yu Ke himself. Mr. Yu is now at Jinyuan Science and Technology as an art director. Jinyuan Technology used to cooperate with Lu’s. This is the private number of their chairman He Shuo.”

Today was a working day. It was easier to find someone. He called He Shuo’s phone number: “Hello Director He, I am Lu Yi, the chairman of the Lu Group… Yes, our cooperation last time was very happy… …May I ask if the art director of your company is named Yu Ke… No, he didn’t offend me, I just wanted to find him for private matters, if possible… OK, if there’s a chance let’s continue working together next time.”

 After hanging up the phone, Lu Yi exhaled and looked at his expressionless self in the rearview mirror, started the car, and drove out of Lu’s gate at a speed he had never driven before.

By the time he saw Yu Ke himself, it was already an hour later. During the waiting time, Lu Yi completed the review and error correction of his document from last night.

When the door handle of the box turned, he quickly closed the document, closed the laptop, raised his head, and looked at the incoming person blankly.

“I’m very sorry, Director Lu, there is a traffic jam on the second ring road. I originally wanted to call you with my mobile phone to inform you, but I was too anxious to come to see you. When the traffic jam came, I realized that my mobile phone was dead.” 

The young man held his blacked screen phone with an apologetic expression on his face.

Because he was engaged in art work, as well as the influence of his environment and his sexual orientation, he always paid great attention to appearance and manners, whether it was clothes or manners, he was very decent.

Yu Ke’s facial features were very good, because it was too exquisite, it could be said to be a little too gorgeous, if the temperament were to be greasy, it would easily make people feel frivolous. But the dark gray plaid coat and cold-toned scarf added to his sense of dignity, which on the contrary made him look a bit more abstinent and indifferent. It looked like a casual match, but in fact it was planned to every strand of hair.

People who are good-looking and know how to make use of their strengths always have an advantage in life. Under normal circumstances, he adopted such a sincere attitude. Unless he made an unforgivable mistake, few people would blame him.

But Lu Yi obviously belonged to very few people. He glanced at his watch and his tone was so cold that he could drop ice: “You are twenty minutes and seven seconds late to the agreed time.”

Rebuttal at this point was a very foolish thing. Yu Ke once again confessed his fault, asked the other party for forgiveness in a humble but non-flattering tone, pulled the chair away and sat down: “I heard Director He said that you have some private matters with me, but we don’t seem to know each other? “

For him, going abroad was just a method to beautify his resume, so he had always maintained his old contacts with ulterior motives. He was pretty sure that in his 28 years of life, there had never been a golden thigh³ like Lu Yi.

“Fang Chuan, he´s my fiancé.”

Hearing the name Fang Chuan, Yu Ke felt a little in his heart and realized that Director Lu was probably here to find fault. His face changed slightly, but he quickly adjusted: “What do you mean by this, I don’t have a good memory. I don’t know which Fang Chuan you are talking about.”

“No matter how bad your memory is, you won’t forget your sponsor.”

Fang Chuan had such a relationship before he dated himself. In the past, Lu Yi did not want to know too much, but the other party made a lot of noise back then, there were always many caring people coming to him to reveal information intentionally or unintentionally.

From the mouths of other people, he learned about this Mr. Yu Ke, although his family background was very ordinary, his brains and methods were very unusual. Not only did he hang many men, he also made Fang Chuan want to live and die for him.

In the end, Fang Chuan’s relationship ended with Fang’s family giving a large sum of money, Yu Ke’s ruthless remarks and studying abroad.

Who hasn’t met a scumbag guy? Because of this, Lu Yi had always felt pity for Fang Chuan.

Lu Yi went on to say: “According to the arrangement, he will hold a wedding with me tomorrow, and today is the day when we get the marriage certificate.” 

He was showing off his feelings⁴, Yu Ke breathed a sigh of relief: “Congratulations, I wish you a happy marriage. Mr. Lu, if you are worried about my ex-boyfriend, I will tell you sincerely, you are a very outstanding character, I am just a very ordinary citizen, regardless of appearance, family background and other things, I can’t compare to you, please rest assured that I will never have the slightest intersection with Fang Chuan.”

He thought to himself, it seemed he had to block Fang Chuan later, although this golden young master was simple and easy to deceive, the man on the other side was too difficult, he didn’t want to anger this boss.

“Last night, he called me. This morning, his parents told me that they lost contact with their son and that all the numbers he used before could not be reached. He changed all the contact information. A large amount of cash in the card was also transferred.”

Yu Ke could hardly conceal the look of surprise. He showed a surprised expression: “Sorry, I sympathize with you very much, but you also know that I haven’t contacted him since a long time ago, and I didn´t know he could do this kind of thing.”

Lu Yi glanced at him: “Someone told me that when you got off the plane a few days ago, he came to pick you up, and he also went to the university party.”

It  wasn’t very pleasant for someone to expose a lie face to face. Realizing that the other person’s background was strong, and he probably investigated his past, Yu Ke no longer concealed it. He took off the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, relaxed sitting posture, and lazily leaned on the chair: “To be honest, I did meet him, but what does it have to do with me?”

He never denied his charm, but he had never messed around. He wouls definitely be clean. If he knew that Fang Chuan had such a fiancé, he would definitely not play ambiguously with Fang Chuan.

Lu Yi took out the checkbook, wrote his name and amount, and pushed it in front of Yu Ke: “This is one million.”

Yu Ke said, “I know what you mean, you want to find Fang Chuan through me. But I have sold him once, and I think there’s a bit of a bottom line. I can’t do this kind of thing a second time. If he really doesn’t like you, why bother to tie him together and become a resentful partner.”

Looking at the current situation, he was passively involved in this mess. One million was very valuable ten years ago, but now, he could only buy a toilet in the city center of B city.

He liked the way rich people solved problems, but one million was a bit too cheap.

Lu Yi looked at Yu Ke for a while, and said: “Mr. Yu, your appearance is outstanding and your abilities are also outstanding. Judging from your grades, your IQ should be at a high level. Your only shortcoming is that your family background it’s too ordinary.”

It was not difficult to make money, and it was not difficult for Yu Ke to make a small success, but the success that Yu Ke could make was nothing compared to the Fang family or the Lu family. If he wanted to achieve a class leap, he had to marry someone like Fang Chuan.

“What you said is correct, so ten years ago, I chose to accept the money from the Fang family and leave my beloved motherland obediently, because we small citizens cannot offend the Fang family at all.”

 Lu Yi said again. “If I didn’t guess wrong, you should have Fang Chuan’s new contact information in your phone.”

What a terrible man, he could guess it, Yu Ke gave up the struggle: “That’s right, but you also know that it’s useless if you have his contact information. If a person wants to hide from you, he will definitely be alert if you call, and your wedding with Fang Chuan is scheduled for tomorrow, isn’t it?”

Lu Yi then said: “I admire you very much, Mr. Yu, you are much smarter than Fang Chuan. I have not finished speaking. One million is just a deposit. After the event is completed, I will pay the remaining nine million. For my wedding, I need two bridegrooms.”

Yu Ke showed a knowing smile: “When the transaction is concluded, I will cooperate with you to find Fang Chuan, and this amount will be used as compensation for me to leave City B and give up my own contacts.”

“No, you misunderstood.” Fang Chuan’s escape was a great humiliation to him. Even if he got it back, he didn’t need such a groom.

Lu Yi stood up and looked down at the young man in front of him: “The money means that at tomorrow’s wedding, I need you to replace Fang Chuan and marry into the Lu family.”

Notes

1. Lu Yi is explaining with which characters Yu Ke is written with. 虞美人 (Yú měirén) means poppy and the character 虞 is the Yu for Yu Ke. ↩︎
2. Here the character 木 is read as Mu and 可 as Ke and together form 柯 the character for Ke in Yu Ke. ↩︎
3. Golden thigh basically means someone with a lot of ability and/or power, Lu Yi is very very rich and very very powerful as the chairman of a big group, you can see this video for more info ↩︎
4. Yu Ke thought that Lu Yi just was declaring the relationship as a warning for him to stay away. ↩︎