It was reasonable to say that travelling together could promote the team’s understanding of each other. Since the little rafting incident, it could be seen that although Zhu Han was a bit impulsive, he did have the courage to admit his wrongs and take responsibility, while Ruan Cunyun seemed to be a careful and cautious person, but would bravely step forward when his friends faced danger.
The Qin Fanglu in their eyes back then had once always been a figure at the top who felt distant and even imposing. But he had prepared things attentively, even lending his clothes for a lower ranking subordinate to wear, subtly making their impression of him far less distant.
But Qin Fanglu was currently in a pinch.
Their journey in the car seemed so long, his heart had been beating loudly for such a long time, the quick thumpings of his heart hadn’t lowered the least.
At long last, they finally arrived at the lodging point. Those who took a nap were awakened then let out exclaims of admiration as they gazed out of the window.
The resort was located on the hillside of the lush fiery red maple trees of the mountain, each of the wooden villas scattered among them, stone pavements winding and coiling, the splashing and jingling sounds of spring water could be heard somewhere.
Kiki had handled the housing procedures and was distributing the room cards.
The accommodation allocations were already divided prior to the outing according to their own preferences, two people of the same rank live together while those with higher ranks would be alone, quite reasonable.
It’s just that they hadn’t expected that two people wouldn’t be sharing a room, but rather, a building instead.
There were small separate villas with two floors, a floor for each person to live in.
All of them were all fairly well off young adults who had gone to many places for vacations, and although this resort couldn’t be said to be an extremely high end and luxurious place, it was still the best lodging facility in Fengxi Valley.
The company’s benefits have always been good, but none had thought the facilities for this vacation-outing occasion would be this good.
They really wanted to look for Qin Fanglu and say a few sincere words of ‘lip service’ to him, but they couldn’t find him when they looked around.
Kiki then said, “Everyone can go back to your rooms and rest first, Mr. Qin is currently going to the resort’s clinic.”
Clinic? Is Mr. Qin sick?
Kiki reassured them, “Mr. Qin’s heart rate was a little too quick, I suspect it was because the work lately was too tiring, no need to be too worried about it.”
They all have heard that Qin Fanglu often works overtime till late in the night. The fact that their boss would sacrifice himself instead of his subordinates, even gave them such rich benefits, was really a bit touching.
Ruan Cunyun, who was practically bundled up in Qin Fanglu’s clothes, silently pulled the collar tighter and inwardly agreed with the others’ evaluation of Qin Fanglu.
Ruan Cunyun immediately went showering once he got into his room, then put Qin Fanglu’s jacket and pants into the washing machine.
Zhu Han’s room was on the second floor, he was leaning on the stair handrail as he scrolled on Weibo, anxiously spoke to Ruan Cunyun, “Xiao Yun, I just read a news, apparently there is a programmer who suddenly got heart attack, sudden death at work, guy was also only 30. Say, Mr. Qin….”
Ruan Cunyun turned his head, the water droplet on his hair flung to the ground, “Don’t say those kinds of things, it’s unlucky.”
“Bah bah bah!1sounds of spitting” Zhu Han immediately corrected himself, “What I mean is, let’s let him rest well these few days. Rest early, get up early, strive to let him live till 99, such an extravagant boss will definitely benefit mankind.”
The two of them joked around for a while, Zhu Han then also went for a shower.
Ruan Cunyun then took the clothes from the dryer and stared at Qin Fanglu’s clothes for a while. Then, he went out to buy some fruits and milk.
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Qin Fanglu was currently sitting in the clinic, speaking to the doctor, “Can you please do some checks on my heart rate? I felt my heart beating a little too fast, I don’t know if there are any problems.”
The doctor took a look at the tall calm-looking adult man across from him. Above-the-standard physique and healthy complexion, not looking like someone with some condition or disease.
But he still took out the equipment and bound it onto Qin Fanglu’s upper arm.
After checking, the doctor said, “74 beats per minute, no problem, very healthy.”
Qin Fanglu stated his condition, “I could hear the sounds of my heart beat, and the beat is also pretty hard.”
The doctor checked once again and then pointed at the black numbers written on the white sheet, “You are really very healthy, all numbers are within normal area, you can be rest assured.”
He stayed in the clinic for 10 minutes and his heart rate has calmed down somewhat during that time. Qin Fanglu believes in data and numbers, he thought it should be him who was overthinking things.
The doctor also casually advised, “Although the numbers are within normal range, you should still pay attention to rest, sleep earlier. Young people often stay up late, very susceptible to heart conditions.”
Once Qin Fanglu was back in his room, he tidied up his luggage as he reassessed his own daily routine.
Waking up at 7, work out at the gym for an hour, wash up and have breakfast, start working at 9, then watch some anime, draw, or play games after work, moreover he also never stayed up all night no matter how busy he was. He ate three meals a day regularly, had balanced nutrition, and went to routine check up, and no health problems whatsoever theoretically.
Qin Fanglu only believed in science, he was ready to observe again.
Suddenly intermittent light vibrations could be heard in the room, Qin Fanglu didn’t pay it any attention at first, but then that sound became increasingly clear, like something rustling inside the walls.
Qin Fanglu’s brows creased slightly. Putting on his glasses, he scoured the room for that noise and then saw a black flying insect the size of half a palm spread its wings and flew over, buzzing like a bomber aircraft.
Qin Fanglu suddenly retreated his leg, his body tight muscle tense as a string, rooted in the spot. His petrified body stood still in the middle of the room.
That sound turned out to be a flying insect’s wings vibrating.
Qin Fanglu didn’t fear reptiles2Reptiles is 爬虫 (literally crawling bugs) in chinese, that’s why the author made this comparison, but he was afraid of flying insects, especially this kind of giant fighter jet that made a lot of noises.
The flying bug was chaotically bumping around in the room, Qin Fanglu cautiously moved around, searching around for his best weapon, his heart pounding hard, back cold with sweat.
Then he realized that the three best weapons were all hiding at home, eating cat food. Qin Fanglu didn’t have a unit of cat in his hands, he was a lone army. After deadlocked for a while, he decided to abandon offense and was going to retreat out of the room to request some help from the attendants.
Escape may be shameful but sure is useful.
A gust of wind followed as Qin Fanglu pulled the door open, almost bumping against Ruan Cunyun who was standing in front.
Ruan Cunyun also looked surprised, he was bunching up his clothes while his hands seemed to still be carrying something, and was about to ring the doorbell.
“Mr-, Mr. Qin.” Ruan Cunyun lifted the things in his hands, “I came to return the clothes.”
Qin Fanglu was holding the door open with one hand and was temporarily at a loss of words, “Uh… Yes, you can give it to me.”
Just as he stretched out his hands to take them, the flying bug flew past as it buzzed, brushing the back of Qin Fanglu’s head. His expression changed as he dodged to the side.
He was obviously losing his composure, Ruan Cunyun was also affected and became nervous, “Mr. Qin, is there anything I can help?”
Qin Fanglu frankly said, “There’s a bug in the room, can fly, really big.”
……I can’t handle it.
Ruan Cunyun pointed to the room and said, “Then Mr. Qin, I will go in and take a look? Is it alright?”
Qin Fanglu opened the door and stood aside, curtly replied, “Go in.”
Ruan Cunyun muttered ‘sorry for the intrusion’ then took off his shoes and went inside. He put down the things he carried and looked around the room, spotting the chaotically flying big bug, and casually grabbed a vase with wide rim provided by the resort, “Mr. Qin, are you going to use this?”
Qin Fanglu shook his head, “No.”
The flying bug was flapping its wings on the wall, the clear and fine sounds of its vibrating wings gave Qin Fanglu goosebumps, but Ruan Cunyun seemed as if he couldn’t hear it. With the vase in his hand, he calmly approached the bug closer.
Ruan Cunyun skillfully flipped the vase, quickly, accurately, and ferociously trapping the bug inside the vase, as if he was performing a magic trick.
Qin Fanglu instantly felt at ease.
After blocking the rim of the vase, Ruan Cunyun walked out of the room and released it, the fighter jet’s buzzing sounds were heard, free at last.
Qin Fanglu was impressed, “Thank you, that’s impressive.”
“No need for thanks, Mr. Qin.” Ruan Cunyun smiled, showing his signature little tiger teeth.
Qin Fanglu’s heart beat chaotically, “Are you not afraid of bugs?”
Ruan Cunyun replied, “Not really, at least most bugs can’t harm humans…. I’ve never been afraid of insects.”
Ruan Cunyun then pointed at the small bag he had carried, his voice went smaller, “Mr. Qin, your clothes are inside the bag, thank you for letting me borrow them today….. I have warmed some milk there and also cut the fruits, maybe it can help you sleep better.”
For the first time in his whole life, Qin Fanglu was at a loss of words, the last time someone gave him warm milk was probably when he was in 3rd grade of elementary school, prepared by his old mother.
Ruan Cunyun gritted his teeth and continued, “I heard your heart felt a little uncomfortable, Zhu Han said one needs to rest earlier, so I prepared those…. It’s fine if you don’t like them, I just wanted to say you should take better care of your health, Zhu Fang needs Mr. Qin.”
——Fuck, he actually just wanted to thank his boss, why is it that the more he talked the more unlucky it is! Ruan Cunyun really wanted to dig a hole and bury himself.
Qin Fanglu actually didn’t hear it clearly, because currently his heart was beating fast, deafening him with its pounding.
Ruan Cunyun, in a hurry to leave, said, “Thank you, Mr. Qin. I’m going back first.”
Qin Fanglu was stunned for a while, when he saw Ruan Cunyun opening the door, he called out to him, “Ruan Cunyun.”
Ruan Cunyun turned his head, “En?”
Qin Fanglu composed himself, “Good night.”
Ruan Cunyun smiled, flashing those tiger fangs, “Good night, Mr. Qin. If you still want to catch some bugs, you can send me a We-, send me an email.”
He cut himself mid-sentence, because he still hadn’t had Mr. Qin’s Wechat.
The bug has flown away, Ruan Cunyun has also gone away, the room felt unusually empty.
Qin Fanglu stood motionless by the doorway, his heart beating too fast and too chaotic.
Disregarding the time that was already late, he went straight to the clinic and in front of the astonished gaze, put forward a demand, “I want to buy a heart rate monitor.”
Everything was found to be normal, but Qin Fanglu was doubtful and puzzled.
After eating the fruit and drinking the said-to-be-able-to-help-with-sleep warm milk, Qin Fanglu suffered from insomnia for the first time. He was tossing around, unable to sleep for half of the night because of his heart pounding onto his ribcage.
Is milk really not meant as a stimulant??3提神 basically means something that makes you feel refreshed or awake
The author has something to say:
Milk: I’m not taking this blame.
Translator’s note:
Hi! Sorry for the month-long hiatus!!! I was (still am tho T-T) busy with life, I’m about to go abroad for my Master’s and this country somewhat makes everything more complicated (and full of extortion, long live the land of greed, motherfucking extortion as if they can’t live without extorting someone, racism, and holy people wannabes!!!)
I’m going to start posting again but my it’s still sporadic, maybe once a few months if I’m busy with adaptation and such :”)
Sorry for the long wait and thank you for the patience! Wish me luck and sanity please!
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