Hi! This is the Free Extras Collection for the story “Dr. Jiang is pregnant with his nemesis’s child”. The main story and extras were translated by Ckanda, check them out before reading this if you haven’t.
There are three parts of this extra:
- 2 Chapters of Li Yalei X Huo Chengchun
- 1 Chapter QnA with Shen Jiang couple (translated already as chapter 97 by Ckanda)
- 3 Chapters of Shen Fangyu X Jiang Xu, What if line
The night in A city is bustling with feasts and pleasure-seeking1灯红酒绿 (red lights, green wine) meaning feasting (drinking) and debauchery activities. The cold clear moon is shrouded in thin gauze, quietly gazing at the bustling streets.
“Xiao Liu,” The drunk Li Yalei told the driver, “Take Zhang Cheng home first, then take me back home.”
“Okay, Boss Li,” Xiao Liu answered, then asked, “Mr. Zhang, could you give me your address?”
After asking for a while, there was no sound whatsoever. Xiao Liu was blanked, and asked again, “Mr. Zhang?”
Li Yalei also shook and shoved the person sitting next to him in the back seat, “Zhang Cheng, I’m calling you!”
“En?” followed by a vague sound, the person leaning against the car window half-dazedly slightly regained his clarity. “Zhang Cheng?” He said, “Isn’t Zhang Cheng in Li Yalei’s car? He said he’ll take him back.”
There were no lights on in the car, and relying solely on the outside light from the window isn’t clear for looking at the person inside. Li Yalei stared at the dimly lit silhouette shone on by the street light for a moment, then suddenly realized:
“Huo Chengchun?” He asked, “Why are you in my car?”
“Damn it,” Huo Chengchun was startled awake by his words, “Isn’t this my car?”
“You can see clearly that this is my driver,” Li Yalei analyzed. “Did you get on the wrong car with Zhang Cheng?”
Huo Chengchun: “…”
He called Wang Bo and sure enough, Zhang Cheng was sleeping soundly in the back seat of his chauffeur.
“You ask where Zhang Cheng’s house is, take him home. If he’s not yet conscious, then take him to my house first.” Huo Chengchun explained to Wang Bo, then said to Li Yalei, “Let me stay at your house for the night. Anyway, I’m free tomorrow, too lazy to bother.”
“Hey, you are being pretty familiar on your own ah?” said Li Yalei.
“We have been old roommates for so many years, it’s not like I have never been to your house,” Huo Chengchun said. “Or is it that Boss Li’s golden house hides a pampered someone? I won’t go if you have a partner, avoid suspicion2避个嫌 means to avoid causing misunderstanding, suspicions, and resentment, especially between lovers..”
Li Yalei paused for a while before compromising, “Then you come.”
When the two of them arrived home, the night was already deep, even the moon was hidden in the clouds.
Huo Chengchun sizing up Li Yalei’s mansion for a moment, sighing and said, “You changed houses? It seems that Boss Li has been doing well in recent years.”
“If you hadn’t left the country to study in the past and inherited your old man’s3老爷 can be used to refer to grandfather or ‘patriarch’ which in this story refers to his father family business honestly, maybe your house is even bigger than mine now,” Li Yalei threw a pair of slippers to him and asked the housekeeper to bring him unused pajamas and underwear.
“Hurry up and take a shower,” Li Yalei pushed him into the bathroom. “I warn you, you are prohibited to vomit at my house.”
Huo Chengchun responded vaguely, and Li Yalei turned to the housekeeper and said, “Tidy up the guest room. When he comes out later, take him over to sleep.”
“Okay, Mr. Li.” The housekeeper replied and went to the guest room to put on the clean bedsheets again.
Li Yalei took his clothes and went to the master bedroom’s bathroom to take a shower. His eyes felt a bit heavy after drinking. He deliberately lowered the water temperature a bit to sober himself up a little.
There was a sound system connected in the bathroom, emitting relaxing and soothing piano tunes along with the stream of water washing down. Li Yalei usually really liked to listen to these, but today, for some reason, it feels like there are some indescribable rueful and melancholy emotion in it. The more he listened, the more blocked his heart felt. Finally deciding to just turn off the sound system.
He changed into his pajamas and came out of the bathroom without much thought and directly laid down on the bed. The result is a scream sounded, scaring him to immediately sit up, then heard Huo Chengchun complain, “You’re crushing down my hand!”
“Fuck” Li Yalei couldn’t comprehend how this man suddenly appear on his own bed. “Didn’t I let you sleep in the guest room?”
“There are so many rooms in your house, who knows which one is the guest room,” Huo Chengchun, who had been woken up halfway through sleeping, was clearly very fidgety. “I just casually looked for a bed that looked barely sleepable.”
What did he call barely sleepable?
Li Yalei angrily said, “Do you know who I looked for to design this bed?”
Huo Chengchun clearly didn’t have the slightest concern about how expensive the bed he had seized was. He condescended to move to the side of the expensive bed, saying to Li Yalei, “Alright, alright. I’m giving half to you, okay? You are speaking too much”
Coincidentally, Li Yalei’s door was knocked on at this moment, he sighed, saying “Come in, what’s up?”
The housekeeper pushed the door open, looking a bit nervous. “I apologize, Mr. Li. The gentleman you just brought back is missing. I didn’t see him after I finished making the bed.”
Li Yalei slapped the person beside him a few times, saying to the housekeeper, “He is here. You don’t have to be worried, go to sleep.”
“Li Yalei, what sickness do you have, still hitting people’s ass?” Huo Chengchun angrily said.
The man was tightly wrapped in the blanket, only exposing a small patch of brown dyed hair on top of his head sticking up, making him look somewhat harmless.
The housekeeper always felt the atmosphere was a bit strange, and upon hearing Li Yalei’s words, she closed the door for them at lightning speed.
After Huo Chengchun made such a fuss, Li Yalei also sobered up a lot. He rubbed his temples, saying to Huo Chengchun, “Don’t sleep, talk to me for a while.”
“Why would I?”
“Because you are currently staying under my roof4寄人篱下 mean lodging on someone’s house/dwelling, but can also be translated as relying on someone’s charity., and still lying down on my bed,” Li Yalei said, “Otherwise, I will now quickly ask Xiao Liu to throw you out to sleep on the streets”
Huo Chengchun: “…”
“Li Yalei,” he said, “You can still treat your brothers like this. If it were Jiang Xu, I would like to see whether you would still drag him out?”
“Can’t you not mention that forbidden topic5Raw: 你能不能别哪壶不开提哪壶. The 哪壶不开提哪壶 translates to ‘which pot shouldn’t be opened and which one can be opened’ means knowing to not mention something taboo between people?”
“Don’t you want me to chat with you because you’re upset about Jiang Xu’s matter?” Huo Chengchun, who have to remember gratitude6吃人嘴短拿人手软 translates to ‘if you eat someone’s food (吃人), you have to be careful with what you said (嘴短 or mouth short). If you had been helped (拿人), you are reluctant to make it hard for them (手软 or soft hands) even if they had fault., sat up, leaning against a few fluffy and soft pillows lazily. “Let’s chat, come, let’s start from why you liked him back then.”
Actually, it was Li Yalei who first fell in love with Jiang Xu, but he could hide it well and no one had seen it. Later, Huo Chengchun also liked Jiang Xu. He was frank and outspoken, turning to tell Li Yalei, not expecting Li Yalei, who had been silent for so long told Huo Chengchun that he actually also liked Jiang Xu.
The two looked at each other in dismay for a while, their friendship suddenly in imminent danger.
Huo Chengchun is a high-profile kind of person, his pursuit of someone is also enthusiastic and straightforward. Annoying Li Yalei so much he had no choice but to follow suit in being high-profile, fearing that he may be too low-key and let Huo Chengchun catch7In Chinese, pursuing people is 追 means to chase. Catching up 追到 means they succeed in their pursuit Jiang Xu first.
However, no one had expected that both of them would be decisively rejected by Jiang Xu, not even giving them the opportunity to continue chasing him.
The friendship between Huo Chengchun and Li Yalei that had been slightly cracked, was once again healed due to their sense of schadenfreude.
“Liked him …. Really extremely beautiful.” Li Yalei said.
Huo Chengchun ‘tsk’-ed, “How superficial.”
“And yours are deeper?”
“I like his good figure,” Huo Chengchun said. “That proportion, that waist, that leg, No need for me to say, really beautiful ah.” He paused a while, then added, “Especially suitable from the front…..That leg hooking on the waist certainly also looks really nice.”
Li Yalei: “…”
“Do you think you are the 181 means the top, 0 means the bottom. Here Li Yalei basically said, ‘between the 2 of you, you think you are the top?’ ah?” Li Yalei questioned, “Are you even taller than Jiang Xu?”
Huo Chengchun rolled his eyes, “Your mother, don’t think short Gong9攻 Gong means the attacker or top is unsuitable Gong, will you?”
Li Yalei snorted twice, clearly not really agreeing with him.
“But in fact, it’s not just these things,” Huo Chengchun was too lazy to argue with him, minding his own business. “I just think he is a pretty good person. Our school used to have a lot of stray cats, and some were inexplicably injured. He often hurried to send cats to the neighboring school’s veterinary department looking for people to let the teachers examine them. I’ve met him several times, and at that time, I felt that he was really kind and soft-hearted. I don’t know how to say it, anyway I just like him.”
“I seem to have some impression of what you just said,” Li Yalei said. “I remember he also joined some stray cats and dogs rescue associations. Shen Fangyu then also joined, saying it was all for publicity, everyday filling up the corridor to send out donation flyers.”
Speaking of this, the two of them suddenly fell silent.
Li Yalei, “Impossible, could those two have gotten along at that time?”
Huo Chengchun, “If I had known earlier, I would have joined that association too.”
After a moment of silence, Huo Chengchun finally nudged Li Yalei with his elbow, “Tell me the truth, how did you fall in love with him?”
“Just…” Li Yalei paused for a moment, probably because of the alcohol clouding his head, his desire to pour out his mind also increased, those old things buried in his heart also came out.
“Once when we were conducting a large-scale experiment, we were split into the same group. Because I kept getting one data wrong, the report couldn’t be submitted and couldn’t leave.”
“At that time, it looked like it was going to rain outside, and neither of us brought umbrellas. I asked him to go back first. He said he and I were a group and couldn’t leave me alone. He insisted on guiding me to finish the experiment and hand in the assignment together before leaving.”
“Then I told him, why don’t I brave the rain to go back first and grab an umbrella, wait a little for me to go back and send him home. He said no, he’s in a hurry and needs to go to the study room for self-study. After that, he draped his coat on his head and straightforwardly brave the rain.”
“At that moment, I subconsciously chased after him. He ran especially fast. When I caught up with him in the teaching building, his coat was already wrung dry. Seeing me, he was quite surprised. I remember he asked me, ‘Are the people in your dorm room all love studying so much?'”
“What a joke, I originally didn’t plan to self-study, but that day I actually honestly really sat in the study room all night.” Li Yalei couldn’t help but let out a laugh because of his old self, his eyes showed great nostalgia.
“I still remember him taking over my coat and said that he wrung it faster than me. The rain water dripped over from the clothes, his hair was wet hanging down his forehead, making his face look especially white, especially clean.” Li Yalei bowed his head and laughed, “I looked at that face of his, my heart beat louder than the sound of rain, and later…. I fell in love.”
At dusk, there were white lights at the entrance of the teaching building, there was a boy with a distinctly clear appearance and eyes, and the heavy rain recording his heart beat.
Even though the heart beating at that time had now been ground countless times by time, the sight is still clearly preserved in his mind, even the details are particularly clear.
Huo Chengchun, after hearing it, sighed and kneaded Li Yalei’s shoulder, “It’s really beautiful ah, but my youth is already over, and so was yours!”
“Ai10嗐 (hai) is like a sigh full of regret,” Li Yalei withdrew his thoughts from his memory, “youth has long ended, and for me, the last time Jiang Xu talked to me… actually has been a long time”
“Oh yo11哦呦 (oh you) was like an exclamation, tinged with regret/dismay, what you’re saying…” Huo Chengchun joked, “It seems that Boss Li has suffered more than just this emotional injury.”
Li Yalei retorted, “Have you not been in relationship12The word used here is actually 没谈过 literally translates to haven’t talked, but it means being in romantic relationship here for these years abroad?”
“I have before ah,” Huo Chengchun helplessly said. “On average, one relationship a year, falling out once every year. How could a suitable person be so easily found?”
“What about you?” Huo Chengchun asked Li Yalei, “You can’t find it either?”
“I don’t have as many as you,” Li Yalei said. “I have been in one for several years, with a little star13As in celebrity… But now he’s a big star. After I made him famous, he thought I was not good enough for him, so he left.”
“You are too miserable,” Huo Chengchun said. “Which star, tell me the name, avoided one thunder14雷 or thunder also used to refer to terrifying existence or event.”
Li Yalei: “…”
Li Yalei also didn’t want to bother about the past romantic entanglement. Just as long as each of them lived peacefully with no trouble, therefore he didn’t tell Huo Chengchun his name, instead he changed the topic, “How long are you planning to stay back here this time?”
“I don’t know either.”
Huo Chengchun returned this time to accept a teaching position at A Medical University, teaching while conducting scientific research.
“Your family’s old man doesn’t want you to inherit the family property?”
“I’m not you, the only seedling and sole successor from three generations,” Huo Chengchun said nonchalantly. “What my dad doesn’t lack the most is a son. I also don’t want to vie for family properties with my red-eyed brothers, I just want to live quietly and peacefully focus on scientific research and academic pursuits.”
“Okay ah, Huo Lao shi,” Li Yalei said, “Really have a clear purpose15思想觉悟 means to be clearly opinionated and sober.”
Huo Chengchun let out a nonchalant laugh, “Don’t underestimate me. Don’t you know that the scientists who made great achievements in the Middle Ages were all Fu erdai16富二代 or second-generation wealth refers to children who are born from wealthy parents. Maybe I’ll be the next Nobel laureate, okay?”
“If you really win the Nobel Prize,” said Li the study-slag17学渣 or study-slag means underachiever academically, “I will definitely win over the contract for the venue’s drinking water18If you don’t get the text, Li Yalei was saying he would win the contract to be the one supplying the nobel prize ceremony’s drinking water (as in those plain water sold in bottles or gallons)..”
“Isn’t your family running a running19As in tap water, the water you see when you turn on faucets water company?”
“Business always needs to be expanded,” Li Yalei said. “My family now has a wide variety, there are all kinds of beverages.”
“Boss Li is impressive.”
Huo Chengchun’s mutual bragging of business with him is done, Li Yalei also didn’t answer. The room suddenly became quiet, and the atmosphere inside also became somewhat subtle.
According to Huo Chengchun’s personality, he would say something to break this strange atmosphere, but he is also a bit tired, too lazy to find a topic.
This drink, had declared the end of their youth era.
The person they had once pursued together, now had also become someone else’s lover.
Although the passage of time being so long ago made them feel not much sadness, there is still some indescribable emotion of regret left.
It seems to indicate the complete end and conclusion of a period of time.
And the witnesses who understood and familiar the most with this period of time, are only each other for both of them.
“Huo Chengchun,” Li Yalei looked at the dazed20 As in lost in thought and silent man beside him, suddenly saying, “You say… should we give us a try?”
Huo Chengchun’s eyelashes trembled silently, but when he turned his head, his eyes were only filled with teasing and frivolity.
He raised his brows, looking at Li Yalei, “The two of us?”
“En,” Li Yalei said, “Knowing the root and background21As in both knows each other’s strength and weakness, have a deep understanding of each other, at least our aesthetics are similar. It’s always better than meeting people from those messy apps. Let’s just treat it as blind dates. Let’s try to get along first, if things don’t go well, let’s just say it directly. It won’t affect anything.”
“Does Boss Li consider me an intern staff at your company?”
“The salary will be based on an official employee. During the assessment period, both of us can call a stop. Huo Lao shi, think it over?”
In the spacious and bright big bedroom, Li Yalei gazed at him, expression that of perfect concentration. The man’s facial contour was profound, and the light cast a perfect shadow on his face, thick and long eyelashes decorated his sincere gaze.
Huo Chengchun thought for a moment, his almond eyes contained some indolent smile.
“Alright,” he said, “then give it a try.”