The Stars In Your Eyes - Chapter 200

Bai Yutang stepped down from the bus, then walked to the tall building where he had worked for more than one year. The familiar 150 meter from the bus station to the building brings him a lot of memories. The trees lined on an asymmetrical patch, the brick road pathway, the office workers walk in their battlesuit armor.

Bai Yutang took his time and leisurely walked. The morning summer sun was so warm, accompanying each of his steps. He walked past the familiar large lobby, then queued to the familiar lift to the 9th floor where he worked.

It’s been five seasons he has worked in this firm. He learns a lot. About working, and other things too. Bai Yutang didn’t regret every single second he spent here. His heart felt light and warm. He didn’t understand why he needed to stress himself out with so many negative emotions before he reached this stage.

Today, he submitted his resignation letter to his superior and to the HR department.

His superior, Yao Mingyu, didn’t flinch. He just says one simple sentence when Bai Yutang reaches the door to walk out from his office room.

“Good luck with your next job.”

Bai Yutang turned his body slightly bowed. “Thank you, Mr. Yao.”

Yao Mingyu didn’t even ask him where he was going to work next. Those words may just be thrown out of courtesy. Or maybe a slight pity? But Bai Yutang is sure there’s no regret or guilt in that sentence.

The HR department who received his resignation letter called him to her office, asked about the standard issue and other things that need to be wrapped. Bai Yutang needs to work for another one month until his resignation is effective. But he won’t be allowed to touch anything related to clients or vendors anymore.

Bai Yutang answered he still had no new job nor applied for it. The HR looked at him with a look of disbelief in her face. Who didn’t know the first rule to resign is looking for a new job before you lose the old one. But then she remembered the rumor about this skinny man. Maybe this man truly didn’t need money since he had a big backup behind him. No differences made whether he has a job or not.

Bai Yutang immediately went back to the first state where he worked here, doing small things needed for his senior teammate. All the work related to clients and vendors directly transfer to his junior.

Yes, five months ago a new junior joined their team, replacing Yan Qiuyue who got a new job at another firm.

It was Yan Qiuyue who told him about the rumor that circulated in the office. Bai Yutang wants to laugh, yet he can’t say anything. No one asked him to clarify this matter. And Bai Yutang also learned from his university years, that nothing he said could be heard.

At that time, even Yan Qiuyue didn’t ask him. Bai Yutang still remembers Yan Qiuyue’s farewell dinner in December, followed by karaoke night. Yan Qiuyue was already drunk and circled by her colleagues.

The room was loud, full of laughter. Yet Bai Yutang only sits in the corner. Typing on his phone, chatting with his lover. This is a common sight for everyone in the F firm. Only a few people will talk to Bai Yutang and joke with him. These few people usually come from the first division.

Since Bai Yutang often accompanied his mother in law, lots of these rich ladies who knew him worked at F firm. Some of them told their employees to contact the F firm to renovate their office buildings.

These ladies only need to see the name of Lin Caihong, Xie Lihua as Mrs. Sun Hongjia, Yang Huiyan as the old Madam Sun, and Zhou Qunfei. With the list of these women who often meet each other at the socialite party, they know this cute little guy must be really good at his work. If he was a mediocre architect, how come even old Madam Sun who was known as a difficult lady to handle, always dragged Bai Yutang everywhere each time she saw him in the party. This usually followed with Lin Caihong quarreling with old Madam Sun for kidnapping his son in law.

“You old fox, go get your own son in law! Don’t always drag mine everywhere!”

Yang Huiyan just calmly played her old lady card while asking Bai Yutang to hold her hand and carry her back to her seat. “All my sons married women, I don’t have a chance to let them find a cute young man like him to be my son in law anymore. Oh, my knees are hurting so much, come TangTang, help this old lady to sit.”

Lin Caihong hates this old fox who even tried to imitate a rheumatic old lady walking with unstable gait. How come his son in law was so naive to be tricked with these cheap dirty moves? If only Bai Yutang could see this old fox still wear her red 7 cm high heels to destroy her board of directors in the annual shareholder meeting.

But once again, if her son in law was not a naive guy, how come his own son tricked him to be his boyfriend for all these years.

Lin Caihong could only grit her teeth and ask for another glass of white wine when Bai Yutang helplessly massage Yang Huiyan’s shoulder.

Xie Lihua was very happy each time she met Bai Yutang when she accompanied her own mother in law. She was freed.

Yang Huiyan was also very happy. Her sons are all grown up, her grandchildren are not old enough, and she can’t ask her own daughter in law to serve her in the public or else these old foxes will accuse her of being an evil mother in law.

With these powerful fierce ladies on his back, Bai Yutang became a new icon in these socialite parties.

At first, Bai Yutang didn’t know several ladies she knew hired F firm to be their architect. These ladies were on the top, the one who contacted the firm was their employee. He only knew when they met at the D brand afternoon party and they told Bai Yutang what they want and what they expect from F firm.

With this knowledge, Bai Yutang contacted the people from the first division and told them this insight. This led to their project running smoothly and even receiving compliments.

That’s why the people from the first division are the only people who treat him warmly. Bai Yutang didn’t know, and didn’t care, whether they treat him differently because they feel thankful, or they are afraid to offend the big names behind him. After all, he brought three big clients indirectly to the first division.

That night, when Yan Qiuyue drank, she saw the skinny silent man who sat in the dark corner, didn’t even raising his head from his phone.

As his senior, Yan Qiuyue felt she needed to give this skinny man a little advice to live better. She knew Bai Yutang’s capability, and pity him for burying his talent just because he chose to be a male mistress.

So she walked to Bai Yutang and sat by his side. “Yutang, you know that you have a lot of potential. Don’t bury your talent and be blinded with money. You’re still young, you still have a chance to look for a nice young woman and bury your past. It was not good to ruin someone else’s marriage. Don’t you feel ashamed of Doctor Jian? He took you to live with him, but you did all those kinds of things behind his back. Let me tell you, those things look good now. Easy money is always tempting. But later you will regret it, trust me. When you grow old and your sugar daddy looks for another young man, you will look back and regret why you didn’t live your life in a proper way.”

Bai Yutang couldn’t believe what he heard, didn’t understand half of Yan Qiuyue’s absurd statement, and those words were just like a horrible plot in a cheap novel. He still can’t fully digest this load of information spewed by Yan Qiuyue, when she pat his shoulder. “Listen to me, just take me as your jiejie. You can do it, just focus on your work. Someday you could also buy anything you want without your sugar daddy’s support.”

Before Bai Yutang could ask anything, Yan Qiuyue already walked away and talked to her other colleague. Reminiscing of their old times, and they wished her good luck in her new place.

Bai Yutang’s hand trembled, and asked his lover to pick him up. Previously he wanted to go home by himself and reject his lover’s offer to pick him up. But after learning why those people laugh at him, and look at him as if he was a despicable trash, he needs to be by his lover’s side.

Seek for comfort. Seek for a safe place.

Once his lover called to tell him he was already outside, Bai Yutang hurriedly mumbling his goodbye to his superiors in the karaoke room, said farewell to Yan Qiuyue and hurriedly ran out.

He can’t breath. After all this time, these rumors never went away, even grew more and more evil. Architect’s circles in this city were not big. It seems he could never wash away this rumor, unless he works in another city.

Because of this, Jian Kang Lu walks on thin ice for months, since his kitten’s mood fluctuates like an atrial flutter’s1 patient electrocardiogram.

One day, when he held his kitten on his lap while both of them were playing games, suddenly his kitten asked, “Gege, do you mind if I tell people that you’re my boyfriend?”

Jian Kang Lu almost thinks that this is his kitten’s evil tactic to distract him and ruthlessly kills his character in the game. But then he realised his kitten’s eyes were dimmed and empty. He doesn’t care about the game anymore and embraces his kitten.

“That will only make me happy, baby. Very happy…” He kissed his kitten in adoration. “I’m only afraid you’ll get bullied. But rest assured, you have me here. We have each other. If you are comfortable with it, i will be honoured to be known as Mr. Bai Yutang’s husband.”

Jian Kang Lu kissed his kitten again, and again. “And let me know if someone dares to bully you. We could always sue them.”

Bai Yutang laughed, “Please don’t waste the money to pay an attorney.” He kissed his lover back. “Thank you, gege..”

Bai Yutang felt a heavy stone lifted from his chest, but nevertheless, he never had a chance to clear the rumor about himself. And somehow, he doesn’t even want to explain to these people. What for?

He endured working in this unfair environment. Not all days are bad, most are ordinary, and some even good. But still he found it hard to breathe and can’t stay calm when his bonus is less compared to the newcomer. His work was never acknowledged, most of the credit even fell to other people.

His friends tried to cheer him up, and told him to at least stay for two years, until he could get his architect license. He tried, until one day Mr. Yao praised his junior for Bai Yutang’s original design in front of the client.

This is not a new thing for him, Bai Yutang swallows it. But he couldn’t hold his emotion when his lover took him for a short surprise date later at night. His lover took him to drink in a piano lounge. Listening to the calm melody of piano, and his lover intimately kissing his cheek while feeding him the angel hair pasta with clams, he suddenly blurted, “Gege, what if i become jobless?”

His lover didn’t even hesitate to answer while tenderly wiping the oil stain on his lips, “So what? Your husband here is still capable of pampering and fulfilling all your needs.”

His lover then gave him a glass of white wine and held his hands, looking straightly to his eyes. “You’re my everything. Just do what you want to do, and let me take care of the rest. I’ll be very happy if you learn how to depend on me a little bit.”