The Villain Runs Wild

Ch 11 – Second Generation Ancestor x Illegitimate Child: Blue Butterfly

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“That’s not a guest, it’s a pet.”

Lin Sui brushed Song Yunqing’s hand off, not even lifting his eyelids as he continued to browse through the book in his hands.

This was the latest news on luxury car development.
As a standard silkpants, the original owner was particularly fond of cigars, fine wine, and luxury cars, especially cars, which was best illustrated by the vehicles arranged in his garage.
Song Yunqing was especially good at adapting to his tastes, so it was no wonder he was able to make the original owner, who was so hard to talk to, treat him extra specially.

Song Yunqing thought his standoffishness was because he was still angry, little did he imagine that the real malicious original owner was already dead.

“When did you start rasing this plaything? You didn’t have this type of hobby before.”

Song Yunqing frowned slightly, looking at Yan Qin with a puzzled expression.

Song Yunqing didn’t recognise that the young man in front of him was the Yan family’s illegitimate son.
He had never participated in Yan Zhou’s and the young master’s actions, simply turning a blind eye to them, so before when Yan Qin had been bullied by Yan Zhou and ended up with a bloody nose and a swollen face, Song Yunqing hadn’t even given him a second look.
Naturally, he didn’t remember.

He only thought he was the plaything Lin Sui was keeping, and was a little caught off guard by these unexpected things.
He never knew Lin Sui liked men, since the people he gathered in his arms when he played around drinking and racing cars were also women.

But because the family didn’t let him mess around before he was an adult to avoid harming his health, and adding on the fact that the young master himself was very picky, he’d never done anything that crossed the line, but now…..
Song Yunqing looked at Yan Qin, a little more inquisitive.

Could this be the reason behind Lin Sui’s change of heart, to the point that he was even trying to take the university exam himself?

“Have you been abroad for so long that you feel everything is novel now that you’ve returned? Do you also have to ask that?”

Lin Sui almost had the four letters for ‘nosy’ written out on his face, and closed the book in his hands.

“Alright, I won’t ask, as long you like it, little ancestor.
Did you take a fancy to any of the styles? I’ll give it to you.”

Song Yunqing spoke as if he were asking for forgiveness, leaning forward toward him as his long silver hair scattered like moonlight over Lin Sui’s body.

Under his lenses, he looked at Lin Sui’s arrogant appearance, his eyes gentle and clear.

Yan Qin drew back his gaze, hiding his unexplainable suffocation.
It was probably the weather acting up.

“There’s nothing to like.”

Lin Sui was disinterested and, catching sight of the servants setting up the tableware, he walked towards the dining table.

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“Thank you Mrs Chen, for still remembering the dishes I like to eat.”

Song Yunqing looked at the dishes on the table, and smiled at Mrs Chen.

Mrs Chen didn’t say anything, only bowing with a smile and going into the kitchen.

Song Yunqing indicated to Yan Qin, and sat down next to Lin Sui.

Yan Qin was originally planing on going to the kitchen to eat after they had finished, but since Song Yunqing spoke he had no option but to stop in his steps and cast an inquiring glance towards Lin Sui.

Lin Sui nodded non-committally, grabbing a towel to clean his hands and looking at the dishes on the table.

Yan Qin sat down opposite Lin Sui and began to eat, silent as usual.

“I’ll fill you a bowl of soup to warm up your stomach first, have you had a proper meal while I was abroad?”

“Why are you acting like an old lady.”

Lin Sui looked at Song Yunqing a little strangely as he spoke, not knowing what he was playing at.

Song Yunqing had coaxed the original owner in the past, but he had never been this particularly attentive.

However, it didn’t matter.
Since he wanted to act, Lin Sui also had no qualms about accepting it.

The intimate words between the young men floated to the other side of the table, and Yan Qin lowered his head, unconsciously wrinkling his eyebrows.

Song Yunqing didn’t stay long after he finished eating, because Lin Sui drove him away.

“I want to study, don’t disturb my learning.”

Lin Sui’s reason was fair enough to leave Song Yunqing unable to refute, so he had no other option but to leave.
Before leaving, he cast Yan Qin a glance.

Yan Qin looked back at him calmly, and closed the door after he left.

Inexplicably, the air seemed much more fresh.

Lin Sui went for a walk in the garden for a while, then went to study just as he’d told Song Yunqing.

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Yan Qin saw the book of exam questions in his hands, and saw the young master didn’t need to draft his calculations as he read the text.
He moved his lips, but didn’t know what he should say, so he kept quiet.

As usual, he waited on Lin Sui after he finished bathing.
Yan Qin crouched on the ground as he helped him wipe his feet, and a book was thrown in front of him.

“Read it to me later, treat is as some bedtime reading.”

Lin Sui’s whole body had softened from the hot water, even his voice carried a bit of a lazy mood, so mixed with the soft nasal sound, and without looking at that pair of eyes, it seemed like he was acting spoiled.

Yan Qin agreed.
Just as he looked at the contents of the book, he immediately went towards the table of contents, his eyes trembling, and a strange expression flashed past.

This was a book that talked about business, it didn’t seem like one of those widely-circulated, popular success books, every page contained a business case, spanning every kind of industry including investment, financing, taking the right gambles, etc., some cases were successes and others failures.
It was genuine knowledge1.

It could be said that this was an extremely fine and advanced book for business enlightenment.
The author of the case analyses had a concise and shrewd tone, and reading through his conclusions was a bit like suddenly seeing the light.
If Yan Qin had not been in the wrong place, he would have already hungrily read through it.

The book didn’t have a name or even the author’s signature, it just had a plain black cover.

Yan Qin couldn’t help but look towards the young master that was lying down with the quilt wrapped around his body, his expression was tired, his fair face a light pink from the influence of the water vapour, totally unaware that the book he’d casually thrown at him contained such important knowledge, even treating it as some bedtime reading.

For a split second, he wondered whether Lin Sui knew and was using it as a way to test him, but then felt it was unnecessary.
Considering Lin Sui’s position and status, there was no need for him to do more than was required.
He might just think this kind of business knowledge was tedious, so he had fetched it to help him sleep.

Yan Qin’s voice carried an unusual raspiness as he began to talk, low and reserved.
The small nightlights by the headboard were soft, Lin Sui closed his eyes, really feeling a little drowsy.

He hoped Yan Qin would live up to this well-intentioned gift with his abilities.
These cases were actually things Yan Qin would not be able to find in this world, they were part of the things he had experienced, even things he had done, and he hoped he wouldn’t let his teachings down.

The corners of Lin Sui’s mouth rose, looking forward to a future Yan Qin who knew everything for a long time.

Yan Qin looked at Lin Sui, sleeping soundly, and his voice gradually fell.

He gazed at the page of the book in his hands, trying to penetrate through the writing and touch the soul of it’s nameless senior.

He could make out the person’s temper from their way of speaking and their style of commentary, and adding onto that their way of handling the cases, this senior was a ruthless person who sometimes used the most extreme and radical methods to bet small and win big2.

——Astute and unwavering, a gambler with exuberant ambition.

This book required careful study and repeated analysis, like a game of chess.
Yan Qin analysed each case from three angles, the point of view of a spectator, the black pieces, and the white pieces, which was extremely time-consuming.
In the midst of this immersion, the sky unwittingly turned into twilight.

There was still an hour before he had to go to school, Yan Qin noted down the page number, closed the book, and put it aside, planning on closing his eyes and getting some rest.

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As he glanced at the large bed, his line of sight paused.

Lin Sui didn’t sleep neatly.
The weak, pale light of the sky travelled across the quilt and encased his skin in gentle radiance, and the lines from his shoulders to his legs flowed smoothly.

Yan Qin didn’t know what to do with his hands, he wavered between just ignoring it and wanting to pull up the quilt for Lin Sui.

The corner of the quilt was lightly pulled up.
Yan Qin was worried this temperamental master would be roused awake, so he covered him little by little.

It was at that time, that he discovered Lin Sui had a small blue birthmark on his thigh that looked just like a butterfly.

Lin Sui turned over, still fast asleep, and that butterfly brushed past his palm, and in that fleeting instant it was like it swept across his soul.

Yan Qin pulled back his hand as though he had been scalded, looking at Lin Sui’s face slightly flustered.

The young master still had his eyes closed, his beautiful face looked gentle and harmless, like a deceptive, poisonous butterfly at rest.

When he lay still again he was no longer pressing down on the quilt, so Yan Qin smoothly helped cover him with it, and returned to his own bed.

His body was clearly tired and sleepy, but for some reason he couldn’t fall asleep.

He still had a remnant of that satiny touch on his hand, as if the blue butterfly had been trapped in the palm of his hand.

The sun was high in the sky, but it was hidden by a thick layer of clouds.

When Lin Sui opened his eyes it was already 10 o’clock, but the sky outside was overcast, and it looked like it was dusk instead.

“The Weather Forecasting Office has issued a yellow warning for a torrential rainstorm predicted to approach within twenty-four hours.
In five hours, most areas are expected to experience over fifty millimetres…..”

The mechanical female voice echoed indoors, Lin Sui pushed down the button, and the room became quiet.

Lin Sui flipped through that book, and the corners of his mouth slightly rose as he saw the marks left behind on it.

Yan Qin was a very diligent, studious person.
In the past, he used to go into the library pavilion to borrow books to bring back, and could spend countless days reading the jade slips inside the cave.

Thinking about the past, Lin Sui pressed down the corners of his mouth again.

He washed his face and rinsed his mouth to go eat, then returned to his room afterwards and turned on his computer.

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The System looked at the data and asked: [What are you doing?]

Lin Sui: [If you really are stupid don’t come out and announce it to the world, be quiet.]

Actually, Lin Sui was not too willing to use ‘Will of Heaven’ to refer to the System, because it was only the Heavenly Law in a narrow sense.
It existed in the book he had transmigrated into, and it was the guardian spirit of the plot, so it was actually not too smart.

At present, Lin Sui didn’t feel like arguing with it, he had things to do and didn’t want his attention to be scattered.

The System was frozen by Lin Sui’s words, but thinking that Lin Sui seemed to be properly completing the mission, it just fell silent.

Cold gusts of wind blew away the dead leaves on the road.

Inside a small villa, Yan Zhou listened to Song Yunqing with wide eyes.

“Are you saying A-Sui is keeping that person by his side, and that person is doing well?”

Song Yunqing nodded: “Help me investigate his history, he looked to be a teenager about the same age as A-Sui.”

“No need to investigate, nobody knows who that bastard is better than me.
As expected of a outsider-born dog, he’s no different from his mother, truly shameless and desperate to get close to A-Sui.
No wonder A-Sui helped him vent his anger before.”

Yan Zhou’s expression warped in anger, and he sneered.

“I reckon A-Sui is doing this on a whim, is he worthy of being by A-Sui’s side? Yunqing, we’re brothers, you have to stand with me.”

“Don’t go too far.”

Song Yunqing pointed out, his eyes carrying a thoughtful look.

Lin Sui had been fickle in the past, but the current Lin Sui was even harder to pin down.

 

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1 The term in chinese is 乾貨 lit.
dry goods, it refers to a collection of practical knowledge that is simple and relevant, without any extraneous information.
Exactly what you need to know, no more and no less. Top.

2 以小博大 lit.
use small to obtain big, which means to take a gamble on something small in the hopes of getting something bigger.
Looking for an equivalent english idiom got me ‘to throw a sprat to catch a mackerel’ but i’ve never heard that before in my life lol. Top.