I Really Didn’t Want to Be Famous - Chapter 24
Chapter 24: Coffeehouse
Translator: Lordbluefire
Editor: Lordbluefire
The words ‘overflowing with talent’ seemed to contain a strange smell to it when Fatty Wei said them.
At the very least, this strange feeling didn’t cause Lu Yuan’s heart to leap with joy. Besides, he felt as though he was about to be pulled to serve as a sacrificial victim.
Go there together to lose face?
Lu Yuan didn’t like such a feeling. Hence, he revealed a smile and rejected Fatty Wei’s suggestion very gently.
Drinking coffee?
Sorry.
This bro had no interest in drinking coffee!
“A`Yuan! I will treat you to supper for the whole week!”
“Do you think just a week of supper can satisfy me? You are underestimating me too much!” Lu Yuan continued to reject.
“How about something additional? I will provide cigarettes for the whole week!” Fatty Wei pondered and gritted his teeth, raising his offer.
“Do you think I’m the type of person who likes to secure petty advantages at the cost of another’s expense?” Lu Yuan narrowed his eyes and shook his head, speaking with a resolute and decisive tone as he rejected.
“In that case, what do you want me to do? You can’t possibly watch a bro like me being despised by others, right?” Fatty Wei had no more solutions.
He was like a deflated ball. His voice was filled with despair and disappointment.
“Forget it, we are bros, we are bros. Sigh, I won’t take advantage of you. Just pay for a month’s worth of cigarettes and supper and that’s a deal! Sigh, I’m such a soft-hearted guy…really…just this one time then, there will be no exceptions in the future. It’s very rare for me to accompany someone to lose face. This is really a difficult job…” Under the multicolored sunlight of the setting sun, Lu Yuan sighed with helplessness on his face. His voice was indistinct, and he had an expression like he had just suffered a great loss.
“What!” Fatty Wei’s mouth was wide open. He almost couldn’t control it and slammed his clenched fist out!
Please learn to conduct yourself properly as a human first!
………
“Later on, we will be going to a high-grade coffeehouse. We cannot lose face there, we mustn’t smoke in there!”
“I understand.”
“Also, when it comes to ordering coffee, I will be the one ordering first before you. Do you understand?”
“Yes, I will coordinate with you. You are the main lead.”
“Right. Also, don’t flirt with the waitresses there, especially for the girl that’s hired to play the piano. She is an earnest teaching assistant at Yanying… We cannot be looked down upon by others!”
“Alright. I’m not that sort of pompous person. I’m a very proper and decent man.”
“Pui (sound of spitting), stop pasting gold on your face now, alright?”
“I know, I will just act in concert with you and help you act cool!”
“You really know?”
“I really know!”
“It’s good that you understand!”
On the way there, Fatty Wei kept nagging non-stop like a busy body. His expression was one of worry, like he was very worried that this quack Lu Yuan would spoil his plans.
(Damn it, am I that sort of person?)
Lu Yuan was exceptionally speechless as he listened.
However, he really understood Fatty Wei’s meaning.
Fatty Wei’s thinking was very simple. Tonight was the time where he could posture and act cool. As for Lu Yuan, his job was to do his utmost to suppress Shen Lianjie and help Fatty Wei act cool.
Lu Yuan naturally understood these.
Tonight, he will play the role of the green leaf and act as a foil to bring out Fatty Wei’s brilliance.
His role would be that of a supporting actor.
Fatty Wei brought Lu Yuan along and turned seven to eight corners before reaching the Hengdian East Street.
“It’s this place?” After Lu Yuan inclined his head and saw the coffeehouse’s name, he had a strange expression on his face.
“Mn, right. Here!”
“Alright then.”
This coffeehouse’s name was ‘Meeting You’.
This was also the place where he had swindled Wang Jinxue into investing.
Now that he thought back to it, his swindling methods back then were truly clumsy. It was incredible that he was able to swindle Wang Jinxue.
He didn’t even have a business license…
Wait a minute!
Wang Jinxue was so smart, could he successfully continue to swindle her?
At this moment, Lu Yuan who was recalling the details suddenly understood something. After that, he seemed deflated.
He actually didn’t swindle Wang Jinxue successfully.
His swindling skills were not up to the mark yet!
Alright then.
Since he came here with this ugly fatty today, he had to work hard and train his swindling skills!
When walking in, this could be considered something familiar to Lu Yuan.
He especially followed behind Fatty Wei and bore the impulse to smoke.
This place was a high-class coffeehouse, while he was a man of quality.
At the very least, he couldn’t smoke in here.
The atmosphere of the coffeehouse was very comfortable. The dim lighting was accompanied by an elegant melody of a piano that was like flowing water, imbuing the place with a sense of literature and art.
Although it hadn’t been too long since his last visit, Lu Yuan discovered that the feeling now and then was quite different.
In the past when he had entered this coffeehouse, he would remind himself that he mustn’t throw his own face and had to be extremely prudent. But now, Lu Yuan discovered his mental state was much more carefree than before.
Maybe this was because having money would boost a person’s courage?
Low profile, low profile!
And at this moment…
“Brother Lu, you came?” called a girl at the front desk.
“Eh?”
“A table for two? Please head to the second level…” continued the girl.
“I have a meeting with someone,” said Lu Yuan.
“Oh, it’s fine. Please take a seat upstairs first, there’s space there.”
“Eh, sorry I was wrong. Someone arranged for a meeting with him, I accompanied him here.”
“Ah, oh…In that case, greetings to Mister. Can I know which Mister has arranged for a meeting with you?”
The attitude of the girl at the front desk wasn’t as passionate as before when she glanced at Fatty Wei. Her smile also became one of mere politeness.
By comparing these, there was a real difference.
Fatty Wei had wanted to come to the front desk to check where Shen Lianjie was sitting. However, he hadn’t expected that when he had just entered, the eyes of the girl at the front desk brightened as she began to walk toward him and Lu Yuan. There was also a very passionate look on her face as though she saw a superstar…
But when the girl suddenly realized that she was dealing with him…
Her attitude immediately became perfunctory, becoming so…
Ordinary?
(What does this mean?)
“Shen Lianjie. Director Shen was the one who arranged a meeting with me.”
Fatty Wei took in a deep breath.
“Oh, he isn’t here yet. You can wait at the second level first. Please come with me.”
“Mn, okay.”
Fatty Wei followed the front desk girl and headed to the second level. Lu Yuan followed behind Fatty Wei while having an ‘I’m keeping a low profile’ look on his face. He told himself he just wanted to be a quiet pretty boy.
He also had no idea why the front desk girl would be so passionate.
After all, they had only met once. They were truly not familiar with each other, alright?
When they reached the private room and sat down, Fatty Wei glared at Lu Yuan.
“A`Yuan, do you come to this place often?”
“No…I only came here once before…”
“Just came here once? Why is the girl at the front desk so familiar with you then?”
“I don’t know.”
“You don’t know?”
“Yup.”
“Pui!” Fatty Wei shook his head when he saw the look of innocence on Lu Yuan’s face, as well as this quiet and beautiful private room. He suddenly felt that Lu Yuan was like a posturing god in the novels who pretended to be a pig to eat tigers…
“…” Lu Yuan was innocent.
He really didn’t mean this.
“Knock, knock.”
The sound of knocking drifted into the private room.
“Enter.”
“Big Brother Lu, you must be thirsty, right? I have prepared a cup of blue mountain coffee for you,” said a young girl.
“Oh alright. Mn? Why is it you…” called Lu Yuan.
“Hehe, I came immediately when I heard that Big Brother Lu has arrived.”
“Eh, I’m waiting for someone here…”
“It’s unknown when that Director Shen would come. You can drink some coffee first while waiting…”
“Eh…”
“Also, Big Brother Lu, are you free now?”
“Ah, I’m free…”
“Oh.”
Lu Yuan stared at the young girl who had just entered. For a time, he didn’t know how to rebut.
As for Fatty Wei, his eyes were wide open.
This was none other than the young girl who was playing the piano. Fatty Wei had instructed Lu Yuan many times that he must not initiate a conversation with her as she had some status…
Lu Yuan truly managed to do so; he wasn’t the one initiating the conversation.
But…
It seemed that…
Everything was in reverse?
(Why are there so many people coming to speak with Lu Yuan?)
“What about me?” After seeing the cup of coffee before Lu Yuan, as well as the emptiness before him, Fatty Wei started.
Something was wrong.
“Who are you? Isn’t someone going to treat you later? You should just wait then.”
“What about him? Someone is treating him too later.”
“Big Brother Lu is different. This cup of coffee is something I treat him, and not you!” The piano girl candidly spoke, staring at Fatty Wei.
“????”
“Big Brother Lu, I’ve just learned a new musical piece [Casida’s Spring]. If you are free, please provide me with some pointers, okay?”
“Ah?”
“I’ll go play it for you now.”
“Uh-oh.”
Fatty Wei’s heart shook.
(What does this mean?)
(Why is there a need for such a sense of distance?)
(Are you sure that you are not looking down on me?)
After the piano girl left, Fatty Wei glared at Lu Yuan.
“A`Yuan, tell me now. What’s going on?”
“Nothing’s going on!”
“Nonsense! Tell me the truth. Are you a VIP of this coffeehouse? Your ability to pretend to be a pig to eat tigers is actually at such a high level!”
“I really have no idea what’s going on!” Lu Yuan had an innocent look on his face as he shook his head. “I only played a musical piece here before.”
“It’s that simple?”
“Yup!”
“F*ck!
“Yes!”
“F*ck you! You are such a poser. You are intentionally doing this to act cool, right?!”
“I really didn’t!”
“F*ck! Before I got suppressed by Shen Lianjie’s boasting, I’m already ‘killed’ by you!”
“…”
Fatty Wei seemed to see ten thousand grass mud horses running across his heart.
“I’m giving you full marks for your posturing ability!”
Note:
The characters for grass mud horses are written as 草泥马 (cao ni ma) which sounds the same as f*** your mother.
