A President's Out-of-Body Experience Chapter 6

Chapter 6

“No, no...” For so unknown reason, Renzi did not want to ntion He Jun. He even wished that Gu Xiaoshan would never rember that there was this He Jun person. After a bout of stuttering, Renzi finally thought of what he wanted to say. “I ran away from ho, and I don’t have any money in my pocket...”

The two seconds that Gu Xiaoshan remained silent, Renzi felt both ashad and resentful. After that pause, Gu Xiaoshan spoke up. “Where are you now?”

“In, in your apartnt.”

Gu Xiaoshan seed to sowhat relax. “Then, just stay there. There should be about 30 to 40 thousand yuan in the cabinet by the bed of the master bedroom, use it judiciously.”

Renzi nodded. “Understood.”

Again, Gu Xiaoshan warned, “I’ll be back in two days, try not to go out too often and fool around. If there’s anything you really want to eat, just go to my hotel. You can eat at the restaurant on credit.”

“Credit? I’ll still have to pay?”

Gu Xiaoshan laughed, “Of course, including the cash I gave you, you’ll need to pay them all back. You want to eat for free? Renzi, are you shaless?” Then, he hung up.

Renzi was not surprised. Gu Xiaoshan was a typical businessman, when it ca to money matters, he was very principled. This also had to do with the Gu family’s education. Ever since elentary school, to buy even a ballpoint pen, Gu Xiaoshan had to fill in a declaration form. His allowance was calculated based on his grades. The Gu family’s way of doing things was very clear.

If Renzi had said to “borrow money” for “urgent needs”, it ant that he would have to pay back every cent he owed. If not, Gu Xiaoshan may even chase this debt all the way back to the Yu family ho. However, if Gu Xiaoshan said it was a gift to Renzi, whether it was a cheap can of coke, or an expensive sports car, as long as it was a gift, he had never asked for anything in return.

Renzi walked to the door of the master bedroom — although he ca over to stay frequently, but because of basic manners, he rarely went into other people’s room. If it was like before, he would have just heartlessly walked in and retrieved the money, but now, he was very apprehensive.

He could not explain it.

He also did not know where this apprehension ca from.

— But he really wanted to go in, despite not being to explain why. At the sa ti, he was also ashad about this desire, for so unknown reason.

Barefooted, he stood outside the door for very long, but still did not dare to turn the door knob.

The doorbell rang.

Renzi jolted, running from the second floor of the duplex apartnt down the spiral staircase. Stepping on the parquet floor, he flew to the door and looked at the security feed. In the screen was the huge face of a husky — “Ah, Ha-cube!” Renzi recognised his dog that he had raised for three years — it was a birthday present from Gu Xiaoshan. Originally, Renzi had ca up with a jubilant na for it — “Hahaha”. However, when walking the dog, he discovered a problem. In the park, Renzi kept shouting “Hahaha, where are you”, “Hahaha, stop running”, “Hahaha, stop pooping everywhere”... Finally, he changed his na to “Ha-cube”.

Yu Yuntao had asked soone to send this dog over.

“Bro, why did you ask soone to bring Ha-cube over without letting know?” Renzi stroke Ha-cube’s head as he whined into the phone.

Yu Yuntao replied, “Your Ha-cube has been missing you, and refused to eat.”

Renzi carried Ha-cube to the window, “I haven’t eaten too. I don’t have any more money. I’ll starve together with Ha-cube... You know that right?”

“I know.” Yu Yuntao then hung up the phone.

Were they really brothers?

They were really brothers. It was not that Ha-cube missed Renzi, without Renzi, Ha-cube would still eat and drink. However, when their dad saw Ha-cube, he would be imdiately reminded of his second son. Thinking of his second son, he would instantly fly into a rage, and so Yu Yuntao got soone to bring Ha-cube away.

Renzi pulled out Gu Xiaoshan’s social dia account, and sent him Ha-cube’s photo. “Ha-cube is here to stay as well.” Actually, there was no need to ntion this at all, but for so reason, Renzi just wanted to talk to Gu Xiaoshan.

Gu Xiaoshan’s reply: “Look after him properly. You’ll have to pay for everything he damages.”

Renzi carried Ha-cube and locked him into his kennel — yes, you might not believe it, but in Gu Xiaoshan’s apartnt was a kennel for Ha-cube.

Ha-cube was a “previous offender”. It had once turned Gu Xiaoshan’s apartnt into a ss, demolishing a set of custom-built furniture that was flown in from Northern Europe. At the ends of his patience — Gu Xiaoshan got Ha-cube a kennel.

Ha-cube realised that it was about to be locked into the kennel, it hurriedly escaped, running around in a frenzy. Renzi shouted “Ha-cube”, and ran after it. Running to the door of Gu Xiaoshan’s bedroom, Ha-cube stopped, as though it really wanted to go in. Renzi brightened, “You want to go in and take a look?”

He even convinced himself that it was the dog who wanted to go in, not him, everything was because of the dog.

Renzi opened the door and entered, discovering that the walls were still of that familiar lavender purple, the furnishings very similar. Seeing that Ha-cube was about to mark its territory, Renzi quickly picked it up and pushed it into the bathroom of the master bedroom and locked the door, preventing him from damaging Gu Xiaoshan’s room. Renzi cautiously sat on the mattress, registering that the feel of it was very similar to the one in his dreams. It seed like this was Gu Xiaoshan’s preferred softness for his mattress.

On top of the cabinet by the bed was a woven basket. In it were tissues, nail clippers and small items like these. This woven basket was exceptionally ugly, a complete mismatch with the furnishings of the bedroom — Renzi recognised it on sight. This was what he had made during a craft lesson in elentary school — the only item that had ever achieved a passing grade in his craft lessons. With a historic grade of 61 marks, he gleefully brought it to Gu Xiaoshan and bragged about it, and even gave it to him. At that ti, Gu Xiaoshan was still young, and his words were very direct. “Such an ugly thing, why would I want it?”

However, Renzi always had a very strong spirit since young, he smiled, “You can use it to put scrap paper in it.”

Looking at it now, it really was used as a holder of scrap items.

Renzi rummaged through the cabinets, and discovered that there really was nothing secretive hidden among the belongings. There were also no “adult” items, seed like Gu Xiaoshan really never brought his lovers ho.

Renzi’s phone suddenly vibrated, giving him a shock — oh god, he clearly had permission to enter the bedroom, but sohow his conscience felt guilty about it, which should not be the case. Looking at this, he was really unsuited to do any bad deeds in this life.