My Husband Is Not Easy To Mess With. - Chapter 14: A Gift Full of Intent
Chapter 14: A Gift Full of Intent
Why?
Why were even his subordinates so rich that they could casually pull out a gold brick?!
Nie Yao absolutely refused to admit he was jealous.
He had, after all, once been a super-rich second-generation, and in the past, he wouldn’t even bother with a gold brick, let alone a gold mine.
However, in this life, he was an only child and didn’t have an older brother to rely on.
Ah… he wondered how his brother was doing now, was he eating on time? Research showed that overbearing CEOs like his brother were the most prone to stomach problems…
“Minister Nie, please.”
In the short moment Nie Yao was spaced out, about ten more gold bricks were presented to him as a sign of respect.
Nie Yao was rarely unhappy, but now he felt somewhat weary.
He waved his hand, said nothing, and turned around to return to the new Emperor’s sleeping quarters.
“What’s wrong, Minister Nie?” The new Emperor was casually dressed, sitting at his desk reviewing memorials with a small bread roll in his mouth. Seeing Nie Yao return, he tossed his pen aside.
He scanned him twice.
Then he asked lazily, “What, Minister Nie, don’t you like gold anymore?”
“How could that be?” Nie Yao forced a small smile. “Your Majesty must be mistaken. Who in the world doesn’t love gold and silver?”
“You,”
The new Emperor took the small bread roll out of his mouth, walked over, circled him twice, and poked his shoulder with a finger, “Did Minister Nie forget? You once said that once wealth reached a certain level, money becomes like air. Even though you know it’s important, you don’t feel anything about it.”
“Was that really the case?” Nie Yao’s fake smile widened, “This official doesn’t remember… Hiss!”
Nie Yao’s flesh around his waist was pinched hard.
It actually hurt a little.
By the way, when did this young man get so strong? He definitely wasn’t like this before!
“I still have some memorials to finish reviewing.” The new Emperor leaped onto Nie Yao’s body and commanded him as if it were entirely natural, “Beloved Minister Nie, take me to work!”
Why should he?
Nie Yao had no desire to make money right now and didn’t want to cooperate with him at all.
“Your Majesty, this official still has some matters to attend to at home. If you don’t need anything, I will return first.”
“No, you can’t!”
The new Emperor’s hands and feet were tightly wrapped around Nie Yao’s body, and he resolutely refused to get down. Not only did he not get down, but he also maliciously ruffled Nie Yao’s hair into a bird’s nest.
Nie Yao couldn’t smile anymore.
“Du-Sui-Lan! Is your skin itching?”
“Heh, Minister Nie, your skin is itching, isn’t it!” Du Sui Lan sneered. “Last night, you definitely pinched my face, didn’t you, My-Beloved-Minister-Nie?”
“My face, it’s not an exaggeration to call it the most precious treasure in the world!”
“Minister Nie took advantage of me and is now pretending nothing happened… Minister Nie, do you want to be a scumbag?”
How was he a scumbag?
He just pinched his face. He used to let him pinch it when he was little, right!
“That was then!”
Nie Yao had learned that this young man could read minds. Before he could even utter his defense, the young man had already refuted him.
He guided Nie Yao’s hand to his waist.
Leaning close to his ear, “Do you feel it, Minister Nie? I am now nineteen, with a slender waist, long legs, and a curvy… figure, perfect in every way—a young man.”
The last two words were practically whispered against his ear.
The warm breath in his ear.
Made Nie Yao extremely uncomfortable.
He couldn’t help but start backing away.
“Bang! Clang!”
The screen behind him was knocked over.
It was damaged.
The young man was still clinging to him, mocking with a gleeful tone, “You’re finished, Minister Nie. The cost of this screen alone is a thousand pieces of gold.”
As the Emperor, he wouldn’t use broken things.
So, “How does Minister Nie intend to compensate?”
Sell him off!
Nie Yao closed his eyes, having the urge to just give up for the first time in over twenty years.
“Hee~ I tricked you!”
Du Sui Lan got off Nie Yao himself and said mysteriously, “Minister Nie, I have a gift for you!”
The gift was well hidden.
On the inner side of the spacious dragon bed, there was a secret, ingenious mechanism.
Du Sui Lan reached inside. “Minister Nie, close your eyes.”
Was this meant to be a surprise for him?
Nie Yao was a little afraid. Recalling the surprises his A-die used to give him, he didn’t have any expectations.
But he still closed his eyes.
“Ta-da-da-da~”
Nie Yao opened his eyes and saw Du Sui Lan holding a cotton-stuffed… cloth… doll?
With such crooked workmanship, was it a cloth doll?
It could only be said that it was worthy of His Majesty the Emperor.
The doll was highly abstract.
Such a finished product made Nie Yao certain that this unidentifiable object was made by the Emperor himself.
Otherwise, anyone he tasked with making it could do a thousand times better.
“Look!” The Emperor was quite pleased with himself. He pointed to the tag on the doll’s chest and said proudly, “Doesn’t it look just like him? I made it based on your memories!”
The tag was a bit crumpled.
He hadn’t seen it clearly just now.
Looking closely now, the embroidery was actually… Nie… Nie Yi?
His brother’s name!
Nie Yao was shocked.
The new Emperor interpreted his dumbfounded expression as being too moved to speak, and he became even more smug—after all, it was a work he had diligently made for several years, so he was quite confident in it.
He flicked his imaginary tail and said proudly, “It wasn’t that hard… I finished it easily! It’s your fault for not coming to find me all this time, otherwise, it would have been yours sooner!” (That was a lie!)
In fact, he had just finished rushing the final touches three days ago.
Besides the plump cloth doll, which was allegedly a scaled-down version of his brother stuffed with lots of cotton, Du Sui Lan gave him a black card.
A black, rectangular small card.
In appearance, it looked very similar to the credit card he had used in his previous life.
But cards couldn’t be swiped in this world!
These surprises made Nie Yao’s heart feel so complicated.
For a moment, he couldn’t decide whether to accept these gifts or not.
“Take it, and swipe it as you please!”
After Du Sui Lan said this—words that the person involved allegedly wanted to hear again from many years ago—he waited for Nie Yao’s reaction, concerned yet pretending not to care.
“This… what is this?” Nie Yao was forcefully handed the card, along with a flood of random things he had said when he missed his brother many years ago.
Black history.
Nie Yao felt his vision darken.
“Hmm, it’s a credit card,” Du Sui Lan felt a little guilty because he couldn’t make an exact replica. But he promised, “But it’s useful! As long as you have this, you can mobilize any of the businesses under my control!”
Directly mobilize his businesses? And all of them!
The image of the treasury he had seen not long ago flashed through his mind.
Ah, this card was so hot to handle.
Nie Yao: “How about no, Your Majesty? This item is too valuable, I…”
“Brother Nie Yao!” Du Sui Lan’s eyes welled up with tears. His eyes, which were originally as bright as jewels, now contained two streaks of clear water, making them even more beautiful.
“Are you saying you don’t even want the gift I gave you now?”
“You left without a word twelve years ago. You didn’t write to me, you didn’t say you missed me, and now that you’re forced to meet me, you pretend not to know me…”
Shiny tears fell.
Dropping to the floor.
Forming small black spots.
To be honest, Nie Yao was panicking now.
“No… that…” Nie Yao tried to explain to him, “You never wrote to me, so I thought you had forgotten about me.”
Kids are forgetful, after all.
Even though Nie Yao understood, he had still been sad for two or three days back then.