ASPWL Ch21: Happy Wedding

Ye Leyao’s eyes lit up:

[Big brother, you really are my real brother! How did you know I wanted to go!]

Papa and Mama Huo smiled slightly.

Of course, it was because the exhibition was too intriguing, not because they wanted to follow the gossip!

Then Ye Leyao said in a slightly troubled tone:

[But if we go, how can we get third brother to come too?]

[This teammate of his is a key player and the core of their tactics. This incident didn’t cause a stir initially, so third brother isn’t aware, but it got exposed later.]

Thinking of this, Ye Leyao sighed: [The playoffs reached a crucial stage, and their key player got banned by the organizers, leading to their defeat in the most critical match…]

Papa Huo looked up at Huo Jing.

Huo Jing, resigned, took out his phone and directly dialed Huo Ze’s number.

It was already midday, and Huo Ze, who was living a night-owl lifestyle, seemed to have just woken up. His voice was a bit muffled: “Hello… Big brother?”

“Come home tonight,” Huo Jing said concisely.

Huo Ze thought he had misheard and was puzzled: “Why should I go home? We have a practice match tonight, but tomorrow morning… I have some free time.”

Thinking that his cold and ruthless brother wouldn’t deprive him of his rare rest time, he heard Huo Jing, cold and ruthless as ever, say—

“Then come home tomorrow morning.”

Huo Ze: “… No, bro, can’t you tell me over the phone? Do I have to come home?”

Huo Jing put on the speakerphone, and Mama Huo, listening, was slightly speechless.

Can’t he use his pig brain to think? If it could be explained over the phone, would they need to call him home?

Moreover—

Mama and Papa Huo exchanged a glance.

They had verified that their family could hear Ye Leyao’s thoughts, but since Huo Ze hadn’t come home for a while, they weren’t sure if he could hear them too.

This was a good opportunity to verify that.

On the other end, Huo Ze was still trying to find an excuse not to come home when Mama Huo spoke up: “Come home, there are some things that can’t be explained over the phone.”

Huo Ze was silent for a moment and then suddenly remembered something: “No way? Is Second Brother really going to marry that Su Rui?”

Mama and Papa Huo: “…”

Huo Jing: “…”

Ye Leyao commented:

[My third brother is like a caveman who just had his internet cut off.]

Mama Huo couldn’t help but laugh.

A few words couldn’t explain everything, and Huo’s dad didn’t want to bother explaining: “Come home and we’ll talk.”

Since both parents had spoken, Huo Ze couldn’t say much more, but he definitely couldn’t come back tonight, so he said, “Then I’ll come home tomorrow morning.”

Huo’s dad said: “Alright, I’ll have your big brother send you the address.”

Huo Ze was shocked.

It wasn’t even coming home?

Could it really be that Second Brother was getting married?

Tomorrow was the engagement banquet?

A shotgun wedding?

Tsk tsk tsk.

Impressive.

After hanging up, the more Huo Ze thought about it, the more he felt that Second Brother was moving too fast, and he couldn’t help but send Huo Yan a message: “Happy new marriage!”

Huo Yan replied quickly: “?”

Huo Ze clicked his tongue and sighed, not wanting to admit it. So tsundere!

Luckily, Ye Leyao didn’t know about this, or he would have definitely commented: [Second Brother might wake up in the middle of the night in shock: Is he sick?!]

Huo Ze didn’t have a habit of going back to sleep after waking up, so he got up, washed up, and prepared to go to the training room. When he opened the door, he saw the back of their team’s ADC, Ning Xu.

Although Huo Ze was also a team player, he was also the team owner, so his room was on the top floor of the villa, and there was only one room there, so Ning Xu must have come to find him.

“Do you need something from me?” Huo Ze called out to Ning Xu.

Ning Xu turned back: “Did I wake you?”

Huo Ze waved his hand: “No, my brother’s phone woke me up. What’s up?”

Ning Xu nodded and then said, “I want to take a day off tomorrow.”

Tomorrow was supposed to be a rest day anyway, so Huo Ze agreed without thinking and just reminded him: “We have a practice match the day after tomorrow afternoon, make sure you’re back by then.”

Ning Xu agreed, thanked Huo Ze, and went downstairs.

Huo Ze’s phone buzzed with a message from Huo Jing with the address.

Huo Ze frowned and muttered: “Art exhibition hall? Second Brother is good at picking places to get married…”

He was so focused on the message that he didn’t notice Ning Xu, who was walking ahead, froze for a moment and looked a bit uneasy upon hearing “art exhibition hall.”

…

Early the next morning, the entire Huo family was ready to go.

Since they were going to gossip, they had to go early!

When they arrived at the exhibition hall, it had just opened, and the artist of the exhibition, Zhao Wei, was standing at the entrance to greet guests.

From a distance, Ye Leyao observed Zhao Wei, who looked to be in his thirties, with a pair of amorous eyes.

[Hmm, he looks like a playboy at first glance!]

Huo’s dad nodded in agreement.

He looked a lot like Lao Xu, and didn’t seem like a good person.

Suddenly, Mama Huo, who was walking ahead, stopped.

Huo’s dad was puzzled: “Why…”

Before he could finish, a deliberately raised female voice said—

“No wonder you looked familiar from a distance! It’s your family, Junyi!” A well-maintained woman walked quickly towards them, glanced at the group, and laughed: “The eldest and the adopted son are here, but the second one, the gay, isn’t here. Looks like you’re considerate enough to know I don’t like gays…”

Upon hearing the word “gay,” Ye Leyao immediately looked up:

[This person has no emotional intelligence!]

Lin Junyi was Mama Huo’s name. Her face had already looked displeased upon seeing the woman, and now hearing this, she was even more furious, ready to retort, but then she heard Ye Leyao say—

[Oh, according to the introduction, she’s the mother of this abstract artist?]

[Wen Wen? That name sounds familiar.]

[I remember now, she’s the character who extremely hates gays! She even started an anti-gay movement, saying that being gay is perverted, and bisexuals are the perverts of the perverts. Breathing the same air as these perverts disgusts her…]

[Ew—]

Ye Leyao’s tone was disdainful.

[So if she found out that her proudest son was the bisexual pervert she hates most, wouldn’t she go crazy on the spot?]

With each sentence Ye Leyao said, Mama Huo’s anger subsided a bit, and by the last sentence, she almost burst out laughing.

Raising her eyes again, Mama Huo had a calm and polite smile: “First of all, Xiao Yao is my son. Secondly, after all these years, you haven’t changed a bit. Indeed, a dog can’t change its ways. Lastly—”

Mama Huo elongated her tone, looking meaningfully at Wen Wen’s gradually darkening face: “We look forward to the upcoming art exhibition.”

Ye Leyao quietly added:

[Of course, we’re also looking forward to seeing your reaction when you find out that your proudest son is the pervert of all perverts!]