CH 41

“What’s with the mourning face, am I not welcome?” Ye Fei raised his eyebrows and smirked, “Then I’m leaving. ”

After speaking, he turned around and appeared as though he was about to leave. 

Yan Xiao strode over, held his wrist, and nervously said “no”. He then pulled Ye Fei into the office and closed the door firmly.

Ye Fei allowed Yan Xiao to pull him in and turned his head to glance over the place where Yan Xiao usually worked and praised, “This place looks pretty good.”

The place was spacious, filled with natural light and had a huge floor-to-ceiling window. If you were to look out from the window, you could see the high-rise buildings of the city and cerulean sea.

The designer of the office went with a Scandinavian theme, yet without losing its designer’s intent.  Ye Fei sat on the sofa with great interest and sighed, “Compared with you, my office is like the back of a workshop. Has the design plan for your company’s new building been finalized? Will this style continue?” 

Yan Xiao did not answer.

“What’s wrong? Are you in a bad mood…” Before he could finish his sentence, his lips were sealed. Yan Xiao’s hands had enveloped Ye Fei’s neck and the back of his head, tilting his face upwards. He then pressed him against the back of his sofa, and kissed him forcefully.

Ye Fei blinked in surprise, before he wrapped his arms around Yan Xiao’s shoulders, and kissed him back.

Disregarding the time that Ye Fei was drunk, this was the first time that he had been so vigorously smooched. Ye Fei was short of breath, and his waist grew tired to the point where he could barely fight back.

Yan Xiao pressed against him, his hot lips gradually moving down at some point.

When Yan Xiao’s lips met his neck, Ye Fei could not help but groan. It had brushed past the place where he had been stabbed while undergoing the EMG yesterday.

Yan Xiao’s movements stopped.

Ye Fei took the time to gasp for breath, before giving him a sly smirk. “Where else do you want to kiss?” 

“I’m sorry.” Yan Xiao immediately apologized and pulled Ye Fei up. The expression on his face did not change, but his eyes were half-lidded as though he was feeling guilty and annoyed at the same time. Ye Fei’s heart softened instantly.

“You can kiss,” he leaned over and tugged his T-shirt down, revealing his delicate collarbone. “Just be tender.”

Yan Xiao gave another of his silent stares before patiently pulling Ye Fei’s neckline back up. He continued to sort out Ye Fei’s creased clothes. Ye Fei looked at his slightly clumsy movements, and the smile in his eyes deepened. He leaned on Yan Xiao, played with his slender fingers, and did not speak.

“Why did you come here?” After a while, Yan Xiao asked Ye Fei. 

“What do you think?” Ye Fei shot back.

Yan Xiao grabbed Ye Fei’s chin, looked at him, and slowly muttered, “I don’t know.”

“Oh?” Ye Fei suspected that Yan Xiao was pretending to be stupid on purpose. He narrowed his eyes, and under Yan Xiao’s expectant gaze, he sultrily replied, “Forget it if you don’t know.”

Yan Xiao had not expected this answer. 

“You don’t pass by here when you go to Tianxi,” Yan Xiao opened his mouth after a brief silence, and pointed out, “You don’t seem to have anything special to do.”

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A faint smile flashed in Yan Xiao’s eyes. He wrapped Ye Fei in his arms with satisfaction, and commented, “I miss you too.” After a while, he insisted, “Don’t joke with Gu Ruijia again, okay?” 

“Huh?” It took a few seconds for Ye Fei to understand what he meant. “I was just kidding, why would I miss him?”

“I don’t like it,” Yan Xiao looked down into his eyes and maintained, “Is that okay, Ye Fei?”

Ye Fei could not refuse such a Yan Xiao. He smiled and reaffirmed, “Okay.”

The two hugged for a while, and Ye Fei pushed him away. “Go to work, don’t worry about me.” 

“I’ll be distracted when you’re here,” Yan Xiao was unmoved. “I just want to look at you.”

Ye Fei thought for a while and suggested, “Then shall I go out first?” Speaking of which, he had never been to Feixiao Technology before. He should take the opportunity to have a walk around the building.

Yan Xiao said “No” and clung onto Ye Fei tightly before letting go of him. He then got up and went back to the desk.

However, this person who had always been serious and efficient in his work started to take a break every five minutes to ensure that Ye Fei was still in sight. Once he had confirmed that Ye Fei was still lying on the sofa did Yan Xiao continue the work at hand. 

At twelve o’clock, the two went downstairs to eat together. Yan Xiao originally wanted to take Ye Fei out to eat, but Ye Fei wanted to try Feixiao Technology’s cafeteria on a whim.

“The internet is full of praise about your cafeteria,” Ye Fei pressed the down button as they waited in the lobby before he turned his head and told Yan Xiao, “I want to see if it’s true.”

“Then you are right.” A voice interrupted. Cheng Minghao, wearing a set of sportswear, walked over casually and said with a smile, “Among all the Internet companies, if our cafeteria is second, no one would dare to be the first.”

“So powerful.” Ye Fei greeted him with a raised eyebrow. 

“Of course.”

While talking, the elevator arrived. Cheng Minghao let Yan Xiao and Ye Fei in first, before he followed them in. When pressing the corresponding floor button, he took a quick look and he instantly reached a conclusion. His year end bonus was secured and doubled.

However, he still could not understand how things had led to this. If Ye Fei was also interested in Yan Xiao, why did he hide it? Are gay relationships that complicated?

Too bad no one answered him. 

Feixiao Technology’s cafeteria lived up to its reputation, with a variety of dishes and fulfilling all dietary needs. Ye Fei’s eyes were dazzled with the choices.

The three walked around the spread, and Yan Xiao asked him, “What do you want to eat?”

Ye Fei pondered for a while. “Rice noodles.”

The weather had turned cold recently, and he wanted to drink some soup to warm himself up. 

Yan Xiao said “Okay” and naturally took his hand and went into a booth. Cheng Minghao disregarded the possibility of being a third wheel and followed them happily.

Ye Fei preferred his meals light, but Yan Xiao was a spice lover. When the two people’s rice noodles came, one was white and the other was red, and the contrast was extremely obvious.

“You have so many chili peppers,” Ye Fei was stunned and felt eager to try, “Give me a bite.” After saying that, he stuck out his chopsticks into Yan Xiao’s bowl.

“You’re injured,” Yan Xiao extended his hand, moved the bowl to the side, and reminded Ye Fei, “You can eat it when you’ve recovered.” 

Before Ye Fei could answer, Cheng Minghao spat out a mouthful of soup.

Did these two forget that he was still there? Were they actually taking out the stuff from the bed to discuss?

And… is his brother so fierce! He actually hurt Ye Fei…

Yan Xiao glanced at Cheng Minghao with no expression, and said to Ye Fei, “Let’s go to another table.” 

“No,” Ye Fei picked up his chopsticks and blew at it, before he deliberately asked Cheng Minghao, “Why are you still choking?”

It did not take long to figure out how the man’s thoughts had derailed once he heard their conversation.

“It’s okay,” Cheng Minghao did not dare to lift his head. He regretted that he had followed them out of curiosity, and gave a vacillating comment, “The soup is too hot.”

“Oh,” Ye Fei took a mouthful of rice noodles, put his chopsticks on the bowl, and twitched his fingers, “My bruises don’t hurt anymore, can I soak it in water tonight?” 

Yan Xiao inspected his hand for a few seconds, and saw that the pinhole in it showed no signs of swelling. He nodded and agreed.

Cheng Minghao was surprised. “Bruise?”

“Yeah,” Ye Fei said after taking a sip of the soup with a half-smile, “I did a puncture-like examination in the hospital, and there were multiple bruises left over on my body.”

Cheng Minghao: “…” 

Cheng Minghao bowed his head in shame; he was too dirty.

During the next few minutes, Cheng Minghao was too flustered to say anything. In order to hide his embarrassment, he picked up his mobile phone and planned to look at Weibo to empty his mind. As soon as the results were refreshed, the hot search for actor Cen Xinghua’s drug use appeared.

“Brother Fei, do you know Cen Xinghua?” Cheng Minghao put down his chopsticks and sighed, “He went on the hot search for drug use. I used to like him when I was in college.”

“I know him,” Ye Fei leaned over to take a look. The entry “Cen Xinghua’s drug addiction” had risen to the top of the trending search, followed by a popular search phrase, “Gu Ruijia almost invested in his TV series.” 

Cen Xinghua was the male protagonist of the super hot IP <<The Way to Upgrade the Concubine>>. At the beginning, Gu Ruijia, Sun Qiong and Zhou Zhensheng were all optimistic about this project, but Ye Fei was able to persuade them into not investing.

However, Ye Yao was left to hold the bag…

With the male lead caught up in a scandal, it was doubtful if <<The Way to Upgrade the Concubine>> could even be broadcasted, let alone return a profit.

Ye Fei’s lips curled up in a cruel smirk. Ye Yao’s twenty million yuan was going to waste again. He wondered, with both the gambling debt and this recent investment failure, how would Ye Yao be able to withstand this looming crisis. 

Withstand? After learning the news, Ye Yao was going crazy.

After falling into the gambling pit, he had sold almost all of his fixed assets. He had been counting on <<The Way to Upgrade the Concubine>> to cover his losses. Who would have expected for such a scandal to erupt now?

Ye Yao’s face turned pale upon recalling his two million yuan worth of gambling debt, and his hands shook uncontrollably.

Father Ye’s face was ugly. “What did you tell me at the beginning? Good project, high return! Then look, one investment, one loss! Trash! I should have let your brother continue running, at least he won’t have made such a huge error!” 

Dingyuan’s capital chain was in shambles, defeated by the grand total of forty million yuan in losses. Father Ye’s brain was buzzing; his heart ached as he thought about Dingyuan’s situation.

Even though he disliked Ye Fei, it was a fact that Ye Fei was a money tree. If it were not for the encouragement of his younger son, he would never have driven such a cash cow out of the house!

Alright then, the chickens were lost and the eggs smashed. After a huge struggle, nothing was achieved.

“Dad,” Ye Yao gritted his teeth and swallowed his unwillingness back down his throat, “It’s useless to be angry now, we need to think of a way.” 

“Is there any way?” Father Ye threw a vase, snarling, “This is drug use, not adultery! Who can think of a way!”

Ye Yao observed Father Ye’s face and sarcastically responded, “Do you want to let Brother come back and take over Dingyuan again?”

Father Ye stiffened. As if he was invigorated, Ye Yao continued, “Last time our company was short of funds, didn’t Ye Fei ask Yan Xiao to invest? Now that they are married, if Ye Fei asks Yan Xiao for help, he will definitely not refuse.”

“Your brother is different now and won’t listen to me at all.” Father Ye frowned. 

“Who could say?” Ye Yao rolled his eyes and asserted, “Brother admires you very much. If you care more about him and coax him, he will definitely soften his heart.”

In the past, Ye Yao’s greatest pleasure was to occupy Father Ye’s affections while admiring Ye Fei’s disappointed face. This was one of the things that made him feel a head taller than Ye Fei.

Comparing Ye Fei’s superficial similarity to his late wife, Father Ye felt flustered. But then he recalled Dingyuan—

He took a deep breath. Forget it, just bear it for a while. 

Father Ye took out his phone, found Ye Fei’s WeChat, and sent him a voice call request.