CH 24.2

Shen Boyan picked up the chopsticks, took a mouthful of rice, and stretched out the chopsticks to pick up a small piece of fish.

Xia Shu’an looked at him expectantly.

“…”

After chewing slowly, Shen Boyan nodded. “Not bad.”

Xia Shu’an heaved a sigh of relief. With a relaxed expression on his face, he picked up another pair of chopsticks and a bowl, ready to taste the fruit of his labor.

With a “snap”, a pair of chopsticks pushed it down from the side. Xia Shu’an turned his head in confusion.

“This is what you made for me to eat. When did you say you could eat it too?”

“…”

“Can’t I eat what I make myself?”

Shen Boyan said decisively and cruelly, “You can’t!”

“…”

Xia Shu’an’s eyes flickered with confusion. Why is Shen Boyan so persistent? He also said the same thing in his previous life.

He strongly demanded that he make something for him to eat, but he refused to let him touch it. Xia Shu’an originally thought that Shen Boyan’s lunatic attributes had flared up again, but it turned out that he was so principled from the bottom of his bones.

Because of the reference from his previous life and hearing what he said, Xia Shu’an didn’t touch the food on the plate again. He felt a little regretful, thinking that he would be able to taste it in this life.

“Then what should I eat?”

“Aunt Qiao, Aunt Yu, cook him a bowl of noodles.”

“Okay!”

As if they had been waiting for a long time, the two aunts quickly entered the scene and got busy in the kitchen. Ten minutes later, they served a bowl of noodles with a tantalizing aroma and color.

Xia Shu’an saw the delicious food and stopped dwelling on the matter.

Shen Boyan breathed a sigh of relief as he saw Xia Shu’an happily eat noodles.

…

Shen Boyan ate a lot for this dinner, but there were still some leftovers. Seeing that the auntie was going to clean up and throw it away, Xia Shuan said, “Are you going to throw it away?”

Forget the rest, but what about half the fish left?

Shen Boyan’s heart softened when he saw his reluctant expression, and his mouth had already said, “Then wrap the fish for tomorrow.”

Xia Shu’an: “Or I can just eat it.”

Shen Boyan said expressionlessly, “Impossible.”

“…”

After the meal, the two of them took a walk to digest the food. At nine o’clock, as the air gradually heated up between the two of them, Xia Shu’an crawled onto Shen Boyan’s lap like a cat.

“I have to work tomorrow……”

The man’s fingers pressed against the pulsing veins in his neck, and his gaze suppressed a certain emotion.

“So?”

Xia Shu’an exhaled lightly: “Be gentle…”

…

…

After “working” overtime for half the night, both had fallen into a deep sleep.

At a certain point, the person on the bed suddenly opened his eyes. He carefully moved the man’s palm aside and tiptoed off the bed. He didn’t even turn on the lights, but went downstairs by the light of his mobile phone.

Opening the refrigerator, he quickly took out the fish that the aunt had packed.

After thinking for a while, he decided to come down and take a look. This doubt has been hidden in his heart for two lifetimes. If there is no answer, maybe he will not be able to let it go even in the next life.

Xia Shu’an didn’t even use the chopsticks but quickly pulled a piece of frozen fish with his fingers. In an instant, the mushy taste that seemed to stick to the pan rushed into his mouth. It was said that the color and aroma of the food would weaken to a certain extent after being refrigerated. If it’s already this pungent now, he didn’t know how strong the taste was when it was piping hot.

“…”

Xia Shu’an was silent for a few seconds, then wrapped the fish and put it back as it was.

He closed the refrigerator door and went back to the room.

The man on the bed was already sleeping soundly, facing outside. A ray of moonlight quietly crept over the foot of the bed through the window screen, and the peripheral light just happened to illuminate the man’s jawline.

Xia Shu’an didn’t fall asleep immediately after he lifted the quilt and laid down. He turned his head and stared at the man’s face in the darkness. The lower half of his face was shrouded in the color of the moon, and the glistening white light softened his aggressive contours, making him look peaceful and harmless.

Xia Shu’an stretched out his palm and touched his chin.

In his previous life, Xia Shu’an cooked two meals for Shen Boyan, and he finished most of them just like today. Because his expression was too calm and he was eating with no difficulty, Xia Shu’an only thought that this was another one of his boring pranks and did not take this matter to heart at all.

Xia Shu’an remembered the past events of his previous life and was thinking in a trance.

Perhaps Shen Boyan really likes him a lot.

From a long time ago, that is.

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…

The next morning, Shen Boyan woke up to the white light piercing through the window screen.

Xia Shu’an’s face was buried in front of his chest, and because of the steep exposure to the light, he let out a few murmurs of discomfort. Shen Boyan reached out to block the sunlight, but Xia Shu’an had already opened her eyes.

The eyes met in an instant.

“Good morning.”

The young man smiled, put one hand on Shen Boyan’s right shoulder, bent his knee against the muscles on the outside of his thigh, and naturally left a kiss on his cheek.

Shen Boyan only had time to catch a smile in his eyes that resembled autumn dew in the morning before Xia Shu’an sat up from the bed. He put on the slippers and walked unsteadily towards the bathroom.

Shen Boyan: “…”

He touched the spot on his face and followed suit, getting out of bed.

Because both of them had to go to work, after a simple meal, they started getting ready to go out on their own.

“Xia Shu’an…”

“What?” Xia Shu’an turned around.

Shen Boyan made a gesture to say something, but in the end, he just said, “Be careful on the road and come back early in the evening.”

Xia Shu’an showed a slight smile. “You too, be careful on the road.”

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…

About the Gu family, if only Shen Boyan’s assistant and a small number of people knew about it on Sunday, by Monday, the news had spread among the top management.

Human relations have always been a universal code. Compared with foreign forces, the government is definitely more willing to support local old enterprises. On one hand, it is to maintain the existing relationship, and on the other hand, it is also to tell everyone that as long as you are willing to contribute to the local economy, the government will definitely support you. Only in this way can a good cycle be formed.

It’s precisely because of this layer of relationship that Huiwen could only choose to cooperate with Gu, an old local enterprise, or else, with their appetite in its prime, they would have definitely gobbled up this piece of fat meat.

Now things have turned around. In the morning, all the top executives at the managerial level had a meeting together.

It was close to lunchtime when Shen Boyan asked them to disband. The morning meeting points will be summarized and organized the next day to continue the discussion.

The ambitious marketing department managers gathered in Sheng Songbai’s office to discuss.

After a heated argument, the two men in their thirties ceased talking at the same time, holding the cups in their hands, looking like they had been peaceful for a long time.

Suddenly:

“I heard that President Shen is determined to deal with Gu this time because they messed with the person in his family.”

“I heard about it.” The other one, who hadn’t really gotten along with him just then, immediately came up, gossip written all over both eyes: “I’m familiar with Assistant Lin. According to him, it was the Gu family’s indisputable second-youngest who provoked President Shen. To vent anger for beauty, cough cough…”

The other quickly grasped the point: “Beauty?”

“That’s right. Didn’t Xiao Liu at the front desk say it last time? He’s super good-looking and has a great temperament. It’s perfect for President Shen.”

“Well, well, isn’t that male talent and, cough, male appearance1The idiom here is male talent and female appearance. It is mostly used to compliment newlyweds or young couples. It literally means that the man is talented while the woman is beautiful; thus, they’re very well matched and eye-catching.? Can we meet at the annual meeting?”

“I don’t know when he’s coming over to the office.”

“Then we won’t be able to see him, unless the general manager’s office secretly sends us a message…”

“…”

The two men glanced at each other, averted their eyes, and began to calculate their own internal relationships.

Sheng Songbai took a sip of the tea in the cup and said calmly, “It’s not easy to meet that person.”

The eyes of the two men lit up. “President Sheng, do you have a solution? I knew that you had been following President Shen the longest. If you do, please tell us.”

Sheng Songbai laughed and said, “Alright, business is not done yet. If you keep gossiping all day long, be careful; I’ll tell President Shen.”

“Ah, ah, I got it. I got it.”

Only then did the two get up and leave the office together.

When the figures of the two disappeared, the smile on Sheng Songbai’s face slowly disappeared.

His understanding of the situation in this matter was far deeper than that of the rest of the company. Because of his status as vice president of the company, Assistant Lin specially explained the ins and outs of the whole thing to him. Except for some personal details, he knows everything he should know.

After listening, he was shocked.

Shen Boyan had never had anyone before, only occasionally bringing a small star by his side a little over half a year ago. He only said that now that the company is rising steadily, he doesn’t need to restrain his masculine nature anymore and has found himself some pretty boys.

When Xia Shu’an first appeared, to be honest, Sheng Songbai didn’t take him too seriously. It’s true that Shen Boyan put more thought into Xia Shu’an than others and let him live in the house, but he’s just a playmate; what can he do?

Until this incident occurred – Sheng Songbai had a wild intuition that Shen Boyan didn’t think about the series of follow-up operations when he rushed to save people.

He went completely by instinct!

It also shows that his attention to Xia Shu’an has surpassed his concerns about the company’s business.

“…”

Sheng Songbai sat on the chair with a cold face for a while until a light suddenly flashed in his eyes.

He picked up the desk phone and said, “Hey, Manager Xu? Are you filming a promotional video now? Have you found a star for modeling? I have a recommendation here…..”

“…”