Why does it snow in winter? Why does the road freeze after the snow? Why do people slip on ice?
I sat stiffly next to Ning Yiheng, my butt still aching faintly. The pain constantly reminded me of what had just happened.
Yes, Ning Yiheng reacted the fastest. He dragged me up from the ground, and then I logically sat next to him.
Colleagues who don’t like Ning Yiheng have long made excuses not to come. Colleagues who can come to the Team Building today are all fake fans like me who only recognize free stuff and couldn’t recognize others, and can eat in front of Ning Yiheng, the iceman, without any pressure.
But now I don’t have the slightest appetite.
Maybe it was because the fart just now was so stimulating that it knocked my appetite away.
There was also something wrong with Ning Yiheng. I didn’t move my chopsticks and he also didn’t move his chopsticks. When I turn to look at him, he either dodges his gaze or pretends to look at the bottom of his bowl.
Oh, I caught you sneaking a peek at Li Xiaoming ba.
Ning Yiheng specifically got a different hairstyle today than usual. He also has the scent of men’s perfume on his body. He wore a tight-fitting black sweater with an undercoat. These clothes are very slim, and even I can’t help but swallow when I see the muscles looming under his clothes.
This was the highest evaluation of a handsome man by a straight man.
I’m sorry, boss. I repent in my heart. It was hard for you to be so handsome today yet I kept you from sitting with Li Xiaoming.
Li Xiaoming on the other side of me was peeling shrimp slowly, eating as beautiful and elegant as a person. I’m afraid he doesn’t understand the entanglement between Ning Yiheng and me at all.
A handsome man and a beauty sat on both sides of me. The ordinary me looked quite superfluous.
If I make excuses to leave the table at this time, Ning Yiheng, who will tie the knot with Li Xiaoming in the future, should be able to understand it.
I touched the lighter in my jacket pocket and whispered to Ning Yiheng, “Boss, I’m going to the bathroom.”
I said I was going to the bathroom, but in fact, I slipped out to find a place to smoke. I squatted in the alley next to the shop in a padded jacket and turned on the lighter in the dark.
I carefully selected the right place. There are few people coming and going, and there are no street lights.
The spark of fire in my cigarette butt can be seen in the dark and won’t be discovered by my colleagues who came out to breathe.
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Cigarettes are good for you if you smoke a little, but hurt your body if you smoke a lot. I just smoke one when I’m upset.
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The huge shadow flash past and said, “Cheng Huai Xiu, what are you doing squatting here?”
—Crap, it’s Ning Yiheng.
Ning Yiheng grabbed my wrist before I pinched the cigarette and said, “I don’t mean anything else, don’t pinch it, give me a light.”
He then came closer. Only then did I vaguely see his face clearly. Ning Yiheng held a cigarette between his lips and lowered his head slightly to me.
Ning Yiheng was taller than me. Even if he lowered his head deliberately, I had to raise my hands to light the fire. I moved one hand to his cigarette to block the wind and held the lighter with the other.
Ning Yiheng held the cigarette with one hand and took a quiet puff.
I don’t want to be alone with Ning Yiheng like this, but it wasn’t good to find an excuse to leave so as not to appear to be hiding from him too obviously.
So, I’m gonna bite the bullet and lean shoulder to shoulder against the wall with him to smoke.
I wondered why he didn’t talk more with Li Xiaoming while I was away, so I asked tactfully, “Boss, why did you come out?”
“Came out to get some air.” Ning Yiheng’s answer was concise.
This directly blocked all my topics, and I could only reply “Okay” embarrassedly.
After a while, Ning Yiheng said, “Cheng Huai Xiu, have you been avoiding me this week?”
I was shocked and immediately replied, “No ah.”
I remembered that I had been ordering Li Xiaoming to send documents for me this week. I suddenly felt a little guilty and said, “Oh, it’s true that I haven’t been going to your office much recently, but it’s all at work…”
“Why didn’t you go?” Ning Yiheng interrupted me and asked, “Why did Li Xiaoming send all your documents?”
He still asks me why? Doesn’t he know it in his heart?
I complained in my heart, but I couldn’t tell boss these words on his face, so I said, “This is because… Because Li Xiaoming was on the way, so I asked him to send it for me.”
Ning Yiheng didn’t speak. He obviously didn’t believe my explanation and only after a long time did he say softly, “Your relationship with Li Xiaoming is really good ah.”
This is the second time my boss had said such things to my face.
Since I learned about Ning Yiheng’s orientation, I have learned a lot of wisdom.
At this time, I can’t cause him to misunderstand the relationship between me and Li Xiaoming so I immediately said, “Roommates. We’re roommates.”
“Boss, I have no thoughts about Li Xiaoming.”
Ning Yiheng: …
I immediately reacted that what I said was a bit too much. I couldn’t see Ning Yiheng’s expression in the dark, but I was keenly aware of the subtle and awkward atmosphere between us.
It’s over, I seem to have said the wrong thing.
Why is boss upset again?
I suddenly lost the ability to organize words. Ning Yiheng wasn’t a man of many words. If he doesn’t say a word, I don’t know how to answer.
Ning Yiheng didn’t mention Li Xiaoming anymore and said, “You can drive me home in a while. You can stay at my house for one night, and I will send you to work tomorrow.”
There was no subway at this point, and my colleagues probably have to take a taxi back. At this moment, I, fortunately, asked the question, “Boss, have you been drinking?”
In fact, you can find a substitute driver, I thought but I didn’t say it.
Ning Yiheng pinched his cigarette, but he didn’t speak. There was a rustling sound of rummaging clothes, followed by a crashing collision when the bottle cap was opened.
“I drank.” I heard Ning Yiheng say.
Before I could react, I heard a muffled noise, and Ning Yiheng fell straight in front of me with the alcohol bottle in his hand.
The glass bottle came out of Ning Yiheng’s hand and shattered into pieces, splashing liquor on my shoes.
Me: ???
Boss! What are you doing ah, Boss!
—
When I walked back to the restaurant with difficulty carrying the drunken Ning Yiheng, my colleagues had already eaten. They were all waiting for us to come back.
Ning Yiheng had settled the bill in advance. He couldn’t understand that he was drunk now, so we had to temporarily dismiss and go back to our respective homes.
Although my colleagues didn’t ask much, they all cast admiring glances at me one after another.
… You guys don’t think I got the boss drunk, do you?
I coughed embarrassedly, ignoring the curious and inquisitive gaze of others, and went straight to Li Xiaoming first.
This kind of good opportunity to send boss home isn’t given to Li Xiaoming, but still given to me?
Now I look like I’m ordering Li Xiaoming around all the time, and I feel a little guilty in my heart— But he will always understand my intentions in the future.
“Xiao Ming ah, can you help me? Boss, he…”
As soon as I spoke, Li Xiaoming shook the wine glass in his hand and said with a wry smile, “Cheng-ge, I just had a drink. I really can’t drive a car, but I can help you move Boss to the car.”
Me: …
The phrase trying to steal the chicken, only to lose the rice to lure it, isn’t about me, right?
Author’s Note:
Xiao Ming is good to Xiao Cheng purely because of the good relationship between the two of them.
Xiao Ming has a bad temper in front of people he doesn’t like. For details, see the second cp.
LOL, second CP and here I am suspecting 😇 Li Xiaoming on his relationship with his senior Cheng Huai Xiu.😁
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