Ye Fei did not give Yan Xiao an answer until the end of that day. He avoided the subject under the pretext of getting water.
Fortunately, Yan Xiao was not obsessed either, as if he was simply expressing his thoughts and did not force Ye Fei to accept it.
Ye Fei opened the refrigerator, touched the mineral water bottle, thought about it, and put it back. Instead, he pulled the freezer door and took out a bucket of ice cream from it.
The frozen paper bucket was icy cold, sobering his blank and swollen brain.
There was something wrong with Yan Xiao, and each of his actions prodded Ye Fei. Even if he was a piece of wood, he could feel Yan Xiao’s sincerity.
But he could never be sure. After all, it never happened in his last life. And the only variable in this life is his rebirth, but if Yan Xiao fell in love with him in just over a month, even Ye Fei would not believe it.
Ye Fei leaned against the refrigerator, unable to make up his mind.
“Ye Fei.” Yan Xiao’s voice came from behind. Ye Fei turned his head.
“Don’t you want to eat it?” Yan Xiao pointed at the ice cream in his hand and said, “It’s going to melt.”
Ye Fei lowered his eyes. Water vapor in the air condensed into small water droplets on the surface of the paper bucket. It dripped down his fingers and fell to the ground drop by drop.
Ye Fei wanted something cold to refresh his mind, but he did not want to eat it. But it was hard to say it aloud, so he could only open the bucket of ice cream, dig a spoonful and stuff it into his mouth.
The sweet and greasy taste of chocolate filled his mouth, and Ye Fei frowned before swallowing his bite. He raised the bucket and glanced at the label. As expected, it was Haagen-Dazs.
Yan Xiao loves this ice cream deeply, and made it available at home throughout the year. Ye Fei could not figure out what was so nice about it. While the marketing and promotion was good, it was not very tasty.
“Don’t you like it?” Yan Xiao was stunned when he saw Ye Fei’s disgruntlement.
“Well,” Ye Fei put the paper bucket on the table. “It’s too sweet.”
“You don’t like it…” Yan Xiao looked at the ice cream bucket in despair. Ye Fei felt that Yan Xiao’s expression was weird. Was he meant to like it? Ye Fei disregarded Yan Xiao’s reaction; it had to be because Yan Xiao thought he too was a lover of Haagen-Dazs.
Ye Fei took a piece of tissue to wipe his hands dry, before he walked out of the kitchen. Yan Xiao closely followed him. While walking to the living room, Yan Xiao suddenly turned to him.
“What do you like?”
In fact, Ye Fei did no’t eat such things often, so he said casually, “Stuff that isn’t sweet.”
“For example?” Yan Xiao stubbornly asked.
“How about popsicles?” Ye Fei thought about it and joked. Yan Xiao whispered a soft “understood”. He watched Ye Fei walk into the bedroom before returning to the room.
The next day, Ye Fei got up early, and after having eaten the breakfast their housekeeper had left for him, was ready to go to the company. As soon as he went out, as if remembering something, he turned back again. He walked into the cloakroom and looked at the neatly arranged box of lighters. The corners of his lips curled up unconsciously, and he took one before putting it in his pocket.
Because of the traffic jam on the road, Ye Fei arrived at Tianxi at close to ten.
“You’ve come.” As soon as he saw him, Gu Ruijia rushed over. Ye Fei casually put her bag on the chair, turned on the computer and asked him, “What’s wrong?”
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“Orange TV is going to stuff people into our crew!” Gu Ruijia instructed the secretary to close the office door, pulled up a chair and sat beside Ye Fei. During this period, Ye Fei did not only sell IP; he had also given Gu Ruijia a sand sculpture to prepare for shooting.
Tianxi was a small production studio, and <<Super Time Redemption>> had already made the company extremely busy. At this time, it was not capable of making a big production, so Ye Fei set his sights on low-cost and short-cycle online dramas.
The script he chose was called <<Please Sober Up>>; it told the story of a pair of college students of different genders who swap bodies by chance. It was humorous, fast paced comedy with plenty of touching moments, and thus a rare masterpiece.
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After a month of hard work, they were ready to shoot. Who would have thought that Orange TV would create trouble at this juncture.
“I have communicated with them, but they were coming in strong,” Gu Ruijia took a sip and said with a headache, “They told me that if we wanted them to cooperate, they had to designate the female lead.”
“Who are they going to put in?” Ye Fei asked. Upon mentioning this, Gu Ruijia’s teeth started to ache, and he took his mobile phone out to show the potential female lead.
“Feng Zhenzhen, have you heard of her? This is also the first time I’ve heard about her. I just checked the Internet and found out that she is a member of a girl group from Orange TV. Just debuted this year, knows singing and dancing, with no acting experience.”
“Tell them to scram.” Ye Fei glanced at the little artist with heavy makeup in the photo, and sneered. Although the requirements for acting skills in online dramas were lower than TV standards, it is not easy for individuals to act. Besides, he only had two years left to live. If he were still restrained by others and could not choose to live as he wanted, then what was the point of being reborn?
“Orange TV is still the most popular platform…” Gu Ruijia was concerned.
Ye Fei lifted his eyelids and glanced at him. “So, let them put someone who can only sing and dance? When did our crew become a cheerleading team?”
“Pfft—” Gu Ruijia wanted to laugh before catching a glimpse of the cold look on Ye Fei’s face and held back. “Then what should I do now?”
“Change the broadcasting platform we are cooperating with,” Ye Fei knocked on the table and said without hesitation, “It’s not just them.” At most, they will just have to increase promotion when the drama launches.
“Okay,” Gu Ruijia nodded, “I’ll reply to them right away.”
Orange TV was the leader in the field, so naturally they did not care about their little C-type web drama. Of course, they were still dissatisfied with their attitude, and thus hinted that if they refused to cooperate on this, there was no chance of future collaboration in the future. Gu Ruijia was so angry that he nearly dropped his phone.
“Stop howling,” Ye Fei said as he browsed through the major broadcasting platforms, “It’s good for the problems to crop up at the start. Could you imagine if they were to insert their people halfway through filming?” Gu Ruijia visualized what Ye Fei described, and it was as disgusting as swallowing a fly. He had participated in the entire process from filing to casting, so <<Please Sober Up>> was his pride and joy.
“Damn,” he slapped the table viciously, “we must film this show well, and we’ll see how they regret it when it becomes popular!”
“We need to first determine the broadcasting platform.” Ye Fei put down his mouse and leaned back lazily. Gu Ruijia sighed, before his eyes lit up.
“Hey, I think Feixiao Video is good.” Ye Fei was too stunned to reply immediately.
“If you don’t say anything, I’ll take it as approval,” Gu Ruijia winked at Ye Fei, “Don’t you think that those that are yours are the best?”
“Don’t talk nonsense.” Ye Fei frowned.He compared the top broadcasting platforms one by one in his mind, and found that Feixiao Video was a good choice.
The user experience is good, and the subtitles were on point; there were no technical issues especially with Feixiao Technology providing their servers. Although the hit rate was not as large as that of Orange TV, it was ranked one of the top five in the broadcasting field.
“Okay,” Ye Fei agreed, “you can negotiate the contract, but I won’t be present. Don’t look for Yan Xiao, let’s differentiate between our private and public dealings.”
“I understand.” Gu Ruijia simply nodded.
However well Ye Fei could manage Gu Ruijia, he had no control over how Feixiao Technology had reacted. The entertainment department was the most well-informed place in the company. When the person in charge saw Tianxi Entertainment, they knew it was one of their own and immediately reported it to Cheng Minghao.
Cheng Minghao immediately led the person in charge to see Yan Xiao and told him about it. At the end, he said happily again: “This time, I really want to thank Orange TV for the reward.” This was a performance opportunity delivered right to their door!
“Let’s make this an exclusive cooperation plan, S-class level.” Yan Xiao stopped typing on the keyboard and ordered. The person in charge responded immediately.
Yan Xiao searched the webpage for a few seconds and found the official website of Orange Video. In the interval between software downloads, he instructed, “Send me the development plan of Feixiao Video before five o’clock.”
“Five o’clock…” The person in charge had a bitter look on his face. The time allocated was really tight.
Feixiao Video was an unpopular business of Feixiao Technology. The boss did not pay attention to it, and never asked about it. So everyone in that department lived from day to day, since they were supported by Feixiao Technology no matter what.
Now that the boss wanted to develop a plan, they needed some time to develop it.
“Is there any problem?” Yan Xiao glanced over.
“This… five o’clock is too…” The person in charge murmured.
“I’m notifying you, not discussing with you.”
The person in charge groaned at the boss’s unhurried manner, and quickly responded with a “Yes.”
For the next five minutes, there was only silence in the office. Yan Xiao opened the Orange TV app, and browsed from the top to the next according to the categories on the left. The person in charge and Cheng Minghao shared a look, and both found the question marks in each other’s eyes.
Yan Xiao did not plan to solve their confusion. He pondered for a few seconds and entered the name of a movie in the search box. The page turned twice, and the search results were quickly displayed.
There were resources available, they could work with this. Yan Xiao turned off the video introduction, searched again, and still found the resource. After repeating it several times in a row, he raised his head and ordered, “Let the in-house counsel come to see me.”
In the past, his focus was on games, with Cheng Minghao in charge of other businesses, but it was different now. Yan Xiao wanted to give the best to Ye Fei and would not allow anyone to bully him.
“Ah?” Cheng Minghao could not keep up with his train of thought, and said in a daze, “You don’t need to call the legal counsel, there is a template for the contract with Brother Fei.”
Yan Xiao pointed to the computer screen and explained briefly, “Copyright.”
Cheng Minghao was still in a daze and did not react, but the eyes of the person in charge instantly lit up. The idea of domestic copyright awareness had just emerged during this time. Because their company had been plagued by piracy in the past few years, they paid special attention to this aspect. All the videos in Feixiao Video were licensed. But Orange TV was different; many of its movies were uploaded directly.
They could attack Orange TV directly from this angle.
The head of the person in charge was working at lightning speed. Not only could they vent their boss’s partner’s anger directly, but they could pull Orange TV down as well, and promote Feixiao Video. In addition, they could also crack down on piracy and play the social responsibility of a large enterprise.
Wonderful.
The person in charge was brilliant. After he figured it out, he felt pumped with energy. God knows how envious they are when they see the benefits provided to the games department at the end of each year. But who said they cannot make a profit as well? This opportunity must be seized firmly.
Ye Fei is really his savior!
“I’ll call the legal affairs,” the person in charge said immediately, “and arrange for someone to negotiate the contract with Tianxi.” Yan Xiao nodded.
So on the same day, Gu Ruijia received feedback from Feixiao Video.
“WOOO!” He exclaimed excitedly as he grabbed Ye Fei. “S-level, it’s more than a star and a half better than Orange TV’s C-level, we’ve struck the lottery!”
Ye Fei turned to look at the electronic contract with generous terms, and his face slowly showed a little helplessness. The reason why he did not participate in the negotiations was because he was afraid of this.
With Tianxi’s current situation, they were lucky if the web dramas being filmed could be classified as Category C. At this point, it was clear that Yan Xiao had personally intervened.
Ye Fei let out a breath and said to Gu Ruijia, “Don’t respond, I’ll call Yan Xiao.”
“Ah? Okay then.” Gu Ruijia gave Ye Fei a strange look, and then exited the office. He could not understand why Ye Fei was so polite to Yan Xiao. It stands to reason that Feixiao Technology was one of their own. Was this contract not a matter of course?
Ye Fei walked to the window with his mobile phone in her hand, and hesitated for a while before pressing the call button. The call was quickly picked up, and Yan Xiao’s calm voice came into his ears through the speaker.
“Ye Fei.”
“I saw the contract,” Ye Fei leaned against the windowsill and smiled, “President Yan is generous.”
“No.” Yan Xiao’s voice was tinny and mechanical.
“I see your sincerity, but it’s a little inappropriate,” Ye Fei played with the lighter, “Let’s follow the normal procedure.”
“It’s a normal procedure, nothing abnormal.”
“Normal procedure…” Ye Fei’s temper was quickly worn down by Yan Xiao’s words, and he smiled helplessly, “Does President Yan always do charity?”
Yan Xiao was stunned for a moment, as if he did not understand why Ye Fei suddenly changed the subject. However, he responded by saying, “The company does have a dedicated charitable investment.”
Ye Fei held his forehead. “No, I mean, you are too generous to your partner.”
Yan Xiao said “no”; then as if he was deliberately proving something, he said to Ye Fei, “I’m very good at making money.”
“Yes, President Yan is amazing.” Ye Fei could not help but laugh. He did not realize it himself, but the corners of his lips started to curl up whenever he spoke to Yan Xiao.
“And there are no other partners—”
Yan Xiao paused for a while, and then said slowly, “I’m only generous to you.”
The author has something to say:
Yan Xiao: No one is allowed to bully Ye Fei, including myself.
Ye Fei: No, no, you can do so in bed.
Translator: Bonus chapter!
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Sigh… So cute
When they do get around to “eating meat,” Yan Xiao will cut it into bites and hand feed Ye Fei 😀. I hope someday Ye Fei finds out that the video department was pretty happy about this project. After all, his husband is very good at making money!
thank you for the chapter!
nepotism at its finest~
Thanks for the chapters
I really want to know what happened 7 years ago that has this man this devoted besides appearance. How did feifei capture his heart without even remembering they met on his trip?
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Thank you 🥰
Aww straight to the heart!tq
Aww, President Yan is no longer an idiot. Nicely said.
I havent read the previous chapters from other sites, and I just had the epiphany Feixiao is Fei Xiao! So cute~
No one bullies Ye Fei on Yan Xiao’s watch! 💪
Thanks for the chapter 💞
Yan Xiao is so precious 😆 how come Fei Fei didn’t notice this whipped side of his. No wonder his past life sucked LMAO