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The involved person didn’t say where he stood. Whereas the industry leaders, they didn’t ask further of what was going on either.
Even though they were slightly concerned, all of them have confidence in Ren Jing.
Ren Jing being able to make it through until today was certainly because he was using his head. He had to know exactly what to do and who he shouldn’t mess with.
Moreover, Ren Jing has always had an excellent reputation since he had never fool around with anyone. Apart from him acquiescing in conforming to some scandals that the showbiz milieu had known about, there was hardly any ‘stain’ on his private life.
Such a disciplined person was truly worthy of others’ trust and respect.
Since Ren Jing didn’t mention anything about it, everyone simply pretended that they didn’t see anything. Although a tiny bit curious, they were all old foxes: they knew very well that curiosity killed the cat, so they simply hid their curiosity and didn’t comment even a single word.
Ye Chen ran away as fast as lightning. It could probably be described using Gu Xi’s words, “Despite being short, no ordinary person would be able to chase you the moment you get these legs moving!”
He rushed out of the meeting room and dashed into the elevator. His face still felt burning hot even until he already sat down in the car.
That was so shameful! So shameful it’s unbelievable I did it!
It was true that he did it to ‘extend’ his life, but others had no idea about it, of course!
Thinking about it made Ye Chen feel more embarrassed than ever. He could let go of the fact that he had forcefully hugged Ren Jing, but he did it thrice!
That group of people might have thought that he was insane…
Ye Chen let out a wail before resting his forehead on the back part of the driver seat’s headrest in front of him while feeling that there was nothing left to live for.
Xiao Liu cautiously called out, “Brother Chen?”
Ye Chen, “Brother Chen has died. Please burn joss paper if you need anything from him.”
Xiao Liu, “…”
Ye Chen was alive again after ‘dying’ for a while, then he said, “Go to Lanting, Laozi wants to get good and drunk!”
Xiao Liu opened his mouth, but didn’t have the courage to say ‘you’ve just said in your Moments yesterday that you would become a puppy if you’re drunk again’ in the end.
Ye Chen didn’t ask anyone to accompany him. He simply found a seat by the window, then requested the servant to bring Tibetan wine to him. His manner was ‘extremely’ imposing that it seemed as if he would be able to finish drinking all these three bottles of wine!
But the thing was that his cheeks had turned reddish after he drank a glass of the liquor. Then he began to encourage Xiao Liu, “Come, come, come, be my drink companion. Tell them to pick us up later.”
Xiao Liu frowned. “Brother Chen, I can’t drink.”
Ye Chen said, “You’ll be able to after you practice a few times. Have a cup first to freshen yourself up.”
How would Xiao Liu dare to actually drink? One bottle of this renowned wine cost more than hundreds of thousand. It was his favorite. Still, Brother Chen dared to drink it like water. If it was someone else who spent that much on a wine like that, they would’ve probably gotten ‘killed’!
Ye Chen had a low liquor tolerance: he would get tipsy after a cup. Once he got tipsy, he would act shamelessly, just like how he insisted on having Xiao Liu to accompany him for a drink right now. Xiao Liu wouldn’t change his mind, however, so he could only use the ultimate excuse of pretending to go to pee and wait for him outside.
Ye Chen was left all alone after Xiao Liu left. After finishing yet another glass, he can’t help but feeling the sadness welling up, feeling so wronged.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
My lifetime reputation was smeared just like that! I’ve even gone as far as to do such a stupid thing in front of so many people…
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Looking at Ye Chen being like that, Ren Jing felt a tiny itch on his heart, then approached him without a second thought.
The moment he walked up to Ye Chen, Ren Jing noticed his blushy cheeks and teary eyes.
Is he still sad? What’s the matter?
Ren Jing thought of coaxing him, but Ye Chen had seen him before he could say anything.
Brother Chen jumped up high like a frightened rabbit that he almost turned the table over!
Ren Jing blinked his eyes in response.
Since Ye Chen had drunk two cups of wine, the wine’s effect had kicked in, making him more daring than usual. The way he spoke also became more overbearing, “Don’t take a step closer!”
Ren Jing halted his steps and stopped moving.
Thinking back of how he had been done by Ren Jing the last time he got drunk still made him upset until now, resulting in him suddenly getting enraged. Hence, he opened his eyes wide and gave Ren Jing a ‘ferocious’ stare. His attitude was rather fierce and tough right now!
Unfortunately, his look right now was like him putting up a show of courage but about to cry because he felt so wronged.
Ren Jing’s heart softened. His voice also became incredibly gentle when he said, “Just let it out if you’re displeased with something. Don’t drink liquor to drown your sorrows, it’ll harm your health.”
Hearing Ren Jing speaking with that kind of voice, Ye Chen felt weak and numb from head to toe. However, considering how he wouldn’t yield in, he chin up and chest out, thinking of expressing his grudge towards Ren Jing. “Don’t you dare—”
But before he could shed crocodile tears, Death System reminded him, “Don’t say I didn’t remind you: you still have to do the mission tomorrow.”
Hearing its words, Ye Chen was instantly alarmed.
He could still make a good showing today, but he might have died tomorrow if he did so. This ‘deal’ wasn’t worth it.
However, Ye Chen couldn’t quite control himself who had been intoxicated…
This is no good. Ye Chen had to save himself for the sake of seeing tomorrow.
How should he save himself? By fleeing, fleeing, and keep fleeing, of course!
As a result, Ye Chen who had intended to make an all-out effort to throw a fit suddenly changed his plans and turned into a rabbit incarnate, spreading his legs in an attempt to escape.
Right at this time, Ren Jing grabbed him by his wrist. Ye Chen glared at him fiercely and said, “Let go.”
Ren Jing didn’t continue grabbing him. The most important thing was Ye Chen’s wrist was so fair that he was afraid that it would leave a mark if he grabbed it too hard.
Ye Chen seized the opportunity when Ren Jing was lost in thought to run away and disappeared without a trace.
Ren Jing thought of following him, but his assistant had also shown up at the same time.
Ren Jing had no choice but to pause his steps. He gazed at Ye Chen’s receding figure with deep regret.
Surprisingly, Yang Sen asked, “(Was that) Ye Chen?”
Ren Jing responded with a grunt.
“Come to think of it…” Yang Sen thought for a while before saying, “He seems to have sent a friend request to your WeChat.”
Ren Jing promptly responded. “Where’s my phone?”
Yang Sen took out another one of Ren Jing’s cellphone from the handbag.
Ren Jing saw the friend request the moment he turned on the phone.
“When did this happen?” asked Ren Jing.
Yang Sen answered, “I didn’t pay attention to it either. I only noticed it when I took a look in the morning.”
Ren Jing used his cellphone for work, so the phone’s number was the same as his WeChat ID. He seldom took a look at the cellphone by himself because the contacts were mostly people from showbiz or work, he handed all the work for Yang Sen to handle. He used to add Ye Chen’s WeChat using his side account. He only added very few people there, and he didn’t bind that account to a phone number either.
Ye Chen might have instantly regretted it after unfriending Ren Jing and thought of adding him back as a friend right away, but he didn’t know Ren Jing’s WeChat ID. Then he found Ren Jing’s other account by searching through his phone number and sent a friend request, but it wasn’t accepted even after a long time had passed. Ye Chen probably thought that Ren Jing had blocked him…
Is that why…he’s that sad?
Has he been sad for a night and a day? To the point he came here to drink alone in depression?
Ren Jing couldn’t help but pursed his lips into a smile. The glimmer of a smile on his eyes was so gentle that it could melt others.
Yang Sen—who had been a straight man for as long as he can remember—could feel his body shivering uncontrollably upon seeing that smitten look!
With that, Ren Jing accepted the friend request. After the chat box popped out, he sent Ye Chen a message. Then he took out his other cellphone and sent a friend request from there, too.
Ye Chen was already on the way home when his cellphone rang and then rang once again. At first, he thought that it was his disreputable friends who had called him, so he didn’t take it seriously. But soon, his cellphone rang again!
Brother Chen—whose heart was still heavy—took his cellphone and turned it on, thinking of giving this inconsiderate guy a good talking to. In the end, he caught sight of two WeChat messages plus a friend request instead.
Ren Jing: [This is my other WeChat ID that has been handled by my assistant.]
The next message was a voice message. The instant he played it, Ren Jing’s voice reverberated in his ears. “Don’t cry, I didn’t unfriend you.”
Hearing his voice, Ye Chen’s fingertips trembled!
This…this is…
Just then, Gu Xi sent a message to Ye Chen.
Ye Chen hurriedly shifted his attention and promptly checked Gu Xi’s message.
Gu Xi: [I accidentally unfriended you just now, don’t mind it. I just unfriended the wrong person.]
Ye Chen was dumbfounded for a while. He replied: [How could you still chat with me if you had unfriended me?]
Gu Xi responded: [I added you back as a friend again.]
Ye Chen was startled. [Don’t I need to accept the friend request first since you’ve deleted and added me back!?]
Gu Xi: [Accept your shit, you didn’t unfriend me anyway.]
Ye Chen: […] Fuck, what in the world is this kind of system!? Sir T*ncent, could you please do a better job!?
Death System began to rejoice in Ye Chen’s misfortune again. “Oh dear~”
Brother Chen flew into a rage out of humiliation. “Get losttt!”
Following that, his cellphone rang again. The moment he opened the chat and heard the voice message, Ye Chen nearly fainted because of it!
Ren Jing’s voice was truly too illegal to be heard, “That night…I was so happy.”
Death System, “Oh myyyy~~~~~~” A hundred tildes of Death System’s ecstasy had been omitted from here to save space.
Ye Chen really couldn’t keep holding the burning hot cellphone anymore. He threw it to the front seat while flushing in shame, shocking Xiao Liu in the process. He asked, “Brother Chen? What happened?”
Ye Chen stuttered, “N-n-nothing.”
I’d be surprised if ‘nothing’ happened now that he had stuttered that badly.
Still, Xiao Liu was a sensible and reliable assistant, he knew he shouldn’t ask more than that. He fully concentrated on driving the car and didn’t even take a glance at that cellphone using the corner of his eyes.
After sitting idly for a while, Ye Chen felt that something was amiss yet again. He grabbed his cellphone, then typed a bunch of messages: [I drank too much that night, so I couldn’t quite remember what happened back then. But we’re both adults, so it shouldn’t really be anything serious even if something happened. With that said, no need to take it too seriously. No need to mind what happened that night. Hahaha…]
After typing such a long message, Ye Chen felt that it wouldn’t do, so he seriously thought of deleting it and retyping everything. But the car braked suddenly, making Ye Chen’s hand shake and accidentally pressed the ‘send’ button.
“Liu Xiaoming!!!” Ye Chen exploded with rage.
Xiao Liu hadn’t heard someone call him using his full name for a long time, rendering him speechless for a short time before he reacted. He hurriedly said, “Sorry, Brother Chen, the car in front of us suddenly braked. I can’t do anything about it…”
Ye Chen couldn’t care less about him. He promptly looked at the screen again and wanted to unsend the message, but right at the moment he pressed the button, these words also popped out on the top of the chat box simultaneously: [The other person is typing…]
Ren Jing had seen my message! Wait, don’t tell me he has been holding his cellphone all the time while waiting for my reply!?
Ye Chen regretted it very much after he had unsend the message. It would have been better if he didn’t do so!
What had he done? Trying to cover up a misdeed, only to make it more conspicuous? Moreover, what would Ren Jing think of this? It’s too scary to think about!
Feeling completely scared to see what Ren Jing would send to him, Ye Chen turned off his cellphone in a flurry, then decided to bury his head in the sand.
Ye Chen didn’t turn on his cellphone for the whole afternoon until evening. He won a game and tumbled into bed after he was tired playing. Eventually, the next day came and Death System gave a wake-up call to Ye Chen.
“Wakey wakey, rise and shine.”
Brother Chen—who only slept for four hours—got up on the wrong side of the bed. He snarled, “What are you being so noisy for!? I still want to sleep!”
“It’s already six o’clock. You’ll never wake up anymore if you continue sleeping.”
Ye Chen said grudgingly, “It’s only six, there are still about four hours to 9.55 o’clock!”
Death System said considerately, “It’s mostly because today’s mission is a bit difficult. Are you sure you don’t want to prepare in advance?”
For some reason, Ye Chen had an ominous presentiment about this. He sat up, hugged his pillow, then said intimidatingly albeit still having bedhead, “Tell me the mission.”
Death System had to keep his way of speaking not to sound too cheerful, “Daily mission: Make a handmade love chocolate for Ren Jing. The reward is one life point.”
Ye Chen, “Are you kidding me?”
Death System, “Attention: it must be handmade. In addition to that, it has to be a love chocolate.”
The author has something to say:
Brother Jing is definitely the luckiest gong I’ve ever written [silly face]
(potats: Dunno if this still applies now, but good to know! *laughs*)
I’d say Ye Chen is pretty lucky too; Ren Jing is already so smitten, he doesn’t need to find any excuses when Ren Jing’s capable of doing mental gymnastics (人´∀｀)｡ﾟ+ he’s looking at YC with the shojo filter on LOL these two are the cutest. This could easily be a psychological drama novel if YC’s target wasn’t Ren Jing, but a cold and arrogant straight man instead…… ai… the system picked good! Ren Jing will take care of him :’-)
Right? He did not know about the system and thought that something might have caused Ye Chen to act that way. I think it’s a close answer considering he did not know about the system.
I take back what I said. This man is clearly smitten. The filter is too strong.
LMAO so true