Chapter 14: Melon Seeds and Walnuts (1/2)

Previously, Yan Jin would not bring snacks into his bedroom to eat. Part of the reason was because he did not have a heavy appetite, and the other part was to maintain the cleanliness of his bedroom. Maybe it was after he started keeping Xiao Yu, but the desk was so messy that you could not unsee it — yet he did not feel bothered. During the night, he would bring some snacks into the room and share it with Xiao Yu. Before that though, he never failed to bring Xiao Yu to the bathroom for a shower.

This time around he brought a bag of tomato-flavored walnuts. He opened the bag and there was an incoming phone call.

As for work-related matters, Yan Jin rarely handled them during the weekends. His subordinates knew his habit, so a phone call at this time would mean that it was either an urgent matter from work or his friend had gotten into trouble. Whichever it was, he had to deal with it seriously.

He placed the packet of walnuts onto the table and then moved to the side of the window to take the call.

A piece of walnut rolled out from the packaging.

Xiao Yu ran over, picked up the walnut and gnawed his teeth on it. After all these times they had spent together, he was very clear on Yan Jin’s degree of leniency on him – Yan Jin was even willing to eat the melon seeds he peeled, so he wouldn’t mind him taking a little snack.

Previously, Xiao Yu always thought that Mr. Chairman was obsessed with cleanliness and had to disinfect his office several times a day. When Xiao Yu became closer to him, he realized that those assumptions about Yan Jin did not exist. Yan Jin’s villa was only scheduled for cleaning once a week and he tidied his bedroom himself. He did not pay particular attention to his daily life, kept a stray hamster with an unknown background, and even consumed melon seeds peeled by a hamster.

Therefore, there are some assumptions you can’t make.

In fact, Yan Jin could be considered a low-key chairperson. Xiao Yu occasionally saw Yan Jin’s group of friends on social media – his official account mostly had official statement releases that were work-related. As for his personal account – which seemed to be more active – the feeds were mostly shared news on interesting events and famous designs. They never contained a selfie, and he rarely flaunted his financial status. Most of the updates recently were even secretly-taken photos of Xiao Yu sleeping.

That kind of life was truly meaningless, uneventful, and unbelievable.

Xiao Yu suddenly felt sorry for Yan Jin – if he didn’t know how to enjoy life, then what was the point of earning so much money?

Public rumors said that Yan Jin practiced asceticism. Not true. Yan Jin’s character was filled with a natural gene for evilness that was very easy to ignite. If he really had to say something, ‘tyrant’ seemed to be most suitable.

Xiao Yu gnawed on the walnut as he wondered about these random thoughts.

Don’t look down on a hamster’s teeth — Xiao Yu could cleanly peel that walnut and perfectly remove the seed from its shell. In fact, he really did so.

When comparing the natural ability to peel a walnut, a human could never win over a hamster. Xiao Yu thought of this in joy.

Xiao Yu was truly bored. He heard that a walnut’s seed resembled the human brain. Previously, he never had the skill to peel a walnut perfectly before – it was good enough that he did not crush the entire thing into bits in a bite – now that he had a chance… Xiao Yu placed the two broken pieces of walnut seeds together on the table.

It looked like a brain?

Xiao Yu stared at the walnut seed intently before realizing that he did not know what exactly the human brain looked like.

Fine, then off into the mouth it goes.

Xiao Yu stretched his paws, but they did not reach the walnut.

Not only was he unable to reach it, the distance became even further.

SQUEAK!

He was picked up!!!!

Xiao Yu did not need to look back to know which idiot who picked him up all of a sudden.

“Fishy…” Yan Jin’s deep voice came from behind: “You even know how to peel walnut?”

“Squeakkkkk.” Any hamster can do that, you idiot.

Yan Jin held Xiao Yu at eye level and looked at him: “Fishy, are you a spiritual being?”

That sentence made Xiao Yu stiffen for a whole second.

Could it be that Yan Jin realized that something was wrong with him? Wait, how could anyone think that a hamster is a spiritual being just because he could peel a walnut!

“SQUEAKK!” Yan Jin! Quickly put me down!

Yan Jin completely ignored Xiao Yu’s miserable screaming. He tucked the hamster near his chest and continued the phone call.

“I’m aware of the matter you’re talking about now. Let me ask you a question. Can a hamster gnaw open a walnut just like how they can break open a melon seed?”

Xiao Yu was quite close to the phone as he heard a very clear voice coming from the other end of the phone call –

“Obviously! How could you not know such a thing?”

Yan Jin angrily hung up the call and placed Xiao Yu back onto the table.

The moment Xiao Yu touched the ground, he immediately charged forward and ate the walnut seed at lightning speed.

He did not forget what Yan Jin did to his melon seeds, and he would never ever give Yan Jin a second chance.

Amused by Xiao Yu’s cute, overprotective reaction to his food, Yan Jin couldn’t help but let out a laugh.

Xiao Yu had his back facing him as he munched on his walnut and recalled the voice he heard from that phone call.

It was Chu Ge again.

Even if he could not verify his voice, he could tell from the tone that the person talking to Yan Jin was Chu Ge.

Ever since the day Yan Jin became his owner, Chu Ge was the only visitor to this villa.

That was not normal.

Although he couldn’t point out what was wrong exactly, Xiao Yu could sense that Yan Jin was different from the average person.

Not that he was different from a normal person – it was normal for a chairperson to be different from a normal person – but from an average person’s point of view, Yan Jin’s life was too abnormally antisocial.

Did that mean that Yan Jin disliked getting close to others? Just like how Hibari Kyoya¹ hated crowds?

Xiao Yu felt that explanation didn’t seem right. It may be normal in the 2D world, but how could there be such weirdos in actual society?

However, Xiao Yu very quickly forgot about that question – whether Yan Jin was normal or not had nothing to do with him. He wished that Yan Jin would instantly go crazy and then SI would become the leading design corporation.