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So that’s how it was. That was how the mystery designer obtained his drafts.

After so many roundabouts, Xiao Yu was finally a step closer to the truth.

Lin Zhou, that asshole.

God knows where he got his courage, but how dare he send that draft directly to Yan Jin. In the end, it was used by the competitor – throwing the helve after the hatchet.

Xiao Yu was a little disappointed. He thought that Yan Jin really was a person who would not stoop so low with such deceitful plans. However, it seemed that when a person presented an opportunity, Yan Jin would not easily let it go.

But that small disappointment was soon replaced by his dislike for Lin Zhou. He wasn’t even sure how Lin Zhou had thought of such an idiotic way and why he was so proud of his actions.

Truthfully, if it weren’t for that mystery designer that suddenly appeared, Lin Zhou really might have gotten his way.

Xiao Yu did not get any impressions that the company was dealing with any major issues during that time period. Therefore, Lin Zhou’s design draft did not have any problems during SI’s internal selection and no one had realized that Lin Zhou had plagiarized someone else’s draft.

Never did he expect his senior to not only be incompetent with his design standards, but also perform so brilliantly with evil methods.

After he had turned into a hamster, Xiao Yu had experienced several “did not expect”. Now, he realized that he was a real failure as a person. He thought he knew his senior for such long period of time, but in fact, he did not understand him a single bit. ‘Senior’ was just Lin Zhou’s fake image. The real Lin Zhou was a totally different character.

……

After Yan Jin hung up his phone, he went to the balcony to cool himself down in the cold wind and then returned to his bedroom.

History always seemed so similar – the room was pitch-black.

Chairman Yan started to wonder if he had the good habit of switching the lights off when he left the room, as he switched the lights on again.

Xiao Yu was lying on top of his tiny tomato. He glanced at Yan Jin and then lowered his head again.

Yan Jin’s instinct told him that Xiao Yu was in bad mood. In that instant, he felt like he had done something very horrible.

“Sorry Fishy, I’ll remember to leave the lights on next time.” Yan Jin made his promise as he took Xiao Yu off the tomato.

“Squeak.” Idiot, it was him who switched off the lights.

That was Xiao Yu’s little habit – whenever he encountered something that made him sad or angry, he liked to stay in the dark all by himself. The switch for the chandelier in Yan Jin’s bedroom was very close to the table, just within Xiao Yu’s reach if he stood on his tiptoes.

Yan Jin poured some melon seeds on the table – he had conveniently taken them from the living room earlier. Ever since he had become Xiao Yu’s owner, the number of times that he bought melon seeds, walnuts, and all sorts of dried fruits obviously increased. On the ground floor of this villa, you could easily see different types and flavors of melon seed packages.

Xiao Yu did not hold back. He grabbed the seeds and started gnawing, not leaving a single piece for Yan Jin. When he was on his last few, Yan Jin tried to steal then from him several times, but his efforts were all in vain. So, he had no choice but to flick Xiao Yu’s little head.

“SQUEAK!” Xiao Yu did not dodge. Although Yan Jin would never inflict pain on him, getting flicked on the head still made him frustrated to no end.

What made him angrier was that every time he attempted to bite Yan Jin, he would end up failing. Chairman Yan always seemed to be able to accurately detect his little movements and quickly moved away – he’d even return and rub him as punishment.

For example, at this moment, Yan Jin grabbed his little paws as he was rubbing them. The opponent’s tactics were way too advanced as he was unable to withdraw his paws from his fingers.

“Alright Fishy, it’s about time. You should go to sleep now.”

Yan Jin pinched Xiao Yu’s little chubby waist as he reminded him.

Normally, Xiao Yu would drag the time out before reluctantly returning to his cage. But this time around, he was very cooperative – the moment Yan Jin released his hand, Xiao Yu immediately ran back to his little nest and hid in his small house, only exposing his head. His little eyes shone like small black beads as if asking him to quickly close the cage.

Yan Jin understood intuitively. He lifted his hand to close the cage and felt weird about Xiao Yu’s unusual cooperativeness.

Chairman Yan, whose instinct was sharper than some Vongola family bosses’, narrowed his eyes as he picked up Xiao Yu’s toy tomato.

The wooden table had a few obvious scratches that hinted at the silly things a certain hamster had done.

Yan Jin broke into a smile and laughed silently.

He placed the toy tomato on top of Xiao Yu’s cage, then reached out to lock the cage as if closing the doors for his little hamster.

Dukdukduk.

Xiao Yu had already tucked his head back and pretended to ignore everything until the end – covering his ears as if he couldn’t hear anything.

Dukdukduk.

Too bad Yan Jin was a very patient person; he could spend three whole months dealing with a difficult client, and so he periodically knocked three times every five seconds for a whole two minutes.

Xiao Yu was indeed the first one to surrender. He cautiously poked half his head out from his house, and attentively waited as he was prepared to run back into his small house if Yan Jin opened the cage.

He watched as Yan Jin slowly got closer to the cage. Xiao Yu could feel cold sweat roll down his back as his entire hamster body shivered.

It was not on purpose, who would’ve known that the table was so fragile (ಥ_ಥ).

When they were less than five centimeters apart, Yan Jin said,

“Goodnight.”

The warm breath landed on the cage with a small patch of white mist. His voice was gentle and lovely like the tones of a piano in a gold, grand hall.

Chairman Yan, who was meticulous even before bedtime, used his handsome face to make a gentle expression unfitting of his image on normal days. That gaze that was full of acceptance, along with the smile made Xiao Yu think that he had seen Mozart composing a lullaby in a broken old wine cellar with the moonlight shining from above.

– –Just like a young man coaxing a baby to sleep.

He blushed.