Chapter Forty-Five: Cufflinks (1/2)

Yesterday, Yan Jin forced Xiao Yu to press his pawprints.

Using the same kind of method as pressing an infant’s footprints, all four of Xiao Yu’s paws had been painted with the red ink paste used for seals and stamped onto the paper.

Today, Xiao Yu saw a golden paw print that was framed and mounted.

Even though Xiao Yu wanted to ridicule how Yan Jin managed to get the factory to produce that within a day, the hamster eventually focused the main point onto whether the frame could be put elsewhere.

At the very least, don’t hang it on the wall on top of the headboard!! Wasn’t that spot usually meant to hang wedding photos??

Xiao Yu tried to protest against it several times. Too bad at such critical moments, Yan Jin’s mysterious ability to understand the hamster language didn’t seem to work.

“Are you hungry again? You just ate something, you can’t have more.”

“Just a little while more. Once I’m done with this, I’ll play with you.”

“Hm, what?”

Against Yan Jin’s puzzled gaze, Xiao Yu could not bear to grumble anymore.

Fine, hang it on the headboard then, it wouldn’t affect him anyway.

Today was a Sunday. Over the past few weekends, Yan Jin was usually very relaxed. But this time was an exception. Aside from settling the work from his company, he also needed to handle the phone calls that kept ringing in.

At first, Xiao Yu thought that it was Chu Ge calling Yan Jin to hang out. Then, when he realized that Yan Jin was rejecting the persistent caller’s phone calls nonstop, Xiao Yu knew that things weren’t as simple as he thought.

This did not seem like Yan Jin’s attitude towards Chu Ge.

Eventually, Yan Jin threw his phone.

PONG.

The phone flew very far away as it bounced off the floor. The thud was like the suppressed frustrations that came from the owner – dull and fierce – giving Xiao Yu a big shock.

Xiao Yu picked up the melon seed that he had dropped on the desk, carefully gnawing on it. His small eyes were whirling around as if he was simply minding his own business, munching on his melon seed. In fact, the hamster was secretly watching Yan Jin’s every move.

Yan Jin was in a fit of anger like a large-scale destructive weapon – silently sending shivers down everyone’s spine.

However, Yan Jin would only react in such a manner because he was at home. When he faced outsiders, he was like a dormant volcano covered in pure white snow, whose magma was churning underneath icy snow layers, making it hard for people to find its traces.

It was only when those people could not handle Yan Jin’s retribution that some intelligent ones would suddenly realize – Aaah! So, it was that time when they had carelessly offended that unpredictable young chairperson!

Even so, some of them would never realize for the rest of their lives that the origin of their misfortune was in fact from Yan Jin’s hands.

For example, Fan Xiaoge, who became a wandering homeless person, was a classic case. Even at this moment, she still couldn’t understand which sentence she said had gone beyond Yan Jin’s limit. For every sleepless night that she had experienced, the name that she cursed was not even Yan Jin.

After Yan Jin threw his phone, he did not continue working. The chairman sat there for a moment, then got up and pulled out a set of clothing from his wardrobe and went into his dressing room.

Yan Jin seemed to have completely forgotten the pile of unsettled documents. He went back and forth between the bedroom and the dressing room, and even took the Saint Laurent cologne from the bathroom.

Xiao Yu was stunned.

Was Yan Jin going out? That’s so rare…

Going out to relax before the Autumn Release Conference was a good idea. After all, Yan Jin would be very busy soon.

But why does this seem a little weird? Xiao Yu rubbed his chin, feeling that something seemed to be amiss.

Especially when Yan Jin put on a dark blue dress shirt with folded sleeves, along with trousers that were slightly rolled up. With light makeup and a styled hairdo, Yan Jin walked out from the dressing room with an extremely handsome appearance. That weird feeling that something must be amiss had instantly reached its peak.

Yan Jin… was he a person with this kind of style?

Xiao Yu always roasted Yan Jin for his overly-simplistic leisure activities. Aside from going to work, the chairman would be at home messing with his hamster. Even his QQ account was so formal that it had no hint of how unrestrained a big boss would usually be.

But at this moment, when Yan Jin had fulfilled Xiao Yu’s wish by dressing himself as a flashy and enticing person, the hamster felt that to the contrary, the image of an ascetic chairperson who dressed himself in that everyday suit seemed a lot better.

Xiao Yu had never thought that he was a sensitive person. Under most circumstances, he would use all kinds of self-entertaining reasons to shrug off anything that seemed strange or made himself unhappy. Yet at this very moment, he could clearly sense that something was wrong with Yan Jin.

Perhaps it was the sixth sense he gained after he became a hamster, an ability to anticipate danger like a small animal?

A fruity smell mixed with an indescribable spicy scent assaulted Xiao Yu’s nostrils. For a hamster, it was too overwhelming. Xiao Yu felt an itch in his nose as he sneezed.

“Sorry.” Yan Jin moved further away.

Xiao Yu rubbed his nose.

“Squeak.” It’s okay.

“I’ll go out for a while. I’ll be back tonight, so Fishy… You should return to your cage.”

Yan Jin did not get any closer. He stretched his long arm out to open the cage and tapped on the desk surface.

That was a signal that the two of them had agreed on. Whenever Yan Jin did that, it meant that Xiao Yu had to return to his cage.

Normally, Yan Jin would only do that when it was time to sleep. If Xiao Yu didn’t play along, then the chairman would use food as a lure.

Under most circumstances, Xiao Yu would be very obliging and return to his cage. Occasionally, the hamster would retaliate a little for the sake of getting some benefits from Yan Jin.

Yet this time around, Xiao Yu backed away slightly.

“Squeakk.” Where are you going?

“Come over.” Yan Jin patiently waited.

“Squeakk.” Can you not go…?

Yan Jin heaved a sigh and walked to the cage to take Xiao Yu’s food dish. Then, he grabbed the bag of melon seeds at the side and pulled open the seal.

Xiao Yu panicked as he wobbly ran over with short steps and grabbed Yan Jin’s cuff.

The grip instantly stopped Yan Jin’s actions and allowed Xiao Yu to have a clearer look at that uniquely designed silver cufflink.