Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Five: sLifetime” Contrac (1/2)
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“I’ll keep my promise.”
Xiao Yu curled his lip, unsure of why that sounded unreliable.
Yan Jin chuckled, shuffling Xiao Yu deeper into his chest.
Both of them were reclining on the sofa while they chatted lovingly.
“What would you like for dinner?” asked Yan Jin.
Xiao Yu thought for a bit before reasoning, “I should probably return home.”
Originally, he hadn’t planned on staying overnight yesterday, but the ears on top of his head wouldn’t go away. At that time, it really was too inconvenient to leave the house. Furthermore, there were too many things he wanted to talk to Yan Jin about, so he ended up reluctantly staying.
Since he’d already reverted to his human form, he should probably pack up and return home.
With such a logically obvious response, Xiao Yu didn’t know why Yan Jin looked so confused.
“Return home? Why do you want to go back home?”
“What do you mean why? I can’t live here forever.”
“Can’t you?” Yan Jin was very confused. “Isn’t living with your beloved normal?”
“Who taught you to be so narcissistic?” Xiao Yu pushed Yan Jin aside and sat up. “You’re also YL’s chairman; it probably wouldn’t be too good for you if news got out.“
Yan Jin grudgingly also sat up, surrounding Xiao Yu in his embrace again. “Isn’t it enough that I think it’s fine? Why should what other people think matter?”
“Hmph! I’m not shameless like you.” Xiao Yu ridiculed him. “It’ll seem as if I’m entirely dependent on you.”
“Hmm, you have a valid point.” Yan Jin appeared to deliberate for a moment. Then he proposed, “How about this: I go live at your place then? Then it’ll seem like I’m entirely dependent on you instead.”
That’s not any different!
It was never an issue of who’d be living at whose place.
Once anyone saw that they were eating and living together, no matter if it was at Yan Jin’s priceless villa or at Xiao Yu’s very normal flat, they would definitely think Xiao Yu was the one living off of Yan Jin.
Following this line of thought, Xiao Yu sighed sadly. Gossip is a scary thing. Maybe since they’ll misunderstand either way it’s better to choose for ourselves instead of worrying about what others think…
Wait wait wait, isn’t this just falling for Yan Jin’s tricks?
Xiao Yu felt it was better to just accept it, but he didn’t want to say it so straightforwardly. That would just feel too shameful.
“How about it?” Yan Jin persisted.
“That’s not great either…” Xiao Yu changed the topic. “Speaking of which, don’t you have to go to work? It’s not like this is the weekend.”
“Today’s one of my rare vacation days.”
“Hmph, I doubt it!” Xiao Yu clearly didn’t believe him. “Your interim chairman was just complaining to me about how you skived off work.”
“Nonsense, I’ll have to deduct his pay.” Yan Jin kept up the pretense.
“Stop joking around.” Xiao Yu really was helpless against Yan Jin’s eloquence. “I really don’t understand how you can bullshit so well when everyone says Chairman Yan is a man of few words.”
“It just goes to show that you can’t believe those false rumors.”
Xiao Yu snorted again but had no reply. He wasn’t clear on whether or not to believe the rumors, but he understood that he too had been one of the many sheep that believed Yan Jin to be the silent and aloof type – at least until he slowly wisened up as a hamster.
But really, Yan Jin’s true self was hidden too well and deeply. Most people would neither encounter nor understand it.
Who asked Xiao Yu to be so fortunate?
The man who had captivated all the unmarried designers at Xiao Yu’s workplace had unexpectedly been taken by Xiao Yu himself.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yu couldn’t help but feel supremely satisfied with himself.
Sensing Xiao Yu’s shifting mood, Yan Jin seized the opportunity to assert, “So that’s about it for you joining YL. I’ll hand the rest off to human resources to finish the contract work.”
“Hmph.” Xiao Yu snobbishly shook his head to the side. “I’m not signing if the contract conditions aren’t good.”
“No worries.” Yan Jin nodded.
Not that drafting a contract was slow in the first place, but with so many employees at YL, there were many types of contract templates available. Furthermore, this was the first ever contract the chairman personally ordered. Human resources immediately dropped everything to work on this “special” contract at full speed.
That afternoon, interim chairman Shao Yue, sensing he was about to be finally released from his hellish prison, came groveling in-person to the front door to deliver the contract.
“That was really fast. Did you clarify all the conditions properly?” Even Yan Jin had some doubts about the speed.
“Relax, I supervised the entire process,” Shao Yue replied, full of confidence. His entire face screamed “I’m infinitely reliable”.
“Your supervision is useless. You know neither law nor management.”
“Fuck, why did you become so hateful? While you’ve been exploring your own insanity, who’s been managing YL under all the pressure?”