Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Six: The Hideously Adorable Design (2/2)
“Who needs your salary? Go away go awayyyy~~~”
This time Xiao Yu didn’t successfully push Yan Jin away and Yan Jin seized the opportunity to lean directly into him. Xiao Yu couldn’t escape as Yan Jin pressed his body into him and kissed him as if sealing their fate together.
After their fight, Yan Jin wrapped Xiao Yu in his arms, saying earnestly, “It’s so late already. I wouldn’t feel comfortable about your safety going home alone. It’s better to stay here.”
“What do you mean late? It’s only eight. S City is the city that never sleeps. I’m not a little girl either.”
“Don’t say stuff like that.” Yan Jin parted Xiao Yu’s bangs before kissing him on the forehead. “If you acted cute, those little girls wouldn’t matter at all.”
“Stop spouting rubbish!”
Xiao Yu raised his voice to cover his embarrassment while searching for an escape from Yan Jin’s evil clutches.
With things going the way they were, if he stayed tonight, undesirable things would definitely happen. For the sake of his own chastity, he should find a way to escape.
Ahhh think, think, hurry up and think of a way~~~
Xiao Yu’s inflexible mind couldn’t think under the gaze of Yan Jin all while surrounded by Chairman Yan’s pheromones. They were so close…
And it was in this instant that a small item fell from Yan Jin’s neck.
“Hm?” Amazed, Xiao Yu grabbed the exceedingly ugly pendant. With an expression like one who had discovered the New World, he said, “Isn’t this the golden walnut you gave me that first month? Didn’t you say all my stuff was entirely burned and buried away?”
“There’s only this left. I couldn’t bear to part with it.” Yan Jin eyelids drooped. No one could stay unmoved at this sight.
Kings don’t need weaknesses. This was the first lesson taught to Yan Jin in the Yan household, but he hadn’t learned this lesson properly. He’d also believed this was the only lesson he had learned incorrectly. Only when he felt the heart-rending sorrow of separation did he finally understand. He firmly decided that he didn’t need this unnecessary lesson.
Xiao Yu’s heart ached, but he still kept a brave face. “Who told you to burn everything? Serves you right.”
Yan Jin helplessly chuckled.
To Yan Jin, Fishy escaping without injury was of the utmost importance. The rest of the burned belongings were simply worldly possessions. Yan Jin could burn all his possessions every day for fun and still be able to purchase new ones.
“Speaking of this, I had wanted to ask you this before, but who designed such an ugly thing?” Xiao Yu disparaged the walnut that was so ugly it was cute. It seemed like he disliked it, but actually he had grown quite fond of it.
Yan Jin couldn’t move his entire body. He stammered, “I-it’s really ugly?”
“The ugliest of them all.” Xiao Yu unclasped the pendant from Yan Jin’s neck and easily attached it to his own instead. He joked, “This one actually isn’t so bad, but the later ones got progressively worse. Especially the tomato one, that one makes me laugh. Compared to one I used to wear made by a freshman undergraduate, this one is even…”
Xiao Yu abruptly stopped halfway.
Yan Jin hadn’t realized when he let go of Xiao Yu. He was now sitting two strides away from Xiao Yu with his proud head lowered at the ground without speaking. His entire body spoke of loneliness.
“Hey, I’m talking…” Xiao Yu was astonished. “This wasn’t designed by you, was it?”
Yan Jin swayed. His large body seemed like it would collapse any moment.
“Yan Jin, Yan Jin, I’m wrong. I’m wrong.” Xiao Yu went to hug Yan Jin and repeatedly apologized. “I didn’t know this was made by you. I thought a professional designer made this. I’m beyond honored that Chairman Yan would personally design my birthday gifts.”
Even after much pampering and groveling, Yan Jin still looked miserably lonely. Xiao Yu felt guiltier than ever and hurriedly assured him, “I was comparing it to professional designer standards. You’re the chairman; for someone who has never delved into designing this is already amazing. You’re simply the most gifted designer I’ve ever encountered. If you were ten years younger I’d definitely take you as my private disciple.”
But hearing this made Yan Jin more miserable. He looked at Xiao Yu with almost tangible grief. “I studied precious stone design when I was a child. It’s not that I have no experience.”
“Eh?”
Xiao Yu felt this was somewhat unexpected. As a designer, he instinctively asked, “Then who was your mentor?”
“My uncle. He was once SI’s chief designer.”
Xiao Yu exhaled a cold breath.
Many years had gone by without a new chief designer. Only when Xiao Yu came along did this long forgotten position reopen.
The Yan Family, Yan Jin, Yan…
The name stood out clearly.
Xiao Yu calmed himself down before asking haltingly, “My master went by Master Zuo.”
Yan Jin was confused. He didn’t understand what this had to do with anything, but he could sense Xiao Yu’s inner turmoil.
“He called himself Wangyan. Zuo Wangyan.”
This time, Yan Jin exhaled a breath of cold air.
He didn’t even need to wonder if they had been taught by the same person. Without a doubt, this was the truth.
In a flash, all those things Yan Jin couldn’t understand immediately became crystal clear after hearing this name.
The reason why his uncle didn’t tell anyone about his illness, why Xiao Yu’s resume contained a gap of three years, the reason why Master Hacker Liu Ye couldn’t find where Xiao Yu had gone for that time, why he felt Xiao Yu’s designer style was so familiar, why SI threw all they had into suppressing this prodigy of a designer…