KC | Chapter 47

Pingsheng did not have a president’s office or any related committee. Shen Yuesheng faced a huge number of decisions every day, and every decision concerned the future development of Pingsheng. The young manager thought carefully at the fork in the road of choices, constantly pushing Pingsheng forward.

After confirming the cooperation, Chen Xi struck while the iron was hot: “Lanhai’s event execution has a template contract. Can I print it out and handwrite the execution standards?”

Some things had to go through the legal department before Party B signed the contract, handwritten changes were not allowed, and every contract had to be archived. It took half a day just to get a contract done, but Pingsheng’s event execution was urgent, and they could not waste time on procedures.

“Okay.”

“You didn’t bring Pingsheng’s company seal, did you? We’ll sign online. The authentication method can be the legal representative scanning their face or a corporate transfer, is that okay?”

“Okay.”

“Alright then!” Chen Xi opened the electronic contract app on his phone, Qiansuo, and typed away with crackling speed, thinking to himself: This guy may have rotten moral character, but he really was quick and crisp when doing things!

The template contract was done in minutes. The electronic contract was sent to Shen Yuesheng’s phone. Shen Yuesheng scanned it and only had one objection to the contract: “The payment method is installment, 70% down payment, and 30% after execution is completed.”

“Huh?” He really was not tolerant of praise, and it was only this little bit of money, why split it into installments!

“If it’s installment, the contract has to be changed too. A big company like Lanhai can’t just receive the money and then renege on the debt…”

“Event execution must be in installments.” Shen Yuesheng interrupted Chen Xi, his attitude still firm.

To make sure the event execution met standards, Party A usually squeezed Party B’s payment as a way to control it, and settled the balance after the event execution was completed and accepted. Chen Xi was not afraid that Shen Yuesheng would go back on his word, he was just afraid Pingsheng’s payment cycle would be too long and delay him getting the incentive from Zaowang City.

“How long is Pingsheng’s acceptance payment cycle, can the money arrive within 3 days?” Chen Xi’s tone was not polite at all. It was the first time he had faced a client so forcefully, because he was afraid that if he softened even a little, he would be suppressed…

Lanhai usually required Party A’s payment term to be within one month. Chen Xi shortened the payment term to within 3 days, just to get the money back before the end of the month.

“Yes.”

After Chen Xi changed the payment method, Shen Yuesheng switched to Pingsheng’s legal representative authentication and signed. Once the signing was done, he arranged for finance to make the transfer. Chen Xi’s coffee in the cup had not even gone cold before Pingsheng’s payment arrived.

Shen Yuesheng shook the transfer voucher on his phone and asked, “Want to go take a look at the event venue?”

Chen Xi stared blankly, once again won over by Shen Yuesheng’s swift and decisive efficiency.

“Go!” Whoever paid was the boss, whatever you said was what it was.

Before Shen Yuesheng returned to the country, he had a not-quite-lover who was more accurately a childhood friend. The two of them had played together since they were little, and before high school they treated each other like brothers. By the time they got to university, they had bent each other the other way. Shen Yuesheng knew very well that the other person’s family background was special, and that there would be no result between them in this lifetime. Based on the principle of being clear-headed and letting go, they had slept together without openly saying it was love, and muddled through 3 years.

After he returned to the country, it ended.

After returning to the country, Shen Yuesheng was busy managing Pingsheng and had no time to develop new relationships. On top of that, he was naturally cold-tempered, so he had stayed single all along.

Last month, the childhood friend returned from abroad after finishing graduate school. The two of them arranged to have a meal, and after the meal they tacitly went to a hotel. They were just getting intense when the door was kicked open, and the police poured in, shouting “crackdown on pornography”!

Getting limp was a sure thing, and maybe he would not be able to get hard again in the future either. Embarrassment was secondary. The main thing was that this matter was known by both families’ parents, and they were forced to “meet the in-laws” in advance.

His childhood friend’s family took a one-size-fits-all approach and locked the childhood friend up for a little over half a month. Shen Yuesheng’s parents, on the other hand, were optimistic and open-minded. They did not oppose homosexuality, but if the other person was not suitable, there was no need to force it. Seeing that his son was depressed and unhappy, Shen Pin took the initiative to hook him up and introduced him to a few young guys. Shen Yuesheng did not want to meet them in person, so he had no choice but to clarify: “It’s not like I can’t live without him!” Shen Pin only heard the two words “not” and nearly ended up in the ICU.

As the saying went, “the best way to forget an old love is to find a new one”. If you could not forget it, it only meant the new one was not good enough. Madam Shen thought the old man’s taste was off, and that the person should be chosen according to young people’s aesthetics, so she told her niece Xiaofang about this. Xiaofang, upon hearing that “cousin was going to kill himself,” turned as pale as paper from fright and spent the whole night frantically scrolling through her social media to find a gay man.

Silly, sweet Xiaofang had thought that the only difference between homosexuality and heterosexuality was gender, but after delving into the gay circle, she realized that when men got slutty, women really had nothing to do with it… It was not that she was discriminating, she just felt that men played too wild.

Her cousin was handsome, so she could not find some crooked melon or cracked jujube, but the slightly good-looking gay men all seemed to have more than one partner…

Xiaofang searched through the gay circle and had only two requirements: handsome, and not messing around.

After two weeks, by a twist of fate, she finally found the premium specimen among gays, Chen Xi.

So, the two people who should have belonged to different worlds came into contact and cooperated for profit.

Chen Xi greatly admired Shen Yuesheng’s mental fortitude. He had just said he wanted to sleep with him, and now he was talking about cooperation with him as if nothing had happened. His skin really was thick.

People who did sales had to maintain an empty-cup mindset, to put Lin Yiran’s beastly behavior behind them; people who did sales had to have thick skin, to keep pestering Xu Dongxu without letting up; people who did sales had to stay emotionally stable, to automatically filter out Shen Yuesheng’s garbage talk…

Fine, as long as the client was not embarrassed, neither was he.

The two of them took the elevator down to the basement level. After pushing open the door and entering the parking garage, on the parking spot directly facing the elevator hall was a Maserati, looking breezy and sharp.

Chen Xi sighed in admiration: “Rich people really were everywhere.”

Shen Yuesheng shook the Trident car key in his hand and lit up the sports car.

Chen Xi got into Shen Yuesheng’s… Maserati.

The interior was decorated with extreme luxury, the leather seats had a fine texture, the engine sound was low and powerful, and the air was floating with the oppressive aura of capitalism.

During the evening rush hour, the parking garage exited slowly. The Maserati charged forward with the momentum of a white rainbow piercing the sun, but before half a second had passed, it was blocked by the car in front.

The manual transmission van in front could not keep up with traffic. Every time, it got cut in by cars from the other lane, and the Maserati was blocked tightly, making every step difficult.

As a poor commoner at the bottom who could not afford a car, Chen Xi felt secretly delighted in his heart: so what if you drove a Maserati, you still got stuck by a lousy van and went stupid. So what if you had a car, you were blocked every day after work like a dog. It was not even as good as having two legs.

Lin Yiran had just finished handling a Party A case. In order to avoid the evening rush hour, he came downstairs 5 minutes early, but he had not expected the parking garage to still be just as congested.

The Cadillac inched forward bit by bit. Lin Yiran sat in the car irritably, looking at the financial statements.

Yo, Pingsheng actually got the payment back so quickly.

Shen Yuesheng was strict with the advertising company. Chen Xi being able to convince him to raise the event amount by 10% was indeed pretty good.

“Lin Dog: Nice work!”

Suddenly hearing the roar of a sports car engine in the parking garage, he looked up and saw Chen Xi getting into the Maserati.

Lin Yiran suspected he had seen wrong, then in the next moment he thought: he was wearing a British-style suit today, I could not possibly have mistaken that figure.

Zhang Yuanji had just seen Chen Xi go into the safety passage with “that man,” and Chen Xi had just gotten into the car with “that man.”

The thing I wanted to do with Chen Xi in the car was preempted by “that man”?

The lighting in the parking garage was dim. Under the faint light, Lin Yiran’s face stretched long as hell. After waiting for quite a while without a reply, the veins on the back of the hand gripping the steering wheel bulged, and the look in his eyes was dark and unreadable.

The negotiation expert calmly analyzed a bunch of nonsense to himself: “That man is Shen Yuesheng.”

“Chen Xi is only talking to him about work.”

“Shen Yuesheng is the client.”

Lin Yiran looked toward the Maserati. For the first time, he hated himself for selling the Mercedes S450. Irritably, he lit a cigarette. The cigarette flickered in and out of light in his hand, and the smell of tobacco quickly filled the car.

Maybe it was because the Cadillac’s ventilation system was not good, and the cramped car felt oppressive as it was driven. The cigarette burned his reason. The car was shrouded in smoke, and after waiting 2 minutes, there was still no reply.

Lin Yiran wanted to ask Chen Xi why Pingsheng had transferred the money so quickly, and whether sitting in a Maserati would be more comfortable than in a Cadillac.

What nonsense was he asking.

Lin Yiran flipped through the photos on his phone, growing more and more nostalgic for the S450, and even wanted to post a Moments update to commemorate that he had also once driven a luxury car.

But so what if he posted it, Chen Xi had so many WeChat friends, and he had not even replied to my Moments yesterday.

If I had posted yesterday’s Moments earlier, if he had known earlier that I got divorced, would he have gone home with me yesterday? Would he not have run off with someone else today?

Chen Xi should have seen it, otherwise he would not have come to tease me today.

You little brat, you knew I was divorced, and you still got into someone else’s car!

To hell with that bullshit logic, Lin Yiran pressed the accelerator and backed up. He made a small circle in the parking garage, and the Cadillac went around to behind the Maserati.

Lin Yiran’s confidence came from “Chen Xi likes him,” and he also assumed that Chen Xi would like him forever.

So, he dared to make little moves at the fish restaurant, dared to flirt wantonly in Bingchuan Valley, dared to run wild in the cafe…

He had never thought he would develop an emotion with the same sex beyond friendship, so he wanted to give each other a little more time, and proceed gradually, slowly.

But if that premise changed?

If it were not for today’s Maserati, Lin Yiran would still have been lying comfortably in the ivory tower.

In the narrow enclosed space, Lin Yiran’s unease was magnified infinitely. He did not want Chen Xi to have deep contact with any other man, even if that person was the client.

I had talked to enough clients that it had to be at least a thousand or eight hundred, and I had never seen a client drive a Maserati to Lihua. Friends in the circle all said Shen Yuesheng was not easy to get along with, and they had hit wall after wall there. The key thing was that the contract signing cycle for major clients was usually one month or even longer. Chen Xi had only been in contact with Pingsheng for less than a week, and Shen Yuesheng could make the transfer, which did not make sense.

That silly little dummy was all muddled and got into his car, he would definitely get eaten until not even the bones were left!

Shen Yuesheng was about the same age as him, they had no generational gap; Shen Yuesheng came from a wealthy family, drove a Maserati; Shen Yuesheng was obviously interested in him…

The KA hotshot thought he had everything under control, but in reality, someone had stolen his home.

“Lin Dog: I just saw Pingsheng’s payment come in.”

“Lin Dog: 9.1W”

“Lin Dog: Is it paid 70% first?”

“Lin Dog: When will the remaining 30% be paid?”

Lin Yiran looked at the chat interface full of nonsense and saw no reply. He smacked and unsent it, then resent it. The resent content was still a bunch of nonsense, then he unsent again, then resent again, over and over.

His purpose was to make the phone ring, to get Chen Xi’s attention.

Lin Yiran had been in a meeting all morning and had not replied to Chen Xi’s messages, and Chen Xi had torn out three or five strands of hair; when Chen Xi did not reply for three or five minutes, he was about to explode.

The car was hot and stuffy, every second full of smoke and heat. Lin Yiran was choked by the smell of smoke until he felt awful. He wanted to roll down the window and catch a breath, but he was afraid of being discovered by the person sitting in the luxury car ahead.

Still unable to wait for a reply, he flipped through the contacts and dialed Chen Xi’s number. The ringtone played until it ended, and the other side still did not answer. Lin Yiran kept dialing, and the ringtone looped inside the car, but no one answered.

A low, suppressed voice rang out in the car: “Trying to steal my corner?”

The highly flammable and explosive thing was about to blow. No longer caring whether the other side had discovered him, the Cadillac beeped repeatedly behind the Maserati.

When Chen Xi was meeting clients, in order to respect the client, he was used to putting his phone on silent. At this moment, he completely did not notice Lin Dog’s messages. Hearing the horn blaring endlessly from the car behind, he casually cursed, “Driver quality is really bad these days.” I admit I don’t have a car, and I’m sour because I can’t eat the grapes, but the idiot behind me is beeping like his wife died or something, and I’m already annoyed from the traffic jam, now I’m even more annoyed.

Shen Yuesheng seemed used to traffic jams. Not in a hurry at all, he took out his phone and played Dou Dizhu. The earthy music sounded somewhat funny in the luxurious car.

The aloof male god was concentrating on playing Dou Dizhu. Just as it came time to call landlord, a call came in, and he casually pressed decline. After winning landlord and arranging his straight, the phone came again, still the same number from before. Shen Yuesheng declined it again. He played out two straights, and the second one was beaten, and Shen Yuesheng was just about to play a bomb when the phone rang again. Shen Yuesheng declined it, played the rocket bomb and won the round, then casually blacklisted the number that had just persistently disturbed his Dou Dizhu game.

“The number you dialed is currently busy…”

Blocked me, you really had guts!

Lin Yiran’s expression instantly turned gloomy. A mixture of anger and jealousy burned like a ball of fire in his heart, and his habitual thinking dragged his reason back, trying his best to persuade himself to calm down.

Subjective emotions could not bring positive effects, and could not solve any problem.

Then was I supposed to be a coward, just watching them sway around in the car?

That car in front was trying to steal my man, how the fuck was I supposed to stay calm!

Lin Yiran threw away the cigarette he had only smoked halfway, pushed open the door, and got out.

A large amount of white smoke poured out of the car. Lin Yiran stood with a nimble posture and extraordinary bearing, his deep eyes making people not dare to look directly, and a majestic aura leaked from between his brows.

The highly flammable and explosive thing had completely exploded.

Shen Yuesheng was just about to start the next round of Dou Dizhu when there was a knock on the car window.

Chen Xi sat in the car, looking through the privacy glass and seeing Lin Yiran standing outside. His little face instantly turned bright red, and he thought: Brother Lin, so you were the idiot who kept beeping! Don’t talk to me, I’ll just pretend I don’t know you, and we can still leave a little face for Lanhai.

Shen Yuesheng rolled down the window. Lin Yiran leaned his head in and glanced at Chen Xi in the passenger seat, and the fire in his heart shot up high all at once.

Why is your face so red? What were you two doing in the car just now? When I touched you, your face wasn’t this red. What did that surname Shen do to you? Not replying to my messages, not answering my calls, not daring to look at me, you little brat, do you want to go to heaven!

Shen Yuesheng was enthusiastically playing Dou Dizhu, and while looking at the phone screen, he said indifferently, “Something up?”

Lin Yiran’s gaze was cold and full of jealousy, and he wanted to smash the glaring Maserati in front of him.

The last bit of reason kept warning him nonstop: he was the client, he could not smash the car, could not beat someone up.

The refined scum took a deep breath, and the famous talker spoke without the slightest logic for the first time: “The car in front already left, why the hell don’t your damn car know how to move along with it! When there’s a traffic jam, you have to inch forward little by little, you need to time it against the other lane so the front of the arriving car can get in! You’ve been sitting there without moving for ages, you’re delaying my business! Also, you’re driving on the road and the passenger seat isn’t wearing a seatbelt, if you get photographed you’ll be fined!”

“Do you even know how to drive?”