KC | Chapter 108

Chapter 119, “I want you.”

Three little people set off fireworks in his head, Li Hua was howling like a ghost in the KTV, and the pictures in his mind and in reality were showing different scenes.

In Chen Xi’s eyes, fireworks were covering Lin Yiran’s whole body, burning like fire.

No KA could refuse a key client, Chen Xi was no exception, but a moral model could not tolerate workplace backroom rules.

Just like he could not tolerate a lover cheating.

Chen Xi said, “I’m not worth that much.”

Lin Yiran undid two shirt buttons, slowly exhaled a ring of smoke, and moved a little closer to him. The faint smell of tobacco mixed with body wash, usually something Chen Xi smelled after some intense exercise, was very familiar to him.

Full lips, a casual tone, Lin Yiran blew a bewitching breath by his ear, “Promise me, and you can sign more key clients, and you can also keep liking me.”

“Aren’t you fond of me?”

The fireworks went out.

No matter how many times it happened, Chen Xi would always be bewitched by his glamorous appearance.

Lin Yiran’s leg pressed against his, and he said it again, “You like me, so you won’t refuse me, right?”

In negotiations, a rhetorical question was usually guidance for the party A. Two rhetorical questions in a row meant not giving the other side time to react, forcing him to make a decision as soon as possible.

Lin Yiran took “you like me” as the premise, and while forcing Chen Xi to decide, he was also stabbing the knife into himself again.

If Chen Xi did not like him, then even with key clients as bait, the deal would not be reached.

Lin Yiran stretched out an arm and naturally rested it on the chair behind Chen Xi.

During the negotiation process, there had not been excessive physical contact between both sides. Lin Yiran spread his emotions into the air, clearly telling Chen Xi, I want you.

During that period full of happiness, two people with different rhythms, in order to accommodate each other, had always been able to capture the other’s emotions with precision.

The nature of his work fostered excessive confidence. Lin Yiran firmly believed in his own judgment and used Chen Xi’s feelings as a bargaining chip for this negotiation.

His low voice stubbornly repeated it a third time, and it was impossible to tell whether he was saying it to Chen Xi or to himself, “You like me, so you have to agree to me.”

The liking that came from someone rotten to the core was rotten too, Chen Xi looked down on it.

Then give him something he could look up to.

Besides key clients, Lin Yiran had nothing else he could bring out. This was his desperate, all-in attempt to keep him.

At the end of the road, yet he still had to put on a lofty attitude, thinking he was handling it with ease when in fact he could not even hold a cigarette.

Chen Xi trampled his dignity, denied everything between them, and even then, Lin Yiran still would not break up.

Because he could not let go.

The same banquet for celebration, the same KTV, Lin Yiran forcibly pulled their relationship back to three months ago.

Chen Xi had originally planned that after breaking up, he would collect his salary, settle the things Lin Yiran had given him, and then resign, but he had not expected an unexpected twist to come up.

1号 was shouting: I’m so empty and so thirsty, I need him to fill me up, agree to him, let him do me every day!

2号 rationally analyzed: What Lin dog said makes sense, agreeing to him can bring in key client contracts and make money, and I can also keep being with him. This deal is not a loss.

3号 sobbed: Just thinking about using someone else’s dick that had been used to fuck others to fuck me makes me want to throw up! The reason I broke up with him was because he cheated! The deal he proposed was to play by the backdoor rules, this is not love!

Lin Yiran seemed afraid he did not understand, so he leaned closer and described the deal in more detail, “I will break down each key client’s signing progress on the list, you can assess which points you can complete by yourself, our deal will only happen in the part you cannot complete.”

“Considering that the variables for key clients change a lot, and I often go out to socialize, so my time is not fixed, I suggest you stay at my house the whole time, that way we can smoothly reach cooperation.”

In negotiations, simple and clear wording made it easier for party A to judge. Lin Yiran once again simplified the responsibilities Chen Xi needed to fulfill in this deal, “You just need to stay at my house, that’s enough.”

The lighting in the KTV was very dim, Chen Xi’s eyes were very dark, his pupils had no focus.

During negotiations, the longer party A took to think, the more unfavorable it was for party B. Chen Xi had kept silent the whole time, and Lin Yiran had no choice but to take a risk, making the final probe.

His hand on the sofa seat slid to Chen Xi’s waist, groping through the shirt at a familiar spot. The raised metal chain gave him courage, and the hanging heart finally settled down.

“You wore that and came to break up with me?”

The waist chain was put on by 1号, breaking up was what 2号 and 3号 were supposed to say. Chen Xi could not explain this contradictory, strange behavior, and like a rabbit caught by the tail, he let him touch him with a red face.

His palm slipped into the shirt, wrapping around the flexible waist, and Lin Yiran said, “You want me.”

“You only need to stay at my house, what are you still hesitating about?”

It was already an immoral beginning, there was no need to define it with love.

Now, everything had returned to the starting point.

This was a perfect deal.

Images of those entwined past moments kept surfacing in Chen Xi’s mind, hot kisses, bodies fitting together, merging without tire…

Desire absolutely could interfere with judgment.

Reason could not beat instinct, a moral model could not beat the desire for the person he admired, and the end of this moral tug-of-war was the degeneration of using a false personality to replace the self.

Chen Xi hid away, and 1号 pinched Lin Yiran’s cigarette between two fingers, took a deep drag, and said, “Deal.”

The treadmill desk was in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, the exercise straps tied Chen Xi’s arms to the office desk, and he was wearing nothing but his sneakers.

The treadmill started, and with every step he ran, the waist chain made a jingling sound, like it was mocking his compromise.

Lin Yiran stood on the floor, both hands gripping the waist tied to the chain, inch by inch moving forward.

When he endured it, his legs would go weak, but the treadmill required Chen Xi’s legs to exert force. He had to run through the impact, like a uniquely shaped tool for relieving desire.

Using key clients as the transaction, the way they came together was destined to be oppressive. Marks were pressed into his arms by the straps, and party A was afraid party B would fall on the treadmill while running, so he tied them very tightly.

The treadmill jolted, and the running party B swayed left and right, while the party A standing on the floor enjoyed the pleasure brought by the trembling.

Party B worked hard to run out, and party A held him down and pushed him back in.

After a while, party A felt unsatisfied, turned off the treadmill, and put party B on the office desk.

The waist under Lin Yiran’s hand had become a little slimmer, and the curved spine could faintly be seen on the back, while the long eyelashes trembled with each impact. Chen Xi had no tears and no cries, because at the beginning, he had already hidden away.

3号 wanted a hug, but his arms were bound and he could not pull them out. Lin Yiran undid the straps, held him sticky and clingy for a while, then angrily put him back on the desk and ordered, “Kneel properly.”

The rough movement without any buffer almost split him in half, and only then did he feel how much Lin Yiran had been taking care of him before.

A bit of numb tingling mixed in with the pain, and Lin Yiran seemed to be deliberately punishing him, not letting him have an easy time.

His spine hit the office desk, and 3号 said it hurt.

Lin Yiran said, “Bear with it.”

He no longer cared about his feelings, just like their first time, using him in the way he liked.

Cowardly 3号 had been bullied until he was scared, rational 2号 held back from making strange sounds, and negotiated conditions with him, “Take me to see Zhongcai Education tomorrow morning.”

Lin Yiran paused for a moment, lifted him up, and his movements were rougher than before.

“Okay.”

2号 trembled in his arms, unable to hold it in any longer. 1号 let out a sharp scream, “A single deal can only have one time, you have already done it for a whole day, you can’t do it anymore.”

Lin Yiran mercilessly pointed out the loophole in those words, “My one time is not your one time.”

I gave you my sincerity and you didn’t want it, this was the deal you chose.

“If you want it, then come and take it.”

Days passed in a dazed blur, in October Yige Wooden Door signed, Gulin Phase II payment came in, in November Zhongcai Education signed, Gulin Phase III payment came in, and good news from key clients kept coming one after another.

Business elite 2号 enjoyed the joy brought by closing deals, but did not share it with the person who helped him close them. Irritable 1号, while enjoying nighttime indulgence, often scolded the laborer, saying nasty, sharp, and mean things. Timid 3号 only dared to come out when Lin Yiran was asleep. Once, after secretly kissing him and being discovered, Lin Yiran held him to sleep for a while, then brutally pushed him away and told him to get lost and sleep in the living room.

On December 15, Gulin Phase III payment came in, Chen Xi received the third commission of the previous quarter, and Yucheng welcomed the first snow of 2023.

In these two months, every time a key client was signed, the joy could offset the pressure, and Chen Xi would briefly recover his personality.

The suit had been ordered, the belt and the other money were enough too, and next quarter’s commission could pay off the pre-sale commercial loan portion. He would not have to do such a high-pressure job in the future.

After suddenly shedding the heavy burden, huge fatigue eroded his nervous system, his head hurt and his muscles hurt too. Chen Xi crouched helplessly by the roadside and let the snowflakes turn the top of his head white.

The pressure at work had been lifted, but the pressure on his emotions was still there. Chen Xi wanted to take advantage of his clarity to solve it all at once.

The core of making the deal happen was “key clients”, and now the money was enough, he did not need to sign so many key clients anymore.

Last time he signed a deal, he was still wearing a wool coat, this time he had changed into a down jacket.

The threshold of joy brought by key clients had grown higher and higher, the time he stayed clear-headed had become shorter and shorter. After a while, when the main personality was completely swallowed by the three split personalities, Chen Xi would no longer need to come out and face the pressure.

Although it was a deal, the moral model did not want to owe anything. Taking advantage of the brief clarity, Chen Xi skipped the afternoon shift and went home to sort through the things Lin Yiran had newly bought for him. It had to be said that Lin Yiran was very willing to spend money on a subordinate he had gotten through backroom rules, and after a rough calculation, next quarter’s commission would be gone.

Lin Yiran used gold and silver to decorate and build high walls, letting him live a decent life of throwing money around for two months.

Everything he gave him was the best.

What was so good about a cheating bastard who had made backroom rules a habit, Chen Xi wiped his tears and did not think about how good he was.

When he was young, watching TV dramas, he did not understand why some people would fall in love with villains like kidnappers, traitors, and so on. Now he understood.

Love was an uncontrollable emotion, above reason and morality.

Chen Xi loved Lin Yiran.

He had uncontrollably fallen in love with a decent-looking scumbag who had fallen into moral ruin.

Chen Xi returned to Lanhai after work hours, pushed open the door to Lin Yiran’s office, and went straight to the point, “Brother Lin, let’s end the deal.”

Since the day he started trading with Chen Xi, Lin Yiran had forced himself to work endlessly. As the helmsman of KA, he had to monitor market data, ensure that his own key clients’ payments came in on schedule, and at the same time take care of Chen Xi’s as well.

Key clients were the bargaining chip to keep Chen Xi. If he could not talk things through with key clients, then Chen Xi would not need him.

Besides key clients, he had nothing he could bring out.

Forcing himself to sign key clients beyond capacity, he had done it.

But Chen Xi did not want to do business with him anymore.

Lin Yiran asked, “Why?”

Chen Xi answered, “Because I don’t want to sign key clients anymore.”

He sent Lin Yiran a picture, all the items arranged in increasing order of price, from bunny slippers to an LV handbag.

He returned the things Lin Yiran had given him with clear prices attached.

Chen Xi repeated again, “The deal is over, I will pay back everything I owe you.”

Lin Yiran did not answer, he asked instead, “What do you want?”

I gave you sincerity and you didn’t want it, I gave you key clients and you didn’t want them, I gave you things and you didn’t want them either, then what do you want?

Chen Xi said, “I’m not trying to set conditions, I just don’t want to continue anymore.”

Immoral emotions were wrong from the beginning, power-for-sex deals made the wrong even more wrong, I can’t keep going wrong like this.

While I am still clear-headed, end it as soon as possible.

Chen Xi repeated word by word for the third time, “The deal is over, I have already applied to resign.”

At this moment, Lin Yiran no longer had any bargaining chip to keep Chen Xi. His overly strong self-respect would not allow him to cling to Chen Xi and shamelessly refuse to let him go.

But he did not want Chen Xi to leave, so he could only use some immoral methods.

You said I was dirty, then I’ll show you dirty.

Lin Yiran pressed the door lock, put down the partition, and let Chen Xi “sit”.

Chen Xi sat down.

Lin Yiran said, “Why must you leave? I give you key clients, isn’t taking a back door route not bad?”

“A deal is between both sides, you say it ends and it ends, are all the rules set by you?”

A decent-looking scumbag put on a skin, hanging on a gentle and polite smile, while under the pitch-black eyes there were hidden surging waves, a madness suppressed to the extreme.

“You can resign, but if I don’t sign, you won’t get the commission.”

Chen Xi was enraged beyond measure, and pointed at Lin Yiran’s nose to curse, “Using key clients to dangle me, not letting me leave, what exactly do you want?”

Lin Yiran pressed him onto the office desk and said with a smile, “Didn’t I say it before, I want you.”