KC | Chapter 56

Chen Xi had imagined what it would be like when he met Lin Yiran again. They would drink coffee in a café, eat at a restaurant, walk in the sunset… but unexpectedly, the progress of their reunion skipped a step, and that old lecher made a direct move, just like a client who had not signed the contract and had not paid, yet still demanded ad placement. Shameless!

In the moral exemplar’s current understanding, the two of them had to confirm their relationship before they could start touching each other, but now the old lecher was not following the process, and Chen Xi was so embarrassed that his face turned red.

He could firmly reject Shen Yuesheng, but when it came to Lin Yiran, reason told him to refuse, yet deep down he hoped the other side would ask for even more.

Strawberries stood out very abruptly on snow-white skin. Lin Yiran wanted to leave more marks, but then he felt it was too deliberate.

Marks and wristbands were both for other people to see, it was fine as long as they achieved the goal, it did not matter how many.

The place where he truly wanted to leave marks could only be seen by himself, and they had to be red, mottled, densely packed, old and new overlapping, so many there could not be any more.

The waiting area had a lot of things in the racks. Chen Xi was pressed against the rack by Lin Yiran, and the little plane on the rack fell to the floor.

The afternoon light shone through the rack onto Chen Xi’s face. A tall figure lay across in front of him, blocking the light from the small face.

Their eyes met, and the large, restless hand moved upward along the slim waistline.

A soft laugh came from above his head, and hot breath hit his forehead. Lin Yiran said, “The plane fell.”

What plane?

Oh, the stage event prop that had fallen to the ground.

The low voice continued, “Aren’t you going to pick it up?”

Just as Chen Xi was about to speak, a hand stretched out from the collar of his T-shirt and grasped his Adam’s apple. Lin Yiran’s breath got closer and closer, and the hand on his Adam’s apple moved to his chest. Chen Xi was pinched until it hurt a little, and his body grew hotter and hotter. He twisted uneasily, and his clean chest, in the mottled light and shadow, alternated between light and dark with the body pressed close to him.

Chen Xi had his mouth half open and forgot how to speak, like fish and meat on the chopping block, left to be slaughtered by anyone.

“I asked you a question.” Weren’t you pretty fierce just now?

Chen Xi gently pushed at Lin Yiran and stammered, “I, I’ll go pick up the plane.”

Lin Yiran laughed and pulled his hand downward to probe. “Pick up what, it’s here.”

–

Under Chen Xi’s palm, he touched hard desire. Their high noses bumped into each other, Lin Yiran’s thin lips curved slightly, and his eyes were full of teasing.

The well-defined hand moved casually in the rain-washed sunlight. Lin Yiran seemed to be counting his ribs, but he could not count them clearly through the T-shirt. Chen Xi was momentarily thrown off rhythm and did not know what to do.

“What are you doing, like a cat scratching?”

Chen Xi lowered his eyes and reached out to cling to Lin Yiran’s neck, keeping his head down so he would not see his face.

The person in his arms was sticky and soft, his snow-white cheeks flushed red, like a cute little rice cake. The little claws groped around messily, it really was cat scratching, and the more they scratched, the more fire they raised.

The immoral old lecher wanted to pierce through the rice cake hanging on his neck.

Compared with seizing things by force, Lin Yiran preferred愿者上钩. He wanted Chen Xi to take the initiative to go home with him, get on his bed, and lift up his T-shirt.

Although the old lecher was holding back so hard it hurt, he was even more afraid of scaring the rabbit away. He generously let Chen Xi go. When Chen Xi saw that he did not keep chasing after him for cuddles, he took the initiative to rub the toe of his shoe against Lin Yiran’s sneakers.

He got a foot full of mud.

Chen Xi: …

“Haha.” Lin Yiran touched Chen Xi’s head and rubbed the cute little thing hard. “Have you eaten?”

“No, I’m starving.” Chen Xi touched his deflated belly.

Lin Yiran smiled. “Then you treat me to dinner.”

“Huh?” This month there had been team building, buying suits, Wang Xin getting married… everything had piled up together. He did not know whether his credit card could still be swiped. Last time it was Brother Lin who treated him to dinner, and today he had also helped a lot. This meal really should be treated by me.

Looks do mislead people, and Huabei could still be used to borrow some money, fine then, after this meal I would eat dirt next month!

“Okay.” Chen Xi agreed bitterly, “It’s rainy and cold today. Does Brother Lin want barbecue or hot pot?”

Without understanding the client’s budget, Lin Yiran’s usual move was: testing.

The usual wording was: “Do you think it’s okay if I do this project at 50?” “Can we put in 2K CPM first?” “For this job, the down payment can’t be lower than 10W, do you think that’s okay?” … If the client did not refuse, it meant they could continue along this line of thought.

The same negotiation routine with other clients also applied to his key client, Chen Xi.

The little fool’s pocket money was almost completely cheated away by me, and he was still here puffing himself up and acting tough. He liked me that much?

So cute, so vanilla.

A negotiation expert wrapped dirty desire with words, making it sound civilized: “It’s rainy and cold, the restaurant is definitely not as warm as home.”

–

Chen Xi understood what Lin Yiran meant, and lowered his head to look at the ground without speaking.

Within less than an hour, Lin Yiran had tested Chen Xi three times.

The first test was second-hand underwear. The advantage of using a private item to test was that it could quickly determine whether Chen Xi was willing to have a relationship with him, the disadvantage was that it was easy to get beaten. After seeing Chen Xi obediently put it on, Lin Yiran pretended to be “supervising” backstage, but in fact he was sending a message to the client, pushing tomorrow’s arrangement to next week.

The second test was asking him to treat him to dinner. He knew Chen Xi had no money, and just wanted to see what extent Chen Xi could do things for him. In other words, it was using money to measure how much Chen Xi liked him. After seeing Chen Xi agree, Lin Yiran only then changed from hinting to stating it directly.

The third test was saying that his own home was warm. Chen Xi had thin skin, so not saying anything was completely within expectations. As long as he did not refuse, he could proceed according to the set plan, cast out the bait, and let things flow naturally.

After three tests, Lin Yiran finally revealed his true intent: “The grill and electric hot pot I bought at home have never been used. If you want to eat something, we can make it at home.”

Hot breath hit Chen Xi’s neck, very hot and very itchy, making it hard for him to concentrate on thinking.

Lin Yiran continued to tempt him, “If you don’t want to eat either, I can also stir-fry a few dishes for you.”

Chen Xi said in surprise, “Brother Lin knows how to cook?” You usually have time to cook?

“Mm. Usually no one keeps me company to eat, so I can’t be bothered to cook.”

Lin Yiran said his home was warm, said his cooking was delicious, but he just would not ask, “Do you want to go to my home?”

The moral exemplar’s inherent understanding was that they could only go to bed after confirming their relationship, but Lin Yiran kept avoiding the topic, directly skipping the progress to going to bed, and Chen Xi felt uneasy inside.

Being invited by someone you secretly liked was naturally a happy thing, but suddenly speeding up the progress would only make a mentally split patient with a lack of security even less secure.

Seeing that Chen Xi did not make a sound, Lin Yiran thought he was being shy and took the initiative to pick a topic: “Chen Xi, should I help you ask for Pisheng’s final payment?”

For a leading education enterprise like Pisheng, besides service front-loading, Lanhai also had to appropriately adjust the payment cycle according to the client’s situation, because “asking for payment” hurt feelings the most, especially the final payment.

Pisheng’s final payment was related to Zao Wang City’s incentives, so Chen Xi could not possibly not want it.

When he had just taken shelter from the rain with Shen Yuesheng, he had wanted to pry out Pisheng’s staff structure, but instead the cunning and deceitful fox had tricked out his relationship with Lin Yiran.

Shen Yuesheng was not easy to deal with, and the final payment probably would not be given easily. Chen Xi felt that if he went to ask for money himself, he would most likely get flayed alive.

–

Chen Xi wanted Lin Yiran to help ask for the money, and also did not want him to meet Shen Yuesheng.

He was afraid Shen Yuesheng would say something shocking, such as “Chen Xi is my blind date partner,” “I know you two slept together,” “I also want to sleep with Chen Xi”… things like that.

Last time Brother Lin almost fell out with Shen Yuesheng when he saw me get into the Maserati. If he knew something else this time, he might really fight with Shen Yuesheng.

A refined scumbag was good at hiding his emotions. Lin Yiran could not figure out what Chen Xi was hesitating about, and his deep eyes stared at Chen Xi without blinking.

After thinking it over several times, Chen Xi decided to rely on himself: “I can handle Pisheng myself. Brother Lin is already busy enough…”

The black eyes seemed mixed with unsoaked rainwater, damp and sticky. Lin Yiran said, “You are wearing my clothes, drinking my coffee, growing my strawberries, and now you know how to be embarrassed?”

Chen Xi’s face was flushed, full and tempting like a peach. His watery eyes were hidden under dense lashes, and he bit his lip as if he wanted to say something but did not. He always habitually lowered his head, and his hands had nowhere to rest, subconsciously rubbing the hem of his T-shirt, revealing panic in the midst of shyness.

The old lecher really wanted to press the peach onto the rack and make its juice flow everywhere.

The beast put on a gentleman’s skin, and the pitch-black eyes held specks of starlight. Lin Yiran continued to increase the bait and tempt him: “The Pisheng project will be connected with me in the future, you handle the execution, the performance counts as yours.”

You did not say for me to go home with you, did not say why you were helping me ask for money, you just wanted me to take the initiative to go home with you.

In the end, it was still vanilla.

Fine, it was not like he had never been vanilla before, what was he being shy for.

It just hurt too much to do that, so they had to make three agreements first…

The mentally split patient repeatedly built up mental preparation, and was thinking about how to open his mouth.

Seeing that he still did not answer, Lin Yiran threw out the final chip: “Chen Xi, if you keep rejecting me, keep hanging me on, I will be very…” vanilla.

“I will very much want to… throw you in this wild and desolate place.”

Chen Xi: ?

The well-defined fingers lightly lifted his chin, and those deep eyes swept over his lips. The low voice carried anger: “I am nervous about you, care about you, put you in the first priority, yet you hid it from me, lied to me, and got into another man’s car behind my back.”

Chen Xi: Σ(⊙▽⊙”a！

He had been too busy these past few days and had forgotten to explain the earlier matter to him, but there was nothing much to explain about getting into the client’s car with me. Would saying it specially make it seem deliberate?

If it was deliberate then so be it, it was still better than not saying it. If he did not say it, would that not count as tacit agreement!

“I just… um… the Pisheng job came up pretty urgently, and I didn’t mean to hide it from you. Um… besides, Shen Yuesheng is just the client, Brother Lin, don’t overthink it.” Chen Xi wanted to learn from Lin Yiran and avoid the main point, but the moral exemplar did not know how to lie, and he had not learned the essence, so the words came out haltingly.

Lin Yiran deliberately lowered his tone, his voice carrying a trace of thin anger: “I advise you to organize your language properly, and bring out evidence that can support your words, to explain to me how you met Shen Yuesheng.” I want you to go home with me, but you keep being hesitant. Soft tactics do not work, so I can only use force.

Chen Xi: …

Brother Lin knows Shen Pin, as long as he does a little background investigation, it would not be hard to find out how I met Shen Yuesheng.

Asking me this, he was telling me: I know you went on a blind date.

So Brother Lin was angry because of that.

But when I went on the blind date, our relationship had not made any substantive progress yet, and besides, on our first meeting I clearly told Shen Yuesheng that I was not there for a blind date.

So this could not be blamed on me, but in the face of facts, any explanation would be pale and powerless. Brother Lin was too smart, the more I said the wronger I would be, the more I tried to explain, the darker it would get.

–

Chen Xi knew he was in the wrong. Like a little kid who had made a mistake, he extended his index finger to hook Lin Yiran’s hand, taking the initiative to show goodwill.

Lin Yiran still kept a stern face. Just as his goal was about to be achieved, his heart was practically blooming with joy.

But unexpectedly Chen Xi said, “Brother Lin, if, if you can’t do it, can you first watch videos and learn.”

Lin Yiran: … He had missed nothing, yet still capsized in the gutter.

The veins on Lin Yiran’s forehead bulged, and he squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: “Making a straight man watch gay porn really makes you want to vomit.” Vanilla was vanilla, not wanting to learn was also truly not wanting to learn.

Chen Xi puffed up his cheeks and muttered softly, “What straight man.” He wanted to sleep with a man and still said he was straight, what kind of logic was that?

The refined scumbag’s brows knit slightly, biting the back teeth, with three parts exasperation and two parts embarrassment turned to anger. He had been amorous and roamed the love field countless times, yet he had never expected to be looked down on by a virgin for bad technique. This was like saying he could not win over clients because his professionalism was not good enough, it was outright insulting!

The little claws gently rested on Lin Yiran’s neck, and Chen Xi’s voice was very soft, both trying to please and trying to negotiate: “Brother Lin, I’m afraid of pain.”

Every time Chen Xi acted like this, Lin Yiran’s heart would soften into a lump. The marketing consultant, after the other side had thrown out all his chips, raised his own demands, turned from guest to host, and took control of the initiative in the negotiation.

The old lecher did not properly learn technique and always wanted to do flashy tricks. The body was his own, after he had his fun he would run, why should he!

Lin Yiran thought: Last time the conditions really were limited and he had hurt the person, this time he had to be patient and take it slowly. More importantly, Chen Xi had said it to this point, which was clearly telling him that as long as he agreed to his final request, he could trick the person into bed.

He patted Chen Xi’s back little by little like coaxing a child, compromising and giving in, “This time you learn first, after you learn, teach me, okay?”

Chen Xi softly said “Mm,” and took the hook on his own initiative. After hesitating for a long time, he finally said it: “Brother Lin, we can spend many warm weekends together.”