KC | Chapter 66

The fever had just gone down, yet Chen Xi’s body became hot again. Unlike the high temperature when he had a fever, this time he was burning on the outside and tender inside, as if he had been struck by lightning. At this moment, it seemed as if current was running through Chen Xi’s body, and the electric shock made his heart beat violently.

The sudden kiss and confession, everything had developed too fast and without any logic at all. Chen Xi was like a computer with poor configuration that was running multiple programs at the same time, suddenly crashing, unable to think, and freezing by the bedside.

Lin Yiran’s thinking pattern was complicated if you said it was complicated, and simple if you said it was simple. When he was not acting like a decent person, in order to achieve his goal, he would use every complicated and roundabout chain of logic to lead the negotiation target into a trap. When he was being a person, he spoke his mind directly.

If he wanted good looks and a good figure, he would work hard to finish his fitness and diet plan. If he wanted to sign a key client, he would use every possible method to sign them. He would not think about morality or ethics, living in the moment and indulging his desires. If he liked vanilla, he said it. If he liked something, he said it straight out.

In order to create common topics with the client, Lin Yiran watched the news and browsed current events every day to take in a huge amount of information. His acceptance of new things was extremely fast, and his thinking was also relatively diffuse, so he considered problems from many angles. It was not that he had never thought about his feelings for Chen Xi before, but every time he thought in the direction of “liking Chen Xi,” it felt unrealistic.

He had built a high wall around “Chen Xi,” artificially creating blind spots in his thinking, comparable to 掩耳盗铃, fake and deliberate.

Moonlight shone into the high wall and dispersed the blind spots. A kiss that followed his heart tore open the fake deliberate layer.

The skin cracked bit by bit, the heart wall collapsed with a boom, and the filthy, rotten inside rarely retained a little truth. He wanted to give all of that to Chen Xi.

Lin Yiran had never experienced the hardship of a secret crush, but since he had already made his feelings clear, he would not let Chen Xi take any more wrong turns.

Salespeople were best at brainwashing themselves, telling themselves before meeting clients, “I can do it!” Lin Yiran had been in sales for 13 years, so he was somewhat blindly confident. He believed in his own judgment and felt that Chen Xi definitely liked him. So when he confessed, the scene he imagined in his head was: Chen Xi clung to him for kisses, hugs, and being lifted up high. But in reality, Chen Xi was completely unmoved, looking blank.

The first time was unfamiliar, the second time was familiar. After coaxing Chen Xi so many times, Lin Yiran had already gotten used to putting his hot face against a cold backside.

After waiting for a long time and still not hearing Chen Xi make a sound, even a seasoned player in love could not help but feel his heart pounding. Lin Yiran had no experience with confessions, and his intuition told him things were bad. If this followed the script of a soap opera, then in a bit Chen Xi would send him a good person card, saying they were not suitable.

Lin Yiran: …

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Lin Yiran was like the green canopy and brilliant bloom in a lotus pond, only fit to be looked at from afar. After shedding the colorful skin, he was just a stalk.

The perfectionist Lin Yiran often felt anxious about his age, build, and appearance. In order to change people’s stereotype of “middle-aged,” he spent his days wrapped in a refined and glossy shell. People who cared too much about their appearance were very afraid of being criticized by others, and even more afraid of being despised by the person they liked.

Perhaps because he had few opportunities for deep contact with others, Lin Yiran had never heard anyone say he was greasy. In these two months of frequent contact with Chen Xi, Chen Xi had been nervous when speaking to him at the beginning, then later could seriously reason things out with him, and now he was getting more and more rude, opening his mouth to curse him, and even saying he was greasy!

While angry, Lin Yiran kept making excuses for himself: I’m not fucking a god, and I’m not some celebrity either. Being able to maintain six-pack abs is already not easy, and Chen Xi doesn’t even have one. He’s not in any place to laugh at me!

Besides, how could a middle-aged man not be greasy? There are plenty of people greasier than me. I’m just not as good as the top, but better than the bottom!

They say lovers see beauty in each other, Chen Xi must have simply not had enough of a lover’s filter on, which was why he was picking on everything. Wait, if the filter was not thick enough, that meant he did not like me enough, right? Could it be that because of this, he no longer liked me…?

I bent him into liking men, and he dared not like me?

He could not possibly not like me!

Chen Xi definitely liked me!

Lin Yiran hypnotized and brainwashed himself, silently repeated the set answer several times, got into bed, pulled up the blanket, and fell asleep with his head down.

Sleep was the top priority. If he did not sleep well, he would have no energy to deal with complicated problems the next day. A tough guy often ate and slept wherever he could, and was often tortured by the client until he racked his brains thinking of solutions. No matter what environment he was in or what pressure he faced, he could force himself to fall asleep. Today’s big matter would become a small matter tomorrow. Even if Chen Xi did not like me today, he would like me tomorrow!

Lin Yiran was used to using the two-minute hypnosis method to help himself sleep, and by the time Chen Xi came back to his senses, he had already fallen asleep.

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In the brain of a schizophrenic patient, three little figures were crackling fireworks —

Hot-tempered No. 1: What did Lin Dog just say, did I hear wrong?

Rational No. 2: Brother Lin just said he liked me, absolutely true, it had already been carved into the clan genealogy.

Coward No. 3: Wuwu, so like, so moved.

No. 1: That’s not right. If he liked me, shouldn’t he be waiting for a reply after the confession? How did he just fall asleep?

No. 2: A confession without genuine feelings would not blush or even skip a beat. Compared with my reply, he preferred sleeping!

No. 3: Wuwu, just now I wanted to cry from happiness, now I want to cry from sadness. You two talk, I’ll go cry first.

No. 1: No way, no way, I need to wake up this pug and make him say it again, ahhhhhh!

No. 2: Brother Lin helped me negotiate Pinsheng during the day, and took care of me at night too. These two days he must have piled up a lot of work. I used up all of his personal time and still did not let him sleep properly, that would be way too much of a bastard.

Love-brained No. 3: Ugh, Brother Lin has been flipping back and forth these past few days saying vanilla, and I still did not let him make it happen. He does not blame me and even kissed me, I like him so much, so much…

No. 1: …Are you sick? Charging at people to get laid? If you do not get laid, you cannot sleep?

No. 2: It really is impossible to sleep now…

No. 1: …Then should I call him up and let him fuck me?

Rational No. 2: Don’t. The one who falls first loses, and he was the one who confessed first just now, so I cannot be too active, too cheap!

No. 1: Makes sense. The initiative is in my hands now. I’ll keep him hanging for two days first, let him experience the feeling of scratching at his heart and liver!

No. 3: But I already let him kiss, hug, and touch me, so how can I still keep acting reserved and stiff?

No. 1, No. 2: …

No. 2, lighting a cigarette: It’s all my fault for being too cheap.

No. 1, rubbing his forehead: Indeed.

No. 3 was full of pink bubbles in his head: Brother Lin just kissed me, he likes me, he likes me, yay(*^▽^*)

No. 1, No. 2: …

The love-brained buff was too strong, the three little figures unexpectedly had the majority obey the minority. Chen Xi fell asleep with a pillow of pink bubbles, deciding that as soon as he got up tomorrow, he would reply to Lin Yiran.

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Monday was absolutely the least friendly day of the week for office drones.

Early in the morning, the two were woken by the alarm. Lin Yiran habitually reached out and felt the side of the bed, and touched Chen Xi’s face.

The snow-white face was sunk into the pillow, the small face wrinkled up, and his forehead was not hot, he was just being lazy in bed.

Chen Xi’s face was rubbed until it deformed, with a bellyful of bed rage. He closed his eyes and opened his mouth to curse: “Stop bothering me, get lost to the side!”

Lin Yiran: … Even if you rejected me, looked down on me, and did not like me, you should not curse me.

The old man flew into a shame-induced rage, stepped over Chen Xi and got down from the bed, without the slightest trace of bed rage.

After a while, Chen Xi’s alarm rang. He rubbed his eyes and finally knew the gap between himself and NB people. Lin Yiran only set one alarm. He had to set a whole pile, and after the first ring, there was one alarm every 5 minutes. It took him a grinding 20 minutes before he got up.

There was not much time in the morning, and the two stood shoulder to shoulder at the sink brushing their teeth and washing their faces. Lin Yiran wanted to ask whether his fever had gone down, whether his body had fully recovered, but he was also afraid Chen Xi would say even more rude things, so he swallowed the words each time they reached his mouth. His movements were faster than Chen Xi’s, and he went out of the bathroom first. After Chen Xi finished washing up, he saw Lin Yiran spraying hair gel in front of the dressing mirror, and thought: He really pays attention to his appearance, he really is… greasy.

Sigh, Brother Lin confessed to me yesterday, I need to give him my reply!

Just as Chen Xi was about to speak, Lin Yiran tossed him the hair dryer and said, “Dry it, don’t catch a chill.”

“Oh.” Chen Xi drooped his head and blew his hair dry.

After Lin Yiran finished tidying himself up, he stood behind Chen Xi, grabbed his hair dryer, turned it directly to maximum, and blew hard at Chen Xi’s head with a whooshing sound.

Chen Xi: … Is this wind power trying to blow me into amnesia? Was last night’s confession just messing with me?

After the hair was mostly dry, Lin Yiran put down the hair dryer, took off Chen Xi’s sports T-shirt, and changed him into a shirt, buttoning it in a jumping, skipping way. The whole process took less than 10 seconds.

“Hurry up, if you keep dawdling, the traffic on the ring road will jam up.” Lin Yiran carried the briefcase and pushed Chen Xi toward the entrance.

As Chen Xi walked, he pulled up his suit pants. If the size was not his own, he had to rely on the belt to cinch them. The edge of the underwear had to be higher than the suit pants in order to be cinched together, but the shirt also had to be tucked into the pants, which made it very troublesome.

“Ugh, why are you even so troublesome when you’re putting on pants.” Lin Yiran tucked Chen Xi’s shirt into the suit pants, completely not considering the underwear, and directly tightened the belt, done.

Hm? It seemed, indeed, that it was like this…

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The two tough guys got themselves ready very quickly, and from getting up to leaving, it took less than 20 minutes. Chen Xi sat in the passenger seat, Lin Yiran started the car, and the car’s broadcast was reporting the morning news, for waking himself up.

Lin Yiran asked, “What do you usually eat for breakfast?” Although you rejected me, and don’t think much of me, I still have to buy you breakfast. First time in my life being a bootlicker, I’m really impressed!

“Anything is fine.” For me, breakfast only had two options, having something to eat and having nothing to eat. I had never considered what to eat. If I got up early, I had breakfast. If I got up late and there was not enough time, then I could not eat.

While waiting for the light, Lin Yiran used a mini program to order two KFC set meals. After three minutes, the Cadillac drove into the KFC drive-thru restaurant, and the breakfast they ordered was just ready.

Chen Xi’s was soy milk and youtiao with a tuna rice ball, Lin Yiran’s was black coffee with a cheese panini. Chen Xi tore open the bag and chewed the rice ball, and could not help admiring Lin Yiran’s time management.

While driving, Lin Yiran caught sight of a rice grain that had fallen onto Chen Xi’s shirt from the corner of his eye, and frowned. “Why are you like a two-year-old kid, you can’t even eat properly. There’s paper in the food bag, don’t drop it in the car.”

“Oh.” Chen Xi obediently wiped his mouth and shirt.

Huh? No, after blowing dry the hair, buckling the belt, and eating breakfast, Brother Lin’s attitude toward me didn’t look like he liked me, it looked more like he wanted to move yesterday’s confession past it.

That won’t do!

Chen Xi chewed the rice ball and suddenly spoke, with no connection between the beginning and the end: “Brother Lin, I also like you!”