KC | Chapter 95

Chen Xi took a taxi to Shuangyuan Road to pick up Lin Yiran after getting the call. Lin Yiran asked him whether he could drive, and he said he could. In the end, he was drifting on straight roads and nearly drove into a ditch on curved ones.

Lin Yiran did not dare shout at Chen Xi while he was driving, only afraid that the driver would get emotionally worked up and pull off something big, dragging him along to an early death. This whole trip had scared him so badly that cold sweat soaked through his shirt. He held the overhead handle tightly with both hands, navigated to the nearest auto repair shop, and bought a brake pedal at three times the price of some platform.

Every man had the dream of “driving his own life” in his heart, and Chen Xi was no exception. When he was in college, he got his driver’s license and had once imagined that he would own a car in the future. He never expected life to become so tight that he could barely make ends meet. Before, when he rode in Shen Yuesheng’s car and saw the underground parking lot full of cars, he had been jealous to death. Today, after getting his hands on a car, he was happy to death.

Boss Chen was completely focused on driving, and did not notice at all the laborer boyfriend in the passenger seat whose face had turned white as paper. He thought to himself: although it has been 7 years since I last touched a car, so my hands are a little rusty, I am still driving pretty well.

Although the brake pedal had just been installed under the passenger’s feet, Chen Xi’s driving skills were miraculous. Lin Yiran remained on tenterhooks the whole time, constantly checking the navigation to see how many kilometers were left before they got home.

“Brother Lin, your driver’s license can’t be used until 6 months later?” Chen Xi felt that driving was pretty good, and an idea came to him.

“Mm.” Lin Yiran’s low voice carried a faint tremble, “Baby, watch the road while you drive, if you have anything to say, we can talk when we get home.”

He should have called a designated driver earlier. He had never been this tense even when bluffing key clients.

The Cadillac reached the garage, but Chen Xi did not know how to reverse, and wanted to drive straight in. Lin Yiran slammed the brakes all the way down, and the distance between the rearview mirror and the garage wall was only 2CM.

“Thanks to Boss Chen for not killing me.”

Lin Yiran put his hands together above his head, unfastened his seat belt, and slowly let out a breath.

Chen Xi said unhappily, “Hey, why did you step on the brake? We didn’t even hit anything!”

“If we hit it, it’d be too late!” Lin Yiran opened the door and got out, walked to Chen Xi’s side, and said, “Get out, I’ll reverse the car in.”

Chen Xi got out of the car slowly. After Lin Yiran parked the car, he stuck over again, with sparkling rabbit eyes, and said, “Brother Lin, teach me how to drive!”

Lin Yiran wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and decisively refused, “I won’t teach you.”

“If you won’t teach me, then why did you buy the brake pedal!” Chen Xi found the key point, and jogged after Lin Yiran into the elevator. “Brother Lin must be thinking, I can’t drive for half a year, so let me be your driver!”

Lin Yiran had indeed had that thought before, but after this heart-stopping trip, he had completely given up on it.

“Boss Chen is pretty busy at work every day, how could I have the nerve to let you be my driver.”

Chen Xi was full of enthusiasm. “It’s precisely because I’m busy with work that I need to learn how to drive. Having a car makes meeting clients so much more convenient! It’s just the weekend now, these two days can be used to practice the car, and on Monday I can drive you to work!”

“Forget it, driving 500 meters from downstairs at Lihua Building means waiting 10 minutes. Driving, you definitely won’t be faster than taking the subway.”

“I don’t care, I want to learn, you teach me!”

Lin Yiran made no sound.

“Teach me, Brother Lin, Brother Lin is the best, I like Brother Lin so much, Brother Lin, teach me how to drive!”

Lin Yiran gave a light snort.

“I can be your driver, and I can also be on top, I can play any tricks with you! Brother Lin want car震, I…”

Lin Yiran said, “Fine.”

So the two workaholics both left early, and the thing they loved doing still did not get done. They spent most of the night risking their lives to practice driving.

“Turn the wheel left, yes, a bit more, straighten it, straighten it, you turned too much, straighten it is one full turn…”

Lin Yiran gave instructions from the passenger seat while Chen Xi drove. The miserable Cadillac had already scratched two lines on its front bumper, and it was about to hit a tree and add a third line. With a loud bang, he braked hard, and the two of them rocked in their seats several times, almost throwing up their breakfast.

“You can just practice on the outer roads, I’ll drive on the inner roads.” Lin Yiran suggested.

If you met traffic police on the outer roads, you could just go in directly, and on the inner roads, like reversing in parking lots, it should be fine.

“No!” Chen Xi refused without hesitation. “Learning to drive is basically like doing that, if you do half of it and stop, would it feel good?”

Lin Yiran: …

It was not scary if your driving skills were bad, what was scary was when your driving skills were bad and you still had a ton of ideas, and even scarier when this person had bad driving skills, a ton of ideas, and could still keep talking.

Lin Yiran looked out the window with a dead expression, only feeling the autumn wind was bleak and the scene was desolate. Chen Xi, on the other hand, was having a great time driving, his speed going from 40 to 60 to 80, and he had no problem getting onto the ring road.

The two of them had a simple boxed meal from the driver at noon. In the afternoon, Chen Xi was getting better and better, and Lin Yiran finally did not have to be on tenterhooks anymore, so he could peacefully scroll on his phone.

After replying to the client’s messages, he opened a short video platform. Chen Xi heard familiar music that matched the mood while driving, and asked with a smile, “Does Brother Lin know how to dance the ke mu san?”

“No.”

Lin Yiran’s phone had a privacy screen, so Chen Xi could not see clearly at the moment. When they stopped at a signal, he stretched his neck to look at Lin Yiran’s phone.

This was not some anchor doing knife tricks at all, it was clearly a pretty girl dancing. Looking at the pretty girls in super short skirts wriggling around, Chen Xi’s forehead veins twitched, and he squeezed out a few words through his teeth, “Your hobby really does suit your age.”

A greasy, sleazy old man in middle age!

Maybe because he had been scolded too much, Lin Yiran was already immune. He did not blush and did not skip a beat, just gave a “Mm” and asked back, “You don’t like watching it?”

When Chen Xi was in college, he had actually quite liked watching pretty girls dance. After he started working, he only liked watching nonsense relaxing videos like “how to renovate a 5㎡ coffin room, how the universe was destroyed, one movement to train abs and a v-line.”

“I don’t like it, these days they don’t even push those to me anymore.”

Lin Yiran said thoughtfully, “Then what do you usually watch? Lend me your phone and let me take a look.”

Chen Xi did not move for a long time. Lin Yiran leaned over and reached into his pants pocket, pulling out his phone before asking, “Can I look?”

“Look, look, the password is 6 sixes.”

Lin Yiran leaned against the car door and scrolled through Chen Xi’s phone.

First he opened the short video platform and turned the volume up as cover, then secretly changed Chen Xi’s original WeChat avatar, “Morning Dawn,” to “Fire Extinguisher That Put Out the Fire,” and changed his own to “Flammable, Explosive, Prohibited Item.”

He changed Chen Xi’s WeChat remark for him to “LG,” which sounded the same as Lin Gou, but could also be understood in another way.

“Hey, what you usually watch is this?” Lin Yiran handed him the phone while Chen Xi was waiting for the signal.

The recommended content on some news platform was: domineering CEO falls in love with me.

Chen Xi: …

“I told you I never used this app, it was pushing random stuff, do you believe me?”

“Oh, then if I said I never used a short video app, and right after opening it, it directly pushed me little girls dancing, would you believe me?”

“…”

Chen Xi: “Brother Lin likes pretty girls?”

Lin Yiran: “Not really, I feel like it’s a little lacking.”

Chen Xi: ?

Lin Yiran pinched his chest, and laughed in a roguish way, “Because they’re not flat enough.”

“…”

So your hobby is really kind of unusual.

Chen Xi had almost finished practicing the outer roads and was preparing to find a free parking lot to practice the inner roads. Lin Yiran was getting more and more hooked on scrolling short videos, and after watching a pile of clips he started watching live streams too.

The anchor’s voice was very low. Chen Xi could not hear what he was saying, and only that line, “Thank you to Brother Lan Hai Yi Ran for the sports car,” was shouted so hysterically that it was hard not to hear.

On the short video platform, apart from a few big-brother streamers, Chen Xi rarely watched other live streams. When the big brother shouted and called, “Brothers, charge,” Chen Xi would also shout “Charge” on the surface, but in reality he had never spent even one yuan. A poor office worker, applying his own feelings to others, even felt that the top-rank big brothers who tipped Carnival and castles were all laundering money. Today, seeing Lin Yiran spend money so freely, he could not help but blurt out, “Brother Lin, why are you still sending gifts?”

“Mm.” Lin Yiran sent another private jet.

“Thank you to Brother Lan Hai Yi Ran for the plane!”

“Thank you to Brother Lan Hai Yi Ran for the frozen war chariot!”

…

Chen Xi: Why was he getting more and more into it? Could it be that what he had just said was all true, and this was his first time using a short video platform, so he did not understand the rules?

“Brother Lin, some streamers use very dirty methods to make money, even if you send gifts, they still won’t add your WeChat.” Chen Xi kindly reminded him.

Lin Yiran raised his eyebrows and smiled lightly. “That may not be the case.”

When waiting for the signal, Chen Xi snatched Lin Yiran’s phone and saw that the streamer, the big brother, had stubble all over his face, and the flesh on his chin quivered messily when he spoke.

Chen Xi: … Why would you add his WeChat when he looked like that?

Lin Yiran laughed out loud and said, “I appreciate the charm of the big brother’s livestream, and I still can’t send gifts?”

Chen Xi: “You can, Brother Lin has money, just send whatever you want, as long as you’re happy.”

The two of them practiced driving in the parking lot until sunset. The streamer got off the air, and Lin Yiran stretched lazily and said, “I am the top-rank big brother.”

Chen Xi: …

“Brother Lin, I’ve seen top-rank big brothers who tipped in the tens of millions to pretty girls, and it feels a bit outrageous. The streamer has no relation to him at all, and they are not even a marriage partner, so what is the point of giving that much money.”

Please don’t get hot-headed again over being the top-rank big brother. Another day, if you run into some beautiful girl, the little money you earn won’t even be enough to show off.

Lin Yiran nodded. “Yeah, with that money, what can’t you do?”

Chen Xi said, “Then you…”

Lin Yiran rolled down the window and lit a cigarette, saying, “I send gifts because I can earn it back. Investment that’s not necessary is something only idiots do.”

Chen Xi: That made perfect sense, so why hadn’t he reacted to it just now?

Lin Yiran did not know what he thought of, and his eyes flickered slightly, as if he were mentioning it casually. “What kind of car do you like?”

Chen Xi answered without thinking, “Benbaoao all fine!”

“You don’t like Cadillacs?”

Chen Xi laughed. “I like drivers who sell their luxury car to drive a Cadillac.”

Lin Yiran thought for a moment and said, “The one I sold before was a Mercedes, do you like it?”

Chen Xi nodded and said gloomily, “If I make money and pay off the mortgage and still have some left, I’m planning to buy a second-hand Volkswagen in two years, just to use as a basic ride and make do with it. A Mercedes is just something I’d think about.”

Lin Yiran opened Traffic Control 12123 and handed the phone to Chen Xi, saying, “This car needs a driver’s license to be on the road, first bind yours to it.”

Chen Xi generously lent his driver’s license to Lin Yiran. Lin Yiran thought to himself: if I can get his ID card too, then I can buy a Mercedes.

The sunset glow shone on Lin Yiran’s sharply defined side profile, his elbow resting against the car window as he lazily took a drag from his cigarette.

“You’ve heard of Zhongdao Real Estate, right.”

Chen Xi nodded.

Lin Yiran exhaled a ring of smoke and said with a smile, “Before, Liu Xueying couldn’t get an appointment with their marketing manager, and I just happened to catch it while scrolling videos.”

“If you say ‘top-rank big brother’ wants to meet him, do you think he’ll meet you?”