“Anyway, you can’t keep forcing people to hand over money like that anymore. Just spend mine.”
You Chumu stared at the money. In an instant, his face turned bright red, and his normally eerie pupils suddenly became watery and sparkling. He lifted his eyes to look at Xu Chi:
“I understand, brother. Only you are mine, and I am yours.”
Xu Chi: “…?” Forget it. He didn’t expect to understand the little villain’s way of thinking. As long as the little villain stopped doing this kind of illegal thing, that was enough.
Especially since what he had stolen was food bought for him.
After dealing with the ingredients and boiling the noodles, the two of them finished eating together at the same table.
“Go return the money to Zhou Ye. I’m going to the company.”
After putting on his suit, Xu Chi said to You Chumu.
You Chumu stood in front of him, staring at the door behind him, as if thinking about something, then looking back at Xu Chi with regret that he couldn’t do whatever he was thinking of:
“Brother, did your boss bully you?”
“…” For some reason, why did You Chumu keep bringing up the boss bullying him? Was it because he had heard that phone call last time? But he had already said no.
“No. Last time it was because I had an unexcused absence for a few days and didn’t go to work. It’s normal for the boss to yell at me a couple of times.”
You Chumu tilted his head, his eyes turning cold, and his tone carried that unsettling edge again: “Normal? No, brother, no one can yell at you. No one can make you suffer.”
“…” Why was this little brat speaking like some domineering CEO?
Xu Chi was speechless. The two of them stood in silence for a full two minutes. Or rather, Xu Chi was awkward by himself for two minutes. After thinking it over, Xu Chi spoke:
“Mm, okay. I won’t let myself be bullied. If that boss bullies me, I’ll bully him back.”
You Chumu seemed to think for a moment, then nodded. “Okay, brother.”
Xu Chi went to the company. Just before entering the revolving door, he happened to cross paths with Yu Sui’an, who was followed by a group of people.
Unlike last time, when he had been overwhelmed by Yu Sui’an’s presence, Xu Chi met his gaze this time. When Yu Sui’an looked over, Xu Chi gave him a slight smile…
He was sending a signal…
Hurry up and arrange something else for me to do.
Yu Sui’an’s gaze lingered two seconds longer than usual. His dark brows and eyes made it impossible to tell what he was thinking. Then he looked away and got into the black car with the group following him.
Just before entering the building, Xu Chi suddenly stopped. That gaze from yesterday had come back…
He turned and looked toward the rooftop of the building across the street. A high-rise nearly sixty stories tall, with sunlight reflecting off it, so glaring that nothing could be seen clearly…
But one thing was very clear: there was no one up there.
Then… whose gaze was that?
Xu Chi’s eyes moved as he thought about the possibility. Was it his imagination? No. Since he had inherited the original host’s abilities, it was only natural that he could sense other people’s gazes.
But… the original novel never mentioned anyone staring at him like this.
No, in the original novel, the original host died early and never got to experience what came later.
So according to the original novel, if the original host had not died, who would have been staring at him like this…
You Chumu? Impossible. In the original novel, You Chumu didn’t have that fetish.
Unable to figure it out, Xu Chi entered the company and went up to the forty-ninth floor.
Just after sitting down, there were already two cups of coffee on the desk, both with labels, both iced Americanos…
No one would buy two cups of iced Americano for one person at the same time, so that could only mean the two cups were bought by two different people.
“Ooh, ooh, ooh, so now that we’ve found out Brother Xu’s status, you’re already rushing over to cling to him? Some little bitch really has no shame. Doesn’t she see that Brother Xu already has a cup on his desk?”
Xu Chi reached for the coffee on the desk, just as a woman in a black dress that showed off her legs came walking over in high heels. She was a sexy beauty, and she drifted up to Xu Chi as if she had no bones, draping herself over his shoulder…
“Brother Xu, you can’t drink this cup of coffee. Who knows how many men have drunk it? It’s filthy… Drink mine instead. I bought it especially for you.”
Xu Chi leaned to the side, and the woman’s fair arm slid off him. Her expression stiffened for a moment, then she smiled again, all charm and allure, and reached for Xu Chi’s tie…
“Drink it, Brother Xu. By the way, Brother Xu, want to have lunch together at noon? I heard you didn’t eat with them last night, right? That’s right, how could Brother Xu go eat in a place like that? I’ll take Brother Xu somewhere nice and delicious at noon.”
Her mouth was almost at Xu Chi’s ear. Xu Chi held back the urge to vomit, stood up directly, moved a step away, brushed off the shoulder she had leaned on, then picked up a wet wipe from the desk and wiped his tie…
Mainly to get rid of the smell. The perfume was so strong that it felt like he had been forced to drink an entire bottle of it, and the nausea was severe.
He looked expressionlessly at the woman, even suspecting that he had mistaken her for someone else…
Jiang Qiuyun. In the original novel, she was an extremely intelligent woman with a superpower. Her superpower was to enchant men. Her body would release one invisible hook after another, like a spiderweb, and even the breath she exhaled could enchant any man she wanted, making him fall hopelessly in love with her, unable to live without her, and willing to do anything for her.
The closer she got, the stronger the effect of her superpower.
In the original novel, whenever Jiang Qiuyun used her superpower on others, she always had this posture. Had Jiang Qiuyun used her superpower on him?…Then why was he still so clear-headed now?…Had Jiang Qiuyun not used her superpower on him?…Then why had she come so close to him?
Jiang Qiuyun had clearly already heard about what had been circulating in the company yesterday, and she had come at him with this routine right away.
“Sister Qiu, I’m still young. This isn’t appropriate. Thanks for the coffee, Sister Qiu. And this cup… I bought it myself. Why can’t I drink it?”
After saying that, Xu Chi picked up the cup of coffee that Jiang Qiuyun had just insulted.
Jiang Qiuyun was stunned. “You… you bought it yourself? How is that possible?” She looked at the person in the corner of the office whose black hair was partially visible behind a bookshelf, then looked back at Xu Chi, her face full of disbelief.
“Yes.” Xu Chi pulled his chair closer, sat back down, and pushed Jiang Qiuyun’s coffee toward her. “Sister Qiu, you should keep your coffee for yourself. Drinking too much isn’t good… Sister Qiu, do you have work matters to discuss with me?”
His tone was polite, but his eyes were cold. He clearly wasn’t falling for her act.
Jiang Qiuyun looked at Xu Chi like that, a little stunned. Then she struck a pose and exerted herself to release even more hooks from her body, but Xu Chi in front of her seemed to think of something else and actually drifted off. He even yawned as if he were sleepy.
Then he looked at her with an expression that said, “Why aren’t you leaving yet?”
…Damn it. She was about to lose her temper.
When had she ever been ignored like this? Did she not have charisma or what? Damn it.
Before, every time she passed by, this gloomy, foolish Xu Chi would stare at her openly, not even bothering to hide it. He had stared at her even without using his superpower. Now that she was using her superpower, why was he still completely unmoved?
Could it be… could this real Xu Chi not be straight??