Chapter 208 Extra Three (13)

Extra 3 (13)

Jiang Xiaomi was completely confused: "...The boy you're talking about, could it be, is, is..."

"It's you." Rong Yi said.

Jiang Xiaomi: “!!!”

Jiang Xiaomi: "How is that possible! Aren't you secretly in love with my brother?"

Rong Yi: "It's not a secret crush, it's admiration. I later discovered that admiration and liking are different, and what I like is you."

At this moment, Jiang Xiaomi's legs were still resting on Rong Yi's legs, but she didn't dare to move anymore.

The atmosphere was inexplicably tense. Jiang Xiaomi suddenly pulled her feet back, sat up straight, pointed at her nose, and asked, "Do you like me?"

Rong Yi: "Yes."

Jiang Xiaomi still looked a little shocked. "Why do you like me? What's so good about me?"

Rong Yi: "You..."

Jiang Xiaomi quickly answered, "I know, needless to say! I come from a good family, I'm pretty good-looking, and I'm young and strong. It's normal for you to like me, but I need to think about it. Give me some time, okay?"

Jiang Xiaomi finished speaking rapidly, then jumped off the bed and rushed out the door.

Rong Yi: “………………”

This room was the bedroom where Jiang Xiaomi studied when he was a child. It has a desk and a bed. Although the old villa now belongs to him, Jiang Xiaomi rarely goes to his parents' master bedroom and still lives here most of the time out of nostalgia.

Now he left his bedroom and ran out... It was obvious that he was in a panic and had no idea where to go.

Rong Yi felt a little helpless, but more worried.

What does Jiang Xiaomi mean?

Rong Yi felt a little regretful for his impulsiveness, yet he felt an inexplicable sense of confidence, anticipating his answer. Finally, Rong Yi let himself fall onto Jiang Xiaomi's bed, sniffing Jiang Su's scent, covering his eyes, and thinking back to high school, all the silly, adorable things about that boy named Jiang Su.

He first noticed Jiang Xiaomi when he transferred to Yanlin as a sophomore in high school. He followed his parents to Yanlin for work and was unfamiliar with the place.

However, Rong Yi didn't care.

He is naturally indifferent and doesn't like to interact with people at all.

Ever since he could remember, there was always a voice in his ear, nagging him and telling him what he could not do, telling him that even as a boy, he had to protect his body, not fall or bump into things, otherwise he would not be pretty and would not be able to become a "heartthrob".

When he was very young, Rong Yi mentioned this supernatural event to his parents. His parents paid a high price to hire a fortune teller, who fed him a large basin of black dog blood. Since then, Rong Yi's "illness" has been cured, and he has never mentioned even a word about the "mysterious sound" to outsiders - black dog blood is really too hard to drink, and it will cause diarrhea after drinking it. He began to learn to hide it and pretend to be a normal person.

But teenage boys always have a rebellious mentality. The more that voice advises him to lie down and attract a rich man to marry, the more he works hard in secret and insists on creating his own future.

As Rong Yi grew up, he experienced more and more things and met more and more people, and gradually understood what a "heartthrob" meant. It turned out that a "heartthrob" meant that there would always be men looking at him with lustful eyes, and even coming up to him with flattering faces.

So disgusting.

After being forced to give his phone number by a few strange men on the street, Rong Yi felt that these men were even more disgusting. Even at school, he felt irritated when the male classmates looked at him for a second longer.

Rong Yi became less and less interested in socializing. He didn't feel sad when he left his old group, and he wasn't in a hurry to fit in after transferring to another school. He just went from walking alone in one place to feeling out of place in another.

There's nothing to be nervous about.

However, not long after school started, he discovered that the student sitting behind him was a chatterbox.

Rong Yi never looked at anyone, nor was he willing to chat with anyone, but every day he was forced to listen to the little guy at the back table chattering endlessly.

"My deskmate, what book are you reading? Can you lend it to me?"

"Look at the teacher's new perm, doesn't it look like the Lion King? Hahahahahaha!"

“…”

Very noisy.

Jiang Xiaomi had to wait countless times for the teacher's chalk to hit him on the forehead before he could calm down for a while.

Thanks to Jiang Xiaomi, Rong Yi also mastered the skills of listening to the wind, determining the position and avoiding chalk heads. Every time the teacher threw a "hidden weapon", he could successfully dodge it and was never accidentally injured.

Jiang Xiaomi would occasionally take the initiative to provoke the person sitting in front of him. He would poke Rong Yi on the back and say in a familiar way, "Brother Yi, can you lend me your homework?" Rong Yi hated physical contact with others the most. He turned around impatiently and saw Jiang Xiaomi's sparkling eyes.

This kind of thing was very common in junior high school, and even in high school before that. To avoid a few words, Rong Yi usually just threw the homework book away. But when he looked at Jiang Su, he inexplicably blurted out two words: "...I won't lend it to you."

Jiang Xiaomi: "Hey, just borrow it for a moment..."

Rong Yi ignored him. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, Rong Yi already had a clear sense of right and wrong. He believed that lending homework to classmates to copy was not helping them, but harming them.

Rong Yi was too lazy to pay attention to those annoying guys. He just wanted to have less contact with them and didn't care how they were doing in their studies. But Jiang Xiaomi didn't seem that annoying, and he didn't want to hurt him.

At this time, Jiang Xiaomi's deskmate would say something sarcastic: "He's a top student and doesn't want to pay attention to us, so why are you trying to get close to him?"

Jiang Xiaomi would interrupt and change the subject, and never said anything bad about Rong Yi - it wasn't that she looked upon Rong Yi differently, Jiang Xiaomi was a kind child and never spoke ill of anyone.

But Jiang Xiaomi is not that perfect. Sometimes, like other boys, she can't help but stare at Rong Yi with a straight gaze.

Rong Yi suspected that it was the effect of the so-called "heartthrob" halo, which made him very irritated.

Until one day, a young man with an unusually eye-catching appearance came to attend a parent-teacher meeting for Jiang Xiaomi. The young man had a very young face and did not look like a parent at all. Rong Yi thought he was a classmate from another class and was easily attracted by his appearance. Rong Yi knew very early that he liked boys, and when he met such a handsome man, he could not help but take a few more glances.

He even rushed over and started a conversation for the first time.

Unfortunately, the other person, like everyone else, stared intently at his face, causing Rong Yi's newly formed good impression to quickly dissipate. He later learned that this handsome young man wasn't actually a classmate, but Jiang Xiaomi's older brother and the president of the Jiang Group. Rong Yi then realized that President Jiang wasn't attracted to his face at all; on the contrary, he seemed to be deliberately keeping his distance.

Rong Yi kept seeing Jiang Nuo's deeds in the news, and gradually developed admiration for him, which is probably what we now call "starting with appearance and staying true to character."

In order to get closer to his idol, Rong Yi began to take the initiative to approach Mr. Jiang's younger brother Jiang Xiaomi.

Jiang Xiaomi is completely different from his brother who has a lot of ideas in his mind. He is just a naive and innocent boy and a terrible student.

When Rong Yi was tutoring him, he wanted to knock open Jiang Xiaomi's head many times to see if it was full of expired mineral water. Why couldn't he solve such a simple problem?

However, although Jiang Xiaomi had some difficulty in solving the questions, she is kind-hearted and has her own opinions.

For example, one time Rong Yi went to Jiang's house to help Jiang Xiaomi with her lessons, and they casually discussed the recent school news: a girl dropped out of school because of pregnancy.

People around her were saying that the girl was not decent. She had a boyfriend at such a young age and had so many boys pursuing her. She was just like a bus.

Jiang Xiaomi's opinion was quite insightful: "Calling a teenage girl a 'bus' is really vicious."

Rong Yi quickly wrote a formula on the paper and said, "Try applying this formula."

Jiang Xiaomi knew her nonsense wouldn't go over well with the top student, but she couldn't help but mutter while working on her homework, "I had a fight with a boy from another class today."

Rong Yi finally raised his head: "Are you okay? ...I mean, why?"

Jiang Xiaomi said indifferently, "It's just a disagreement. Don't worry, I'm a civilized person and I won't fight."

Rong Yi said awkwardly, "Who's worried about you?"

Jiang Xiaomi simply ignored this seemingly unfounded explanation and said, "It's because of that girl. I said a few words on her behalf, and they insisted I liked her, too. ... I don't like her. I didn't even know her before the incident. I'm just mad at those people for talking nonsense. She was pregnant, and she shouldn't be tasting forbidden fruit at that age, but so many boys pursue her. Does that mean she's not decent? Some girls even call her a 'bus'. In my opinion, it's just sour grapes and jealousy! So when something happens, they kick her when she's down!"

Rong Yi: “…”

Jiang Xiaomi scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "Sorry, I'm just like that, I'm a talkative person. I've wasted your time again. You're giving me free tutoring, so I'll cherish it. Now shut up and do the questions!"

"Jiang Su," Rong Yi suddenly said, "Do you really think it's not that girl's fault for attracting so many people?"

Jiang Xiaomi said seriously, "What do you mean by 'attracting bees and butterflies'? Aren't flowers the ones that attract bees and butterflies? Is it the flowers' fault that they are beautiful and fragrant? What logic is that?"

Rong Yi inexplicably recalled his experiences over the years, and recalled how when he complained to his relatives and classmates, instead of sharing his hatred for the enemy, they asked him, "Did you provoke them?"

That year, the trend of combating "victim blaming" had not yet become popular on the Internet. It was the first time he heard such an opinion from others, and he felt inexplicably relieved.

"I think you're right." Rong Yi said solemnly, "Thank you."

Jiang Xiaomi: “???”

Jiang Xiaomi looked confused: "What are you thanking me for?"

Rong Yi didn't explain, but said casually, "Just do the questions."

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If he had to say when he started to like Jiang Xiaomi, Rong Yi thought, maybe it would have to be traced back to that moment.

He was still grateful to Jiang Nuo in his heart. If he had not met a shining person like President Jiang, he would not have become more determined to fight against the annoying voice in his head, and would not have been determined to rely on any man and fight with his own hands; he would not have approached Jiang Xiaomi under the purpose of getting close to President Jiang, and he would not have discovered Jiang Xiaomi's cuteness.

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While Rong Yi was reminiscing about the past, Jiang Xiaomi had already hurriedly run to another bedroom and called her brother.

The call was not connected for a long time.

It wasn't until the third time he called that he finally heard Mr. Jiang's breathless voice on the other end of the phone. "What's wrong?" Jiang Nuo asked anxiously, "What happened late at night?"

Jiang Xiaomi thought her brother was just worried about her, and didn't realize there was anything unusual about him breathing heavily in the middle of the night. So she stammered, "Nothing, I just have something on my mind that I want to tell you."

Mr. Jiang on the other end of the phone was obviously relieved: "I'm glad you're okay."

Then the phone was snatched away by Brother Gu, who said fiercely, "Are you really okay?"

Jiang Xiaomi: "Ah, no, it's okay."

Brother Gu: "Where are you?"

Jiang Xiaomi: "At home."

Brother Gu was obviously relieved: "It's really nothing." Then he said more fiercely: "If it's nothing, don't call! Children are not allowed to call adults in the middle of the night. This is the rule of the underworld. Don't you understand?!"

“Beep, beep…”

Jiang Xiaomi listened to the busy tone on the phone and finally realized what her brother might be doing. She blushed and cursed, "Brother Gu is such a beast!"

Then he buried himself in the quilt helplessly.

Woohoo, what should I do? I suddenly received a confession from my same-sex friend, but my brother has a sister-in-law but no younger brother, and he has no time to pay attention to me now. He has no one to tell his worries to. What should I do? QAQ! He has no experience at all!

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Jiang Xiaomi thought about it all night but couldn't figure it out, so he stayed in bed the whole next day, trying to escape by staying in bed. However, Rong Yi actually knocked on his door and brought a loving breakfast he had made himself to his bed.

Jiang Xiaomi: “!!!”

Jiang Xiaomi acted like a chaste heroine and pulled the quilt high, "Thank you, I'm not hungry yet!"

Rong Yi: “……………………”

Rong Yi didn't linger. He placed his breakfast on the bedside table and politely retreated to the door. "Eat it while it's hot. If you want to get to the office before ten o'clock, you have to leave within at least half an hour."

"By the way," Rong Yi held the door handle. "I didn't say those words last night to force you. I just couldn't help myself and spoke my mind. You don't have to rush to give me an answer. ... Liking someone is a matter of mutual consent, not moral kidnapping. Xiaomi, don't feel any psychological burden. No matter what you choose, I respect you."

After saying that, Rong Yi gently closed the door.

Jiang Xiaomi was left lost in thought, staring at the steaming and soft purple rice porridge and a crispy golden pancake on the bedside table.

His first reaction was relief: Rong Yi did not coerce him in the name of friendship and force him to make a choice, which reduced his psychological pressure a lot.

The second reaction was: Do I like Rongyi? No, do I like boys?

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After playing in Chiang Mai for four days and three nights, President Jiang started to think about the company's business again and took Gu Jiangkuo to return to Yanlin.

Master Long Pishu's "hypnosis" was very effective. Mr. Gu never had a nightmare again. He ate well and slept well in the past few days, and his spirits were restored in a short time.

Moreover, since they were on vacation, Mr. Gu also bought a pair of cat ear hairpins in the tourist area and asked Nuonuo to wear them (but as soon as the cat's tail was stuffed with these things, Mr. Jiang refused to do so, so he had to give up for the time being). In short, Mr. Gu was living a happy life like a god these days.

So even when Jiang Nuo dragged him back to Yanlin early, he had no complaints.

Not only did he not complain, he was also quite cooperative. As soon as he arrived at the airport today, he ran around to buy coffee for Jiang Nuo and checked in his luggage himself, and occasionally took the opportunity to make a few mysterious phone calls.

The call was made directly to Baimi Technology's technical department.

Back then, Baimi Technology used the demolition compensation from Gu Jiangkuo's grandmother as its first pot of "angel investment". Later, President Jiang generously gave the entire Baimi to Gu Jiangkuo, in order to remind Mr. Gu "don't forget your friends when you become rich and powerful" - there was no personal relationship between the two at that time - but he didn't expect that Baimi would develop so well now.

It has become the leading technology company in the country, with seven or eight hot projects under its name, not to mention countless patents.

As a result, the position of technical directors has also risen, and they are generally responsible for major projects where "technology changes life". So when they receive a pressing call from their immediate superior, they are still a little confused.

"Mr. Gu, we're already working overtime, but the deadline is really too tight... Yes, yes, we have mature technology, and it can be spliced, but... Okay, okay, no 'buts'. Well, I'll do my best. ... It's my duty, it's my duty, thank you, Mr. Gu, no need, no need, this is what we should do."

After the technical director hung up the phone, he was overwhelmed by the lawsuit. He then held a secret meeting and urgently summoned all the company's top scientific researchers. Not only that, he also sent out confidentiality agreements one by one and asked everyone to sign and fingerprint them one by one.

Because they had never seen such a big scene before, a room full of highly educated engineers sat upright, thinking that a big project had arrived.

As a result, when the technical director showed the PowerPoint presentation he had hastily put together, the engineers were stunned: "That's it???"

"Yes, it's just a small thing." The technical director coughed lightly, "but it means a lot."

The engineers returned to silence, waiting for Director Yun to explain the situation.

The director wiped the nonexistent sweat from his forehead and laughed dryly, "This is a gift from Mr. Gu to Mr. Jiang for their seventh wedding anniversary. We were asked to finish it before the actual day."

Everyone: “…………………………”

It is indeed of great significance. The wedding anniversary of the two big bosses, General Manager Jiang’s birthday... These are all big days. General Manager Gu’s love for Chairman Jiang is evident to all. The employees have eaten more dog food over the years than ordinary people have eaten meals.

Many people even regard the marriage between the two bosses as a model of love, which is truly a beautiful story.

But, one thing at a time.

"Although this thing is small, it has a very high-tech feel. It requires the use of several cutting-edge patents, which is a real test of technical skills. And the time is too tight! The structural design and appearance design take time, and all the parts need to be 3D-printed and customized. There's simply no time!"

"I don't have time. I have several tasks waiting to be handed in."

"This is too sudden. I have to go out of town for a technical summit tomorrow. Director, you know I've already informed you about this."

“…”

Everyone was talking at once when the technical director suddenly clapped his hands. "Everyone! I'm not done yet! This is paid overtime. Mr. Gu said he's doing it as a private customization, and everyone who participates will get a red envelope."

Everyone suddenly became quiet and sat back in the meeting room.

If there is overtime pay, overtime work will become enjoyable. This is the truth of the world.

"How big is the red envelope?"

The technical director reported a number, and the engineers suddenly changed their tune:

"The concept is a bit ahead of its time, but it is technically feasible. With everyone's efforts, a few days won't be a problem."

"Actually, there's already a precedent overseas. Someone in Hollywood has used it. I've even researched the parts. You can give them to me."

“…”

The technical director coughed lightly. "We'll discuss the specific implementation later. For now, let me announce a few of Mr. Gu's requirements. The first is that it must be perfect, especially the bionic electric device, which must be realistic. The second is that there must be no delays! The third is the confidentiality agreement that everyone signed when we entered. This is a surprise from Mr. Gu to Mr. Jiang, and no one can tell anyone! Even after our anniversary, we can't talk about it! This is a little secret between husband and wife!"

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Jiang Nuo knew nothing about this. He was waiting in the VIP lounge of the airport, handling official business remotely with his laptop. He felt a little thirsty and a little hot. He glanced at the coffee beside him, but did not pick it up. Instead, he straightened up and looked around - he remembered that there was a self-service ice cube in the lounge, where was it?

In the end, I didn't find any ice cubes, but I saw Gu Jiangkuo walking over after finishing his phone call.

Mr. Gu glanced at his wife, then picked up the coffee cup without hesitation, carried it away, and stopped a waiter, who added ice cubes to the cup. Gu Jiangkuo then took the iced coffee back and handed it to Jiang Nuo in one smooth move.

Jiang Nuoqi asked, "How did you know I wanted to add ice?"

"Huh?" Gu Jiangkuo was even more surprised. "Didn't you say that?"

Jiang Nuo: “…I didn’t say anything.”

Gu Jiangkuo was shocked: "! You didn't say anything?? Impossible! If you didn't say anything, how would I know to add ice for you?"

Jiang Nuo: "Really not, why would I lie to you?"

"?!" Gu Jiangkuo repeatedly reviewed the situation and asked, "You really didn't say anything?"

"No." Jiang Nuo closed his laptop speechlessly, "It's almost time, let's go to the boarding gate and wait."

Gu Jiangkuo naturally picked up his computer bag for him, still feeling amazed. He walked all the way to the boarding gate before concluding, "I understand. This might be what they call tacit understanding."

"I know what you want just by looking at you, and I'm used to taking care of you."

Mr. Gu concluded: "Nuonuo, tell me how much I love you!"

Jiang Nuo laughed.

Mr. Gu pulled him: "I said I love you, what should you say?"

Jiang Nuo smiled even more happily and said deliberately: "This is what you should do."