Chapter 26 The Infinite Boss Invites You to "Eat Melon" 26. I Think...

I met Pei Yanzhi at the music festival with an old colleague.

Although she didn't know what had happened, she instinctively tried to smooth things over: "Haha, what a coincidence! Lao Lu and I had drunk too much and came out to sober up. I didn't expect to run into your family! You're here to pick up Lao Lu, right? Look how old you are, still needing your family to pick you up!"

Pei Yanzhi smiled and said, "That's quite a coincidence."

“This is…” He looked at Chen Jia.

Chen Jia had ways to protect himself and had met Pei Yanzhi before, so he felt he wasn't afraid of him.

But at this moment, when Pei Yanzhi's cold and ruthless eyes, filled with murderous intent, glanced down and landed on him, he realized what it meant to be terrified.

He will slice him to pieces, just like those players who slaughtered the guild back then!

Countless bloody images uncontrollably churned in Chen Jia's mind.

He froze, his teeth chattering with a clicking sound.

Seeing that Chen Jia remained silent, the old colleague, fearing he might cause trouble and disrupt the harmonious relationship between Lu Yu and Pei Yanzhi, blurted out in a flash, "A corporate spy!"

Pei Yanzhi paused.

Lu Yu, who was about to speak, was also taken aback.

My old colleague blurted out, "To be honest, the competition in our industry is incredibly fierce! Those cunning colleagues will stop at nothing to win a project! Things like intercepting rival companies halfway through, tearing up tender documents, smashing computers, going to a print shop with competitors to spy on their final bids, and even sneaking into rival companies on the day of the electronic bidding to unplug their network cables—it's all commonplace!"

"Attempts to entice our company's senior management to make mistakes are very common, but none of them have ever succeeded!"

The old colleague emphasized, "Especially our Lao Lu, he's an honest and upright person, very steadfast, there won't be any problems. I even saw him in the bathroom today, he even wore three belts when he went out, he couldn't undo them all by himself for a while. Mr. Pei, you can rest assured, you can rest assured!"

Pei Yanzhi: "..."

He couldn't help but laugh, the coldness in his eyes dissipating as his gaze drifted to Lu Yu's trousers, as if wondering if there really were three belts there.

Lu Yu closed his eyes, grabbed his old colleague with a headache, and asked, "Old Gu, how much did you drink?"

"Not much," my old colleague waved his hand, "Three bottles of baijiu and five bottles of beer, I'm not drunk!"

Lu Yu was helpless. His colleague didn't blush when he drank, acting like nothing was wrong, but once he started talking, his true colors came out. He got excited very easily, and his mind went blank.

He held the person down, called a colleague out, and took the person inside.

"I'm really not drunk, Lao Lu!" the old colleague said. "Mr. Pei, let me tell you, our industry is really too treacherous..."

My old colleague was dragged away, and the sound disappeared into the distance in the private room.

The alleyway finally fell silent.

A night breeze caressed my face, dispelling the sweltering heat and bringing a rare coolness to the summer night.

"What are you waiting for?" Lu Yu turned to look at Chen Jia, who was still frozen in place. "Waiting to die?"

Even if Chen Jia was stupid at this point, he had already realized that he had been defeated as soon as he started his campaign and had been tricked.

Ji Chengchuan was merely using him as a pawn to test the waters. He overestimated himself, thinking he could infiltrate the relationship as a third party in front of these two dragon-like men—a pipe dream. He didn't know how he had fallen for Ji Chengchuan's lies, agreeing readily after a few words of persuasion, and coming over full of confidence.

Now that Pei Yanzhi has arrived, the boss has stopped pretending. He can barely survive with just Pei Yanzhi, but what if the two of them team up...?

Hearing Lu Yu's cold voice, Chen Jia jolted awake.

Driven by his survival instinct, he moved his finger at lightning speed towards the QR code that had already been scanned for payment.

The next second, Lu Yu's phone rang: [You have successfully received 20,000 yuan.]

Lu Yu: "..."

Pei Yanzhi: "..."

No, this money...

Chen Jia forced a smile: "That's all I have left. I only make three thousand a month after tax, and my rent is twelve thousand. All this stuff I'm wearing is fake..."

Lu Yu suddenly felt like he was a high school bully in a dark alley.

Pei Yanzhi spoke up: "Pass card."

Without hesitation, Chen Jia pulled out his Blue Star ID card.

The card turned to ashes the moment it appeared.

Pei Yanzhi said indifferently, "Alright, get lost."

He was not a man who killed indiscriminately, and besides, Chen Jia's crime did not warrant death.

Upon hearing this, Chen Jia turned around decisively.

"etc."

Lu Yu suddenly called out to the person.

Chen Jia froze.

“Go back and tell Ji Chengchuan that if he wants to die, he can come back again. I will grant his wish,” Lu Yu said, “even if Smile Game is standing behind him.”

"OK."

Chen Jia broke out in a cold sweat, fearing that his 20,000 yuan for saving his life wouldn't be enough. Seeing Lu Yu wave his hand, he immediately dared not delay any longer and sped away from the scene.

My old colleagues left, and Chen Jia is gone too. Only two people remain under the streetlights.

Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief and was about to say something when Pei Yanzhi suddenly said, "There are quite a few people who have this kind of thought."

Lu Yu paused, then asked, "What?"

Pei Yanzhi's tea-colored eyes were clear and calm: "Among the ten teams participating in the story mission, most players already know that power, money, and sex are worldly things, and you probably won't be interested in the first two. As for the divine fragments that you need most, they can't provide them either. So after all the back and forth, only sex is left."

“You fell because of me, and whatever the reason, they all feel they have an opportunity to take advantage of you. Ji Chengchuan didn’t do it himself this time because he is self-aware and timid, but he doesn’t want to give up any possibility, so he can only send people. In the future… there may be more and more people, more and more ‘me’s.

Lu Yu shook his head: "No, there's only one you."

Pei Yanzhi stood a few steps away, smiled, and said nothing.

Lu Yu, however, sensed something different. He lifted his long leg and stepped across the distance he had long wanted to eliminate. His tall figure blocked the light falling on Pei Yanzhi, making the young man appear as a graceful and slender shadow, enveloped by him.

"If you're unhappy, hit me?" Lu Yu leaned down slightly, took the young man's hand, and said in a deep voice.

"Why would I hit you?" Pei Yanzhi said, both amused and exasperated.

His hands, delicate and beautiful like porcelain, caressed the man's strong chest as Lu Yu moved. The gloom in his eyes melted into gentle ripples when his gaze fell upon the man's incomparably handsome face. "I'm not stupid. Why blame my lover for other people's mistakes? You are a treasure, and a dragon. There will always be those who covet the treasure and yearn to tame the dragon. They are the ones who are wrong. What has my lover done wrong?"

"I am a little unhappy," he said, his eyes flickering slightly, "but this is my fault. I didn't control my emotions, and I should apologize to you..."

“I won’t accept it.” Lu Yu interrupted Pei Yanzhi.

Pei Yanzhi froze.

“I don’t accept it,” Lu Yu looked at him. “I could accept your apology last time because we had just met. But now, we are lovers and we are going to spend our lives together. In the heat of the moment, you could kick me, yell at me, and fight me to the death, as long as we make up afterwards and the principles are right, it’s all fine.”

"The only thing they shouldn't have done was apologize."

After a pause, Lu Yu said in a low voice, "I don't want... you to not even have the right to throw a tantrum at me."

Pei Yanzhi didn't know what to say.

His hand was clearly pressing on that chest, yet it seemed, in a fleeting moment, it pierced through it. Through the flesh and bones, sinking into a fiery yet tender heart.

His heart was burning so hot that he was about to be scorched, yet he couldn't bear to let go. He just wanted to hold on tight and embrace it, even as the flames engulfed him, he was unwilling to break free.

This fleeting, arrogant thought startled Pei Yanzhi.

Almost simultaneously, some lingering fear also vanished from his heart.

He made a decision.

Withdrawing his hand, Pei Yanzhi turned his eyes away and said softly, "You still say you're bad at sweet talk and can't say sweet things... If Mr. Lu is bad at sweet talk, then there's no one in the world who can say sweet things."

Just then, a sound came from inside the farmhouse courtyard, as if someone had come out.

Pei Yanzhi turned around and stepped forward: "Let's go, boyfriend, let's go back first. My car is still a kilometer away. I came here in advance by using space travel."

He said a few words, but Lu Yu remained silent.

She stopped and turned around; the man was still standing in the same spot.

Pei Yanzhi looked at him and raised his eyebrows slightly.

Lu Yu looked back at him, remained silent for two seconds, and suddenly raised his hand to his forehead: "I think I drank quite a bit too..." As he spoke, he took a step forward, his body swaying slightly as if he was about to fall.

Pei Yanzhi turned around, his breath almost touching hers.

A slender hand reached out and supported Lu Yu's arm, conveying a body temperature that was unusually low for summer.

Pei Yanzhi said, "You've gone astray too."

"also?"

Lu Yu looked up, his crooked body was supported, but still not straight. Instead, due to inertia, he covered Pei Yanzhi's back from back to front.

Lu Yu was too hot for Pei Yanzhi.

The heat was so intense, burning through just two layers of clothing, that his shoulders trembled. He instinctively tried to dodge, but Lu Yu's hand grabbed him first, encircling his waist and neck.

"Why is it also?" Lu Yu lowered his head, his deep breaths carrying a faint scent of alcohol, falling on the young man's ear. "Who else is bad?"

“Me,” Pei Yanzhi said, “am I not bad?”

Lu Yu pondered for a moment, then nodded seriously: "That is indeed very bad."

Pei Yanzhi glanced at him.

Lu Yu laughed, lowering his gaze to lean closer, but Pei Yanzhi turned his head away, pressing his hand against Lu Yu's firm chest and pushing him away: "Not here, let's go into the alley..."

Pei Yanzhi saw the people in the farmhouse. Although they were some distance away and he couldn't see them clearly, he was still a little nervous.

Lu Yu paused, guessing that Pei Yanzhi might have misunderstood.

Although he hadn't seen her for five days and missed her terribly, there were always people coming out here, so it wasn't a place for intimacy. He tricked her into coming over and hugging her, just wanting to give her a good hug, without any other intentions.

but……

Lu Yu stared at Pei Yanzhi's eyes, which were filled with shame under the light, and offered no explanation. He simply followed Pei Yanzhi's lead and retreated step by step into the alley.

The alley was dark and unlit, with only a faint yellow light seeping in from the alley entrance and the top of the towering walls, accompanied by the noisy sounds of some diners.

A distant, hazy curtain hung in the air, neither visible nor audible.

The man's leather shoe pressed against the edge of the young man's boot, bumping and pushing, pulling and pressing, accompanied by a tearing sound, and suddenly hit the crack in the wall.

"Lu Yu".

Pei Yanzhi called out in a low voice.

"I am here."

Lu Yu responded in a deep voice, his figure like a gigantic monster, completely enveloping Pei Yanzhi.

At some point, the roles of offense and defense shifted.

Pei Yanzhi, who pushed others into the urn, became a captured butterfly, nailed to the wall, forced to spread all its wings, revealing its soft and seductive interior.

Lu Yu, who was passively brought in, became the best hunter and spectator. He skillfully suppressed all the space in which the butterfly could tremble and struggle, leaving it with nowhere to escape or avoid, and it could only raise its head and open its crimson lips to itself.

“Lu Yu…”

His lover asked him for a kiss.

But Lu Yu didn't move.

He certainly knew the beauty of those lips and tongues. Whether they actively entwined or passively retreated, transforming into sweet spring water, they were all exceptionally captivating.

Perhaps he was truly drunk from the alcohol, or perhaps, as Pei Yanzhi said, he had gone astray. In any case, he didn't move. He merely lowered his eyes, looking down at the young man with leisurely composure, watching as the young man's calm and aloof expression crumbled, revealing a desire more intense than flames.

"I miss you so much, Yanzhi."

Lu Yudao.

He lowered his head slightly, bringing his lips close to Pei Yanzhi's, but not touching them completely. He kept them only two or three centimeters apart, warming him with his hot breath.

"……I miss you as well."

Pei Yanzhi's lips trembled as he was brought so close, as if licked by a tongue of fire, burning unbearably, yet unwilling to leave, only curling back the tip of his tongue that had just been exposed, for fear of revealing his shame.

I miss you so much...

Pei Yanzhi, as if bewitched, revealed his innermost thoughts.

"Missing me?" Lu Yu's dark eyes captured those brown pupils, a thick, sticky color swirling in his eyes. "Do you want me to kiss you?"

Where to kiss?

"Here, here, and here again..."

His palm, burning like fire, pressed against Pei Yanzhi's lips, throat, collarbone, and chest. With each touch, Lu Yu's voice grew hoarser, and Pei Yanzhi's tears flowed more freely.

Pei Yanzhi caught a whiff of Lu Yu's scent.

The wine had a fiery taste, scorched and burnt, and there was very little of it.

More than anything, there was a faint yet distinct scent of pine and cypress, not perfume, but a deeply ingrained aroma. This is often used as a metaphor for nobility, purity, and resilience. But at this moment, they seemed to have been burned by the raging fire and rotted in the rain, leaving only a vile, murky, dangerous, and suffocating dampness that made one gasp for breath.

Pei Yanzhi felt as if he were trapped in a spider web woven from condensed mist.

"No."

He looked at Lu Yu, and his tense waist suddenly relaxed.

“I want more,” he slowly curved his flushed lips into a smile. “Lu Yu, boyfriend…husband, I want more, please give it to me, okay?”

Lu Yu paused, both for the new form of address and for: "More?"

“More,” Pei Yanzhi said softly, “Here, or at my house, it’s fine. Tomorrow is Saturday, it’s the housewarming party at my new house, and I want to introduce you to my teammates and friends as soon as possible.”

Lu Yu's breath hitched, and his heart pounded wildly.

He gleaned two meanings from Pei Yanzhi's words: first, Pei Yanzhi wanted to open up his life to him and introduce him to his relatives and friends; second, Pei Yanzhi wanted to spend the night with him.

"you……"

Because of the close proximity, Pei Yanzhi immediately sensed some changes in Lu Yu. In fact, there had always been some changes, but never so obvious or so terrifying.

Pei Yanzhi's chest rose and fell slightly as one hand slipped from Lu Yu's weakened grip. He paused briefly, then looked down: "With me, you don't need to hold back..."

Lu Yu grabbed that hand tightly.

"go home."

He looked at Pei Yanzhi's jade-like face, his throat bobbed several times before he finally uttered a word. When he spoke, his voice was so hoarse that it even had a unique sexiness: "The bed is soft, you'll be more comfortable."

Pei Yanzhi sensed something from his tone, her waist trembled, and her eyes darkened with a mixture of fear and anticipation.

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Author's Note: I'll be taking a short break tomorrow, so tomorrow's update time will be pushed back to 11:45 PM [doge emoji with rose in hand]

Normal service will resume the day after tomorrow, and we'll see you again at 6 PM every day.

P.S.: The business competition section is based on real life and the internet.