Chapter 52 I don't want to coax you today, so I'll just live like an ancestor

According to Ye Man's previous personality, he would have drawn out his voice when he said this, and said to Xu Huaiting in the sweetest voice: "You are the living ancestor I will be loyal to for the rest of my life. I will run errands for you and be more useful than Secretary Chen."

Every word here is full of water: impossible in a lifetime; he said he was always at your service, but in fact he had a lot of plans in his mind; he was not very ambitious, and his words were more perfect than his actions; being more useful than Secretary Chen is beyond words.

He is a top student who graduated from a world-class university, with excellent IQ and EQ. With his annual salary, if it were Ye Man, he would quit after working for a year and run away to open a snail noodle shop in a small town and spend the rest of his life running the shop. Secretary Chen can still go to work on time. He is a person with goals and ideals who wants to realize his own value. Comparing himself with him is just Ye Man flattering himself.

He was hesitant because he had just promised his ancestors not to lie to him.

The reason why lies are easy to tell is that there is no sincerity in them at all. What is tested is logic and brainpower.

He is emotionless. When he starts talking, he can brag to the sky. It doesn't matter. There is no emotion at all. Sometimes he doesn't even know what he said. He just says things that sound nice.

But to be honest, for Ye Man, it was like cutting open the most tender part of himself, handing it over to someone else, and letting someone else decide his fate.

Once he handed it over, whether it would be received well and cherished, or smashed to pieces, all depended on the other party's feelings. This made him extremely hesitant and uneasy, without any sense of security.

If the other party doesn't answer, it will be very hurt. It's better to just laugh it off.

Just like he did to the system before.

He was being pretentious and Xu Huaiting did not rush him. The waiting time was like the moment before opening a present. You already knew what an exciting treasure you had been waiting for, but you hadn't seen the whole picture yet. The second of untying the ribbon was so exciting that it was beyond words. It only happens once in a lifetime, and it is enough for people to take it out again and again to savor it for a lifetime. There was nothing wrong with waiting any longer.

Ye Man had created an atmosphere that made it seem like he was going to confess his feelings. Finally, he had enough of the entanglement and made up his mind to muster up the courage to take this step. He used his sweet and lingering voice to shyly say to Xu Huaiting, "Your good brother."

Hey, don't tell me, his status has been raised in a flash.

He finally understood the Beijing circle. It was not in vain that he watched so many short plays.

Xu Huaiting said nothing.

Ye Man was still waiting for his answer. It wouldn't be enough for him to just say it himself. Didn't he also have to ask the other party to admit it?

He called out nervously, "Mr. Xu?"

When Xu Huaiting regained his voice, he said in a flat tone, "Wait a moment."

Then he put down his phone, washed his face, sat back, picked up his phone, and said calmly, "Please repeat what you just said. I didn't hear it clearly."

Oh, I didn’t hear it clearly.

"I am your good brother." Ye Man repeated obediently, and then said worriedly: "You are so young, how come your ears are bad? Did someone hit you? Or did you hurt your ears when you were on the plane? In fact, when I was on the plane before, not only did I hurt my tongue, but I also hurt my ears. Do you want to go to the hospital?"

Xu Huaiting seemed to hear something crackling in his ears.

He smiled coolly and repeated: "My good brother?"

When Ye Man heard that his tone was wrong, her voice immediately became much softer and she lost confidence: "No, isn't it?"

"no."

"Woo..."

"I won't be your good brother even if you cry."

Ye Man bit her lip.

Neither of them spoke.

But they didn't hang up the phone. They just listened to each other's breathing in silence.

It was Xu Huaiting who spoke first: "Feeling uncomfortable?"

"not......"

"I want to hear the truth."

"......Um."

"But I don't want to tease you today."

"Um......"

A depressed and aggrieved voice came from the receiver. Xu Huaiting felt that he was really not a human being. He was so unhappy, but his mood improved now.

The tip of his teeth was itching, but since no one was around, he couldn't hold it or grind it, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Then you'll have to suffer for me for a while these two days."

......

At dinner that night, Ye Man managed to remain silent at his family table for the first time.

Today, the whole family came back early, even the eldest brother came home early and sat at the table. Usually, he was the last one to come back, and it was already past dinner time.

Aunt Zhou was delighted to see that everyone was present and prepared a table full of dishes.

After being coaxed by Ye Man for half a year, she kept calling him Aunt Zhou all the time, and she was partial to him in her heart, so she specially picked out more according to Ye Man's taste and made more.

Under normal circumstances, Ye Man would have noticed this quickly and happily given feedback.

But tonight he was distracted and ate the food in the bowl in silence without any taste.

Chi Yanrong tentatively picked up a piece of food for him with his chopsticks, and Ye Man ate it dully without much reaction. Normally, he would at least say "thank you dad" sweetly.

He has no time to deal with the people around him.

He is very capable and can coax seven or eight people at the same time, but he is not a robot. When he is in a really bad mood, he can't muster any energy and feels annoyed.

When I am upset, I tend to give up on myself and don't want to consider whether people around me will have a bad impression of me and dislike me.

While stuffing food into his mouth with a tasteless mouth, he made a puzzled sound to the system: "He said he didn't want to coax me."

"Yes, he did." He didn't say who it was, but the system knew it without even having to think about it.

It thought Ye Man was going to ask when that person had ever coaxed him, or that he didn't need anyone to coax him.

What he said was, “Why?”

System: “Why why?”

Ye Man: "Why doesn't he coax me anymore?"

He sounded genuinely confused about this.

It can be imagined that he has been thinking about this problem since the phone call, with a frustration and unhappiness that he is not even aware of, and he is concentrating on thinking out a conclusion with his blank little brain.

Because he couldn't think of a result, he might be lying in bed, drowsy, and the question would pop up in his mind: why.

System: "......"

Ahhhhhhh!

Bang!

After the chaos and the loud noise of thunder and bang.

The system responded calmly, as a human and a machine should: "You've been fooled."

Ye Man was bewildered and asked, "Is it, is it?"

When? How? What did you get fooled into?

System: “Yes!”

"You've been fooled by him just because you were thinking about him! Don't think about him, don't think about him, kick that old bastard out of your mind!"

Ye Man: "Oh, okay."

He stopped talking at the dinner table. It was now Chi Yanrong and Qin Fangrui's turn to think of something interesting to say to cheer people up. The atmosphere was not so solemn anymore.

Ye Man didn't know that everyone else at the dinner table was secretly glancing at his expression. Chi Yanrong had always been accompanied and flattered wherever he went in recent years, and he had never seen other people's expressions. He scratched his head and didn't know how to coax him, so he could only talk to Ye Man in a gentle tone, who was not interested, and secretly winked at Chi Yan, asking him to say something as well.

In the eyes of Father Chi, his son is omnipotent and can handle anything.

However, Chi Yan knew from a very young age that humor and a lively atmosphere are not something that can be learned through hard work.

Some people are just naturally likable. He looked at the two younger brothers across the table. One was very friendly and made everyone feel warm and effortless. The other was a sweetheart who could melt people's hearts.

He has always been the king of awkward silences since he was young.

Doesn't Chi Yanrong know what his son looks like?

Chi Yan looked back calmly.

Chi Yanrong froze, touched his nose in embarrassment, turned his head and continued to speak to his little son while trying to hold his voice.

This was the first time my little son was so obviously in a bad mood since he came home in such a long time.

Chi Jue was much more relaxed than the others. Ye Man had been angry with him many times, but today was not the most difficult time to appease him. He had his own ways.

Before he could make any move, Chi Yan took out her cell phone and made a call.

Soon, someone came to the door and delivered a list of some auction items.

His way of solving the problem was a bit rough. He asked Ye Man if there was anything he liked. If he was in a bad mood, he would buy something. He would buy until he felt better. Then he would pay for the things without looking at the price.

After several people took turns to coax him down, Ye Man was actually a little dizzy.

Throw out the complicated problem in your mind.

After dinner, several people sat on the sofa. Chi Jue was peeling a pomegranate for him, and a short drama was playing on TV.

Middle-aged woman exaggerates: "'I never thought I could hear my nanny's inner voice!'

'What did she say? My eldest son's girlfriend is actually a man in disguise! '"

Chi Yanrong: “Wow!”

Qin Fangrui frowned, glanced at Chi Jue, and muttered, "He's a man, why is he pretending to be a girlfriend? This plot doesn't make sense."

Mother Zhou, who was passing by, took a curious look, and after a while she moved a stool over, placed the melon seeds and nuts in front of everyone, and finally grabbed a handful and cracked them in her hand.

Listening to the fierce and harsh music, Ye Man sat there stiffly, his head lowered lower and lower, his face getting redder and redder.

Now I really don’t have time to think about my ancestors’ problems.

Ye Man wanted to run, but the sofa was burning his butt.

At ten o'clock, Chi Yan promptly told everyone to go back to their rooms to rest.

At this point, the plot has reached the part where the boyfriend of the wealthy eldest son who pretends to be his girlfriend is actually his former lover, Bai Yueguang, who has lost her memory and thinks that the two of them don't know each other. He is instructed by someone with evil intentions to pretend to be a woman to get close to the other party.

Mr. Chi, Mrs. Chi and Mrs. Zhou were watching intently.

Chi's father: "Why didn't the man tell him that they knew each other before?"

Mother Chi: "He must have done something wrong and dared not speak out. I guess his target's amnesia has something to do with him."

Mother Zhou: "Didn't the nanny say that they were going to jump off a cliff? When are they going to jump? Why haven't they shown the jumping part yet?"

Ye Man thanked his elder brother a thousand times in his heart, then tremblingly grabbed Chi Jue's arm and walked back to the room with a shaky step.

He buried his hot face in the pillow, paused for a moment, and took out his cell phone.

After thinking about it, he put the phone back.

If they are not good brothers, then it is a purely transactional relationship.

Who calls the leader every day?

No more fighting.

Cover yourself with the quilt and go to sleep.

......

I stayed in front of my phone for an hour, but the call that usually came on time went silent.

Xu Huaiting tapped the table with his fingers at a rapid frequency. After a while, he laughed, not knowing what he was thinking about.

"Xu, what are you laughing at?"

"It's OK."

The person who was speaking was puzzled. He untied the straps on the golden retriever's back, patted it, let it move freely for a while, walked over and looked at his mobile phone: "Your sweetheart didn't call you today?"

The other party frowned and said: "Did you have a fight?"

Xu Huaiting: “Heh.”

Stand up and call the golden retriever back for training.

......

When Ye Man went to the hospital for another checkup, the Christmas atmosphere on the street was even stronger than before. Everywhere he went, he saw people enthusiastically discussing and planning dates.

The nurse remembered what he said last time and asked casually with a smile: "What did you say you were going to do for Christmas last time? Party with friends?"

"No, I'm not going out with so many people. It should be... just two of us, me and another person, going to do something important together." Ye Man hadn't called his ancestor in the past few days, and he was not sure whether he would accompany him that day.

The nurse joked: "Oh, just two people going out alone, and they planned it a month in advance. The other one won't be a little girl, right?"

Ye Man: "No, it's a man."

The nurse was stunned for a moment: "You and another boy made an appointment to go out alone on Christmas a month in advance?"

Ye Man nodded heavily.

"Your childhood friend? He works in another city, so we don't see each other often? He can only come to visit you on Christmas day?"

Ye Man didn't know why she asked that. He shook his head in confusion and thought about it.

"I can't see him because he went abroad recently. Before that, he was...easy to see him?" Ye Man thought for a moment and answered, "But during this period, we also called each other at night to chat and so on."

The nurse hummed in confusion, "Frequency?"

"Every night," he answered frankly. "What's wrong?"

Except for these few days, I haven't played again.

"Hmm..." The nurse groaned, "Xiaoman, you guys are - no, right, strong."

"What's wrong?" It's quite right, right?

The nurse smiled and said, "It's Christmas, and you two agreed to go out together so far in advance. You even postponed the check-up date. You take it so seriously. Aren't you really going on a date?"

Ye Man denied it directly.

I thought to myself, that wasn't a date; he was just chasing after others and watching them go on dates.

But maybe because someone told him this once, he actually started to care about it.

When I go out, I can occasionally hear passers-by discussing topics such as what to wear on Christmas Day and what gifts to give.

After hearing so much, he couldn't help but start wondering whether he should bring some gifts on that day, dress a little nicer, and spend some time taking care of his appearance.

Apart from anything else, the ancestor accompanied him out on the mission, and on such a day, it is only right to give him something to express his gratitude.

Ye Man hasn't worried about his appearance for a long time. He can't see it, and everything he wears is prepared at home. Everything is comfortable. Other things have little to do with him.

On this day, he opened his closet for the rare occasion and asked the system to help him see what would look good on him.

He touched his face and said, "I almost don't remember what I look like. I don't know if I have changed in this period of time."

The last time he saw his face, it was bruised, swollen, and bloody in the mirror.

But he hasn't thought about this look much lately.

His impression of the world will gradually become more and more blurred in the darkness day after day.

Ye Man knelt in front of the closet and took out some clothes: "Brother Tong, does this one look good?"

The system really wanted to say that it was ugly and let him change into the dinosaur pajamas next to him.

But no matter how hard I gritted my teeth, I couldn't say such an unpleasant thing, so I could only say, "It looks good."

Ye Man picked up another one: "What about this one?"

System: "... Beautiful!"

Ye Man compared several items in a row.

Confused, I asked, "Why do you only say it looks good?"

System: “Because it’s really beautiful!”

Ye Man was wearing a fluffy white round-neck sweater. The collar was very low, or maybe because he was very thin, the edge of the collar was loosely on his collarbone, which made him look very gentle. He had been in better shape recently, and his lips were rosy. When he sat there with his red lips and white teeth, smiling slightly, he seemed to be glowing.

Ye Man didn't know this.

He could only tell the system to help him choose the best looking one.

The closer it got to Christmas, the more nervous he became, especially when his living ancestor sent him a message to confirm the itinerary and time for that day.

Ye Man didn't know what gift to give him, so she humbly asked the nurses in the hospital for advice.

"Just give him a scarf, gloves, cookies, apples, or something like that," the nurse consoled him. "On this day, the value of the gift is not important, but the thought behind it. Your boyfriend will be happy no matter what you give him."

Ye Man nodded.

She waved her hands again and again: "No, it's not a gift for my boyfriend."

Not even a good brother.

Just a living ancestor.