"Whose birthday is it? I'm busy, so I can't go." Cheng Ye hung up the phone and looked up to see Qin Su approaching with a cup of coffee. He sat naturally on the armrest of the sofa, his long legs flowing freely, and his toned muscles clearly visible beneath his black suit pants. "Who's that?"
"My old 'friend'!" Cheng Ye emphasized the last two words, clearly having lost interest in his friend. He even felt a hint of resentment. "They said it was someone's birthday and asked me to go out for dinner, but I declined."
"It's just a social event. It's okay to go. Why would you refuse?" Qin Su swore that he was just saying it. After all, it was just a way to please others.
He knew that Xiao Ye Zi used to hang out with some of the rich second-generation kids because of loneliness, but it was just for eating, rarely drinking. Ye Zi had confessed this to him before, and the only feeling he had was heartache. If only he had known them earlier, it would have saved him from feeling so lonely.
She was also a little jealous because none of Ye Zi's previous friends were good students.
If I were involved in Ye Zi's past, wouldn't I be able to prevent him from getting to know those bad friends?
Qin Su felt depressed and drank several sips of water but didn't feel any better.
666 detected it, but didn't tell Cheng Ye. If Cheng Ye heard Qin Su's thoughts, he would probably laugh three times and then ridicule the other party mercilessly. If he had really met "Cheng Ye" some time ago, the two of them would probably have had a long-standing grudge that would take at least two or three years to resolve.
After all, Su Bairui was not someone the original owner could deal with.
Qin Su's heart is easily deceived, and he might be manipulated by Su Bairui on how to deal with the original owner he met earlier.
"Aren't you taking me to eat chicken hotpot tonight? I don't want to go." Cheng Ye didn't want to see Su Bairui, so naturally he didn't want to stay in the Qin family, so he usually followed Qin Su to work. He even followed closely when the other party was negotiating a contract. People who didn't know him would think he was an assistant.
He had been reading materials for the entire afternoon, and his eyes were sore. He took the cup from Qin Su's hand and took a sip of coffee. He grimaced at the bitter taste, doubted his life, and looked at Qin Su in disbelief.
Does this person have no taste buds on his tongue?
Qin Su knew that he liked sweet things and especially disliked bitter things. Once, he accidentally ate bitter melon and even shed tears.
Seeing him grinning and wrinkled features, Qin Su found it funny in his heart but couldn't show it on his face. He added two sugar cubes and two small bags of milk until the brown coffee turned milky white. It had a milky aroma that made it hard to tell it was coffee. Then he brought the coffee to Cheng Ye's mouth, helped him drink two sips, and washed away the bitter taste in his mouth.
Cheng Ye lowered his head and took a sip. It was still not sweet and he was unwilling to drink it.
Qin Su thought about it and thought that eating too much sugar was not good for him, so he didn't force him to eat. He pinched the chubby cheeks that he had finally grown in the past two days and said, "Okay, after eating the chicken pot, let's go buy some cakes from the shop around the corner."
"Really?" Cheng Ye's eyes lit up and he immediately started drooling.
In the past, Cheng Ye was busy with work and had to coordinate with her boyfriend's schedule, so she had never taken the first step in her ambition to eat all over the world. Now that she has come to this world, there is no one to worry about, and she doesn't have to worry about maintaining a good figure to please others, so naturally she eats as much as she can.
"Really." Qin Su deliberately didn't look at him and continued, "Mom said she wanted to eat strawberries and asked me to order it in advance."
That store is doing a booming business. They limit the number of servings to ten per day, no matter what flavor. It’s a hateful hunger marketing, but the food tastes really good.
Speaking of strawberries, Cheng Ye also likes to eat them. His mouth becomes watery when he thinks about them. He swallows a big mouthful of saliva, covers his face in embarrassment, and says weakly, "I want to eat blueberry flavor."
"If you want to eat it, I have to buy it for you?" Qin Su asked back.
Cheng Ye paused, grabbed his lapel, pulled him down, and kissed him on the corner of his lips.
It was soft and cool. Qin Su's body temperature was low, and his face was very hot. He shuddered as soon as he touched Cheng Ye.
Qin Su laughed so hard that he held his stomach and couldn't stop laughing for a long time.
Cheng Ye looked at him with a dark face and smiled, then snorted angrily, "I won't eat anymore!" He was very good at showing off his temper.
Just when Qin Su was about to comfort him, the phone shrieked at an inopportune moment. It was a shrill chicken cry, and one could even imagine how unwilling it was to die. Finally, it raised its neck and cried loudly. Qin Su frowned slightly. Cheng Ye pressed it hurriedly, and the ringing stopped abruptly: "I didn't set it. My brother did it before he left. He told me to answer his call in time, otherwise he would worry and make this kind of sound... uh."
Cheng Ye's head ached from thinking about it, but he couldn't come up with a word to describe the rooster's crow. He explained in frustration, "It was vibrating the whole time, so I forgot about it. I must have accidentally hit the volume button."
Qin Su: "..." One day I will kill this brother-in-law. He was almost scared to death and thought Ye Zi had a special hobby.
"It's Xiaobai." Cheng Ye made a gesture asking you to be quiet and answered the phone.
"..." This person is not much better than Cheng Jinran. When Qin Su thought of the way he looked at Cheng Ye, he felt goosebumps all over his body.
After a while, Qin Su came back with another cup of steaming milk tea in his hand. The sweet aroma wafted through the CEO's cold and hard office. He saw Cheng Ye sitting there with an unhappy look on his face and handed it to him: "What's wrong? What did your brother say?"
"Who said it was my brother's number?" Cheng Ye suddenly realized after asking and said embarrassedly, "My brother set that ringtone for all my contacts."
Qin Su: "...Including mine?"
Cheng Ye: "Including yours." Especially yours.
Qin Su: "Change it as soon as possible." If this happens as soon as Ye Zi makes a phone call, it will probably leave her with a psychological trauma that will make her afraid to answer the phone.
Cheng Ye hummed, obviously not liking the ringtone either, thank goodness. Qin Su touched his face and asked, "Whose phone is that?"
Cheng Ye was in a low mood. He took a sip of milk tea and felt the chill on his body dissipate a little before he said, "It's Xiaobai, or that game."
Qin Su frowned: "If you don't want to go, then don't go. No matter who tells you not to go."
Cheng Ye shook his head: "He said he wouldn't go so he wouldn't consider him a friend anymore. After these days, I think Xiaobai has let it go. After all, love is a matter between two people. I think he has been gentle and polite since he was a child, so he should have let it go." Although he said this, his hand was tightly holding Qin Su, as if he was afraid that the other party would abandon him.
If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have said the four words "It's okay to go". If I had known earlier, I would have been more firm and insisted that he go to dinner with me. Qin Su appeared alone in the parking lot, sighing to the sky, he really shot himself in the foot.
After thinking for a moment, he turned around and got on the elevator again. When everyone upstairs was about to pack up and go back, they looked up and saw the boss standing in front of them with a gloomy expression. They were all frightened.
Qin Su: "I'm working overtime today. I'll send the task to your email later. Please check it." After saying this, he mercilessly set an example of working overtime, ignoring the people behind him who were stunned and annoyed at his slow running.
"I haven't worked overtime for more than half a month. What happened today?"
"Boss Qin, have you eaten explosives?"
"Breakup? No way?"
"No, I already feel the fear of being dominated by that cold-blooded and ruthless President Qin!!"
"Oh my god, where's that little brother? He left early today. Did anyone notice his expression when he left? Sad? Angry?"
"Who dares to look at little brother for another second? Don't you want eyes anymore?"
"Please bless us, and let Mr. Qin have a smoother love life. I am also looking for a girlfriend!"
"Hey, I haven't seen you for a while. Master Cheng has become a lot younger." Cheng Ye's friends on weekdays are all bad friends, all used to kill time. Although he is not close to them, he still goes out to party every once in a while.
The man who was speaking was called Bai Qi, the youngest son of the Bai family. He was a playboy and had affairs with both men and women. He had been coveting the original owner's beauty for a long time, but because the Cheng family was different from ordinary families, and Cheng Jinran was a terrible brother-con, Bai Qi had not been able to gain any advantage so far.
In the original trajectory, Bai Qi later fell in love with Su Bairui, and his feelings for Cheng Ye faded a lot, but the desire for Cheng Ye was always there, and he finally succeeded with Su Bairui's "help".
Cheng Ye lowered his brows to hide his disgust, sat next to Bai Qi, and smiled brightly the moment he raised his head.
Click——
The wine glass fell on the table, splashing wine everywhere. Bai Qi stared at Cheng Ye in a daze, as if looking at an endangered national protected animal: "Cheng, Cheng Ye? You didn't take the wrong medicine, did you?"
In the past, although I didn't hide from him like I saw a virus, I definitely didn't look at him in a good mood. Today -
Possessed? His smile is so charming.
"...I'm not taking any medicine." Cheng Ye raised the wine glass in front of him and clinked it with him, maintaining a gentle smile. "Happy birthday, you're one year older. I hope you'll have more pocket money next year."
Bai Qi drank the wine in his hand stupidly, almost choking to death. He coughed several times and said with a red face, "Master Cheng, what's wrong with you today? Did you drink too much before coming here?"
Cheng Ye had changed his previous attitude of avoiding him and was now speaking to him in a friendly manner. He felt a little panicked.
"This is the first cup today. The second cup is my apology to you. I have always been prejudiced against you due to some misunderstandings. Now I know the whole story, so I will take it as an apology." Cheng Ye raised the glass and drank it down with a clatter.
White: “……?”
The people around were still laughing and joking. Cheng Ye took a glance and didn't see many people looking over here, except for Su Bairui, who was scanning him like a surveillance camera.
Su Bairui also came over with a glass of wine and said with a smile: "Mr. Bai, I said that Ye Zi has always liked you very much, but you just thought too much."
Cheng Ye squinted his eyes and looked at him. Two drops of wine fell from Su Bairui's hand, and the back of his hand felt like it was burned.
Cheng Ye took a bite of the food and said with a smile, "Xiaobai, you've lost a lot of weight in the past few days. You look much more handsome than before. How do you maintain your appearance? Teach me."
The lights were dim, and Su Bairui's facial features were already delicate. The more he looked at her, the more beautiful she became. Bai Qi's attention shifted to Su Bairui. He chuckled twice: "Oh, I didn't notice it on weekdays, but you are really good-looking!"
Cheng Ye glanced at Su Bairui and said, "Yes, she is as pretty as a lotus emerging from the water."
666: “…” It’s the white lotus, right?
Su Bairui had come to parties with Cheng Ye before, and every time he tried to downplay his appearance as much as possible. After all, many of these rich second-generations had a lot of fun, and if he was ambushed without money or power, he would have no choice but to swallow his bitterness and suffer in silence.
Besides, he will be Brother Su's man in the future, so how could he possibly be with these dirty things?
It's not that no one coveted him, but every time Cheng Ye helped him out, as long as he hid behind Cheng Ye——
I have to say that Cheng Ye’s face does have advantages.
Su Bairui thought bitterly, if Cheng Ye didn't have Cheng Jinran backing him up, his dissolute ways would have been played around by countless men!
A bitch at heart!
But now——
Su Bairui tilted his face slightly, trying to avoid Baiqi's gaze.
He didn't expect that Cheng Ye would actually push him to the front today, letting these dirty things focus all their attention on him. Su Bairui smiled awkwardly and raised his hand to cover his face: "Mr. Bai, you are such a joke."
Cheng Ye also laughed: "Mr. Bai, please stop joking. Don't be fooled by our Xiaobai's appearance. He is very simple at heart. He looks like a college student and has a college student's personality."
Everyone present went out to select candidates, and they all liked young and innocent ones. Some even asked people to wear uniforms to play college students. When they looked at Su Bairui again, their eyes became even more greedy.
Looks like this?! What does he look like?! Can he even look like Cheng Yelang?!
Su Bairui was angered by his implied meaning and frightened by the looks others gave him. He glanced at Cheng Ye, turned and went to the corner, trying his best to reduce his presence.
Cheng Ye didn't care about Su Bairui. He just wanted him to go away and disgust him at the same time. After he left, he didn't even glance at him, pretending not to see his weak and pleading look.
He leaned closer to Bai Qi and whispered, "I didn't know your family was complicated before, nor did I know you were doing this to help your brother..." He didn't go into detail, but Bai Qi definitely understood. He added, "Don't worry, if you want to get some money out and there's no one around you you can trust, just come to me. I'll ask my brother to help you, and it'll make money. You have to keep some for yourself."
Bai Qi was shocked and looked at Cheng Ye with wide eyes. After a while, he poured another glass of wine and clinked it with Cheng Ye's empty glass: "Thank you."
This was the first time someone had said this to him. Regardless of Cheng Ye's intentions, he did feel relieved at this moment, as if someone had shared his burden.
Su Bairui didn't know what the two of them said, but ever since Cheng Ye confirmed her relationship with Su Ge, he had been cold and even hateful towards him. But now, he actually said a few words to Bai Qi, who had always been at odds with him, and then smiled and let go of their grudges. He felt a little resentful in his heart.
I have no idea why everyone suddenly likes Cheng Ye. What is so likable about this person?
Su Bairui is not very familiar with the people here. In the past, Cheng Ye took him to greet everyone. Now Cheng Ye doesn't care about him. His identity as the adopted son of the Qin family is not worthy of others talking to him.
Even if someone coveted his appearance, they also cared about the fact that he was Cheng Ye's friend before, and did not dare to harass him. They only looked at him with aggression, as if they wanted to have knives in their eyes and strip him of his clothes.
Su Bairui watched Cheng Ye chatting and laughing freely with others, looking very successful, while he was surrounded by wolf-like green eyes and could not avoid them for a while, so he just drank alone.
If Cheng Ye hadn't suddenly ignored him, these people—how dare they! !
Wait until he and Brother Su make their relationship public, and see who dares to look down on him!
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