Chapter 105
Mu Bai didn't know how big of an earthquake his message had caused. After he sent the message, he kept waiting for Gu Yan to reply to him, but Gu Yan didn't know whether he didn't see it or didn't care, and never sent a message.
Until Mu Bai walked into the office, Gu Yan still had no response, which made Mu Bai so angry that his originally better mood returned to its original state.
But when Mu Bai raised his head angrily, he found that his colleagues were gathered together, discussing something in a low voice, and the atmosphere was particularly heated.
He moved closer out of curiosity, and then heard them gossiping about the big and small Pei CEOs in the company.
"...Have you checked the Moments? It seems like Mr. Pei and Mr. Pei have fallen in love recently." A colleague said excitedly, with a gossipy gleam in his eyes.
"Is this true? Hasn't Mr. Pei always been single? The same goes for Mr. Pei. They don't even talk much in normal times. How come something happened suddenly?" another colleague asked puzzledly.
"It's true! This afternoon I saw President Pei post a photo of a lunch box on his WeChat Moments, with the caption saying 'Lunch made with love, tastes great.' Don't you think there's something going on?" the colleague continued, his tone full of excitement.
“Yes, yes, Mr. Pei also posted. He usually hardly posts on WeChat Moments, but today he actually posted a video of a lunch box.” Another colleague added, a gossipy gleam in his eyes.
When Mu Bai heard this, his heart was moved. He thought of Ye Wangxing whom he had just seen in the cafeteria, and he felt that there seemed to be some connection between the two things.
"Have you met Mr. Pei and Mr. Pei?" a new colleague who had just joined the company asked curiously.
"Of course I have seen him!" An old employee immediately replied, "Boss Pei is the president of our company. Although he works like a tyrant, he is really handsome! Whenever he shows up at a cocktail party, all the men and women present will gather around him all night long."
"Yes, yes, Mr. Pei's golden eyes are very charming. He looks sunny and handsome, but he is super ruthless when he is working." Another colleague echoed.
"What about Mr. Pei?" the new colleague continued to ask.
"Little President Pei..." The old employee thought for a moment, "Little President Pei looks a bit like Big President Pei. They both have black hair, but Little President Pei's hair is straighter and longer. However, he doesn't talk much and just types code all day long. He feels like a robot."
"But today is different." The colleague whispered, "Today I saw Mr. Pei holding a lunch box, and he actually had a smile on his model face. Oh my God, I even doubted if I saw it wrongly."
"Yes, yes, I saw it too!" another colleague interrupted excitedly, "I also saw that it seemed like a boy brought food to Mr. Pei."
"It's a pity. I only got a glimpse of him and don't know who he is."
A colleague said regretfully.
When Mu Bai heard this, he was shocked. He thought of Ye Wangxing whom he had just seen, and felt that the young man who delivered the meal might be him.
But when did Ye Wangxing know Mr. Pei? But they are close in age, so they could be friends.
Just as Mu Bai was thinking about it, the new colleague asked curiously again.
"Who is that young man? Do you know him?"
"I don't know him, but he looks young. He doesn't have a work badge, but he has company authority. He must be someone the boss and others know." The old employee shook his head.
"But I have to say, even from a distance you can tell that the boy has a good figure." Another colleague who had just spoken said with a sigh.
"The key is that they are very clever and deft - I didn't expect that the plot of idol dramas can actually happen in reality. Wow, I really want to meet who those two are. Their fighting spirit is so terrifying."
The colleagues were chatting and laughing, while Mu Bai stood aside, feeling a little complicated.
He listened to other people's fairy-tale love stories and thought of the cold war between himself and Gu Yan. He felt that Gu Yan was simply too much. He was obviously his boyfriend!
Why, I am not even as good as others who are just in the ambiguous stage!
He is not more handsome and considerate than Ye Wangxing, how can he be taken out with face? ! Why can Ye Wangxing get such treatment that he can post a box lunch to his friends circle, while Gu Yan can't even remember that he doesn't like to eat coriander!
As Mu Bai thought about it, tears accumulated in his eyes and were about to fall.
"Mu Bai, why don't you say anything?" The new colleague who didn't know Mu Bai's situation saw him standing aside without saying anything, thinking that something had happened, and asked quickly.
"Ah, I...I was thinking about something." Mu Bai came back to his senses and forced a smile.
The new colleague wanted to ask more questions but was pulled back by a colleague next to him. Although he was still a little confused, he was not the kind of rookie who had just entered the workplace. He immediately shut up and understood that there was probably something wrong with Mu Bai.
But Mu Bai did not notice the change in his new colleague. He saw that his new colleague seemed to care about him and could not help but want to pour out his grievances. At this time, the senior who was accompanying the new colleague suddenly stepped forward and said.
"Oh, by the way, there's one thing I forgot to mention. I seemed to hear President Pei talking to the person who brought him food."
Everyone's eyes were instantly focused on him, and the office suddenly became quiet.
Even Mu Bai, who was about to cry, held back his tears and immediately turned to look at his colleagues.
"Have you seen him? When? Where?" The other colleagues no longer paid attention to Mu Bai. Even the new colleague simply put Mu Bai's strange situation behind his mind. He looked at his predecessor with shining eyes and asked impatiently, his eyes full of curiosity.
The senior breathed a sigh of relief, then stroked his chin and recalled.
"Actually, it was this afternoon. I heard some conversations near President Pei's office. President Pei was talking alone, but I didn't hear who it was. I just knew it was a man."
As the senior spoke, the others seemed to be thinking about something, but Mu Bai suddenly had an idea in his mind - could it be that Ye Wangxing was the one who delivered the meal to President Pei?
But then Mu Bai felt that this idea was a little too ridiculous.
Who are Mr. Pei and Mr. Pei? As the upstarts of City A, with countless group companies under his control, how could they be attracted to the same person?
Ye Wangxing is just an ordinary college student, and he doesn’t even have as much glory as Gu Yan.
Mu Bai smiled and threw the idea out of his mind, but at this time another colleague couldn't help it anymore and asked anxiously.
"What did they say?"
"Mr. Pei's voice sounded very gentle, as if he was chatting. In short, it was much gentler than to us. If you didn't know, you would think the person on the other side was a kid - but the questions he asked were very detailed." The senior frowned and continued.
"He asked the young man what he did yesterday, where he went, who he met, and even what he ate. Although his tone sounded relaxed, that kind of control... you know, it was as if he wanted to control the other person's every move."
"Wow, President Pei is already strict enough at work, but I didn't expect that he is also so...meticulous in private." A colleague exclaimed with a hint of surprise in his tone.
And another colleague couldn't help but whisper: "Are you sure this is meticulous and not perverted?"
All the colleagues present looked at him - in fact, they thought so too.
However, this colleague is the first one to complain directly like this.
"What did that person answer?" Mu Bai couldn't help but ask.
He still cares about that person a little.
"That person was very at ease. He didn't seem stumped at all and wasn't even angry." The senior recalled, counting on his fingers what the young man said.
"He said very comfortably that he went to the library yesterday and also went to a newly opened coffee shop. He also mentioned where he bought the ingredients for the lunch box he brought to Mr. Pei."
The senior said this, still recalling the gentle tone of voice the young man used when he said this.
"That figure had a very cheerful and sunny vibe. He didn't seem anxious even when asked that question. He answered whatever Mr. Pei asked."
"In the end, he even promised that he would go to the cafe with President Pei next time. It sounded like he accepted this kind of 'interrogation' very naturally, and President Pei really fell for it."
As the senior spoke, his expression gradually showed admiration.
No wonder such a talented person who could deliver the lunch box to Mr. Pei could be so relaxed when facing such an interrogation.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this young man is really not simple. Look at his skills and his endurance," another colleague sighed. "If it were me, I would have flipped the table a long time ago. I'm not a criminal. How can I be interrogated like this?"
Other colleagues also nodded and lamented that they were not destined to have such a fate.
The new colleague, who looked shocked, also said, "How could Mr. Pei be like this? He is totally no match for Mr. Pei in this regard."
Other colleagues: ——? !
"How did you know?" the colleague asked quickly, with a gossipy look in his eyes.
"I just went to Mr. Pei's office to get his signature, and I happened to run into a young man with him."
"What? What did you see?" The office suddenly became lively again.
When the new colleague saw that this attracted everyone’s attention, he suddenly became a little nervous and quickly told everyone what he had seen.
"I saw the young man and Mr. Pei in the office. The young man was sitting next to Mr. Pei, playing games on his phone, while Mr. Pei was resting after eating."
"You know what kind of person Mr. Pei is usually, right? He's cold and never says a word. But today, he actually let that young man lean on him, and his eyes were particularly gentle. It was like he was a completely different person. It made people dumbfounded."
The new colleague spoke in an incredible tone, and the other colleagues were not much better than him.
"Oh my god, could it be that Mr. Pei has been possessed by someone's soul, or has he suddenly been invaded by love?" a colleague exclaimed, his tone full of disbelief.
"Maybe it's love-brained. Men and women in love are completely irrational." The senior also said with a twitching mouth.
All the colleagues turned their heads and looked at Mu Bai and nodded in unison.
Mu Bai: ...Why are you looking at me?
Before Mu Bai could speak, the new colleague nodded quickly: "And that young man seemed very natural, as if they were already used to this kind of intimate interaction."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I have a feeling that the company is going to be busy soon. Maybe we're going to have another boss lady."
As the colleagues talked, they returned to their workstations and started their work this afternoon.
Mu Bai also followed the crowd back to his workstation, but in fact he suffered the greatest shock today.
His fingers tapped the keyboard unconsciously, but his mind had already drifted away.
Colleagues in the office were still discussing the affairs of Mr. Pei and Mr. Pei, with bursts of laughter and exclamations coming from time to time. However, these sounds were particularly harsh to Mu Bai.
His mind kept replaying the words he had just heard - Mr. Pei's meticulous care for him, Mr. Pei's gentle behavior towards the young man, and even his colleagues were envious of the young man for receiving such special treatment.
On the other hand, Gu Yan was in a cold war with him just because of a coriander bun. Even when he needed care, he took the initiative to make peace without even a word of comfort!
Mu Bai felt a pang of pain in his heart, and his eyes turned red unconsciously. He lowered his head, trying hard not to let his tears fall, but the grievance in his heart surged up like a tide, and he couldn't suppress it no matter what.
Mu Bai couldn't help it after all. He stood up hurriedly, grabbed his phone, and walked quickly to the bathroom.
He didn't notice the sighs of relief his colleagues behind him let out after he left.
As soon as he entered the bathroom, Mu Bai closed the door of the cubicle, and finally couldn't hold back his tears. He leaned against the wall, opened his phone with trembling fingers, and turned to Gu Yan's chat interface. The last message was sent by him at noon, and Gu Yan didn't even reply.
"Gu Yan, why do you treat me like this?" Mu Bai murmured in a low voice, the grievance and anger in his heart intertwined and finally burst out. He directly called Gu Yan.
After the phone rang a few times, Gu Yan picked up the phone with a hint of impatience in his tone: "Hello, Mu Bai? What's up? I'm going to a lecture soon, so I have to mute my phone."
"Listen to lectures? What else can you do besides listening to lectures?" Mu Bai's voice was tearful, but his tone was unusually sharp. "Do you think I'm unimportant? You don't even have time to reply to a message?"
Gu Yan was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting Mu Bai to suddenly get angry: "Mu Bai, what's wrong with you? Didn't I say I was busy? Are you so angry?"
"Busy? You're always busy!" Mu Bai's voice was getting louder and louder, tears couldn't stop falling, "Do you know how miserable I am today? Others are being taken care of so well, but what about you? You don't even have a word of concern! Do you think I'm not worth your time at all?"
Gu Yan was choked by Mu Bai's words, and his tone became more and more impatient: "Mu Bai, can you stop being unreasonable? How could I be cold and violent to you? I'm just busy, can you not be so sensitive?"
"I'm sensitive? Gu Yan, you don't understand my feelings at all!" Mu Bai's voice was almost a roar, "You are always like this, never considering my feelings! I've had enough!"
After saying that, Mu Bai hung up the phone directly, and blocked Gu Yan's number with trembling fingers. He leaned against the wall, tears kept falling down, and his heart seemed to be pressed by a huge rock, and he couldn't breathe at all.
At the same time, Gu Yan looked at the hung up call, feeling annoyed. He did not notice that his roommates all stopped talking when he answered the call, and when Gu Yan's call was hung up and he checked Mu Bai's circle of friends, they all took two steps back.
——More orderly than the goose-stepping during the military training in the freshman year.
At first, Li Qing wanted to ask Ye Wangxing on the way what was going on with his fiancé and his childhood marriage, but after seeing Gu Yan's situation, he immediately stopped thinking about it.
Life is more important. It’s better to stay away from Gu Yan now, otherwise God knows when this young master will go crazy again - and then buy 9,999 roses and let the laborers help make the flower gate.
Even if the salary given by this young master was really generous, equivalent to their living expenses for three months, farmhands in the old society were not required to give advice on their employer's emotional issues while working!
Only a fool would fall for this kind of fatal question a second time after taking it once!
Li Qing thought about it and immediately protected everyone behind him.
The second brother couldn't help but twitched his mouth and said.
"No, what happened to Mu Bai? What happened to Gu Yan? Why are they arguing again? Didn't they just make up yesterday?"
Li Qing had no choice but to tell Gu Yan that he bought coriander buns for Mu Bai, and Mu Bai repeated what made him angry.
The second brother's eyes rolled up instantly: "I knew it was the same thing every day, nothing new at all."
Li Qing stole a glance at the handsome young man who nodded and sighed deeply in his heart.
"Actually, something new happened in the dormitory today - I'm just afraid you can't accept it, second brother."
Gu Yan didn't know what his roommate was thinking. He frowned and muttered in a low voice: "Here we go again, it's always like this."
However, his fingers involuntarily opened another WeChat account - that was the small account he used to peek at Mu Bai's circle of friends. He skillfully switched to the small account and clicked on Mu Bai's circle of friends.
The latest update was a photo of Mu Bai's hand, with slender and white fingers. The background was the sunlight outside the window, the light was warm and soft. But the accompanying text made Gu Yan's heart tighten:
"The sun is so warm today, but your cold feelings make me so cold."
At this time, seeing Gu Yan stunned for so long, the three roommates, who thought the alarm had been lifted, looked out and saw the picture.
“…”
While Li Qing and Lao Er were stunned, Ye Wangxing's mouth twitched.
"When he sees this circle of friends two years later, he will definitely feel socially dead..."
Gu Yan didn’t know that Mu Baishe was not doomed now. He forced himself to suppress his emotions, sat in his seat, and waited for the lecture to begin.
However, he was still a little uneasy. In order to dispel the uneasiness, he decided to do something else to divert his attention during the breaks in the lectures.
He slid his finger across the screen of his phone, hesitated for a long time, and finally made up his mind to send a message to his mother: "Mom, I want to ask, what happened to my uncle and cousin back then? What's the matter with the trauma in their hearts?"
This was also news that Gu Yan had been curious about for a long time. After Ye Wangxing left, he had also digested Ye Wangxing's affairs for a long time, as well as the fact that his uncle and cousin were kept secret by their family. And his uncle and cousin no longer had parents. Wasn't their family the only one who could keep it secret from them?
Gu Yan frowned, still unable to understand why his own mother would hide it from his uncle and others.
It wasn't until his biological mother sent him a piece of news that Gu Yan suddenly realized what was going on.
It turned out that my uncle, who was my cousin's biological father, had a very deep relationship with my aunt and was considered a loving couple by others. However, my aunt passed away due to illness, and my uncle soon followed.
At that time, my uncle and cousin were still minors, and their minds were not yet mature. Facing the sudden change in their family, they felt extremely scared and helpless. The originally happy family collapsed in an instant, and they fell into a desperate situation. No one took care of them, and the future was in vain.
"…At this critical moment, family relatives and business veterans stepped forward and took on the responsibility of managing the group. They worked tirelessly day and night to maintain the operation of the group in a complex and changing market environment, just to keep the Pei Yi brothers hopeful of a resurgence."
"…After returning from studying abroad, Pei Yi did not rely on his family status to directly join the group's senior management, but chose to start from the grassroots. He humbly asked his colleagues for advice, and gained a deep understanding of every business link of the company. Through continuous practice and exploration, he quickly demonstrated his outstanding leadership and innovative thinking. In the process of participating in many important projects of the company, he successfully promoted the projects to achieve breakthrough progress with his accurate market insight and decisive decision-making ability, which brought significant economic benefits to the company and won unanimous recognition and respect from the company."
After reading the report, Gu Yan was so moved that he didn't even notice the message his mother was typing in the upper left corner of his phone.
He just typed into the dialog box.
"——It's really not easy for my uncles and the others. I thought they were just pretending, but it turns out it's because of this reason. I don't want my red envelopes for the New Year this year."
Gu's mother was about to tell her silly son not to mess with his uncle, and that he didn't really inherit the group because of the kindness of those group elders who gave up their positions:...
That's fine, after all, fools have good luck.
Thinking of this, Gu's mother quickly changed her mind and sent a message.
"At that time, relatives and friends of the family helped them to find the spiritual support to survive. Otherwise, given the mental state of the two children at that time, it is hard to say when they would have died."
"Later, your uncle took your cousin to study abroad, and life gradually got better. But that experience had a great impact on both of them, especially your cousin. He lost his parents when he was young, and his personality became a little withdrawn."
Gu's mother spoke with sincerity and a hint of sadness - although they had only found classmates to play together for a period of time, and then the two children got better on their own.
Now these two are more cunning than monkeys.
But my silly son doesn't need to know about this kind of thing.
Gu Yan felt even more heavy-hearted because his mother didn't know about him, and he said very seriously.
"Mom, I get it. It's really not easy for my uncle and cousin. I will be more considerate of them in the future - I will take care of them in their old age and see them to the end of their lives."
Mother Gu: “…Not really.”
However, Mother Gu quickly replied: "I'm glad you think so. Your uncle and cousin have had a hard time these years, so please be more understanding."
Gu Yan made a gesture of approval before putting down his phone. He had forgotten about Mu Bai's previous situation. His mind was now filled with the rough but tenacious lives of his uncle and cousin.
My uncle and cousin have suffered so much, don’t they just like the same person?
——He also helped to conceal it!
Thinking of this, as the lecture ended, Gu Yan took the arm of the handsome young man next to him and spoke seriously.
"You have to be good to my uncle and cousin - it's more important than anything else that you three live a good life."
Gu Yan looked at the handsome young man and spoke without any context.
The handsome young man who was pulled: "...Ah?"
The remaining two roommates: “——Huh?”
Before the people present could react, a slightly bandit-like voice sounded nearby.
"Student, may I ask——"
Everyone turned around and saw the senior who had just been giving a speech on the podium appeared beside them. He said with a smile.
"Who do you want my sponsor to live with?"
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