The showerhead was pouring water, and the whole bathroom was filled with hot water. Ye Kai was so tired that he couldn't even lift a finger, so he let Chen Youhan help him clean up. After fooling around in the office for a while, his legs, which had not yet fully healed, were bruised again. After noticing Chen Youhan's increasingly ambiguous intentions, he panicked and grabbed the bathroom door to crawl out. Chen Youhan was afraid that he would slip, so he picked him up sideways and stepped on the floor towel. Under Ye Kai's panicked eyes, he laughed so hard that his arms almost lost strength.
"Brother Youhan, I, I, I, I won't be able to grow taller like this, I, I..."
Chen Youhan put him down. Ye Kai leaned against the sink to face him. His legs were weak and his hands were tightly grasping the sink. He almost cried: "You, you are a pervert!"
A large bath towel was wrapped around his head and face. Chen Youhan helped him dry his body while smiling helplessly: "This is a normal reaction after taking a bath. How did you take physiology class?"
Ye Kaixin wondered who would pay attention to this lesson since they were all spending their time doing math problems.
The air conditioner in the master bedroom was turned down very low. I had just taken a shower and didn't feel like going to bed soon. There was no place to sit in the 300-square-meter house, so I had to squeeze into a single sofa chair. Ye Kai continued to follow up on the project with his iPad in his hand. Chen Youhan held him and watched it together. After a while, he asked him, "Are you bored?"
"It's OK. I memorize it by rote."
Chen Youhan smiled: "It's normal. You will get familiar with each other after following up slowly. I asked Chen Rou to take care of you. Why don't you go? She has good qualifications and graduated from KPMG."
"No need, Gu Xiu is fine." Ye Kai answered casually, his finger sliding across a page, remembering something, "He took me to look at some reports in the evening when he was free."
"Well, what did you see?"
“GC Commercial has a five-year bond due this year?”
"You've discovered all this." He spoke in a coaxing tone, but his hand lifted up the hem of his T-shirt, which was grabbed by Ye Kai.
Liability ratio, dividend probability, cash collection, maturing debts, trust loans, overseas syndicated financing... Ye Kai looked at it in a mess, and only half understood it. He couldn't control the degree of asking Gu Xiu. Some of them involved the company's business secrets. When the time came, Gu Xiu's answer was neither perfunctory nor perfunctory. Ye Kai simply didn't ask anything. Now that Chen Youhan was free for a rare time, he couldn't help but be curious: "Brother Youhan, I don't understand it very well. According to the account, the current expected collection funds don't seem to be able to fully cover it." But what he saw was the data of the business group, which did not include GC's other businesses and funds. His voice was a little lower: "... Am I seeing it wrong?"
Chen Youhan was silent for a moment, with gentle appreciation in his eyes: "No, it's like this, we will raise funds again through bank credit later."
"Loucun spent 150 billion yuan just on land acquisition. Isn't the leverage a bit high?"
"This is how real estate works. GC is transforming. The cash flow of commercial real estate is stable. If we do a good job in building village projects, the proportion of commercial assets will gradually increase in the future, and GC can smoothly transform from a developer to a commercial real estate operator. In the future, we will gradually shift our focus to cultural tourism and entertainment."
“Isn’t the business group considered a successful transformation?”
"Overseas assets and investment assets in other provinces are all burdens." It's a long subject to talk about. Chen Youhan didn't want to talk about it in detail. He put his face on his thin back and said, "Baby, can you sleep?"
Ye Kai put down his iPad: "Don't call me baby..."
"What?" Chen Youhan thought of something, his face changed slightly, and he said seriously: "I have never called anyone like that."
"No... who cares about this!" He turned over and sat on Chen Youhan's legs, his hands on his chest: "Only the elders in my family call me like this..."
Chen Youhan called him that, and from then on, he was branded with his name. When he heard Qu Jia call him baby again, all he could think about was the mischief he had done with Chen Youhan in bed, and he didn't know whether to respond or not.
Chen Youhan's hands wandered under his T-shirt, not teasing, just liking this kind of intimate touch. He pressed down Ye Kai's back and whispered in his ear: "The first time I heard grandma call you that in Vancouver, I wanted to call you baby too."
He could still remember the afternoon when he arrived in Vancouver, when the business car drove out of the airport, with snow-capped mountains in the distance, passing the cold sea, and rose-red flowers on both sides of the road. When he heard Lan Man calling Ye Kai "baby" behind the fence, his tired nerves from the long flight seemed to be pricked for some reason, and he almost blurted out the name. Lan Man was wearing lotus-colored clothes, and he remembered it clearly. It was really because the evening that day was too beautiful, and everything was inadvertently remembered.
"You'd scare me then."
"Yeah, it scares me too." Chen Youhan smiled calmly, "I won't scream anymore if I don't like it."
"...I like it." Ye Kai said in a low voice.
People who grow up in love are born with the ability to distinguish love. He almost never doubted how Chen Youhan loved him and how sincere she was, so he never bothered to think about how he used to get along with others, how he called people, whether he called them baby or darling, whether he was very gentle or treated them like old shoes. The only thing that made him feel uneasy was that it was too perfect, wasn't it? He had always had good luck, a good family background, a good family, a good appearance, a good body and mind, everything went smoothly, and there had never been any setbacks, not even the slightest one. It was already so perfect, and God actually let Chen Youhan love him just right - would fate fulfill a person's every wish to this extent?
"What are you thinking about?" Chen Youhan pecked his lips lightly, "You're sleepy, aren't you?"
"Brother Youhan, I will confront my family after the college entrance examination."
Chen Youhan was stunned, his heart skipped a beat, and he tried to keep a calm tone and said, "Just let it go."
The next day was another busy day. After a whole morning of meetings, Chen Youhan had a bad temper. As soon as he entered the meeting room, the whole air pressure became colder and lower. Everyone lowered their heads and looked at their noses and hearts, only Ye Kai was unaware. He smoked one cigarette after another during the three-hour meeting. Although Davidoff was as light as air, it hurt his throat. He became a little hoarse in the middle of the meeting. He had to stop and cough twice in the middle of the scolding. The air conditioner was turned on so low, but his shirt was obviously stuffy and limp. Ye Kai handed the computer to Gu Xiu, pushed open the back door and went out. When he came back, he had a small bamboo tray in his hand, which contained a glass of ice water and two throat lozenges.
Chen Youhan stopped abruptly, and everyone was confused. When Ye Kai handed the cup to Chen Youhan, he smiled and said respectfully in a businesslike manner, "Mr. Chen, drink some water and take a break." But his eyes were blinking. Bai Zhong came in with his personal secretary. Both of them were holding large trays. Twelve transparent glasses filled with ice water were placed in the middle of the conference table. Bai Zhong winked at Gu Xiu, who coughed and said, "Take a break. Um, Bai Zhong, check if the air vent of the air conditioner is not right."
Chen Youhan pulled out a chair and sat down. He took a sip of ice water in his right hand, lowered his head slightly, and touched his forehead with the fingers holding the cigarette. Someone who was not afraid of death observed him for two more seconds and found that there was a smile on the corner of his mouth. ... It was really fucking hell.
The atmosphere was much better when they started again. Chen Youhan habitually wanted to light a cigarette, and when he saw Ye Kai looked up and opened his eyes, which was very playful, Chen Youhan smiled and put down both the lighter and the cigarette. In the second half of the meeting room, the air was extremely fresh, and there were fewer terrifying scoldings. After getting through the meeting, Gu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief in the tea room and made up for Chen Youhan: "Mr. Chen is not always like this. He has been troubled by a lot of things recently. He..." Ye Kai pursed his lips and smiled: "I know his temper. Thank you for your hard work. Please take care of him in the future."
The people in this building are all smart. In the high-level meetings in the next month, the heads of various departments are vying to "borrow" Ye Kai from Gu Xiu. With a white shirt tucked into his trousers, a narrow waist, long legs and a straight back, he is everyone's life-saving talisman when he sits there. Look at this beautiful lady, who would dare to get angry at such a face?
Chen Youhan was going out to visit the city leaders in the afternoon, so he called him into his office during lunch break. The roller blinds were drawn, the midday sun was too strong, and the floor-to-ceiling windows were covered with gauze, but there was no one in the spacious office. The subdued voices came out from deep inside, and occasionally there were some indecent gasps and creaking sounds from the bed being pressed. It was his exclusive lounge. The furnishings were arranged in the same way as a five-star hotel, and the words he used to trick people into going in were still funny: "The bed in the lounge is the same model as the Sheraton, would you like to take a look?" What a tour, as soon as he entered, he pressed him against the door and kissed him, their eyes met, and the look in each other's eyes was more affectionate than their lips and tongues.
"You're out there, why do I miss you more than before?" Chen Youhan held his face.
He often went to the tea room these days, and he would go to the president's office for the smallest matter, calling Gu Xiu but looking at Ye Kai. He was more concerned about the marriage, love, and mental health of the people in the president's office than ever before. Whenever he had a little free time after dinner, he would care about the sufferings of the world, and he even knew that the price of pork had risen to 40 yuan per catty.
Ye Kai panted, his tone a little teasing: "Senior, how can you inherit the mine if you are busy with love every day?"
It would be fine if she didn't inherit it, but she didn't let him work properly, and she would send a WeChat message every once in a while saying she missed him. He couldn't help shivering when he saw Zi Xin, and went to the tea room to pour coffee with an expressionless face. The two of them talked and laughed in public. Chen Youhan always leaned against the windowsill with a cup in his hand, looking at him with a half smile. His expression was careless, but his eyes were focused, focused and deep, and behind the dark clouds and deep pools was the love and desire that could not be resolved. They left one after the other, and just a slight hook of the finger at the moment of passing by could make people curl up the corners of their lips.
"I shouldn't have agreed to your grandfather, I shouldn't have let you get so close." Chen Youhan hugged him, hugged him tightly, almost embedding him into his body. His voice was hoarse, suppressing the love that could not be concealed, "Is there any way to shrink you? Put it in your pocket when you go out every day, and put it in a pot of green plants when you get to the office, ok? Water you every now and then and let you bask in the sun. When I miss you, I will make you bigger and drag you to sleep on the bed--" He groaned, and was pinched by Ye Kai on the waist.
Ye Kai bit his shoulder: "You wish, I will become your pet."
Leaving a deep tooth mark, she slowly and methodically buttoned the man's shirt again, and tied his tie for him. The height difference between the two was nearly ten centimeters. Chen Youhan lowered his head to look at him. Ye Kai's fingers were skillful and leisurely, holding the dark green silk tie and folding it. Occasionally, he looked up and looked at him. Neither of them spoke. After a few dozen seconds, the tie was tied, and they looked at each other again. Chen Youhan pushed the man against the wall, lowered his head and kissed him.
After kissing the man's lips until they were swollen, Chen Youhan said impulsively, "It would be great if we could get married."
After the words were spoken, both of them fell silent. Then Ye Kai pursed his lips and smiled, his eyes were very gentle: "Brother Youhan, you are so easy to tease."
He can't control himself when they go to work together, and he wants to marry someone just because they tie a tie. He has been flirting with women for more than ten years, and his embarrassing appearance is ridiculous when people tell others about it. People who don't know him would think he is in need of love.
Chen Youhan breathed a sigh of relief, held his forehead with his hand and chuckled, saying self-deprecatingly, "I'm dizzy."
"Sapphire is not enough as a betrothal gift. You should try harder." Ye Kai said casually, glanced at him, and helped him adjust his bow tie.
Chen Youhan was stunned, looking at his drooping eyelashes. After a while, he curled the corners of his lips and said in a low voice: "Then I will try harder."
When the time came, Gu Xiu knocked on the door, and then took Ren Jia and Chen Youhan to visit the city leaders. Before leaving, he threw a few projects that needed supervision, follow-up and feedback to Ye Kai. He was busy handing over to various departments and didn't even have a sip of water. He took the initiative to go through the important documents and plans submitted, and secretly made some comments in his mind. He would ask Chen Youhan for advice when he had time.
Chen Youhan had an evening social event, and Ye Kai wanted to work overtime to wait for him, but he received a call from Ye Jin at around 6 o'clock to invite him to dinner. The two of them ate steak in a western restaurant. Ye Jin was trying to lose weight, so she only ate half a steak and even gave up her favorite French oysters. She held a plate of vegan salad with vinaigrette and found it difficult to swallow.
"Mom asked me to take care of your physical and mental health." She picked up a piece of avocado, thought about it and then took it out. "How was your internship? Did Chen Youhan exploit you?"
"No, he can't take care of himself."
"I've seen so many fools and vases in the entertainment industry, but men like Chen Youhan are more interesting." Ye Jin smiled, "It's a pity that he's bi."
"You like him." Ye Kai asked casually.
"I like it," Ye Jin blinked, "Not that kind of like, but if I can sleep with it, I might as well try."
Ye Kai was stunned, and Ye Jin laughed: "Okay, I was just kidding, you are still young, good boy, don't listen."
"...I'm an adult." Ye Kai lowered his eyes. There were two meanings in this sentence, but Ye Jin was destined not to hear it.
"I know, I know. Eighteen years old is great, right? Twenty-eight years old is still a child in my eyes." Ye Jin held the back of his hand. "Is it inconvenient for you to live with Chen Youhan?"
"No."
"Has he really changed his mind? I haven't heard any gossip about him since last year. Before, when I walked around the set, I could unexpectedly run into someone who had slept with him. I heard that he even had an illegitimate child? What a bastard, he kept it hidden so well for so many years."
Ye Kai put down his knife and fork, picked up the lemonade and took a sip, then said calmly, "Maybe he's in foster care abroad."
"It's amazing," Ye Jin smiled and shook her head, "He's single now?"
"He..." Ye Kai was suddenly unable to answer. Should he say that he has a regular partner, or should he just go with the flow?
"Come on, I definitely didn't let you know." Ye Jin took over the conversation, "You're still young. He has so many houses, who knows which one of them might have a mistress, what can you tell?"
Ye Kai said "hmm" calmly, thinking that the golden house was on the 28th floor of Fanning Kong Villa, No. 1,800 Xilin Road, and that Chen Ajiao was me.
"There's Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake at the Grand Theatre this weekend. Are you interested?"
"You got a ticket?"
"These are free VIP tickets. If you want them, you can get them. They are no longer available. The good seats will be sold out as soon as they are online."
"Two," Ye Kai said obediently, "Thank you, sister."
Ye Jin was chewing purple cabbage so hard that she felt like she was dying. She put all her thoughts on Ye Kai: "Which female classmate are you going to date?"
"A man."
Ye Jin snorted, then suddenly remembered something. He sat up straight and asked seriously, "Sexual orientation can't be contagious, right?"
Ye Kai clenched the knife and fork tightly. The silver and cold long handles had long been warmed by his grip. His Adam's apple rolled up and down. He said calmly, "Of course not."
"That's good," Ye Jin pouted. She was bored during the meal and stared at the medium-rare Australian Wagyu on Ye Kai's plate. "If you weren't sixteen years apart, I'd be quite worried."
Ye Kai curled the corners of his lips coldly: "What are you worried about."
"I'm worried that you can't resist the charm of an old man." Ye Jin smiled cutely, "It's very dangerous to fall in love with someone like Chen Youhan. You don't know whether he loves you or not. Before-"
Ye Kai interrupted her: "Miss, you mentioned Chen Youhan dozens of times during the meal today. Are you in love with him?"
"Ahem," Ye Jin choked, "No."
After dinner, Ye Jin sent him back to Fanning's empty villa and handed him the ballet ticket before parting. Ye Kai looked at the ticket and it was 7:30 pm on Saturday.
"Aren't you going?" he asked suddenly after opening the car door.
"No time, no one." Ye Jin shrugged, "Baby, come hold me."
Ye Kai was speechless. He watched Ye Jin unbuckle his seat belt, lean over and hug him for three seconds. He sighed and said, "You taught me so well. I don't know which girl will be lucky enough to marry you in the future."
Raising his hand, he patted her shoulders, which were so thin that he could feel her spine. Ye Kai smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. No girl can compare to my sister."
Chen Youhan came back near midnight, smelling heavily of alcohol, but fortunately he was still half conscious. Gu Xiu sent him back. Ye Kai had taken a shower and was doing his homework waiting for him. When they saw Gu Xiu, they were both stunned. Gu Xiu lowered his head and helped Chen Youhan into the living room, explaining, "I didn't go to any strange places. It was really..." He couldn't bear to elaborate, "I drank two kilograms of Wuliangye on an empty stomach when I got in."
Ye Kai was stunned, and a surge of anger rose up slowly and rashly: "Why?"
Gu Xiu's frown relaxed, and he looked at Ye Kai with a look of innocence, gentleness, and pity: "Xiao Kai, money is not omnipotent, and no mountain top is always the highest."
Chen Youhan was not a grandson, laughing, scolding and joking with ease, except for the one named Rong, he risked gastric bleeding and drank all the rest until he passed out. But for a person like him, showing such a tired side was already a loss.
Chen Youhan lowered his head, his hands deeply inserted into his hair, and said coldly, "Gu Xiu, when did you become a life mentor?"
Ye Kai escorted him to the entrance, and Gu Xiu whispered, "Call Aunt Xu and ask her to send someone to take care of him. She's used to it, she knows it." After leaving, he was still worried and turned around to remind him again, "You can't take care of him. If he wasn't thinking about you, he wouldn't be conscious now."
Ye Kai nodded and gently closed the door. Chen Youhan was still sitting there, maintaining that posture.
"Come and give me a hug." He whispered, raised his head, his usually careless eyes were full of red bloodshot, he smiled lazily, his chin was bruised, it was the stubble.
Ye Kai walked closer to him and wanted to hug him, but Chen Youhan stretched out his arms to push him away, smiling and saying, "No, I smell terrible now."
He knew how bad the night of smoking and drinking was. In the past, without Ye Kai, it didn't matter how embarrassed he was after socializing, as he could still show up bright and beautiful the next day. With Ye Kai, he had to be careful to even cover up his inability.
"Call Aunt Xu, you go to the guest bedroom first." Chen Youhan wiped his face and wanted to get up, but he knew he couldn't do it after a little effort. He took a deep breath, stretched his arms and lay on the back of the sofa: "I'm sorry, baby, I can't accompany you tonight."
Ye Kai picked up his phone, found "Aunt Xu" in the address book, dialed, handed the phone to Chen Youhan, listened to his tired and simple explanation, and then hung up the phone. He was very tired, holding the phone and closing his eyes to rest, his tie was untied, hanging loosely, and his Adam's apple rolled unbearably. Ye Kai immediately asked: "Do you want to vomit?"
Chen Youhan waved his hand, put his hand on his forehead and curled the corners of his lips: "Baby, pour me a glass of water."
The water came, he drank half of it, and handed it back to Ye Kai. Ye Kai took it and drank the remaining half. The bottom of the glass made a slight knocking sound against the coffee table, he climbed on his shoulders, lowered his head and kissed him.
Chen Youhan wanted to push him away, but was held down by Ye Kai. After kissing for a while, he opened his eyes with shortness of breath and saw Ye Kai's eyes close at hand.
"It smells like alcohol." Chen Youhan raised his hand to touch his forehead and stroke his hair.
"Hmm, it's quite sweet. It's indeed an expensive wine."
Chen Youhan couldn't hold back his laughter, but he didn't have the strength to laugh out loud, so he just half-curled his lips. He pulled the person into his arms and asked, "What did you do this afternoon?"
Ye Kai picked out a few important and interesting things to say, and Chen Youhan couldn't think, he just wanted to listen to him. After listening, he said with praise: "It's amazing, much better than when I was 18." And kissed him on the forehead.
"Would you like to watch a dance drama with me this weekend? Are you free?"
Chen Youhan didn't ask what kind of dance drama it was, nor did he ask when it would be held. He just said in a clear and hoarse voice, "Okay."
The person sent by Aunt Xu came half an hour later. She was an aunt in her fifties, an old maid of the Chen family. When she saw Ye Kai, she simply and respectfully greeted him, and then took good care of him. She put hot water in the bathtub, mixed honey in the kitchen, boiled sobering soup, and made midnight snacks. Chen Youhan took off his clothes and lay in the bath. Ye Kai was afraid that he would fall asleep, so he sat stupidly on the ground beside him, listening and translating while watching him. From time to time, he went over to test the water temperature, and Chen Youhan grabbed his hand and kissed him on the mouth.
"Go to bed," he opened his eyes, looking much better than when he first entered the room, "See you tomorrow."
Auntie knocked on the door and stood by it and said, "The guest bedroom has been tidied up, you can rest now."
She didn't know Ye Kai's identity, and Chen Youhan didn't explain it. But the aunt knew that Chen Youhan didn't let lovers stay overnight, so most of them were guests with legitimate relationships.
Ye Kai said, "I'll sleep in the master bedroom."
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