Chapter 140 Dressing up your partner
It was almost twelve o'clock when I returned to Heguangli after overtime. MAX heard the door open and immediately came over happily.
"Are you hungry?" Pei Song squatted down and touched MAX's head. "Sorry, I came back so late again today."
MAX looked at him with clear eyes, his tail wagging gently.
It moved close to Pei Song's face and sniffed carefully, as if to confirm the condition of its owner.
Shi Yanchen took out the thermos box from the kitchen: "Eat the steak first."
Pei Song shook his head: "I'm not hungry, I just want to take a quick shower. I need to review the investment banking materials again."
"You've been talking all day, and your voice is a little hoarse," Shi Yanchen poured him a cup of warm water and handed it to him, "At least drink some water. We'll talk about the materials tomorrow morning. I won't be able to remember them in your current state."
Pei Song took the cup of water and took a few sips. He indeed felt his throat was dry and uncomfortable.
"Go take a shower," Shi Yanchen gently rubbed his shoulders, "I see you've been tense all day."
Pei Song was indeed very tired. He had been dealing with various investors since morning and now he just wanted to lie down quickly.
After taking a shower, Shi Yanchen was already sitting on the bed reading documents.
MAX was lying at the end of the bed, wagging his tail intermittently.
"Have you finished reading the document?" Pei Song asked while wiping his hair.
"Almost there," Shi Yanchen looked up at him, "You go to sleep first, you don't have to wait for me."
Pei Song crawled into bed and relaxed completely.
The tension and fatigue of the day finally dissipated a little under the flush of hot water.
Shi Yanchen reached out and touched his still damp hair: "If you go to bed without drying your hair, you will catch a cold."
"It's okay," Pei Song was too sleepy to open his eyes, "Just sleep like this."
Shi Yanchen shook his head helplessly, put down the documents, took the towel, and wiped his hair carefully.
Pei Song leaned on him in a daze and gradually fell asleep.
Shi Yanchen gently laid the man down and tucked the quilt in for him.
When I turned around and prepared to go to the cloakroom to change into pajamas, I found a corner of familiar wrapping paper sticking out from the depths of the closet.
He originally didn't want to disturb Pei Song's privacy, but the logo on the wrapping paper made him stunned for a moment - it was the custom shirt shop he often went to.
I quietly opened the wardrobe and saw three brand new gift boxes lying quietly in the corner.
Shi Yanchen carefully opened the top one, and a well-tailored dark blue shirt came into view. The material was his favorite London yarn.
There was a card in his pocket, with Pei Song's elegant handwriting on it:
"You are going to meet with investors from Country D next week, so you must dress nicely. I secretly measured the size of your shirt and asked the owner to make this one, so it should fit you well. But I'll hide it for now and give it to you when you find it yourself."
Shi Yanchen laughed. Pei Song seemed to be playing a real-life version of Miracle Nikki and really liked dressing up his partner.
He was very cooperative and really enjoyed being taken care of by his lover.
Thinking of this, Shi Yanchen felt a little annoyed that he had only just discovered this gift. He gently put the shirt back to its place, as if he hadn't noticed anything.
Let's keep this surprise a secret and reveal it when the time is right.
Back to the bed, Shi Yanchen couldn't help but give him a light kiss on the lips.
"Good night," he whispered. "Get some rest."
As the project progressed, both of them were very busy.
Sometimes they could only meet briefly in the conference room for several days in a row, but no one complained.
At ten o'clock that evening, the lights were still on in the conference room of the SNK Building.
Pei Song was standing in front of the projection, discussing the architecture of the real-time clearing system with the technical team.
"The delay jitter of FPGA hardware has not been resolved yet," the technical director pointed to the data on the screen, "especially in high-concurrency situations, the delay fluctuation will exceed 200 nanoseconds."
Pei Song rubbed his temples: "In this case, the entire clearing chain will be affected." He drew a diagram on the whiteboard, "Should we consider adding a layer of cache on the front end?"
As he was speaking, Shi Yanchen pushed the door and walked in.
He had just finished a video conference with the headquarters in Country D and saw that the lights in the conference room were still on, so he came over to take a look.
"Are you off work yet?" he asked, standing at the door.
Pei Song shook his head: "There are still some problems with the system architecture that need to be solved."
Shi Yanchen walked to the whiteboard and glanced at the densely packed architecture diagram on it: "I'll ask the technical experts from Country D to connect online tomorrow to discuss it together."
After the technical team left, they were the only two left in the meeting room.
"It's your first time to be in charge of operating such a large project. It must be very stressful, right?" Shi Yanchen walked to Pei Song.
"A little bit." Pei Song leaned against the table and sighed softly: "This system is related to the core competitiveness of the entire project, and there is no room for error."
"You've done a great job," Shi Yanchen poured him a glass of water. "I remember when you first came to SNK, you didn't even know much about programming, but now you can discuss system architecture with the technical team."
Pei Song took the cup and said with a smile: "You forced me to do this."
At the technical review meeting the next day, Shi Yanchen sat on the podium and listened to the reports from various departments with a serious expression.
When Pei Song stood in front of the projector and introduced the plan in detail, his eyes were always focused and calm, as if he was listening to the report of any ordinary subordinate.
"Regarding the latency issue," Pei Song switched to the performance test page, "we have proposed an optimization solution. Adding a layer of distributed cache to the FPGA front end can intercept 90% of order requests at the cache layer, significantly reducing hardware processing pressure..."
Shi Yanchen calmly took notes in his notebook, occasionally asking some professional questions.
No one could tell anything unusual from his calm expression.
It was not until the meeting was over and they were the only two left in the corridor that Shi Yanchen whispered, "The plan just now was very complete and the ideas were very clear. It seems that last night was not in vain."
Pei Song smiled and said, "Thanks to you for calling in the experts from Country D."
"I believe in your ability," Shi Yanchen said. "I will support you when I need to, but more often than not, I hope you can solve problems on your own, so that you can truly grow."
After get off work at noon, Pei Song received a message from Shi Yanchen: "Waiting for you in the office, I have something to show you."
He walked into the conference room and found an insulated box on the table.
"I know you have a meeting later and probably won't have time to eat," Shi Yanchen opened the thermos box, and the aroma filled the air, "I asked Auntie to make soup for you."
Pei Song felt warm in his heart: "You have a good memory."
"What's so hard about this?" Shi Yanchen said with a smile, "How can I not know my fiancé's schedule?"
Looking at Pei Song drinking soup, Shi Yanchen sighed: "Actually, I am very grateful for this project."
"What do you mean?"
"It allowed me to witness your growth," Shi Yanchen said seriously, "from someone who knew little about financial technology to an independent operations manager. This feeling makes me prouder than any achievements I have made myself."
Pei Song put down the spoon: "So you keep your distance and let me face the challenge alone?"
"Well," Shi Yanchen said, "at work, I am your superior. But here," he pointed to his heart, "I will always be the one who cares about you the most and supports you the most."