Chapter 18 Agreement
Xie Yu held the campus card in his hand and cursed the original owner a thousand times.
When he came here, the original owner and Shen Ci had already signed the contract. Xie Yu naturally thought that the money was in place, but he didn't expect that the original owner only provided a place in the hospital and he didn't give any money at all!
Chen Ci, the contract partner of Jiangcheng's top second-generation rich, wears high-end luxury brands and earrings worth hundreds of thousands, but he doesn't have more than a hundred yuan in his campus card and eats steamed buns with vegetables in the cafeteria?
Xie Yu put two fingers together, easily pulled out the campus card from Shen Ci's hand, and pressed the person on the chair: "Don't move, I'll do it"
He walked to the service counter across from the cafeteria and handed over the card: "Hello, how much can I top up on my campus card?"
Auntie looked up at him and said, "Ten thousand."
Xie Yu pushed the credit card over: "Then top up 10,000."
All his assets, including cars and luxury goods that the original owners no longer needed, were sold for cash and Xu Qingshan transferred the money to overseas accounts. Now all his purchases are made with credit cards.
According to the plot design, it won't be long before Xie Yuanshan finds out that his son has invested in a mental hospital, and angrily suspends all his cards. It would be a waste if he doesn't swipe them now.
The cafeteria auntie had obviously never seen such a large amount of money charged at once, and was slightly stunned: "Are you sure you want to charge 10,000?"
Xie Yu nodded: "OK."
Xie Yu put the card on the POS machine, entered the password, and pressed the freshly calculated balance on the meal card. This time, Shen Ci would have to eat grilled fish for every meal, and it would take him a hundred meals to finish it.
He returned to the grilled fish window, and after ordering the dishes, he sat opposite Shen Ci, who held the card a little stiffly: "How much did you charge?"
Xie Yu didn't stop eating: "Not much, quite a bit."
Shen Ci breathed a sigh of relief: “Thank you.”
In fact, according to the agreement, Xie Yu only needs to get that medical quota, and the rest is not within the scope of the agreement. In the original text, Shen Ci never asked for money. He had a strange persistence in this regard. It can be said that he was dignified or pedantic, but he was unwilling to accept too many favors.
But now it is different from the original text. He has a secret thought, as if in this way, the difference between him and Xie Yu is not so great, the distance between them is not so far, they can be closer and closer.
The grilled fish was spicy and fragrant, but Chen Ci preferred lighter tastes and didn’t eat much, but Xie Yu enjoyed the meal very much.
It had been a long time since he had eaten in the campus cafeteria.
After they finished their meal, Xie Yu looked around the glass curtain wall. Outside the curtain wall were large patches of ginkgo leaves. "Assistant Professor Shen, can you take me around A University?"
His high school grades were not good, but he had a filter for good students and good schools. A University was the top university in Jiangcheng and had been named the most beautiful campus in the country for many years. Xie Yu was a little interested.
Shen Ci said naturally: “Okay.”
They went downstairs together, walked side by side along Ginkgo Avenue, passed by the flower beds planted with Clivia and Wintersweets, passed by the school's artificial lake and Lover's Hill, and through the dense shade of the trees, saw a couple kissing on the bridge.
There is a commercial street running from north to south behind the campus. Restaurant owners are all opening restaurants, and the streets are bustling with people.
Xie Yu and Shen Ci walked along the commercial street, and met many young couples. Some of them were wearing couple scarves like them, some were walking together arm in arm, and some were putting two straws in the same cup of milk tea and drinking from it together.
Shen Ci's eyes fell on the milk tea, which Han Yunyun often drank. It was not cheap, more than ten yuan for a cup. It was placed on the desk, but Shen Ci had never been interested in tasting it.
Firstly, he doesn't like sweets, and secondly, there is no need to waste his limited money on a moment of indulgence; that is something only people with plenty of material resources do.
It was the same when Shen Ci was a child. The only nearby store was in a town more than ten kilometers away. He never ate candy or bought toys. He was even ashamed to mention them. For his family, these "extra" toys that exceeded basic needs were a sin of being inconsiderate to his parents if he wanted them.
Over the years, Shen Ci's material desires have become extremely weak. He doesn't look, doesn't care, doesn't want, and doesn't even have the desire to look at it. But now, when these couples pass by with milk tea, and Shen Ci and Xie Yu stand side by side, he suddenly wants to know what it tastes like.
This idea came out of nowhere, but once it arose, it was difficult to contain, growing wildly in his mind like weeds. When they almost reached the end of the commercial street and were about to take two steps forward and step out, Shen Ci suddenly grabbed Xie Yu.
Xie Yu turned around and looked over with a little confusion. Shen Ci's hand that was pulling his sleeve was shaking uncontrollably. He was like a bad boy whose secret was exposed. He spread out something that was difficult to talk about. He just kept his eyes closed, stubbornly and hesitantly: "Xie Yu, I...I want to drink milk tea."
For a couple in love, this might just be a normal request, but Shen Ci and Xie Yu were not a couple, and he felt a kind of broken emotion in his heart. On one hand, he felt a huge shame for making an unreasonable plea as the party in the agreement, but on the other hand, he had some secret expectations.
Like a faint candle flame, it goes out at the first touch, yet it grows secretly and refuses to give up.
Xie Yu...would you be willing to buy it?
Of course Xie Yu was willing to buy it, he was just a little surprised. The handsome young man in front of him seemed different from the one in the original text. With the original text's sullen, cold and aloof personality, it was impossible for him to make such a request.
But as the plot has developed to this point, it has collapsed a lot. Xie Yu accepted it well. Anyway, he only needed 60 points, and the rest would collapse.
Xie Yu took out his phone and scanned the code: "I just happen to want to drink too, what do you want to drink?"
Shen Ci was slightly stunned: "...either one or the other is fine."
It was he who made the request, but Xie Yu satisfied it without even a second thought, and he was also the one who was stunned.
Xie Yu: "Then I'll order according to my taste."
He skillfully ordered two cups of hot drinks and handed one to Shen Ci: “Try it.”
Shen Ci raised his hand to hold the cup, the hot steam rising up blurred his eyebrows.
The system popped up silently: "Host, don't forget that you still have two lines left."
Xie Yu hummed, and suddenly pulled Shen Ci closer, lifted his hair, put his fingers into the scarf, and rubbed the back of his neck.
This was a threatening posture. The cold fingers touched the skin, causing goose bumps. Xie Yu played with the neck of his man like a collector playing with porcelain.
"Chen Ci." He leaned over and recited the lines unclearly, "Tonight, come to the hotel."
Shen Ci's fingertips trembled, and he said softly: "Okay."
In the original text, Xie Yu purely used Chen Ci as a tool for venting, a sandbag or a condom, and summoned him to have some fun whenever he had nothing to do. These were small scattered plot points, but they accumulated to a large number, and there were about ten or twenty of them. Xie Yu had to go through them all before he went abroad.
These short plots are monotonous and unremarkable. Apart from large areas of mosaics, there are no lines or highlights. They are similar to the first and second easy-to-scoring questions on an exam. They don't take much time, but they are necessary. According to the system, you can just fool around.
After the two of them finished shopping and all the lines were said, the system set off fireworks in Xie Yu's mind: "It's done!"
Assisting a host like Xie Yu every day, he was exhausted.
Xie Yu drove back, and Shen Ci also returned to the laboratory. Han Yunyun was putting a stack of documents on his desk: "Brother Shen, this is a new project that the teacher has taken on. He specifically asked you to take the lead. Take a look."
Chen Ci hummed and looked through it carefully. Han Yunyun said, "This project seems to be quite important. The advisor is just one step away from being selected as an outstanding young scientist. I don't know if he can be selected this year. If he can, we should move offices."
In addition to the basic experimental building, University A also has a newer building that is filled with bigwigs, all of whom are influential figures in their respective departments.
Shen Ci said, “Just do the experiment first, it has little to do with us.”
Han Yunyun nodded in agreement, and behaved well for two seconds, but couldn't help but come closer: "Brother, who is your boyfriend?"
She had already tacitly accepted that Xie Yu was Shen Ci's boyfriend.
Shen Ci sighed slightly: “Not a boyfriend.”
Han Yunyun didn't believe it: "They are so close, how could it not be true?"
Shen Ci: “It’s definitely not.”
He and Xie Yu wore couple scarves, with Xie Yu's name embedded on their ear bones, and walked together through Lover's Lake, the commercial street of A University, but they were definitely not in a relationship.
Xie Yu's public status has always been single, and he has never announced that he is in a relationship. When He Zhiyuan introduced Lin Yin, he said that she was his girlfriend, but when Xie Yu introduced him, he never used his full name, only saying "This is Assistant Professor Shen from University A, his name is Shen Ci".
Han Yunyun raised her eyebrows, thinking that her senior brother was trying to hide something: "Then what is your relationship?"
Shen Ci paused slightly, tasting a bit of bitterness on the tip of his tongue. He pulled the corners of his mouth unnaturally: "Just think that what the forum said is right."
The forum said it was a relationship of keeping a mistress, and it was indeed a relationship of keeping a mistress.
The right to interpret the contract lies in Xie Yu's hands, and the sponsorship relationship can be terminated at any time.
Han Yunyun groaned and lowered her head to fiddle with the experimental potion in her hand: "I don't believe it. When he pulled you away from me just now, I felt like he was going to beat me up."
Shen Ci just shook his head and said nothing.
As night fell, he got into the Bentley again and knocked on the door of the top-floor suite.
Xie Yu, as usual, lazily curled up on the sofa playing games. When he saw Shen Ci come in, he teased him lightly, and then the two of them washed up and went to bed in their clothes.
They were clearly lying on the same bed, only an arm's length apart, but Xie Yu simply closed his eyes and rested, with his palm loosely around Shen Ci's shoulder, like the most stern and serious gentleman, unwilling to easily cross the line.
He seemed uninterested.
Even if Chen Ci had never been in a relationship, he knew that he shouldn't act like this towards someone he liked, or even a favorite toy.
Master Xie's preferences were no secret in the circle, and Shen Ci had also heard about it. He preferred bright, delicate and soft boys, especially those who loved to laugh, cry and act like a spoiled child. This was not to say that it was diametrically opposed to Shen Ci's personality, but it was also contrary to his. Compared with the anchor stars that Xie Yu had liked in the past, Shen Ci considered himself to be dull and boring, with a lackluster personality. If he hadn't lacked a handy sandbag, he probably wouldn't have caught Master Xie's eye.
But if you don't like him/her, why do you defend him/her in every possible way, indulge him/her repeatedly, give him/her gift one after another, and frequently do things that may lead to misunderstanding?
In the darkness, Shen Ci stretched out his finger and touched Xie Yu's shoulder tentatively: "Xie Yu..."
Xie Yu was half asleep and half awake, and held his fingers in his palm: "What's wrong?"
Shen Ci looked at him calmly and asked softly, "What is our relationship?"
Xie Yu was too sleepy to open his eyes. He just held his fingertips and took a long time to react before he understood what he was asking. He answered in a dreamy voice, "...an agreement."
He thought vaguely that in another month, Xie Yuanshan would find the investment problem, and Xie Yu would go to another country. Within five years, he would never set foot in China again, and the agreement between the two would be invalidated. Shen would be freed from the shackles.
By then, the sea will be wide enough for fish to leap and the sky will be high enough for birds to fly. The protagonist will successfully survive the darkest time in his life, and from then on, there will be a bright future and a smooth road ahead.
And it's time for him, the evil guy, to leave the stage.
The author has something to say:
Xie Yu: "It's time for me to leave the stage."
Chen Ci: He just kept holding on and wouldn’t let go.
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