Next time for sure
The second call was made a long time before it was picked up. Li Ye seemed to be still asleep, and there was a hazy feeling in his voice.
"Lin Xunye, why did you just call me back..." Li Ye continued, "I'm so sleepy. I called you twice at noon but you didn't answer. You also didn't reply to my messages. Our chat history is now green."
Lin Xunye rubbed his nose guiltily: "Just woke up."
Li Ye immediately replied: "Bullshit~ I think you are kissing Gu Pei."
Lin Xunye: “…”
"Li Ye, why are you talking so much like Xu Qian now? Are you two together behind my back?"
Lin Xunye asked this question in a serious tone, but the content was a joke.
He didn't believe that Li Ye would be with Xu Qian.
If the two of them wanted to be together, they would have been together a long time ago. Why wait until now?
Not to mention that Xu Qian, an Alpha, thinks about how to meet true love every day, which has nothing to do with Li Ye, who regards brushes and rice paper as his other half.
In fact, Lin Xunye was still a little curious about how the two of them became friends.
But when he thought about how Xu Qian became his brother by being so shameless, Lin Xunye immediately lost his interest in gossiping.
However, the other side was quiet.
Lin Xunye: “…”
He asked uncertainly: "You two should, probably, probably not be together?"
If they were together, it would be his nightmare.
Soon, Li Ye gave the answer.
"It's hard to explain in detail over the phone. Please wait for me at the original location. I'll pick you up and we can talk in person."
Lin Xunye had just uttered a word of questioning when the phone was hung up.
An hour later, Lin Xunye got on the passenger seat of Li Ye's car with a heavy heart.
After sitting in Gu Pei’s passenger seat for so long, Lin Xunye was not used to sitting in someone else’s seat all of a sudden.
There is always a feeling of having an affair.
When Li Ye spoke to Lin Xunye, his tone became much more normal and he no longer spoke like Xu Qian.
Lin Xunye felt a little relieved.
Does anyone know how long he spent on mental preparation in the last hour?
On the one hand, something absolutely impossible happened to him, and on the other hand, how would he get along with his brothers in the future.
This was too cruel for him.
As the car entered the highway, the rolling hills were reduced in size, and lush green trees flashed before our eyes. Several birds circled in the sky, forming various irregular shapes.
Lin Xunye subconsciously touched his ear, and his fingers brushed against the earring when they fell. The feeling of the chain hitting the back of his hand suddenly brought him back to the day of his blind date with Gu Pei.
The five earrings he wore that day were specially customized and made by someone he had expedited.
It turned out to be of no use.
The car was running smoothly on the road and it was eerily quiet inside.
Lin Xunye asked, "You and Xu Qian..." He paused and then rephrased, "You are still brothers, right?"
Li Ye didn't expect Lin Xunye to keep pestering him. He just made a joke, but Lin Xunye took it seriously.
However, in Lin Xunye's opinion, Li Ye would never make jokes. He suddenly said this because it must be because this thing might really happen, or had already happened.
Lin Xunye felt itchy all over when he thought of this possibility.
Looking out the window, Lin Xunye wanted to break the car window and jump out without waiting for an answer.
He shouldn't be in the car, he should be in the mountains.
Li Ye's playful mood, which had been dormant for a long time, also came up. He decided to hide the truth from Lin Xunye for the time being and not tell him until they arrived in the next city.
So Li Ye skipped the topic and let Lin Xunye go to sleep.
Lin Xunye was even more confused by his own thoughts. He didn't think much about it after hearing it. He reclined the chair and lay down on it for a nap.
—
Lin Xunye was not asleep yet, he could feel the bumps of the car.
The cool air from the air conditioner rushed up from the bottom, blowing on Lin Xunye's chin. The slight cool breeze made Lin Xunye feel like he was in the wild, just like the first breeze he felt in New Zealand after getting off the plane.
It was a very ordinary wind, but it could temporarily calm the storm in Lin Xunye's heart caused by his unstable emotions.
Suddenly, an idea came to my mind.
Lin Xunye thought, it would be great if Gu Pei’s pheromones were colorless and odorless wind.
Like freedom.
Li Ye drives slowly, striving for safety and stability.
It was already dark when the two arrived at the next city. Lin Xunye looked at his phone and saw that it was almost midnight.
A normal person would not go to see the location of an organization in the middle of the night, so Lin Xunye decided to go to bed first.
Lin Xunye didn't sleep well in the car, so as soon as he got off the car, he went to the nearest hotel and booked a luxury suite.
When Li Ye parked the car and came to find him, Lin Xunye had already gone upstairs.
Because he was too sleepy, he even forgot to reply to the message on his phone.
At the same time, in Gu Pei's bedroom.
Gu Pei was wearing frameless glasses, his fingers tapping on the keyboard, his eyes constantly glancing at the phone screen. Worried that there would be a delay on the phone and he wouldn't receive the message in time, he even opened a small window on the computer.
However, the message sent out seemed to have fallen into oblivion.
No response.
Gu Pei worked until late at night.
At two o'clock in the morning, before turning off the computer, Gu Pei opened the chat box. The latest message was sent by him - Have you arrived at the hotel?
Before Li Ye came to pick up Lin Xunye, he called him but he didn't answer, so he called Gu Pei again.
But neither of them heard it and missed it.
But afterwards, Gu Pei saw the missed call on his phone and called it, and inadvertently learned about their itinerary from Li Ye.
I originally wanted to help them get it directly, but then I thought that Lin Xunye was very competitive and had a strong sense of self-esteem, and would not easily accept benefits, so I gave up the idea.
The mouse moved to the desktop, Gu Pei right-clicked, and refreshed three times, but the screen was still blank.
Gu Pei:......
His wife, who was so old, was just abducted away by Li Ye?
—
At nine o'clock the next day, Lin Xunye was pulled out of the quilt by Li Ye to wake him up.
"What are you doing?" Lin Xunye asked with sleepy eyes.
He hates getting up early.
Gu Pei is still good, Gu Pei won’t force him to get up early.
Li Ye threw off the quilt covering Lin Xunye, then went to the bathroom to get some water, squeezed out some toothpaste, and stuffed it all into Lin Xunye's hands, watching him wash up personally.
God knows how he felt when his father called him twice in the middle of the night!
He didn't answer the first call, but when he heard the second call, he swiped the screen with his hand before he even opened his eyes.
Then, his father's panicked tone and irrelevant words made him think that his company was going to go bankrupt, and his father wanted to take him back to serve as a soldier, and he would be forced to give up the career he had worked hard for.
But when he heard the whole story, he was completely stunned.
To sum it up in one sentence: take good care of Lin Xunye.
Li Ye:.
His mentality, which had already been broken by Xu Qian, collapsed again.
Lin Xunye was forced to wash while he was half asleep and half awake, and he was about to fall into the pool.
But Li Ye didn't give him this opportunity.
Li Ye had been standing behind Lin Xunye and looking at him, making Lin Xunye think that he had torn up his work, and he was so bitter and resentful.
Covering his entire face with a towel, Lin Xunye rubbed his face and returned to bed.
The phone vibrated, Lin Xunye took out his phone and answered the call based on his intuition.
Almost the moment the call was connected, Gu Pei's voice came out: "Aye, are you used to living here? Why didn't you tell me you were leaving?"
He asked two questions right away.
Lin Xunye held his breath for a while, hoping that Gu Pei would hang up the phone automatically.
But Gu Pei didn't.
Li Ye didn't know when he left.
Lin Xunye took the towel and threw it to the other side of the bed.
He didn't use too much force and the distance was just right, so the towel fell right on the other pillow.
Lin Xunye rested his head on his arm and replied reluctantly: "I forgot. I'll definitely do it next time."
A very perfunctory reply.
Lin Xunye was so perfunctory that he wanted to slap himself.
Gu Pei chuckled, and the laughter reached Lin Xunye's ears through the phone.
Lin Xunye yelled in dissatisfaction: "What are you laughing at? What's so funny?" He curled his lips and kept pulling at the bed sheet with one hand.
The relationship between the two seemed to have returned to the beginning, but Gu Pei knew that this was just a self-protection mechanism stimulated by Lin Xunye when facing uncertainty. It was Lin Xunye's subconscious behavior and a manifestation of his responsibility to himself.
Gu Pei thought this was a very cute behavior.
Imagine that you are walking in a forest full of flowers and fruit trees, and suddenly a bright red apple falls from the fruit tree in front of you, and the apple just rolls to your feet. You are about to bend down to pick it up, but you find a little hedgehog moving slowly and steadily towards you.
So, you want to help the little hedgehog.
You picked up the apple and handed it to the little hedgehog. But the little hedgehog didn't take it. Instead, it curled itself up into a ball and silently rejected you with the spikes on its back.
But that doesn't mean it hates you, nor does it prove it doesn't like Apple.
It is just confused about unknown interactions.
But the little hedgehog will eventually become strong enough on his own to take the apple from your hand, saying thank you or boldly giving you a kiss.
At this time, you will find that the little animal wrapped in the hedgehog shell is not a hedgehog at all, but a kitten covered with hedgehog spikes to protect itself.
No one is always twisted, and Gu Pei is willing to be the one who accompanies Lin Xunye to get better.
Opportunities always come to those who are prepared. Gu Pei cannot predict the future, but he is willing to wait for the day when Lin Xunye truly wants to respond to his feelings.
I am also willing to wait for the hedgehog cat who is frightened and curled up into a ball, but dares to open his arms again to hug the long-awaited apple.
—
Lin Xunye seemed very dissatisfied with Gu Pei's "smile". After hanging up the phone, he practiced humming into the phone for a long time.
Finally, after practicing to a satisfactory level, Lin Xunye immediately opened the dialog box, pressed the voice input button, and hummed loudly into the microphone while recalling what had happened just now.
After confirming that the message was sent successfully, Lin Xunye told Gu Pei not to be disturbed, got dressed, and went out with Li Ye to look at the location.
On the other side, in the conference room.
After listening to the last person's report, Gu Pei glanced at the entire audience with an expressionless face.
Finally, his gaze fell on the assistant closest to him.
The assistant swallowed frantically, and his fingertips turned white as he held the report.
Suddenly, the cell phone rang.
Everyone was shocked.
You know, the last person who didn't mute his phone during a meeting was scolded by Gu Pei and packed up his things and resigned in less than a week.
The reason is that the boss is very handsome, but too fierce.
It is said that the resignation application was approved by Gu Pei personally.
He also wrote a reply - thank you.
This rumor has been circulating in the company for a long time and has not been refuted yet. Everyone has taken it for granted that it is true.
Now another person has come forward to take the lead, and everyone can't help but worry for him.
After all, as soldiers under the Demon King, we are all good brothers who share weal and woe. There is no reason not to worry.
No one stood up, so no one could leave the meeting room and had to sit in their chairs and make eye contact. Some of them were already complaining about the impetuous guy in their hearts.
Gu Pei's expression became increasingly grim.
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