Chapter 12

translated by astrid83

Manager Li asked: “Do you also want to learn about sales?”

For a split second, a flash of helplessness flashed past the depths of Cheng Yanqing’s eyes, but he continued to be stubborn: “I would like to understand it a bit better.”

Manager Li did not continue asking, only saying meaningfully: “If you’d like to come, come then.”

Hearing this, Tang Mo beside them began fondling the glittery ear stud on his earlobe and lightly snickered. He didn’t know if this was mocking or if it had any other meaning.

With this snicker, it was as if his behaviour earlier on was like a fool. Cheng Yanqing was furious, resentfully using his rabbit red eyes to glare at him. He did not expect Tang Mo to be even happier, he did not even bother to cover the corners of his mouth rising into a smile.

What the heck.

Cheng Yanqing felt wronged.

He suddenly felt that Manager Li was not tender at all.

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In the afternoon, Manager Li had gone out for external business.

This was not Cheng Yanqing’s first time going to his house, he was long familiar with the route, it was just that he had a bizarre feeling that he was “sending the goods straight to the doorstep”.

Once he thought of this, Cheng Yanqing hurriedly shook away the strange thoughts in his head. En , he just didn’t want Tang Mo and Manager Li to get too close……

That was all.

Manager Li’s neighbourhood was like a huge extravagant flower garden. There was lush greenery all around, blooming with Exochordas 1 . At the center of it all, there was a stream, and koi fish in bunches and groups were swimming in it, while an ancient-style arch bridge arched above the stream. There were few people in the neighbourhood, thus it was full of tranquillity.

After the front counter staff phoned to enquire, they informed the security guard to bring him upstairs.

Looking at the slowly increasing floor levels, Cheng Yanqing bit his lip, a sense of gloom constantly flowed out from the bottom of his heart. He did not understand how a Sales Manager could live in such a luxurious residence, the property maintenance fees here would be half a month’s pay of a normal person.

Manager Li’s family should be very affluent then.

……Both of them would be people from completely different worlds.

Cheng Yanqing had a bit of an inferiority complex, at least this kind of thinking never made its appearance when he still treated Manager Li as a friend.

But then ever since he got drunk on National Day, everything had changed, Manager Li had pressed him onto the bed, claiming him again and again……

Cheng Yanqing’s face flushed red again.

When he appeared before Manager Li’s eyes, his appearance was that of a standing ramrod straight, completely defenceless rabbit, whose cheeks were like prawn dumplings 2 , blushing red underneath the pale skin.

“Did you just bathe?”

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Chen Yanqing saw Manager Li’s black hair that was plastered on both his temples. Water droplets slid down along his angular jaw and past his adam’s apple, then hid into his half opened lapel. This was very different from his looks at the company, he wore a deep blue silk pyjamas, and a casual and lazy aura emitted from him.

Manager Li turned sideways, indicating for him to enter.

Taking off his shoes, and placing them into the shoe cabinet with practice, Chen Yanqing asked while looking around: “Has Manager Tang yet to arrive?”

“He left already.”

“L-Left already?!” Cheng Yanqing was shocked: “Why did he leave?”

“Little Mo came over to take the materials and left after doing so. Is there anything not right about that?” Manager Li gazed deeply at him: “You seem to be very disappointed.”

“I’m not……” Cheng Yanqing shook his head, but once he raised his head, he met the other’s eyes that were like two deep pools. Thus he started panicking again.

——There were only the two of them remaining in this house.

Manager Li thought of something, then blocked his escape route without batting an eyelid, saying indifferently: “It’s getting late, let’s eat first.”

On the table laid a lavish dinner; sweet and sour pork, beef in sour soup, stir-fried vegetables and steamed egg with mince meat 3 , all of these were Cheng Yanqing’s favourite foods.

Cheng Yanqing’s defences immediately relaxed: “What occasion is it today? Don’t you usually not eat much dinner?”

“Your birthday.”

Manager Li had a natural and “as it should be” expression as he said: “Since you came, I couldn’t not be empty-handed. So I found a private chef with many good ratings to cook a few dishes to send over, you should just accept it and eat.”

Cheng Yanqing was stunned.

After he reached adulthood, he hadn’t celebrated his birthday in a long while.

He never thought that Manager Li would know about it, even specially ordering dishes for him.

A flower burst in bloom in his heart, brilliantly swaying in the wind.

Cheng Yanqing discarded his thinking from before.

Manager Li was indeed still very tender.

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Footnotes

also known as pearlbush, a white flower thats native to China prawn dumplings are kind of different from normal dumplings, as the dumpling skin is a bit translucent, so you can see the colour of the prawn filling more easily I just find it kind of sweet that these are all very typical dishes that can be easily found at dinner tables and simply made, and not something extravagant