Chapter 7

Translated by boilpoil Edited by boilpoil

Shao Yanxi’s apartment unit is multistorey.

The black and white colour scheme is very Shao Yanxi.

There is a large living room on the first floor, with an open-style kitchen on the right-hand side and there are two doors next to the kitchen. The stairs to the second floor are next to the doors.

The second floor is presumably the bedroom area.

The moment they enter Shao Yanxi heads right up for the second floor, followed by Liu Yu’an.

There’s a small common area on the second floor connecting four rooms.

Shao Yanxi points to the one closest to the stairs, “this one’s yours. The room is cleaned regularly so you only need to tidy it a bit more to your liking. A restroom is included and there are unused toiletries inside.”

“Alright.”

Then, Liu Yu’an goes inside.

A cold colour scheme, as expected, then Liu Yu’an asks, “which is your room?”

Shao Yanxi points to the next room.

Then, he says, “I still have work to do, so suit yourself here,” then, he pushes another door open.

“Why did you get off work so early if you’re not done…”

Then, Liu Yu’an quickly shuts up.

Obviously, he got off work early to see his parents with him.

This person, really…

“I see, I’ll be around,” replies Liu Yu’an.

Then he watches as Shao Yanxi enters the study in the same style of clothes he’s wearing.

He chuckles.

Shao Yanxi really does look much softer and younger than before in casual clothing.

Even his cold, icy face look warmer than usual.

After that Liu Yu’an also enters his own room.

He arranges the place his style for a bit before calling up Zhao Xian.

“An-ge, what is it?” Zhao Xian’s side is a bit rowdy.

Though Liu Yu’an doesn’t really care what he’s doing right now, he goes straight to the point and tells him, “Zhao Xian, can you deal with the videos of me and Yue Zhun online somehow?”

Zhao Xian’s family is part of the entertainment industry and has ties with many media outlets.

“Any of you and Yue Zhun?”

“Yes.”

“An-ge, have you finally sobered up?” A loud voice that belongs, unmistakably, to Zhuang Feiyu and not Zhao Xian.

Looks like the two are together right now.

“I’ve always said Yue Zhun and you…” Halfway through Zhao Xian cuts Zhuang Feiyu off, “understood, An-ge, I’ll have them dealt with tomorrow.”

Thanks to Shao Yanxi, Liu Yu’an has ended up in a leadership position among the group of friends.

Though also because of Shao Yanxi, everyone has slowly drifted away from him.

Like Zhuang Feiyu and Zhao Xian.

If Liu Yu’an needed their help, they’d definitely help out their good friend.

But if Liu Yu’an doesn’t need them, they’d never seek him out themselves.

Because, as they could see, Shao Yanxi is a madman; and Liu Yu’an is having an affair behind a madman’s back.

They’re all frightened that if one day Shao Yanxi is infuriated, the fire would spare no one close to him.

Which is why Liu Yu’an doesn’t really have close friends right now.

Anyone still trying to maintain a close relationship with him does so because of the potential benefits.

“Right,” Liu Yu’an follows up after Zhao Xian has given his promise, “another thing, I told you to give Yue Zhun access to resources with my money, right? Anything already signed is fine, but take back anything that hasn’t been finalised in a contract yet.”

“Sure.”

“Oh, and you wanted that Zenvots1gtma before, didn’t you? Call me when you’re free and you can come drive it away.”

“I’ll be free tomorrow,” Zhao Xian replies not even before Liu Yu’an is finished.

He’s got his eye on that car for a long time now; he didn’t manage to secure one as it was a limited edition.

“Alright,” Liu Yu’an replies, “I’ll be busy in the morning so come by in the afternoon.”

He hangs up then has a shower. Afterwards, he takes a look and finds out Shao Yanxi is still working.

He suddenly recalls that during the day the lady with the curly bangs said the boss worked from eight to midnight, and hesitates, but doesn’t do anything in the end.

He quietly turns back to his own room, and goes to sleep.

The next day, he gets breakfast while doing his morning run.

Shao Yanxi was getting water when he’s back, and clearly seems surprised to see him enter.

He must have forgotten that he’s staying here as well.

Liu Yu’an shakes the breakfast in his hand slightly, “I got breakfast for both of us. Eat together?”

There’s both a Chinese-style bun with youtiao , soy milk and eggs, and also Western-style milk and sandwich.

He puts them into plates in the kitchen before setting the dishes out onto the dining table, “there’s a bun with soy milk and eggs, and sandwich and milk. Which do you want?”

“I can do either,” he says, extending his hand towards the bun.

Liu Yu’an grins as he pushes the plate with the bun over to him before peeling the egg for him.

“I can do it myself.”

“Don’t be a stranger,” Liu Yu’an continues holding the egg in the air. Shao Yanxi looks at it for a bit before taking it. His finger happens to touch with Liu Yu’an’s hand.

He quickly retracts his own hand.

Liu Yu’an looks at him and says, “Yanxi, we’re family now.”

Shao Yanxi doesn’t respond. He quickly finishes his breakfast and leaves with an “I’m off to work.”

After that, Liu Yu’an calls up Ren Jianzhang, and drives off to the company after he replies that he’s at the company.

Inside, Ren Jianzhang is waiting.

He has a bunch of gossips he wants to ask, but as a professional agent he stops himself and points over to the sofa, “take a seat. What is it?”

He is pretty sure he isn’t here for work.

As Liu Yu’an never signed any work when it isn’t a collab with Yue Zhun.

He was actually pretty unimpressed with this attitude of his before.

Though yesterday he got a big firm face-slap – what right does he have to be dismissive towards him?

He’s already at the peak of human achievement. He doesn’t need to exert any single effort.

Unlike them, who still has to busy themselves with life’s complications.

Really, don’t compare yourself and others.

“Ren-ge,” Liu Yu’an says after taking a seat, “I came over today to talk about dissolving the contract. You know about it now, but I had some misunderstandings with Yanxi earlier and did something irrational. Now that we’ve made up, I can’t stay anymore.”

Ren Jianzhang “…” Must have been great fun for you rich people to play around, huh?

Though Liu Yu’an’s contract is not actually in his hand.

Not just Liu Yu’an, but the others as well.

“All your contracts are in CEO Ning’s hands. You’ll have to ask him,” he’s the CEO of the company.

He himself isn’t particularly concerned whether Liu Yu’an leaves or not.

Since Liu Yu’an hasn’t earned even 10,000 Yuan for him since signing on.

Now that he knows who he truly is, he couldn’t exactly hope for him to work hard and earn more money.

Speaking of, he starts teasing him, “you hid it well, huh?”

“We were in a fight and had a tantrum, kinda,” Liu Yu’an also chuckles.

Ren Jianzhang tries to imagine Shao Yanxi throwing a tantrum, and can only feel goosebumps rising all over.

What an unimaginable scene.

In the end, Ren Jianzhang just tells him, “don’t forget about Ren-ge when you’re among the stars,” then they take the elevator up to CEO Ning.

But then CEO Ning drops a bomb, “you’re dissolving the contract? Does CEO Shao know?”

So Liu Yu’an and Ren Jianzhang both now have a blank look on their faces.

“Are you referring to Shao Yanxi by CEO Shao?” Ren Jianzhang asks, shocked.

When was this little company suddenly involved with the wealthiest man ever?

No, wait, but it does make sense.

No matter what kind of ruckus Liu Yu’an made, CEO Ning never agreed to have him frozen indefinitely.

Really, their company has always been just the few of them.

All the work they secured… were pickings left for him from other players. But some time ago, they started to receive work for named characters, then side characters, deuteragonists, protagonists… It’s been subtle, but they have been making unusually smooth progress.

He thought it was finally time for their company to shine, as the actors and celebrities are finally receiving due recognition.

Though when he learned that Yue Zhun and Jiang He is close, he thought Jiang He was helping them.

——Ridiculous as it is, it was actually Shao Yanxi behind them.

In essence, he’s a colleague of the wealthiest man in the world.

While thinking like so, Ren Jianzhang is suddenly enthused.

Meanwhile, Liu Yu’an is more surprised, “since when?”

“You didn’t know?”

The CEO furrows his brows, thinking internally, ‘oops, he let out a secret.’

“I didn’t.”

No wonder he wasn’t pressured or anything even if he wasn’t earning a single dime for the company.

Liu Yu’an gets his phone out to call Shao Yanxi, “are you free?”

“I’m at work.”

“… Right, I know, but I just had a quick question. Did you buy out the company I work in?”

Since Shao Yanxi wasn’t responding, Liu Yu’an thought it might have been the signal and looked at the screen.

The signal bars are full, and as soon as he puts it back by his ear Shao Yanxi replies, “mm.”

“…” ‘mm’?!

“When was it?”

“Not long after you signed up.”

… Uh.

Liu Yu’an suddenly feels a bit chilly. Did Shao Yanxi know all about the retarded things he did?

And also Xiao-Zhang.

——His personal assistant.

Liu Yu’an suddenly starts suspecting him.

The original cannon fodder wasn’t a good person to him. No physical violence, that’s for sure, but he often spoke harshly to him and scolded him.

Ren Jianzhang also once told him Xiao-Zhang had minimum pay.

He stayed despite the low salary and that treatment from ‘Liu Yu’an.’

He’s probably Shao Yanxi’s man.

Liu Yu’an is having cold sweat.

The past Shao Yanxi didn’t do anything while he still followed the plot. Now that he’s suddenly gone awry…

Liu Yu’an thought he convinced Shao Yanxi to stay married. But now that he knew Shao Yanxi knew all about the actions of the original cannon fodder, Liu Yu’an suddenly feels as if they really did stay married because he told him he would be able to block others’ romantic advances.

Shao Yanxi is a handsome, wealthy man. There’s always ladies and even gentlemen hoping for a romantic encounter with him, which obviously Shao Yanxi dislikes.

It is still bearable in business outings. If he’s got a cold face on the others wouldn’t exactly dare to do anything.

The girls from rich, established families, however…

With Liu Yu’an in place, they, who value their face more than anything else, would refrain from clinging to him.

Liu Yu’an is more and more convinced that is the case.

Fine, then, he’ll take it.

Then, he says, “alright, I see. I’ll go to you at noon.”

Then, he hangs up.

Ren Jianzhang and CEO Ning look at each other nonplussed on the side.

Can the rich couple show their romance somewhere else?

They also want to buy their wives’ companies and not tell them to give them a surprise.

“Right, then I’m not annulling the contract,” Liu Yu’an says with a smile as he hangs up.

CEO Ning “…” He couldn’t do it even if he wanted to; the contract isn’t in his hands.

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