MNL Chapter 53

Chapter 53: Business Card, Boyfriend, Is This Considered Pouting?

Chapter 53 Business Card, Boyfriend, Is This Considered Pouting?

Yan Mo was noticeably more cooperative in class tonight, because this was the first time she truly felt that Xu Jing was in a very bad mood, as if he could strangle her with one hand in the next second and throw the body into the wilderness.

“Got it?”

Xu Jing’s voice, devoid of warmth, came over. Yan Mo, knowing when to stop, nodded frantically.

Today’s efficiency was even higher than when Shen Yan was here last night. It only took an hour to finish tutoring. Apart from explaining math problems, Xu Jing didn’t say any extra nonsense. He just sat there looking down at his phone. Yan Mo finished packing her schoolbag, but felt that something was not quite right. She would occasionally look up at the silent man on the sofa while playing with her toys.

“Brother.” Yan Mo’s childish voice came over. Xu Jing paused, raised his eyes, “What is it?”

Yan Mo put down the toy in her hand and walked from the corner to Xu Jing’s side. After looking at each other for a few seconds, she said solemnly, “Are you heartbroken?”

Xu Jing frowned, “Huh?”

“Looks like not.” Yan Mo said to herself, her beautiful eyes rolled twice, and then said, “Is it because that brother left last night and you miss him?”

Xu Jing’s expression changed subtly, and he replied, “You should worry about your math first.”

Yan Mo didn’t care at all and blurted out without thinking, “I can tell the answers to those questions at a glance.”

The air seemed to freeze at this moment.

Xu Jing: “Oh?”

Yan Mo smiled awkwardly and quickly said, “It’s nothing, it’s nothing, I’m just kidding, let’s talk about that brother’s business.”

“Are you texting that brother?” Yan Mo’s 2.0 vision clearly saw the phone screen. The dialog box was full, but the number of words in each sentence was not large, especially Xu Jing, who basically sent “Okay”, “Yeah”, and “?”

But she clearly saw that Xu Jing had been typing on the screen just now.

The phone vibrated twice. Yan Mo quickly glanced at it before Xu Jing picked it up.

The contact name was Shen Yan.

——What are you doing?

Xu Jing typed a few words and was about to send them when Yan Mo immediately interrupted, “Sending it like this is wrong.”

Xu Jing was stunned by what she said and stopped, subconsciously looking at the words he had typed: Just finished teaching, sitting down.

There were no typos.

The answer was also very normal.

But how did she see it? Xu Jing was about to speak when Yan Mo preemptively said, “You should say, ‘Nothing, thinking of you.'”

Xu Jing: “…”

What nonsense.

“Weren’t you thinking about this brother just now?” Yan Mo sat next to Xu Jing and said sincerely, “I think he’s very nice to you.”

Xu Jing was unconsciously led astray and couldn’t help but ask, “Why?”

“His eyes, the way he looks at you is very different.” Yan Mo said, “Just like my deskmate looks at the boy sitting in front of her.”

“Is your deskmate a boy?”

“No, we’re not allowed to have boys and girls as deskmates.” Yan Mo blinked twice, her tone a little puzzled, “Is there a problem with that?”

Yan Mo was the best at playing dumb, and she spoke one set after another. Xu Jing was suddenly speechless.

“Hurry up and reply to his message.”

Xu Jing certainly couldn’t say such things in front of others, especially since the other person was just a fifth-grade elementary school student, so he turned off the phone and looked at the somewhat excited Yan Mo.

“So why did you lie to your mom?”

The change in topic made Yan Mo freeze, and the corners of her raised mouth instantly dropped.

“I didn’t.” Yan Mo didn’t remember how energetic she was when she asked Xu Jing just now. At this time, she shook her head like a rattle.

“You don’t have to argue with me, but you should–”

Yan Mo immediately panicked, grabbed Xu Jing’s arm, and shouted, “No, don’t tell my mother!”

Because they were close, Xu Jing clearly saw tension, pain, and even fear in Yan Mo’s eyes. It seemed that this matter was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

“What happened?”

Yan Mo didn’t speak. Xu Jing immediately understood and said in a low voice, “You can choose not to tell me, but doing so may not achieve the result you want.”

Yan Mo’s head gradually lowered, and her tone became soft, “Brother Xu Jing, it’s all my fault, but I didn’t deliberately anger you before. I just wanted to make my grades look worse.”

That was new. It was the first time he had heard such a request in his life.

“Is someone making things difficult for you at school?”

At least at this moment, Xu Jing believed that although Yan Mo seemed fearless on the surface, she was actually just a minor girl. How much psychological endurance could she have?

A very soft “Yes” came over. Xu Jing almost certainly concluded, “You’ve encountered school bullying.”

Hearing this, Yan Mo shuddered twice.

“No, no…” Yan Mo said almost pleadingly, “Really not, please don’t tell my mother.”

“I won’t tell.” After Xu Jing agreed, looking at Yan Mo’s pitiful appearance at this time, he still slowly softened his tone, “Who is it?”

Xu Jing became completely different when he was gentle. Yan Mo pursed her lips, and hot tears flowed down her cheeks, “Her name is Song Mo. Ever since I was in the same class as her, she has been targeting me in class because she can’t beat me in exams. She tears up my homework and throws it into the trash can, scratches my school uniform, calls me into the bathroom and pulls my hair with other girls, and many other things like that.”

Xu Jing’s brows furrowed even deeper. Because of Yan Zhe, he often got involved in some disputes. However, most of the conflicts between boys were caused by the strong desire for conquest during puberty. Sometimes a fight would solve the problem. However, what Yan Mo said was not only childish among girls of her age, but also truly malicious.

But—

Xu Jing’s thinking was very clear. He asked, “Why don’t you fight back?”

“I…”

“You’re not the type to bully the weak and fear the strong.”

Yan Mo still didn’t say anything, but her fair face turned blood red.

“Tell me, what else are you hiding?”

Xu Jing’s words were like sharp swords. Yan Mo bit her lip, her face was already wet with tears, and her soft voice was sobbing, “Because my mom’s company is opened by her dad.”

Therefore, deliberately scoring a few points less was to make Song Mo stop abusing her, and hiding this matter in her heart and not mentioning it was because she was worried that Chen Yalin would lose her job as a result. But how could children like Song Mo think of this point later? Only Yan Mo considered this possibility.

While surprised, Xu Jing admired Yan Mo’s meticulous thinking beyond her peers.

The doorbell suddenly rang at this time. The two of them looked at the clock on the wall at the same time and found that it was already nine o’clock. Yan Mo hurriedly took the tissue paper on the coffee table to wipe away her tears, and looked at Xu Jing with a pitiful expression.

Xu Jing understood and said, “I won’t say anything.”

Only then did Yan Mo feel relieved to open the door.

Chen Yalin was still wearing her work uniform, looking like she had just gotten off work and rushed over.

“Thank you for tonight, Xiao Jing. We’re leaving first, Mo Mo, quickly say goodbye to your brother.”

Yan Mo’s eyes were red and swollen, but she still turned around and waved to Xu Jing as if nothing had happened, “Goodbye, brother.”

Xu Jing nodded. When closing the door, he looked at the departing figures. Chen Yalin was holding Yan Mo’s hand. The hand behind her suddenly produced a cotton candy. The little girl’s clear and clean laughter came over. Xu Jing couldn’t help but stop his movements.

At this time, a top-notch business event was being held in the most prosperous area of Jiaqing City. In the 200-square-meter villa, at a glance, almost all were elite people, all dressed formally and solemnly, except for the boy sitting in the corner looking at his mobile phone.

Shen Yan’s black windbreaker seemed out of place among the suits and dresses.

But that face similar to Shen Linzhi’s was very eye-catching.

Anyone casually picked out from tonight’s event could shake a corner of the business circle, but Shen Yan didn’t care about these at all. He just wanted to know who sent this message with Xu Jing’s mobile phone. Looking at the words “Miss you” sent by the other party in the chat box, Shen Yan fell into deep thought.

Shen Linzhi didn’t know when he suddenly walked over with a glass of orange juice and placed it in front of Shen Yan, saying, “Xiao Yan, these are all the people you will have to deal with in the future. You can try to chat with them now.”

Shen Yan selectively ignored Shen Linzhi’s words, as if he regarded him as air, and his gaze remained fixed on his mobile phone.

“President Shen.” A rough male voice came from behind. A square-faced, white-bearded man walked over, his eyes sweeping across Shen Yan’s face with a hint of indiscernibility.

“President Lin.” Shen Linzhi raised his eyebrows as if a little surprised and smiled, “I didn’t expect you to be back. I thought you were still on vacation in Hainan with your wife.”

Lin Wei shook his head, looking helpless. “There are just too many things to do before retirement. Even a vacation has to be cut short to come back and deal with company matters.”

“What happened?”

Lin Wei’s expression froze for a moment. “It seems President Shen doesn’t know about what happened some time ago.”

Shen Linzhi adjusted his glasses and said slowly, “I haven’t been back to the country for long.”

Seeing this, Lin Wei also laughed and said, “Actually, it’s nothing, just some small matters.”

That is, someone took advantage of his trip to hack the company’s financial system, losing tens of millions.

However, before that, Lin Wei had always thought that this was done by Shen Linzhi, after all, in the current business circle, only he could compete with him for business, but seeing Shen Linzhi’s calm reaction, he was a little confused.

The boy next to him had a cold expression and was completely indifferent to their conversation. Lin Wei pointed in feigned surprise. “By the way, who is this?”

Shen Linzhi replied, “This is my son, Shen Yan.”

Before Lin Wei could move his gaze away, Shen Yan had already raised his head, and the eyes of the two happened to meet. Lin Wei couldn’t help but be stunned.

He really didn’t expect a child who had just come of age to have such cold and empty eyes, and quite deterrent.

“Can I leave?”

Shen Lin’s tone was gentle but forceful, “Not yet.”

A trace of impatience flashed in Shen Yan’s eyes, and he got up and passed Shen Linzhi to walk to another corner.

Lin Wei looked at all this with a smile that was not a smile, and an idea gradually took shape in his heart.

Shen Yan’s phone call still came at the right time. Xu Jing, who had just taken off his clothes and was about to take a shower, carefully looked around the bathroom, confirming that his home really had not been installed with surveillance, and then he answered it.

“Why did you answer so slowly?”

Xu Jing was a little tired, “It’s nothing, are you home?”

Shen Yan was standing on the corridor on the second floor of the villa, looking at the large crowd downstairs, and gently hummed.

“What’s wrong?”

It was quiet on the other end for a while, and after a long while, a low voice came, “Nothing, I miss you a little.”

Xu Jing’s heartbeat accelerated, and he felt inexplicably dizzy.

“Boyfriend, is this considered pouting?”

Shen Yan hummed again.

Xu Jing couldn’t help but laugh and said, “That sounds pretty good, say it again.”

A low laugh also came from the other side, and the clear voice rubbed out a bit of gentleness, “Xiao Jing, miss you.”

“… You really are.”

After listening to these two sounds, Xu Jing felt that he missed Shen Yan even more, and even the winter vacation became a distant prospect.

“How was the teaching today?”

“That kid’s matter is indeed not that simple.” Xu Jing briefly talked about Yan Mo’s experience. After Shen Yan listened, he only asked, “If it were you, what would you do?”

“Me?” Xu Jing sneered, “If it were me, that person would have dared not come to school long ago.”

The tone of the person on the other end of the phone was subtle, “That’s right, the little bully of No.1 High School.”

“…”

What kind of ghost title is that?

Xu Jing felt that he could imagine Shen Yan’s expression at this moment.

Shen Yan was about to continue speaking, but footsteps suddenly came from behind him.

“I won’t talk about it for now, I have something to do here.”

“Okay.”

The phone was hung up quickly. After Xu Jing put down his phone, he looked down at the place below that was already highly raised, and couldn’t help but curse in a low voice.

What a useless thing, and how useless he was.

While Shen Linzhi was talking about cooperation with others, Lin Wei quietly went upstairs. Shen Yan looked coldly at the approaching person, his eyes full of vigilance.

“Hello, young master of the Shen family.” Lin Wei stopped a few meters away from Shen Yan, a kind smile on his face, “Are you still in high school?”

Shen Yan said directly, “What’s the matter?”

“It’s nothing. I didn’t know when Shen Linzhi had such an old son.”

Shen Yan had no interest in these nonsense and turned to leave. However, when he passed Lin Wei, the other party took the lead to block him. At the same time, a golden business card slipped into his pocket.

“If you encounter any trouble, young master is welcome to cooperate with me in the future.”

Cooperate.

A trace of cold light flashed in Shen Yan’s eyes, and his cold eyes fell directly on Lin Wei’s face.

“What do you mean?”

“The literal meaning.” Lin Wei leaned closer, disregarding the disgust in Shen Yan’s eyes, and said softly, “I think we will be on the same path in the future, because we have the same goals.”

It was not until he heard the last sentence that Shen Yan understood what Lin Wei meant. He was indeed an old fox who had been struggling in the business circle for many years. He saw the clues between him and Shen Linzhi after only meeting once.

After that, without waiting for Shen Yan to reply, Lin Wei smiled slightly and turned to leave.

That smile was unfathomable, hiding traps and calculations, and seemed very strange. Shen Yan looked at the disappearing figure with a gloomy expression and clenched his fists.