LWDC Chapter 134

Ning Fei really started working on the framework agreement that night.

Actually, it was just taking the contract previously agreed with Jinghui and modifying it. Most of the content was largely the same. The main thing was to finalize the sharing of the R&D results of Wang Haiyang’s team in the contract. After eleven o’clock at night, Ning Fei sent the electronic version to Duan Yunhong.

He was doing and sending the contract in his master bedroom. After sending it, Duan Yunhong didn’t reply immediately, so Ning Fei got up and knocked on the door of the adjacent guest bedroom.

A voice from inside said, “Come in.” Ning Fei turned the doorknob and opened the door. But he didn’t go in, instead, he leaned against the door and said, “Director Duan, I’ve sent you the electronic version of the contract. Would you please review it?”

“I agreed to sign the contract, but now it seems to be genuine rest time.” Duan Yunhong was leaning on the headboard reading a book, his phone was beside him, but he had no intention of picking it up to take a look. “Yu Zhou said it’s fine as long as it’s done in the next few days, so you’ll get it reviewed before I leave, right?”

“‘Rest’? Okay, you reminded me.” Ning Fei smiled, stepped into the room, unbuttoning his home wear as he walked towards the bed. “With the boss here, I should be more proactive, or I’ll be suspected of dereliction of duty.”

Duan Yunhong watched him sit beside him, his posture unchanged, and said coldly, “This isn’t clocking in for work. I’m not interested in perfunctory behavior.”

“The way you put it, we only care about actions, not intentions. As long as the actions aren’t perfunctory, right?” Ning Fei threw his home wear into his arms. “I specially chose this furry one. Feel it, isn’t the texture particularly good?”

“…” Duan Yunhong threw the home wear aside.

–Tsk, it is quite soft.

“Hey, you, this is the home wear I spent a long time picking out. Others can’t even touch it if they want to.” Ning Fei leaned closer to him, amused. “How about I put it on and let you experience what a tight hug feels like?”

This kind of intimate expression used to be common. But now, Duan Yunhong heard it, especially with the sentence Ning Fei said when approaching, he felt it carried a certain “performance quality,” extremely hypocritical.

“No hug.” Duan Yunhong still looked indifferent and said coldly, “No need for you to sell smiles here. Go back and sleep.”

Ning Fei’s smile instantly disappeared.

Just as the thought “as expected” popped into Duan Yunhong’s head, Ning Fei grabbed the book in his hand and threw it aside.

“I give you a good face and you get carried away, don’t you?” Ning Fei grabbed the man’s hands, opened them, and sat directly on his lap. “What are you pretending for? You come to your lover’s house to sleep, bring your own king-size bed, water bed, and then pretend to read a book here?”

As he spoke, he glanced at the cover of the book: “It’s even a philosophy book. You’re really taking the pretense to the extreme.”

“What book I read is none of your business?” Duan Yunhong finally caught the opportunity to return the sentence Ning Fei had been saying the most these past few days. “What’s wrong? You finally want to take the initiative to serve me, but I don’t accept it, and you’re embarrassed into anger?”

“Yeah, embarrassed into anger.” Ning Fei didn’t even refute. “So, I’m going to force myself on you.”

Duan Yunhong: “…Huh?”

“Don’t you want to sleep? Then sleep.” Ning Fei grabbed the eye mask from the bedside and put it on Duan Yunhong’s head. “You sleep, I’ll play.”

Duan Yunhong’s eyes were completely dark, and his tone sounded amused in anger. “Are you that horny?”

Ning Fei heard that he was just putting on a brave face, otherwise, he would have snapped when he threw the home wear and snatched the book. Now that he was putting an eye mask on him, he was just saying nasty things, and his free hands didn’t even try to take it off. Therefore, Ning Fei leaned down with great peace of mind, not worried that the other party would suddenly jump up and throw him off.

In complete darkness, Duan Yunhong suddenly felt a chill, accompanied by Ning Fei’s playful words: “Yeah, since there’s a living one here, might as well use it.”

Then there was a heat again, no more words, but other senses of hearing and touch were infinitely amplified.

Then a tightness. Duan Yunhong finally couldn’t hold back.

He reached out his hand, accurately grabbing the other party as if he could see, and pulled him up. The moment before the kiss, he heard a faint laugh, and a soft sentence: “You lost. Remember to review the contract tomorrow morning.”

Duan Yunhong was just about to say “Who’s betting on that with you,” but Ning Fei had already taken the initiative to kiss him.

As passionate and skilled as ever, as if there was no difference from their first kiss.

Duan Yunhong’s eye mask never came off.

*

The second day of the New Year, Duan Yunhong didn’t review the contract, but called the leader in charge of scientific research at Huichuan, basically confirming two things: First, Huichuan would also join the cross-regional R&D mechanism, and second, the R&D results of Wang Haiyang’s team could be shared to a certain extent.

On the third day, the cooperation framework agreement between the Huichuan Base Research Institute and the Tianyue Base Research Center was finally put on the system after several revisions.

On the fourth day, the paper agreement was stamped and scanned.

On the fifth day, Duan Yunhong called Wang Haiyang and asked him to organize the current results into written materials. In principle, they should be in the form of a paper, but the format and wording didn’t have to be too strict, as long as they were understandable.

The sixth day was Duan Yunhong’s last day staying at the Tianyue Base.

After taking a shower, Ning Fei consciously came to the guest bedroom again, grabbing Duan Yunhong’s hand and letting him feel the “new tricks” in his bathrobe, euphemistically calling it a “farewell package.”

“What do you want this time?” Duan Yunhong’s hand was touching, and his tone was mocking. “Every time you come, you’re urging me for something. What do you want to squeeze out of me before I leave?”

“I said, it’s purely a farewell.” Ning Fei chuckled. “If we’re talking about squeezing, then I’ll squeeze out the last bit of your energy.”

Duan Yunhong didn’t think he would fall for this, and pinched his waist hard. “Really not going to say? Don’t regret it later if you remember something you forgot to mention.”

“Ouch…! Gently!” Ning Fei winced in pain and slapped his hand. “Can’t you save the strength for other places?”

Duan Yunhong pressed him down on the bed, looking down at him. “If you don’t say it again, you won’t have a chance to say it.”

Ning Fei looked at him. “There is one, actually.”

I knew it. Duan Yunhong thought, and uttered one word: “Say it.”

“Yue Fengping’s comrade-in-arms’ restaurant–the one we often go to–made a few hot pot soup bases, vacuum-packed and frozen, they’re in the freezer compartment now.” Ning Fei replied, “I might not be awake when you leave tomorrow morning. Remember to take them before you go.”

“…” Duan Yunhong never expected it to be this.

He was right in what he said just now. Although Ning Fei had been coming almost every day these past few days, it was always accompanied by urging for other things, just like an exchange of conditions. As long as Duan Yunhong thought of Ning Fei “coming to work with a mission,” a thorn was always stuck in his heart.

Clearly, in the first world they met, Ning Fei often proposed this or that condition after the fact. If Duan Yunhong didn’t give them, he would stimulate him with all kinds of words and throw tantrums until Duan Yunhong “mercifully” agreed to him. But at that time, Duan Yunhong just felt that giving them was fine, it was just a kind of fun between the sheets. Now, he couldn’t help but pay attention to this kind of “exchange.” Even during intimate contact, the thought of “this was exchanged for XXX” would occasionally flash through his mind, making him lose that last little bit of enjoyment.

Duan Yunhong realized that he seemed to have become “petty.”

And right at this moment, Ning Fei suddenly became “generous.” He came to “say goodbye” and suddenly said he had prepared Tianyue specialties for Duan Yunhong to take with him. Duan Yunhong was simply caught off guard by him like this. Logically, Duan Yunhong, who was also an old hand in love, shouldn’t be bought or moved by these small favors. But Ning Fei just gave a small gift at this time, not too early, not too late. The means of ingratiation were so skillful that even though Duan Yunhong had seen through it, he couldn’t control the slightest waves in his heart.

–He’s really using PUA techniques on me…

“Since you have nothing to say, then I have a condition to make.”

Duan Yunhong regained his senses, stared at the person below, and said slowly, “Since I spent 2 million to make you my lover, then you can’t just take the luck and do nothing–we have to meet at least once every quarter, for no less than a week each time.”

“First, I’ve only received 1 million so far, the other 1 million hasn’t landed in my pocket yet. Don’t give me conditions in a tone as if you’ve already paid in full.” Ning Fei replied, “Second, the distance between Tianyue and Huichuan takes several days to drive non-stop, and it takes almost ten days to go back and forth. We also have to stay for a week, so we’d be spending most of a month every quarter just meeting, and we wouldn’t be able to do anything else. I have a lot of work, it’s impossible for me to run around like this every two months. Either reduce the number of times and the time, or you come over here.”

He didn’t jump up and refute directly, so Duan Yunhong made some concessions and discussed with him: “Then let’s change it to at least three meetings a year. We can discuss whether you come to my place or I come to Tianyue. Also, you have to reply to my messages. You don’t have to reply immediately, but you have to reply. It’s impossible for you not to look at your phone all day. Don’t pretend you didn’t see it.”

“How come you’re adding conditions as we talk?” Ning Fei raised an eyebrow. “Alright, alright, I’ll reply to your messages, okay? Boss, what other requests do you have? Say them quickly, ‘Don’t regret it later if you remember something you forgot to mention.'”

Duan Yunhong heard him retort with his own words, was silent for two seconds, and then blurted out another sentence: “This time doesn’t count in this year’s count.”

“…Damn.” Ning Fei was amused. “You don’t suffer a loss at all. Okay, there are still three times this year, but don’t expect me to run around for the remaining three times. Don’t be unreasonable with me if I really can’t squeeze out the time.”

“Mm.” Duan Yunhong responded, slowly untying Ning Fei’s bathrobe belt. Like unwrapping a gift, he completely peeled off this layer of “gift wrapping paper.”

His gaze circled the other party’s body again and again, and after thoroughly enjoying it visually, Duan Yunhong leaned down.

“Also, tell the people at Jinghui that you’ve ‘reconciled.'”

“Huh? This is just…Ugh.”

*

After Duan Yunhong left, everything at the Tianyue Base continued as usual.

After the Lantern Festival, the Huichuan Base joined the cross-regional research system, and the R&D results of Wang Haiyang’s team also began to be gradually shared.

The “Esper Exchange Conference” that had been rumored before the festival finally released a formal notice at the end of February. In mid-March, Ning Fei followed the invitation letter and work arrangements to go to the Jinghui Base to carry out exchange activities. Although he was a Level 3 esper, Yu Zhou still brought him an escort team out of safety considerations.

This time, it wasn’t Zheng Liwen’s team that was called. After all, Zheng Liwen’s team was also quite important in Tianyue, and Zheng Liwen and Ning Fei had already made it clear that they weren’t going to happen, so Yu Zhou changed to another team and added a note to Ning Fei: “There’s also a Wang Moye at Jinghui. I won’t let Zheng Liwen go there and cause trouble.”

Ning Fei: “…I’m going on a business trip to exchange ideas, not to cheat on someone.”

Yu Zhou: “It could be.”

Ning Fei didn’t bother to argue with him. Even though he already knew about the 2 million yuan lover transaction, Yu Zhou didn’t seem to have given up on continuing to “matchmake” Ning Fei. Ning Fei didn’t want to get entangled with him anymore. Whatever.

Anyway, in this spring, Ning Fei and six other people went to Beijing in two cars.

They were running on the main roads that the various domestic bases had been maintaining, and they arrived safely a few days later.

Unexpectedly, but logically, Wang Moye actually came to pick them up. He even came to the gate of the base to pick them up, and got directly into Ning Fei’s car, and then took out his mobile phone and started pointing the way.

Wang Moye didn’t arrange a separate hotel for Ning Fei without permission, but followed the rules and took them to the designated accommodation for the exchange conference. Along the way, Wang Moye also introduced the more famous landmark buildings along the road, as well as the location of the major functional facilities within the base. Interspersed with this was the location of Wang Moye’s own residence. Ning Fei pretended not to notice, and just gave single-syllable responses like “Oh–” “Mm” “Huh?” as a way to answer.

It wasn’t until the entrance of the hotel that Wang Moye suddenly seemed to remember something and asked a question: “Oh, right, I forgot to ask you, although the hotel where Director Duan is staying is a bit far away, the conditions should be better. Aren’t you staying with him?”

Ning Fei: “…Huh?”

–Duan Yunhong also came to Beijing?!