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    Chapter 20: This Straightforward?!

    “Hello, President Zhuo!”

    Che Ye’s voice was gentle yet composed, as if each word was carefully weighed, without a trace of flattery.

    Hearing Che Ye speak, Zhuo Huaimo’s expression instantly darkened, his tone becoming colder,

    “Where’s Qi Yanwang?”

    “Yanwang is currently unavailable, President Zhuo. Is there anything I can relay?”

    Che Ye tried his best to maintain composure, but couldn’t hide the slight unrest in his voice.

    “You relay?”

    Zhuo Huaimo deliberately dragged out the ending sound, slightly raised, teasing the other side.

    Before Che Ye could reply, he abruptly changed the subject, cold and distant, “No need!”

    Zhuo Huaimo’s words were merciless, “Tell him to give me a call back.”

    After speaking, he hung up directly.

    The empty dial tone made the smile on Che Ye’s face instantly stiffen, that composure finally unable to be contained and shattered, his face pale.

    Qi Yanwang was carrying two plates of meat, happily walking over,

    “Who was that on the phone?”

    “Oh, it seemed to be President Zhuo!” Che Ye suppressed his emotions, his tone calm.

    “Old Zhuo?”

    Qi Yanwang raised his eyebrows slightly, quickly took the phone,

    “Did he say what it was about?”

    “Do you know how noisy it is here? He said, ‘Talk at the company tomorrow,’ anyway, it shouldn’t be anything particularly big.”

    Che Ye looked dismissive, raised his hand to brush away the fumes that had just come close.

    “That’s good then!”

    Qi Yanwang put away his phone, urging, “Hurry up and eat, the food on your plate is getting cold.”

    Che Ye was almost speechless, his heart practically rolling a thousand pairs of eyes, looking with heartache at the high-end silk scarf around his neck.

    This was his prized possession, knowing he was meeting Zhuo Huaimo today, he specially wore it.

    Unexpectedly, he was dragged by this guy in front of him to this broken place full of fumes to eat barbecue.

    This was his high-end silk scarf!

    High-end!!!

    Che Ye slowly took off the silk scarf.

    Even more devastating was that just as he had unraveled half of it, Qi Yanwang suddenly stared at his collar and exclaimed,

    “You got oil on your chest!”

    Saying that he picked up Zhuo Huaimo’s high-end silk scarf and wiped it on his collar.

    Che Ye watched as the 38,000 scarf was used as a rag, almost lost his soul, and could only mechanically say,

    “This, this is Hermes…”

    However, before the words could fall, the fate of the high-end version of the silk scarf had been completely “settled.”

    Che Ye completely lost his appetite, perfunctorily ate a few bites and then excused himself to go to the door for a smoke.

    When the cigarette was halfway burned, he suddenly thought of something, took out his phone, and sent a message to a number,

    “Is Zhuo Huaimo one of your members? Help me check when he usually goes?”

    When Qi Yanwang returned home, Zhuo Huaimo was leaning against the car smoking, his slender and straight legs casually placed.

    In the moonlight, his already handsome face added a bit of softness.

    The scarlet flame flickered between his fingers, and the cigarette butts at his feet had already piled up, obviously waiting for a long time.

    Qi Yanwang looked at his decadent appearance, quickly stepped forward, and asked with a bit of teasing,

    “Why did you come? Were you robbed?”

    Zhuo Huaimo lowered his eyes, extinguished the cigarette butt on the ground, crushed it with his leather shoe, and raised his chin towards Qi Yanwang’s home,

    “Aren’t you going to invite me in for a sit?”

    Qi Yanwang’s home was very small, you could see everything at a glance when you opened the door, a bedroom, a living room, the advantage was that it was clean and tidy.

    Qi Yanwang poured a glass of water and placed it in front of him, sat opposite, put his hands in his pockets, his eyes calm, quietly waiting for what he was going to say next.

    “I apologize to you for what happened three years ago!”

    Zhuo Huaimo was silent for a moment, earnestly said, “Although I said that I didn’t know about it at the time, you will think that I am shirking responsibility, but the fact is indeed so!”

    Qi Yanwang raised his eyebrows slightly, quickly sorted out the information in his words. .

    Three years ago, could it be…

    A look of realization appeared on his face for a moment, the corners of his mouth curved up in a shallow smile, understanding everything,

    “You saw Li Jian today?”

    Zhuo Huaimo took the water glass on the table, took a sip, and nodded with an “mm.”

    “Cough, I thought it was a big deal! You scared me!”

    Qi Yanwang pressed his chest and pretended to breathe a sigh of relief, pretending to be relaxed,

    “I thought my male lead was gone!”

    This kind of teasing was obviously within Zhuo Huaimo’s expectations, he breathed a slight sigh of relief, but the emotions in the depths of his eyes did not dissipate.

    He who had always been calm and composed, able to joke about anything, suddenly didn’t know how to respond.

    He took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, trembling as he lit it.

    “That award doesn’t deserve you either! You deserve better, and I also…”

    Zhuo Huaimo paused for a moment, seeming to weigh his words, and finally said in a low voice, “I will also give you the best!”

    He was nervous!

    Qi Yanwang sat opposite, silently staring at Zhuo Huaimo, and for the first time discovered that this always aloof person could be so fragile because of nervousness.

    He didn’t know about what happened three years ago, but he repented for it.

    Qi Yanwang was slightly surprised, the playful tone followed,

    “President Zhuo, you wouldn’t be thinking of making it up to me, would you?”

    This “President Zhuo” instantly made the relationship between the two become distant again, which was what Zhuo Huaimo least wanted to see.

    He took a deep breath of smoke, his tone serious, “Say it, what do you want?”

    Qi Yanwang raised his eyebrows slightly, seeming to find this interesting, his tone with a smile,

    “Anything is fine?”

    “Yeah!”

    Qi Yanwang suddenly got up, took a Switch from the cabinet and handed it to him,

    “Help me clear Zelda!”

    “Huh?”

    Zhuo Huaimo was stunned, chuckled, and shook his head helplessly with a smile.

    After a few rounds, Zhuo Huaimo was miserably abused, angrily threw the Switch aside, and it fell from the gap between the sofas.

    “It’s just a game, why are you acting like a child?”

    Qi Yanwang placed the cut fruit platter on the coffee table and walked over,

    “Don’t move, I’ll pick it up!”

    Zhuo Huaimo bent over to pick it up, Qi Yanwang followed behind him and bent over to pick it up, his chest tightly pressed against the former’s back.

    Tiny static electricity burst out where their fingertips overlapped.

    Qi Yanwang’s heart trembled involuntarily, but he didn’t get up immediately, but paused for a second, instinctively asking,

    “Why are your hands so cold?”

    Saying that, his thumb unconsciously rubbed the faint blue blood vessels on his wrist.

    Zhuo Huaimo’s shoulders obviously stiffened, his back was stiff and sensitive because of Qi Yanwang’s closeness.

    He couldn’t help but turn his head slightly, but happened to meet Qi Yanwang’s face close at hand.

    Qi Yanwang’s lips were right in front of him, he could even clearly see the fine fluff on his face.

    The distance between the two was only a few inches, each other’s ambiguous and warm breath intertwined and diffused.

    Zhuo Huaimo’s heart was in his throat, and he couldn’t help but frantically slander in his heart,

    “What is Qi Yanwang doing? Does he even know what he’s doing?!”

    He missed Qi Yanwang’s embrace and body temperature, but he was not satisfied with just this, the heat in his lower abdomen was about to drown him.

    However, he didn’t dare to go further, being too straightforward before had almost scared him away.

    Now, he could only restrain himself, only endure.

    Qi Yanwang frowned slightly, his eyes lingered on Zhuo Huaimo’s face for a moment, as if he was thinking about something.

    He suddenly leaned closer, his nose almost touching Zhuo Huaimo’s neck, the warm breath provoking shivers all over his body.

    Zhuo Huaimo held his breath, his mind had already exploded into fireworks, “He’s getting closer again! … What is he going to do?! What on earth is Qi Yanwang doing?!”

    His muscles were tense, his heart beating like a drum.

    It’s not that Zhuo Huaimo didn’t want to, it was just that he felt he was really too suspicious, not daring to move!

    Just when he was about to collapse, Qi Yanwang suddenly took a deep breath, his expression as serious as if he was making some unspeakable decision, but suddenly opened his mouth and asked –

    “What shower gel do you use, this scent on your body is really fragrant.”

    Zhuo Huaimo’s upper and lower heart instantly broke,

    “… Could you please be any more earnestly oblivious?!”

    He covered up the roll of his eyes to the back of his head, and almost couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to him.

    “Ding dong–”

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