MFIMM Chapter 13

Arguing

Arguing

Lin Xi had a company shoot scheduled for the morning, so he simply rode to the company with Pei Jiashu.

Once they arrived in the underground parking garage, Lin Xi saw people entering the company one after another, and it suddenly dawned on him that if others saw him getting out of the same car as Pei Jiashu, wouldn’t their relationship be exposed?

No way.

Lin Xi pressed down on Pei Jiashu’s hand as he was about to unbuckle his seatbelt. “Pei Jiashu, don’t get out yet. Wait for me to go upstairs first, then you can get out.”

“Oh?” Pei Jiashu raised his eyebrows slightly. Lin Xi was challenging him at every moment. He retorted, “Why isn’t it that you wait here for me to get out first?”

“No, I have an appointment with Brother Qi at nine o’clock, and I’ll be late if I wait for you. You’re the CEO, even if you’re late, no one would dare to say anything.”

Lin Xi blinked at Pei Jiashu.

“A CEO can’t be late casually either.” As he spoke, Pei Jiashu slapped Lin Xi’s hand away. Lin Xi reacted quickly, unbuckling his own seatbelt and opening the car door to get out. But Pei Jiashu was one step faster, taking a long stride and exiting the car first.

Lin Xi could only grab the door handle, glaring at Pei Jiashu in anger. But Pei Jiashu even turned back to give him a provocative smile.

He was so angry that he almost broke the car handle. Where was Pei Jiashu gentle! He was clearly a petty and vindictive sly fox.

In the end, Lin Xi was still a few minutes late, but fortunately, Brother Qi didn’t take it to heart.

Lin Xi and Brother Qi sat in a small conference room, discussing the content to be filmed recently. Lin Xi opened the memo on his phone, which was densely packed with analyses of recent trending videos, as well as content recently shared by anchors in the same niche.

Brother Qi looked at Lin Xi’s memo. The company had professional staff who analyzed these things every day.

But seeing how earnestly Lin Xi was working, completely different from the Lin Xi who was initially unclear about his positioning in his career plan, a hint of appreciation flashed in his eyes.

After all, who wouldn’t like someone who was both good-looking and ambitious?

He took Lin Xi out for location shooting for another whole day. Lin Xi took the storage card home, turned on the speakers, and leaned against the bay window, meticulously editing the images on his computer.

After finishing the editing, he uploaded it to the platform, then switched to a smaller account to browse videos, analyzing the content and camera angles of other anchors. This was practically his daily routine.

Lin Xi stretched lazily, stood up from his chair, ordered takeout, and collapsed on the sofa in the living room with a pillow, chasing dramas while waiting for his food.

This life was simply amazing.

Except that the person who opened the door was not his takeout delivery person, but Pei Jiashu, who was back from work.

They made eye contact but didn’t speak, averting their gazes from each other. Soon, Lin Xi’s takeout arrived. He sat in the living room, eating and watching TV. Pei Jiashu cooked his own meal in the kitchen. After Lin Xi finished eating, he couldn’t help but say, “Throw the takeout away before you go back to your room.”

“I’m experiencing carbohydrate crash, I want to lie on the sofa and rest for a while.” Lin Xi just wanted to slump on the sofa and rest. Anyway, Pei Jiashu said to throw it away before he returned to his room, so he would just finish watching this episode.

As a result, when Pei Jiashu finished washing the dishes, Lin Xi was still sprawled on the sofa.

Pei Jiashu looked at the burgers and fried chicken on the table, his brow twitching. “If you eat junk food and then sleep, you’ll get fat.”

Lin Xi suddenly bounced up from the sofa and jumped twice on the floor.

He wasn’t wearing socks, and his porcelain-white feet were directly on the floor. Pei Jiashu frowned, but didn’t say much.

Lin Xi cleaned up the takeout and went back to his room to live stream. After the live stream ended, it was already past ten o’clock in the evening, so he called his good buddy to play games together.

The screams from the two of them over the microphone could almost lift the roof.

“Chen Mingxuan, someone’s attacking me, ahhhhh! I’m down, come save me quickly!”

“I’ll throw a smoke grenade for you, crawl over to my side.”

“Hurry up and crawl over!”

At this moment, Pei Jiashu upstairs had just closed his eyes and was almost bounced out of bed by Lin Xi’s shout.

He opened his phone and glanced at the time, then closed his eyes again, but the sound from downstairs could still be heard intermittently.

Pei Jiashu opened a white noise app on his phone and selected a few white noises.

The sound of chanting and bells ringing simultaneously came from his phone. He closed his eyes again, telling himself not to get angry. He had to go to work tomorrow, so he shouldn’t argue with people who didn’t have to work.

Lin Xi downstairs started another round and, hearing the faint sound of chanting, increased the volume of his phone, complaining to Li Mingxuan, “Who’s chanting scriptures in the middle of the night? Some kind of psycho.”

The sound of the game vaguely threatened to drown out the chanting. Pei Jiashu pinched his phone and sat up on the bed, dragging his slippers to the first floor and knocking on Lin Xi’s door.

Lin Xi jumped out of bed while playing the game to open the door. Seeing Pei Jiashu’s dark face, he didn’t realize what the problem was and asked him during a break in the game, “What do you want?”

Pei Jiashu directly snatched Lin Xi’s phone, pressing the power button. “It’s already eleven o’clock, go to sleep.”

“Hey! I haven’t finished playing yet.” Lin Xi wanted to snatch the phone back from Pei Jiashu, but Pei Jiashu deliberately raised his hand very high.

“It’s only eleven o’clock!” Lin Xi said to Pei Jiashu with a pout. “Besides, how does me playing games bother you?”

“It’s very noisy.” Pei Jiashu said, pressing his forehead.

Lin Xi was stunned. “But I asked you before how the soundproofing of this house was, and you said it was okay, that’s why I dared to use the microphone with confidence.”

Pei Jiashu was also stunned, not expecting that he had dug a pit for himself to jump into.

“Eleven o’clock is already very late. I have to get up early tomorrow morning to go to work. I hope you can be quiet.”

Lin Xi had been tortured by work every day for this period of time. He had finally had a day off tomorrow and was thinking of relaxing for once in the evening, but he was still being asked to be quiet. He was also holding his breath in his heart for a moment.

“I haven’t even said that you getting up early will wake me up!”

Seeing that he couldn’t reason with Lin Xi, Pei Jiashu became even more irritable, and his tone couldn’t help but become rushed. “Your schedule is unhealthy to begin with. Besides, do you play games with your mouth or your hands? Do you have to shout so loudly?”

“You…” Lin Xi was originally like a firecracker, and Pei Jiashu lit it, he exploded. “What I use to play is none of your business. It’s none of your business whether my schedule is healthy or not.”

Lin Xi snatched the phone from Pei Jiashu’s hand and slammed the door shut, locking him out.

He wasn’t in the mood to play games anymore, so he opened WeChat and complained to Li Mingxuan on his phone.

He didn’t know what time he fell asleep, but he was woken up again by the sound of Pei Jiashu cooking. Lin Xi covered himself with the blanket, feeling so annoyed that he wanted to go out and beat Pei Jiashu up.

But the sound quickly disappeared as the door was closed.

After Pei Jiashu arrived at the company, his mind was filled with the events of last night. He looked at Assistant Song with huge dark circles under his eyes, and Assistant Song was taken aback.

He thought for a moment that if Lin Xi had to go to work on time like him, his schedule would be adjusted.

So he said to Assistant Song, “Assistant Song, inform Lin Xi that he has to clock in at the company morning and evening from now on. Failure to clock in will be considered absenteeism.”

“But…” Before Assistant Song could finish speaking, Pei Jiashu waved his hand, signaling Assistant Song to leave.

Assistant Song could only pass the message on to Lin Xi.

Lin Xi’s leisurely time was gone. He hurriedly changed his clothes, not even having time to put on makeup, and went to the company with a face more resentful than a ghost.

He went to the pantry to make himself a cup of coffee, because he hadn’t slept enough and his head was still a little dizzy at this moment.

“Damn Pei Jiashu! Bourgeoisie who exploit the working people! The biggest villain in the world! Dictator!”

Lin Xi cursed all the swear words he could think of.

As a result, when he turned around after making the coffee, he found Pei Jiashu with a sly smile on his face. “Cursing the boss will result in another two hundred yuan deduction.”

“It wasn’t you…” Lin Xi collapsed, wishing he could die on the spot. Thinking about all the money he had been deducted, he could only grit his teeth and say, “I wasn’t cursing you. I was thinking about today’s script.”

“You are the best boss in the world…” So good that he wanted to pour this cup of coffee directly on Pei Jiashu’s grinning face.

Seeing Lin Xi being defeated, Pei Jiashu couldn’t be happier right now.

“Since you said so, then the two hundred won’t be deducted.”

Lin Xi’s lips moved, but no sound came out. He was probably secretly cursing him behind his back again, but Pei Jiashu didn’t care anymore.

As expected, Lin Xi, who had worked a day, was like he had been drained of energy after returning home, collapsing limply on the sofa, too lazy to move at all.

But fortunately, he had already live-streamed at the company today.

Thinking that he had to get up early to go to work tomorrow, Lin Xi felt that his life had lost all its glory.

On the contrary, Pei Jiashu’s face looked like it could reach the sky.

Lin Xi angrily turned on the TV and found a variety show with a lot of people, and the chattering sound echoed in the house. Pei Jiashu didn’t say a word either, leisurely eating his meal.

Because he had to go to work, Lin Xi didn’t dare to stay up late and went to bed early.

He didn’t have anything to do at the company, and he couldn’t sit still, so he simply went out with the company’s photographers to learn how to shoot.

Although he had studied it in college, he hadn’t listened to the lessons properly, and the things he shot were all to cope with assignments, so naturally, there was no way to compare with these people who had been holding cameras all year round.

So he followed the camera masters to shoot outside, and some kind people even taught him composition while shooting.

In the afternoon, he would live stream at the company, and could also go to other anchors’ short dramas to play a small role, getting to know a lot of people.

But the people in the company were mixed, omega were okay, but some alpha would not spray blocking agents at all. With strenuous exercise, their bodies always emitted a mixed smell of sweat and pheromones, making Lin Xi physically uncomfortable.

The allergic symptoms on his body became more and more serious, so Lin Xi simply left work early and went home.

Because there was a pheromone purifier in the room, he could hardly smell any pheromones. The little bit that remained was more like drinking poison to quench thirst, making Lin Xi’s body even more crave Pei Jiashu’s pheromones.

He looked in the direction of the stairwell. There was still half an hour before Pei Jiashu got off work.

It should be okay to sneak upstairs and smell Pei Jiashu’s pheromones, right?