MFIMM Chapter 17

Softhearted

Lin Xi’s fingers, clutching his sleeve, trembled slightly. His almond-shaped eyes stared directly at him, completely unaware of what these words meant to an alpha.

“Okay.” Pei Jiashu lowered his head and smiled gently at Lin Xi.

The sudden closeness and the gentle smile almost made Lin Xi’s heart stop, but only for a moment. Pei Jiashu put down the medicine bottle and turned off the pheromone purifier in the living room.

He took the medicine bottle again, sat back on the sofa, grabbed Lin Xi’s arm, “If you have an allergic reaction in the future, come directly to me, don’t hurt yourself anymore.”

He carefully applied the medicine to the wound with a cotton swab. The medicine was a little cool and stung a little when applied. Lin Xi shrank his arm.

“Does it hurt?” Pei Jiashu softened his voice and his movements, as if he were handling some treasure, which made Lin Xi feel a little uncomfortable.

He chuckled twice and said, “It doesn’t hurt,” but did not respond to Pei Jiashu’s previous words. They didn’t seem to be in a relationship where they could casually trouble each other.

Pei Jiashu seemed to be able to read Lin Xi’s mind. The cotton swab pressed down a little harder, and Lin Xi almost cried out in pain. He grabbed his arm and wanted to shake Pei Jiashu off, “I don’t want you to apply medicine for me.”

“Remember the pain so you won’t hurt yourself next time. If you keep scratching your glands, I’ll put an Elizabethan collar on you.”

“Elizabethan collar?” Lin Xi asked in confusion, quickly realizing that Pei Jiashu was talking about a dog collar, “You want to put a dog collar on me?”

He glared at Pei Jiashu angrily, only to find that Pei Jiashu had a faint smile on his lips, as if imagining what he would look like wearing an Elizabethan collar.

Lin Xi kicked Pei Jiashu angrily.

Without the pheromone purifier, and with Pei Jiashu deliberately releasing pheromones, the living room was soon filled with Pei Jiashu’s pheromones. Lin Xi finally recovered and planned to use Pei Jiashu and then dump him, saying:

“You can get out after you’re done applying the medicine.”

Pei Jiashu rarely argued with Lin Xi. Instead, he stood up and said, “What do you want to eat? I’ll cook.”

“You’ll cook for me?” Lin Xi pointed at himself uncertainly. He had been here for a month and a half, and Pei Jiashu had never said he would cook for him. Having a relapse actually made Pei Jiashu cook for him.

“I want to eat cola chicken wings, I want to eat shrimp, I want to eat spicy boiled pork slices, and I also want to eat ribs.” Lin Xi made himself hungry just by saying it, lying on the sofa drooling with greed.

Pei Jiashu’s mouth twitched. He shouldn’t have felt sorry for Lin Xi.

“You’re sick now, eat something light. We don’t have any of those at home. I’ll have the housekeeper send some over tomorrow.”

Lin Xi pouted, dissatisfied, “You won’t let me eat it, but you still ask me!”

“Then will you eat? If you don’t, I’ll make it for myself.”

Lin Xi: “Don’t! I’ve been ordering takeout for almost two months, and I’ve ordered from every takeout place nearby. I’m about to throw up.”

Pei Jiashu made two bowls of plain noodles, brought them to the dining table, and called Lin Xi to eat together.

Lin Xi suddenly thought that when he was at home, his father would always call him and his mother like this after cooking.

No, he and Pei Jiashu weren’t a real couple, how could he compare them to his parents?

Lin Xi shook his head, jumped off the sofa, and walked towards the kitchen.

“Lin Xi, put on your slippers,” Pei Jiashu glanced at him and said to Lin Xi.

“There’s a carpet in the living room!” Lin Xi said quickly.

Pei Jiashu: “There isn’t in the kitchen.”

Lin Xi had no choice but to go back and put on his slippers, sitting at the dining table complaining to Pei Jiashu, “My mom doesn’t nag as much as you do.”

“Eat quickly!” Pei Jiashu didn’t bother to argue with him, considering that Lin Xi was sick.

Although the two had been together for so long, they had never eaten at the same table before. Lin Xi picked up a strand of noodles. Although it was plain, it was delicious, and there were two fried eggs inside.

Pei Jiashu suddenly said, “Xie Chengwang went back to do a blood routine with your blood just now, and said you’re a little anemic. Don’t order takeout in the future.”

Lin Xi crunched on a bite of fried egg, raised his eyes, and looked at Pei Jiashu excitedly, “Then will you include me when you cook in the future?”

Pei Jiashu knew that Lin Xi would take the opportunity to climb up, so he coughed lightly and said, “That’s naturally impossible, but I can teach you how to cook.”

“Then I’ll just order takeout,” Lin Xi said in despair.

Pei Jiashu frowned, thought for a while, and said, “If you learn to cook well, I’ll let you use my pheromones as you please, and I won’t mind even if you want to take my clothes.”

“You just said that if I have an allergic reaction in the future, I can come directly to you! Now you want to add additional conditions. I don’t want your pheromones anymore!”

Lin Xi angrily threw down his chopsticks. He knew that Pei Jiashu was definitely not that kind. He was probably thinking about how to oppress him after teaching him how to cook.

As expected, no alpha was a good person.

Seeing that the negotiation had failed, Pei Jiashu went back to the kitchen to get him another pair of chopsticks, “Eat first, finish all the fried eggs.”

“It’s too oily, I don’t want to eat it.” Lin Xi turned his head, not wanting to pay attention to Pei Jiashu.

Pei Jiashu went to the kitchen again and made a plate of soy sauce dipping sauce, putting it in front of Lin Xi, “It won’t be oily if you dip it.”

Lin Xi still turned his head, not wanting to pay attention to Pei Jiashu.

Pei Jiashu looked down at Lin Xi, suppressing the anger in his eyes. He believed that he had used his best temper on Lin Xi, but Lin Xi was immune to both soft and hard tactics.

“Eggs are for replenishing blood. If you don’t want to eat them, I’ll have Xie Chengwang come over and give you a shot in the butt.”

Hearing these words, Lin Xi was indeed shocked and turned his head, his eyes full of horror.

Pei Jiashu snorted softly and put the chopsticks back in Lin Xi’s hand. This time, Lin Xi didn’t refuse, gobbling down the whole bowl of noodles, carrying the bowl to wash it himself.

After washing the dishes, he went back to his room, not giving Pei Jiashu a single glance the whole time.

Pei Jiashu poked at the egg in his bowl. There was only one egg in his bowl. He looked at Lin Xi’s back as he slammed the door shut, his teeth itching a little.

He never thought that someone who had been surrounded by people since childhood would one day be used and thrown away by someone else.

He cleaned up the kitchen, returned to his room, and looked at the message on his phone. It was a message that Xie Chengwang had just sent, saying that Lin Xi was anemic, and the most important test—the compatibility of their pheromones.

Xie Chengwang: The compatibility between you two is 100%. This is the first time I’ve seen such a high compatibility between two people. I think even if you went to get matched, you would end up marrying him.

Pei Jiashu looked at the message, but couldn’t be happy.

It wasn’t the first time he had seen people with such high compatibility. His parents’ compatibility was also 100%.

Everyone said that 100% compatibility was a match made in heaven, but that wasn’t the case with his parents. They were just a cold-blooded business marriage, and they didn’t even have any feelings for each other. His mother had passed away early due to depression.

In his memory, his mother was always covered in wounds, with blood everywhere, but she always smiled and touched his face.

Pei Jiashu forced himself to pull himself out of his memories, closed his eyes, and went to sleep.

Downstairs, Lin Xi was calling his good brother to complain about Pei Jiashu.

After hearing Lin Xi’s words, Chen Mingxuan angrily echoed Lin Xi, “Yes, he’s a bastard. But we have to pay attention to the eating problem, darling. How did you become anemic?”

“I don’t know, but I don’t feel anything. But Pei Jiashu actually threatened me that if I didn’t eat, he would give me a shot in the butt!”

Chen Mingxuan couldn’t help but chuckle, “I’m very curious how you fell in love with him before.”

Hearing this question, Lin Xi wilted, took the phone a little further away, and said, “Don’t talk about this topic anymore. I’ve already said that I was blind before.”

“Blind and still liked him for five years, chasing him from junior high school all the way to college?”

“Ahhh, don’t say it anymore!” Lin Xi covered his ears. “It’s because he pretended too well before.”

Chen Mingxuan stopped teasing him, his face serious, “Although Pei Jiashu isn’t a good person, Xiaoxi, you have to take care of your body when you’re out alone. Why don’t you learn to cook from Pei Jiashu and stop always ordering takeout.”

“Oh—” Lin Xi drew out his voice, a little unhappy, but Chen Mingxuan knew that Lin Xi had listened.

“Xiaoxi, it’s late, I have to go to work tomorrow, I’m going to sleep.”

“Hey—” Lin Xi wanted to say something more, but Chen Mingxuan had already hung up the phone.

Lin Xi’s routine had been reversed by work. He lay in bed and fell asleep after a while.

The next morning, he was woken up by Pei Jiashu’s cooking again, and simply got out of bed.

Pei Jiashu also heard Lin Xi’s movements of washing up, thought for a while, and boiled two more eggs.

When Lin Xi came out of the room, Pei Jiashu was just putting the food on the table, calling Lin Xi, “Come eat.”

“Didn’t you say you wouldn’t cook for me?” Lin Xi sat at the dining table, feeling a little flattered.

“I’m afraid you’ll faint in my company, and people will say I’m abusing you.”

Lin Xi chuckled lightly, “Others don’t even know we’re married, who would say that.”

But he still picked up the spoon and drank the soup in the bowl. It was pumpkin millet porridge, and the sweet aroma of pumpkin filled his taste buds. In an instant, his stomach felt much warmer.

Pei Jiashu put both eggs in front of Lin Xi. Lin Xi frowned, “Why did you cook so many eggs?”

“I cooked them specially for you, two a day.”

Lin Xi didn’t want to eat them, but when he looked up, he saw Pei Jiashu staring straight at him. Lin Xi seemed to see his mother forcing him to eat, and didn’t argue for a moment, quickly peeling two eggs and putting them in the porridge.

Pei Jiashu cooked, and Lin Xi was embarrassed to eat for nothing, wanting to wash the dishes, but Pei Jiashu took them from his hand first, “You still have an injury on your hand, I’ll wash them.”

“Oh.” Lin Xi always felt that Pei Jiashu was a little strange, afraid that Pei Jiashu would set a trap for him.

He was frightened all the way to the company. Unexpectedly, Assistant Song came to find him in the morning.

“Pei… What does the President want me to do?” Lin Xi asked Assistant Song.

Assistant Song took him to the elevator, first swiped the card on the elevator, then let Lin Xi lean close to the camera.

Lin Xi was dumbfounded. Assistant Song said to him, “This is the iris unlock for the President’s private elevator. You can go directly to President Pei’s office in the future.”

“Why would I go to his office?” Lin Xi felt a little baffled, but then he thought of what Pei Jiashu had said last night. Could it be that Pei Jiashu wasn’t joking, and he really could go to him at any time? And he didn’t even need to learn to cook?

Was Pei Jiashu that kind?

“President Pei said you can go at any time, and there’s a dedicated lounge in President Pei’s office, which has a better environment.”

Although Lin Xi’s heart was already surging, he still said, “Then I might as well go home and rest. Isn’t it just that he insists on me being in the company?”