MFIMM Chapter 18
by VolareAssistant Song pursed his lips, looking elsewhere. This matter was indeed Pei Jiashu’s fault, but there were cameras everywhere in the company, so he couldn’t badmouth the boss.
Although he had helped Lin Xi add his iris recognition, Lin Xi didn’t seem to have any intention of going to Pei Jiashu’s office.
Remembering his boss’s instructions, Assistant Song could only remind Lin Xi, “You can also eat in the office.”
“Your CEO’s office has a private kitchen?” Lin Xi’s eyes widened, and he couldn’t help but think that the CEO’s treatment was really good.
Hearing this, the corners of Assistant Song’s mouth twitched. “The boss said you can go to the office for lunch today first, and you can go to the cafeteria at any time tomorrow.”
“Huh? When was I not allowed to eat in the cafeteria?” Lin Xi was a little confused.
Assistant Song felt for the first time that language was so inadequate. It was all Pei Jiashu’s fault. He was obviously concerned about Lin Xi, but he didn’t let him say anything.
He could only look at Lin Xi blankly and say helplessly, “That’s what the boss said. You should come to the office with me today, and I’ll get you whatever you want to eat.”
Lin Xi didn’t want to make things difficult for Assistant Song, so he followed Assistant Song to the office upstairs.
He sat cautiously on Pei Jiashu’s sofa, after all, they were still in a superior-subordinate relationship.
Pei Jiashu looked up from a pile of documents and asked, “Are you okay today?”
Assistant Song was standing next to them. Pei Jiashu’s sentence didn’t reveal too much of Lin Xi’s privacy, but it gave a feeling of a secret that only the two of them knew.
Lin Xi felt a chill and took a sip of the water that Assistant Song handed him. “I’m fine.”
“Okay.”
The two didn’t have any extra topics, and the conversation turned cold. Assistant Song said in a timely manner, “Boss, Mr. Song, what would you like to eat?”
“Assistant Song, you don’t have to be so polite with me, just call me Xiao Xi.”
“Xiao Xi.” Assistant Song tried his best to restrain the upward curve of his lips. Rather than Xiao Xi, he wanted to say “Hi, Wife!”
Pei Jiashu moved his gaze away from the computer screen and looked at Assistant Song. If he remembered correctly, Assistant Song had been slacking off and watching Lin Xi’s live stream for the past few days.
And he even shouted “Wife” in the comments.
However, Lin Xi’s live stream was full of “Wife.” Didn’t these people have their own wives?
Pei Jiashu frowned, suddenly stood up from his seat, walked to the sofa and asked Lin Xi, “Do you want to eat outside?”
“Are you treating me?” Lin Xi spoke quickly for a moment, his brain hadn’t reacted yet, but his mouth had already said it.
“Sure.”
“No.” Lin Xi, who had reacted, shook his head instantly, grabbing the pillow on the sofa. “I’ll still go to the cafeteria with Assistant Song.”
“Then let Assistant Song go downstairs to buy it.” Pei Jiashu directly stepped over Lin Xi, sat next to Lin Xi, rubbed his neck, and told Assistant Song a few dish names.
Assistant Song quickly wrote them down, closed the door, and left to buy food, leaving the two of them alone.
Lin Xi wasn’t let go by Pei Jiashu until the end of the lunch break. Fortunately, he didn’t have a fixed workstation in the company, and no one would ask him where he went for lunch.
But when Lin Xi returned downstairs, he found that something was being installed in the company, and it looked a little familiar.
He leaned closer to take a look. Wasn’t this a pheromone purifier?
A familiar employee stood next to him and said, “The company suddenly sent an email at noon, saying that all alphas must wear barrier patches in the future, and even a pheromone purifier worth hundreds of thousands was used.”
Behind them, someone was carrying a camera, and the assistant pulled the two of them aside to film a video of the workers disassembling and installing the pheromone purifier.
Lin Xi opened his phone and sure enough, he saw the email.
No wonder Assistant Song insisted that he go to the office for lunch no matter what, it was because the purifier was going to be installed.
Lin Xi pinched his phone, Pei Jiashu didn’t say a word when he was upstairs just now.
He suddenly thought of the question Chen Mingxuan asked him yesterday, asking him why he liked Pei Jiashu.
His memory seemed to return to that day five years ago. It was raining heavily that day, and he didn’t bring an umbrella, so he could only wait at the school gate for his parents to pick him up with his backpack on.
But because of the traffic jam on a rainy day, the people in the school left one after another. Lin Xi stood in the corridor boredly, looking in the direction of the gate.
But he saw a whimpering kitten in the flower bed downstairs. Its fur was soaked and stuck together in strands, and its body was trembling slightly.
Why didn’t this stupid kitten know to run into the teaching building?
Lin Xi hesitated whether to brave the rain and carry the kitten into the teaching building, but suddenly an umbrella appeared in his vision.
The person was tall and slender, and he could only tell that the school uniform was from the high school department.
He approached the kitten, but the kitten seemed a little afraid of people. As soon as he approached, it bristled its fur and wanted to crawl into the flower bed.
So he stopped and stretched out his hand, trying to put the umbrella under the flower bed to cover the kitten.
The rain quickly soaked him. It was still a long way from here to the school gate. Lin Xi thought he would turn around and go back to the teaching building to avoid the rain first, but he just walked slowly outside in the rain.
Lin Xi didn’t know what he was thinking, he ran downstairs and chased him all the way to the school gate.
He watched him get into a car. Their distance was not too far or too close.
Lin Xi heard a middle-aged man’s voice in the car, scolding Pei Jiashu, who was soaking wet, “Why did you make yourself like this? If you didn’t bring an umbrella, let Uncle Lin send it to you. Do I still need to teach you this?”
Pei Jiashu straightened his back and didn’t say a word. Instead, the housekeeper held up an umbrella to cover Pei Jiashu. “Young master, please go in first.”
When he got into the car, he seemed to sense Lin Xi’s gaze and turned his head. Lin Xi also saw Pei Jiashu’s face clearly.
His breathing stopped. He could see this face almost anytime.
On the school’s confession wall, on the honor roll, and under countless speech flagpoles, he could see this face.
Lin Xi didn’t take back his gaze until the car was completely out of sight. He sat in front of the guard room, took out his phone, opened QQ space, and searched for confession walls one by one.
Pei Jiashu was very famous on the confession wall, and he could see him almost every few posts.
Looking at those words, Lin Xi couldn’t help but think, this person is so gentle, no wonder he is so popular.
Lin Xi pulled his wandering thoughts back. At that time, Pei Jiashu sent an umbrella to the kitten, and there were almost no people left in the school. Could it be that Pei Jiashu was also pretending?
He didn’t want to think about it carefully and sent a message to Pei Jiashu.
Xiao Xi: Thank you for preparing these.
Pei: I’m doing it for company promotion
Xiao Xi: Hehe
Lin Xi turned off his phone. Just now, he wanted to thank Pei Jiashu because of this, and he wanted to find a tree and crash into it.
At this moment, his phone suddenly rang.
It was actually Li Mingcheng who sent him a message, “Xiao Xi, a friend of mine is filming a short drama, and an actor can’t come. Do you want to try it?”
“Okay, okay!” Lin Xi agreed immediately. Anyway, he is a small-time influencer now, and he can add a little more exposure.
Unexpectedly, Li Mingcheng introduced him to one of the company’s major internet celebrities. Lin Xi directly followed their car to the university.
They handed the storyboard script to Lin Xi. “You should be able to understand the storyboard script, right? You don’t need to say lines, just take a few photos, go change your clothes.”
“Okay.” They prepared a high school uniform for Lin Xi, the size was a bit large, but it didn’t affect it.
“The person Brother Li found is quite beautiful.” Jiang Yuan looked Lin Xi up and down.
Lin Xi stood up straight generously, letting Jiang Yuan look him over.
“No problem, go put on makeup.”
As soon as Jiang Yuan finished speaking, the makeup assistant walked up and took Lin Xi back to the car to put on makeup. Jiang Yuan also walked up, sat on the side, and looked at Lin Xi’s makeup while watching his phone.
This was also the first time Lin Xi had his makeup done completely by someone else. He took advantage of this time to read the script.
They were going to shoot a campus short drama, and Lin Xi only needed to play a white moonlight character without lines.
His face was originally soft, and it was already very white moonlight after applying the base makeup, but after finishing the makeup, he always felt that something was missing.
Jiang Yuan sat over from the chair, turned Lin Xi’s face and looked at it, and was also dissatisfied.
The makeup artist was trembling, not knowing how to change it.
Lin Xi felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange. “Um, can I change it myself?”
Jiang Yuan pursed his lips and looked at Lin Xi, then nodded. If it really didn’t work, he would retouch it later.
But Lin Xi only changed the way he drew his eyebrows, and the feeling of his entire face instantly became gentle and distant. Then he used blush blue to change the highlights, and his face became flat all of a sudden.
Coupled with the school uniform on his body, it was no exaggeration to say that he was the white moonlight of his youth.
“Yo, this makeup technique is not bad.” Suddenly someone else got into the car and sat next to Jiang Yuan familiarly. “Give me some makeup too.”
This was Jiang Yuan’s partner, Xiao Chenyi. They were considered a couple influencers and often filmed short dramas.
“Don’t tease people, hurry up and start filming.” Jiang Yuan took the lead to stand up and patted Xiao Chenyi’s shoulder unceremoniously.
Xiao Chenyi rubbed his shoulders and followed Jiang Yuan out of the car. Lin Xi followed closely behind.
His scenes were very few, almost all observing their filming. After Jiang Yuan finished filming a scene, he would come over to see if he was satisfied with the content. If he wasn’t satisfied, he would film it again.
The two actors were completely immersed in the script as soon as the director called “Cut,” completely different from the atmosphere just now.
Lin Xi couldn’t help but ask the staff next to him, “Are they really a couple?”
It made him feel like he was going to get pink bubbles.
The staff smiled when they heard this, and mysteriously approached Lin Xi, “No, their private relationship is actually a mess.”
“This is all acting?”