MFIMM Chapter 21

To coax someone

To coax someone

Lin Xi: Don’t add insult to injury if you’re not going to help!

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Chen Mingxuan looked at Lin Xi in shock. If the situation wasn’t what it was, he would have wanted to shake Lin Xi to see if someone had taken over his body.

The fiery little pepper has become a soft, easily pushed-down little delicate omega.

Unbearable to watch.

He leaned close to Lin Xi’s ear and asked, “Is your husband coming?”

Lin Xi angrily pressed his phone. Chen Mingxuan consciously shut his mouth. Lin Xi said to the manager, “I’ll delete all the photos, okay?”

As he spoke, he opened his album and deleted all the photos he had just taken.

The salesperson sneered, “Oh, I thought your husband was so capable. In the end, you’re still obediently deleting photos.”

“Manager, he should have sent photos to other people just now.”

Lin Xi frowned. He had recently added many anchor friends on WeChat, and these photos couldn’t be shown to others casually.

“The photos have all been deleted, don’t push it too far.”

Lin Xi felt so stifled for the first time, thinking that he should just buy that suit, which cost less than ten thousand anyway.

But he didn’t want to let these people make money, and there were still people gathered around, so he couldn’t just burst out cursing. If someone filmed a video and posted it online, he would have the honor of “collapsing his image.”

Just then, the shopping mall manager’s phone suddenly rang. After answering the call, his face suddenly changed, and his voice suddenly became louder.

“How could he be Young Master Pei’s omega? The clothes he’s wearing only cost a few hundred dollars.”

Lin Xi felt an immense humiliation in an instant. Why couldn’t he be? Pei Jiashu had even taken the initiative to marry him!

Chen Mingxuan pulled Lin Xi, “Calm down, calm down.”

After the shopping mall manager finished the call, his attitude became subtle for a moment. Looking left and right, he felt that Lin Xi was just a college student who had just graduated. How could he possibly be related to the Pei family?

But he would rather misidentify than risk it.

He finally stepped forward to smooth things over, walking between Lin Xi and the clothing store manager, “I don’t think this matter is as complicated as you think. This customer just tried on a few clothes, and it’s normal if he doesn’t want to buy them if he doesn’t find anything suitable.”

Chen Mingxuan nodded vigorously. Lin Xi stared at the two people opposite him, still feeling a little unconvinced in his heart, “Then let them apologize to us, and we’ll just let this matter go.”

The salesperson refused to apologize as soon as he heard this, and said angrily, “Heh, why should I apologize to you?”

The shopping mall manager wavered. Just then, Lin Xi received a message from Assistant Song. He smiled and said to the salesperson, “Okay, if you don’t apologize, we’ll just keep dragging it out and see who can outlast whom.”

Sure enough, Assistant Song arrived at the mall in a few minutes.

He walked towards the clothing store while making a phone call. Fortunately, there weren’t many people in the mall on weekdays. As soon as he went over, he saw Lin Xi standing in the corner with his friend.

Thinking of the task the boss had given him, Assistant Song strode up to Lin Xi, “Madam, President Pei said you were being bullied and asked me to come and see. Why did they make you stand here?”

After speaking, his eyes swept towards the three people opposite him.

The shopping mall manager’s expression was like swallowing a fly for a moment, wiping the sweat from his forehead, “This… Madam Pei is too low-key, we didn’t recognize Mount Tai.”

The salesperson didn’t understand why the situation had suddenly reversed since this person arrived, “What are you talking about? How could someone whose clothes don’t even exceed five hundred dollars have any connections?”

“Shut up.” The shopping mall manager really wanted to go up and cover the salesperson’s mouth right now.

The owner of the clothing store was also an old fox. Seeing that the situation was not right, he immediately changed his tune, “I’m sorry, sir, it’s all because our salesperson is ignorant and slandered you with nonsense.”

“I see, how about this, what kind of clothes do you want? I’ll serve you personally.”

The owner said with a smile. Although he didn’t know what the identity of the assistant who came was, he remembered that the owner behind this shopping mall was surnamed Pei.

“Boss, you…” The blood on the salesperson’s face disappeared in an instant. He didn’t expect the boss to disassociate himself with two sentences.

“I’m a relative of Young Master Liang, he arranged for me to work here.”

The salesperson said to the boss through gritted teeth.

Lin Xi chuckled. No wonder this salesperson was so arrogant, so he had connections.

“Apologize to this gentleman.” The boss said to Lin Xi with difficulty, not wanting to offend either side.

The salesperson bit his lip and whispered in the boss’s ear, “Who is he? Why should I apologize?”

“It’s said to be Little President Pei’s wife.”

“No—impossible, Little President Pei and my cousin have been engaged for a long time, how could he marry someone like this.” The salesperson’s voice was a little shrill, and everyone present heard it for a moment.

Chen Mingxuan tugged on Lin Xi’s arm, “Did your Pei Jiashu get engaged to someone else before?”

Lin Xi slapped Chen Mingxuan’s hand away, “Don’t say ‘our,’ it’s disgusting.”

He looked at the salesperson, a few displeasure flashed in his eyes, but he didn’t show it on his face.

As soon as Assistant Song heard this, he immediately said to Lin Xi, “Madam, don’t worry, President Pei has never been engaged to anyone, and your marriage certificate is now lying in President Pei’s office.”

“How is that possible!” The salesperson’s emotions became agitated.

Lin Xi walked over and looked at the salesperson, showing him a smile. His features were originally delicate, and he looked even more beautiful when he smiled. The salesperson was stunned for a moment, only to hear Lin Xi say:

“I’d like to know when our President Pei has an engagement object. I’ll make him kneel on the washboard when I get home.”

Assistant Song was greatly shocked behind him, and secretly took out his mobile phone to send to Pei Jiashu: “Boss, Mr. Lin heard that you have an engagement object outside, and you will have to kneel on the washboard when you get home.”

Chen Mingxuan also looked at Lin Xi with an aunt-like smile, and couldn’t help being cheap and saying when Lin Xi returned home: “Yo yo yo, who was the one who said not to say ‘our Pei Jiashu’ just now, and turned around and called him ‘our President Pei.'”

Lin Xi slapped Chen Mingxuan’s mouth, and continued to say to the salesperson: “I’m not going to do anything to you, and I didn’t call Assistant Song here to use my status to suppress you, it’s because no one would listen to me.”

The salesperson chuckled, obviously not taking Lin Xi’s words seriously.

“A few thousand dollars for clothes is indeed a bit difficult for me, and it’s only because of my husband that I came to such an expensive store. But that’s not a reason for you to have a bad attitude towards me or even slander me casually.”

“If I didn’t have the identity of Mrs. Pei, perhaps I would really be splashed with dirty water today.”

The two managers and the salesperson all looked like dirt when they heard this. The salesperson looked at Lin Xi, and finally said in a low voice after a long time: “I’m sorry.”

“Isn’t that all it takes? Don’t look down on others casually in the future.” Lin Xi patted the salesperson’s shoulder, motioning Chen Mingxuan and Assistant Song to leave.

Assistant Song looked back, and the shopping mall manager followed flatteringly, “Madam, do you want to buy a suit? There are other shops in the mall, I’ll take you to see?”

“No, don’t follow us.” Lin Xi refused him.

Assistant Song pursed his lips and asked, “You’re just letting them off that easily?”

Lin Xi nodded. He had relied on Pei Jiashu’s identity to bully the people who had bullied him today. Logically speaking, he should feel relieved, but his chest felt stuffy and heavy.

Assistant Song looked at Lin Xi worriedly, and quickly sent a simple message to Pei Jiashu about what had just happened, focusing on the fact that Lin Xi was unhappy.

In the office, Pei Jiashu looked at the message on his phone and chuckled. Lin Xi even called him “husband” to ask for his help, but in the end, he let it go so easily.

He opened Lin Xi’s chat box, paused the meeting again, and called directly.

Lin Xi answered the phone slowly, his voice sounding a little dull, “What’s up?”

“Is the matter resolved?”

“Resolved.” Lin Xi said with a pout.

“Why are you still unhappy when everything is resolved?” Pei Jiashu asked leisurely.

Lin Xi had a belly full of anger, and couldn’t help but ask, “Do you really have a fiancee surnamed Liang?”

Pei Jiashu snorted, “Are you jealous?”

“Get lost, who would be jealous of you.” Lin Xi sat on a chair in the mall, surrounded by various brand-name stores, which were indeed incompatible with a country bumpkin like him.

When he was in school, he never felt the gap between him and Pei Jiashu. He only needed to catch up with that person in terms of grades and keep chasing him, whether it was getting into the same high school as him or the same university. But he had never felt so confused as he did now.

It was as if everyone was telling him that he and Pei Jiashu were not from the same world.

Even if he took out his marriage certificate, someone would say that he forged it, right?

Pei Jiashu leaned on the chair, his voice with a gentleness that even he couldn’t imagine, “Okay, I really don’t have a fiancee, otherwise why would I marry you? So why are you unhappy?”

The phone was close to his ear, and Pei Jiashu’s voice entered his ears through the mechanical transmission, as intimate as the murmur between lovers.

Lin Xi squeezed his phone and said awkwardly, “Because that salesperson said I’m not worthy of you. Where am I not worthy of a hollow radish like you? I’m more than worthy of you eight times over without even turning a corner.”

There was suddenly no sound from Pei Jiashu’s side, and after a long time, Lin Xi heard a muffled laugh.

He didn’t know if Pei Jiashu was laughing at his overestimation of himself or if he thought it was outrageous.

Lin Xi took the phone a little further away, “I’m serious, isn’t it just a few thousand dollars for a suit? Don’t think I can’t afford it now, but one day I’ll become the biggest anchor in the company, and I can earn tens of thousands from just one advertisement. Many media companies will come to dig me, and then you’ll have to beg me not to leave.”

After saying it all in one breath, the depression in Lin Xi’s chest suddenly disappeared.

“Okay.” Pei Jiashu said with a smile, thinking that he would have to comfort Lin Xi, but he didn’t expect Lin Xi to be as strong as an unkillable cockroach.

“Let Assistant Song accompany you to buy clothes, buy expensive ones to support my image.”

As soon as Lin Xi hung up the phone, he saw Chen Mingxuan and Assistant Song smiling lewdly.

Chen Mingxuan pressed on Lin Xi’s shoulder, imitating Lin Xi’s appearance, “You’ll have to beg me not to leave. Seriously, brothers, is this really a fake marriage?”

Lin Xi felt a chill, “Of course it’s a fake marriage, the kind that will be divorced in five years.”

At the same time, Pei Jiashu’s phone.

“Brother Jiashu, I’m back in the country. You’ll attend the charity gala held by my family this time, right?”