MFIMM Chapter 49

Misunderstanding

Misunderstanding

As the holiday approached, Lin Xi finally had some free time. He set up several automatic prize draws on his platform, packaged all the gifts, and began asking fans for their shipping addresses one by one.

Among them was a very familiar ID – none other than the top fan.

Lin Xi looked at the list of winners. It wasn’t that he wanted to snoop on his fans’ privacy, but since they were actively offering it, Lin Xi had no reason to let it go.

He immediately sent a private message to Jiashu.

Lin Xi: Congratulations, Jiashu, you’ve won a set of our skincare product gift pack! Please fill in your shipping address!

Pei Jiashu, who was working, was stunned when he saw this message. He almost got exposed by Lin Xi last time, and this time the person in question was directly asking for his shipping address.

How was this any different from getting his cover blown?

Why was it so difficult for him to secretly watch his wife’s live stream?

“CEO Pei?” Assistant Song reminded Pei Jiashu. Pei Jiashu suddenly focused his attention on Assistant Song.

“Send me your shipping address.”

Assistant Song immediately copied it from the shopping platform and sent it to Pei Jiashu. “CEO Pei, are you going to give me some kind of reward?”

Pei Jiashu changed the name Assistant Song sent him to “Jiashu” and sent it to Lin Xi, casually dealing with Assistant Song.

“I need you to receive a package for me.”

Assistant Song’s expression visibly deflated. “Don’t worry, the year-end bonus will be increased for you.”

“I’d be too embarrassed,” Assistant Song said politely.

“After all, I’ve been bothering you about Lin Xi’s matters this year, so it’s only right,” Pei Jiashu said.

Assistant Song, however, heard another layer of meaning from Pei Jiashu’s words. If Pei Jiashu’s relationship with Lin Xi was purely mutually beneficial before, Pei Jiashu would never have said such a thing to him.

The reason he could say it now was because Pei Jiashu had categorized Lin Xi as “one of us.”

“So, this package…” Assistant Song asked.

“Take the package to me after you receive it.”

Although it was a set of skincare products that he couldn’t use, it was, after all, from Lin Xi.

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Lin Xi looked at the address Jiashu sent him and felt that it looked a little familiar. He seemed to have seen the name of this neighborhood somewhere, but he couldn’t remember where.

But it was indeed in A City.

Could it really not be Pei Jiashu?

Lin Xi packed all the gift packs and shipped them all at once. He felt relaxed after finishing, especially since he had found his niche, and now he had almost 500,000 followers.

He also prepared small gifts for all the staff who had worked for him, which of course included Assistant Song.

When he saw Assistant Song, Lin Xi suddenly remembered that he had seen the name of that neighborhood in Assistant Song’s Moments.

He looked at Assistant Song in horror. Could it be that he had been wrong all along, and the top fan was Assistant Song?

But that didn’t seem quite right.

Lin Xi asked Assistant Song indirectly, “Assistant Song, do you usually watch live streams?”

Assistant Song was originally happily accepting the gift, but his eyes changed when he heard this. He dodged a few times first, then adjusted his glasses and said, “As an employee of a media company, I usually do pay attention to live streams on various platforms.”

“Oh, do you give gifts to anchors?” Lin Xi asked suspiciously.

But Assistant Song had already started to give official answers, so his questions could only stop there.

So, he sneakily went to Qi Yile for help. He heard that Qi Yile was brought into the company by Assistant Song, and the two had a very close relationship.

“Brother Qi, does Assistant Song usually watch my live stream? Does he give me gifts?”

Qi Yile received Lin Xi’s gift and was in a dilemma, but he was very easily bribed by Lin Xi.

Qi Yile secretly told Lin Xi, “Don’t think Assistant Song is always serious, he’s actually very different in private. He likes to watch your live stream, and he did give you gifts. I saw it last time.”

Lin Xi was stunned. Could Assistant Song really be the top fan?

But if Assistant Song was the top fan, why would he use a name so similar to his boss’s name?

Lin Xi couldn’t figure it out, but he couldn’t face Assistant Song right now.

Lin Xi, back at home, also looked worried. Pei Jiashu manually smoothed out his furrowed brows, with such force that it seemed like he wanted to assassinate Lin Xi.

Lin Xi covered his forehead and took a step back. “Are you trying to assassinate me, kid?”

“I should be asking you what’s wrong?”

Lin Xi sighed repeatedly, hesitant to speak, which aroused Pei Jiashu’s curiosity even more.

Lin Xi tentatively asked, “Is Assistant Song married?”

“No.”

“Is his salary high?”

Pei Jiashu thought about it. As his work and life assistant, Lin Xi’s salary was indeed not low, so he nodded.

Lin Xi’s face became increasingly strange. He grabbed his hair and asked with some pain, “Then what kind of person does Assistant Song like?”

This question stumped Pei Jiashu. He thought carefully, and Assistant Song had never been in a relationship while he was by his side.

But why was Lin Xi so concerned about Assistant Song?

Pei Jiashu narrowed his eyes slightly, his long and narrow phoenix eyes scrutinized Lin Xi’s eyes, and directly asked him, “Why are you asking this?”

“Why?” Lin Xi pursed his lips, finding it difficult to answer.

After a long while, he leaned back on the sofa. “It’s just that there’s a top fan in my live stream called Jiashu, and I initially thought it was you.”

Pei Jiashu raised his eyebrows, but still didn’t interrupt Lin Xi.

Lin Xi continued, “But I looked at your phone last time and found out it wasn’t. I recently drew him in a live stream lottery and asked him for his address, and it turns out his address is exactly the same as Assistant Song’s.”

“Oh my god, do you know how much money he’s spent on me? I don’t even dare to face Assistant Song now.”

Lin Xi said to himself, not noticing that Pei Jiashu’s face was getting darker and darker as he listened.

“Lin Xi…” Pei Jiashu looked at Lin Xi with complicated feelings. “Sometimes I wonder if you graduated from the same school as me.”

“Huh?” Lin Xi’s mind hadn’t turned around yet, and he looked at Pei Jiashu with a puzzled expression. “What are you talking about?”

“Fine, fine.” Pei Jiashu took a deep breath. “I’m saying you’re an idiot.”

He suspected Assistant Song, but never thought that he wrote Assistant Song’s address.

What could he say?

He even suspected that Lin Xi was pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger, just waiting for him to be exposed.

Pei Jiashu thought it must be like this.

But after waiting for a few days, he found that Lin Xi really didn’t know. These few days, Lin Xi would always take a few more glances at Assistant Song when he went upstairs.

Assistant Song was a little overwhelmed by the attention.

Especially when Pei Jiashu and Lin Xi were staring at him together.

Assistant Song shivered. “I won’t disturb you two any longer.”

With that, Assistant Song pushed the door and walked out.

Pei Jiashu’s gaze shifted to Lin Xi, but he found that Lin Xi was still looking in the direction of the door. He felt a little jealous and turned Lin Xi’s face over.

“What’s so good about looking?”

Pei Jiashu moved the laptop to the sofa, let Lin Xi sit in his arms, and held each other’s hands, so that the value on the watch would rise faster.

But Lin Xi felt very strange in Pei Jiashu’s arms, and wanted to move around every now and then.

Especially since Pei Jiashu’s pheromones were also filling the office. Lin Xi sniffed. “Are you about to go into estrus? It smells different.”

Pei Jiashu didn’t care. “Maybe soon.”

Lin Xi was bored and pinched Pei Jiashu’s hand, and couldn’t help but mutter, “You said Assistant Song gave me so many gifts without leaving his name, what for?”

“I remember when I was live streaming very early on, he also asked me for an admin position and deleted all the bullet comments calling me ‘wife’.”

The more Lin Xi thought about it, the more wrong it felt. “And also, the last time I wanted to do a makeup transformation with Xu Wenyuan, who is my second top fan, he came out and said not to let me do makeup for Xu Wenyuan.”

“Do you think he might like me?”

“What?”

Pei Jiashu almost slid the mouse in his hand to the ground. He was shocked that Lin Xi’s brain circuit was so unique and could come to such an outrageous conclusion.

“How could Assistant Song possibly like you?” Pei Jiashu replied subconsciously, but his voice became softer and softer.

Some scenes suddenly began to flash back in his mind, such as Assistant Song watching Lin Xi’s live stream while slacking off every day, such as Assistant Song calling Lin Xi “wife” to his phone.

Could it be that Lin Xi came to the correct conclusion with his peculiar brain circuit?

But he was clearly the top fan, and he was the one who did those things.

But wouldn’t that be the same as telling Lin Xi that he liked him?

“Actually that…” Pei Jiashu opened his mouth hesitantly. Lin Xi tilted his head and looked at Pei Jiashu, but after waiting for a long time, Pei Jiashu didn’t utter the remaining words.

Lin Xi grabbed the pillow and rubbed it a few times.

“Never mind, these aren’t important. You told me last time that we’re going to your house for dinner during Chinese New Year, what date is it?”

Lin Xi calculated the time, and there were less than ten days left until Chinese New Year.

Pei Jiashu said, “We have to eat together at home on New Year’s Eve.”

“New Year’s Eve?” Lin Xi hammered the pillow a few times irritably. “But I have to go back to my house for dinner on New Year’s Eve too.”

“Then I’ll tell my father,” Pei Jiashu lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

Lin Xi bit his lip. This was the first year he and Pei Jiashu were married, and if he didn’t go, he didn’t know what their relatives would think.

“What time does your family eat?”

“Around 8:30 in the evening, we’ll be watching the New Year countdown, so it’ll be a little late.”

“Then I’ll go to my house first, and then go to your house at eight o’clock.”

Lin Xi made the decision with Pei Jiashu. Pei Jiashu grabbed Lin Xi’s hand. “Then when are you going home? Don’t forget that the watch value isn’t high enough yet.”

“This… so haven’t I been coming to accompany you to work these past few days? Otherwise, I would have gone home already.” Lin Xi leaned on Pei Jiashu’s chest, turned on the TV, and started watching.

“But there’s still 1,300 points left. Even if we hug every day, it won’t be enough.”