Chapter 9 – Don’t Be Like This

Lin Ji was stunned for a full two minutes after receiving Jiang Che’s message. Although his face was blushing and his heart was pounding, he didn’t know how to reply to him.

After some time passed, Lin Ji lost all sleepiness. He opened his eyes and looked at his phone. Jiang Che didn’t send any more messages. He thought Jiang Che had fallen asleep, and so he was struggling to say something. He didn’t know whether he liked Jiang Che or not. In fact, he has never liked anyone, so he had no idea what it felt like to like someone

He wants to send a text saying good night, this way he can subtly avoid the question of whether I like him or not. As long as I can be responsible, Lin Ji thinks so, he is always good at evading his own heart.

After typing the two words ‘good night’, the phone vibrated in the palm of his hand just as he was about to hit send. The name “Jiang Che” was pushed across the screen by a small robot on the screen. Lin Ji opened his eyes wide and picked it up in a panic. .

“Are you asleep?” Jiang Che said, staring at the ceiling in the twilight, deliberately lowering his voice, as if he hadn’t spoken for a long time. His voice sounded rusty and had a unique alluring effect of a mature man. “Did I disturb your rest? Kid?”

Lin Ji was drawn by the voice, and it took him a long time to wake up from Jiang Che’s intentionally provocative words, but his voice cracked from excitement as soon as he opened his mouth, “I- wasn’t sleeping…”

“…” Even though he couldn’t sleep, Jiang Che was blind in the dark with two dark circles under his eyes. Hearing Lin Ji’s voice, he couldn’t help but burst out laughing, “Pfft—hmm.”

Jiang Jihai was still in the next room door so Jiang Che didn’t dare to laugh too much, so he could only bite his hand and sneak under the quilt to laugh, “Haha, you’re so cute.”

“I’m sorry.” Lin Ji blushed and covered his throat. He made such a fool of himself in front of Jiang Che, Lin Ji even wanted to strangle himself to death.

“Don’t apologize, I wasn’t blaming you for anything.”

“Hmm…um.” Lin Ji is not good at communicating with others, let alone talking with Jiang Che. He held back for a long time trying to find something to talk about, but he didn’t know what to say to the other party. All he knew was how to keep his heart constantly pounding.

“About the question I asked you earlier, do you like me.?”

Caught off guard, Lin Ji’s flustered heartbeat hadn’t returned to calm before he was teased by Jiang Che again. From what Lin Ji heard, Jiang Che’s words were like a naked body asking if he wanted to hug him.

“I don’t know,” Lin Ji held the phone in one position, and didn’t dare to move until his hands were stiff, “You, you should stop being like this… seducing me…”

“Ah?” Jiang Che quickly hung up the phone after hearing this, waited for three seconds, and choked out, “Haha! Hahaha- oh dear- I didn’t think there were such cute creatures like this on earth”

Jiang Che’s stomach ached from laughing, and the tears in the corners of his eyes moistened his eyes. Five minutes later, Lin Ji sent another message. Jiang Che didn’t dare to look at it anymore, but in the end he couldn’t help but sneak a glance.

“Don’t be sad, and don’t ask others that question.”

Seriously, Jiang Che almost forgot that he is a lovelorn now. Did he laugh too much just now? Well, forget it, just have fun.

The quiet night lingered into a steady rhythm, flowing into Jiang Che’s heart.

The next day——

“Boss, are you going to the Jing family’s banquet today?”

A male voice rang next to Jiang Che’s ear, and he swiped his phone and smiled charmingly, “Why are you calling me boss, just call me brother.”

“Boss,” the secretary smiled, as if he was used to it, “I’m not your little lover.”

Only then did Jiang Che come to his senses, he teased the cutie last night, and now he still has endless aftertaste.

“Oh, Xiao Wang.” Jiang Che waved his hands, leaned back, put his long legs on the desk, “I have something to say.”

Secretary Wang had no choice but to repeat, “Are you going to the Jing family’s banquet tonight?”

“The Jing family,” he murmured, tapping his fingers on the table, “Isn’t the Jing family presided over by old man Jing? There are no pretty people there, so there’s no point in going. We have an appointment tonight.”

Another appointment? But the Jing family has a big business. If they miss this opportunity, they don’t know when the next time will be. Secretary Xiao Wang blinked, cleared his throat, and said, “Boss, the young lady of the Jing family has returned from Holland. I heard that she’s super beautiful, tsk tsk tsk…it’s incredible! Ah!”

“Really? Is she really that beautiful?” Jiang Che frowned, “Then I’ll forcefully go, however I already have an appointment with someone else though, aren’t you asking me to cancel the appointment?”

“…” Secretary Xiao Wang chuckled in his heart, shaking the sweat off his face, “Then I’ll go out and make arrangements for you.”

“Big beauty,” Jiang Che sank back into the chair, closed his eyes and whistled, “Brother is coming~”

T/N: I feel like something is gonna go down at the banquet… I’ll be updating tomorrow ^^