Chapter 22: I Think I Can Do It Again!
“N-Nothing!” Ye Zhile was so embarrassed he wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into!
Ji Shuohan didn’t mention the topic just now again. The two finished dinner quietly. Ye Zhile didn’t want to stay with Ji Shuohan for a minute longer and ran back to his room quickly.
He really was! Thinking about him at school! Cowardly again back home! Ahhh! Hopeless!
“What to do? I can’t say it at all.” Ye Zhile hugged his phone and video called Leng Xingtu.
“Why so useless!” Leng Xingtu mocked him. “It’s just a sentence! Will you lose a piece of meat?”
“I feel so awkward.” Ye Zhile wanted to cry but had no tears.
Leng Xingtu rolled his eyes. “How is it awkward? Isn’t it just a sentence ‘Did the Leader miss me?’ ‘I missed the Leader very much.’ Ugh~ almost made me vomit from cringe.”
“Hahahaha…” Ye Zhile laughed out loud. Leng Xingtu scolded him, “Still laughing! You are so worried! How can you let him know you like him! You definitely have to be brave! If he likes you too! Then all your unreasonable behaviors are cute in his eyes!”
“Really?” Ye Zhile really listened to Leng Xingtu’s advice seriously. “Then what should I do? Should I go say it again?”
Leng Xingtu covered his face with an expression of “can’t bear to look.” “If you go say it again now, it would seem too deliberate. Missed the best time, no need!”
Ye Zhile had a bitter face. Leng Xingtu asked him again, “What is he doing now?”
“Handling work in the study,” Ye Zhile said.
Leng Xingtu clapped his hands. “Great opportunity, Ye Zhile! Why can’t your brain turn around! He is working! You go in and send him a cup of coffee or tea, see what he likes! Give him care and comfort when he is tired from work! Guaranteed success!”
“Okay! I’ll go right away!” Ye Zhile listened to advice. He threw the phone away and got up hurriedly. A moment later, he turned back to pick up the phone. “Thank you, Xingtu, mua!”
Leng Xingtu on the other end of the phone didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. How could there be such a confused person.
Ye Zhile changed into bear pajamas. He looked in the mirror. The person in the mirror had a small face and high nose bridge, sparkling deer eyes, sparse bangs on his forehead, but looking exceptionally well-behaved. He really looked young, saying he was fifteen or sixteen wouldn’t be an exaggeration.
Ye Zhile went out and ran into Xiao Ruo carrying coffee. He stepped forward. “Xiao Ruo, give it to me; I’ll take it to the Leader.”
“Okay, Madam.” Xiao Ruo withdrew.
Ye Zhile stood in front of the study door. He took a few deep breaths before knocking.
“Enter.”
Have to say Ye Zhile was cowardly; he was almost scared out of his wits by this word.
Ye Zhile opened the door and went in. This was his first time entering Ji Shuohan’s study. A heavy and profound atmosphere rushed over. The study was huge. Except for the floor-to-ceiling windows, the other walls were bookshelves. Directly opposite the floor-to-ceiling windows was a spiral staircase, below which was a library.
Ye Zhile couldn’t help holding his breath and walked towards Ji Shuohan. He placed the coffee on the table.
Ji Shuohan thought it was Xiao Ruo and ignored it. Seeing the person didn’t leave, only then did he look up. Ji Shuohan was stunned. The person in front of him was wearing brown bear pajamas. He already looked cute and young; now he really looked like a little bear, naively cute.
“I came to bring coffee to the Leader.” Ye Zhile held his head high and chest out, cheering himself on.
“Oh, thank you.” Ji Shuohan said, then looked up at Ye Zhile again. Seeing Ye Zhile looking confused, he asked, “Are you not hot?”
“Ah… Ah?” Ye Zhile was stunned. Ji Shuohan said, “The weather is so hot, and you’re wearing such thick pajamas.”
“…” Ye Zhile wanted to open his mouth to speak several times but couldn’t. Actually, he wasn’t hot originally, but with this sentence from the Leader, he was about to explode from the heat! Hot enough for his skull to burst!!
Ye Zhile pulled the corner of his mouth. “I, I’m not hot.”
“I-I-I’ll go to sleep first!” Ye Zhile turned around in a hurry. “Goodnight, Leader.”
Watching the Omega’s retreating figure fleeing in panic, a trace of confusion flashed in Ji Shuohan’s eyes, but also a hint of a smile.
Ye Zhile was dying of shame and indignation. He threw himself onto the bed. After telling Leng Xingtu about this, Leng Xingtu laughed loudly, laughing until tears came out. “Ye Zhile! Are you a comedian? Which Omega seduces someone wearing pajamas? And winter pajamas at that! At least wear silk!”
Ye Zhile was made even more embarrassed by Leng Xingtu’s laughter. He buried his head, saying with despair, “I’ll never do such stupid things again. So awkward. What must the Leader think of me…”
“Hahaha… don’t worry, the Leader probably doesn’t even know what you were doing.” Leng Xingtu laughed at him.
Ye Zhile didn’t want to talk, covering himself with the quilt. Leng Xingtu comforted him again, “Lele, failure is the mother of success. Let’s treat this failure as gaining experience, right?”
“Wu…” Ye Zhile wanted to cry but had no tears. “I can’t do it at all. I just don’t know how to interact with the Leader.”
“Ye Zhile.” Leng Xingtu became serious. “Someone who likes you won’t mind these behaviors of yours. Either you be proactive, or wait for you to discover it yourself.”
Ye Zhile revealed his face. He nodded. “Okay.”
At this moment, someone knocked on the door. Ye Zhile got up. At the door was Ji Shuohan. “Leader?”
Ji Shuohan gave him a glass of milk. “Drink it and sleep early.”
“Yes.” Ye Zhile took it. “Thank you, Leader.”
After Ji Shuohan left, Ye Zhile put the milk down and threw himself onto the bed, saying excitedly to Leng Xingtu, “I think I can do it again!”
“The sky cleared, the rain stopped, you think you can do it again.” Seeing his blossoming joy, Leng Xingtu laughed once. “Fool.”
The next day, Saturday, when Ye Zhile got up, Ji Shuohan had already left. He slept until noon. After lunch, he wandered around the garden, listened to Xiao Ruo and the others chat about gossip, and fed fish in the pond with Uncle Xu.
Ye Zhile sat on a stone bench, grabbing a handful of fish food and scattering it. Uncle Xu reminded him, “Lele, scattering too much will make the fish burst from overeating.”
“Oh oh.” Ye Zhile nodded repeatedly and stopped.
“Madam.” Xiao Ruo came over. “The First Madam of the Ji House has arrived.”
“First Madam?” Ye Zhile stood up and asked Uncle Xu, “Uncle Xu, who is the First Madam?”
“The First Madam is the Leader’s birth mother.”
Uncle Xu’s sentence made Ye Zhile involuntarily nervous. He looked at Uncle Xu in panic. “Then, then, then, what should I do?”
Ye Zhile wasn’t clear about those relationships in the royal family, and naturally cared even less about the domestic affairs of the previous Leader of the Empire. He only occasionally heard that the previous Leader, Ji Shuohan’s father, had many wives and many children. The reason Ji Shuohan could become the heir, besides his Enigma ability and brains, was also because he was born to the Leader’s first wife, the true legitimate son.
Ye Zhile and Uncle Xu rushed to the front hall. When they arrived, the woman dressed in riches and honor was already having tea in the living room. Sitting beside her was a young lady with extraordinary temperament from some family.
Ye Zhile took a deep breath, walked over, and raised a smile. “Hello, Madam.”
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