Chapter 42: Huo Chen, This Guy, Is Playing the Pig to Eat the Tiger
Dai Keqing didn’t react for a moment. “What phone number?”
Lin Huaizhi was usually very easy to talk to. As long as it didn’t involve principle issues or subordinates making mistakes, he was basically pleasant.
But now he had zero patience.
“Dai Keqing, if your ears are deaf, go to Longhai Hospital’s ENT department to register. The company will reimburse you. But right now, I want Huo Chen’s phone number!”
Who was Dai Keqing?
Dai Keqing was the director of Huameng, and Lin Huaizhi was indeed his direct superior. But he wasn’t a director desperately in need of money; making variety shows was where his interest lay.
So far, nine out of ten variety show scripts he wrote had exploded in popularity.
He was also Huameng’s cash cow.
Even though variety shows didn’t even rank in the top three in Huameng’s revenue share, he was still Huameng’s cash cow.
He was a cash cow, yet Lin Huaizhi dared to treat him like this. It seemed Lin Huaizhi had suffered immense trauma.
Whether physical or psychological.
Listening to that voice hoarse like a broken gong, how was it different from what he was doing with his lover right now?
Oh, strictly speaking, there was a difference. The difference was that he had to get through tonight before he could have the voice Lin Huaizhi had now tomorrow.
“Please wait a moment!”
Without a second word, Dai Keqing opened his contacts. He didn’t even take a screenshot but copied the number and pasted it directly into the chat box, just to save Lin Huaizhi the effort of typing it in.
After sending the number, Dai Keqing wanted to say something more, but the other side had already hung up.
“Baby, done yet?”
El pressed close from behind again, his curly hair gathering on Dai Keqing’s neck. Probably due to urgency, he didn’t even want to speak Chinese anymore.
“I want you.”
The handsome man had blond hair and blue eyes, with three-dimensional features, but lacked a bit of steadiness due to the curly hair, looking undeniably childish.
Anyone seeing him would have their heart melt.
But Dai Keqing had a heart of stone. He pushed the man’s head away. “El, stay away from me. I need to think.”
El pressed onto Dai Keqing deflatedly, muttering in compromise: “Okay, tell me what you need to think about. Your boss? The guy who called you?”
Dai Keqing propped his chin on his hand.
“I’m wondering if he and Huo Chen did it, but Huo Chen ate clean and wiped his mouth (ghosted him), so he called me in a exasperation to ask for Huo Chen’s number.”
El: “Do what?”
Dai Keqing ignored the man directly. The more he thought about it, the more he felt he hit the truth. “It must be so. Otherwise, why would Lin Huaizhi’s voice be broken, and why would he rarely lose his temper with me when I wasn’t in the wrong?”
“If that’s really the case, then Huo Chen, this guy, is really too good at playing the pig to eat the tiger.”
“Before, he told Lin Huaizhi he wasn’t interested in romance. That was fundamentally playing hard to get, just wanting Lin Huaizhi to chase him so he could hold the initiative in his own hands and finally hit a home run.”
Dai Keqing tutted, obviously having finished writing a script in his imagination.
However, the blond man suddenly looked up. “Baby, are you talking about yourself? Of course, that’s how you fished me!”
Dai Keqing turned his head back, his expression unreadable. “If you can’t speak properly, go sign up for a class. I fished you, but I didn’t eat and run. Besides, between the two of us, who ate whom?”
El keenly sensed his attitude. He kissed his side profile again and again, explaining in a small voice, “Sorry baby, you know, my Chinese is terrible. And as long as it’s you, even if you eat and run, it doesn’t matter to me. I will work hard to chase you back.”
El was mixed race.
British and Italian mix.
This man came from a wealthy family, was a gentleman from childhood, and a top student. He originally applied to be an exchange student in China and met Dai Keqing by coincidence.
Dai Keqing only flirted slightly, and El was quickly bewildered by this man possessing oriental beauty.
Later, returning to Italy, as soon as his studies ended, he left his homeland and came to China to pursue Dai Keqing. In this process, he was also discovered by talent scouts and officially started his acting career.
To put it more bluntly.
He wasn’t actively discovered by scouts at all; it was because he knew Dai Keqing worked at Huameng and always waited for Dai Keqing downstairs that he was spotted by Huameng’s scouts.
Huameng also developed abroad. As a British-Italian mixed blood with excellent appearance, he quickly opened up visibility abroad and often participated in Hollywood blockbusters. But no matter how busy work was, even if filming abroad lasted half a year or even a year, he would pick a time to fly back every week to see Dai Keqing.
Flowers and various holiday gifts, as well as return gifts, were indispensable every time.
He even specially learned Chinese for Dai Keqing.
Dai Keqing understood English.
He and Dai Keqing could totally communicate in English, but he wanted to understand Dai Keqing a little more, so he started learning Chinese when he was an exchange student, and didn’t slack off even after returning to his country.
Dai Keqing initially just wanted to play around, but facing such an offensive, he fell as expected.
So El, this man, was a total love brain.
Selling himself to Huameng for Dai Keqing, learning Chinese for Dai Keqing… Dai Keqing didn’t even need to do anything more; he was directly charmed to death by Dai Keqing.
“All talk!” Dai Keqing didn’t buy his act of playing pitiful. He stared and began to settle scores. “Saying you’d come back to see me every week, but this month is almost over, and you just came back!”
“Sorry, I’m really sorry!”
El hugged him and apologized.
“It was my fault! I just wanted to finish my job early, and came back for you!”
“I will not leave you next month, I’ll be with you.”
“I promise it!”
Dai Keqing didn’t really blame him. He knew El was in a career-rising period. If he could delay meeting him for work, how could he blame El for not coming back to see him?
Of course, a little couple’s game.
If El didn’t do what he promised, what was wrong with him throwing a tantrum?
“Forgive you, and don’t do it again, okay?”
El nodded repeatedly.
The episode passed, and next was naturally the sweet contact between lovers.
On the other side, Lin Huaizhi, completely unaware that he had been imagined into a scenario by Dai Keqing, pressed the call button for that number.
“Beep…”
One second.
“The number you dialed cannot be reached at the moment, please try again later. Sorry…”
The mechanical female voice came from the receiver. Dai Keqing was being lovey-dovey, while Lin Huaizhi, having had his call hung up by Huo Chen, was so angry he wanted to smash his phone.
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