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Chapter 54: Don’t Underestimate the Old Baby
Liang Bo clicked open Xiao Yu’s profile settings page, scrolled to the bottom, and let his left thumb hover over “Delete Contact” while glancing up to peek at the back of Shou Jiaxun’s head.
He silently drafted a multiple-choice question in his mind: If he finds out I deleted this contact, his reaction will be? A. Doesn’t care, B. Ignores it, C. Doesn’t add him back, D. Pays no attention.
Uh… it might be an “all of the above” kind of question.
Assistant Liang withdrew his thumb, extended his index finger, and gently poked Little President Shou’s spine.
Shou Jiaxun turned his head, asking absentmindedly, “What is it?”
Liang Bo held his phone up and reported in a low voice, “Someone asked to meet up when you return to Beijing. I said okay.”
“Oh, we’ll talk about it when we get back.” Shou Jiaxun turned his head back and continued typing up his PPT.
The new “friends” added on Feixin tonight were either industry peers or potential clients. If it was a fellow Beijinger, grabbing a meal back home to deepen their connection and explore business opportunities was perfectly normal.
However, making plans didn’t necessarily mean they would actually meet. “Let’s grab a meal when we’re free” was roughly equivalent to a man saying “I’ll support you” when proposing; both were polite pleasantries requiring no real commitment, and no one truly took them to heart.
Afraid that Shou Jiaxun hadn’t heard clearly, Liang Bo raised his voice slightly to add, “But his personal profile says Beijing Politics and Law, he doesn’t seem like someone from the venue today!”
This time, Shou Jiaxun didn’t even turn his head. “Don’t know, no impression. What’s the name?”
“Xiao Yu.”
After Liang Bo spoke, he saw Shou Jiaxun’s movements suddenly stiffen, though it lasted for less than two seconds.
Then he inhaled with a sharp hiss and turned around to accuse Assistant Liang, “I only told you to reply to messages for me, I didn’t tell you to randomly add people! Can you use your brain when you do things?”
Liang Bo’s eyes abruptly widened. Miscalculation! he cried inwardly, realizing that it wasn’t a lack of feeling—it was bad blood.
Now he had played himself and brought fire upon his own head. He hurriedly explained, “Boss! I didn’t add him.”
Shou Jiaxun sneered, acting like a complete rogue. “Could it be that I added him? I’m not blind.”
Liang Bo didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Arguing with the boss at this moment was definitely irrational. Shou Jiaxun had added so many people all at once today; even though he wasn’t blind, his vision had likely blurred.
Assistant Liang mainly felt regret right now. He should have just deleted Xiao Yu with one click earlier. At this moment, he couldn’t help but condemn himself: I had nothing better to do than show off my cleverness, I deserve to take the blame.
“Then I’ll delete him now, and you just pretend nothing happened, okay?”
Shou Jiaxun played deaf and dumb, already physically practicing the “nothing happened” policy and expressing a clear “don’t bother me” attitude.
Liang Bo hurriedly deleted the chat history between him and Xiao Yu, along with the contact entirely.
About two hours later, tossing and turning in bed, the wealthy young master Xiao once again picked up his phone. Hesitantly and cautiously, he sent a message to the white moonlight he had finally managed to reconnect with: “Shou Jiaxun, are you asleep?”
As a result, the very next second he received a small red exclamation mark and a system prompt: “You are not in the other party’s contact list.”
Young Master Xiao’s pupils quaked, his face full of disbelief. He sat up abruptly from the bed, wondering inwardly, Shou Jiaxun, what exactly do you mean?! You clearly could have chosen not to add me, or to ignore me. Why did you have to play me?
Shou Jiaxun, completely unaware that he was playing anyone, was currently syncing drafts with his ill-fated partner. The two cast their computer screens together. One said, “Holy sh*t, yours is ugly as hell. I think this deal is hanging by a thread, let’s just give up.”
The other said, “What kind of dog sh*t is this? It’s both low and tacky. No one even wrote like this ten years ago.”
Behind them, a young colleague chuckled and suggested, “You two masters, after you finish with the proposal, can we rip the templates?”
Director Yong tactfully declined, “Didn’t you hear your boss say I’m tacky and low? There are plenty of templates online, and they aren’t expensive.”
Shou Jiaxun clicked his tongue and advised, “Don’t rely on templates, it’ll stunt your own growth.”
Liang Bo, wearing a pair of greasy plastic gloves, peeled all their leftover crayfish from earlier. He divided them into several paper plates and placed them on the table for everyone, warmly hosting, “Come, eat while you read. Once we finish eating, we’ll wrap up and head back to our rooms to sleep.”
Shou Jiaxun turned his head. “Bo’er, go buy a pack of cigarettes for me.”
Assistant Liang refused, “The stores outside closed long ago.”
President Shou frowned. “Nonsense, the convenience store at the entrance is open twenty-four hours.”
Liang Bo also frowned, even upping the ante. Exhaling with a face full of impatience, he said, “Just smoke a bit less! I’m tired and don’t want to move. I’ll go buy them for you tomorrow morning.” Saying this, he took off the greasy gloves, threw them into the trash can, and slumped back into the sofa chair.
“If you’re tired, go back and rest early.” Yong Ming, being considerate for once, stretched lazily after speaking, dropped his arms, and immediately nudged Shou Jiaxun. “I want to smoke too. Let’s go, we’ll go buy them together.”
Shou Jiaxun raised a hand to press his eye sockets, taking the opportunity to rub his face. He got up and walked out with Yong Ming, turning his head as he walked to instruct his subordinates, “Take your things and hurry back to rest. See you at the venue tomorrow morning.”
He specifically instructed Liang Bo separately, “Wait a bit longer. Once we finish reviewing the draft, we’ll head back together… mainly because I don’t think I have a room key.”
Liang Bo’s expression turned gloomy as he passively remained on standby.
Mainly because it wasn’t convenient to disobey the boss in front of colleagues, he only took the access card and went upstairs to find Shou Jiaxun and Yong Ming after everyone else had left one by one.
At the same time, he secretly complained in his heart, Is he missing a piece of his brain? Going out alone with someone like a fool, can’t he see Yong Ming wants to hit on him?
Yong Ming’s “like” for Shou Jiaxun wasn’t exactly well-hidden, but he was already past the age where liking someone meant he had to aggressively “hit on” them.
When Shou Jiaxun ignored him, he jumped up and down flirting. Tonight, as the two pulled a rare all-nighter to “break the ice,” this guy instead chickened out and behaved himself properly.
When Liang Bo arrived upstairs, Shou and Yong were crouching on the steps at the hotel entrance, puffing clouds of smoke into the cool night breeze.
While smoking, Yong Ming showed Shou Jiaxun that he had two phones. “One for business, one for personal. A clear distinction between public and private, missing neither.”
Shou Jiaxun propped his chin up and asked, “Have you never seen a dual-SIM dual-standby phone?”
“Tsk, that’s different. Not only do I have two phone numbers, but all my social tools are also in two sets. Clear as black and white, it’s very relaxing, understand?”
Shou Jiaxun chuckled noncommittally.
Liang Bo took a step forward and sat down next to Yong Ming. “In that case, if you ever cheat in your marriage in the future, it would be very hard to discover.”
Yong Ming raised his eyebrows and shot him a glance. “You’re still too young, you don’t understand.”
Saying this, he weighed the small, slim older-model mobile phone in his hand. “The contacts in here are all my most important family members. So this phone is never turned off, and it’s kept close to my body anytime, anywhere.”
“Because I know they won’t bother me for no reason, but I want to ensure that when they do have something, they can contact me anytime, anywhere.”
Shou Jiaxun seemed to suddenly glean some vital information, involuntarily straightening his back. “Hey, that makes sense. That’s actually really great, I need to get one too.”
Yong Ming nodded meaningfully. “Exactly. Let me tell you, dual-SIM dual-standby can’t make up for the rigid demand of a dual-device dual-standby setup. Especially for people like us, who lose our humanity when working overtime. But humanity can’t truly be severed; you need to protect it more perfectly.”
Shou Jiaxun obviously took this to heart, smiling and nodding at Director Yong. He leaned over Yong Ming to instruct Liang Bo, “Tomorrow afternoon when we leave the scenic area, we’ll go buy a phone first.”
Liang Bo also looked at Director Yong with a smile, secretly pondering: I underestimated this Old Baby earlier, heh.
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