CEO is Picky but Handsome - Chapter 16

Huo Zhun’s voice changed tone, and he didn’t even care that the curtain hadn’t been completely lowered yet, and that so many employees were watching him from the stage, reaching out to catch Ye Ling’s falling body.
But it was so far away, how could he catch it!
“Be careful!”
Behind him, I don’t know who shouted, only to see Huo Jun increase his pace and scamper. In the nick of time, his body leans forward, his arm stretches out, and he steadily holds Ye Ling in his arms. The moment his body touched, every cell in his body was exerting itself, and the hand that was wrapped around Ye Ling’s ribs was so tense that his veins were bulging.
The crowd unanimously sighed in relief, but Huo Zhun did not dare to relax at all. He slowly held Ye Ling’s arm to help him up, as if he was afraid of letting Ye Ling get hurt if he didn’t do the right thing, and it wasn’t until he watched the other party land on his feet that he realized that his hands were actually shaking.
If Huo Zhun is still so scared, Ye Ling’s body has long been drenched in cold sweat. The stage is two stories high, if not for Huo Zhun’s timely assistance, he was afraid that he would die or be disabled.
Ye Ling rubbed his neck, couldn’t help but sigh that he was really lucky, but Huo Zhun was furious: “What are you doing? Playing acrobatics?!”
Ye Ling was dumbfounded by his yelling, and opened his mouth, but couldn’t speak. Planner Ren senses that things are not going well, and while telling his assistant to go ahead and take the staff to do a few small games to calm their emotions, he walks over to explain, “Mr. Huo, it’s like this, the curtain broke and descended down on its own. Assistant Ye was afraid of disturbing your performance, so she and Xiao Luo carried the curtain together so that they could hold it up until the end of your performance.”
“How could a good curtain break? Wasn’t it said to be foolproof?” Huo Zhun’s tone worsens as he thinks about it, “Besides, if the curtain is going to fall, let it fall, what’s the point of lifting it? What’s the point of lifting it? It’s so high up, have you thought about what to do if it falls? Is it the show or the lives that matter?”
Huo Jun usually has a lot on his plate, but in general, he’s a very good-tempered person, but that doesn’t mean that he’s not scary when he gets angry.
For example, now, Huo Jun’s tone changes slightly, and the surrounding area immediately quiets down, not to mention the planning team that was originally at fault, even a few vice presidents look at each other, afraid of saying something they shouldn’t have said and hitting the bull’s-eye.
“I’m sorry Mr. Huo, this matter is my ……” In the end, Ye Ling took the initiative to run up to lift the curtain, and now even dragged the planning team to be scolded, he can’t bear it. But just halfway through his plea, he was roughly stopped back by Mr. Huo.
“Ye Ling,” Huo Jun turns his head and looks at him coldly, “You’re usually very steady and cautious, why are you so reckless this time? Don’t you know yourself how dangerous it is to climb up there?”
The words were said without mercy and were close to accusations. Ye Ling originally thought that he was doing Huo Jun a favor, but he didn’t expect to almost lose his life because of it, not to mention that the other party didn’t appreciate it in the slightest, and went so far as to count him out in public. He looked around at the surrounding gazes of either blame or disapproval, and his mind gradually became uneven.
“Mr. Huo, I know it’s dangerous to climb up there, but as your assistant, I’m obligated to remove all obstacles for your performance.” Ye Ling tries her best to keep her voice calm and gentle, but she still can’t hide that little bit of indignation, “This is my job duty.”
“Good, very good, so it’s still my fault.” Fire rises to his throat, Huo Zhun smiles back in anger, “Do you know that if you really fall out, how much will the company have to compensate you for the injury? And how much impact it will have on the company’s reputation?”
“Everything just now came out of my personal will, no need for the company to be responsible for it, and it will be the same for similar situations in the future.” Ye Ling is tit-for-tat, “If Mr. Huo is not confident, he can list it in my contract.”
“You!” Huo Zhun stares viciously at Ye Ling, almost as if he wants to eat him alive. Everyone else didn’t dare to breathe a word, originally a spoof show had turned into what it is now, which no one had expected. I don’t know how long the stalemate lasted, but someone finally ventured out to save the day.
“Come on, come on, today is such a good day, don’t make everyone unhappy for these small incidents. Besides, we’re occupying the stage, are we going to let other people come up and perform?” Gu Xinzhang said, pulling the blue striped shirt on himself, “I say Mr. Huo, we don’t want to be powerful when we wear this outfit, we can’t be a tiger even if we roar, we’re just a cute Hello Kitty, so hurry up, go and get changed and return the stage to the others.”
This word, the crowd only realized that just thundering Huo total also wearing a pink striped shirt back head adorned with a long tail, wearing cat ears cat paw claws it.
Well, this contrasting cute is also absolute.
The planning team took the lead in a few girls could not hold back their laughter, they laughed, a few executives also followed the laugh, everyone haha a happy, originally also tense atmosphere instantly restored ease.
Even Huo Zhun and Ye Ling have packed up their sharp edges for the time being, embarrassed to be so tense.
Ren Planner apologized at the right time: “Mr. Huo, I’m really sorry, what happened today was a mistake by our team. We don’t charge any fees for this planning, just as an apology to Assistant Ye, to you, and also to our group.”
“Forget it, no need, you guys are also unintentional. I spoke heavily just now, but the safety issue really can’t be sloppy.” Huo Jun waved his hand – then he frowned, removing the cat’s claw gloves from his hands and pinning them in his arms, “Are your curtains ready?”
“Yes, yes, just got word that it’s fixed.” Ren Plotter said.
“That’s fine, the annual meeting will continue.” Huo Zhun impatiently glances at Ye Ling, as if wasting one more eyelash on him is disturbing, “Xinzhang, please ask someone to find a doctor to check him out, see if he fell anywhere. I’ll go change first.”
“No problem.” Gu Xinzhang answered.
Ye Ling opens his mouth to refuse, however, he looks at Huo Jun’s back that doesn’t look back and finally swallows his words back.
Xiao Luo, who had just climbed down from the shelf, broadened his noodle tears, “Mr. Huo, is that …… who you forgot?”
The so-called check, Ye Ling thought to look at the tendons and bones have not been injured also have to, who thought that Gu Xinzhang called the doctor extremely responsible, not only take the stethoscope to listen to each of his organs, but also gave him a pulse and blood pressure, to the end of the check can not be found, took out a small hammer to give him to measure the knee reflexes.
Ye Ling popped away at once, saying that the other party is not allowed to touch again.
“Alright, that’s it.” Suddenly, a low voice stopped the doctor’s further movements, “Thank you, doctor.”
Ye Ling looked over in response to the voice.
By the wall, Huo Zhun, who had changed back into a suit and was in human form, had a cold gaze with the corners of his mouth drooping, and his expression was extremely unsettling as he stared at him.
Ye Ling was uncomfortable in such a gaze, yet God, Huo Jun had been staring at him like this for half an hour.
As for that? He lowers his head and belly laughs.
“Mr. Huo, you are too polite. Tell me again if you need anything, and I’ll definitely be at your beck and call.” The doctor is Phoenix’s employee healthcare doctor, and it’s too late for him to show off his superb and comprehensive medical skills in front of the president, so he immediately humbles himself for a few moments and wisely retreats.
The door was closed and Ye Ling let out a long sigh of relief.
“Do you think that I’m making a big deal out of this?” Huo Zhun suddenly asks.
Ye Ling raises her head, and although he doesn’t answer, his gaze expression has affirmation written everywhere.
After a long time, Huo Jun sighed as if he was compromising.
He changed his sitting position, which was more casual than just now, and even the sense of oppression eased a lot, “What was going through your mind when you climbed up to the shelf?”
Ye Ling obviously felt that there was less accusation in the words, he was already a very good-tempered person, the other party was soft, and he couldn’t be tough, so he said, “The curtain is going to fall, if it does fall, everything on the stage, the stage won’t be able to see it. I think …… you practiced for so long, but it s a shame to be screwed up by something like this.”
Huo Jun’s heart softened for a moment, however he managed to hide it, “But I’d rather screw up than have you climb up and then fall down.”
“That was an accident tonight.” Ye Ling avoided his eyes, “The same thing won’t happen twice.”
“It’s not enough to have this kind of thing happen once, you want it a second time?” Huo Zhun sneers.
Ye Ling still doesn’t speak.
The more usually gentle a person is, the more stubborn they are, the more they take the bull by the horns. If just now Ye Ling was a tit for tat, now, he is adopting nonviolent non-cooperation. Huo Zhun looks at his stubbornness and his brows are almost twisted into a dead knot. Until now, he is still afraid of the scene just now. He doesn’t dare to think about what Ye Ling would be like if he really fell down or if he didn’t catch him. However, Ye Ling, the one who wasn’t afraid of death, he actually didn’t take any of this seriously at all!
Huo Zhun really wanted to jump up and punch someone, but beating Ye Ling up might not help as the bastard is even more rebellious. He quieted his mind, took several deep breaths in a row, and changed his approach, ”Ye Ling, I know you mean well, but you haven’t weighed the lesser of the two at all. The dance can be done year after year, but there is only one Ye Ling. Have you ever thought about what would happen if I didn’t catch you?”
Such an obvious change in attitude caused Ye Ling to be stunned. He turned his head sideways and his expression loosened a little, but after a moment of hesitation, he still stiffened his lips, “I’ll be fine.”
“Fine, you think it won’t be fine, but does it work?” Huo Zhun sits up straight and sneers, “I’m only asking you, in case something happens to you, what about Ye Rui?”
Ye Ling’s head lifted up all of a sudden.
“Ye Rui only has you as a relative, he’s still so young, in case you have an accident, he’ll become an orphan, have you thought about it, what will he do?” Huo Jun emphasized the word ‘orphan’.
Ye Ling looked at him blankly, obviously, such a possibility hadn’t crossed his mind at all, so the moment Huo Jun said it, he was stunned.
“When I was your age, I was even bolder than you. Not to mention climbing any high shelves, I’ve climbed all the viaducts. But after I had Huo Xiaoming, I told myself that I couldn’t take any more risks from now on. I have a family, I have my own child, if anything happens to me, my son is still so young, who will raise him?” Huo Zhun paused, “The same goes for you. You’re not alone anymore, you’re going to take a risk, then all the consequences caused will be borne by both you and Ye Rui.”
“I ……” Ye Ling mumbled, but couldn’t say a complete sentence. Huo Zhun was right, he wasn’t alone, any move he made was affecting the innocent Ye Rui, yet such a shallow reasoning had never even occurred to him.
Intense guilt accompanied by afterthought crushed him, Ye Ling lowered his head and buried his face deep into his palm. After a long time, he raised his head, the stubbornness he had just shown no longer present in his gaze.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Huo.” He admits his mistake, “There won’t be a next time.”
Finally, he waited for this apology he wanted, and the reasoning also called for Ye Ling to clearly accept it, but then President Huo’s heart wasn’t satisfied at all.
On the contrary, he is not very happy.
He thought, his own anger also anger fire also fire, hold down the temper to reason with you and even first lowered the head of this kind of humiliating things have done, you all don’t buy the account, finally, even because of Ye Rui this little brat with me lowered the head?
I’m your boss, the one who pays you every month! In your heart, it’s not as important as that little brat in your house?
Huo Zhun is really too upset.
The more Ye Ling lowers his eyebrows and admits his mistake, the more upset he gets.
What’s the point of admitting mistakes with me? In his heart, he spat. Go home and apologize to your son.
But Ye Ling doesn’t know what he’s thinking in his mind, he can’t even think of it by borrowing two of his brain circuits. He looked at the cloudy expression on Huo Jun’s face and thought he was still angry, so he got up and said solemnly, “Mr. Huo, I’m sorry, I was impulsive about today’s incident, and I shouldn’t have talked back to you in public. I’ll hand in my review to your desk tomorrow morning.”
“A review is not necessary.” Since he’s so sincere in admitting his mistake, how could Huo Jun have the heart not to accept it? The evil smile turns around in his stomach, and when it hangs on the corners of his mouth, he becomes magnanimous instead, “Let’s do it this way, this is on the books first, when the time comes, you pay me back a yard is all.”
A not-so-good premonition welled up in Ye Ling’s heart.
However apart from accepting it, what else could he do?
“Alright.”
Huo Zhun smiled and stood up, “Alright, this ends first. I see that the annual meeting is almost underway, so let’s not go and join in the fun. Let’s go, go upstairs and rest for a while, there’s still the reception in the evening.”
Ye Ling answered and obediently followed Huo Zhun out.
