Perfect Match - Two Men's Love - Chapter 22

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Lai was tossed around most of the night and had to get up and go to work after not even three hours of sleep. His entire body was aching, and with the headache from the hangover, the idea of not wanting to go to work came to him for the first time.
Turning to think of Min Xiangnan’s expectant face, he sighed, he’d better go.
Only when Ri Ye got up did he realize that Yi Xiuwen had habitually put his hand on his waistline again while he slept, and because of his movement, Yi Xiuwen also turned to wake up and looked at Ri Ye with his hazel sleepy eyes open.
“Where are you going?” Yi Xiuwen wasn’t awake yet, but still subconsciously wrapped his arms around the other man’s waist.
Ri Ye removed Yi Xiuwen’s hand on his body, his sleep-deprived mood naturally not much better, and said in a not-so-good tone, “To work.”
“Hm? Hmm,” Yi Xiuwen grunted slightly puzzled, and seemed to have thought of something, also sat up, “I’ll send you there?”
Ri Ye was already dressed in Yi Xiuwen’s self-talk, he took a few steps and frowned a little in discomfort, the hidden pain inside his body making him feel it with every step.
When he finished washing and came out, Yi Xiuwen was also fully dressed sitting on the edge of the bed waiting for him.
There was nothing left on his face that looked like he hadn’t woken up from sleep, and his somewhat worried gaze kept hovering around Ri Ye’s waistline, so as soon as Ri Ye came out he immediately stood up and said, ”Are you ready? I’ll take you there, I don’t think you’ll probably be able to drive very easily.”
The words of refusal that were just about to come out had already reached his mouth, but he stopped and nodded instead.
Yi Xiuwen was very happy to do this, looking at Li Ye’s face and body movements it was not difficult to see that he was not feeling well, but he knew the importance of work in Li Ye’s mind, instead of persuading him not to go to work, it would be better to use this way to make him feel slightly better.
Lai Ye’s home is very close to the company, driving is only fifteen minutes away, the road is crowded with cars during the morning commute, even if it is a stop and go it took nearly half an hour to get there.
Yi Xiuwen enjoyed this kind of time, for him this start of the day was too wonderful, although only three hours of sleep is a bit beautiful, but all this does not affect his mood.
Ri Ye got out of the car on his own, and as Yi Xiuwen waved to him, he said slightly unnaturally, “I’m leaving.”
After watching the car drive away from where he was, Ri Ye turned around and walked into the building.
When he was almost at the door, a man was already waiting for him with a smile on his face and waved.
“Assistant Lai seems to be living a rather …… nourishing life.” Shen Shi had come to Donghua Entertainment today to further discuss cooperation, and he hadn’t expected to see Li Ye get down from the passenger side of the car at the entrance, and wave to a man before turning around to walk into the company.
His gaze did not leave Li Ye, and with his deliberate walking posture, Shen Shi quickly guessed it.
Could it be that Ri Ye had also started dating men? It was really rare.
ShinShi rubbed his chin in thought, always feeling that the man he just saw looked somewhat familiar.
All the information that had an impression was running at high speed in his mind, and finally, it came to him, wasn’t that man Yi Xiuwen?
Ha, wasn’t he the one who took the photo last time, and one of Queen-six’s members was photographed waiting for the elevator together in the hotel, and he even used this photo to exchange with Lai Ye for an exclusive interview with Z Magazine about this group.
Interesting, so these two still had such a relationship. No wonder Ri Ye negotiated with him without saying a word.
Ri Ye directly ignored Shen Shi’s words and said with some impatience, “Don’t block the doorway if Chief Editor Shen doesn’t want to go in, others still have to go in to work.”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, really don’t have a good word to say when you see me.” He sidled up, side by side with Ri Ye, “Since we’ve bumped into each other, why don’t we come together? I need to talk to your Mr. Min about something anyway.”
Ri Ye had already read the schedule beforehand and naturally knew that Shen Shi was here to talk about something, the time on his watch was already approaching 9 o’clock, so he accelerated his pace even more to walk inside.
Shen Shi leisurely followed behind him and also walked in, to the elevator, only the two of them.
“Thanks to Assistant Li, if it wasn’t for the conditions you talked to us about before, there’s no way our magazine would have sold so well.”
Shen Shi said is not bad, since Queen-six debut, can interview them magazine is very few, this chance to get the opportunity to really let Z magazine sales increased greatly, but also because of the popularity of Queen-six and several times to print, and some small places are even sold out of stock. Z magazine has now jumped to become the best-selling magazines on the market.
“No need to be polite, it’s not thanks to Chief Editor Shen’s blessing that we can have this cooperation opportunity.” Ri Ye replied as he stared closely at the numbers in the elevator.
Shen Shi didn’t care if he was choked, and after thinking for a while, he spoke again, “Originally, I thought that there were quite a lot of good materials for Donghua’s artists, but now it seems that just you, Assistant Lai, have quite a lot of materials to dig up.”
Lai Ye squinted at him, and Shen Shi felt a coldness rise in his body.
He only heard that cold voice say, “It’s a pity, there’s no good quid pro quo for exploding my material.”
“Hey, that person is Yi Xiuwen, right?” The elevator had already reached the floor where the president’s office was located, and as soon as the elevator doors opened Ri Ye walked out quickly, not caring about Shen Shi who was shouting behind him.
Shen Shi made a fool of himself and shrugged his shoulders, just as Li Ye said, he exploded Li Ye’s material today for the sake of a momentary topic, and after that, his days would not be so good, and he would like to talk about cooperation in the future, and then it would be even more difficult to get resources from Donghua, and he is a person with a brain, and there are some things that you can say, and it’s a different thing if you don’t do it or not. However, from the point of view of Li Ye’s performance, also confirmed his own conjecture.
Today Shen Shi came to find Min Xiangnan for two things, the first is that Z Magazine’s serialization of Queen-six’s growth record has reached the stage where it’s about to wrap up, and the people underneath have recreated a new column for them, and Z Magazine is hoping to continue to cooperate with Donghua Entertainment. The second thing was that Z Magazine and the number one portal site on the internet, V Net, would jointly hold a music awards ceremony at the end of the month, and he had come to invite Min Xiangnan to attend, although this music awards ceremony had only been held twice, it was very popular amongst the general public, and had already gotten close to all the old awards ceremonies. Today, because Donghua has launched several singing groups that are very powerful, the organizers would like to invite Min Xiangnan to be the guest of honor.
Min Xiangnan was of course happy to accept this, not only to create a huge influence for Donghua, but also to participate with Su Nuo in the meantime, it was more than good for him.
Shen Shi and Min Xiangnan some friendship, the organizers let him to invite Min Xiangnan is also enough to highlight the organizers and the guest of honor degree of importance, Shen Shi is quite happy to do this, interpersonal relations, more move around or good.
Talking about the time has been almost noon, during the period of Li Ye came in to send two documents to Min Xiangnan, Shen Shi since the morning after the discovery of the inevitable for Li Ye has more attention.
It seems that last night was hard work, Shinseki thought as he tapped his finger on the table.
Shinsei went straight to find Ri Ye after leaving Min Xiangnan’s office.
“Come in.”
After receiving the other party’s permission, Shinshi opened the door without rushing in and casually leaned against the door, “Assistant Lai, it’s time for dinner, why don’t you reward me with a meal?”
Lai Ye didn’t even lift his head and said, “No need, I’m busy.”
“I do have something interesting on my hands, I wonder if Assistant Li is interested in taking a look?” Shen Shi turned his cell phone on and took a few steps to walk over to Ri Ye’s table, placing the phone in front of Ri Ye.
Ri Ye took one look at it and his face went bad.
“What’s going on here?”
Shen Shi sat down on the chair opposite him, put the cell phone away, and said, “Don’t worry, I’ve already suppressed this one, but …… this is something that I’m selling Assistant Lai a face, so if Assistant Lai wants to know more, how about going to dinner with me.”
The photo that Lai Ye just saw was not someone else, but a photo of Su Nuo and a man together in a rather ambiguous manner.
It was only last night that Min Xiang Nan had said that he was going to propose to this person, and today he had seen such a photo for himself, so whether it was true or not, Lai Ye had to go and figure it out.
If things are really like the photos …… he will definitely not sit back and watch.
Ri Ye stood up, packed his things briefly and said, “Let’s go, where to?”
Shen Shi brought Ri Ye to a nearby western restaurant, after the two of them were seated, Shen Shi said, “It seems that it’s not easy to treat Assistant Ri to a meal.”
Ri Ye knew what he was referring to, but he didn’t care in the slightest, the only thing he cared about was also the pictures he had just seen.
“Can you tell me now? The photos, when and where were they taken?”
Shen Shi pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled, leisurely lifting the cup of water in his hand and taking a sip, saying, “Assistant Li, don’t you want to order first?”
“Since Chief Editor Shen invited me to dinner, it’s fine to follow Chief Editor Shen’s preferences.” Lai Ye’s mind was already on the photos he had just seen, as for anything else, it wasn’t a priority.
“Ha, good, then I’ll take over.” Shinshi called for the waiter to order the food, although the person he was talking to was the waiter, but his eyes were looking at Ri Ye all the time.
Ri Ye waited for a long time, but Shinshi finished ordering but didn’t mean to speak. He thought about it but asked himself, “Tell me, what’s up with the photo?”
Shen Shi relaxed and leaned back in his chair and said, “It’s the same thing you saw.”
Ri Ye thought about it, Su Nuo usually doesn’t have many scandals, and judging from getting along, she’s not someone who would go for scandalous lace, so there’s a possibility that the person who took the photo intentionally took the photo like that, just to cause a misunderstanding.
“Photos don’t really tell the truth either, Chief Editor Shin wouldn’t be unaware of that, would he?”
Shen Shi, without answering this question of his, asked instead, “Then, Assistant Lai, in what capacity are you asking about this photo?”
Lai Ye’s gaze met with Shen Shi’s, and the other party seemed to have quite a deep meaning, so he fixed his mind and said, “As the assistant to the president of Donghua, I think it’s necessary for me to know about our company’s artists.”
Shen Shi suddenly laughed, his entire body sitting up from the chair, leaning forward slightly, “Since it’s official business, then I have nothing more to say, anyway, this photo is exclusive to us, and I’ve helped you guys to suppress it and not send it out, so I think I’m already sincere enough.”
Lai Ye’s lips pursed into a straight line, since Shen Shi said this, there must be something else implied that he didn’t say.
Seeing that Lai Ye didn’t say a word, but his complexion was rather gloomy, Shen Shi took the initiative to speak, “Assistant Lai …… why are you …… so concerned about this photo?”
He took out his cell phone and clicked the photo out, saying as he looked at it, “There are so many artists in Donghua, and there are so many bigger names than this Su Nuo, so why is Assistant Lai so preoccupied with his affairs? Or is …… Assistant Li …..” He put his cell phone on the table, his eyes staring tightly at Lai, “There’s someone else you’re attached to?”
Shen Shi’s eyes were too certain, and Ri Ye was somewhat bluffed, quickly thinking of words to answer him in his head, while still having to appear very calm on his face.
Ha, really, it’s really very interesting, his own earlier guess seems to be true, but now Yi Xiuwen’s existence is a bit puzzling to him.
Shen Shi’s interest in Li Ye was real, so on various occasions, he would inevitably go to see him more, although Li Ye often refused his invitations, but this on the contrary, Shen Shi’s interest was even more aroused. Other people do not seem to have any abnormal behavior, but after observing Li Ye for a long time, Shen Shi also gradually found some interesting things to come.
It turns out that the assistant Ri, who rejected people outside of a thousand miles, has always been following him ……
Min Xiangnan.
I heard that they had been classmates for many years and worked together for many years, but Ri had been hiding her emotions very well, such an unknown Ri, when Shen Shi saw it, she couldn’t take her eyes off it anymore.
“You say, if I send this photo to your General Manager Min, will I reap a big favor?”
Ri Ye finally pressed the other person’s hand that was pressing the cell phone with some excitement when he heard the person’s address.
“Wait.” Ri Ye stopped, pressing his hand tightly, “Don’t send it to him.”
“Oh? Why?” Shinsei didn’t bother pulling Ri’s hand away, but asked rhetorically anyway.
“I’ve seen a lot of looking at pictures, and I don’t want to upset the two of them just because of a picture.” Ri Ye remembered the previous misunderstanding, just from the photo, Yi Xiuwen and June how not like it’s okay, he also misunderstood him because of this, not to mention this time Min Xiangnan and Su Nuo’s matter, Min Xiangnan can say to himself that he wants to get married, it must be for this relationship is very serious, he doesn’t want to Min Xiangnan to be hurt for no reason.
“You really are interested in him ……” Shen Shi smiled and didn’t say any more, he knew that Ri Ye could understand.
“Since your purpose has been achieved, you can tell me now, when and where was it taken?” Ri Ye jerked his hand away and sat back.
Shen Shi’s expression also straightened up and said, “Three weeks ago, I think, in X City, as far as I know, Su Nuo didn’t have announcements to make in X City at that time.”
Ri Ye pondered for a long time, three weeks ago …… Shouldn’t Su Nuo have gone to New York with Min Xiangnan to see a photography exhibition? The two of them didn’t come back together, and Min Xiangnan said that Su Nuo had a notice to shoot a movie, and if he remembered correctly, the shooting location was in B City, so how did he run to X City again?
It seems that to get an explanation, you need to ask in person to know.
Shen Shi suddenly thought of something as if to say, “By the way, the other male lead in the photo is a teacher at B City University …… I hope it will be helpful to you.”
Ri Ye thoughtfully glanced at Shen Shi, he had thought that Shen Shi had taken this photo purely to come and exchange resources with him, but thinking about his pushy attitude just now, it was more like he was asking for confirmation of something on himself.
Now Shen Shi was actually giving himself advice, it was really inscrutable.
However, Ri Ye simply didn’t have much of a mind to care what Shen Shi was thinking, the first thing he had to do now was still to find Su Nuo, he didn’t want Min Xiang Nan to make a wrong decision.
Seeing his thoughtful look, Shen Shi leaned back in his chair again, sighed long and said, “This feeling of being guarded really makes people jealous.”
Author’s Note: ORZ are you all still there?