Awkward Chapter 4

Chapter 4

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Since then, Ye Mu had shifted his focus to work.

It was almost paralyzing. He buried himself in a huge pile of files every day and night, desperately trying to catch up with business so that he didn’t have time to think about Yan Chen.

Sometimes, he couldn’t even tell the difference between day and night. When he was tired, he slept, and when he got up, he did it again, and the cycle repeated itself.

Colleagues around him did not know that he had been dumped. They were just shocked by his crazy overtime rhythm and felt that they had never seen such a desperate person working.

By the third month, Chen Mo looked over Ye Mu’s performance and couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.

Liu Yi carefully observed his face and spoke, “Mr. Chen, Ye Mu’s work efficiency is very high.”

Chen Mo frowned, and his words were thorny, “His efficiency is good, but if he works like this, the company will have to pay out some accidental death insurance, and in the end, it will not be worth the cost.”

Liu Yi was somewhat puzzled by her boss’s thoughts and hesitated for a long time, “So…you still decided to dismiss Ye Mu?”

Chen Mo absently closed the folder and said in a roundabout way, “It just so happens that there’s a recent project of attending a dinner party, so you’ll give it to him to do. It’s also a way of letting him take a breather.”

Liu Yi had good adaptability. She guessed his thought process and answered respectfully before leaving the office and sending out the errand entrusted by her superior in the form of an email.

Ye Mu was so busy that he didn’t notice the email until the evening of the next day. With only one hour left before the dinner party started, he didn’t have time to make thorough preparations and rushed there with only some basic project information.

Originally he thought it was a small project, but when he opened the folder and looked at it closely, Ye Mu realized that the amount on the contract was more than three hundred million dollars. Before the waiter opened the door to the hotel’s private room, he deliberately straightened his wrinkled collar.

What he did not expect was that, in addition to a few middle-aged rich businessmen dressed in expensive clothes, Yan Chen was also sitting in the private room.

Yan Chen had a new shaved hairstyle, causing him to look even more handsome and capable than before, and his deeply angular face was full of male charisma under the light. When he saw Ye Mu, his expression was a bit cold, and his gaze was distant and disgusted.

Ye Mu was greeted by the others and sat down, originally he did not talk much, and after he entered, the private room became even more silent.

One of these project businessmen came from Yunnan. He especially loved to drink and originally wanted to pull Yan Chen to drink with him, but Yan Chen’s temperament was a little bit cold, which made him feel bad, so he shifted his target to Ye Mu.

Ye Mu was not very good at refusing. The man poured a cup, and he drank it, and eventually, he drank two or three bottles of white wine.

He was a little dizzy but insisted on repeating the action of picking up and putting down the glass.

Yan Chen looked at him, his narrow eyes dark, “Don’t get drunk.”

Ye Mu’s heart thumped, caught a little off guard by his unexpected sentence.

He thought that all these times of desperate work had made him forget almost everything, but when the other party simply spoke to him, he realized that he was afraid.

Yes, he was afraid, afraid that Yan Chen would know that he still loved him.

There were some feelings that don’t wash away with time, but instead become more intense due to longing.

Ye Mu drank even more fiercely, hating himself for drinking too much and hating himself for not being able to get drunk in one go.

Seeing that he could drink so much, that big Yunnan businessman had the feeling that he could drink a thousand cups of wine with a friend and called for a few dozen more bottles of wine to come so that he could fight with him.

The rest of the crowd blindly cheered, watching them drink glass after glass while shouting, causing the private room to become very lively.

Yan Chen was at the side, his brows deeply wrinkled.

……

When he woke up, Ye Mu had already been stripped naked and laid on his own bed, his body aching all over.

After Yan Chen finished, he was half lying on the bed comfortably, turning on the TV to watch it.

Ye Mu was silent next to him and didn’t say anything. A pair of phoenix eyes were dark and lightless, just looking at the ceiling in an empty manner.

The night was particularly quiet, with only curls of smoke lingering in the air.

“Ding~”

Yan Chen’s cell phone alarm clock suddenly rang on time.

It was nearly ten o’clock at night.

Ye Mu glanced at it.

This was the time when Gu Huai came home from work.

Yan Chen noticed and turned off the alarm clock, got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower, and was already dressed when he came out.

Ye Mu watched him walk to the door with numb eyes.

Yan Chen walked over and kissed him, his side profile looking handsome.

Ye Mu inclined his head to avoid it, looking down at the cigarette burning in his hand, slowly spitting out the words, “This is the last time.”

Yan Chen snorted, his expression a little cold, “What, after just fooling around with me, you’re in a hurry to get rid of me?”

Ye Mu was tired and wiped his face. “We have had nothing to do with each other for a long time. Get lost.”

Yan Chen sarcastically hooked his lips; his handsome face was cold, “Yes, when the time comes, don’t come back to beg me to f*ck you again.”

Ye Mu turned his face away, ignoring him.

Yan Chen looked at him with contempt. With boredom and dislike in his eyes, he kicked off the kettle with a “bang” and left.

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