Translator: Hua Editor: Bamboozled?

Chapter 82: “Privately determine one’s lifelong event”?

Today, Jing Xun was going to interview newcomers. Shen Yijin had other jobs, so it was not convenient to accompany him during the interview.

Despite this, he especially turned on the projection screen in the office and opened the monitoring of the interview room.

Shen Yijin handled all the work methodically, including the documents sent by Shen Group. Everything was as usual.

The only difference was that he would look up at the display screen from time to time to make sure that things were on track there as well.

But it didn’t affect anything, Shen Yijin’s work efficiency was still extremely high today as well.

Until it’s time for lunch break.

Jing Xun on the screen began to interview the last alumnus this morning.

Shen Yijin, who was immersed in his work, raised his head suddenly, and saw the two people on the screen hugging and jumping…

…………

The door was suddenly pushed open. Looking at the tyrannical Shen Yijin, and looking at the stunned senior next him, Jing Xun suddenly thought: He hasn’t had time to tell Senior about the current situation…

“Xun Xun?” Senior Pei, who was obviously scared by Shen Yijin, called out to him, “This is…?”

Meanwhile, Shen Yijin, who was standing at the door, said nothing.

Silence had always been a characteristic of his.

But this time, Shen Yijin’s aura was obviously different.

Even Jing Xun did not dare to look directly at Shen Yijin’s eyes at this moment.

It was not out of a guilty conscience, nor fear, but the look in his eyes…

His appearance was obviously plain and calm, but there was no light in Shen Yijin’s dark eyes.

Shen Yijin, who had no light in his eyes, was undoubtedly extremely terrifying.

Although he outwardly donned a formal suit and leather shoes, the dreadful inner monster was undoubtedly exposed, flooding out unobstructed, and sweeping everyone around him.

A chill suddenly rose from the tailbone and directly froze Pei Qingnian beside him.

Jing Xun also felt cold.

Rather than fear, he felt more…distressed.

Shen Yijin didn’t say anything. But he(jx) knew that he(syj) had misunderstood.

The other person’s eyes made him feel distressed for a moment.

Jing Xun couldn’t care about anything, he ran over and took the other party’s hand.

“Sir, you’ve misunderstood, this is my senior!…” Jing Xun explained hastily.

Shen Yijin said, “En.”

Shen Yijin didn’t move and just let himself be pulled.

It was just that his expression didn’t relax at all.

He only glanced at Jing Xun, then switched to deadly stare at Senior Pei who was still holding Jing Xun just now, as if wanting to burn a hole in him.

Senior Pei: “……?”

Jing Xun: “……”

When Shen Yijin came here just now, Chu Qiao and the others hadn’t left the vicinity of the conference room. There were a lot of people outside at the moment.

Although everyone was standing far away, it was not convenient to talk with the door open.

Jing Xun exerted his strength and pulled Shen Yijin into the room.

With a ‘bang’, the door closed again, shutting out all the surprised and curious eyes.

This time, Jing Xun locked the door from the inside. When he turned around, he heard the voice of Senior Pei behind him: “Xun Xun, who is this?”

“……”

Jing Xun obviously felt that Shen Yijin’s aura had become piercingly colder.

At the critical moment, he hurriedly shouted: “Sir, this is my senior who loves to read, and this is my… lover!”

……

He paused while introducing Shen Yijin. When he really said it, Jing Xun’s face had turned red.

After all, Senior Pei was different to him.

He was different from everyone in this world.

Both of them were ‘immigrants’ and went through the same experience.

What’s more important was that he and his senior had known each other for a long time. They trained, competed, and worked together to win championships…

Senior Pei had always taken care of him, and sincerely worried about him. To Jing Xun, he was like a brother and a teacher.

Introducing Shen Yijin to such a person in such an abrupt situation, Jing Xun couldn’t help but feel as if… after eloping with sir and already determining their lifelong event1私定终身 [sī dìnɡ zhōnɡ shēn]: Privately determine one’s lifelong event. It is used when two people get married without parental consent., he was found out by a family member.

But no matter how hard it was to say it, he still did. And once he did, he wouldn’t feel embarrassed anymore.

Squeezing Shen Yijin’s hand tightly, Jing Xun bravely met Pei Qingnian’s eyes.

And Senior Pei who was on the opposite side was obviously shocked. He froze for a moment before saying, “What does Ah Xun mean by….lover?”

Jing Xun: “……”

Unexpectedly, Senior did not understand. Jing Xun felt that he had experienced another wave of embarrassment.

But he knew that he could not hesitate at this time. He wanted to show his relationship with sir, so he had to brace himself and explain in depth: “That, that kind of partner, marriage partner, husband…? In short, I’m married. The person you saw with me in the photo is sir.”

The more Pei Qingnian listened, the more he couldn’t help but suck in a breath of cool air: “You…I…God!”

Pei Qingnian was stunned and didn’t react for a long time before he retrieved a trace of logic: “But didn’t you say you’ve only been here for two months!”

Jing Xun blushed and looked away: “…Sometimes fate comes so suddenly?”

Pei Qingnian: “……”

Fortunately, at this moment, Shen Yijin, who stood on one side, understood.

At first, Jing Xun said this was his senior, and Shen Yijin didn’t understand it yet, but when he heard this, he reacted–the Senior in Jing Xun’s mouth, the identity should not be simple.

He knew all of Jing Xun’s past, and he knew that Jing Xun had always lived on campus in the previous world. He was very popular.

Connecting Jing Xun’s attitude and the conversation between the two people at this time, with a little analysis, he could guess who this senior was.

And if it was a sudden encounter with the same transmigrated acquaintance, then a series of behaviors such as hugs could be explained.

Shen Yijin knew that he had a strong desire to possess Jing Xun. But he was not that twisted.

Although he would be unhappy in his heart, he wouldn’t go so far as to restrict Jing Xun from getting close to anyone.

So after learning the truth, Shen Yijin’s anger and hostility dissipated instantly, just like the gentle spring after a storm, he took the initiative to reach out to Pei Qingnian.

“Hello Senior, my surname is Shen, and my name is Shen Yijin.”

“Ah, Mr. Shen, hello, I am… What the f*ck?”

Pei Qingnian’s outstretched hand hung in the air stiffly, and he dared not hold Shen Yijin’s hand.

Just now, he was so frightened by this person’s imposing manner that he subconsciously wanted to clamp his tail.

If he had a tail.

Hearing that his junior, who had never been in a relationship before and didn’t even know what love was, got married, Pei Qingnian completely fell into the ultimate dumbfounded state of the year. It was like a thunder bolt that shook the ground. He couldn’t think about anything at all.

So when his junior’s marriage partner suddenly put away his cold face and came over to shake hands with him, Pei Qingnian didn’t feel anything yet. Out of politeness, he subconsciously responded to the greeting.

Until he mulled over the other party’s self-introduction.

“Shen, Shen Yijin???”

With the ghostly cry, Pei Qingnian looked at Shen Yijin in front of him in horror, and then helplessly looked at Jing Xun. At this moment, his soul was almost scared out of his body!

After all, Pei Qingnian’s meeting with Shen Yijin was completely different from that of Jing Xun’s.

Jing Xun was also scared at first. But Shen Yijin at that time, although indifferent, nonetheless he was gentle. Overall, it would only make people feel that he was different from the description in the book, but not that scary.

But a short while ago, Pei Qingnian was shocked by Shen Yijin’s imposing manner, and now he automatically associated him with some of the contents from the book…it was normal to be scared.

Jing Xun saw him panicking, so he quickly explained to Pei Qingnian: “Yeah, this is Mr. Shen…”

He didn’t want Senior to be scared. He also didn’t want Shen Yijin to perceive any abnormality and realized he was the big villain in the book… Jing Xun discovered that the problem now seemed to have become more serious.

He was too excited to meet his senior just now and didn’t think much.

Now Shen Yijin was here, but he and Senior had not yet corresponded with each other… So hinting Senior not to spill anything had become the top priority!

Jing Xun could only blink at Senior.

While blinking, he said: “The rumors from the outside world are wrong, don’t be nervous, Senior. Mr. Shen is actually very good and treats me very well! Anyway, he is always a super nice person!”

Blinking his eyes wasn’t enough, Jing Xun walked up to Shen Yijin and slightly spread his arms to shield him.

On one hand, he didn’t want Shen Yijin to see him ‘exchanging flirtatious glances’ with Senior, it might cause some misunderstanding.

On the other hand, it was to prevent them from fighting.

Although Jing Xun didn’t know why he thought they would fight, which was obviously illogical…

But anyway.

And just like this, the feeling of ‘privately determined one’s lifelong event’ was even stronger.

Senior Pei: “……”

Pei Qingnian still couldn’t accept this fact, but during the time he spent with Jing Xun, he understood this junior very well. He knew that Jing Xun wasn’t brainwashed by the villain or anything like that.

And Jing Xun’s state at this time couldn’t be deceiving. At first glance, it seemed he hadn’t suffered anything.

Pei Qingnian felt relieved, and subconsciously cooperated with Jing Xun.

In the past, they had cooperated to win the championship. When Jing Xun blinked at him, Pei Qingnian reacted.

Although he didn’t know the situation of these two people, this was still the world in the book after all and they were foreigners, so it wasn’t good to expose their identities too much.

Besides, this person already became Junior’s…husband, well, he couldn’t let Jing Xun lose face.

All the panic and shock just now were hidden. Pei Qingnian took the initiative to go forward and briefly shook hands with Shen Yijin, saying: “Hello, Mr. Shen, I’m Jing Xun’s… good brother who brave dangers together with him, haha.”

…Went through hellish training together, went abroad to compete together, and later went through a car accident together…

It wasn’t too much to describe it as ‘brave dangers together’.

As soon as the shock was over, Pei Qingnian’s mind immediately became active.

First of all, Shen Yijin was indeed his favorite person in the whole book, and he had always felt pity for this villain boss.

Secondly, this was the book world, and the person in front of him was really Shen Yijin, didn’t that mean… this person was the richest man in Dragon City!

He could have the wind and rain at his command2Literal translation of this idiom is Want wind get wind, want rain get rain. Basically means this person is extremely powerful. They could obtain anything they want.!

On the premise that Jing Xun was married to the richest man in Dragon City, wasn’t he the senior of… the richest man’s spouse…?

Uh, although it still sounded very plain.

But what was his relationship with Ah Xun? He was Ah Xun’s senior from the same ‘hometown’! One more prefix than others!

Pei Qingnian, whose mind became more active, was looking at Jing Xun with a calm expression on his face.

Seeing Jing Xun’s photo previously and suspecting that he also crossed over, Pei Qingnian was very worried about the current situation of this junior.

He feared that his simple and kind-hearted junior brother would not be able to cope with the scum gong and this bloody world.

He was afraid that Jing Xun wouldn’t be able to adapt here, and would be bullied.

This was also the reason why he had to break into Yiwei Technology by himself no matter what to personally confirm it.

Now it seemed like……

He had been thinking too much.

Now Pei Qingnian just wanted to ask Jing Xun…

Junior brother, how on earth did you manage to hug the thigh of this richest daddy!

This is the most moody villain boss in the book ahhhhh!

Jing Xun: “……”

Jing Xun didn’t know how to explain that he didn’t hug his thigh.

But somehow things had been ‘settled’ onSenior’s side, now it was Shen Yijin’s turn…

He no longer assumed the posture of an old hen guarding its chicks, he twisted his body a little and briefly introduced his senior to Shen Yijin.

That included what Senior Pei did before, his identity as a transmigrator, and the relationship between the two of them.

When he introduced Senior Pei’s identity in this way, Shen Yijin didn’t have much reaction, but Pei Qingnian was surprised again and grinned from ear to ear.

——Xun Xun’s relationship with the villain boss was so good that he even told him he was a transmigrator!

And looking at the villain boss’s reaction, he seemed to have fully accepted this fact a long time ago?!

Pei Qingnian looked at Jing Xun with a little more admiration. If it were him, he would not dare to tell anyone so easily!

But putting it another way, Shen Yijin knew their identities, and that was a lot easier, now there was no need to even hide themselves.

“That… Mr. Shen, would you mind giving me an autograph? I am your fan. Big fan!”

Shen Yijin: “?”

Jing Xun: “……”

Jing Xun really wanted to go up and cover Senior’s mouth!

Fortunately, Senior Pei didn’t continue to talk about the important plots in the book or something.

At this time, Shen Yijin also raised his hand to look at his wrist watch and said: “It’s noon, Senior Pei, let’s go and have a meal together.”

Pei Qingnian naturally would not refuse.

Pei Qingnian was known for his boldness and active mind when he went abroad to compete, a characteristic he possessed but other team members didn’t.

Now that he had stabilized his emotions, not only did he see some opportunities, but he could also have a meal with his own idol, he was not afraid of anything.

For their next itinerary, Shen Yijin arranged very thoughtfully.

The restaurant they went to was a private restaurant with a luxurious appearance and a secluded private room. The food and drink brought together the characteristics of the North, South, East and the West of the country. There were various appetizing dishes. It was a convenient place to talk about business and wouldn’t make people feel uncomfortable.

Shen Yijin’s speech was also very appropriate, he would not interfere with Jing Xun’s reminiscences with his senior, and he hadn’t even talked much during the whole meal.

But his sense of existence was very ample.

There was no sense of inconsistency when he was serving food to Jing Xun with his decent table manners.

It was as if he had done this countless times, so naturally, he didn’t say anything, but he also knew Jing Xun’s appetite and eating habits very well.

This natural revelation once again gave another layer of light to his consideration.

Anyone who saw a handsome man dressed in a high-fashion western-styles suit and a world-famous watch carefully taking care of his lover’s dinner would inevitably pay attention at least once or twice.

Sometimes you might even be choked on the spot by the pink bubbles.

Pei Qingnian liked this idol more and more!

Of course, he also had a little more expectations for their future!

Before, Pei Qingnian had no choice but to accept this rather baffling transmigration. He could only work hard and make plans to take Jing Xun to escape the plot.

After the meal, although the two had not yet discussed how Jing Xun escaped from the original plot, Pei Qingnian had already acknowledged this ‘Junior brother’s husband’ from the bottom of his heart.

The thought of escaping to a faraway place also faded a lot.

Especially after some exchanges, when he heard that Jing Xun was studying AI recently and was in urgent need of manpower, Pei Qingnian said: “…Isn’t that what we studied in the past?”

Jing Xun: “Yeah!”

Jing Xun looked at him with bright eyes, “Senior, are you interested in joining us?”

As mentioned previously, Jing Xun was good at model building and calculations. In addition, he had strong learning ability, so he could mostly get involved in the computer field.

But to talk about the professional field, Senior Pei was the real expert.

The development of an AI intelligent system could not be accomplished by just one or two people. The ability of Jing Xun and Pei Qingnian was like the horizontal and vertical of a net. A single horizontal or vertical alone could not be woven into a net.

Before this, Jing Xun as a horizontal could only accomplish the work of one person. Inviting some old professors to join the team and recruiting new employees was also to let them become the verticals and complete this net together.

And in this book world where the development of science and technology was relatively backward, with the knowledge and ability that Pei Qingnian had mastered, he could walk horizontally in this world and directly act as the vertical!

That is to say, once Senior Pei joined him, Jing Xun would become a tiger that had grown wings. He would get twice the result with half the effort.

Since they couldn’t go back, they had to look forward.

Jing Xun, who also knew of Pei Qingnian’s strength and ambition, wanted to pull Senior to join him.

“What do you think, sir?” Before Senior Pei could answer, he asked Shen Yijin again.

On the table, Shen Yijin, a family member, was sitting on the same side with Jing Xun all the time.

At this moment, the young man held his hand under the table and squeezed his finger again. Shen Yijin immediately understood what Jing Xun meant.

He valued talented people, so he wouldn’t be perfunctory. He directly said to Pei Qingnian: “If Senior Pei doesn’t mind, Yiwei welcomes talents like you to join us at any time. Feel free to mention the salary requirement. The company’s year-end dividends and bonuses will not be little.”

Most contemporary migrant workers were most concerned about salary conditions and company benefits.

Now Shen Yijin didn’t keep people guessing, he directly asked Pei Qingnian to state his own salary, that meant it didn’t matter if he proposed an annual salary of several million, or even tens of millions.

The sincerity was evident.

Before transmigrating, Pei Qingnian was also from a well-off family. He was studying for a Ph.D, playing with computers, and joining overseas competitions. All of these activities were out of passion, he never thought about making money.

But now his identity had changed, and he was still in debt, so he had to consider it.

Originally, he planned to do some illegal work in private, helping people break the firewall or making a small program to earn some extra money. Unexpectedly, the olive branch was thrown on his head at this moment.

Pei Qingnian couldn’t help looking forward to his future life.

He naturally agreed and promised.

After eating, Pei Qingnian, who had nowhere to go, followed Jing Xun back to Yiwei and immediately started to work.

Jing Xun brought Pei Qingnian to his newly built AI laboratory and briefly introduced him to other colleagues.

He had to continue interviewing other people this afternoon and was very busy. Pei Qingnian also said that he didn’t need him to accompany him, so Jing Xun asked two colleagues who had nothing to do for the time being to show Senior Pei around and introduce him to the current work progress and so on.

After doing all these, while the afternoon interview had not officially started, he automatically followed Shen Yijin back to the office.

The door of the president’s office closed, and Jing Xun was suddenly trapped between Shen Yijin and the door.

He didn’t panic, he just raised his hands to hook Shen Yijin’s neck, and the other party naturally dropped a kiss on his lips.

After an exciting long kiss, at the end, Shen Yijin asked him: “Xiao Xun, are you happy?”

Jing Xun nodded honestly: “Happy.”

“Ok.”

Shen Yijin’s long and stiff eyelashes suddenly lowered, and his thin lips were slightly raised: “As long as Xiao Xun is happy, it’s good.”

After the interview ended in the afternoon, Jing Xun returned to the laboratory to find his beloved senior, and invited him to the company’s pantry to have coffee together.

Pei Qingnian, who finally got the chance to talk to his junior alone, relaxed and dared to say anything. He simply took out a piece of paper and handed it to Jing Xun: “If you have time, ask your husband for an autograph for me.”

Jing Xun: “?”

Pei Qingnian: “I’m really a fan of Mr. Shen!”

That’s right, a character fan is also a fan!

The series of family/marriage recognition events that happened today was too shocking for him to react, but after an afternoon of careful thinking, Pei Qingnian had completely accepted everything in front of him, and intended to enjoy his life in this world.

When you relax your mind, your attitude towards many things will change.

For example, Pei Qingnian was very glad that he found a close kin after only three days, and also got to meet his idol.

——He saw the character that he idolized in person. How many people have enjoyed this kind of treatment in their lifetime?!

This signature must be obtained!

“Oh.” Jing Xun understood. He said there was no problem with wanting the autograph. He turned his head and pulled out a thin piece of paper from the white coat he had with him.

“Here, there’s his signature on it.”

“Huh?” Pei Qingnian glanced at the thin paper and found that it was actually a check.

——A blank check that Shen Yijin had already signed.

Pei Qingnian was shocked: “What is this??”

“Sir asked me to give it to you.” Jing Xun smiled and said, “Don’t you still owe an online loan? Let’s pay off the bill first.”

Pei Qingnian: “!”

…The debts that the original owner owed, a few hundreds thousands would have been enough.

Pei Qingnian did not expect that Mr. Shen’s sincerity would be so abundant. He directly gave him a check that could be filled in with random numbers!

“Because you insist that only one million annual salary is required, this is considered an allowance …… Anyway, you take it.” Jing Xun didn’t know how to persuade him, so he just stuffed the check into the other party’s hand.

In terms of Senior Pei’s strength, one million a year was not worthy of his talent.

Jing Xun knew that he was not short of money before, and now he would not put this annual salary of several million in his eyes.

It was very easy for Senior to make money. It should be out of his own willingness that he agreed to work on this project, so there was no reluctance.

They were going to spend a long time on this project, and neither of them would treat each other badly. For example, this check was issued after Sir heard him talk about Senior’s current situation and asked him to pass it on.

Pei Qingnian also understood this fact, so he didn’t decline it anymore.

Looking at the vigorous and powerful signature on the check, he could not help but reflect words such as ‘abstinence, sensibility, self-confidence, formidable’ and so on in his mind: Worthy of being the person I idolized.

Pei Qingnian couldn’t help but complain to Jing Xun: “You don’t know how scared I was when I first heard he was the villain boss. Who would have thought that the legendary president Shen was not fierce at all. Instead, he’s quite handsome.”

Jing Xun nodded in agreement with this: “Who did not think so at first.”

At the beginning, he also thought Sir was very fierce because of Senior’s interpretation…

If he had known that the villain was actually not fierce but handsome… then maybe he would not have rashly agreed to his marriage proposal.

Pei Qingnian asked him: “So what’s the matter with you two?”

“Uh.”

Jing Xun’s cheeks flushed with peachy color again.

Ah, how should he tell Senior about their matter…

He didn’t have the nerve to think about it!

But at the thought of it, he couldn’t help but want to laugh–it was really embarrassing to recall the previous encounter with Shen Yijin. But it somehow felt inexplicably sweet?

Just like the desserts in the cafe where they officially met, all of them were Jing Xun’s first experience. They were all sweet and savory, and the aftertaste lasted for many years.

Pei Qingnian who was suddenly attacked by the love atmosphere radiating from his junior: “……”

“By the way, Senior, I have something else I want to ask you first.”

Jing Xun didn’t elaborate on his past with Shen Yijin, because he thought of something more important——

“How exactly did Sir blacken in the original work?”

1私定终身 [sī dìnɡ zhōnɡ shēn]: Privately determine one’s lifelong event. It is used when two people get married without parental consent.2Literal translation of this idiom is Want wind get wind, want rain get rain. Basically means this person is extremely powerful. They could obtain anything they want.