Chapter Eighteen: Cheng Zong, you’re actually just a wolf wearing human skin, right?
Ji XiaoYu took a big bite and saw Cheng YuTang didn’t move his chopsticks for a long time. While chewing, he vaguely said, “Cheng Zong, you’re rude, ah. If you’re rude, your future wife won’t want to cook for you.”
Alright, I’ll eat, I’ll kneel down and eat all the dishes you want.
Cheng YuTang took a bite, his mind set, and began to eat.
After a while, the waiter came to serve a large steak on the iron plate, carrying an overflowing aroma of oil. Ji XiaoYu’s saliva instantly started flowing.
Looking at his watering mouth, Cheng YuTang found it a little amusing. Picking up the knife and fork, he cut the steak and placed almost half of it in Ji XiaoYu’s plate, gracefully saying, “Courtesy demands reciprocity.”
Wow, so good! Cheng Zong, you’re really generous!
Ji XiaoYu used a fork to lift up the steak and with an “ohmmm” took a big bite. Then he watched a drop of dark red liquid bleed from the meat, suddenly it seemed not so good.
What is ‘cooked medium’, this meat is still raw! Cheng Zong, you’re actually just a wolf wearing human skin, right?
Cheng YuTang watched him with the large piece of meat, puffing out his cheeks and sitting stiff and motionless there, so he asked as he raised an eyebrow, “What, doesn’t it taste good?”
On the side, the waiter’s face blanched to white and with a pleading expression, he looked to Ji XiaoYu for pity.
The word “no” came to Ji XiaoYu’s lips, but after all, this would be too harsh, it was the guy’s job, life wasn’t easy for everyone, so he chewed and changed his words in that moment, “Not bad, it’s very tender.”
Besides, Cheng YuTang could eat it. If, as a big spiritual beast, he was afraid to eat it, he would lose too much face.
Besides, this steak costs 180 yuan, so my half is about 90 yuan. It’s made to eat, not to waste.
The waiter was relieved, shooting Ji XiaoYu a look of gratitude.
“That’s good.” Cheng YuTang cut a small piece of beef and placed it in his mouth, thinking that the cook might have been showing off today, the steak seemed to be cooked a little more tender than ever before.
Because his principle of wasting nothing shamed him, Ji XiaoYu ate the entire not-too-small half of the steak and, together with the pile of dishes and large bowl of winter melon soup on the tray, it all disappeared.
It had to be said that Ji XiaoYu’s eating wasn’t elegant in the least, but this style of eating and delicious appearance made the appetite of anyone watching increase. In addition, Cheng YuTang was also surprised by the size of Ji XiaoYu’s meal. This little thing looks so thin, I can’t see how he can eat all this. If anyone was going to support him, they wouldn’t be able to afford it unless they earned a lot of money……
Ji Xiao Yu was completely satisfied. He stretched out the tip of his tongue, licking from one side of his lips to the other, catching the sauce at the corners of his mouth. That tender red muscle flicked back and forth playfully between his little white teeth. fre(e)webnovel
Cheng YuTang’s expression went stiff in an instant and who knew where a burst of heat came from within his body, going straight to his gut.
Ji XiaoYu saw that his look changed and he couldn’t help but ask, “Cheng Zong, what happened to you? Are you not feeling well?”
Cheng Zong, of course, couldn’t tell the truth, so he replied vaguely, “No, I’m just thinking about a work problem.”
He’s truly worthy of being a president, so dedicated, even while eating a meal, he still worries about official business. Impressed, Ji XiaoYu said, “Then you think about it carefully, I’ll leave first.”
Cheng YuTang gave a stiff, cold nod, but in his heart, he was crying out in chagrin. With a seemingly unintentional shift of his seating position, he used the table to block the part that had reacted a little.
Ji XiaoYu was completely unaware, consciously gathering up his tableware to put it in the collection cart in the canteen. Then he left the restaurant humming a song.
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Ji XiaoYu took the shortcut from HongSheng Building to return to the HongLe Garden dorm building. He threw the dirty clothes he had changed out of on his first day into the washing machine and pressed the switch, then went to take a shower in the bathroom. After washing, he sat cross-legged on the sofa in the living room, picking up the remote control once he sat down and turning on the TV.
Ji XiaoYu liked watching TV and he especially liked to watch all kinds of series with exaggerated dogblood plots, because they were a lot more exciting than real life. In the past, he was unable or he was too busy at work, so he rarely had the opportunity to watch anything. But since he had been admitted as a security guard to HongLe Garden, he now had time free to watch.
After skimming the channels, Ji XiaoYu settled on a certain station’s broadcast of “Secret Garden on the Top Floor”. This was a modern day workplace emotional drama, telling the story of a company president who fell in love with a little clerk. The male and female leads were pretty eye-catching and he watched with great interest.
After he had watched the two episodes, at 10pm, Liang ShaoGang came back. Ji XiaoYu stood up and presented him with a standard military salute, shouting loudly, “The team leader has worked hard!”
Liang ShaoGang originally had a wooden face but after hearing this, he couldn’t keep himself from smiling. He patted Ji XiaoYu’s head. This kid is really such a living treasure.
When Ji XiaoYu had reported in, Yang YiPeng had made personnel adjustments to the dozens of security guards under himself, one of which was to promote Liang ShaoGang, who had been performing well since he joined the company, to the team leader position for the HongSheng Building Block A. Now Liang ShaoGang was in charge of managing and coordinating the work of all the Block A security guards. The working hours were more flexible, unlike his previous eight-hour shift, but he was a little more busy than before.
However, since he promoted, his salary had been raised accordingly. Although Ji XiaoYu didn’t know how much of a raise Liang ShaoGang had received and he wasn’t his team leader since he had been transferred to the parking garage, he was still happy for Liang ShaoGang.
After a few words of greeting, Liang ShaoGang went to take a shower, so Ji XiaoYu hung his clothes up on the balcony and went back to the room to sleep and incubate his egg.
In the middle of the night, while sleeping, Ji XiaoYu heard the sound of a “bang” and instantly woke up.
Then, from next door, the tapping of footsteps and the creaking of a chair could be heard. It turned out that Liu WeiRen had returned from his night shift.
Ji XiaoYu couldn’t help but have a headache. Every time this person came back in the middle of the night, he made a lot of noise, like he had a grudge against something in the house, falling down and hitting everything around.
His and Liu WeiRen’s rooms were separated by a wall, but it wasn’t a load-bearing wall, so it was relatively thin and the sound through there was slightly louder than usual. Liu ShaoGang might not hear anything, but it would be transmitted to Ji XiaoYu. Plus Ji XiaoYu’s hearing was more sensitive than an average person’s, so the messy sounds that entered his ears were magnified several times and became an uproar.
During the National Day holiday, the same thing happened twice when Liu WeiRen returned in the middle of the night and, because of it, Ji XiaoYu couldn’t sleep for a long time. On the first day, he endured, stuffing two lumps of cotton in his ears to deal with it. But the next day, he couldn’t help but get up and knock at the door, to ask him to move a little softer. At that time, Liu WeiRen had probably been sleepy too, because he didn’t say much in reply and had just agreed impatiently.
But here they were again today, did that guy forget or was he not taking it seriously at all?
Ji XiaoYu buried his head in the pillow, lying in bed, too lazy to move. He closed his eyes to meditate deep down, this little master will give you another 10 minutes to correct your ways.
Just as he started thinking this, the footsteps from next door went out into the living room and then went into the bathroom. It seems that Liu WeiRen was going to take a shower.
With the quiet outside restored, Ji XiaoYu gradually got sleepy again.
“”
In his momentary haziness, a high-pitched and impassioned song suddenly broke out from next door, shocking Ji XiaoYu so much he almost rolled out of bed.
After he howled for a bit, Liu WeiRen briefly quieted for a few minutes. Ji XiaoYu was in a state of suspicion. He heard a burst of a crackling, brittle noise and it took him a few seconds to react. This had to be the sound of tapping on a computer keyboard.
It was so late and this guy had just come back from his night shift – did he still have the spirit and energy to play on the computer? Ji XiaoYu, who had always had a very healthy routine, really couldn’t understand it.
“CunTianGuiHua, you gotta TMD jump!”
(t/n: a username)
“Jump at the airport, you idiot!”
“TNND dares to grab Laozi’s M16, impatient to death!”
“Fuck, Laozi 凸凸 at you!”
(t/n: he’s probably playing PUBG, lol)
“……..”
Ji XiaoYu couldn’t understand what Liu WeiRen was playing, but was shocked to his core by the sudden swearing. The feathers on his invisible tail blew open wide like flower petals and he was suddenly full of anger with nowhere to strike. NND, I’m still sleeping, damn it.
This little master hadn’t raised a hand to you, do you think I’m a weak pheasant?!
Ji XiaoYu turned on the bedside lamp, jumped out of bed from under the quilt, and went out to the bedroom next door, giving a “knock knock knock” to the door.
No one came to open the door. Liu WeiRen was still yelling in there.
Ji XiaoYu applied a little force with his hand, and the locked spherical knob on the door popped open, then he pushed the door ajar.
The room was bright with light and Liu WeiRen was sitting back in his computer chair with his headphones on and his back to the door. While tapping on his keyboard, he shouted, completely unaware of Ji XiaoYu’s entrance.
Ji XiaoYu took a few steps forward, grabbed the cup of cold water from the table, and directly poured it out over Liu WeiRen’s head.
“Ah–”
Liu WeiRen was playing the game as he was suddenly drenched in cold water and he was so scared that he has threw his mouse as he jumped out of his chair.
Turning his head and seeing it was Ji XiaoYu, Liu WeiRen instantly hardened his expression. He pulled his headphones off and wiped the water off his face, scolding, “What do you TMD want?!”
Ji XiaoYu didn’t want to wake Liang ShaoGang, so he resisted the urge to scold him and said, “If you don’t want me to do anything, just keep your voice down and don’t disturb my sleep.”
Liu WeiRen rolled up his sleeves, flexing his arm and showing off his muscles, and said fiercely, “So what if Laozi wants to make noise?”
Ji XiaoYu looked around and then picked up a steel barbell rod from the table on the side. He hefted it a few times in his hand and then, under Liu WeiRen’s watchful gaze, easily bent it, as if he were playing with playdough. He messed with the rod until the ends met to form a ring and then placed it on Liu WeiRen’s head. He said in a casual tone, “I’m afraid that you’ll turn out just like this thing. What do you think?”
“…….”
Liu WeiRen, like a dog, ended up with a big collar hanging around his neck, shocked and stunned. His jaw dropped so far it could have been dislocated and he couldn’t respond.
“Liu Ge, you’re just having a dream right now. Don’t tell anyone. Even if you say it, I won’t admit it,” Ji XiaoYu kindly reminded him. He slapped his hands together to clean off non-existent dirt, then turned around and walked out. “I’m going to sleep early, good night.”
After that, there wasn’t a single sound from next door. Ji XiaoYu could finally get a solid night’s rest.
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Footnotes:
1. Courtesy demands reciprocity (礼尚往来): saying based on an idiom, figuratively to return politeness with politeness
2. TMD: fucking/fucker, literally ‘his mother’; TNND: fucking/fucker, literally ‘his grandmother’; NND: fucking/fucker, literally ‘grandmother’
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Cheng YuTang’s control is being tested…. meanwhile let’s all cheer for our little pheasant showing this jerk roommate who’s the boss!
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