Smell, what smell?
Lu Yunye sniffed suspiciously. He bathes nightly and even if there’s a smell, it should be the smell of pheromones from being held tightly when they sleep.
Suddenly, he paused, and caught an unfamiliar omega pheromone on the cuff. It turns out that Shi Yi is jealous.
Lu Yunye took off his coat and threw it aside. The muscular contours of his upper body could be seen clearly through the fabric of his dark blue shirt. “The design department is full of omegas. The smell must’ve gotten on accidentally.”
“Who cares how it got on.” Shi Yi’s face finally looked better. He forked a small crispy puff into his mouth, and chewed it harshly as if he was biting someone’s flesh.
Lu Yunye ate the steak slowly, while admiring the waxy white teeth that Shi Yi occasionally showed, proudly thinking about how good his little omega’s teeth are.
Enduring the opposing party’s stare, Shi Yi finally opened his mouth to ask, “What are you looking at?”
“I see… your teeth are really white.” Lu Yunye pushed the plate in front of him. “You can’t not eat vegetables.”
Is there any relationship between these two things… Shi Yi was speechless, “I don’t like endives.”
Lu Yunye gritted his teeth secretly because of this natural rejection again. Before he would’ve coerced and lured Shi Yi into eating it, but now that he wants to pursue Shi Yi, he had to be nicer to him.
The alpha forked up a big lump of salad, and shook it in front of Shi Yi: “Then if I close my eyes, will a little rabbit come to steal it?”
Shi Yi ignored him, wiped his mouth with a tissue, and planned to get up and go back to work.
“Has the little rabbit come out?” Lu Yunye really closed his eyes, as if he would not open them until he ate them.
After all, the office is not a private place. Someone may knock on the door and come in at any time. Shi Yi endured it again and again, and finally lowered his head and ate the salad.
“The little rabbit really stole the salad,” Lu Yunye pretended to be pleasantly surprised. “Let me see who’s the little thief?”
Chewing desperately, Shi Yi watched the alpha stretch out his hand and rub his lips with his thumb. “The salad dressing wasn’t wiped out, silly rabbit.”
“But I can pretend that I didn’t see it,” Lu Yunye scooped another forkful, obviously wanting to repeat the trick.
Shi Yi finally couldn’t help but snatch the small bowl of salad over, and ate it in big mouthfuls.
Forced to finish eating a bowl of bitter greens, Shi Yi walked towards the work station in a daze, feeling that he was about to lose his soul.
Then, he was hugged from behind by a certain trickster. The mellow and sexy voice of the alpha echoed, and the base of his ear was kissed. “Don’t you want the special service at noon?”
No! Shi Yi immediately panicked, they were in the office. “No!”
Who knew where Lu Yunye’s hand had gone as Shi Yi swayed on his feet unsteadily. “…you go away.”
“That’s not what Little Rabbit Shi said.”
Lu Yunye had already locked the door when he came in, but Shi Yi obviously didn’t know. Seeing the other person’s anxious expression, Lu Yunye resisted the urge to tear him apart and said: “Honey, I’m not full yet…”
“That won’t work either!” Shi Yi blushed, wishing he could kick the messy alpha out.
“I’ve already locked the door,” Lu Yunye said with a chuckle. Taking advantage of Shi Yi’s lack of response, he buried his head and squatted down.
Probably because he was too nervous, Shi Yi kept trembling. Lu Yunye stood up less than five minutes later and said, “Mr. Shi, you’ve regressed.”
“Who… cares,” Shi Yi panted. His whole body was light, as if floating, and sleepiness crept up.
Unfortunately his office doesn’t have a nap room, only a spacious sofa. Lu Yunye carried him off the table, tidied up the messy documents, and lay down on the sofa with the omega in his arms.
Shi Yi shut his eyes drowsily, not in the mood to argue. This was a true sense of satiety. Lu Yunye helped him tidy up his pants, making it impossible to see the trembling of his legs.
Shi Yi didn’t have the habit of taking a nap, but somehow he fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes. It seemed that he just dozed off for a while, and it was past two o’clock in the afternoon when Qiu Qiu woke him up.
“Ah, Lu Yun…” Shi Yi rubbed his eyes on the sofa, as if he was waiting for the alpha to pick him up.
After seeing the person in front of him clearly, he quickly sobered up, and his face changed from being vaguely dependent to being cold and alienated.
Was Lu Yunye so eager to return to the design department so quickly? He didn’t even wait for him to wake up.
Thinking of this, even his tone became cold: “Why didn’t you call me sooner?”
Seeing his own 200lb stomach, the momentary change in the boss’s expression hurt Qiu Qiu’s delicate heart severely. He was a harmless beta who was innocently implicated.
However, he came to report a more tragic matter, “Boss, we have to do our own financial reports.”
“What?” Shi Yi looked sideways slightly.
“It’s like this. The team has to sort out the financial reports from the past few years as part of the process to go public. Yunye Media’s financial consultant was helping us with this part, but after the other side collectively resigned, we can only do the work ourselves.”
“What do you mean?” Shi Yi was confused, “Wasn’t everything on track?”
Seeing his ignorant look, Qiu Qiu was also very surprised. “We don’t have enough manpower, and don’t have a certified accountant. President Lu found someone to help us before. Didn’t he tell you?”
Shi Yi shook his head, frowned slightly, and took over the pile of papers. A while ago, he was busy running around to get orders, and focused on increasing sales. He didn’t expect that all the logistical tasks were taken over by Lu Yunye without saying a word.
Shi Yi stared at the pile of unfinished reports and felt a headache oncoming.
Other people can pick and choose, but he can’t. In the end, he had no choice but to open up Excel, and start looking over the numbers with Qiu Qiu.
Shi Yi didn’t have a background in finance. His finance and business management skills were learned bit by bit on the job. After an entire afternoon of pouring over numbers, he was dizzy and exhausted.
“How much more?” He slumped on the chair, seeing tiny black shadows floating in front of his eyes.
“There’s also the fourth quarter of the year before last and all of last year,” Qiu Qiu said, his eyes turning green. He missed President Lu’s professional team greatly.
It was already past normal work hours, so Shi Yi told Qiu Qiu to go home. His mind was also no longer on the report, and instead he was wondering why Lu Yunye hadn’t come back yet.
The working hours of the design department are relatively flexible. Many designers take on private gigs, so they often leave at odd hours. Lu Yunye has no reason to work overtime either.
Unwilling to be tricked again, Shi Yi directly went downstairs to the design department with the idea of maintaining order.
What he didn’t expect was that the office, which should have been empty for a long time, was brightly lit. Shi Yi knocked on the door hesitantly, and heard Fang Huiyi’s tired voice: “Come in.”
He pushed open the door and looked around. The designers with odd hours and full of creative energy were all bent over their desks working hard. For a while, no one was laughing and chatting; there was only the rustling of pens.
Shi Yi exited the office expressionlessly and looked at the sign. It still read: “design department”.
“Mr. Shi, you’re finally here!” Fang Huiyi was afraid he would run away, so he hurriedly grabbed him. “Help me, save me.”
Shi Yi’s eyebrows twitched, “What’s going on?”
“Boss Lu went too far. He tricked us! He’s feudal, he’s a capitalist!” Fang Huiyi hastily complained.
His was kept very low, for fear that a certain big devil sitting not far away would hear it.
“Didn’t Lu Yunye come here to be a model?” Shi Yi asked doubtfully.
“He doesn’t want to be a model, he wants to be a design director,” Fang Huiyi said, and the people around raised their heads and conveyed their displeasure to Shi Yi with their eyes, making Lu Yunye seem like a scumbag who ruined their youth.
Fang Huiyi continued to complain: “Aren’t we preparing a bid for “Origin”? He read my draft as soon as he came, and then – asked me to redo it!”
“You don’t have to listen to him.” Shi Yi smiled. He believes in Fang Huiyi’s level – what advice can Lu Yunye give as a layman?
“The main reason is that I was persuaded by him.” Fang Huiyi burst into tears. “Now I feel that my design is like a pile of garbage, and it will definitely be rejected. If I embarrass Feiyi, what should I do… “
“He casually talked about everyone’s work!” Fang Huiyi said with a downcast face. “You know that people in our department are usually very noble, and their works are their babies. It’s hard to ignore them.”
Each designer has their own personality, and if Lu Yunye hadn’t brought up their weaknesses, they would never change them.
Shi Yi randomly opened a portfolio up and immediately understood the problem.
Feiyi’s designers are all relatively senior. Most of them were recruited after graduation, and taught one-on-one by the masters in the company. They have a deep understanding of design, but occasionally show the innocence and casualness that came out of the ivory tower.
Lu Yunye looked at problems from the perspective of a businessman, digging out the commercial value of these designs. After all, Feiyi is also a company that depends on sales and performance. After being scolded, the team could only correct the problems tearfully and try to improve their work.
“Just ask him if you don’t understand anything, and don’t worry about the progress.” Shi Yi said.
“President Lu said that he can’t just eat soft rice. He said that sooner or later, Feiyi will be independent and stand by itself. Because he doesn’t know when this will be, he wants us to ask questions as soon as possible.” Another designer interjected. “And he also asked us to wear isolation stickers too!”
Shi Yi, who had sensed something was wrong from the moment he entered the door, finally realized that the messy smell of pheromones was gone. The omegas had obediently put on isolation stickers, keeping a respectful distance from Lu Yunye.
“It’s okay for today, just go home.” Shi Yi looked at the disheveled designers and sighed.
“If you have any questions in the future, you can go to Yunye Media and ask.”
The designers cheered up and quickly packed up their things. As they were preparing to leave, a designer quietly approached Shi Yi: “Boss, that… isn’t Mr. Lu bankrupt?”
Shi Yi took a deep breath: “Who told you he was bankrupt?”
“He said it himself. Mr. Lu said he’s bankrupt and has no place to live now. He told us to say nice things to you.” After speaking, the designer sensed Shi Yi’s turbulent emotions, and ran away.
Shi Yi: “…”
The staff around them quickly left. Shi Yi looked at a certain alpha who was sitting on the sofa entertaining himself and drinking tea. “Is this your attitude of working as a model?”
“That’s right, everyone can make progress together,” Lu Yunye rolled his eyes. “Is Boss Shi here to praise me personally?”
Lu Yunye’s face is sharp, with a high nose and deep eyes. When expressionless, he looks arrogant and pretentious. Even when he smiles, he looks like a beast in clothes. Shi Yi felt his heart skip a beat and turned around unnaturally: “I… still have work to do.”
Who knows if he’s retreating or evading.
Lu Yunye followed his omega back to Shi Yi’s office without any burden, and understood the problem.
There was a smile in his voice: “President Shi doesn’t know how to write reports?”
“I’m not good at it.” Shi Yi corrected. “I need to work overtime tonight.”
“Then I’ll do what I can to help you.” Lu Yunye rolled up his sleeves and turned on Qiu Qiu’s computer.
“You know how to do it?” Shi Yi obviously didn’t believe it. Yunye Media has always had a professional financial team. Lu Yunye only needs to review any submitted reports and approve them. Does he know how to do the analysis?
“Why can’t I do it?” Lu Yunye clicked on a report and skillfully went through it faster than Shi Yi and Qiu Qiu’s combined speed.
Shi Yi stood behind him calmly, trying to memorize his steps, but a large hand reached out to cover the screen. “If you want to learn, pay tuition first.”
“What tuition?” Shi Yi resisted the urge to slap him away, and asked as patiently as possible.
Lu Yunye raised his face sideways. “The tuition and tonight’s task can be bundled together.”
“This is the office.” Shi Yi clenched his fists. What happened at noon was already too much; he can’t do it again.
“Then it seems that Mr. Shi’s desire for new knowledge is not enough.” Lu Yunye turned to the screen again, as if he really refused to teach him.
Shi Yi finally couldn’t bear it anymore and said, “Close your eyes.”
“Boss Fang’s design concept is also very good,” Lu Yunye chimed up at the right time. “It’s just that it can be further perfected, so I made some suggestions.”
T/N: I was trying to get this out earlier in the week, but the server wouldn’t load. So here it is, albeit a little late.
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