Chapter 7 – Amusing

Until 11 o’clock at night, Li Ting didn’t bother him again.

Xu Ji sat quietly on the living room floor writing a script, and after a while, his phone finally rang.

It came as expected. He didn’t need to look at the caller ID and directly picked up the phone and put it next to his ear, “Hello, Dad.”

“What the purpose of this?!” Xu Chengyue was really angry, “Look at what time it is now! Hurry up and let Li Ting in!”

Xu Ji closed his eyes and relaxed, resting his head on the sofa cushion, “No.”

“Do you have a conscience? You made someone wait outside all night!” Xu Chengyue shouted, “And do you know what people in the industry will say if they see this?! The only son of the Xu family abuses his newlywed wife, locks him out of the house, and doesn’t let him in!”

If it weren’t so inappropriate, Xu Ji would have almost laughed out loud, “I’m not afraid of what others say.”

Xu Chengyue fell silent, gasping for breath in anger. Xu Ji had already helped him continue in his mind, “You have no shame and don’t care what others say! But I still have some dignity left!”

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Keeping someone waiting outside the door all night wasn’t really a solution. Even though Xu Ji didn’t like Li Ting, it was unreasonable to continue to let him suffer. He said, “Mom, I have two solutions. One, you can send him back home right now, and I’ll come home twice a week. It’s fine if you disagree, ‘cause two, I’ll give him some money to stay at a hotel, and I won’t ever see him again.”

Li Ting was lying on the suitcase, drowning in drowsiness, when Chen Lian suddenly called to tell him to return home.

After hanging up the phone, he looked at the screen which displayed 11:29, his expression obscure.

At that moment, Xu Ji opened the door and said, “Go home.”

Li Ting’s hair was a little messy, and his eyes were half-closed, which, on the contrary, gave him a beauty’s sense of decadence. The corners of his mouth lifted as he stood up, holding onto the handle of his suitcase.

Xu Ji couldn’t help but admit that the other person was indeed very good-looking. When he wasn’t smiling, his face was glamorous yet cold. It’s just that his expression right now seemed like he was about to come over and beat him up.

He didn’t move either, just leaning against the door, slightly lowering his eyes, they were evenly matched.

Li Ting slowly walked up to him and lifted his head. His lips were in a straight line, and the upturned corners of his eyes were like a hook.

Xu Ji was ready to raise his hand to either block or preemptively strike, but unexpectedly, Li Ting suddenly looked at him with curving eyebrows and eyes before opening his palm, “But I don’t have any money for a cab.”

Xu Ji felt that his eyebrows might have twitched. He found a few bills and handed them over. Li Ting took them with a smiling face and stuffed them into his pocket.

“I will be going back home every Wednesday and Sunday from now on,” he said.

Li Ting paused for a moment before smiling and saying, “Okay, I’ll still call you. Do you want me to cook for you?”

“No.” Xu Ji replied.

After making sure that Li Ting had left, Xu Ji closed the door and let out a sigh of relief. His eyes were so tired that he could barely keep them open.

His biological clock was set to sleep from 11 PM to 7:30 AM because exercising requires a good quality of sleep and a healthy body. After all, he was 26 years old now and couldn’t pull all-nighters like he did in his early twenties and still feel all energetic the next day.

After Li Ting went back, there was no other news from him. He only called the following Wednesday to check in.

Xu Ji was a person who kept his promises. He would always eat dinner outside before returning home, and Li Ting wouldn’t come to bother him when he got back.

They didn’t interfere with each other.

It was another Wednesday, and Li Ting asked as usual whether Xu Ji would be coming back.

“Mn, yup, move the light a bit more to the right, and ask if Ms. Mo finished her makeup,” Xu Ji was busy working. He held the phone between his shoulder and ear while using both hands to edit some work. The artist he was collaborating with today was delayed for three hours due to something else, so they probably have to work overtime.

He said, “I won’t be able to come back tonight, I’ll go tomorrow.”

Li Ting lamented with a disappointed “ah”, he even dragged out his tone, “What a pity. I cooked too much for dinner tonight, I definitely won’t be able to finish it by myself…”

Xu Ji didn’t have time to listen to Li Ting’s idle talk and directly hung up the phone.

Unexpectedly, only two hours after the shoot began, the artist had to leave due to something urgent.

Xu Ji was a tall man, he stood expressionless in the studio, spinning a pen in his hand.

The manager apologized to him with embarrassment, but his words were full of understated hints that they might repeat the same move in the future.

Xu Ji remained indifferent and raised his hand to stop the manager’s incessant chatter. He said, “If there is another next time, we will no longer accept any work related to this artist, and it is clearly written in the contract that if the artist is late or leaves early three times, we will terminate the cooperation directly.”

The agent secretly complained that Will’s director was indeed just as rumored, cold and unapproachable. However, a lot of people still wanted him to work for them because he was so good at his job!

“Hey, Lao Yang, it’s not that we don’t understand you guys are busy,” Chu Qi stood behind to back up his boss for fear that he might be bullied, and said sarcastically, “But you also need to understand us as well. We’ll overlook the three-hour delay this time, it’s our blessing to be able to wait for you. However, we’re all people in this industry. Just setting up for the shoot alone costs a lot of money, oh how my heart aches! Isn’t this just as if our whole studio spent a day entertaining you, yet all the losses are on my boss? This isn’t fair, is it?”

The manager smiled bitterly and apologized repeatedly, promising that it won’t happen again.

After a large group of people left, Chu Qi let out a spat, “Ptui!” His little ponytail even shook, “Seeing him like that makes me feel sick, and he’s acting like a big shot! Little bastard!”

This kind of thing has happened more than once or twice. When the studio was just established, people didn’t even consider them as human beings. Xu Ji just felt unlucky and speechless. He said, “We need to change the terms of our cooperation. We will not accept being late or leaving early even once, unless something really happens.”

Chu Qi strongly agreed, “That’s the way it should be! We were too good to them! Our schedule is fully booked till the second half of the year! They think they’re so important?”

Xu Ji waved his hand, “Alright everyone, let’s call it a day. You’ve worked hard. I’ll treat you guys to lunch tomorrow.”

After going back and forth, it was only half an hour later than usual when he got off work. Since it turned into overtime tomorrow night, Xu Ji thought it would be better to just go back tonight, and he didn’t call or tell Li Ting about it.

It’s just, when he turned the corner, he felt something was off. The lights were off, and the windows showed only darkness.

Xu Ji raised his left eyebrow habitually. He felt as though he was about to uncover some earth-shattering secret.

He parked his car, then pressed the password code. With a “pa”, he turned the lights on, then called out, “Li Ting?”

Mn, not a soul around. Xu Ji walked into the kitchen and opened the rice cooker. Not only was there no rice, he didn’t even find a drop of water.

He remembered Li Ting’s fake voice, “Ahh, what a pity~ I even cooked you food.”

Despite this, Xu Ji was not affected and continued to do his own thing. He must see for himself, exactly how late can Li Ting play around.

Li Ting then showed Xu Ji through his actions that he can play all night.

In short, the next morning, Xu Ji woke up to find everything in the house as it was before, with shoes placed in their original positions, not one bit off.

He pretended that nothing had happened and went to work. In the afternoon, Li Ting called him and asked in a gentle tone, “Are you coming back tonight?”

Xu Ji replied, “Mn, you don’t have to cook for me.”

The two spent another peaceful night together.

Xu Ji was a very patient person and could wait a long time when it came to things he was curious about.

Two weeks later, at the ski resort.

While snowboarding, Xu Ji took off from the side, his front foot crossed over, making the board and prop perpendicular, he glided smoothly on the prop for a distance, and then landed steadily.

When his phone rang, he changed to a carving brake. Then he took out his phone from his snowsuit to answer. He lied without batting an eye, “Mn, I won’t be going back tonight. I’m working overtime these two days. I’ll contact you when I go back.”

Ji Fangchi looked at him with condemning eyes, “Ge, you are really not caring for your family. How can you lie to sister-in-law just because you love to play… Even though sister-in-law loves you so…”

Xu Ji shot him a look, and he shut up.

That night, he drove home with ease and familiarity, even being intentionally late for more than an hour to give the other person enough time to run away, which was very considerate of him.

Not surprisingly, Li Ting was not at home.

Upon seeing this, Xu Ji couldn’t help but snicker. He didn’t actually have any other emotions, nor was he angry at being deceived, he just found it amusing.

This guy clearly loves to play around, yet is always pretending to be very well-behaved.

It had been a long time since he had found something so amusing.