Chapter 739: Chapter 632: Blowing Wind on the Rooftop

The August sun in Yangcheng is still a blazing midsummer heat.

Four-thirty in the afternoon.

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The sun is strong, hot, with a slight breeze.

Pei Sheng hugs the climbing frame in the rooftop machine room, shivering, refusing to take a step closer to the wall of the rooftop.

Not far away, the young man sits leisurely on the rooftop wall, leaning against the second-floor railing, seemingly smiling but not quite as he watches Pei Sheng steadfastly refuse to come over.

“Boss, don’t get excited…”

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Pei Sheng’s voice trembles as he says, “I just went out to play for a bit, and look, I came back early, ready to stay overnight at the company to work overtime. I haven’t neglected my work.”

Xu Shuo, with his leg propped up, says lazily, “Oh, so you came back especially to work overtime?”

Pei Sheng nods his head eagerly, like a pecking chicken.

“I thought Mr. Pei was so engrossed in pleasures that he completely ignored his project, and was already preparing to come up to the rooftop when the time came,” Xu Shuo says with a tilt of his head and a smile.

“How could that be! I was up all night looking at the plan just yesterday!” Pei Sheng declares confidently.

“But today Los came to find me…”

“What?”

Pei Sheng looks at him anxiously.

Los had only shown him a new plan yesterday, and then, due to the whispers from Angela, he had sent it back to be redone.

In Pei Sheng’s expectation, the new plan would surely take another three or four days to complete, since the project in its early stages wasn’t difficult but was quite troublesome.

It was because he thought the new plan wouldn’t be done so soon that Pei Sheng didn’t hesitate to skip work this morning, since there would be nothing for him at the studio anyway.

His job was to just look at the documents, sign his name, and give commands.

How easy was that~

Bang.

Suddenly, Xu Shuo jumps down from the wall and walks towards Pei Sheng.

Pei Sheng, deep in thought, immediately grips the climbing frame tightly, shouting excitedly, “What are you doing! Don’t come over here! I already said I’m going to work overtime tonight!”

Xu Shuo approaches him, the usually faintly smiling face now expressionless, only staring at him and saying, “Did you really seriously look at the plan Los gave you?”

Pei Sheng responds with a pitiful tone, “I looked…”

“What did it say on it?”

“That kid wanted to develop a VR headset first…”

“Idiot, that’s a thesis, analyzing the feasibility of the human brain and electronic data transmission.”

“…???”

“I’ll ask you again, did you really look?”

“I… I did look…”

“What did it say?”

“A thesis?”

“Then what does our company do?”

“Develop games…”

Under Xu Shuo’s scrutiny, Pei Sheng’s voice becomes softer and softer, more and more fearful, shrinking into the shadow of some mighty demon.

He seems to realize his mistake, too.

But still desperately trying to defend himself, he says, “I knew what he wrote was wrong, so I had him redo the plan. It takes time to make a plan, right? If I go out during the day, I’ll come back at night to look at the plan, won’t I?”

Xu Shuo sneers, “You knew it was wrong, yet you don’t communicate with your employees, do you?”

Pei Sheng mumbles, “I communicated…”

“Yes, you communicated, you’ve made him write ten theses since the project started!”

“…”

Pei Sheng is dumbfounded. His first thought is why that kid hasn’t gone off to graduate school, and then he belatedly realizes that the other party thinks grad school would slow down his money-making.

What a badass employee!

If they have such an awesome employee, what do they even need a director for? No wonder he acts like a hands-off manager!

“Forget it.”

While Pei Sheng was distracted and feeling sorry for himself, Xu Shuo suddenly let out a sigh.

He spoke indifferently, “I should have known that a rich young master like you certainly wouldn’t be interested in managing projects. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have been too lazy to make any progress in Radiance for four years. It just so happens that the Pei Family has been wanting you to return. Why don’t you just find a time to go back to Pei?”

Pei Sheng: “…”

Pei Sheng: “???”

Pei Sheng: “!!!”

Pei Sheng, who had just come to his senses, immediately shouted, “I’m not leaving! In life, I belong to Radiance, and in death, I’ll be a ghost of Radiance!”

Going back would definitely mean being suppressed and forced to study this and that; it would be even crazier than clocking in for work. What’s more terrifying is that he’d definitely be restricted from going out and having fun!

With so many beautiful women out there and so many great times in life, the lack of freedom is too frightening!

Xu Shuo chuckled, “When you mix it up, you become lawless, your desires cloud your judgment, and you might even spill our company’s trade secrets everywhere. How can I dare to keep you?”

Pei Sheng was immediately annoyed, “You’re slandering me! I’ve never leaked our company secrets, and for your information, you never let me see them!”

“How can it be not? The multi-million-dollar project I allotted to you this time isn’t a secret? You skipped work today without a second word for that woman; someone could have just whispered in your ear, and you’d spill everything,” Xu Shuo said lazily.

“Who said that! I’m not a fool; I haven’t uttered a single word of the secrets in the planning case. If I had, I’d never be with a woman again my whole life, okay?”

What a harsh oath!

Pei Sheng felt so aggrieved he found his own curse cruel.

Xu Shuo stroked his chin, “Even if you haven’t leaked secrets for the time being, but you must have told her about company stuff when she asked, and you probably didn’t hide anything about us, the company executives, either.”

“That’s not…”

Pei Sheng responded with a mix of guilt and confidence, “We just talked about the entrepreneurial stuff between brothers, that’s no secret at all. It’s normal for me to introduce a brother to her… I think you’re having paranoid delusions. Angela isn’t a corporate spy; she has no reason to inquire about you guys.”

Xu Shuo raised an eyebrow, “And your sudden question about the car accident at noon today, wasn’t that because she was probing?”

“She got into an accident as soon as she returned to Yang City, so I was just asking how she was…”

“It was her who collided with my car.”

“So she hit your car, and you hit her too, that evens it out…”

“So what did you tell her about it?”

“What’s there to say, it’s been so many days, and she’s not holding a grudge over it, so I left it unmentioned.”

Pei Sheng murmured with Resentment, “All because of you, my lunch with the goddess got ruined, why did you have to hit her car for no reason.”

Xu Shuo pondered.

It seemed that Angela wasn’t in a rush. The two of them were probably still in a stage of mutual probing and hadn’t progressed to the point he assumed they had of being lovey-dovey.

“Is that all you didn’t mention anything else?” Xu Shuo asked again.

“What else is there to say?”

Pei Sheng couldn’t help but roll his eyes; the person he complained about the most to Angela was Los, because the goddess seemed to be particularly interested in Los’s embarrassing moments.

As for Xu Shuo, there weren’t really any embarrassing moments. This guy was so boring that it was impossible to make fun of him.

Xu Shuo nodded, “Since that’s the case, you might as well pack up and leave tomorrow.”

Pei Sheng: “…???”

Xu Shuo looked at him with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, “You haven’t produced any results, and you’re practically useless to the booming Radiance now, so why should I keep you? You don’t think I’m the kind of person who tolerates slackers, do you?”

Hearing this, Pei Sheng became daringly furious, “I’m an investor in Radiance! If you dare to drive me away, I’ll pull my investment and bankrupt you!”

Xu Shuo narrowed his eyes, “You’re threatening me?”

Pei Sheng: “…”

He immediately caved and clung onto the climbing frame, clamoring, “In any case, I’m not leaving!”

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