An Accident by Lan Lin

CHAPTER 1.2

CHAPTER 1.2

"Ah," Rong Liu glanced at his watch, "I'm sorry, I have a business appointment with someone, and I have to go now. But it would be in this hotel. I'll give you my phone number, you can contact me at night."

Xiao Teng took a breath and said viciously, "No need."

"Oh," Rong Liu thought for a while, "Then give me your phone number."

"..." Xiao Teng took a few more breaths before he relaxed and then said, "Also no!"

"Huh? But..."

"I'm the one you made an appointment with."

"Ah!" Rong Liu was obviously surprised, sizing him up and down, "Are you Xiao Teng?" Then he murmured, "It doesn't resemble it at all, not in the least at all..."

"Like what?"

"They say you're an ocean *yaksha..."

Xiao Teng's body that had a hard time calming down began to tremble again, "You, you..."

"That's not what I said," Rong Liu hurriedly explained, "I personally think that you are not like a Yaksha, but a male god, like Adonis, the kind that shines..."

As far as he was concerned of this praise, Xiao Teng restrained his urge to shoot him to death, and said viciously, "Listen to me. If you dare to offend me, don't think you'll be able to go back alive, okay? Don't think I dare not touch you. The Rong family is not difficult to deal with."

Rong Liu looked at him with particularly pure and innocent eyes, "That's right. But if something happens to me, my family will spare no effort to investigate the cause of my death, not even a hair will be let off. When the moment comes, I'm afraid that the people who know what happened to us last night will probably not only be limited to you and me..."

Xiao Teng choked on his breath, his face turned green.

Rong Liu showed a guilty look, "Of course, what happened is my fault. I had extremely offended you before I clarified things out. I am too impudent and rash. I must take responsibility."

Xiao Teng looked at him coldly.

Rong Liu revealed a smile on his face, the kind that would make a maiden crazy, "I will not abandon you forever, don't worry."

Xiao Teng felt that he was going crazy, "You, you..."

"Ah, don't be like this, I'm only joking," Rong Liu hurriedly apologized, "Although it's quite rude, but I can't think of anything else to compensate for it. We can only start from what we can do now. Aren't we going to talk about business, right? Show me your proposed pact."

Although Xiao Teng was angry, he was clear-headed and knew that there would not be a better chance than now, so he went back to his seat with him and asked Wang Jing to take down the documents.

Rong Liu took the thick stack of contracts and read it quickly. He took a pen to amend a few places, marked some places, and handed it back to Xiao Teng.

"This is the new contract. I don't know if it's to your satisfaction."

Xiao Teng doubted if he had read it all in, but after flipping through it, he felt a little complicated.

The places where the traps were set were marked and corrected by him. This man's eyes were indeed very sharp. However, the conditions of this contract were unexpectedly better than the results estimated in the original situation of mutual non-compliance.

But thinking of the reason why Rong Liu was so generous made him quite annoyed.

"How is it?"

Xiao Teng put down the contract and tried to keep his expression calm, "I accept."

Rong Liu breathed a sigh of relief, showing a charming smile with a dimple on the side of his face, "Then, for the sake of working together, have a drink."

Xiao Teng's veins palpitated, "I won't drink with you again."

"Huh? But..."

"Don't say 'but'!"

Although this matter has come to an end, Xiao Teng is still dizzy with anger every time he thinks about it.

But he also had to admit that what Rong Liu said made sense. Worse than the bad luck itself, was being known that he laid in a quilt with a man. The thought of letting a third person know that this kind of thing happened, he dismissed his plan to kill Rong Liu, but his desire became even stronger.

This morning, he was sitting in the living room flipping through the newspapers, thinking about how would he entertain based on social niceties at the birthday party in the evening, Wang Jing brought a soft satin box over, "Master, this gift that had just arrived is from the Rong family."

"Oh," Xiao Teng said casually, "Didn't you already receive the gift from the Rong family?"

When he opened the box, there was a piece of jade inside. Xiao Teng couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

His father always taught him that jade is a good stuff. A man keeping a jade can repel away viscous currents. He is also very interested in this kind of ice-cold quality.

"This is a gift from Young Master Rong Liu alone."

Xiao Teng's heart was slightly moved. His birthday didn't have much fanfare. The Rong family wasn't that close to him. It was enough to pack a big gift together yet Rong Liu gave him this extra thing.

"And Master, also this one,  they were sent together." Wang Jing's usually calm tone has a hint of terror.

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*Yaksha - a malevolent spirit, could also mean (fig.) ferocious looking person.