The Villain Just Want to Be a Slacker [Transmigration]

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Speak of the devil.

Just as Ye Zexi was thinking about Yu Yan, he saw Yu Yan pulling Jiang Ran towards him.

"Zexi! Why did you come to the airport ahead of us? Aren't we on the same flight?" Yu Yan asked as he sat down naturally in front of Ye Zexi, unable to resist a bit of complaining.

Jiang Ran, too, had been puzzled at first, but as he got closer, he noticed that Ye Zexi didn't seem to be in the best mood.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Ran asked.

Realizing that his expression might have given him away, Ye Zexi quickly pulled himself together and smiled at the two of them. "It's nothing."

As if.

Yu Yan and Jiang Ran both silently thought the same thing.

But since Ye Zexi clearly didn't want to talk about it, they felt it inappropriate to press further.

What should they talk about instead?

Having grown familiar with Yu Yan and Jiang Ran's assistants over the past few days, Gao Shu noticed them chatting and decided to join the others for a conversation about "the artists I've had to manage that drove me crazy."

After a brief silence, Yu Yan spoke up first. "Zexi, Teacher He really treats you well!"

Ye Zexi was taken aback. Didn't Teacher He treat him well too?

However, instead of voicing that thought, he simply said, "Teacher He is a good person. He treats everyone well."

Yu Yan shook his head. "No, you're special."

Jiang Ran shot a glance at Yu Yan.

Yu Yan had been holding this in for days and couldn't keep it to himself anymore. Ignoring Jiang Ran's warning look, he pressed on. "Haven't you noticed?"

Ye Zexi was genuinely confused. "Noticed what?"

And what did Yu Yan mean by "special"? In what way?

Seeing Ye Zexi's genuinely puzzled expression, both Yu Yan and Jiang Ran fell silent.

This one-sided affection... it was more intense than they thought.

Exchanging a glance, Yu Yan and Jiang Ran decided to spell it out. "Teacher He is indeed a kind person, but his treatment of you is different from the way he treats others. Maybe you didn't notice, but every night when Teacher He makes dinner, he always asks what you want to eat first."

"Any dish you mention appears on the table that night. But when others make requests, like when Brother Wei Bei wanted twice-cooked pork the other day, Teacher He didn't make it for him."

Ye Zexi thought back and realized that this did seem to be true.

But what did that prove?

"But Teacher He also asks Sister You Jia what she wants to eat. That day, she asked for fish-flavored eggplant, and Teacher He made it. Is there a problem with that?" Ye Zexi asked.

Seeing Ye Zexi's bewildered expression, Yu Yan fell silent again.

So this wasn't enough to count as "special"?

How could he explain it?

As Yu Yan fell into silence, Jiang Ran sighed and decided to clarify. "There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but haven't you noticed that your relationship with Teacher He is unusually close?"

"Close?" Ye Zexi's eyes widened in surprise. He was shocked that Jiang Ran would use a word like "close," which is typically used to describe couples, to describe his relationship with He Jinyun.