Chapter 7
As what he told to his colleagues, he unwillingly throw a barbeque party to the nearest restaurant. The team, who got their first invite from a rare party rejoiced and cried with blissful tears.
"Am I dreaming? That meat on the table... It's not an illusion right?" Biming drooled upon seeing the lustrous, majestic meat lying helplessly on the table. He was about to raise his chopsticks when Cheng Li rashly snatched the lustrous meat and grilled it on the grill fork.
"I just snatched your meat, it's an illusion now." Cheng Li cheekily said while the one who was snatched with a piece of meat was crying in misery.
"You meat stealer!" Biming said and took one meat in the container.
Chen Ai on the other hand, booked himself with a separate table full of meat and vegetables. He thinks that this was his best day since he had to relax. He doesn't care how noisy his team were when they buzzed here and there, all he cared is his food. Right, his food.
He was very stressed lately because he kept dreaming the same nightmare about a certain gorilla chasing him which terrified him a lot.
At least, he could still enjoy eating his remorse and to experience that again in the night later.
'Being handsome is hard that even a gorilla keeps chasing me.' Chen Ai thought as he shed imaginary tears.
Cheng Li noticed that the table their boss seated was full of food that they doubted Chen Ai would finish that food himself.
"Biming, will the team leader going to finish his food that many?" Cheng Li asked worryingly as he glanced the overloaded meat table with a slim person on the side.
"I don't know, maybe he will. I don't care I'll eat my fill." Then, the dinosaur eater Biming got smacked in the head by the other beta.
On the other side, Chen Ai was enjoying the delicious smell of grilled meat as he sniffed like a hungry chihuahua.
"This is life." As he grilled all the meat, he simply ate the newly cooked meat while humming in delight. His cheeks were puffing as he stuffed so many meat at once as if he hadn't been eaten for days. The team members suddenly have a good appetite while staring at their leader.
"If Boss shoots a barbeque advertisement, the product will be gone for seconds. How can he eat without getting fat?" Cheng Li complained.
God seems to have favoritism.
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"Master, your mother wants you to go home for your older brother's birthday." The Shen family's main butler said as Shen Xi scoffed in disdain. He menaced, thinking about the family's so called favorite child made him want to destroy the entire house.
"I have no time." Shen Xi said coldly. He was sitting on the balcony, sipping his tea when his mood disrupted by family matters.
"I can't do that, master. Your mom wants you to go there."
'And what? Bragging about her favorite child in front of my salad?'
Shen Xi had always been the outcast from his family. He's excellent in everything. Number one in business, athlete, face, and alpha, but his family saw him as a decoration hanging in the house's walls.
It was because he was never going to be an heir.
His parents valued his older brother a lot that he never got any teeny tiny bit of attention coming from his parents. No matter how good grade he has, or how he was a good alpha than his brother, he never experienced any single compliment coming from his parents. This is why Shen Xi grew up to be independent. At the age of 19, he built his own business from the assets his grandfather gave him. Due to his talented entrepreneurship skills, he soared up high and became a billionaire at the age of 23.
Now that he's 25, he broke up the relationship with his parents and moved out of the house. Shen Xi's face twisted and felt nauseous when he stepped thought of entering that house.
"You hear what I said? I don't want to go. I've long cut off the relationship between them and I don't want to repeat myself. Get out if you don't want me to be crazy."
The butler hesitated to nod and dashed out of the room. The alpha's pheromones were strong enough for an ordinary alpha like him. It would be bad if he'll be angered overbearingly.
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Because of his anger, Shen Xi had been injected by an inhibitor to prevent him in his manic state. Lucky that Wei Jian visited him or else—he'll be screwed up for good.
"Did Auntie pestered you again? If so, control your temper a bit. You don't know how much trouble I went into to calm you down." Wei Jian sighed and asked.
"She wants me to go back to that trashy house. Why would I even though such a thing when I already cut them off?"
I will never enter that hellhole even if I die.
Shen Xi got up and grab the car keys and his long, black jacket.
"Where are you going now?" Wei Jian said.
"Freshen my mind." Shen Xi said coldly.
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"Oohh~ my love~ my darling~"
"Come on stop him!" Biming said as he ushered Cheng Li to stop their boss from his concert show. They have been drinking alcohol after they ate and no one knows how much their boss drank.
Chen Ai got drunk and dragged all his team members for a karaoke and made them listen to him sing.
"And you~"
"My ears, I can't feel my ears!"
"Shh! Don't let him hear that!"
Chen Ai even danced sluggishly while holding his mic like a pro. And his members—forced themselves to hear his performance.
After an hour of karaoke, the members went home after how their boss tortured them. But, they felt the longing joy that they missed because of work.
"Sir, let's go home. It's closing time of the restaurant—" Cheng Li and Biming assisted Chen Ai until they found that Chen Ai was dead asleep.
"Let's just bring him home." The two betas thought and agreed.
Later in the morning, Chen Ai's head felt like being pounded by a hammer. The stinging pain vibrated in his skull that he can't get up. He really overdid it this time. He felt nauseous so he got up from the bed hurriedly and went to the toilet to vomit.
"My head hurts..." Chen Ai muttered as he gently touched his head. He touched the walls supporting himself and went to bed.
He knew he couldn't go to work so he asked Cheng Li to take care of the things for the day.
Not for long, he had a fever.
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Shen Xi asked Wei Jian why Chen Ai didn't go to work today and his so called assistant raised his eyebrows and almost spit at him.
"Why would you ask me? I'm not his bodyguard." Wei Jian rolled his eyes.
"Spill it."
"He asked for a leave today. He said his head hurts." I should be polite for the money. Wei Jian thought.
"Okay. I'll just go to his place." Shen Xi got up from his desk while Wei Jian's jaw dropped.
"You're quite desperate." Wei Jian sighed.
"At least, I'm handsome."
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"Ew." Wei Jian said with extreme disgust.
"Also, you can't invade your worker's personal life as a boss. So, forget it and sign these goddamn documents." Wei Jian let out his sardonic smile and pushed the tower of documents one the densely crowded table.
"You did this on purpose, didn't you?" Shen Xi scowled, looking at the amount of papers he needed to sign and check.
Wei Jian pushed his glasses in and nodded.
"Although you hold power here in the company, you still have to know your limits. Chen Ai will definitely quit if you act like that." Wei Jian clicked his tongue and left the office. Shen Xi on the other hand, looked at the papers bitchily and had an urge to burn them.
But, if he burn those papers then he would be pitting himself to poverty so, he need to swallow his desire first and sat on his chair. He started flipping pages and read the contents for a whole day.
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Meanwhile on the other side, Chen Ai couldn't get up no matter what he did. His skull might even break if he moves a little.
His throat was dry and wants to drink water, yet he couldn't move his body. This was one of his struggles of living alone. Good thing that he had good endurance and pushed himself to get up.
And he did.
He got up groggily as he held onto the walls to the kitchen until he finally arrived. Pouring a glass of water, he hastily drank it to the last drop.
"Damn, I really need an assistant." He sighed as he went back to bed.
His cat Rouye was worried about him that he didn't bothered his owner today. He grabbed a bunch of cat food and fed himself to the fullest.
Chen Ai sighed, he decided to not drink alcohol for the rest of his life.