Chapter 39: Transmigrated as a Cheapskate Phoenix Man (39)
Lou Baichuan arrived very quickly.
Just as he caught sight of Cen Yu’s figure, he watched as Cen Yu smiled brightly and barked like a dog at the man standing right in front of him.
“…” Lou Baichuan.
He was genuinely having trouble figuring out the situation, but he still walked over slowly. Only after drawing closer did he realize the person standing in front of Cen Yu was actually somewhat of an acquaintance.
It was none other than Movie King Pei Zhuo.
As he walked over, Pei Zhuo seemed caught off guard to see him as well, offering a surprised greeting.
“What is this?” Lou Baichuan took a glance at the surroundings and found no dogs anywhere, becoming all the more certain that Cen Yu had been delivering sarcastic jabs just now.
Seeing Pei Zhuo offer a bitter smile, he had no choice but to turn his gaze to Cen Yu beside him.
Cen Yu offered a polite smile: “Woof, woof, woof.”
“…?” Lou Baichuan grew increasingly bewildered, realizing that he truly did not understand Cen Yu’s mental state.
Pei Zhuo knew he couldn’t gloss over this either, so he had no choice but to lay out everything that had just happened to Lou Baichuan, word for word, without missing a single detail.
When Lou Baichuan heard that Cen Yu had been mistaken for a stalker, his brows were already knitting together; hearing that Pei Zhuo’s bodyguard had actually intended to hit Cen Yu made his brows furrow even harder. Only when he heard that Cen Yu had beaten the guy up and took a glance at the bodyguard currently crawling out of the bushes did his brow finally relax.
In the end, he rendered a fair judgment: “You were in the wrong here.”
Pei Zhuo knew he was indeed at fault.
It was just that when he arrived at this villa estate earlier, he heard that because it hadn’t officially opened for business, there were no outsiders around. Seeing a completely unfamiliar young man pop out out of nowhere, combined with the mental exhaustion from being tormented by that phantom-like stalker lately, he had become overly jumpy and paranoid.
He could only offer another string of apologies, followed by various reassuring words. Under Lou Baichuan’s supervision, he guaranteed he wouldn’t make trouble for Cen Yu over the bodyguard’s injuries before turning to look at Cen Yu earnestly.
Cen Yu looked back at him. “Woof.”
The bodyguard had heard the entire story as well. Usually, relying on Pei Zhuo, he had bullied plenty of people; when dealing with certain fans, his actions had been fairly rough too, though people back then always claimed he was just eager to protect Pei Zhuo.
This time, he hadn’t expected to run straight into a tough nut. After apologizing to Cen Yu, Pei Zhuo had him leave the spot first.
Lou Baichuan looked at Cen Yu, then cast a glance at Pei Zhuo.
Pei Zhuo was merely draped in a bathrobe at the moment, feeling a bit chilled as a gust of wind blew past… Cen Yu cast him a glance, finally saying to Lou Baichuan, “Let’s head to your villa first.”
Lou Baichuan nodded immediately upon hearing this, having no desire to play judge here either.
Seeing that Cen Yu genuinely seemed ready to leave, Pei Zhuo offered another apology toward his retreating back—
“I am truly very sorry. I will come to your door later to apologize properly.”
“Alright, that’s enough.” Cen Yu got a headache the moment he heard him say that—there were already far too many male characters in this plot.
He certainly didn’t want Pei Zhuo to take a liking to Yu Xinyu as well upon visiting his place. He genuinely had no way to play matchmaker for this many people.
He turned his head to cast a glance at Pei Zhuo. “Forget it.” After a moment’s thought, he added, “Rest assured, I won’t expose you online.”
He assumed Pei Zhuo had apologized to him so sincerely and repeatedly out of fear that this incident would get leaked onto the internet.
Lou Baichuan brought Cen Yu to his villa. He opened his mouth several times wanting to say something, but in the end, he held back.
It wasn’t until Cen Yu walked into the villa’s living room that he couldn’t help speaking up—
“You were still a bit too impulsive just now.”
He actually wanted to say that Pei Zhuo’s bodyguard was a trained fighter after all, and Cen Yu stepping up rashly might have gotten him hurt.
Of course, he also wanted to blame Pei Zhuo for acting without distinguishing right from wrong.
He looked at Cen Yu. “What if you had lost just now?”
Cen Yu let out a dry laugh. “If I lost, I’d check into the hospital and extort a hundred and eight thousand out of him.”
“…” Lou Baichuan nearly choked on his breath. Even knowing Cen Yu was joking… this joke was truly a bit hard to follow up on.
Opening his mouth for a moment before closing it again, he finally turned on the computer in the villa’s office area.
“Forget it, take a look at this proposal first.”
Cen Yu also remembered that Lou Baichuan was a key plot character and that he couldn’t break character too much. After letting himself loose for a brief moment, he obediently walked over to the man’s side. Lou Baichuan pulled another chair over.
“Sit.”
Not standing on ceremony with him either, Cen Yu plopped his rear straight onto the chair.
Then he began reviewing the modification feedback sent over by the client.
After looking through it for a bit, he realized Lou Baichuan had already revised a portion of it, so the rest wouldn’t actually take much time. Holding the computer, he made the necessary changes to the sections requiring edits before handing the laptop back to Lou Baichuan.
After double-checking the files, Lou Baichuan sent them over to the client’s side.
Then came another wave of hypocritical pleasantries: “Thanks for your hard work on the weekend,” and “No problem, please just confirm it as soon as you can.”
Sitting beside him, Cen Yu looked up at the ceiling and let out a long sigh—
No matter what world he was in, he simply could not escape this damn fate of working overtime!
Seeing that the client seemed to have no further notes to add, Lou Baichuan closed the laptop directly. He looked at Cen Yu sitting beside him. “…Shall I send you back?”
Hearing this, Cen Yu instantly remembered that Yu Xinyu was still in the room.
Heh, who knew this work could actually be done so quickly? When he actually needed to work, why did it feel like it went so slowly!
Seeing that while Lou Baichuan asked the question, his rear hadn’t lifted off his chair at all, Cen Yu knew the guy was just asking in passing with zero intention of getting up. Consequently, Cen Yu stayed planted in his seat without moving either.
Doing his best to stall for time, he simply began prying into gossip instead—
“Brother Chuan, how do you happen to know Movie King Pei as well?”
Lou Baichuan looked at Cen Yu with a complex expression—this guy had just insidiously mocked Pei Zhuo as a dog, yet now he was acting all civil and polite again.
Still, having grown somewhat accustomed to Cen Yu’s erratic line of thinking lately, he didn’t find it odd either, merely pondering how to explain his connection with Pei Zhuo.
Back before he entered this company, while he was still the young master of the Lou family, he had met Pei Zhuo once at a banquet.
Pei Zhuo was a brand spokesperson under the Lou family’s umbrella.
As the former young master, Lou Baichuan naturally couldn’t avoid exchanging a few pleasantries with him.
As for why he was a former young master, that was because the current head of the Lou family—Old Man Lou—intended to have someone else take his place.
Finding it laughable, Lou Baichuan simply left the Lou family, merely waiting for those few illegitimate sons to turn the household upside down.
“Met him once at a banquet in the past,” Lou Baichuan told Cen Yu, concealing part of the truth.
Cen Yu didn’t care about his omission either.
Thinking to himself—Who doesn’t know your true identity, hilarious.
He nodded, then assumed the role of a tabloid gossip reporter again. “By the way, have you heard the rumors about Pei Zhuo?”
Perhaps to hook Lou Baichuan’s interest, he added a sentence immediately: “Yu Xinyu told me about it.”
