Chapter 45

"Here." Ji Chuanze's tone was stiff as he handed the glass cup filled with milk tea to Bai Xuechao.

Bai Xuechao didn't take it. Instead, he raised his red eyes, wrapped by frost-white eyelashes, his gaze slowly moving up along Ji Chuanze's hand holding the glass cup, finally looking at the other party's face as if observing some marvel.

To be honest, his request to pick out the pearls was purely to provoke. He indeed didn't like eating pearls, but he wasn't that delicate; if he drank them, he could just spit them out.

But he hadn't expected Ji Chuanze to actually do it. It was truly amazing.

It must have been because of Jiang Yunyi's command.

Ji Chuanze's face gradually reddened under Bai Xuechao's somewhat surprised gaze.

Feeling uncomfortable, he still maintained the gesture of offering the glass cup and said fiercely, "What are you looking at! I just picked out the pearls, didn't I!"

He probably felt that doing this was embarrassing. Bai Xuechao could hear the feigned sternness in his tone, discerning his inner embarrassment.

How could he let such a good opportunity slip by?

Bai Xuechao decisively raised his phone. Before Ji Chuanze realized what he was going to do, he quickly opened the camera and took multiple rapid-fire shots, not forgetting to provoke in an exaggerated, rising and falling tone: "Wow, oh—you really listen to me now—"

That tone truly made anyone who heard it furious.

Especially Ji Chuanze, who was already unwilling to obey Bai Xuechao's commands, felt that he had just been utterly stupid.

He actually, inexplicably, picked out the pearls for Bai Xuechao!

"If it weren't for Mr. Jiang's command, who would listen to you!" Ji Chuanze, as expected, was easily provoked. He muttered, looking for an excuse for his recent actions, then realized he had been photographed, creating an embarrassing moment.

His whole body felt like it was about to explode, and he immediately reached out to grab Bai Xuechao's phone. "Hey! What are you doing!"

"Taking your picture," Bai Xuechao, having anticipated this, dodged his hand, making Ji Chuanze grab at empty air.

Ji Chuanze was skilled with a knife, agile and very quick to react. After missing once, he twisted his wrist and continued to grab for Bai Xuechao's phone, his movements swift and incredibly fluid.

This time, Bai Xuechao didn't dodge.

Ji Chuanze grabbed Bai Xuechao's phone and was about to pull it away.

"Ji Chuanze," Bai Xuechao suddenly lowered his tone. His already clear and cold voice became even more indifferent, and a subtle aura of a superior emanated from him, making one's heart grow cold with fear. "Remember your status. You are not qualified to act this way with me."

Hearing this, Ji Chuanze was stunned.

He looked at Bai Xuechao. In those translucent, ruby-like eyes, he saw his own stunned face.

In the past, Bai Xuechao often used his executive status to pressure him, but each time it was arrogant and lively. His words were sarcastic and could make people furious. He had never been as cold as he was at this moment, giving off a distant and oppressive sense of distance.

As if deterred by Bai Xuechao's aura at that moment, Ji Chuanze's movements noticeably stiffened. The hand that had already grabbed Bai Xuechao's phone slowly retracted like a rusty machine.

Just then, Bai Xuechao suddenly showed a joyful smile, and his voice returned to its usual clear and melodious tone. He said sarcastically, "Oh, so you were scared by me just now, huh?"

The oppressive feeling from before vanished.

Ji Chuanze then realized he had been tricked.

Moreover, he had just been intimidated by a single sentence from someone he had always disliked. For him, it was a huge humiliation!

As if to prove that he wasn't "scared," or to regain his composure, Ji Chuanze's actions were faster than his thoughts. He impulsively pounced onto the sofa to snatch the phone from Bai Xuechao, as if he absolutely had to delete his embarrassing moment.

Bai Xuechao was physically weak. When they weren't using special abilities, their physical strengths were vastly different.

By the time Ji Chuanze reacted, he had already knelt and used half his body weight to pin Bai Xuechao's leg. His left hand gripped the other's thin shoulder, pressing it against the sofa back, rendering the other party immobile.

The glass cup fell on the sofa, milk tea splashed all over Bai Xuechao, soaking his white shirt. The sweet scent of milk tea, mixed with the faint, cool fragrance of snow plum, enveloped his surroundings.

His right hand held the phone he had just snatched back, but the phone had already been manually locked by Bai Xuechao. Without a password, snatching it was useless.

Ji Chuanze snapped out of his phone-snatching frenzy and belatedly looked down at Bai Xuechao below.

Bai Xuechao's snow-white hair was slightly disheveled. His shirt, stained by milk tea, had changed color and clung damply to his thin chest. Although somewhat disheveled, Bai Xuechao's beautiful face wore a half-smile, as if saying—

"You're screwed."

At this moment, Ji Chuanze inexplicably felt a bit guilty.

The next second, he was flung away by an invisible force from in front of him, crashing straight into the hard wall in the distance. His body collided with the wall with a thud, then he fell to the ground with another dull thud.

Naturally, Bai Xuechao did it.

Ji Chuanze admitted he was in the wrong. He, a "subordinate," had indeed been a bit presumptuous just now. Even though Jiang Yunyi had instructed him before coming to obey Bai Xuechao's orders while completing the mission, he had been at loggerheads with Bai Xuechao since joining the organization and was used to it, so he couldn't adapt for a while.

He silently began to get up, but a force pressed down from behind, pushing him back down.

Ji Chuanze: "..."

Ji Chuanze took a deep breath, enduring again and again. He silently repeated Jiang Yunyi's instructions in his mind and chose to get up again, only to be pushed back down once more.

After being pushed back to the ground twice, veins were almost popping on his forehead. He roared uncontrollably at the white-haired boy who had stood up from the sofa in front of him: "Bai Xuechao, what the hell are you doing?!"

"You also know I'm just being crazy," Bai Xuechao's voice was light and ethereal, drifting from the air. "After all, I'm the one whose clothes got dirty."

Ji Chuanze was silent for two seconds, then said irritably, "Can't I just wash it clean for you?!"

"The sofa and carpet both have milk tea spilled on them; they need to be cleaned too." Bai Xuechao thought for a moment, then added, "You clean it yourself."

"...Understood, let me get up!" Ji Chuanze yelled, then tried to move, finally able to get up.

His gray eyes watched Bai Xuechao walk towards the bathroom inside the office.

A few minutes later.

Bai Xuechao quickly showered in the bathroom, washing off the slightly sticky milk tea on his body, and put on a spare set of clothes he had kept in the office.

As he walked out of the bathroom wearing a white shirt and black trousers, Xiao 6 was still saying, "Hehe, teasing a dog requires caution."

That tone sounded exactly like someone who was shipping.

Bai Xuechao calmly ignored it and looked down at his phone.

Before showering, he sent Jiang Yunyi a photo of Ji Chuanze he had just taken.

The gray-haired boy in the photo held a glass cup, offering it towards the camera. His handsome face was a bit red, but his expression was fierce, and he was speaking.

He also sent a message: "[With this attitude, taking care of me? Better to change to someone else, I might even live a bit longer.]"

Yes, he tattled.

And he was very skilled at complaining.

Jiang Yunyi replied to him a minute ago: "[Seeing you two get along so well, I'm relieved.]"

Bai Xuechao: "?"

6, talking nonsense with his eyes wide open.

From Jiang Yunyi's reply, he detected that the other party was determined not to change people. Bai Xuechao was unhappy and decided to continue to torment Ji Chuanze.

Inside the office, the sofa that had just had milk tea spilled on it and the affected carpet had already been carried out and replaced with new ones.

Ji Chuanze was mopping the floor with a sour face, with a terrified-looking cleaner following behind him.

Bai Xuechao walked back, casually pointing to several spots: "Here, here, and here, they're not clean."

"Where?" Ji Chuanze stopped what he was doing and glared at him.

Bai Xuechao said righteously, "All of it! Mop it again!"

Even a fool could see that Bai Xuechao was deliberately looking for trouble. Ji Chuanze almost broke the metal mop handle in his hand. His deep voice, filled with suppressed anger, said, "Bai Xuechao, do you want to fight?!"

Bai Xuechao smiled indifferently: "You can't beat me anyway."

It was extremely provocative.

Ji Chuanze propped the mop handle to the side. His eyes, glaring at Bai Xuechao, seemed to burn with flames. He took a deep breath to calm down.

He opened his mouth, but swallowed the words back.

Forget it, he had never won an argument against Bai Xuechao.

Moreover, he still had to complete the mission Mr. Jiang gave him.

So, Bai Xuechao watched, puzzled, as Ji Chuanze furiously mopped the floor with gritted teeth and a disgruntled expression, mopping the entire office floor twice. Seeing his unhappy demeanor and vigor, it was as if he wished he could scrape off a layer of the floor.

Bai Xuechao: "..."

Perhaps, Ji Chuanze had learned to endure from Jiang Yunyi.

In the following days, Bai Xuechao found various ways to torment Ji Chuanze.

Running errands like buying milk tea, snacks, and treats from time to time was nothing. Ji Chuanze had to personally clean the office every day, and also, due to Bai Xuechao's whims, he had to go to the organization's back kitchen to personally cook for him.

Bai Xuechao would also claim he had headaches, neck pains, shoulder pains, and back pains, making Ji Chuanze massage him. In short, he indulged in every possible whim.

Ji Chuanze accepted it all, working while feeling disgruntled, occasionally retorting a few times, but he completed everything very well.

Constantly busy every day, so tired, yet he stubbornly refused to say he wanted to go back to Jiang Yunyi.

Bai Xuechao could only give him a '6'.

***

Soon, the day for Bai Xuechao to go to A Port arrived.

The Dark Organization had private jets; otherwise, Ji Chuanze's weapon, the Tang Hengdao, couldn't be taken; it would be confiscated at security.

Bai Xuechao slept on the organization's plane. After landing, he didn't go to the hotel the organization had arranged beforehand but planned to head straight to the place where he needed to audit the accounts.

—He wanted to catch them off guard.

Bai Xuechao had reviewed the documents before coming to A Port.

He was investigating a large casino operated by the organization in A Port.

The ledgers they submitted earlier were perfect, but it was their very perfection that drew Jiang Yunyi's attention. After all, that group wasn't composed of good people. Who could not skim a little off the top?

It was eventually discovered that there were "rats" among the casino's high-ranking members, and there might be more than one. They had embezzled a lot of money, and also seemed to be secretly fostering their own power.

This kind of behavior was undoubtedly treason to the organization.

Bai Xuechao's arrival to audit the accounts was kept secret.

The organization's headquarters told the A Port branch that he was coming to inspect the organization's properties and to take a trip, while Ji Chuanze was his bodyguard.

At this moment, Bai Xuechao was sitting in the back seat of the car. Ji Chuanze was in the front passenger seat, and the driver was taking them to the organization's large casino.

After turning a corner and entering a somewhat secluded path, the side car window suddenly shattered. The driver, sitting in the driver's seat, was shot in the head by a suppressed gun. Blood splattered, and he died instantly.

Losing the driver's control, the vehicle instantly went out of control, heading straight for the pole diagonally ahead.

Ji Chuanze, in the front passenger seat, immediately reached out and grabbed the steering wheel. Ignoring the driver's corpse, he calmly turned the steering wheel and at the same time, extended his leg to step on the brake. Just as the car was about to hit the pole, he safely swerved the car's front past the pole and stopped it.

Just as the car stopped, another suppressed bullet flew in.

Ji Chuanze keenly sensed the danger. His Tang Hengdao instantly unsheathed, the blade reflected a dazzling silver light in the sun, and accompanied by a clear metallic "clang," the bullet was actually sliced into two halves by the Tang Hengdao's blade as if cutting tofu, and fell into the car.

"What a big surprise," Bai Xuechao chuckled softly. "Someone leaked the information."

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