What to Do When Pretending to Be an Alpha Gets Exhausting [Entertainment Industry] - Chapter 19

When you come out to play, you always have to pay it back sooner or later.

This sentence instantly flashed through Ye Xingyuan’s mind.

He never would have imagined that he would meet Pei Yanchen again in this kind of way.

Pei Yanchen kept looking at him, his gaze carrying a hint of mockery, as if saying: Heh, you delivered yourself to my door so quickly.

Ye Xingyuan wanted to hide, but Pei Yanchen happened to keep staring at him closely, giving him no chance to avoid it at all. He could only brace himself and meet Pei Yanchen’s slightly chilly gaze.

Tong Yuqian was so nervous beside them that he stuttered when he spoke. “C-Cousin, why are you up so early? Didn’t, didn’t you say you didn’t sleep all night last night and were going to catch up on sleep today?”

Ye Xingyuan wished he could perform a death on the spot.

Didn’t sleep all night? Did that mean he had been so angry at him that he hadn’t slept all night?

Then hadn’t this grudge become huge?

Pei Yanchen glanced sideways at Tong Yuqian and deliberately explained, “I didn’t sleep last night because I was handling company matters.”

Not because a certain someone angered him so much he couldn’t sleep.

Tong Yuqian knew the truth but did not dare expose him. He could only lower his head and say, “Oh,” then hide behind Ye Rubai and secretly laugh.

“Haha…”

The first one who failed to hold back and laughed aloud was Ye Xingyuan.

Because of this laugh, he was once again locked onto by Best Actor Pei’s gaze.

Best Actor Pei’s voice was low and carried anger. “Is it that funny?”

Ye Xingyuan shook his head and tried hard to press his lips together, but his beautiful peach blossom eyes were full of laughter.

When he smiled, the corners of his eyes tilted up slightly, making him look especially bright and especially attractive to others.

Ye Xingyuan had his head lowered, facing Pei Yanchen with his back toward Tong Yuqian and the others.

Because his head was lowered, Tong Yuqian subconsciously thought his idol was being bullied by his cousin again. He suddenly stood forward bravely, squeezed between the two of them, and used his small, thin body to shield Ye Xingyuan. He widened his big round eyes and glared at Pei Yanchen. “Cousin, Brother Xing is my guest today. You can’t bully him.”

Pei Yanchen’s voice lifted, as if he could not believe it. “I’m bullying him?”

Tong Yuqian’s pink little mouth pouted. “You just can’t bully him. If you dare bully him, I’ll tell Grandpa.”

Tong Yuqian was small and thin. Standing in front of Pei Yanchen, he was like a child confronting an adult.

Even with Tong Yuqian standing in the middle, he could not block Pei Yanchen’s line of sight.

Pei Yanchen glanced at Ye Xingyuan.

At such a close distance, the beauty impact was devastating. Ye Xingyuan’s heart swayed for a moment, but he quickly steadied himself, pressed down the secret delight in his heart, and tried hard to look back at him calmly.

“What are you going to tell me?” An elderly voice sounded from behind Pei Yanchen.

As soon as the voice fell, an old man dressed in a Tang suit arrived at the doorway. He stood beside Pei Yanchen and smiled at Tong Yuqian, then his gentle gaze landed on Ye Xingyuan and Ye Rubai.

He asked very politely, “And these two are?”

Tong Yuqian immediately clung to his grandfather’s arm and acted spoiled intimately. “Grandpa, this one is Ye Rubai. He’s my classmate and the top student in our school. He came to teach me homework. And this one is Rubai’s older brother, Ye Xingyuan. He’s also a very outstanding actor, and he’s currently filming in the same crew as Cousin.”

“Oh, so they’re Yuqian’s classmate and Yanchen’s colleague. Hello. Since you’re here, stay for dinner.”

Grandpa’s smile and the way he spoke both made people feel very comfortable.

Ye Xingyuan was still hesitating over how to refuse when Tong Yuqian happily came over, hooked his arm, buried his head against his chest, and rubbed against him intimately. Like a little puppy, he opened a pair of wet eyes. “Brother Xing, don’t leave, okay? Stay for dinner with Rubai. Auntie Zhang’s cooking is really delicious.”

“This isn’t very…” appropriate.

Before Ye Xingyuan could finish speaking,

System 001 came online again. “Detected that the love rival’s current emotional fluctuations are extremely negative. Predicted result: if the host stays for dinner, progress can probably increase by 2%.”

Hearing this, Ye Xingyuan immediately changed direction and changed his words. “Then we’ll trouble you. Thank you, Grandpa Pei.”

Pei Tianlong smiled at him, then said considerately, “Since one of you is Yuqian’s classmate and one is Yanchen’s colleague, each of you can take your own friend around to have fun. When it’s time to eat, I’ll have Zhang Lan call you.”

Ye Xingyuan: “…”

Pei Yanchen: “…………”

“11, is this what people call lifting a stone only to smash your own foot?”

“Don’t be scared. Just go for it!”

Pei Yanchen seemed to have noticed Ye Xingyuan’s difficulty, but he deliberately did not refuse. In front of Pei Tianlong, he intentionally called Ye Xingyuan along.

Ye Xingyuan could only follow his steps.

Relying on his long legs, Pei Yanchen walked very quickly.

Ye Xingyuan had to stride hard to keep up with him.

The villa they lived in was very large, and there was also a large private area outside. There was even a vegetable garden, where Pei Tianlong had planted all kinds of vegetables, melons, and fruits himself after retirement.

Pei Yanchen himself usually would not go near this area. He could not even name those vegetables, but today, he deliberately brought Ye Xingyuan close to the garden.

“Are we…”

Pei Yanchen maintained the noble quality of silence being golden and had not spoken the entire time.

Ye Xingyuan followed him for quite a while and finally could not help asking.

Pei Yanchen bent down and found two small shovels in a little tool shed nearby. He took the blue one for himself and deliberately handed the pink one to Ye Xingyuan. “Help weed.”

Ye Xingyuan: ??? After all that, he was treating him as free labor?

Pei Yanchen had chosen the pink one to annoy Ye Xingyuan, but he did not know that Ye Xingyuan, who internally regarded himself as a sweet O, actually quite liked pink.

After Ye Xingyuan got the pink shovel, he became happy. He casually waved it through the air a few times, eager to try. “Which side should I weed?”

Pei Yanchen: “…”

Didn’t he claim to be the strongest Alpha in the entertainment industry? How did he accept pink so calmly? Where was his Alpha dignity?

Pei Yanchen pointed casually. “Over there.”

He was pointing to a plot planted with strawberries. There were actually not many weeds, while the strawberries were growing very pleasantly. They were large and red, and their whole bodies gave off an enticing smell.

Ye Xingyuan licked his lips and could not help asking, “Can the strawberries be eaten?”

Pei Yanchen just happened to see the exposed tip of that pink tongue. His Adam’s apple bobbed up and down, and he looked away, saying coldly, “Yes.”

“Thank you.”

Ye Xingyuan happily squatted down, picked a large one on the spot, casually wiped it, and stuffed it into his mouth. When he bit down, his mouth filled with fresh juice.

He could not help picking another one and bringing it to Pei Yanchen’s lips. “Brother Chen, try one. This one tastes really good.”

Pei Yanchen looked at the strawberry delivered almost to his mouth and frowned.

The strawberry was very red, making the skin of Ye Xingyuan’s fingertips look even whiter.

Ye Xingyuan’s hands were very beautiful. His fingers were long and fair, the joints clearly defined. They were not overly thin, nor too rounded. They were beautiful in just the right way.

The moment Pei Yanchen saw his hand at close range, he finally understood why there were people online who were fans of Ye Xingyuan’s hands.

He also understood why hand-cons were so obsessed with Ye Xingyuan’s hands.

It was truly because these hands were too good-looking.

“Want one? It’s really sweet.” Ye Xingyuan moved the strawberry forward a little more. After waiting for a while and seeing that Pei Yanchen did not move, he was just about to withdraw his hand when Pei Yanchen suddenly caught Ye Xingyuan’s wrist. While Ye Xingyuan was stunned, he lowered his head and took the strawberry into his mouth.

“Sweet?” Ye Xingyuan narrowed his eyes and smiled.

Pei Yanchen looked away. “It’s all right.”

Then he squatted down beside him, found a patch of ground, and started weeding.

Ye Xingyuan also squatted down and seriously waved the little pink shovel in his hand.

Both of them were seriously weeding, and for a while, neither of them spoke.

Until—

Pei Yanchen saw a thick green vegetable worm as wide as a child’s finger attached to a blade of grass. His face turned deathly pale from fright. He threw away the blue little shovel on the spot, cold sweat breaking out, and panicked as he dodged backward. But he accidentally bumped into Ye Xingyuan and brought him down into the strawberry patch.

The ripe strawberries could not bear the weight of the two of them. After being crushed, red juice splashed out and dirtied their clothes.

It created a different kind of visual impact.

Author’s Note:

Strawberry: I’m not that kind of strawberry. Give me back my innocence!!!