Crime

"Okay, I got it, I just arrived, I'll pass." Kaito hung up the phone and hurried down the corridor.

It was the assistant who called to tell him to go to the recording studio just now. It seemed that there was a small problem during the recording in the morning.Standing in the elevator, Kaito watched the floor number jump to "5" on the screen, and suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen that person for a long time.

In fact, there is nothing abnormal, after all, the top management of the company is not something they can meet whenever they want, let alone Gakupo's identity.

Walking out of the elevator, Kaito just turned a corner, but suddenly collided with the person opposite.

That bump was not light, Kaito rubbed his painful shoulder, and before he raised his head to see who it was, he apologized reflexively, but only heard a sneer from the person opposite.

He raised his head, and in front of him was a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes, with an unfriendly expression on his face.

Kaito thought it looked familiar, but after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't remember where he saw it. In the end, he just apologized: "Sorry, it was me just now..."

"With a little fame, you don't even need to look at the road?" the man said in a low voice.

Kaito was stunned for a moment, a little confused that he just accidentally bumped into him, why it seemed like he had formed some deep hatred.

But thinking that he might be from the same company and it was just a trivial matter, he didn't want to cause any big trouble, so he apologized and said, "I didn't mean that, but it's true that I walked carelessly, so I'm sorry."

"Be careful in the future." The man turned around and left with a cold snort.

This person... what does he mean? Kaito turned his head and looked at his disappearing figure.

"I want to ask you about someone." During the break, Kaito asked the assistant beside him.

"who?"

"A tall, middle-aged man with a beard and a low voice. When I saw him today, he was wearing a black suit and a gray pattern tie." Kaito thought for a while, "The tone of his voice was a bit like... Kind of like a corporate executive."

The assistant's face changed: "Have you seen him before?"

"It seems a bit familiar," he thought back, "if I've seen it before, it might be in the conference room..."

"I just want to ask you something." The assistant looked at him solemnly, "How many years have you been in this company?"

"Ah?" Kaito thought about the deep meaning of this question for a while, and finally realized that there was no deep meaning, so he said, "Seven years."

"Seven years! Seven years!" The assistant suddenly became anxious, "You don't even know the chairman?!"

Kaito didn't change his face: "Why do I have to know him?"

The assistant calmed down for a moment, and sighed: "Yes, you really don't need to know him, and Charles doesn't usually attend events in public. Even if he shows up, it's the company's shareholders meeting, and it's none of your business."

"So? Then it's rare for me to meet him today?" Kaito smiled.

"You met him?" The assistant was a little surprised, "Is it okay? That person has a weird temper, and sometimes he speaks very badly."

"Well, it's nothing." Kaito said casually, but something came to mind.

"Don't worry about it, Charles is really a man you can't offend," the assistant heaved a sigh of relief, "When you see him again in the future, speak politely and don't offend him."

"Of course I understand this." Kaito replied, but the smile on his face was slightly restrained.

The assistant looked at him with some unease, but he didn't know at all that the leader in front of him, who didn't even know the chairman, actually had an unusual relationship with another real executive of the company.

But many times, it is often because of fear that something will happen.

A few weeks later, when it was almost the end of the year, Kaito was also laughing and talking with some assistants in the studio about giving them benefits. He was very happy at first, but when he was about to go home, he suddenly felt a little bit Variety.

Kaito originally planned to take the elevator down, but somehow the elevator was stuck on the first floor and could not go up, so he had no choice but to take the stairs, but he saw their chairman at the corner of the stairs.

Charles was leaning against the corner smoking a cigarette and frowned suddenly when he looked up and saw Kaito.

Having been seen, it is impossible to turn around and leave at this time, even though he really doesn't want to cause this big trouble again.

Kaito bit the bullet and walked down the stairs—after all, he couldn't look down at the man and talk—and when he walked in front of Charles, he nodded slightly and said, "Hello, Chairman."

But Charles withdrew his gaze, turned his head and let out a puff of smoke as if he hadn't seen him, and it took a long time before he said a word slowly: "Who are you pretending to be like this for?"

Kaito lowered his head and did not speak, he realized that he must not conflict with him, not only for himself - but also for other reasons.

"Don't dare to talk anymore now? How about when you got carried away by climbing high branches before?" Charles sneered, "What kind of popular artist is just trying to laugh in front of the camera."

Did I provoke you to provoke you? Kaito thought in his heart, but in the end he didn't show it on his face.In fact, as a signed artist of the company, there is no need for him to really regard Charles as his superior, but this person's words are a bit too much.

But Kaito sensed something was wrong.

"Don't show off if you don't have the skills, or you won't know how ugly it will be then." Charles put out his cigarette, turned around and went downstairs without looking back, "Stop using that flattering face to disgust me from now on."

Kaito stood where he was until he watched Charles disappear completely from view.

"My God, why did you provoke him?" The assistant's voice suddenly came from behind, "Why do you speak so hard?!"

Kaito was taken aback for a moment, but still kept his posture without turning around.Then the assistant came to his side: "I saw it all, but it was really inconvenient to come here just now, what's the matter? Why did he say you were so exaggerated?"

Kaito was silent for a while, and finally he just said, "I don't know either."

"Are you... are you okay?" Hearing that his voice was not right, the assistant pulled his shoulders, only to see that the circles of his eyes were red.

"No...he really said it too much, but don't...don't really cry." The assistant panicked all of a sudden.

Kaito just stared at him, the expression on his face made it difficult to tell whether it was sad or something else, and finally suddenly lowered his head and let out the sneeze that he had been holding back just now.

The assistant was completely taken aback.

"What are you thinking, crying about this, am I still a man?" Kaito laughed, and then covered his mouth and coughed a few times, "No, I'm a little sensitive to the smell of his smoke, I almost suffocated just now me."

Seeing him sneeze again, the assistant came back to his senses and handed over the tissue: "You really scared me to death just now."

"I'm still scared, I offended such a big man without doing anything," Kaito turned around with a smile, and went upstairs, "It's okay, I'm fine, don't worry about me, he Hate me, I have to continue working here."

"What are you doing upstairs? Aren't you going home?"

"Nonsense, Charles just went downstairs, I'm looking for trouble when I go down and run into him again?" Kaito replied nonchalantly, but actually he didn't intend to go home anymore.

Gakupo came out of the office, looked at his watch and found that it was past two o'clock in the morning, and couldn't help cursing secretly.

Walking to the central hall on the first floor, he suddenly saw a familiar figure at the door. At first he thought he had misidentified the person, but when he got closer, it turned out to be Kaito.

"Why haven't you left so late?" He asked.

"Wait for you," Kaito raised his head, "why do you look so pale? Haven't had a good rest for a few days?"

"It's rare for you to care about me," Gakupo smiled, "Let's go, I'll drive."

Kaito straightened up against the wall and opened his arms towards him. When Gakupo thought he was going to hug him and had already stepped forward and stretched out his arms, Kaito suddenly slipped his hand into his pocket and took out the car key.

"Okay, I'll drive." Kaito took a step back and turned the key in his hand, "You should have a good rest."

Gakupo's arms were empty, so he smiled helplessly and didn't say anything else.