Why can't the main male protagonist get rid of it?

The morning sun has a mechanical quality. If you magnify it a thousand times, you can still see a series of dense numbers sprinkled on the bed through the window, and the doorbell also rings in response.

Ye Xingze frowned, got up from the bed, and went to open the door.

Outside the door was a young man, wearing the usual three-piece suit and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses with thin chains hanging down. His body was slender and straight, and his demeanor was cold and indifferent.

In his hand, he was carrying a packaging bag that was completely inconsistent with his temperament.

Ye Xingze leaned against the door, "Didn't I tell you not to come?"

"Let me apologize." Xia Jingcheng said softly.

Ye Xingze sneered, his tone was cold, "You don't need to apologize, how dare I ask you to apologize?"

After finishing speaking, the door was about to be closed, Xia Jingcheng scattered the things in his hands all over the floor, and stretched out his hand to stop it, as if he was not afraid of being caught by the door.

Looking at Ye Xingze with clean eyes, there was a hint of flattery.

"Minister Xia, it's not that I don't understand these tricks, it's because I wanted to manipulate you before." Ye Xingze's hand on the doorknob did not let go, "Now I don't want to manipulate you anymore, let go, don't embarrass everyone .”

Ye Xingze presented the facts and reasoned, Xia Jingcheng obediently let go of his hand, Ye Xingze was indifferently about to close the door, Xia Jingcheng suddenly stretched out his hand to block it again, his fingers hurt, Xia Jingcheng snorted, and glanced stubbornly at Ye Xingze, "It's not a trick."

"Never."

"What on earth are you going to do?" Ye Xingze choked on the words, let go, leaned against the wall, rubbed between his brows, feeling a little tired.

Xia Jingcheng's eyes lit up a little because Ye Xingze let go, and because of Ye Xingze's actions, he felt a little lost, "I'm here to apologize."

"Well, I accept, can you go?" Ye Xingze smiled lightly, his eyes did not bend.

"I can't—you give me another chance, didn't we get along well before?" Xia Jingcheng stood there with his hand down, his injured finger was tightly clenched in his palm, constantly stimulating the pain.

"Before, it was because I really liked you, but now—" Ye Xingze spread his hands, ready to say some hurtful words, which he has always been good at.

But was interrupted.

"I do not believe."

Xia Jingcheng has always been a well-educated person, never interrupting others' speeches, but this time he made an exception, he didn't want to hear the second half of the sentence.

He didn't believe it.

Although he was born here, he is a real person inside and out, with pure white but sincere human feelings.

He couldn't believe that Ye Xingze really didn't like him anymore.

Xia Jingcheng suppressed his crying, squatted down, gathered the things on the ground, and put the things he had been carrying in his left hand gently in front of the door, and walked away.

Ye Xingze could see a little dust on Xia Jingcheng's trouser legs.

-

Ye Xingze didn't collect the things at the door, it looked like an exquisite snack.

After a brief wash, this place is like a city. It has all the necessary configurations and will be even more advanced. After Ye Xingze returned from completing the mission, he had a three-day vacation. During that time, Xia Jingcheng led Ye Xingze to play around the city. over and over.

It was only later that Ye Xingze found out that Xia Jingcheng didn't go out much on weekdays, and after agreeing to play with Ye Xingze, Xia Jingcheng spent almost all night doing strategies.

Think about what to do with these.

Ye Xingze clicked his tongue, washed up casually, rummaged through the refrigerator, found an apple to eat, and went to work.

The department is still deserted.

Ye Xingze sat at his desk and greeted his boss, "Do you have work today?"

"No." Seeing his frown, the boss frowned into the word "Chuan" and said angrily.

Ye Xingze didn't care either. He put on the mechanical helmet on the workstation and directly entered the holographic game.

This is a newly released game. Players perform role-playing, randomly select scenes, and use various methods to obtain designated items from NPCs.

Suddenly there is no internet.

Yes, although this place is much more advanced, it is still built on the basis of the network, but there has never been any network failure. Ye Xingze felt an inexplicable irritability in his heart. He stared at the blue sky and white clouds in the hologram, and turned a lot of things in his mind. idea.

He completed the mission very well this time. After he walked out of the teleportation warehouse, he got three days off. As discussed between the departments before starting the mission, his mission object came to the door.

Ye Xingze's interest in the mission object did not retreat, and he readily accepted the mission object's pursuit.

In fact, if he can accept the pursuit, it is basically equivalent to agreeing to communicate.

Ye Xingze still remembered the way Xia Jingcheng knocked on the door of his house, his indifferent brows and eyes curled up, breaking a little bit of his inherent arrogance, he invited him to dinner with a little nervousness.

Ye Xingze happily went.

"Are you nervous?" Ye Xingze sat on the seat with great interest, looking at Xia Jingcheng who was a little at a loss, "It's not the first time the two of us have dinner alone."

"I'm a little nervous," Xia Jingcheng admitted calmly, with red earlobes, "The ingredients here are a little different from those in Small World, I'm afraid you won't like it."

"No, I'm also different from me in the small world, and after all," Ye Xingze seemed keen to tease this kind of thin-skinned person, he said casually, as if he just said casually, "It's amazing, what you did Rice, I've always liked it."

"You—" Xia Jingcheng stammered so rarely that he could barely hold the chopsticks in his hand, he picked up a piece of sweet and sour pork tenderloin and put it on Ye Xingze's plate, "Taste it."

Ye Xingze was in a good mood. If he wanted to describe it, it would be that Xia Jingcheng seemed to be his netizen. The two had known each other for a long time, but it was the first time they met. It felt like that.

"Speaking of which, when I first came here, my boss took me to choose a place to live. When I picked my place, the boss told me not to disturb you. I thought at that time, you are very domineering. of."

"He's talking nonsense, don't believe it." Xia Jingcheng quickly explained, with a little soup stain on his mouth, which made his cheeks white and plump, but he didn't know it, and only looked at Ye Xingze seriously.

Then Ye Xingze's face magnified in his sight.

Something soft brushed against the corner of his mouth.

Xia Jingcheng stood there in a daze, following the tissue in Ye Xingze's hand belatedly, until it fell into the trash can, then regained consciousness, opened his mouth and said nothing, and finally just lowered his head to eat.

Ye Xingze didn't expect Xia Jingcheng to be such a person.

Having been together in the small world for just a few days before, the impression left on Ye Xingze was that he was a relatively quiet and reliable image, but when he actually met him, he still looked like this.

But Ye Xingze liked them all.

By the way, he proposed to invite Xia Jingcheng to travel with him during these three days.

Three days were fast and slow, but when Ye Xingze went to work in a good mood, he received a job transfer notice.

"What does this mean?" Ye Xingze frowned, and his smile also subsided.

The boss was working in the maintenance room, and he didn't even raise his head when he heard the words, "Minister Xia personally delivered the order, you don't need to be here in the future."

Minister Xia——

The corners of Ye Xingze's mouth were completely flattened.

Xia Jingcheng was checking the desk he had bought for Ye Xingze in his office. It was placed in his office. The two of them could see each other every day, and Ye Xingze was in that department. Sooner or later, he would have new tasks. Xia Jingcheng didn't want him to do it for others. treat.

Besides, isn't this an unwritten tradition in the system?

The guardian and the protected are originally one-to-one.

There was a knock on the door, Xia Jingcheng checked his appearance again, took the gift he had prepared, and called to come in.

It was Xia Jingcheng's assistant who opened the door.

Feeling a bit at a loss, he handed the stack of things in his hand to Xia Jingcheng, "Minister, this is what Mr. Ye gave me just now."

It was a job transfer notice that had been torn into seven or eight pieces.

The thing in Xia Jingcheng's hand fell to the ground, the box rolled twice and fell apart, revealing the brand new watch inside.

Xia Jingcheng didn't bother, just took the things from the assistant's hand in a daze.

When the assistant saw his boss's appearance, he quickly lowered his eyes, not daring to look at him, and wanted to help Xia Jingcheng pick up the watch.

"No need to pick it up." I don't know if it was the assistant's illusion, Xia Jingcheng's voice seemed to be trembling slightly, "Get a notice to transfer Ye Xingze back, hurry up."

"I—" The assistant wanted to pick up the watch first, but noticed Xia Jingcheng's face, and didn't say anything, just went out as an errand.

He seemed to understand Xia Jingcheng's meaning: It doesn't matter if you don't pick up a watch that no one wears.

This was the first time Xia Jingcheng had knocked on the door of Ye Xingze's house.

However, it was the first time that I felt scared and sorry.

The door opened.

Seeing Ye Xingze's cold face, Xia Jingcheng's heart skipped a beat for a moment. Before he had time to say anything, Ye Xingze spoke first.

"Did Minister Xia come to urge me to leave?"

"What—leave?" Xia Jingcheng's face was pale, and his words were extremely difficult to pronounce.

"Have you received what I gave you?" Ye Xingze leaned against the wall with his arms folded, his eyes were calm, "I know that if you don't have a job in this place, you have to reincarnate. I will go, no Please come and remind me."

"You have a job," Xia Jingcheng almost broke his voice, handing Ye Xingze a document with trembling hands, "You have a job."

Ye Xingze didn't want to take it, but seeing Xia Jingcheng's red eyes, he still took it slowly.

It was a notice about the cancellation of Ye Xingze's transfer.

Ye Xingze paused for a moment, then smiled, but there was not much smile in his eyes, "Minister Xia has a lot of power, if you want to take it, you can take it, and if you want to return it, you can return it."

"Unfortunately, I don't want to do it anymore."

"That's not what I meant—" Xia Jingcheng was so anxious that tears were about to fall, he couldn't help blaming himself over and over again, he clearly knew what kind of person Ye Xingze was.

He knew from the beginning that Ye Xingze was as free as the wind. He once said that he was patient, but after only getting along for three or four days, he was dazzled by Ye Xingze's friendly attitude.

"Xia Jingcheng," Ye Xingze stuffed the document back into Xia Jingcheng's arms. Looking at Xia Jingcheng's appearance, he suddenly felt bored and called out his name, "If you count carefully, the two of us have known each other for a long time."

"I thought you knew me well, and you thought so yourself, didn't you?"

Xia Jingcheng nodded blankly.

"But you did it anyway."

The corner of Ye Xingze's mouth twitched, and the words he said were still as cold as ice, "You know me, so you still did this, Xia Jingcheng, do you think that what you did was a surprise to me, and I need to be grateful to you Is it?"

Xia Jingcheng was speechless.

The nails clasped his palm unconsciously, but no one would hold his hand again.

Of course Ye Xingze noticed it, but he has always been ruthless. He suppressed the urge to rub Xia Jingcheng's palms, so he was out of sight and out of mind, and was about to close the door.

This behavior fell into Xia Jingcheng's eyes, and Xia Jingcheng's heart fell to the bottom.

What he knew about Ye Xingze told him that Ye Xingze would definitely leave. Ye Xingze didn't care about death, and naturally he didn't care about life either.

"Please," Xia Jingcheng finally said, and handed over the document in his arms, "Don't go."

The door was still closed.

Xia Jingcheng finally couldn't support himself, and leaned against the wall, in rare embarrassment and tears.

Ye Xingze didn't take the documents, he didn't dare to leave, he was afraid that the next day, the building would really be empty.

The door was opened again, Ye Xingze frowned and pulled the document from Xia Jingcheng's arms, before saying, "Go home."

Xia Jingcheng's heart finally hung on a dead tree and stopped falling.

Not wanting to make Ye Xingze angry again, he walked home step by step.

The moment he entered the door, the sky suddenly thundered, followed by heavy rain.

Everything here is made up of data, and the weather system also simulates the human world. The only difference is that the weather forecast here is always very accurate.

Ye Xingze rushed him back - was he afraid that he would get caught in the rain?

Ye Xingze himself didn't know either.

He only knew that although he was angry, he did not ignore the unbearable feeling in his heart.

I don't know if this intolerance is aimed at Xia Jingcheng, or at the task object that I am about to guard.

But he always followed his heart.

And he was really angry.

But being angry itself also means caring for Xia Jingcheng.

Whatever it is, look at Xia Jingcheng, and also look at himself in the future, what is he thinking.

Ye Xingze tore open the document and clicked his tongue.

-

Xia Jingcheng probably had a lot of power. Even if Ye Xingze returned to his original position, he never received a new job.

But Ye Xingze wasn't hypocritical to that point, he was happy without a job.

When it was time to get off work, Ye Xingze put on his coat and walked out of the department door.

From a distance, you can see a person standing in front of you.

Ye Xingze originally wanted to avoid it.

"Isn't that Minister Xia? Why are you standing there alone?"

"You weren't here two days ago, I didn't hear that, Minister Xia went to the treatment department and came out."

"I know this, so what's wrong?"

"You can't even figure it out. Minister Xia was rejected by his healer. It was said that there was a blind date department over there, but Minister Xia failed in the blind date."

"No way, Minister Xia's request will still be rejected?"

Xia Jingcheng turned a deaf ear to these discussions, and when he saw Ye Xingze coming out, he didn't step forward, but just followed behind silently.

He noticed that Ye Xingze in front of him stood still.

Turn around and walk towards him.

Are you unwilling to follow yourself?

Xia Jingcheng pinched the palm of his hand, the finger that was pinched by the door this morning still hurt a little, but Xia Jingcheng didn't care.

Ye Xingze got closer and closer, Xia Jingcheng wanted to back up, but his wrist was grabbed, Xia Jingcheng stared at the hand on his wrist in a daze, and heard Ye Xingze's impatient voice, "Go or not?"

"Walk."

Ye Xingze dragged Xia Jingcheng away, the intimacy of the movements interrupted the gossip mentality of the boring people.

"Why don't you talk?" Ye Xingze asked after walking around a corner, letting go of Xia Jingcheng's wrist.

He didn't seem to care about Xia Jingcheng's answer, and after letting go of his hand, he was about to leave.

"I was wrong." Xia Jingcheng reacted quickly and grabbed Ye Xingze back. Ignoring the eyes of people passing by around the corner, he stepped forward and hugged Ye Xingze's waist from behind.

His cheeks were also buried in Ye Xingze's coat.

"Release." Ye Xingze paused, he could feel the head trembling slightly on his back, Xia Jingcheng was crying.

Xia Jingcheng hugged him a little tighter, no longer suppressing his crying, trembling slightly, "Give me one more chance."

"I really knew I was wrong."

Ye Xingze covered the hands around his waist with both hands, paused for a moment, and then opened them again.

He took out the ointment from his pocket, stuffed it into Xia Jingcheng's hand, and left.

The next day, Ye Xingze received a dessert as usual, but he didn't accept it as usual.

When he arrived at the department, he was informed that Ye Xingze had been promoted. It was Ye Xingze who exchanged his wish after completing the task. The position he had set his sights on from the very beginning. Regarding the evaluation of some new small worlds, more money and less work. Go and have fun. , Come back and report any bugs in the small world that need to be fixed, which is in line with his expectations.

At the same time with this job, there is also an assistant.

"Why are you here?" Ye Xingze asked in surprise, looking at Xia Jingcheng who was handing him a Coke.

"You are reluctant to part with me, so I came to find you, and I will be your assistant." Xia Jingcheng said softly.

"..." Ye Xingze was poked in the heart, and rarely knew what to say, and finally said, "The salary of the assistant is more than that of the minister? Are you stupid?"

"The assistant's salary is not as high as the minister's, but you pay the assistant's salary." Xia Jingcheng spoke calmly, but his heart was flustered. He was betting, "Do you want to support me?"

There was silence in the office.

Xia Jingcheng's heartbeat also slowly slowed down.

Waiting for Ye Xingze's sentencing.

"..." Ye Xingze took a sip of Coke, sat on the chair, looked up at the assistant in front of him, "Can I afford it?"

"Yes." The permission in Ye Xingze's words almost made Xia Jingcheng's eyes blush.

"Okay, this is the end of this matter," Ye Xingze laughed, and waved his hand for Xia Jingcheng's naive but sincere apology, "Go back to be your minister, I don't intend to let you because of I demeaned myself and gave up my career.”

"I didn't give up." Xia Jingcheng blinked, moving very slowly, "I'm still a minister, and I'll be your assistant. My salary as a minister will be charged to your card, and you will pay me the assistant's salary."

"..." Ye Xingze didn't know what to say.

But he knew that he was once again poked by Xia Jingcheng's love.

Only then did I realize that the anger in my heart had also dissipated.

"I'm not interested in your salary," Ye Xingze said, "You should take it yourself."

Xia Jingcheng took a deep breath, but his eyes were still red inevitably.

It doesn't matter, there are other ways.

Seeing Xia Jingcheng's frustrated look, Ye Xingze frowned, "I want to eat apple pie tonight."

Xia Jingcheng raised his head abruptly, stared blankly at Ye Xingze, and after a while, his voice was broken and distorted, "Okay."

"And grape-flavored ice cream."

"it is good."

"Don't make me angry again in the future, and everything must be approved by me."

"it is good."

I will not forget.