Ghost World Office

Tao Ye's heart softened, he frowned, and muttered softly:

"I don't want to eat barbecue, just eat these."

Lu Yi raised his head from the phone screen suspiciously, and fixed his dark eyes on Tao Ye's.

Uncomfortable being stared at by Lu Yi, Tao Ye looked away, picked up the chopsticks in front of him, picked up a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs and stuffed it into his mouth, while chewing, motioned Lu Yi to sit down quickly.

Only then did Lu Yi feel relieved and sat down in his seat.

After Liao Zhi turned off the ventilation fan in the kitchen, he also came to the dining table and sat down.

"Let's have one, happy new year." Liao Zhi raised his glass and signaled to the three of them.

Lu Yi pushed a cup containing grape soda in front of Tao Ye. Tao Ye pursed his lips in dissatisfaction and protested loudly:

"I'm an adult! Adults should have the right to drink!"

It is reasonable for Lu Yi to worry about Tao Ye's drinking.

In his previous life, Tao Ye was allergic to alcohol, but because he belonged to the killer organization, he had to participate in social activities, and he would often drink so much that his face would turn red, and he would retch beside the toilet in the basement.

Looking at Tao Ye who was vomiting green bile, Lu Yi only felt regretful.But now recalling that scene, Lu Yi felt a little more distressed.

In the end, Lu Yi still didn't hold back Tao Ye, and poured two or three mouthfuls for Tao Ye, so that Tao Ye could get over his alcoholism in New Year's Eve.

The New Year's Eve dinner was surprisingly peaceful. Although the atmosphere did not reach the level of harmony, Tao Ye and Liao Zhi got along fairly well.

After eating, Liao Zhi turned on the TV and watched the Spring Festival Gala on the sofa.

Lu Yize was busy clearing up the dishes on the dining table.

When he put the last bowl into the dishwasher, adjusted the proportion of dishwashing powder, and turned on the working button of the dishwasher, he suddenly discovered——

Tao Ye was gone.

"Did you see Tao Ye?" Lu Yi wiped his hands on the apron, took off the apron, and hung it on the hook in the kitchen.

Liao Zhi was holding a hawthorn stick in his mouth, staring intently at the program on the TV screen, and lazily replied:

"Just slipped away after eating."

Lu Yi's expression changed slightly, he hurried to the dining table and picked up his mobile phone, ready to make a call to Tao Ye, but Liao Zhi stopped him.

"Stop hitting, don't you know why he is unhappy?"

Lu Yi's finger, which was about to press the dial button, froze and stopped at the top of the screen.He raised his eyes to look at Liao Zhi, Liao Zhi still looked indifferent, watching TV on the sofa.

"Why?" Lu Yi frowned slightly, not knowing what Liao Zhi meant by that.

"Xiaoye is not happy because I am here. He thinks I stole you away and is jealous."

After Liao Zhi finished eating a hawthorn stick, he reached out to take a piece of dried mango from the fruit plate, and gnawed on it.

Recently, Lu Yi really felt that Tao Ye and Liao Zhi got along well, but he never thought about being jealous.

In Lu Yi's perception, Liao Zhi was his partner for many years, so he never thought that Tao Ye would be jealous of Liao Zhi.

"so what should I do?"

Holding the mobile phone, Lu Yi walked up to Liao Zhi, blocked Liao Zhi's view of watching TV, and asked Liao Zhi a serious question.

Liao Zhi impatiently moved to one side, stared at the TV and continued to watch, and said slowly:

"Anyway, you can't explain our relationship to Xiaoye for a while, so you can only accept it. Hey! Love makes people dizzy, isn't it the old way?"

A rare uneasy expression appeared on Lu Yi's face. He put his phone down on the sofa and retorted with nonsensical rhetorical questions:

"what is love?"

Only then did Liao Zhi shift his attention from watching TV to Lu Yi, and replied with a smile:

"This is love."

……

After dinner, Tao Ye sneaked out of the apartment while Lu Yi was not paying attention.

In the elevator, he pressed the button to go to the 60th floor, and sent a message to Mai Xiaobo by the way:

[I'm passing, open the door. 】

Mai Xiaobo replied in seconds:

[Okay, Brother Ye. 】

The elevator door opened on the 60th floor. Tao Ye stepped out of the elevator and found that the structure of each floor of this apartment was different.

There are only two households on the 60th floor, and Mai Xiaobo's is the household on the left of the elevator door.

With a bang, Mai Xiaobo pushed open the heavy door of his house, and poked a head out from the door:

"here!"

Tao Ye unceremoniously followed Mai Xiaobo into his house, changed into his slippers, and the two went straight to Mai Xiaobo's e-sports-themed study.

Chen Xiang's financial resources are considered strong, and the decoration of Mai Xiaobo's house is generally Chinese retro style.To Tao Ye's surprise, Mai Xiaobo's e-sports room was well-decorated——

A silver-white round computer table is placed horizontally in the center of the room, and there are two super large curved monitors standing on it. The keyboard and mouse in front of the monitors are shining with flowing colored light.

"sure……"

Tao Ye sighed and looked around.

The walls in the room are hung with geometric LED light strips, which are colorful and very cyberpunk.

Mai Xiaobo smiled triumphantly, turned around and took out two cans of Coke from the small refrigerator by the door, put them on the table, and asked Tao Ye to get on the machine.

"You made this place like this, your mother won't scold you?"

While logging into the game account, Tao Ye opened the aluminum can and took a big gulp of Coke.

In Tao Ye's impression, Chen Xiang is a shrewd and traditional strong woman.It can be seen from her acting style and external decoration.

So Tao Ye really didn't expect that Chen Xiang, who had always been rough and strict with Mai Xiaobo, would allow such a room specially made for games to exist in his home.

Since he went to Tao Ye's dormitory to apologize that day, Mai Xiaobo has untied the knot in his heart towards Tao Ye, and even has a bit of admiration for Tao Ye in his heart.So he didn't shy away from anything, and said to Tao Ye:

"You saw my mother beating me before, and you thought my mother was very cruel to me."

Tao Ye was noncommittal, waiting for Mai Xiaobo to continue.

Mai Xiaobo paused, sent a friend request to Tao Ye on the game interface, and continued:

"Actually, that's not the case. My mother didn't have much time to accompany me since I was a child, so maybe it's because of guilt... She is like two people. Sometimes she is very irritable, but sometimes she is responsive to my requests."

After agreeing to Mai Xiaobo's friend request, Tao Ye pulled Mai Xiaobo into his game room and started matching, but did not continue on this topic.

The speed of game matching on New Year's Eve was unexpectedly fast, and the two quickly entered the canyon and started a hearty game competition.

Mai Xiaobo's game level is surprisingly good, Tao Ye's game experience is very good after one night.Even Tao Ye, who was about to fall to the rank of black iron, was stabilized by Mai Xiaobo's superb skills, and even got a wave of points.

The fly in the ointment is that Mai Xiaobo and Tao Ye have the same virtues, and they both like to swear when they are playing games. Mai Xiaobo's voice is louder than Tao Ye's, and Tao Ye's brain hurts from the noise.

The hour hand of the industrial-style wall clock on the wall slowly pointed to twelve o'clock, and the two ended the last game as winners.

Tao Ye leaned back on the back of the gaming chair and shouted happily:

"Good fight! Brother Mai!"

When Mai Xiaobo heard Tao Ye call himself "Brother Mai", he was a little at a loss for a moment, and just about to say something, he was amused by Tao Ye's next words.

"Because of you, I have to quit the habit of bad mouth."

Mai Xiaobo laughed awkwardly, and said with confidence: "Those outrageous teammates deserve to be scolded."

Tao Ye had never met a few people who were justified in cursing others, but this person was Mai Xiaobo, so things were much more reasonable.Tao Ye was very satisfied with this.Although Mai Xiaobo has many flaws in character, Tao Ye still likes his character.

The New Year's Eve dinner was not too full, and Tao Ye's stomach suddenly growled.Touching his deflated stomach, Tao Ye also said to Mai Xiaobo very confidently:

"Order a takeaway, I'm hungry."

Mai Xiaobo already regarded Tao Ye as his brother, and when he heard that Tao Ye was hungry, without further ado, he took out his cell phone and called the restaurant in Chengkong Square.

On New Year's Eve, there are no ordinary takeaway shops open.

As the most upscale community in S City, Chengkong Plaza has its own 24-hour restaurant and is equipped with delivery service.In addition to the high price, the dishes in this restaurant can be said to have no shortcomings at all.

Mai Xiaobo ordered two servings of fried rice with shrimps and four side dishes, and two servings of West Lake Beef Soup, and ordered the service staff on the phone:

"Hurry up, I'm starving. I'll complain if I don't come in 10 minutes."

When the service staff heard the word complaint, they hurriedly said:

"Okay, okay, we'll send it to you right away."

Before the service staff finished speaking, Mai Xiaobo hung up the phone. This behavior was indeed impolite, and it was indeed his Mai Xiaobo's usual style.

While waiting for the food to be delivered, Tao Ye picked up the phone that had been turned on silently, and found that Lu Yi had sent him a dozen messages:

[When I saw the reply, I was very worried. 】

【Where are you? 】

[Do you need me to pick you up? 】

……

[It's snowing outside, I don't know if you have an umbrella, I'm worried. 】

Seeing the news from Lu Yi, Tao Ye's heart trembled, and a strong sense of guilt welled up in his heart.

After reading Lu Yi's last message, Tao Ye turned his head and looked out the window. It was snowing, and this year it snowed very frequently.

While thinking about how to return Yi's news, while scratching his forehead with his index finger, Tao Ye was holding the phone, in a dilemma.

"Xiao Bo, if you sneaked out and didn't tell your mother, your mother sent you more than a dozen text messages, how would you reply?"

Mai Xiaobo replied without knowing why:

"Most of the time, my mother had no idea what I was doing."

Tao Ye irritatedly threw the phone on the table, lit a cigarette, took a deep puff, and said heavily:

"I order you to put yourself in my shoes, what should I do if this happens to me?"

Mai Xiaobo also lit a cigarette and analyzed it seriously:

"First of all, you have to have a mother."

Tao Ye choked on a puff of smoke, coughed violently, finally stopped coughing, he gave Mai Xiaobo a hard look:

"speak politely."

Obviously he, Tao Ye, is the one who is usually yin and yang, but now his old enemy, yin and yang, has come to him, it's abominable.

The author says:

Mai Xiaobo will be kind to those who are good to him, but he will never be able to clean up the school bullying.