Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66 - The Chaotic Opening Ceremony
Chapter 67 - Winner I
Chapter 68 - Winner Ii
Chapter 69 - Winner Iii
Chapter 70 - Designing Objects Other Than Jewelry
Chapter 71 - Needless Doubt
Chapter 72 - The Miserable Si
Chapter 73 - Moonlit Manacles
Chapter 74 - Jewelry Case
Chapter 75 - To Be A Self-Aware Hamster
Chapter 76 - The Correct Way To Use ‘A Man Of His Words’
Chapter 77 - A Special Way Of Confessing
Chapter 78 - Insomnia Is Also Contagious
Chapter 79 - The End And The Sequel
Chapter 80 - Weather Change
Chapter 81 - What It Was Like Having Split Personalities
Chapter 82 - An Unexpected Need To Break-Up
Chapter 83 - It Would Be Great If He Could Be Exposed Immediately
Chapter 84 - But It Would Be Awesome
Chapter 85 - Nannan’S Whispers (Ii)
Chapter 86 - Nannan’S Whispers (Iii)
Chapter 87 - Heart Lock
Chapter 88 - The Modelling Hamster
Chapter 89
Chapter 90 - What Goes Around Comes Around
Chapter 91 - It Was Over Just Like That
Chapter 92 - En Route
Chapter 93 - Revisiting Four Seasons Manor
Chapter 94 - How Misunderstandings Are Created
Chapter 95 - Who’S Paying For It?
Chapter 96 - Trump Card
Chapter 97 - Being Taken Advantage Of As Usual
Chapter 98 - Hacked
Chapter 99 - The Strongest Public Relations Team
Chapter 100 - A Tie-Break In Twelve Hours
Chapter 101 - Chairman Yan Plays A Game
Chapter 102 - The Wish Of A Lifetime
Chapter 103 - One Week
Chapter 104 - Battling Wits And Courage For Nothing
Chapter 105 - To Those Who Cannot Take Advice
Chapter 106 - Before Lunar New Year
Chapter 107 - There Are No What Ifs
Chapter 108 - How To Say Goodbye
Chapter 109
Chapter 110 - Omen
Chapter 111 - New Year’S Worries
Chapter 112 - New Car
Chapter 113 - Making Glutinous Rice Balls
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116 - The Truth Will Still Lead To Death
Chapter 117 - Mastermind
Chapter 118 - More Troubles Ensues
Chapter 119 - It Could Not Get Any Worse
Chapter 120
Chapter 121 - The Meeting Of The White Cat And Hamster I
Chapter 122 - The Meeting Of The White Cat And Hamster Ii
Chapter 123 - Discovering The Mystery Of Life
Chapter 124 - Panic
Chapter 125 - Forget It Then
Chapter 126 - (Real) Exposed
Chapter 127 - Twists And Turns I
Chapter 128 - Twists And Turns Ii
Chapter 129 - Twists And Turns Iii
Chapter 130 - The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Chapter 131 - Wrapped In Happiness
Chapter 132 - Do You Want To Become A Flaw?
Chapter 133
Chapter 134 - Come To Yl
Chapter 135 - “Lifetime” Contract
Chapter 136 - The Hideously Adorable Design
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139 - The Little Tail That Was Forgotten
Chapter 140 - What Could Happen In Two Weeks
Chapter 141 - The Smitten Scoundrel Who Forgot His Friends
Chapter 142 - The Unusual Faye
Chapter 143 - Earth Day
Chapter 144 - First Attempt At Drunk Play
Chapter 145 - So It’S Okay
Chapter 146 - The World Really Is Small
Chapter 147 - The Genius’ Shortcomings
Chapter 148 - It’S Not A Confession
Chapter 149 - An Unexpected Acquaintance
Chapter 150 - Something Feels Wrong
Chapter 151 - The Man Called Yan Jin
Chapter 152 - The Ups And Downs Of The Past Two Months
Chapter 153 - Discussion
Chapter 154
Chapter 155 - Settling In
Chapter 156 - : I Already Understand
Chapter 157 - Bad Friends
Chapter 158 - The Evolved Incapable Ruler
Chapter 159 - Chairman Yan’S Mark
Chapter 160 - Holding One’S Head High
Chapter 161 - Assets That Could Not Be Given
Chapter 162 - The Person He Should Have Thanked
Chapter 163 - At Every Step
Chapter 164 - About His Elders
Chapter 165 - Improvement
Chapter 166 - Nan Wei Starts His Job
Chapter 167 - The Person In Control I
Chapter 168 - The Person In Control Ii
Chapter 169 - The Person In Control Iii
Chapter 170 - The Aftermath Of The Dismissal
Chapter 171 - The Price Of A Bowl Of Noodles
Chapter 172 - Business Trip
Chapter 173 - A Storm Approaches
Chapter 174 - Explosive News
Chapter 175 - Sense Of Security
Chapter 176 - Outside The Cubicle
Chapter 177.1 - Retribution (I)
Chapter 178 - Retribution (Ii)
Chapter 179 - Retribution (Iii)
Chapter 180 - An Unexpected Development
Chapter 181 - A Powerful Comeback (I)
Chapter 182 - A Powerful Comeback (Ii)
Chapter 183 - A Powerful Comeback (Iii)
Chapter 184 - Cancelling The Engagement And Coming Out Of The Closet
Chapter 185 - An Inescapable Past (I)
Chapter 186 - An Inescapable Past (Ii)
Chapter 187 - An Inescapable Past (Iii)
Chapter 188 - Chasing Memories
Chapter 189 - From Triumph To Sorrow (I)
Chapter 190 - From Triumph To Sorrow (Ii)
Chapter 191 - From Triumph To Sorrow (Iii)
Chapter 192 - An Unprofessional Abduction
Chapter 193 - Escape
Chapter 194 - Surveillance
Chapter 195 - Planned And Unplanned
Chapter 196 - Alice’S Insanity (I)
Chapter 197 - Alice’S Insanity (Ii)
Chapter 198 - Alice’S Insanity (Iii)
Chapter 199 - The Result Of Overlooking The News
Chapter 200 - Marriage And Honeymoon
Chapter 201 - He’Ll Be Back
Chapter 202 - The Final Week
Chapter 203 - Problems Exposed And An Appeal
Chapter 204 - Emergence Of The Dead
Chapter 205 - Post-Wedding Realizations
Chapter 206 - Chess (I)
Chapter 207 - Chess (Ii)
Chapter 208 - Chess (Iii)
Chapter 209 - Seeing Is Believing
Chapter 210 - Not Taking Visitors
Chapter 211 - Summer Springs Third Clinic
Chapter 212 - Will Never Bloom Again
Chapter 213 - Blood Type Confusion
Chapter 214 - The Gene Project
Chapter 215 - External Help
Chapter 216 - Hard To Say (I)
Chapter 217 - Hard To Say (Ii)
Chapter 218 - Hard To Say (Iii)
Chapter 219 - The Rotten Family
Chapter 220 - Finally, The End
Chapter 221 - The Life That Could Be Saved
Chapter 222 - The Cat Clan (I)
Chapter 223 - The Cat Clan (Ii)
Chapter 224(End) - Epilogue
Categories Genre: All, Completed, Romance, Shounen Ai, Slice of Life Status: Completed ______
Total Chapters in book: 224
Estimated words: 535798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2679(@200wpm)___ 2143(@250wpm)___ 1786(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 535798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2679(@200wpm)___ 2143(@250wpm)___ 1786(@300wpm)
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Chapter 87: Heart Lock
Xiao Yu was very anxious.
He ran back and forth on the coffee table, hoping to quickly digest the walnuts in his stomach.
He understood very well that his actions were unlikely to deceive Yan Jin.
Even if he was able to digest the walnuts in his stomach, this did not change the fact that he finished a week’s worth of snacks in one day. Yan Jin was not stupid. He would be able to tell from the size of Xiao Yu’s tummy that Xiao Yu had been up to no good.
This logic was very clear, but Xiao Yu was unable to just sit there and do nothing.
Was there really no way to fool Yan Jin?
Xiao Yu continued to be mired in his anxiety.
Xiao Yu really didn’t know how time could pass by so quickly. It felt like only a second ago when he discovered he had brought disaster upon himself. One second later, he could hear the sound of the door lock being disengaged. Then, the door was opened.
Squeakkk——
The moment Yan Jin entered the doorway, he could hear a hamster’s miserable cry. He quickly put down what he had in his arms and rushed into the living room.
“Fishy? What is it?”
Xiao Yu breathlessly squeaked twice.
“Squeak squeak.”
Nothing’s wrong.
Yan Jin observed the healthy Xiao Yu’s averted eyes. Then he asked as he let out a sigh of relief: “What did you do?”
Xiao Yu only managed to retreat a couple steps back before a hand reached out to grab him.
Yan Jin randomly pinched at him twice, and even before Yan Jin could feel that something wasn’t right, Xiao Yu couldn’t resist letting out a burp.
“Oh, did you eat too much again?”
“Squeak.”
A little bit.
Yan Jin raised an eyebrow, then walked over to Xiao Yu’s snack bowl.
In the past, all of Xiao Yu’s food and snacks were kept in the food bowl on the second floor of his cage. A few changes were made since Xiao Yu’s identity was revealed. The hamster food still appeared in his cage, but he obtained two new snack bowls with nine partitions. One was on Yan Jin’s desk and the other was on the coffee table in the living room.
Each week, Yan Jin would fill those bowls up once. No matter how Xiao Yu decided to split his portions, that was the amount he had for the week. If he finished them too fast, then he could only be good and eat hamster food for the remaining days…… Perhaps this was Chairman Yan’s plot to get him to act cute in order to earn more snacks.
The conditions might not look too bad, but Xiao Yu, who had once been tricked, knew that it wasn’t that simple.
Since Xiao Yu ate so many snacks in one day, it was only a small consequence to not have any snacks for the remainder of the week. The big problem was that Yan Jin would use this as a reason to force him to run on the exercise wheel for a couple of hours. Saying that it was to help with digestion was a nice way of putting it, but the video recorder that was used to film this whole process completely destroyed the persuasiveness of his righteous statement.
“Squeakk!” Xiao Yu tried to break free from Yan Jin’s grasp. It was a pity that his strength felt more like an ant trying to shake a tree, so it was common sense for him to be unable to break free. The only way he could possible get away would be because Yan Jin couldn’t bear to crush him to death.
In the end, Xiao Yu successfully escaped.
Xiao Yu’s little body, which was no bigger than Yan Jin’s palm, was finally able to crawl out of his hand with much difficulty. His two hind legs wobbled as he stood on the webbing between Yan Jin’s thumb and index finger.
“Okay, stop.” Yan Jin switched to using two hands to hold Xiao Yu: “This time you don’t have to run on the exercise wheel.”
“Squeakk?”
Really?
Xiao Yu tilted his head as he studied Yan Jin’s untrustworthy looking face. His gaze was filled with suspicion.
Yan Jin reached out a hand to pet Xiao Yu’s little head and did not expect a paw to suddenly grab his thumb.
Xiao Yu stood on Yan Jin’s left hand, desperately holding onto Yan Jin’s right thumb, then snuggled his little head against it.
“Squeakk.”
You need to keep your promise.
Yan Jin couldn’t help but laugh: “You wily thing. What else can you do besides acting cute?”
“Squeak.”
I can also give you a muwah.
Xiao Yu was prepared to do as he said and he moved toward Yan Jin’s finger.
Who knew that Yan Jin would suddenly pull his right hand away? Xiao Yu couldn’t brake in time, and his momentum caused his whole hamster body to spring forward. Then, his unique three parted lips, which belonged to the rodent species, crashed into something soft.
This contact could not have lasted for more than one second, but to Xiao Yu, that one second was an eternity.
It lasted long enough for him to clearly see the playfulness in Yan Jin’s eyes as he stared down at Xiao Yu. Yan Jin’s long eyelashes, which casted an indistinct shadow, made his heart beat unsteadily.
The room instantly descended into stillness.
Yan Jin was the first to speak: “Alright, seeing as Fishy is being this forward, I’ll forgive you this time.”
Those words caused Xiao Yu, who was already red from embarrassment, to explode into a hedgehog.
“Squeakkk!”
That was a mistake. A mistake!
Yan Jin reached out a finger and gently pressed it against Xiao Yu’s three parted lips, which instantly caused Xiao Yu to shut his mouth.
Xiao Yu could still feel the warmth on his lips. Now that Yan Jin placed his finger there, instead of the warmth fading with time, the temperature actually started to increase.
Dizzy and dazzled by the heat, Xiao Yu only saw Yan Jin’s mouth open and close, as if he was talking. However, Xiao Yu could not hear he said clearly. His eyes were completely captured by those sexy thin lips…… those lips that he just had a close encounter with.
Yan Jin’s deep and magnetic voice wound around his ears and in front of him was the handsome face that looked perfect from every angle. His heart started to beat faster, pounding like it was going to fly out of his chest.
“Fishy, do you agree?” Yan Jin asked.
Xiao Yu, who had not heard a single word, stupidly nodded his head.
Yan Jin hadn’t expected Xiao Yu to agree so smoothly without even bringing up any conditions. He even asked again to make sure: “You really agree to go?”
“Squeak.”
Ten minutes later. The timing was just right.
Seated in Yan Jin’s car and holding a manuscript in his hand, Xiao Yu silently wondered.
What in the world had he just agreed to do?
……
The release of
Heart Lock
caused a big sensation.
“The stunning sequel to the Autumn Release Conference”; “A Mysterious Designer original”; “A work from the same series as
Moonlit Manacle
”. These three points alone were able to attract many people’s attention. Not to mention,
Heart Lock
really was worth all the praise. While
Moonlit Manacles
gave people a taboo feeling like the longing felt by separated lovers,
Heart lock
told the romantic love story of a sweet and wholesome love of a lifetime.
Although both were a pair of couple rings,
Heart Lock
was more in line with the aesthetics of the masses than
Moonlit Manacles
.
It was a common heart shaped ring, but under the hands of an elite designer— every line of etching, every bend, and every color selected came together to become a uniquely ingenious creation.
Finally, a thin chain linked the two rings together.
The
Heart Lock
couple rings could not be pulled apart. Only when the lovers held hands with their ten fingers intertwined could the rings be worn.
The moment this unusual ring was released, it attracted a lot of attention from the younger generation. Even without the effect of the Autumn Release Conference, the conceptual design of
Heart Lock
could probably attract a huge audience all by itself.
From the perspective of many industry insiders, if they were to say that there were some design elements of
Moonlit Manacles
that were immature, then
Heart Lock
was indisputably a masterpiece.
This astonishing release sounded the battle horn for YL’s counterattack.
After the Autumn Release Conference, YL had clearly engaged SI in battle.
In the past, SI and YL both maintained an amiable appearance as they developed their respective enterprises. Only people with sharp eyes could tell that these two giants were enemies that privately fought one another.
However, once the Autumn Release Conference was over, the competition between the two did not require sharp eyes to discern. As long as a person had eyes, they would be able to see how SI and YL fought as if one could not live unless the other died.
In the past, YL had an attitude of avoidance. This time, they unexpectedly came out with an abnormally strong offense. YL faced the opposition without any concessions and fought to the bitter end. But one could not rely solely on an imposing manner to gain victory on the open market, and SI’s response gave YL a hard time— SI continuously released several new items, all of which were of high quality, which immediately pulled many customers back into their stores.
Of course, YL could also copy what SI did and endlessly release new items. The problem was, YL did not have an elite-class designer holding down the fort. If they wanted to complete a large amount of designs in a short period, it would be hard to guarantee the same high product quality as SI. That was why YL had no choice but to retreat from the competition with SI on the quantity of their merchandize.
Currently, the effects of the Autumn Release Conference had almost faded away and everyone could see that YL was slowly losing ground. Just as the people within the industry were wondering what YL’s next move would be,
Heart Lock
was released.
At first, the label on
Heart Lock
led many to mistakenly believe that YL was trying to milk the Autumn Release Conference. Like relighting the remnants of charcoal in a fireplace. That was why, in the beginning, the people within the industry looked at
Heart Lock
with the attitude of a passive audience. None of them thought that this tiny amount of heat could help YL turn the tide in this harsh winter.
Only when
Heart Lock
was unveiled before their eyes did they realize their mistake.
This was not some so-called leftover charcoal; this was new firewood. It was the fuel that allowed the fire to blaze!
The media, which had originally lost interest, immediately popped their heads out. Topics relating to the mysterious designer and the news of his new design instantly engulfed various internet platforms. Even the newspaper companies had to work overtime to add this story into tomorrow’s paper. Undoubtedly, this mysterious designer, who had never even shown their face, would dominate the headlines during this period.
However, as an interview subject, the mysterious designer gave the reporters a headache. Just how were they supposed to go about looking for someone whose appearance, means of communication, and even gender was unknown? With no other way, they stood outside of YL’s doors for a long time but were unable to catch a glimpse of who they were looking for. Instead, they randomly stopped an YL employee to question, but the employee had an even tougher time.
“In your eyes, how would you describe the mysterious designer as a person?”
“I-I’ve never even seen him before……”
Soon, some of the reporters thought to corner the chairman of YL to ask, but the experienced old-timers told the younger reporters to forget about it.
Yan Jin was S City’s most outstanding young businessman, rich and powerful. With his top notch appearance and his identity as a CEO at the age of twenty eight, he was a hot topic all on his own. Compared to others, he was well versed in how to speak to reporters and was very skilled at avoiding interviews. If it wasn’t Yan Jin himself who wanted a press conference, it would be completely impossible for them to reach him.
……
In contrast to the jubilant YL, at this time, SI had fallen into the dire straits the media had previously predicted for YL——
It was as if they were in the middle of a severe winter snowstorm. Every step was hard to take and the road ahead was thoroughly obscured.
And adding more snow on top of the frost, their chief designer fell apart.
Heart Lock was clearly his work. How was it possible for YL to release it first?
However, nobody was willing to listen to his excuses. The furious Zhou Jinrong ruthlessly scolded the chief designer at an employee conference and even decreased Xiao Yu’s year-end bonus by a third.
Total Chapters in book: 224
Estimated words: 535798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2679(@200wpm)___ 2143(@250wpm)___ 1786(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 535798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2679(@200wpm)___ 2143(@250wpm)___ 1786(@300wpm)
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