evenly matched

"What did I say?" Yuan Xiao pressed his palm below Zhan Yang's waistline under the cover of the tablecloth, "I prefer to accompany you."

Zhan Yang glanced at him, "What's going on in your mind?"

"Don't you tell me about the fight again?" Yuan Xiao looked at Zhan Yang in surprise.

"...If you really think so, please take your hands off of me, so that it will be convincing!"

Yuan Xiao smirked, and after doing a few sets of stretching exercises with his fingers, he retracted them unsatisfactorily, "It's really upturned..." He salivated, and his obscene expression made Zhan Yang feel like he was being molested.

"Hmm, cough!" A sudden voice interrupted the conversation between the two, and Yue Bin stood behind them with an embarrassed expression on his face.

Yuan Xiao smiled, "Yo, why are you back again?"

Yue Bin stared at Yuan Xiao's extremely flat face with resentment, he couldn't figure out why Zhan Yang would allow such a scoundrel to stay by his side!

However, since he is here, he still wants to speak out: "I heard that you are very good at martial arts? Do you have time for a competition?"

Yuan Xiao sized him up with interest, but in the end he didn't express his opinion, and turned to look at Zhan Yang, "You have to tell my boss about this, private fights are not allowed."

Yue Bin's face turned even darker, and his serious agreement was said to be a fight!What did Yuan Xiao have in mind?

"Let's see the opportunity, let's talk about it when it's suitable." Zhan Yang dismissed Yue Bin indifferently.

And Yue Bin is not attached to the result at the moment, he just wants to get away from that ruffian Yuan Xiao as soon as possible!

At the reception tonight, there was only one Gu Debing who could arouse Yuan Xiao's interest. After they left, Yuan Xiao was so bored that he almost fell asleep.

After finally surviving until they could go home, they were told by Zhan Yang that they would take a flight back in the middle of the night.

In the early morning of the next day, Yuan Xiao yawned and followed Zhan Yang back to the villa on Tuodong Road. When he entered the door, he saw the smiling housekeeper.

"Butler, do you miss me?" Yuan Xiao stretched out his arms to embrace the butler who was two heads shorter than him.

"Hehehe, Mr. Yuan, you've worked hard all the way!" The butler pushed him away while speaking, leaned in front of Zhan Yang attentively, looked him up and down carefully, and said softly, "Mr. Zhan has worked hard."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Xiao exclaimed exaggeratedly from the side: "Housekeeper, you are too biased, so you only care about Zhan Yang!"

"No way, I treat everyone the same!" The butler refused to admit it, and happily returned to the house with Zhan Yang's luggage.

Yuan Xiao pouted unhappily, picked up the luggage by himself, and walked back slowly.

I thought that I would have more time to rest when I went home.But the reality is just the opposite, Zhan Yang is busy with socializing, and all management matters fall on Yuan Xiao.

Only then did he know how difficult it was for Ade at that time. His position was Zhan Yang's assistant at best, and his butler at worst!

No matter who the brothers got into a fight with, owed money but didn't pay it back, or even two brothers quarreled, he would take care of it.

After a week, Yuan Xiao felt that he was about to become the aunt of the neighborhood committee!

On this day, after finally being able to go home early with nothing to worry about, when he entered the house, he found that Zhan Yang was not there!

"Butler, butler!" Yuan Xiao slumped on the sofa, raised his head and called out to the butler.

The housekeeper raised his head from the kitchen, "What orders does Mr. Yuan have?"

"Where did Zhan Yang go?"

"Mr. Zhan accompanied the Minister and the others to investigate, and won't be back for dinner."

"Oh……"

Yuan Xiao dragged his voice to answer, he didn't know whether he was disappointed or happy.

It happened that Zhan Yang was not around when he was at home, so he had more time to go to the study to collect evidence, or he could contact Chen Siyan to exchange the latest news with him.

However, the body did not listen to the instructions of the brain, as if paralyzed, refusing to move on the sofa.

Yuan Xiao turned over lazily, and stared at the huge cumulonimbus cloud in the sky through the floor-to-ceiling windows, watching it constantly changing colors and shapes, when suddenly, raindrops fell down with crackles.

"Oh!" the butler ran out patting his thighs, looking at the increasing rain, and muttering to himself, "What should we do? Mr. Zhan didn't bring an umbrella, and Li Long didn't go either..."

Yuan Xiao's ears were sharp, and he heard it.Lifting his upper body from the sofa, "Then how did he get there?"

"The car arranged by others, I wonder if it can take care of Mr. Zhan?"

Yuan Xiao suddenly became interested, "I'll go and have a look! Does the butler know the location?"

This heavy rain came at an inopportune time. Zhan Yang on the construction site was thoroughly drenched and his legs were covered in mud.

"Mr. Zhan, I'm really sorry. It's because we didn't prepare well." The secretary of the minister has apologized for the third time. No matter how upset Zhan Yang is, he won't be able to compete with a small employee.

"It's okay, it's just raining."

"Please wait a little longer, the car will be here soon."

Zhan Yang nodded.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and it was like fog, making the sight unclear.

Not far away, a car light came on, and Zhan Yang breathed a sigh of relief. The bad weather and poor sanitation made him not want to stay here for a second!

"Drip--"

The car horn sounded, Zhan Yang raised his eyes to look over, and was taken aback for a moment - that was Yuan Xiao's car!

"Get in the car!" Yuan Xiao lowered the car window and shouted at Zhan Yang through the rain curtain.

His voice attracted almost everyone's attention, and Zhan Yang cursed with a headache, how could he leave first with so many people here!

Yuan Xiao waited for a while, but seeing no movement from Zhan Yang, he simply opened the car door and ran over holding an umbrella.

"Didn't you hear me calling you?"

Zhan Yang's hair was completely wet, and the strands of hair were stuck to his forehead, and the legs of his trousers were covered with yellow mud.Seeing his embarrassed look, Yuan Xiao twitched the corners of his mouth, "It's like this, you didn't get angry."

"Why are you here?" Zhan Yang asked, avoiding his sight.

"I'll bring you an umbrella." Yuan Xiao looked over Zhan Yang's shoulder and saw a round-faced girl behind him looking at them curiously.

He smiled, and stretched out his hand to push Zhan Yang's hair back, exposing his forehead, "It seems that I came at a wrong time."

Zhan Yang looked back, the girl immediately stepped forward with a smile, and handed him a clean towel, "I asked the project manager for this, please wipe it quickly."

Just when Yuan Xiao wanted Zhiqu to leave, the girl suddenly rushed in front of him, staring at him with a pair of round and big eyes.

"...Hello, what's the matter?"

"Is your name Zhang Hao?" the girl asked suddenly.

"What?" Yuan Xiao asked suspiciously.

"Isn't it? You look alike!" The girl was also unsure, tilting her head as if recalling carefully.

Yuan Xiao smiled, "My name is Yuan Xiao, not Zhang Hao, miss, you have mistaken me."

"Really?" The girl frowned, still staring at him unwillingly.After looking at it for a while, she curled her lips, "Forget it, it's not." Then she turned her attention to other places.

Yuan Xiao breathed a sigh of relief. The name he used for the last mission was "Zhang Hao". Although he was in City G, the possibility of being recognized here could not be ruled out.

The girl might have seen it before, but he really didn't remember it.

"Why, you were guessed right?" Zhan Yang's gloating voice came from the side, "When did you use the name 'Zhang Hao'?"

The loss of consciousness was fleeting, and Yuan Xiao returned to his cynical look.Hearing this, he shrugged, "Maybe he said it casually in a bar one day."

"That's right!" Obviously, Zhan Yang didn't believe this excuse.However, he was even less interested in guessing Yuan Xiao's real identity again.

"You go back first." He said to Yuan Xiao.

Yuan Xiao turned his head and glanced at the heavy rain that still hadn't stopped, "That won't work, there is no reason to go back with an empty car."

While the two were talking, the other cars finally arrived.

According to the previous plan, there would be a dinner after the inspection of the construction site, but a heavy rain forced the plan to change, and the dinner was rescheduled for the next day.

The second time he accompanied Zhan Yang to a dinner party, Yuan Xiao didn't say anything, but Zhan Yang could tell that he didn't like such an occasion very much.

"Do you instinctively hate crowded places, not to mention that there are reporters here?"

Yuan Xiao: "What do you mean?"

Zhan Yang glanced at him, "Those who are in your line of work have made an appearance on TV, so you won't be able to continue doing it in the future."

"You understand quite well." Yuan Xiao laughed, "But...that was in the past, it doesn't matter now."

Zhan Yang was startled, then turned to stare at Yuan Xiao, "What do you mean?"

"What do you think?" Yuan Xiao turned his head and looked at him with a half-smile.

"Brother Zhan..." A clear male voice cautiously inserted between the two.

Zhan Yang and Yuan Xiao looked sideways, and saw a long-lost face.

Yuan Xiao laughed, "Hey, this world is so small, you are always acquainted everywhere!" He patted Zhan Yang's shoulder, "You guys talk, I'll go out and smoke a cigarette."

Zhan Yang nodded towards Lin Qing, "Lin Qing."

"Brother Zhan! You, are you okay?" After being answered, Lin Qing seemed very excited, "I, I went to look for you, but..."

"I think what I said before is very clear. From now on, you will be you and I will be me." Zhan Yang said this very cryptically, because after all the years of friendship, he didn't want to embarrass Lin Qing too much.