After nightfall, it was drizzling, and the air carried the unique damp smell of seaside cities.

Pei Ji stood downstairs in Gu An'an's apartment, with water dripping from the corner of his clothes.

Gu Anan said that after returning to China, his parents allocated him a high-end apartment in the city center.This apartment is located in the city center, which is regarded as a superior location in the eyes of ordinary people, and the price is expensive.

But it was a little rough for him.

But he didn't have to deal with the Gu couple, Pei Ji was secretly relieved.

He walked into the building and walked towards Gu Anan's room.

But after walking a few steps, he saw a beautiful figure in the corridor.

Tall, with a delicate face, the years have hardly left traces on her face.The woman was standing in front of the door, holding her pocket in her arms and pulling out her phone with the other hand.

Pei Ji stopped in his tracks. This person he had seen when he was a child was Gu An'an's mother.

But at this point, why did Mother Gu come to the door of Gu Anan's apartment?

Pei Ji quickly understood that Gu An'an should report to the subsidiary company today, but he failed.According to the current situation of the Gus and his wife, the managers of the subsidiary company saw that Gu Anan was playing a big game and released pigeons temporarily, and they were determined to make a big fuss. This will undoubtedly make things worse for the Gus and his wife!

For making such a big mistake, Gu's mother should personally scold or punish him, and even stop all his expenses.

Pei Ji stood there thoughtfully, his tall but gloomy figure was outlined by the dim yellow light in the corridor.

A memory that was so long ago that it was almost forgotten played back before my eyes.

When he was a child, he was eating dinner at Pei's house. He accidentally knocked over the water, and his father hit him with a water glass. The sharp glass shards pierced his skin, and blood gushed out.

But he didn't dare to say anything.

That night, like now, was cloudy and rainy, and the wind was biting cold.

Pei Ji's eyes were calm, and he touched his wrist subconsciously - there was no scab as expected, and he remembered that he was already on Gu An'an's body.

Gu An'an didn't mention the rules of the Gu family to him, nor did she mention that Gu's mother would come tonight.How will Mother Gu punish him?

Pei Ji walked behind Gu's mother indifferently, and before she could speak, Gu's mother sensitively sensed the sound and turned around.

Gu's mother stared blankly at Pei Ji for two seconds, then frowned.

Pei Ji's eyes were slightly cold, and he lowered his eyelids, as if waiting for Mother Gu's scolding.

But what was unexpected was that Pei Ji felt a burst of warmth, and Gu's mother hugged him tightly, her voice trembling: "Baby An'an, you scared me to death yesterday, I couldn't get through to your phone all day, We all thought you were missing! You said you were going to a friend's house, but I still don't feel relieved, so I came to see you. If your father hadn't been on a business trip, he would have come with him."

Pei Ji's hands froze in the air, calm and restrained for the first time, he didn't know how to react.

Since he was a child, he has hardly been hugged so tightly by anyone.When he was a child, because of his cold temper and being too good, the innate sense of alienation made people around him afraid to approach him.After he counterattacked and seized power when he grew up, no one dared to treat him like this.

Pei Ji frowned slightly, this unexpected warmth made him feel strange.

"If baby is not happy, we won't go to that dilapidated company. Isn't it just equity? At worst, let's hire a professional manager to clean up the mess." Mother Gu said, her voice gradually hoarse.

She had already lost one son and must not lose another.

"Baby, why don't you talk, are you sick?" Gu's mother sensed her son's alienation, her beautiful eyes scrutinized her son's small face, and seeing the wet water droplets on the hair tip, Gu's mother became nervous, "I'm not Papa Assistant Chen picked you up? Why are you still wet!"

Pei Ji said indifferently: "It's okay."

"It's okay! Baby, come in and take a shower." Mother Gu patted his thin shoulder.

Pei Ji was stiff all over, allowing Mother Gu to pull him to the front of the room and open the door. After entering the door, he took off his wet coat and hung it on the hanger.

After tossing around for a while, Mother Gu's face was tired, but her eyes were very bright, and she looked at her youngest son reluctantly: "Okay, I'm relieved to see that you are fine. Baby, go take a shower, I have something to do at the company Hurry back."

After all, it was her own, and she saw her son's resistance just now.

Maybe children grow up like this, Mother Gu comforted herself.

Before leaving, Mother Gu handed the warm bag to Pei Ji, saying that it was his favorite rice ball, and reluctantly walked out of the room.

After Gu's mother left, the room was so silent that only the sound of rain was left.

Pei Ji stood by the door for a while, his face immersed in the shadows, unable to see clearly.

On a cold rainy night, the rice ball in his hand was steaming.

Half an hour later, Pei Ji dragged his sticky body into the bathroom after lying down all day.

He had just finished taking off his shirt and was about to take a bath, but Gu Anan's vicious warning before he left sounded in his ears: "Don't look at the other person's body, whoever sees who is a dog!"

Thinking of Gu An'an's embarrassing and serious expression, Pei Ji couldn't help being speechless, took off the towel, and stepped into the shower room.

But his footsteps still paused, and his eyes drifted towards the mirror uncontrollably.

The person in the mirror has a fair complexion, a face that is more delicate than a girl's, round eyes, and slightly curly hair. At first glance, he looks like a young master who has been spoiled by others. His whole body is as white and tender as uncarved porcelain. , Exudes a clean temperament.

——something he never had since he was a child.

But this fair and innocent young master is still a bit stubborn.

Just like that night, he suddenly rushed out from a dark corner, his eyes were red like a rabbit, but his pupils were shining with stubborn light, stubbornly trying to throw him down.

It's both cute and ridiculous.

Pei Ji's eyes moved down half an inch, and there was a finely carved silver pendant hanging between Gu An'an's slender collarbone. The top was pointed and shaped like a lighthouse by the sea, but the edge of the lighthouse was white because of its age. .

Pei Ji held it in his hand thoughtfully, and lightly twisted it with his fingertips.

At this time, the mobile phone in the corner flickered suddenly, interrupting his thoughts.He seemed to be thinking of something, and his eyes fell on the silent phone screen on the side of the table.

30 missed calls.

At the same time, Gu An'an had been blowing cold wind at Pei Ji's door for half an hour.

Pei Ji's residence is located on the top floor of the most luxurious downtown apartment.It is said that there are two rooms on the top floor, one is Pei Ji's residence, and the other is not yet affordable.

It was dark all around, and the chill of the rainy night diffused into the cold corridor through the window sill.Gu An'an squatted at the door, holding up the phone and pressing it frantically, while still chanting: "Damn Pei Ji, answer the phone quickly! You can't afford to freeze to death, Young Master Gu!"

This guy clearly said that the door was face recognition, but Gu Anan made [-] expressions on the door frame, and said that the recognition was wrong every time.

"Can this door still identify souls?!" Gu Anan scratched his head until he heard the beeping sound on the phone disappear suddenly. He thought it was Pei Ji who finally got through the phone, his eyes lit up

After waiting for a few seconds, there was still no sound.

He took down the phone and looked, it turned out that the phone was out of battery!

Gu An'an patted his disappointing cell phone, and looked around anxiously. The door couldn't be opened, and he didn't have any cash on him. Could it be that he was squatting at the door as a guard at night? !

He sat down helplessly leaning against the door frame, wearing only a thin long T-shirt and trousers, the floor was chilly, and the cold spread from his limbs to his whole body.He sneezed, put his hands around his knees, and curled up into a ball.

He knew that the only way out now was to go back to his home to find Pei Ji, and it was not far away, in the neighborhood across the street.

But the thin-skinned Young Master Gu just didn't want to choose this path.

He couldn't even open a door, and Pei Ji's cold and mocking voice rang in his ears.The more Young Master Gu thought about it, the angrier he became. It's embarrassing enough to wear women's clothes in the morning, and he can't be looked down upon by that deadly enemy anymore.

Not to die.

"It's so fucking cold..." Young Master Gu was like an abandoned dog on the side of the road, rubbing his stiff hands non-stop, already trying to imagine how he would be frozen into a mummy tomorrow morning.

Shivering.

A cold voice sounded.

"Are you going to sit until tomorrow morning?"

Obviously, the tone of voice was not warm, but at this moment, Young Master Gu felt that it was a little warmer than a hot kang.

Young Master Gu raised his head, looked tearfully at the end of the darkness, and there was a thin but tall figure standing vaguely.He just wanted to say, Pei Ji, that you are finally here, but then he remembered that the guy in front of him was the one who trapped him here, his expression changed 180 degrees, his clear eyes widened, and he didn't speak.

Pei Ji silently walked up to Young Master Gu, with wet hair and a small bag in his hand, and asked condescendingly, "Are you going to freeze my body into a mummified corpse?"

Seeing himself curled up at home by the door, his watery eyes shining stubbornly and helplessly in the night, Pei Ji frowned lightly.

Young Master Gu looked at the man in front of him. It was clearly his own face, but there was a sense of coldness and alienation, with an inexplicable dignity. Compared with his image of being ashamed and disheveled, he felt unwilling, and turned his face: "Hmph , you still have the face to come back."

Because his voice was a little hoarse from the cold, his originally angry voice was full of pet-like coquettishness. Young Master Gu felt that something was wrong. It sounded like a little wife who was waiting for her husband to come home with resentment.

"Come back to get something." Pei Ji glanced at him lightly and said, "I saw your call and called you back, why didn't you answer? No message."

Young Master Gu pointed at the pitch-black screen.

Pei Ji was silent for a while, and asked, "Why didn't you come to me?"

Gu Anan remembered the more than 80 kinds of silly expressions just now, his face was stiff, and he stood up angrily, patted the dust off his buttocks, pointed to the screen on the door frame and asked, "Didn't you say that this thing was developed by your company?" The facial recognition device... that's it, it can't recognize it at all!"

Pei Ji shook his head helplessly: "I knew it."

He knew that this guy would definitely not use it.

Pei Ji walked between the walls and turned on the lights in the corridor, and the dark corridor instantly lit up.

It also illuminated Gu An'an's aggrieved face.

"You try facing the screen now." Pei discipline said.

"It really doesn't work." Gu Anan explained, turned his head, and rolled his eyes at the recognizer, "Look, if you don't believe me!"

"Ding—recognition successful, welcome home!"

Gu An'an opened his eyes wide, and looked back at Pei Ji in astonishment: "???"

Pei Ji walked in the door directly, with a cold rainy breath on his body, and said casually: "Of course you can't recognize it if you don't turn on the light."

Gu An'an looked at Pei Ji's back and couldn't believe it: "What kind of broken products are you making, you have to turn on the lights to recognize them!"

Pei Ji glanced back at him lazily, "It's common sense that normal people understand."

Gu An'an who was provoked: "...Common sense is a ghost!"

After entering the room, Gu An'an was stunned by the technological scene in front of him.

The whole room is like an elegant giant space capsule.In the huge and spacious living room, there are black and white minimalist sofas and coffee tables, surrounded by transparent holographic projection screens, glowing with blue light with a strong sense of technology.The living room is full of floor-to-ceiling windows, with a panoramic view of the gorgeous lights at night and the vast bay line in the distance.

This is the home of...the God of Technology and Business?

"Master, welcome back."

A mechanical female voice sounded from below.

Gu Anan lowered his head in confusion. There was a white ball standing at his feet. Two round and cute black eyes were drawn on the ball, which reminded him of the puppy he had at home when he was a child.An An immediately fell in love with it, and bent over to touch the round and smooth surface of the robot.

Gu Anan remembered that this is a new smart home robot from Pei's Technology.

"Does it have a name?" Gu Anan asked.

Before Pei Ji could speak, the robot replied by itself: "Master, I am Anna."

"Wow, you have Ann in your name too!"

He had never heard too many conversations in his quiet home. Pei Ji glanced at Gu An'an who was chattering with the robot, then closed the door and turned up the air conditioner a few degrees.He walked into the living room, poured two glasses of warm water on the bar counter familiarly, sat on the sofa and took a few sips by himself.

Hearing the lively conversation in the living room stopped, Pei Ji put down his glass and turned his head: "Are you finished talking?"

Gu Anan sat down on the sofa opposite Pei Ji, and asked, "I wonder, how can a ruthless person like you make such a cute robot?"

Pei Ji pulled the corner of his mouth mockingly, and said, "It's just a way to package goods."

"...It's really cold-blooded." Gu An'an flattened her mouth and stroked the robot's head, "Are you right, Anna."

Anna chuckled twice: "Master is right!"

Afterwards, Pei Ji gave Gu Anan a simple science on how to use the furniture at home, after all, they are all connected to high-tech cloud servers.

Gu An'an held the warm water cup in his hand and blinked his eyes, hearing in a fog.

At the end, Pei Ji reminded: "You can also let Anna control the corridor lights outside the door and the elevator."

"She can still control things in the building?" Gu An'an was incredulous.

Pei Ji replied indifferently: "This building is my property."

"..."

Inhumane.

"Tell me about your family's situation." Pei Ji glanced at Gu An'an's sluggish face, and asked, "As far as I know, the Gu family has a lot of internal troubles."

Gu An'an lowered his eyes, thinking of his parents' increasingly tired faces these days, and Gu's torn situation, his heart ached, and with a wrinkled face, he relayed the situation his parents told him to Pei Ji: "You also know My family is in the traditional furniture industry..."

Pei Ji put down his water glass and listened quietly without interrupting.

It was nearly twelve o'clock after speaking.

Gu An'an yawned and was about to see off the guests, but when he turned around, he saw the small bag Pei Ji brought, pointed at it and asked, "What is this?"

Pei Ji took a look and said, "Mother Gu just came to see you and brought you rice balls."

Gu An'an let out a low cry, and almost jumped up: "My mother is here?! She didn't even tell me she was coming, why didn't you tell me!"

"She left after delivering the rice balls to you." Pei Ji replied calmly.

"Oh..." Gu Anan opened the bag and took a look. The rice balls were still warm, and she was delighted.

Pei Ji got up and walked to the entrance, opened the door to leave.

"Wait." Gu Anan said.

Pei Ji turned around.

"Don't you often look at your phone?" Gu Anan thought, no one answered all the calls he made just now.

Pei Ji looked back at Gu An'an lightly, as a tacit consent.

He works two-thirds of the day, his mobile phone is always silent, and important work partners will only contact him on work software or contact his secretary.In private, he doesn't have too many friends or relatives. At most, he has saved the contact information of important subordinates.

Compared with office computers or practical smart controls, mobile phones have always been dispensable for him.

"You have a lot of calls on your phone during the day, and I can't answer them." Gu Anan looked at Pei Ji's expressionless face, "It should be your relatives and friends who are worried about you, remember to call back."

After the words fell, Pei Ji's eyes turned cold, and his gaze was colder than the night outside the window, Gu An'an couldn't help shivering.

"They are all subordinates at work." Pei Ji said concisely.

Gu An'an was full of confusion. He was just about to say that your popularity is really bad. Suddenly, he remembered the rumors that Pei Ji was cruel and ruthless, and that he was in charge of the Pei clan, and everyone betrayed his relatives, so he said bluntly: "Who asked you to do these things that your relatives don't recognize? See it? , except for the icy subordinates, now even if you disappear for a month, no one will find you."

After finishing speaking, Gu Anan immediately realized that he had touched the forbidden area of ​​the big boss, so his little face froze and he closed his mouth, and glanced at the boss's face from time to time.

The night was too dark, and most of Pei Ji's face was hidden in the night, which was a bit scary.

After a while, he didn't want to make any answer, and stepped out of the room with an indifferent expression, closing the door behind him.

Seeing Pei Ji's disappearing back, Gu An'an felt an inexplicable sense of irritability, put down the rice ball and strode towards the door, and at the moment when the door was about to close, "Pa—" stretched out his hand to support the door frame.

Feeling the force on the door, Pei Ji paused and turned around.

Gu An'an poked out her furry head and reached out, "Give me the phone."

Pei Ji glanced at him and handed over the unlocked phone.

"Add a WeChat account for easy contact." Gu Anan frantically tapped the screen a few times, put the phone back into Pei Ji's hand, and stared up at Pei Ji, her big beautiful eyes were full of threats, "If you dare not answer, You are done!"

Before Pei Ji could reply, Gu An'an closed the door handsomely with a bang.

The hallway fell silent again.

Standing in the darkness, Pei Ji looked down at the shimmering screen, and a familiar name appeared in the seldom-used WeChat address book——

Gu Anan.

Pei Ji looked up at the closed door.

After a long time, he flexed his fingers and canceled the mute button on the side of the phone.

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