The Self-cultivation of Omega Running with the Ball

Pei Du did not go back to the smoky gym, but called Assistant Jiang to pick him up. Who knew that the first thing Assistant Jiang said after getting in the car was: "Please don't assign me work after 7pm in the future."

Although she usually disrespects her leader, she still pretends to be submissive on the surface. Is she going to rebel? What's going on today? Why are they all acting crazy?
But Assistant Jiang's next words made him feel surprised. This usually cold and professional woman told him, "I'm pregnant."

"Really?! How many months?"

"Three months."

"You didn't tell me earlier, how can you be so polite?" Pei Du complained, "If you had told me earlier, I would have just let you go and rest. Why are you still working?"

"Thank you for your concern, I am three months pregnant but I don't need to stop working." Jiang Jinglan said expressionlessly, "Last year you attended my wedding, put your arm around the groom's shoulders and threatened him to treat me well, causing him to go to the toilet and vomit for a long time before the wedding. After that, I decided to exclude you from my life as much as possible."

Pei Du said without any shame, "I remember I apologized to your husband last year - that idiot who is good for nothing but cheating on women - why do you hold such a grudge?"

Jiang Jinglan's mouth twitched. She believed Pei Du's sincerity in his apology, but the result was that her husband got a stomachache again due to nervousness...

"You have been following me since then. There are not many people around me that I can trust, and you are one of them." Pei Du seemed a little lonely. "Take good care of your pregnancy. I will hire a temporary assistant. Unless it is an urgent task, I will not bother you again."

Jiang Jinglan watched him silently, and sometimes he seemed to find the shadow of that teenager. However, now the helpless, angry, immature and stubborn boy has grown into a man, and only in very brief moments, he still reveals a little immature temperament.

After parking the car steadily in the garage, Jiang Jinglan suddenly said, "I asked Wen Qiu's address before, but he only asked me to drop him off at the station. This person has very few social contacts and only interacts with a few people. Do I need to investigate him?"

"No need." Pei Du leaned lazily on the chair. "If he intentionally hides something, it must be something bad. If he doesn't want to say it, then don't say it. Why are you so concerned about Wen Qiu? Don't you never do extra work?"

You asked me why I cared so much about it. Jiang Jinglan thought, why not ask yourself why you care so much about it.

Then Pei Du muttered to himself, "So my preference for him is so obvious?"

He tapped on his phone, and I don't know what message he received, but he smiled again. After a while, he said to Jiang Jinglan, "Look, I asked him out again. Let's go to the exhibition that he didn't get a ticket for before."

“See the exhibition, then what?”

"What then?" Pei Du was still texting with his head bowed, the faint blue light of the phone reflected in his pupils, "Nothing then."

/
They spent a very wonderful time in the following period of time.

Pei Du had never had such a comfortable and harmonious relationship before. Wen Qiu was simply the most satisfactory partner in the world. As long as he wanted, OMEGA would come and accompany him to do anything he wanted.

Wen Qiu even began to dress up deliberately. Once he had money to buy all kinds of clothes, his good taste was immediately revealed, so Pei Du had to guard against covetous eyes from all directions when he occasionally took him out. But most of the time, Wen Qiu just sat quietly beside him, which was as pleasing to the eyes as a green plant.

In addition, Pei Du found that he was smart enough and learned new things very quickly. During a few idle weekends, Pei Du took him to the ski resort, went camping in the mountains, and went fishing at the lake. The two of them always had endless topics to talk about, and they never got bored with their laughter. Pei Du couldn't remember when the two of them had a conflict.

At other times, Wen Qiu was as quiet as if he had completely disappeared, and did not disturb his life at all.

He skipped more and more activities with his friends, which made everyone there angry. While drinking at the bar that day, An Yunqi suddenly said sourly: "When are you two going to make it official?"

Pei Du smiled but didn't answer, but he did have some thoughts in mind. He knew very well that the only thing he could use to tie Wen Qiu down was money, and as he had been giving money more and more generously recently, Wen Qiu would not be short of money sooner or later.

So, in order to tie down this satisfying partner, it's time to add some incentives other than money.

"What official announcement?" At this time, a clear female voice came over, accompanied by the sound of high heels, and a girl with long straight black hair and wearing a small dress walked into the booth.

She bent down naturally, put her arm on Pei Du's shoulder, snatched the cocktail from his hand and took a sip.

Pei Du casually lifted her hair and said, "Why did you perm it? Didn't you say not long ago that you fell in love with big wavy hair?"

"Don't mention it. It was perfect right after the perm, but after washing it twice it turned into a mess." Pei Xiao pouted and asked relentlessly, "Brother, are you finally in love?"

"That's just the beginning," An Yunqi sneered, "Your brother is too arrogant, you know that."

"When did Xiaoxiao return home?" another girl asked, "and she didn't even ask the sisters to come out and play."

"I just got back a week ago," Pei Xiao said, "My birthday is coming up soon, and my brother insisted on having a big party, so I had no choice but to fly back."

"Once you go out, you don't know how to go home," Pei Du rubbed her hair lovingly, "You are already 21 years old, and you don't know how to let your brother save some trouble."

Pei Xiao snorted and ignored him. He took out many black envelopes from his bag and distributed them to everyone present: "On the night of the 1st, we will go to Jiangzhou Flower Island. The theme this time is 'Murderer's Night'. Remember to dress up."

An Yunqi opened the envelope, and a terrifying skull popped out, along with a distorted version of the eerie Happy Birthday song. Below it was a line of messy handwriting: "Please help me! Someone wants to kill me!"

An Yunqi complained: "Why is it always Halloween theme every year?"

"Who told me I was born on Halloween?" Pei Xiao grinned, "You know that my mother was scared when she went out on the street that day..."

"Okay." Pei Du patted her on the back, telling her not to speak out without restraint, "Go play with your sister Yinyin."

Pei Xiao hooked her sister Yin Yin's arm and went to the bar. As soon as she walked out of her brother's surveillance range, she began to chat with sister Yin Yin, asking about the "official announcement".

Ye Yin was the big sister of the group and knew all the gossip, so she told everyone she knew.

"Surname Wen?" Pei Xiao muttered as he listened, "The Wen family from Ninghai Commerce? They're a bit inferior, right..."

"It's the 'wen' in 'hearing'. He is not from our circle." Ye Yin said happily, "Do you know? Your brother still has to pay him money on the hour."

Isn't that a male prostitute? How could I fall for that kind of person? Pei Xiao frowned, "Will I bring him to my birthday party?"

She wanted to check what this thing was.

"I guess not." Ye Yin shrugged, a hint of contempt on her carefully painted red lips, "Look how long it has been, Pei Du has never brought him out to meet people."

This was obviously not presentable and could not be put on the table. Pei Xiao understood and did not take the insignificant male prostitute to heart.

Pei Du didn't let her stay in the bar for too long, and quickly took her back to the car to take her home. He turned on the car speakers and played a song by a Korean band. He remembered that Pei Xiao liked it and had followed the global concert last year.

"Change the song, change the song. They are out of fashion. What I like recently is death metal." Pei Xiao complained that his brother didn't understand fashion. He connected the car stereo with his Bluetooth and played an extremely scary song.

Then she hummed along, shook her head, and learned to sing in a black voice. Pei Du stared at the traffic ahead and asked out of the blue, "Have you visited your mother in the past few days since you came back?"

When Pei Xiao heard this, he felt as if his fate had been pinched by the back of his neck, and he could not move immediately, "You know why I fled abroad in the first place..."

"That's long enough. Come home before your birthday. Mom has been talking about you."

Pei Xiao responded reluctantly, and then complained: "Then why don't you go?"

"Me?" Pei Du snorted, "I'm not going to piss her off to death for now."

/
As Halloween approached, Wen Qiu received an invitation from Pei Du to attend his sister's birthday party.

Of course, it was not an ordinary birthday party. It was said that there would be a grand costume ball. This year's theme was "Murderer Night", and guests were required to enter in costume.

Wen Qiu was overwhelmed by what he heard. From Freddy to Hannibal to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, many classic screen killer images flashed through his mind. Then he thought of the crux of the matter, "Should I go with you?"

Pei Du never brought him into his circle, nor did he introduce him to any of his friends.

Of course, Wen Qiu was not bothered by it. He thought clearly about his situation that night, and since then he has always regarded himself as a conscientious Party B, fulfilling his duties and concentrating on making money.

"Yeah." Pei Du lay on his lap and played with his phone, saying without raising his head, "I will be very busy that day, so I may not be able to accompany you all the time. But there are many fun activities on site, and all the people here are young people, so you can enjoy the party to your heart's content."

"Okay," Wen Qiu agreed happily, and then asked, "What are you going to dress up as? This is my first time participating in this kind of event, so give me some ideas."

"I'm a werewolf every year." Pei Du was obviously not interested in playing house with children.

"Isn't the theme this year 'Murderer'?"

"There are also murderers among werewolves."

So tacky... However, Wen Qiu would never question the client's taste. "Then I'll dress up as a vampire... Well, a vampire killer, like Dracula."

Pei Du laughed when he heard this, turned over and hugged his waist in a very comfortable posture. Through a layer of clothes, he could feel the warm air flow when he spoke. "I am voted the most rustic dress every year. Do you still want to accompany me even if this is the case?"

Wen Qiu bent his waist uncomfortably, but that only caused the man to tighten his grip even more. He easily gave up struggling and put his hands on Pei Du's shoulders to massage him lightly.

He said, "When did I stop accompanying you?"

Intimate contact and ambiguous words had gradually become a habit, but it stopped there. Although Pei Du would hug him and even kiss his cheek, he had never done anything more aggressive.

They tacitly maintain this wonderful balance and each gets what they need.

Pei Du handled a social engagement with his mobile phone. It was an optional dinner, and he would not have refused in the past. However, after Assistant Jiang became pregnant, he tried his best to turn down evening drinking parties.

He also thought about hiring a new assistant, but his sister Jiang was so capable that she really raised his psychological expectations to a perverted level. In the past two days, the HR department screened a group of people for him to review. Pei Du was a little picky and almost made one of the young people cry.

He was moved and asked, "Do you want to learn how to drive?"

Wen Qiu's hand paused, "Hmm?"

"Go get a driver's license, and then I'll give you a car. It's just in time for you to move nearby and rent a house with a parking space." Pei Du thought that he had been with him for a while, and it was time to give him some benefits. "This is more convenient."

"..." Wen Qiu didn't say anything for a moment, his mind was not at all on the car that was within his reach.

He usually has to go to class and work part-time, so he has limited time to practice driving, and it will take at least three or four months to get a driver's license. He couldn't imagine what his relationship with Pei Du would be like after so long, and when Pei Du made this suggestion, it seemed that he regarded himself as someone close to him, as if he would have him for a long time.

Pei Du understood his thoughts from his silence and raised his hand to ruffle his hair: "What are you thinking about? Driving is a skill that you must learn after all, so learn it while you have time."

"Okay," Wen Qiu tilted his head and rubbed against his palm, looking very obedient, "I'll take you out for a ride then."

"What car do you like? How about the Porsche 718?" Wen Qiu was afraid that it was too expensive, so Pei Du picked a car that he thought was reasonably priced.

Wen Qiu's favorite car recently was a battery car that cost as much as 2500 yuan, and he had been struggling whether to buy it. Not to mention the insurance and gas money for the car, Pei Du probably never thought that if this luxury car was scratched or rubbed, it would cost him half a year's savings - at that time, he would probably cry out of pain on the spot.

However, he kept smiling, like a well-behaved lover: "I like everything you give me."

"There's no need to cater to my preferences," Pei Du replied nonchalantly while scrolling through his phone. "Next time I'll take you to the auto show and tell me which car you like."

They talked about car models for a while, and Wen Qiu looked up at the clock. It was getting late, and he had to go - although Pei Du had asked many times, he had never agreed to stay overnight.

When he went out, he did not forget to pick up the plastic bag at the door, which contained some extra food that he had cooked at Pei Du's house today, so that he could heat it up and eat it at noon tomorrow.

Walking out of the warm and bright hall and into the bleak autumn night, Wen Qiu sat down on the steps and let out a long breath.

He felt tired.

It's not the kind of tiredness that comes from moving bricks all day, but rather a kind of mental fatigue caused by constant tension and concentration.

No one is born to please another person. Every second he spends with Pei Du, his brain is working fast, thinking about how to please him.

After he was unable to deceive himself in the name of "love", he was simply unable to stop the feeling of self-loathing, even though he was an expert at it, even though he was the best at lying.

Lights flash in every grid of every high-rise building in CBD. Tired workers walk out of the bright and beautiful buildings, and just like himself, they look like soulless zombies.

Of course, they are also very different. Their work actually produces value, while my work is not glorious.

After being in a daze for a while, Wen Qiu took out his mobile phone and transferred 3000 yuan from one account to his own account. Pei Du was too lazy to transfer money to him recently, and directly handed him a card with an astonishing amount of money, allowing him to spend it as he pleased.

However, Wen Qiu was very principled and still calculated the time conscientiously, only transferring the amount he deserved each time.

He set a goal of saving 10 yuan in his mind, which he would reach soon. This was also a deadline he set for himself. After earning enough money, he would withdraw in time and draw a clear line with Pei Du.

(End of this chapter)