Samuel paused for a while and said hastily, "No! How dare I?" He added in order to make his words more sincere, "Mr. Lu, you're very busy every day and even cared about such a small employee like me in the middle of the night. I am surprised, excited, and flattered. I feel that you really care about me, and I swear I'll be loyal to you for the rest of my life and will work for you to the end of my life.
I will do everything I can to help you."
Although he said so, he shouted in his heart, "No matter how much you care about me, don't call me in the middle of the night, okay?"
James raised his eyebrows and listened to Samuel's compliments with a bright smile on his face, "Humph!"
After saying so much, Samuel heard what James said and... felt a little sad.
As a result, neither of them spoke in the next few minutes, and the atmosphere was somewhat embarrassing.
They just looked at their phones and remained silent. That scene was extremely wired.
Finally, Samuel couldn't stand it anymore. D*mn, two men chatted with each other on the phone in the middle of the night without saying anything. This was simply too agonizing.
"Well... Mr. Lu, do you really have nothing to say? Ha-ha."
"Yeah." "Well..." Samuel coughed awkwardly, "Shall we hang up?" He was about to sleep! He did not want to hold the phone in such a weird way anymore!
"No." This was not what James wanted to hear!
"But..." Samuel was on the verge of tears, "Mr. Lu, this is so strange. Don't you think so?"
"No."
Wasn't this strange? Was there anything else weirder than this? No!
"No?"
James raised his eyebrows, "Of course."
"Mr. Lu." Samuel scratched his hair and finally said in a trembling voice after hesitating for a long time, "You... are not... interested in me, are you?"
James paused for a moment. Just when he was about to roar, he heard Samuel saying in fear, "Mr. Lu, I don't like men. Although... you're super- rich, capable, and handsome, I... will never give in. I... already have someone I like. Even if not, I won't like you."
Samuel felt that he had said the truth, so he simply didn't care about anything else and begun to say earnestly, "Mr. Lu, I know that you rich people sometimes want to play with something new, and I can understand. But a rabbit doesn't nibble the grass near its own hole, right? Why are you interested in me? I know that we often get along with each other, and I'm good-looking and capable. But I have to tell you that I don't like men and I'm a man of principle. Even if you want to lure me with money, I will still refuse you righteously.¹'
"What's more, Mr. Lu, although I am only your subordinate, I still have to criticize you today. You have got married, and Young Madam is so kind, lovely and so beautiful. You... are really wrong. If Young Madam knows this, how sad will she be?"
James didn't feel better until he took a few deep breaths, "You haven't woken up yet? What nonsense are you talking about? How could I like you? Don't dream about it!"
"I..." Did he say something wrong?
"I don't care whether you like men or not. Anyway, I don't like men. What are you dreaming about?"
He thought that James was not interested in these things, but he listened with great interest and would even make short comments from time to time.
For example, Samuel said that he had received other people's love letters before, he was stunned there with his face blushed and didn't know what to do, and James laughed and said that he was stupid.
When he said that he was attracted to a novel and was caught by the teacher when he read it in class, and the teacher asked him to read his self-critical letter in front of the whole class, James laughed at him out of joy, "I guess you were too ashamed at that time, ha-ha!"
When he said that when he first attended a dinner party and vomited all over the table because he was not good at drinking, James patted the table and laughed, "The people who sat with you must be disgusted by you!"
As they chatted and laughed, time passed by very quickly. Finally, it was dawn.
Samuel looked at the time, "Mr. Lu, I have to get up and prepare to go to work for the company." He meant that he was going to hang up the phone. His phone even became hot!
If his phone was broken, he didn't know if James could buy a new one for him.
James looked at the sky outside and nodded, "Okay."
Samuel was so excited that he almost burst into tears. Oh! He was finally free!
Just as he was about to hang up the phone, James's voice came from the phone again.
"By the way, do something for me!"
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