Thriller Night Talk

Chapter 2: Where will I live?

Translator-Rhapsodite

Editor-PerpetualMreow, Proofreader-Ghostie

“What job are you applying for?”

A young woman–appearing to be around 20 years old, asked from the front desk. She scrutinized Wei Fuyuan up and down, the word “distrust” reflected clearly in her eyes.

Wei Fuyuan, “…”

He wasn’t used to such a reaction. He had been popular with girls his age ever since he was in school, although he hadn’t been interested in the opposite sex, he had never received such a cold attitude—a feeling of indignance sparked in his heart.

“Yes.” He stared at the girl, held back his anger and? rigidly replied, “I want to apply for your company’s assistant position.”

When Wei Fuyuan had looked at the building from the outside, he’d noticed the two-story red brick building to appear quite old. But when he entered the building, he realized it had been an understatement to label the dilapidated building as “old.” It was more fitting to call it “hazardous.”

Although he didn’t know much about architecture, anyone who saw the cracked walls would feel that the building was at least fifty years old.

The small building was originally a residential building; the windows were small but were situated very high. The well-shaped girders were low and ringed the living room, reducing the amount of light in the house.

The house had now been converted into a broadcasting firm. Most of the walls facing the street had been demolished and were replaced with glass curtain walls.

Despite the renovations, the lighting in the room hadn’t been improved much: it was still dark. The lights had to be turned on even during the day and there was even a strong smell of mildew permeating the air.

Wei Fuyuan felt that this building was quite suitable for making horror movies, both in appearance and ambiance.

“Wei Fuyuan, born on September 12th, year 20XX, 21 years old this year and a junior in business administration at Fengxing University.” The girl opened Wei Fuyuan’s student card and pursed her lips disdainfully, “We don’t recruit work-study students here.”

She was petite and more than 20 centimeters shorter than Young Master Wei, who stood at 187 cm. She needed to look up to stare at him, but with her stunning appearance and piercing eyes, she managed to embody a fierce aura as she glared at Wei Fuyuan with her 1.6m height.

” With just one look at you, I can tell you are unsuitable for this job.”

—…unsuitable… just by looking at you.

This sentence made Wei Fuyuan prickle defensively.

The expression on Wei Fuyuan’s face suddenly distorted, and he jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on.

“Why can’t I do this job?!”

He extended his hand to stop the girl who appeared to be the front desk employee and looked around “Where’s? your company’s Human Resources Manager? Let me speak with him!”

“We don’t have HR here.” The girl sneered, crossing her arms across her chest. “I said you can’t do this job.”

Some people would dare to provoke him again and again! If it wasn’t for Young Master Wei’s principle to “not to argue with the fairer sex”, he was afraid he would have knocked the person to the ground by now.

Just when the two were about to jump at each other’s throats, the young man named Bei Quan walked out of the backroom.

“Why is there so much noise?”

Bei Quan had put on a black cardigan coat over his home clothes, and his arms were covered as if he was afraid of the cold.

“Zhu Ling, why don’t you go and see if Jia Xin is up?”

He smiled at the girl, then turned to look at Wei Fuyuan, “You come in with me.”

The girl called Zhu Ling curled her lips and said nothing more. She turned her head and went upstairs.

Wei Fuyuan let out a sigh of relief, smoothed out his irritated expression a bit and followed Bei Quan through the living room that had been converted into the front desk and entered the room on the right.

This room also looked very old. The room wasn’t very large, only about 15 square meters big; the walls were dilapidated, the corners were full of mildew, and the furnishings were very simple.

There was a huge desk next to a narrow window, a bookcase on the left that reached the ceiling and file cabinets of the same size were on either side of the room. The two big cabinets were boldly colored providing a visual sense of flanking from left to right and emphasized the paucity of light. In short, the atmosphere of the room was quite gloomy.

“Come on, sit down and talk.”

Bei Quan walked towards the desk, pulled a chair out, sat down and made a “please” gesture to another chair in the room.

Wei Fuyuan complied.

Bei Quan took Wei Fuyuan’s student card and studied it carefully.

Most people’s ID photographs would make them appear average in appearance, but the Young Master of the Wei family was rather attractive. Any photo made his face look like a model’s face.

His face was upright and his appearance was in line with the traditional Chinese aesthetics: with sword eyebrows, star eyes, bright pupils, and thin lips. His temperament was also noteworthy —he was like an unsheathed sword; handsome and fierce.

Originally, Wei Fuyuan’s appearance was like a lofty-cold male god who could only be admired from a distance, but a round and sexy bead grew in the middle of his upper lip, neutralizing the sharpness of his facial features; when he smiled, his lips would turn into a beautiful diamond horn shape, which actually looked a little bit cute.

Bei Quan looked at the student ID card in his hand, and then looked at Young Master Wei, who was not a suitable candidate at all. He gave a slight smile, “Do you really want to join our company for a part-time job?”

Wei Fuyuan was about to nod but was suddenly interrupted by three knocks on the door.

Then the door opened.

Wei Fuyuan glanced back and was immediately stunned.

The person who entered the room turned out to be a child holding a tray.

It was not out of the ordinary for some small companies to hire children for mundane tasks——like helping serve tea and water—but the child who just came in was too small! That was a baby!

The child could be no more than three years old, at most. He was chubby, with round cheeks and his pudgy little hands were holding a big tray with two cups of tea. He walked towards them unsteadily.

Wei Fuyuan couldn’t help but feel like the child was going to trip his right leg with his left leg any second and fall to the ground.

“I am here to deliver the tea.” The little baby said softly as he put the tray on the desk.

He was no more than a few centimeters taller than the table, and he struggled to reach above the table even when standing on tiptoes.

Wei Fuyuan was terrified the baby would accidentally spill hot tea on his head, so he swiftly took the tray from his hands and placed the cups one by one on the table himself.

“Thank you.” The child glanced at him and giggled like a Chinese new year doll picture.

Then he turned his head to look at Bei Quan and said with a decrepit little milk voice, “Bei Quan, this person is not bad. Don’t let him go.”

“Well, you go out first.”

Bei Quan waved.

“Oh,” said the baby, and went out with the empty tea tray and didn’t forget to close the door.

“Hold on…” Wei Fuyuan pointed at the door and opened his eyes wide in disbelief, “Where did this kid come from?”

“An employee of the company.” Bei Quan smiled, “As for his position in the company… he’s probably here as a life assistant.”

Wei Fuyuan, “…”

For a moment, he doubtfully wondered if he had strayed into a black shop.

This place was small and shabby, the front desk lady was terribly fierce, and the life assistant turned out to be a three-year-old child laborer!

——Is this really a formal company?!

“We work relatively loosely here.” Bei Quan stated as he handed Wei Fuyuan’s? student ID back to him.

“Our only radio program is at midnight every Thursday. It is a chat program that does not need to be pre-recorded. ” Bei Quan smiled, “But you would usually have to go out with me to collect materials—wouldn’t that conflict with your class time?”

Fuck!

Wei Fuyuan was excited.

This part-time job was not only easy but even seemed to have been tailor-made for him; it perfectly met all his requirements.

However, young master Wei was a child of a big family who had been educated by elites since childhood. He knew that there was no free lunch in the world. If the conditions were too good, it often meant that a trap was waiting for him.

In this case, the broadcasting company, “Sāntúchuān,” really looked unreliable and made people feel suspicious.

——Next, he’ll be asking me to pay a deposit, right?

Wei Fuyuan was thinking about common recruitment scams and how to deal with them. He looked at Bei Quan’s beautiful face, and felt convinced——this person must be a fraud.

Bei Quan, “The internship period is three months and the monthly salary is 7,800 yuan. Your future accommodations will also be arranged, and we will provide you with three meals a day. Do you want it or not?”

Wei Fuyuan: “…”

This condition was excellent. Even if he told himself that it was just a scam over and over again, it was too hard not to be excited!

“…Do you want me to pay a security deposit?”

Finally, Young Master Wei couldn’t help but tentatively test.

“No need.”

Bei Quan opened the drawer, found out a contract and handed it to Wei Fuyuan, “You’ll just be a part-time worker. Feel free to try it for a month first.”

Young Master Wei accepted the contract carefully and read it twice. The writing was quite formal and he couldn’t see any loopholes.

But before signing, to be cautious, he decided to confirm some things first.

“This position comes with accommodations…then where do I live? ”

“Just here.”

Bei Quan raised his hand and pointed up. There was an empty room upstairs, right?

Wei Fuyuan blinked and asked a somewhat unusual question:

“Do you live here too?”

“Yeah.”

Bei Quan nodded and replied smoothly,

“I’ll be right next to you.”

Wei Fuyuan, “… I accept!”

Master Wei didn’t know if he had lost his mind, but after hearing that Bei Quan also lived in this small building, he forgot why he was hesitating and signed the part-time contract.

Then, as the boss, Bei Quan gave the newly-hired employee an enthusiastic tour around the company to help him familiarize himself with the environment.

The red brick building only had two floors, and a total area of ??about 180 square meters.

In addition to the living room serving as the front desk and reception room simultaneously, the first floor served as a kitchen, lavatory, and even had a study room that was used by Bei Quan as an office.

There were two residential rooms on the second floor.

The biggest one was a renovated two adjacent rooms; the original wall was replaced by a glass door. The smaller room was Bei Quan’s room. On the left side, near the entrance, was the reference room with a mountain of books and newspapers. On the right side was a studio, where there was a mixer for broadcasting.

Wei Fuyuan headed towards Bei Quan’s room to take a look. The room wasn’t too big and the furnishings were pitifully small. The bedding was neatly stacked, similar to a room in a motel.

“What about me?” Wei Fuyuan pointed at himself, “Where do I live?”

“Here.” Bei Quan smiled and clapped his hands, pointing in a certain direction.”You can live here.”

Wei Fuyuan noticed that there was a small door beneath the stairs. He opened it and realized it was a storage room.

The storage room was just around 10 square meters in size. Although there wasn’t much in it, half of the room was taken up by the tilted ceiling formed by the stairs above, making the already small space, compressed by half.? It would definitely be difficult for Master Wei to stand up straight due to his height.

Wei Fuyuan, “…”

——He hadn’t expected that he’d have to live in a cupboard under the stairs like Harry Potter.

Bei Quan said with a smile as if he didn’t see Master Wei’s face contorting to form an ugly expression, “This room is not bad, go ahead and tidy up, it will definitely fit a single bed.”