Anchor Effect - Chapter 3.2: Let me see

Zhan Yang replied earnestly, "This is my professional advice."

Ye Yuchen's patience was also wearing thin. He let out a breath and said calmly, "I have received your suggestion. I'm just chatting with him. Do you have any questions?"

In the end, Zhan Yang left reluctantly.

When Ye Yuchen walked into the villa, he saw Yu Xiu idly waiting by the elevator. He raised his chin and said, "Let's go up."

The elevator finally stopped on the third floor. Ye Yuchen led Yu Xiu into his bedroom, fetched the chess pieces and chessboard from the glass cabinet, and then sat down on the beanbag sofa on the carpet.

——This sofa is ergonomically designed so that you won't suffer from back pain no matter how long you sit.

"Play Go?" Yu Xiu followed to the carpet, looked down at Ye Yuchen, and said, "I don't know how to play."

"Didn't you make a movie about the chess king before?"

"It was all staged."

Yu Xiu would have surely researched his role thoroughly, so he must know how to play Go. And there was only one reason why he said that: he was not interested in playing.

"Shouldn’t you follow my arrangement since you’ve already decided?" Ye Yuchen asked.

Yu Xiu was silent for a moment, then sat down on the carpet. His two long legs had no place to rest, even when crossed, his knees almost reached the beanbag sofa. He picked up a chess piece, placed it on the chessboard, and said, "Did you ask me to come to your room just to play chess with you?"

Although he had said earlier that he couldn't play, he now clearly knows what to do and has taken the position that means letting the opponent go first.

Ye Yuchen took a step forward and said, "Yes."

While raising his hand, he also shifted his gaze to Yu Xiu and added, "You can leave after playing."

Unlike the harmless jokes before, it was better to stop with ambiguous misunderstandings.

Yu Xiu wasn't surprised, his gaze remained focused on the chessboard: "Who was that person just now?"

Ye Yuchen stopped playing chess, realized he was talking about Zhan Yang, and continued placing the chess pieces on the board: "He's an employee."

"Just an employee?" Yu Xiu obviously didn't believe Ye Yuchen's words, "He seems too involved."

Ye Yuchen smiled softly and followed Yu Xiu's words: "Well, he is a personal employee."

Yu Xiu glanced at Ye Yuchen, and when he looked away, he naturally looked at his leg: "Did you have a leg injury?"

"No." Ye Yuchen replied as usual, "My legs are fine. Don't guess wrongly."

"But you're in a wheelchair."

"I choose to use it." Ye Yuchen put the chess pieces back into the chess box and looked at Yu Xiu, "You said don’t care too much, but you're the same."

Yu Xiu furrowed his brows and stopped asking any more questions.

Seeing that the continuous questioning had finally subsided, Ye Yuchen thought he could play chess in peace. He picked up the chess pieces again. However, at that moment, a big hand suddenly reached out and grabbed his ankle.

Surprised, Ye Yuchen looked at Yu Xiu, "Yu Xiu?"

"Let me see your legs," Yu Xiu said.

"No," Ye Yuchen frowned suddenly, wanting to pull his feet back, "What are you looking for?"

"To see if you're all right." Yu Xiu raised Ye Yuchen's ankle, trying to find signs of surgery on his leg. However, the shorts slid down a bit, completely exposing the knee, but still, nothing. No ugly scars.

The beanbag sofa was very low, and Yu Xiu was standing on his knees with straight legs, making him much taller than Ye Yuchen, who was sitting on the sofa.

The lifted leg was almost folded to Ye Yuchen's chest, and the muscles in his lower back had already started to hurt. Ye Yuchen clasped the edge of the sofa with both hands, gripping it so tightly that his fingertips turned white.

"Yu Xiu!" Ye Yuchen shouted sharply.

Yu Xiu finally stopped moving.

"I said I'm fine!" Ye Yuchen raised his other leg and kicked Yu Xiu's chest, causing him to fall onto the chessboard.

The chess pieces fell to the ground in an instant, and one of them even bounced all the way to the French window.

One leg was struggling vigorously, and the other had kicked forcefully, and it seemed that nothing had happened.

Yu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief secretly and shook off the chess piece that was stuck to his palm, saying, "Sorry."

"Get out!" Ye Yuchen said coldly.

Yu Xiu's purpose for coming to the room had been achieved, so he stood up from the carpet and prepared to leave.

But just as he took a step, he stopped again, turned back to look at Ye Yuchen, and asked, "If you could do it all over again, would you still choose not to be an actor?"

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