The Secret Past Between Me and the Young Master (1)

01

On June 27, 2012, I looked back at the place where I had lived for four years, packed my underwear and socks that were drying on the bedside into the suitcase, and closed the door. The university that accompanied me for four years is gone!

Before graduation, I was always struggling with an ambiguous relationship, so I didn’t think seriously about my life. When I really found that I was about to enter the society, I realized that I was half a beat late. Some of my roommates had already received offers from famous companies and were ready to do internships, and some were preparing for postgraduate entrance examination interviews.

At that time, I didn’t even know what I was going to do in the future. I had several interviews, but none of them worked. I prepared for the civil service exam for a while, but when the exam was approaching, I gave up for various reasons. Fortunately, there is always a way out.

Finally, I saw a bank’s campus recruitment on a job recruitment website for fresh graduates, and applied with a try-it attitude (at this point I had to complain about the bank’s recruitment process, which lasted a full half a year from posting the information to the final employment), and I was really lucky to get in.

Because the bank’s onboarding process is a little slower than others, as of today, all my roommates have left, and I am the only one who is still preparing for the onboarding and signing various documents. I finally got it done today, and it’s time to say goodbye to my four years of life!

My workplace is in another city. Fortunately, with the development of high-speed railways, the distance between the two cities can be calculated in minutes. It takes 30 minutes to get there. This is one of the most beautiful islands in the motherland. It is very nice to work and live in such a place.

Actually, I was quite happy. The air was good, the environment was good, and the job was decent. As a loser, what could I be unhappy about? I quickly found a house to live in, and started a new chapter in my future life.

02

To be honest, although the environment of the southern island is good, it is still hot in summer. Due to the rush, the house I rented can only be described as habitable. There is no air conditioning, and the dog days of summer make people feel irritable. Fortunately, most of the time is now spent in branch training and learning, and I only come back to sleep at night, so I can still cope with it.

In the following days, I kept waking up in the morning to go to work, and then came back to video chat at night. As for the person I video chatted with, haha, as mentioned above, the person I had been entangled with for four years in college was Jie. This guy also ended up working in a bank. Although I had a crush on him, we were still very close.

We were so close that we could talk about anything. For a while, I set my life goal to be with him for the rest of my life. This led to me taking the civil service exam when he did, and applying for a job in a bank when he did. Unfortunately, our fate was over. Although we both got the job, we were in different systems and cities. When there was no one around in the middle of the night, I could only look to him for comfort.

At 11:50 on July 8, 2012, I was having lunch after training. I received a call from my boss. He was even worse off than me. He was just like me in his senior year, and he was too ambitious. He failed the civil service exam, the postgraduate entrance exam, and even less the job. He was a typical example of being unemployed right after graduation.

Boss: “What are you doing?”

Me: “Eat, what else can I do? Why do you miss me?”

Boss: “Yeah, I miss you, is that okay?”

Me: “Come and see me if you want to. I’m bored anyway, and you don’t have a job, so come to my place. I live near X University now, and you can see if you can participate in their campus recruitment or postgraduate entrance examination in the second half of the year.”

Boss: “If you say so, I will go there!”

Me: “Come on, I’m not afraid of you, I’ll provide you with food and lodging!”

I chatted with the boss for a while and persuaded him to come and accompany me because I was really afraid of being alone. In fact, I didn’t take it seriously. This guy was my spiritual mentor for four years in college. He knew all my hobbies and interests. During his senior year, he lived outside the school during his postgraduate preparations. In order to avoid Jay, I even used this guy’s bed for half a year.

For a while I thought he was bisexual, otherwise why would he be so nice to me. But think about it, his heart has always been tied to one person. Unexpectedly, he actually came. I called him on July 8th, and he came by train on July 10th. From then on, we started living together for half a year.

03

I picked up my boss on the morning of July 10th, and then went to the branch to continue my training. When I returned home in the evening, my boss did complain to me.

The boss: “WC, what kind of house are you renting? It doesn’t even have air conditioning. I’m going to die of heat!”

Me: “How come you didn’t die? You are such a young master. It’s good to have this. Just bear with it. Isn’t there a fan? I also asked the landlord for an air-conditioned room, but the landlord said that the students are not on vacation yet, so the air-conditioned room is rented. I will change the room after the students go on vacation in the 20s.”

The eldest brother: “Damn, such a small house, such a small bed, such hot weather, how can two grown men sleep?”

Me: “Just make do with it. It’s still okay to turn on the fan at night. I did that a few days ago.”

Boss: “I’m impressed by you.”

Just like that, we two grown men spent a difficult night in the passionate revelry in the next room.

The eldest brother: “This young couple is really fierce. They have been doing this for so long.”

Me: “It’s only been a few minutes, you call it fierce, you can’t be unable to hold on for such a short time, how embarrassing”

The eldest brother: “Bullshit, I’m a pillar of steel that can’t be knocked down. I can do it for an hour!”

Me: “Blow it for an hour. Have you ever tried it? You’re still a virgin. Don’t embarrass yourself in front of me.”

The eldest brother: “Tsk, I’m a virgin, at least I can use it when I see it’s good. Unlike you, you’re wasting your figure and your penis, it’s a pity that you can’t use it.”

Me: “How do you know I can’t use it? If you keep talking nonsense, I’ll use my first time on you.”

Boss: “Tsk, you look like you’re in pain, can you handle it?”

Me: “You’ll know if it works if you try it, come on…”

Don’t get me wrong, we are just talking. I don’t dare to make a move on this best friend. Although he is very handsome and 178cm tall, I am afraid that if I make a move on him, I will lose this confidant. We have been living like a couple for half a year.

During holidays, he would occasionally cook. His cooking skills were impeccable and the food was really delicious. Later, every meal he cooked for the young master would be accompanied by the boss’s instructions. After dinner, they would go for a walk in the school playground, feeling relaxed and comfortable.

04

Finally, under the constant complaints of the boss, we moved to a room with air conditioning, and our life began to get back on track. On July 30, 2014, the one-month training finally ended, and we were assigned to various outlets to start a new work and life.

The 17 of us were assigned to a branch with the worst performance in the branch, and then began the final distribution to go to our respective outlets. At the beginning, the head of the branch asked us if there was any outlet we particularly wanted to go to. Since we knew in advance that the four outlets were all pretty bad, we didn’t react and we all replied that we would obey the arrangement.

I looked at the 17 of us and thought, what a handsome guy! So I prayed that I could be assigned to the same branch as him, so that I could enjoy seeing handsome guys every day. In the end, God was very kind to me. I was assigned to the same branch as this handsome guy, T. After a simple greeting to the branch manager, I was sent to my current workplace, ZM branch.

The bank president took us to the counter and told the accounting supervisor that these were the new Little T (handsome guy) and Little F (me). The supervisor looked at us and said to the bank president, “Okay, I’ll make the arrangements.” Then he looked at Little T, pointed at counter No. 8 and said, “You learn from her.” Then he looked at me, pointed at counter No. 2 and said, “You learn from her. Go find a seat and learn from the master.”

Such a simple arrangement destined the fate between me and the young master.

Let me first talk about my master, Sister Mantou. I still don’t know why everyone calls her Sister Mantou, because the tradition of our outlet is to call each other “Xiao” plus the other’s surname. For example, Xiao T’s master is Sister H.

If there are two people with the same last name at a point, they will be called Xiao L or Xiao Xiao L in order of seniority. Only my master does not follow the rules. Everyone calls him Mantou Jie. Mantou Jie is a senior employee of ZM and has been here for 2 years. Bank tellers should be rotated every three years, so she is the most senior one. She is very enthusiastic and generous. I just learned from her.

In her spare time, she began to instill in me the idea: Xiao F, you are really unlucky. If you came to ZM before, you would have more business, more work, and more money, but now, only the first two are left. The rest of the income is the lowest in the branch. Hurry up and find a connection to transfer. I said: Sister Mantou, I know too. It’s a pity that we losers, who have no money and no power, can only come to this kind of place.

It seems that those who have no money all come to our branch. Sister Mantou said, not really, there are rich people too, like the guy next door who lives in a villa. That’s when I turned my attention to counter No. 1, where a very shy boy was smiling at me. Sister Mantou said, his name is K Shao, his family sells BMWs, so he is rich, but he came when ZM was at its peak.

That was how I had my first contact with the young master and formed the most basic impression of him: living in a villa, driving a BMW. It seemed like he was not from our world.

05

I am a person with poor adaptability. When I go to a new environment, I will have a long period of acclimatization. Although this time I only moved from one city to the next city, I still had symptoms of acclimatization. My acclimatization was different from that of other people. Others had nausea and vomiting, but I had skin allergies, resulting in acne all over my face. When it was the worst, even customers who came to handle business secretly gave me their business cards to sell me acne-removing products. You can see how serious my condition was.

In the words of the boss, a handsome guy was ruined by acne. The acne on my face is the kind of smallpox, big, four or five at a time, a bit disgusting. So every time I go to work, I always hide behind the master with my head down, and then when the master asks me to help him do something, I either lower my head or cover half of my face. At this time, the young master next door always says embarrassedly, “Little F, you are so cute”, which makes me blush.

Because he always said that to me, and there were only three guys in our branch, and the rest were girls, and there were two rotten girls among the girls, so naturally they made fun of me. They said we looked like a gay couple, and we could be a couple. And because I felt guilty, I was always shy, which made the young master say I was cute even more.

To be honest, I always thought that my face full of acne was scary, how could it be cute? The young master must have been making fun of me on purpose. Don’t try to guess what rich people are thinking.

As the saying goes, those who are close to water get the moon first. I always thought that T was more handsome than me and didn’t have acne. If I were to choose a partner, I would definitely choose him instead of me. But maybe it was because I was closer to the young master, or because people often talked about us, or because T already had a girlfriend at that time, we ended up together.

Since I was learning at counter No. 2, I was responsible for all the trivial matters at counters No. 1 and No. 2, such as hand-copying a damaged order, issuing subpoenas, and express deliveries. My daily task was to help the master with accounting and write subpoenas for the young master. I became their full-time secretary, and my relationship with them became better and better over time.

The master is a typical foodie. He starts work at 8 o’clock in the morning, takes a break after breakfast, and starts discussing what to eat for lunch with others at ten o’clock. Then, after lunch at around one o’clock, he starts thinking about what to eat in the evening. It seems that there is nothing else for the master to do except eating.

When they heard that I lived near the school, they kept asking me what delicious food there was. My answer satisfied them quite a bit: there are a lot of places to eat near the school, and they are cheap and delicious, with grilled fish, barbecue, and so much more. A meal only costs more than 100 yuan, and they order the best. So they especially want to go eat near the school. As for me, I am a typical person who talks without doing anything. I just talk but never take any action.

To be continued