See You Again (Time Already Knows) - Chapter 13
Chapter 13 - Tonight, Even If She Wanted To Suck His Blood Dry, He Would Devour Her Flesh And Bones!
Shi Jian had even made herself look nice today. She washed her hair, did her makeup, and put on a new outfit that her auntie bought for her a while ago. A sandy colored hooded coat, paired with what she thought was A-City’s best looking pair of high heels. Her skintight stockings made her legs look lengthened, lithe, and beautiful. She originally wanted to buy a black colored coat, but Auntie prevented her for some reason. She was still young, why did she want to wear such mature clothing? So, she chose the sandy color. The loosely designed hood made her look youthful, and was suitable for her present age.
Today was Ye Jiacheng’s birthday, so she naturally wanted to dress a bit prettier. Being ten years ahead of everyone else, she “accidentally” looked more stylish and modern in the crowd……
At exit #6, Yi Pei approached, and quickly sized her up. Then he handed her his bag, and said: “Let’s go.”
Shi Jian was frozen: “……President Yi.”
Yi Pei didn’t hear her mosquito level volume and walked forward. She lowered her head, looked at the bag in her hands, clenched her teeth, and followed. Yi Pei slowed slightly, and asked: “How was work the past few days?”
Shi Jian felt like a complete mess. She nodded: “Pretty good.”
Yi Pei continued to ask: “Zhang Kai asked you to come?”
No…… Shi Jian thought about it, not knowing how she should answer. She followed Yi Pei, and wondered: How about just saying it directly, but how should she say it? President Yi, sorry, I came here to pick up my boyfriend, but he is late.
This was really too embarrassing…… too embarrassing to say out loud!
Yi Pei’s car was parked on the first floor of the airport. Shi Jian was contemplating how to explain this misunderstanding the whole way there. Yi Pei already got in the car, sitting in the driver’s seat. He saw that she hadn’t gotten in yet, and frowned slightly: “Shi Jian, get in.”
Shi Jian’s face was red, then turned even redder, then she braced herself and pulled the door open. She sat in the shotgun seat.
Yi Pei drove the car, and quickly entered the airport highway.
Shi Jian leaned against the window like a dog that had been carried incorrectly. She looked at the billboards passing by outside…… ai! Shi Jian turned around, and tried to find the words to ask Yi Pei: “President Yi, did your trip go smoothly?”
“It was alright.” Yi Pei drove at a steady speed, his tone even steadier, “The contract was completed, next year Yi Mao Real Estate will be pretty busy, so everyone must work hard together.”
Shi Jian nodded: “……en.”
Then, Yi Pei smiled, letting go of the serious demeanor, and asked her as if he was her friend: “What happened? You look like you’re kind of down.”
“Haha…… really?” Shi Jian also smiled, Yi Pei really knew how to read people, but—— how could he not tell that she wasn’t there to pick him up in the first place?!
Yi Pei declined to comment, and didn’t continue bantering. Superiors can joke a bit with their subordinates, but saying too much wasn’t good, especially towards a pretty female employee. In the ink colored mirror, Yi Pei changed his line of sight, and concentrated on driving, even answering a bluetooth call in between.
Shi Jian also took out her phone. She had sent Ye Jiacheng a text earlier in the airport telling him that she was waiting for him by the pillar in exit #6.
Ye Jiacheng still hadn’t replied to her. Did he not deplane yet?
Ye Jiacheng wasn’t a little late, he was late for a full hour. He only turned on his phone after getting off the plane, the first notification that popped up was Shi JIan’s text. He walked out pushing his luggage, and headed directly to exit #6. Today was his birthday, so there were many birthday blessings in his messages, from those he was familiar with and those who weren't. He sent a thank you to a few of them, and skipped Song Xiaojing.
Cutting contact with the ex girlfriend was the most basic respect towards the present girlfriend. Oh, but, she wasn’t yet his girlfriend, but will be soon.
He arrived at exit #6 and looked around.
Left, right, forward, backward.
Where was she?
——
Shi Jian followed Yi Pei back to the office. The car was parked at Yi Mao Real Estate’s special parking lot; the phone in her pocket vibrated at the same time. She disembarked holding Yi Pei’s document bag, and shut the car door.
Her mood was hard to describe, like the unceasing vibration of the phone in her pocket, trembling and nervous.
“President Yi.” She walked to Yi Pei’s side, and decided to be honest, “I…… won’t go in, I took half a day off today.”
Yi Pei stood by the car, listening to her.
Telling the truth was better than digging yourself into a deeper hole. Shi Jian raised her head with a smile, and tried her best to tell the story vividly and amusingly, “I actually went to the airport today to pick up a good friend, unexpectedly……” someone else appeared first.
Of course, she mustn’t say it like that. Shi Jian continued humorously, “I didn’t expect to be so fortunate, to go so far as…… having the honor to pick up President Yi……”
At this, Shi Jian really cheered up. In reality, there was nothing terrible, explaining a misunderstanding clearly. It would all be in the past with a few jokes about it. Being human and doing things, people are inclined to lessen a lot of unnecessary burdens. Would Yi Pei be so petty as to fire her over this? If he really was as petty as this, even if she knew how successful Yi Pei would become in the future, she would rather resign herself.
As expected, Yi Pei lightly and comfortably laughed, “Putting it like that, my luck is also pretty good. I earned my employee’s time off for nothing.”
Hehehehehe, it really could be said like that. Shi Jian waved and said her goodbyes: “President Yi, I’ll leave now. See you tomorrow.”
Yi Pei: “Alright, see you tomorrow.”
Shi Jian walked on the sidewalk. The call that she hadn’t answered turned out to be Ye Jiacheng. She pressed the call back button. It rang only twice, and was answered by Ye Jiacheng. He immediately asked her: “Shi Jian, where are you?”
The calm avenue nearby Yi Mao Real Estate had tall and sturdy Chinese parasol trees on both sides. The setting sun already left the canopy, leaving only half the sky. She helplessly and guiltily said: “I’m still…… at the office.”
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On the other side of the phone, Ye Jiacheng paused for a second, as if he suddenly understood something, “So, you were playing with me.”
“No——.” Shi Jian denied with her head bowed. When she sent the text saying that she was at exit #6, she really was there, only……
“I…… didn’t have enough time.”
Ye Jiacheng was silent. Shi Jian turned around, in front of her was an unending stream of people and traffic. She said happily: “Today is your birthday, how do you plan to celebrate?”
Ye Jiacheng didn’t reply to her. She knew Ye Jiacheng hated people playing tricks with him. Suddenly she had a feeling that Ye Jiacheng was about to hang up the call. Sure enough, Ye Jiacheng’s cold voice came from the speaker: “Shi Jian, I’m a bit tired. I won’t celebrate today.”
“……”
Ye Jiacheng ended the call.
Du—— du——
Shi Jian lowered her cellphone.
Women were easily hurt by their loved ones. There was no need to stab them in the heart; a cold and indifferent sentence was enough. Her cell phone suddenly pinged. She reflexively looked at the screen. It was a reminder from the bakery. The black forest cake she’d ordered yesterday was ready.
Shi Jian pursed her lips, indifferent, and continued walking forward. Just forgive him, Mr.Ye was the birthday boy today.
If it was the past, would he hang up on you?
Of course he wouldn't. Even if he was really tired, Ye Jiacheng would still reach a hand out towards her: “Come here, baby, let me hug you.”
Before she had the baby, Ye Jiacheng had told her, she would be his biggest baby, his only baby.
……
Ye Jiacheng came over from the airport by himself, the sky dimmed. Probably because his jet lag hadn’t yet adjusted, he felt that the sky darkened too quickly.
Not celebrating his birthday anymore, he directly returned to his apartment in the south of the city. He wasn’t used to living in small places, and he rented a large area for a single person. Gao Yanfei said he was very wasteful, then said he could hide and pamper quite a few concubines in there.
Concubines? He was afraid that the one he wanted to hide, wasn’t able to be easily pampered.
Ye Jiacheng softly exhaled, opening the door. He didn’t know whether Shi Jian came by today. He turned on the corridor light in passing, first checking to see whether the fish in the glass tank had died yet.
Each one was lively, not only not dead, but there were also two more turtles inside. He reached out a hand and bumped them; they moved. They were also alive.
The lights in the living room turned on in succession. Ye Jiacheng stepped on the floorboards, the house silent. He walked in sluggishly, his gaze landing on the dining table in the living room; there were an extra bunch of flowers. On the black tabletop was also a gift box and some candles.
He missed out on…… a candlelit dinner? He opened the refrigerator, and sure enough, there were two packaged fillet steaks inside.
He really did miss out on a candlelit dinner.
Were the steaks cooked by her tasty?
At nightfall, the winter city would be foggy and hazy. The two rows of street lamps on the street below glowed in the dense fog, vague and fuzzy. Ye Jiacheng leaned by the window, his slender finger browsed through his contact list, one by one, until finally stopping on “Little Fox”.
Then, he pressed it.
The call quickly connected. He again asked her where she was.
“Shi Jian, where are you?”
Shi Jian was carrying a cake box, answering Ye Jiacheng’s call while walking on the street. She glanced up at the street sign and said, “I…… should be near your place.”
“……near is where? Okay, tell me exactly where you are, I’ll come pick you up.”
“Alright.” Shi Jian hung up, smiling, and lowered her head to send a text to Ye Jiacheng.
A lot of things…… were still the same. Such as, each time she couldn’t find a place, she just sent the address to Ye Jiacheng, and he would find her. He would always be scared that she would get lost.
Shi Jian typed out the characters, exhaling a puff of white air, missing her cellphone’s dictation and gps function. She was a bit chilly. After she used a finger to press send, she immediately put her hand inside her warm pockets; the other hand carried the cake, and was about to be frozen stiff.
After waiting for five minutes, Shi Jian looked up, and had a feeling that it was about to snow.
Suddenly…… the cake in her hand was taken away, her frozen body was held. A familiar timbre drifted over her head, “Don’t tell me, you don’t know how to find a warm place to wait?”
Of course she knew, but she was afraid he wouldn’t be able to find her. Shi Jian turned with a beaming face, looking at Ye Jiacheng, who had rushed over. He came out only wearing a woolen sweater.
Ye Jiacheng held her hand as they walked along the road.
The right person, would always be the right person in the end. Just like that sentence Ye Jiacheng said when he proposed: “You are the one that I like, the one that I want, the one that is right.” Shi Jian’s heart was warm, her steps quick and light, feeling like she could skip as she walked. She softly cleared her throat, and asked: “Ye Jiacheng, do I count as your girlfriend yet?”
Ye Jiacheng didn’t say anything. His chin lifted slightly, not allowing her to see his expression.
Surprisingly, he was still hesitating? She Jian huffed: “If I’m not, then let go of my hand…… I’ll walk by myself.”
Ye Jiacheng didn’t let go. On the contrary, he tightened his grip.
Snugly, warmly. His palm even emitted a layer of sweat.
Everything was about to come out. Shi Jian cracked a smile, overjoyed! She was finally able to return to the side of the one she loved.
Walking with Ye Jiacheng out of the elevator, she explained a bit of tonight’s plans, her tone sweet: “In a bit we can have a candlelit dinner, I’ll sauté a steak for you; then a movie, when it’s midnight, we’ll blow out the candles and have cake…… someone told me blowing out the candles at midnight will bring especially good luck for next year……” The one who said that blowing out candles at midnight brought good luck was actually Ye Jiacheng himself.
It was past 8 P.M. Entering the apartment, Shi Jian grabbed the apron that she’d bought last time.
Ye Jiacheng also put down the cake, looking at her, then walked over to help. On an impulse, nevertheless slightly concupiscent, he reached an arm out and held her waist.
The breath that suddenly quickened belonged to both of them.
He thought she would dodge him. Unexpectedly, she even naturally leaned closer to his embrace. Then, facing him, she flashed a beaming smile, her clear eyes twinkling.
These were a pair of eyes that knew how to speak, but he couldn’t understand them. She gave him a feeling that his other girls had never given him before: tart, bitter, sweet, greasy…… as well as something that made him crazily impulsive.
He restrained this impulse.
Then, she unexpectedly, confidently stood on her tiptoes, and even used her rosy lips to brush the corner of his mouth, “Happy birthday, Jiacheng.”
About to go crazy! Ye Jiacheng felt himself about to go crazy.
Was she an evildoer? If she was, how many years had she cultivated? Appearing in his universe for no reason, one moment she played the role of an obedient and cute bunny, becoming an elegant and mysterious fox the next. No matter which facet, they all captivated his attention……
No matter.
Ye Jiacheng dipped his head a fraction lower, slowly, sharply exhaling a scorching breath. He also learned from her, lightly touching her chin, then pried her lips open a sliver.
No hesitation.
Tonight, even if she wanted to suck his blood dry, he would devour her flesh and bones!
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