See You Again (Time Already Knows) - Chapter 14
Chapter 14 - Damn It, He Didn’t Fuck Her Before Leaving, And Actually Felt Kind Of Sorry For Himself
His lips feverish, Ye Jiacheng kissed Shi Jian, deliberately pretending to lack experience. She matched him, familiar with his lips, as if she’d kissed them many times before.
Two fish in the tank were blowing bubbles, like they were playing a game, one after the other.
Gurgle.
Today really was a splendid day. Ye Jiacheng clutched her waist, Shi Jian couldn’t help but smile. Gurgle. She still lightly shoved Ye Jiacheng aside, “I’m gonna go sauté the steaks.”
“Okay.” Ye Jiacheng stopped, his hand stayed on her waist as before; he paused, went behind her, and helped her fasten her apron without leaving a mark.
Not knowing how to tie a knot, his butterfly bow turned into a dead knot. It led to her not being able to take the apron off after she finished sautéing the steaks.
Indifferently, Shi Jian just kept the apron on as she scurried back and forth between the kitchen and dining room. She was like a fish in the fishtank, content to amuse herself. Two steaks were the main course, both medium done. She used to say Ye Jiacheng was a savage man who devoured raw meat, but slowly, she also came to like medium done steak as he did.
As Shi Jian was preparing the candlelit dinner, Ye Jiacheng waited on the sofa peacefully. He was the birthday boy tonight, as well as a man. He watched Shi Jian set out the knives and forks as if she was the hostess, then stood to walk to the liquor cabinet. He had a bottle of good wine hidden here. He wasn’t willing to open it even after Gao Yanfei begged him for a month.
Tonight, he was very willing, and even worried the wine wouldn’t be fragrant enough.
As Ye Jiacheng opened the bottle, Shi Jian came over, looking at this bottle of wine as though it was of exceptionally good quality. He curled his lip in satisfaction, she understood as much.
Shi Jian was truly, extremely excited. It turned out Ye Jiacheng had this bottle of Bordeaux red wine as early as this. She distantly remembered on her past birthday, Ye Jiacheng celebrated for her, then took out this bottle. He even specifically emphasized that he’d saved this bottle of red wine for many years. Back then, she’d even asked if it was counterfeit. Ye Jiacheng huffed and jabbed her forehead: “Am I, Ye Jiacheng, the kind of man that uses counterfeit wine to cheat girls? At most, I would just dilute it with some water.”
Thinking about it like this, Ye Jiacheng had indeed concealed this wine for many years.
Now, he wanted to drink it early?
Shi Jian grinned. The same bottle of wine, the same person, all ahead of time. Surprise? Or was it another of fate’s plans?
A swirl of snow drifted outside, like countless butterflies filling the sky. Good wine needed to be tasted diligently, and also needed to be shared with one’s beloved. Only like that could the flavor be enhanced.
Shi Jian drank until her cheeks flushed.
Ye Jiacheng also drank until his pupils sparkled.
Then they both waited to blow the candles out and make a wish at midnight on the dot. The two sat in front of the floor to ceiling windows in the living room, facing each other. Between them was the birthday cake with the candles not yet lit. The wine bottle that was half empty was also brought over.
The inside was warm, the outside was filled with the fluttering of heavy snow, drifting down in a flurry.
Shi Jian’s spirits were high. She raised her head and softly hummed a song from a future movie1, “What to do with this lovely day, who to toil for, who to be sweet to. We pass by this time young and inexperienced, yet it is a charming and beautiful place. Tatatatatata, tatata…… understood time.”
Ye Jiacheng held the bottle, leaning his back languidly on the floor to ceiling window. As Shi Jian blundered through the song, he smiled. Then his lids slightly drooped, harboring a fuzzy warmth inside.
It was almost midnight, Shi Jian put the candles onto the cake one by one. She was a bit drunk, the five candles were stuck on all over the place.
Luckily, Ye Jiacheng didn’t mind.
She lit the candles and turned off all the lights in the living room. The flickering candlelight reflected off the sleek floorboards, as if they were dancing.
Shi Jian started singing the birthday song, then applauded with her brows raised in delight, saying: “Happy birthday to Mr.Ye. This day occurs each year, this moment occurs each year. Your future is bright, no clouds…… for a thousand miles.”
She even said no clouds for a thousand miles out loud, Ye Jiacheng smiled: “Thanks.”
Shi Jian laughed, looking at the cake with her hands on her cheeks. Finally, it was time to eat cake. Yet, before she even had a bite, he’d already kissed her lips.
Sweet.
Someone still had butter on the corner of their mouth.
Shi Jian was drunk, and she happily and energetically let her drunkenness show. Ye Jiacheng carried her to the bedroom, consciousness already muddled. She stooped up to kiss the familiar brow, lashes, the corner of his eye, then followed his nose bridge down to his mouth. Ye Jiacheng said her small teeth would bite, so she bit his lip, both arms tightly wrapped around his neck. She used a tone that indicated she would never want to leave him in this life to say: “Husband, I love you…… we will never part again.”
“……husband!”
Shi Jian cried, confusedly. Large droplets of tears came crashing down.
She was drunk, and not aware of her tears.
Husband, I love you.
Husband, we will never part again……
Ye Jiacheng placed Shi Jian on the bed, eyes gradually chilling. He thought, tonight really agreed with that line Shi Jian just sang: “What to do with this lovely day, who to toil for, who to be sweet to”.
Ye Jiacheng put on a coat, and left his own room.
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It snowed; the temperature outside made him shiver. Ye Jiacheng kept his face steady, then fastened the buttons on his coat one by one. Looks like he really thought too much. He, Ye Jiacheng, had been a disaster for thousands of years. Even if the little fox wanted to repay a debt in gratitude, she wouldn’t repay it on his head.
Damn it, he didn’t fuck her before leaving, and actually felt kind of sorry for himself.
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When Shi Jian woke up the next day, Ye Jiacheng wasn’t there anymore. Her mouth was in a bit of pain. She wailed in front of the mirror, how was there such a big gash?!
Ye Jiacheng did it?!
Certainly it was Ye Jiacheng, if it wasn’t him then it could only be a ghost. She was nervous going to work, not being able to contact Ye Jiacheng. She sent him another text while in the taxi.
Ye Jiacheng replied to her text: “I am at work, can’t take calls right now.”
She replied: “Oh, I’m also going to work.”
Ye Jiacheng didn’t continue to chat with her.
Shi Jian didn’t go directly to Yi Mao Real Estate; she went to an inexpensive clothing supermarket first. The shop just opened, and the cashier yawned as they accepted her 100 yuan bill. She came out wearing a simple exercise outfit, then hurried to be Yi Mao Real Estate’s general manager as quickly as possible. She was late by more than half an hour, and wanted to sneakily enter the office, but eventually realized that there seemed to be many people late today.
The secretary said to her: “Did you not receive the message? Yesterday Zhang Kai specially sent it. The snow caused slippery roads today, everyone can come to work an hour late.”
Shi Jian glanced at her phone; there really was a group message that she hadn’t seen in time. So, she not only was not late, but was even early?
She still hadn’t had breakfast. The office offered free milk and biscuits. She grabbed a serving, then stood in the break room drinking her milk, casually staring at the wall at the same time. Zhang Kai walked over holding a mug, and joked: “Going jogging even in the snow, how diligent.”
Zhang Kai finished pouring his water. As Zhang Kai was about to leave, he gestured at her mouth and teased: “I have ointment, do you need it?”
Zhang Kai really was…… Shi Jian was reminded of Gao Yanfei. She could accept this kind of teasing at her expense, magnanimously lifting her lip and grinned: “Thanks for your concern. It doesn’t really hurt, i don’t need it for now.”
It was common for young couples to joke maturely. Only, someone said greasily and harmfully: it’s impossible for someone to be too vulgar. The secretary came in to brew coffee. Yi Pei’s personal special coffee beans were on the uppermost cupboard, each bean the highest quality. Shi Jian was addicted to coffee, and turned away from the secretary milling coffee beans.
It was so fragrant, she was afraid she wouldn’t be able to resist asking the secretary for a small cup.
Shi Jian returned to her desk, clenching her fist. She should work hard to earn money; even if she couldn’t rely on Ye Jiacheng, relying on herself still required returning to her previous lifestyle. Ye Jiacheng spoiled her and made the money. After they married, her food and clothing were all the best quality. Now that she was impoverished, she could only drink more boiled water and work harder.
Thinking of Ye Jiacheng, Shi JIan was in a bit of a stupor. Yesterday night she was drunk; she recalled Ye Jiacheng carrying her to the bedroom, then……
Licking the small wound at the corner of her lip, Shi Jian thought of a female friend she had a good relationship with in the past. The friend lived for 8 years never settling for second best, and chided her, “Too long without fucking, feels like a virgin, the hymen would automatically repair itself.”
She couldn’t help massaging her forehead, as if her current situation could be described as such.
Shi Jian put her chin in her palm, feeling like she was still a bit drunk. Unexpectedly, reflecting on why Ye Jiacheng didn’t…… mentally, she was a woman that had already experienced sex, so even if she wasn’t sober last night, she would still know if it happened when she woke the next day.
It didn’t!
Having nothing to do, Shi Jian senselessly calculated the projections of the profit margin of the Gelan City Project.2 Zhang Kai came over to get her, saying that President Yi was looking for her.
Yi Pei was looking for her?
Shi Jian stood, a bit confused. Her current work was mostly given to her by Zhang Kai, why was Yi Pei looking for her? Zhang Kai gave her a warning that it was related to Gelan City.
……she really carried Gelan City!
Shi Jian knocked, then pushed open Yi Pei’s office door. It was her first time entering his office. She discovered that the interior was very large, big enough for her to not be able to see where Yi Pei was, as if they were playing hide and seek. She stood by the door and called: “President Yi.”
“Enter.” Yi Pei’s voice came from inside.
Eh? Shi Jian turned her head, hearing that the sound came from the floor to ceiling screen in front of her. It turned out this was a coat room, and the inside of the office even had a small parlor. She noiselessly shut the door and walked into the parlor, footsteps muffled by the plush carpet. Then she stood upright and waited quietly by a large vase. Yi Pei peacefully sat in the innermost part of the room, flipping through a document with his head lowered. Incense was lit in the parlor room; the scent was a bit familiar.
Shi Jian recalled, this scent was exactly the scent she noticed last time in Yi Pei’s car, most likely used to calm the nerves. Additionally, Yi Pei appeared to be very afraid of the cold. The temperature inside his office was a little warmer than the outside.
She Jian felt that she was about to sweat. She wore a coat unlike Yi Pei, who had his sleeves rolled up, revealing his forearm.
Finally, Yi Pei put down his document, and looked up at her. He went straight to the point: “Shi Jian, how is your relationship with Yang Jiantao?”
She didn’t answer immediately, as though she was pondering. She only spoke after a while, and didn’t answer the question directly: “Yang Jiantao is the husband of my mother’s younger sister. I’ve lived in his household since age ten.”
She thought, this answer was meaningless to Yi Pei. Since he asked, he certainly already knew the things he needed to know. Sure enough, Yi Pei looked at her askance, and said even more clearly, his tone unhurried: “I have a contract here, why didn’t Director Yang want to sign it?”
……
The Gelan City Project was halted. Yang Group could take over the project from the beginning again, but the contract had to be changed. Gelan City’s original contract terms were negotiated by Yang Jiantao and Yi Pei’s mother’s third brother, Yi Qindong. The three sons of the Yi family were all lascivious and drank in excess; Yang Jiantao knew the best ways to deal with that kind of people. He swayed Yi Qindong and got that contract signed by gradually gaining their favor. The report she gave to Yi Pei last time was exactly what Yi Pei needed to make a ruckus, dealing with that careless meddler of Yi Mao Real Estate, his own uncle.
His uncle settled, leaving the mess behind. Yi Pei was not Yi Qindong, and naturally wouldn’t continue to accept the original terms of the contract.
But this new contract…… Yang Jiantao normally wouldn’t sign; it was really too harsh!
Yang Jiantao had said that inside the Yi family, the one he disliked the most was Yi Pei. That’s right, Yi Pei’s character was simply too hard to deal with. Shi Jian set down the contract document. Yi Pei really gave her a difficult problem.
She was silent, Yi Pei also had a calm and indifferent expression.
“I actually quite wish to continue working together with Director Yang, but he seems to be more fond of my third uncle.” Yi Pei spoke, leaning on the sofa, seeing that she didn’t pick a side. He suddenly blinked, slightly leaning towards her…… as if confiding in one of his trusted employees. Yi Pei first gazed into her eyes, then said: “Shi Jian, do you have any ideas?”
Yi Pei was pressuring her, not batting an eyelid.
He really was a natural born capitalist!
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