See You Again (Time Already Knows) - Chapter 3
Chapter 3 - «The Mr.Yi In My Eyes»
Husband!
Wait for her!
A moment too late. The elevator door shut, already starting to descend.
Shi Jian did not give up. She briskly went over to the panel and pressed the down button. The hotel staff on the left thought she wanted to catch the elevator that just left, and kindly reminded her, “Miss, no need to be impatient, the next one will arrive quickly.”
Shi Jian silently turned away, not wanting to say another word.
In the elevator that just descended, Ye Jiacheng was answering a question about how to apply for study abroad offers for graduate students. A college student named Gao amusedly interrupted, “Jiacheng, I think there was a girl chasing after you just now.”
Ye Jiacheng refuted, “Is there only one man in this group?”
“That’s not true,” Gao Yan Fei delightedly said, “But out of all of us, the highest probability would be you.”
Ye Jiacheng laughed, disagreeing with Gao Yanfei but decided not to continue arguing. A text message popped up on his phone. He glanced at it, then said seriously, “Xiaojing arrived. She's already waiting in the lobby. You guys continue having fun. I’ll be going.”
“Oh?” Gao Yanfei hooked an arm around Ye Jiacheng’s shoulder. “You two are an item?”
Ye Jiacheng pursed his lip, and said, “What do you think?” He smiled with enough complacency for two teenagers, but not revealing anything.
The elevator stopped on the first floor. Ye Jiacheng and his group of friends and students came out. He swept his gaze over the lobby, looking for Song Xiaojing’s figure. Gao Yanfei suddenly gave his shoulder a clap, motioning him to look to the left.
He thought he would see Song Xiaojing, instead, he saw a beautiful stranger. She gazed at him, out of breath. She looked like an adorable monster that just finished a race, hair frazzled and eyes moist.
Surprisingly, the woman seemed to know him, and strode towards him with resolve.
Ye Jiacheng didn’t really know how to respond in this situation, so he scoured his brain for her name, but couldn't remember if he'd encountered this woman before. Is it his auntie’s daughter? A friend’s little sister? A junior? Nope.
Generally speaking, his memory isn't terrible at all.
If Ye Jiacheng’s memory isn't terrible, then Shi Jian’s memory definitely isn't great. After she and Ye Jiacheng married, she'd idly wondered: When they were elderly, if she developed Alzheimer's disease and forgot him, what would he do? Jiacheng had laughed and pinched her cheek, “Not bad, not bad. Then I will tell you, old lady, that back in the day you pursued after me, the kind of person who can’t be pursued.”
“But, it was you who pursued after me, Ye Jiacheng. Who did you just call an old lady?!”
……
The situation now seemed to be the complete opposite. She remembered him, but he didn't remember her. Shi Jian comfortingly thought that his wish would be granted this one time; it was her turn to pursue him.
“Hi…” she began, but was interrupted by an irritating voice. It was Gao Yanfei, Ye Jiacheng’s gangster classmate.
Gao Yanfei flashed a smile, and said, “Hey, chick, this guy in front of you already has a girlfriend and is passionately in love. Why don’t you take a step back and consider me? I don’t have a girlfriend, and I’m handsome too.”
Shi Jian recognized Gao Yanfei. This man had bought a house directly across from her and Ye Jiacheng’s residence. He often barged into their relationship, even after they were married. The typical girlfriend was not into men like him, and he became a single pringle who couldn’t find a wife.
Shi Jian glanced coldly at him. Gao Yanfei shut his mouth, feeling a bit disappointed. Damn, was he just glared at by this girl?
“Hi.” Shi JIan turned, naturally smiling sweetly at Ye Jiacheng. No matter what, she definitely would get the phone number he was currently using. Even if she remembered his future phone number, what use was that? The number would forever be empty.
“You look exactly like my future....”
“Jiacheng!” a gentle feminine voice called from a distance. Ye Jiacheng turned around, replying to the woman looking for him first. He said in a clear voice, “I’m over here.”
Shi Jian opened her mouth, the word “husband” stuck in her throat, unable to be said out loud.
Gao Yanfei’s irritating voice drifted over again, “See? I didn’t lie. Our handsome boy Mr.Ye really does have a girlfriend. We should care about which of us don’t have a girlfriend. Raise your hand and let this lady have her pick.”
Many people all raised their hands, and laughed with amusement. Some of them looked in anticipation, as if expecting some drama to go down, glancing between her and Song Xiaojing.
Now it’s getting fun, they were surely thinking.
But Shi Jian wasn’t amused; her posture stiffened.
Song Xiaojing walked over. The clever woman instantly recognized what probably transpired, and held Ye Jiacheng’s arm quietly. She kindly nodded her head at Shi Jian, and cleverly took over, “Excuse me, Jiacheng, do you know this girl? Why don’t you introduce us?”
“I don’t know her.” Ye Jiacheng replied flatly, looking to not dwell on the subject and to immediately exit the scene. “We’re leaving now. See you later, everyone.”
See you later, everyone. As expected, Ye Jiacheng’s “everyone” did not include her.
Ye Jiacheng, good going!
Shi Jian slowly turned, watching Ye Jiacheng and Song Xiaojing depart. Ye Jiacheng’s hand was even on Song Xiaojing’s waist, the two talking and laughing.
Shi Jian couldn’t accept it, and couldn’t help following them, but her hand was suddenly grabbed by someone. Gao Yanfei amusedly asked her, “What, you still want to follow after failures?”
She peeled off Gao Yanfei’s hand, and snapped, “I can’t go outside to get a breath of air?”
“Okay okay okay.” Gao Yanfei loosened his hand and suddenly said, “I’m Gao Yanfei. Do you want my number?”
Shi Jian glared fiercely at him, and stomped towards the door. Halfway, she turned around and swiftly strode back.
“Gao Yanfei, your number…. give it to me.” She stood in front of him.
Gao Yanfei didn’t think she was this fickle at all, the skin on her face this thick1, and benevolently put his phone number into her phone. When he understood her motive, he appraised, “You have bad intentions ah––––”
Shi Jian left with a blank expression on her face. She and Gao Yanfei had never talked much, she's just relying on Gao Yanfei’s unchanging love of stirring up shit.
……
Shi JIan waited for Lai Qiao outside the hotel. Across from her was the main road where cars come and go. This steadfast city was both familiar and unfamiliar; the landscape became blurry. She lifted her head and admired the moon that hung over the skyscrapers. She thought that the area in front of her was all old, even the color of the moon struck some nostalgia deep in her heart, triggering a warm prickly feeling.
Lai Qiao quickly came down, Song Zicheng exiting with her. Song Zicheng’s party already prepared a car for him. He held the keys to the Buick and said, “I’ll drive you both back.”
Lai Qiao was lost for a moment.
Inside the car, Lai Qiao naturally asked Shi Jian why she suddenly rushed downstairs. Shi Jian replied, “Saw someone familiar.”
Lai Qiao smiled, “Guy or girl?”
“Guy.” Shi Jian also smiled, her originally bad mood strangely lifted by Lai Qiao’s unending questions. After all, no matter how terrible it was, she'd seen the orb of brilliance outside the window.
Tonight’s moon is very luminous, so tomorrow’s forecast must be great.
Sure enough, the next day was bright and sunny. Shi Jian and Lai Qiao brought their blankets out into the sun. When they returned, they came across Zhao Yilin sitting on the bed dazed. Both of them didn’t know Zhao Yilin very well, but she knew her a bit better than Lai Qiao did, because after all, she knew what Zhao Yilin would be like in the future.
After her internship ended, Zhao Yilin remained at Yi Mao, and was invited to work at Yi Mao Real Estate, becoming Yi Pei’s capable assistant. She remained unmarried, and decided to leave Yi Mao and start her own business a couple years later. She even wrote a book, «The Mr.Yi In My Eyes». It became the best-selling book of the year.
The reason Shi Jian knew so much about this was because she'd even bought her book. The reason she bought the book was to meet the pre-order demand.
She recalled that «The Mr.Yi In My Eyes» was rather a pain to read. Before she read it, she thought it was an emotional story about Zhao Yilin and Yi Pei’s history. She attentively read it with that idea in mind. It turned out to be a journal about Zhao Yilin’s career, the main topic being nostalgia and appreciation for Yi Pei. It felt like it had some emotion, but that was like a dragonfly’s wing brushing the water, unclear and barely touched upon. But the thing that caused her the most pain were some pleasantly casual paragraphs about herself and Lai Qiao.
Zhao Yi Lin had written: “I was an intern when I first joined Yi Mao. I remember Yi Mao gave us interns temporary dorms. I lived in a four person apartment, with three people in total, including me. But I didn’t get along well with the other two women, so I didn’t stay in the dorm much. I felt like I was different from them. One of them was passionately dating online, and one wanted to take the exam for the postgraduate program at B University, but she didn’t study very hard at all.2 I don’t know what she was thinking……”
No doubt, she was the stupid roomate clamoring all day about taking the exam for the postgraduate program at B University that Zhao Yilin wrote about.
In any case, she had passed that exam.
Shi JIan walked into the dorm and poured herself a cup of water. Zhao Yilin gave her a small smile. She didn’t really want to deal with her, but still forced a smile onto her face. Her phone rang just then; it was her auntie urging her to go to dinner.
What is unavoidable cannot be delayed.
Shi JIan called a taxi to Auntie’s house. These past two years her uncle turned over a construction company, agitating it completely, and also leased a townhouse and car at the same time. Already, he was no longer the Yang Jiantao that her auntie had stubbornly decided to marry.
Others call him–––– Director Yang.
Auntie and Yang Jiantao both treated her very well, and their relationship with each other was very close.
All in all, Auntie was still her only relative in A-City. Her parents went to work outside the country after her little brother was born. Their workplace decided that they could only take one child with them, so she had stayed in the country the whole time, all by herself, free and unfettered. Using her professor’s words, “Shi Jian is already used to domestic exam based education, going abroad right now isn’t a good idea. We can arrange it after she graduates college.”
After meant ten plus years.
That was why she wanted to take the exam for B University’s postgraduate program. She didn’t want to hear them arranging her traveling out of country plans, letting her go abroad to study and work. How could there be such a good thing in this world, opportunity coming when you want it and leaving when you don’t.
Only, it was less than thirty days from the exam, could she still bump into crappy luck like her past self?
The answer surely must be……unable to pass the exam!
Not to mention, she already knew which shortcuts she should take, why should she go around on the long road? It still wouldn't be better than to use her good years to have a proper relationship with Ye Jiacheng.
thankyou for the translations!!! So Ye Jaichen already has a girlriend.
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