See You Again (Time Already Knows) - Chapter 10
Chapter 10 - Could It Be That The Little Fox Was Her?! He Already Sneakily Gave Her A Pet Name?
Truly, how–– vicious!
Ye Jiacheng said it so meticulously that Gao Yanfeo could naturally hear the meaning in his words. He deliberately brought up another person: “Song Xiaojing is gonna be so heartbroken.”
Ye Jiacheng did not agree: “She dumped me first, what does she have to be heartbroken about?”
Gao Yanfei was disinclined to say any more, someone could guess correctly and pretend to be a fool. He admired this about Ye Jiacheng. He dealt with intimate relationships honestly and bluntly. People who come together often leave separately, how they say, absolutely unrestrained.
Shi Jian came over, and doled out three bowls of soup.
Gao Yanfei sighed as if he was hurt: “I really admire Mr.Handsome Ye. He has so many pretty ladies after him. He’s not like me, a solitary lonely person.”
Shi Jian beamed as she sat down. She split her single use chopsticks, and asked: “Are there that many?”
Gao Yanfei teased: “Do you think you’re the only one who sees Ye Jiacheng’s beauty and talents, and the other girls are all blind?”
“Oh––––” Shi Jian let out a long “oh”. Not willing to give up, she turned and asked the man himself: “Are there really that many?”
How straightforward. Ye Jiacheng’s cold was still not better. He coughed, and accepted the napkin she handed him. He forcefully replied: “Not, many.”
“That’s right.” Shi Jian’s brow curved, “This means that there are many ladies that have taste, and know that you are an immovable, fickle man that likes clingy girls.”
Ye Jiacheng: “……” He instantly felt stifled. What kind of appraisal was this?
“HAHA! HAHAHA!” Gao Yanfei howled with laughter. He had thought Shi Jian would be upset. Unexpectedly, the plot immediately twisted. He had seen a nice show, and ran with it: “Then, Sis Shi, why would you want an immovable, fickle man that likes clingy girls?”
“I have no choice, I just like him.” Shi Jian heaved a sigh, as if she was deeply troubled. Then she looked over at Ye Jiacheng, and sincerely suggested: “So you should get with me quickly. Don’t hurt others anymore.”
What do you mean, hurt others?
Ye Jiacheng calmly stood up––– he went to order another serving of vegetables.
On intimate relationships, who said the one that fell in love first was the losing party? Oftentimes the winner was the one with the thicker skinned face. Shi Jian wasn’t born shameless. On the contrary, she thought her face only became thick skinned after she got married. The reason for this was Ye Jiacheng’s fault.
Ye Jiacheng left the table cool and collected. Gao Yanfei deeply admired his willpower. “Meal card!” He shouted, then picked up the card and hurled it at Ye Jiacheng.
Ye Jiacheng turned around and elegantly caught it in his hand.
There was a line at the serving window. A girl walked towards Ye Jiacheng. She asked with an amiable expression: “Senior, can we borrow your meal card? We will give you cash.”
“Sorry, this meal card doesn’t belong to me.” Ye Jiacheng politely refused.
The girl’s face fell, and she could only go find someone else to ask.
See, this was what a normal girl should be like.
Ye Jiacheng looked back somewhat interestedly. Not far away, Gao Yanfei and Shi Jian were bantering with each other, as if they had been friends for many years.
Shi Jian…… just where did she come from?
Ye Jiacheng didn’t lack mysterious girls who liked him, but was still mystified by this girl named Shi Jian.
As the enigmas emerged, he had a special fondness for their mysteriousness. He didn’t have any reason for this feeling that filled up his world; it really made people lose their sense of security.
Likewise, why was the mysterious White Lady kind to Xu Xian?
Love?
No, it’s because the White Lady was a snake demon, unable to withstand thousands of years of loneliness.
Then, what was Shi Jian doing it for?
Lunchtime ended. Shi Jian wanted to continue studying at the library. He declined her request for him to tutor her because he had plans. She stood on the steps to the library, took a step, looked back at him, then waved sadly. The weather was warm today. She only wore a casual white sweater and skinny jeans; her mid length hair fell onto her shoulder, shining brightly in the afternoon sunlight, clean and elegant.
Ye Jiacheng almost regretted it. It would’ve been okay to stay and accompany her.
Then, Shi Jian suddenly ran down the stairs.
As if, she was a nimble fox.
Was she really a little fox? She didn’t have the scheming sinister fox eyes. A pair of bright sparkling eyes that could penetrate through to a person’s heart gazed.
“Jiacheng.” She ran over again, calling his name. Cheerfully, familiarly, as if she’d been calling him for a lifetime.
“Not studying anymore?” He shoved both his hands in his pockets, watching her attentively.
“I will later.” Shi Jian stood in front of him, then blurted: “Can you not fall in love with anyone else, before you fall in love with me?”
He fell blank, maintaining the most basic consciousness a man should have, as well as his signature arrogance, and replied: “Are you ordering me?”
“Requesting.” She let out an unrestrained laugh, “After all, you don’t hate me, right?”
Yes, he doesn’t hate her; so much so that he is filled to the brim with curiosity about her.
“What kind of situation is this.” He said with a languid tone, cracking into a smile.
“The ones who strike first are strong, I am scheduling this ahead of time.” Shi Jian smiled. She then took out a bill from her pocket. Taking advantage of his nonreaction, she shoved it into his pocket and said, “This is a hundred yuan. I’m paying in advance, keep it well.”
What, paying in advance? Even if she’s paying in advance, is a hundred enough?
Then, Shi Jian had already turned around and ran back into the library.
“……”
A hundred yuan in his hands, Ye Jiacheng decided to put it into his jacket pocket after all. He drove away from B University. The car was a recently bought new German model. He was more money conscious than most young people, but buying this car had used up his savings from the past six months.
He didn’t accept any assistance from his family, wanting to be unrestrained and unfettered. Coming across a supermarket, he took out some money to buy cigarettes, and accepted the change and a pack of Su Yan from the salesperson.
This was good.
He just spent all the money that was paid in advance.
……
Speaking of this tactic of paying in advance, she’d actually learned it from Ye Jiacheng himself.
Back when Ye Jiacheng was pursuing her, he did exactly as she did today, vulnerably shoving a hundred yuan into her hands. Then he resolutely said: “Accept my advance payment. You can’t fall in love with anyone else before you fall in love with me.”
So, she was only–––– learning from foreigners in order to take advantage of them, using the other’s tactic to win over them.
Shi Jian sat in the library studying, striving to memorize a few answers in the last few days she had. In actuality, she had placed her hopes too high; she absolutely could not remember all the material on that test from the past.
She might as well purposefully shut that thick textbook.
She had already attained a master’s degree before. Thinking about it, she didn’t feel that it was too rare anymore.
She rode the wobbly bus back to the Yi Mao dorms. Halfway, she received a call from Professor Shi, who was currently in a foreign country.
As soon as Professor Shi learned that she didn’t plan on taking the postgraduate entrance exam and didn’t want to continue studying abroad, the usual biweekly call turned into a call every two days. Shi Jian pressed the answer call button. A child’s voice speaking in fluent English immediately streamed out from the speaker. It wasn’t her father Professor Shi, but her little brother Shi Xiaoguang, Timothy. He must’ve stolen Professor Shi’s phone and called her.
“Tim.” She called him by his English name. She and her little brother had the same biological parents, but grew up in a completely different environment. One spoke Mandarin from childhood, and one only knew how to speak English. Tim occasionally spoke a few sentences in Mandarin, surprising the whole family.
Tim’s personality was also like that of foreign children, enthusiastic and vibrant. He always called her honey, as if she was a sweetheart.
“Call jiejie1.” Shi Jian interrupted his sentence.
“Jie……jie.” Tim liked to pronounce his Chinese haltingly.
Shi Jian wanted to laugh. Tim just spoke a whole smattering of sentences, especially asking her why she didn’t come over to accompany him. The little boy spoke gloomily and bitterly, as if she wanted to abandon him.
Undoubtedly, her parents already told Tim of her not coming abroad.
Shi Jian felt somewhat apologetic. She also really missed Tim. Tim asked her why she didn’t want to come anymore. She thought about it, and used English to explain: “Because I’ve already found your future jiefu2. I plan to live together with him.”
She was afraid that her little brother wouldn’t understand, and explained even more frankly: “He is the one that I like, the other half of my life.”
“Please stop talking.” Tim’s voice sounded even more miserable, “I understand. It’s just, to me, this is very terrible news.”
“Shouldn’t you be happy for me? She smiled to comfort Tim. “In the future, I can bring your jiefu to come visit you. He is funny and handsome, you’ll like him.”
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In her memory, Ye Jiacheng and Tim got along pretty well. After she and Ye Jiacheng married, Tim would fly back every holiday. He and Ye Jiacheng were best bros.
“No, I am very unhappy right now,” Tim said. “When you bring your boyfriend over, I will fight him.”
Shi Jian: “……” The brat was troublesome.
Then, for the first time ever, Tim didn’t wait for her to hang up, and ended the call himself.
Soon enough, a week passed.
Preparing for the exam again, Shi Jian didn’t feel nervous, only…… happy. Everyday she picked a few problems to send to Ye Jiacheng. Even if Ye Jiacheng didn’t have time to answer them on that day, he would send a text explaining the answers the next day.
How splendid! The best thing to learn was anything related to the profession of your romantic partner.
There was a wrapped present set aside on the desk. It was a shirt and necktie set she’d selected for Ye Jiacheng from the flagship store a while ago. She planned to give it to him after she finished the exam. Actually, she really wanted to give him a set of sturdy warm underwear, but was afraid of scaring him.
In the middle of winter, wives would worry about their husbands being cold.
Shi Jian picked up Zhang Kai’s advance phone call, and remembered last time at the flagship store: Yi Pei wanted her to start working at Yi Mao Real Estate on Monday.
……answering Zhang Kai’s call, Shi Jian was frustrated with her past few days of useless studying. No, It was useless “flirting”.
Luckily, Zhang Kai was easy to be flexible with. Once she learned that Shi Jian was taking B University’s postgraduate exam, she allowed her to come in two days later without consulting Yi Pei.
That flexible? Zhang Kai wasn’t worried that she would pass the exam, and break the contract that was already signed?
She asked that exact thing.
Zhang Kai laughed loudly: “Shi Jian, not everyone is recruited by Yi Pei himself. Postgraduate students aren’t much, even postdocs can’t necessarily grab President Yi’s attention. You are very outstanding, President Yi respects you very much. Besides, can freshly graduated postgrads even get a salary as high as the one President Yi is paying you?”
Indeed…… they can’t. Shi Jian thought Zhang Kai’s words were very inspiring. Instantly, she felt like she had a small sun inside her body bathing her in light, making her feel warm and pleased with herself.
Zhang Kai wasn’t wrong. Many years later, there would be many high level students fighting for Yi Pei’s attention.
Seeing as it was like this, she had even less pressure to pass the exam.
Actually, she had another embarrassing reason as to why she didn’t hesitate to enter Yi Mao Real Estate. Using her past life’s experience, the last time she left Yi Mao and went abroad, she finally brought back some real glowing treasure.
In the end, she valiantly went to an interview at Yi Mao Real Estate, and unexpectedly…… was rejected!
Subsequently, she joined Yi Mao’s biggest competitor, and coincidentally met Ye Jiacheng. Ye Jiacheng was the company’s CEO’s friend……
At the annual company meeting, she was swapped to be the host on stage at the last minute. Ye Jiacheng sat below her smiling politely and mischievously. Then the CEO was strangely nice to her; she thought that he wanted to coerce her for favors. He said to her with a smile: “Little Jian, I have a friend that’s not bad, surname Ye, called Jiacheng. He is talented and good looking, has a successful career, his ancestors are all virtuous……”
See, she thought it would turn out badly, but the heavens had other plans.
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Shi Jian finally entered the exam room.
She saw the exact same question, it could only be said to be some kind of fate. The estranged relationship between her and this exam paper.
Afterwards she basically just studied the exam question thinking it was a pain in the ass. She already had a muddled memory, but looking at this question again, a familiar feeling hit her head on.
However, nearly her whole exam period went like this:
Yes, it was exactly this question. She’d answered it before. But what was the answer?
This question was very easy. She finished it very quickly last time, but which one should she choose now?
This question was very familiar. Last time she just hadn’t answered it well, now it’s even less well……
All in all, knowing nothing at all would be better than this feeling.
Before the exam, Ye Jiacheng had sent her a text message. It was his first time taking the initiative to send a text, but what he’d addressed her as was a bit strange: “Fighting, little fox.”
She was afraid that he’d sent it to the wrong person, and asked: “Who’s the little fox?”
Ye Jiacheng didn’t reply.
She thought about it carefully. Could it be that the little fox was her?! He already sneakily gave her a pet name?
There were students cheating behind her. Shi Jian could feel their faint nervousness.
She held her pencil, continuing to rack her brain with honest effort. She didn’t know a large portion of the exam. If she really managed to pass this time, there had to be a Buddha to give her the answers.
Suddenly, a “pop” sounded. A lump of paper smacked her in the face.
Good gracious, there really was?!
She finally reacted. They could cheat if they wanted, but could they toss their notes more precisely?!
“Classmate…… can you…… return the answers to me?” The guy behind her was about to cry. He took advantage of the proctor’s inattentiveness and poked her with his pencil, begging her quietly.
Ai, how troublesome. She smoothly tossed the answers back to him.
……
Half an hour later, Shi Jian was “invited” to B University’s professors’ office.
The atmosphere was solemn.
The prestigious and responsible teachers of B University were discussing something: whether they should report to her contract employer about her giving out answers and cheating.
T/N: A note about the update schedule - I usually have posts scheduled to upload at 12:00 PST (UTC-8) on Tuesdays and Fridays. I also try to add the release to novelupdates around that time, or after if I am busy.
Poor Shi Jian. Caught passing the cheat.
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