See You Again (Time Already Knows) - Chapter 30
Chapter 30 - “Hello, Little Fox.”
“……boyfriend?” Zhang Kai repeated, unable to accept that Shi Jian already had a boyfriend, and so quickly.
Shi Jian glared at Zhang Kai. She couldn’t have a boyfriend, was that it? Even though Ye Jiacheng was her ex-boyfriend at most, as well as…… her husband in her heart. She had decided last night that since Ye Jiacheng hadn’t defined the relationship between them, then she would wait. She could handle being dumped once, but not twice.
Only, it wasn’t enough to express that she was unavailable, she also had to make clear that she was a girl who already had an owner.
“Zhang Kai, let’s go.” Yi Pei walked two or three steps ahead, then returned with a frown and called out to the unmoving Zhang Kai.
“Oh, then take care going back.” Zhang Kai was somewhat still in disbelief. He sincerely repeated, “I got your medicine for you. When you get home, clean it again.”
At this version of Zhang Kai, Shi Jian straightened and gave him another dose: “Thank you, Zhang Kai. I’ll tell my boyfriend later and get him to help me clean it.”
“……ok!” Zhang Kai left, turning agitatedly, and followed after Yi Pei with complicated feelings.
They exited the hospital and arrived at the parking lot.
Compared to Zhang Kai, Yi Pei was tranquil. So tranquil that Zhang Kai found it embarrassing to bring up the topic of Shi Jian having a boyfriend in front of him. Actually, Zhang Kai really wanted to share the conclusion he arrived at after thinking about it all day. The more he thought, the more he felt that Shi Jian was so stubborn that it made people sigh dearly.
Inside the car, Zhang Kai absolutely couldn’t help it and found an entrance into the conversation. He said to Yi Pei: “A-Pei, do you think Shi Jian would just find someone randomly?”
Yi Pei said nothing, not conversing with Zhang Kai.
“I hope not……” Zhang Kai answered his own question, unable to stop thinking about it. If it really was like that, he definitely would have to advise Shi Jian if she found a boyfriend just for the sake of having a boyfriend. She would be better off having him. At least she and he had a master and disciple relationship and already had a friendly relationship.
What to do? Zhang Kai had someone to continue speaking about this matter with, but Yi Pei clearly didn’t want to discuss this topic. The car entered an overpass, zipping by street lamps one by one. Ai! Zhang Kai stopped speaking and considered that Yi Pei really didn’t pay attention to Shi Jian, until Yi Pei suddenly asked him: “Does Shi Jian having a boyfriend or not concern you?”
“……no.” Zhang Kai said helplessly and continued to drive.
Yi Pei sat in the shotgun seat, his gaze settling somewhere off in the distance. The notebook and pen she’d brought today was still in the car. After some hesitation, he picked it up and flipped through it. It was filled with content. He sized up the notes. It was densely packed, and the handwriting was loopy and flowing. It was not at all like something a twenty-odd year old girl would have written.
She’d written so quickly this afternoon, had she gotten everything down? Yi Pei looked through the contents again. It was tidy, clear, and neatly arranged. She’d recorded all the important points he’d talked about and understood him better than the secretary that he had last year. So she wasn’t spacing out at all. Yi Pei closed the notebook.
Zhang Kai turned to look at Yi Pei and saw the notebook he held. That notebook was Shi Jian’s. They’d rushed to the hospital, so Shi Jian had left it behind in the car.
He really wanted to deliver it to her, and conveniently take a look at her boyfriend……
Shi Jian walked out of the hospital. Her knee was still throbbing faintly, but it didn’t affect her walking. She still gave Ye Jiacheng a call; it rang ten times before it connected. Ye Jiacheng seemed a bit impatient when he picked up the phone. He stifled it when he heard her voice and inquired: “Little fox?”
“Ye Jiacheng, what’re you doing?” Shi Jian stood at the entrance of the hospital.
Ye Jiacheng replied: “Working, drawing houses.”
“Oh,” Shi Jian sweetly replied. Ye Jiacheng spoke the exact same way as he would many years later in the future; he always said he was drawing houses.
“Then you draw your houses. Nothing’s up.” Shi Jian said, still wearing a smile. She knew Ye Jiacheng especially hated people bothering him when he worked. He needed an absolutely quiet environment. After they got married, the biggest room in their house was their study. They used to each have separate studies, but Ye Jiacheng was able to be persuaded. Shi Jian was used to being together and chatting all the time. It was too easy to get bored being alone.
“Nothing’s up?” Ye Jiacheng asked again. He leaned back on his chair. The executive chair made a creaking sound.
“Nothing!”
“Oh, then were you thinking of me?” Ye Jiacheng lightly laughed.
“Yeah,” Shi Jian admitted.
“Ai, ai……” Ye Jiacheng laughed again, but didn’t say anything else, as if he didn’t know what to say. He actually wasn’t planning on bringing up another topic to talk about. But, he also didn’t hang up the phone. The sounds of a keyboard could be heard through the speaker, sharply and sweetly. Shi Jian also didn’t bring up another topic. Then, Ye Jiacheng spoke with her some more.
“Have you eaten?” Ye Jiacheng asked her.
“Not yet.”
“Me too.” Ye Jiacheng said with a sigh, “But I’m busy tonight. And I already ordered takeout, so I can’t eat with you.”
“En.” She didn’t ask him to eat with her.
“Right.” Ye Jiacheng talked about something else, “Send me your card number later. Tomorrow I’ll find time to send you some money.”
“No need to send anything,” She replied.
Ye Jiacheng: “……why are you suddenly being modest?”
Shi Jian: “Next time I’ll come get it from you directly.”
Ye Jiacheng laughed carefreely. “Haha, alright. Little fox, I’m afraid I can’t keep chatting with you……” Before he even finished, fragments of noise came through the speaker.
Shi Jian was too familiar with these kinds of sounds. These were sounds that Ye Jiacheng would produce when he was working: the clacking of a precision measuring ruler, the scratching of a pencil moving across white paper, the clicking of a computer mouse, as well as the creaking sound of him leaning back slightly in his chair as he sipped his coffee and pondered.
As much as he was negligent, he was more focused than anyone when he worked.
Shi Jian placed her cellphone next to her ear. Ye Jiacheng hadn’t hung up yet. It seemed he was waiting for her to hang up first. She couldn’t bear it but she didn’t want to interrupt him anymore, so she said: “I’m hanging up. Fighting!”
“Haha…… alright.”
The next day, Shi Jian got her notebook and pen back from Zhang Kai. Zhang Kai hung up the phone and said to her: “Shi Jian, help President Yi and I book two plane tickets to Qinglin City later…… Right, how many flights to Qinglin City are left today? Help me look it up.”
Qinglin City? No need to look it up. Shi Jian quickly replied: “There should only be a five o’clock flight left.” She had researched the flights from A-City to Qinglin City a while ago. There currently weren’t as many flights as there would be in the future, but the five o’clock flight had never changed.
“Then the five o’clock flight it is,” Zhang Kai decided.
Shi Jian noted it and left, carrying her notebook. Zhang Kai headache-inducingly brought up: “Ye Qingde is really being frustrating to deal with. President Yi wants to personally go meet him.”
Ye Qingde! Shi Jian turned around fiercely.
Eh? Zhang Kai watched her and blinked confusedly. He thought she was curious as to why Yi Pei wanted to go to Qinglin city and explained to her: “Yi Mao Real Estate has work in Qinglin City. Next week is the year-end bid.”
Oh, oh, oh. Shi Jian nodded. So Yi Mao Real Estate expanded into Qinglin City in this time period. No wonder Yi Mao Real Estate took the lead in the national real estate industry in the future. Yi Pei had a good eye for development. That’s right, Qinglin City would quickly become a model city for the rapid development of real estate, having the housing prices of first tier cities inside a second tier city.
Of course, expanding into Qinglin City right now was the most fitting and best opportunity for the real estate industry.
“Then, Yi Pei wants to see…… Uncle Ye?” Shi Jian couldn’t help asking. It was simply not polite to directly use Gonggong’s personal name.1
“Uncle Ye?” Zhang Kai’s eyes widened, “Shi Jian, no way, you even know Ye Qingde?!”
Shi Jian felt annoyed at Zhang Kai’s reaction. She was really too careless. How could she know Ye Jiacheng’s dad right now?! She could only brace herself and say, “I like to make connections……”
“Alright, whatever you say.” Zhang Kai couldn’t take it anymore and said, “You really made a far connection. I am even Ye Qingde’s son, but my surname is Zhang. I couldn’t take the Ye surname.”
Shi Jian: “……”
Shi Jian went out to book the tickets. She called the airline company and started to say her information. Before she finished booking, Zhang Kai came out and said to her: “Shi Jian, three tickets.”
She set down the phone. Why was it three? Who was the third one for?
“You’re coming with us.”
“……alright.”
Going on an abrupt business trip, Shi Jian boarded the flight going to Qinglin City and inwardly complained about Yi Pei and Zhang Kai. The most comforting thing was that all the economy class seats were taken, so the three of them had seats in the first class cabin. Otherwise, according to company convention, Yi Pei and Zhang Kai should be in the first class cabin, and she should be in an economy class seat, being an assistant.
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In the airplane, Shi Jian couldn’t help but to ask Zhang Kai why she also had to go.
Zhang Kai said to her in front of Yi Pei: “You know how to speak the Qinglin dialect! Even though Qinglin City isn’t bad, they’re too xenophobic. Business will go better with someone who knows how to speak the Qinglin dialect.”
Shi Jian made a 囧 face, shook her head, and was obligated to modestly say: “……but I only know a few words.”
She really didn’t expect this to be the reason. She had only answered a call from a proprietor who spoke the Qinglin dialect at the general office once. When Emily was baffled and didn’t know what to do, she’d helped her translate. She didn’t think Emily would tell Zhang Kai about it.
The reason Yi Pei abruptly wanted to go to Qinglin City was probably because he had made an appointment with Ye Qingde himself. She must keep a low profile and not do anything that would affect Gonggong’s decisions. Some things were better left to progress as they originally did…… But she might be scared of nothing. Gonggong currently didn’t know her yet, after all.
“Only a few words?” I heard Emily say that she thought you were pretty incredible. Then what should we do? We’ve wasted travel expenses.” Zhang Kai joked, “Why don’t you jump off and leave the plane quickly?”
Zhang Kai’s mouth was too terrible. Shi Jian looked away and ignored him, but she’d turned directly into Yi Pei’s line of sight. Yi Pei seemed to be in not a bad mood and wasn’t annoyed at the work. Probably because he felt that Zhang Kai was being excessive, he even helped her out: “The person who should get off the plane right now is Zhang Kai.”
Haha! Shi Jian hid a smile.
Zhang Kai glared at her and was also amused.
At 8:30, Shi Jian walked out of the Qinglin City airport, setting foot on Ye Jiacheng’s hometown once again. She thought of the first time she came to Qinglin City with Ye Jiacheng to meet his parents, and how her heart beat in nervous anticipation.
Thinking about it, she’d already met the groom’s parents, what else could make her so nervous and apprehensive?
Zhang Kai was speaking on the phone off to the side. Shi Jian listened in attentively. Sure enough, Yi Pei had an appointment with Ye Jiacheng’s dad tomorrow afternoon at 3:00.
Later, Yi Pei and Zhang Kai still had to meet with the people at Yi Mao Real Estate’s Qinglin office.
To negotiate the bidding plan through the night.
She didn’t go with them. Yi Pei noticed her yawning and let her go rest at the hotel they’d booked.
He also probably thought she wouldn’t be of much use if she came along.
At 9:00 at night, Shi Jian took a taxi to a five star hotel in the center of Qinglin City. She would have to sleep alone in a room with a double bed tonight. She pushed open the door to the room and sat down on the soft double bed for a moment. She stood and went in front of another floor to ceiling window. She got a bird’s eye view of Qinglin City and felt a strangely wonderful feeling. What to do? She really wanted to tell Ye Jiacheng that she’d arrived at Qinglin City!
What to do? She suddenly really wanted to eat Popo’s duck and bamboo shoot stew. But she didn’t have a Popo2 anymore!
What to do? She really wanted to buy some snacks to give to Gonggong as an offer of filial piety, but as before, she didn’t have a Gonggong anymore. Filial piety would just turn into flattery……
What to do?! She arrived in the city where Ye Jiacheng grew up. The emotion she had hidden away when she’d first stepped foot here was about to boil over and surge up uncontrollably.
Right at this moment, her cellphone rang, as if it was an ominous warning. She ran to grab her phone and answered the call. Ye Jiacheng’s smiling voice sounded by her ear: “Hello, little fox.”
Extra Scene:
There’s nothing good to write, so let’s have a small scene from Shi Jian and Ye Jiacheng’s previous life. I still feel like this scene is very sweet, can’t have too much angst~~ hahahaha.
Let’s give it a name, it’ll be called «Body and Soul».
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Abs were trending on Weibo. Shi Jian wanted to try it out, so she diligently went to the gym everyday. Naturally, Ye Jiacheng came along. In the end, Ye Jiacheng got v-line abs, and Shi Jian’s abs hadn’t even appeared yet.
Vexed, Shi Jian caressed Ye Jiacheng’s v-line abs and sighed: “Husband, your body is so handsome.”
Ye Jiacheng was proud of himself, and suddenly thought of a problem. He fabricated a question of choices: “Baby, if I was taken away by a demon, and you must make a choice, if you could only keep one, would you keep my body or my soul?”
This question was hard to answer. Shi Jian asked: “Who would your soul possess? If it’s Wu Yanzu, I……”
“Guo Degang.”
“Oh.” Shi Jian hesitated, then answered: “Body, then. Don’t worry, I’ll definitely preserve it well!”
Ye Jiacheng: “Disappointing. You don’t love my soul.”
Badstard. Shi Jian shoved Ye Jiacheng: “Then what about you? If it were me, what would you choose?”
Ye Jiacheng sighed and embraced Shi Jian: “No doubt, if it were me, I would certainly challenge the demon to a fight to the death.”
Shi Jian: “……alright, me too.”
“Don’t learn from me.”
Shi Jian: “Who’s learning from you? I wouldn’t necessarily have a fight to the death, I can……”
“Can what?”
“Do demons like women?” Shi Jian looked at Ye Jiacheng coquettishly, “How about I seduce him?”
Ye Jiacheng: “……”
TN: Wu Yanzu is a ripped actor, while Guo Degang is a (not ripped) crosstalk comedian XD.
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