See You Again (Time Already Knows) - Chapter 36
Chapter 36 - “Ye Jiacheng, Don’t Say Any More. I’m Feeling Really Upset……”
Should he go looking for Shi Jian?
They would both fly back to A-City tomorrow. Ye Jiacheng really wasn’t that impatient. He only said that he wanted to find Shi Jian and have a serious talk with her, as per his father’s suggestion, like someone finding people to establish a system with socialist values. Even though he really did want to pry open the doors to the hotel room and have a conversation with the little fox. But the little fox was so seductive that, in the middle of the night, he definitely wouldn’t be able to control himself.
Furthermore, no matter what the reason, the behavior of a man going to a hotel to look for a girl at night was really too tasteless.
The main reason for his return was that he brought the little fox a gift.
It was rare for the little fox to be in Qinglin City, so he couldn’t let her go back empty-handed. It was unfortunate that the gift was bought in a rush and wasn’t even wrapped properly. He planned to go to the stationery store to buy two rolls of wrapping paper when he went out. The last time he’d wrapped a gift was during elementary school. It was for the birthday of his highly respected class teacher. He and the majority of his classmates had all prepared a gift. He had bought the gift with his own allowance, then earnestly wrapped it himself. Afterwards, he discovered that that teacher wasn’t worthy of that kind of respect, which led to him disliking wrapping presents.
He hated being disappointed.
Inside the stationery store, Ye Jiacheng stood by the racks and flipped through rainbows of wrapping paper. He chose one with an orange color.
……
“Ye Jiacheng is a smart person.” Shi Jian replied to Yi Pei’s question, “Otherwise, it’s hard to say.” She was evaluating him from a lover’s point of view. This kind of evaluation was certainly not objective enough, so she just spoke simply.
Ye Jiacheng was easy-going and magnamious towards people and things. He was a shrewd and nonchalant man when interacting with others. When the two were together, compared to him, she was often somewhat stupid. So, he always let her eat more dimsum to grow her heart a bit more. Saying it like this, her dim-wittedness originated from his indulgence. Ye Jiacheng always got rid of her troubles in life for her. He told her where the problem arose from and how to best solve it.
“He also looks pretty handsome.” Zhang Kai clicked his tongue and added. He interrupted with a tone of discussion, “His stature is also tall. Southern men rarely have his height. Mayor Ye seems to be only about 170 cm tall.”
Zhang Kai’s evaluation immediately turned the topic.
Shi Jian helplessly raised her chin and admitted to Zhang Kai’s words: “He does seem to be quite handsome……” Enchanting eyes, a high nose bridge, a charming yet pure smile. His looks could be considered the elegant and refined type.
Zhang Kai: “……”
Shi Jian smiled timely, with her rosy lips slightly curved. She was inwardly angry at Ye Jiacheng, but once she heard Zhang Kai compliment his handsomeness, the bottom of her heart slightly lifted with joy. After all, she had possessed him before……
“Yes, but he appears to be fickle.” Zhang Kai continued. Then he added, “The type that has many girlfriends.”
Shi Jian looked away and said nothing. She really wanted to refute Zhang Kai, this little prince of nightclubs. At least Ye Jiacheng didn’t romp around nightclubs! Alright, she conceded.
The things to be done were just about finished on the side of Qinglin City. Zhang Kai was feeling relaxed tonight. He opened the car window one third of the way. The wet and cold air immediately rushed into the car. He remembered that Yi Pei didn’t like the cold and hurriedly shut the window. He glanced at Shi Jian who was carefreely driving the car in the seat next to him. Zhang Kai thought of the occasional glances Prince Ye had raised tonight, always in the direction of him and Shi Jian. It couldn’t be that he was trying to provoke him, right……?
“Shi Jian, you’re from A-City, right? It would be good for you to find a boyfriend from A-City.” Zhang Kai said, “The type that knows things inside and out would be best. One that everyone recognizes, and can chat about.”
Shi Jian: “……” Knows things inside and out? To her, the one that knew things inside and out the best was probably only Ye Jiacheng.
Zhang Kai spoke sincerely: “But never find someone that is fickle, especially someone like Ye Jiacheng. A son from a prestigious family, and easily hurt.” Actually, President Yi was also not suitable. He had too many things going on with his aristocratic family.
Shi Jian: “……”
Zhang Kai wasn’t reassured and emphasized again: “Never obtain a fickle man.”
Which statement was Zhang Kai preaching? Shi Jian refuted indistinctly: “By Special Assistant Zhang’s tone of voice, has Special Assistant Zhang been hurt by a man before?”
“Bullshit!” Zhang Kai held his stomach. That was too much! Other than his boss, what man in this world could hurt him?
Shi Jian didn’t let up, “Special Assistant Zhang manages my work everyday, and he wants to manage my love life too. Aren’t you managing a bit too much?”
Zhang Kai: “……ai, ai!” It’s for her own good, okay?
Shi Jian really felt that Zhang Kai was being annoying and directly made a complaint. She said to Yi Pei, who was sitting in the back, in front of Zhang Kai’s face: “President Yi, do you think Special Assistant Zhang is managing too much? It’s also about extremely senseless things every time.” When she finished asking, she stealthily cracked a grin. She was really too cheeky. Going against her superior was whatever, but she even had to rope her boss in too.
But, everytime she and Zhang Kai had a cheeky bickering like this, Yi Pei always happily listened in. According to that, Yi Pei was a normal young person that occasionally needed people to banter in front of him.
Sure enough, Yi Pei lightly laughed from the backseat and replied: “En…… a little bit indeed.”
Zhang Kai: “……”
It was already past nine when Shi Jian returned to the hotel. She stood in the bathroom in her soft-soled slippers and hand-washed her undergarments. Her hands were covered in foam. A strand of hair mischievously fell onto the tip of her nose, tickling her. She reached out a hand to brush it aside and accidentally got foam on her nose, leaving a smear of white. She looked at herself in the mirror and felt foolish.
The phone on the washstand rang. It was Ye Jiacheng calling.
Because her hands were too slippery, she picked up the phone by pinching it with two fingers, resulting in a “plop”. The cell phone fell into the full wash basin.
Shi Jian heard the sound of her heart shattering.
By the time she blew her phone dry and called Ye Jiacheng back, it was already midnight. She told him that her phone had fallen into the water, and she’d spent a long time drying it with the hair-dryer.
“I thought as much.” Ye Jiacheng said with an amused tone, “So I didn’t sleep this whole time and waited for your phone call.” Ye Jiacheng said the last sentence pretty lightly, as if he was using a lover’s tone of voice.
Shi Jian: “……”
She asked with melancholy: “Were you so sure that I would call you back?”
“Not at all.” Ye Jiacheng said, “So, I also didn’t know whether I would be able to answer your call tonight.”
She couldn’t tell whether Ye Jiacheng meant it or not from his dull tone of voice. Without video chat, she couldn’t see Ye Jiacheng’s face and couldn’t see his expression to determine how much he meant it as he said that last sentence.
When he lowered his voice, her mood lifted, contrary to expectations.
In the quiet night, Shi Jian turned off the lights and laid on her soft pillow. Every sentence that Ye Jiacheng said seemed to tickle in the pit of her stomach. One was too impatient, and the other went slowly. She was helpless and didn’t have any idea what to do. The bottom of her heart agonized.
Tears quietly rolled down her face. Her tear ducts were extremely sensitive when faced with him. Did he know this?
Ye Jiacheng didn’t know she was crying. His pleasant timbre drifted through the speaker: “Little fox, I miss you.” Five words. Ye Jiacheng spoke extremely slowly, as if he was revealing his heart’s feelings.
Ye Jiacheng’s words were unmistakably spoken to make a woman happy. On the contrary, Shi Jian felt grievances at listening to them. Inexplicably, her temper also flared up. Her temper was also something that originated from his indulgence. She directly told him: “Ye Jiacheng, don’t say any more. I’m feeling really upset……”
Ye Jiacheng: “……”
Ye Jiacheng hung up the phone. When he was chatting with the little fox, he was sitting at the desk in front of the window. The vintage four-legged old rectangular desk had been around for a long time. It had been painted over once before with white. It looked spotless, as if it was new. Only, it was the desk he’d had since middle school, and paired with the chair he was sitting on, it was uncomfortable to use. He didn’t even know where to put his legs.
Ye Jiacheng reclined on the chair and put his pair of long legs on the desk. He reached out a hand to pick up the wrapped present on the tabletop and gazed at it. He had wanted to confess his true feelings just now, but was interrupted in the end.
Did she not cherish the fact that he thought of her?
The little fox was the most difficult girl that he’d ever had to deal with. She casually made a move at him and he couldn’t handle it. When she said she was upset, he wished that he could immediately fly to her side and embrace her.
Really, what a good strategy……
The little fox knew how to seduce people, how to scheme, how to flaunt obedience, and how to gain his favor. She looked very beautiful, her kissing skills were good, and her skin was the best of all the girls he’d ever seen.
She only needed to calmly gaze at him for his mind to get muddled and the hormones in his body to be unleashed uncontrollably, as if they were defective.
She said she was upset. Why was she upset?
He was upset now.
But, being a man, being upset for a moment was enough. Being upset for two moments was disgraceful.
Ye Jiacheng didn’t bring much luggage with him this time. Mama Ye packed a lot of Qinglin snacks for him to bring back. Before, Ye Jiacheng always refused them every time because it was too troublesome, but this time, he allowed his mother to pack in bottles and jars of local specialty foods. One bottle among them was pickled vegetables. Mama Ye grinned at him: “I saw that the lady quite liked these pickled vegetables that Auntie Zhang made yesterday. Mama packed some more inside.”
Not reassured, she added after a pause: “Cheng Cheng, do you know what to do?”
What was unclear about this? He wasn’t a stupid son.
It was almost time. Ye Jiacheng boarded the plane with two bags of local specialty foods and a gift box. A man boarding a plane with two bags of local specialty foods lowered the value of his image, and it was the same for Ye Jiacheng. But he was ranked too high on the attractiveness index, so even if he was carrying bottles and jars of homemade Qinglin snacks, he was still handsome enough to blind people’s eyeballs.
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Even the flight attendant waiting in the first class cabin wavered before immediately stepping forward with a smile: “Hello, sir.”
Ye Jiacheng refused her assistance.
Yi Pei was being quite courteous. The next day, he had arranged for the chauffeur on this side to get in contact with him to pick him up and drop him off at the airport. Not wanting to accept Yi Pei’s help, Ye Jiacheng came at top speed. There were only a few seats in the first class cabin; unexpectedly, his seat was coincidentally right in front of Yi Pei’s seat. Sometimes, pleasantries between men were even more troublesome than pleasantries between women. The two shook hands again. He looked around; the little fox didn’t seem to be in the first class cabin. Could the little fox be in the economy class in the back?
There were rumors on the outside that Yi Pei didn’t get close to women; it looked like they were true. The little fox was extremely beautiful but wasn’t able to use her beauty to upgrade from the economy class to the first class cabin.
Zhang Kai, who was sitting next to Yi Pei, quickly stood up and said to him: “Young Master Ye, let’s switch seats. You sit with President Yi. You both can chat amongst yourselves.”
Ye Jiacheng did not decline and sat down. Zhang Kai picked up the two bags on the ground, intending to stow them in the overhead storage bin. He said, “No need, I’m giving them to someone in a bit.”
Zhang Kai: “……” Giving them to who?!
“Where’s Shi Jian?” Ye Jicheng asked unabashedly. He spoke in front of Yi Pei, not at all concealing the fact that he wanted to win his female assistant’s favor. There was no reason to hide it. The boss wouldn’t care about his employee’s love life, right?
He explained to Yi Pei the reason he was looking for Shi Jian in one sentence: “I have something to give to her.”
Yi Pei nodded and said to Ye Jiacheng: “Shi Jian isn’t here.”
Zhang Kai looked down at the two bags in his hands. One was a bag of local specialty foods and the other was a gift box. Damn, they’d only had one meal together. Ye Jiacheng was fast! But he still told Ye Jiacheng: “Shi Jian is staying in Qinglin City. She’s getting experience and helping during the bidding convention in the next few days. I estimate she’s staying for an extra two or three days, then she will return to A-City.”
Ye Jiacheng was silent for a while.
Zhang Kai’s tone had joy hidden in it. Bet you didn’t expect that.
“Oh, so it’s like that.” Ye Jiacheng put on a refined and polite smile and softly made a noise of acknowledgement. He didn’t reveal any particular emotion and said, “What a pity.”
From Ye Jiacheng’s behavior, perceptive people all knew that he expressed the thoughts that men had. No, they were evil intentions.
The plane was about to take off. Yi Pei watched him for a bit, then looked away. He took out his cellphone and shut it off.
Ye Jiacheng also took out his phone. He leaned against his seat and sent out a final text message: “You aren’t going back to A-City today? I have two bags of things to give you, what should I do?”
The little fox very quickly replied: “You can hand them to Zhang Kai, thanks.”
“Okay.” Oh. This was the final text message.
Sure enough, if there were presents to accept, the text messages would come a bit faster. Ye Jiacheng shut off his phone and put it away. Then, he turned his head and said to Zhang Kai: “Special Assistant Zhang, I have something I must trouble you with.”
Zhang Kai turned his ears towards Ye Jiacheng and politely said: “Young Master Ye can simply tell me what it is.”
“Deliver these two bags to Shi Jian. I need to make a trip to Germany soon. There is food inside. I’m afraid that if I give them to her when I return…… they will be spoiled.”
“Very well, very well.” Zhang Kai tried his best to keep a calm voice, “Young Master Ye is considerate.”
“It’s nothing.” Ye Jiacheng smiled beatifically and replied: “When pursuing a girl, how can one not be considerate?”
Author’s Note:
One kuudere, one coquettish……
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