See You Again (Time Already Knows) - Chapter 39
Chapter 39 - Other Than…… A Couple Lying On The Sofa Tangled Together And Kissing.
“Excuse me, have you seen enough?”
This harsh and emotionless sentence would make normal girls lose face. But Zhao Wenwen was not a normal girl. Zhao Wenwen pursed her orange lips and charmingly retorted: “Handsome, you are so sensitive.”
Ye Jiacheng didn’t reply and put away his judgemental gaze. He continued to lazily recline in his seat. Only the corner of his mouth curved upwards with amusement, containing some kind of sneer. He was about done sleeping so he didn’t put his sleep mask back on. If he guessed correctly, of the two girls across from him, one was Yi Pei’s fiancée, and the other was a daughter of the Yi family.
He’d pretty much already seen all of the ones from the nest of the Yi family.
This cold expression was as if someone used glue to seal Zhao Wenwen’s mouth shut. Zhao Wenwen ran out of things to say. Yi Biya silently tugged on her clothing: Forget it.
How can they forget it?! Zhao Wenwen felt that Yi Biya had too little experience dealing with men. The more men were disapproving like this, the more they meant that they were inwardly impatient. Those few electrifying judgemental glances earlier had seemed to charge every nerve in her body. Her whole body was about to go numb. What was he judging?
Were their statuses and appearances not enough to attract him?
Zhao Wenwen leaned over and neared Yi Biya’s ear, inciting Yi Biya to go over and get his phone number.
Unsurprisingly, Yi Biya promptly shook her head. No way. She couldn’t do it.
Zhao Wenwen pouted, then said as if they were besties: “……alright, I’ll help you get it.”
Yi Biya hesitated for a moment and then nodded.
Zhao Wenwen glanced to her right a few times, attracting notice. Ye Jiacheng was inwardly laughing. He returned her looks with a smile that was not exactly a smile.
Zhao Wenwen understood these kinds of looks between a man and woman very well. It was a promising sign.
Zhao Wenwen took out an orange colored lipstick from her bag and proudly wrote on a piece of paper in English: “What’s your phone number?”
Then, she handed the paper over, along with the orange lipstick.
Ye Jiacheng accepted the paper and lipstick. It was really boring. Even the little fox probably wouldn’t get on this level. With a resonant “ka-chak” sound, Ye Jiacheng still removed the cap of the lipstick and turned it half a circle. Then, he quickly wrote down a string of numbers, 11 digits in fiery orange.
……
At 5:30 in the afternoon, classmate Gao Yanfei was attentively playing video games in his home. The phone on his desk sounded twice; he had received a text. Gao Yanfei picked up his cellphone and opened his inbox. A mysterious message came in from an unknown local number.
“Your outfit today is really good looking.”
Who was this? Gao Yanfei had been playing games on his computer all day. His eyes were blurred. He looked down at his blue quilted checkered pajamas. A chill “whooshed” upwards from the bottom of his feet. He summoned his courage and replied: “Hello, you are?”
“The person sitting next to you.”
Gao Yanfei glanced at his sides. He could only see an old long chair beside the tall bookcase. An evil wind blew from an unknown origin, slightly swaying the long chair. It emitted a creaking noise.
What the devil…… Gao Yanfei unwittingly imagined the scene and put his hands over his rapidly beating heart. Which bastard was pranking him?! Gao Yanfei threw the door open and left the room.
He had to go out to guzzle beer and devour meat, suppressing his fright along the way.
Gao Yanfei didn’t expect Ye Jiacheng to return so quickly. Ye Jiacheng didn’t receive an award this time in Berlin. Being his diehard friend, Gao Yanfei also felt it was very unfortunate. Being the most promising individual in the industry, there was a lot of attention on him in this competition. So the next time he suffered a defeat, with Ye Jiacheng’s arrogant personality, he was probably feeling upset over it inside. Even if he wasn’t upset, he definitely would be feeling disappointment.
Did he sympathize? Sympathize his ass. No matter if Ye Jiacheng won an award or not, the industry all admitted that he had talent. Moreover, Ye Jiacheng had always been smooth sailing. This was just one of those rare times that he faced a setback. He had talent, career, women, the little fox…… he couldn’t possibly have all the good things landing into his palms, right?
So, he simply didn’t need to sympathize.
Gao Yanfei asked Ye Jiacheng if he wanted to go out guzzling beer and devouring meat. Ye Jiacheng just so happened to not have eaten dinner yet and agreed to go.
Gao Yanfei was paying for today’s meal. In addition to inviting him to a meal, he was also inviting him to karaoke, nearly giving his good friend the full package. The two hadn’t seen each other in a while. Gao Yanfei asked Ye Jiacheng: “Do you want to…… invite your little fox as well?”
Ye Jiacheng replied: “She doesn’t know that I came back yet.”
Gao Yanfei said nothing more.
Ye Jiacheng ate with a pretty good appetite. He ordered another plate of beef. Gao Yanfei watched Ye Jiacheng acting like this with a strangely wonderful feeling. :What’s the matter, you two don’t want to talk again?” Gao Yanfei asked.
“Ah, no.” Ye Jiacheng chuckled. He merely didn’t want to see Shi Jian these few days. He was feeling down and didn’t want to affect her. He couldn’t muster the strength and didn’t want to face the little fox like this.
Gao Yanfei couldn’t comprehend it and went to pay the bill. The two men could guzzle beer and devour meat together, but wasn’t it a bit weird for them to go into the karaoke booth together? Gao Yanfei thought of Song Xiaojing and gossiped: “Um, the thing about last time, Song Xiaojing had been wanting to apologize to you. Do you want to call her up?”
Ye Jiacheng looked askance at Gao Yanfei. Then, he put both hands in his pockets and continued walking.
There was a well-known 24-hour karaoke bar in downtown A-City on Tianxi Street. Half an hour later, there were two men in a certain private karaoke booth. Ye Jiacheng leaned in to sit on the innermost chaise couch. He held a microphone and sang songs.
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Ye Jiacheng’s singing was good enough for getting him famous. If there wasn’t an original singer of the song, he might as well have been the original. But Gao Yanfei was already immune to this. He received another mysterious text message on his cellphone. Gao Yanfei understood. Fraudulent friend! He pointed at Ye Jiacheng and said: “You did a fine thing, didn’t you?”
Ye Jiacheng made a cross with his fingers with the microphone still in his hands. He turned his head back at him and said: “In return for the birthday gift last time. No need for thanks.”
Hehe. After understanding the reason, Gao Yanfei felt hatred in his heart. He was a bit bored, and asked Ye Jiacheng another question: “It’s just us two men. Aren’t you bored?”
“It is very boring…… so you should leave first. I’ll stay here for a bit by myself.” Ye Jiacheng said unapologetically. He then continued to sing. Right at that moment, the cellphone he’d set down on the side table started ringing.
The little fox was calling.
Gao Yanfei pretended he didn’t see. Ye Jiacheng picked up the cellphone, stared at the two words on the screen, hesitated for two seconds, then declined the call.
He felt a bit terrible today and really didn’t want to see her.
Gao Yanfei’s cellphone also rang. It was Song Xiaojing. This ex-girlfriend Song Xiaojing sure gave a lot of thought to this ex-boyfriend Ye Jiacheng. Once she’d learned that Ye Jiacheng did not win an award in Berlin, Song Xiaojing had called him nearly every day, wanting him to organize a get-together. Then what would she do at the get together? The ex-boyfriend was disappointed, so of course she wanted to find all the ways to comfort him. What did the feelings between men and women pay particular attention to the most? The right time and place.
A lot of the time, the gamble was on “fortunate timing”.
Song Xiaojing wanted to be the first to comfort Ye Jiacheng. No matter what anyone thought, she would display warm and tender behavior. Song Xiaojing was a person who played according to the stock prices, but understood the seriousness of the issue at crucial moments. Gao Yanfei told Song Xiaojing to come over in Ye Jiacheng’s face. Ye Jiacheng heard the conversation and paid no attention to it. He turned to flip through the list of songs and found another song to practice.
He seemed to be saying that it was none of his business whether Song Xiaojing came over or not.
Pretending? Or did he really not care?
Gao Yanfei chewed his gum, watching the alluring way Ye Jiacheng was holding the microphone and singing a love song. He kind of understood why so many women threw themselves at Ye Jiacheng.
But Ye Jiacheng didn’t answer the little fox’s phone call, yet he allowed him to tell Song Xiaojing to come? Indeed, only the spirits knew what he was thinking.
Not twenty minutes later, Song Xiaojing arrived with a box of takeout in her hands.
It was raining outside. Song Xiaojing closed her umbrella and walked inside. Song Xiaojing did not bring up the unpleasantness of last time at all. She even packed Ye Jiacheng a bowl of B-University’s famous rice noodle soup.
It was Ye Jiacheng’s favorite snack during the time he studied at B-University.
“I think you probably don’t like eating the meals on the plane, so I brought you a bowl of the rice noodles that you used to love. It’s still hot. Do you want to eat it?” Song Xiaojing squatted down, opening the takeout box as she spoke.
Ye Jiacheng turned while still holding the microphone and said: “Thanks.”
Song Xiaojing sat next to Ye Jiacheng in a gentle and tender fashion. Gao Yanfei gave Song Xiaojing some face and temporarily left the room.
“I’m going to buy a pack of cigs.” Gao Yanfei said. It was pouring very heavily outside. He picked up Ye Jiacheng’s thicker coat, put it on, and went out.
Gao Yanfei got a call from Shi Jian at a convenience store outside. He didn’t particularly want to answer this call. He also had Shi Jian’s number saved in his cellphone as “little fox”. He held his phone and stared at it for a while, waiting until he thought Shi Jian would hang up. He pressed the answer button.
It was a bit after 8 at night. Shi Jian was still in the office. It was the end of the year; there was endless work to do and working overtime was unavoidable. She had called Ye Jiacheng and hadn’t expected to be directly hung up on. So, she called Gao Yanfei.
Finally, the call connected. She slouched on her desk and asked Gao Yanfei: “Ye Jiacheng has returned already, hasn’t he?”
……
Hanging up the phone, Shi Jian put on her jacket and planned to sneakily leave. She was almost finished with her work, and Yi Pei and Zhang Kai probably wouldn’t come looking for her. Emily was sitting next to her. She had overheard her phone call. She opened her mouth and asked in a gossipy tone: “Going on a date?”
Shi Jian nodded. There was sufficient heating in the office at night, making her cheeks flushed red.
Hehe. Emily made a gesture indicating that she was allowing her to sneak off. Shi Jian raised her brow and tidied her things, quickly slipping away.
Unluckily, right after she just left, the Hong Kong style midnight snacks that Zhang Kai ordered had just arrived. Someone had left early, so there was an extra portion of midnight snacks. At the same time, Yi Pei wanted to have coffee.
Yi Pei had acquired a taste after drinking Shi Jian’s coffee a few times. Sometimes he would call her name directly and have her make coffee.
Emily was indeed put in a difficult position. Good thing Yi Pei had always been a highly principled boss. He didn’t like it when his employees lied. If an employee had something come up and had to leave early, it would be okay if the reason was stated clearly. So, Emily truthfully told Yi Pei: “Shi Jian has an appointment. She just left.”
Yi Pei: “……”
After a pause, he looked up and asked: “What appointment?”
Emily giggled. It wasn’t polite to say so directly, but her expression told Yi Pei just what kind of appointment Shi Jian had. Yi Pei didn’t ask any more. He gazed at the pouring rain outside, feeling somewhat tumultuous inside his heart.
Emily finished brewing the coffee and set it on Yi Pei’s desk. She thought of something: “President Yi, Valentine’s Day is next month. Do you need help picking a gift for Miss Zhao Wenwen?”
“No need.” Yi Pei declined the offer and then said to Emily, “You can go.”
The rain fell in torrents outside. Shi Jian had forgotten to bring an umbrella. She called a taxi to bring her to the karaoke bar that Gao Yanfei told her about. This karaoke bar was pretty close to Yi Mao Real Estate, but the traffic was slow on rainy nights. Shi Jian got out of the cab and sucked in a chilling breath of damp, cold air. She felt that the whole city had a smell of being shaken by the rain.
This was a modern KTV bar, and was very popular amongst the circles of young people recently. The private booths were pretty much all full. Shi Jian walked through the hallway, occasionally hearing howling shrieks coming from inside the booths.
She found the booth that Gao Yanfei mentioned. Compared to the other booths, this booth was the most quiet. There was no one singing inside. She could faintly hear an English song playing from the inside. A trembling high note, filled with emotion.
The door of the booth was extremely thick. Shi Jian used both hands to push it open. The booth seemed to be empty, with no one inside.
Other than…… a couple lying on the sofa tangled together and kissing.
The lighting was shadowy. Shi Jian couldn’t tell who they were, but clearly saw the clothing that the “male protagonist” was wearing. It was that coat that she’d picked for Ye Jiacheng last time at Yi Mao men’s apparel.
She Jian stood by the door dazed. She forcefully pressed down on the switch beside the door.
“Bang——” The switch sounded. The lights of the booth turned on, and the Gao Yanfei on the sofa turned around.
Eh? It wasn’t Ye Jiacheng…… No wonder it didn’t look like him!
Shi Jian dryly grimaced. Her line of sight quickly flitted across Gao Yanfei, as well as the someone below him…… Song Xiaojing.
Amazing. Her heart was about to fail. In her memory, Gao Yanfei and Song Xiaojing had always played the friendship card and hadn’t contacted each other for a long time. But Song Xiaojing had often invited Gao Yanfei to meals after she returned to the country. Their relationship with each other had always just been friends.
She really didn’t see this coming……
“Sorry, sorry, sorry……” Shi Jian lowered her head and bowed. No matter what, she had interrupted them. After she had regained her composure, she hurriedly started to apologize.
After saying “sorry” three times in a row, Shi Jian turned away and speedily left the booth, closing the door for them along the way.
Inside, Gao Yanfei swore, and the color on Song Xiaojing’s face seemed to have rushed off somewhere else.
Suddenly, the door was pushed open once again. Shi Jian was very remorseful, but she still had to sincerely ask: “Uh…… can you tell me where Ye Jiacheng went?”
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