See You Again (Time Already Knows) - Chapter 56 - Part 1
Chapter 56 - “Shi Jian, Follow Me, I’ll Take You To See The Scenery From The Highest Point.” - Part 1
“Shi Jian! Shi Jian! Shi Jian…… Oh my goodness, Special Assistant Zhang, come quick!”
Shi Jian heard someone call her name. Her surroundings got more and more hectic. Emily’s voice became more and more exaggerated. Then, a lot of footsteps rushed towards her. She wanted to stand up and tell them that there was nothing wrong…… Was there really nothing wrong?
Her heart wouldn’t stop speeding and her extremities quickly became cold. It was her adrenaline suddenly surging up. This was the first time that her heart hurt so much that she was nearly paralyzed. The blood inside her heart quickly contracted, flowing around endlessly, yet not making it into her brain. It led to her brain going into shock from lack of blood. Then she couldn’t see or hear anything at all.
She was completely dizzy.
In the moment where she lost consciousness, Shi Jian felt that it might not be so bad if she just fell asleep like this.
Someone said that fainting was the body’s last resort in protecting itself. Lessening the hurt that escaping could not bear, alleviating the pain brought by the heart’s numbness.
When the body couldn’t take it anymore, it fell over, like how a cellphone suddenly goes dark. In fact, there was nothing alarming; it would be fine after a restart.
When Shi Jian awoke, she felt that this analogy was pretty accurate. She truly felt a lot better after going unconscious like this. At least she didn’t feel that dismal feeling she got after reading that text message anymore.
Wait, did everyone know that she had been dumped and was heartbroken?
……Disastrous.
Shi Jian turned her head and blinked her eyes. She looked at Yi Pei, who was sitting nearby, not daring to speak. Slowly, she shut her eyes again.
“How are you feeling?” Zhang Kai’s voice sounded as he bent down to ask her. He had noticed that she was awake.
So there was genuine kindness and love in the world. Shi Jian summoned up the courage to open her eyes. She smiled apologetically towards Zhang Kai’s large face.
Zhang Kai also smiled: “It’s good that you woke up.”
Shi Jian: “……” How embarrassing.
Surprisingly, she was lying down in Yi Pei’s resting room. It would’ve probably been better if she was at a hospital. Why didn’t they take her to a hospital…… Shi Jian rolled her eyes, not knowing what to say for a while.
“Seems like nothing’s wrong. Look at how quickly she rolls her eyes.” Zhang Kai joked to Yi Pei. Yi Pei looked over at her.
Shi Jian went silent. She wasn’t rolling her eyes anymore.
Yi Pei looked at her soundlessly, a weight seemingly lifted from his shoulders. Then he lowered his head and warmly asked her: “Shi Jian, how do you feel right now?”
“I don’t even know…… I feel fine.” Shi Jian softly replied. Actually, she was really clear-headed right now. Why did she have an overexaggerated feeling about the ball-breaking situation, and now she had to take care of this not embarrassing thing.
Why didn’t they take her to the hospital? Fainting was not even worthy of being sent there? They probably were certain that she could awaken by herself……
Zhang Kai quickly answered a few questions with the same joking tone as before: “The ambulance is already on its way. I reckon it’s almost here. Do you want to sleep a little longer?”
Shi Jian stayed silent as before. Looks like her brain wasn’t completely okay yet. She’d even thought that she’d slept for a long time. She suddenly felt somewhat relaxed, like there was nothing that she couldn’t get through.
She tranquilly sat up.
Yi Pei asked her a few questions somewhat professionally, as if he had experienced a family member fainting before.
Shi Jian answered them one by one, expressing that she was fine.
Yi Pei smiled, especially relaxed, then even comforted her: “There’s probably no major issue. When the ambulance comes, go get some exams done at the hospital…… Don’t worry, Shi Jian.”
Don’t worry, Shi Jian. Yi Pei’s words had a power that made people feel comfortable.
“Thank you, President Yi.” Shi Jian shook her head again and expressed that she wasn’t worried. Only, her eye sockets throbbed. She hurriedly looked down. She was so disappointing. She’d even believed that she was infallible a while ago, doing magic tricks and playing the piano, preventing this and preventing that……
She also had her husband within her grasp, wielding her understanding of Ye Jiacheng like a weapon. She dove into her life, hoping to return to her life with Ye Jiacheng as rapidly as possible. She hated the joke that time was playing on her, indulging in the fantasy of using love to win the race against time. But Shi Jian had no way to fast forward. Time had always passed by second by second, minute by minute. Maybe love could prevail over time, but that kind of love needed time to form. She couldn’t bear to spend that time, so how could she prevail……? This kind of melodramatic love was flimsy, mysterious, and laughable. No matter how strong or how surging it was, it was still only something she took for granted.
From the day it started, this race against time had set her defeat in stone.
But losing the race was no problem; she recognized her loss. Only, losing was not the ending, because the person she lost was Mr.Ye.
“Shi Jian, you don’t know that you nearly scared me to death.” Zhang Kai spoke up from her side. She fainted out of nowhere, her face deathly pale and streaked with tears…… Luckily Yi Pei came and calmly took charge.
“Sorry.” Shi Jian apologized, then looked up. Had they seen the text message on her phone? She suddenly discovered that having face was……quite important.
But there was no connection. Caring a little more about trivial matters and spreading out her attention would be good for her present self. Otherwise, she would think about Ye Jiacheng again and her heart couldn’t take it.
Cough cough. Zhang Kai had indeed seen that text message in her phone. He had also brought up the fact that Shi Jian wanted to leave Yi Mao Real Estate with Yi Pei. But Yi Pei said nothing at all, having no comment for the time being. With the situation suddenly turning like this, Zhang Kai selfishly wished that Shi Jian wouldn’t leave Yi Mao Real Estate, but he didn’t know what Yi Pei was thinking.
Does this person still want to stay?
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The ambulance arrived. Shi Jian forced herself to get in, even though she felt that there was nothing seriously wrong. Auntie Li from the general office came with her. Yi Pei also allowed Zhang Kai to go, but she had refused. There really was no need, and Zhang Kai was so busy. She had even been planning to leave Yi Mao Real Estate today. She really didn’t have the face to have Zhang Kai come along.
Shi Jian had her head down inside the ambulance the whole trip. Auntie Li was the general office’s janitor, who had a daughter about the same age as herself. Auntie Li took extra care of her the whole way. When they got to the hospital, they started doing many exams.
The CT scan couldn’t catch the sadness in her heart. Luckily, there was nothing terribly wrong with her body. There wasn’t even anything slightly wrong with her body, but the doctor still suggested she stay and be observed in the hospital. If she stayed, then her family had to be notified.
Shi Jian picked up her cellphone. Her parents weren’t in the country. She could call them…… Forget it, it’s better to not worry them. Shi Jian chose to not stay in the hospital and got a relaxing saline drip.
Sometimes, being dependent on something became second nature. After she and Mr.Ye had been married for five years and became a small family, the dependence she had on her parents slowly redirected onto her husband. Of course, Mr.Ye had taken extremely good care of her. They were lovers and family who possessed the world’s most intimate feelings……
Thinking about it, Ye Jiacheng had really taken care of her too well. So well that whenever she had any small problem, the first person she thought of was still him.
Shi Jian answered a call from Yi Pei. She reported her condition to him, that there was nothing wrong at all. Yi Pei told her to take extra rest, and even gave her time off. She didn’t know whether Yi Pei already knew about her wanting to leave Yi Mao Real Estate, but Yi Pei hadn’t mentioned it at all.
Whatever, let’s put that aside.
Auntie Li listened from beside her with a smile and said: “Xiao Shi, if you’re able to catch the golden husband that is our President Yi, then your luck in this lifetime is simply too great.”
How could she be with Yi Pei? Shi Jian said nothing.
The cleaning lady even thought that she didn’t believe her, so she spoke in the tone of an experienced person: “Auntie here is still able to tell what’s going on with people. Our President Yi normally doesn’t speak much, but he is absolutely the kind of man that dearly loves his wife after he gets married.”
Shi Jian smiled for a moment and warmly interrupted Auntie’s Li: “How could normal girls catch Yi Pei? Moreover…… I don’t want to become the wife of a real estate agent.”
Yesterday night, she had tried to stop Ye Jiacheng from being a real estate agent. That probably wasn’t completely for Ye Jiacheng, right?
Auntie Li only believed the first of her two sentences. She shook her head at the latter sentence, her meaning clear: what girl on this earth wouldn’t want to marry a highly desirable bachelor?
Shi Jian didn’t feel like opposing her. She tranquilly sat there with her IV, feeling the icy liquid enter her bloodstream drop by drop. Slowly, she calmed down. Some things really needed peace and quiet before being able to think about them.
Her saline drip needed time to complete, and she couldn’t have Auntie Li be with her the whole time, so she had her go back first. Auntie Li looked at her dryly and said: “If I leave, will you be okay?”
“I’ll be fine. Thank you, Auntie Li.”
“Alright, then I’ll go now.” Auntie Li stood up and found a reason, “My family is home earlier than expected today. They’re still waiting on me to make dinner.”
Shi Jian nodded, then took out a bill from her purse for Auntie Li’s bus and grocery fee. She was spoiled by Mr.Ye until she didn’t have a brain anymore, but she still had some general knowledge about the ways of the world.
Auntie Li refused for a while, then accepted it. Before she left, she said, “I really didn’t bring any money. When I go back, I have to buy a ticket from the driver. You should get Yi Pei to compensate you. Fainting at work counts as a work injury.”
Work injury…… She deserved fainting because she was dumped, but she couldn’t pin that on Yi Pei. Shi Jian agreed politely to what Auntie Li said, but she didn’t even know whether she could stay at Yi Mao Real Estate.
Very quickly, Auntie Li left. Shi Jian laid down by herself for a while. She had dropped a key when she was taking out the money earlier.
It was the key to Ye Jiacheng’s apartment.
Clearly, she hadn’t been in possession of this key for very long. In the end, that apartment wasn’t her home…… Shi Jian gripped the key, her palm slightly throbbing.
She still had half of her saline drip left. She called Ye Jiacheng. There was only half a ring before he picked up.
It was so fast that she was a bit caught off guard.
“Shi Jian……” Ye Jiacheng called her name, speaking first.
Ye Jiacheng’s voice was even and pleasant, greatly contrasting the reaction she had after fainting suddenly. Shi Jian was silent for a while, then spoke: “……I saw the text you sent this morning.”
Ye Jiacheng: “En.”
Then, Shi Jian even gave an explanation to why her “reflex arc” took so long. She said: “I had a lot going on today and didn’t check my phone until now.”
Finally, Ye Jiacheng also went silent.
Shi Jian bit her lip: “……Are we really going to break up?”
Ye Jiacheng sucked in a breath: “Shi Jian, let’s talk about it in person.”
“Okay,” She replied.
“Are you working today?” Ye Jiacheng asked her, “I’m almost finished here. I can go to Yi Mao in a bit to pick you up…… It’s on my way, no trouble.”
Indeed, it was no trouble. Ye Mao Real Estate was located close to Yi Mao Real Estate. But she wasn’t at the company.
“No need.” Shi Jian declined, “I didn’t go to work today, I’m at…… home.”
Ye Jiacheng: “……ok.”
Shi Jian thought for a moment, then continued: “Are you…… going back to the apartment tonight? I can look for you there.”
Ye Jiacheng didn’t answer immediately. Shi Jian understood Ye Jiacheng’s pondering. It was too hurtful to break up at the apartment where they had been intimate before. But she simply didn’t want to part ways with Ye Jiacheng while sitting at a cafe outside.
The apartment in Chengnan was no longer like her home. She had once considered it their “Little Home”. Unfortunately, she hadn’t had time to use the things she bought last time and play the role of hostess.
The people lost their destiny, not to mention the person’s destiny with the house.
“I still have things over there.” Shi Jian said, “If it’s convenient, I can take them back……”
She spoke the words that were most difficult to say aloud.
Finally, as if she had brought up something that Ye Jiacheng couldn’t refute, he slowly replied: “Alright, then I will go directly back to the apartment when I get off work. You come over…… Where are you? Do you need me to pick you up?”
“No, I can get there myself.” Shi Jian looked at her left hand that had an IV in it and her voice became stuffed. She hurriedly ended the call, “See you later.”
“Alright, see you later. Be safe on the road.”
“En en…… bye bye.”
“Bye bye.”
When they liked each other, they said hello. When they broke up, they said bye bye.
Ye Jiacheng hung up the phone. He had a hard time believing that he had such a heart of stone. Actually, this wasn’t the first time he ended a relationship like ripping a bandage off abruptly. Moreover, each one was cleanly ended without any wallowing through mud. Only, it felt very difficult this time. It was full of back and forths. He had thought about it night after night, and had even evaded it for a while.
The more this happened, the more it meant that this relationship had to end soon. He recognized this clearly.
Once the thought of breaking up came up, he knew that he definitely couldn’t stop himself. It was as if the protruding bone at the back of his head was acting up. This was the first time he felt that what Madam Ye often told him made sense.
Then we’ll break up. It wasn’t anything difficult. Stubbornly putting up with it was truly difficult.
Maybe it was because they had lived together.
Ye Jiacheng thought of what he said to Gao Yanfei before. He didn’t like living together because it would be too troublesome when they broke up. It really was troublesome. The emotional debt that he owed the little fox was almost incalculable.
Ye Jiacheng had always maintained the philosophy of “breaking up promptly allows for an amiable ending”. If a problem that they couldn’t solve came up, then they should break up as soon as possible. Otherwise, was it worth it to ruin the perfection that they had just for that little bit of discomfort?
The longer he dated the little fox, the more he understood her anxiousness. One of them wanted to go fast, the other wanted to go slow. They would only end up further away from each other. They had started out so perfectly that he simply didn’t have the heart to drag these emotions out to the day when they were weary of each other. Of course, Ye Jiacheng also felt that this “still thinking about the other after they broke up” ideology was quite vile, but he was being cruel because of that consideration.
How many loving couples have refused to break up even when problems occurred, and ended up being an unhappy couple who had animosity with each other in the end? Wasn’t it nice to part without grudges? Must they have a thoroughly disappointing and tedious ending?
Believing that loving someone vigorously and unforgettably was actually a stupid situation where one would reap what they sowed, or they didn’t even have the ability to find the issues they had……
Once he thought this, Ye Jiacheng was completely relaxed. The nice and cute little fox was better off not liking him so much. Although Shi Jian was a little bit mysterious and unlike ordinarily seen girls, in his heart, she was still a very, very good little fox.
Only, he wanted to finish what he started.
TN: I split this chapter into two parts because it is almost twice as long as the previous chapters and I would like to fix my sleep schedule. >_>
This arc is so miserable what the hecc!
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