See You Again (Time Already Knows) - Chapter 58
Chapter 58 - «The Mr.Yi In Shi Jian’s Eyes»
Gao Yanfei felt that he had a chance. That was definitely only a silly illusion. Ye Jiacheng looked down, disagreeing with it. Then he emotionlessly looked out the window. He said nothing regarding what Gao Yanfei just told him.
Sometimes, friends were used for mutually disdaining each other. Gao Yanfei also thought this: a certain someone said that exes were like clouds passing by. Ye Jiacheng was a man who waved his sleeves and didn’t take passing clouds along with him. He was very confident and at ease. If Song Xiaojing was a cloud that had passed by, then the little fox must be as well. What did Ye Jiacheng say before? That he wouldn’t have any lingering immoral feelings for his ex-girlfriends!
To be honest, Gao Yanfei was a little bit angry, even though he still maintained his smile.
Gao Yanfei still wanted to say something.
Ye Jiacheng was already disinclined to play guessing games with Gao Yanfei, so he was frank: “Don’t irritate Shi Jian, if—— you still consider me your good friend.”
Cruel words from Ye Jiacheng were rare; this was one of those times. Normally, his logic was very clear and black and white.
Gao Yanfei wouldn’t misunderstand when Ye Jiacheng spoke so plainly. After some silence, he asked: “How did you two break up?”
“None of your business.”
Gao Yanfei wasn’t a person without a temper. He felt himself excessive, but was Ye Jiacheng not excessive? He’d originally thought that Ye Jiacheng and the little fox would date for a long time this time. Unexpectedly, Ye Jiacheng broke up with her so fast, was he specifically reminding him of something?
“I’m serious,” Gao Yanfei said, “I’ve always quite liked the little fox. You know that.”
“I know,” Ye Jiacheng said in a cool tone, “But you two aren’t compatible.”
This was too laughable. Gao Yanfei asked: “How come?”
Ye Jiacheng also chuckled. He wasn’t a person that didn’t know how to say things that were unpleasant to hear. On the contrary, the words that came out of his mouth were poison by nature. Only, his family were strict in teaching, and he learned the most artificial thing an elegant prince needed.
“Not compatible means: you aren’t good enough for her.” Ye Jiacheng spoke word by word.
Gao Yanfei looked up. His face had already hardened. Ye Jiacheng was trying to tear him up, right?
In the end, Ye Jiacheng’s temper cooled down first and even apologized: “Yanfei, don’t get angry.”
Gao Yanfei: “……”
Ye Jiacheng was being very fickle. It made Gao Yanfei somewhat astonished. Then Ye Jiacheng’s next sentence made him even more speechless.
Ye Jiacheng slowly said: “You’re not good enough. I’m also not good enough.”
Gao Yanfei: “……”
You’re not good enough. I’m also not good enough. This sounded like what someone would say to calm someone down. Gao Yanfei felt much better. It was rare for Ye Jiacheng to admit his faults. Immediately after, Gao Yanfei laughed coldly: “You not being good enough doesn’t mean I’m not good enough…… Young master, I will go home and play video games with the little fox right now!”
Ye Jiacheng pursed his lips.
Gao Yanfei stood up and tossed down one last sentence: “I’ll get the bill this time, President Ye!”
Haha. Ye Jiacheng remained silent as usual. Then, he looked up and indicated that Gao Yanfei could get lost and pay the bill now.
Gao Yanfei paid and left.
……
The temperature grew warmer every day. Shi Jian joined a lecture club organized by the public welfare group. The club had a Joke Session (training on how to tell jokes) every week. Everyone had a skill and ability to spread humor and laughter by using words. Shi Jian became the expert on humor in the club on the first day. The leader was a male English teacher. He came up to her after the session ended and asked whether she was interested in being his assistant. Shi Jian thought about it and ended up declining.
“Then will you continue coming in the future?” the male professor asked.
“Yes, let me know when there are activities.” Shi Jian replied with a smile. She joined this kind of club to train herself to throw herself as much as possible into all activities that were good for her. She could only get repaid if she was serious towards life. Recently, like how she had to write her high-scoring thesis all over again, her subconscious wrote it like what originally happened, but she had already lost the attentive attitude she had in the past where she’d thought carefully about every sentence.
Up to the point that when she made one mistake, she made many other mistakes.
The light of springtime shone through the sprouting treetops brightly. Shi Jian found a spare afternoon to go read at B-University. She followed what was written in her diary, sitting down at her favorite seat by the window again.
She recalled her memories again. There used to be a boy who always sat in front of her. This boy liked to wear dress shirts. Everyday, he wore a dress shirt paired with some kind of sweater. Thus, she’d given him the nickname of “dress shirt boy”. Shi Jian had forgotten why her heart skipped a beat long ago, as well as why she hadn’t confessed. Since she planned to complete the three tasks she didn’t get the chance to complete, she might as well just face the wind and cold and go catch the person in the B-University library.
But she really didn’t remember what the dress shirt boy looked like.
Was he that person in front of her? Shi Jian had her chin in her hand as she studied the boy sitting in front of her for a long time. The boy was lanky, and a dress shirt collar was exposed at his neck. He looked like an obedient child from behind.
Then, the dress shirt boy was alone, currently doing his homework with his head down.
The taste she had in the past was very innocent. Shi Jian suppressed her emotions. She walked over there and softly spoke: “Hello, may I sit for a while?”
The dress shirt boy looked up and hurriedly replied: “You may, you may.”
Heehee. Shi Jian smiled and asked: “Do you still remember me?” Surprisingly and inexplicably, she was a bit nervous. The boy next to her was clearly still wet behind the ears.
The dress shirt boy was stunned. He nodded and said as if he was also summoning up his courage: “You haven’t been here in a while. How was your exam?”
“I didn’t make it,” Shi Jian said. This conversation really gave her the feeling that she’d traveled back in time.
“How unfortunate.” The dress shirt boy said, “But don’t worry, do you want to take it again? I can help you……”
“It’s fine. I’m not taking the exam again,” Shi Jian said. Then she remembered: confess, confess, confess…… Good lord, let’s just go for it. “Um, do you have a girlfriend?”
Immediately, the dress shirt boy’s face went red. He shook his head and nervously replied: “I don’t.” Were all girls in this time period this confident and brave?
“Haha, that’s good.” Shi Jian’s face also went red, “I have something I want to tell you.”
The dress shirt boy nodded, looking at her with bright eyes.
Shi Jian said in a single breath: “It’s that, you look very good in a dress shirt, very handsome.”
The dress shirt boy said with difficulty: “……thanks.”
Shi Jian saw that the dress shirt boy didn’t believe her, so she spoke even more resolutely: “Really, there used to be a girl that thought you really looked good in a dress shirt.”
Dress shirt boy: “……”
Shi Jian: “Alright, see you later.”
Dress shirt boy: “See you later……”
Shi Jian escaped. She walked very quickly, and her steps gradually became lighter, and her smile gradually became brighter. Then, she got on her brand new pink bike and zipped through the shade under the trees on the campus road. She rang the bike bell twice, emitting a crisp jingling noise.
Let’s just start everything all over again. Shi Jian, you can definitely do it!
Live life seriously, go work hard, even if the results still aren’t as good as what Ye Jiacheng brought to her in the past. But she could only live up to the love she used to receive if she worked even harder.
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Then, the Prince Charming’s concert was here.
Shi Jian rushed on her bicycle to A-City’s stadium. The line of houses the Yang family was located in was quite near the stadium, and she could get there in only half an hour on her bike. It would soon be dark outside, and the surroundings of the stadium quickly became more lively. The crowd was impenetrable, proving that she made the correct choice to ride her bicycle over. Shi Jian dressed up especially youthfully for this event of chasing a superstar. She wore a sweater with a hood, had her hair parted, and paired her skinny jeans with ankle boots. She even bought a rabbit ear headband to put on her head from a street stall. The five yuan one didn’t light up, the ten yuan one did. She bought a ten yuan one. It flashed very adorably.
It was something that girls of this age really liked in this time period.
After entering the venue, the concert started. She was in the most ordinary seating section, and every ticket had a raffle number. She went in with her lightstick. There were excited and happy fans all around her.
Shi Jian watched them and took it in.
The Prince Charming sang a slow song, then a fast song. Their lightsticks swayed unceasingly. Then, there was frenetic cheering. No matter what way they liked him, they had all invested emotion in this. Many girls were crying emotionally at the concert. Shi Jian’s tears had also accidentally flowed down. She and Ye Jiacheng had discussed a pointless hypothetical question before: what they would do if the two had a student romance. Going to XXX’s concert was their common answer.
The Prince Charming got more lively the more he bounced around, leading the crowd to become boiling with energy. Shi Jian’s eyes were filled with tears, the yelling was like a lid that stopped them……
Sorry~ Mr.Ye. Shi Jian softly thought. She ended up going alone to the concert they’d agreed on.
Every ticket had a raffle number as a material benefit. After the concert ended, Shi Jian didn’t expect that she was lucky enough to be picked to receive a signed photocard. Of the over ten thousand fans, one hundred were picked, and she was one of them. Who said her luck was bad?!
Shi Jian was so happy that she could not even be herself. Then she even gave her ticket to a girl she didn’t recognize. Seeing the girl’s face fill with so much happiness that she was about to cry made her heart full. It wasn’t that she wouldn’t cherish a signed photocard, it was just that it was more suitable to give the chance to someone who liked XXX more than she did right now.
Shi Jian followed the flow of the crowd outside, her rabbit ears were still flashing on her head. Unfortunately, the happiness that she had when she did a good deed immediately vanished when she couldn’t find her bike anymore.
She just wanted to stomp her feet to vent her anger.
Bastard, bastard, bastard! She’d just bought that bike! Shi Jian kicked her feet in suffering, wishing that she could kick the temper out of her system.
At that moment, someone called her name from behind: “Shi Jian.”
Shi Jian turned around, a bit stunned. She stiffly stopped her leg, then greeted: “President Yi…… Did you also come to see the concert?”
“Yes, it just concluded.” Yi Pei stood in front of her with a faint smile.
“What a coincidence, me too,” Shi Jian said, no longer thinking about her lost bike. She simply was surprised to see Yi Pei at a concert. He still wore a western style suit and dress shirt as usual. What would he be like among the rowdy fans? Recalling that Yi Mao was a concert sponsor, he was probably in a VIP seat.
VIP…… Shi Jian smiled bashfully, then glanced around Yi Pei’s surroundings. Zhang Kai and his other assistants and chauffeur weren’t here. Was he alone?
“The car can’t get in. It’s parked at the back.” Yi Pei said to her, explaining her doubt.
“Oh.”
For a moment, the crowd flowed all around them restlessly. Yi Pei had a sturdy, unmovable aura that was very eye-catching, just like the rabbit ears flashing on her head.
Rabbit ears…… Shi Jian hurriedly snatched them off. Being an assistant with high demands, she was rarely childish like this in front of Yi Pei.
Yi Pei’s amusement grew. After a pause, he asked her as if he was a friend: “Oh right, what happened just now?”
The foot-stomping?
“……My bike is lost.” Shi Jian put on a smile, pretending that it was unimportant. Evil thief!
“What bike? Do you need to report it to the police?” Yi Pei frowned.
“No, no need,” Shi Jian waved her hands frantically, “It’s just an ordinary bicycle. It’s not expensive.”
“Still, we should search for it. What does it look like?” Yi Pei looked at the security cameras overhead and said confidently: “We should be able to retrieve it.”
Was Yi Pei going to help her?
Sure enough, Yi Pei took out his phone and said to her: “I’ll help you ask the person in charge here.”
Just for a bicycle? Shi Jian hurriedly declined: “President Yi, thank you, but surely this is too troublesome. My bike was also…… secondhand. I got it for free.”
She made a small lie. Yi Pei stopped insisting. Regarding her politeness, Yi Pei said: “Shi Jian, this is only a small matter to me.”
She didn’t dare trouble him because this was a small matter. Shi Jian thought this inwardly.
She lost her bike and had bumped into Yi Pei. Yi Pei said he would give her a ride, and she didn’t refuse anymore. She didn’t know where his car was parked, so she obediently followed after him.
The wind howled. The weather had already turned warm. The wind at night was no longer as cold as it used to be, and even carried a faint spring scent. Not far away, there were even people setting off fireworks. There was a slight scent of smoke in the air.
Yi Pei coughed a few times, then said as if he was chatting with an ordinary friend: “Right, which of XXX’s songs do you like?”
Shi Jian felt like she was dreaming. She looked at Yi Pei and replied with two songs. One was the song that made XXX famous, and the other one was pretty obscure. Yi Pei nodded when she finished: “I’ve heard of one, but I don’t really recall the other?”
The one he had no recollection of was still not released yet…… Shi Jian belatedly said: “I remembered wrong.”
“No wonder.”
Shi Jian tilted her head and asked Yi Pei: “President Yi also likes XXX?”
“En…… yes.” Yi Pei replied, “I have listened to many of his songs.”
Shi Jian was pleasantly surprised. In all those half true and half false biographies she’d read about Yi Pei, none of them had stated that Yi Pei liked XXX’s music. Would she be able to write a more truthful biography about him in the future?
Yi Pei seemed a little helpless at her reaction. He asked: “Shi Jian, is it so strange that I like a singer?”
“No, no.” Shi Jian hurriedly replied, “I was just thinking…… If President Yi becomes famous in the future, I can write a biography for you and things like that.”
Cough cough! When she finished speaking, she felt like what she said was like a joke. Would Yi Pei take offense?
Yi Pei went blank for a moment at her “utter nonsense”, then said in a cheerful tone, "Alright."
Shi Jian was delighted. Yi Pei continued pleasantly, “Perhaps after you finish writing it, I can write a preface for you.”
These words were as valuable as gold and jade. Shi Jian thanked: “Thank you, President Yi, I will definitely write it in the future.”
Yi Pei laughed, as if he really enjoyed this person’s chatting subjects. “But, you need to write it well, and you have to give it a good title.”
A good title…… Shi Jian borrowed the name from Zhao Yilin’s book, saying: “«The Mr.Yi in an Assistant’s Eyes» What do you think?”
Yi Pei unexpectedly shook his head, not approving of the name she picked and as if he was laughing at her for not knowing how to name it.
Shi Jian’s confidence dropped.
Then, Yi Pei smirked and replied: “Why not «The Mr.Yi in Shi Jian’s Eyes»?”
«The Mr.Yi in Shi Jian’s Eyes»…… Shi Jian smiled, head lowered. She didn’t expect that when Yi Pei joked around, he was humorous and not degrading. Did he know that there would really be a book called «The Mr.Yi in my Eyes» in the future? But, whether the current future would still happen was unknown.
Did she replace Zhao Yilin? Shi Jian denied this thought instantly. Who could stand in for another person’s life? If she had replaced Zhao Yilin, then someone else would be the replacement in her own life.
That fortunate Madam Guo…… would she replace people?
Slowly, Shi Jian followed Yi Pei for a section of the road. It was a newly built medium length road. She and Yi Pei were chatting and had walked for about ten minutes.
Then, not far away, the driver was already standing by the car waiting for them with a smile on his face.
Author’s Note:
I’m afraid that there will be wild theories saying that Yi Pei stole the bicycle. No, Yi Pei wouldn’t do such a thing. This kind of plot also wouldn’t suit Yi Pei.
Ye Jiacheng: Hehe.
What are you laughing for—— Of course our Mr.Ye wouldn’t do this kind of thing.
Ye Jiacheng: Ha– The Mr.Yi in Shi Jian’s eyes.
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