See You Again (Time Already Knows) - Chapter 86
Chapter 86 - One Had To Learn To Keep Their Lips Sealed For Some Secrets, And Bury Some Feelings Deep Within The Heart.
Zhang Kai didn’t stay unmarried forever. He was simply flippant. He had dated a couple people, and in the end, the idea of getting married faded more and more as he got older. Now that he finally wanted to get married again, all his ex-girlfriends had already married and had babies.
Zhang Kai invited Shi Jian to lunch and discussed this matter with her. Shi Jian couldn’t understand this even after thinking about it repeatedly. In her memory, Zhang Kai did get married. Zhao Yilin had even mentioned in her biography that Yi Pei gave him a big wedding present. But she thought that Zhang Kai could really be a nosy old auntie sometimes. Was he too much of a nosy old auntie that even his predestined marriage was ruined?
“A-Pei said once that if I got married, he would give me a big wedding present. Looks like I won’t receive that anymore.” Zhang Kai joked with a sigh. He glanced at her and raised his brow, “Disciple, why don’t we consider each other for a moment? What do you think?”
Shi Jian shook her head. No way.
“……You really won’t give me even a little bit of a chance?” Zhang Kai raised his shameless face.
“Even if I gave you a chance it would be wasted. I would rather give someone else a chance,” Shi Jian tried this new kind of dessert. She discovered that the taste was not bad, and took a few more bites.
Zhang Kai smiled. He was just joking of course. There were many outstanding men chasing after Shi Jian. If he had any chance of success, it would be reliant on their teacher and disciple relationship. Ever since Shi Jian was no longer Yi Pei’s assistant last year, the amount of times he saw her decreased drastically, but they maintained a pretty good relationship as friends. Shi Jian had always been living pretty well; Zhang Kai knew this. Using words that a man chasing Shi Jian had said before: “Shi Jian is the most graceful woman that he’d ever seen.”
A woman with outstanding working capability, a magnanimous and gentle personality, and was sincere and kind to people was already difficult to come by. Even more difficult to come by were those that pursued her who said she was charming. They didn’t even know how much hurt Shi Jian had been through in the past.
Zhang Kai really used to think that Shi Jian’s life had been ruined. After someone’s life had been thoroughly destroyed, how many people could completely rebuild it? Some things couldn’t be cured with time. They needed a kind of strength that could raise them from the ashes.
Once, Zhang Kai had praised Shi Jian a lot. That was on the day of Shi Jian’s thirtieth birthday. A bunch of friends came together to celebrate. Everyone sang and the candles were blown out. The atmosphere was lively. But A-Pei didn’t come.
“Disciple, you are a great person!” Zhang Kai raised his glass and then downed it entirely.
To be honest, Shi Jian was a little moved after listening to what Zhang Kai said that day. But she still told Zhang Kai that she wasn’t as good as Zhang Kai described.
Only, she forgave herself and dropped it.
After the dinner ended, Shi Jian said goodbye to Zhang Kai. When they parted, Zhang Kai suddenly said to her, “Shi Jian, happy Valentine’s Day.”
Oh, she nearly forgot. Today was Valentine’s Day. Shi Jian nodded, “……Thanks.”
Today was Valentine’s Day. People in pairs filled the streets. Shi Jian received many blessings for a happy Valentine’s Day, but Shi Jian really didn’t want to celebrate this holiday.
Time passed by in a hurry. Cities gradually got bigger, and traffic gradually got worse. When Shi Jian was stuck at an intersection, she suddenly spotted an advertisement rolling across the billboard in front of her. The construction of Tianya Amusement Park in Japan was about to finish, and it would open in September of this year.
At this time in the past, Ye Jiacheng was in Japan managing the Tianya Amusement Park project. She originally was going to attend the end-of-construction celebration. Ye Jiacheng even said that he had designed a large playground based on a sky filled with stars. Shi Jian gazed at the moving advertisement, and her tears couldn’t help flowing out. Then she was sprawled across her steering wheel crying, as if she lost all control.
Jiacheng, it’s been eight years. She still missed him, missed him, missed him very much, missed him so much……
It had been ten years since her accident until now. Shi Jian felt like she was a person that was chasing after time. Everyday, she ran after time, but what would she do when she finally caught up? She had still already lost someone.
Shi Jian had asked Professor Shi once: “Can humans win against time?”
Professor Shi thought for a while, then said something especially fitting of a literature professor: “Humans can win against time, but they would need time. Baby, you have actually already won against time, did you know that? Everyday, you face life with a good attitude, you aren’t immersed in the past, and you don't let time hurt you. Thus, you have already won against it. Those people that lost against time are all people who did not treat time well……”
Shi Jian returned to Tianmei Jia Park. She went to the grand piano in the living room. She’d bought the exact same piano that was originally in her home and put it in the same place. Even the hanging orchid by the piano was the same. It had bloomed with the same scattered and cute little white flowers.
Shi Jian played that rearranged version of «Für Elise» by herself, but Ye Jiacheng had changed the name to «Für Shi Jian». The gentle and slow piano music played unceasingly. Shi Jian lifelessly gazed at the empty spot next to her on the piano bench. The corner of her lips slightly lifted. She could feel that Ye Jiacheng was sitting right next to her, playing this piece with her.
“Husband, I suddenly thought of something. May I ask you?”
“Ask.”
“If I ask, you can’t get mad.”
“Ask it first.”
“Nope, you have to promise me first.”
“Madam Ye, is your husband someone that would get angry at his wife?”
“Alright, then I’ll ask. If I died one day, what would you do?”
“……Find another one.”
“Oh……”
Her head was suddenly smacked fiercely. Ye Jiacheng practically pulled her to face him, “Madam Ye, sometimes I think you’re so bored that you think of all kinds of crazy things. We’ve only been married for a few years……”
“I just suddenly thought of a touching film.” She was even offended, “Find another one…… Your feelings towards me are also quite touching!”
Ye Jiacheng laughed with amusement. He returned, “What about you? If I died, what would you do?”
She immediately hugged him and smartly said, “They say that evil people live for a thousand years. Husband, even if you don’t live to a hundred, you might still live to ninety-nine. If I live a longer life than you, what would I be like when I’m older? But when you are no longer here, I would probably prattle about their grandfather’s stories to our grandsons and granddaughters. I would tell them that their grandfather was a brilliant architect……”
Smooch! Ye Jiacheng quickly kissed her on the right cheek, because what she just said made him love her even more.
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The doorbell rang. Shi Jian opened the door. Song Xiaojing walked in with a bouquet of flowers. She handed Shi Jian the roses, “For you. Happy Valentine’s Day.”
“Thanks,” Shi Jian accepted the flowers. She didn’t expect Song Xiaojing to have this kind of considerateness for her. She took the nine roses in Song Xiaojing’s hand and put them in a vase.
“These flowers are from…… Gao Yanfei,” Song Xiaojing told her. After a pause, she added, “And myself, too.”
Shi Jian couldn’t help smiling, “Please thank Gao Yanfei for me…… Also, happy Valentine’s Day.”
Song Xiaojing and Gao Yanfei went out on a date. The two of them finally got together. That day at the barbeque stall, she really couldn’t help it, and it made the two of them stop wasting time. If both of them liked each other…… Sometimes life was short, and all kinds of unexpected things happened. Being in love wasn’t easy. One good day was still a good day, no?
Shi Jian returned to her big room. Today was Valentine’s Day after all; should she do something to celebrate? Shi Jian went to her wine cabinet and took out an unopened bottle of red wine that had been hidden for a very long time.
Then, she took out two wine glasses and sat in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows with a smile.
Shi Jian sipped the wine and started talking as she was tipsy. She was still a chatterbox, even if the Ye Jiacheng whom she often talked to was missing by her side. These days, she didn’t not feel wronged. Everytime someone thought that she was still ill, she still felt a frustration in her heart that she was not able to voice.
How was she ill? She simply still loved one person. So many people had their lover living on in their hearts. Were they all ill as well?
“Jiacheng, sometimes I get a bit angry every time they tell me to forget about you.” Shi Jian said. She was alone, venting, “I really don’t understand. Why do they all think that I can only live better if I forget you……? They are not me. How come they all assume that I’m not living well? If one day I no longer think of you, no longer love you, then that’s the day I would feel I’m not living well……”
“Look at how well I’m living right now. I’ve brought our home back, our car back, the piano…… Everything that could be brought back, I’ve brought back……”
Only you. You haven’t returned.
Shi Jian drank glass after glass of the red wine. It was as if she could see Ye Jiacheng sitting in front of her. She could see his high nose bridge; his delicate, thick, and long eyelashes; his slightly messy short hair; the twinkle of amusement in his eyes; and his beautiful, yet corrupting, smiling expression.
Then, he called her “baby” and “little fox”.
Crash—— The bottle was accidentally shattered. The floor was splattered in red. Shi Jian leaned near the broken glass and quietly said, “Jiacheng, happy Valentine’s Day……”
“Shi Jian, happy Valentine’s Day.”
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Yi Pei had still said this to her: Happy Valentine’s Day, Shi Jian.
Today was Valentine’s Day. Yi Pei spent the day as usual, a little bit boring. He chose to spend half the day alone in his studio. When he emerged, the sky had already darkened. He had received Shen Minyu’s freely spoken Valentine’s blessings. He recalled that Shi Jian said Shen Minyu was the right person for him. He felt that time really had its own order of getting people to appear, and that it was scrambled beyond saving.
He indeed appreciated Shen Minyu. If he had never met Shi Jain ahead of time, Shen Minyu would definitely be the person he chose to spend his life with. It was a flawless decision.
Yi Pei stood on his spacious and wide balcony. He suddenly had the urge to smoke. He took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. He did not light it. He did not have a strong addiction to cigarettes, and his self control was not bad, but he had never entirely quit the bad habit of smoking. He was only aware later that it wasn’t that he couldn’t quit; it was that he didn’t want to quit.
For so many years, every time he was anxious and his mind was chaotic, he would smoke, just like that time in the hotel at Qinglin. He had been making the decision to give up the Zhao family’s support.
At the time, he was agitated because he wanted her.
Now, he was agitated because he finally wanted to give her up.
Sometimes, his emotions were really similar to his smoking addiction. Sometimes he understood that it wasn’t because he couldn’t solve his problems; it was because he didn’t want to solve them. Yi Pei lowered his head and lit the cigarette. His wrist revealed an ocean blue and buttoned sleeve cuff. He inhaled the smoke deeply, and then slowly exhaled with his head raised. The wisps of smoke curled around him, and the lit end of the cigarette shone faintly in the dim night.
As if it was that final weak spark of hope inside his heart…… And as if there was a day that it would completely snuff out.
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Yi Pei and Shen Minyu.
There had been many Yi Mao board members who asked Zhang Kai about the situation between Yi Pei and Shen Minyu recently. They all wondered whether President Shen would become the new matron of Yi Mao.
Zhang Kai was indeed the one with the most understanding of the situation between A-Pei and Shen Minyu. His thought was that Yi Pei was considering it. The thing called emotions really was erratic. It was clear that there were many people in the world, but one would only set their mind on that one particular person, but what was not clear was that even if it was the same person, the ending might be different.
Since the beginning of time, this kind of love was truly beautiful. Only, a human’s heart could grow tired, and not everyone was Shi Jian.
Compared to Shi Jian, Shen Minyu was undoubtedly a more outstanding woman. She was pretty, had a Ph.D, and had returned from overseas. She had her own thoughts, ideals, and charm. She was also courageous. She dared to challenge A-Pei on the spot. She was simply a model woman that was not controlled by men.
Zhang Kai revered this kind of woman. Thus, his interactions with Shen Minyu had never been as natural as his interactions with Shi Jian. But Shen Minyu had a genuine personality, regardless of whether she was facing people or problems, or if she was working for someone else. Then Zhang Kai thought that this was probably why A-Pei admired and took note of Shen Minyu.
As for A-Pei’s thoughts for Shi Jian, Zhang Kai couldn’t tell. When Shi Jian came back and was an assistant for Yi Pei, A-Pei already no longer had any indication that he would reveal his feelings. There was only one time. That day, A-Pei looked extremely frightening. After that, Shi Jian no longer worked as an assistant. Thus, Zhang Kai did not know the extent of A-Pei’s feelings for Shi Jian, until one day he went to Oulu Bay. There, he saw one of A-Pei’s paintings.
A-Pei never painted people. Unexpectedly, his paintings of people were even better.
One had to learn to keep their lips sealed for some secrets, and bury some feelings deep within the heart. After Shi Jian stopped working as an assistant, Zhang Kai still invited Shi Jian to lunch and to chat as usual whenever he had some time. But he no longer mentioned A-Pei’s feelings for her.
Even if the feelings existed, that final ending had no place here. The only thing he could do was to bury it deeply. Zhang Kai felt that A-Pei’s feelings for Shi Jian were just like Shi Jian’s feelings for Ye Jiacheng.
The night of Valentine’s Day, Zhang Kai went on a date with a beautiful woman. They ate lobster imported from Boston together. In the middle of the meal, Zhang Kai elegantly and distinguishedly asked, “What do you think love is like?”
This was a sharp television host. She thought for a bit and said, “Love is a thing that varies. It will develop differently from person to person. As for what kind of love is suited to what kind of person, a love where both live to old age until their hair turns white is the one envied by all people. A one night stand is also love…… where an idiot is paired with a lunatic, a whore with a dog…… They can also have eternal love. If you want to ask about the most romantic and beautiful love, the answer is even more obvious. Only, a romantic and infatuating love is not something that everyone wants, and not everyone can attain it……”
Then, Zhang Kai went silent. He quietly cancelled the hotel room that he’d reserved on his phone.
Author’s Note:
Fans that like realistic stories can take this as the ending~~ But this novel was originally a fantastical one anyway~ My ending has not yet arrived.
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