See You Again (Time Already Knows) - Extra Part 2
Extra - That Hidden Love - Part 2
A life, a dream.
Shi Jian’s recuperation went very smoothly. Her qi, essence, and spirit were all getting better. Yesterday, she had hopped a bit on a whim in front of Mr.Ye. It scared him so bad that he hurriedly rushed to steady her. She steadily stood in his chest with a smug expression. Mr.Ye also looked at her in surprise. His brows raised in delight and he unapologetically dropped a kiss on her left cheek: “Truly amazing.”
Mr.Ye knew the secret meaning of kissing on the cheek. The left cheek meant forgiveness and the right cheek meant that they loved the other even more than they did yesterday.
Shi Jian sometimes would still accidentally go absent minded between Mr.Ye and Ye Jiacheng. She unconsciously didn’t want to separate the two of them, telling herself that Mr.Ye and Ye Jiacheng were the same person. Some things could only be dispelled if they were a dream.
The copy of «The Mr.Yi In My Eyes» that she’d read before was still on the bookshelf in the study. She flipped through this book once again. She read through two pages and quickly shut the book. Then, she returned it to its original spot on the shelf.
Everything had returned to the way it originally was.
Shi Jian unexpectedly ran into a familiar face at the hospital. It was an old friend from her “mystical dream of ten years”. It led to her mind slipping and she directly called his name out. The building beside the recuperation center was an independent children’s hospital. Yesterday, she made some cookies with Aunty Li and specifically brought them with her to today’s rehabilitation appointment to share them with the children she’d met during her time at the hospital. When she came down after she gave out the cookies, she saw Zhang Kai, the chief assistant of Yi Mao Group, at the lobby of the children’s hospital.
Zhang Kai was holding the hand of a three or four year old boy. He was wearing ordinary casual clothes and looked about eighty to ninety percent similar to the Zhang Kai in her memory, but he seemed more mature. The Zhang Kai in front of her was probably a dad. It was like what was mentioned in «The Mr.Yi In My Eyes»: after Zhang Kai went through the chaos of the Yi family with Yi Pei, he married a woman who had returned from overseas, and Yi Pei had given him a huge wedding present. She calculated the time frame of this. The child definitely fit into the timeline.
Because of her call, Zhang Kai turned and spotted her. Awkwardly, Shi Jian quickly changed her address, “Special Assistant Zhang……”
Zhang Kai was slightly caught unaware, but he quickly composed himself. Of course he knew who this woman was, even though he had never formally met her before. When she woke up, he was the one who had arranged for that bouquet of flowers Yi Mao sent to her.
Zhang Kai courteously greeted her, “Madam Ye, hello.”
“Hello.” Shi Jian controlled her tone and suppressed a smile.
Zhang Kai didn’t expect that he would be remembered by this woman who had also been through the same accident as his boss. He asked after her well-being, “How have you been recovering?” Then, he took in the color and appearance of Shi Jian's face, “I’m guessing you’re recovering pretty well. Congratulations, Madam Ye. You and our President Yi are both fortunate people.”
Yes, they were both fortunate people. Shi Jian nodded and replied, “I am recovering very well. I’m pretty much completely healthy already.” After a moment, she couldn’t help asking, “……President Yi, how is Mr.Yi doing?”
“Thanks for your concern. President Yi is also recovering very well. His temper is better than before.” As a subordinate, he shouldn’t say these kinds of things, but Zhang Kai had a very good impression of Shi Jian. His expression had an extra sense of intimacy between friends in it that he was unaware of.
When people met each other, they probably all looked at each other’s eyes. Zhang Kai had a very good impression of Shi Jian. He had even followed her Weibo after the accident she and President Yi had. He felt that Shi Jian was a woman with a warm and cute personality. She and Mr.Ye really were that ideal couple with a talented man and beautiful woman. He didn’t expect that he would even run into her at the hospital today. He probably could have recognized her with a glance, but he had just been talking to his son and didn’t notice. But how did this Madam Ye recognize him?
It was strange. According to his recent observations, he felt like President Yi might know this Madam Ye. After President Yi woke up, he’d asked a couple of times about this Madam Ye’s situation, but everything was just his groundless thinking while he was bored. The origin of the relation between President Yi and Madam Ye was probably the aviation accident that they both were victims of. Actually, if this Madam Ye and President Yi had interacted before, it definitely was because of Mr.Ye. In this world, when two people interacted, they were always linked in countless ways.
Beside him, his son lazily hugged his leg, occasionally looking up at him. Zhang Kai was helpless and picked up his son. The little boy appraised Shi Jian and his mouth was pouted unhappily.
The boy had a pair of eyes that were similar to Zhang Kai’s. Shi Jian unconsciously looked at the boy with a warm gaze and a smile. In her “fantastical dream” of ten years, she and “Zhang Kai” not only knew each other, they were also friends for many years. Now that she personally saw Zhang Kai with his own cute child, memories faintly affected the emotions hidden in her heart.
At this moment, her cellphone rang. It was a text message from Jiacheng. He was coming over to pick her up. Shi Jian said goodbye to Zhang Kai. Zhang Kai politely nodded and then had the child in his arms say goodbye to her.
The boy waved his small hand and unhappily said, “Pretty aunty, goodbye.”
Shi Jian smiled, the corner of her lips slightly lifting, “Goodbye.” Then, when she turned around, the boy immediately said to his father, “You’re in trouble. I’m going to tell Mama that I saw you talking with a pretty aunty.”
Afterwards, the sound of a little boy’s exaggerated cries were heard.
Shi Jian turned around. Zhang Kai also turned and gave her an apologetic smile. Then, he carried his son upstairs.
Outside, the sun was setting. Half the sky was covered in the color of sunset. Shi Jian waited for Ye Jiacheng outside the hospital. Soon, a black SUV stopped in front of her. The window rolled down. Just as Mr.Ye was about to get out of the car, she had already opened the door and nimbly hopped in.
“How was rehabilitation today?” Mr.Ye asked.
“Very good.” She was not a bit modest.
Mr.Ye smiled and told her a piece of good news, “I just finished speaking with Doctor Wang on the phone. He told me that the rehabilitation treatment course can end.”
“Uh huh. Got it.” Shi Jian was proud, and raised a brow at Ye Jiacheng.
Mr.Ye cleared his throat and continued, “And there is another issue.”
“What issue?”
Mr.Ye smiled but did not say anything. Shi Jian understood instantly. Strangely, her cheeks became warm. Mr.Ye laughed and asked about her face, “Why is your face red?”
He was experienced but he still teased his wife when he was bored. How honorable. Shi Jian fastened her seat belt and couldn’t help smiling. Suddenly, an extra bag of warmth appeared in front of her chest. Mr.Ye put a bag of sweet sautéed chestnuts in her hands, “I bought it on the way here.”
Shi Jian looked at the bag of sautéed chestnuts from Chenji in her hands. Their packaging had already changed. She remembered that this shop had opened on a street nearby Mr.Ye’s architecture firm. She often visited this place before the accident.
“How did the talk go?” Shi Jian asked Mr.Ye. Today, Mr.Ye had been in meetings with other people. She originally thought he would take longer, so she said to him that she would go home by herself. Unexpectedly, his meetings had ended before she was out.
Mr.Ye had meetings with his associates today. The main point was that he and her came to a very unanimous decision to return to live and work in Qinglin City, so Mr.Ye had to take care of some things in A-City.
“Very smoothly,” Mr.Ye’s smile did not fall. Shi Jian peeled a sautéed chestnut. Mr.Ye turned his head. She put the chestnut in his mouth.
“Thank you, wife.”
“Focus on your driving,” Shi Jian warned.
“En…… Got it,” Mr.Ye’s eyes flashed faintly. His gaze quickly returned to the road. They passed by a fruit store. There was a display of durians outside. Mr.Ye slowed the car and asked her, “Want to buy one?”
“Okay!”
Gao Yanfei said that she and Mr.Ye were not only a durian couple, they were about to become a conjoined couple.
The SUV smoothly pulled into the underground parking lot of Tianmei Jia Park. Beside it was the small Smart Car that she used to drive. After the traffic in A-City got worse, her car also gradually became smaller. But Mr.Ye had never liked her driving that small car. He believed that it wasn’t safe, so basically as long as he had the time, he would come pick her up.
In her past lifetime, she definitely had saved the galaxy so that she could have the lucky opportunity to meet Ye Jiacheng. He shut the engine and got out of the car. Ye Jiacheng carried a bag of durian and a folder, as well as an invitation letter. The invitation had been mailed to his office. Ye Jiacheng brought it with him out of convenience.
Esteemed Mr.Ye Jiacheng and Mrs.Shi Jian:
We are very honored to invite you to……
This was an invitation to an evening charity party. The theme of the evening party was the NE8904 aviation accident, held specifically for the families of the victims. A few days ago, Mr.Ye had received a call from the hosts of the event. After he agreed to attend, the invitation letter was mailed to him today. It would be on the eighteenth of next month, at Junhe International Hotel.
Shi Jian returned to the living room, sat on the sofa, and read the invitation letter. She discovered that one of the hosts was Yi Mao Group. The location of the event, Junhe Hotel, was also a property under the Yi Mao name. She was even his assistant at the time Yi Pei bought and restructured this hotel.
The familiar yet foreign Yi Mao Group, with a familiar yet foreign friend. Shi Jian thought about when she bumped into Zhang Kai today. She was probably the only one who had memories of those ten years in a fantastical dream.
There was a cute comment under her “BigYeSmallYeLittleYe” Weibo account: “I wish those victims of the accident that did not wake up travelled to another world and continued to live happily.”
Shi Jian read this popular comment and her heart twisted and rippled. Before she knew it, someone walked in front of her. The man stood with his long legs crossed and watched her with a smile, as if he was handsomely capturing her attention.
Shi Jian pretended to ask Mr.Ye a question. If she thought that she had travelled to a parallel world during the plane accident, would he think that her consciousness had issues and send her back to the hospital for brain treatments?
“This……” Mr.Ye thought hard about it, as if he had lots of difficulty. Immediately after, he laughed and put an arm around her shoulder, “I would be crazy. I just got you back from the hospital. Now that your mind is awake and your body is active, you want me to send you back again? Are you overthinking?” When he finished, Ye Jiacheng blinked his lashes at her. His pupils flashed with amusement, and had a way of calming her down.
“Then do you believe it?” Shi Jian softly asked. But she did not receive an answer. Mr.Ye already came to the balcony and observed the plants she’d raised here. When she had the accident, these plants were very well taken care of by Aunty Li.
“Shi Jian, when we go back to Qinglin City, let’s bring these with us,” Mr.Ye leaned against the railing. He sighed to her, “I can’t bear to part with them.”
Shi Jian looked at Mr.Ye and murmured, “Ok.” Absent-minded, Shi Jian thought that with Ye Jiacheng’s curved lip and his lazy attitude, he had suddenly reverted to how he was ten years ago.
For the charity evening party, Shi Jian chose a formal black dress paired with a bright silk scarf. Mr.Ye picked a striped necktie that was the same color. She personally fixed his necktie and was nit-picky for a while. The thirty-five year old Ye Jiacheng and the twenty-five year old Ye Jiacheng both had a lover’s kind of thoughts. What was different was that the thirty-five year old Mr.Ye’s romance and attentiveness was given only to her.
He wouldn’t feign anything so that she couldn’t see through him; he clearly revealed all of his emotions to her.
She really didn’t understand. They were clearly lovers with a good marriage. Unexpectedly, her past self even had no sense of security. She thought that probably back then, she was the one who wasn’t worth Mr.Ye’s goodness. When she finished adjusting his necktie, she stood on her tiptoes and kissed Ye Jiacheng’s right cheek, “How handsome.” Ye Jiacheng was extremely pleased and looked over himself in the large mirror of the closet, “Really? So I'm not a fermented middle-aged man?”
Someone said, after a marriage ends, everything returns to ordinary. Only, ordinary didn’t mean boring and dull. In a life that flowed steadily for a long time, bright adorable flowers could bloom, flourishing alongside each other.
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Shi Jian and Ye Jiacheng attended the charity event together. This was a large charity evening party. All the dresses worn were dazzling. Shi Jian and Ye Jiacheng sat in the front row with their hands held. Two seats were saved nearby them. She glanced at the seats, and when she looked back, she met the gaze Mr.Ye sent her and blinked.
Mr.Ye also blinked, then cheerfully returned to look to the front.
In a lounge above the hotel proper, there was another silent gaze that was on this pair of fine people. The blinds were drawn halfway down the floor-to-ceiling windows. The man had eyes that were like a pool of still water, with the kind of calm that only those who had experienced raging wind and storms could possess.
His birth was awkward, his upbringing was dull, and half his lifetime had been spent in the whirlpool that was the Yi family’s conflicts. Yi Pei admitted that the beginning part of his life had been rather uninteresting. By the time the foundation of Yi Mao was steady, he was already no longer a normal man, and he no longer had the desire to settle down and start a family as normal men did. Outsiders guessed that he had deep feelings for his fiancée that had died in an accident. Who would have expected that he had long forgotten what the face of that daughter from the Zhao family looked like, along with those scandals that the outside world did not know? He didn’t even have any love for Zhao Wenwen; where did a deeply rooted love for her come from?
From beginning to end, he never felt like giving a comment on it.
As for loving words, he felt that they were only an ostentatious facade of this world, so much so that they weren’t even as practical as fame. He had never been greedy for a woman’s charm. He also thought women were troublesome. Then had he ever longed for love before? Maybe he had. Only, he already forgot long ago about the endless chase. He was already over thirty years old. After his mother got better, she was the only important thing in his life. Then he would just find and marry a trustworthy woman. Marriage was originally more suited to two similar people walking hand in hand. Shen Minyu was the similar person that he met.
When their lawyers got the arrangements for marriage ready, he flew to Japan to propose to Shen Minyu. A proposal was an additional request from Shen Minyu, and he had no reason to refuse. Was there really fate that connected two people together? In the airport, he had a last minute business call that postponed his boarding, which made him encounter a woman who was rushing to get on the plane. The woman crouched down to pick up her scarf, and her hair gently unfurled down her shoulders the instant she looked down. He halted in his steps and turned back to look at her. His eyes were a pool of shining and peaceful water as he looked down at her.
All in all, this was the first meeting of the two of them. Only, how could that glance in the airport predict that she would be the most colorful smudge of color in his boring and dull life?
The scarf that she’d dropped that day was the scarf she wore today…… That memory of her gentleness replayed constantly in his mind. Yi Pei had his hands clasped together, and his heart was exceptionally soft. He remembered that on those stone steps with the wind gently rustling, she had helplessly asked him: could time throw everything into chaos?
He was very happy that he saw the answer.
The door to the lounge opened and Special Assistant Zhang Kai walked in. Yi Pei brushed off his sleeves and stood. His eyes quietly looked down at the scene behind the blinds. She had finally returned to her lover’s side, but how could he, with an extra ten years of memories, be at peace?
Shi Jian didn’t expect to have the opportunity to greet Yi Pei in person. Yi Pei shook hands with Mr.Ye first. She glanced at her husband. Ye Jiacheng spoke with Yi Pei in a perfect conversational tone, then introduced her, “Shi Jian, my wife.”
“Nice to meet you, Mrs……Ye.” Yi Pei extended a hand to her. Because his voice was steady, it sounded gentle. But he didn’t recognize her. Unlike her, his palms were slightly sweaty because he was moved.
“Nice to meet you, President Yi.” Shi Jian also extended a hand. The slight layer of sweat on her hands confirmed her nervous feeling. She timely added, “I’m very honored to be able to see you.”
Yi Pei gave a nod.
Beside her Ye Jiacheng gently explained to her, “My wife had always admired you very much. She’s even bought your biography.”
Ye Jiacheng played it down, and also explained her nervousness in a way they could understand. Yi Pei’s lips raised slightly. His eyes shone, even though he was unfamiliar.
He really didn’t recognize her. The only thing that was familiar about him was the watch on his wrist. It was still that Lange watch that he wore all year round. Shi Jian felt a subtle strange feeling. She was regretful but also glad. She was glad that the ten years was a dream that only she experienced. Those preposterous “relations” were only in her imagination. Thus, those unhappy feelings wouldn’t increase the worries of the people before her eyes.
In fact, Yi Pei shouldn’t recognize her anyway.
She didn’t have a part in his glorious life, and didn't influence him in any way. In her fantastical dream of ten years, she had always felt guilty for Yi Pei. Now that everything had returned to a normal timeline, nothing had been messed up by her opinionated self. Yi Pei had returned to the powerful idol that she read about in the book. To her, this was probably the best ending.
What Shi Jian didn’t know was that the best ending was for Yi Pei to give her one last gift.
On the stage, little children representing rebirth performed a piano solo. They wore a cute red formal outfit. The song flowed quickly with life. There was music in her ear, and warmth in her fingertips. The memories popped up again. Yi Pei suppressed the feelings running through his chest. Those lively, old-fashioned, regretful, happy things all turned into a secret buried deep within his heart, revealed only by a silent quirk of the corner of his tightly pursed lip.
He couldn’t bear it. His gaze flickered to the side once again and he had a soft smile on his face.
The first time he and her were on the same airplane was an opportunity that fate gave.
The second time he boarded that plane was his final fight.
Now, he could finally give up completely. To him, this was also probably the best ending.
Author’s Note:
Now, Shi Jian, Mr.Ye, and Yi Pei all have two sets of memories.
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