CH 59.3

Bai Zhou turned around to look at Ji Fanyin. “Didn’t you promise to game with me?”

Ji Fanyin swallowed a strawberry before casually answering his question, “I wasn’t the one who made that promise with you. I’ll return in a few hours’ time.” 

She grabbed her phone and rose to her feet. She draped her coat over her arm and started making her way out of the apartment.

“You’re clearly free for the next few hours!” Bai Zhou grabbed his phone and vehemently pointed at the screen. “Don’t try to dupe me!”

“And you clearly have money in your bank account. Why would anyone work if they aren’t receiving a salary?” refuted Ji Fanyin rationally. “I’m off work now. I don’t think you have the right to dictate what I do in my personal time.”

Bai Zhou was rendered speechless for a moment before he asked, “What are you going to do then?”

Ji Fanyin put on her shoes and casually answered, “Catch a movie.”

“Ah? Who are you going with―” Before Bai Zhou could finish his question, Ji Fanyin had already walked out and closed the door behind her. 

Bai Zhou: “…”

He walked over to the windows and gazed downward. At the same time, he took out his phone and began scrolling through Ji Fanyin’s movie review Weibo account. 

He had taken a glance at it during the plane ride to Greece. Even though Ji Fanyin had removed him from her list of following later on, he was still able to remember her Weibo account name. Recently, he even got into the habit of refreshing her posts a hundred times every day.

The only problem was that Ji Fanyin used this Weibo account exclusively for movie reviews, so everything she posted on it was movie-related. There was nothing personal at all. 

Bai Zhou would have been able to somewhat understand it if all she wrote was just her own reflections on the movie, but her reviews contained professional jargon that the layman would struggle to comprehend. Nevertheless, it didn’t hinder him from refreshing her account every single day. 

Ji Fanyin didn’t mention what movie she was catching today on her Weibo.

“Tsk. A person can always catch a movie alone,” grumbled Bai Zhou. Resting his arm on the windowsill, he continuously refreshed her Weibo account as if to vent his frustration. 

In his peripheral vision, he spotted Ji Fanyin’s silhouette appearing on the bottom floor of his apartment building. He immediately turned his attention over. 

If that intentional ‘coincidental’ meeting with Song Shiyu and Ji Fanyin the other day was the trigger that made him conscious of his feelings for Ji Fanyin, the following day, when he chose not to stop her from sniping down Ji Xinxin’s avatar, that was the moment he realized that he wanted to court her. 

Ever since then, he had been thinking about what he should do. 

Ji Fanyin was a liar through and through, but her impeccable portrayal of Ji Xinxin peeled off the latter’s rose-tinted filter, allowing him to more rationally analyze his relationship with Ji Xinxin. 

Is the person whom I’m in love with Ji Xinxin, who refuses to put me in the first place, or Ji Fanyin, who openly deceived me but never tried to hide the ugly truth from me?

Ji Fanyin had already reached the main road by this moment. Bai Zhou had watched her leave his apartment many times before, so he was no stranger to this scene. 

As soon as her working hours were over, the differences between Ji Fanyin and Ji Xinxin were immediately made apparent. Despite the numerous floors that stood in between them, he was still able to recognize Ji Fanyin through her silhouette. 

He leaned on the windowsill, watching patiently for Ji Fanyin’s cab to arrive and drive her away. 

Soon, a car stopped in front of Ji Fanyin.

Bai Zhou looked at the car, and his face immediately darkened.

Is it even possible to hail a cab without a green license plate through a ride hailing app nowadays? On top of that, who would first greet the driver first through the passenger seat window before getting onto the passenger seat?

It was not that it was entirely impossible, but Bai Zhou didn’t believe in the other possibilities. He had seen Ji Fanyin getting into her cab multiple times from this position, such that he was even aware of her habit of lightly stomping her leg before getting into the car. 

That car is definitely not a cab that Ji Fanyin hailed!

Bai Zhou quickly accessed Ji Fanyin’s reservation app and saw that her time slots between 2 P.M. to 6 P.M. were still empty. 

No one has reserved those slots, which means that she isn’t meeting with her clients. Is it her friend?

A name immediately popped up in Bai Zhou’s mind. He only knew of one person whom Ji Fanyin had acknowledged as her friend.

Chen Yunsheng.