"Why, don't you want me to like you?" Fu Jing asked.
I raised my eyebrows and looked like him with some doubt and some arrogance. "Why, do you want me to make you like me?"
"... He turned his head and ignored me.
I laughed. For the first time, I felt the thrill of winning a game with him.
It was a little past twelve, and Fu Jing insisted on going back. I was a little disappointed. This was different from the two times when I wanted to sleep with him. It made me toss and turn until more than two in the night.
Yang Meng's troubles were not completely over, and when I went to the bathroom, I heard my colleagues comment on me, mostly to my detriment.
I hate to stand on the moral high ground and casually define others as the virgin. She is not me, how can I understand what I have to endure?
Seeing my birthday approaching, Bai Guang used to spend time with me when he was around. In fact, I didn't care about birthdays. I just wanted to make a wish with god on this daydreaming day so that I could find my sister. Now, I can't even find a reason to celebrate my birthday.
I was surprised that Jiang Miao was blocking me at the door of my company. I thought that last time Fu Jing pulled me away, he would be angry and stop looking for me. Who knew that he was especially high-profile this time and came running to pick me up from work.
"Small door panel, here." He took off his sunglasses and flashed at me through a lot of women. Apart from me, all the other women seemed to have been electrocuted by him, whispering and whispering to each other.
"I'm in a hurry to meet the client. Goodbye." Thinking of what Fu Jing said, it was too late for me to hide.
Jiang Miao ran over to grab me and dragged me to his car. "What client? It's your birthday today. Let's go. Let's take you somewhere cool."
I froze, shocked. "How do you know?"
"If you like it, you will know." Jiang Miao's words made me very disappointed, because Fu Jing, he didn't know.
I tested him yesterday. He had no idea what day it was.
Jiang Miao took me to the clubhouse and found a band to sing to me. I like to listen to folk songs. He's looking for my favorite singer. If I'm not happy, then it's a lie.
"I'm going to get an autograph!" I sat down excitedly, unable to imagine that they were only singing for me.
"Stop signing, anything you want." Jiang Miao waved his arm in a particularly bold manner.
I listened to a few songs quietly and got the autograph that I wanted them to sign. I really wanted them to sign a few more so I could sell them, but it was too insulting to my idol. I just thought about it.
Jiang Miao asked someone to bring the cake up and put all kinds of food on the table. "Make a wish."
"I won't make a wish. It's too fake. Just eat it." I picked up the knife and cut the cake.
The clubhouse was very quiet today. He wrapped the venue for me. I cut two pieces and shared them with him. The sweet cream melted in my mouth. I felt a sense of satisfaction.
"Chen Qing, be my girlfriend." Jiang Miao raised his glass.
I didn't answer him immediately. "What do you like about me?"
He smiled. "It's not childish of you to ask such a question. Let me answer it. The standard answer is that I invented it, you know?"
"You're so honest." I couldn't help but laugh. "Thank you for celebrating my birthday, but I can't promise you. I owe you this favor."
Jiang Miao put down the cup and suddenly became serious. "No one has ever dared to reject me, jiang miao. What can you give me back? I'm only interested in you."
"You can do whatever you want, young master Jiang, but forget about your girlfriend. My brother-in-law knows he's going to kill me." I flattered him. I held him in my arms for a long time, and then I pressed fu jing down, which was a step down for him.
He took a sip of wine and asked someone to send two girls over. I was very sensible and offered to go home. He ignored me and I quietly backed out of the drunken game.
When I got home, I took a shower and decided to go to bed. Before I went to bed, I looked at my cell phone and opened fu jing's wechat again and again, but there was nothing to read. I changed the note to brother-in-law.
Maybe, I shouldn't like him. If I don't like him, I don't expect him. If I don't expect him, I won't be disappointed.
My heart broke overnight. The next morning, I got up to run. As soon as I got off the treadmill, Fu Jing called.
"It's your sister's birthday. I'm going to the cemetery. Are you going?"
I took a deep breath and felt as if someone had punched me in the chest. "Go."
He came to pick me up and brought me a bunch of lilies. I remember my sister telling me she liked lilies, but Fu Jing still remembers them.
At the cemetery, he placed the flowers in front of the tombstone, opened a bottle of wine, poured one for my sister, and drank one himself.
"Brother-in-law, do you know why my sister likes lilies?" I asked.
"When I met her, her name was lily." Fu Jing sat on the stone steps and drank.
I said, "When we were kids, we saw lilies on tv. People said lilies were expensive. I didn't see how beautiful they were, but my sister liked them. She said expensive things had their beauty. She said she liked lilies ever since."
"What do you like?" He asked me.
"Me, I don't like lilies. I like paparazzi." I smiled. "My sister said I didn't pursue it."
Fu Jing took a deep look at me. I was too lazy to guess what he was thinking. One day he was his brother-in-law, and the next.
On the way back, Jiang Miao called me. Fu Jing saw it. I didn't dare to answer it.
"Answer it." He ordered me.
I had no choice but to answer, but Jiang Miao was still playing around on the other end. "Little door, aren't you kind? I spent so much time on your birthday yesterday. I didn't even have a thank you today?"
All of a sudden, I wanted to find a hole in the ground to get in. It was over. Fu Jing knew about my birthday with Jiang Miao.
I was on pins and needles and didn't know what to say. Fu Jing took my phone and threw it out the window. Shit! This is the phone I just bought, so I just threw it away? This is all the money I earned through hard work.
Yesterday was your birthday? Why didn't you tell me?" He questioned.
I grimaced. "I never thought about my birthday at all. It was Jiang Miao who stopped me at the door of my company and dragged me to celebrate my birthday. I still owe him a favor. That phone cost me a quarter of my salary. Can you compensate me?"
"Luo Fang, go to the phone store."
Fu Jing bought me the latest apple phone, but it's not what I like. I haven't used its system, and I don't want to learn how to use it. I plan to return the phone to another android after he leaves.
"Is this a birthday present?" I smiled bitterly, and a man as dissolute as Lianjiang miao could put some thought into me, compared to him, he was so perfunctory.
"Whatever you say." Fu Jing left.
I looked at the phone and used it. He gave it to me, but I couldn't bear to change it.