Chapter 70 - "Didn't Want To"

'Did Jia go crazy because we failed our first attempt?? But, it will be wrong if we try to use the gas again! Zhao Yang might notice something is not right– '

"Hush, I just want to eavesdrop on them while watching those two. I mean...I need to see if Tan Xinya can make Zhao Yang cry." Lai Jiayi shrugged. The girl got on her bike.

"And if I can, I also want to prevent Tan Xinya from making Zhao Yang cry."

The girl's last sentence sent Yaya to the death door. The duck looked at Lai Jiayi as if she's a hippopotamus.

"You serious, quack?! If you want to do that, you will have to go to the bar– "

"Yep. Why not? So far, I think no one has been able to make Zhao Yang cry. Tan Xinya is the last possible person." Lai Jiayi saddled her bike to the internet cafe, not caring if Yaya had a pale look.

"Eh– so you want to confront Tan Xinya directly, quack??" Yaya slapped the back of Lai Jiayi's head as he sat on the girl's shoulder.

'What's gotten into Jia? She would never think of fighting someone like this before.'

"You spoke as if I'm about to punch Tan Xinya, ah," Lai Jiayi scoffed. The girl narrowed her eyes and shrugged. "Relax. I'll just find a way to hinder that woman's plan to make Zhao Yang cry."

Lai Jiayi tugged the corner of her lips.

'I am sure that Tan Xinya will also use an underhanded method like me. As long as I prevent that woman, I think no one will win this event!'

Lai Jiayi whistled leisurely while Yaya shook his head. The duck stayed silent for a few seconds before sighing.

"Okay, we go tonight at 9 p.m, quack. But you have to protect yourself well, quack. Maybe you should crossdress into a man, quack."

'A bar is quite dangerous for a lone young girl after all. Especially if Jia's clothes are revealing her body.'

"Okay, I agree. For the disguise, I'll leave it to you." Lai Jiayi relented. The girl didn't bicker with Yaya and immediately obeyed his suggestion.

Just like that, the two of them went home while a certain CEO was spacing out in his car.

Zhao Yang opened his hologram panel for several minutes already, but he didn't do any work. The guy just stared at the hologram panel, making Chu Feng and Yu Ziyuan confused as hell.

'What's wrong with Zhao Yang? He has been spacing out ever since he came back from talking with that Lai Jiayi!'

The two players were curious, but they only stayed silent while glancing at the man through the rear mirror near their head. They behaved as the car went to the meeting place without Zhao Yun since they had dropped him off earlier.

But, even if those two didn't ask, Tianjin would still ask. The swan looked at her master's blank gaze and whispered in his mind,

[Master, what's going on? Did something happen?] Tianjin floated closer to the guy and coincidentally spotted Bunnie. The rabbit's head was popping out of Zhao Yang's chest pocket, so it was easy to find her.

'...eh, since when my master had this AI too?'

While Tianjin was wondering about Bunnie, Zhao Yang kept staring at the panel. He didn't answer Tianjin's question and just dwindled in his thoughts.

'Did I really make that girl cry? Is it...because I shout at her...or because I reject her?'

Zhao Yang clutched his pants. The image of Lai Jiayi's crying face was fresh in his mind. It kept replaying over and over again, bugging his conscious heart.

'...I should have asked her the reason why she cried. But then, she chased me away. Surely she hates me now.'

Zhao Yang leaned back and sighed. He closed his eyes before slowly controlling his breath.

'Forget it. I'll just apologize to her tomorrow. For now, I should think about that foreign gas my AirPods warned me.'

Zhao Yang opened his eyes and looked at Tianjin. The swan was staring at Bunnie, not hiding her interest in that rabbit at all.

Seeing this, Zhao Yang hesitated to tell Tianjin.

'That gas is said to be harmful, but my tool didn't tell the type of that gas. Tianjin should have known, but once again, she was left behind.'

Zhao Yang touched his nose bridge and massaged it.

'If the eyeshield was activated, it means the gas was directed toward me. But why and how? Who even released that? Lai Jiayi was also there with me, so what if she's the one getting the harm?'

Zhao Yang put his palm over his chest. His heart had been beating fast ever since he thought of the harmful gas.

'Could it be whoever released the gas...wants to harm both Lai Jiayi and me? Is that why it's activated only when that girl is with me alone?'

Zhao Yang knitted his eyebrows. His head throbbed.

'But for what reason? Was that a poisonous gas– no. It was directed to my eyes, so maybe...blind gas? A poison that attacks my eyes?'

Zhao Yang tapped his fingers on his thigh as he lowered his head, deep in thought. The man was trying to find out why there was a harmful gas around him back then.

He even tried to find the culprit, but the man didn't even think that Lai Jiayi might be the perpetrator.

If one analyzed it logically, Lai Jiayi should be the first and main suspect of the gas incident.

Yet, Zhao Yang never suspected the girl. He just…

Didn't want to.

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