Volume 3 - CH 38

Book 3: Glory on the Other Side

Chapter 38

“Everybody, time to order dinner.”  Someone opened the door.  

“Ai Qing’s here, too?  Do you want to order something?”

She shook her head.  “No need. I have dinner plans.”

Well, what was her dinner plan?

Half an hour later, Ai Qing sat in the bakery about ten minutes 

walking distance from the SP building.  She bit on a spoon while 

looking through the window, lost in thought.

Two girls sat next to her talking about their quarrels with their 

respective boyfriend.  They were talking with such excitement 

that Ai Qing couldn’t avoid overhearing them. One girl said she 

Ai Qing continued to bite the spoon while looking at the passing 

pedestrians and vehicles on the street.

She felt heavy in her heart.

Slowly, she widened her eyes, but very quickly, looked back.

How did he know that she was here?  Ah, right, a while ago, her 

sister texted her asking where she was eating dinner.  She replied 

that she was eating cake as dinner. Her sister must have texted 

him the location of her most favorite bakery.

She lowered her head and kept poking the cake in front of her 

with the spoon.

One slice of cake, two slices of cake, three slices of cake, four 

slices of cake…...until the thirteenth slice of chestnut cake was served 

on the table and there was no more room for it.  She finally was forced 

to raise her head. “What are you doing ordering so many cakes……”

He didn’t speak.

All right. He was still the same.

The heaviness she felt in her heart, which had gone away while she 

was distracted by the cakes just now, came back again. Sometimes she 

felt that his refusal to talk was cute.  But now she wondered, could he 

use silence to solve all the problems in his life?

The girls sitting at the next table, who were in a fierce discussion moments 

before, were now glancing at them.  They had completely forgotten the 

subject they were discussing.

She even saw somebody raise a cell phone trying to shoot a picture of 

the table full of cakes.

She was very embarrassed.  She didn’t care whether they two were still 

fighting and waved her hand to call a store clerk to pack all the cakes.  

The clerk handily packed all the cakes and handed them to Dt.

When they left the bakery, she hesitated whether she should walk back by 

herself or follow him to the parking lot.  The eyes hidden underneath the 

shadow of the hat brim looked at her. He said in a lower voice, “I’ll take 

you back.”

The voice was very low, as if the wind would easily blow it away.

Obviously, it was him who made the mistake, but somehow she felt like 

she was the one who was bullying him……

Ai Qing looked at his eyes, then her heart inexplicably softened.  She didn’t

speak as she followed him to the parking lot.

The cakes were placed in the back seat and the door was shut.

It was very quiet inside the confined space.

Dt stretched out his hand to take off his hat, revealing his whole face.  He 

turned aside to take out a laptop computer from the backseat, turning it on.  

His fingers typed on the keyboard, quickly pulling out a folder not long after.

The name of the folder was Appledog.

Ai Qing was startled.  She felt a strong sense of deja vu, she had seen this 

folder before.

He put the computer on his lap and turned to her.

“It was ‘07 in Singapore, you saw this folder then.”  His memory apparently 

was much better than hers. “This folder has everything related to you; you 

competition videos, interviews, news…...and pictures.”

As Dt was talking, he also looked at her face at the same time.  He feared 

that if he didn’t express it well, he might screw up everything.

Ai Qing stared at the computer screen.  Finally she remembered, she actually 

had seen this folder.