CH 8

Yisheng’s house was a typical single person’s apartment. Although it was small, it had everything she needed. When Yisheng opened the door to let Song Anchen in, Song Anchen began to look at her house. He did not deliberately look at everything and instead, glanced at everything casually. Yisheng invited him to sit on the sofa, a little hesitant, “You can take a seat, I’ll take a look at what food I have.” She turned around and walked towards her kitchen. Song Anchen looked at her walk off with a strange look in his eyes.

When Yisheng opened the refrigerator, she first searched the chiller for vegetables but found that aside from a few tomatoes, some shriveled shallots, and a row of eggs, as well as a few bottles of carbonated drinks, she had nothing at all. She felt that the situation was bad and hurriedly opened the freezer. It turned out to be worse than the chiller, there were only a few frozen chicken wings left. She thought in her heart, with so little food in the refrigerator, she did not know what to do. She closed her refrigerator door and walked towards Song Anchen, embarrassed, “Well, let’s go out and eat, there’s nothing much at home to eat.”

Song Anchen asked, “You don’t keep some food stocked up at home?”

It was not that she did not keep food stocked up at home. It was just that she did not think that it was necessary. She would eat her meals in the hospital when she was on duty, and if she was hungry at night, she could just make instant noodles. Of course, she could not let him eat the instant noodles in her stock.

Song Anchen saw that she did not answer and frowned, walking towards the kitchen. Yisheng made way for him and let him walk into the kitchen. Anyway, there was nothing in the kitchen, so even if he looked at it, there was nothing for him to look at.

But she forgot that he was Song Anchen, the prince that had been recognized as a unique presence in their high school. He took a look at what was left in the fridge and quickly took out a bottle of coke, shallots, and the frozen chicken wings. He first went to boil a pot of water and cooked the rice. After that, he wore an apron and found some ginger in the kitchen, skillfully chopping it into slices. Then, he cut the scallion and washed the chicken wings, using a knife to cut two holes in the chicken wings. After he was done preparing everything, he started to light the stove, pour in the oil, adding white sugar, then sliding the chicken wings along the edge of the pan into the boiling oil. After he fried it a little till the chicken skins were slightly yellow, he poured in some coke, soy sauce, scallion, ginger slices and brought it to a boil, lowering the heat and allowing it to simmer till the sauce was almost gone. That was his completed dish.

Yisheng looked at him busying himself, a little dazed. There was a homely warmth surrounding Song Anchen who was wearing an apron. That handsome side profile’s serious and attentive face caused him to have a touch of closeness. Yisheng did not know why, but when she looked at him, her nose scrunched up. This sort of man…

Song Anchen then took out a tomato and a few eggs from the fridge, making a large bowl of tomato and egg soup. When he finished making all the dishes that he could make, Song Anchen brought out the dishes and told Yisheng, “You can go and scoop out the rice.”

“Oh,” Yisheng hurriedly went to scoop out two bowls of rice and carried it to the table, handing him a bowl. The two of them then begun to eat in silence. Yisheng would occasionally look up to sneak a glance at Song Anchen, who was eating with a calm expression. After she took a glance, she would immediately shrink into herself and continue eating her food.

Yisheng swore that she was actually someone who liked eating vegetarian food, but this meal, she ate three-quarters of the chicken wings. In total, there were just four chicken wings. When she saw the chicken bones that she had spit out into her plate, she felt very ashamed.

Song Anchen wiped his mouth, seeing her embarrassed expression, he knew what she was thinking and said mildly, “Thank you for showing such support for me.”

Yisheng’s mouth trembled. She wanted to cry without tears. She was too greedy. Song Anchen stood up and started to collect the chopsticks and bowls. Yisheng suddenly had a thought and hurriedly stopped him, “Let me do it, let me do it. You can watch some TV on the sofa.”

It seemed that Song Anchen had not expected Yisheng to say that. He was stunned for a moment, before he said with a brilliant smile, “Alright.”

What was there to be so happy about? Yisheng did not really understand. However, when she saw the clock on the wall, she freaked out. It was already half past six in the morning. She had forgotten that her night shift was until five in the morning.

When she saw Song Anchen sitting on the sofa and switching on the television to watch it, Yisheng narrowed her eyes, wasn’t he sleepy? Just when she had that thought, she yawned. She shook her head to stop herself from feeling sleepy, she needed to wake up.

But she kept feeling sleepy while she was washing the dishes and, in the end, she could not even open her eyes. She slapped herself on her face and woke up slightly. She yawned heavily and poured Song Anchen a cup of water. When she sent it to the living room, she was a little stunned.

He had fallen asleep and his head was slightly turned to the side, his chin slightly lowered, as if he was exhausted. Yisheng put down the cup lightly, and sat next to him, looking at him. She could not help but raise her hand to touch this man. His long and dark eyelashes quivered slightly, the nose that she had once said was the most perfect nose was slightly breathing, and that sexy and soft lips. Before her hand touched those lips, a hand grabbed her restless hand.

When their eyes met…

Yisheng turned red with shame. She wanted to pull her hand out of his grasp, but he did not let go. She anxiously explained, “I saw a mosquito on your face just now and wanted to hit it to kill it?”

“You’re hitting it very gently,” Song Anchen narrowed his thing and long eyes, his smile seemed to have knives hidden in it.

She laughed and said, “Of course, I’ve always been very gentle.” She laughed awkwardly for a long while, but she was the only one laughing. She found it meaningless and stopped laughing.

When their eyes met again, Yisheng only felt that she wanted to faint. She was feeling too awkward, it was all because of her restless hands, why did she want to take advantage of him while he was sleeping? Now, she was caught by him and she was completely disgraced and embarrassed.

He approached her little by little. She retreated bit by bit, and the situation instantly changed to the woman being below and the man pressing down on her…

He supported his body with his two hands. Below him was Yisheng, whose face had turned pale with fear. For a long time, the two of them were stuck in that position quietly.

Yisheng could even feel the warmth from his breath. His pair of deep and mysterious eyes seemed to have a mischievous glint in them, smiling as he looked at her, his body lowering bit by bit. She saw him getting closer and closer but had nowhere to retreat to. She forcefully closed her eyes, looking like she was facing her doom. But after she waited for a long time, what she expected to happen did not happen. She opened her eyes slightly but saw that Song Anchen was looking at the Rolex on his left hand in a good mood.

Yisheng did not understand what he was looking at. She then saw him smile and say in a doting manner, “It’s almost seven.”

Yisheng did not understand. He straightened up again, removing the pressure he was placing on her. He arranged his clothes back to how they were before and stood up, “I’ll return home now.”

“…” Yisheng nodded her head, a little distracted, “Bye-bye.”

Song Anchen simply smiled and walked towards the door. Yisheng followed behind him slowly.

When he completely vanished from before her eyes, she had yet to return to her senses. She recalled her embarrassment from before and pulled at her hair, irritated. Song Anchen must be despising her from the bottom of his heart. She pinched her forehead. After what happened just now, she was not sleepy at all. However, in the afternoon, she needed to accompany Zhao Jixiang on a blind date. She had to rest. In the end, she chose to take a cold shower, then go to bed.

Back in the parking lot, Song Anchen did not drive off for a long while. He kept sitting in the car in a daze, deep emotions in his eyes. He seemed to be thinking about something and was very focused. He rested his forehead in his hand, a melancholic expression on his face.

He took out his phone and opened his multimedia document. There were only two photos there, and these two photos were both photos of him and her. The first photo was of her with her refreshing short hair, she was wearing a sky blue Teenie Weenie hooded dress, hugging him from behind with both hands, her smile was like that of a flower, but he was not smiling. She had once complained that he did not want to take photos with her. That was not true, it was their first time acting so intimately and he was just feeling shy.

When his finger hovered over the second photo, he did not click on it for a long time. He just looked at the blurry photo in the catalog, seeming to be deep in thoughts. He could barely see that it was a photo with both him and her, and he looked at this blurry photo for a long time without opening it, his eyes slightly dazed. Finally, he turned off his phone and started his car, the sound of his car starting up was like his restless heart and he drove off, leaving Hua Yuan Estate.

***

Yisheng was woken up by her ringtone. She fumbled for her mobile phone, in a daze. When she saw that it was Zhao Jixiang’s call, she instantly woke up, quickly jumping up and answering the phone call.

“Miss Yisheng, can I ask, where are you?”

“At home,” She knew it was over for her.

“Do you know what time we agreed to meet, and what time it is now?”

She pulled her phone away from her ear and took a look. They had agreed to meet at three, and it happened to be three currently. Yisheng coughed lightly, “I’ll fly to you at the speed of light.”

“Come on!” Zhao Jixiang instantly spoke English. That voice… Yisheng directly pulled her phone away from her ear, letting Zhao Jixiang yell first.

The exact time that she got to the café was 3:46 pm, this was already the fastest Yisheng could get there. This café was not far from Yisheng’s house, it was just opposite to the restaurant that Yan Heng had brought her to eat at last time, but she needed to at least clean herself up and ensure that her appearance was good, so she was a little delayed.

Zhao Yisheng was about to explode. When she saw Yisheng coming over in a hurry, she pointed to the café, “That other party has been waiting for a long time, my image has been destroyed by you.”

Yisheng flattened her lips, “It doesn’t matter if you go in first.”

Zhao Jixiang ignored her and directly pulled her inside. When they reached a seat near the floor-length window and Yisheng saw Zhao Jixiang’s blind date, she almost spat out in shock. He had a Mediterranean hairstyle, a round belly, and a fat mouth. He was smiling as he greeted them, such an interesting person was really…

The two of them were a little stunned. Zhao Jixiang reacted first and swallowed her saliva silently, pushing Yisheng to sit down.

The two of them had just sat down when Mr. Personality smiled and said, “Which of you is Miss Zhao Jixiang?”

“Her!” Zhao Jixiang pointed her finger at Yisheng quickly and Yisheng was stunned for a moment, glaring at Zhao Jixiang angrily. She saw Zhao Jixiang’s pitiful expression. It was as if she were saying, if Yisheng refused to cooperate, Zhao Jixiang would die on the spot.

Yisheng’s nostrils flared, her expression was telling Zhao Jixiang to ‘hurry and die’.

“May I call you Miss Jixiang?” The interesting gentleman smiled at Yisheng happily. His yellow teeth caused Yisheng to have goosebumps all over and she thought to herself that this Mr. Personality did not like to brush his teeth.

“Yes you can, you can even call me Xiang Xiang or Little Sister Jixiang,” Yisheng said sweetly. Since Zhao Jixiang wanted Yisheng to deal with him, she would completely ruin Zhao Jixiang’s reputation, making her completely embarrassed. When Zhao Jixiang heard Yisheng say that, she almost vomited blood. Zhao Jixiang grunted, patting her chest.

“Ah, Little Sister Xiang Xiang is really too cute. You can also call me Brother Xiao Li.”

(T/N: Uh Brother… Interpret it as the Chinese version of ‘oppa’…)

The two of them grunted. They had gotten serious internal injuries from hearing what he said.

Brother Xiao Li seemed to have a good impression of Yisheng and completely ignored the fact that she was late, “To tell you the truth, I’m a nouveau riche. In recent years, I’ve made tens of millions raising some crocodile turtles. My Mom felt that since I was already thirty, it was time for me to find a wife and get her to have my kids.”

Look at what he was saying. What did he treat women as? As a tool for giving birth to children? Yisheng whispered to Zhao Jixiang, “Why did your Mom introduce someone like this to you!”

Zhao Jixiang then whispered back, “My Mom likes to eat crocodile turtle meat. That’s how she got to know him.”

Yisheng was speechless. What sort of logic was this? She whispered back to Zhao Jixiang again, “Can I quickly end this mess?”

“Anything you want. Feel free to completely ruin everything.”

Brother Xiao Li looked at the two of them with a foolish smile. He thought that they had recognized him, or could it be that both of them liked him? He was even happier. Yisheng straightened up and told Brother Xiao Li, “I’m sorry, Brother Xiao Li, I have a boyfriend already.”

“What?” Brother Xiao Li opened his mouth, shocked. When Yisheng saw how shocked he was, she felt very injured. Although she could not be considered to be extremely beautiful, she was still quite good-looking, why was he so sure that no one would want her?

“If… If you don’t believe me, I can give him a call,” Yisheng was very annoyed at his contempt. Brother Xiao Li turned up his nose, “I would like to see how Little Sister Xiang Xiang’s boyfriend looks.”

Yisheng’s self-esteem was completely trampled. She wanted to ask her senior for help, but when she called him, no one picked up. When Brother Xiao Li saw that she had called a few times but no one was picking up, he said sarcastically, “Actually, if Little Sister Xiang Xiang looks down on me, you can tell me directly. There’s no need to use so many tricks. I know that you nurses have begun to become pickier. In the past, you were just nannies that worked in the hospital. Now that the educational levels of nannies have increased, you naturally have higher expectations.”

Zhao Jixiang could not stand the bitterness of this horrible man. She almost stood up and cursed at him but Yisheng stopped her, giving her a look. They were civilized people and would not bring themselves down to the level of this sort of man. Her expression did not change as she told Brother Xiao Li, “I’ll try to call him again.”

This time, she chose Song Anchen’s phone number. The call rang for only a few moments before he picked up, “Hello?”

“Hubby, come here, I’m waiting for you at the Nan Ding Si Cafe on Tian Hu Street,” Yisheng cutely said to Song Anchen. To complete the act, she even acted shy in front of Brother Xiao Li.

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone, “Ye Yisheng, what are you doing?”

“Hubby, I miss you.”

“Do you?” There was a chilly question from the other end of the call. Yisheng could not help trembling, but she kept acting cute. Saying in an extremely sweet manner, “Stop acting, you know that you’re my darling. A day without you is like three autumns, I feel that not seeing you for a day is like living a thousand years. Sweetheart, I haven’t seen you for thousands of years already, I miss you! Be good, come here, muacks~”

After she finished saying that, she instantly hung up the call. She could not imagine how irritated Song Anchen would be when he heard her words. She suddenly had a bad premonition. With Song Anchen’s personality, he would either not come and treat her like she was crazy, or he would come and act even crazier than how she was acting.

This time, she had made the wrong decision out of desperation, like a sickly person going to all kinds of doctors, or a person who would eat medicine blindly because they were scared of death.