CH 101

5-7 minutes 31.05.2022

Bai Jian hurriedly followed him and entered the nearby staircase with him.

Han Cheng stood by the stairs and asked him, “what do you want to say?”

Bai Jian raised his eyes and looked at him with a little hesitation. He held the things in his arms and said to him, “Han ge, I don’t need you to compensate me. You helped me before and paid the expenses for the hotel, so how can I ask you to compensate me?”

Hearing what he said, Han Cheng thought of how he  opened a hotel room costing more than 4,000 for him, “Okay, then combined they are offset. You don’t have to give me the cost of the hotel, and I won’t compensate you for your mental loss, just right.”

“Yes.” Bai Jian smiled at him.

He looked down at the broken clay figure and asked Han Cheng, “Han ge, do you like this clay figure? I’ve been learning to make them recently. If you like it, I can give you one.”

“No thanks.” Han Cheng was indifferent. “I’m not interested in this kind of thing.”

Bai Jian’s expression turned lost when he heard these words. “Well, I wanted to give you this as a gift of thanks.”

Han Cheng chuckled, “Bai Jian, have you forgotten that when I had dinner, I said I would allow you to invite me to dinner. But after eating, we won’t be involved with each other and have nothing to do with each other anymore.”

Bai Jian looked at him in surprise, as if he didn’t expect him to say this sentence to himself again.

“I didn’t forget.”

“Then what are you saying now? Isn’t it boring to repeat yourself?”

“I’m just thankful, so I wanted to thank you.” Bai Jian argued, “Han ge, you helped me twice. I kept it in mind, so I am very much appreciative towards you and want to thank you.”

“I don’t need it.” Han Cheng stated coldly.

“I have a high level of education and a sense of social responsibility, so I’ve always helped a lot of people, adding your instance will not make any difference. If everyone insisted on thanking me like you, the left behind children funded by my yearly donations can gather together to form a large kindergarten is too much. So it’s not necessary. You’re not a special case, let alone a special case, you’re just the most ordinary one among my efforts.”

Bai Jian was stunned for a moment, then looked at him blankly.

Han Cheng’s expression was still calm. He said, “to be honest, I don’t like this unnecessary entanglement. You’re not thanking me, but more like satisfying your own desire for gratitude, so your behaviour brings nothing to me but discomfort.”

“I didn’t.” Bai Jianlian hurriedly said, “Han ge, you misunderstood me. I don’t want to satisfy my gratitude. I really want to thank you.”

“Why do you suddenly think so? Did Shen ge say something to you? It’s not like that. Shen ge really misunderstood.”

“QingQing didn’t say anything to me. He’s very kind to you, so I allowed you to invite me to that meal. Otherwise, according to my temper, I wouldn’t go, because it’s not necessary. I helped you, but it’s because I’m willing to help you. I would do the same for everyone. It’s not because of you, it’s not due to anyone else, only me.”

“Then why did you suddenly do this?” Bai Jian didn’t understand.

Han Cheng chuckled, “I’ve always been like this, but you didn’t see it.”

He said, “you don’t know me at all.”

Bai Jian was silent. He seemed unwilling to believe it and refused to believe the fact.

How can he not know him?

He is so gentle and reliable, so considerate, how can he not understand him?

“What kind of person do you like?” Han Cheng asked him.

Bai Jian was caught off guard when he asked this question. Receiving his deep look, his mouth opened and closed silently, and he lowered his head silently, not daring to speak.

“Do you know what kind of person I like?” Han Cheng continued.

Bai Jian looked up at him. “What kind?”

“I like smart people.” Han Cheng said, “Interesting, cheerful, optimistic, good-looking, dedicated to me…”

When he said this, he suddenly realised that Shen Qingshu seemed to have everything he said.

Han Cheng suddenly lost his words, and his mind was full of Shen Qingshu’s figure.

In a flash, he finally understood something obvious.

He has never been in a hurry to fall in love. He has always felt that love should start with being attracted by each other’s character or inner qualities. Two people will get to know each other and then fall in love.

He always thought that even if he and Shen Qingshu get along well, they are not in love.

Even when he drove back to find Shen Qingshu, he felt that since Shen Qingshu wanted to fall in love, he would accompany him.

He has never looked at him from afar with eyes other than those of his fellow car friends. So even if he has long become the ideal lover in his heart, he has never realised.

Everyone said he liked Shen Qingshu. Zhou Jinming said so, Wu Yang said so, and even his ge said so.

But he doesn’t think so. How can he like Shen Qingshu?

They are obviously just car friends. Shen Qingshu has never been his love.

But now, Han Cheng finally found that he actually liked him from the beginning. So he didn’t need alternatives, so he couldn’t understand and wouldn’t accept when Shen Qingshu said he wanted to end the relationship.