Chapter 60 - This person was too kind
Edited by Noks
Yu Yan sat up straight on the bed, held his cell phone, and instinctively answered, “Any position is fine.”
Yi Chen paused, then with a voice carrying traces of laughter, asked, “You’re really taking it seriously?”
“No,” Yu Yan returned to his senses and said, “I… won’t look at pictures now.”
In the future, he shouldn’t tell Yi Ran anything— this person sold out his teammates far too quickly—Yu Yan warned himself vigilantly.
Yi Chen let out an “en” and asked, “Are your fingers tired after hanging up so many video calls?”
“…Not tired.” Yu Yan looked at the person on the cellphone, feeling somewhat at loss, braced himself, and explained, “I thought you called me so that I could see the cat. I’m a little sleepy today and just wanted to go to bed early, so I hung up the calls.”
Yi Chen also didn’t expose him. “Little Fool? I don’t have much energy to look after it these days, so it’s been sent to my mother.”
Hearing the new name of the cat, Yu Yan asked, “Doesn’t it already have a name?”
Yi Chen replied, “Didn’t the names clash?”
Yu Yan originally didn’t get it, but after seeing the smile that emerged at the corner of 1’s mouth, he immediately understood.
…meaning that the cat’s name clashed with his own.
“…I don’t mind.”
Just as he finished saying that, the man on the screen suddenly raised his hand and rubbed his temple with his fingers.
Yu Yan blurted out, “Do you not feel well? Why did you leave the hospital so soon?”
“Nothing serious, just a little concussion. The number of beds in the hospital are tight now, and the doctors won’t let me take up s.p.a.ce.”
Yu Yan took it seriously and frowned as he asked, “Which hospital? This is simply not taking responsibility for their patients.”
Yi Chen raised his eyebrows and laughed. “I’m joking. And isn’t there also your talisman?”
“I don’t know if that thing is effective or not, let’s not be too feudal and superst.i.tious. If you don’t feel well, you must promptly go to the hospital, it won’t be good to delay.”
This man had climbed half of the Tianshan Mountain to get a charm for him, but now he was lecturing him on not being feudal and superst.i.tious.
Yi Chen replied, “It’s effective.”
He picked up his cellphone, walked all the way to the kitchen, and found a place to prop it up.
Yu Yan only saw the screen shake during this while. When it was stable again, he saw a semi-open kitchen.
The person on the screen was messing with a coffee machine.
Yu Yan asked, “So late, still drinking coffee?”
“Used to it.” Yi Chen, who was cleaning a cup, suddenly said, “That day in Manyang…”
Here it was.
All of Yu Yan’s words disappeared at once, and his heart began to pound again.
Yi Chen only brought up the subject but didn’t go on.
He didn’t know how much the little anchor had learned about that day, and he didn’t want to say too much.
Silence reigned for more than ten seconds. Yu Yan felt like he was at an execution field, with a big knife hanging over his head. He couldn’t tell when it was about to fall, and so it was especially uncomfortable.
After a few more moments, Yu Yan became the first who couldn’t hold out any longer. He pursed his lips, and his tone was very sincere as he explained, “That day at the reunion, I hadn’t seen my cla.s.smates in a long time, so I forgot about appearances and drank too much, and also, I only remember things from then in fragments…”
He gritted his teeth and asked, “That night… Did I throw up on you?”
Yi Chen: “…”
Seeing the other side remain silent, Yu Yan hurriedly said, “I’m really so sorry, if I had known my alcohol tolerance was so low, I would have drank less… Were your clothes messed up because I threw up? I-is it too late for me to pay for dry cleaning now? No, I’ll directly buy you another set ba.”
Yi Chen now had an expression displaying full interest on his face, but he still didn’t speak.
Yu Yan’s heart sank. It was over; the situation that night might be more even serious than he had imagined.
“It couldn’t be thatk2026;” He awkwardly asked, “Did I throw up on your face?”
Besides this, he really couldn’t think how he could have provoked 1, so much so that he made him leave early morning the next day by plane.
Yi Chen asked, “You don’t remember anything?”
Yu Yan hesitated for a moment and replied honestly, “Remember a little.”
“En?”
“Just,” He was embarra.s.sed as he confessed, “Me holding the toilet.”
Yi Chen laughed.
He went back to his study and put the coffee cup to the side. “You didn’t throw up on me.”
“Ah?” Yu Yan was startled. “Really?”
“En.”
Yu Yan felt happy from the bottom of his heart upon hearing this, but then became worried again.
“But if that didn’t happen…”
Yi Chen threw out the excuse he had thought up, his tone calm as he said, “Was afraid that when you woke up you’d kick up a fuss about paying me back.”
“?”
“Those wines.” Yi Chen said, “Usually with gift money, you can’t return it because the WeChat transfer needs to be confirmed by the other party. At that time, I was right in front of you, so wouldn’t you have been able to do whatever you wanted to do?”
Yu Yan was stunned and remembered the alcohol that the waiter had brought over in Ginza that night.
He had even forgotten about this!
“I asked you about it afterwards back then, and you didn’t admit it.” Yu Yan said, “And you weren’t in front of me then?”
This little anchor was actually not that easy to fool.
Yi Chen said, “Since I wasn’t planning on letting you pay me back, I just didn’t bring up the money at all.”
Yu Yan frowned and pondered over his words for a long time.
Yi Chen waited quietly, wondering if there were any other loopholes in his statement.
After a long time, Yu Yan only said, “…then now that I know, I still have to pay you back for the drinks.”
—Slipped away unpunished.
Yi Chen opened some doc.u.ments and said, “Those were your cla.s.smates from junior high that day?”
Having settled that worry, Yu Yan said with relief, “En, we hadn’t seen each other in a long time.”
Remembering what he had heard that day, Yi Chen’s tone was a little heavy as he warned, “Be careful when making friends. Even if you haven’t seen each other for many years, if you can’t get along with them, there’s no need to force yourself to suffer.”
Yu Yan was startled, and it took him awhile to understand that the other side was referring to Li Hang.
“En, he really wasn’t so mean before.” Speaking of this, Yu Yan thought of something and didn’t continue. He looked at the person on the screen and asked, “You’re still not going to sleep?”
“Don’t worry, they… What’s the date of the flight the platform booked for you? ”
“Don’t know yet, it should be October 2.”
Yi Chen frowned, “So late?”
“It’s not late, the event is on October 3.” Yu Yan said, “They’re reimbursing both the hotel fees and airfare, and it seems that they have invited a lot of anchors. If we go early, then the hotel would cost them a lot.”
They didn’t lack the money for hotels.
Yi Chen rubbed his fingertips and was just ready to say something when he heard a click on his cellphone, and the video interface suddenly disappeared.
Yu Yan had been speaking normally when his cellphone interface suddenly went black, and he was stunned. He clicked the screen twice, and the charging icon immediately flashed.
He had actually run out of battery!!
He held his cellphone, completely stunned for a few seconds. Then he hurried to his bedside and connected the charging cord. The charging icon immediately popped up on the cellphone screen.
Three minutes later, he stared at the still-dark screen, wondering why he hadn’t bought the phone that would provide two hours of talking with only five minutes of charging.
When he finally managed to start up his phone, a few messages also popped up.
1: ?
1: Sleeping?
1: Good night.
Yu Yan’s fingertips, which had automatically gone for the video call b.u.t.ton, stopped.
…The other party had already said good night. Would it be too strange if he video-called him again?
Yu Yan: My cellphone just ran out of power.
1: En, it’s one o’clock, sleep ba.
Yu Yan stared at this string of words for a few seconds, then very slowly replied with an “okay.”
How could he sleep now?
He placed his cellphone back on the head of the bed, still feeling that he hadn’t really snapped out of his daze yet.
He had finally gotten to see 1.
He was as he had imagined… No, he was even better than what he had imagined. The facial features of a mature man, his lazy expression when talking, even his casual actions when making coffee—all of it was very fascinating.
He remembered that he had also stared at 1 for a long time in the Ginza booth, and that they had even locked eyes for a few seconds.
What was 1 thinking at that time?
He didn’t look much different than he did in the videos, so the other party should have recognized him at that time and also heard his conversation with Li Hang. In order to not let him be too embarra.s.sed in front of his cla.s.smates, he had said he was a fan and sent over a whole table of alcohol?
Yu Yan turned over and buried his face in the pillow.
…This person was too kind.
This was what he was thinking when his cell phone went off again.
Yu Yan’s head swished up, and he quickly picked up his mobile phone.
Yi Ran: Xiao Yan, I remembered wrong, I don’t seem to have any pictures of my Ge. Then I’ll sneak a picture for you another day?
Yu Yan still remembered that this person was the informer, so he hesitated for a moment before deciding not to reply.
After having sent the message a long time ago and still not having received a reply, Yi Ran thought about it and opened his Ge’s WeChat chat again.
Yi Ran: Ge, are you asleep?
A red exclamation mark popped out the moment the message was sent.
[1 has turned on friend verification, and you are not his (her) friend. Please send a friend request first, and you can chat only after the other party has accepted your request. ]
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Lu Xiuhe was so happy to learn that Yu Yan was going to Jincheng.
“Xiao Yan, what hotel did the platform arrange for you? Is it a single bed or a double bed room?” Lu Xiuhe asked, “If it’s a double bed, can you take me along? I’ll pay you half of the hotel fees.”
[You’re dating online and you still want to squeeze into a nest with Xiao Yan? Are you promising at all on your own relationship-front?]
When Lu Xiuhe saw this line in the barrage, he showed a rarely-seen shy appearance. “My baby and I are both not casual people, we’re just meeting for the first time, not talking about stuff like that.”
Yu Yan replied, “Don’t know yet, but if it’s a double bed, come along ba, no need to pay.”
Lu Xiuhe pitched his voice high as he exclaimed, “Love you so much! Let’s go, fight and eat chicken. My baby can’t surf the Internet today, so I can accompany you for the whole day, and we can count it as me paying off the debt.”
[Lying there and eating chicken counts as paying off the debt? Do you want any face lolololol]
At the other end, Mo Nancheng came back from playing basketball, sweating and gasping. He went to the stands, took a drink of water, and looked at the man who was wearing earphones and watching his cellphone. “Bro, we only managed to organize this basketball game for the middle-aged with great difficulty, and you’re really not going to play ah? Didn’t you play basketball very well before?”
“Not playing,” Yi Chen said lightly, “I’m an injured person.”
Mo Nancheng laughed. “Come on ba, just that little injury… Why are you watching a livestream again? Right, didn’t that person say that he wanted to come find you? Why hasn’t he still not arrived in Jincheng?”
“It’ll be some time before he comes.”
“Alright ba.” Mo Nancheng suddenly thought of something. “Also… Which stars did you invite to your annual gala? If my ex is here, I won’t go ah.”
“At present, there’s only one,” said Yi Chen.
“One?” Mo Nancheng was a little surprised. “Didn’t all the big brands pile on before… Who?”
“Zuo Zhen.”
“Zuo Zhen? That male idol? The leader of the Pz group?” Mo Nancheng was left speechless. “It couldn’t be that you invited this person over to sing and dance ba?”
“No.”
“Then how did he attract your esteemed attention?”
Yi Chen rolled his eyes at him. “He used to be a professional player.”
“…What kind? Is it the kind of professional player I’m thinking of?”
“En.” Yi Chen said, “There will be several game compet.i.tions on the spot there.”
“Oh, very good. However, didn’t Zuo Zhen make a post on Weibo saying that he would soon focus on films only?” Mo Nancheng asked, “I have a friend who wanted to make a TV drama starring him before, the kind to just scoop up fans’ money. Tch, it’s said that Zuo Zhen replied with s.h.i.t all back then, made me nearly die from laughing.”
“Don’t know. It’s said that we had just reached out and he agreed.”
“Also, a star would have to be stupid to refuse your invitation.”
“It wasn’t me; the event manager was the one to send the invitation.” Yi Chen said, “Did you receive the invitation?”
Mo Nancheng replied, “Got it, but I’m not planning on going.”
Yi Chen glanced at him coolly. “What, there’s no cost for producing the invitation?”
“…” Mo Nancheng replied, ”Oh, I’m really sad. Didn’t I say I wanted to go after that female anchor called Tuantuan ma, but who knew that a f.u.c.king trending topic would break out on Weibo yesterday, saying that she’s with another male anchor. No energy for that now.”
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