Chapter 29 - Fantasy and Reality
Translator: Lav
Editor: Levs
Seeing that Sun Yiyi was rather panicky, Shi Lei sensitively realised that something must have happened.
“Yiyi, where did you go?”
Shi Lei asked. It was a normal greeting, yet Sun Yiyi panicked even more. She did not even know where to put her hands, avoided Shi Lei’s gaze as she was too scared.
Shi Lei had an even stronger feeling that something happened and asked: “Did you run into any trouble? Yiyi, tell me, it doesn’t matter what the trouble is, I’ll help you!”
“Nothing, really, it’s nothing!” Sun Yiyi still avoided him and wanted to get the key to open the door in a fl.u.s.ter, but the key fell down to the ground.
Shi Lei picked up the key but wasn’t in a hurry to open the door, but looked at Sun Yiyi earnestly. He turned her shoulders around and said even more earnestly: “Yiyi, hurry up and tell me the truth. We grew up together and I see you as my own sister. It doesn’t matter what it is, you need to tell me. Tell me, did you borrow money from others for aunt"s illness, and now they are telling you to return it?”
Sun Yiyi waved her hands quickly and said: “No, no, I didn’t borrow any money.”
“Yiyi, tell me the truth!”
Sun Yiyi looked at Shi Lei nervously. In the end, she could not hold it and bursted into tears.
Shi Lei also realised that his tone was too harsh, so he softened his tone as much as possible and stroked Sun Yiyi’s hair gently, said: “Ok, Yiyi, my bad, I was too harsh. But you must tell me if something happened. You don’t need to worry about aunt’s illness, I brought enough money for aunt’s surgery fees……”
As Sun Yiyi heard this, she sobbed even harder. She buried her face in Shi Lei’s arms and tears quickly soaked his shirt.
After comforting Sun Yiyi for a while, she finally stopped crying. Shi Lei then said: “Yiyi, tell s.h.i.tou ge, ok? Where did you go and what did you do?”
Sun Yiyi bit her lips and did not know how to tell Shi Lei about it. Although she was innocent, Wu Haoyuan was willing to give her money to treat her mother’s illness, and it looked like a normal deal. But more or less, Sun Yiyi understood that it almost had no difference to having a sugar daddy as what it was referred to in the society.
Except she was wishing for a fluke that Wu Haoyuan really did like her. At least, she can explain it to herself in this way.
But with Shi Lei’s appearance, and even saying that he prepared money for her mother’s surgery pulled her back from her fantasy to reality instantly. This world did not have any fairy tales. All it had was undisguised money deals and Sun Yiyi finally realised that she almost made a horrible mistake.
Before her eyes, Shi Lei was the only one whom she could trust other than her mother. She could no longer contain her emotions, her mind and soul seemingly empty.
“s.h.i.tou ge, I…… I……” Sun Yiyi wanted to say something but hesitated. Shi Lei stroked her hair gently.
“s.h.i.tou ge, can we sit for a while over there?” Sun Yiyi pulled Shi Lei’s arms and pointed towards the place for the elders to exercise in the neighbourhood. At this time, it was completely empty.
Shi Lei nodded. They walked to a seesaw and sat down on both ends. Shi Lei squatted down lightly and stood up, letting Sun Yiyi move up and down naturally on the other side of it.
“We always played on the seesaw like this, do you remember?” Shi Lei knew that something must had happened, except that Sun Yiyi didn’t dare to talk now, so he hoped to make her relax as much as possible.
Sun Yiyi’s face was indifferent, as if remembering the scenes of her playing with Shi Lei during their childhood.
“s.h.i.tou ge, I just…… just…… Actually there was a boy, he’s a student from your university, also in his fourth year this year. He began to pursue me last year, but my mum said that my job was to study so I ignored him. He kept on finding me but I ignored him. But now that mum’s sick, I thought that I could quickly gather the money needed to treat mum’s illness by selling beers at the bar. But after last night I realised that if I want to earn money at a place like that, I need to become a stained woman first. I didn’t want to be like that…… And you also didn’t let me to continue working there……” Sun Yiyi’s voice became lower and lower, as if she knew she made a mistake.
“I thought of that boy. Not long ago, I met him by chance when I was working as a waitress at the KTV. After knowing about my family’s situation, he said he could pay for Mum’s medical expenses and his condition was that I must be his girlfriend. He said, even if it was only one year. When he graduates from university, I can end it if I don’t want to continue.”
When Shi Lei heard this, he became angry immediately.
“Yiyi! Did you just go and see him? Did you say yes? He doesn’t want you to be his girlfriend, he wants to…… wants……” Shi Lei hesitated as he did not want to say the filthy word.
Sun Yiyi did not panic because of Shi Lei’s scolds. Contrarily, she pulled a brittle smile on her pale face and was more calm.
“s.h.i.tou ge, indeed I called him just now and agreed to meet at the KFC next to the school. But I haven’t met with him yet when you called me.”
“Yiyi, I can understand that you want to treat aunt’s illness. But can you agree to something like this, it’s basically……”
“Sugar daddy, right?”
Shi Lei was shocked as Sun Yiyi spoke rather calmly.
“Actually, when he first told me his condition for treating mum’s sickness, I knew. Except he pursued me for half a year, waited for me to finish school almost everyday, so I fantasised that perhaps he was really sincere. Although his demand wasn’t good, but what else can I do? Don’t tell me that I’m not to be concerned about mum’s illness? I just want to be like other girls; have a nice family and attend university here happily. But, I have none of this. I could only lie to myself, lie to myself that Wu Haoyuan really liked me, so I can date him at ease and feel contented, and use him to treat mum’s illness. But……. ”
Sun Yiyi raised her head and wiped off the tears off her face, and said to Shi Lei: “s.h.i.tou ge, am I a bad girl?”
Shi Lei was silent. He stood up without a word, walked towards the other side of the seesaw and pulled her into his arms, and said gently: “No, Yiyi is a good girl. Yiyi is a good girl with filial piety. I blamed you wrongly, I shouldn’t have said those things to you.”
Gently pulling Sun Yiyi off the seesaw, Shi Lei looked Sun Yiyi in the eyes and said: “Yiyi, remember that it doesn’t matter how difficult the situation is, it should not be a reason for you to ruin yourself. I’ve solved the problem with the medical expenses for you. As for that Wu Haoyuan, don’t talk to him ever again. Even if you see him by chance, just avoid him as far as you can. Don’t worry, everything will be fine. After aunt finishes her surgery, you’ll still have a contented family. You can definitely go back to university next year. Don’t worry about money, I will help you.”
“But, s.h.i.tou ge, Mum’s medical expenses needs at least 60,000 yuan. Your family’s condition is also very ordinary, how do you have that much money?”
Shi Lei ruffled Sun Yiyi’s hair and said: “During these years in university, I’ve being doing part-time jobs and saved quite a few thousands of money……”
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