NOVEL WEB Chapter 225-233
Chapter 225: The Person I Love Is Not My Lover (5)
About the incident with Lin Ya… He Jichen actually helped me settle this issue?
It wasn’t like he hadn’t helped her before – for example, he also helped out in the situation with Lin Zhengyi. However, he helped her that time on Yuguang Ge’s behalf, but this time, Yuguang Ge didn’t even know about it. Anyway, He Jichen even viewed her as a filthy woman…
The things Lin Ya said on her Moments was obviously similar to what he thinks about me, so why did he help me?
Tang Huahua and Bo He didn’t notice Ji Yi deep in thought as the two of them stood to one side. They even spoke back and forth on the topic of “He Jichen.”
“Ah… He Xuezhang treats Xiao Yi so well…” said Tang Huahua.
“That’s really great! I seriously wondered whether He Xuezhang became friends with Lin Ya just because of Ji Yi…” speculated Bo He.
“What is there to…” Tang Huahua instinctively wanted to elaborate on what Bo He said, but she only said four words and suddenly stopped. She thought back to how He Jichen asked her to help report on Ji Yi’s daily activities every day and how she promised to keep it a secret. Then she swallowed the following words: “suspect? He obviously is” and forced herself to change her words to: “…think about? In any case, Lin Ya’s already old news. Now that she’s expelled, she won’t cause Xiao Yi any more trouble.”
Bo He, who didn’t notice anything strange with what Tang Huahua just said, felt like Tang Huahua had a point. She nodded and added, “I agree!”
Tang Huahua and Bo He clapped hands. Then Tang Huahua was struck with a sudden thought as she turned to look at Ji Yi. She stared at her for some time but eventually couldn’t contain the curiosity in her mind any longer and asked, “Xiao Yi, what do you think of He Xuezhang1?”
When Ji Yi heard Tang Huahua’s question, she quickly repressed her feelings.
She was lost in her own thoughts just now, so she hadn’t heard Tang Huahua’s question at all. Ji Yi raised her eyelids, looked over at Tang Huahua, and let out an “Mm?”
“I said, what do you honestly think of He Xuezhang?” Tang Huahua figured that Ji Yi didn’t quite understand what she meant by her question, so she explained it in a little more detail.
Having clearly heard the question, Ji Yi’s fine brows slightly furrowed of their own accord. Then she looked down and remained quiet for some time before she replied casually, “Nothing. He’s just someone from the same school.”
Tang Huahua could tell that Ji Yi didn’t want to answer her question, but she didn’t want to let Ji Yi off the hook, so she added, “Xiao Yi, don’t brush me off. I’m asking you one more time, for real!”
“Look, He Xuezhang is really hot and his family background is great. You rarely find a person like him in this world and what’s most important, he treats you…” Tang Huahua almost said the two words “especially well,” but the words only managed to reach the corner of her mouth before she recalled what He Jichen secretly did for Ji Yi behind her back. Ji Yi had no idea, so Tang Huahua improvised by rewording her sentence to: “…not bad, so Xiao Yi, have you considered taking the next step with He Xuezhang?”
Ji Yi furrowed her brows even more tightly as she turned her head and looked over at Tang Huahua.
Having received Ji Yi’s fierce gaze, Tang Huahua caught a tinge of annoyance.
She knew Ji Yi didn’t like her asking that question…
- [Honorific] older male classmate
Chapter 226: The Person I Love Is Not My Lover (6)
In the past, when something like this happened, Tang Huahua would instinctively shut up and stop asking, but this time, she didn’t have the slightest intention of stopping. Instead, she continued to ask for even more clarification, “Or, Xiao Yi, would you ever like He Xuezhang? And do you now feel something for He Xuezhang?”
…
Long ago on new year’s eve when He Jichen received the screenshots from Tang Huahua, he was determined to not let Lin Ya off. However at the time, Ji Yi wouldn’t pick up her phone and he didn’t know her whereabouts, so he was worried and shoved the incident with Lin Ya to the back of his mind.
After returning from Lijiang, there was just over a month before “Three Thousand Lunatics” started filming. He had to make last-minute decisions and finalize the pre-release promotion, script, set and more. In the first month of the year, everyone was off on holiday, but he was working like crazy.
It wasn’t until yesterday that he finally finished his work. After he got a good night’s sleep, he realized it was the eighteenth – the very day he secretly went to see her every month after losing contact with her four years ago.
As soon as he thought of her, he conveniently remembered the unresolved situation with Lin Ya.
He was supposed to start school the next day, so he couldn’t allow those rumors to spread wildly around the school. Without any appetite for Zhang Sao’s breakfast set-up, he headed out to handle the situation with Lin Ya.
He knew about Lin Ya’s antics long ago, but he never intended to completely remove her from the picture in the past.
He figured that after giving her that vicious warning last time in her form, she would instinctively know to stay away from Ji Yi. He never imagined that after two short months had passed, she would cause even more trouble.
Because Qian Ge alone already created enough trouble for Ji Yi, he couldn’t allow Qian Ge to also have an easily manipulatable pawn such as Lin Ya, so he simply had to attack them at the root.
After saying goodbye to Ji Yi posing as his older brother back in Lijiang, he hadn’t seen her for a little under two weeks. It was alright if he kept busy, but when he was free, he constantly thought about her. Since he had a free day yesterday combined with the fact that he helped her take care of the incident with Lin Ya, his longing for her grew stronger. He knew that as He Jichen, he simply couldn’t ask her out, but he couldn’t resist missing her. He struggled over the idea for a long time but eventually asked her out for a meal posing as He Yuguang.
Today was the first day back at school. He Jichen originally had a meeting scheduled for later in the afternoon, but he remembered that Ji Yi had to be at the administration office to register and pick up her textbooks that day. After rescheduling the meeting for tomorrow at eight in the morning, he drove to the school.
He parked the car close to the school building, pulled the window down and lit a cigarette. He turned on the music in the car and waited there for about an hour before he saw her and a few girls from her dorm walk over from afar.
It took half an hour for her to walk into the school building and walk out again with the two girls from her dorm, hugging her textbook.
After walking for some time, the three of them came to a stop to discuss something.
Through the windshield, he stared at her when he suddenly had the urge to talk to her.
Ever since that night at the Four Seasons Hotel, he hadn’t spoken a single word to her as He Jichen… He could use the excuse of telling her that filming started on the fourteenth of March just to say a few words to her.
With that very thought, He Jichen pushed the car door open and headed straight for Ji Yi.
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Just as he was about to reach the three women, he heard what Tang Huahua said: “Or, Xiao Yi, would you ever like He Xuezhang? Moreover, do you now feel something for He Xuezhang?”
His footsteps came to a sudden halt as he held his breath and silently stared firmly at Ji Yi for her answer.
…
Like He Jichen? Or feel something for He Jichen?
The annoyance between Ji Yi’s brows grew more intense.
She would never forget how she endured and put up with Lin Zhengyi that night, just to help He Jichen get his investment back. She also remembered how he treated her and how humiliated she felt.
Like? Feel something?
She couldn’t hate and avoid him enough, so how could she ever develop any pleasant feelings for him?
Tang Huahua saw how Ji Yi pursed the corners of her lips and how she didn’t reply for some time, so she hid behind Bo He. In a quiet voice, she prompted her, “Xiao Yi…”
Ji Yi’s train of thought was broken when Tang Huahua spoke. She was afraid Tang Huahua would continue to say offbeat, ridiculous things, so she immediately responded, “Would you fall for someone you hated?”
Ji Yi left Tang Huahua stunned with her swift response which then made Tang Huahua laugh. “Xiao Yi, are you kidding? He Xuezhang treats you so well, how could you hate such a…”
Ji Yi didn’t want to keep talking about this topic in the slightest. Ji Yi understood exactly what Tang Huahua meant in an instant and stopped her from saying the word “person” by interjecting, “I’m not joking around with you. Like or feel something for him? Why don’t you just kill me!”
After saying that, Ji Yi didn’t stay a second longer. She hugged her textbooks and turned back around, heading towards the dorm.
Bo He and Tang Huahua seemed stunned by the sternness and conclusiveness of Ji Yi’s last words. The two of them continued to stand there, staring each other in dismay for quite some time before they hurriedly caught up to Ji Yi.
…
The three girls left and long ago disappeared from his line of sight, but He Jichen still stayed right where he stopped in his tracks without flinching at all.
Quite a few students brushed past him and entered the school building. There were also quite a few students holding textbooks, chatting and laughing beside him as they walked away.
However, his line of sight seemed frozen on the spot where Ji Yi was just standing.
The afterglow from the setting sun elongated his shadow.
Even he didn’t know just how long he stayed there in that position before someone from his dorm, who had come to the administration office to register, saw him and cried, “Chen Ge?”
He Jichen still didn’t flinch as though he hadn’t heard a thing.
The roommate was so confused that he took a few big steps forward and stood behind He Jichen. He reached his arm out and patted his shoulder. “Chen Ge, what’re you looking at? What has you so entranced?”
He Jichen suddenly snapped back to reality and turned his head around to look at his roommate.
The roommate followed He Jichen’s line of sight, but couldn’t see anything interesting. He let out a chuckle and cut to the chase: “Chen Ge, there’s a party tonight in our dorm. Are you coming?”
Perhaps He Jichen was just in a daze for too long as he was a little bewildered. He initially shook his head then realized what his roommate asked and after a short while, he nodded.
He was afraid his roommate would be confused by his conflicting head shaking and nodding, so he added in an unbelievably hoarse voice, “Where?”
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“It’s at the hot pot restaurant in front of the school.” After the roommate said this, he pointed to the school building nearby. “Chen Ge, I’m going in to register first. See you later at the restaurant.”
He Jichen gave a gentle nod but didn’t say a word.
After his roommate left, he stood on the spot for some time before he strode back to his car. He pulled the car door open and got in.
He closed the door and pulled up the windows, letting silence seep through the entire car.
He Jichen lowered his eyes and stared at the steering wheel in front of him with Ji Yi’s words to Tang Huahua echoing in his ears: “Would you fall for someone you hate?”
“I’m not joking around with you. Like or feel something for him? Why don’t you just kill me!”
In actuality, deep down inside, he knew full well that she didn’t have him in his heart. If he was, why would he need his brother’s identity to get close to her?
However, when he heard himself just how non-existent he was to her, he realized the resulting devastation was a little too much to bear.
He knew she wasn’t at fault here. He went overboard that night at the Four Seasons Hotel, but his heart still throbbed in pain at her words.
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Back in the dorms, Bo He received a call from the class president.
The class president and Bo He were from the same hometown and they were classmates since high school, so their relationship had always been good. He was calling to ask if Bo He would like to have dinner with him and his roommates later that evening.
Bo He thought about Ji Yi and Tang Huahua and hesitated a little since the class president asked her to bring them both along. However, when she remembered that it was a free meal, Bo He immediately broke into a wide smile while hanging up the phone. She called Ji Yi and Tang Huahua to hurry up and get ready to head out for a free meal.
The dinner party was at a hot pot restaurant opposite the school, which eight out of ten school dinner parties were held at. Students at B-Film called it “Second Canteen.”
Today was the start of the term, so all the students were eating out together. When Ji Yi and her two roommates arrived, the entire first floor of the hot pot restaurant was filled with people.
The three of them circled the first floor but couldn’t find the class president and the others. Bo He was just about to take out her phone and give them a quick call when the class president showed up by the stairway. “Bo He.”
Ji Yi and the girls walked up the stairs, following the class president while they heard him explain, “When we got here, the first floor was full. There was just no room, so we had to book large private room on the second floor. However, they were full today and seeing as the large private room could seat over ten people, the boss wasn’t particularly willing to give it to our party of seven. Luckily, I bumped into good basketball friends of mine. They came too, so he figured that we might as well share tables. We’re from the same school, so you guys can get to know each other…”
By the time the class president finished talking about how it all happened, the four of them had already reached the entrance of the large private room.
Aside from the three girls, all the others were already seated around the big round table, happily chatting away.
Tang Huahua walked right to the front, pulled a chair out, and just sat down when her eyes widened in disbelief. She cried out, “He Xuezhang?”
The second Tang Huahua said that, she thought back to what she asked Ji Yi in front of the administration office not too long ago. She instinctively turned her head and glanced over at Ji Yi.
When Ji Yi heard Tang Huahua say the three words “He Xuezhang,” her fingertips trembled but the expression on her face didn’t change.
If she knew she’d have to share tables with He Jichen, she would’ve definitely found an excuse to decline tonight’s dinner invitation.
But she was already there, so she couldn’t just turn and leave.
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Ji Yi could only force herself to endure the uncomfortable feeling inside as she slowly pulled out the chair next to Tang Huahua and took a seat.
Seeing as everyone was there, the class president immediately called the waiter to order food.
Since there were too many people eating tonight, not only did it take a long time for the food to arrive, but the staff also took a long time to distribute the tableware.
Coincidentally, Ji Yi’s back was to the doors of the large party room, so all of the cutlery was by her side. As she helped Tang Huahua hand out the tableware, Ji Yi incidentally looked up and caught a glimpse of He Jichen sitting right in front of her.
He sat by the window with his chair turned to one side. There was a cigarette in his mouth as he stared out the window.
The somber expression on his face revealed he was in a bad mood. Despite this, it didn’t conceal his air of nobility.
When he raised his lighter and lit his cigarette, the flickering flame illuminated his face and emphasized the frightening good looks of his perfect facial features.
After he lit the cigarette, he pinched it from his lips and held it between his fingers without smoking it.
This guy has so many weird habits – he doesn’t smoke, so why does he still light up the cigarette?
After Ji Yi silently cursed at him deep inside, she then realized that she really was caring too much about He Jichen. She then averted her gaze and joined back into the group conversation.
Everyone in the room was cheerfully chatting away apart from He Jichen, who from start to finish, didn’t say a word.
After the waiter finished serving the food, the class president dipped the beef into the hot pot water to cook. That was when the man sitting next to He Jichen cried, “Chen Ge, let’s eat.”
He Jichen tilted his head stiffly but didn’t say a word.
But after some time passed, the cigarette between his fingers had burned down to half its size.
Not in a hurry to turn his chair around to start eating, He Jichen nonchalantly brought his cigarette up and swiped the window pane.
After Chinese new year in Beijing, the weather was still really cold. As soon as the hot pot in the room started to boil, the temperature rose, creating a layer of condensation on the window pane.
As He Jichen’s cigarette swiped the window pane, it left temporary marks against the dispersing condensation.
At first, Ji Yi didn’t pay attention to what He Jichen was writing on the window, but just as she got up to fish out the beef balls from the hot pot, she saw him write “I” on the window pane with his cigarette-wielding fingers. Out of utter curiosity, she looked over at his slender fingers as she sat down.
He looked unusually serious as he slowly wrote stroke by stroke until he wrote the word “love.” By then, the first word was already covered by condensation.
Did He Jichen want to write “I love you”?
Before that thought could settle, she caught sight of the third word He Jichen wrote.
Every time he wrote a word, the condensation from the previous word covered up the last.
After he finished writing the whole sentence, the only word left on the window was “lover.”
So it wasn’t what I thought it was. Then what does he want to write?
Ji Yi stopped eating and stared unblinkingly as He Jichen’s cigarette butt burned out.
With her gaze transfixed, Ji Yi stared at He Jichen as she silently read the entire line: “The person I love is not my lover.”
What a sad line…
Ji Yi instinctively turned her gaze to He Jichen.
He was still staring out the window with his back against the entire room.
Chapter 230: The Person I Love Is Not My Lover (10)
She wasn’t entirely sure if it was because of what He Jichen just wrote, but Ji Yi felt a strong sense of sadness permeate little by little from his silhouette.
Sadness?
From Ji Yi’s impression of He Jichen, his characteristics were best described with words like egotistical, arrogant, brash, and self-righteous. As for sadness… this adjective was completely out of place in his world…
There are actually things for him to be torn up about?
And from what he just wrote, it looks like it’s about… love?
He Jichen has someone he likes? Back in Sucheng, there was a long period of time when we were especially close. How could I not know that he liked someone? Could he have met someone after we parted four years ago?
It’s really hard to imagine what kind of woman He Jichen could fall for.
Ji Yi couldn’t help but stare at He Jichen, entranced. When Tang Huahua saw her holding her chopsticks still for a while, she gave her a little nudge.
Ji Yi shook and quickly glanced down to hide the fact that she stared at He Jichen.
Tang Huahua, with something in her mouth, said in a muffled voice, “Xiao Yi, why’re you not eating?”
“Oh, right.” Ji Yi quickly picked up some food with her chopsticks and shoved it into her mouth.
She chewed a little but couldn’t resist glancing up at He Jichen.
The final word he wrote on the window pane, “lover,” was long gone, but she stared firmly at him. Everyone in the room was still eating, but he didn’t have any intention of picking up his chopsticks. He looked truly devastated as he felt around for another cigarette. He eventually found one and put it in his mouth. Through the shroud of cigarette smoke, Ji Yi hazily saw a flash of deep heartache in his eyes as his gaze fell.
It felt like Ji Yi’s heart was stabbed harshly by something, inducing an inexplicably sharp pain.
She hurriedly withdrew her gaze and creased her brows. Then she remained frozen in place while tightly gripping her chopsticks for a moment before the heartache disappeared.
That was so weird. What does He Jichen being sad have anything to do with me? Anyway, how does the way his crush looks have anything to do with me?
Ji Yi shook her head as she cast the thoughts of He Jichen away and continued to eat.
By the time everyone was full, He Jichen’s plate was still untouched.
The class president noticed it was still early, so he wasn’t in a rush to get back to school. Seeing as the conversations were dying out, someone suggested they play a game.
The game was simple – everyone had one piece of paper and a pen, and you had to write a message you could never bring yourself to say to someone. All you had to do was write the person’s name but not your own.
Everyone around the table thought it was really interesting and agreed.
When someone called the waiter for some paper and pens, they asked if He Jichen wanted to join in.
The roommate next to He Jichen instinctively said, “Chen Ge would never…”
Before he could finish, He Jichen, who hadn’t said a word all night, finally said, “Let me.”
The roommate’s mouth gaped as he sat next to him.
The waiter quickly brought over some paper and pens.
Each person at the table grabbed a paper and pen and started to write.
After they finished writing, they folded the piece of paper and called a waiter over to help collect them and distribute them back in a random order.
The first one on top was for the class president: “Your socks are so stinky.”
Everyone in the room burst into laughter.
Chapter 231: Ji Yi, I’m Sorry (1)
The second piece of paper was written for a roommate from He Jichen’s dorm: “I know you took a dump in the bathroom last night.”
“…”
Because they were all close friends, everyone wrote embarrassing things which left them all grinning from ear to ear. However, after the class president opened the final piece of paper, he didn’t actually read it with the same cheerfulness. He stared at Ji Yi with a little astonishment then handed it to her.
After about two seconds, Ji Yi then realized that the piece of paper was probably written for her, so she took it with a skeptical look on her face.
Because the class president’s gaze was overly astonished, Ji Yi was more or less a little nervous. She held the piece of paper hesitantly for two seconds before opening it.
She looked down and saw the black ink strikingly clear against the pure white paper: “Ji Yi, I’m sorry.”
No wonder the class president was stunned. Even Ji Yi was completely stunned when she read those five words.
Sorry… who is apologizing to me?
Tonight, in that room, was the first time Ji Yi met the three people from He Jichen’s dorm. Before that evening, she hadn’t crossed paths with the four people from the class president’s dorm either. Bo He and Tang Huahua… The two of them would probably only joke around with her in the fashion of all the other slips of paper, so it couldn’t have been them…
He Jichen was the only one she had bad blood with…
But someone this arrogant – could he even apologize to me?
As Ji Yi thought this, her eyes couldn’t help slowly looking up and staring in the direction where He Jichen was sitting.
Through the smoke from the cigarette in his hand, He Jichen was staring right at her.
His eyes were dark and enigmatic as though they could talk. When his gaze met hers, he blinked gently, releasing an aura that pulled on her soul.
From her eyes, he could probably tell that she started to suspect something. He stared unwaveringly back into her eyes for two seconds before he gave her a gentle nod.
Ji Yi’s fingers trembled as she naturally looked down and clutched onto the paper tightly.
What did He Jichen mean by giving me that nod?
Is he using non-verbal hints to tell me that he was the one who wrote those words?
So he’s really apologizing to me? Is it for what happened that night at the Four Seasons Hotel?
Since Ji Yi remained quiet after she read the piece of paper, Tang Huahua was a little curious, so she leaned in closer. “Xiao Yi, what was written on the paper?”
Although the five words on the paper were really simple, if someone saw it, they’d probably rack their brains making up various wild stories. They’d assume she had some kind of secret relationship with someone at the table, so Ji Yi didn’t let Tang Huahua see it and quickly folded it away. “Nothing.”
“You have that expression on your face, yet you say it’s nothing? Xiao Yi, tell me, what was written on there?” Tang Huahua became even more curious, pulling on Ji Yi’s arm and starting to mess with her.
The class president, who knew what was written on the paper, could tell that Ji Yi didn’t want other people to know, so he spoke up to help Ji Yi smooth things over. “It’s really nothing. I can testify…”
Every person there was an adult, so even though the paper might’ve had something private written on it, they knew not to ask any more questions when they heard the class president say this. They skipped right past the paper in Ji Yi’s hand and opened the final piece of paper. It was written for a guy from the class president’s dorm: “Yesterday, when I was brushing my shoes, I couldn’t find the shoe brush, so I used your toothbrush.”
The guy replied with “Grrrrr,” lowered his head and started to gag, causing everyone to sway in laughter.
Ji Yi couldn’t help but curve her lips as she looked up and looked at the guy. Just then, her eyes couldn’t help but catch a glimpse of He Jichen again.
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She wasn’t sure if he’d been staring at her from the very start, or if he just happened to look over at her, but their eyes met.
Ji Yi’s heart raced like crazy for a moment, but it was just for a second. She then pretended that looking in He Jichen’s direction was just an accident before she averted her gaze.
Perhaps it was because their eyes met that her mind suddenly wandered to the image of his slight nod a while back. Her finger incidentally pressed down on the paper she kept on the table.
After they finished one round of the game, people started to ponder how they could start another round.
While everyone chimed in with suggestions, He Jichen’s phone rang.
He pulled out his phone and glanced at the screen. Without stepping out, he picked up the call right away.
Not knowing what was said on the other side, everyone heard He Jichen reply, “Got it, be right there.” Then he hung up the phone, got up and grabbed his jacket from behind him as he said to everyone in the room, “Something came up. I’m heading out first.”
He Jichen looked up and glanced at Ji Yi. He heard everyone say their goodbyes: “Bye Chen Ge” and “Take care, Chen Ge,” as he strode out of the party room.
Soon after He Jichen left, the waiter pushed open the door and came in with a beaming smile, interrupting the new game. “The wishing bell is about to ring in the restaurant. If anyone is interested, you can come down to the first-floor lobby to make a wish in front of the wishing bell.”
The wishing bell was this hot pot restaurant’s specialty. It was said the owner of the restaurant was a master tarot card reader who offered tarot card readings for an hour every day. The master also rang the Chinese wishing bell for five seconds.
In those five seconds, the restaurant’s lights were turned off. If you sincerely kissed the person you liked and confessed to them In the pitch dark, you were guaranteed to get together one day.
Perhaps it was because the wishing bell’s theme was about love that many B-Film students came to give it a try. On top of that, there were quite a few guys and girls who actually became couples from this ritual and as time passed, the wishing bell became a sacred place for everybody’s confessions.
As the wishing bell rang at unexpected times, it wasn’t guaranteed it would ring while you ate there. Since everybody got the privilege of encountering it today, quite a few of them went downstairs to take a look.
Ji Yi heard about the wishing bell but never saw it rung before, so she was a little curious too. She headed downstairs with Tang Huahua and Bo He.
There were only five minutes until the wishing bell rang, so the area surrounding the wishing bell was already crowded with people in front of it.
Quite a few people probably wanted to watch the wishing bell ritual. With unusually excited expressions on their faces, there were also many who dragged their partners over, chattering non-stop.
As time went by, the restaurant fell even quieter. As the world fell into complete darkness, the wishing bell rang on the final second and everything around them was utterly silent.
As the bell rang, “Ding!——” Ji Yi heard the faint sound of kissing all around.
It was pitch black so she couldn’t see a thing, but she still turned her head in the direction of where the sounds came from. All of a sudden, before she could even grasp the situation, someone grabbed her wrist.
Ji Yi instinctively wanted to struggle out of it, but the person seemed to anticipate what she was going to do, so they grabbed her hand tightly. With great force, she was flung in front of this person.
Before Ji Yi could react to what just happened, the back of her head was scooped up. A second later, a pair of warm, soft lips fell onto hers…
Chapter 233: Ji Yi, I’m Sorry (3)
Ji Yi suddenly opened her eyes wide and her mind went completely blank. It seemed like her pressure points were pressed as she froze on the spot.
The person who kissed her was a man. The kiss was only superficial as a second later, he swiftly released her lips.
Ji Yi was left a little dazed by the sudden kiss. She hadn’t completely snapped back to her senses before the guy moved from her lips to her ears.
Even if it was really noisy around them, Ji Yi could still hear the whispers and sound of kissing over the ringing of the wishing bell. She even heard the man say quietly in a breathless whisper, “Actually I’m really not so bad. Do you want to try to fall in love with me?”
The very second he finished speaking, the man’s lips kissed Ji Yi’s forehead.
His lips were soft and warm as they stuck to her face and lingered there for a second. He let out a distinct sigh of regret at just how fleeting time was like he couldn’t bear to leave.
A second later, he pulled his lips away from her forehead and swiftly let go of Ji Yi’s wrist. He took two steps back and disappeared into the crowd, leaving Ji Yi standing there on the spot, still in a daze.
The sound of the bell stopped ringing as the lights turned on.
Having not yet readjusted to the brightness, Ji Yi furrowed her brows as she realized that a stranger stole a five-second kiss from her with the lights out.
She instinctively opened her eyes and searched her surroundings.
Everyone was busy with their own business, and none of them seemed like the person who kissed her just now.
Could it all have been a figment of my imagination?
Ji Yi thought about it and raised her fingers to touch her lips. A faint warmth on her mouth lingered.
Which proved that in those five seconds, someone really did kiss her…
It was just a shame that the kiss was so short and she was so bewildered that she didn’t take notice of what kind of air the man let off.
“Xiao Yi? Why are you daydreaming? We’re heading up!” When the wishing bell stopped ringing, the group dispersed. Tang Huahua was about to go upstairs and took just two steps before she noticed that Ji Yi stood there fixed on the spot, so she called out to her.
Ji Yi gave a quick response, turned around and headed over to Tang Huahua. Having taken just two steps, she suddenly thought back to what the man said to her during those five seconds when the wishing bell rang.
Her mind wandered back to those words again as she softly mouthed, “Actually I’m really not so bad, Do you want to try to fall in love with me?”
She spoke very quietly, so Tang Huahua, who was some distance away from her, only saw her mouth move soundlessly. She couldn’t help calling out again, “Xiao Yi, what did you say?”
Immersed in her thoughts, Ji Yi didn’t make a sound. As she sluggishly made her way to Tang Huahua, she raised her hand and touched the middle of her forehead where the man kissed her. Then when she reminisced about the moment he left, she let out a sigh. All of a sudden, her footsteps came to a stop and a sharp pain came over her heart as though it was pricked by a needle.
That’s weird. How can that man make me feel so sad and pained?
Who in the hell was he? Why did he say those things to me?
“Xiao Yi? Xiao Yi?” Seeing that Ji Yi had frozen again, Tang Huahua walked back to her side and pulled on her arm. As they walked up to the first floor, she asked, “What’s up with you?”