Accidental Love

Uncle Guan?

Zheng Shuyi thought for a while, as she wasn't sure who the person was, and slowly typed a few question marks.

The second she was about to send it, she suddenly remembered.

Guan Xiangcheng!

At first, when Shi Yan took the initiative to send her a message, Zheng Shuyi was both surprised and happy.

Now that he said Guan Xiangcheng wanted to see her, her brain was full of the bigwig.

Zheng Shuyi: Mr. Guan? Guan Xiangcheng??

Zheng Shuyi: He wants to see me??

Zheng Shuyi: Why though??

In the private dining room filled with the smell of cigarettes and alcohol, everyone was pouring each other wine and discussing negotiations. Everyone wanted more benefits, and the atmosphere grew quite intense.

And in this atmosphere, all that was in front of Shi Yan's eyes were a screenful of question marks from Zheng Shuyi.

He took off his glasses and rubbed his sore eyebrows.

Listening to the chattering of the people around him, Shi Yan looked like an outsider. He clicked into Zheng Shuyi's Moments again to check out that picture.

It seemed that the freezing breeze from thousands of miles away was blowing towards him, along with the cold dew of the river water and the fragrance of the mountains.

When he exited out of the image, there were two more messages.

Zheng Shuyi: Don't leave me hanging, tell me.

Zheng Shuyi: Trembling.GIF

Shi Yan: He is willing to accept your interview.

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When Zheng Shuyi saw these words, she was so overwhelmed with joy that she sent five "Thank You Boss" stickers with koutous1Koutou is the act of deep respect shown by prostration, that is, kneeling and bowing so low as to have one's head touching the ground in a row.

Zheng Shuyi: OK OK!

Zheng Shuyi: I'll be back right away!

She was lying on the bed with her heart racing.

She never even dreamed that she could get an interview against such a famous person in the industry already.

As if a pie suddenly smashed onto her and knocked her out, Zheng Shuyi turned over and lied face down on the bed. After a long time, she finally jumped out of the joy and started thinking.

She slowly calmed down and her expression gradually became serious, and even a little confused.

She opened her phone and slowly sent another question mark to Shi Yan.

Shi Yan: What's up with all the question marks today?

Zheng Shuyi typed out: "No… I just want to ask…" She hesitated, then deleted that message.

She just wanted to ask, when did I apply for an interview with Guan Xiangcheng?

However, Shi Yan's cold words stopped Zheng Shuyi from sending it.

The next morning, she indeed received a call from one of Guan Xiangcheng's staff members.

The purpose was to finalize the time and other details with her. Zheng Shuyi took a look at her work schedule for the next few weeks and said, "I should be available any time. My time is really flexible too and can be adjusted whenever."

Staff: "Okay, let me check, is next week okay? Time might be a bit tight, but the topic can be anything."

"Yes," replied Zheng Shuyi, "I will come back immediately and prepare."

Staff: "Are you abroad or…?"

Zheng Shuyi: "I'm on a business trip in Wu City."

Staff: "Okay, please wait a moment."

The staff placed down the phone and explained the situation to Guan Xiangcheng beside him.

"Wu City…" Guan Xiangcheng thought about it for a while and then took the phone from his secretary, "It's okay, no need for the rush."

He paused, looked at the bare tree branches outside the window, and remembered how he was amazed by the scenery of Wu City many years ago. Then he continued, "Wu City's snowy sceneries are very famous, you should stay there for a bit longer and have fun. I'll also have to wait until next weekend until I have time."

"Okay, thank you very much!"

She didn't think the call with Guan Xiangcheng would go so smoothly. Zheng Shuyi hung up the phone and was still in a daze.

It was already bright daylight as she slowly got up. She opened the curtains and saw the beautiful snow.

The whole city was snow-white, even the leaves were wrapped in soft snow.

Zheng Shuyi quickly took out her phone and hesitated whether to change her flight or to leave for the airport right now.

But before she made up her mind, the airline helped her make the decision.

She received a text message, reminding her that due to weather issues, her flight would be delayed.

Zheng Shuyi sighed and changed her flight.

Afterward, she immediately called Bi Ruoshan.

It happened to be the weekend, and Bi Ruoshan also had nothing to do. She was already planning to send Zheng Shuyi away today, but after hearing that she would be staying for a few more days, she was even more excited than Zheng Shuyi. She immediately drove to the hotel to pick her up.

The most famous snow scenery of Wu City was at Mount Wu.

In the frozen world, the lake transformed into a thick layer of glass, and the rugged mountain roads also turned into a cradle of ice and snow.

Bi Ruoshan booked a hotel with a great view. As if living in a fantasy world, when the curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows were opened, one could instantly see the ice and snow world outside.

Zheng Shuyi stayed here for two days and took more than a hundred photos and dozens of short videos.

At noon of the first day, nine snow scenes appeared in her Moments.

In the afternoon of the same day, even after fitting the photos into three by three squares, it still wasn't enough to fit all her pictures.

That night, she broadcasted the hotel's bonfire party in her Moments live.

The same happened the next day.

At this moment, Zheng Shuyi was extremely like a southerner who has never seen snow in her entire life.

She loved this place, not only because she rarely ever saw snow, but also because she had a lot of physical and mental stress these days. She valued this precious time where she could relax and hang out with her friend, and really wanted to live in this fantasy world forever.

In this world, there was no job. No Yue Xingzhou, no Qin Lezhi, and no Shi Yan to worry about.

So at seven o'clock in the morning on the following day, after Zheng Shuyi and Bi Ruoshan got on the bus to leave the mountain, she watched the scenes flying across the window and muttered, "I really don't want to go."

"Sure, you can ask for another two days off. If your boss is nice, she'll definitely agree."

Zheng Shuyi leaned against the bus window and didn't reply.

It seemed that she was really considering that option.

However, Bi Ruoshan found it a bit funny, "You really don't want to leave? Did you forget that you still have a big business to do in Jiang City?"

Zheng Shuyi turned her head and looked at her for a while before realizing what she meant.

"Oh, you mean Shi Yan?"

Zheng Shuyi sneered coldly, "It's not like I can see him the second I get back or anything."

Having said that, because of Bi Ruoshan's mention, Zheng Shuyi started to think about Shi Yan.

Disturbing Shi Yan from time to time had become a habit for her already. After not texting him for the past few days, she found it quite uncomfortable.

Either way, she had to go back, she still had to continue her business with Shi Yan.

So, she took out her phone and thought about what to type.

After thinking for a while, she only sent a few simple words: I'm back!

Since it was the first time Zheng Shuyi texted Shi Yan about something useless like this after adding his WeChat, she was a little worried and didn't know how he would reply.

Or, he wouldn't reply at all.

The bus slowly drove down the mountain. Since there were chains tied to the wheels and the road wasn't flat, the ride was very uncomfortable.

Zheng Shuyi leaned back on her chair, and just when she was about to fall asleep in the drowsy air, her phone suddenly vibrated.

Shi Yan: Pretty early.

Zheng Shuyi slowly woke up while reading this text.

She stared at these words for a long time. For some reason, she felt a strange enigmatic feeling.

Once she started to have that feeling, Zheng Shuyi could even imagine Shi Yan sneering on the other side of the phone.

Then, in this case, that meant Shi Yan missed her for being away for too long.

Was he not used to not having her constantly bothering him?

Zheng Shuyi thought when the bus suddenly hit a bump. Everyone exclaimed and she hit knocked her head on the window too.

As the sudden pain came, Zheng Shuyi also realized and completely changed her mind.

How could Shi Yan be enigmatic?!

All he knew how to do was to treat people with coldness.

But these thoughts didn't stop Zheng Shuyi from texting.

Zheng Shuyi: Your tone sounds strange today.

This time, Shi Yan almost replied immediately.

Shi Yan: You're overthinking.

Zheng Shuyi held back her laugh as she typed: It's quite cute.

After waiting for a long, long time, she still didn't receive any reply. Not even the "Typing" message showed up.

Zheng Shuyi lowered her head and swayed with the car.

She seemed to have killed the conversation again.

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During the afternoon of that day, Zheng Shuyi returned to Jiang City. When she walked by the neighborhood's patrol stand, the security guard stopped her.

"Miss!" The guard poked his head out of the window and waved at her, "You're Zheng Shuyi right?"

Zheng Shuyi nodded, "What's the matter?"

The guard frowned and said, "You received a bunch of packages. I placed them at the office inside for you, don't forget to go get them."

After speaking, the security looked at her for a while, "Forget it, I don't think you can get all of them, I'll do it for you."

It wasn't surprising that she received some packages. But when the guard said "a bunch", Zheng Shuyi was taken back for a moment, and then immediately remembered.

It was all the clothes that Qin Shiyue bought that day. They arrived.

"No no, I can do it," said Zheng Shuyi as she stopped the guard who was about to help, and then sighed.

She thought that she could finally get a good rest at home, but now she had to deal with all these.

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During dinner, Shi Yan's phone vibrated continuously.

He glanced at the refund information from his bank card. There were seven or eight notifications in a row.

Shi Yan glanced at Qin Shiyue next to him. She was placing his hand on the table cloth and taking pictures of her fancy nails with her phone.

Shi Yan didn't care at all when he received the expense notification from the bank.

He knew very well how much money Qin Shiyue could spend at a time.

But, this was the first time he ever received a refund notification.

"Did you change?" Shi Yan asked indifferently, "did you return something that you didn't like?"

Qin Shiyue realized that Shi Yan was talking to her, and thought about it for a moment, "What?"

Return?

That word never existed in her dictionary.

Every time she bought something, even if she didn't like it or the size didn't fit, she would just let them sit in the house.

It was much more convenient than taking the effort to return it.

Shi Yan didn't answer the question. After he raised his phone in front of Qin Shiyue's face, she suddenly realized.

"Oh! That! I didn't return it, I think it's Sister Shuyi who returned those."

Shi Yan's gaze slowly swept across her face, "Sounds like you two are pretty close to each other."

"She returned them? Aw…" Qin Shiyue muttered to herself. Then, she decided that it was best if she explained everything to Shi Yan, "So um, that thing I told you a while ago, I think I wronged her."

Shi Yan raised his eyebrows, signaling for her to continue.

"So I wanted to compensate a little and bought her some clothes. I didn't expect her to return all of them."

Shi Yan tapped his finger on the phone screen, "You call this a little?"

Qin Shiyue lowered her head and stopped talking.

Shi Yan looked at refund notifications on the phone again.

She's not greedy for money…

This made Shi Yan sink into thoughts.

Translator's note: Translator’s note: Sorry everyone, didn’t get to post over the weekend. I just got my first COVID Vaccine yesterday and I have been having a headache all weekend

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• 1Koutou is the act of deep respect shown by prostration, that is, kneeling and bowing so low as to have one's head touching the ground