Chapter 18 Part1 (2/2)
She knew it, knew that if she asked him, he would certainly give this answer.
After a long moment of silence, she purposely gave a long sigh. ”I'll just keep it. If in the future we divorce, I'll still have some property of my own.”
”How about we sign a prenup?”
A prenup? She had actually thought about this particular matter as well. It would be a little fairer to him that way.
”Sure.” Her answer was given with seriousness. ”Should we find a lawyer? Or just have the law department in your company help us draft up the agreement?”
After an even longer silence, he had a drink of water and stated, his tone warm, ”No need. I can do it. One sentence and that will be enough.” His voice became gentle. ”In the event of divorce, Yi Wenze shall leave the marriage with nothing.”
Stunned, Jia He sat on the couch and listened to the sound of her heartbeat, each thump becoming more and more apparent.
In the end, she finally gave a little laugh. ”I'm not signing that even if you beat me to death. If you end up on the streets, there'll be tens of thousands of fans who will hack me to death.”
He chuckled, then told her softly, ”Honey, I need to board the plane now.”
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The matter of what to do with the apartment could be set aside for the time being, but the car did need to be sold.
When she bought the MINI cooper, she had had to ask Xiao Yu to specially order it in for her, for it was a limited edition. At the time, she actually had not wanted to spend the money on it and Xiao Yu had spent a long time persuading her, but now that she was having someone sell it for her, she discovered that there actually was an advantage to it being a limited edition. She had initially thought that it would not be sold and off her hands until she came back from New Zealand, but to her surprise, two days later there was already someone wanting to test the car.
She had not driven it very much, so though she had had the car for two years, the number of kilometres on it was less than that of other people's cars that had been bought for two months.
The potential buyer, a young girl, was thrilled as she tested it, sighing over and over again that buying this car was worth it. She asked in pa.s.sing, ”This is such a hard car to even order in. Why would you want to sell it? You haven't put very much mileage on it either.”
While Jia He was still pondering on what good explanation she could give, Qiao Qiao, spooning out some ice cream and feeding it into Jia He's mouth, grinned at the girl, ”She found herself an impossible-to-get, so this limited edition is not valuable to her anymore.”
That young girl was very envious. ”An impossible-to-get? In the future when you sell that one, remember to come find me first.”
Holding her silence, Jia He tossed a glance at Qiao Qiao. The latter, though, had already thoroughly dissolved into a fit of laughter that was about to give her internal injuries.
At the end, when they were doing the car inspection, Qiao Qiao finally gave a light sigh. ”It was just during the early spring of this year that I said that if I could somehow happen upon a guy who's hot and devoted and a 'yu choy,' I'd give up on that ba.s.s player. Never had I thought, oh, never had I thought. I really did give up on him, but Ol' Man Heaven gave that type of guy to you instead.”
Her comment brought out giggles of amus.e.m.e.nt from Jia He. ”How about we switch?”
Qiao Qiao mulled on this briefly, then put on an expression of ”Oh, please, let me off the hook!” She said, ”Forget it. To kiss the idol of the whole nation and then do some for-mature-audiences-only stuff with him? … Forgive me, this little woman that I am, for being unable to accept that.”
In reality, Jia He had once had these same thoughts. But that person just had to be Yi Wenze.
He was too smart. He had practically swept away all the obstacles and shattered every bit of her worry and uneasiness.
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During their phone call that night, she casually mentioned Qiao Qiao's musings, and then she suddenly asked him, ”You wouldn't have some sort of weird child fetish, right? When I was in middle school, I really was not pretty. My hair was short, and I didn't like to wear skirts either.”
Yi Wenze was currently waiting for a connecting flight, and there was a faint sense of fatigue in his voice. ”Are you trying to say that I wanted to raise a Loli for myself?”
Jia He laughed. ”It actually does seem like it.”
Yi Wenze seemed to sigh. ”My younger sister is definitely going to like you a lot.”
Jia He asked him, ”Why is that?”
”She explained that concept to me for a long time and told me that I had to tell it to you.”
Jia He was unable to hold back her chortles. ”Tell her, I get it, and I also have grasped the essence of it.”
The two spoke a few more sentences about some arbitrary things, before she remembered that he still had not told her the true reason yet. She, in fact, just wanted to ask him, why? Why me? Why not someone else? Over these many years, of the people with whom he had worked, just the number of screenwriters alone was probably too great to count. If she really were to judge, out of all of his fans, she was absolutely the most introverted and reserved type, and there really was nothing about her or that she had done that was very touching.
She lay on the window seat, both her feet resting on the windowpane. Before long, due to the temperature difference between the interior of the home and the outdoors, two wet prints were stamped on the gla.s.s. This entire time, Yi Wenze had been discussing work matters with someone beside him. She waited for a long while before he finally asked, ”You're still not going to bed?”
In a rare expression of displeasure, she countered, ”I'm still not done asking.”
He chuckled. ”Go ahead, ask.”
”Why did you choose me?”
On his end, there was a momentary silence, as if he was contemplating.
A little voice at the bottom of her heart grumbled, Do you really need to think about it for so long?
”You've asked me this before.” He gave a light laugh. ”If I posed this same question to you, how would you answer it?”
Jia He had not expected that he would toss the question back to her. Many reasons popped up in her mind, but eventually they were all dismissed and she could only respond vaguely, ”Actually, it's honestly not because you're my idol. As for why… I can't say either.”
He seemed to have already predicted that this would be her answer. ”This question needs to be talked about face to face. But when we do see each other, there's no need anymore to talk about it.”
Jia He gave an ”oh.” The underlying meaning of that sentence was very obvious: she would have to burn away in her curiosity.
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[1]闪婚”shan hun.” A ”flash marriage” or ”blitz marriage” is a relatively recent term in China describing couples who have dated each other for a very short period of time or even just met before quickly getting married. The phenomenon is becoming more and more common in China as couples feel pressured to get married for financial reasons, such as rising housing costs, or, sometimes, due to age (and pressure from parents).
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