Chapter 101 - Clever Like Me (2/2)

However, she looked quite pretty, and also had cla.s.s, somewhat different from ordinary girls.

Breakfast was still very delicious, whether it was spring rolls or dumplings, there was a kind of indescribable deliciousness once it was in his mouth. He could taste that they were made diligently.

After breakfast, Roland came to the large shed. Qi Shaoqiu had just reprimanded two teenagers who practiced the routines in a disorderly way, and then said to Roland, “You don’t need to train right away—let the food digest first.”

Roland nodded and sat down on a bench off to the side.

Qi Shaoqiu also sat down. He took out a cigarette, held it in his mouth, and asked, “I heard that the other day you met Jin Wenwen at the entrance of Red Star?”

Roland nodded, then asked curiously, “It seemed to me that Night Tide Sands knew her.”

“She used to be my girlfriend. Night Tide Sands almost called her sister-in-law.”

Shock was all over Roland’s face.

Qi Shaoqiu guessed that Roland would show such an expression, and he smiled radiantly. “Why, is it strange that someone like me and Jin Wenwen used to be boyfriend and girlfriend?”

“It’s a bit of a surprise, but it seems to be within reason—you’re both the same kind of people,” Roland said after a moment’s thought.

The two of them were both martial arts pract.i.tioners who opened a training club, so it was quite normal for them to have connections.

“She’s a bit of a pushy and compet.i.tive person, and I didn’t like admitting defeat either a few years ago, especially when faced with women.” Qi Shaoqiu said quite calmly, “We dated for two years, quarreling and quarreling unhappily, so then we split up.”

Roland looked into Qi Shaoqiu’s eyes and found that they were still the dead fish’s eyes with no l.u.s.ter, void of any emotion, and then he asked, “What do you want to know? To tell you the truth, I don’t know her very well.”

“I heard Night Tide Sands say Jin Wenwen is pestering you?”

“That’s half of it.” Roland thought for a moment and said, “I have what she wants, but I don’t want to give it to her, so I stopped going to the boxing club.”

Qi Shaoqiu looked at Roland and said, “I know Jin Wenwen well, she’s always trying to get what she wants—at least, she will not give up until she’s tried every which way. My personal advice to you is to cease any relations with her, not because I’m jealous, but because she’s just one of those women who’s hard to deal with.”

Roland laughed. “If you hadn’t added that last line, I really would’ve suspected that you were jealous.

“Get jealous of what?” Qi Shaoqiu’s expression changed. “I’m glad I broke up with her now. Really.”

Looking at the blue sky in the distance, Roland said helplessly, “I’m afraid that she’ll come here. After all, she has seen Night Tide Sands.”

“She won’t come, she’s not brazen enough to.”

Qi Shaoqiu said these last words and got up to instruct the four youngsters.

Roland was somewhat curious, but it was a private matter so he didn’t ask any further.

After training all morning at the saber arts club, Roland rode a public bike home.

He turned a corner and found a woman’s sedan parked in a temporary parking s.p.a.ce at the intersection. She leaned on the door of the car and waved contentedly when she saw Roland.

Pretending not to notice, Roland pedaled on by.

“Roland!” From behind, Jin Wenwen shouted in a tone of clearly suppressed anger.

Roland still ignored her.

Then, he pedaled on for another dozen meters and pa.s.sed directly through a sidewalk.

After crossing to the other side of the road, Roland looked back and saw Jin Wenwen sitting in the driver’s seat, looking at the sidewalk with a helplessly angry expression.

On the left and right side of the sidewalk, there was a car barrier, and Jin Wenwen couldn’t drive over unless she dared to drive across the sidewalk.

Roland smiled at Jin Wenwen and pedaled the public bike into the traffic of the non-motorized vehicle lane.