Chapter 20 (1/2)

Blazing Sunlight I (骄阳似我 上) – Chapter 20

July 27, 2015 by peanuts 23 Comments

At last, we’ve reached the half way mark of book 1 and you get more interaction between the leads. You have to be patient with the story because the OTP is unknown so nothing is clear-cut yet. Anyway, the moral of this chapter is be careful with what you wish for lol.

Chapter 20

I slept for one whole day in the dormitory.

However I cannot sleep at night. After tossing about in the bed for quite a while, I simply got up and played handheld electronic game for the whole night. On Monday morning, I was listless to go to work. While I was walking on the road, I though maybe Lin Yu Sen will want to take a dig at me when he sees my zombie appearance. Who would have imagined that I will hear an awful news the moment I entered the office?

“Vice President Lin seems to have a car accident.”

It can’t be true? My tiredness instantly disappeared completely. I recalled the wish I made in the temple ……  could it be that ……?

I grabbed Jiang Ya who spread the news and asked nervously: “Is he all right?”

Jiang Ya looked suspiciously at me. Her tone immediately sounded acidic: “Nie Xi Guang, why are you so nervous? I don’t know  you are so concerned about Vice President Lin.”

After saying that, she turned and walked away without giving me any useful information.

Fortunately, a department meeting was convened very soon. The one who presided over the meeting was President Zhang who does not usually deal with the day-to-day running of the company. He announced about Vice President Lin’s car accident, but  fortunately it was not serious. However he will still need to spend several weeks in convalescence.

“I’ll take over Vice President Lin’s duties for this month, but sometimes we still need him to have a look and give suggestion on the recent expansion of the factory area. Thus we need a person to go to Vice President Lin’s home to pick-up and drop-off doc.u.ments. You will not need to go too often, once or twice a week. So, who is willing to go?”

President Zhang looked around us. I quickly stood up first before anyone made a move: “President Zhang, I’ll go.”

Everyone raised their eyebrows one after another. Thus I coughed once to draw attention to explain: “First of all, it is because I’ve been dealing with the expansion  program. Also,  all of you already knew that Vice President Lin has a pretty bad impression of me.”

I reckoned after thinking this through, some of my colleagues appeared a little bit more good-natured.

I continued with my explanation: “Therefore I want to use this opportunity to improve Vice President Lin’s impression of me.”

At the same time to redeem the sin in my heart ah ~ ~ ~ This was the main reason.

I looked at President Zhang expectantly. He was probably touched by my enthusiasm as he agreed immediately: “Okay, you go.”

Hence in the afternoon on the next day, I carried a stack of doc.u.ments to go to the vice president’s home. A fifty something years old woman opened the door. She probably knew someone from the company will come as she was very polite.

“h.e.l.lo auntie, may I ask if it is Mr. Lin Yu Sen’s home?”

“Yes, yes, you must be from Mr. Lin’s company. He is waiting for you in the study. Please come in.”

I changed into the house slippers and followed her into Lin Yu Sen’s study, carrying the doc.u.ments. However, I had a panic attack in front of the study. Suddenly I have the kind of feeling of an offender going to see the victim.

I pulled auntie aside and asked: “Auntie, how is Vice President Lin? Is he alright? What did the doctor say?”

“He is all right. The injury is not very serious. Just that it aggravated a little of an old injury! Hence he needs to rest more to get better. It is best not to walk too much or stand for too long.”

Also cannot walk?

I really did not know that my wish will be granted and he will really disappear. Some more so tragic …… A few days ago, I was still full of anger towards Lin Yu Sen, but what remained now was only a guilty conscience.

I asked auntie hesitantly: “…… then will it be inconvenient for me to go in? How about you helping me to hand the doc.u.ments to the vice president?”

Auntie said: “Oh, I’ll ask Mr. Lin first. Please wait a minute!”

When she was about to knock on the door, she heard Vice President Lin’s deep and low voice, “Who’s outside?”

“Mr. Lin, she is a staff from your company. A very sharp young girl who is here to deliver some doc.u.ments to you. Is it convenient for her to come in or should I take them for you?”

It was quiet in the study.

“Let her come in.”

I pushed open the door of the study and anxiously looked at Lin Yu Sen’s body first.

He was sitting on a chair.

The light ray from the French window in the study was very bright. He was wearing a light gray sweater with a thin blanket covering his knees. At the moment, he was looking down at the magazine in his hands.

Although he did not look unwell or cut a sorry figure from head to toe, I still felt he appeared unhealthy.

“Vice President Lin.” I nervously went up to him and handed the doc.u.ments to him.

His eyes met my gaze.

“It’s you?”

I said with a guilty conscience: “Oh, other people don’t have free time.”

I cannot say that I’ve come to see the extent of my curse on him. Thus I had to randomly make up such an unconvincing reason. The way he looked at me seemed like he was studying and a.s.sessing me. Because I have a guilty conscience, I quickly looked down.

He closed the magazine and put it aside. Then he took the doc.u.ments and instructed the housekeeper: “Auntie Chen, take her to the living room to sit down.”

I was made to sit for more than one hour which made me almost fell asleep on the sofa. In the end, I have no choice but to take out my mobile phone and play games to stay awake ……

Before I left, I did not get to see Lin Yu Sen again. Auntie gave the reviewed doc.u.ments back to me. She also gave me a list.

“Mr. Lin asks you to bring over the contracts on the list tomorrow.”

I stared blankly for a moment. Wasn’t it said once or twice a week, so why I still need to come tomorrow? I lowered my head to look at the list. The sharp and familiar semi-cursive script on the list was exactly like Lin Yu Sen’s handwriting.

On the next afternoon, I once again delivered the doc.u.ments to him on a timely manner. Then I was about to go to the living room to wait for him to finish reviewing them.

Sitting in the living room was really very boring. Furthermore, I tragically found out that I’ve left my mobile phone in the office when I came here in a hurry. Hence I was unable to play games with my mobile. Thus when I walked out of the study, I cautiously asked: “Vice President, may I look at the magazine in the living room?”

After all, those were other people’s things, so it was not appropriate for me to rummage through them.

He did not even look up when he said: “You won’t understand.”

Huh?

“All are international medical journals.”

“Oh, then I’ll go out and wait.” I was about to slip away in shame.