Chapter 27.11 (2/2)

“Is work not well with you? How come you have gone for so long?”

“It is okay. The environment here is really good. So I take it as taking a short vacation.”

“It is the back country and also winter. How can there be any fun?”

“Snowy mountains. Ice Lake. It is beautiful here. Everyone is busy preparing for the New Year. I learn to make bread from the aunty of the Art School and learn ice-fis.h.i.+ng from the children.”

“Sound like you are doing well. I thought you would had suffered.”

“Fortunately. It is just not very convenient. Do you miss me?”

“When are you coming back?”

“In few more days.” Yang Wei Qi was silent on the phone for a while before saying: “Zheng Xie, do you love me?”

“What happen to you?”

“Nothing. I am just bored. Do you love me?”

“I really like you.” A few seconds later, Zheng Xie answer from the other end of the phone.

Just two days later, Zheng Xie met Yang Wei Qi’s boss again.

It is normal for them to cross path again. They have the same circle of friends. Perhaps they had even cross path in the past but just never had the interaction. Once they met, they discover that both of them often cross path, just like how it was the same between Zheng Xie and Yang Wei Qi.

Zheng Xie as pulled to join his friends that day. His buddies said: “Ah Xie, after you are married, it would be harder to get you to come and meet us for a get-together.”

Zheng Xie’s buddies recently had asked Mu Ge to help them with some difficult cases. So often invited him out.

That day, Mu Ge was a little high. Out of the group of people, only Zheng Xie was convenience in sending him home.

Mu Ge in his drunkenness, was totally different from his calm self the other time. He asked: “Wei Qi has not come back yet?”

“You are her boss. How you do not know about your subordinated whereabouts?”

“I have only the whereabouts of her when it is work related. During her vacation time, it is beyond my control.”

Zheng Xie was silence.

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