506 A Child, A Teenager & An Old Woman (1/2)
Yan Ying turned her head to see who knocked at the window before her eyes slightly narrowed down. Unlocking the door, she alighted and came to stand before the person whose eyes were trained on him all this while.
”Hey, Jini! What a pleasant surprise!”
The person before her scowled at the nickname before his hand lifted to smack her hand but she skillfully dodged it while laughing, ”Aiyo, our Jini still has a temper.” Seeing how the tips of his eyebrows twitched she stopped herself from teasing him further. ”But on a serious note, Zhou Jinhai, what are you doing here?”
Zhou Jinhai's brows quirked up slightly as he questioned, ”Ms. Know-it-all doesn't know that I live here?” Ying shook her head. ”That's a little hard to believe.”
”Now, you can't say that. I know a lot of things but I really didn't know you had been living here, right beside Dylan.”
Zhou Jinhai smiled at her knowingly, ”But I didn't even mention that I live beside Dylan. How did you come to that conclusion?”
Ying coughed since she was caught now. She smiled sheepishly at him, ”Ok, I might have heard a thing or two.” She leaned against the side of her car and he also came to stand beside her as he offered a cup to her. ”I'm not in the mood for coffee.”
”It's milk tea,” he replied and Ying didn't even take a second before grabbing it. He shook his head at her eagerness before he voiced out, ”Xiaoli is getting married.”
Ying's hand paused slightly before she went back to sipping on her favorite milk tea. ”You're talking as if I don't know that.”
”I know that you also are aware of it. My purpose for bringing it up is to ask whether you're okay with it or not?”
”Will anything changes if I'm not okay with it?” retorted Ying as her eyes glanced at him.
”No, I guess nothing will change,” he mumbled softly. He was silent for a minute before he spoke again, ”Are you gonna attend the wedding?”
”How can I not?”
He glared at her, ”Have you lost your mind? Why do you want to hurt yourself like this?”
”Ha!” Ying rolled her eyes at him as she went on, ”The pot is calling the kettle black?” Zhou Jinhai's expressions shifted as she added, ”Are you forgetting that once upon a time, you also hurt someone like that on purpose? You also called a girl to your wedding when you knew she was madly in love with you. Didn't you also do it to hurt her?”
His hands clenched as he closed his eyes and breathed out, ”I did. I hurt her so that she could move on. I pushed her as far as I could possibly do at that time. But that's the reason why I don't want you to suffer as she did. Because it took me a while to realize that while I was trying to push her away, I broke her.” He took a pause before adding, ”I don't want you to break in this process as well.”
”Even if I cut-off from Xiaoli, don't forget that I can't walk away from Zizi. He is like a father. No, he is my second father. He practically raised me. I can't bring myself to walk away from him.” Zhou Jinhai's gaze was complicated. ”But you can relax. I'm strong. I'm not that easy to break. It's just a wedding, it won't hurt me.”