Chapter 78 - How Fast Of You To Get A New Boyfriend (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Actually, no, I don’t.” Song Yu shook her head.

“Exactly, this is probably his texting style. I mean, if he didn’t care about you, he wouldn’t call you now, would he?” Ruan Danchen had just only finished speaking when Qi Chengzhi’s call came again.

Evidently, it was the same ringtone but it carried more urgency when her phone rang a second time.

“You see? Isn’t he calling you again? If he didn’t care, why would he call you again and again? Go pick it up,” Ruan Danchen urged.

Song Yu smiled awkwardly and brought the phone with her as she walked out of the hall.

Ruan Danchen shook her head and smiled as she looked at Song Yu’s rear figure. Perhaps Song Yu was oblivious to the fact that her feelings toward Qi Chengzhi were much deeper than she thought.

If a woman could fret so much over a man’s response, was there really any other reason for such an action if that woman did not love him?

Song Yu walked to a quiet spot on the corridor and answered the call.

She barely had the chance to say anything as Qi Chengzhi immediately asked, “Why didn’t you pick up the call?”

“…” Song Yu turned to face the wall and watched as the tip of her toes kicked against the skirting of the floor.

“Why aren’t you saying anything?” Qi Chengzhi asked again from the other end. His voice was deep and Song Yu could almost see him frown through the phone.

“I thought you were busy cause your reply just now was just an ‘Mm’.” Song Yu could not refrain from being slightly resentful. Even her tone had a touch of coquettishness that she was unable to detect.

Qi Chengzhi’s frown relaxed gradually and the pursed lines of his lips softened too. The corner of his lips began curling upward.

“The client wanted me to drink with him, it wasn’t too convenient,” Qi Chengzhi explained.

Song Yu felt relieved immediately. She looked down and rubbed the edges of her foot against the wall.

“Miss me already?” Qi Chengzhi sounded pleased on the other end of the phone.

Song Yu did not speak much during the call. Perhaps it was because she was not used to it, since it was the first time they called after they got together. Nevertheless, she thoroughly enjoyed the kind of quiet and blissful atmosphere shared by the both of them.

Silence triumphed over noise.

Song Yu was quiet for a moment. She pressed her left index finger on the wall, then her middle finger. Both fingers took on the shape of a tiny person’s legs, taking small steps up the wall.

“When are you coming back?” Song Yu asked softly. Despite not actually answering his earlier question, her own question served as an indirect affirmation of it.

“New Year’s Eve. Morning flight.” Qi Chengzhi was pleased when he said, “I’ll be going directly to my grandfather’s place.”

“Mm.” New Year’s Eve was a day of reunion. A big family would be particularly busy and Song Yu had no intention of asking him to meet her on that day.

Unable to find something to talk about, she became silent again. She then asked, “Are you still smoking?”

“No. I stopped.” Qi Chengzhi turned and leaned his right shoulder against the wall.

Song Yu face felt hot. “Did you stop when I sent you the message?”

Instead of answering, he asked, “How did you know I was smoking?”

Song Yu could simply say that she knew it but facing Qi Chengzhi, she failed to concoct any sort of lie. Even a half-truth was hard for her.

“Luo Yushu sent me a message saying all of you are at a club, there are even escorts!” Song Yu made a show of being slightly more serious. Although Qi Chengzhi’s vicinity was devoid of women in Luo Yushu’s picture, the whole place was still full of escorts. She found it disgusting and uncomfortable.

Qi Chengzhi chuckled. “When did you bribe Luo Yushu to spy on me?”

“I didn’t!” Song Yu denied it vehemently because she was afraid there would be a misunderstanding. Men hated women who did such things, what more a man like Qi Chengzhi. “Luo Yushu was the one who sent it to me. Even I was confused when I received it.”

“So, you yourself aren’t curious then?” Qi Chengzhi asked, as though he was the one who wanted to relish some control.

“…” Her curiosity had never been strong. She would not think about how he was and what he did when he was drinking and discussing business outside. Besides, she was unable to imagine someone like Qi Chengzhi being in such a disgraceful situation.

When she received Luo Yushu’s text however, she truly could not contain her curiosity.

With his handsome and virtuous appearance as well as his strong and slender figure, he was covered in a refined exquisiteness from head to toe.

Such a man would inherently attract the attention of various women, no matter where he went. It was only then that she did not feel too at east with letting him be out in the open all by himself.

She felt repulsed when she thought of the women who would throw themselves over him even though he was not a tease.

After a pause, she answered tranquilly, “I trust that you’re not someone with bad taste.”

Qi Chengzhi laughed. Was that praise for himself or for herself?

His mood became much better after hanging up. Sternness disappeared from his forehead and he looked much more amicable. He went back into the room and found a nice corner to sit.

Song Yu stared blankly at her phone. She was still in amazement of how things flowed so naturally when she was with Qi Chengzhi.

With a slightly shy look, she turned around but was left stunned.

At some point in time, Qi Chengyue was standing behind her. God-only-knew how long she was eavesdropping on Song Yu’s phone call.

Such rudeness made Song Yu frown because she felt like it was an intrusion of her privacy.

“How fast of you to get a new boyfriend,” Qi Chengyue asked sarcastically. She had disdain for fickle women like Song Yu.

Song Yu used to like Jian Yi but it did not take her a long time to get comfortable with a new man.

If Qi Chengyue was not on the phone with Jian Yi at the same time that Song Yu was also on the phone, Qi Chengyue would have thought that Song Yu was getting involved with Jian Yi again.

Song Yu wanted to ignore Qi Chengyue. She was fed up to even nod at Qi Chengyue and she simply wanted to go back into the hall.

Qi Chengyue stretched out an arm abruptly and obstructed Song Yu’s path. “You used to like Jian Yi so much but now you’ve found a new lover. You have the audacity, don’t you Song Yu? Don’t you think you’re a bit too fickle?”

“What do you expect me to do? You’re afraid that I’d be involved with Jian Yi if I’m single and now you’re calling me fickle when I have a boyfriend? There’s a limit to stubbornness, you know. If I were you, I’d be rejoicing that I have a boyfriend,” Song Yu chided without holding back. Qi Chengyue was unable to utter a single word to refute that statement. Song Yu shot her a glance and walked past her.

She pitied Qi Chengyue when she thought about the picture that she received, the one where Jian Yi was hugging another woman.

Someone like Qi Chengyue would have no problem finding any other guy. Why did she have to be so stubbornly attached to someone like Jian Yi?

Song Yu did not mention anything about the picture. Meddling with the affairs of someone like Qi Chengyue would only lead to Song Yu being admonished.

Qi Chengyue groaned with an ugly expression. She stomped her foot and gnashed her teeth before leaving.

By the time Song Yu returned, the lucky draw had concluded and she was shocked to see a Philips hair curler on top of her chair. It was the all-encompassing type that could curl coarse hair and delicate hair.

“What’s this?” Song Yu picked the hair curler up and sat down.

“I told you your luck is changing for the better,” Ruan Danchen giggled and said. “You’ve been blessed with fortune ever since being together with Qi Chengzhi. Not long after you left, the lucky draw called out your number, so I claimed it on your behalf.”

Song Yu broke into laughter.

‘Was Qi Chengzhi really bringing her luck?’

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Qi Chengzhi returned in the noon of New Year’s Eve. He rushed to his grandfather’s place the instant he came back.

During the journey, he called Song Yu.

At that time, she was pasting rhyming couplets on the outside of her door. Once she saw Qi Chengzhi’s name, she went to the balcony beside the staircase and answered the call.

“I’m back,” he said two simple words. It felt like they were an old couple.

When she heard his voice, she understood what it meant to feel empty all those days before. At that moment, she was feeling content.

“Tired?” She did not overlook the exhaustion in his voice.

Qi Chengzhi laid his head on the chair and massaged the corner of his eyes. However, his lips curled into a faint smile and he said, “Mm, a bit.”

“You’re not driving, are you?”

“Chang Lai picked me up.” The lines on Qi Chengzhi’s face began to melt because Song Yu seemed to be slowly entering into a state of self-realization that she was his woman.

Hearing her gentle, caring voice, Qi Chengzhi’s mood became uplifted.