Chapter 82 - Would You Still Have the Nerve to Get on Another Man’s Car in the Future? (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
He was not too happy at first after being dragged along for the New Year’s visit. He heard his mother said that the family they were visiting had a young woman who was single, but he was not expecting much because his standards were high. He was a very proper person, with a stable job, a good salary— he had a home and a car too. He did not fancy most women.
However, he got very excited when he laid eyes on Song Yu. He did not expect that the Song daughter—whom his mother constantly talked about—was actually that beautiful. Furthermore, she was not like other women who were high maintenance. She had a quiet and delightful temperament, and she was certainly not the type whose beauty is only skin-deep.
If he went out with her, he would definitely be able to show-off to his bros.
Seeing that Song Yu did not answer, Yu Qianying elbowed her subtly, forcing Song Yu to put on a smile and say, “If there’s a chance.”
“You youngsters have a lot in common. Take the opportunity to talk more.” Noticing how Song Yu was playing dumb, Yu Qianying might as well open up the topic herself.
“Song Yu, what’s your number? You mind exchanging numbers with me?”
Song Yu did not expect Wang Yifeng to be so direct. Since she was in front of both their parents, she felt that it would not be nice to decline, but the truth was that she really did not want to give it to him.
Wang Yifeng’s intentions were clear. If she gave it to him, what would happen if he bothered her in the future?
She was not the type of girl who would want a fallback guy. She and Qi Chengzhi were already together, so she wanted to be honest with him.
Even if she was still apprehensive of their relationship, she would not find a way out just because of that.
Moreover, she did not want to give Wang Yifeng false hope.
Just as she was thinking of an excuse to refuse, her phone rang.
She saw that it was Qi Chengzhi, so she smiled and apologized, “I’m sorry, it’s the company. I have to take it.”
Song Yu held her phone and answered it only after entering her room.
“I’ll be at your home in half an hour.” As a result of talking through the phone, she could not see him, but could only hear his voice. A certain kind of magnetism was apparent.
His calm and mature voice sounded much more mellifluous after she had just heard Wang Yifeng’s voice. It caressed her ears and made them feel hot.
“About that…don’t stop at the entrance to my home! Yesterday, during the day, my neighbor saw us and my mom even asked me about it.” Song Yu sat beside the window and occasionally pressed her finger on the windowsill.
“…” Qi Chengzhi kept quiet on the other end of the line. She only heard his unhappy sighs, and they sounded quite heavy.
Song Yu drew circles on the windowsill with her fingers. She knew he was unhappy for certain, so she explained hurriedly, “It’s because of my connection to Chengji. After the Song family’s bankruptcy, the Qi family’s reaction left my parents bitterly disillusioned. I’m worried that my parents wouldn’t be able to handle it if they saw you.”
The Qi and Song families had a long history. From what she knew, they were on very good terms before she was born. Yu Qianying and Xia Wenna were best friends, which was why they made the decision for her and Qi Chengji to get married. It was not merely because of marriage, the relationship between the two families was very good indeed.
When the Song family went bankrupt, not only did the Qi family not help out, they ghosted the Song family completely. Song Donglin and Yu Qianying were very depressed, but Song Donglin fared better because he could control his feelings. For Yu Qianying, bringing up the Qi family would be like striking a nerve, and she still felt that way.
“…” Qi Chengzhi still remained silent. Song Yu thought that he did not agree since the man was one that was particularly persistent with his own views.
It was the same with sending her to the company. She clearly told him to stop farther away, but he would still drop her in front of the company by keeping quiet about his intention to do so.
She sighed silently and was about to tell him that he should forget about what she said if he was unhappy. Instead, Qi Chengzhi’s cold voice then spoke, “Qi Chengji.”
Song Yu thought she heard wrongly, “What?”
“Qi Chengji. If you mention him, say his full name. You don’t have any relationship with him now. There’s no need for you to call him Chengji so intimately,” he exclaimed.
‘Childish! He wants to have a clear distinction between himself and his brother.’
“Understood.” Song Yu had no choice but to agree, and she did not know whether to laugh or cry.
“I’ll wait for you at the entrance to the residential area.” Qi Chengzhi spewed out that sentence and hung up.
Song Yu dilly-dallied for a while before going back into the living room. She did not bring up the topic of her phone number, and Wang Yifeng—knowing that it was a silent refusal—did not ask about it anymore.
She had just taken her seat when Qi Chengzhi’s message came. He wrote only two words: “Come down.”
Song Yu went into her room to take her jacket. She noticed that Qi Chengzhi’s leather gloves were jutting out of the down jacket she wore the night before. Recalling that it belonged to Qi Chengzhi and that she forgot to hand it back to him, she took them and placed them into her bag.
Returning to the living room, Song Yu smiled and apologized, “I’m really sorry, our company has arranged for us to pay our new year’s visits to some clients. I have to go.”
“You should go. Work is important,” Mrs. Wang replied with a smile. She then turned and looked at Wang Yifeng. “You should send Song Yu.”
“It’s okay, my company is nearby. There aren’t many cars today, so the road will be empty. I’ll reach there in no time.” Song Yu feared that she would really be unable to wiggle herself out of the situation if Wang Yifeng really wanted to send her.
“There’s no one on the road because everyone’s having a holiday. How are you going to go to the company?” Mrs. Wang asked.
Wang Yifeng stood up and put on his jacket without saying a word. He smiled at Yu Qianying and Song Donglin. “Uncle, auntie, I’ll send Song Yu.”
“Really, it’s okay…” Song Yu was expressing genuine opposition, but no one seemed to care.
“Hehe, thank you for the trouble,” Yu Qianqing remarked and considered the matter as settled.
Song Yu was forced to the point where she could not decline his offer. When they went down, Song Yu stood and remarked seriously to Wang Yifeng, “I’m really okay with going by myself, please don’t go through all the trouble.”
“There’s no trouble. My car is parked here. I’ll send you to the company.” Wang Yifeng pointed to a row of cars in the parking lot. She did not even know which one belonged to him exactly.
“I…” Song Yu doubted whether to tell him she had a boyfriend.
Regarding that matter, however, Wang Yifeng did not bring up that topic and did not know whether it was something she should be saying.
It would only create awkward tension if she mentioned she had a boyfriend without him even asking.
Wang Yifeng however, did not wait for her to finish her sentence. He left her while waving at her, and said, “I’ll bring the car over.”
Song Yu stood there, mouth agape, and unable to stop him. There was nothing else she could do except to take out her phone and send a message to Qi Chengzhi. She told him the whole thing, but omitting, of course, that it was a covert blind date. “He insists on sending me to work. No matter what I said, it was no use. Maybe you can wait for me at the company?”
Wang Yifeng drove over in his red Toyota Camry, but Song Yu still had not received Qi Chengzhi’s reply.
She sighed and forced herself to sit in the front passenger seat. Deep down, she was nervous about how she had to face Qi Chengzhi.
He did not even reply to her message. Being a man with a short temper, it was certain that he was very much infuriated at that moment.
Letting him wait outside was bad enough. If he was told to make a journey to her office, he might even be so angry that he would just leave.
Once the Camry has driven out of the residential area, Song Yu saw the Range Rover parked there. She breathed a sigh of relief that he had yet to depart.
Song Yu lowered the mirror and looked at the Range Rover. She saw Qi Chengzhi sitting in the car and looking at her direction. Naturally, he saw her and Wang Yifeng.
Song Yu cast a helpless expression toward him, but Qi Chengzhi simply scoffed and ignored her by looking away.
She sat back upright and wound up the car windows again. She lowered her head and felt her scalp hurting badly.
Glancing at the side mirrors of the car, she noticed Qi Chengzhi tailing them.
Seeing that he followed them instead of just leaving her, Song Yu breathed a sigh of relief. She was even happy because he did not just desert her there in his moment of anger, and she thought about how she would apologize nicely to him.
Her happiness, however, was short-lived, because it only took a moment for her heart to sink.
Qi Chengzhi overtook the car abruptly, and it became apparent that he had decided to leave.
Song Yu looked downcast and her eyelashes obscured her eyes. They concealed the boundless disappointment in her heart, and almost involuntarily, her hands grasped her phone even tighter.
All of a sudden, there was a loud clatter, and the car shook violently. Under the inertia, Song Yu fell forward and knocked herself before falling backwards again.
The sudden impact left Song Yu feeling shocked, and her face turned pale. Panicked and flustered, she looked over and saw that the front of the Camry had rammed into Qi Chengzhi’s Range Rover.
Wang Yifeng huffed angrily. He released his seatbelt and flung it toward the door, after which he opened the door and left the car.
“How the hell did you drive!” Moments after Qi Chengzhi got down from the car, Wang Yifeng rushed to him, pointed to his nose, and exploded in anger.
Wang Yifeng’s driving was pretty alright. There were no traffic lights throughout the strip of road, and because it was the first day of the new year, everyone went home for the holidays, leaving B City looking like a ghost town. Cars were scarce on the road, so it was one of those rare days that the driving speed could somewhat be upped.
However, the Range Rover went from eighty miles an hour to a sudden halt. Since there was no indication that the car would stop, Wang Yifeng did not manage to brake in time. Although he braked immediately after noticing the halt, it was impossible for a car that was going eighty miles an hour to stop within such a short distance. In the end, the Camry rammed the rear end of the Range Rover with a significant amount of force.
Song Yu went down and saw that the Range Rover was not in too much of a bad shape. Other than a dent in the bumper and broken rear lights, everything else seemed alright.