“Hello . ”
“Hello, Ziming . I’m back . Let’s meet at the usual place today! I haven’t seen you in so long . I miss you so much!”
The familiar voice made him lower his eyelids a little . After a short pause, he answered lightly, “I’m not free . ”
“Not free? Are you really not free or do you just not want to meet me?”
The sweetness in the caller’s voice dimmed as it carried a tinge of unhappiness .
“… I’m really not free . ” He peeked at the woman beside him, wearing headphones and paying attention to the movie, and said this on the phone .
“Isn’t today the start of the year? Why aren’t you free?” The woman on the other end was not about to drop this matter .
“Hey, Ziming . Don’t you think that you are a little rude on me? For whose sake was I sent alone overseas in the first place?
“Now that I’m finally back, I don’t even have a house to stay! I called you the moment I landed, yet you are actually telling me that you’re not free!
“Ziming, am I, Qiao Jingyun, really a normal person to you?!”
The grumbling coming from the phone made him frown deeply .
“Jingyun…” He sighed softly and then revealed a helpless expression .
It was clear that the person calling was not a normal person, or else he would not reveal such an expression .
“Don’t call me . I’m angry now . Hmph!”
The woman on the other end pouted and pretended to be angry as she grumbled like a kid .
“I’m really not free today . ” He took a deep breath, still frowning . He seemed to be at a loss on how to handle the woman on the other end .
“I don’t care; I must see you today no matter how busy you are!” she unreasonably demanded .
“Anyway, I’ll go to our usual place to wait for you now . If you don’t appear, I will keep waiting until you do!”
She hung up quickly after this, not waiting for his reply .
He looked at his phone with lowered lids . His expression was dark and hard to decipher .
At this moment, the woman beside him was at the part where the main leads in a relationship were about to break up .
Pei Ge, who was a highly emotional person, could not help but sob along with the movie’s touching scenes .
The sobbing attracted his attention .
“What’s wrong? Why are you crying?”
He picked up some tissue from the coffee table and gently wiped her tears away .
She removed her headphones to hear him speak .
“Nothing . I cry easily, so I’m affected by such scenes . ” She received the tissue from him, blew her nose, and then smiled .
He shook his head in amusement as he watched her laugh and cry at the same time .
“It’s just a movie . ”
“It is just a movie, but I still feel sad when I see such scenes . They clearly like each other so much, but the scriptwriter just has to torture them like that . ” She grumbled about this after wiping her tears clean .
“That scriptwriter is so bad for creating so much misunderstanding between the two to hurt them…”
He could not help but raise a brow at her complaints, regretting a little for choosing this movie .
“Don’t watch it if you’re not happy . ”
He brought her to watch a movie and make her happy .
Since the movie was making her sad, he would rather not have her watch it .
“Who says I’m unhappy? I just cry easily! Any-Anyway, just wait a little more; they will surely patch things up! Aiya, I wanna continue watching . Don’t bother me!”
She glared at him before putting on her headphones to keep watching the movie .
She did not even know that he had received a call .
He looked at her gentle smile while she watched the movie raptly .
Slowly, his thoughts drifted away while gazing at the fair-skinned lady next to him .
He recalled doing this with another woman in the past . They went on a date to the cinemas like normal people did .
At that time, he also used…
“Ziming? Ziming?” Pei Ge tugged at him . When she came to herself and saw him staring her dazedly, she asked curiously, “What are you thinking about?”
Having recovered, he noticed her curiosity but shook his head lightly . “Nothing important . Has the movie ended?”
“Yes, it has!” She nodded and smiled, oblivious to him blanking out while gazing at her .
This annoying fellow probably dislikes watching movies in the first place, especially this type of cliché, romantic-comedy movies .
“What’s next? What are we doing next after this?”
She excitedly looked at him . As she was slightly affected by the movie, she became more expectant of today’s date .
“Where do you wanna go?” He held her hand as he softly inquired .
“Today is our first date, so you must decide everything!” She blinked at him with a sly look .
He could not help but pause at this .
Another woman had told him the same thing in the past…
“Let’s go . ”
He got up off the sofa and walked out with her, their hands clasped .
“Where are we going? Where are we going?” She held his hand tightly and trailed after him curiously .
“Let’s go buy some things . You must make yourself look more beautiful before we go meet my parents,” he casually replied .
“Ah! If you didn’t mention it, I’d really forget about that!”
She instantly became more active and excited at this .
When they reached the shopping area on the third level, she did not continue following him but ‘took the reigns’ and pulled him along to shop .
What the two did not know was that their actions had been captured by someone and sent to a certain woman’s phone .
“Ziming…”