Chapter 10
Chapter 10 - Could It Be That The Little Fox Was Her?! He Already Sneakily Gave Her A Pet Name?
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Truly, how–– vicious!
Ye Jiacheng said it so meticulously that Gao Yanfeo could naturally hear the meaning in his words . He deliberately brought up another person: “Song Xiaojing is gonna be so heartbroken . ”
Ye Jiacheng did not agree: “She dumped me first, what does she have to be heartbroken about?”
Gao Yanfei was disinclined to say any more, someone could guess correctly and pretend to be a fool . He admired this about Ye Jiacheng . He dealt with intimate relationships honestly and bluntly . People who come together often leave separately, how they say, absolutely unrestrained .
Shi Jian came over, and doled out three bowls of soup .
Gao Yanfei sighed as if he was hurt: “I really admire Mr . Handsome Ye . He has so many pretty ladies after him . He’s not like me, a solitary lonely person . ”
Shi Jian beamed as she sat down . She split her single use chopsticks, and asked: “Are there that many?”
Gao Yanfei teased: “Do you think you’re the only one who sees Ye Jiacheng’s beauty and talents, and the other girls are all blind?”
“Oh––––” Shi Jian let out a long “oh” . Not willing to give up, she turned and asked the man himself: “Are there really that many?”
How straightforward . Ye Jiacheng’s cold was still not better . He coughed, and accepted the napkin she handed him . He forcefully replied: “Not, many . ”
“That’s right . ” Shi Jian’s brow curved, “This means that there are many ladies that have taste, and know that you are an immovable, fickle man that likes clingy girls . ”
Ye Jiacheng: “……” He instantly felt stifled . What kind of appraisal was this?
“HAHA! HAHAHA!” Gao Yanfei howled with laughter . He had thought Shi Jian would be upset . Unexpectedly, the plot immediately twisted . He had seen a nice show, and ran with it: “Then, Sis Shi, why would you want an immovable, fickle man that likes clingy girls?”
“I have no choice, I just like him . ” Shi Jian heaved a sigh, as if she was deeply troubled . Then she looked over at Ye Jiacheng, and sincerely suggested: “So you should get with me quickly . Don’t hurt others anymore . ”
What do you mean, hurt others?
Ye Jiacheng calmly stood up––– he went to order another serving of vegetables .
On intimate relationships, who said the one that fell in love first was the losing party? Oftentimes the winner was the one with the thicker skinned face . Shi Jian wasn’t born shameless . On the contrary, she thought her face only became thick skinned after she got married . The reason for this was Ye Jiacheng’s fault .
Ye Jiacheng left the table cool and collected . Gao Yanfei deeply admired his willpower . “Meal card!” He shouted, then picked up the card and hurled it at Ye Jiacheng .
Ye Jiacheng turned around and elegantly caught it in his hand .
There was a line at the serving window . A girl walked towards Ye Jiacheng . She asked with an amiable expression: “Senior, can we borrow your meal card? We will give you cash . ”
“Sorry, this meal card doesn’t belong to me . ” Ye Jiacheng politely refused .
The girl’s face fell, and she could only go find someone else to ask .
See, this was what a normal girl should be like .
Ye Jiacheng looked back somewhat interestedly . Not far away, Gao Yanfei and Shi Jian were bantering with each other, as if they had been friends for many years .
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Shi Jian…… just where did she come from?
Ye Jiacheng didn’t lack mysterious girls who liked him, but was still mystified by this girl named Shi Jian .
As the enigmas emerged, he had a special fondness for their mysteriousness . He didn’t have any reason for this feeling that filled up his world; it really made people lose their sense of security .
Likewise, why was the mysterious White Lady kind to Xu Xian?
Love?
No, it’s because the White Lady was a snake demon, unable to withstand thousands of years of loneliness .
Then, what was Shi Jian doing it for?
Lunchtime ended . Shi Jian wanted to continue studying at the library . He declined her request for him to tutor her because he had plans . She stood on the steps to the library, took a step, looked back at him, then waved sadly . The weather was warm today . She only wore a casual white sweater and skinny jeans; her mid length hair fell onto her shoulder, shining brightly in the afternoon sunlight, clean and elegant .
Ye Jiacheng almost regretted it . It would’ve been okay to stay and accompany her .
Then, Shi Jian suddenly ran down the stairs .
As if, she was a nimble fox .
Was she really a little fox? She didn’t have the scheming sinister fox eyes . A pair of bright sparkling eyes that could penetrate through to a person’s heart gazed .
“Jiacheng . ” She ran over again, calling his name . Cheerfully, familiarly, as if she’d been calling him for a lifetime .
“Not studying anymore?” He shoved both his hands in his pockets, watching her attentively .
“I will later . ” Shi Jian stood in front of him, then blurted: “Can you not fall in love with anyone else, before you fall in love with me?”
He fell blank, maintaining the most basic consciousness a man should have, as well as his signature arrogance, and replied: “Are you ordering me?”
“Requesting . ” She let out an unrestrained laugh, “After all, you don’t hate me, right?”
Yes, he doesn’t hate her; so much so that he is filled to the brim with curiosity about her .
“What kind of situation is this . ” He said with a languid tone, cracking into a smile .
“The ones who strike first are strong, I am scheduling this ahead of time . ” Shi Jian smiled . She then took out a bill from her pocket . Taking advantage of his nonreaction, she shoved it into his pocket and said, “This is a hundred yuan . I’m paying in advance, keep it well . ”
What, paying in advance? Even if she’s paying in advance, is a hundred enough?
Then, Shi Jian had already turned around and ran back into the library .
“……”
A hundred yuan in his hands, Ye Jiacheng decided to put it into his jacket pocket after all . He drove away from B University . The car was a recently bought new German model . He was more money conscious than most young people, but buying this car had used up his savings from the past six months .
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He didn’t accept any assistance from his family, wanting to be unrestrained and unfettered . Coming across a supermarket, he took out some money to buy cigarettes, and accepted the change and a pack of Su Yan from the salesperson .
This was good .
He just spent all the money that was paid in advance .
……
Speaking of this tactic of paying in advance, she’d actually learned it from Ye Jiacheng himself .
Back when Ye Jiacheng was pursuing her, he did exactly as she did today, vulnerably shoving a hundred yuan into her hands . Then he resolutely said: “Accept my advance payment . You can’t fall in love with anyone else before you fall in love with me . ”
So, she was only–––– learning from foreigners in order to take advantage of them, using the other’s tactic to win over them .
Shi Jian sat in the library studying, striving to memorize a few answers in the last few days she had . In actuality, she had placed her hopes too high; she absolutely could not remember all the material on that test from the past .
She might as well purposefully shut that thick textbook .
She had already attained a master’s degree before . Thinking about it, she didn’t feel that it was too rare anymore .
She rode the wobbly bus back to the Yi Mao dorms . Halfway, she received a call from Professor Shi, who was currently in a foreign country .
As soon as Professor Shi learned that she didn’t plan on taking the postgraduate entrance exam and didn’t want to continue studying abroad, the usual biweekly call turned into a call every two days . Shi Jian pressed the answer call button . A child’s voice speaking in fluent english immediately streamed out from the speaker . It wasn’t her father Professor Shi, but her little brother Shi Xiaoguang, Timothy . He must’ve stolen Professor Shi’s phone and called her .
“Tim . ” She called him by his english name . She and her little brother had the same biological parents, but grew up in a completely different environment . One spoke mandarin from childhood, and one only knew how to speak english . Tim occasionally spoke a few sentences in madarin, surprising the whole family .
Tim’s personality was also like that of foreign children, enthusiastic and vibrant . He always called her honey, as if she was a sweetheart .
“Call jiejie1 . ” Shi Jian interrupted his sentence .
“Jie……jie . ” Tim liked to pronounce his chinese haltingly .
Shi Jian wanted to laugh . Tim just spoke a whole smattering of sentences, especially asking her why she didn’t come over to accompany him . The little boy spoke gloomily and bitterly, as if she wanted to abandon him .
Undoubtedly, her parents already told Tim of her not coming abroad .
Shi Jian felt somewhat apologetic . She also really missed Tim . Tim asked her why she didn’t want to come anymore . She thought about it, and used english to explain: “Because I’ve already found your future jiefu2 . I plan to live together with him . ”
She was afraid that her little brother wouldn’t understand, and explained even more frankly: “He is the one that I like, the other half of my life . ”
“Please stop talking . ” Tim’s voice sounded even more miserable, “I understand . It’s just, to me, this is very terrible news . ”
“Shouldn’t you be happy for me? She smiled to comfort Tim . “In the future, I can bring your jiefu to come visit you . He is funny and handsome, you’ll like him . ”
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In her memory, Ye Jiacheng and Tim got along pretty well . After she and Ye Jiacheng married, Tim would fly back every holiday . He and Ye Jiacheng were best bros .
“No, I am very unhappy right now,” Tim said . “When you bring your boyfriend over, I will fight him . ”
Shi Jian: “……” The brat was troublesome .
Then, for the first time ever, Tim didn’t wait for her to hang up, and ended the call himself .
Soon enough, a week passed .
Preparing for the exam again, Shi Jian didn’t feel nervous, only…… happy . Everyday she picked a few problems to send to Ye Jiacheng . Even if Ye Jiacheng didn’t have time to answer them on that day, he would send a text explaining the answers the next day .
How splendid! The best thing to learn was anything related to the profession of your romantic partner .
There was a wrapped present set aside on the desk . It was a shirt and necktie set she’d selected for Ye Jiacheng from the flagship store a while ago . She planned to give it to him after she finished the exam . Actually, she really wanted to give him a set of sturdy warm underwear, but was afraid of scaring him .
In the middle of winter, wives would worry about their husbands being cold .
Shi Jian picked up Zhang Kai’s advance phone call, and remembered last time at the flagship store: Yi Pei wanted her to start working at Yi Mao Real Estate on Monday .
……answering Zhang Kai’s call, Shi Jian was frustrated with her past few days of useless studying . No, It was useless “flirting” .
Luckily, Zhang Kai was easy to be flexible with . Once she learned that Shi Jian was taking B University’s postgraduate exam, she allowed her to come in two days later without consulting Yi Pei .
That flexible? Zhang Kai wasn’t worried that she would pass the exam, and break the contract that was already signed?
She asked that exact thing .
Zhang Kai laughed loudly: “Shi Jian, not everyone is recruited by Yi Pei himself . Postgraduate students aren’t much, even postdocs can’t necessarily grab Vice President Yi’s attention . You are very outstanding, Vice President Yi respects you very much . Besides, can freshly graduated postgrads even get a salary as high as the one Vice President Yi is paying you?”
Indeed…… they can’t . Shi Jian thought Zhang Kai’s words were very inspiring . Instantly, she felt like she had a small sun inside her body bathing her in light, making her feel warm and pleased with herself .
Zhang Kai wasn’t wrong . Many years later, there would be many high level students fighting for Yi Pei’s attention .
Seeing as it was like this, she had even less pressure to pass the exam .
Actually, she had another embarrassing reason as to why she didn’t hesitate to enter Yi Mao Real Estate . Using her past life’s experience, the last time she left Yi Mao and went abroad, she finally brought back some real glowing treasure .
In the end, she valiantly went to an interview at Yi Mao Real Estate, and unexpectedly…… was rejected!
Subsequently, she joined Yi Mao’s biggest competitor, and coincidentally met Ye Jiacheng . Ye Jiacheng was the company’s CEO’s friend……
At the annual company meeting, she was swapped to be the host on stage at the last minute . Ye Jiacheng sat below her smiling politely and mischievously . Then the CEO was strangely nice to her; she thought that he wanted to coerce her for favors . He said to her with a smile: “Little Jian, I have a friend that’s not bad, surname Ye, called Jiacheng . He is talented and good looking, has a successful career, his ancestors are all virtuous……”
See, she thought it would turn out badly, but the heavens had other plans .
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Shi Jian finally entered the exam room .
She saw the exact same question, it could only be said to be some kind of fate . The estranged relationship between her and this exam paper .
Afterwards she basically just studied the exam question thinking it was a pain in the ass . She already had a muddled memory, but looking at this question again, a familiar feeling hit her head on .
However, nearly her whole exam period went like this:
Yes, it was exactly this question . She’d answered it before . But what was the answer?
This question was very easy . She finished it very quickly last time, but which one should she choose now?
This question was very familiar . Last time she just hadn’t answered it well, now it’s even less well……
All in all, knowing nothing at all would be better than this feeling .
Before the exam, Ye Jiacheng had sent her a text message . It was his first time taking the initiative to send a text, but what he’d addressed her as was a bit strange: “Fighting, little fox . ”
She was afraid that he’d sent it to the wrong person, and asked: “Who’s the little fox?”
Ye Jiacheng didn’t reply .
She thought about it carefully . Could it be that the little fox was her?! He already sneakily gave her a pet name?
There were students cheating behind her . Shi Jian could feel their faint nervousness .
She held her pencil, continuing to rack her brain with honest effort . She didn’t know a large portion of the exam . If she really managed to pass this time, there had to be a Buddha to give her the answers .
Suddenly, a “pop” sounded . A lump of paper smacked her in the face .
Good gracious, there really was?!
She finally reacted . They could cheat if they wanted, but could they toss their notes more precisely?!
“Classmate…… can you…… return the answers to me?” The guy behind her was about to cry . He took advantage of the proctor’s inattentiveness and poked her with his pencil, begging her quietly .
Ai, how troublesome . She smoothly tossed the answers back to him .
……
Half an hour later, Shi Jian was “invited” to B University’s professors’ office .
The atmosphere was solemn .
The prestigious and responsible teachers of B University were discussing something: whether they should report to her contract employer about her giving out answers and cheating .
1 Jiejie: Chinese pronunciation for older sister: 姐姐
2 Jiefu: Chinese pronunciation for older sister’s husband: 姐夫