The parking lot outside the hotel was luxuriously designed with green plants on top of each other. The plants were trimmed squarely, they looked vibrant, blocking the line of sight between the driving space and the parking space.
Jin Fubai lightly tapped his fingertips on Xiang Yu’s waist and asked her with a smile what she wanted to regard her relationship with him after today.
Xiang Yu turned her head to look at him, the green cascading from outside the window reminded her of the shadow of the trees on Xiuchun Street when she first met him. He asked so sincerely as if she could decide what kind of relationship.
But in fact, it was not that simple.
She smiled and looked back, “The beauty at the table just now, seeing her look at you so flirtatiously, what does she regard your relationship with her to be?”
The 21-year-old girl looked over lightly with curiosity and craftiness between her eyes. Even though he knew what thoughts were in her mind, Jin Fubai had to admit that she was attractive.
Jin Fubai really thought she was jealous and explained it cooperatively, saying that the woman inside really had nothing to do with him. It was Li Chi’s former love, and now she is following someone at that table. That woman had previously met Jin Fubai at Li Chi’s place before and felt that the kind of politeness he gave to Li Chi’s face was because of his affection for her.
“I did not exchange glances with her.” Jin Fubai commented on the woman with painted red nail polish on the dinner. His voice was very good, not light or heavy, and there was always a kind of affection when staring at people and talking. That simple sentence was worth a thousand words. It was like telling Xiang Yu clearly: Look, I’ve already taken you with me, stayed by your side, I really don’t have any affection for other people, and I didn’t exchange glances.
Xiang Yu didn’t speak, Jin Fubai hooked her clothes, “If you don’t believe me, then you can meet Li Chi another day and ask him yourself.”
His fingertips were a little cold as if he was still carrying the air-conditioning in the hotel just now, and intentionally or unintentionally he touched her skin. Xiang Yu slapped him away, “I’m not asking, how shallow am I? When you are finished, go drive. Who wants to hear your explanation?”
Jin Fubai never thought that there would be a woman who could point fingers at him in such a delicate way. Yet he was not disgusted and instead wanted to laugh.
They didn’t eat enough so they went to the snack area in Wangfujing. The crowds of people made Xiang Yu hold her bunch of fried scorpions in the air and sigh happily, “It’s really delicious!” It was as if all the things from this night had no influence on her.
Their circle, to describe it as small is not true, but to say it is big is not true either. Within a few days, it was almost spread in the circle that Jin Fubai brought a young woman to dinner and served her some vegetables.
Li Chi wore a pink suit and three diamond chains from different brands hung around his neck. His watch was made of a type of pure diamond, which looked like jewellery from a display cabinet. When he walked through the light luxuriantly, it made people’s eyes hurt. Jin Fubai sat on a leather sofa swaying a wine glass in his hand. Smelling a pungent perfume he raised his eyes with a calm face, “Your taste is getting more and more weird.”
“Is it? I think it smells pretty good!” Li Chi picked up a bottle of whiskey from the side table and poured it into a glass with ice. “Brother Jin, I’ve heard…”
Jin Fubai knew that Li Chi wanted to gossip without even thinking, he slowly raised his hand and made a “stop” gesture.
“I really want to ask. I’ve been holding back for several days. I heard that you met my previous lover? That woman has no vision or I wouldn’t have sent her to Du’s side. After all, she was still pretty good and fun.” Li Chi took a sip of whiskey, crossed one leg over the other and looked at Jin Fubai, “But even if she doesn’t have any eyes, she’s still a stunner yet she can’t compare to the one you brought?”
“Not comparable.”
“Don’t tell me you are serious?” Li Chi was taken aback.
People like them can do whatever they want while playing, but they can’t talk about feelings. They would still have to get married later and the discussions would all be in vain.
Jin Fubai looked down at the glass in his hand, the bright lights floated on the amber liquor. He didn’t think too much about whether he was serious or not, but the attitude of Xiang Yu didn’t seem to be very warm.
He hasn’t called her for the past two days and she was like someone who has disappeared in the world, not contacting him at all. It was spread in his circle that there was a woman next to Jin Fubai and a group of people approached him to gossip all day long, but Xiang Yu looked like a normal person and had a peaceful life.
Jin Fubai got up suddenly and Li Chi was shocked, “Going Brother Jin?”
“There’s something.”
Jin Fubai did have a dinner at noon but he didn’t want to go, so he called someone on the way out of the restaurant. The phone rang several times before it was picked up.
Xiang Yu’s voice came from the phone, “Jin Fubai?”
This girl had never saved his phone number. Jin Fubai had asked Xiang Yu once discreetly, she said that his number was too easy to remember and it didn’t need to be saved at all. True, for the 11-digit phone number, the last 8 digits are all 1 so there was really no need to save it.
But every time she answered the phone, she called his name in a questioning tone. It made him think that she didn’t expect him to make a call. After answering the phone, she still wondered, why are you looking for me?
Jin Fubai drove the car, threw his phone in the passenger seat next to him, and put loudspeaker on, “Let’s eat together at noon?”
For someone else, if he called to make an appointment regardless of whether they were male or female, they probably would have responded happily a long time ago. But she refused altogether. It seemed like it was inconvenient for her to talk, and she deliberately lowered her voice, “No, I have an interview. Let’s go another day.”
Jin Fubai was silent for a moment, and the phone already hung up on the other side.
In less than 20 minutes he finished the meal hastily, sat back in the car, tore off his tie and then his phone rang, it was Xiang Yu. In fact, he also didn’t save her number, but he just glanced at it and knew it was her.
Jin Fubai placed the phone to his ear and asked lazily, “Why, no interview anymore?”
“It’s finished now, I guess I won’t be accepted.” Xiang Yu said miserably on the phone, “The examiner asked during the interview how come I didn’t think about submitting a resume before graduation. I said I was not in a hurry to work. He looked at me with strange eyes.” She sighed, as if it was a pity.
Jin Fubai smiled, “Don’t worry about it. What kind of job do you want? I’ll submit your resume for you.”
“Forget it, the people you know are not ordinary people, and the jobs must be at a high level. I don’t want to work until I die.” Xiang Yu didn’t even think about it and she refused.
“I’ll give you a position and pay you a monthly salary, whether you work or not.”
“Forget it, if I take the money then I will have a guilty conscience.” There was a ding-dong sound of the elevator stopping through the phone and Xiang Yu said, “Jin Fubai, did you have lunch yet? I’ll invite you to have a meal.”
This was the first time after returning to Beijing that she took the initiative to invite him to eat together and Jin Fubai who only had tea at the table just now replied, “Where are you, I’ll pick you up.”
The interview that Xiang Yu had was at a small company in Sanhuan. They weren’t that well-known. When Jin Fubai drove the car there he saw that she was already waiting downstairs. The office building behind her had no characteristics, it looks a bit like a glass room, if the weather is good the whole building would reflect the blue sky, and it looked pretty bright.
The girl wore professional attire, her hair was wrapped in a silk mesh behind her head and her back was slender and beautiful but she was no different from those other beauties. It was nothing more than a good figure, slender waist, long legs, and fair skin.
In fact, Jin Fubai also hesitated at this moment.
It’s just that there was something lovely about Xiang Yu, she turned her head inadvertently and saw Jin Fubai’s car, and then she ran over with a bright smile. She carried a handbag that was larger than the bags she usually carried. As soon as she got into the car she tore the silk mesh of her hair, flicked her soft long hair and said, “This hairstyle is so uncomfortable, how do flight attendants endure it?”
“Are you interviewing as a flight attendant?”
“No, just a position at the front desk of the company. ” Xiang Yu sat in the back seat, clinging to the back of the front passenger seat and said to Jin Fubai, “It’s the kind of leisure work in which you can be lazy and play on your phone or sit in a daze.”
Jin Fubai turned his head to look at her, “Why sit in the back again? Today am I also just a driver?”
“No, Jin Fubai, can you park the car in the alley and don’t look at the rearview mirror.”
“Hmm?”
Pulling off her professional silk scarf from the collar of her shirt, she threw it aside, “I want to change clothes.” Her eyes were truly not ambiguous, frank and direct, completely not the standard attempt to tempt a person.
Jin Fubai didn’t answer her, he just drove the car and found a corner with no one, turned off the car and then uttered a word, “Change.”
From behind, there was a sound of cloth rubbing together. From the sound, he could distinguish that she was either unbuttoning a shirt or unzipping a professional skirt. You could also hear the collision of the metal watch band and bracelet as she undressed.
Jin Fubai didn’t look back, he looked at the specked spots of sunlight shining through the tree canopy on the concrete floor, took out the cigarette case and took out a cigarette, rolled and twisted the tobacco, to stuff the agarwood sticks in and lit it.
He narrowed his eyes slightly in the smoke and suddenly wondered if Xiang Yu had ever regarded him as a man.
Halfway through the cigarette, the person behind him finally said, “I’m done.”
Jin Fubai hung his hands outside the half-opened car window with the cigarette in his hands. The light smoke was blowing in the breeze. He raised his eyes and looked towards the rear-view mirror. The person sitting in the back changed into a dress, and the thin straps lay on her collarbone, which was more attractive than what she wore before.
Maybe it was because there was little room for her to change clothes, Xiang Yu’s dress wasn’t arranged properly and part of it was folded which she sat on. Jin Fubai took a look, put the cigarette between his lips, pushed the door to get out of the car, and opened the door to the back seat.
Xiang Yu turned her head, “You…”
Jin Fubai lingered in his unique agarwood scent as he leaned on the seat with one hand and leaned into the car.
The distance between them was suddenly shortened, and she subconsciously leaned back a little bit but Jin Fubai hooked the bottom of her dress, bit the cigarette, smiled and said, “It’s folded here.” She could feel the fabric under her skin slipping, slowly sliding down his fingers. He didn’t touch her at all, but it made her breathe in confusion.
Looking at Xiang Yu’s slightly open lips who was unable to speak, Jin Fubai asked, “Don’t like the smell of smoke?”
“…Not really.” Xiang Yu reluctantly said, “You smell like smoke, I like it a lot.”
Jin Fubai laughed, because he bit the cigarette butt his laughter was muffled, “Then just say you like me.”
After he said this sentence, he exhaled a mouthful of agarwood smoke and blew it over. Then he held the cigarette at the tip of his fingertips and moved it away. Xiang Yu squinted her eyes through the smoke, and before she had completely opened her eyes, she felt a figure approaching in the smoke who kissed her lips.
Author: 殊娓
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