The heating in the nightclub was extremely warm, Xiang Yu took off her down jacket, set it aside, and ordered two low-alcohol cocktails and a Corona. The Corona imported from Mexico was placed on the black marble countertop. The waiter in a waistcoat bowed his head and asked, “Shall I open it?” Seeing Xiang Yu nod, the waiter opened the beer and placed a quarter of a lemon in the bottle, “Please enjoy.”
In the morning on the phone, Xiang Yu explained to Tang Yuchi saying that the “abortion” thing was fake. Tang Yuchi listened for half a day before he breathed a sigh of relief, immediately reacting in disbelief and asked her, “So Jin Fubai order a professor of gynaecology in the middle of the night because you had period pain? He’s that kind of person?”
After he asked that, Xiang Yu couldn’t answer immediately. A lot of things happened that night, it was complicated, and she couldn’t have guessed whether Jin Fubai would have been so gentle without Li Mao’s words at the table. Tang Yuchi probably also felt that this matter would be unclear if it was said in just one sentence so he asked Xiang Yu to go to the nightclub with him saying that they would play around and chat.
“Can’t you find a cafe to chat at in the afternoon?” Xiang Yu asked with a yawn.
“What’s the point of a cafe? Drinking too much coffee tends to darken the skin.” Tang Yuchi refused very decisively, “Besides, I don’t have time during the day. Today, An Sui was getting her hair done and a manicure.I have to accompany her.”
Xiang Yu cursed under her breath and hang up the phone. She has been working overtime a little bit too excessively these days, and asking her to go to the nightclub to jump around at night is simply killing her even more. If it weren’t for the face of her godparents, she would never agree.
In this job, she was originally at the front desk receiving a few visitors every day, spending most of her time at the front desk playing snake. In the end, the assistant of this tiny broken-down company resigned and they turned Xiang Yu, a salty fish, into a busy person with two jobs. Especially at the end of the year, she would work overtime at every turn, crazy.
Green spotlights and strobes lights split the nightclub into countless chucks, with a group of young people dancing on the dance floor. Xiang Yu lazily leaned on a dark red sofa, drinking a cocktail and sending a message to Jin Fubai.
It should be morning on his side, and the message sent to her was only one word:
[Where?]
Xiang Yu sent him the name of the nightclub. She didn’t know what Jin Fubai was doing as he didn’t reply to the message for a long time.
In the past few days, they have hardly spoken to each other on the phone and sent very few texts.
In the last text that was shown, Xiang Yu said to him that she had lost a diamond earring and couldn’t find it. Jin Fubai replied with a message: Don’t think about it, I’ll buy you a new one.
Xiang Yu remembered that he had called her at the airport the day he had just landed abroad. He said that it was a ten-hour flight and that he wanted to smoke after getting off the plane. When he habitually touched the box of agarwood sticks, he only touched a piece of dry moss thanks to her.
She could almost imagine Jin Fubai standing in an airport in a foreign country, graciously pulling out moss from the box. He must have been helpless and aggrieved at the time. So, Xiang Yu suddenly laughed with her eyes down in the flashing nightclub, under the sound of DJing and the DJ shouting.
When Tang Yuchi arrived in a hurry, what he saw was this scene: a crowd of demons disorderly dancing in the nightclub, the smell of alcohol and cigarettes mixed together, and there were countless kinds of unknown perfumes. And Xiang Yu sat in it, smirking at her phone.
How would you describe her smile? Maybe it was like when one likes someone, everyone would laugh in such a soft and stupid manner, right?
With a down jacket over his arm, Tang Yuchi couldn’t help slowing down. When he heard the rumours about “the woman who appeared next to Jin Fubai,” he almost thought of Xiang Yu in first.
Growing up together, he has never failed to understand her. When he mentioned Jin Fubai that day, he knew from the look in her eyes that Xiang Yu couldn’t easily forget the name “Jin Fubai”, and instead, she would only sink deeper and deeper.
Tang Yuchi sat down beside Xiang Yu, took a cocktail and drank two sips. In fact, it was hard to tell, he wasn’t sure of what the outcome of Xiang Yu and Jin Fubai being together would be, so he could only ask, “Tell me about Jin Fubai.”
The nightclub was noisy and Xiang Yu said a lot. He couldn’t hear it word by word but seeing her expression, she was not ready to break it with Jin Fubai. She had known what she has wanted since she was a child, and what she can and cannot ask for.
She is so smart, maybe there will be a different ending?
Or maybe it will all go in vain. Tang Yuchi thought it was impossible to know now and he didn’t have much to say. After all, all he knew about Jin Fubai was through other people, and Xiang Yu had actually come into contact with this person.
Tang Yuchi had a headache for half a day and so he could only say solemnly, “Xiang Yu, now that you are with Jin Fubai be more cautious.”
Xiang Yu held up the beer bottle and laughed, “I’m not going to go on a horse-riding expedition, as if I would die. “
“I heard he used to…”
Xiang Yu handed Tang Yuchi a bottle of beer and changed the subject, “How are you and An Sui?”
She didn’t want to listen. Tang Yuchi didn’t say anything, he only paused and replied, “We are still the same.”
“I’ll ask An Sui to have a meal together. It has been a long time since I last saw her.”
Tang Yuchi suddenly frowned, “I always feel that she has been hiding something from me recently.”
With that said, when An Sui called and said that she wanted to go out for dinner, Tang Yuchi still went to accompany her and before leaving he asked Xiang Yu, “Do you want to come with me?”
“I’m definitely not going to go to be a third wheel.” Xiang Yu pointed to the last bottle of Corona in front of her, “I’ll leave after drinking. Leave me alone and go.”
After Tang Yuchi left, she turned on her phone and glanced at it again but Jin Fubai still didn’t reply. He rarely did this, generally, he was the one who took the initiative to send messages, and he was also the last to do it last time too.
Xiang Yu picked up the bottle and the sofa next to her suddenly sank. She thought it was Tang Yuchi who was returning. Just as she wanted to look back and ask if An Sui had ditched him, when she turned her head, she saw a strange woman’s face in the light. She was not completely unfamiliar looking, she looked a little familiar, a cluster of green lights dangled shining on the woman like a debt collector.
“Succubus” Xiang Yu thought in her heart.
Xiang Yu saw the diamond nail polish on the hands of “Succubus”, and then vaguely remembered that she had a relationship with this “Succubus” at the dinner table a few months ago, but when they had met, it was painted in a red nail polish. That person was not very pleasant, Jin Fubai said that she was Li Chi’s former love.
“Succubus’s” nails dangled in front of her as she smiled happily, “We met again. What a coincidence, my sisters and I couldn’t find a table, why don’t we join your table?”
Xiang Yu didn’t have any unique expression and she took a sip of the beer, “It’s up to you.”
The woman’s friends were similar to her, sitting together it was as if they were identical siblings. All of them had thick false eyelashes, the bridges of their nose stuffed with prostheses, and their faces were all like melon seeds. Xiang Yu took a glance and withdrew her eyes.
A few of the women pointed out something. For a while, they talked about how there are some women who have a despicable life, thinking that they could fly to branches to become a phoenix after they were pregnant. Then after a while, they said that they didn’t know what it was like to be sent to a hospital for an abortion. When Xiang Yu heard this she couldn’t care less about them.
“Succubus” gave a brilliant smile and turned to ask Xiang Yu, “Miss Xiang, might as well invite some of my sisters to drink, my sister will introduce you to other men.”
A waiter happened to pass by and was stopped by a few women. The women deliberately made things difficult for her, “It’s better to drink Armand de Brignac, what do you think Miss Xiang?”
Armand de Brignac is a very expensive champagne in the nightclub. How high would the price be? If any table ordered this kind of wine, the nightclub would get a hula-hula flashing lantern and put it on the table, proving the “honour” of the guests at the table.
Sitting among the women Xiang Yu looked a little lazy, but there was also a certain kind of firmness and loftiness in her. A generous family could sometimes give people such confidence.
She snapped her fingers and said to the waiter, “Armand de Brignac is also good, open a few bottles at this table, not the gold ones, but pink ones, kawaii.” After speaking, she smiled, “However, even though I share the same table with these few people, we are not familiar, I will only settle my own account.”
The Armand de Brignac with a golden bottle is priced at 8888.
The pink bottle is priced at 15,999.
In fact, it was not that pricey but nightclubs are expensive. A case of beer costs 700 yuan.
A pink bottle costs ~900AUD, which is 4500 yuan. So, it’s basically triple the original price. While 700 yuan for a case of beer is double the standard price and Kawaii was what was originally said.
After Xiang Yu finished talking, several women’s faces changed. They were all women who went to nightclubs to fish for a financial backer and no one was in the condition to pay for themselves. They didn’t expect Xiang Yu to really not back down at all.
When Jin Fubai came, he saw Xiang Yu patrolling every woman in front of her with a sharp look he had never seen before. She wore a pure white high-necked sweater with a body-hugging design showing her slender waistline and a low-rise jean. While sitting with her legs crossed, a small piece of her white skin was exposed behind her waist.
Xiang Yu held a bottle of Corona loosely in her hand, her posture relaxed. Her lips opened and closed, as the nightclub was noisy Jin Fubai couldn’t hear what she said. Looking at the mouth shape, she was asking those women, why didn’t they talk anymore?
Jin Fubai smiled suddenly, he hadn’t seen her for several months, but Xiang Yu has always aroused his interest easily.
Li Chi who stood beside Jin Fubai watched for a long time and mumbled, “I went to the airport to pick you up, but because you heard that Xiang Yu and a man came to the nightclub. What’s up? Where is the man? This is not it, a group of snake-faced women?” After Li Chi finished speaking, he suddenly widened his eyes, “F*ck me, isn’t that the girl I’ve played with before?”
“You know and you’re still not driving them away, don’t let them be annoying.”
Jin Fubai dropped this sentence, went to the nightclub manager and pointed to Xiang Yu’s table, “I want to settle the bill.”
The manager was startled by Jin Fubai’s sudden appearance, and said tremblingly, “Mr. Jin, the bill for this table is on another customer’s credit card…” After that, the manager didn’t dare to say anything else and only sent information about the reserved table under Jin Fubai’s eyes.
Jin Fubai looked down slightly, and it said on the reservation book that the person who made the reservation for the table for Xiang Yu was: Mr. Tang Yuchi. Below it was the phone number of this Tang Yuchi.
“Then deduct from his card.”
Jin Fubai waved his hand and searched for the phone number on WeChat as he walked. The WeChat name card that popped up was very interesting. The picture was a white ceramic bottle with the word “ugly” on the bottle.
Jin Fubai had seen this bottle. At Changsha Airport, Xiang Yu had patiently wrapped the bottle several times and signed a check-in list for fragile items. The ceramic bottle brought back from thousands of miles is now the WeChat profile picture of another man.
Jin Fubai stared at the photo on the screen and narrowed his eyes.
The author has something to say:
Regarding the age gap that everyone is concerned about:
Yuyu was 21 years old and Jin Fubai was 28 years old when they first meet, so their age difference is 7.
Note:
Also, I forgot to put it in while I was translating but in one of the chapters, there was an author’s note saying that the novel is a HE.
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