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    Sixteen Degrees Part 1

    Content Summary: Buying Socks

    The car drove out of the school, Shi Yun sat in the co-pilot, closed her eyes, and tried hard to fight against the glare of the five o’clock setting sun in July. Light fell from between the leaves, casting irregular shadow patterns in the direction they were heading.

    Shi Yun: “I just told you what building it’s at, and you unexpectedly found it.”

    Wei Congying heard her speak, and slowed down the car: “I’ve been here once or twice.”

    Shi Yun thought of the last time he helped Lin Fang break up with his ex and knew that the “once or twice” mentioned this time probably had nothing to do with Lin Fang, but she still deliberately sighed: “Lin Fang has had so many girlfriends.”

    Wei Congying also knew that she knew it, so he didn’t hide it, and smiled: “It happened a long time ago.”

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    During dinner, Shi Yun learned that she had guessed wrong.

    This was because Wei Congying received a call from the French restaurant he originally made the reservation for when they were halfway through their meal of Italian food, notifying him that the appointment time had passed. They were calling to ask if he would still be arriving at a later time that night to dine.

    After Wei Congying apologized to the restaurant, the staff of the French restaurant told him that the deposit for the reservation would not be refunded, and Wei Congying didn’t care much about it.

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    Wei Congying raise his hand to indicate to the waiter that they were ready for dessert: “If you like French food, we can have it in two days.”

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    Shi Yun: “But I’ll be busy for a while.”

    Wei Congying: “What will you be busy with?”

    Shi Yun: “Studying.”

    She didn’t feel that she could continue to maintain a relationship with him while busy, and he probably needed the kind of girlfriend who would come when he called.

    And Shi Yun was not that kind of girlfriend.

    The lights in the restaurant were not very bright, and the waiter misplaced Wei Congying and Shi Yun’s desserts. Wei Congying didn’t bother the waiter, and changed the two plates by himself: “There was always time for a meal, right? Would your teacher keep you from eating?.”

    In the evening, Shi Yun went to his apartment again, and there was a half-assembled gunpla on the coffee table like last time.

    They went from the couch to the bed.

    In the end, Shi Yun still hugged him as before, and the two of them lay on the same pillow. Wei Congying stroked her hair and saw that she was staring at him. He wound her hair around his finger: “Why do you always stare at me?”

    Shi Yun looked at him, put her arms around his neck, leaned over, and kissed his chin: “Because I like you.”

    On the day her roommate Shi Yuan returned to school, she happened to catch up with a shower in the capital. Shi Yuan sent a message to Shi Yun, asking if she could come to the bottom floor of the dormitory to help carry her luggage.

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    In the hot summer, the cats in the school are too lazy to move. If they weren’t lying under the shade of a camphor tree, then they were sleeping on the shady tiled floor at the entrance of the dormitory building.

    When Shi Yun received the call, she had just left Wei Congying’s apartment.

    Shi Yuan sat on her suitcase and waited for Shi Yun for a quarter of an hour. She heard the sound of the car engine before she saw them. Shi Yuan stuck her head out and saw Shi Yun getting off a car not far away.

    Although it wasn’t the same car, Shi Yuan felt that it was the same person who had sent Shi Yun back that time before they went on vacation.

    When Shi Yun went upstairs, she helped Shi Yuan carry the suitcase up. Though Shi Yuan was gasping for breath on her way up, she still didn’t forget to gossip about whether Shi Yun was in a relationship.

    Shi Yun didn’t deny it, but Shi Yuan’s tone sounded weird: “Your boyfriend looks quite rich.”

    As she spoke, she added: “Your family isn’t poor either.”

    The best way to interrupt Shi Yuan’s gossiping was to turn the topic away: “Why didn’t your boyfriend come to help today?”

    Shi Yuan struggled to carry the suitcase up the last step: “We had a quarrel. Ay, I don’t even know why. In any case, when we don’t see each other, it’s easy for us to quarrel. And once we quarrel, it’s not easy to reconcile, and now I don’t think I like him as much as I did before. “

    ”You two haven’t been together for long, have you?” Shi Yun helped her push the suitcase into the room, and found the remote control of the air conditioner on her desk.

    ”It’s been almost two months.” Shi Yuan sighed, “Our quarrel happened to coincide with the end of the honeymoon phase1[1] The honeymoon phase marks the beginning stage of a relationship where everything feels fresh and exciting., so I kind of feel like breaking up.”

    Shi Yun didn’t make another sound, she was always like this, on and off. Even with the last boyfriend that she dated for a long time, she always quarreled easily and then reconciled quickly. Then she’d fall back into boredom and would quarrel again, and the cycle repeated.

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    It’s just that Shi Yuan’s current boyfriend appeared this time, so Shi Yuan broke up with her ex-boyfriend, and the cycle was broken. But looking at it this way, if this boyfriend was similar to the last boyfriend, Shi Yuan seemed to have started a new relationship, but really, it was just that she was pulling in a different person to start the same cycle as her previous relationship.

    As soon as Shi Yuan mentioned her boyfriend, she thought of two arguing. The more she thought about it, the more angry she became, so she stopped mentioning it and asked Shi Yun, “What does your boyfriend do? How did you meet?”

    Shi Yun only gave a brief explanation, not wanting to let Shi Yuan in on too much.

    Recently Jiang Xuyang bought a new bike.

    It was a Kawasaki.2 [2] Kawasaki bikes or motorcycles are known today for their racing use, as well as their flashy, sporty designs.

    It happened that it had been a while since the last time they had hung out together, so they called Wei Congying in the afternoon to invite him to go play cards at their usual place today. For the first time, Jiang Xuyang was not late, a few minutes earlier than Wei Congying. When Wei Congying arrived, the three of them were playing Fried Golden Flower3[3] “Fried Golden Flower” is a poker game full of skill and confrontation, commonly known as “three cards”. -Source: some random commenter online, the link is here..

    Before the waiter had the chance to hand over the tea menu, Wei Congying said, “Jin Junmei.”

    Jiang Xuyang threw the car keys in his pocket toward him as soon as he sat down Wei Congying seemed to not have understood. He took three cards, glanced at them, and then placed them facedown on the table: “You think you’ll lose before you’ve played?”

    ”I bought a new Kawasaki, I want you to modify it for me.” Jiang Xuyang looked at the card and threw it in the middle of the table. The card number was very small.


    Notes:

    [1] The honeymoon phase marks the beginning stage of a relationship where everything feels fresh and exciting.

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    [2] Kawasaki bikes or motorcycles are known today for their racing use, as well as their flashy, sporty designs.

    [3] “Fried Golden Flower” is a poker game full of skill and confrontation, commonly known as “three cards”. -Source: some random commenter online, the link is here.


    Translator Corner:

    I forgot to schedule this post… Sigh. At least I caught it. Anyways, I’m going to catch some z’s. Catch you in the next chapter!

    XD, there’s so many catches~

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