Nineteen Degrees Part 2

After speaking, he led Shi Yun away.

The car that was involved in Shi Yun’s car accident had been sent to be repaired, and the repairs were now complete.

Cheng Ge first put the disposable seat cover in his hand on the driver’s seat and then put a piece of paper on the floor mat. As soon as he got in the car, he saw Fang Qian who came out to see them off through the front windshield. The young lady was standing by the side door, feeling angry.

Shi Yun put on her seat belt, sat in the passenger seat, and watched Fang Qian ignore Cheng Ge’s ‘goodbye’ and only showed them back of his head for them. It suddenly occurred to me that I was like this before, and when we separated, I was so angry that I refused to look at that person.

Thinking of this, she felt a subtle bitterness in her heart. Half-jokingly, she told him, “Your girlfriend really hates Wei Congying, doesn’t she?”

The people next to her looked to be at loss for what to say, and Cheng Ge didn’t make a sound, because he didn’t know how to answer. If he were to admit it was the truth, he was afraid that Shi Yun would say something in front of Wei Congying, but if he denied it would be too fake.

Shi Yun looked ahead: “I’m just saying it casually, no need to answer.”

It just so happened that the cell phone in her pocket rang, and it was Wei Congying who called her back after seeing her message.

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A steel forest and bright neon lights.

On the other side of the moat, they indulged in a life of luxury and debauchery inside a gambling den. There were many expensive cars parked at the gate, a real-life enactment of the “rich and powerful”²[2] This is quoted from A Dream of Red Mansions..

Although they were all in the same city, they were all people. But Cheng Ge felt that they seemed to be from another world, and because of Wei Congying, he had come into contact with too many people from that other world.

Their wealth had started several generations back, and they had too many choices and ways to retreat in their lives. Their retreat was not retreat, but to retreat as an advance.

In the world of that group of people, there was vanity fair³[3] Vanity fair is used to describe a scene or place characterized by frivolity and ostentation. and fascinating charm, which was at a level that ordinary people may never be able to catch up with, even if several generations tried their best.

The street lights were reflected on the black car paint. Cheng Ge was driving the car and suddenly said out of the blue: “The capital is like a big tree, and those of us who come to work here from other places are like the soil and fertilizer in which the roots of the tree run through. People like Wei Congying are the birds perched on the tree branches. Clearly, it is us, the soil and fertilizer, that make the capital prosperous, but the capital will only provide shelter for people like Wei Congying.”

It made a lot of sense.

After he finished speaking, the car suddenly became quiet. Cheng Ge realized that this was not a completely safe sentence, and opened his mouth to explain, but he didn’t know where to start explaining.

While nervous, he caught a glimpse of Shi Yun’s thoughtful expression.

She was leaning on the back of the co-pilot’s seat, she had a pretty face to begin with, and just sitting there without speaking, she looked tranquil. Right now, thinking with a frown on her face, there was an added gentle and scholarly air. She was silent for a few minutes, and then replied to him lightly: “Yes.”

Very soon, they arrived at Haiyue.

Cheng Ge didn’t drive the car away but parked the car in a parking space. He then removed all the seat covers and paper floor mats in the car.

Shi Yun stood by and watched this series of actions, wondering if she should remark that the staff training in their auto shop was quite decent.

Cheng Ge held the garbage and stood on the side waiting for Wei Congying to come downstairs. They didn’t wait long, just long enough for Shi Yun to have fed several mosquitoes.

She walked back and forth with her head down, rubbing her arms with her hands, but the mosquitoes seemed to always find an opening to bite. She wasn’t paying attention to her surroundings; the way she walked around trying to avoid mosquitos was similar to a headless fly. She stomped to the side, but as her foot went down, she saw a pair of sneakers.

Down the foot went, and out came a muffled hiss.

Because it was stomping, Shi Yun knew how painful it would after she put her foot down.

She immediately raised her foot, but her center of gravity was off and her body swayed to the side.

Wei Congying didn’t cry out for pain, nor did he feel bad about his shoes, he hugged Shi Yun’s waist with one hand, keeping her from falling. Another hand reached out to Cheng Ge and took the car keys from Cheng Ge’s hand.

Shi Yun was hugged by him, her face met his chest. From his short sleeve shirt, she caught the smell of cigarettes and a faint whiff of perfume.

There was a feminine fragrance, a little sweet.

She frowned and left his arms with a slightly displeased expression.

On the first floor of Haiyue, the huge Lord Guan statue was still there. When Shi Yun went in, she was once again taken aback by it.

He put the car keys in his pocket, holding her hand with the other hand.

Shi Yun followed him: “Does your foot hurt?”

Wei Congying lowered his head and looked at a faint gray shoe print on the black and white shoes, then looked up at Shi Yun, his eyes curved: “It hurts.”

Just from the looks of it, it looked fake.

They waited for a while for the elevator to come down from the top floor. After entering the elevator, Shi Yun still habitually walked to the corner, but Wei Congying held her hand, and he pulled her back before she could take a few steps.

Warm red carpets are laid in the elevator, and there are mirrors over and around their heads There were many of them in the elevator.

Shi Yun still stood in the corner, her arm pulled by him: “Why did you ask me to come?”

“I’ll take you to meet them.” Seeing that she insisted on standing in the corner, Wei Congying took the initiative to walk over. The floor they were waiting for was not too high up, and as there was no one else using the elevator, they arrived without having to stand too long.

The elevator doors slowly opened. The decoration style of each floor was similar, and the red carpet covered the entire corridor. The sound of footsteps on it was completely muffled, and waiters were standing at the door of each private room with their heads down, only greeting the passing guests.

Shi Yun: “It’s not as if I haven’t met them before.”

Wei Congying dragged her forward like dragging a child who refused to go to school: “Everyone else brought guests over, but I was the only one who didn’t.”

Shi Yun snorted, thinking of the smell of perfume on him, and then muttered softly: “That doesn’t necessarily mean there are fewer people around you.”

Her voice was low, but Wei Congying heard it. He didn’t pull Shi Yun forward anymore and stood at the door of the private room with her. He stopped and looked at the reluctant Shi Yun.

After a while of silence, Shi Yun thought he was angry, so she secretly raised her head and glanced at him. He was secretly grinning, and after finding that Shi Yun was peeking at him, his grin grew even bigger: “Just because of this, you don’t want to go? It’s exactly for this reason that you should go. You’re my girlfriend; show some poise and panache. I won at cards today, if you win a little more, I’ll take you to buy socks.”

It was socks again.

Thinking of how the socks were ruined last time, Shi Yun raised her hand and punched him.

Wei Congying raised his hand, held her face, and played with her hair with the other hand: “You’re so beautiful, I have to bring you for them to see again.”

It only took a few words to coax her into the private room. The waiter helped the two of them open the private room’s door, and the conversation that was going on inside stopped in an instant. Everyone was tacitly silent and cast their gazes over.

Wei Congying remained calm, Shi Yun was a little uncomfortable, and glanced at the girls in the private room; they seemed to be young. They didn’t look like Internet celebrities either and were most likely female college students.

They were exactly Lin Fang’s unchanging taste.

But compared to the girl next to Lin Fang, the girl sitting on Xiang Shaoyuan’s side is obviously more prominent, and it seems that she is not restrained at all among Jiang Xuyang’s group.

Thinking of that time when she hit Wei Congying’s car, Wei Congying asked Xiang Shaoyuan to send her back. Afterward, Wei Congying asked if Xiang Shaoyuan had a bad attitude. At the time, Wei Congying told her that that was the kind of person he was. Except for the girl he liked, that scowling face was the only one he gave to everyone else.

Shi Yun assumed that this girl was probably the girl he liked.

Wei Congying quietly introduced her, one was Lin Fang’s new girlfriend, and the other was a friend of Lin Fang’s girlfriend: “The one next to Xiang Shaoyuan is Liang Mengyi, who has also known us since childhood.”

Notes:

[1] I’m not sure why it changed from Haiyue Club to Haiyue Hotel but I’ll update when I figure it out.

[2] This is quoted from A Dream of Red Mansions.

[3] Vanity fair is used to describe a scene or place characterized by frivolity and ostentation.