Nineteen Degrees Part 3

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Ten minutes before he decided to call Shi Yun over, he drank a glass of Jin Junmei and was about to go to the toilet. But the door of the private room’s toilet was locked. He looked around and found that two girls were missing. The toilet door had no soundproofing, and they were chatting about men while inside.

Women like to talk about men in places with no men.

It was his ex-girlfriend who told Wei Congying this principle, but he didn’t expect it to be confirmed many years later.

He had no choice but to go to the toilet at the end of the corridor. When he came out of the toilet, his phone vibrated. It was a text message from Shi Yun. It said that she found the lost USB drive under the couch in the auto shop.

It was something worth celebrating.

Before he had time to tell her to put things away next time in the tone of a father-style boyfriend, a pair of ladies’ style small leather shoes appeared in his peripheral.

The corridor was wide, and there was no possibility of him being in the way. However, the owner of that pair of shoes simply stood there and did not move away.

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He knew that Xiang Shaoyuan had liked her since he was a child.

Whether or not a stick would produce a filial child, he didn’t know, but for it to beat someone into love, was f**king ridiculous.

Liang Mengyi saw that he was not surprised at all. He even looked very indifferent. She then abruptly added: “But I like you.”

It was a sudden confession.

Liang Mengyi saw a trace of surprise flashing across his face, but that trace of surprise was like a flash of lightning flashing across the sky, which was fleeting. After being surprised, the corner of his mouth went up, an obvious sign of how he found this situation bothersome and the bad mood he was now in.

“Tsk.” Wei Congying frowned.

Liang Mengyi heard his displeased tsk, her hands were clenched into fists by her side, and she said something that seemed unreasonable to Wei Congying: “I won’t accept Xiang Shaoyuan’s confession.”

He wondered why Liang Mengyi liked him. If she liked him, why did she have that attitude towards him in the past? Wei Congying didn’t understand why Liang Mengyi still used this childhood trick of being at odds with the one they like, he couldn’t make sense of it.

Wei Congying felt that sometimes he truly didn’t understand the creatures called females. There was a category that suffered from severe ‘Scheherazade’ disease. He had bad habits, and the ones who liked him would take his bad habits as personality.

Being liked by a girl his friend likes was the most annoying thing. It was even more annoying than finishing a Gunpla, only to find out at the end that it was a mountain.

He took a step and passed Liang Mengyi sideways: “That’s your business, but don’t use me as an excuse.”

He seldom asked for help when dealing with girls. In the past, he would rather stand in place and watch the girl he was breaking up with cry, and subject his ears to half an hour of torture without even thinking of asking for help.

But this time he called Shi Yun over.

After all… Eating soft rice is pretty good too.¹[1] Translated: eating soft rice = living off a woman; soft rice is also delicious = it’s great to live off a woman)i.e. Life is easy when you depend on a woman.

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Wei Congying’s position was taken by Shi Yun.

Those others were also happy. After all, Shi Yun’s card-playing skills were not as good as Wei Congying’s.

Before she went to the poker table, Wei Congying had won a lot of hands. It may have been that all her brain cells were used up in the laboratory, but it didn’t take long for her to lose everything.

Wei Congying poured her a cup of warm water and placed it beside her; seeing that she lost even with a pretty good deck of cards, he didn’t feel any regret. Putting his callused palms on Shi Yun’s shoulders, he gave her a gentle massage.

The massage was quite comfortable, but the way she lost was much too unsightly.

She raised her head and looked at the person standing behind her: “I’ve lost everything, how about you take over from here?”

Wei Congying didn’t take over: “If you lose, it’s on me.”

The onslaught of affectionate words seemed to sting someone’s ears. Liang Mengyi sat next to Xiang Shaoyuan, her feet on the chair, sitting casually. She sat on the side with a fruit plate, like an outsider.

Liang Mengyi glanced at Shi Yun’s attire. She was dressed very casually today, without any big-name outfits covering her body. She looked similar to Lin Fang’s new girlfriend, and she was probably the kind of girl they were always looking for who they could end their relationship by giving some luxury items.

“So Wei Congying’s dating you as an act of charity?”

The resulting awkward silence of these words was comparable to thousand-year-old ice. It was dead silent and everyone looked at each other, but no one looks at Wei Congying’s face.

Shi Yun was the first to come back to her senses and continued to sort her cards as if she hadn’t heard her words, but the cards were still bad. After sorting out the cards, the hand that was massaging her also stopped. When she secretly turned her attention to the person behind her, a hand appeared out of the corner of her eye.

He took away a few cards from Shi Yun’s hand, and helped her dismantle the cards: “Who’s playing next?”

Lin Fang cleared his throat, took a peek at him, and threw out a straight.

Liang Mengyi’s words didn’t garner any response, but apart from the sound of cards being thrown inside the private room, there was no voice calling out the cards. Wei Congying watched the game while guiding Shi Yun and the poor hand was dismantled into a good hand.

It was a pity for Xiang Shaoyuan, he didn’t have any high cards, but he was also reluctant to play them, and he ended up playing a pair: “F**k, I lost.”

Lin Fang’s cards were okay, but before the next set of cards started, everyone habitually summed up and complained about the previous set of cards, and everyone gradually recovered from the silence of Liang Mengyi’s words just now.

But at this time, he unexpectedly said: “It’s not charity.”

As soon as the words fell, everyone’s eyes turned to the person behind Shi Yun.

This included Shi Yun.

She twisted her neck and follow the arm on her shoulder, her gaze shifted little by little until it finally fell on his face.

That face was clearly smiling, but it didn’t look amiable at all: “It’s not charity; I’m the one being kept.”

She was the one doing the keeping?

Shi Yun couldn’t quite wrap her head around it, the person behind her spoke frankly. She looked at him, just in time to meet his lowered gaze, and when their eyes met, the smile on his face became brighter, and the hand on his shoulder moved to her face, and gently squeezed it.

An even weirder silence permeated the private room. Jiang Xuyang sat across from the two of them. Looking at Wei Congying who was looking down at Shi Yun, he was the first to laugh. After all, they had known each other for many years; he discerningly broke the awkwardness: “It turns out that you, A’cong, were a conquest of hers.”

Notes:

[1] Translated: eating soft rice = living off a woman; soft rice is also delicious = it’s great to live off a woman)i.e. Life is easy when you depend on a woman.