Twenty Degrees Part 1

Content Summary: Hospital

“It turns out, Wei Congying, you were conquered.”

He hummed, just like a child that was asked if they got a hundred on their test, and then nodded proudly: “Mhmm.”

Of course, this kind of behavior won’t save him much face.

Shi Yun looked at him, the light on the ceiling was a bit dazzling. A little light fell on the ends of his hair, and the edges turned golden. Shi Yun looked at him, looked at his face, and suddenly thought of the person who once taught the one who stole her pencil case a lesson.

So similar.

So very similar.

She looked at that face, a little dazed. There was a feeling of being pinched on the cheek: “Play, we’ll leave in a bit.”

The game didn’t last long.

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“Why do you keep looking at me like that?” he asked.

Shi Yun replied very bluntly: “I like you.”

When Wei Congying came, he drove Jiang Xuyang’s Kawasaki, and when he returned, he drove the car Cheng Ge drove over. Around this time, the energy Shi Yun consumed during the day brought on a bout of intense sleepiness. Just after, Xiang Shaoyuan and the others walked out.

Looking at the people outside the car window, Shi Yun seemed to suddenly take interest, and turned to look at Wei Congying who was starting the car.

Her tone was firm: “Liang Mengyi likes you.”

He neither admitted nor denied, and asked her, “Did you feel threatened?”

Wei Congying drove the car away from the gates of Haiyue. He was very experienced in driving through the narrow road that Shi Yun drove out last time, and his speed was not as slow as hers.

Shi Yun sat in the passenger sear and looked at Haiyue in the rearview mirror: “Not really.”

“She was spoiled by her family.” Wei Congying suddenly said, “Her mother had amniotic fluid embolism¹[1] Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is one of the catastrophic complications of pregnancy in which amniotic fluid, fetal cells, hair, or other debris enters into the maternal pulmonary circulation, causing cardiovascular collapse. Source: National Institutes of Health when she was born, and they weren’t able to rescue her. Later, her father remarried and reorganized the family, so he didn’t care much about her. Her grandparents only had one child, her mother. That’s why they especially dote on Liang Mengyi. But the way they raised her led to her having a low EQ. Did she make you unhappy? Just ignore her.”

He said a lot, but he didn’t wait for Shi Yun to reply. He immediately changed the subject: “To my place?”

Shi Yun: “I’m going to the clinic tomorrow, and I have to get up early in the morning to leave.”

Wei Congying looked ahead and shifted gears with his hands: “I’ll send you over, I’ve also had experience getting up early.”

It sounded like an unrealistic daydream; Wei Congying didn’t hear the person next to him answering, and felt like he was being questioned: “I can really do it.”

He said it with confidence, and it turned out that he really was able to do it the next day. He woke her up before her alarm went off, and they had breakfast at a noodle shop outside his apartment.

The destination was still half an hour away, and he had even taken the half-hour drive into consideration.

Their time on the road was even enough to allow Shi Yun to take a nap.

There were many people rushing to work in the morning, and the traffic was a little congested.

Wei Congying watched the two-wheeled vehicles whizzing past from the side of the road, and finally understood why Jiang Xuyang bought a Kawasaki.

Sitting in the car, looking at the lane ahead that was motionless because of the red light, he calculated the time, and came to the conclusion that they shouldn’t be late. The passenger didn’t care about this and was taking a nap with her eyes closed.

Although the capital had announced the beginning of autumn, the weather was still hot and the days were still long. However, the weather forecast was showing that the temperature would drop again soon and apparently the maple leaves at the foot of Qinan Mountain were very beautiful.

Wei Congying responded: “Do you get National Day²[2] National Day is short for National Day of the People’s Republic of China. It is a public holiday in China celebrated annually on 1 October as the national day of the People’s Republic of China, commemorating Mao Zedong’s formal proclamation of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October 1949. Source: Wikipedia off?”

Shi Yun sighed: “We’re lucky if we get to take a New Year’s³[3] It’s Chinese New Year in this case. break.”

Last night she went to bed as soon as she finished her shower.

It seems that the second year of graduate school was really tiring.

She opened her eyes at a red light, stretched her neck to look at the surrounding streets, and then closed her eyes after finding that they hadn’t arrived yet. She didn’t forget to reach out to the driver’s seat, patted the driver, and told Wei Congying: “Remind me when we arrive.”

“You’re that tired?” Wei Congying looked at her outstretched hand and held it.

Shi Yun didn’t try to break free from his hand and said lazily, “I have to go to the laboratory at night. I’m tired during the day and tired at night, and I have to work a 24-hour shift every few days.”

He held her hand and squeezed her fingers lightly, which didn’t hurt but was rather comfortable.

Wei Congying responded: “It’s hard work.”

Shi Yun raised her eyelids, opened one eye to look at him, and thought of what he said in the private room yesterday: “That can’t be helped, aren’t I keeping you?”

She was smiling and her words carried a flirtatious tone.

The red light for going straight at the intersection finally came to an end, and the cars in the next lane started to move. Wei Congying let go of Shi Yun’s hand and followed the car in front: “Then I’ll wash up and wait for you at night.”

Of course, he was only saying this casually, Shi Yun had been very busy these days. He was very good to her but he was not good enough to see her off early in the morning every day. And even if he did get up for her, Shi Yun understood that it was just using up the time she could be his girlfriend.

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It was recently that she could begin to smell osmanthus in the air, and the days were getting shorter. The sun was even able to delay the time they went in to work as well as move forward the time they left work.

Shi Yun couldn’t tell the difference between silver and golden osmanthus⁴[4] The color of the flowers are a simple way of differentiating them but they’re more difficult to differentiate if they’re not in bloom. Silver osmanthus have white blooms while gold osmanthus have orange blooms. According to “the internet,” The leaves of gold osmanthus are slightly wider and thicker than the silver osmanthus. Another difference is that the leaves of the silver osmanthus have a serrated edge and are more oval in shape., so she waited for one of their seniors to finish their lunch and bring back a few branches of sweet-scented osmanthus that they picked themselves.

They put the osmanthus on the windowsill to dry and told them various ways of eating it.

Several seniors in the lounge mentioned the maple leaves of Qinan Mountain, saying that they must go and see them when they were off-duty.

The maple leaves were beautiful, and there was a chance the osmanthus would be very fragrant.

But today it was Shi Yun’s turn to be on a 24-hour shift again, and it felt like there was no light in the world.

Notes:

[1] Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is one of the catastrophic complications of pregnancy in which amniotic fluid, fetal cells, hair, or other debris enters into the maternal pulmonary circulation, causing cardiovascular collapse. Source: National Institutes of Health

[2] National Day is short for National Day of the People’s Republic of China. It is a public holiday in China celebrated annually on 1 October as the national day of the People’s Republic of China, commemorating Mao Zedong’s formal proclamation of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October 1949. Source: Wikipedia

[3] It’s Chinese New Year in this case.

[4] The color of the flowers are a simple way of differentiating them but they’re more difficult to differentiate if they’re not in bloom. Silver osmanthus have white blooms while gold osmanthus have orange blooms. According to “the internet,” The leaves of gold osmanthus are slightly wider and thicker than the silver osmanthus. Another difference is that the leaves of the silver osmanthus have a serrated edge and are more oval in shape.

Translator Corner:

The last sentence perfectly describes how I’ve been feeling the last few days, I want a vacation already TT.TT

On a brighter note, I want to recommend an audio drama!!! 童话(Fairy Tale) on missevan.com I suddenly thought of it after reading of how similar Shi Yun found Wei Congying to a certain someone else~~~ Also, I really like it in general because I love fairy tales and stories based on faiytales! （*＾ワ＾*）(๑˃̵　ᴗ　˂̵)و