Thirty-One Degrees Part 1

Content Summary: Racing

By the third day, Shi Yun no longer had much interest in sightseeing around Xunchuan, and Wei Songying’s phone seemed to be quite busy. Someone had been calling him in the past few days. Shi Yun didn’t know who it was, but when he answered the phone, he would leave the room, either to the hallway or to the balcony.

When Wei Congying came back from his phone call, Shi Yun was still lying on the bed, her posture unchanged from before he left.

He walked to the bed and pinched her face. His hands were a bit cold, which made Shi Yun a little unhappy. She asked in a coquettish tone, “What are you doing?”

“I’m going to go out.” Wei Congying pulled up the quilt on her body, “If you are bored, just walk around and call me if you need anything.”

“Where to?”

Wei Congying stood up from the bed and adjusted the collar of his clothes: “To meet some of my friends.”

Friends?

In the past, when he took her to meet Lin Fang and the others, he took the initiative, but now when meeting his friends in Xunchuan, why didn’t he say anything about taking her this time?

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Wei Congying walked over and glanced at the group of people around him, not familiar with them. They were probably sponsors of the competition or something along those lines. He wasn’t very good at dealing with these people, and Zhang Guangwei had always been the one to negotiate with them.

But no matter how good he was at dealing with that group of people, if he wanted to run away, he still had to give a greeting before running away. Cheng Ge had been standing at the side. When Wei Congying finished greeting the group and walked over, Cheng Ge’s posture remained unchanged.

Not only did he look awkward, he also looked bad.

Cheng Ge was prone to carsickness, but he was fine driving by himself. This time he took a plane to Xunchuan by plane, and taking motion sickness medicine had no effect.

He hid it from Fang Qian, saying that he didn’t go home for the New Year last year, so he was going back this year. But it wasn’t all a lie. He really went back to his hometown, but unlike what he told her about staying until after the Chinese New Year, he flew directly to Xunchuan from his hometown early in the morning.

“Are you feeling alright?” Wei Congying walked up to him and asked him while looking around.

Cheng Ge nodded: “My stomach feels a little uncomfortable and my head feels a little dizzy.”

“Have something light to eat later.” As he said that, Wei Congying caught sight of a familiar person.

The racing circle was not big, and there were always a few familiar faces whenever he participated in a race.

Although Wei Congying couldn’t be considered an outgoing person and easy to get along with, there really were not many people who could trigger his dislike. Even when he faced his ex-girlfriend who cursed him for half an hour when they broke up, he could calmly listen to all the cursing.

But there was one exception.

It was that flashy blondie not far away.

A person who always liked to set off his every trigger and hit every point in his book.

Wei Congying’s eyes met that of the blondie not far away.

The corners of his mouth twitched and he clicked his tongue: “Why is he here?”

Cheng Ge raised his head and followed Wei Songying’s gaze. He saw a man who was also looking towards him.

The man had blinding blond hair and looked to be about the same age as Wei Congying. Standing next to him was a girl with a good figure, but the girl didn’t seem to be from China, and her facial features were somewhat western.

The blondie said something to the beautiful woman next to him. He raised his hand and waved towards them. He seemed very familiar with Wei Congying.

“Who is that?” Cheng Ge was curious.

Wei Congying had a bad expression on and snorted: “A very annoying person.”

Cheng Ge remained silent. He could tell that that man’s family background seemed to be no worse than Wei Cong’s. Based on his own standing, I couldn’t say anything bad about others. If not careful, it would eventually reach that person’s ears.

Dinner was at a high-end restaurant next to the racing track, and they shared several tables.

Cheng Ge followed Wei Congying the entire time. He looked at the people around him with some restraint, imitating the people around him when eating. He even looked carefully: “By the way, accommodation is provided here, right?”

Wei Congying hummed in agreement. There were people smoking. He took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, held the cigarette butt in his mouth, and lit it: “When the time comes, follow Zhang Guangwei.”

“It seems… he is going to a KTV with others after.”

Wei Congying responded: “Then you can go with him.”

Cheng Ge shook his head: “I have a girlfriend, so I won’t go.”

Wei Congying wanted to laugh when he saw him like this. Maybe he was used to Lin Fang talking up other girls even  when he had a girlfriend. Most of the people in his circle were like this. Faced with Cheng Ge’s attitude, he found it funny.

But then he thought about it, and he wouldn’t go along with them either.

“I don’t live here, I live over there on the old street.” Wei Congying seemed to be afraid that he would follow, and then said, “There is no reimbursement there.”

Cheng Ge: “Oh.”

After another cigarette, Wei Congying leaned back in the chair, holding his phone in his hand. The phone was extremely quiet at that moment. Shi Yun did not send any messages. He had a bad premonition that she was sulking.

He switched back and forth between several apps with his fingers, and finally couldn’t help but prepare to call Shi Yun. The surroundings were too noisy, so Wei Congying put out the remaining half of the cigarette in the ashtray. The tar smell in his mouth and nose had already dissipated a lot.

In Xunchuan, as soon as you left the air conditioner room, you’d take part in the activity of reducing the body temperature. It was quite warm sitting under the air conditioner, but he shivered as soon as he walked out.

Wei Congying looked for Shi Yun’s phone number and walked to a relatively quiet place at the end of the corridor. The call was answered very quickly.

“Hello.”

“Hello.” The voice on the other end of the phone sounded a little weak.

“What are you doing?”

Shi Yun: “Watching TV and checking my phone.”

It didn’t sound like there was any problem. After all, staying in a hotel was quite boring. Wei Congying turned around and looked at the closed door of the private room. This was no paradise, and there was no point in bringing her here to smoke second-hand smoke.

Besides, he was also ready to go back.

Wei Congying responded: “Have you eaten?”

“I’ve eaten.”

Her tone sounded fine, not like she was angry.

Before hanging up, Wei Congying leaned against the wall with his shoulder, raised his eyes, and saw road signs, signs for fire escapes, toilets, elevators, etc.

Wei Congying held his phone and was a little curious: “Why are you so relaxed? You didn’t even check-in.”

“If something is meant to happen, it’ll happen.” The person on the other end of the phone snorted, “I won’t say more, I’m going to watch TV. I was watching the climax on my phone when you called.”

So it was his fault for thinking of her and calling her.

Wei Congying was not angry at being spurned for no reason. In fact, he even had a smile on his face after hanging up.

Putting the phone back in his pocket, the heat in his body from standing under the air conditioner had disappeared little by little, and a bit of cool breeze blew in from the gap in the window and the unclosed door of the fire escape.

He was wearing a sweatshirt and already felt a little cold standing in the corridor.

Just as he was about to go back to the private room to get his coat and leave, Wei Congying looked up and saw two people walking out of the fire escape.

There were two disheveled looking people. The heavy makeup on the woman’s face was already a bit smudged, and the matte bright red lipstick on her mouth had spread outside the border of her lips. The man’s yellow hair was sprayed with who knew how much hairspray, as not a hair was out of place on his quiff. But the area around his mouth made it look as if he had just been eating canned strawberries secretly.

　

Wei Congying immediately pulled down the corners of his mouth when he saw the blond head, and felt disgusted felt disgusted upon catching sight of it.

As soon as he turned around and took a step away, the sound of his ridicule traveled to his ears.

“Oh, what a coincidence?”

Since he didn’t mention anyone by name, Wei Congying was originally going to pretend to be deaf and stupid, pretending that the blondie wasn’t calling him, but unfortunately that person knew his name.

“Wei Congying, why are you ignoring me?”

There wasn’t any way around it.

Wei Congying stood in place with his hands in his trouser pockets: “Oh, when I first noticed you. I thought you had your mouth cupped and couldn’t speak, so I didn’t listen.”

Huang Mao subconsciously touched his mouth with his hand, wiped it with his fingertips, and understood instantly when he saw the lipstick on his fingertips.

He didn’t want to spend any time making small talk, and Wei Congying didn’t give him a chance to make his point. The relationship between them didn’t reach the point of exchanging pleasantries and reminiscing about old times.

After Wei Congying walked a few steps away, he heard the person behind him continuing the conversation.

“By the way, I fired Lao Ma. Did he come back to find you?” He sounded pleased with himself.

Looking at it still made Wei Congying want to beat him.

Lao Ma…

Thinking of this person, Wei Congying took a deep breath. Turning around, he saw the arrogant smile on that man’s face.

Blondie looked at Wei Congying proudly.

However, the person in front of him was not angry, and had a faint smile on his face: “You may not know, but the relationship between him and me is just that.”

When Wei Congying returned to the private room, Zhang Guangwei had already drunk too much. Wei Congying picked up his coat and patted Cheng Ge on the shoulder: “Watch him and don’t let him go to KTV. I’m afraid he’ll end up stuffing the microphone down his throat.”