Forty Degrees Part 1

Content Summary: Shi Yun, would you consider continuing to be with me?

“When you dumped me, I thought you were so f**king awesome. But now you’re being bullied like this?”

Hearing the voice, she looked up and the person who had left came back into sight.

He leaned his shoulders against the wall, crossed his arms, tilted his head and looked at Shi Yun, who was still a little confused. His posture was nonchalant and his words were quite out of the blue/ irrelevant.

He could still vividly remember the scene of the mess she was as he was exiting the elevator; pretending everything was fine to let the young couple leave.

This was the image that suddenly appeared in his mind. Because he had enjoyed too many bonuses from dating in the past, he was confident and conceited. He didn’t know that studying literature would become such a big obstacle for him. He had read too many books by various celebrities. Although he didn’t have the ability to create something earth-shattering, he had the ability to relate.

It’s easy to relate that image with hundreds of thousands of love stories.

Shi Yun felt a little dizzy. That glass of white wine exhausted her brain more than she thought it would. Her rationality was licked away bit by bit by the flames of alcohol, and was completely distorted.

Looking at him, that face.

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In order to provide customers with a better opportunity to check their appearance at the sink, the lighting here was very bright, and the light bulb reflected into her eyes, forming a small spot of light.

The light blurred Shi Yun’s vision. She endured the glaring light and tried to concentrate on looking at him even though she was dizzy from drinking.

Wei Congying looked into Shi Yun’s eyes, and he caught the love in her slightly unfocused gaze.

He didn’t expect that she would still look at him like this after being apart for so long.

She murmured again: “I can’t find you…”

She whispered softly, her tone sounding aggrieved.

Wei Congying stroked her cheek with his thumb. It was a magical thing for people who were suitable for each other to also have chemistry. Wei Congying was very pleased with Shi Yun’s dependence and love for him.

Wei Congying responded: “I’m here.”

–

The morning sunlight still couldn’t directly penetrate the room through the curtains, and could only look for opportunities through the cracks, and finally formed a bright horizontal line under the curtains.

The shower switch didn’t seem to be turned off properly, and the sound of water drops falling to the ground in the bathroom could be heard.

The phone on the bedside table rang several times. Shi Yun turned over, feeling pain in her body and head.

She buried half of her face in the pillow and raised her arm with difficulty to pick up the phone.

There was a female voice on the other end of the phone, and it seemed to be a hotel staff: “…Hello, I’m sorry to disturb your rest. The room you booked in our hotel yesterday at 1:30 pm will be checked out in half an hour. Please don’t forget. If you haven’t rested enough and need to extend your stay, then I will help extend it…Excuse me, do you need to extend your stay?”

It was a long routine speech, and who knew how many times the front desk clerk had repeated it.

Shi Yun opened her mouth and was about to speak, but her throat hurt terribly, as if someone had secretly come into her room last night and dug out her vocal cords. This had never happened even if she talked all day.

She desperately needed sleep.

“Yes.”

Shi Yun squeezed out these two words with great effort, and did not respond to the apology for disturbing the guest’s rest on the other end of the phone. She put the phone on the bedside table, not caring whether the phone was put back in its cradle.

After the world returned to silence, Shi Yun turned over after feeling that she had slept on her side for too long.

But what she touched was not the quilt or the other half of the bed, but a warm body. He was lying with his back to Shi Yun, and his face could not be seen.

Before her brain could catch up, she closed her eyes again. The person next to her turned over and placed a strong arm on Shi Yun’s body, the weight of which should not be underestimated.

Shi Yun was a little breathless under the pressure, and she kicked the calf of the person next to her under the quilt. The person misunderstood her and hugged her: “It’s time to sleep, can you be a little more obedient?”

“No.” Shi Yun’s throat was already sore, “He Yun you…”

As soon as the last three words came out, the room suddenly became so quiet that not even the sound of breathing could be heard. She felt lighter, but a hand grasped her chin, twisted her cheek, and forced Shi Yun to look at him.

Half of his face was hidden in the soft pillow. He was naked, and the quilt only covered his chest, leaving his shoulders and arms exposed. His hair was a little messy, and some blue stubble appeared on his chin.

The lines of his arms, shoulders and neck were revealed, with scratches, teeth marks and scars from surgery on his shoulders. He opened his eyes, and his peach blossom eyes had a hint of fiercness without a smile. His voice was still a little hoarse as he had just woken up: “Whose name did you call?”

The alcohol had evaporated. Shi Yun looked at him, and the scene of last night flashed back to her mind. She had done something wrong again.

Anyway, she had already said it, and there was no point in quibbling at this time. What’s more, she wanted to sleep, so she used any reason to keep him from bothering her further.

Shi Yun patted his arm: “My ex-boyfriend.”

“Fuck.” Wei Congying cursed, “Is this really your ex-boyfriend’s name?”

After Shi Yun struggled in vain, she let him pinch her face. Her eyelids were too heavy and she wanted to sleep for a while longer: “Let go, I want to sleep.”

He was angry, but she wanted to sleep. Wei Congying was very angry, but she added fuel to the fire: “Now you can recall whose name I called when we were having fun last night.”

–

Before leaving the bathroom last night, he said he was here and she asked him if he was still leaving.

He said he wouldn’t leave.

Well, Wei Congying admitted that he had some presumptuous thoughts at the time and fell into a cliché.

He didn’t remember which writer said, “The way to a woman’s heart is through the vagina.” He thought it was Eileen Chang, but maybe he was wrong.

In Wei Congying’s view, this was also the path to gain love.

He was not Junichi Watanabe, and he couldn’t use words like “blood spraying after flowing in reverse” or “a sun is hidden in the womb” to write a his review of “making love”. He also didn’t like embellished words like “flower buds” or “white rabbits”. He liked the direct and clear names in biology textbooks.

After it was over, it was too easy for people to develop feelings that even confused themselves. At this point, the body and mind were mostly separated. He rested his head on his arms and thought about the past.

He originally planned to take her home, after all, she had been there, and of course a nearby hotel would be fine, anywhere would be fine.

But Shi Yun told him there was a room card in her bag.

Wei Congying took out the room card of the room that she had not checked out in the afternoon from her bag, carried her bag and took her upstairs.

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