Forty-Three Degrees Part 3

“Do you still want to play?” Wei Congying asked.

Shi Yun: “No more playing, leave some vegetables for the vegetable garden, don’t tire Zhen Ji out.”

Wei Congying always thought that Shi Yun was a person who could take a joke, but in this matter, Shi Yun seemed to be really angry.

Perhaps because he had played too many jokes like this today, she was unusually quiet on the way back. When they were almost at the gate of the community, she looked at the sycamore trees along the street and the black wires hidden between the branches of the sycamore trees and crossing the street.

The wires divided the sky into pieces.

Shi Yun asked him: “Do you want to break up?”

Wei Congying was driving. He was surprised when he heard Shi Yun’s words, and was a little flustered: “No.”

Shi Yun didn’t quite believe this answer.

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However, she looked up with a serious expression: “It’s not funny when someone you like makes such a joke.”

Lin Fang had asked Wei Congying this once before. He was very curious about Wei Congying’s attitude towards love. He was not a scumbag who would cheat on his girlfriend to fall in love, but he was always in love.

He was nice and generous to girls. He didn’t play cold or use PUA¹ [1] PUA is Chinese slang for gaslighting.…

He said he liked the way girls like him.

It was probably due to the family he had as a child and it might have been the scumbag genes he inherited from his father.

He enjoyed the love that was produced towards him, which was the emotion between men and women that he had never felt from his father and mother’s interactions during his childhood.

This was also the reason why Wei Congying first looked for Shi Yun. The way she looked at him couldn’t be a lie, there was too much love in her eyes.

This alone perfectly met Wei Congying’s criteria for a girlfriend, not to mention that she was beautiful.

But this was also the first time when Wei Congying realized that someone liked him, his first reaction was not to cheer and jump for joy, but to feel a little inferior.

But, did he really deserve it?

However, starting from the question of “Were they really suitable,” there were too many questions to think about.

Wei Congying even felt that he should think carefully about his attitude towards Shi Yun. Was his attitude still that he liked her a little at the beginning, and then liked the way she liked him?

Probably not. When they broke up last time, she took care of him until he recovered and then left without a word. After they met again at Jiang Xuyang’s wedding, she still showed her love for him…

She personally deformed the type he liked in his mind, but he seemed to have lost the ability to reshape it in an instant.

Wei Congying apologized for a long time again and told her that he would not make such jokes again in the future.

But even so, Shi Yun didn’t stay over the next few days. It wasn’t because she was still angry, but because the results of her blind review came out and the time for her defense was also announced.

She just needed to revise the paper a bit and then she could prepare for the defense with peace of mind.

These days, Wei Congying had started going out alone with Lin Fang and the others again.

Xiang Shaoyuan saw Wei Congying walking in alone and couldn’t help but make fun of him: “Why are these people alone when they already have a partner? Why don’t they come in pairs?”

Wei Congying had just arrived and glanced around the room. There were only four people in the room, including him. Jiang Xuyang hadn’t brought his wife either. He was holding a tablet and was busy with something.

Wei Congying was not capable of taking a verbal swipe. He pulled out the only empty chair next to the card table and sat down: “Animal Rescue Association.”

His meaning? To avoid torturing these single guys.

He didn’t even need the tea menu, and Wei Congying responded to the waiter, “Jin Junmei.”

The tea was served quickly and everyone was present, but the card game had not yet begun.

Jiang Xuyang has been busy with the bidding plan and the preparations for his honeymoon recently. Chu Yue asked him to make a travel guide, and he had no choice but to obey his wife’s orders.

Holding a tablet and working hard at the poker table, he looked like a child rushing to finish his homework. However, working hard at the poker table was a superficial insult to the cards, and a deep spiritual insult to the three bums.

Lin Fang: “Take out your phone and take a photo of yourself and your tablet, showing your effort and seriousness to your wife. And hurry up and put away your tablet and start playing cards.”

Jiang Xuyang sighed and threw the tablet aside. There was still more than half a month left to do the work, so he could delay it a little longer. At worst, he could just skip his lunch break tomorrow.

“Oh, A’Cong.” Jiang Xuyang was sorting out the cards when he suddenly thought of something. “A few days ago, I heard that your family was busy with the project in the south of the city. It seems that the person you are working with is Fu Wang’s father. I feel it’s not simple. You should pay attention to it.”

Wei Congying had finished sorting the cards and put his feet on the horizontal bar between the legs of the chair: “Bankruptcy would be best.”

Jiang Xuyang snorted at his hypocritical expression, and said, “It won’t end up with bankruptcy, but it’s a bit troublesome. It seems the top management of their company will be reshuffled soon. Although the stock price hasn’t dropped much, I think there’s a lot going on inside.”

Wei Congying: “Oh, I see.”

After the card game was over, it was Wei Congying’s turn to pay the bill. After signing, he took out his phone and paid.

After paying, he habitually flicked off the pop-up notification of the deduction and number signaling the number of unread messages in the app. After checking, he found that Shi Yun had not sent him a message.

Perhaps he subconsciously thought that Shi Yun was still angry and sad. She had not been looking for him much in the past few days, so Wei Congying thought she was sulking alone.

Looking at the chat history that stopped at noon today, Wei Congying didn’t know what he should say. Should he tell her that he was leaving Haiyue and going home?

But he hadn’t told her when he came, nor did he have any responsibility report his itinerary to her.

Finally, he came up with the most universal opening line, which was not at all romantic, “What are you doing?”

Although there was no romance, at least Shi Yun replied to him.

[Shi Yun]: I have just finished preparing for tomorrow’s defense. After that, I will be watching travel videos and making a graduation travel plan.

Wei Congying was looking at the text message sent by Shi Yun, but before he could reply, suddenly a dizzyingly bright car light shone over him.

She didn’t mean to be cold to Wei Congying on purpose, making him think that she was angry.

Revising a thesis seemed easy, but it took time and experience, not to mention the many other things she had to deal with after graduation.

Shi Yun’s graduation trip was not a sudden idea. She had planned to travel before, but had never put it into action. And after she saw Chu Yue asking for honeymoon tips in her Moments, it occurred to Shi Yun that she should also take a trip.

Notes:

[1] PUA is Chinese slang for gaslighting.