Chapter 21

After I said my piece, I took my bag, opened the door and got out. Yu Haiqiao trailed behind me and shut the door. He then said in a bored voice, “Boring.”

I responded, “It is quite boring.”

Yu Haiqiao then asked me if I wanted to watch a movie in the cinemas this afternoon.

I said I wasn’t going because I wanted to watch a drama in the afternoon. Yu Haiqiao didn’t respond.

When the lift reached the underground parking lot, and the doors opened, Yu Haiqiao and I stood inside. After seconds of silence, Yu Haiqiao asked me in a bored tone, “What movie did you watch with your friend last night?”

I replied, “It’s that new superhero movie that you mentioned a while ago.”

Yu Haiqiao stood behind me and I could see the image of him lazily leaning on the walls reflected on the doors. Hearing this, he let out a chuckle, “You’ve watched it?”

I continued staring straight ahead, holding my bag and reminding him, “It’s not that good, I almost fell asleep.”

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I took a sip of yoghurt and thought that Yu Haiqiao sure was amazing for pretending that everything was going well no matter what situation he was in. His 1 second amnesia completely glossed over the matter and to be able to ask for a task made me feel it was rather strange. But in order not to let him point out my 120 demerits, I stared at him for a while and mocked, “Why? Are we gonna talk about how my temper’s been weird since Ii was young and how you’re such a benevolent and kind person? You’ve watched so many superhero movies you think of yourself as one in real life too huh?”

Yu Haiqiao heard my mocking words and put on a helpless expression, “You said it yourself, you have a lot of grudges.”

I looked back at him, “What’s wrong? Does this world only allow you to say that I’m weird but it won’t allow me to call you a fool?”

“…..” Yu Haiqiao raised an eyelid and looked at me. In his gaze was a hint of amusement. He raised his hand and beckoned me over, “Fine fine, you’re allowed. Come over and let’s talk rationally ok?”

I took a sip of yogurt and prepared myself mentally. I then heard Yu Haiqiao say, “I’m not going to argue with you. We’ve known each other for several years and we’ve never fought. There’s no meaning to fighting.”

I sneered, “That’s right. You keep complaining about me to no end and I’m too lazy to make a comeback so you naturally feel that there’s no meaning.”

Yu Haiqiao stayed silent for a while. He looked at me for a good while and then replied irritatedly, “Do your words always have to be so sharp and unkind?”

“Yeah. If you have anything else to complain about me, better make it clear now. Don’t just call me out every now and then. You may be free but I have better things to do.” I grinded my teeth on the straw.

Yu Haiqiao let out a long sigh, “If you have anything you want to tell me, say it out now.” He then poured himself a cup of water and took out another cup to pour water in, “Have you finished your yogurt? Drink some hot water.”

At this moment, I actually remembered that Chen Xie called Yu Haiqiao’s temper poor. Yu Haiqiao’s treatment of strangers can actually be considered gentle and in front of me, aside from having a scummy mouth, his temper was indeed considerably good. I couldn’t help but think about what kind of person Yu Haiqiao was like in front of Chen Xie.

A Yu Haiqiao that I didn’t know. Though this proposition seemed to contain a hint of jealousy, it evidently could not define my relationship with Yu Haiqiao. I’ve known Yu Haiqiao for about 30 years. If it weren’t because we had been married for 3 years in between, I could sincerely say that if Yu Haiqiao were to have gotten married with anyone else, I would have given him my sincere blessings and a thick stack of money.

Yu Haiqiao was my friend first and my marriage partner second. After that, he was someone whom I still couldn’t define at present, someone who wasn’t exactly a lover.

I have always been very mean when I wasn’t in the mood, someone who was hard to communicate with. In my rebellious period, I would argue with my parents like mad. My mom would point at my nose and call me out for being as stubborn as a donkey and out of control.

At that time, I angrily stormed out of the house and found Yu Haiqiao crouching in front of his house eating skewers. He looked at me from below and I vented out my anger at him. Despite this, he continued to smile at me from beneath, “Why are you venting your anger on me?”

My temper during my rebellious period was certainly quite poor. No matter what living object was within a perimeter of 500 meters, I would definitely glare at it, even if it was innocent.

I was wondering how many years Yu Haiqiao had been repressing his negative feelings towards me. Just how much of his words hidden under a smile were truly said with the intention of denouncing me, just like how he denounced me with a strict face today. I even thought that our friendship might not have been built on the logic of ‘I don’t think Yu Haiqiao’s bad so I can be friends with him. He thinks I’m not bad so he can be friends with me’ but simply rather because his family lived across from mine and our ages were also similar.

Yu Haiqiao had never once approved of my beliefs and way of living.

This was probably the most important point of all. I threw the finished yoghurt bottle into the trash and walked towards Yu Haiqiao, pulling out a stool to sit on, I adopted the same lenient attitude whenever I saw idiots come for an interview during work and told Yu Haiqiao, “Alright, let’s talk for a while.”

Yu Haiqiao looked at me and spoke in an extremely calm tone, “Recently, your mood has been very foul, did something happen?”

I earnestly told him, “Not really.”

Yu Haiqiao raised an eyelid.

I solemnly sank in contemplation for a while before honestly answering, “I don’t know if my definition for our relationship has been wrong or what.”

Yu Haiqiao furrowed his brow but didn’t interrupt my words.

I took a new glass from the table and poured half of it with water before pouring the rest of the water from the cup in front of me into it, “I thought our relationship was just something that was written on paper and is protected by the state, a relationship that is in effect according to the law.”

Yu Haiqiao had a confused look on his face. He didn’t seem to understand what I was trying to say.

I carefully reflected on my words and felt that they may have sounded slightly abstract.

I drank the contents of the cup in one mouth and thought that I shouldn’t have used such profound metaphors to communicate with Yu Haiqiao. I leaned back on my chair and asked bluntly, “When did Chen Xie come back from France?”

Yu Haiqiao was stunned at first before replying to me vacantly, “A few weeks ago I think. I’m not too sure. What does this have to do with her…” His words trailed off until here before he turned to glance at me.

“You must have had several meals with her without my knowledge.” I added.

I then saw Yu Haiqiao’s brows raise up slightly and the expression on his face slowly smoothened out. After a few seconds, I saw him blink and with a curve of his eyes, he actually let out a chuckle, “Were you jealous?”

KMH – TOC for advanced chapters [Complete]