The end of the year was indeed particularly busy but not in terms of work. There were a lot of things going on at work and because my place was near the company, I didn’t move back home for the time being. Yu Haiqiao stayed at my place for the first few days. He usually woke up around 7-8 but upon starting to live at my place, he got up at 7am everyday on the dot. He had a habit of staying in bed, even when the alarm rang, he would lay in bed for 10 minutes. When he got up, he would look so unhappy I felt a little pity for him. Moreover, at the end of the year, his companies had never-ending meetings. He was more or less a department leader so he had a lot of work to do. Sometimes, he would even have to do overtime, so by the time he arrived at my place, it would be very late. I had already turned into a new leaf and now treated Yu HAiqiao as warm as spring. Seeing him like this made me distressed so I finally asked him to go back home so as not to scamper back and forth so pitifully.
Yu Haiqiao heard this and strongly criticized my trying to shoo him away. Seeing that I have mastered a new skill of coaxing Yu Haiqiao, since he was a dog, you only needed to stroke his fur to soothe him. After a few days, the furry young master finally went back home but would often send worried texts to me on WeChat, “What are you eating for dinner? Are you getting takeout again?” For some reason, he reminded me of my mother. I couldn’t help but want to laugh at him, but sent comforting words, “Big brother, I really know how to cook. If I can’t, I’d be able to make extremely nutritious instant noodles.”
Yu Haiqiao sent me an emoji of a little lady with suspicious eyes.
I continued to stroke his features, “Because if I’m by your side, I can’t do anything. You’re too amazing that you spoiled me.” Attached, I added a kissy emoji.
Recently, I surfed the net and learned a lot of cheesy words, so I was able to coax Yu Haiqiao to no end.
When I first tried this out on him, he sent me a string of ellipses before mocking me, “Don’t you think you’re disgusting?”
I’m not. I’m really good at adapting. I typed back, “I don’t think so. I decided to honestly face my inner feelings.”
After a long time, Yu Haiqiao eventually began to enjoy it. I wondered why I didn’t use such a move when I was angered to death by him before. It was such an effective skill.
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“…..” Yld alyzzu olal pvaydtl nalyvwalp. Mblu oswze yzoyup byhl y xupvlakswp pswanl sq nsdqkeldnl. R oydvle vs aszz xu lulp, “Ls oyu. Jkt Jasvbla, bso nswze usw alxlxcla vbkp qsa ps zsdt?”
“Lso vbyv R alxlxcla kv, R’x nwakswp. Gqvla y zsdt vkxl, kv’p clnsxl y byckv. Mbkp osd’v es. Zsw dlle vs tkhl xl yd ydpola vs ekprlz xu eswcvp.”
This guy was probably crazy. As expected, one shouldn’t mingle with the entertainment circle. A good person had turned into someone like this after a few years. I didn’t reply to him and instead, sent a message on WeChat.
“Dog Yu, I have something funny to tell you. Remember that celebrity called Xiao Chen? He suddenly asked me why I ignored him 10 years ago. Don’t you think he’s acting funny?” After I sent him the message, I prepared to go take a bath.
Xiao Chen then sent, “I really can’t understand. The day before, you and I were still friends eating and chatting in front of the school. I even sent you home to your dorm. The next day, I sent you a message and realized you blocked me. I couldn’t even call you. When I went to your school, I couldn’t find you. However, at that time, I was more angry so I didn’t put much effort into satiating my curiosity.”
I replied, “I don’t remember. You think too much. Take some time to get psychological counselling. Don’t put everything to heart.” After I had said my piece, I put my phone down and went to take a shower.
Upon coming out, I found that Yu Haiqiao had sent a barrage of messages. He had even given me several missed calls. I walked to the bedroom holding my phone.
The first message Yu Haiqiao sent was quite uncouth– ”F*ck. Block that little kid.”
The second message contained an attack on him– “Wait a second, why are you chatting with that shortie this late at night?”
The third message was sent after I had missed several of his calls– “Why aren’t you taking my calls!!?”
I replied, “I just finished taking a bath. What got your panties in a twist?”
Yu Haiqiao didn’t send me a reply. I sat in front of my dressing table and earnestly did my skincare routine, smearing the products one by one on my face. By the time I finished, it was nearly midnight. I glanced at my phone and saw that Yu Haiqiao still hadn’t replied. I was sure that Yu Haiqiao wouldn’t have been able to fall asleep after sending me several texts and calls so I gave him a call while walking to bed.
Just when I was about to give up on the call, Yu Haiqiao picked up and sounded like he was panting. He said with a low voice, “Open the door.”
“Ah?” I thought I was hearing things.
Yu Haiqiao’s tone was low, his voice extremely clear, “Open the door.”
I got off the bed and walked to the door. When I opened it, I saw Yu Haiqiao standing outside. He furrowed his brows as soon as he saw me, “When are you moving back?”
I was stunned, “Why did you come so late at night?”
Yu Haiqiao held the door for support, his voice growing lower, “Should I get up half an hour earlier to send you to work?”
I continued to be stunned, “No, I mean, Why are you here?”
Yu Haiqiao frowned, “I have something to tell you.”
I looked at him suspiciously, “Are you terminally ill?”
Yu Haiqiao stood at the door and I reached out for his hand. It was quite cold outside due to the winter season so I let go and beckoned him. Quickly come in, it must be freezing outside.”
Yu Haiqiao walked in and changed into a pair of slippers before sitting on the sofa. He then asked me with a solemn face, “Can I have a glass of warm water to drink?”
I gave him a blanket and poured him some water before sitting at the armrest beside him, “What did you want to tell me all of a sudden tonight?”
He drank the warm water in one go and looked at me with a bit of hesitation, “I’m gonna say it ok…”
I said, “Say it then. What are you hiding from me?”
Yu Haiqiao scrunched his brows. After a while, he hesitantly said, “That uhh…”
“That?” I kept my patience and composure.
Yu Haiqiao: “That little celebrity.”
“…..?” I was baffled,
Yu Haiqiao turned his head and stared in my eyes very sincerely, his speaking pace very quick. If his words had been written down on paper, it would’ve formed a very big paragraph with no punctuation marks in the middle, “Back in university, weren’t you and that guy in mutual love and about to start dating? You were even going to flaunt it in front of me. Out of unhappiness, I suddenly told you that he went into a hotel with his arm around some girl and…”
It was extremely hard for me to extract the key information from this long string of words, “Were you lying to me at that time?”
Yu Haiqiao’s voice grew smaller, “Well who told you to show PDA in front of a single dog. Don’t you know that showing PDA will only kill me wifey hahaha…”
I looked at Yu Haiqiao suspiciously and for a moment, I didn’t know whether to call Yu Haiqiao stupid for fabricating rumors or to say that there must be something wrong in his head for him to remember this after so many years, even specially coming to my house tonight to give me an explanation. A thousand words combined to form a single sentence, “Are you crazy!” Humans also suffer from a lack of words when they are taken aback.
Yu Haiqiao looked at me, putting on a pitiful expression.
I couldn’t wrap my head around it, “You’ve remembered this for so long and even specially ran here to explain it to me tonight???”
Yu Haiqiao looked at me and after a while, he grabbed my hand and placed it in his own, rubbing it. He said, “You’ve lived 18 years without liking anyone. If you suddenly fell in love with somebody else, I’d be a bit worried whether that person would be good or not. After asking around, I realized that person was nothing special and he only scored 40 points in his maths college entrance exams. Moreover, I felt that he didn’t even like you that much and was even willing to place a bet with his friend that he could get you so I thought his personality wasn’t good.”
I looked at Yu Haiqiao, “So you lied to me saying that he was cheating on multiple people?”
Yu Haiqiao curved his eyes and nodded towards me like a good boy. If my brain wasn’t working right, I would’ve shed tears of gratitude and given him a trophy to express my thanks. I’d thank him for his noble morality and breaking my heart like a parent doing things for their children’s sake.
I sighed, “Yu Haiqiao, you make me feel so touched!”
His expression froze a little before he sighed and chuckled, “It’s nothing much. It’s only natural, given our relationship, isn’t it? Hehehe.”
I looked at him and also grinned, “What relationship do we have?”
Yu Haiqiao immediately responded, “An unchangeable husband and wife relationship!”
I expressed my doubt, “The divorce certificate is still sitting inside the drawer of my bedroom.”
Yu Haiqiao immediately said, “Love is stronger than gold and will not be bound by the shackles of reality!”
Yu Haiqiao surprised me more than before. I was angry one second and then laughing the next. These two emotions took turns and clashed in my body. I rolled my eyes, “Yu Haiqiao, you really are amazing. I’m too touched. As your friend, you decided to judge for yourself whether that man would pass as a boyfriend or not. As a husband, you support whatever your spouse advocates for. I’m so touched I don’t know what I did in my last life to have known you.”
Yu Haiqiao smiled cheekily at me and used silence to reply me.
However, I grew curious again, “But considering that the matter happened so long ago, why are you only suddenly telling me this now?”
Yu Haiqiao muttered, “Because that kid suddenly contacted you out of nowhere and asked you so many questions about so long ago.”
I was puzzled, “If he wants to ask, he can. Because of his question, this granny was able to suddenly realize the fact that you are a complete and utter b!tch. Humans and dogs have reproductive isolation so they don’t belong together, so getting together with a human like him is the right path.”
Yu Haiqiao heard this and looked up at me with burning eyes. The speed at which he blinked his eyes was extremely slow, so slow that it made me-
It made me unable to help let out a yell, “No way! You wouldn’t have thought that I still liked him or he still liked me, did you!! This matter happened decades ago. Is your head alright? Did your intelligence get eaten by a dog and turned you into a fool?!”
Yu Haiqiao’s action turned sluggish for a moment at my response before he let out a soft voice and turned to look at me with an innocent face, “I’ve always f*cking thought that you liked that idiot celebrity… I’ve always thought that he was your cinnabar mole or your white moonlight….”
Me: “Wait a second, don’t use such flowery words in your sentence. Why?!”
Yu Haiqiao’s face grew dark and he slowly said, “Do you still remember at that time you told me you were gonna start dating that little brat? Didn’t I trick you saying that brat had an arm around a girl’s shoulders and was acting suspicious…” He then observed my expression before continuing, “You then immediately cried and shocked me.” Yu Haiqiao muttered, “I’ve known you for 18 years and I’d never seen you cry. At that time, I was thinking ‘Shit, what should I do? She only knew this guy for a few months but she liked him to the point that she’s crying like this.’ I’ve known you for so long that it felt like you would only cry like that for me if I died. I thought, ‘Shi Ran this girl was so hopeless, she had forgotten her own principles.’” Yu Haiqiao said with scrunched brows before looking at me with inexplicable anger, “What did you cry for?”
This matter was a little embarrassing. It wouldn’t do me any good to say a lot and I was unwilling to as well, especially to say it in front of Yu Haiqiao after so many years. I willingly accepted this beautiful misunderstanding and coughed, answering half-heartedly, “I was young and frivolous. Young and frivolous.”
Yu Haiqiao stared at me for a while, “So now you’re not young and frivolous?”
I calmly waved my hands, “Not anymore.” In order to stop the current topic from being pursued, I quickly shifted it, “However, Yu Haiqiao, you’re really amazing. Look at the difference in our ideologies. I wanted an open marriage relationship. If I fall in love with some other guy in our marriage, are you going to divorce me or are you going to give me your blessings with a smile?”
Yu Haiqiao scrunched his brows and sunk in silence for a long time.
He suddenly yelled, “F*ck your motherf*cking open marriage. F*ck the difference in ideologies, if you really f*cking dare get together with another man, I’ll…”
“What are you gonna do?”
Yu Haiqiao gritted his teeth, “I’m going to f*cking cry for you to see!”
The originally tense atmosphere was instantly turned into a comedy by Yu Haiqiao and I was unable to hold back my laughter, “Then cry. Cry for me. If you don’t cry, you’re a little b!tch!”
Yu Haiqiao held my wrist and in the middle of my laughter, he whispered with a smile, “You won’t be able to stand seeing me sad.”
KMH – TOC for advanced chapters [Complete]
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