That night, at 12am, Yu Haiqiao specially helped me pack up my things and brought me home. By the time we reached, it was already past 1am. After we unpacked for a while, another hour had passed and we headed to bed, ready to sleep.
The lights were turned off and Yu Haiqiao turned over from the side. I pulled on the quilt and lowered my voice, angrily saying, “The wind’s coming in!” Yu Haiqiao then turned around again and laid still for a while before suddenly turning to my side.
I chuckled in the dark, “Are you frying pancakes, Dog Yu?”
Yu Haiqiao pulled me into his arms and stuck close to me, asking, “Can you sleep?”
I earnestly felt my own situation and actually felt oddly excited, feeling that Yu Haiqiao must’ve chased my drowsiness away, “I can’t seem to sleep well.” I honestly said.
Yu Haiqiao also honestly said, “I’m also not that tired.”
In the end, the two of us started chatting the whole night, we talked about a lot of different things in the dark, starting from things that happened when we were young.
It was only when the sun rays faintly shone that I started to feel tired and turned over to surrender to slumber.
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Soon, Yu Haiqiao sat up from the quilt and stayed in bed for a while before sighing, “Let’s not sleep so late any more. I still feel out of it.”
I didn’t reply and he reached out a hand to pull me, “Get up, you pig. You still need to go to work. Who was it that was yelling about getting a perfect attendance bonus everyday in front of me before?”
I gnashed my teeth, “Shake me on more time and I’ll resort to violence against you!”
At this, Yu Haiqiao became sober and laughed, “Aiya, I’m so scared~~”
He even added a wave at the end of his words. I angrily slapped the bed and sat up, glaring at Yu Haiqiao. Yu Haiqiao quickly got off the bed and went for the toilet while saying, “You should quickly hurry up or you won’t make it.
I sat on the bed in silence for two minutes and Yu Haiqiao’s voice floated from the bathroom, “Shi Ran, are you a pig? Are you still sitting on the bed?”
I couldn’t help but let out a surprised yelp and got down from the bed. I started to change my clothes and once I did, I had finally completely sobered up. Yu Haiqiao walked out with his toothbrush and gestured at his wrist, telling me to take note of the time.
I rolled my eyes at him, “I don’t want you to send me.”
Yu Haiqiao still had his toothbrush in his mouth, his words sounding vague, “No can do. I already agreed to send you.”
I continued to roll my eyes, “If you didn’t send me, I could’ve slept for half an hour more.”
“…..” Yu Haiqiao stayed silent for a while, “Why are you so lazy?”
I went to the bathroom to do my business and after that, I sat in front of my dressing table and did my magic. Yu Haiqiao overturned the trunks for a long while before finally asking me, “Wifey, where did you put my light grey scarf? I was going to pair it with my coat today.”
I ignored him.
He then said, “Oh, that’s right. Also my pair of leather shoes. I don’t know where it is. The company has been asking us to wear leather shoes and ties to meetings everyday.”
“…..” I was too lazy to put on makeup.
Yu Haiqiao’s voice rang out again, “Right, and also my tie. There’s a tie that I’ve been wearing everyday. That tie doesn’t really go well with the light clothes I’m wearing today. Which drawer are the ties in, wifey?”
Me: “…..” Yu Haiqiao simply can’t change this innate dog character.
I got up from the mirror and walked towards him, taking out his scarf and tie from a drawer. I then told him, “Aside from the shoe rack, where else could your shoes be? Your shoe is on the second shelf of the shoe rack.”
Yu Haiqiao looked at me for a while and blinked before praising me extremely sincerely, “Shi Ran, your memory sure is good.”
I rolled my eyes. Yu Haiqiao wrapped the scarf around his neck while asking, “Are you not doing your face today?”
I replied, “Natural beauties don’t need to put on makeup.”
Yu Haiqiao let out a low chuckle, “You’re right.”
Because I didn’t put on makeup, I managed to save 10 minutes of time, leading us not to hurry. Yu Haiqiao even idly asked me on the road, “What should we eat for breakfast?”
I replied, “Eat what we see.”
Yu Haiqiao then asked, “Should we buy an apartment near your company?”
I was flabbergasted, “Can’t you spend the money anywhere else?”
Yu Haiqiao replied, “We can probably afford an apartment if we put down a down payment. Plus, our house right now isn’t near your workplace nor mine. Between the two of us, it should at least be convenient to one person. Moreover, you don’t even know how to drive.”
I reminded him, “Morning traffic jams are crazy. I might even get to my workplace faster through the subway rather than from you driving me.”
Yu Haiqiao clicked his tongue and I immediately dispelled the idea, “Our current place is also close to the subway and is also in the middle of our workplaces. It’s also close to a mall, a supermarket, the wet market and even has parks and the like. I don’t want to move.”
Yu Haiqiao agreed with my points, “Then fine.” After a while, he added, “Then don’t look for an excuse to live back in that dinky little apartment of yours that’s close to the company.”
I rolled my eyes, looking at the roof of the car.
**
When the New Year holidays arrived, Yu Haiqiao and I stayed at each other’s family’s place for a night, and we didn’t tell our parents that we had divorced. Yu Haiqiao’s mom asked me to eat a little more food like usual and my dad still liked to talk about national affairs with Yu Haiqiao on the table.
Everything was as if nothing had changed.
Because I had agreed to participate in the junior high class reunion to be held this year, I endured the pain and rejected the invitation to play mahjong with a couple of friends at home and went to the restaurant where the reunion was being held together with Yu Haiqiao.
The class reunion took place in a private room within the restaurant. There were four tables within that room and Yang Xiongwei stood at the door of the room, working hard in welcoming the guests. I stepped forward and greeted him with a Happy New Year before praising him for his work. Seeing me together with Yu Haiqiao, he smiled and greeted us back, “You’ve arrived. Happy New Year, Happy New Year. Our teachers have already arrived, it’s just that a few classmates were uncontactable and a few classmates won’t be able to make it. We have about 30 something people present from our class.”
Yu Haiqiao stood beside me and lamented like a leader, “To be able to get more than 30 people to come after so many years is already pretty good.”
I cast Yu Haiqiao a glance and entered the room, allowing Yu Haiqiao to chat with Yang Xiongwei at the door.
I haven’t seen my junior high school classmates for more than a decade so aside from a few that I occasionally contacted or a few who I was friends with on WeChat, I couldn’t recognize the rest. The girls were ok but the men changed too drastically. Some classmates pulled me into their circles and told me who was who. Who would’ve imagined that the skinny little guy who sat on the front row would now look paunchy? I couldn’t help but lament the uncanny workmanship of time.
Moreover, it was a must to recall the past during class reunions. While we were eating, our class teacher, who had already grown white hair, said that this student had good grades but was naughty and undisciplined. I didn’t how he was able to still remember Yu Haiqiao despite teaching for so many years and meeting so many batches of students. He could still call out his name while laughing, “I heard that Yu Haiqiao had gotten married to a girl in our class– How nice how nice.”
Yu Haiqiao poured juice for his teacher and smiled, “Yeah. She’s called Shi Ran. The one who went overboard during her studies. She’s the one who pulled down everybody’s scores for math.”
When the class teacher heard this, he nodded his head but I could keenly tell that he simply didn’t remember which girl Yu Haiqiao was referring to. I went over to reveal my face and greeted him.
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