Chapter 9

Considering that Yu Haiqiao was already a dead person to me, I cremated his corpse in my heart, and placed his urn in his grave, even putting on a wreath before the tombstone. By the time I got off work, I saw his car parked at the roadside with the lights on and quickly took a detour around the company garden. After spending 5 minutes going to the side door and intending to slip away, as though some sort of sorcery had occurred, that sapphire blue car of his, was parked at the parking exit with both lights on and he was standing by the security desk, chatting with the guards of our company.

When our eyes met each other, he put on a smile and asked, “Are you done for the day?”

The security guard, who was chatting with him in the security booth, also cast me a probing look. I really admire Yu Haiqiao’s skill of being able to act dumb and cast him a similarly admiring smile, “What’s going on? You don’t have work today?”

He hummed in agreement, “I had something in the afternoon and thought I might as well pick you up along the way after work.” After I walked out of the door, he gave me a toothy smile, “Are you touched?”

I wasn’t touched. I wanted to rest his head against the window of the security booth, and then smash his head with it. I smiled at him, “I am.”

Yu Haiqiao coughed and opened the car door, getting into the driver’s seat, I opened the back seat and sat inside. Before my butt could even settle down, he immediately spoke up in unhappiness, “I’m not your driver, Sit in the front.”

I rolled my eyes at him, “Stop talking nonsense!”

During the drive, Yu Haiqiao spoke up, “My mother called today, asking us to go over to their place for dinner tonight.”

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R ypjle nyzxzu, “Tso eke usw jdso R oyp tskdt vs nsxl swv qasx vbl pkel essa?” R oyp rwggzle. R nzlyazu pyo bkp nya ryajle yv vbl xykd ldvaydnl yde bkp nya lhld bye kvp zktbv sd yp vbswtb bl oyp yqayke rlsrzl oswzed’v cl yczl vs pll kv.

Zw Tykikys tzydnle yv xl qasx vbl alyahklo xkaasa sq vbl nya yde pxkzle kddsnldvzu, “R pyo uswa nszzlytwl yv vbl essa. Fbl pyke usw oldv vs vbl vskzlv yde ypjle xl vs oykv qsa y obkzl.”

“…” R vwadle vsoyaep “Fblazsnj Tszxlp” Zw Tykikys yde tyhl bkx y vbwxcp wr.

Tl alyzzu vbswtbv R oyp nsxrzkxldvkdt bkx, czkdjkdt yv xl sclekldvzu. Yu qkpv nzldnble byaela yde R dlyazu zspv xu vlxrla yde ulzzle, “Ebu es R oydv vs clyv usw ps xwnb!!”

Tl kxxlekyvlzu qlktdle y nsiwlvvkpb vsdl, “Ebu—!”

Yu czsse ralppwal psyale, yde y bwdeale oyup vs Zw Tykikys qkzzle xu caykd. Rd vbl lde, R pvyale swv sq vbl nya okdeso qsa y obkzl, yde vsze Zw Tykikys nyzxzu, “R qllz y zkvvzl dywplswp.”

Zw Tykikys: “Rp kv xsvksd pknjdlpp? Ebyv eke usw lyv qsa zwdnb?”

R ypjle Zw Tykikys nyzxzu, “Ebld eke xu rlakse nsxl zypv vkxl?” Rd alyzkvu, vbkp yqvladssd yv y zkvvzl ckv rypv 2rx, R bye fwpv qkdkpble alyekdt vbl xlppytlp Zw Tykikys pldv vs vbl ElUbyv taswr yde xu czsse ralppwal pwatle qsa y obkzl. Ebld R oldv vs vbl piwyv vskzlv, R alyzkgle vbyv xu rlakse bye nsxl. Rv oyp rascyczu rashsjle cu Zw Tykikys, R vbkdj.

Yu Haiqiao: “It was around this time last month.”

Why did this b!tch remember my cycles so clearly? I clenched my fists bitterly.

Yu Haiqiao said, “You don’t even have menstrual pain. What’re you asking this for?”

I sneered, with Yu Haiqiao’s thought process, he would never be able to figure out what I was getting to so I decided to get straight to the point, “Did you wear a condom last time?”

Yu Haiqiao’s voice was slightly confused, “Last time was yesterday.”

“…” I wanted to kill this dog, “Last last time!”

“I did.” Yu Haiqiao replied like a primary school student answering questions in class. After answering, he complained, “Since when have I not worn it?”

“My period hasn’t come for more than a month.” I turned my head and looked in Yu Haiqiao’s direction, trying my best to maintain a sincere look.

I felt him turn blank in the driver’s seat for a moment, and then he glanced at me from the rearview mirror with a smile that didn’t seem like a smile, “Your last period came on the 22nd of last month.”

I calmly told him. “You remembered it wrong.”

Yu Haiqiao: “I have a period tracking app on my phone.”

“…” I gritted my teeth, “In any case, my period comes regularly. Now that it hasn’t arrived, I think something is wrong.”

Yu Haiqiao said: “Today is only the eighteenth.”

“…” I was going to kill this b!tch. I originally wanted to trick this b!tch, saying that I could be pregnant in order to make him nervous, and dumbfounded but in the end, this b!tch didn’t fall for it.

**

The year I just graduated from university, me and my roommates quickly solved our personal problems. On the day that one of them was getting wedded, her stomach was with child. The wedding happened to be held on a public holiday. At that time, I was still living in my parents’ house and happened to run into Yu Haiqiao who was returning for the holidays while I was waiting for the car to arrive to go to the wedding. Upon seeing me, he asked where I was going. At that time, I had just graduated and was starting work whereas Yu Haiqiao was still in graduate school.

They said that distance makes the heart grow fonder. Back then, I was regularly crossing paths with Yu Haiqiao. Every time I saw him, I only felt the urge to hit him. He was studying at school whereas I was living in my parents’ home and working. Even though this b!tch would return home on the weekends to cadge meals and even bring a week’s worth of laundry, the time I saw him still grew shorter. Because of that, whenever I saw him now, he looked a bit more pleasing than usual. I told him that my roommate was getting married and that I was going to attend the ceremony. Yu Haiqiao cast me two glances and asked very scummily, “Why didn’t she invite me?”

Because our universities were close to each other, he pretty much knew my roommates. At times, we would even hang out with him and his roommate as a group. One of our roommates was even dating one of his roommates. In the end, birds of the same feather flock together. This b!tch’s roommate was also a b!tch like him, telling my roommate after dating for 3 months, “I’m sorry, I don’t think you suit me. Let’s break up.”

My roommate was dumbfounded at the time: did it usually take three months to prove whether one suited the other? Because it was the first relationship my roommate ever had in her life, she was sad for a long time. She had even lost more than a couple of kilos in just a few short months. Even though we, her fellow roommates, didn’t say anything about this, on the inside, we were all faintly feeling a little envious.

——Losing a couple of kilos in just less than 2 months, I also want to fall in love and get heartbroken…

Of course, I didn’t say this to the person who got her heart broken. We took turns to comfort her every day, and I even called Yu Haiqiao to specifically yell at him. Even though Yu Haiqiao looked innocent, in truth, no man was ever innocent!

After being scolded by me, he said to me extremely innocently, “But wouldn’t you only be able to know if the shoes fit you after trying it on?”

My anger immediately blew up, “Who the f*ck are you calling shoes?!”

After scolding and hanging up the phone, me and my 3 roommates began to curse the four people living in Yu Haiqiao’s dorm. From then on, we no longer hung out with Yu Haiqiao and his gang.

And the reason why I was still hanging out with Yu Haiqiao……

I’m not too sure why, probably because he later explained to me, “I didn’t say you guys were shoes. I meant that we all could be someone else’s shoes.”

When I refused to accept his explanation, he blinked and acted very exaggeratedly, “I’m just a pair of shoes waiting for others to try me on.”

Because his tone and expression at the time were too slap-inducing, I hit him fiercely and even said in disdain, “Why are you acting so disgusting!!”

Yu Haiqiao evaded me while laughing madly.

And so, my roommate got married. Although it wasn’t the roommate who had her heart broken, shouldn’t it only be natural not to invite him?

However, the b!tch Yu Haiqiao was so thick-skinned it made one gasp in amazement. He asked me to wait for him after I finished talking about attending the wedding. He went home and drove his dad’s car to drive me to the wedding happily.

Because the roommate and the roommate’s husband were both students in our school, and both of them were locals, there were many classmates and familiar people in the venue. Even Yu Haiqiao also met two familiar people and very enthusiastically greeted them.

As a result, all the acquaintances present thought that Yu Haiqiao was my boyfriend. I came to the wedding and brought my boyfriend to freeload off some meals, one person’s portion becoming two people’s!

Even my roommate who got married with a big belly, asked me during the busy schedule of the wedding, “Are you together with Yu Haiqiao?”

“?” I gave her a question mark. Yu Haiqiao happily walked over and said congratulations. After my roommate smiled and walked away, I smacked Yu Haiqiao.

“Are you even close to her? You come and participate in someone’s wedding, but did you even give them money or were you just planning to freeload?!

Yu Haiqiao blinked, “Didn’t you give it?” He curved his eyes and smiled. “What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is yours. It’s all the same. Last month you celebrated your birthday and I spent a lot of money to gift you a barbecue grill.”

“…” No one knew why this b!tch would give a barbecue grill on someone’s birthday, and enthusiastically grilled me a large bunch of half-baked meat skewers and chicken wings. After listening to this, I gritted my teeth and smiled at him, “Dog Yu, please go die quickly.”

Yu Haiqiao grinned, and immediately changed the subject, “How long has she been pregnant?”

“It’s been more than six months.” I originally didn’t want to pay attention to him, but watching my roommate welcoming guests with a bulging belly, I couldn’t help but spit out, “I feel like I wouldn’t be able to handle it, to think that something would suddenly grow in the stomach.”

Yu Haiqiao tsk-ed twice at the time.

And this feeling only intensified when my roommate gave birth to the baby. I went to the hospital because I coincidentally had time. After the baby was born, I immediately admired my roommate and deeply realized that with my character, I might beat my own child first for crying so noisily so I concluded that I wasn’t suited to become a mom.

At that time, Yu Haiqiao was still in school attending class, and because I posted the baby’s picture in my feed viewable only to my circle of friends, he sent me a message on weChat, “The baby’s out?”

I sighed to Yu Haiqiao, “It’s too scary, I definitely won’t have children in the future.”

Yu Haiqiao replied on the other side, “Then you won’t be able to marry.”

This b!tch cursed me to never be able to marry all the time, and in the end, I didn’t marry until I was 27 years old, even finally giving my hand in marriage to this b!tch.

Six months after I started having an active s*xual life with Yu Haiqiao, I started seriously thinking about having children with him. Yu Haiqiao told me straightforwardly, “No children.” He even said at the time, “I’m still a child myself, why the heck would I want to have one?”

Because there was no such thing as having a child in my plans, even though this b!tch’s attitude made me feel like he wasn’t worthy of being a father, I still had a perfect consensus with him and every time we did ‘it’, he would attentively put on a condom.

One time, we ran out of condoms at home and so, Yu Haiqiao put on his clothes and went downstairs to buy them. After returning, I had already lost interest, so in the end, the two of us simply laid in bed and chatted.

Without turning on the lights at night, I talked to Yu Haiqiao about the funny things that happened when we were young, about the stupid colleagues we met at work, and about a majestic yellow cat we saw under the underbrush in the area.

In short, there were at least one or two moments in my life that I sometimes felt like the b!tch was not so much of a b!tch.

KMH – TOC for advanced chapters [Complete]