Chapter 66: Chapter 64 - Waited a long time?

Edited by Noks

The day before he left for Jincheng, Yu Yan received a call from Yu Minyang, inviting him to dinner at his house the next day.

It was only then that Yu Yan remembered that he hadn’t told Yu Minyang about tomorrow’s travel plans.

“Jincheng?” Yu Minyang asked, “Why didn’t you say something in advance? Your aunt has been trying out new recipes for most of the week, just so that she can make you a delicious meal tomorrow.”

“I’m sorry,” Yu Yan said, “I forgot; when I come back, the first thing I will do is go over to your place.”

He had really forgotten; after his parents’ death, he had lost the habit of reporting everything to his family.

“Forget it, it’s okay.” Yu Minyang continued, “Then be sure to be safe. Also, since it’s a platform activity, you’re sure to meet many work friends ba. Remember to buy some Manyang local specialties to give to them, it’ll also be polite. ”

Yu Yan replied, “Okay.”

Yu Minyang, who felt that was still insufficient, said, “How’s this ba? I’m free this afternoon, so I’ll take you to the specialty market to look around.”

So, on the day of their departure, Lu Xiuhe looked at the big suitcase next to Yu Yan’s leg and asked, “Xiao Yan, you couldn’t be hiding someone in that thing ba?”

“… Who would I hide?”

After getting to know about the contents of the suitcase, Lu Xiuhe said, “Yeah, why didn’t I think of that? Xiao Yan, when we reach the hotel, share a few of your local specialties with me ba. I’ll buy them from you, alright? I want to give some to my baby.”

“Alright,” Yu Yan asked, “When will you go see her?”

“Don’t know yet.”

Yu Yan was stunned. “You’re already on your way to Jincheng, and you guys still haven’t figured out when you’re meeting?”

Lu Xiuhe was a bit embarrassed as he explained, “She’s very busy. This trip was totally me insisting I had to visit, so now I have to wait for her to be free one day, then we can see each other.”

“…” Although Yu Yan had never experienced online dating, he had come into contact with many people online and understood some of it. He hesitated and asked, “Have you spent any money on her during your time together?”

After hearing this, Lu Xiuhe immediately understood his meaning and said, “No, no… I’ve bought her several skins before, but I had to force her to take those using the gift system.”

Yu Yan nodded, “That’s good.”

At the airport, the two of them lined up to pick up their tickets.

Lu Xiuhe said, “Let’s see what seat you have, and I’ll go to the machine and pick a seat that’s close to yours.”

Yu Yan handed his ID card to the staff at the counter. After the other party scanned the ID card, the relevant information popped up on the computer screen. After the staff member read its contents, they looked up with some doubt and glanced several times at Yu Yan, who had been standing in the economy class line for a long time.

Yu Yan asked, “What’s the matter?”

“Ah, nothing.” The staff member went through the formalities quickly and handed over the ticket with both hands.

Unlike Lu Xiuhe’s ticket, there was also a red card stuck to his ticket, which said, “XX Airport VIP lounge”.

“Hello, we found that your flight has been delayed for an hour due to the weather. During the waiting period, you can go and rest at the VIP lounge.”

Lu Xiuhe was muddled and asked, “Then why is there no such card on my ticket?”

The staff member replied, “Because this gentleman’s ticket is first class.”

Lu Xiuhe: “…”

Lu Xiuhe commented, “Aren’t StarTV’s benefits too good? Is it too late for me to start livestreaming now?”

Yu Yan didn’t go to the VIP lounge in the end, choosing instead to sit in the general waiting area with Lu Xiuhe.

As soon as they sat down, Yu Yan’s cellphone lit up.

1: Just had a meeting, have you boarded yet?

Yu Yan: Not yet, the plane was delayed by an hour.

1: En, there’s a computer in the VIP lounge, you can use it if you’re bored. But that computer can’t play PUBG.

Yu Yan: How did you know that my ticket had access to the VIP lounge…

Yi Chen paused, but managed to react quickly.

1: Isn’t StarTV generous in all aspects?

Yu Yan: Really? Alright ba [Scratching my head.jpg]

This emoticon was a little funny. A corner of Yi Chen’s mouth had just started to rise when there was a knock on the door of his office.

His secretary came in and said, “President Yi, your next meeting will be in ten minutes, and all the marketing staff will be there.”

“Understood.”

Since it was almost the end of the year, the company had recently been busy.

1: What are you planning to do these next few days in Jincheng?

Yu Yan: Livestream.

He had to ask for leave today to catch the plane, but he couldn’t just take a whole week off. The livestream duration regulations written into his contract also wouldn’t allow him to be so willful.

1: Going to an Internet cafe again?

Yu Yan: En, that’s the only way.

Yi Chen looked at the time and got up to go to the meeting room.

1: Let me know when you get on the plane. If you’re free in the evening, I’ll treat you to dinner.

Seeing this line of words, Yu Yan’s heart immediately throbbed again.

Yu Yan: Don’t…

Yu Yan: I’ll treat you, is that okay? You pick the place.

1: Alright, then see you tonight.

See you tonight.

Yu Yan stared at those three words and reread them many times.

“What are you looking at ah, it’s been more than an hour.” Lu Xiuhe rubbed his stomach. “We’ve been waiting for so long, I’m hungry. I’ll go see if there are any instant noodles for sale, let’s have a cup?”

“I won’t eat, you go ba.”

Lu Xiuhe soon made himself a cup of noodles and said, “I just knew that the ghastly weather in Jincheng would delay us. Can only make noodles for now to get through this, and then we can eat well after getting off the plane. What are we going to eat in the evening? I heard that there’s a snack street in Jincheng with a very good reputation.”

“I’m treating 1 to dinner in the evening.” Yu Yan paused before saying, “Do you want to come?”

“Me ah…” Lu Xiuhe was just complaining about the delay and the instant noodles situation to his little girlfriend on his cellphone, and upon seeing the reply from the other side, his eyes brightened. “I’m not going. My baby says she knows what’s delicious, and says she’ll order me take out.”

The more Yu Yan listened, the stranger he found Lu Xiuhe’s situation, but he couldn’t pinpoint exactly what was strange.

But his heart was fixated on the dinner tonight, and he didn’t think any further about it.

By the time they arrived in Jincheng, it was already 7 at night.

He got off the plane and hurriedly sent a message to 1.

Yu Yan: I’m here, but I’m still waiting for my luggage. By the time I get to the hotel, it’ll probably be around 8… Is that too late?

Who knew that he wouldn’t receive a reply from the other party even by the time he reached the hotel.

The hotel was very luxurious, and the platform had actually booked him a suite with two rooms.

“My God, Xiao Yan, do you know how much this room usually costs for one night?” Lu Xiuhe did a search on his cellphone and was shocked. “…No, I can’t even afford half of this ya, I’d better go out and find a hotel myself.”

“You don’t have to pay, you stay ba.” Yu Yan absentmindedly tidied up his luggage and glanced at his cellphone. He had received messages, but they were all from the anchor group chat.

By the time they finished unpacking, Lu Xiuhe’s takeout had arrived.

It consisted of three full big plastic bags, and after putting all the dishes on the table, there was almost no more room left. Abundant and rich fish and meat dishes, soups, dessert—everything you could want was there.

Lu Xiuhe took a breath, his face both embarrassed and filled with hard-to-repress happiness. He gushed over the dishes with his girlfriend on his cellphone for a long time, and only after that did he say, “Xiao Yan, it’s so late, you’re not going to dinner? Just eat with me ba.”

Yu Yan shook his head. “No need…”

Just as he finished saying that, his cell phone suddenly rang.

His eyes lit up, and he put on a pair of slippers and ran to the balcony.

As soon as he picked up the call, the first thing he heard from the other side was a heavy sigh of relief.

“I’m sorry, the meeting ran late. I had originally sent you a message, but only later discovered that my cellphone had run out of power, and so the message didn’t send.” The man’s voice had some weariness in it as he said, “Did you wait long?”

“No, I just finished unpacking.” Yu Yan asked, “You… recently… seem to be really busy?”

“En, it will be much better in two months.” Yi Chen rubbed his brow and then put the documents in his hand back into the cabinet. He glanced at the time; it was already 8:30 p.m. “Have you eaten yet?”

“Not yet.”

Yi Chen calculated the distance in his mind. It would take him at least half an hour to get to the hotel if he went there directly from the company.

The little anchor must be tired and hungry after spending the whole day at the airport, so he said, “I’ll ask people to deliver food to the hotel. What would you like to eat, and what’s your room number?”

Yu Yan was stunned. “Then what about you? Have you eaten yet?”

“Not yet.” Yi Chen explained, “It takes half an hour to get to the hotel from the company…”

Yu Yan held his cellphone with one hand and the railing with the other, and suddenly interrupted him, “Just half an hour… Are you very hungry?”

Yi Chen was shocked and said, “Not hungry.”

“I’m also not that hungry yet,” Yu Yan very carefully asked, “How about we don’t have dinner and just eat midnight snacks?”

After getting no response for a while, Yu Yan suggested, “Or changing it to tomorrow is also okay…”

“I was just putting on my coat.” Yi Chen arranged his tie and looked at the time. “I’ll be there at around 9, I’ll see you soon.”

Lu Xiuhe was happily eating all this while. When he saw the person on the balcony come back in a hurry, he spoke in an indistinct voice, “Xiao Yan, come here and eat with me. I found that the restaurant gave me four bowls of rice…”

“Not eating,” said Yu Yan as he ran back to the room. “I’m going out to have a midnight snack with 1. Can I bring you anything?”

Looking at him rush around, Lu Xiuhe bit his chopsticks. “…No need.”

Yu Yan left at 8:40 p.m.

He was the only one in the elevator. Only after it was completely quiet around him did Yu Yan discover that his heart was beating very fast.

When he had made the appointment with 1 in the afternoon, he had still been a little nervous and uneasy. After all, his intentions towards 1 weren’t exactly pure, and actually meeting in person… he didn’t know what it would be like.

It wasn’t until the other party spoke about cancelling the appointment that he realized how much he really wanted to see 1.

The elevator stopped on the 12th floor, where several men entered.

As soon as the elevator door closed, someone said, “Because of this fog, my flight almost got canceled. Scared me to death.”

“Haha, I’m a native.”

“If you live here, what are you doing here at the hotel?”

“The platform is paying for a big hotel, I’d be stupid not to come.”

Upon hearing all this, Yu Yan felt stunned. Sure enough, the person continued, “I’ve even scoped out an Internet cafe, it’s on the opposite side of the road, and the booth’s machines can be used. But I’ll have to go early, it’ll definitely be hard to get a computer with all the anchors around recently.”

“That makes sense, and I’ll also have to quickly go scope that out.” The person who said that turned around, and unexpectedly, caught Yu Yan’s gaze. “Hey? Are you that… Yan Xiao Yan?!”

The other people glanced over at him, and Yu Yan smiled and greeted very politely, “Hello everyone.”

“Hello, hello, what a coincidence.” Everyone had heard about the big fight he had waged against banana and laoshu. Once he saw and recognized him, that person couldn’t hide his friendliness. “Where are you going? We’re going to go get midnight snacks, want to go together?”

Yu Yan replied, “I’m sorry, I have an appointment with a friend.”

“It’s okay, next time is fine. Which room are you staying in?”n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

“4709.”

“Oh, okay…” That person finished talking, then discovered something was off and asked, “Wait, what number, 4709?”

Wasn’t 4709 on the 47th floor?

The man was stunned. “You upgraded?”

Yu Yan didn’t understand and asked back, “What?”

There was a ding sound, and the elevator arrived at the ground floor.

“Why do you ask so much, it’s not like you can afford to upgrade.” Another man laughed and said, “Then we’ll go first. If there’s time, we’ll all eat together to get to know each other.”

Yu Yan nodded. “Okay.”

Jincheng had cooled down in October, maintaining a temperature around a little more than 10 degrees, which was the usual temperature during winter in Manyang.

Yu Yan, who was wearing a thin coat, worried that 1 wouldn’t be able to find him, so he stood by the revolving door of the hotel lobby and waited.

Just as several receptionists were welcoming a group of guests, they saw a black Land Rover rushing up to the hotel’s entrance at full speed.

This familiar model.

The receptionists looked down and held their breaths.

This familiar license plate number!!!

They unconsciously straightened their backs and immediately looked down to check their appearances.

Yu Yan picked up his cellphone and glanced at it. It wasn’t 9 p.m. yet.

When he thought about it now, 1 had just worked the whole day, and having to eat midnight snacks with him at the end of such a day… had he been forcing 1 to do something that he was unwilling to do?

Yu Yan looked up just in time to see several receptionists swarm around the entrance of the hotel.

It was currently drizzling outside. A receptionist quickly ran to the driver’s seat to open the car door for the guest. Another receptionist stood upright and held out an umbrella, and there were several others following those two.

It was worthy of being a grand hotel, the attitude of the service staff was very good.

Such thoughts swirled in Yu Yan’s heart for a while.

Through the dark window, he could see a man get off the driver’s seat. Instead of taking the umbrella from the receptionist, he held up his own large black umbrella.

Yu Yan’s eyes followed him unconsciously and saw that the receptionist immediately gave way to him after he said something.

The man gently nodded, walked to the front of the car, then turned around, meeting Yu Yan’s gaze at this moment.

Yu Yan saw his face clearly, it was handsome and quite familiar.

Under the rain, he wore a suit, and his long legs wrapped by his trousers took a small step, before he walked up to Yu Yan in just a few steps.

Yu Yan could even smell the faint fragrance of his Gucci cologne emanating from his body.

“Waited a long time?”

The voice that he heard every night, now clearly reached Yu Yan’s ears, without being hindered by any technical interference.

He could feel his eardrums thudding away, as if they were being hit hard by something.

When Yi Chen saw that Yu Yan was stupefied, he couldn’t help but laugh. Then he raised his hand and rubbed his hair naturally, urging, “Snap out of it.”

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Juurensha: Yesssss they finally meet in person (when Yanyan knows who he is!) And hahaha, all the preferential treatment for Yanyan (LXH, enjoy mooching off your friend!). Although Yanyan, you should have tried to take LXH into the VIP lounge with you, the food there is so good!

Noks: They finally met!!!! And both parties were conscious this time! Hahaha

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