CH 35

“Heart, did you have a heart attack?” Chen Lulu’s voice gradually became anxious.

Ye Kehuan grabbed the clothes on her chest and squatted down. Her breathing became rapid. The noise of the surrounding vehicles and pedestrians was pulled far away in an instant, and she felt like she was in another world: “No, it’s just her going. During the blind date… She fell in love with that person.”

“Huh?” Chen Lulu was stunned. “Jiang Laien?!”

“Yes,” Ye Kehuan felt that she couldn’t breathe fresh air, and her mind was a little dizzy. “She, she likes that man very much.”

“Hey, you…” Chen Lulu muttered, “I also advised you. I didn’t like anyone until I was 25 years old. I matured late enough, and it’s like this: It’s better to be first…”

“I’m afraid of being rejected after speaking out, and friends shouldn’t…” Ye Kehuan suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and her breathing became more and more rapid.

“Hey. Being rejected is uncomfortable, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s over forever. No, Kehuan, your panting… What’s the matter with you?” Chen Lulu began to panic.

Ye Kehuan felt that she was unable to hold her phone firmly: “Dizzy, breathing, so hard…”

“Well, it should just be your breathing. Cover your mouth and your nose, breathe slowly, and don’t do anything else, just take a rest! Do what I say, do you hear?!” Chen Lulu was quite anxious.

After listening to Chen Lulu’s words, Ye Kehuan tremblingly covered her nose and mouth with her hands, and did what she said. After a while, she finally felt that her breathing became much more normal, but she felt exhausted, and the joints all over her body felt as though they had been dismantled and reorganized.

“Is it better?” Chen Lulu asked after hearing Ye Kehuan’s silence.

“Yeah.” Ye Kehuan nodded.

“It’s so noisy around you, are you outside? Go home!” Chen Lulu sighed.

“Okay.” Ye Kehuan stood up, only feeling that her jaw was very stiff and sore.

“Oh, I’m worried to death. You are about to have an accident. Where could I go to cry? Don’t hang up, let me wait for you to get back safely.” Chen Lulu was like her mother.

“Yeah.” After Ye Kehuan mechanically walked to the side of a KFC, she stretched out her hand to stop a rental car, her body swaying like an empty shell with no soul.

After she stopped the taxi and got in, Ye Kehuan reported the address, then turned her head and looked outside motionlessly.

“Sitting in a car?” Chen Lulu asked.

“Well,” Ye Kehuan nodded and held her bag tighter, “It turns out, is this just liking someone? It turns out that it’s so uncomfortable to like someone?”

“It’s uncomfortable because you didn’t get her. If you got her, it wouldn’t be so uncomfortable.” Chen Lulu breathed a sigh of relief. “Sister, hold on, don’t do stupid things, I’ll be there tomorrow. If you want to cry or drink, I will accompany you!”

“Yeah.” Ye Kehuan nodded, letting out a sigh of relief in her heart.

In the box.

After Ye Kehuan left, Jiang Laien’s soup drinking stopped.

Zhou Yue put down his chopsticks and was about to say something, but found that Jiang Laien seemed distracted, so he whispered: “Miss Jiang?”

Seeing Jiang Laien still staring at the soup bowl and not speaking, Zhou Yue said louder: “Miss Jiang?”

Jiang Laien woke up from her reverie, and her fingers holding the spoon were slightly stiff: “Huh?”

Zhou Yue smiled: “It looks like you are wandering, is there something on your mind?”

Jiang Laien lowered her eyes, shook her head, took a piece of greens, put it in her mouth, took a bite, and chewed gently.

“Miss Jiang is in conflict with Miss Ye?” Zhou Yue asked tentatively. After all, after they came back from the bathroom, they became a little strange.

When Zhou Yue asked, Jiang Laien’s nose suddenly felt sour. She pressed her lips tightly to control her emotions, but her hands still couldn’t help but tremble. Afterwards, Jiang Laien put down her chopsticks, frowned, and took out a piece of paper to cover her nose: “Sorry, I’m the one who lost my mind.”

Zhou Yue was stunned: “You…”

Jiang Laien opened her mouth and took a breath, then raised her head and looked at the ceiling, trying to hold back her tears, but they still rolled down unceremoniously.

Zhou Yue stood up instantly and walked towards her: “Are you okay?”

“It’s okay, I’m okay…” Jiang Laien stretched out her hand and swayed, stood up with her bag, and put on a mask, “Let’s go. Ah Fen is already on Feature Street,, don’t let her wait too long.”

“Okay.” Zhou Yue nodded after hearing Ah Fen’s name.

When Zhou Yue went downstairs, after Jiang Laien got into the car, he got into the driver’s seat and drove towards the characteristic street.

On the way, Jiang Laien’s nose sniffing sounded in his ears, but Zhou Yue didn’t know what to do, so he turned on soothing music, hoping to calm her down.

He didn’t know how long it took before Jiang Laien finally stopped crying, leaning her body softly, staring at the street in front of her quietly, without speaking.

After arriving at Feature Street, Zhou Yue stopped the car and walked to her side, opened the door for her, and politely reached out and made a request: “Miss Jiang, we are here.”

Jiang Laien returned to her senses and nodded: “Okay, thank you.”

“Laien!” At that moment, a sweet voice came.

Jiang Laien and Zhou Yue turned around together, and saw a baby-faced girl wearing a croissant khaki coat with a pear flower head with bangs standing there while gnawing on a pie, waving at them.

“Ah Fen, it’s been a long time.” Jiang Laien reluctantly curled her lips.

“Yeah, it’s been a long time… Hey, why are you like this? OMG, why are you sporting such a face, wow, what kind of makeup is this, are you serious?” Ah Fen trotted over and looked at her N times, dumbfounded. She covered her mouth with her hand.

“My friend’s idea was to test and see if Mister Zhou could accept me like this.” Jiang Laien said, her nose still very sour.

“What? I told you, our President Big Zhou is not a man who will only look at your face! Can I still recommend him to you if I didn't know this?” Ah Fen looked at Zhou Yue with a pretty face. She turned an old mother’s smile towards Jiang Laien: “Well, were you charmed by our handsome Mr. Zhou? Are you holding hands?!” 1

Jiang Laien turned her head and looked at Zhou Yue, after thinking for a moment, she said: “Mister Zhou is indeed excellent, but…”

“But I’m not the type that Miss Jiang likes.” Zhou Yue quickly answered for Jiang Laien.

Jiang Laien was taken aback, looking at him a little surprised. How did he see it? However, Jiang Laien nodded in relief.

“Let’s go, it’s so beautiful here, let’s take a stroll together.” Zhou Yue put his hands behind him, looked around, and smiled brightly.

“Hey…” Ah Fen stood still and couldn’t understand.

Seeing that the two seemed to be very compatible with each other, and the atmosphere was quite harmonious, how could it not work?!

“Hey, 155, what are you doing just standing there?” Zhou Yue walked a few steps, and found that Ah Fen hadn’t followed, and looked sideways at her again.

“You’re only 155!” Ah Fen strode forward bitterly, stood next to him, and glared at him like an angry bird.

“Sister Fen, your conscience won’t hurt?” Zhou Yue smiled, raised his fingers to point to his heart, bent down to look at her face, and raised his eyebrows at her, smiling like a spring breeze.

“I have no conscience, hum!” Ah Fen turned her head to the left.

Jiang Laien looked at them sideways: “You seem pretty casual with your subordinates.”

Zhou Yue always paid attention to speaking in front of others. Although he looked polite and gentle, he always wore a mask. But when he was with Ah Fen, he would take it off. If their relationship wasn’t particularly good, it wouldn’t be like that.

Ah Fen listened and smiled: “You forgot, I told you last time, I played with him since childhood, he was my buddy, and I kept with him for all of elementary school!”

“Yes, my brain is not too good these days.” Jiang Laien looked at Zhou Yue again, and only felt that Zhou Yue looked at Ah Fen with something wrong in his eyes, but Ah en only knew how to eat the pie in her hands.

The three of them walked all the way, chatting, eating, and drinking, and they walked through the large area without knowing it. At the same time, it was midnight before they knew it. In an instant, the light show in Chongyuan City lit up, and the light beams of various colors were intertwined and swaying, embellishing the city extremely beautifully.

“Little Comrade Zhou Yue, take this for the family we love!” Upon seeing this, Ah Fen stuffed her milk tea into Zhou Yue’s hand, immediately took out her mobile phone, pointed it at the colorful patch of colors and snapped pictures wildly.

“Yes, Sister Fen.” Zhou Yue looked at the milk tea in his hand and looked at the back of Ah Fen, his lips slightly pulled up, but his expression was slightly lonely.

Sure enough, everyone has a story for themselves, Jiang Laien thought to herself.

When Zhou Yue came on the blind date, he should have had a similar psychology to herself: to test whether the person he liked was really indifferent to seeing him and the blind date together.

It was just that Zhou Yue seemed to be a bit more miserable than her. The person he liked arranged the blind date. Besides, Ah Fen seemed to be really apathetic to him. When she saw Jiang Laien with Zhou Yue, she was still curious. They did not succeed in holding hands.

Jiang Laien suddenly understood why everyone liked to watch sweet dramas and read sweet novels, because in reality, things like “I like you and you happen to like me” were really too few, and most of them were compromised.

After watching the light show, Jiang Laien returned to the homestay, stood at her door, took out the room card from her bag, and prepared to open her door, then turned her head slightly and looked at the room where Ye Kehuan stayed.

Finally, Jiang Laien turned her head, opened her mouth and let out a sigh, raised her hand to press her eyelids shut, opened her door with a red nose, and walked in. She closed it again, threw her bag aside, took off her jacket, put on her pajamas and walked quickly into the bathroom.

4:30 in the morning the next day.

Ye Kehuan, who had been suffering from insomnia all night, just fell asleep when her phone alarm rang, and her body trembled suddenly. Ye Kehuan opened her eyes, looked at the time above, closed her eyes again, raised her hand and rubbed her temples.

After a while, Ye Kehuan got up, walked into the bathroom, and was about to brush her teeth when she was startled by herself in the mirror. She never knew that she could be so haggard. The redness in her eyes was a bit obvious, and her skin was pale.

After washing up quickly and putting on her coat, Ye Kehuan went out and walked to Jiang Laien’s door. Finally, she reached out and tapped a few times.

However, no one responded to her. Eyelashes drooping, Ye Kehuan slowly retracted her hand.

Ye Kehuan raised her head, paced back and forth, sniffled, blind, and quickly walked downstairs, and went to the studio with her assistant.

The assistant was a little weird when she saw her. She wanted to ask but couldn’t, just sighing.

After arriving on the set, Ye Kehuan hadn’t spoken yet, and a smoky “Happy New Year’s Day” greeting came at her. Ye Kehuan could only pull the corners of her mouth and nod.

When she walked into the dressing room, she saw that Jiang Laien was already sitting there putting on makeup, and she was still talking and laughing freely, like usual.

Ye Kehuan looked at her from a distance, furrowing her eyebrows, and for a moment, she felt short of breath.

“Kehuan is here?!” Just when Ye Kehuan was distracted, the makeup artist broke Ye Kehuan’s claustrophobic world, and everyone looked towards her.

Jiang Laien also glanced at her, but did not speak.

So Ye Kehuan squeezed the strap of her bag and nodded to the makeup artist: “Well, yes…”

“Happy New Year’s Day!”

“Happy New Year’s Day.” Ye Kehuan nodded, walked inside, and sat down beside Jiang Laien.

“Are you not feeling well today?” The makeup artist tilted his head and looked at her.

“I was up too late to watch the party last night, so I didn’t sleep much.” Ye Kehuan did turn on the TV, but she didn’t watch it at all.

“So that’s it, did it look good? Which station?” The makeup artist smiled, rolling up his sleeves and getting ready to work.

Ye Kehuan was stunned: “It’s okay, just from Chongyuan Station.”

“Looking at the photos of the light show posted by Laien’s circle of friends, I thought it was you who went to see the light show with Laien. It didn’t turn out?” The makeup artist smiled

“No.” Ye Kehuan felt like someone was pinching her throat. Zhou Yue’s face kept floating in her mind, and she was completely unable to dispel it.

“Oh, come, raise your chin a bit~” The makeup artist still didn’t notice anything unusual.

Listening to their conversation, Jiang Laien next to them also felt a weight over her heart, unable to dissipate, and then continued to ponder the script.

After a while, the makeup was finally done. The makeup artists were busy with others. Ye Kehuan and Jiang Laien walked out of the dressing room together, preparing to shoot their first scene of the day.

As she walked, Ye Kehuan turned her head to look at Jiang Laien, hesitated for a moment, and finally took the initiative to say: “What time did you come back last night?”

“After midnight.” Jiang Laien replied concisely.

Ye Kehuan gulped, “Did you go to see the light show with Zhou Yue?”

Jiang Laien stared straight ahead: “Otherwise?”

Ye Kehuan choked: “Then, did he send you back?”

Jiang Laien still stared ahead: “Otherwise?”

After listening, Ye Kehuan pursed her lips and nodded, the bridge of her nose a bit sour: “No, nothing, I just want to say…”

--I like you.

“Huh?” Jiang Laien looked at her.

Ye Kehuan stopped her feet, sweat dripping out of her palms.

TL/N

1 - This is not literal. It a reference to a dating show, I believe "If You Are The One", in which guests which decide to date hold hands with their partner. It is basically slang for getting along romantically.