I'll Still Love You Tomorrow Chapter 39: Overthinking

Chen Kai was stumped.

He encountered the same situation twice in the same day.

Chen Kai’s heart went cold, “Bro, you’re making me feel bad.”

Sheng Xian ignored him, turning to the waiter, “Bill please.”

Chen Kai was surprised, “Ah, that’s not necessary, bro, I can do it….”

Before he could finish his sentence, Sheng Xian had finished scanning the QR code and was walking towards the bar.

Chen Kai couldn’t seem to believe it as this was the first time Sheng Xian paid the bill. He was touched.

His brother loves him after all.

Chen Kai reached for his phone, and sent a bunch of voice notes expressing his gratitude and love.

“Bro, I understand, you may be cold on the outside but you’re all warm inside. You must have wanted to cheer me up after seeing that I was upset.”

“Bro, from today onwards, you are my real cousin, no wait, real brother, even closer than my real brother!”

Three seconds later.

Chan Kai’s phone lit up.

Sheng Xian replied, “You’re thinking too much.”

…

The hotel basement carpark was the last place Sheng Xian had proposed for Lu Jingyan to be a witness.

Their conversation hadn’t been confrontational or relentless. They spoke in a mild manner for less than five minutes but Lu Jingyan felt as though they had a huge argument.

At the start, after she had rejected him in such an awkward situation, she didn’t know what to say to him.

After some time, the awkwardness dissipated, and she realized she didn’t have a reason to sought him out.

They got into a stalemate before they even got to know each other.

Lu Jingyan had never had a relationship that ended after she got the man. She thought she would gradually forget about him but instead, he seemed to constantly creep into her thoughts.

It was a foreign feeling that frightened her.

But she didn’t know the reason for her fear.

In the days they did not contact, she went on with life as usual, working in the day and hanging out with Chen Kai and Song Xian at night.

There were days she couldn’t resist the temptation, and almost started smoking again but she would hesitate when she bit down on the cigarette stick.

She thought that perhaps his position at the top of her WeChat, causing her to see his name every time she tapped into the app, was causing her so much disturbance.

She deleted him from the top position but that didn’t help much, she would sometimes go into a daze and when she regained her senses, her fingers would have already typed his name in the search bar.

She realized, the faster she tried to erase him from her life, the harder it was.

Time passed quickly and soon, it was Christmas.

That day, she kept tapping into WeChat and had typed the festive greeting many times, but she never sent the message out.

During lunch time, when she was about to knock off, she called a familiar person to search for Sheng Xian in the schools she had studied in.

But to her surprise, he wasn’t in any of the student records.

They had never been schoolmates.

It was getting stranger.

Christamas wasn’t a good time, Chen Kai had an urgent work trip and Song Xian’s mother was in Beijing so their original plans to celebrate were canceled.

Two of the three of them were busy.

Lu Jingyan ate dinner alone in the empty villa. She watched half an episode of a variety program but wasn’t interested so she left.

She went to a quiet bar the three of them had liked to frequent.

Lu Jingyan found a corner seat and ordered a peach whiskey.

The usually quiet bar was crowded as it was a festive day.

It was filled with soft laughter and a festive cheer.

Suddenly, she heard sobbings.

Lu Jingyan glanced over nonchalantly.

A plainly dressed bespectacled girl stood at the side of a table, she choked as she spoke to a man who was hugging a woman, “Didn’t you say you were working late?”