Glancing discreetly at the photo on the mirror pendant, which showed a slightly childish smile, Yan Jingze stored all the words and subtle expressions of the man deep in his eyes.
So, is that person truly as outstanding and gentle as he appears? Was he as real as I, Yan Jingze perceived him to be?
With Jiang Junhao’s help, Yan Jingze quickly resolved his part-time job issue. The pay was decent, and the work wasn’t too tiring. He finally began his one-and-a-half-month journey of saving money for tuition.
Time flew by, and a week passed in the blink of an eye.
At home, Gu Weizhou looked at the expensive suit in front of him and thought about the upcoming blind date and marriage arrangement. [001, you said you could help me, right?]
[Yeah, so do you want me to help you?] 001 responded.
[Help me turn today’s blind date into a boy with good looks and abs.]
[…Due to the influence of world rules, I can’t change others’ settings freely, but…] 001’s gaze shifted somewhere, and it wore an evil smile. [I can make yours disappear.]
Reacting instinctively, Gu Weizhou covered his lower body with his hand. [Hehe… I… I was just joking.]
Gu Weizhou, whose fantasies were shattered by 001’s merciless response, wore a disappointed expression. He reluctantly put on the slim-fitting white suit and arrived at Summer restaurant half an hour early.
Though he didn’t want to, Gu Weizhou couldn’t let it show on his face. After casually ordering a glass of water, he flipped through the menu, feeling bored, and waited for the blind date arranged by Xu Lu.
Ten minutes passed, then twenty, half an hour, an hour… Finally, just as Gu Weizhou was triumphantly waving his imaginary victory flag, thinking that he had escaped the predicament, a voice filled with apologies reached his ears.
“Sorry, sorry, I’m late.”
Gu Weizhou: … Sister, I really wish you hadn’t come today.
Retracting his reluctant expression, Gu Weizhou looked up. However, as his gaze fell upon the person in front of him, his usually composed face instantly stiffened.
Standing next to him was a girl with very dramatic smoky makeup, dressed in a gothic-style black outfit. She had an exaggerated red rose pinned to her wrist and held a black umbrella. She practically had “I deliberately dressed like this because I don’t want to go on a blind date with you” written all over her face.
Li Fei, who didn’t go home for the summer due to her male god’s graduation ceremony, received a message from her mother in City A yesterday. Her mother said she had arranged an outstanding blind date for her and that she must come to Summer Restaurant on time to meet the person.
Li Fei was internally opposed to her mother’s decision because she only liked her male god, Wen Yichuan, and wanted to marry him. However, Li Fei’s mother was always dominant, and she knew that no matter how much she refused, it would be useless. So, after spending an entire night pondering, she finally came up with this idea.
Dressing up with overly emo makeup and wearing overly dramatic clothes, Li Fei intentionally arrived late for the date, planning to act a few times and make some cutesy sounds, absolutely scaring off her blind date. Li Fei thought she was so clever.
So today, she happily put her plan into practice. However, as she approached the table number given by her mother, and saw the face of the person across from her, it felt like a thunderbolt struck her on the forehead.
Her blind date was Wen Yichuan? Her blind date was her male god? Her blind date was her crush, Wen Yichuan, whom she had secretly loved for three years? She dressed up so drastically, only to go on a blind date with Wen Yichuan…
Their eyes met, and there was silence for three seconds.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Gu Weizhou exclaimed in shock, “Be careful—!!!”
Completely immersed in her own world of collapse, Li Fei couldn’t hear any words at this point. Her entire brain was filled with one thought—run!
Bang!
Under the inertia of the girl’s collision, a plate of steak, still covered with its lid, flew out. Almost instinctively, the waiter immediately reached out to catch it.
However, the temperature on the lid of the steak just out of the pan was definitely more than 100 degrees. Suddenly, a horrifying sizzling sound could be heard, and the waiter quickly let go. All the food in his palm fell onto the carpet.
Seeing the instigator swiftly run out of the restaurant as if escaping a flood or a wild beast, without even noticing the harmful scene caused by her accidental collision, Gu Weizhou, who was sitting at the table with her, could only step forward and quickly grab the waiter’s hand before he could bend down to pick up the fallen food.
“Don’t move.” Two stern words.
Saying that, he reached out and picked up the glass of water he had ordered earlier from the table and poured it over the person’s hand, which had already formed small blisters.
Feeling the temporary coolness in his hand, Yan Jingze suppressed the dark emotions that had surged uncontrollably in his eyes and then shifted his gaze to Gu Weizhou across from him.
The young man furrowed his brows deeply, lowered his eyes, and the usually smiling lips were tightly pressed into a straight line. He looked unusually serious.
As the lid of the steak directly touched Yan Jingze’s hand, causing a somewhat severe injury, Gu Weizhou furrowed his brows and said, “It’s a bit serious. We need to go to the hospital. I’ll apologize to you on my friend’s behalf.”
The last two words stuck in his throat for a moment when he looked up and recognized the person in front of him. He froze for two seconds.
“Junior Yan?”
Yan Jingze pursed his lips. “Senior Wen.”
“How…how did you…” Gu Weizhou’s eyes fell on Yan Jingze’s clothes, and he seemed to understand something. Just then, the restaurant’s manager, who had been alerted by the commotion, arrived.
Seeing the person in charge, Gu Weizhou immediately said, “I apologize. My friend rushed and bumped into one of your staff members. I will take responsibility for the damages caused by our table. Also…” He glanced at Yan Jingze next to him and continued, “He is injured quite badly, and I’m worried. I need to take him to the hospital. Can you grant him leave?”
The manager walked over, took a look at the injury on Yan Jingze’s hand, and promptly responded, “The injury is too severe. Please come over there.”
“It’s my fault, so there’s no need to trouble you.” Gu Weizhou took out his card and handed it to the manager. “Please calculate the damages as soon as possible and bring me a few bottles of room temperature mineral water.”
“Sure, please wait a moment.”
In less than three minutes, the bill, mineral water, and card were returned to Gu Weizhou’s hands. Without lingering any longer, Gu Weizhou firmly held Yan Jingze’s wrist and quickly walked outside.
Seeing the person tightly gripping his wrist, Yan Jingze, rarely, didn’t struggle much.
Just after getting him into the passenger seat of the car, Gu Weizhou said, “Stretch out your injured hand.”
Yan Jingze obediently complied, Gu Weizhou took out a bottle of mineral water and poured it gently over the injured area while paying attention to the severity of the injury. He asked, “How is it? Is the water flow too fast? Does it hurt more?”
The young man in front of him lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes covering his eyelids. In the reflection of the bright car lights, he appeared as if veiled in a faint haze, looking especially good-looking.
Because Yan Jigze always wore an elegant facade, Wen Yichuan never had any reservations in front of him, doing things that disgusted him whenever they were together. Yan Jingze naturally didn’t have a good impression of these gentle people and even had an inherent aversion to them.
He had a habit of regarding their every good intention as fake, every action they made as having ulterior motives, and he would go to great lengths to speculate on their behavior and the true nature behind their gentleness.
However, in the past short week, he had heard about the perfect Wen Yichuan from countless people at W University every day. Then there is the Wen Yichuan he accidentally discovered, who was unbelievably beautiful under the setting sun and fragile enough to be easily broken. And there’s also the Wen Yichuan that Jiang Junhao mentioned, the one who was always chasing after his parents and ended up covered in injuries…
At this moment, Yan Jingze realized that his inherent animosity towards this person seemed to have quietly changed in a short period of time.
It wasn’t a dramatic transformation, but at least now he didn’t attribute every action of the other person to ulterior motives or classify them as the darkest side of human nature every minute and every second.
And now, the young man sat quietly in front of him, carefully tending to his wound. The scene was so beautiful and pure that Yan Jingze couldn’t help but feel a fleeting sparkle in his eyes.
It was too beautiful, too clean, and it even gave him the illusion that this person couldn’t possibly linger in his dark life for even a moment.
Seeing that the person remained silent, Gu Weizhou raised his head, with a hint of worry in his eyes.
“Does it hurt a lot?”
Looking into the clean and concerned eyes that were so close, and recalling the uncontrollable torrent of emotions that flooded his mind just a moment ago, Yan Jingze pushed those thoughts aside and hid his emotions. He replied, “No, thanks to you, senior.”
After pouring the water over the wound and putting the empty bottle in a plastic bag, Gu Weizhou looked up apologetically. “I’m sorry, I’ve caused trouble for you tonight.”
“It’s not senior’s fault.” Yan Jingze smiled innocently.
Seeing the person in front of him still able to smile, Gu Weizhou’s gaze became complex.
[If he knew that I did it on purpose, would he lose control and kill me?]
[…What do you think?]
[Hahaha.] Gu Weizhou covered his mouth, secretly happy that he had gotten away with it.
[…Can you laugh normally?]
[Like what?]
An expressionless 001, [Hehehe…]
[…Has a virus infected you, 001?]
[…]
Because it was nighttime, the hospital wasn’t crowded. It was rather desolate, adding a touch of loneliness. Despite the constant pouring of Gu Weizhou’s caring room temperature water, Yan Jingze’s burned hand was diagnosed as a second-degree burn.
After leaving the hospital and seeing Yan Jingze’s hand wrapped up like a rice dumpling, Gu Weizhou felt even more “guilty.” Therefore, following his pure nature, he decided to take full responsibility for Yan Jingze’s injured hand.
“Your hand is quite severely injured. For the time being, don’t use it too much,” Gu Weizhou said.
Pursing his lips, Yan Jingze nodded and said, “Actually, senior, I’ve been working to save money for my tuition.”
Gu Weizhou was slightly taken aback and turned his head to ask, “You’re saving money on your own?”
“Yes… Without parents, I have to rely on myself for everything,” Yan Jingze said, his words carrying a heavy weight but spoken lightly.
After contemplating for a moment, Gu Weizhou suggested, “How about this? If you have free time recently, you can come to my place. I have some papers that need to be translated. You can help me with the translation.”
Yan Jingze hesitated and said, “Wouldn’t that be inappropriate?”
Smiling, Gu Weizhou reassured him, “There’s nothing inappropriate about it. I have a lot of things going on recently, and I won’t be able to finish them in over a month without someone’s help. Just consider it doing me a favor.”
Hearing this, Yan Jingze no longer objected and said, “Since senior put it that way, I’ll thank you in advance, senior.”
Looking at Yan Jingze’s hand, Gu Weizhou said, “Don’t blame me too much for this incident, junior.”
“It has nothing to do with senior,” Yan Jingze smiled innocently.
“I’ll send you the address of where I live later. You can come directly tomorrow,” Gu Weizhou said.
“Okay.”
…
Back at home, after taking a shower and wearing a robe, Gu Weizhou poured himself a glass of red wine and stood in front of the window, intending to engage in a profound discussion about love.
And then, after taking a sip of the wine… there was nothing more.
Thanks for the update🥲!
Thanks for the update🥲!
That was so smooth of GW
I find that some parents are way too demanding and involved in the lives’ of their children. It makes me so greatful to have the family I do.
ah.. poor girl 😂 even if you did not try to mess your blind date up, there was no chance in the first place. thank you for the update! 🤍
Nothing, just taking a sip of wine while thinking about vulgar love💕