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Chapter 39 - 39 39 Overthinking
Chapter 39 - 39 39 Overthinking
?Chapter 39: Chapter 39: Overthinking Chapter 39: Chapter 39: Overthinking Chen Kai was choked up and couldn’t speak.
The same situation had happened to him twice tonight.
Chen Kai felt a cold chill, “Brother, you’re making me feel terrible.”
Sheng Xian ignored him and glanced at the nearby waiter, “Check, please.”
Chen Kai, feeling unexpectedly cherished, exclaimed, “Ah… no need, brother, I can handle it myself…”
Chen Kai hadn’t finished speaking when Sheng Xian had already scanned the code with his phone and walked straight towards the bar’s exit.
This was the first time Sheng Xian had paid for him, and the more Chen Kai thought about it, the more incredible it seemed, suddenly feeling warmed.
His brother really did love him.
Chen Kai pulled out his phone and sent a barrage of grateful voice messages to Sheng Xian.
“Bro, I get you, you’re just cold on the outside but warm on the inside, you saw I was upset and decided to pay to comfort me.”
“Bro, from now on, you are my cousin, no, my brother, no, even closer than a real brother!”
Three seconds later.
The screen on Chen Kai’s phone lit up.
Sheng Xian: “You’re overthinking it.”
…
In the hotel’s underground parking lot, when Sheng Xian suggested that Lu Jingyan be a witness, it was their final encounter.
Their conversation that day wasn’t confrontational or hysterical, even their tones were gentle. They spoke for less than five minutes, but Lu Jingyan felt as if they had fiercely fought.
Initially, Lu Jingyan felt awkward as she had refused to help him, and the atmosphere between them was quite awkward; she didn’t know what to say to him.
As time passed, the awkwardness faded, but she found it even harder to approach him.
The two of them had fallen into a cold war before they could even get acquainted.
Lu Jingyan knew many men, some of whom she did not manage to charm completely. She thought she would gradually forget Sheng Xian, but she unexpectedly found herself thinking of him when least expected.
This feeling was unfamiliar and frightening to her.
She wasn’t exactly sure what it was she feared.
During the days she didn’t contact Sheng Xian, her life wasn’t much different than before; busy with work during the day, and hanging out with Chen Kai and Song Xian at bars at night.
Several times, she was tempted to go back to smoking after having quit for a while, but whenever she actually put a cigarette in her mouth, she hesitated.
She felt it was probably because Sheng Xian occupied the top spot on her WeChat, seeing his name every time she opened WeChat distracted her too much.
She removed him from the top spot, but found it didn’t help much. She would zone out and before she knew it, her fingers had already searched his name on WeChat.
She discovered that the more she tried to erase him from her life at the fastest possible speed, the more incessant he became.
Time passed quickly, and before she knew it, it was Christmas.
That day, she opened his WeChat very frequently, typing ‘Merry Christmas’ several times but never sending it.
In the afternoon, just before finishing work, she made a call and contacted someone to check Sheng Xian’s records at the schools she had attended.
To her surprise, none of the schools she attended had a student record for Sheng Xian.
They had never attended the same schools.
Lu Jingyan found this even more astonishing.
Unluckily on Christmas Day, Chen Kai had to leave on a business trip, and Song Xian’s mother came to Beijing, so their planned Christmas celebration fell through.
With both of them busy.
The left-behind Lu Jingyan, alone in the spacious villa, had dinner, watched half an episode of a comedy show but feeling listless, put on a coat and left the house.
She went to a sake bar she, Song Xian, and Chen Kai usually frequented.
Lu Jingyan chose a secluded spot and ordered a peach-flavored cocktail.
The bar was crowded due to the holiday, and the usually quiet venue had become lively.
Laughter surrounded her, brimming with festive cheer.
Suddenly, a woman’s sobbing mingled in.
Lu Jingyan, indifferent, glanced over.
A plainly dressed woman with glasses stood by a table, choking up to a man in a black shirt holding another woman, “Didn’t you say you were working overtime today?”