Chapter 46 How Much Do You Like Me?
Seeing her unyielding attitude, Yan Yiqi smiled and said, "To be honest, I feel quite threatened when you're with him."
"Why?"
"Like you said, he's different from other men." Yan Yiqi hit the nail on the head. "You still think of him as a sexual partner, but he's different from those men. He's earned enough of your emotions."
Zhou Zhou rarely experiences such emotional fluctuations.
Seeing Cheng Yu kissing a woman, she was filled with indifference. But his casual words could touch her sore spot.
Zhou Zhou smiled faintly: "Then why are you still speaking for him?"
"I'm not a gentleman, but I'm not a villain either. If you want to talk to me and want to hear my advice, I will naturally be realistic," Yan Yiqi said.
The first time he met Cheng Yu, he felt that he was very dangerous.
At that time, he had a vague feeling that they would meet again.
Sure enough, he met him again, and Zhou Zhou also had another intersection with him.
"Besides, I'm quite curious too," he added.
"What are you curious about?"
Yan Yiqi put down his bowl and chopsticks and looked at her with burning eyes: "If you keep playing, how far will it go? Zhou Zhou, will you like him as much as you liked me back then?"
Zhou Zhou laughed immediately, thinking it was nonsense.
She said: "My love is not pure."
When she liked Yan Yiqi, wasn't she also talking about other men?
"So he likes you?"
The calm words caused a ripple in his heart. Zhou Zhou chewed slowly, and only looked up after finishing his mouth. For the first time, he asked him seriously: "Yi Qi, how much do you like me?"
Without waiting for his answer, she continued, "Are you unhappy seeing me playing with other men like this? You don't seem to be unhappy. Every time I talk to you, you can discuss it with me calmly."
Just like you said Cheng Yu made you feel a sense of crisis, you could have pretended not to know that the lady was his sister, or pretended not to understand his teasing about looking up my address, but you told me all the same, even curious about how far we would go.
She said it calmly, simply stating the facts.
Bringing these up is proof that he doesn't like it enough.
Yan Yiqi's throat seemed to stagnate for a moment, and his smile was a little bitter when he lowered his head slightly.
If possible, he certainly hopes not.
But in what capacity did he stop it?
Even if he becomes her boyfriend or girlfriend, is he sure that her heart will always be with him?
Yan Yiqi was not sure.
He had seen her decisiveness too many times. She quickly fell in love and quickly withdrew from it.
Even when he went to Sydney, he didn't receive any words of missing her.
Of course, he didn't go to Sydney to escape, nor did he leave in anger. His supervisor's recommendation for him to go to Sydney for an internship had been decided for a long time, and Zhou Zhou knew about it very early.
Yan Yiqi sighed lightly, and the bitter smile on his lips was mixed with a bit of helplessness.
Those eyes had lost their former gentleness, but were still clear and bright. "Zhou Zhou, I admire you and I get along well with you. No matter who you're with, I can't admit that I feel comfortable in my heart, but if we can't be together, I hope we can be good friends."
He just didn't want to be a stranger.
Yan Yiqi knew that his expression of love was too hypocritical, so he did not risk everything for it.
"I know."
She always knew.
He said this many times, hoping to be friends with her, and Zhou Zhou also hoped to be friends with him.
The love between her and Yan Yiqi is incompatible with their rationality and life path.
The future of the two of them being together was just a matter of letting things take their course. Unless Yan Yiqi lost his mind, or she was willing to accept his heart.
But they can't do it.
Zhou Zhou said, "He's just like you. Even if he really likes me, he won't lose his mind."
The two did not talk about this topic anymore.
After dinner, Zhou Zhou went to take a shower, while Yan Yiqi cleaned up the dishes in the kitchen and pushed his luggage back home.
The next day, the two of them made an appointment with the agent to go to the city center to view the studio.
Located in the heart of Beijing, the Beijing CBD is a vibrant hub of skyscrapers, housing almost all of the city's leading companies, highlighting the city's prosperity.
Despite the high rent, many people are vying for space. After all, a company opening a space here is like a man's watch or a woman's handbag—it's their personal storefront.
It is the end of the year now, and there are still many office buildings that will be listed for rent after the new year.
After looking at the office building for a whole morning, Zhou Zhou was not satisfied with it.
She asked Yan Yiqi: "What do you think?"
"Not very good." Yan Yiqi frowned and said, "The style of the office building is too limited. It might be better to find a place that we can design ourselves and use as our image and signboard."
These words touched Zhou Zhou's heart.
She thought so too.
There are too many mature interior design studios in Beijing. If they want to stand out from the crowd, they must have their own unique style.
The stereotyped white-walled cubicles in office buildings cannot highlight their uniqueness.
What reasons do customers have to choose a newly opened small studio like theirs?
They have to make sure that customers who come to their store notice the highlights at first sight.
Zhou Zhou asked the agent: "Is there a one- or two-story detached building for rent?"
The agent thought for a moment and said with embarrassment, "Ms. Zhou, Mr. Yan, I'll have to go back and look for this. Office buildings have a higher turnover rate, and the occupancy rate you're looking for isn't high, so it may not be guaranteed."
"We're not in a hurry," Zhou Zhou said. "Let's not look at office buildings. If you find a single-family building like the one I just told you about, contact us. Rent isn't a problem."
The agent said yes.
The planned day's itinerary ended in half a day. After having dinner outside, the two returned to Yan Yiqi's house and went online to check out several famous decoration companies in Beijing and study their design cases.
In the evening, the dry cleaners called and said that the down jacket she had sent had been dry-cleaned and asked her to pick it up when she had time.
Zhou Zhou didn't expect it to happen so quickly. He picked up his clothes on the way back that night. When he got home, he sent a WeChat message to Cheng Yu, asking him to come and pick up the clothes when he had time.
The WeChat message was sent at 10 pm.
The message fell on deaf ears and there was no reply until noon the next day.
Zhou Zhou thought he must still be angry. After all, before he left, he realized that he was being outshined by Yan Yiqi.
She went to find Chen Yiyang.
It’s not a good idea to just throw the clothes away, so it’s better to ask Chen Yiyang to send them back.
"...Am I just a tool for you two?"
When Chen Yiyang heard her intention, every pore in his body resisted. "No! When you two were having a passionate affair, I was burdened with hiding your affair. Now that you two have broken up, I have to run errands to return the tokens you left with each other?"
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