Chapter 22 "Let's never see each other again"
Anmi's heart started pounding.
Her body seemed to have a strange conditioned reflex to the word "kiss."
Yan Jinnian tightened his grip on her waist slightly.
"don't want."
Her lips were covered by a soft, warm hand.
Following her memory, Anmi reached for the center console.
Click—the dimly lit carriage was instantly illuminated.
The starry sky ceiling emitted faint, scattered light.
Anmi leaned back and said, "I think we both need to calm down."
Yan Jinnian lowered his eyes to look at the little cat's paw pressing against its mouth, and remained silent for a moment.
Anmi moved her hand away.
"Are you still angry about what happened at the mall?" he asked sincerely. "If so, then I apologize. I shouldn't have kissed you that way. I was wrong."
Anmi shook her head: "No..."
She said earnestly, "Mr. Yan, what we are doing now is not right."
Yan Jinnian frowned slightly and loosened his grip on her waist.
Anmi continued, "We can't just hug and kiss each other casually when we have no relationship. It's irresponsible and strange."
Only animals in heat do this.
Yan Jinnian recalled the questions she had asked on the Ferris wheel.
“I know what you’re worried about; it’s my fault for not thinking things through,” he said.
He sat up straight and looked into Anmi's eyes.
"Anmi, would you like to date me?"
"..."
This statement came as a complete surprise.
Anmi blurted out, "Why?"
Yan Jinnian said calmly, "If you're dating, kissing isn't strange."
“?”
So you dated her just for the freedom to kiss?
The ambiguous atmosphere from before vanished completely.
Anmi got off his lap and sat down on the other side of the seat.
"I don't want to!"
Yan Jinnian didn't know why she suddenly got angry.
“May I ask why?” he asked.
“I don’t like your type,” Anmi said.
Yan Jinnian's eyes darkened slightly, and his voice turned cold: "You like your class monitor's type?"
Anmi didn't answer and turned her face to the other side.
Both remained silent, and the air pressure inside the carriage seemed to have been reduced to a freezing level.
After a long while, Yan Jinnian got out of the car and went to the driver's seat.
The car started, left the parking lot, and sped along the city avenue, soon arriving at Anmi's place.
At one o'clock in the morning, there was no one downstairs in the residential building.
Yan Jinnian parked the car and turned off the engine, glancing at the back seat in the rearview mirror.
Anmi's expression remained calm.
“Mr. Yan, thank you for treating me to a movie and dinner today, and also…” She glanced at the rearview mirror.
“If you’re just thinking that kissing isn’t strange, then we’re not a good match.”
Yan Jinnian's brows furrowed tightly.
When did he start portraying himself as a kissing maniac?
"I don't……"
Anmi didn't want to hear his explanation.
"I know I'm not qualified to associate with you, so don't try to fool me with this excuse just because I'm easy to fool."
"Trying to fool you? Me?"
Shocked, Yan Jinnian asked twice.
"Um."
Anmi met his gaze in the rearview mirror: "Mr. Yan, are you really allergic to close contact with strangers?"
Yan Jinnian sat silently in his seat, without answering.
Anmi understood.
So Tang Cai was right, she really is a pig.
He kissed himself so many times and never had an allergic reaction!
She actually believed such a lame excuse; she must have been completely overwhelmed by the IV fluids!
Perhaps because she ate too much today, Anmi's mind is unusually sharp right now.
It all started with that 'contract'!
He led her to dinner and movies, and then made requests for physical intimacy... This was very much like a compliance test, constantly probing her limits.
Anmi opened the car door.
“Mr. Yan, I offended you before for some reason. These past few times... let's call it even. Let's not see each other again in the future.”
The car door closed behind her. Anmi didn't know what the man's expression was. She quickly ran into the alley, her heart pounding in her chest.
Back upstairs, Anmi didn't turn on the lights.
The balcony offers a view of the roadside.
Yan Jinnian's Rolls-Royce has been parked there all this time.
When she came out of the shower, he was still there.
I opened WeChat, and there were only 99+ messages in my best friend group.
Yan Jinnian's profile picture is very quiet.
Anmi fell back onto the bed.
She felt caught in a complex and conflicted emotional state, feeling both heartless and rational.
[Anmi, would you like to date me?]
The man said this in a very serious tone.
Anmi turned over in bed, the soft fragrance of the blanket filling her nostrils.
Her usual perfume is warm-toned, which is completely different from the cold, pine-scented perfume that Yan Jinnian wore.
Thinking of him, Anmi recalled his burning kiss.
Perhaps her previous judgment about the perfume was wrong, and the person wasn't entirely as aloof as his perfume.
The next day, Anmi got up late. She ate something simple at a small shop downstairs and then took the subway to the train station.
The high-speed train departed on time at 10:00 AM and arrived in Dezhou, next to Beijing, an hour later.
De County is Anmi's hometown. When Anmi was four years old, her father and mother divorced, and her mother took her to open a small noodle shop in De County.
She has loved eating her mother's noodles since she was a child. Every month when she went home for college, her mother would cook her a bowl of hot egg noodles with a sauce made of mushrooms and minced meat. Anmi could eat a big bowl every time.
The taxi stopped in front of the noodle shop, and Anmi could see her mother's busy figure from afar.
"Mom! I'm home!"
An Ting was busy working on the dough when she heard the sound. She looked up and saw her beautiful daughter running towards her with a big smile on her face.
"Oh! My sweet baby is back!" An Ting, her hands covered in flour, put her elbow around her daughter's waist.
"Why have you lost weight? Are you not eating properly? Mom said that you can't work too hard when you're looking for a job. You need to eat well to have the energy to look for one."
Anmi was so tired of listening to her mother's nagging that her ears were practically calloused.
“I have food every meal.”
Especially since I ate more than one meal last night.
"Why are you still so thin even after eating? Oh dear, sit down quickly, Mom will cook you some noodles."
Before Anmi could put her bag down, Anting got busy.
As Anmi watched her busy figure, a wave of happiness welled up inside her.
As noon approached, the store started to get busier.
After finishing their noodles, An Ting told her to go upstairs first, but An Mi refused, saying she wanted to stay and help.
An Ting was too busy to look after her: "What are you doing helping out, little kid? There are aunties in the shop. Hurry up and go upstairs. Don't you like playing on your phone? Go upstairs and play!"
Anmi was forced to go upstairs.
She only decided to come back today on a whim and didn't bring much with her.
Her old pajamas were still in the closet. Anmi changed into them and lay on the bed, idly playing on her phone.
In her group chat with her best friends, Tang Cai posted several pictures of dishes made by her grandmother.
Late Autumn replied with "I want to eat it".
Anmi added a follow-up comment: "Me too."
Tang Cai immediately sent a long voice message, vividly describing the taste of each dish.
Anmi was unusually bored, so she actually listened to every single message Anmi sent.
"The merchant's description is so authentic; it feels like I'm actually tasting it myself."
She commented in the group chat.
bite--
The message popped up in the WeChat notification bar immediately after it was sent.
Anmi's hand trembled slightly.
She gently scrolled down the message bar.
A newly received message is displayed on the semi-transparent screen.
Yan Jinnian (potential best friend): Are you busy?
Anmi's heart skipped a beat.
A strange emotion welled up in my heart.
It felt soft, dull, and with a hint of inexplicable joy.
She hesitated for a moment and did not immediately open the message.
In her group chat with her best friends, Tang Cai sent another long string of voice messages.
Anmi listened to it for a while.
When I exited the app, the message Yan Jinnian had just posted had been retracted.
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