Chapter 16
Chapter 16
When Shu Yao reacted, there was no trace of Shen Ye outside the door.
She touched the place that had just been touched. She didn't feel any rejection, but it just felt very strange.
Even this feeling of not rejecting something seems unfamiliar.
Looking down, I saw Little Biscuit standing motionless at the door, peeking out through the crack and whimpering occasionally, as if to see if his owner would turn around.
Shu Yao hugged it and closed the door with a distressed look on his face. He scratched its chin and said, "They say dogs resemble their owners, but why don't you resemble them at all? You're so clingy."
Little Biscuit rubbed against her arms, as if he got some comfort.
Zhao Tiantian lay on the sofa, fanning herself leisurely with a fan: "How do you know Chen Ye is not clingy? Based on my understanding of men, the more cold a man looks on the surface, the more likely he is to be... well..."
With Chen Ye away, Zhao Tiantian was even more careless in her words: "Who knows, maybe he won't come for three days."
Although Shu Yao had never experienced this, he understood it immediately.
She put the biscuit on the ground and followed it, letting it wander around to familiarize itself with the surroundings. Then she casually replied, "That's too bad for her girlfriend. She's reported both her mouth and her body as work-related injuries."
Zhao Tiantian lay flat on the sofa, propped up her left leg, and swung her right leg leisurely across it. She glanced at her with a smile and said meaningfully, "Yeah, I don't know who would be so miserable."
Shu Yao didn't understand the deeper meaning of her words, and his attention was all on the biscuits in front of him.
Biscuit was scratching the carpet with his paws, and then sniffing the drawers.
After a while, it stopped in front of the TV cabinet, suddenly jumped, climbed up the low cabinet with its two front paws, and pulled up a photo on it.
It was a photo of Shu Yao and Zhao Tiantian in their senior year of high school.
To be precise, it was originally a photo of four people.
The first time they went out, in a KTV box, Zhao Tiantian forced the waiter to help take pictures. The girls stood in the middle and the boys stood on both sides.
Shu Yao still remembers that she didn't really want to take the photo at that time, but she was embarrassed to refuse Zhao Tiantian, so she could only hope that Shen Ye didn't look like someone who liked taking photos.
Unexpectedly, Shen Ye did not resist at all and stood up cooperatively.
Xu Zhaoli was so moved that he shouted in a childish manner, "Friendship is above everything else."
As a result, Shu Yao was kidnapped by morality without paying attention.
Later, after the two of them started renting a house together, Zhao Tiantian accidentally came across their only photo together. She cropped off the left and right sides, leaving only the middle part, and put it in a frame.
Seeing that Little Biscuit was persistently picking at the picture frame, Shu Yao was afraid that the photo frame would fall and hit it, so he had no choice but to hold it away from the danger zone.
Putting it on his lap as a pillow, Shu Yao leaned leisurely on the sofa, petting the dog with one hand and completing the daily tasks of Baowuji with the other.
Zhao Tiantian poked her head over. "Hey? Aren't you playing to write articles? You're still playing after you've quit your job?"
"It's quite fun. Without the pressure of work, it's even more fun."
"You know what? This HDP is truly amazing. Their previous two fighting games were among the most downloaded worldwide. They've actually stepped out of their comfort zone and made a mobile card game like Treasure Diary, and it's reaping both financial success and positive reviews." Zhao Tiantian, enticed by her, also clicked on the Connect the Dots game on her phone, clicking her tongue. "I heard Zhou Jinghuai's only in his twenties. How come we're about the same age, yet he's making a killing as a boss, while I'm still playing Connect the Dots?"
Shu Yao couldn't help laughing, but suddenly caught a key word: "You just said, HDP? HDP is Zhuyu Technology?"
The logo of Chuyu Technology will be displayed when entering the game, but it is only in Chinese, so she has never cared about what the English name of this company is.
"Yeah." Zhao Tiantian pointed with her right hand, erasing a patch of red. "It's the abbreviation of heavy downpour."
Noticing Shu Yao was silent, Zhao Tiantian glanced at her and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"I suddenly remembered something." Shu Yao clenched his phone and looked at her. "Do you remember, I told you that I took a part-time job when I was in college?"
"Remember, you're helping students with their studies online, right?"
"To be precise, I was helping an international student with his knowledge of historical relics." Shu Yao opened a live broadcast app that he hadn't used for two or three years. The interface was completely different from what it was back then, and even the function of booking a private room was cancelled.
But that dark profile picture was still there, and he was even the only one in Shu Yao's friend list—
HDP
The two people's communication is limited to the Internet. The other party said that he has social anxiety, so usually she talks and he listens. If he has any questions, he asks them in text.
Shu Yao had never heard the other person's voice and had never asked his name. She always thought HDP was the abbreviation of his name, such as Hu Dapeng.
Could it be that...
"Holy crap!" Zhao Tiantian suddenly realized, "Could your former student be Zhou Jinghuai?"
"He did seem to have mentioned that the original intention of the tutoring was for a game project for the company." This was partly why Shu Yao, who initially found it strange, gradually dispelled his doubts after two or three classes. "But... it can't be such a coincidence, right?"
"What employee would specifically hire someone to tutor them for a company project? This person is obviously the person in charge or the boss," Zhao Tiantian asked curiously. "Are you still in touch?"
"He died a long time ago. Later...something happened, so I introduced him to another junior student."
"What a pity! Yaoyao, you completely missed the chance to curry favor with someone!"
"What?" Shu Yao just happened to think of this matter and mentioned it casually. He didn't take it to heart.
I just feel that this world seems quite small.
The people and things around us are all connected in a magical way.
*
Shu Yao herself doesn't like taking photos, but during the few days that Little Bingchuan has been staying here, her favorite thing to do is to be its photographer.
Seeing her sitting cross-legged on the carpet again and turning on the camera mode, Zhao Tiantian stretched out her finger and poked her shoulder: "You've taken too many photos, haven't you? Isn't Chen Ye tired of seeing them?"
"Ah?" Shu Yao turned his head. "What does it have to do with him?"
Zhao Tiantian climbed up from the sofa in confusion: "You took the photo, didn't you send it to Chen Ye?"
"No, I'm keeping it for myself." Shu Yao said as a matter of course, "But if he tells me he wants to see it, I'll send it to him."
Shu Yao's casual words made Zhao Tiantian's thoughts drift away.
Although she and Shu Yao were desk mates in their senior year of high school, they were not in the same city for university and were two hundred kilometers apart. Whenever Zhao Tiantian encountered something happy or sad, from something as small as picking up a campus card to something as big as failing a course, she wanted to share it with Shu Yao as soon as possible.
Shu Yao rarely mentioned her life to her. Even if Zhao Tiantian asked about it, she would just briefly mention it.
But although Shu Yao doesn't treat her as a close friend, he actually cares about many of her affairs more than she does.
It was Shu Yao who reminded her to register for the College Level 4 exam, so she signed up just in time.
Every year on my birthday, Shu Yao is always the first to send a blessing message.
There was even one time when she had a fever of 40 degrees and was alone in the dormitory. Shu Yao drove over overnight to accompany her.
So Zhao Tiantian gradually realized that it wasn't that she was heartless, she just seemed to be very uncomfortable with the idea of "actively sharing her life with others."
"Yaoyao, when we were in college, you hardly shared your life with me. Did you think it was unnecessary?"
Shu Yao didn't understand why she suddenly asked this, but he thought about it seriously for a while before answering: "I guess so, and you had a boyfriend at that time, didn't you? I kept looking for you, what if I interrupted your date?"
Since childhood, Shu Yao has rarely chatted with her parents and has not many friends. When it comes to her own life, she always feels that it is enough for her to know what is going on, and there is no need to let others know as well.
She was more accustomed to digesting things on her own, and over time, actively sharing this matter became a burden.
Just like what she said about her relationship with her mother when she proposed to Chen Ye, it was a secret in her heart. She had never mentioned it to anyone, and if it were under normal circumstances, she would never tell Chen Ye.
"Yaoyao, you think too much." Zhao Tiantian sat down next to her, put her arm around her shoulders, and said with a playful smile, "Even if I were having sex with my boyfriend and saw you message me, I would ask him to stop and reply to you first!"
"..." Shu Yao glared at her, "What the hell."
"The words are crude, but the logic is sound." Zhao Tiantian tapped her phone with her index finger. "It's a happy thing to have someone who cares about you and is willing to share the joy of life with you. I don't think you need to overthink it."
There's no need to think too much.
Late at night before going to bed, when Shu Yao was looking through the photo album, he inexplicably thought of Zhao Tiantian's words.
Do you want to send it?
She clicked on the pictures and selected a few, but her finger stopped above the send button, not knowing whether to press it.
Let’s just forget it.
It seems a bit embarrassing.
Shu Yao threw his phone aside and planned to go to the bathroom.
When Biscuit saw her about to leave, he quickly followed her from the end of the bed. Without noticing, he stepped on her phone screen with his little paw.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh——
Shu Yao watched helplessly as the six pictures were sent out.
“…”
Before he could even think about whether to withdraw the message, Chen Ye replied immediately: [Why did you suddenly send a photo? ]
Shu Yao pinched the chubby body of Little Biscuit and thought, since it's here, I might as well make the best of it: [I'm just showing you, so you can rest assured that I'm taking good care of it.]
Chen Ye: [I'm not worried, but has it gained weight? ]
Shu Yao: [Really? Maybe it's the angle of the photo? I don't feel like I've gained weight.]
Chen Ye: [I feel fat.]
Three seconds later, he sent another one——
【Watch the video? 】
Shu Yao’s principle outside of work is: if I can send a text message, I won’t make a phone call; if I can make a voice call, I won’t make a video call.
What's more, it's late at night, and she's still in her pajamas, video chatting with a man, which always feels weird.
But Chen Ye is the owner of the cookie, she can't refuse her master's request, right?
While he was hesitating, Chen Ye sent another message: [If I lose, I'll give you ten days of daily tasks for free.]
Shu Yao: ? Wouldn’t that mean we can save 88% right away?
She immediately sent a video invitation.
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