Chapter 41 Watermelon and Drunken Rum "Baby, I'm dirty right now, first..."
On the other side, Shen Cen tried three different chargers before finally managing to fully charge the tablet.
She didn't have any electronic devices in high school. She only logged into QQ a few times on Lu Baichuan's computer to add her former classmates. She bought this tablet the year she got into university.
She first opened the tablet's photo album, and was surprised to find that there were quite a few photos from her university days, which must have been automatically backed up and saved before. In the photos, Wen Jie and she looked very young.
[Help! I used to be a non-mainstream person, but I was never ugly.]
Wen Jie received several photos from Shen Cen. Her outfit and makeup were, to put it mildly, terrible, but at least she had her face to save the day.
Wen Jie: [I've saved them. By the way, where did you find these photos? My old phone from college won't turn on anymore, so I didn't have time to save a lot of the photos.]
Shen Cen: [I went back to the Lu family home today to pick up some things, and I happened to see my old tablet from college, so I brought it back with me.]
Wen Jie: [Yo yo yo~ You're starting to fill up Boss Jiang's house with your things? It'll be your little home from now on~]
Wen Jie kept egging them on and even sent a "cheeky" emoji.
A faint blush instantly spread across Shen Cen's face. She gently pursed her lips and looked around.
She remembered that when she first came to Jiang Shiyu's house, it looked empty and there was hardly any sign that anyone had lived there.
But things are different now. The sofa cover has been replaced with the bright ginger-yellow one they bought together at the mall. And her belongings are piling up on the shoe cabinet, clothes rack, desk...
Her marks were becoming more and more numerous, like a kitten pressing its paws everywhere, marking its territory.
Just as Wen Jie said, this house, which originally belonged to Jiang Shiyu alone, has now become their little home. The house is no longer empty, in any sense.
When Shen Cen's gaze swept across the tablet again, he noticed an app in the very center, marked by a bird icon and named "Anonymous Tree Hole".
Long-lost memories flooded back, and Shen Cen remembered that this was an anonymous chat app.
This anonymous chat app was extremely popular during her university years. Many people found their "confessional friends" on it, poured out their hearts, and some even found true love through it.
At that time, Shen Cen also downloaded this anonymous chat software on the recommendation of his roommates.
Not knowing if the software was still usable, Chen Cen hesitated before opening it, only to find that the software was well maintained and the process was still smooth.
She saw many unread messages, but when she opened them, she found that they were all from the same person, whose online name was "Once Upon a Time".
[Have you been busy studying lately? I haven't seen you online much. Don't overwork yourself, take care of your health.]
...
[Fine, fine, you've really forgotten about me, haven't you?]
...
Today is Lunar New Year's Eve, I can't possibly be too busy to go online today, can I?
【Happy New Year. 】
Shen Cen remembers that on the first day she registered her account, someone with the screen name "Once Upon a Time" added her as a friend, and the other person's profile showed that they were from Beijing University. The two remained "confessional friends" for four years, but never met in person, and Shen Cen didn't even know if the other person was male or female.
However, she always felt that "Once Upon a Time" should be a more outgoing and lively girl, because she could always keenly capture Shen Cen's little emotions.
Sometimes when Shen Cen was unhappy, she could tell from their conversations and then try her best to cheer him up. Shen Cen thought that only a girl could have such a delicate heart.
The two gradually became good friends. Shen Cen is not a person who likes to express her emotions in real life, but in this confessional app, she can speak freely with "Once Upon a Time" without any reservations.
The two spent most of their time talking about ideals and relationships. "Once Upon a Time" had previously asked Shen Cen if he had an ideal type and if he would date during college. At the time, Shen Cen was struggling with whether to stick with history for graduate school and had never considered dating, so he told "Once Upon a Time" he wouldn't.
She countered with "When was it?" "When was it?" said that since she wouldn't do it, then of course she wouldn't either, and if they were going to be single, they would be single together. Shen Cen even praised her for being righteous at the time.
On another occasion, she shared a passage from a romance novel with "Once Upon a Time".
Have you read this really popular novel lately? The male lead, in order to attract the female lead's attention, actually opened a dessert shop on her usual route home!
"Once Upon a Time" replied: 【And you? If you were the protagonist in this novel, would you step into this dessert shop?】
Shen Cen thought for a moment and replied: "Probably not a dessert shop, but I might go in and check out a nicely decorated bar."
bar? !
"Bang!"
Chen Cen's hand trembled, and the tablet fell straight to the ground with a piercing crash.
Although she couldn't remember why she mentioned the bar at the time, perhaps she had accidentally seen a picture of an exquisitely decorated bar online, but that sentence somehow pointed to her fate with Jiang Shiyu.
The two met on her way home, in a nicely decorated bar.
Although Wen Jie took her there the first time, Siji's decorating style clearly suited her aesthetic. Even if Wen Jie hadn't taken her there, she might have stepped into this place on her way home one day.
Could "Once Upon a Time" refer to Jiang Shiyu?
Impossible! Impossible!
The moment the idea popped into his head, Shen Cen immediately rejected it.
Jiang Shiyu wasn't the type to chat online with a stranger for so long. And even if "once upon a time" was Jiang Shiyu, he wouldn't know the person on the other end was him. After all, she was anonymous.
So, it was all just a coincidence. But it also points to the predestined fate between her and Jiang Shiyu.
She picked up the tablet again, quickly scrolling to the bottom of the chat history, stopping at a New Year's Eve greeting from a certain year. Since then, "Once Upon a Time" hadn't sent another message.
Based on the timeline, Shen Cen calculated that she was in her second year of graduate school that year, and her future direction was already clear. It was also in that year that she accepted Chen Zhao's advances, and the two officially began dating.
"I wonder how 'Once Upon a Time' is doing now," Shen Cen sighed, then typed a message in the chat box.
Even though she knew the other person was no longer using the chat software, Shen Cen still sent the message, hoping against hope.
In her view, this message is both a response to "once upon a time" and a dialogue with her past self.
[Hi Xiaoshi, I didn't use this app much back then because I was preparing for my postgraduate entrance exam, so I missed a lot of your messages. I've read them all, and I'm very grateful for your well wishes. I've now achieved my dream of becoming a teacher at Peking University. I wonder if Xiaoshi has achieved her dream too? I think she must have.]
Oh, and I also wanted to tell you that I'm married now. I remember you asked me about my ideal type before, and I didn't know how to answer then, but now I have the answer. My husband is my ideal type, and I feel loved and cherished by him. I don't know if you've met your ideal type yet, but I believe there must be someone in this world who considers you the most important part of their life, because you deserve it.
I'll uninstall the chat app later. Although I still don't know anything about you, I'm very grateful for your companionship as my "confidante" for the past four years. I hope we'll meet again in the future.
She pressed the send button and waited three minutes.
Time ticked by, but the message remained unread.
Sure enough, so many years have passed, and she and Wen Jie no longer use this software. Why would they continue to use it "once upon a time"?
She sighed inwardly, preparing to exit the software. Just as she pressed the uninstall button, the long-lost ringtone suddenly sounded.
The message notification sound from the anonymous tree hole was two chirping sounds of birds, which was very peculiar. Shen Cen subconsciously thought it was his own hallucination.
It wasn't until the bell rang again that she clicked on it with trembling fingers, and sure enough, she saw the "Once Upon a Time" avatar light up, and several red dots appeared in the chat box.
[You wouldn't believe it, would you? I haven't uninstalled it yet. Or to put it another way, is it possible that I've been waiting for news from you all these years?]
I'm so happy to see you living such a good life now.
Let me tell you about my situation. Over the years, I've achieved my dreams, and I've done quite well. More importantly, I won over the person I've liked for many years, and we're now married.
It seems I was right before; the two of us are indeed the luckiest people in the world.
No need to reply to further messages. I hope you continue to be happy.
Immediately afterwards, "Once Upon a Time" went dark, indicating that he/she had gone offline.
Shen Cen's eyes welled up with tears. She knew that "once upon a time" meant to help her focus on happiness in the real world. Receiving these few replies was far beyond her expectations.
She also logged out of the software.
She heard a noise downstairs and knew that Jiang Shiyu had returned. Afraid that Jiang Shiyu had drunk too much at the party, she went downstairs to help him.
When they got downstairs, they realized the man wasn't drunk, but his tie had been loosened and was hanging loosely around his neck, making him look quite sexy.
“Baby.” Jiang Shiyu’s eyes lit up when he saw Shen Cen.
Shen Cen swallowed nervously and walked up to the man: "You didn't..."
She was halfway through her sentence when she suddenly felt a warm touch on her waist. The man then supported her waist and lifted her to sit on the bar counter by the door. Shen Cen gasped in surprise and instinctively hugged Jiang Shiyu's neck tightly.
My breathing became disordered for a moment.
Shen Cen's long eyelashes fluttered rapidly like butterfly wings, due to nervousness. However, instead of loosening her grip on the man, she actually tightened her embrace.
"What's wrong?" She looked at Jiang Shiyu with her bright eyes and found that Jiang Shiyu seemed to be more clingy to her than before today.
Jiang Shiyu felt his heart completely soften, even feeling sweet. He kissed Chen Cen's cheek: "It's nothing, I just missed you after not seeing you all afternoon."
The burning sensation around her waist intensified, and when she reached out to touch it, she recoiled sharply from the heat of the man's hand.
"Baby, I'm dirty right now, let me take a shower first." The man's hand suddenly dropped, the burning touch being withdrawn.
Why is Jiang Shiyu so restrained today? Shen Cen found it rather strange.
However, it turned out that she was wrong.
Jiang Shiyu's kisses today were much more domineering than usual, as if he couldn't get enough of them. Even the bed was shaking violently with them, almost collapsing.
"Chen Cen, I like you so much." The man thrust deep inside, kissing Chen Cen until she gasped for breath.
"Um...I...I like you too."
Jiang Shiyu stopped what he was doing, his gaze towards the woman burning with intense desire, his eyes revealing an undisguised lust. "How much do you like it?"
As Shen Cen was thinking about how to answer, she was bitten on the neck by the man, as if he was punishing her for her hesitation.
Afraid that she would be devoured by this hungry wolf if she thought any further, she immediately replied, "You are the person I love most in this world. The first thing I want to see when I open my eyes every day, and the last thing I want to see when I close them, is you."
After saying that, Shen Cen buried her face in the man's arms in embarrassment.
How could she say something so cheesy?!
However, Jiang Shiyu was very satisfied with this answer and rewarded her with a string of gentle kisses on her neck.
"Baby, meeting you makes me feel like the luckiest person in the world."
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Author's Note: [Crying] The bar finally called back! Whether Xiao Cen meant it or not, President Jiang always manages to respond to everything.
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