Chapter 26 He spoils you. East Coast encounter.
Qin Yi returned home, dropped his luggage and made a voice call.
Two seconds, connected.
"The busy man is home." The little princess's cute and excited voice came.
Qin Yi smiled, took off his coat, and said to his phone, "Sorry, it's late. You have classes tomorrow, so don't talk too long."
"No, I'm not sleepy." she said immediately.
Qin Yi didn't understand why his physical strength suddenly improved. He could easily fall down if the wind blew at the airport during the day.
Yu Han couldn't keep it secret, so she turned around and told him her own story: "Today, I deleted the brother I added at the airport."
Qin Yi went to the living room, opened the refrigerator, and got some water. He placed his phone on top of the refrigerator and asked knowingly, "Who is it?"
Yu Han: "That's the brother who opened the bottle of mineral water for me."
Qin Yi's mind flashed back to that person's blunt approach, enthusiasm, and inexplicable gift-giving... and the disappointment in his eyes when he heard him.
He unscrewed the cap.
Yu Han heard a sudden click and asked on the phone, "What are you doing?"
"Open the mineral water."
“…”
Yu Han covered her face and didn't laugh. She just felt that she had never been so embarrassed in her life.
Qin Yi took a sip and couldn't help laughing at her rare silence. He then said slowly, "It's been a year and you're still keeping it, saving it for the New Year."
Yu Han: "..." She explained weakly, "I forgot about his existence and never talked about him."
Qin Yi drank half a bottle of water and glanced at the profile picture popping up on her phone. She had changed her profile picture to the photo of snow she had sent her yesterday.
She obviously took the pictures herself, but she used pictures he took at home.
Qin Yi raised the corner of his mouth and asked gently, "Then why are you willing to delete it today?"
"Because... today, he saw me outside and came looking for me." Yu Han couldn't say that he looked for me at the airport, so she vaguely passed it over and said, "I just remembered that this number still exists."
Qin Yi: “Deleted.”
Yu Han immediately said obediently, "I deleted it right away. If I had known, I would have deleted it last time. I didn't listen to someone and now I'm suffering. I confirmed today that he had that intention. He contacted me twice."
"Twice?" What the hell, does that mean he looked for her when he got off the plane or when he was on the plane?
"Yeah, yes."
Qin Yi threw the water into the refrigerator, picked up his phone and went back to unpack his suitcase: "It's okay, just delete it. I've been together for several years and I'm still facing the risk of separation. If anyone dares to poach me, I'll be furious."
Yu Han: “…”
She laughed.
Qin Yi put his phone back on the bedside table, took out two pieces of clothes from the suitcase, and his eyes fell on one of the black shirts.
The phone call was filled with irrelevant information, occasionally talking about him, occasionally talking about herself, and before she knew it, an hour had passed.
Seeing that it was already half past eleven, Qin Yi coaxed her to sleep because she had classes the next day.
But the little princess was disobedient today and refused to hang up the phone.
Qin Yi sat at his computer desk, looking out the window at the quiet Singapore night with a melancholy look. He could only say, "Wait a minute, then. Go to sleep if you're tired. I'll come chat with you later."
Yu Han asked lazily, "What are you going to do?"
Qin translated: "Take a bath."
Yu Han: “…”
Qin Yi: "I'm going to take a shower. Wait for me. If you feel tired, go to sleep."
"Oh." She was so well behaved. It was obvious that she couldn't find anything else to talk about on the topic of him taking a bath.
The only thing I’m curious about is why hasn’t he taken a shower so late?
Qin Yi put down his phone, got up and went into the bathroom.
Yu Han was still in deep thought. After analyzing the situation, she realized that he had gone out to play in the evening and had returned home an hour ago at almost half past ten. He called as soon as he came back.
It seems that, really, I didn’t have time to take a shower.
The guy who was taking a shower over there clearly wanted to let her sleep, but he still took a shower a little quickly.
He turned around, wiped his hair, and walked quickly back to the bed.
The call interface is still on the bedside table.
Qin Yi called out, "Hanhan?"
No sound.
Qin Yi: "Baby?"
No movement.
Qin Yi picked up the phone and subconsciously wanted to say "good night" and hang up, but at the last moment, he didn't hang up.
He lay down, exited the WeChat voice interface to look at something else, and switched back to the chat interface half an hour later.
It was very quiet inside, with only a little wind noise occasionally.
The sound of the wind on the east coast is very quiet and beautiful, perhaps accompanied by the breathing of the little princess.
"Good night, Hanhan."
Qin Yi put down his phone and went to sleep.
The call lasted until five in the morning because Yu Han's phone was out of battery and turned off.
Yu Han woke up at 7:30 in the morning and saw that her phone was turned off. She was a little curious at first.
She charged the phone, turned it on, opened WeChat, and was surprised to see the six-hour voice call record...
"Good morning." She sent a message.
Qin Yi didn't know, he was still sleeping on vacation.
Yu Han, a poor student, washed up and went downstairs early in the morning with sleepy eyes.
There is only the nanny at home, and my parents are both in the country.
Her aunt had prepared breakfast for her. After eating, she changed her clothes and went to class sadly.
Qin Yi didn't wake up until almost ten o'clock, and then he comfortably replied to the little princess: "Good morning, Hanhan."
Yu Han brought her phone to school every day and replied immediately: "You didn't hang up the phone last night!"
"Yeah, I'll sleep with you." He said.
There were too many classmates nearby, so Yu Han put on her headphones before clicking play. A lazy tune drifted into her ears, gently releasing the warmth of her heart like a spring breeze.
She snickered and agreed, "I was sleepy and fell asleep. I'm sorry."
Qin Yi continued to send voice messages, not replying to the previous one, and asked her: "Are you sleepy today?"
Yu Han also started talking, but she had too much to say and was too lazy to type: "Yeah, I was just sleeping. Our teacher said, Hanhan, we're about to graduate, so if you sleep any longer, you're done."
Qin Yi replied with a thick smile, "Then I don't believe it."
Yu Han felt great after hearing this. She felt that he had always trusted her achievements and always thought that his Hanhan was great.
"But I'm about to graduate. I really should work harder. I shouldn't be talking on the phone all night."
"I'm just worried that you'll be sleepy when you get up in the morning. Otherwise, if you feel like you can't keep up, I'm here for you."
"Well, no way."
"Why not? Come back after the final exam and I'll tutor you. We must have been together during the period before your college entrance exam."
Yu Han's eyes curved up, and she was in an extremely happy mood.
Qin Yi coaxed her to attend class and let her sleep if she was tired. As the top student in the grade, he knew from personal experience that sleeping for a day would not affect her grades much.
He got up and called her in the evening.
Yu Han's last words to him were, "I'm going to the beach to watch the sunset this afternoon. Is it still snowing in Lan City today?"
Qin Yi: “…” I don’t know, we are already far away from Lan City.
He clicked on the weather forecast to check.
It's ten degrees in Lan City today.
I exited and replied to her: "Not today. Do you want to watch the sunset tonight?"
"right."
"Where can we go?"
"East Coast Park near my home. The weather forecast says there will be a sunset of the century today. I'll take a picture for you~"
"Okay. Don't go out too far to play at home. Be careful and don't get into danger."
"Hmmmm."
Many times, Qin Yi felt that the little princess was so obedient that it made people feel soft-hearted.
After going downstairs and having a stale breakfast, Qin Yi asked his sister where they were going to play.
On weekdays, both parents go to work, leaving only the two of us at home.
Dong Lanyi pointed to the white sun-protection jacket and white hat on his body.
Qin Yi glanced at him and said, "Climbing a mountain."
She nodded solemnly and pointed to his hat on the sofa: "It's ready for you."
Qin Yi suddenly burst out laughing and bent over on the sofa with laughter.
Dong Lanyi went over and pushed him: "What are you laughing at? Hurry up, you're up so late today, it's already very hot. Singapore is not like London."
Qin Yi accepted his fate, put on his hat and set off.
Why did he laugh? Because the mountains in Singapore are not really suitable to be called climbing, it can be considered as a walk.
The highest mountain, Bukit Timah, is over 160 meters high.
It just so happens that their family lives in the Bukit Timah villa area, and Dong Lanyi likes taking walks very much, so he goes hiking every time he comes.
Qin Yi's smile also meant that she never got tired of climbing it. She must have climbed it dozens of times over the years.
But if she wanted to come, Qin Yi would naturally accompany her.
The whole journey took less than half an hour to reach the summit, plus the twenty minutes it took them to hike from their home to the foot of the mountain, it took less than an hour in total.
Fortunately, this is a mountain suitable for both hiking and adventure, and it is also a nature reserve. The scenery along the way and on the top of the mountain is quite good, with lush and diverse trees. Occasionally, you can encounter squirrels or something. There were originally monkeys, but I didn’t see any today. However, squirrels are still more pleasing to the eye.
Dong Lanyi loves squirrels very much. His WeChat avatar is a photo of a squirrel he took here many years ago.
The squirrel in Qin Yi’s WeChat account was taken when he came here last year. He thought Yu Han looked very much like a squirrel and was very cute.
Dong Lanyi brought a camera and Qin Yi carried it on his back. She would take it when she needed to use it, and he would hold it in his hand after taking the photos. The camera was heavy.
It was noon when we had enough fun on the mountain.
It would have been nice to watch the sunset here today. Dong Lanyi also mentioned the century sunset, but it was too long before the sun set. Plus, Bukit Timah Hill is a protected area. There was nothing to eat on the mountain except soil, so we couldn't go hungry until the evening.
So the two of them started to go down the mountain at 12:30 noon.
On the way, Dong Lanyi was still talking about the Century Sunset, and discussed with Qin Yi that they would find a place at the foot of the mountain to watch it that afternoon: "I don't know if it's true or not."
Qin Yi: "Let's go to the beach, it doesn't matter if there's water or not, just enjoy the breeze."
"Okay. Where are we going?"
“East Coast.”
"Okay, I haven't been there in a while."
The Bukit Timah residential area is located in the west of Singapore, with the East Coast to the east, about half an hour's drive away. People don't go there often, and have only been there a few times over the years.
After coming down the mountain, they asked the family driver to pick them up and take them to the zoo. They played in the zoo in the afternoon and there was a restaurant nearby where they could have lunch.
Compared to most parts of the country which are already freezing cold and snowy at this time of year, Singapore is in the hot rainy season. It is good if it doesn't rain on a daily basis, and it is quite warm.
There might really be a sunset today, and the weather will be very good all afternoon.
Around six in the evening, the two had just finished afternoon tea in a shopping mall.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Dong Lanyi was anxious to go watch the sunset.
Before leaving, Qin Yi bought a mask at the mall.
Dong Lanyi was curious: "Why are you wearing a mask?"
Qin translated: "So as not to be recognized."
"Who is it?"
"Yesterday's...that."
Dong Lanyi's eyes widened, confusion filling her pupils. "Ah? Aren't you two together? You didn't even tell her you came to Singapore yesterday. Why?"
Qin Yi found it difficult to explain clearly, so he couldn't help but smile, "Online love, we didn't know each other offline."
"Huh?" Her confusion turned to shock and bewilderment. "Didn't you see each other yesterday? What do you mean by online dating?"
In her opinion, online dating means that there is no offline meeting, right?
Qin Yi couldn't explain it in detail, so he could only say vaguely, "I know her, but she doesn't know me."
Dong Lanyi thought about it for a while using the same method as when he got into Yale, but still didn't quite understand. In the end, he had no choice but to stop thinking about it.
But she glanced at his mask and asked, "Do I need it? Will you be exposed if you see me?"
Qin Yi thought it made sense, so he just took a few more.
The girl laughed helplessly and took one.
The family driver was waiting for them at the door.
During the half-hour journey, Qin Yi kept in touch with Yu Han, who had already finished school, to inquire about her whereabouts at any time.
The little princess said she had made an appointment with her classmates to go cycling on the East Coast.
Qin Yi remembered that she was feeling uncomfortable and weak due to her period yesterday. Is it okay for her to go cycling today?
But I can’t ask. Yesterday was yesterday’s person, and today is him…
How do you ask this?
He could only guess that she was better and thought that riding a bike was not bad, so he said very maturely, "Yeah, exercise."
Yu Han: "I'm just riding for fun. I'm still young." She said rebelliously.
Qin Yi laughed, and finally said to her tentatively: "Don't ride for too long, don't get tired."
"I feel very energetic today. I felt uncomfortable yesterday because of my period, but I feel better today."
So that's how it is. Today is fine.
Qin Yi immediately comforted her: "Then you're almost there, huh? Don't try too hard on the first day."
"Okay~"
In the blink of an eye, they arrived. After getting off the car and walking a few steps, Qin Yi saw a little cat walking beside the cycling path.
It's really conspicuous.
The sea breeze made the little princess's pink flower bud skirt rise and fall like waves, and her waist-length hair looked like a blooming flower. She stretched lazily and stood next to a bicycle, looking very comfortable and seemingly waiting for someone.
There was also a camera hanging on his chest.
The one he gave was the same model as Dong Lanyi's. However, Dong Lanyi's was given by her older sister, a famous star, and had nothing to do with him.
The girl standing next to him also noticed her target and turned to look at the boy next to her. His eyes were completely glued to the little girl, and were extremely hot.
Dong Lanyi lowered his head and fiddled with the camera parameters. He said, "Xiaoyi, go play with others. I'll go to the beach and wait for the sunset. If you're done playing, send me a message."
Qin Yi looked back at his sister and nodded: "Okay, be careful, I'll be there in a moment."
"Um."
The man walked away with the camera on his back. Qin Yi walked a few steps on the side of the road, seemingly taking a stroll, and soon squatted down when a girl who rode a bicycle passed by and stopped next to Yu Han.
The two stood and talked for a while.
"When will your parents come back?" her classmates asked her.
Yu Han: “I don’t know.”
"So you're all alone? Do you want to stay at my house tonight?"
"Well, it's inconvenient."
"Why is it inconvenient? We can play in the evening."
"I, I need to call my boyfriend."
Qin Yi: “…”
The classmate was also confused: "Can't you go two days without playing?"
Yu Han: “Not really.”
Qin Yi: “…”
My classmate asked curiously, "What do you talk about? You can talk on the phone every day."
Yu Han thought for a moment and said, "I don't know either. We talk about everything."
My classmate said, "You can't see him, but you still like him. It's amazing. What do you like about him?"
Yu Han said, "He would accompany me. He was always there for me when I was bored, irritated, and lonely."
Classmate: "I didn't accompany you."
Yu Han: “…”
Qin Yi tilted his head and smiled.
Yu Han said slowly, "This is a little different."
Classmate: "Except for gender, what else is different?"
Yu Han: "He would say Hanhan is amazing, Hanhan is great, and that sleeping today won't affect me, so I can just sleep if I'm tired. You would just say, 'It's over, I won't be able to get into a national university.'"
classmate:"……"
Qin Yi: “…”
The classmate touched his chin and looked at him: "Oh, he spoils you a lot, you just like his doting on you."
Qin Yi: “…”
Yu Han was shy: "Ah, no more talking, just ride your bike."
Soon the two of them got on their bikes and rode away.
Qin Yi walked in the direction they were riding, slowly, with his hands in his pockets, occasionally looking at the sea, and occasionally looking at the small figure that was gradually moving away.
He went to find his sister.
The century sunset began to emerge around 7 o'clock, and the beach became crowded with people.
Dong Lanyi sat on a wooden chair, and Qin Yi sat on the side, lazily looking at the blood-red sunset on the horizon that seemed to be dripping down.
The whole world seemed to be stuffed in an orange-red balloon. The boundless red was right in front of my eyes, and when I raised my hand, it seemed that my fingertips were passing through the orange-red air.
The clouds on the horizon are entwined with each other, so tightly that they seem inseparable for a lifetime.
The huge sun was right between the sea and the mountains, slowly lowering towards its designated side.
It’s really nice and beautiful. I wonder if the little princess riding the bike was photographed.
As soon as the thought flashed through his mind, Qin Yi received new news.
Yu Han sent him the photos of the sunset along the way.
She said she took the photo with a camera and would upload it when she got home, so she took a photo with her mobile phone and showed it to him first.
The little princess loved it very much: "So beautiful! So beautiful! Just as beautiful as the snow scene you sent me yesterday!"
Qin Yi wanted to say that he was watching the same sunset at this moment, but he couldn't say it, just as she couldn't tell him the day before yesterday that she also saw snow, the first snow of this winter in Lan City.
She rode about eight kilometers and then returned. It was almost eight o'clock when she came back.
They had afternoon tea very late and since they weren't hungry, they just sat by the sea enjoying the breeze.
There is no trace of red on the entire East Coast, only the purest blue.
Calculating the time and estimating that she should be arriving soon, Qin Yi stood up again, intending to take one more look at the little princess before going to eat.
At the place where they started, Qin Yi was standing under a tree by the roadside looking at his phone, his peripheral vision focused on the two cyclists approaching in the distance.
When it was almost in front of him, the person looked towards him and their eyes met.
Qin Yi was wearing a black T-shirt, black trousers, a white mask and a black hat. He was sure that she wouldn't recognize him, but... his heart still stopped the moment their eyes met. When he met the little princess's curious eyes seriously, he always felt particularly moved.
It will be hard to have this feeling again in this life. I hid it from her and lied to her that I was in the place where she had to pass by during her ride.
He could have appeared in front of her with another identity just like yesterday, but it seemed that she would be very excited if he appeared in Singapore.
He would feel guilty for not being able to please her.
So I just gave up and didn’t want to keep lying. I decided to just be a stranger today.
The two girls stopped on the side of the bicycle path in front of him, standing on each side. Yu Han happened to stop next to Qin Yi.
"Let's go to Parkway Plaza for dinner. My parents are not at home today." Chen Cheng, the classmate opposite, stretched lazily and said to Yu Han.
She nodded: "Okay."
Finally, he took out his phone and sent a message to Qin Yi: "I'm going to eat."
Qin Yi watched her send messages while feeling the vibration of the phone in his palm, like a quickening heartbeat.
Chen Cheng: "Then let's ride there? Can you still ride? Are you tired? It's about three kilometers. If you're too tired, we can take a taxi."
"It's okay, it's okay." She stuffed the phone into the pocket of her flower-bud skirt, rubbed her wrist bones, and finally held the handlebars and turned the car around.
Just when she was halfway around, she saw someone riding towards her about ten meters behind her, so she stopped turning around, held on to the bike and moved back to the side of the road to make way for him.
Who knew that while she was backing away, the bicycle would rush straight towards her, not riding to the middle and showing no signs of braking. Finally, with the other party's terrified scream of "Ahhhh", it hit Yu Han and the car on the side of the road.
There was a series of ping-pong sounds, accompanied by the other party's screams.
Yu Han's hands were numb from the shock: "Hmm."
The perpetrator fell from the car.
Hit by the huge impact, Yu Han took a step back and stepped from the bike path into the grass beside the curb, and fell onto the grass.
Qin Yi took two steps forward and grabbed the person. He held her in his arms with one hand to steady her and used the other hand to hold the car to prevent it from hitting her. The weight of two cars would definitely hurt her.
Chen Cheng, who had been parked opposite the bike path from the beginning, was so scared that he immediately dropped his bike and ran over.
"Hanhan!"
She first pushed away the other car that was pressing on Yu Han's car, then took Yu Han's car from Qin Yi and parked it.
Yu Han's hands and feet were numb from the shock and she was gasping for breath.
After Qin Yi freed his hands, he helped her up with both hands and looked at her red hands again.
The knuckles and skin of the palm were red due to the impact of the force, and the little finger was hit by the opponent's handlebar, breaking the skin directly. The wound was one centimeter wide and was bleeding.
Qin Yi frowned deeply and turned to look at the other person.
The beautiful East Coast blues was frozen by the icy gaze, and the temperature dropped sharply. The girl who got up from the ground was scared, fearing that she would be beaten.
"Are you kidding me? Your bike has no brakes!!" The classmate, who immigrated from Guangdong, was so angry that he blurted out in Cantonese, put his hands on his waist and pointed at the girl across from him, "And you're riding your bike sideways?!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. When I saw you guys turning around in front of me, I thought we were going to collide. I got so nervous that I lost control of the car." The girl immediately apologized carefully, also speaking Chinese. "Also, I forgot to brake."
"You were so far away, why did you crash? We gave way to you early in the morning! And you even forgot to brake. How could God be so outrageous." She turned to look at Yu Han, "Hanhan. Wow, you're bleeding." She glared at her again.
"I, I'll take you to the clinic." Under Qin Yi's cold gaze, the other woman timidly but actively expressed her stance. She wasn't afraid of the Cantonese-speaking girl, just a few scoldings, but she was afraid of the silent look that seemed to want to feed her like fish.
Yu Han shook her head. She was still nervous, so her voice sounded weak: "No need." It was just a minor injury, mainly because she was scared.
And she wasn't in pain.
Qin Yi saw her nonchalant expression and knew the problem. His heartache was even greater than knowing that she would be hurt...
She knew she was injured and blood was flowing into her palm and onto his fingers, but she didn't feel any pain, so she kept quiet.
The inability to perceive the extent of her injuries and the resulting delay in treatment is the most dangerous aspect of her illness, and it is the biggest reason why he is determined not to let her return home.
At some point, Yu Han was looking at him.
When Qin Yi discovered it, the little princess' eyes were already full of scrutiny and curiosity, staring straight at his eyebrows in the twilight.
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