Chapter 32.2: I Want to Meet Her
Ren Yan regretted it the moment he arrived at Chun K.
He was pinned to the sofa by several men. Sun Yi and Lu
Zhong'er, one on each side, held one arm, escorting him like a prisoner. Wang
Sian climbed onto the sofa and knelt behind him, his hands on his shoulders.
Qin Qianyu rolled up the birthday hat that came with his
birthday cake.
Ren Yan stared at the thing in Qin Qianyu's hand, his eyes
sharp as a knife: "If you dare put that on my head, you won't live to see
tomorrow."
Frightened by his murderous intent, Qin Qianyu threw the
birthday hat to Chu Qianmiao: "I have a wife to support, and you're alone.
You do it!"
Chu Qianmiao: "..." She hasn't found a partner
yet, and she doesn't want to die!
Ren Yan glanced at Sun Yi and Lu Zhong'er from left to
right. His glare made them both start to let go.
At this moment, Chu Qianmiao threw the birthday hat on Ren
Yan's head.
"Let me die! I'm not a physical force anyway!"
With monkey-like swiftness, she leaped and threw the birthday hat on Ren Yan's
head. Ren Yan glared at Chu Qianmiao fiercely.
Qin Qianyu and the others froze like wooden statues, not
daring to move.
The whole world suddenly fell silent.
They held their breath, wary of Ren Yan's outburst at any
second.
And then…
"Alas."
He unexpectedly lost his murderous aura, sighing helplessly.
"Alright, both of you let me go, too."
…Did he just accept this?!!!
Qin Qianyu quickly took a sneaky photo and posted it to a
departmental private group where Ren Yan wasn't present. People on another
project immediately began to frantically share it.
"Oh my god! I'm dead! I was so frightened I almost
died!"
"Qin Qianyu, you freak! You scared me to death! Is this
our President Ren?!"
"Oh my god! Why is President Ren so frightening lately?
he'll leave you for the party, but he even wore something as silly as a
birthday hat. And after that, he didn't even kill you to silence you?!"
…
At exactly twelve o'clock, Ren Yan was forced to wear his
birthday hat until everyone finished singing him happy birthday by candlelight.
By the time he finally got to take the silly thing off, he was completely
exhausted.
Chu Qianmiao distributed cake to everyone. She looked at the
eager, almost suicidal eyes of those holding cakes and watching him, alarm
bells going off in his heart: "If you try to throw cake at my face or
body, you won't survive..."
As he said "won't survive," Chu Qianmiao poked the
cream on her cake with her finger and, in a flash, lifted her foot and smeared
it on his cheek.
"...Tomorrow."
He uttered the last two words, but their power was gone.
Chu Qianmiao looked at Ren Yan. He was stunned for a brief
moment, his eyes shifting unfocusedly, as if he hadn't decided what to do next:
should he fulfill his promise and flip the cake and throw a tantrum, or pretend
he hadn't said anything and continue eating cake with everyone else as if
nothing had happened?
Chu Qianmiao bared her teeth and smiled coquettishly at Ren
Yan. The karaoke was muted, and the screen flashed different images. Colorful
lights flashed on her face, flickering on and off, making her eyes sparkle. She
looked at him with such sparkling eyes and a coquettish smile. What else could
he do?
Ren Yan sighed and said, "Hurry up and eat your cake.
We'll be gone after that. We'll have a meeting tomorrow."
Everyone: "..."
After leaving Chun K, Ren Yan ignored the others, telling
them to go home and find their mothers. He took care of Chu Qianmiao. Since she
was the only woman present, she received the honor of being personally driven
to the car.
In the car, Chu Qianmiao rubbed her seatbelt and asked Ren
Yan, "Senior, I want to ask you something..."
Ren Yan: "Go ahead."
Chu Qianmiao leaned sideways, her back against the passenger
door, her hands gripping the seatbelt in front of her, pulling it up and down.
She stared at Ren Yan's profile and asked, "So, do you really not remember
me? And what happened back in school?"
Ren Yan turned his head to glance at her calmly, then turned
back to the road.
"Why are you asking so suddenly?"
Chu Qianmiao unconsciously tugged at her seatbelt.
"Because that time when I was driving for you, I casually mentioned I was
a Virgo, and you remembered it and even revealed that today wasn't my birthday.
So, what kind of amazing memory do you have? If you can even remember something
I casually said, how could you not remember that we knew each other back in
school..."
The light ahead turned red, and Ren Yan stopped the car and
turned to look at her.
Chu Qianmiao saw a hint of... teasing in his eyes?
"Do you remember the first time we met?" he asked
calmly.
"I do!" Chu Qianmiao straightened her back,
meeting his gaze and question. "It was in a large class. I was playing
three roles and answering questions for three of my senior classmates. You were
sitting behind me at the time!"
Ren Yan: "..."
"I'm asking you about our first meeting last
September." After a pause, he said, "Do you remember who ordered your
longevity noodles with an egg?"
Chu Qianmiao: "…………………………"
Her mind was flooded with a barrage of "f*cks."
What the hell was she thinking?! She had actually forgotten
that their first meeting on the Hanhai project was her birthday!!!
Chu Qianmiao cried out, covering her face with her hands.
Her mind was swirling with thoughts.
Okay, she was overthinking it. She thought he was pretending
not to know her, and now she had finally caught him.
Come to think of it, if he remembered her, why would he
pretend not to?
But then again, she's only twenty-four. How could she be
suffering from Alzheimer's already?!
The light's green. Ren Yan glanced again at the embarrassed
girl beside him, covering her face and humming, and the corners of his mouth
curled up silently again.
She's... quite interesting indeed.
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