Yu Haiqiao’s cooking skills were so admirable to the point that even when I was consumed with anger, after taking two bites of his cooking, I was willing to temporarily yield to him. And because this merit of his rarely made an appearance, I magnanimously decided to let him go and let him live through tonight.
However, this dog Yu Haiqiao did not only have a nasty mouth, he was picky and a habitual liar. Something that I also found that made him deserve a little Oscar award was that, every time I tried to talk to him about a topic he disliked, he would always extremely naturally evade the discussion.
At this moment, I calmly took two sips of the soup with a lot of effort and he forcefully brought back the topic I mentioned yesterday, “This afternoon, Chen Xie invited me out to drink coffee.”
Hearing this, I immediately accommodated him and put down my chopsticks, snorting coldly, “Do you still remember when I asked you to accompany me to go see Mayday[1]’s concert last year. You told me you had to go to work.”
Yu Haiqiao looked at me and blinked, appearing slightly perplexed.
“It turned out, you had skipped out on work to accompany your ex-girlfriend for coffee.” I looked at him with angry eyes.
Yu Haiqiao stared at me and slowly blinked, then, he suddenly curved his eyes and shot me an extremely innocent smile, “Shi Ran, your memory is pretty good.”
I despised it whenever he put up an act. That’s right, this b!tch was putting up an act, his talent for pretending to be dumb was extraordinary.
The number of times I fought with him since young were too many to count and seeing that there were no gender conflicts arising back then, coupled with him being stronger than me as a kid, after being pressed down by him many times on a stool, on a table, against the wall, to the point where I couldn’t even budge, I would immediately bawl out of frustration and silently vow in my heart that I wouldn’t ever pay attention to this dog Yu Haiqiao.
My mom had even let me know of this. She said that I cried snottily all the way home and when she asked in bewilderment what had happened, in the end, Yu Haiqiao who lived next door, carried my backpack home and told her, “A stray dog suddenly appeared near school and it was particularly fierce, I got so scared.” The conclusion that my mom obtained was that–ahh, Shi Ran must have been scared by dogs. The next time you see a dog, don’t run. The more you run, the more the dog will want to chase after you.
Yu Haiqiao has always been a b!tch since he was young. In the end, my mom even warmly gave him the little cake I particularly liked and even praised him for being such a courageous child, thanking him for bringing back the schoolbag I left behind.
This matter happened when I was in my second or third year in primary school so my memory of it wasn’t too clear. I only remembered secretly vowing to never pay attention to Yu Haiqiao for the rest of my life.
In the end, as if nothing had happened, he stood at the door of my house the next day, waiting for me to go to school together. I ignored him and he blinked so innocently as if I had remembered yesterday’s events wrong and asked me, “What’s the matter?”
That was the first time the young me has ever experienced an inhumane urge to shove a person’s head into the toilet and flush it.
However, this b!tch Yu Haiqiao brought up one of the events that happened in one of our future fights. Back when I had fought with him during our second year in elementary school, after he had tried to curry favor with me every possible way he could, I had agreed to make peace with him on the surface, but in reality, I had eaten several lollipops he had bought from the snack shop and made him carry my bag for several days. Moreover, after enjoying his sincere display of apology, I immediately sold him out to his mother and even stood in front of his house, telling his mom with red eyes and a pitiful appearance, “Auntie, Yu Haiqiao hit me.”
In the end, his mother’s heart immediately turned into a puddle and she threw out a washboard, asking him to kneel on it and reflect on his mistake while facing the direction of our house. He even told me with a face of resentment, “You were even f*cking laughing at me back then, like a sick pervert.”
How could I admit to this matter? In any case, I would treat the matters that I don’t remember as events that never happened.
However, from what I remember, after that incident, Yu Haiqiao no longer picked a bone with me any longer. Even when I couldn’t help myself from hitting him due to his nasty mouth, he endured it and didn’t hit me back, his mouth patiently explaining, “My mother told me that boys and girls have their differences and as a boy, I shouldn’t bully girls.”
At that time, I had even happily thought that Yu Haiqiao was finally going to turn into a good person who wouldn’t hit or snap back, but in the end, this dog didn’t even let me rejoice for one second and looked at me with an extremely doubtful gaze, “But, can you even be considered a girl?”
At that time, I nearly broke into tears from anger. I was still a weak and innocent little lady back then and I didn’t know how to handle a dog like Yu Haiqiao. I was angered to the point I ignored my mother’s words about the weather being too cold to wear skirts and wore one to school for a few days to prove that I was, without the slightest falsehood, a girl, but this b!tch Yu Haiqiao didn’t notice my skirt at all, even egging me, who was wearing a pink dress so cute that I couldn’t help but appreciate myself in front of the mirror for a long time, to flip over the parallel bars.
He was sitting on the parallel bars together with a few boys from class and was beckoning me over, “Shi Ran, what are you pretending to be a lady for? Bring out your shrewdness from when you nearly kicked me into the sewers and come play with us.”
This dog Yu Haiqiao simply didn’t deserve to appreciate beauty, causing me to catch a cold and be hooked onto an IV drip for 3-4 days.
*
In order to let Yu Haiqiao know just how good my memory was, I even smiled at him, curving my eyes, “In second grade of elementary school, you pushed me down to the floor and beat me up.”
Yu Haiqiao blinked, “You blabbed to my mom so I had to kneel on a washboard for nearly 3 hours. By the time I was allowed to get up, I nearly lost use of my legs.”
I glared at him and said with a quivering voice, “Fifth grade elementary school, you’d just learnt how to ride a bicycle and insisted on having me sit behind you. In the end, the wheels not only scraped my legs, you even threw me down from the bike and even until now, the scar I got from it is still on my head.”
Yu Haiqiao promptly broke eye-contact and slowly turned his gaze away, feigning ignorance. Seeing victory approaching, I was about to continue attacking him when he suddenly shifted his gaze back and stared at me affectionately, “Shi Ran, you’re so pretty, that scar is like a medal to your beauty.”
I snorted coldly. He wanted to disgust me so that I couldn’t even be bothered to continue the conversation and even lost the appetite to eat anymore but that didn’t happen because I knew him all too well. I was even able to tell what evil thoughts he had just by blinking. I stared at him and mocked, “Do you remember there was a guy in our junior high class who seemed to have some feelings for me…”
Yu Haiqiao sighed exaggeratedly, “Are you referring to the boy who didn’t seem to be very bright called Yang Wei with the very unusual hairstyle, wore unusual clothes, never passed his exams, only answered ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ every time the English teacher called on him, and was half a head shorter than you?”
“….” Yu Haiqiao’s memory was too good for his own sake.
After spitting out a string of mocking words, he continued to make fun of me, “Shi Ran, I hold very high suspicions towards your taste in men.” He then sighed exaggeratedly, “Then again, why is it that every guy you take fancy to, was shorter than you?”
I immediately got provoked by this b!tch’s words and argued back in reply, “Let’s be honest. I wasn’t the one who liked him. HE liked me.”
Yu Haiqiao scoffed, “Probably because you look stupid and easy to deceive.”
I scoffed at him coldly “That’s right. If I wasn’t easy to deceive, would I have married you?”
Yu Haiqiao immediately sighed, “To be married to me is your fortune.”
“Let’s divorce.” I bluntly spat out two words.
This dog Yu Haiqiao spread out his hands in front of me with a smile, half-heartedly urging, “Don’t~”
This abnormal b!tch Yu Haiqiao was so thick-skinned. I furiously picked up my chopsticks and once against started eating, earnestly warning myself that this dog was a man so I couldn’t win against him in a physical fight, instead, I decided to just give him the silent f*cking treatment!
He didn’t deserve to say a single word to me.
[1] Mayday is a Taiwanese band