However, Ji Xiran really hadn’t expected that Chu Yuan would actually remain so despondent over this matter for so long.
For the next entire week, Chu Yuan basically didn’t step a foot out the front door, nor did she eat much. Even when several batches of private chefs were brought into Ji Xiran’s house to cook, she would just eat two casual bites and feel full.
To turn a lively and cheerful little foodie into such a despondent state, all it took was one Yan Dai.
Seeing Chu Yuan so utterly crushed and unable to get back up, Ji Xiran felt that she disliked… no, loathed. Yan Dai even more than before.
During this week, Chu Yuan made a very difficult decision, which was, she would not proactively contact Yan Dai anymore.
So for a whole week, Chu Yuan did not have any contact with Yan Dai. But this didn’t mean she didn’t care about how the other person was doing; it was purely due to the petty emotions of disappointment and sadness catching up to her.
When Ji Xiran found out, she was ecstatic.
Because wanting Chu Yuan to not proactively look for Yan Dai was practically equivalent to the sun rising from the west.
In the past, after just a day or two, Chu Yuan wouldn’t be able to resist looking for her.
Scrolling up through the chat history between Chu Yuan and Yan Dai, it was always Chu Yuan who initiated the conversation, and the interval between messages never exceeded three days.
“Sister, how is the weather in Berlin right now?”
“It’s already dark on our side, I’m preparing to wash up and sleep, it should be daylight over there, right?”
“Sister, what did you have for breakfast today? I had milk toast again…”
“Currently walking Lucky in the park downstairs!”
And so forth.
Chu Yuan was either asking Yan Dai how things were over there or proactively sharing her own daily routine.
Whenever Yan Dai received a message proactively sent by her, she would reply rather briefly with a few words. It could basically be counted as an instant reply, and every question was answered.
It was just that every answer was as brief as an AI, lacking even half a shred of human touch.
Therefore, Chu Yuan was never satisfied. She felt that Yan Dai’s attitude toward her was far too cold, and the relationship between them was simply too bizarre, not looking like a married couple who had been together for years at all.
Not only that, but Chu Yuan even felt that Yan Dai’s attitude toward her wasn’t as good as an AI’s. If she proactively shared her daily routine with an AI, perhaps the emotional value the AI provided would still be higher than that of Yan Dai, a real person.
Sometimes when she was deeply heartbroken, she had even let her imagination run wild. Could the reason her Sister Yan was so difficult to win over be that she had an unforgettable white moonlight ex-girlfriend? Otherwise, what was the meaning of remaining utterly indifferent after marrying a wife who was beautiful, sweet tongued, and proactive?
Look, look. This week, she had worked so hard to restrain herself from proactively looking for Yan Dai, nearly suffocating herself to death.
Yet, the moment she stopped being proactive, the chat box between her and Yan Dai seemed to have died completely, not moving even an inch.
Adding Yan Dai on WeChat was inferior to adding a WeChat service account or public subscription page, at least the latter would pop out a push notification or two almost every day.
The first day of losing touch with my wife, miss her. The second day of losing touch with my wife, so sad; …The seventh day of losing touch with my wife, Chu Yuan wants to smash the entire Earth.
And on the eighth day of no contact, after there was still no movement from Yan Dai’s end, Chu Yuan had completely given up hope.
During these seven long days of being out of touch and in a cold war with Yan Dai, it could be said that Chu Yuan hadn’t eaten well or slept well. When Ji Xiran finished her wild fun outside and returned home, she didn’t forget to stoke the flames:
“Yan Dai hasn’t received your messages, she probably feels a weight off her shoulders, not needing to carve out time from her busy schedule to reply to your texts.”
“Then again, maybe she’s in a foreign country right now with beautiful foreign women on her left and right, and doesn’t give a damn whether you send messages or not…”
Just see how wicked this Ji Xiran person could be. Her good friend was already heartbroken to this extent over love, yet she consistently stoked the flames instead of comforting her and more than once, at that.
Son of a gun, go to hell! Even the most refined upbringing was completely overwhelmed by anger and sadness right now.
So on the eighth day, Chu Yuan turned her grief and indignation into motivation. In one go, she directly ate two large bowls of rice and made up her mind. “I want to go out and play now!”
Chu Yuan, who had been a depressed shut-in for an entire week, finally figured things out and wanted to go out. This was simply a miracle to move heaven and earth.
The moment Ji Xiran heard this, she joyfully clapped her hands hard. “Good, good, good! You should have done this long ago. Who cares whether Yan Dai lives or dies? It’s most important that we have fun ourselves first.”
Chu Yuan shoved two more mouthfuls of rice. “Exactly. Even without Yan Dai, I will still be very happy.”
In this world, no one is guaranteed to die just because they left someone else. Even without Yan Dai, she had to live her own life well.
This week, Chu Yuan had also been thoroughly heartbroken and had truly seen the light.
Constantly chasing after Yan Dai was useless. If it were useful, three years would have passed by now, and she and Yan Dai should have been passionately in love long ago.
Chu Yuan planned to let herself go wild first, to fix her own mood before anything else. As for whatever Yan Dai, Tang Dai, or Cong Dai, let her roll off to the side for now.
Ji Xiran: “If only you had thought this through earlier. Yan Dai…”
Finishing her food, Chu Yuan wiped her mouth and interrupted what Ji Xiran was about to say next. “Don’t mention her anymore.” It had taken her a painstaking, entire week to finally convince herself to temporarily stop thinking about Yan Dai and stop being so miserable.
If the people around her kept bringing her up, when would she ever truly adapt to the days without Yan Dai?
Ji Xiran naturally agreed a million times over. “Fine, fine, fine. No mentioning, no mentioning.” Originally, she wasn’t particularly keen on bringing up that person Yan Dai either.
Setting down her bowl and chopsticks, Chu Yuan asked again: “Where are we going to play today?”
“Wherever you want to go, we go. As long as you’re happy.” Ji Xiran directly brought out her usual rhetoric for picking up girls: “Everything goes by your word today, as long as you’re happy.”
Even if there were beautiful older or younger sisters in her contact list asking her to go out today, she wouldn’t go, she would exclusively accompany Chu Yuan for the day.
As long as Chu Yuan’s mood could turn for the better.
Hearing this, Chu Yuan became happy.
No wonder Ji Xiran was so popular with girls. With such an authoritative model of charm, coupled with an affluent family background and a humorous personality, she was practically the dream older sister in the lesbian community.
It was just a pity that the two of them were far too familiar with each other. Having grown up together since childhood, there was only familial affection between them, without a single spark of ambiguity.
As she thought about it, Chu Yuan uncontrollably thought of Yan Dai again. If Yan Dai’s personality were like Ji Xiran’s, holding all the women on Earth in the palm of her hand would probably be an effortless task, right?
Wait, why did she uncontrollably think of Yan Dai again? Hadn’t she already resolved not to think of Yan Dai today!
Seeing the way Chu Yuan mysteriously began to daze off again, Ji Xiran waved her hand in front of her face. “What are you dazing off for? Accompanied by a peerless beauty like me, have you gone foolish with joy?”
Ji Xiran truly never failed to act improper.
Chu Yuan’s mood was coaxed a bit better, and with a “pfft,” she burst out laughing, throwing the messy thoughts she had just harbored out of her mind.
As expected, temporarily forgetting the person named Yan Dai did have some effect on improving her mood.
Chu Yuan: “I want to go to a place with lots of girls, to hang out with pretty older sisters.”
Ji Xiran: “Isn’t that an incredibly easy thing to do? Let’s go straight to Wink Bar for drinks, and after that, head to a KTV to sing, or go to Xue Qinghuan’s private pool for a swim.”
Chu Yuan naturally had no objections and agreed on the spot.
After all, when it came to knowing how to have fun, probably no one could beat Ji Xiran.
Chu Yuan was determined to have a grand time today. As for her bad mood, she was a person of action, no sooner said than done, she ate her meal, dolled herself up a bit, and immediately headed out the door with Ji Xiran.
Yet, despite all their calculations, they failed to calculate that when the two of them walked downstairs, a car was already parked outside Ji Xiran’s private town house.
The style, color scheme, and license plate of that car were exceptionally familiar.
Even if that car were to instantaneously turn to ashes on the spot right now, Chu Yuan would still be able to recognize who the owner of the vehicle was in a split second.
Upon seeing that car, Chu Yuan dazed off for a moment, and her heart uncontrollably skipped a beat for two seconds, but soon she gave a small, self-mocking smile.
How could it be possible? How could it be her returning? She had been gone for half a year. Even if she were to return, it couldn’t possibly be right now. Perhaps the car just looks similar. Even if this is indeed her car, it might be someone else driving her private car out.
Although Chu Yuan’s inner thoughts kept denying it, it would be a lie to say she didn’t harbor a tiny shred of anticipation.
For a person with a germaphobia like hers, her private car usually wouldn’t be given to outsiders to use…
Could it be that there really is a tiny sliver of possibility that she has returned?
They had agreed to temporarily forget Yan Dai, but in reality, it was still quite hard to achieve.
The mere appearance of a casual car caused Chu Yuan to helplessly think of her again.
The mood that had finally managed to improve slightly instantly became exceptionally complex once more.
Complex to the point where it couldn’t be summed up by a simple word.
Just as she couldn’t resist raising her head to look in the direction of that car again, Ji Xiran’s shocked and somewhat disgusted tone suddenly echoed by her ear as she uttered a name: “Yan Dai?!”
Yan Dai is back? She really came back?
Chu Yuan’s footsteps abruptly came to a halt, nearly performing a flat surface trip right on the spot.
This time, she didn’t even have the courage to lift her head to sneak another glance in that direction.