Chapter 25: All Issues Develop

Shi Yan’s extraordinarily stunning eyes had been mounted on her. When he heard her intoxicated phrases, he smiled as an alternative. Though the smile was mild, it was extraordinarily handsome. When he smiled, it was like there have been stars swirling in his eyes, and other people couldn’t assist being dazed by it.

She thought that the attractive and alluring feminine ghost in Unusual Tales from a Chinese language Studio may not even be half pretty much as good as him.

All of the sudden, there have been bustling sounds on the entrance of the toilet. It appeared like many individuals had been strolling in collectively. Ruan Zhizhi frowned and listened rigorously a number of instances. She was just a little stunned to seek out that they had been truly males’s voices. 

What was occurring tonight, was everybody ingesting an excessive amount of? Why had been so many individuals going to the incorrect bathroom?

She opened her mouth and was about to say one thing to Shi Yan, however she noticed the opposite individual’s forehead furrow. The following second, earlier than she might react, he came visiting and grabbed her. Then, virtually similtaneously the actions of the group outdoors the toilet, the folks on the door got here in whereas she was rapidly pulled into one of many stalls by Shi Yan. He swiftly sat her down on the bathroom.

The realm within the stall was slender. The area that would initially accommodate one individual was now full of two folks. Ruan Zhizhi was just a little extra sober now. She regarded round and located that she had nowhere to go. With none higher possibility, she resigned herself to leaning in opposition to the bathroom, face-to-face with Shi Yan within the cramped area.

The few individuals who had are available had been clearly considerably drunk. At current, they gathered collectively to smoke and chat, telling salacious jokes in a frivolous method.

Ruan Zhizhi listened to them for some time and felt just a little embarrassed. Simply when she wished to speak, Shi Yan prolonged his hand and tightly coated her mouth.

“Wu…”

With an ambiguous protest in her mouth, Shi Yan frowned. He leaned down to satisfy her eyes and mentioned in a low voice, “Ruan Zhizhi, how many individuals do you need to find out about you going into the lads’s washroom incorrectly?”

Ruan Zhizhi was surprised. She blinked and eventually managed to settle down.

Seeing her settle down, Shi Yan additionally took his hand away from her mouth. 

The ambiance fell silent. At this second, the 2 folks within the stall appeared to type a very completely different world from the folks outdoors. The others had been intoxicated in a stunning world of luxurious, whereas they lived of their small world the place time stood nonetheless. 

Afraid that her consciousness was unclear and she or he would fall off the bathroom, Shi Yan wrapped one hand loosely round her waist. He crouched down midway, relating to Ruan Zhizhi attentively along with his ink-black pupils. Then, he reached out and pulled a tissue from the facet. With a really tender expression, he slowly wiped the remaining alcohol stains and filth on the nook of her lips. 

Ruan Zhizhi noticed his actions, bit her lip, and tried to show her face away. Just a little embarrassed, she whispered, “Don’t wipe, it’s soiled.”

Shi Yan ignored her. He reached out and turned her face again. After wiping off all of the filth on her face, he gently smoothed her messy hair. “It’s not soiled, it’s very clear.”

In his coronary heart, she had all the time been cleaner than anybody else.

Her coronary heart was pounding madly and uncontrollably along with his ambiguous phrases. Ruan Zhizhi watched him in a daze. All of the sudden nervous, her fingertips trembled barely. Instantly after, her face slowly turned purple. 

Actually, it was too embarrassing. How come, as long as she got here throughout something associated to him, she would turn into in contrast to herself? Her present look was precisely like that of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old lady who had simply skilled her first awakening of affection. The place was the shadow of the mature, white-collar metropolis lady?

After composing herself, she tried to degree her tone, “Shi Yan…can I ask you a query?”

“Say it.”

Receiving the opposite occasion’s permission, Ruan Zhizhi thought deeply in her coronary heart earlier than persevering with: “You as soon as informed me that you simply actually, actually like a lady very a lot. Are you able to inform me who she is?”

If the reply was not the one she thought, then she would quit.

It was higher to get away as quickly as doable than to be caught in a quagmire with no method out.

It was hopeless to attend for somebody to like you. It was too despairing. She couldn’t take it once more, and she or he didn’t need to repeat the identical tragedy twice in her life.

Shi Yan’s pupils trembled imperceptibly. He opened his mouth, his normally calm and unperturbed tone changing into just a little erratic: “You actually need to know?”

“Actually, I actually need to know.”

“Ruan Zhizhi, if you understand, you may’t return.”

His tone was very mild and detached, but the ultimate syllable trembled just a little, as if some sort of hidden emotion had emerged from the bottom. Together with her seemingly non-existent encouragement, it had already unfold past management and will solely be allowed to develop frantically.

Incited by the alcohol, Ruan Zhizhi nodded with out the slightest hesitation. “Say it, I received’t return.”

Shi Yan checked out her and smiled with an expression of utmost cherishing. His options, which had been all the time chilly, appeared to be coated with a layer of gauze, hazy and tender. She was enchanted by his smile. He checked out her, then opened his mouth to talk.

At this second, Ruan Zhizhi all of a sudden heard Li Sichen and Lu Wanyi’s voices outdoors, calling her identify one after one other anxiously.

Li Sichen and Lu Wanyi had reacted instantly, in all probability as a result of she had disappeared for too lengthy, making them uneasy.

Shi Yan clearly heard their voices too. He thought of it and lifted Ruan Zhizhi up from the bathroom first. “Are you able to stroll now?”

She nodded cautiously.

“There’s nobody outdoors anymore, I’ll take you out.” As he spoke, he reached out and helped Ruan Zhizhi tidy her hair rigorously. And not using a second thought, he naturally crouched down and informed her, “As for the query you simply requested me, if you happen to nonetheless need to know after sobering up, you may come and discover me any time.”

Ruan Zhizhi, irrespective of how lengthy, I’ll all the time anticipate you.

Enticed by Shi Yan’s affected person tone which was arduous to return by, Ruan Zhizhi didn’t converse. She tried to remain calm and nodded, and was then led out of the lads’s washroom by him step-by-step.

Recalling how she had vowed to tell Shi Yan that he had gone to the incorrect rest room, she instantly wished to discover a gap to bury herself in. 

Strolling out of the lads’s room, her ears had been as soon as once more occupied by the DJ’s deafening music. Ruan Zhizhi wrinkled her brows. For some unknown cause, on this chaotic place of women and men, she subconsciously leaned in opposition to Shi Yan.

In her coronary heart, Shi Yan had already turn into an individual she might fully depend on at will.

So maybe the state of affairs was a lot worse than she anticipated.

As quickly as the 2 handed by means of the hall in entrance of the washrooms, they noticed Li Sichen and Lu Wanyi with nervous expressions within the crowd.

When Lu Wanyi noticed her, she virtually burst into tears: “Zhizhi, the place did you run off to? As quickly as I sobered up, I found you had been lacking, are you aware how apprehensive I used to be? There are lots of people right here, what would I do if one thing occurred, wu wu.”

Ruan Zhizhi heard the choked sobs in her voice and her coronary heart warmed. “I’m tremendous, I simply went to the toilet to scrub my face as a result of I used to be dizzy, that’s all.” After talking, she turned her head to see Li Sichen, who was nonetheless gasping for air. He had been working round urgently simply now. She mentioned with some guilt, “I’m sorry, I allow you to guys fear.”

“Zhizhi, are you aware that I used to be scared to dying after I went to the bar and couldn’t see you?” Fully ignoring Shi Yan, who was standing beside her, Li Sichen rapidly walked over and grabbed Ruan Zhizhi’s shoulders with each arms. The edges of his eyes had been just a little purple. “Promise me that you simply received’t make me unable to seek out you once more, okay?”

Ruan Zhizhi lifted her head sluggishly. Finding out his anxious expression, she didn’t know how you can reply for some time. 

Shi Yan, who had been silent all this time on the facet, all of a sudden laughed mockingly. “Li Sichen, if you happen to actually love her, don’t give her the prospect to depart your sight, and don’t all the time consider trying again after lacking your alternative.” When he mentioned this, he took an unyielding step ahead and inserted himself between Li Sichen and Ruan Zhizhi, separating them. “Nobody will cease and anticipate you ceaselessly.”

It was as if Li Sichen had simply found the existence of Shi Yan at this second. Since Shi Yan was half a head taller than him, he needed to increase his head barely to see the opposite individual’s eyes. “Shi Yan, what place do it’s important to say these phrases to me? What sort of individual are you to Zhizhi?” He paused. To not be outdone, he additionally fired a counterattack: “Three years in the past, the individual Zhizhi selected was me, and three years later, it would nonetheless be me.”

Shi Yan leaned in opposition to the wall along with his arms folded over his chest. His black eyes shone astonishingly brilliant within the room full of lights. When he started to talk, his tone of voice was as apathetic as all the time: “Nevertheless it’s so apparent—you may’t care for her effectively, and you may’t love her greater than you like your self.”

Ending there, he regarded down at Ruan Zhizhi. His tone softened. “Zhizhi, you deserve significantly better.”

Instantly, as if somebody had hit the nail on the top on his sore spot, Li Sichen’s shoulders shook imperceptibly. He turned his head to have a look at Ruan Zhizhi, who was in a daze beside him. He stretched out his hand, his eyes stuffed with pleading. “Zhizhi, don’t hearken to him. Return with me, okay?”

His appears to be like, actions, and voice had been clearly no completely different from the individual she had appreciated probably the most earlier than. However now, gazing into his eyes, Ruan Zhizhi might now not discover these emotions the place her coronary heart raced in bewilderment. 

Time and area appeared to reverse again to the day of Gu Nian’s wedding ceremony at this second.

On that day, and at the moment, she had additionally stood between Shi Yan and Li Sichen like this, confused and at an entire loss. 

Many fleeting ideas swept by means of Ruan Zhizhi’s muddled mind in a flash. In the long run, all of them wove collectively into that individual’s detached and proud face.

She used to suppose he was lonely by nature, however now she realized that perhaps his loneliness was all about ready for a reunion.

She used to suppose that he was chilly by nature, however now she realized that perhaps the hearth in his coronary heart solely burned for one individual. 

No matter whether or not the lady he had saved in his coronary heart for a few years was her, she was unwilling to desert him once more.

The ambiance was eerily silent, a clear-cut distinction to the enthusiastic crowd on the dance ground. Lu Wanyi wore an expression like she had gone to the incorrect set, and couldn’t assist however quietly watch the love triangle scene earlier than her. 

Ruan Zhizhi pursed her lips. She was silent for a second, then lastly raised her head. She gazed at Shi Yan with a pitiful expression and issued a request: “Shi Yan…if in case you have time, can you’re taking me house?”

Translator’s Notice: Hahaha Li Sichen, your face should harm. Additionally I think about Lu Wanyi watching this complete change like O_O