Beautiful Time With You

Chapter 4 : I'm Different from the Two of You

Staring at Lin Jiage, Lu Benlai couldn't help but exclaim with a sigh, "Boss sure is good-looking! Even I find it difficult to resist him, let alone Belle Qin!"

"Aren't you stating the obvious? Don't you know that the greatest mystery of Room 501 is which is more superior: our boss's gaming talent or his charming looks?"

Lying on his bed in preparation to sleep, Xia Shangzhou shot back while fiddling with his phone. Suddenly, he exclaimed loudly, "Woah, Sis Yao accepted my friend request! Sis Yao said that she'd play with me tomorrow night. Ahh, Sis Yao's voice sure is heavenly. Even her IGN is beautiful. She's Yao Loves Ice Cream while I'm Expert of the Monkeys, both of our IGNs have four words each. We must be really compatible with one another..."

Lu Benlai: "Sis Yao? Hehe 1 , are you two that friendly? You've only just met, and you're already calling her Sis Yao?"

Xia Shangzhou: "That's none of your business. She's my Sis Yao, so I'll call her what I want. Sis Yao, Sis Yao, Sis Yao, Sis Yao..."

Sis Yao, Sis Yao, Sis Yao... Yao... Lin Jiage, who hadn't spoken a word all this time, abruptly froze in the middle of drying his hair.

Perhaps it was because of the identical character in their names, but a face suddenly flashed through his mind—that young lady he'd met at SPK Shopping Mall after eating with his friends...

A short, slim, and delicate figure, paired with snowy skin and large eyes, her appearance was certainly exquisite and beautiful, completely unlike that emaciated lass he'd met in the past...

If Liang Mumu hadn't told him that she was Shi Yao, he would have never dared to believe that she was the same little fiancée his grandfather had forced on him.

Beside him, Lu Benlai and Xia Shangzhou were still squabbling with each other.

This level of noise was the norm for their room, but at this particular moment, Lin Jiage found it especially unbearable.

He casually placed his towel on one of the chairs and headed for the balcony.

...

Everyone had their own personal preferences, and for Xia Shangzhou, it was the voice.

After bidding [Yao Loves Ice Cream] goodbye, he spent a moment reminiscing the various scenes they had spent together in the game, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt stirred up by [Yao Loves Ice Cream]'s voice.

Thinking of how he could spend a good time playing with [Yao Loves Ice Cream] tomorrow, Xia Shangzhou sat up and turned to Lin Jiage and Lu Benlai; the former had already climbed onto his bed, and the latter was still playing games on his laptop. He said, "Tomorrow's Valentine's Day, and it just so happens that we're the same kind of people— single dogs 2 . It's not like we'll have anything to do, so how about we spend tomorrow night playing together with Sis Yao?"

No response.

Xia Shangzhou glanced at Lin Jiage then Lu Benlai, and eventually, he decided to tackle Lu Benlai first. "Little Lailai, two hundred bucks. Take it or—"

Before Xia Shangzhou could finish his words, Lu Benlai had already replied decisively, "I'll take it!"

Having successfully taken down Lu Benlai, Xia Shangzhou turned his gaze back to Lin Jiage and asked, "Boss?"

Lin Jiage didn't respond.

"Boss?"

Xia Shangzhou called out once more, but Lin Jiage still didn't speak. Thinking that the latter might be asleep, he decided to give up for the time being and try again tomorrow.

Thus, Xia Shangzhou returned to his bed, but just as he was about to shut his eyes and go to sleep, the silent Lin Jiage suddenly spoke up, "I'm different from the two of you."

Xia Shangzhou and Lu Benlai were bewildered by Lin Jiage's sudden words, but it didn't take too long for them to realize that he was responding to Xia Shangzhou's previous sentence, " ... it just so happens that we're the same kind of people—single dogs ".

Lu Benlai stood up from his laptop, ran over to Lin Jiage's side, and asked curiously, "How are we different? What do you mean by that? It can't be that you've finally graduated from being single? Who is it? Belle Qin?"

Xia Shangzhou: "Boss has left the single life? The ten-thousand-year-old sago palm tree has actually flowered 1 ? Our great Campus Adonis Lin, renowned for being "the inviolable existence whom everyone wants to sleep with", actually has a girlfriend?"

Lu Benlai and Xia Shangzhou began vehemently discussing the matter, but after seeing that Lin Jiage wasn't saying anything, the duo traded meaningful gazes before exclaiming in unison, "Boss, it can't be that you didn't find a girlfriend but a boyfriend instead?"

Lin Jiage opened his eyes and glanced at the two men impassively before replying with composure, "What I meant was that I'm part of the single nobility. It's just the two of you who are single dogs."

"Heck—"

"Hell—"

They should have known that with their boss's "silent in wait, devastating in action" mouth, no good words could possibly come from him!

Facing Xia Shangzhou and Lu Benlai's displeasure, Lin Jiage calmly pulled his blanket over himself and closed his eyes once more.

But for some reason, Lin Jiage didn't feel sleepy at all. After lying down with his eyes closed for some time, he couldn't help reaching out for his phone.

Unlocking his screen, he noticed that there were several notifications from both his WeChat and phone messages.

He first tapped into WeChat before checking on his messages, where he noticed the new message that Shi Yao had sent him:  [When do you plan on telling your family that our engagement is canceled?]

Pressing his lips together for a moment, Lin Jiage raised his hand and began typing on his phone screen.

But a moment later, he stopped.

There were only a total of three messages on the texting screen.

Two were from her, and one was his response.

— [Lin Jiage, this is Shi Yao. The reason I'm texting is to tell you that I want to cancel our engagement.]

— [Fine]

— [When do you plan on telling your family that our engagement is canceled?]

Lin Jiage stared at his phone for about a half a minute before deleting the words he'd typed. After which, he switched off the screen and threw it to the side.

He closed his eyes once more, but as if possessed, the young lady whom Lin Jiage had met at the SKP Shopping Mall surfaced in his mind once more...

If he recalled correctly, back when his grandfather had first told him about his engagement, he'd been strongly opposed to it. On the other hand, she hadn't seemed to have much of a reaction to it back then.

Six years had passed since then, and in that time, she'd never expressed the slightest objection towards the engagement. Why would she propose to cancel it now?