A CERTAIN SOMEONE ( THE ON1Y ONE )

Chapter 017 - Half-Sentence

I Said We Could Give It A Try.

The car stopped at the entrance to White Horse Lane.
Jiang Tian paid and exited the car first, yet Sheng Wang did not for a long time. He went around to the other side before he realised that this ancestor was quietly waiting for someone to open the door for him, a bag of medicine in his hands. Clearly, the chauffeur spoiled him.

Jiang Tian, completely done, opened the door. Sheng Wang then elegantly stuck out a leg, and even gave a polite smile. “Thank you.”
He had his bag hanging off one shoulder, and medicine in his hands. It was not exactly easy for him to get out of the car.
Jiang Tian almost could not stand it anymore as he held onto the car door. He stuck his hand out and said, “Give me the medicine.”
Sheng Wang very courteously replied, “No.”
Jiang Tian, “......”
He could only offer another suggestion. “Wear your bag on both shoulders.”
Sheng Wang said, “Uncool.”
Jiang Tian gave up.

Sheng Wang stubbornly insisted on the pose of carrying his bag on a single shoulder while carrying a bag of medicine in his hands. The moment he left the car he went into the depths of the alley like it was nobody’s business. He was not clumsy in a hundred ways like the other drunkards. If some girls from Fuzhong saw him, they would probably compliment that he was pleasing on the eyes while blushing.
…...It was just that he looked a little lonesome.

For a brief moment, Jiang Tian somewhat suspected that this person was not really drunk, but rather he was acting unreasonable and shameless with the excuse of alcohol. If he was truly drunk, he would not care about his image this much.
Yet, Sheng Wang who already went quite a distance suddenly turned to look at him, and went all the way back to the start.

Jiang Tian thought that the other person was waiting for him to go together. Unexpectedly, Sheng Wang nodded up at him and said, “Where’s your phone?”
“Why?”
“Take it out and take a video.”
“Video of what?” Jiang Tian’s brows furrowed and was perplexed. Still, his hand reached into his pants’ pocket, and hesitantly dug out his phone.

He swiped at the screen, and the screen switched to the camera.
In the shot, Sheng Wang stood beneath the street lamp, and his shadow was stretched longer by the light. The tip of his foot kicked at the uneven ground, saying, “This shitty road is so bumpy and full of potholes, and yet just now, I was walking in such a straight line. Did you catch that?”

Maybe the hoarse and nasally voice that uniquely came with a cold was too good at swindling people or something. Jiang Tian, while holding the cold expression that said ‘I don’t actually want to talk to you’, was speechless for a moment before he said, “I caught that.”
After he spoke he turned around to double-check —
Thank the heavens, the driver that sent them back had long since disappeared. It was just him and Sheng Wang in this entire alley. This stupid conversation did not happen with other people around.

“What’s the point of only catching it,” The leader delivered his order once more, “film it down.”
“......”

Jiang Tian speechlessly stared at him for a good while. His thumb swiped at camera mode, and said in a light voice, “I’m convinced you’re truly drunk now.”

The distance from the entrance of the alley to the Shengs’ ancestral home was less than 300m. They walked for twenty minutes, and a certain person went back and forth three times. Jiang Tian’s half a lifetime supply of patience was all used here.

The commotion that accompanied their entrance into the courtyard was a little much, the people inside probably heard them. Soon enough, the door was wide open, and Jiang Ou stuck her body out of the door while wearing a knitted cardigan, saying, “The two of you are back at last. Why are the both of you so late? I thought — why are you holding up your phone?”
“Who knows.” Jiang Tian mocked under his breath, and kept his phone back in his pocket.
He followed the request and filmed the entire journey, now that there was another person, he really could not afford to lose face over it.