nChapter 79: Missing the Days When We Were Young (9)

nTranslator: Paperplane Editor: Caron_

nI don't want to get married, yet I think that's all I can do...

nHe Jichen suddenly remembered what she said to Qian Ge in the afternoon at the film studio,

"Qian Ge. You're wrong. It's easy to escape your trap—as long as I get married...

"

nHe Jichen's footsteps suddenly came to a stop.

nJust to get out of Qian Ge's trap, is she really prepared to get married?

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"But I really didn't want to get married...

" After a while, the disordered Ji Yi spoke again incoherently.

nHe Jichen snapped back to his senses and continued to walk with a calm expression on his face. He kept walking steadily to his car.

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"Don't want to get married, don't want to get married...

" she repeated those words over and over again, with a more assured tone of voice.

"...I don't want to get married a single bit...

"

nAll of a sudden, a gust of breeze brought in a bone-cutting chill that caused her to shiver. Her mumbling voice cracked, but He Jichen still heard what she said.

"... I've had someone I want to marry for many years now. Since many years ago, I've had...

"

nHe Jichen suddenly stopped walking. The next second, he silently walked over to the car with Ji Yi on his back, pulled the car door open and carefully helped her get inside.

nWith the dim yellow light from the lamppost, He Jichen stared at Ji Yi for a while then closed the door. He walked to the front of the car and sat inside.

nIt was silent in the car. The woman sitting in the back wouldn't stop repeating the same sentence over and over.

nHe Jichen stared at the road ahead calmly.

nIt was early evening, and all the lights just turned on. Outside the car, the multicoloured neon lights shone endlessly over his handsome complexion and revealed his tightened jaw.

nHe Jichen didn't take her back to his house like he had when she had stomach pains. Instead, he brought her to the Four Seasons hotel near the school.

nHe searched for her ID from her bag to book the room. As she slept soundly in his hands, he carried her up the stairs.

nHe entered the hotel room, gently laid Ji Yi on the bed, and tenderly pulled the covers over her.

nHe stood by her bedside for a long time until her breathing relaxed. Then, he turned the lights off and tiptoed out.

nIt was already one in the morning when he left the Four Seasons hotel. He Jichen stood on the empty streets with a cigarette lit. Under the dim lights of the lamppost and through the clouds of smoke, he suddenly thought back to that night they had a one-night stand. Back then, he also stood on the street afterwards like this. This scene really brought him back to that night.

nBut when lay her down, she gently said those words that crippled his heart. He thought back to her words

"I don't want to get married, yet I think that's all I can do...

"

nHe Jichen didn't move an inch as though he'd turned to stone. It wasn't until the cigarette burned out and burned his finger that he snapped back to his senses and put out the cigarette.

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