Chapter 78: Huai Dan’s Perspective part 1 [Extra]
After the wedding, Luo Jing continued his internship at Huai Dan’s company.
Their relationship became public knowledge, including among all the company’s employees.
Although they were married, Luo Jing’s behavior at work was the same as before.
He still got along well with his colleagues, which halted the progress of the sense of distance everyone was still trying to establish.
Sometimes, looking at Luo Jing, they even felt a disconnect between him and his identity as “Mr. Huai’s partner.”
But this feeling would instantly vanish whenever they saw Mr. Huai personally come to get him.
Assistant Yan, having been the first to notice the clues, readily accepted all of this, even gossiping with Luo Jing in his free time.
The day after Luo Jing returned to work, during break time, in that same infamous break room, Assistant Yan carefully scanned their surroundings for half a minute. After confirming there was no danger, he turned to Luo Jing, who was pouring water.
“Hey,” he had been holding it in all day—or rather, for a while now, and finally couldn’t contain his curiosity. “Little brother, who pursued who between you and Mr. Huai?”
Although this person was the boss’s partner, because Luo Jing was so approachable, and they had gotten along well, Assistant Yan hadn’t adjusted his form of address yet.
He had initially wondered if it was a business marriage.
But judging by Mr. Huai’s unusual attitude towards Luo Jing, which was obvious to everyone, he felt this question might be redundant.
And it didn’t seem like anyone could force Mr. Huai into a marriage.
In comparison, he was more curious about their relationship history.
It was too amazing. How did Luo Jing manage to win over their boss, who seemed completely uninterested in relationships?
Luo Jing, having just finished pouring his water, thought carefully, then replied uncertainly, “I guess it was both of us.”
“?” A question mark slowly appeared above Assistant Yan’s head.
“Then how did you two get together?” he asked after a pause.
Luo Jing pondered, trying to recall.
After a moment, he said seriously, “We just got together.”
How they got together was a long story. He couldn’t just say that Huai Dan gave him a coin that night, and they were together.
Especially since he was the one who gave Huai Dan the coin in the first place.
What was even more ridiculous was that Huai Dan had taken the coin back two days ago.
Luo Jing had casually placed it on the bookshelf in Huai Dan’s study. Later, they searched for it everywhere, and it was Plastic Bag who found it first.
Its final resting place was in the safe at the bottom of their wardrobe.
Luo Jing, seeing it placed together with important documents, property ownership certificates, other unidentifiable items, and their marriage certificate, felt it was utterly absurd.
Then he belatedly regretted it.
Although the coin was relatively new and unmarked, it was just an ordinary coin, probably change he had received from a supermarket or convenience store.
If he had known, he should have bought a special commemorative coin to toss that day…
Assistant Yan, not knowing what Luo Jing was thinking, felt like he was being brushed off.
But persistence always paid off, and Assistant Yan continued to pry.
“Then who confessed first?” he asked more specifically. “You can’t have just gotten together without any clear process, right?”
This question had an answer. Luo Jing collected his thoughts and replied briefly, “He did.”
Although he had also been planning to confess at the time.
But Huai Dan beat him to it.
Receiving an answer completely different from what he had expected, Assistant Yan was stunned.
He stared blankly for several seconds, then asked with difficulty, “Huh?”
After his initial shock, he became puzzled, wondering how their boss could possibly like Luo Jing.
He felt that Mr. Huai was either working or on his way to work, how he even had time for a relationship was a true mystery.
Luo Jing felt this question deserved deep thought.
Because he also couldn’t figure out when Huai Dan started liking him.
So after returning from the break room, Luo Jing pondered this question while working, but he couldn’t find the answer.
He hadn’t thought about this question before, so he hadn’t asked either.
But he had a lot of work today, and Huai Dan was even busier, so he didn’t have the opportunity to get an answer for now.
Until they went home after work.
Huai Dan was driving today. As the car passed through a tunnel, Luo Jing, after hesitating for five minutes, decided to just ask.
“Brother,” he turned to Huai Dan and called out.
Huai Dan, who was driving, replied, “What’s up?”
“Then when did you start liking me?” Luo Jing asked, then added, to make his question seem less abrupt, “I already told you.”
The man was silent for half a minute, either thinking or simply spacing out. After a while, he finally spoke again: “You told me?”
“…”
He looked at Huai Dan, his eyes asking, “Of course, why?”
Huai Dan glanced at him through the rearview mirror and smiled faintly.
Actually, at first, Huai Dan had only seen Luo Jing as a child he happened to meet, a likeable child.
After the winter vacation ended, Luo Jing had to go back to school, and he was also busy. Children were forgetful, and he had thought they would gradually lose contact, just a brief interlude.
But to his surprise, Luo Jing seemed to like him more than he had expected.
They stayed in contact throughout Luo Jing’s high school years. Huai Dan wasn’t the type to easily maintain relationships, and after his parents passed away, there were even fewer people he could talk to.
But because of a certain child’s excessive enthusiasm, Luo Jing became a special presence in his network of relationships.
He would tirelessly share his daily life with him, full of energy. Sometimes, looking at his messages, he could briefly escape from his busy and stressful state.
It was a strange way to de-stress, but surprisingly effective.
Because of this, although they didn’t have many opportunities to meet, their online communication never ceased, and their understanding of each other gradually deepened. Huai Dan sometimes felt like he really had a younger brother.
Later, he took the time to attend a school board meeting for a school his company had been funding, even though he was incredibly busy at the time, and the meeting didn’t actually require his presence.
His only purpose was to see Luo Jing.
When they met, the little boy in his memory had grown taller, his face losing some of its childishness.
But he had boldly sent him messages, asking him to touch his watch and adjust his tie while he was on stage, then pretended not to see him and tried to sneak past him when they actually met.
So Huai Dan, looking at that inexplicably guilty back of his head, helplessly called out to him.
At first, Huai Dan thought Luo Jing was simply shy because they hadn’t seen each other for a long time, but seeing the boy’s eagerness, even suggesting skipping class, to have dinner with him, Huai Dan felt he had been overthinking.
He inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief.
He had to admit, he hadn’t really wanted that to happen.
After watching Luo Jing leave reluctantly, Huai Dan left the area and sat down on the sofa outside the auditorium, briefly dealing with some messages from his assistant.
After a while, most of the students had dispersed, and the school principal came over to him and respectfully explained the afternoon’s itinerary, which included attending a class.
Huai Dan nodded, then suddenly asked, “Is the class pre-determined, or can I choose?”
The principal was stunned, then instantly became nervous.
This school board member was too serious.
He quickly replied, “Of course you can choose. We haven’t rehearsed anything. You’ll see the most authentic teaching quality of our school’s faculty…”
So Huai Dan chose Luo Jing’s class.
Halfway through the class, the principal had someone bring in a chair and gestured to the teacher who was lecturing.
This teacher had been teaching here for several years and was experienced, so he remained calm, nodded, and continued his lecture.
Seeing this, the principal breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, this Mr. Huai hadn’t chosen a class with a new intern teacher.
The group entered the classroom during the lecture. Although the school board members didn’t deliberately draw attention to themselves, the commotion wasn’t small, so the students turned their heads to look.
Then, seeing the situation, they quickly turned back and sat up straight.
There were only about twenty students in the class, so among the upright figures, a certain sleeping student’s head stood out.
Luo Jing’s seat was in the last row.
Huai Dan had briefly scanned the classroom but hadn’t seen him, even thinking he had gone to the wrong classroom, until this moment.
The principal also saw this and closed his eyes, feeling his heart sink.
He felt a pang of nervousness, gave Huai Dan an awkward smile, and was about to go wake up the student when the man beside him stopped him.
Principal: “?”
Then he watched as Mr. Huai moved his chair closer to the sleeping student and didn’t seem to have any intention of waking him up.
Principal: “???”
He couldn’t understand what he was thinking, but he seemed calm and not unhappy, so he could only let it go and nervously settled the other school board members.
Luo Jing was fast asleep.
His head was turned towards him, half his face pressed against his arm, his cheek slightly squished, his eyes closed, his eyelashes casting small shadows on his eyelids.
Huai Dan watched him for a while, the scene overlapping with Luo Jing’s sleeping face when he was little, and he felt that Luo Jing hadn’t changed much.
The teacher on the podium was explaining the questions seriously, and the students below listened attentively in silence. The classroom was quiet.
Huai Dan relaxed, casually picked up a pen from Luo Jing’s desk, and wondered when this big kid would wake up.
He waited until the end of the class.
When the bell rang, the teacher finished his last sentence and ended the class on time. Huai Dan, however, didn’t leave immediately.
The other school board members, following his lead, also stayed in their seats.
Huai Dan looked down at the boy sleeping on his desk, not even waking up when the bell rang, and wondered what time he had gone to bed last night.
After sitting for a while longer, he sighed softly, put the pen back on Luo Jing’s desk, and finally decided to intervene in this untimely sleep.
He first tapped his knuckles on Luo Jing’s desk, but Luo Jing only stirred slightly, showing no signs of waking up, so he nudged his arm.
This time, it worked.
Luo Jing’s eyelashes trembled, and he opened his eyes slightly, still looking very sleepy.
Huai Dan, looking at him, found it amusing and teased, “This student, did you sleep well?”
Luo Jing’s reaction wasn’t what he had expected.
He froze, then his half-closed eyes suddenly widened, a sleepy haze in them.
He looked at Huai Dan, flustered for some reason.
The fluster seemed to be mixed with other emotions, indescribable, but captivating.
People always remembered certain scenes they hadn’t even realized they were noticing, scenes that inexplicably became ingrained in their subconscious.
So Huai Dan remembered this scene for a long time.
After that day, Luo Jing suddenly became quiet.
Their communication didn’t stop, but he wasn’t as active as before.
As if something was on his mind.
He didn’t really understand children these days. He even casually asked his assistant, who said that perhaps children became more reserved as they grew older, needing their own space, and wouldn’t be willing to share everything with others.
He even used his relative’s child as an example.
“Mr. Huai, all kids are like this,” the assistant said seriously.
Huai Dan, after listening, felt it was indeed a possibility.
But he wasn’t quite used to it.
They were both busy during that time, without much time to meet, so this subtle state lasted for a long time.
Until one afternoon, a project Huai Dan had been working on for a long time finally came to an end.
He had been incredibly busy during this period, and the employees, following his lead, had also been working overtime. Fortunately, the final result was good, and Huai Dan gave them bonuses. Since the next day was the weekend, he gave them half a day off.
When he finished organizing the last of the documents and left his office, the entire floor was empty.
Huai Dan took the elevator to the parking garage, where his driver had been waiting for a while.
“Mr. Huai,” the driver, Xiao Yu, had been getting some fresh air because it was too stuffy in the car. Seeing his boss come down, he immediately greeted him respectfully.
Huai Dan nodded slightly and simply said, “Let’s go.”
The car drove smoothly on the road, and Huai Dan sat in the back, leaning back and closing his eyes to rest.
He didn’t know if it was because he had been too tired recently, but his head seemed to ache faintly.
He really needed to rest.
As he was spacing out, his phone in his pocket vibrated. Huai Dan took it out and checked the message with half-closed eyes, his expression indifferent.
Seeing who the sender was, his unconsciously furrowed brows relaxed slightly.
Luo Luo: [Brother, I booked the wrong test center. I accidentally booked the one near your place for the day after tomorrow morning.]
H: [Coming over?]
Luo Luo: [Yes.]
So Huai Dan asked for his flight information and told his driver he needed him to work overtime tomorrow.
This was their first meeting in a long time.
More than a year had passed, and much had changed. Luo Jing seemed different from their last meeting.
The only difference was that he seemed a bit awkward for some reason.
As if he didn’t dare to look him in the eye.
Was he shy because they hadn’t seen each other for so long?
Huai Dan lowered his eyes.
Perhaps because it was his first time traveling alone and he was inexperienced, Luo Jing forgot to book a hotel.
It was actually just as well.
Because Huai Dan hadn’t considered the possibility of Luo Jing booking a hotel. He had planned for him to stay at his place from the beginning, so it would be more convenient to take care of him.
He only thought of this possibility when the driver asked him where they were going.
It wasn’t until that evening that Huai Dan learned why Luo Jing had been so awkward.
After dinner and sitting for a while, they each returned to their rooms.
After washing up, Huai Dan didn’t go to bed immediately, but opened his laptop and started reading the meeting minutes.
He had postponed a not-so-important online meeting this afternoon to pick up Luo Jing.
After skimming through them, Huai Dan rubbed his forehead, closed the laptop, placed it on the bedside table, and opened his phone.
Just then, a new notification popped up.
[@DontWantToMemorizeVocabulary111: (Sad)]
Although Huai Dan had downloaded Weibo, he didn’t use it much. His nickname was still the default username, and his post count, following count, and follower count were all zero.
Until Luo Jing created a Weibo account, and his following count became one.
Huai Dan’s fingers hovered over the screen, then he clicked on the notification.
Luo Jing had posted this Weibo post two hours ago, and there were already quite a few comments.
Someone asked if he was feeling down.
After briefly browsing through the comments, Huai Dan pondered for a moment, put away his phone, got out of bed, and went to the door, opening it slightly.
He had originally planned to go to Luo Jing’s room.
But as soon as he stepped out, he saw the boy who had been expressing his sadness online two hours ago sitting in the dark living room, hugging a pillow.
He looked a bit pitiful.
So he inexplicably felt a pang of sympathy.
“So you’re saying, you like me because I was holding a pillow?”
They were home now, and Luo Jing was sitting on the same spot he had sat that evening. Hearing Huai Dan’s words, his eyes widened in disbelief.
After thinking for a moment, he looked around, grabbed a pillow, and showed it to Huai Dan: “Is it this one?”
He then hugged the pillow: “What about it? Touching?”
“…” Huai Dan walked over, a bit amused and helpless, and ruffled Luo Jing’s hair: “I don’t know if that was the exact moment, but it might have been the beginning.”
His explanation was a bit abstract, so Luo Jing looked up at him, blinking in confusion.
But feelings didn’t always have a clear starting point.
They could also be formed from countless unconscious, unnoticed moments, gradually piecing together.
By the time they were discovered, it was already too late.
“But I…” Luo Jing, sitting cross-legged on the sofa, extracted a key point. “You were following my Weibo that early? Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Yes,” Huai Dan replied, changing the subject. “I only followed one person at the time.”
Luo Jing: “…”
“Brother, what’s your Weibo account?” Luo Jing quickly interrupted this dangerous topic, took out his phone, and said seriously, “I’ll follow you right now and unfollow everyone else…”
With this beginning, everything else became traceable.
He had a low fever late that night, and Luo Jing took care of him. And the next day, when he thought Luo Jing had already left, he suddenly reappeared. The impact of that moment wasn’t insignificant.
But at the time, he hadn’t understood this feeling yet, it wasn’t clear.
After that, they didn’t have a chance to meet again.
Luo Jing’s visit was like a brief interlude, but the memories of those two days were strangely vivid. After that, their communication became even more frequent.
Something seemed to have changed, yet also nothing had changed.
One day in late summer, Huai Dan received Luo Jing’s flight information.
AAA.Holiday Wholesaler Xiao Luo: [Brother, I’m leaving on this day.]
AAA.Holiday Wholesaler Xiao Luo: [Will you come see me off?]
Luo Jing’s school started late, and it was already autumn when he left.
When they met, the boy in the distance was wearing a windbreaker, standing at the airport gate, looking down at his phone.
Luo Jing had always been eye-catching, and standing still, empty-handed, amidst the crowd of people with their luggage, he naturally attracted a lot of attention.
Then Luo Feng came out, and Luo Jing looked up, and they started talking.
Huai Dan paused, looking at Luo Jing, suddenly not in such a hurry to leave.
Although it had been a while since they last saw each other, his feelings this time seemed different.
Before leaving, Luo Jing hugged everyone in his family, so their hug seemed very natural.
It was just a simple hug, nothing special.
Before seeing the tears in his eyes, Huai Dan had also thought so.
Luo Jing smelled clean, like laundry detergent, with a faint warmth, very much like himself.
This seemed to be their first hug.
Luo Jing buried his face in his left shoulder and suddenly sobbed softly.
Huai Dan felt it, paused, then lowered his eyes and gently ruffled his hair in comfort: “Remember to contact your brother when you’re abroad.”
Although it sounded like a common courtesy, Huai Dan wasn’t one for courtesies.
He was serious.
“I will,” Luo Jing replied, then pulled away from his embrace and looked up at him. “Brother, wait for me.”
It was a somewhat ambiguous sentence, but his expression was firm.
At the same time, there were tears in his eyes, and the corners of his eyes were slightly red, which, combined with his current expression, created a strange feeling, making Huai Dan freeze for a moment.
This scene was also inexplicably etched into Huai Dan’s memory.
Ignoring the strange feeling in his heart, Huai Dan simply replied, as if to hide his reaction, “Mm.”
There was a short report meeting in fifteen minutes.
Assistant Yan came to Huai Dan’s office with the materials, intending to remind him to go to the meeting room.
He placed the documents in front of Huai Dan and spent about half a minute briefly explaining the meeting agenda. After he finished, he waited for a while, but Huai Dan didn’t respond.
Assistant Yan instinctively thought he had made a mistake and looked at Huai Dan nervously, ready to be reprimanded, but he was surprised to find that Huai Dan seemed to be distracted.
So Assistant Yan’s unease turned into surprise.
Huai Dan was looking down at his phone screen, his expression unreadable, seemingly no different from usual.
But his employee’s intuition told Assistant Yan that the boss wasn’t in a good mood.
“Mm,” Assistant Yan hesitated, and just as he was about to speak again, Huai Dan seemed to snap back to reality, calmly put away his phone, picked up the documents, and stood up. “Let’s go.”
“Mr. Huai… Mr. Huai?”
An employee finished his report but didn’t receive any feedback from Huai Dan, so he looked at Assistant Yan nervously.
Assistant Yan could only remind him.
This was the first time he had seen his boss so distracted since he started working here.
“I heard you,” Huai Dan replied. “Good job.”
So the employee was relieved.
Huai Dan didn’t need to speak at this meeting. He just had to listen to the employees’ reports and give his feedback.
The rest of the meeting went smoothly. After it ended, everyone left the meeting room and returned to their workstations. Huai Dan also returned to his office.
On his desk, his phone screen was lit, displaying the Weibo trending topics.
The trending topic was about a celebrity on an overseas tour, photographed by paparazzi having dinner with his girlfriend.
The photo had a good atmosphere. It showed the two standing side by side at the restaurant counter on a snowy day. Although only their side profiles were visible, and there wasn’t any intimate contact between them, the scene was harmonious, and with the media’s embellishment, it became very suggestive.
Huai Dan knew this celebrity named Xie You.
He was the only person Luo Jing followed on Weibo.
This misleading marketing account was quickly debunked. The young master of Fengjing Entertainment personally clarified the rumors and posted a group photo with the group members and staff on his Weibo.
He was wearing the same clothes as the “girl” in the picture.
[Our Xiao Xie is still on the rise, he doesn’t even have time to date, he’s so busy with the tour, which rival company did this? Lawyer’s letter warning.]
[This is the fastest face-slapping I’ve ever seen. Paparazzi, can you be more careful next time?]
[Thank you, Young Master Luo, for clarifying (prayer hands)]
[Not a girlfriend, but a boyfriend (certain)]
[After so many years, my CP has food again, I knew they were still in contact privately.]
[More dinners, more dinners, I’m happy if they’re happy.]
[It wasn’t just him and Xie You having dinner, there were so many people in the picture, are you blind?…]
Huai Dan stared at the picture for a while, his fingers unconsciously tapping on the screen, then exited the app and opened Luo Jing’s chat window.
The last message was from a day ago, Luo Jing saying that he was very busy recently, with so much homework he couldn’t finish it all.
Was that so?
A few days later, Luo Jing called him, saying he wanted to see him.
The boy on the other end of the phone had been drinking, so his words were a bit disjointed, and he seemed difficult to handle.
It wasn’t very late. After parking the car and returning home, Huai Dan didn’t go to his bedroom immediately but sat in the living room for a while.
The flight booking confirmation was still in his notifications. After the initial impulse subsided, he found that he had no intention of canceling the plan.
He was indeed acting a bit unusual.
Huai Dan looked at the notification again, then opened Luo Jing’s chat window.
H: [Drink some warm milk. Don’t drink casually next time.]
Ye Lin’s questions were still hanging in their chat window. After his initial shock, he started sending messages again.
He was excited, gossipy, and clearly very free.
Ye Lin: [What’s the matter?]
Ye Lin: [What do you mean by personal matters? What personal matters could you possibly have?]
Ye Lin: [Which country? Who are you seeing? What are you doing?]
Ye Lin: [Don’t tell me you’re actually in love?]
Ye Lin: [It’s very immoral to leave me hanging like this, bro!]
Ye Lin: [I’ll assume you’re agreeing if you don’t reply.]
H: [Going to see Luo Jing.]
The other end instantly fell silent.
After a while, Ye Lin reappeared, his words cautious and suspicious despite the screen separating them: [Oh, Luo Jing.]
Ye Lin: [Why are you going to see him?]
Yes, he would go see him, and then what?
He had changed his entire schedule for the next few days just because of a drunken sentence, words Luo Jing himself might not even remember when he woke up.
Just to see him?
Huai Dan lowered his eyes.
H: [Who knows?]
Seeing these four ambiguous words and a punctuation mark, Ye Lin fell silent again.
In his silence, an absurd thought slowly surfaced in his mind.
And he couldn’t suppress it anymore.
The atmosphere had reached this point, it would be impolite not to ask.
Ye Lin hesitated for a moment, then asked sincerely: [Don’t tell me you like him.]
Huai Dan stared at those words for a few seconds, then turned off his phone without replying.
The flight was long, so Huai Dan had plenty of time to think.
About why he was making this trip, what his feelings were, and what exactly he felt for Luo Jing.
It was a night flight, so the cabin was quiet, and the lights were turned off shortly after takeoff.
In this situation, emotions seemed to be amplified infinitely.
Huai Dan closed his eyes, but he wasn’t sleepy.
Falling for his friend’s younger brother, someone he had practically watched grow up, was absurd.
The plane landed at night.
His phone reconnected to the network, and a flood of messages arrived, including one from Luo Jing.
The message was from half an hour ago.
Luo Luo: [Brother, there are so many people here today.]
Luo Luo: [(Picture)]
Luo Jing had told him a few days ago that he was going to see a newly built fountain at a square with his friends tonight.
Huai Dan didn’t have much luggage, so he had it sent to the hotel and took a taxi.
When he found Luo Jing, he was standing by the wishing well.
The boy was looking up at the rising water jets, the fountain’s lighting effects beautiful, the colorful lights reflecting in his eyes and on his hair, which shimmered with the changing water flow, making him look very lively.
It was cold, and Luo Jing was wearing a white down jacket and a thick scarf.
Most of his face was buried in the scarf, his hands in his pockets, his ears red, looking quite cold.
The boy was clearly enjoying himself. The girl standing in front of him suddenly tossed a coin into the pool.
Then Huai Dan watched as Luo Jing, after watching the whole thing, froze for a moment, his hands moving in his pockets, then he took out his wallet and, under the light of the fountain, took out a coin.
Huai Dan couldn’t help but chuckle.
Luo Jing looked at the coin for a while, then, as if having made up his mind, tossed it—but to his surprise, he didn’t toss it into the wishing well, but upwards.
So the coin naturally fell and rolled a short distance.
In his direction.
Luo Jing froze, his eyes widening slightly, then he quickly squatted down and chased after the coin.
But he seemed so focused on the coin that he didn’t even notice him.
The coin finally stopped by his shoes.
Huai Dan looked at the top of Luo Jing’s head, sighed softly, then squatted down, picked up the coin, and handed it to him.
The moment their fingers touched, Huai Dan felt that Luo Jing’s hand was too cold, so he instinctively covered the back of his hand with his own.
“Why are your hands so cold?” he asked.
Huai Dan had imagined many possible reactions from Luo Jing upon seeing him.
Perhaps a brief moment of surprise, his eyes widening in shock, even jumping up and down excitedly, then, after reacting, asking him happily when he arrived and why he suddenly came.
But he hadn’t expected this.
Luo Jing just stared at him, frozen, for a long time.
When he looked up, Huai Dan noticed his slightly red eyes.
And his voice had seemed a bit choked when he thanked him just now.
But before he could react, tears started falling from the boy’s eyes without warning.
Huai Dan froze, then felt a wave of helplessness as Luo Jing’s tears streamed down his face.
And a subtle heartache.
Huai Dan stayed with Luo Jing for a week.
One evening, as they were sitting in the living room, each doing their own thing, the atmosphere peaceful, Huai Dan suddenly asked casually, “When are you graduating?”
Luo Jing froze, stopped what he was doing, thought carefully, and gave him an approximate date: “Why?”
“Nothing,” Huai Dan said. “Have you thought about where to intern after returning to China?”
Luo Jing was currently looking for references for a part of his assignment that needed revision, so he replied casually, “Probably at my family’s company, it depends on my sister’s arrangement.”
Huai Dan nodded and didn’t say anything more.
At the airport, Luo Jing had given him the coin from that night.
He had said, “I hope all your wishes come true, brother.”
Huai Dan had accepted it.
On the plane, he played with the coin the entire way.
Then, when he got off the plane and turned on his phone, he saw a message from Luo Jing’s alternate account.
L: [Sorry, I’ve thought about it for a long time, let’s break up.]
L: [It’s like this, I’ve met someone I like more in real life. I feel like I shouldn’t indulge myself in this online relationship any longer. Let’s end it here. I’m really sorry.]
Huai Dan: “…”
