Stood Her Up
He raised his wrist to look at his watch. It was already four in the afternoon and the meeting was expected to drag till seven in the evening or so. He asked her, “What time will you finish your school today?”
“5.30.”
“I’m having a meeting now, it’ll finish about seven or so in the evening.”
“No problem, I’ll wait for you!” she interrupted. “I’ll look for you at your office after class.”
“Sure, you can decide what you want to eat.”
“Curry crab!”
“… Curry crab?” He frowned. “With your classmate?”
Alright! He had to admit that he had developed an aversion to curry crab by now.
“… No, just the two of us,” she replied bashly.
Now, that’s more like it.
“Okay, you come and wait for me at my office after school.”
“Got it!”
After the call, she could not help having a silly smile on her face as she held the phone in her hands.
Her bestie gave her a friendly knock on her shoulder and teased, “Yo, look at how happy you are, and you still claimed that you didn’t like him!”
“…”
Can’t you let me savor the sweetness for a little while?
…………
After class, she took a ride over to his office.
He was still in a meeting, but his assistant, Shi Rong, took good care of her.
“Uncle Shi Rong, don’t worry about me, go and get busy with your stuff! I’ll do my homework here.”
She took out her textbooks from her school bag like a good girl, slumped on Chi Zuxu’s workstation and started to revise her work seriously.
The thought of having curry crab with her crush later was simply too good to be true; she couldn’t wait!
After one hour…
Someone pushed the office door open, Chi Yi looked up, full of anticipation. “Third Uncle!”
Alas, she was disappointed to see a woman entering the room instead. The studious and gentle lady caught sight of Chi Yi in the room and greeted politely, “How are you?”
She was startled to see the stranger.
Right at this moment, the door opened again and this time, Chi Zuxu walked in.
He was stunned to see the woman at the door. His dark orbs seemed to display impenetrable emotions for a fleeting moment before he asked in his baritone voice, “Why are you here?”
He sounded like he knew her, but he stayed aloof.
“I heard that you’ve returned from overseas so I came here to look for you…” She eyed him with a look of innocence.
“Why are you looking for me?” he asked with indifference, holding a slight scowl on his face while loosening his tie.
“Can we talk?”
This woman was not as pretentious as Su Jieyu. Her gentleness seemed genuine. She looked like the type that men would want to protect and yet unlikely to incur women’s wrath at the same time.
“Let’s have dinner!” Lin Wenyu suggested softly.
Chi Yi was perturbed when she heard that.
Inside her heart, she was screaming, “No, don’t!”
She did not want anyone to be a light bulb between her uncle and her later!
Chi Zuxu was equally surprised to hear that. Glancing at his niece seated at his desk, he looked down before nodding.
The man then turned around to pass instructions to his assistant. “Shi Rong, get the chauffeur to send missy back!”
Sending me back?
She was taken aback.
What does he mean by that…?
She had waited an hour for him for this meal and now, she was not invited along? Or perhaps, she did not even have the right to join them?!
Is he conveniently standing me up for this woman?
“That’s not necessary! I can go back by myself!”
She dumped her books into her bag. Without bothering to clear the table, she clasped the bag and dashed out angrily.