Chương 147: Chapter 64 (part 1)

When Ning Wan woke, her mind was still working a little slow. Absently, she wondered if last night had been a dream.

However, it was only six o'clock in the morning when she picked up her phone, and there was already a message from Fu Zheng waiting--

"Are you awake?" This one had been sent at half past five.

"Probably not yet." This one was five minutes later.

"Are you free today?"

"If you are, can we meet up?"

"Forget it, pretend I didn't ask that last sentence. Even if you're not free, I am, and I would still like to meet up."

……

Because Ning Wan had still been sleeping during all these texts and hadn't replied, they all looked like Fu Zheng's own monologue. He was doing very well talking to himself at 5: 30 in the morning, and had sent Ning Wan over a dozen rambling messages--

"I wonder if you'll wake up at eight?"

"Maybe you'll wake up at seven."

"When you do, give me a call."

……

Ning Wan couldn't help herself. She laughed. Up until that moment it hadn't felt real, but she had really gotten Fu Zheng. She looked at all these messages and imagined him typing them out seriously on his phone, and felt like it was incredibly cute.

She picked up the phone almost immediately and called him--

The result was that Fu Zheng, who had been very eloquent over text, seemed somewhat awkward on the phone, as if he was a little nervous. "Are you awake?"

"I am."

"Do you have some time to go to an amusement park?" He paused. "I have something to tell you."

Fu Zheng was a little nervous, and Ning Wan's heart was pounding like a drum. Although they were technically in a relationship, when she thought back to her terrible confession last night Ning Wan was so embarrassed that she wanted to find a hole to bury her head in. What had she said last night?! Had she seriously analyzed the pros and cons of liking herself as if it were a case study and persuaded the other side to like her as soon as possible, all the while looking as though she was doing it "for his own good"?...

There was really no one who could outdo her...

It was just quite unexpected that it had actually worked on Fu Zheng...

"I--I do, yes." Ning Wan tried not to blush. "Where should we meet?"

"Downstairs at your apartment."

"How soon will you arrive?"

Fu Zheng's tone seemed to calm down. "About half an hour."

But just as Ning Wan was about to reply, she heard the sound of a drill from downstairs. Recently, the shops downstairs were being renovated, and even on weekends construction would start after eight o'clock, making it very noisy. Ning Wan didn't mind that, but at almost at the same time, she heard that exact drilling sound coming from her phone speaker--

Ning Wan pursed her lips. "Fu Zheng, where are you?"

At the other end of the line, Fu Zheng had started coughing in an attempt to cover up the background sound.

"You're outside my apartment building, aren't you?"

Still trying to deny it, Fu Zheng insisted, "No, I'm just doing some decorating..."

But it was too late - everything that needed revealing had already been revealed. Ning Wan rushed to the balcony and looked down to see a handsome man standing under the tree near the apartment building's flower bed. In a light casual jacket and navy pants, his legs looked slender and long.

At that very moment, Fu Zheng also looked up and was completely caught off guard to see that Ning Wan was watching him from the balcony.

"Were you really going to stand out there for half an hour?" Ning Wan asked, laughing so hard she could barely speak. "And pretend that you'd just arrived when the time came?"

Embarrassed to have been caught red-handed in a lie, Fu Zheng finally gave up denying it. He was silent for a moment before attempting to use a calm and natural tone to correct her. "Oh, I just checked. Today is Saturday, so there won't be any morning rush hour or traffic jam. I won't need half an hour after all."

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Ning Wan didn't expose him. Holding her phone, she watched his figure downstairs and laughed, "How long do you think you'll need?"

Fu Zheng seemed to consider a moment, even pretending to check his watch, and then she heard him say--

"I could be there now."

This man, seriously. She had seen him downstairs with her own two eyes, yet he still wouldn't admit defeat and was changing his story to save face.

But when she thought about how Fu Zheng was thirty, older than she, she could spare this little bit of face for him. Ning Wan held back her smile. "Well then, when you get here, come straight upstairs. Anyway, you're familiar with my place."

"Alright, I'll try to get there as soon as possible."

Only a moment after she hung up, Fu Zheng, who had sounded like getting to her place early was going to be oh-so-difficult, arrived at her doorstep. Ning Wan brushed her teeth, washed her face, and opened the door to let the solemn man into her living room. "Have a seat."

She poured him a glass of water and remembered something, "Have you eaten breakfast yet?"

He had started texting her at 5: 30am, and who knew when he had arrived downstairs. The man probably hadn't eaten. Even if he had, he might be hungry...

Sure enough, Fu Zheng hadn't.

Ning Wan cocked her head to one side. "Then I'll make you something for breakfast! Just a minute!"

A girlfriend's handmade breakfast would definitely impress Fu Zheng! But unexpectedly, the moment Ning Wan said that, Fu Zheng produced a bag from behind--

"I brought some. We can eat together."

Ning Wan discovered something that she hadn't noticed earlier - Fu Zheng had actually brought his own 'rations'. She opened it to find a beautifully packaged lunchbox. Judging from the brand on the outside, it was the very pricy, custom-ordered breakfast from a restaurant that Ning Wan had only heard about. Next to the lunchbox was a bouquet of fresh pink roses, their petals still full and strong and wet with dew.

Feeling Ning Wan's eyes resting on him, Fu Zheng coughed. "I just happened to pass by the flower store when I was leaving. It was convenient, so I bought them on a whim."

"What about the custom breakfast?"

"Also picked it up on a whim."

"Oh..."

If she remembered correctly, you had to make a reservation in advance to get this custom-order breakfast, and the price was very dear indeed.

Not wanting to corner Fu Zheng, Ning Wan smiled. "I'm going to go change. Next time, don't buy something so expensive."

"It wasn't expensive..."

Ning Wan picked up the pink roses and smelled them. Then she heard Fu Zheng say from behind her--

"Don't accept pink roses from other people in the future."

Before Ning Wan could respond, she heard him continue, "Not even from that Zhang Zichen, even if he's young and has a mental illness."

"After all, he's so young, and he's sick too, he probably doesn't have a strong grasp of social conduct. If you accept flowers from him, he might misunderstand the relationship between the two of you and become paranoid. That would be bad for the child, it'll stunt his development and make it hard to control his illness."

"If you like pink roses, I can send you a bouquet of them every day."

"So you don't need to accept any from him. Just tell me what you like and I'll buy it."

Fu Zheng paused between every sentence, and his tone was rough and dry due to embarrassment. But upon listening, Ning Wan was finally able to pinpoint the taste in these words. Some time ago, Zhang Zichen's condition had come back under control and he had been able to return to school. To express his gratitude, he had bought herself a bunch of flowers, pink roses. In the end, neither she nor Zhang Zichen, the two involved in the situation, had given it much thought. Instead, it was Fu Zheng who had taken it to heart so much that he was still eating vinegar until today.

Ning Wan couldn't stop herself from laughing. "So you just conveniently bought these pink roses? Are you sure you don't want to change your statement? You should know all about 'leniency for those who confess, severity for those who resist'This is a criminal law policy in China.. This is your last chance to confess."

Fu Zheng looked a little cornered. At first, he was visibly attempting to stay stubborn about it, but in the end, under the weight of Ning Wan's gaze, flushing slightly as if a little self-conscious, he admitted in a voice that was still quite calm--

"Oh, I must have remembered wrong. I went out of my way to buy them, it wasn't convenient."

Ning Wan held back a smile and stopped teasing him while she still held the advantage. "All right then, I'll go change."

Having said so, she ran back to her bedroom, leaving the living room to Fu Zheng. He should get some personal space to ease the embarrassment of having just been deflated.

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