"All he ever knew of her was who he saw every day. All I am is who I am every day. All anyone is to anyone is a series of days."
―Charles Yu,Sorry Please Thank You
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Sweat trickled down the young woman's face... as she slowly drew the last details of the logo design with the digital pen. After placing the finishing touches, she celebrated.
"Finally! Finished!"
Qinyang quickly saved the design into a PDF and sent it to her client. Her heart heaved a sigh of relief afterwards, "Finally... It's done."
Stretching her arms above her head, she said to herself, "Should I eat some hotpot to celebrate?"
She then stood up and walked to the kitchen. She rummaged through the refrigerator and started mumbling, "Haih... There is no meat. I'll have to go out and buy it myself..."
Bzzt...
Qinyang grabbed her phone at the counter and answered, "Hello?"
"Qinyang! Are you done with the design? Have you sent it to the client? You are not sick are you..." the girl constantly asked on and on through the phone speaker.
Qinyang annoyingly cut her off, "Zixuan! Shut up! Ask one question at the time! I'm not an answering machine you know?!"
"Sorry… The deadline is tomorrow..." the voice softened.
"You don't have to worry. I sent it already," Qinyang said with a voice of triumph.
"Thank goodness..."
Qinyang put her hand on her hips, "So, there's something you want to tell me right? If not, you wouldn't call at this time. You would be snuggling with your boyfriend."
"Don't make me sound like an irresponsible person. Have you ever thought of working under a company? I mean you have been free—"
"No," Qinyang abruptly cut her off and added, "You know I don't like socializing with anyone."
Not willing to give up, the voice said, "You can't keep cooping up there for all of your life, Qinyang. You need to start interacting with people."
"Am I not interacting with you?!" Qinyang hissed.
"Besides me! Who else? Besides our clients! Who else?" the voice was clearly annoyed.
Qinyang kept quiet, in fact, she did feel guilty how Zixuan always had to put up with her. But at the same time, Qinyang was grateful to her because Zixuan always helped her when it comes to working.
"Qinyang, the world is bigger out there. Can't you think of it as gaining experience?" the voice sighed.
"Fine. Let me think about it," Qinyang finally gave in as she tried to convince herself that this was for Zixuan and her sake.
The voice immediately became cheerful, "Good! I've already sent your resume and portfolio to a hiring company. "
"What?!"
"You have a lot of time to think about it! The interview is next week. Best of luck. I will email you the address later. Bye. Hehehe," the voice giggled.
"What?! Wait?! How dare—"
Zixuan hung up.
Qinyang cursed at her phone as she angrily grabbed her handbag and headed out to buy the ingredients for hotpot. She definitely now needs that hotpot.
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"Driver Chen, let's stop by the supermarket to buy dinner," Fengyuan said to the driver.
Junting glared at the man beside him for interrupting his schedule going home. After all, they travel all the way to a small city near Shanghai for a business meeting today.
Fengyuan trod carefully with his words and said, "You skipped your lunch. Don't tell me you're gonna skip dinner too." Fengyuan has always been looking out for this man's health as that man always neglects it. Without him, Junting's health would have been worse.
Junting ignored the man and just looked outside the window. Another one of his classic 'whatever' sign.
Fengyuan smiled and said, "Driver Chen, supermarket it is! The one in Shanghai is the best."
"Oh yeah! Your mother called today," Fengyuan sighed.
Hearing him, Junting frowned.
"Looking at your expression, I assume you already know what it's about. Are you really not gonna find a girl and get married? Your grandfather doesn't have a lot of time, you know? He wants to see his great-grandkids before his death bed."
The Lee family has been pressuring Junting to marry since his grandfather was diagnosed with cancer last year. His grandfather's last wish is to see the sole heir of Lee's family.
Fengyuan saw Junting in a daze and asked, "Do you even have someone you like? I've never seen you show interest in any girls before. People even start to doubt your sexuality because of this."
Junting closed his eyes to get some rest, but instead of darkness, her image filled his mind, "I have someone in my heart."
Fengyuan was stunned by his best buddy's confession, "Who?"
Listing out all the possible girls they knew from their university days to present, a few outstanding and beautiful girls stood out in his mind, but knowing Junting, would face and assets be enough to capture this lone wolf's heart?
"Someone I want to meet again," he casually said before going into a light sleep.