Duan Ye was always punctual when leaving home.
Today, Jiang Yumo was also going to the dance studio for training. The dance teacher was concerned about her and allowed her to return and rest at 9 o’clock. It was currently 8 o’clock, and it would take at most half an hour to reach the dance studio. Duan Ye was accustomed to arriving early every time and didn’t want to keep her waiting. Today would be no exception.
Just as he stepped out of the door and hadn’t even reached the end of the alley, he saw the familiar Toyota car.
Just as he hesitated, the driver got out of the car and hurried over to him with a smile on his face. “Student Duan, Young Master Zhou sent me to find you. I’m your driver today, and I will drive you wherever you want.”
Duan Ye was speechless for a moment.
He politely declined, saying, “No need, thank you.”
The driver was a little embarrassed but remembered Zhou Ji’s instructions. It wasn’t appropriate to reveal them now, so he kept up with Duan Ye’s pace and said, “Student Duan, please help me out. Young Master Zhou is my boss, and I get paid for this. He asked me to be your driver today.”
Duan Ye didn’t know what Zhou Ji was up to.
But he couldn’t make things difficult for the driver either. He thought that Zhou Ji shouldn’t thought anything that could cause serious troubles. So he nodded and said, “Alright, Uncle Zhong, thank you for your trouble.”
Uncle Zhong was almost moved to tears. “It’s me who’s causing trouble.”
Duan Ye got into the car and sat in the passenger seat, then he gave the driver the address.
Uncle Zhong smiled and said, “Are you going to pick up Miss Jiang? Perfect timing! Master Zhou has arranged a reservation at a Western restaurant and asked me to take you and Miss Jiang there.” After a pause, Uncle Zhong tactfully reminded, “Just a small note, please pay extra attention when Miss Jiang is having dessert.”
Duan Ye : “…”
Finally, he couldn’t help but frown and ask, “Didn’t he go to find Ning Zhiyu?”
These activities should have been arranged by Zhou Ji himself, preparing to go together with Ning Zhiyu. Why did Uncle Zhong come to pick Duan Ye up now?
Could it be that Ning Zhiyu has completely rejected him?
Uncle Zhong laughed but put it off, “I can’t say for sure about the boss’s affairs. You can ask him tomorrow, and he’ll tell you as long as you ask.”
In fact, Duan Ye wouldn’t ask. And, with Zhou Ji’s inability to hold back his words, he would definitely come to Duan Ye himself and tell Duan Ye.
From Uncle Zhong’s relaxed tone, Duan Ye could infer that it wasn’t that Zhou Ji was rejected but rather something else had happened, something better than going to a Western restaurant.
“Okay,” Duan Ye nodded.
Uncle Zhong drove faster and arrived at the dance studio building before 8:30.
Duan Ye still needs to wait for more than half an hour. Uncle Zhong asked curiously, “Why don’t you go up and wait?”
This whole area is full of training classes.
There are dance classes and painting classes.
Originally, Uncle Zhong thought Duan Ye would go up.
Duan Ye shook his head and said, “It’s fine to wait here.”
It’s not that he doesn’t want to watch her dance. They have known each other for a long time, but he has never seen her dance. He is naturally curious, but he won’t go up. According to her, the dance teacher is very strict… He doesn’t want her to be reprimanded because of him, nor does he want others to look at her strangely.
It’s strange because it’s clear that she has already received a lot of attention because of him. He knows that the teachers have talked to her before.
Now…
Maybe the more he likes her, the less he wants to bring any trouble to her.
Uncle Zhong didn’t understand Duan Ye’s thoughts but nodded anyway.
Duan Ye doesn’t talk much. He is polite to Uncle Zhong, but there’s no way to have a conversation.
The car was quiet. At eight fifty, Duan Ye got off and walked to a tree downstairs to wait for her.
At five past nine, Jiang Yumo rushed out, possibly due to dancing and sweating. She held a down jacket in her hand, not yet wearing it. Her fair cheeks were flushed. When she saw Duan Ye, she ran towards him and said, “Did you wait long?”
She rushed out as soon as the class ended.
It seemed that she had always been like this, leaving the classroom as soon as the bell rang. It’s likely that even after work in the future, she wouldn’t want to delay for a single minute before leaving.
Duan Ye naturally took her down jacket and backpack.
Jiang Yumo handed them over to him without thinking.
This gesture was so natural… as if they had been in a relationship for a long, long time.
Duan Ye led Jiang Yumo towards the Toyota car, and she naturally recognized whose car it was. She stopped in surprise and asked, “Has Zhou Ji also come?”
Duan Ye shook his head. “He didn’t come.”
The explanation was somewhat complicated. “He arranged for Uncle Zhong to pick us up.”
Jiang Yumo : “How strange…!”
Fortunately, she never liked to spend time or effort on unimportant people. After the strange incident, she didn’t ask any more questions and followed Duan Ye to get into the car.
Little did she know that Uncle Zhong, sitting in the driver’s seat, suddenly smiled and said, “Student Jiang, there’s water in the trunk. Can you please get it for me?”
Duan Ye : “…”
He had a foreboding feeling.
Jiang Yumo didn’t think anything was amiss. She walked around to the back of the car and stood in front of the trunk.
Duan Ye, still beside the car, had become stiff.
He suddenly felt… Although Zhou Ji didn’t have the brains to do something big, he had the ability to make people so embarrassed that they wished they didn’t know each other.
Jiang Yumo opened the trunk, and in that instant, her eyes brightened, and she couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise.
Duan Ye heard her voice and hurriedly rushed over, only to be dazzled by the scene in front of him.
As the trunk opened, pink balloons eagerly popped out, and the trunk was filled with flowers—roses, baby’s breath, and lilies.
Jiang Yumo is very pleasantly surprised.
In fact, she had already guessed that none of this was prepared by Duan Ye. Every gift Duan Ye gave tended to be practical and something she could use. The fireworks on her birthday had already been surprising enough… In any case, these flowers, these tactics, were not what Duan Ye would come up with.
But she was still pleasantly surprised and happy. Even if these flowers weren’t meant for her, even as a bystander, she still liked them.
It was like injecting a ray of sunshine into her dull and oppressive mood, especially since Duan Ye was by her side.
When Duan Ye saw her excited and jubilant expression as she counted how many different types of flowers there were, he suppressed the urge to shift the blame and say, ‘It wasn’t me, it was Zhou Ji who did it’…
He thought to himself, let’s give a friendly point for Zhou Ji.
After all, she likes it.
Finally, ZJ gets a friendly point from Bro Duan💃💃💃