BXBX NOVEL Chapter 73 - Change
Chapter 73 - Change
Yi Chen paused, started to stroke in the original direction again, and continued to pet Little Fool, but his eyebrows were already furrowed. “Change the flight, and go back in a few months.”
If he had said a few days, Yu Yan may have really considered doing so.
After all, the pie falling from the sky had just landed in his hands, but it hadn’t even been warmed up yet… He himself was also reluctant to go back.
Unexpectedly though, what came out of Yi Chen’s mouth as soon as he opened it was ‘a few months’ instead. Yu Yan replied immediately, “No way.”
“Then a few weeks.”
“……also not possible.”
Yi Chen took a deep breath. “A few days.”
“……” Yu Yan wavered.
Yi Chen said, “I still haven’t taken you to climb the mountain.”
Yu Yan chuckled. “Why are you still so concerned about that?”
“Last time you went to ask for blessings for me.” Yi Chen said, “This time I’ll go ask for you.”
Yu Yan asked, “But haven’t you been very busy lately?”
“The weekend will be better.” Yi Chen raised the cat. “Don’t you want to touch him?”
“Want to…”
Yu Yan was just about to agree when he received a phone call, and the on-going WeChat video-call was immediately cut off.
Yu Minyang was the one who was calling. “Xiao Yan? Were you asleep?”
Yu Yan held the cellphone to his ear. “No… is something wrong, Uncle?”
Yu Minyang asked, “You’ll be back tomorrow ba? What time does the flight land, Uncle will pick you up.”
Yu Yan hurriedly said, “No need, don’t trouble yourself.”
Yu Minyang replied, “It’s no trouble, how can picking you up be any trouble?”
Yu Yan was just about to say that he might change his flight when he heard Yu Minyang say, “Tomorrow is your aunt’s birthday. She is old, so birthdays aren’t that fun. I’ll pick you up tomorrow, and then you can have a meal at home ba, it’ll just count as her birthday celebration. She knew you were coming back and specially sent someone to go to other provinces to buy some bottles of some… what… secret ancestral recipe chili sauce. You’ll have to try some of it thoroughly tomorrow.”
Yu Yan’s words froze in his throat.
“Hello? Xiao Yan, can you hear me?” Yu Minyang heard the sound of wind from the other end of the call, but didn’t hear an answer. He hesitated and said, “It’s fine if you don’t have time. Birthdays after all ah, there’s one every year, it’s no big deal.”
“Ah, I’m here.” Yu Yan soon returned to his senses, and then after a while, nodded his head. “…Okay, then troubling you to pick me up. The plane will land in Manyang around 1 p.m.”
Yu Minyang laughed. “Okay, see you tomorrow. I’ll buy a bottle of good wine later, and we’ll open it up tomorrow to liven things up a bit.”
After hanging up, Yu Yan quickly called Yi Chen back.
He pressed his lips together and told him about the thing with the birthday.
Originally, he had thought that the other side would say something, but he hadn’t expected Yi Chen to just nod and simply say, “I will send you to the airport tomorrow.”
Yu Yan said, “There’s no need to trouble yourself, Lu Xiuhe and I will just take a taxi.”
Yi Chen’s tone brooked no argument. “Would you like me to bring you breakfast?”
“&#k2026;&#k2026;No need.” Yu Yan said, “Let’s leave early, and I can treat you to some dimsum for breakfast? Or would you like to eat something else?”
Yi Chen let out an “en” and said, “Anything is fine.”
At the end, Yu Yan couldn’t help it. After chatting for a bit, he asked, “You’re not angry ba?”
Yi Chen put the cat on the table and leaned back.
“Not angry.” He said, “I was the one who hadn’t considered everything.”
“Everyone in Uncle’s family has been very nice to me, I really can’t refuse them.” Yu Yan said, “And you’re so busy these days, if I stay here, I’ll just be causing you trouble. Use the weekend to rest well ba. When you’re done…”
Yi Chen raised his eyebrows.
Yu Yan faltered. “When you’re done, we’ll talk about it then ba.”
Yi Chen laughed and said, “Okay.”
Just after he hung up the video-call, he heard Lu Xiuhe knock on the door twice from the outside. Because he had just finished yelling, the volume with which he spoke still hadn’t been lowered. “Xiao Yan, have you finished taking a bath? I’m coming in to toss the coat into the washing machine.”
Yu Yan opened the door and looked at the brand-name coat in his hands.
“You probably can’t just directly put this in the washing machine ba?”
“Then what?”
“Send it to the drycleaners?”
Lu Xiuhe clicked his tongue and scratched the back of his head. “Really troublesome. Forget it, I’ll mail it back to him with some money.”
Yu Yan asked, “Do you know his address?”
Lu Xiuhe’s face turned black in an instant.
Of course, he didn’t know that. If he had known, he definitely wouldn’t have waited around the hotel for a meeting like a fool.
He said, “…Let me think of another way ba. By the way, I’m making an appointment for the shuttle service tomorrow morning, just in case we don’t get a taxi early morning tomorrow.”
“No need.” Yu Yan stopped him. “…someone is going to be sending us to the airport tomorrow morning.”
“Really, who ah?” Lu Xiuhe asked, “Tuantuan?”
Tuantuan had even come up to greet him yesterday.
“No. You get up earlier ba, we’ll go to the airport after eating breakfast.”
Since it was an anchor event, it was very normal for Yu Yan to know some people who could send them to the airport. Lu Xiuhe didn’t think about it too deeply and nodded. “Okay.”
The morning of the next day, Yu Yan received a WeChat message just as his cellphone alarm rang.
Yu Yan buried his head into his pillow and wanted to laze around for another ten minutes. He was not planning on taking a look at his phone. The only ones who would send him messages this early were all members of that strange discussion group @ing the whole group.
Ten minutes later, he got out of the bed and took out his cell phone, planning to turn off the alarm that was sounding again. However, as soon as he saw the contents of the message on the screen, his sleepiness disappeared in a flash——
1: I’m downstairs. What’s the room number?
Despite the circumstances, Yi Chen was sitting in the VIP lobby with a calm and cool attitude, holding a magazine in his hand and flipping through it casually.
Ten minutes later, there was movement. The door of the VIP lobby was opened, and a small head poked in.
“I’m sorry.” The young man’s hair hadn’t been tidied up yet, and several strands were just poking out from his head. His face was flustered, and he apologized sincerely, “…I overslept.”
Of course, Yu Yan hadn’t overslept, it was Yi Chen who had arrived early. He had the habit of getting up early and had even finished a special morning jog before coming here. Unexpectedly, he had still come here a bit too early.
Lu Xiuhe was the one who was pitiful. Last night, the matter of returning the coat had worried him and kept him up until midnight, and then he even had to wake up half an hour earlier this morning.
However, he wasn’t sleepy at all. He put his luggage in the trunk of the car, and then sat in the back seat. If someone looked at him now, they would find that he was in a dazed state.
He had also attended the gala, and naturally knew who was in the driver’s seat.
…Was Xiao Yan really this awesome? He was already in a position where he could ask the big boss to pick him up and send him to the airport? How many things had happened that he didn’t know about while he was addicted to fake online dating?
He was currently holding back a bellyful of questions when he saw Big Boss Yi raise his hand suddenly… and place it on Yu Yan’s head.
Yu Yan asked, “What’s the matter?”
“Your hair is messed up.” As he spoke, Yi Chen straightened his hair up with his fingertips, exerting force that was neither too light nor too gentle.
Yu Yan froze upon feeling the warmth of his fingertips, and his heart skipped two beats. He instinctively raised his hand to tidy up his hair, and both of their hands ran into each other.
“Don’t move.” Yi Chen said, “Almost done.”
Yu Yan replied, “…en.”
Lu Xiuhe: “?”
During breakfast, Lu Xiuhe felt more and more uncomfortable.
It wasn’t that they did anything. On the contrary, they didn’t do anything, but the strangest thing was… Big Boss Yi kept making a mistake and drinking from Yu Yan’s tea cup.
And then Yu Yan would just refill his tea cup with reddened ears.
“You and Xiao Yan have known each other for a long time?” At the end of the breakfast, Big Boss Yi finally discovered that there was a third person at the table.
“Yes, my name is Lu Xiuhe, hello, hello.”
Yi Chen nodded. “I know.”
“Ah?” Lu Xiuhe said, “You know?”
Yi Chen let out an “en” and said, “Haven’t we played games together before?”
“Played games? Are you mistaken…” Lu Xiuhe was about to laugh and deny it, but suddenly froze in the middle of speaking.
Wait.
Saying it like that, wasn’t this voice familiar ah?
After a while, Lu Xiuhe dropped the baozi he had been holding, and it fell on the floor.
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When Yu Yan checked in at the airport, he found that his ticket was a first class ticket again.
They had arrived a bit late, and so would have to go through the security check right after getting their tickets. Ever since Lu Xiuhe had realized that Yi Chen was 1, his whole person had become energized, and he had chattered and interrupted them nonstop on the way here.
At the security checkpoint, Yi Chen stopped and said, “Go ahead ba, after you land, call me.”
“En.” Yu Yan glanced at the time. “It’s already this time, won’t you be late for work?”
“I don’t have a set time for work.”
Yu Yan nodded, said goodbye to him, turned around, and took a few steps.
However, he couldn’t help but look back.
The man, who was dressed in a suit, was still standing at the same place and looking at him. Seeing him turn back to look at him, Yi Chen was stunned at first, but then he raised his hand and waved at him.
Yu Yan paused, then handed his boarding pass and luggage to Lu Xiuhe. “Help me look after this first… I’ll be back soon.”
Yu Yan turned around, strode over to Yi Chen, and dragged him into a corner.
Yi Chen was a bit surprised, but he let him grab him and pull him away. As they came to a standstill in the corner, he laughed. “I was saying goodbye to you, not telling you to come back…”
“I know.” Yu Yan said, “I know… I was the one who wanted to come back.”
“My livestreaming time is from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.” Without waiting for Yi Chen’s answer, Yu Yan continued, “I may not be able to pick up your voice-calls or video-calls during that time. My livestream ends so late, and by that time, you will have worked all day and should be very tired. So…”
Yi Chen looked at him. “En?”
“So,” Yu Yan raised his head and stated the plan that he had come up with after thinking all night. “I’m planning on changing my livestreaming time. Is 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. okay? This way, we can have a little more time to video-chat…”
Unexpectedly, when he said that, Yi Chen’s eyebrows twitched, and he interrupted him, “No need.”
It was almost time to board the plane, so Yu Yan was in a hurry. “Or I’ll start at eight? I can match your work time.”
Online dating was a long-distance relationship. To maintain such a relationship, the most important thing was to accompany each other and communicate properly.
But the two of them, especially Yu Yan, who had to work under the lens of a camera every day, would have a hard time doing those things. This relationship had come out of the blue and was also a happy surprise. He had thought all night about how to properly maintain and protect it.
All of the plans that he told Yi Chen involved him either lengthening or shortening his livestreaming time.
After he finished stating all his plans, he looked at the silent man, and suddenly realized that perhaps he was pestering a bit too much?
Freeing up a few hours every day just to chat, if it had been the him from before, he would also feel that doing something like this was inconceivable. Besides, Yi Chen was also usually so busy.
Thinking in this manner, his words also slowed down.
“Or if you don’t like to talk too long… Just the same as before is also fine.”
“En.” Yi Chen said with a laugh, “It’s fine if you do things just as before.”
Yu Yan’s eyes dimmed. “Oh…”
“You don’t have to change anything for me.”
Seeing an upset expression on his face, Yi Chen raised his hand and pinched his earlobe a bit. “It should be me who tries to match your time.”
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Juurensha: Eeeee, everyone is so mature in trying to figure out how to make a long-distance relationship work. (Although Yi Chen immediately jumping to, “Why don’t you stay for a few months” is hilarious to me)
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