Chapter Forty-two Coincidence
In high school, I often criticized those stupid men who used this sentence full of pretentious attitude to chase girls. Unexpectedly, on this night a few years later, I also chose this foolish way to break the ice between Qin Ke Yi and me. In addition to feeling helpless, I also gained a deeper understanding of them.
My gaze remained on Qin Ke Yi's face after I finished speaking, carefully observing every inch of her facial skin for any changes, while also feeling a growing sense of regret in my heart. As the time passed and Qin Ke Yi still hadn't reacted, my regret grew stronger, and I couldn't help but scold myself for being so impulsive.
"This sounds like a classical Chinese sentence?" Qin Ke Yi reacted after three or four seconds, turned his head and said to me with an expression that seemed to be filled with a deep meaning. At this time, I was already completely confused by Qin Ke Yi's inexplicable behavior just now, and had lost my ability to think clearly, so I couldn't tell whether Qin Ke Yi's gaze and expression were natural or deliberately put on.
"Hmm...? Ah! It's a classical Chinese sentence! A classical Chinese sentence with very deep meaning!" I swallowed hard, then said to Qin Ke.
"What's that supposed to mean? Are you bullying me because I'm not good at languages? I only scored 87 points in the language section of my college entrance exam!" Qin Ke said with a resentful face.
"Ah......? Which one? Is... is a phrase describing the relationship between two people... about... relationship in one sentence!" I started to stutter and try to come up with a reasonable but not too explicit explanation.
"What relationship?! What are you talking about?! What do you want to say?!" Qin Ke seemed to understand something, his tone became tense, looking at me very seriously, his expression also seemed a bit shy.
"Hmm...? That's it..." Just as I was about to organize my words and confess to Qin Ke in the most straightforward and simple way, a figure resembling Ma Ke appeared in the corner of my eye.
"What are you doing here?! Go dance!" After hearing Marco's voice, I felt a mix of resentment and relief that my eyesight was still the same. Qin Ke heard Marco's voice, let out a soft sigh, looked at me, then stood up and walked into the courtyard. At this moment, something in her gaze left me puzzled.
After Qin Kaiyi left, I suddenly felt relieved and let out a sigh, then smiled helplessly and stood up to follow him into the courtyard.
"She... what's wrong with her?!" Mark seemed to have noticed Qin Ke Yi's strange gaze, and asked me with a puzzled expression. At this time, I didn't know what to say to Mark, so I just smiled and shook my head, hugging him as we walked into the courtyard together. Thinking back to my previous feelings about Qin Ke Yi, I suddenly felt grateful for Mark's appearance. I really don't know what would have happened if I had impulsively said some sentimental words to Qin Ke Yi earlier. Would she have accepted me? Even if she had accepted me, would my concerns have come true? These are all things that I couldn't be certain of...
As I walked into the courtyard, an exciting disco music suddenly started, and the loud music and boiling human voices came rushing towards me, stimulating every cell of mine, making you unconsciously follow the rhythm and dance. Qin Ke Yi and I quickly blended into the crowd of dancers. Due to her dancing training since childhood, Qin Ke Yi's dance moves were full of rhythm, combined with her enchanting figure, which made many boys in the scene feel their blood vessels bulging.
Among a group of beautiful strangers, I swayed my body to the music, feeling like we were gradually merging into one. Although I still didn't know the names of the women dancing with me, their bodies tightly pressed against mine, even kissing my cheek, I could feel their heartbeats through their chests and touch their slender waists, as well as experience the strange sensation of their full hips rubbing against my body. It was an atmosphere that slowly stirred up desire, although the dim lights and wild rhythm could conceal a lot, but in that moment, if you didn't have any thoughts, you weren't a man. At this time, Guo Ceng, who was DJing on the side, twisted her sensual body to the beat while picking up the mic and shouting to everyone, "Handsome guys and beautiful girls, don't be stingy with your hands, pick up your phones, let's get high together!" Guo Ceng's words were like a stimulant, when everyone in the audience heard them, they excitedly started waving their phones and wildly jumping to the exciting music, countless bright spots flashing with the music in the dark night, the entire scene reaching a climax due to Guo Ceng's one sentence.
I once tried to push through the crowd of crazy dancing people to get close to Qin Ke Yi, but she and several girls with enchanting dance moves were tightly surrounded by the crowd, so I gave up on that idea. Suddenly, I felt like this wall of people had separated me and Qin Ke Yi into two different worlds, and at that moment, she was a high-and-mighty, attention-grabbing beauty. Maybe the feeling I gave her was the same as many of the boys who made up this wall of people, and the only difference between me and them was that I could get close to Qin Ke Yi every day, so maybe what I got in return was a kind of pseudo-intimacy with Qin Ke Yi.
"I've been noticing you for a long time, but why isn't your sister with you? Did you guys have a fight?" Just then, a girl's voice interrupted my thoughts, and I turned to look at her, seeming to have some impression of her.
"It seems you haven't observed thoroughly enough, keep paying attention!" I said with a bit of teasing. At this moment, my terrible mood made me too distracted to flirt with other girls. I walked over to a chair on the side and sat down, staring blankly at Qin Ke who was jumping up and down excitedly.
"Alright, everyone take a break! Let's play a game and then continue dancing!" Guo Cheng timely stopped the stimulating music and announced the next activity. The rules of the game were simple: Guo Cheng gave each boy a number and also gave each girl a number. If any boy and girl had the same number, they would come on stage to sing a love song together.
"Alright! Let our captain, the beautiful and intelligent Ke Yi, announce the numbers in her hand!" Guo Cheng said to everyone after distributing them, holding a microphone in the middle.
"17." Qin Keyi announced the number in her hand with a hint of shyness amidst everyone's applause, cheers, and a few scattered whistles. After hearing Qin Keyi announce her number, I quickly took another look at my own number in my hand, only putting it down slowly after confirming that it wasn't the same as hers. At this moment, I felt a slight sense of relief, but also some disappointment.
"It's a great health!!" Marco didn't know when he appeared in front of me, snatched the number from my hand while I wasn't paying attention, and excitedly shouted to everyone with his own number in hand. Before I could react to what was happening, I had already been pushed into the middle of the crowd and stood beside Qin Ke who had long since gone on stage.
"I... am not... him" I finally understood Marco's intentions at this time, so I pointed to myself and then pointed to Marco, trying to expose Marco's sinister motives.
"Alright, alright, stop nagging! I admit defeat! If you must blame someone, blame the good fortune that brought you and Ke Yi together." At this point, I finally understood that they were in cahoots with each other. Too much explanation would only make everyone think I was timid, so I gave up my right to explain and stood there like a sheep waiting to be slaughtered, numbly standing among the crowd.
"Alright! You and Ke Yi go prepare first, we'll proceed to the next round!" Guo Cheng said as he pushed me and Ke Yi aside, then went over to choose a disc before continuing to ask everyone for their numbers.
"Can you sing? I don't think I've ever heard you before?" Qin Keyi suddenly asked me as we were rummaging through a big pile of messy VCDs.
"Kidding! I'm not mute, why wouldn't I?!" I said discontentedly to Qin Ke.
"Ah!!!! Let's sing this one!" Qin Ke suddenly pulled out a VCD disc and pointed to a song on it, saying to me.
"Why is it this one!?" I muttered unconsciously in a very low voice, but the tone was full of surprise.
"What! You don't know? I remember that a while back you often played the Mandarin version of this song on your computer, it's that song "At Least I Left Earlier Than You"!"
"Do you like this song too?" As I asked Qin Ke Yi, the name Tong Chen, which had disappeared from my heart for a long time, suddenly flashed through my mind, but then instantly disappeared again.
"Hmm? I quite like it! The lyrics are good! Have you heard the duet version of this song? The one sung with Wang Leehom?"
"Hmm! I've heard of it!" I replied to Qin Ke without thinking, while at the same time being amazed by the mysterious thing called "coincidence" in my heart.
"Can you sing?" Qin Ke asked with some impatience.
"Uh-huh!" I nodded in response to Qin Ke.
"Alright, we've decided!" Qin Ke turned around and walked towards Guo Cheng who was busy, pointing to the song on the disc.
"Alright! Everyone, take a break for now! Now let's enjoy a wonderful song brought to you by the handsome Kang Jian and beautiful Qin Ke Yi - 'Good-hearted Breakup'!"
