Mind Reading

Chapter 2 Part 2

He did not look like someone who needed to be hospitalized…… 

They sent grandma back to her apartment and Shen Yi moved to the front seat. He set another address on the GPS and Su Tang thought it looked familiar. A few seconds later, she remembered that it was the residential address he typed on her phone. 

He wanted to go home? 

“Grandma said you have to go back to the hospital.” 

Shen Yi pursed his lips together and typed. 

——But I’m hungry. 

Su Tang was unconcerned and Shen Yi added. 

——I haven’t had dinner yet. 

Su Tang was slightly moved. He didn’t have dinner because he had to pick her up from the airport…… 

Shen Yi struck the iron while it was hot. 

——Hospital food isn’t good and takeaways aren’t that clean. 

“You are not Cinderella.” 

Shen Yi froze. 

Su Tang rolled her eyes at him. 

“You are an empress.” 

Shen Yi smiled innocently. 

Su Tang started the car and said, “We will go back to the hospital after eating, deal?” 

Shen Yi nodded three times. 

There was a canal in the eastern suburb in S City, and Shen Yi lived in a high quality house next to the canal. The residential area didn’t include ‘high quality’ in its name, but Su Tang learnt civil engineering and she could more or less see how much it worthed from the layout. When Shen Yi scanned the card to lift the fence up, Su Tang looked at the name of the company engraved on the door: Huazheng Construction Design Corporation Ltd. It was the company that hosted the interview tomorrow. 

Su Tang pointed at the name and made a face at Shen Yi, “I’m going to an interview at this company tomorrow, I’m feeling nervous looking at the name alone. Not very mature of me, is it?” 

Su Tang was about to drive in but Shen Yi pulled her arm when she stepped on the pedal. 

“What’s wrong?” 

Shen Yi frowned and typed on the phone. 

——Is this going to interfere with your interview plans? 

Su Tang shrugged and smiled calmly, “There’s nothing to prepare. This company is the best one here and amongst the neighboring cities, they probably have more people getting in through connections than the entire population of Paris. They are only hiring four people this time and I definitely won’t make it in. I just don’t want to give up. They asked me to attend the interview anyway so I’ll go and test my luck.” 

Su Tang never said anything like this because it was the general truth for most people and no one needed to emphasize it. However, Su Tang didn’t think that Shen Yi was considered a normal person. She didn’t know what his job was, but his car, his house, and the VIP ward told her that although he couldn’t hear, her reality was probably miles away from his. 

Su Tang smiled and added at the sight of Shen Yi’s pondering face, “It’s more useful to look around one of their house designs in real life than reading books for the whole day. I need to thank you for this.” 

Shen Yi finally smiled. 

——You are welcome, look around all you like. 

Shen Yi’s house was in the middle of the entire area on the eleventh floor and there was a complete view of the river scenery outside the living room’s French window. The basic layout, ventilation and lighting were perfect, but Su Tang thought it looked strange somewhere. After Shen Yi took her around the room, Su Tang finally realized what looked weird at the sight of two sets of bay windows side by side and the bathroom fenced off with transparent curved glass walls. 

“You knocked off some walls?” 

Shen Yi gave Su Tang a thumbs up. 

Su Tang frowned and looked around, gesturing where the original walls approximately  were and Shen Yi clapped with a smile. 

Su Tang couldn’t help but to laugh. She looked at the overly spacious house and commented, “The entire area of the house is more than 230 square meters, single layer. The original four bedrooms and two living rooms layout was perfect. The living room, kitchen and dining room alone is about 100 square meters large after you knock off the walls, the main bedroom is almost 70 square meters. Don’t you feel like you are sleeping in the middle of a plaza?” 

Shen Yi was amused by Su Tang’s metaphor and shook his head seriously. He typed on the phone quickly and passed it to Su Tang. 

——I can’t hear any sounds at all so I don’t need the walls for soundproofing. But vision is important to me, I need to make sure that my field of view doesn’t get blocked so I feel more secure living here. 

Su Tang stuck out her tongue apologetically and blushed, “I’m sorry…… I never considered this problem.” 

Shen Yi smiled without any comments. 

——Have you had dinner yet? 

Su Tang shook her head. It was past midnight already and it was about dinner time for her in France, she was always hungry on time. 

——Go and watch TV, I’ll cook. It won’t take long. 

“Do you need help?” 

Shen Yi shook his head and pocketed his phone. He picked up the cat who had been nudging his leg for a while now and smiled gently as he kissed the ginger ball of fluff on the head to comfort it, the cat’s exceptional enjoyment ticked Su Tang’s heart. 

Did his kiss…… Feel good?