Chapter 13

Bei Er Duo put her phone away, and asked Ye Shu Wei: “Do you feel trouble because of it? We are being exposed publicly, it may affect your personal life.”

“I think there would be no one able to affect my personal life.” Ye Shu Wei said.

“Then you don’t mind to have anyone to have misunderstand that I am your girlfriend? Just like before, sometime there would be people come over and ask about us, wouldn’t you feel it too troublesome?” Bei Er Duo was very confused because Ye Shu Wei responded differently from her expectation. He seemed to be so calm.

“Is it too troublesome before?” Ye Shu Wei asked, “It’s only giving an autograph and said few sentences.”

Bei Er Duo confirmed once again: “You feel okay with it?” 

“What is done cannot be undone. Even if I mind about it, it is also useless.” Ye Shu Wei was very adaptable with this current situation.

This completely out of Bei Er Duo’s expectation. She watched Ye Shu Wei for a long time. She thought, what is happening with him today?

“Do you mind for this current situation?” Ye Shu Wei turned the topic and asked her.

“Me?” Bei Er Duo rubbed her nose, “For me, although it is quite troublesome, but if you are not too care and take it to the heart about this thing, it would be just a work. At last Chief Yu would give us a quite lot of money.”

“Don’t take it to the heart?” Ye Shu Wei’s eyes turned cold, and said lowly: “You completely regard this as work, for earn the money.”

“It’s also for Tang Li, who asked her to be my most best friend? The time she asked me, I couldn’t refuse her.” Bei Er Duo leaned on the chair. She chose the most comfortable position for her. Then turned her head to look at him. She asked him again: “For you? What is your reason to not refuse Chief Yu’s request?”

He seemed to be a man that would be hard to be manipulated.

“O, that day he came over and looked for me to play a chase. He seized the opportunity when I was making a dessert to steal a two chess pieces. At last I was lost and just able to agree to his boring request.”

“Just like that?” Bei Er Duo was startled.

“Every time we play chess. The losing one should agree to the winner’s request. No matter what is, we couldn’t break our promise.”

“Except that one moment, have you ever agree to his unreasonable request?”

“No.” Ye Shu Wei tried to remember, “That is the first time I lost from him.”

Bei Er Duo was lost in thought, then she smiled and laughed at him: “You really the unlucky one.”

Ye Shu Wei was silent, and placed his hands on the steering wheel. He chose to hide a fact. That in the most beginning he agreed to Yu Sheng not because of he was losing. He originally went the recording site to find a reason to leave and to “repay” back what Yu Sheng did for winning. But that time he noticed Bei Er Duo, he gave up his original intention, and he just accompanied her to act.

That time he just searched a reason for doing this by including Yu Sheng’s act.

Now to think about it, this reason for him was a bit far-fetched.

When they arrived at the lobby of Bei Er Duo’s apartment, Bei Er Duo got off and said goodbye to him. She waited for him to drive away.

The time she turned her body, she was surprised. There was an elegant woman, Xu Zhen Fen, waited for her by leaning lazily on a tree. She was watching intensely at her only daughter.

Bei Er Duo summoned up her courage to come over, she went in front of Xu Zhen Fen: “Ma, what are you doing here?”

“I come to have a chat with you.” Xu Chen Fen’s tone was like a plain boiled water: “Let’s go up.”

They went up. Bei Er Duo opened the door and let Xu Chen Fen in. Xu Chen Fen stat on the sofa, and asked about her recent situation.

“I’m good. I eat and drink well. I also accept some works.”

“You really are not willing to work at Wang He Chuan’s company?”

“I am not suitable for it.”

“Then you plan to look for job by yourself?” Xu Chen Fen took the cup of tea, and just realized it was empty.

Bei Er Duo took a coca cola from the fridge: “Do you want to drink?”

“I don’t drink that carbonate one.”

“Then yogurt?”

“Okay, give me one.”

Bei Er Duo passed it to her, and answered her: “Em, I want to look it by myself.”

“What would you do?” Xu Chen Fen opened the cover of the yogurt.

“I am still interested in photography, I want to do one that is related to this. If not I would go to apply for an advertised position.”

“Do you think you will have a good prospect by choosing that profession?”

“If you want to develop in long term, basically you should do something that you like.” Bei Er Duo said, “If you love your job, then you could invest your energy, enthusiasm, and be concentrated in it. These would make you able to develop.”

Xu Chen Fen smiled, and didn’t continue this topic. She asked about another thing: “Do you have a boyfriend?”

Bei Er Duo’s heart indeed she heard about it, she was hesitant on how should she answer it.

“Don’t you deny it, Wang He Chuan told me.”

“Wang He Chuan? How could that man be so nosy?” Bei Er Duo clearly told him to not tell Xu Chen Fen. 

“You still want to hide it from me? Don’t you think you are a bit childish? Since you have one, then you should declare it out loud and openly. Why should you hide it?” Xu Chen Fen’s tone was bad. She looked at her daughter: “Is he the one that sent you home before? His car is quite good, how about his personality.”

 

Bei Er Duo knew that Xu Chen Fen would start to interrogate her, before hand she said: “Ma, couldn’t you don’t mind this matter?”

“How could you let me not to mind this thing? Is he really shameful one to talk about?”

“No, he is very good.” Bei Er Duo frowned: “It’s just. Our relationship is not steady enough, we still in the early stage of dating. I couldn’t answer your too much questions.”

“Are you lying?” Xu Chen Fen raised her eyebrows: “Wang He CHuan said that day when he encountered you guys in KTV, you guys were all over each other and played happily. The important thing is you fell in the first sight when you guys met each other.

It was very obvious, Wang He Chuan told her everything happened that day in detail.

Bei Er Duo’s head in a flash felt painful. Originally her relationship with Ye Shu Wei was fake, now how should she explained it to her. No matter how she explained it to her, she wouldn’t accept it easily. If Xu Chen Fen knew that Ye Shu Wei was not her boyfriend, then she would think of another way to match Bei Er Duo with that mouthy Wang He Chuanh.

“It is said that except his tall figure, he is quite ordinary.”

“Ordinary? Is it how Wang He Chuan described him?” Bei Er Duo said.

“Isn’t it true, then how is it?”

“The true is, he is better than Wang He Chuan. They basically aren’t in the same level.” Bei Er Duo said firmly: “No matter it is their appearance or temperament, talent or personality.”

Xu Chen Fen seized the opportunity to ask: “Then what is his job? Do you know his family background?”

“Forgive me to unable to answer.”

“Why couldn’t you answer it?”

“Ma, couldn’t you just ask not too much questions? I’m a grown up. I have a freedom to handle my love relationship. Wait until it was the time, I’ll definitely tell you all about it.” Bei Er Duo was impatient: “Don’t you always want to control of my actions.”

Xu Chen Fen stood up, and criticized her angrily: “You don’t have any experience in love? I just have good intentions to remind you to understand his family background, is it wrong?”

“Okay, you are not wrong. You are never wrong, it is all my fault.”

“Don’t you deceive me. You need to explain it clearly today. What is his job, how much his earnings yearly and monthly, his family background. Don’t you hide any information about anything.”

Bei Er Duo held her breath and controlled her anger, then looked at Xu Chen Fen, she frankly said to her: “These things, I really don’t know.”

Xu Chen Fen was stupefied: “Are you crazy? How could you start the relationship without knowing this?”

“I just could determine he is as a person.” Bei Er Duo’s eyes were calm, “Isn’t it enough?”

It was the first time Xu Chen Fen to look that kind of attitude from her daughter, she was startled and couldn’t say anything.

*

Xu Chen Fen went home, Bei Er Duo rubbed her face. It was hot. To speak truthfully she was surprised that she could say those things to her mother.

She silently agreed about her relationship with Ye Shu Wei, she is certain about their relationship.

Since she is little, her relation with Xu Chen Fen is always distant, they rarely talked heart to heart thing.

Every year Xu Chen Fen would bring her to her relative, she would joke around people: “My daughter, her temperament is a little bit odd. I never know what is on her mind. She is never willing to communicate with me. As a mother, I am really a failure.”

…….

Their mother-daughter relationship is very rarely happened. It was started to be strange possibly when Bei Er Duo was six years and she was slapped by Xu Chen Fen.

That day, Xu Chen Fen’s colleague brought her daughter to the house as the guest. The daughter noticed Bei Er Duo’s rabbit ceramics. She didn’t want to let it go, she wanted to bring it home. Bei Er Duo didn’t willing to let it go. Both of the kids fought for a long time. For saving her face, Xu Chen Fen came over and gave the rabbit ceramics to that girl, she said: “This one for little sister. Tomorrow I would buy another one for you.”

Bei Er Duo was still unwilling to give it, she insisted that it was her. Xu Chen Fen already turned her body, she smiled and passed it to the girls. Her colleague thanked her, and the little girl thanked her. 

This scene made Bei Er Duo to be very angry and felt wronged, how could her mom never be that warm toward her. But now she gave her rabbit to other too. Xu Chen Fen stopped her, but she just screamed, “It is  mine!” The colleague felt awkward then said, “It’s okay, we couldn’t want it…” She screamed for five minutes. Xu Chen Fen couldn’t control herself, she just hit Bei Er Duo: “Already say to you that I would bring another one for you, couldn’t you understand?!”

After that, Xu Chen Fen also felt herself to be too emotional and it was wrong for her to hit her daughter. She very quickly ran to the market and bought the exact similar rabbit for her. She placed it on the table, yet she didn’t say sorry because she was afraid to lose her face.

Bei Er Duo is not really a simple minded person, yet these years she couldn’t forget it.

She sat down in front of her computer, and as usual checked up on the email from Bei Heng An.

Bei Heng An was traveling around the world, he would regularly sent her some photos to tell her his condition.

Now he was in Vatican, he sent her the scenery photo of his adventure in Vatican. At the bottom, he wrote, “ This is for my most beloved daughter.”

Bei Er Duo saved the photo, and replied her: “Pay attention to your safety, you need to eat on time.”

The moment she sent it, she couldn’t stop to think that if her father is here, she definitely would tell him in lower voice about her feeling toward that certain man.

But she really couldn’t determine whether it is love or not.

She thought of Ye Shu Wei, and suddenly thought of the trouble.

It’s been a few days for her to not open her WeiBo. Now she knew that the trending topic was about her video with Ye Shu Wei. She became even more not dare enough to open it.

She took a deep breath then logged in, indeed…. it was their video.

Her followers were increasing up to thirty thousand, and she had two thousand comments, and also several personal messages.

It was full of gossips about their relationship.

“How could you find that tall kind of man? Please give me the answer. I am around one hundred sixty five meters…..”

“Why don’t you change your username? Why don’t you change it to Shu Wei’s Xiao Er Duo (Shu Wei’s little ear)?”

“When you leaned on his shoulder, it was really perfect moment. Is it how your daily life look like?”

“You are so lucky, with this tall of man, you could play a lot of things right?”

“When are you guys planning to get married? I am really curious how your kids would be like? He/ she would definitely be the adorable one.”

“To say truthfully, you are too short, your face is too big. You basically aren’t a suitable for him…. I just say it as a behalf of female citizens.”

“I am taller than you for ten centimeters. My man is shorter than Ye Shu Wei for twenty centimeters. Is it fair?”

“Your face is really big. Be honest, do you always take his portion of food?”

“Please reply as soon as possible a photo of him. Thank you.”

……..

The comment parts made Bei Er Duo’s eyes to be confused, she browsed around the web pages and noticed something.

“Actually I want to ask, are you guys really a couple? I noticed that you both are quite strange. Firstly, the day you wore a sneaker, it was clearly a couple sneaker. Why didn’t he wear it too? That the other detail, after the game, all the couple would wipe their face using one towel and drinking from the same bottle. Just both of you did it separately, you seemed to be distant.”

Because too much gossips, these truth was covered…..

Bei Er Duo looked around the webpage calmly.

She finished looked at the comments, then she checked the @. Someone gave her a photo.

The phot was taken during the autumn time in the park of the university. It was a photo of Ye Shu Wei, when he was wearing a sport suit. He was carrying a backpack and wearing earphones.

The one that gave it to her, wrote: “Ye Shu Wei was my senior, he was going to the research building. I used my phone to take his photo secretly. Maybe you wouldn’t believe me, I am a boy, yet I really admire him. I just took it for fun, I don’t have any kind of intention.

Bei Er Duo examined the photo carefully. Although it was a picture of his back. Yet she could recognize it was him.

Bei Er Duo commented back: “It’s very good. When was it taken?”

Then man replied: “The time he was in the second years of his university study.”

Bei Er Duo joked: “Are you sure you don’t have a crush on him?”

After a while that man sent a personal message to her: “ Don’t you worry. I already married and have three months kid. That year I just entered the university, and he was already very popular. All his junior, regardless of the gender, were really adore him. That day when I noticed him, I just randomly took the photo and save it. Yesterday when I saw your video, I was quite surprised. I didn’t expect him to enter that kind of variety show. Oh right, he seems to be the same one when he was in college. But I am changing, I am getting fatter now, perhaps it is because I am a father.”

“After I watched the show, I feel very deeply moved. I made me remember my youth and my study during the university.”

“Ye Shu Wei is the top student in our university. We all have a deep impression toward him. He never went outside beside going to school building, laboratory, and dorm. He rarely joined any activities.”

“I also remember something. The time he was ever criticized publicly once because he secretly raised a kitten. When he was found guilty, he and the kitten disappeared for a few days. The times he appeared again, the kitten was not by his side again. Actually we all know that he raised a kitten. But that kitten is an ordinary one, quite obedient, and frequently leaned on his feet to sleep. He really loved that kitten, he gave it a bath and a massage. He even went to the far place to buy the food for it. He fed it personally. When they went out during a day during winter, he hid it inside his coat.

“That time it was too unbelievable.  A person as cold as him could love and pamper a little pet.”

Bei Er Duo didn’t respond, she just read it. It gave her a deeper impression about Ye Shu Wei.