TCOR CH60

Chapter 60：Pain Is My Destiny

Since Shen Wunian was asked to wait for me at the convenience store, he resumed his daily routine of “sitting in” the store. But this time he brought his computer with him, so he didn’t seem so lazy. A couple of times when I went by to restock the goods, I could see him sending emails in English, I don’t know if it was related to the lawsuit he was involved in.

When he wasn’t sending emails, he would close the computer and look at me with his head up. When I’m not looking at him, his expression comes alive and his smile is brighter than the sunshine outside.

He made it so obvious that even the clerks who had noticed him earlier, not to mention my coworkers, seemed to pick up on it, flirting with us at the register in a cryptic language they didn’t think I’d hear, but I did.

“Look, this has to be it.”

“I don’t know if you’re happy with it or not, I’m pretty happy with it, it’s my favorite body type difference.”

“What don’t you like about it?”

“Fair enough, yummy eat more love ……”

The two of them giggled and walked away, and my pretense of busily wiping down the cash register, coffee maker, and soy milk machine stopped.

Just as I was about to take a deep breath, a low laugh suddenly rang in my ears, and I jumped, looking to the side to see that it was Shen Wunian who had come to the register.

“Please check out.” He placed the cold bowl of quinoa porridge in his hand on the counter.

This was the third day in a row that he ate only congee and didn’t touch any other food.

As I scanned the code, I couldn’t help but ask, “Can you eat enough with just this?

With this kind of congee, even a man of my stature would have to eat at least three bowls to be satisfied, not to mention that he is a tall man of over six feet.

“Tongue hurts, no appetite. Look ……” He rested his hands on the counter and came over to spit out a piece of his tongue at me.

The middle part of the tongue wearing a transparent flat acrylic tongue stud, usually speaking may not be too easy to notice, this moment deliberately show, not only can clearly see the appearance of the tongue stud, and even the tongue stud under the depression of the red holes can be clearly seen.

I was unpacking quinoa porridge in my hand, and immediately turned away, did not dare to look at it at all, “Do you …… want to heat it up?”

The metal surface of the microwave reflected the man behind the body truthfully.

Seeing that I didn t look at him anymore, Shen Wunian uninterestedly retracted his tongue, “No, I’ll just drink it cold.

The microwave door was opened and closed, I attached a spoon and paper towel and handed the quinoa porridge to the other man with both hands.

Shen Wunian squeezed the back of my hand as if he didn’t notice and took the bowl of porridge, “Your face is so red, little Ai. Is it too hot?”

I pretended to understand and pretended to be confused. Isn’t it a sore tongue? So many words ……

Withdrawing my hand with all my might, I pretended to be busy again, “Don’t forget tomorrow at noon.

Tomorrow is the day the winners of the Kana Masters Competition will be announced, and Pang Dai and the others have booked a party house to prepare for a reunion. Since it was opened by a relative of a member of the community, the price was quite reasonable, down to just under two hundred per person, and the time of use was also very generous, from twelve o’clock noon until twelve o’clock the next day, a full 24 hours.

The set meeting time was one o’clock in the afternoon, but Shen Wunian said he would be in charge of buying food, so we had to leave the house at twelve o’clock earlier.

“I won’t forget,” Shen Wunian stepped back, “I’ll pick you up tomorrow at twelve o’clock sharp.”

The next day it was twelve o’clock sharp, but he appeared downstairs in the apartment at half past eleven.

I looked out the living room window and saw his car parked on the curb.

I had been eating my hanging noodles slowly, but now I had to settle for three or two bites, grab my cell phone, and head downstairs.

“You got here early.” I panted as I got into the car.

“Because I wanted to see you early.” He said the meaty words without changing his face.

Soft music played in the car, and from time to time along the way he would look for a topic of conversation, asking questions like if I slept well last night, or what my friends were like.

“They’re all very nice to get along with, and later at the supermarket you’ll meet a girl named Pang Dai, she’s my roommate’s girlfriend and someone who takes care of me like an older sister ……,” I thought about it and told him, “You mustn’t let her know that you’re my Redvein.

Otherwise, with Pang Dai’s character, she can just grab a kitchen knife at the supermarket and fuck him.

“Oh.” Shen Wunian didn’t know if he understood what I meant, but he nodded and answered anyway.

Although the party hall in the outskirts of Jiang City, but two hundred meters or so there is a subway line, and less than a kilometer there is a large membership warehouse supermarket, travel procurement are considered convenient.

Pang Dai learned that I want to bring friends, friends are also willing to be responsible for food shopping, then took the initiative to suggest that she has a membership card, to help us buy together. We drove there while she waited for us at the supermarket.

Despite her rhetoric and reasoning, I always felt that she was curious. She was so curious about this “friend” I never mentioned to her that she couldn’t wait to see what Shen Wunian was really like.

“Little Ai, over here!”

As I walked into the store from the parking lot, I immediately saw Peng Dai, who was waiting a short distance in front of me, waving at me.

“You’ve been waiting a long time, right?” I quickly ran towards her.

“No no, I just got here.” She looked behind me, “Where’s your boyfriend?”

“He’s behind me.” I pointed to Shen Wunian who had come through the automatic door and was walking towards us, “The one in the gray shirt and very tall.”

Pang Dai looked over in the direction I was pointing and then blurted out, “Crap!”

I was startled, “?”

“Ah no, I mean so tall.” She whispered to me, “Is it a model?”

“No, a curator.”

I don’t know if he’ll be a curator in the future, but for now he should be.

“Have you known each other for a long time?” Pang Dai asked again.

“I met him during the New Year, he’s a friend of my neighbor ……. One thing led to another and we got to know each other.” I summarized briefly.

Between words, Shen Wunian arrived in front of us and took the initiative to extend his hand to Peng Dai: “Hello, you are Peng Dai, right, very happy to know you ……”.

In front of the people, he seemed to have regained the appearance he had when I first met him, speaking well, behaving politely, anyone who looked at him would think he was well-behaved and well-mannered.

I used to think that if he wanted people to like him, it would be really easy, and now it seems to be true.

Ponda and I shopped in the front, and he pushed the cart in the back, following us in silence, not interrupting, not answering freely, but not letting the conversation fall to the ground either.

“I’ll do it, give it to me.” Getting the drinks, because there were so many people, Ponda immediately took a case and put it in the cart.

“Get the ones without the tendons, or the tenderloin part of the beef, so it doesn’t bite when you grill it.” Choosing the meat, the wide variety in the freezer is too much, Pang Dai and I don’t know what to choose, he sees that we can’t decide, so he calls out to give us advice.

“Buy them all, I’ll pay.” Pang Dai hesitated to buy buns or cake rolls for afternoon tea snacks, he immediately took five or six boxes of different varieties and flavors, successfully curing Pang Dai’s difficulty in choosing.

He was so good that Pang Dai was completely captivated by him and frantically told everyone in the group how perfect this friend I brought was.

“I forgot the disposable cups, they seem to be upstairs, I’ll go get them.” When I finished talking to Pang Dai, I turned my head to look behind me at Shen Wunian, who was standing some distance away from us, holding a bag of instant spaghetti on the shelf and flipping through it.

Thinking that it was not a child and that I did not need to say anything, I immediately turned around and ran upstairs.

It took me a while to find the disposable cups, but then I remembered that I should have bought some brushes for the sauces, so I went back to the baking supplies section.

The brushes were hidden in that area, so I had a hard time finding them. It took me a while to find them.

Halfway down the escalator, I could see from a distance a gray figure in the crowd, walking through piles of merchandise, looking back and forth, eagerly searching for something.

The people around him were constantly casting puzzled glances at him, but he didn’t care, he just looked blankly and helplessly at the unfamiliar faces of the people.

From his unique height and physique, I immediately recognized that he was Shen Wunian.

I have never seen such a soulful person.

It shouldn’t be …… looking for me, right?

“Shen Wunian!” I shouted at him and couldn’t help but speed up my steps and run downstairs, helplessly, my voice was too thin and before it could penetrate the crowd, it was lost in the massive noise.

The things in my hand in through the heavy crowd, do not know where to fall, several times with the selection of goods customers collide, I’m busy apologizing, mouth “sorry” never stop.

Probably heard my voice, when he was still four or five meters away from Shen Wunian, he turned around and looked over to my side. However, when he looked into the distance, it was difficult to observe the environment in front of him, and when he wasn’t paying attention, he bumped into a pyramid of cereal boxes stacked on a wooden frame.

The pyramid suddenly collapsed, and he fell to his knees, clutching the edge of the wooden frame with one hand and covering his forehead with the other as if he had a headache.

Some of the cereal boxes smashed into him, some fell to the ground, the boxes cracked and pieces of cereal scattered all over the floor.

I sprinted to him in a few steps and crouched down to check his condition.

“Shen Wunian, are you okay?”

His knuckles gripping the wooden frame were white from exertion, and he looked up at me, his chest rising and falling violently, his lower eyelids scarlet.

“Are you hurt anywhere?” It took a closer look to see that his body was shaking badly.

He stared at me unblinkingly, and then as if he hadn’t even seen me, and his lips were like lead, just moving without making a sound.

“What?” I could only move closer to listen.

“I can’t find him, I regret ……,” he dreamily spat out words hoarsely, “I chose wrong.

Regret what?

My breathing became easier, and my heart speculated whether his so-called regret was that he regretted saving me, after all, he had said before that he should have left me in the container.

It would be okay if he regretted it.

Then it’s here: ……

“Pain is my destiny, I want more pain …… I should always be in pain …… to put ……”

I blinked when I heard the last sentence, thought I had heard wrong, and was stunned to see Shen Wunian’s face.

His reddened eyes touched my gaze, and with a stranglehold on my arm, he repeated almost stubbornly, “……. Give me back the Red Line.”

No, I didn’t hear him wrong.

This man, who had gone to so much trouble to cure himself of Redvein Syndrome, now regretted having cured himself, simply because he got separated from me in the supermarket, and begged me to give him back his Red Line.