Soul Patch

Chapter 73 stopped well.

The next morning, at 5:00 AM.

Wenjie woke up and groggily glanced out the window.

It was all gray and hazy; it was still a long way from dawn!

He went back to sleep.

He would turn over every few minutes, then turn over again a few minutes later... After tossing and turning several times, he sat up in frustration.

She reached out and touched the soft blanket, then bounced her bottom on the mattress again.

The bed was still the same bed, and the blankets were still the same warm and soft ones. He grabbed a pillow, hugged it to his chest, and drifted off into a daze.

Some things are really hard to understand, like: on weekdays, the alarm clock just won't wake me up, but on weekend mornings, I just can't fall asleep.

Wenjie reached for his phone from the bedside table and realized it was only five o'clock.

Yang Shanshan won't arrive until 10 o'clock. What should she do during those five hours?

Let's activate the system and accumulate another batch of skills. Emotional intelligence is really something; Bai Yu's tricks are all child's play in his eyes.

In fact, yesterday during the day, when they went to the cafeteria for lunch, he noticed that Bai Yu had just met a female colleague from the company's audit team. He then squinted at the girl and licked his lips with his tongue.

The woman opposite turned her head away shyly, deliberately talking to her colleague, but her eyes kept glancing at Bai Yu out of the corner of her eye.

These ambiguous little gestures are something Bai Yu might do every day, while Wen Jie, who is almost always with Bai Yu, is completely oblivious to them.

After the thought of activating the system flashed through Wenjie's mind, the system automatically activated.

It's just a simple system I'm thinking about.

Don't take it seriously.

As Wenjie considered shutting down the system, the text in front of him slowly faded until it disappeared.

I didn't turn on the system last night, and I slept incredibly well.

These days are so comfortable.

Soon, more comfortable days arrived. Before ten o'clock, Wenjie was all ready and stood in the shade under the apartment building.

A red Mazda 6, accompanied by upbeat music, slowly approached him.

When the car arrived in front of Wenjie, the loud music and air conditioning inside spilled out of the car windows.

A long, slender arm stretched out of the car window and snapped its fingers at him.

Wenjie only felt the bright yellow fingernails spinning in the air before his eyes, emitting dazzling light.

The snap of fingers was drowned out by deafening music.

Watching the precise snap of his fingers, Wenjie mentally imagined the sound it should make: "Snap..."

Soon, Yang Shanshan, wearing sunglasses, leaned out of the passenger window and said, "Wenjie, this is my best friend, Huang Weiwei."

Yang Shanshan spoke as loudly as she could, but Wenjie couldn't hear her clearly due to the noise of the music.

However, he knew it was Weiwei, and greeted her generously:

"Hello!"

This girl is really... arrogant.

Several residents who were taking a stroll downstairs had already stopped to watch. Wenjie looked up and saw that there were also a few families upstairs peeking out of their windows to watch the commotion.

Wenjie secretly peered through the car window at Huang Weiwei's arrogant face behind her large, square sunglasses.

She may not be as refined in appearance as Yang Shanshan, but her eccentric and domineering aura, enhanced by sunglasses, makes her seem fearless.

The arrogant young woman peered through her sunglasses, her probing gaze sweeping over Wenjie. Her orange-red lips parted slightly: "You're Wenjie?"

Wenjie didn't hear what she said either.

He wondered, "Aren't you afraid of going deaf from listening to such ear-piercing music?"

Seeing that Wenjie didn't react, Huang Weiwei waved to him, indicating that he should get in the car.

Wenjie opened the back door and stepped into the car.

I've been standing downstairs for a while now. The weather in June is so hot and humid that it's unbearable whether you're standing under a tree or in the shade of a building.

So when Wenjie came up, he gently shook his shirt collar.

His shirt was soaked with sweat.

Huang Weiwei glanced at Wenjie through the rearview mirror, then tilted her chin at Yang Shanshan.

Yang Shanshan followed the direction Huang Weiwei was pointing and saw the tissue box. She handed the tissue box directly to Wenjie.

Wenjie took the tissue and wiped his forehead.

"I've heard of you before!"

Huang Weiwei was driving when she blurted out something out of the blue.

When Wenjie looked straight ahead, he vaguely heard Huang Weiwei's words. He smiled brightly, his smile gentle and friendly.

Huang Weiwei secretly glanced at Yang Shanshan in the passenger seat and noticed that Yang Shanshan had a somewhat girlish, uneasy expression.

Tsk tsk tsk... Yang Shanshan is such a coward.

She secretly poked Yang Shanshan with her finger, "Ah..."

Yang Shanshan opened her big, watery eyes and looked at Huang Weiwei, as if to ask, "Why are you driving like this instead of driving properly?"

Huang Weiwei revealed a playful smile.

These two are really boring.

She changed the CD, and as the soothing, water-like music filled the car, the strange atmosphere inside eased.

Huang Weiwei would occasionally exchange a few words with Yang Shanshan along the way, but with Wenjie present, Yang Shanshan felt awkward whenever she spoke, and her face would turn red as she talked.

So Yang Shanshan simply shut up and listened to Huang Weiwei.

Wenjie would occasionally chime in, but later realized it was mostly about female friends chatting about everyday things, and that it would be strange for a man to interrupt, so she stopped talking.

After a while, Huang Wei started all the conversations, and Yang Shanshan barely said a few words before Huang Wei became the only one talking, so she got too lazy to keep up the awkward small talk.

Let it be awkward, whatever!

After the car turned into the villa area according to the location sent by Jia Nan, it was Huang Weiwei's turn to be nervous.

Because she saw the navigation's destination: a tall, handsome man standing in front of a two-story European-style villa.

It's Jia Nan.

He wore brown trousers and a beige casual shirt, which made him look clean and neat.

The morning sun was warm and bright, and standing in the sunlight, he seemed to be affected by the weather, as even his usually stern face showed a rare smile.

Huang Weiwei parked the car across the asphalt road in the villa area, turned off the engine, and jumped out of the car with a bang.

He ran towards Jia Nan.

Jia Nan instinctively stepped back, and her gaze paused slightly after sweeping over the man who got out of the back seat of the car.

Haha, Wenjie is here!

Wenjie needed to notice the villa and the straight-looking young man standing in front of it sooner.

When the car was about a hundred meters away from the villa, Wenjie looked at the destination marked on the car's navigation and guessed that Huang Weiwei's friend's house was this villa.

This villa area is scattered with rows of detached villas, numbering at least a hundred.

As Huang Weiwei's car stopped on the side of the road in the villa area, a two-story villa with a blue roof and white walls came into view.

The villa's architectural style is distinctly European, featuring a large semi-circular terrace, and the glass-blue exterior wall carvings are consistent with the azure villa roof.

Under the sunlight, the contrasting white and blue design complements the red flowers and green grass of the courtyard, making this corner of the space lively and beautiful.

After Wenjie and Yang Shanshan got out of the car, the two walked along the winding stone path on the lush grass to Huang Weiwei.

Huang Weiwei handed the car keys to the handsome young man beside her and said in a half-commanding tone, "Park the car for me."

Jia Nan didn't take the car keys, and simply said, "It's parked very well."

After hearing this, the three of them turned to look at the car parked haphazardly on the side of the road and laughed in unison.

"Oh, let me introduce you. This is my best friend, Yang Shanshan, and this is her friend Wenjie." Huang Weiwei said, gesturing as she spoke, her excitement evident.

Huang Weiwei continued chattering, "Wenjie, this is my friend Jia Nan."

Jia Nan nodded politely to Yang Shanshan and Wen Jie, exchanging pleasantries.

For some reason, Jia Nan turned her head and said to Wenjie:

"Hello……"

Wenjie looked at Jia Nan with surprise and nodded slightly.

The greeting felt strange to him; the drawn-out "hello" seemed to be followed by "long time no see."

He looked at Jia Nan and found something he couldn't understand surging in her eyes—excitement, agitation, and perhaps also confusion and bewilderment.

Does he know this Jia Nan?

Why did his expression look so complicated?

(End of this chapter)