hollywood billionaire

Chapter 463: One Gift, Two Requests
"Why do you think so? You have never done anything wrong to me."

Han Yi frowned slightly and gently comforted Barbara, who suddenly became a little depressed.

"If anything, I should be the one feeling sorry."

"Oh, you should be sorry!" Barbara glared at him. "You've given me so many rivals."

"Damn it, it's back to me again. I shouldn't have comforted you if I had known."

"Ahahaha, it's too late to regret now, kid!"

Barbara was tickling Han Yi with her claws and teeth, making strange noises. She chased him, and the process of removing makeup and washing was interrupted, and the two rolled onto the bed again.

But this time, there was not too much romance. After a while of playing around, the two of them just snuggled together warmly and comfortably.

Han Yi was half lying and half sitting, with three or four soft velvet pillows behind his head, while Barbara was lying on his chest and closed her eyes comfortably.

"I feel sorry for you and for me because... I must admit that I never thought that this relationship between us would last more than one night."

"I know." Han Yi stroked Barbara's long hair very naturally. "You walked out on me like Natalie Portman walked out on Aston Kutcher."

"Are you really calling yourself Ashton Kutcher?"

"Or Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake are fine too. I'm not picky." Han Yi curled his lips.

"I'm the one who's not picky, okay?" Barbara muttered softly.

"Ok?"

"Nothing." Barbara raised her head and wrinkled her nose at him playfully, then lay down on her side like a kitten. "I have politely stayed for breakfast. What else do you want me to do?"

"I understand. You've tried your best to make me feel like I'm not disposable." He usually likes to joke around, but at this critical moment, Han Yi also knows how to discuss the problem seriously and patiently smooth out the wrinkles in Barbara's heart. "It's not your fault. I think we both made the same mental preparation that night - this is an adventure that will only happen once. So we didn't really open our hearts to each other. We just enjoyed each other's company that night... and the next morning."

"But we can actually be open to each other." Barbara looked at him, curled up beside him, and looked a little aggrieved. "I knew, even at that time, that you were the kind of person who would not take action against me on the spot. You would only want to talk to me, understand me, and feel me, and then you would decide what kind of feelings you should have for me. I know this very well... I guided you and seduced you."

"That phrase is a bit exaggerated." Han Yi patted Barbara's head and said softly, "If you really want to know, I am actually very grateful for meeting you that night and doing... Um, what we did."

"Really?"

"Yeah, you know, I've never been the kind of person who acts on impulse. There are too many rules, too many regulations, and too many taboos in my mind, so that my life has basically been running on a monotonous and boring track." Han Yi opened his arms and smiled, "Being with you that night was probably the boldest, most dreamy, and most casual thing I have ever done in my life. In fact, every encounter and contact with you seems to be casual, adventurous, and even... natural. Do you understand what I mean? I like who I become when I'm with you, and I like you for that."

"Then my feelings may be completely opposite." Barbara hugged Han Yi tightly, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously raised an arc representing peace of mind and satisfaction. "I have always been an independent and spontaneous girl. This is not only my nature, but also what my job requires me to be. Today I am in New York, and tomorrow I am in Paris. Before I can react, I will arrive somewhere in central Spain to shoot the cover of the latest issue of Vogue... I'm all over the place, figuratively, and literally."

"The life of an ordinary person is a straight line from point A to point B, while my life is a circle outlined by countless scattered themes. I am in the circle, randomly jumping from one place to another, seemingly free, but never having the chance to escape the constraints of the boundaries. Until I met you, a straight line through my circle. With you, I finally have a clear and firm track to follow, which makes me feel... very peaceful. This peace and happiness are beyond your imagination."

Having said this, Barbara closed her eyes lazily but happily.

"I've finally found a place where I can rest... I never want to leave here."

“That’s why I hate myself for what I did that night. I had finally found someone I felt comfortable with, someone I felt secure with, someone I genuinely loved, but out of fear, doubt, and pure… stupidity, I chose the easiest, most short-sighted, and most irresponsible way to approach the relationship. I chose to have a moment of pleasure and then… run away. I could have been with you, sitting face to face all night, just like I described to Jaewoo, getting to know you on a deep level, and having you get to know me on a deep level.”

"I don't even need to... God, I don't even need to skip work! I can be your favorite casual girl, drag you to Paris, bring you back to London, and we will have endless fun and intimate time together... We will be friends, we will be best friends, and then we will be lovers. We will hold hands, hug, kiss, and then go to bed, in this order, it's the right way."

"I don't want a casual romance, I don't need a casual romance, I hate casual romance, but I did it! I ran away from a serious relationship just because I felt that I shouldn't, or I couldn't, like a stranger I met on the island. Can you imagine what we would be like now if we hadn't met by chance in London that day?"

"But we finally met, didn't we? This is a fact that will not change and cannot be doubted." Looking at Barbara who closed her eyes, took a long breath, and spoke softly, Han Yi also lowered his voice and quietly changed the subject to soothe his girlfriend's emotions. "What were you thinking when you first saw Fei Yamu and I wandering around your neighborhood?"

"I was thinking, 'Those two guys look lost', 'What kind of idiot would get lost in an age where everyone has a cell phone', 'It looks like I just slept with one of these idiots' and ... 'Oh my God, what have I done with my life'."

At this point, Barbara opened her left eye a little, looked at her new darling boyfriend, and laughed with him.

"Seriously, how did you feel?"

"It's true... Have you ever had this experience: you really wanted to buy a dress, but you didn't have the money at the time, or you were busy doing other things and didn't buy it. When you finally realized that you really wanted it and went back to the store to ask the clerk, it had already been sold?"

"Of course I have." Han Yi rolled his eyes, "Which boy doesn't like to wear a dress?"

"Replace the word dress with whatever you want... name it, PS5."

“No one can stop me from owning a gaming console.”

"But you just didn't get it. After waiting in line for a long time, you finally got your chance to buy it, but the PS5 was sold out. You returned home very frustrated, opened the door, and found a PS5 under the TV in the living room - it turned out that your mother had secretly bought it for you."

"That's how I felt when I saw you that day in London."

After thinking for a moment, Barbara poked Han Yi's waist and asked, "What were you thinking when you saw me that day?"

"Me? I was completely stunned at first. I didn't expect to see you again in a country that has nothing to do with Ibiza and Paris. And then..."

"I don't want to talk about it anymore." Han Yi clenched his right hand into a fist, put it to his mouth, and coughed twice.

"Tell me!" Barbara twisted her body and said coquettishly, "I want to know."

"You will think I'm a...Okay, I say, but don't look at me strangely, okay?" Han Yi cleared his throat again, and then said the second half of the sentence with some hesitation, "I really want to...walk up to you, kiss you, and then...do everything we did in Ibiza again. Ever since we spent that night together, I've been trying to rediscover the feeling I had when I was with you..."

"So you slept with other women before you met me again in London?"

"No, my God, how did you come to this conclusion?!"

Oh my god, this Hungarian witch is going to kill me!
"From Ibiza to London, it was less than a week. I was always on a business trip. How could I have the opportunity to sleep with other women?"

Han Yi flatly denied it. He could be honest about everything else, but Barbara must not know about this past.

"Well... well, actually... even if you slept with other women after we met in Ibiza, I couldn't blame you because you didn't know if you would see me again, and... I am such a haunting woman, isn't it?" Barbara raised her chin proudly, "It seems that when I saw you in London, I should have turned around and left, letting you miss me all the time, but never see me, suffering in the longing, trying to relive the feeling of being with me with other women, but repeatedly failing... Well, it sounds like a great ending."

"Ha, ha, ha." Han Yi laughed dryly, "It's very funny."

"It's really funny... but you're not the only one who felt this way that day." Barbara hugged Han Yi's neck and rubbed her body upwards. "At first, I was actually just being kind. I wanted you to come in to avoid the rain, charge your phones, and find a way home. But before I could say a few words to you, I... wanted to get Fei Yamu out of the way and do something unspeakable to you. The moment I took you up to the third floor and into my bedroom, my heart almost jumped out."

"That evening was a marvelous one."

"Yes, the raindrops hitting the window are like an accompaniment. If it's slow, you go slow too; if it's fast, you go fast too; if it's gentle, you go gentle; if it's fierce, you..." Barbara exhaled a breath of hot air, "I can't say any more."

“Not only in the bedroom, but the cooking showdown afterwards was also exciting and unforgettable.”

"I was very tough that day, but the stewed pork ribs you made were really delicious."

"I'll do it for you when I have a chance."

"Okay."

Breathing in the scent emitted by Han Yi, Barbara almost fell asleep comfortably.

"Everything was perfect that day. The only regret is that I shouldn't have taken you to watch the game, and I shouldn't have asked you about...things on the other side of the ocean."

"I'm sorry." After a moment's silence, Han Yi responded in a low voice.

"You don't need to say sorry, because it's still my problem. My old problem has come back." Barbara buried her face in Han Yi's shoulder and whispered in a muffled voice, "After the passion faded a little and the so-called rationality began to occupy my brain again, I became anxious and worried again. I was very scared of the emotions I felt at the time. I knew I was falling little by little, but I really didn't know what the ending would be if I continued to fall. I hardly knew you, and I didn't even have your phone number at that time, but every time I saw you... I couldn't help but go to bed with you! This fact frightened me deeply, so I had to drag you to the Phoenix Bar to talk about your emotional experience, trying to deduce from the clues I saw that you were a jerk, so that I could stop the loss in time."

"You succeeded." Han Yi licked his lower lip. "You found a jerk who was entangled with three other girls on another continent."

"Yes, I succeeded, yeah." Barbara cheered without any enthusiasm. "At that moment, I felt relieved. Although I felt a little empty inside, I felt at ease. I got the conclusion I wanted. Your emotional world is too complicated. If I want to get out of this unscathed, I have to quit immediately."

"You did it before, and you got away with it unscathed." Han Yi thought for a moment and said, "At least you got away with it unscathed for almost half a year."

"I didn't." Barbara smiled self-deprecatingly. "If I really did that, I wouldn't have claimed that I wanted to be friends with you. Now I understand that the reason I maintain a friendship with you is actually because I am not ready to let you go completely. I still want to chat with you, I still want to see you, and I still want to wait for you... Without them around, we'll see how far we can go. But the longer we are friends, the stronger my emotion of not wanting you to be just friends is. You probably don't know that in addition to RealBarbaraPalvin, I also have a small account, and I use it to follow you... So that no matter what you post, I can see it first. Every time I post a photo on the main account, I will frantically check the information prompt within the first fifteen minutes of posting, to see if you will also pay attention to me, like me, and comment on me. Haha, oh... A girl who has fallen may be the stupidest creature in the world."

"It's the cutest creature in the world." Han Yi corrected, "To be honest, when I first left London, I often checked your Instagram and tried to find topics to chat with you on WhatsApp."

"I know, I can feel it." Barbara snickered, "I respond very quickly too."

"But as time went on, I started to wonder, why was I investing so much energy in Barbara Palvin? What was I expecting? She was a supermodel, she was a literal angel, she was probably meeting 50 better men every day than me, men who were more suitable for her. We hadn't seen each other in months and there was no chance we would see each other again in the short term. Even if we did meet, we agreed to 'keep it casual'. So why was I obsessed with this fleeting affair that was destined to fade away?"

"So you deliberately excluded me from your life."

"It's not intentional, it's real... We've been apart for too long, how can we have so many common topics?"

“Yeah.” Barbara sighed. “I remember that we hadn’t spoken for almost a week before we met in New York. I also gradually began to… give up the habit of refreshing Instagram and waiting for your likes or comments. But that day, when I opened my phone, the first message that popped up was your comment.”

"How did you know I was in New York at that time?" Han Yi asked curiously, "You sent me a private message at that time. I remember it very clearly: 'You are also in New York?'"

"Actually, I don't know at all." Barbara chuckled. "I'm not a real witch. How could I know your location through a comment you posted? The reason I posted that is... I hope you are in New York. Because if you are, this topic can continue and we can meet."

"You..." After being stunned for a long time, Han Yi didn't know how to describe his current mood. His hand that was stroking Barbara's back was suspended in the air for a long time before finally falling down and hugging her tighter, "Silly girl."

"Yes, I'm just a silly girl." Barbara also adjusted her posture to get closer to Han Yi. "I obviously didn't know how I felt in my heart, but I pretended to be an emotional master to guide you how to get along with other girls. I obviously wanted to see you so much, but in the end I still pushed you away, saying things like 'I'll see you when I see you', which I thought were cool. I obviously wanted to video call you every day, accompanied you for several hours in Nice, and told you a lot of secrets that I had never told anyone else, but I still had to lie to myself that this was just something good friends would do..."

"I could have come to Las Vegas to see you and openly said 'I miss you', but I had to use a Coca-Cola announcement as an excuse. When I got to Vegas and saw the gift you prepared for me, I chickened out and ran away. It was just... stupid."

"But don't worry, I won't be as stupid as before. I know who I am, who I want to be, and who I want to be with."

“I’m just a girl, standing in front of the boy she likes, begging him… Ahahahahaha, sorry, I laughed!” Barbara broke down for no apparent reason before she finished her lines. “Sorry, sorry, quoting movie lines is really not something I’m good at… It seems like I’ll never be an actor in my life.”

"Actually, the line you quoted is great." Han Yi smiled and scratched her nose. "I like Notting Hill."

"I like Notting Hill, too. I like the way you scratched my nose just now even more." Barbara propped herself up on the bed sheet with both hands, and kissed Han Yi. "Since you like it, I'll say it again...but this time, it's my own version."

"I was just a girl, standing in front of the boy she loved, asking him to forgive her fear and panic, her recklessness and stupidity. She asked him to give her a second chance and let him see how happy he would be with her."

"I won't run away again, Yi."

"Not only will I not run away, I will run towards you with all my emotions and gifts."

"Oh, yes, speaking of gifts..."

Barbara raised her index finger and suddenly raised her voice. Then, under Han Yi's surprised gaze, she slipped off the bed, trotted to the luggage rack, and squatted down.

"You don't think I came to celebrate your birthday empty-handed, do you?"

“This time, I brought three things.”

"A gift, and two requests."

(End of this chapter)