The Most Majestic You

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com

The Most Majestic You

Chapter 31 Part 2

KG achieved a breakthrough in the new season after Cheng Yang joined them.  They pushed ahead vigorously all the way till they won KG’s first international championship trophy in the Frankfurt Tournament at the end of the season.

In a bar alongside the River Main, the KG team was rejoicing and celebrating their international competition championship.  They joked that they would not return without getting drunk.  Xu Jimo had several glasses with them before receiving a phone call. He walked outside the bar to answer it.

It was already very cold in November in Germany.  There were only two drunkards, supporting each other, muttering in a language he didn’t understand, staggered by him.

The scene was a little bit depressed, but her voice was even more depressed,  “Congratulations.”

She had returned to the Ye Qianxi the first time he had met her, dressed in a professional suit and sitting inside the high rise downtown.  She congratulated him in a cold voice.

He hadn’t heard her voice for a long time.  It sounded somewhat unfamiliar.

Qin Xiao had been keeping contact with him, but the person who contacted him was different each time.  He didn’t expect it to be her this time.

He leaned against the door frame and whispered, “Thank you.”

He heard the sound of roaring wind inside the phone.

In the silence that followed, he sensed that this call was somewhat different than usual.   He raised his head slowly.  In the dark night, she wore a windbreaker, her hair was untidy, blown every which way by the wind, and covered her eyes.

Qianxi walked slowly in front of him and put down the phone.

He asked first, “Why are you here?”

“I’m responsible for the live broadcasting of the competition, so I came to Frankfurt with the broadcast team.  I watched your match from beginning to end from numerous monitors.”   She appeared very calm, quite unlike the Ye Qianxi he knew.

Xu Jimo asked her calmly.  “Do you still fight with your family?”

“Not any more.”  She seemed very indifferent.  “My dad thinks if there is anything in this world that I can toss around, it would be money.  He heard that I wanted to set up a company with a friend, he was extremely happy.  Qin Xiao will have an easy time for the next round of financing.”

This was the route he had suggested and she had moved along much more smoothly than he had expected.

Maybe there were some people who should do what they were born with.

“Should I thank you?”  Qianxi turned around abruptly.  She pulled his wrist without allowing him to speak, walking towards the bar.  “Aren’t you guys celebrating now?  Let’s go in to have a drink.”

Nobody paid attention to them inside the noisy bar.

She ordered two large glasses of German dark beer and clinked the glasses with him.   “For our Win-Win.  Bottom up.”

The large screen in the bar was broadcasting a ball game.  People burst into cheers for the victory of their home team.  The celebrating KG players were not far from them, in the midst of a drinking contest.  It looked like everyone in the world had a reason to be happy. But he didn’t move, watching her gulp down more than half of the glass. He didn’t feel the happiness of celebration at all.

“Stop drinking.”  He stretched out his hand and covered the opening of the glass.

Qianxi pushed his hand away and stubbornly drank the whole mug.  She gestured to turn the glass upside down to show that she had drank the whole glass.  “Why are you deciding again for me whether to drink or not.”

“Why do all the decisions made by those of you look so correct?  You’ll live better after breaking up; it’s better for your health to drink less; don’t date a boyfriend without letting your family know since you usually will get dumped…...I really hate all of you who always make the correct decisions.”  She raised eyebrows and pointed to his glass.  “Aren’t you going to drink it?   I will drink it if you don’t.”

He held the handle of the glass firmly.  “Do you want to hear my apology?”

“No.”  She replied immediately.  “I’m very good at taking it easy and don’t think about it too much.   I can’t help myself if I appear in front of you when I like you. When I don’t like you, I’ll be just like you, with a nasty poker face.”

Qianxi stood up and paid money to the bartender to ask for several more dark beers.  “If you don’t want to drink, then I’ll go find somebody else to drink?”

He grabbed her hand and raised his eyes finally.  “Then do you or don’t you like me now?”

Qianxi stepped aside and backwards one step.  Her eyes had the kind of annoyance of someone losing patience.  She tried to control her emotions until she couldn’t anymore. With the influence of alcohol, she leaned over and kissed his lips.  The smell of alcohol mixed together with the anxiety of not getting what she wanted, even her kiss was ruthless and violent.  She shared all of these with him.  The bubbles of bear in her hand overflowed and splashed out while she was bending over, soaking the front of his shirt.

The sound of the commentary of the ball game, people’s cheers, the music inside the bar, and the endless sound of glasses clinking all seemed like bubbles exploded near her ears, one after another. With teary eyes, her only thought was that she had to quickly escape, far away from this place.

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com