Chapter 36: What Does She Have to Do With Me?!

His goal was clear. He stormed to the training ground where Nan Fangjue was drilling troops.

He ignored even his comrades who greeted him along the way.

“Hey! What do you mean? Why did you come back without me?”

His already pale face turned even paler. He didn’t care about the taxi drivers still in training, impatiently shouting.

“I suddenly had something to do. Didn’t you come back? You ran back? What’s wrong with getting some exercise?”

Nan Fangjue remained calm.

“What urgent matter? We left together, we should return together. You left me halfway, what’s the meaning of that?”

Lin Sinan had a fiery temper; he had never suffered such injustice.

“Don’t be angry, let’s go.”

Nan Fangjue put his arm around his shoulder and led him to a secluded spot.

“Jue, you have to give me a reason, otherwise, I won’t forgive you.”

Lin Sinan was truly angry; his aggrieved peach blossom eyes glistened with tears.

“Look at you, about to cry? You’re a man, we weren’t afraid of bullets and gunfire. Okay, I’ll explain.”

Nan Fangjue, seeing him so angry for the first time, offered extra reassurance.

“Tell me!”

He growled.

“Do you recognize the woman running on the road you saw while driving today?”

Nan Fangjue originally didn’t want to mention this, but seeing his agitated emotions, he had no choice.

“No.”

Lin Sinan turned his head away, avoiding his gaze.

“You really don’t recognize her?”

Nan Fangjue asked again.

“What are you trying to say?! What does she have to do with me?! Why should I know her?! Don’t change the subject!”

Lin Sinan was angry again.

“She’s Wen Yanyan.”

He finally said it.

“What?!”

Lin Sinan’s expression changed; he was even more aggrieved.

“Jue, you can’t fool me like this. My heart is shattered by you, and you still tease me. Don’t I know Wen Yanyan? She’s not…”

He didn’t believe it.

“But she is…”

Nan Fangjue was also somewhat helpless.

“Even if it’s her, what does it have to do with you ditching me?” Lin Sinan didn’t want to dwell on this, getting to the point.

“It’s related, because I drove her home.”

Here came the crux of the matter.

“What?!”

Lin Sinan’s anger flared. “You drove her home, and then ditched me? You’re so…”

He wanted to say “insensitive to your friends for the sake of women,” but couldn’t finish, because Wen Yanyan had nothing to do with “women.”

“Anyway, you’re wrong. We could have just come back together. The car wasn’t too small.”

He was still full of resentment.

“Aren’t you annoyed by her?”

That was one aspect; another was that Nan Fangjue didn’t like the way Lin Sinan looked at Wen Yanyan.

“This…”

Lin Sinan fell silent. After a while, he said, “Fine, I’ll forgive you this time, but there’s no next time. You can’t do this again.”

Then, he changed the subject, “Jue, is the woman you met on the road today really Wen Yanyan?”

He was confused.

“Could I be mistaken?”

Nan Fangjue asked back.

Lin Sinan shook his head.

“You couldn’t be mistaken, then it’s strange. How could she have changed so much? Did you ask her why?”

This woman was different from the old Wen Yanyan in every way.

“She’s on a diet.”

Nan Fangjue explained.

“Oh, that’s right. She finally did something right. She really was too fat.”

Lin Sinan said, then fell into thought.

“What are you thinking about again?”

Nan Fangjue was puzzled.

“Regarding Wen Yanyan, I’ve heard many rumors, I don’t know if they’re true.”

Lin Sinan was quite sociable, wherever there was excitement, he would go, so he heard a lot of gossip.

“What rumors?”

Nan Fangjue was usually taciturn; he learned most of his gossip from Lin Sinan.

“This time it’s good news. I heard it from the neighbor’s aunt. Instructor Xu’s youngest son choked on food while playing, blocking his airway, and Wen Yanyan saved him. Apparently, the child’s face turned blue.”

Lin Sinan was half-believing, but this was from his neighbor’s aunt, so it was quite credible.

“When did this happen?”

Nan Fangjue was surprised again.

“It was… the first day we went to the wild boar forest.” More than ten days ago? Nan Fangjue didn’t speak.

“Jue, you might be right. Maybe she was just young and didn’t understand things before, so she did so many foolish things. Saving a life is better than building seven pagodas. She did the right thing. But how did she have this ability?”

Lin Sinan himself might not have been able to save the child if he had been there.

“Don’t mention it, I can’t figure it out either. It’s almost noon, I’ll go back and finish the training, then go home for dinner.”

Nan Fangjue was used to her changes and wasn’t too surprised.

“You’re going home for dinner? Not eating in the cafeteria?”

Lin Sinan suspected he had made a slip of the tongue.

“She said she would cook.” Nan Fangjue walked back; his taxi drivers were still training.

“What about me?”

Lin Sinan followed closely.

“Go to the cafeteria yourself.” He strode away.

“That’s not fair. No, wherever you go, I’ll go. You almost made me mad earlier! You have to compensate me.”

Lin Sinan was insistent.

“You can go, but keep your eyes to yourself, don’t look at everything.”

Nan Fangjue still remembered this morning’s incident.

“Okay… I understand what you mean. At that time, I didn’t recognize her. Otherwise, I wouldn’t look at anyone, let alone her.”

Lin Sinan followed him.

He was particularly curious. What kind of dish could the lazy and clumsy Wen Yanyan cook for Nan Fangjue?