Chapter 5
Chapter 5
At the café, I ordered a coffee and did my best to ask him calmly, “What exactly are you trying to do? Can you just tell me?”
“I just wanted to know what flavor of milk tea you like.”
He threw away the mango pomelo sago in his hand, pulled out a napkin, and wiped the sweat from his palm.
His expression was a little forlorn.
“Ever since we were kids, I’ve never done anything you liked.
“I just wanted to buy you a cup of milk tea you liked, to make you a little happier.”
“Why do you want to make me happy?”
“I like you.”
He said it without the slightest hesitation.
I stared at him without blinking.
It was too strange.
It really was too strange… This whole act of being so deeply in love with me didn’t fit his proud, reckless character at all.
“Did something happen?” I asked tentatively. “I remember you weren’t like this before.”
“People change,” he said quietly. “Besides, you never really knew me that well before.”
I fell silent. I wanted to tell him to leave, but I felt like those words would be useless.
The atmosphere grew so quiet it felt heavy.
Then he spoke. “Give me one month. Let me try, okay?”
“If I don’t try, I’ll never give up. Just let me try pursuing you, okay?”
I still didn’t say anything.
He pinched his palm. “I know seeing me makes you sick… so I bought the apartment you’re renting now. After one month, no matter how you feel about me, I’ll transfer it to you as an apology for disgusting you. All right?”
I froze for a moment, even more unable to understand him.
“What exactly are you after?
“What do I have that’s worth you doing all this?”
“I told you. I like you. But you’ve always hated me… It’s practically become an obsession for me.”
He looked into my eyes.
“Lulu, I’m begging you. Give me a chance to put this obsession to rest, okay?”
I still felt like there was something off about that reason, but I couldn’t say what the problem was.
An apartment in the center of a major southern city cost almost five million if paid in full. He really was generous.
I looked at him with complicated feelings for a long time before finally sighing.
Forget it.
What did how he thought have to do with me anyway?
“Only one month. Are you sure?”
He nodded.
I said, “Fine. But after one month, you have to disappear from my world completely.”
When I got off work, Lin Yu followed right behind me and went into the apartment across from mine.
So it turned out he had been living there all this time.
He opened the door and was about to go inside when I suddenly asked, “Can you change your name?”
He turned back, confused.
“Can I call you something else? Something that has nothing to do with the name Lin Yu.”
I explained, “When I was little, every time my mom scolded me, she used you as an example. Now whenever I hear that name, I think of my mom yelling at me. It doesn’t feel good.”
His face paled a few shades.
“Whenever your parents scolded you, they always compared you to me?”
“What else?”
Lin Yu bit his lip.
“You can call me anything. Whatever makes you happy.”
“Then I’ll call you Third Brother.”
I said, “My ex-ex-boyfriend was Big Brother, and my ex-boyfriend was Second Brother, so you can be next in line. You don’t mind, do you?”
He bit down hard on his lip, so hard that blood beaded on it, but I pretended not to see.
“If you don’t say anything, I’ll take that as a yes.”
With that, I turned and went inside, no longer paying him any attention.