Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 235 - 232 Fleeting as a Shadow, Following like a Form
Chapter 235: Chapter 232 Fleeting as a Shadow, Following like a Form
The ARMANI Hotel Milano is a hotel with a very modern style.
The entire hotel, from the decor to the furniture, is full of a sense of technology.
A few presses on the iPad could cut off all the lights inside and outside the room, turning day into night, so dark you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face.
Because everyone had gone to bed so late the night before, everyone was up except for one person who had just had a breakdown last night and showed no signs of wanting to get up.
"Hey, you penniless one, if you don’t get up soon, the hotel’s complimentary breakfast will turn into nothing but a dream," Bao Bao called out to Yan Yan to get up for breakfast.
"What does a penniless person like me need a hotel breakfast for? I’ll just stay in the room and eat the welcome chocolate the hotel gave yesterday. You go eat with my brother and the others – let me sleep a bit longer~" Yan Yan was bleary-eyed and, unusually, her food-loving genes were not taking over.
"You sure? Don’t end up calling Room Service later, that definitely won’t be a complimentary breakfast~" Bao Bao still wanted to drag Yan Yan out of bed.
After all, the group currently at the ARMANI Hotel had gathered because of Yan Yan.
Without Yan Yan as the link, getting the others together felt a bit odd.
"Ah, stop disturbing my date with the Duke of Zhou, okay? Isn’t everything in the Mini Bar also complimentary? I definitely won’t starve to death; at worst, my figure will become a little more outstanding." After saying this, Yan Yan promptly rolled over and continued to sleep.
Yan Yan had exposed Bao Bao’s scars the night before and then chatted with Bao Bao for at least two hours, followed by being lectured and brainwashed by him.
Bao Bao had seen it clear as day, Yan Yan on the surface seemed to be someone who could see through love matters.
But in reality, she was someone who couldn’t pick it up, put it down, or even see it through.
She claimed it was an early romance, yet from start to finish, she had eyes only for one man.
Raised in a loving family, unaware of the coldness and warmth of human relationships, and the harshness of the world.
After being educated by Bao Bao, Yan Yan had done a lot of thinking herself.
About Qi Yi, about the future, about her own fears.
But these issues were too complicated, and Yan Yan simply couldn’t come up with any answers for the time being.
Such complex issues, if she couldn’t understand them, she wondered if Qi Yi could.
Yan Yan’s biological clock was a bit disrupted, and she had only fallen asleep around four or five in the morning, so her not getting up was perfectly normal.
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"Why hasn’t Yan Yan come down for breakfast yet?" Yan Ling asked upon encountering Bao Bao at the entrance to the dining area.
"Well, last night, she was fine playing cards, and after getting back to the room, she was like a soulless being.
One moment she said she wanted to dig into my scars, and the next she suggested opening up her own for me to see.
Perhaps she’s suffered too much blood loss and that’s why she can’t get out of bed now," Bao Bao said, glancing at Qi Yi.
There was no obvious sign of trouble on Qi Yi’s face, but the bloodshot in his eyes betrayed his state from last night.
"Brother-in-law, did you finally win my sister over?" Jiao Zhifei asked, full of surprise and admiration.
Yan Ling knocked Jiao Zhifei on the head, "Just by that one sentence, you’ve shown you’ve never been with anyone. If someone was ’won over’, would they be in this state?"
"Then what should that state be?" Jiao Zhifei was genuinely curious.
"Things like that are useless to ask about; you have to experience them yourself," Yan Ling was intentionally discouraging Jiao Zhifei.
"If you overdo the experience, then you end up in the state our brother-in-law is in now," Jiao Zhifei wasn’t one to back down.
Yan Ling and Bao Bao, in a very tacit understanding, chose to ignore the oddball Jiao Zhifei, who was making a fuss.
Milan "driver" Ye Mo had gone back to his own place last night and didn’t stay at the hotel.
Lei Pili was off dealing with work that hadn’t been handed over properly early in the morning.
Yan Yan was still lazing in bed.
Originally, the team of seven was reduced to just four at breakfast today.
After the other two went to find food, only Jiao Zhifei and Qi Yi, who had been seated from the start, were left at the table.
Normally, Jiao Zhifei wasn’t short of words, but faced with Qi Yi, who was completely silent this morning, Jiao didn’t know what topics were good to bring up.
Jiao Zhifei’s explosive question earlier had clearly failed to resonate with Qi Yi and instead seemed to make Qi Yi’s expression turn even uglier.
As the younger brother, Jiao Zhifei could joke about anything with Yan Yan, but this "brother-in-law" was still not someone he had communicated with much.
Without grasping the situation, Jiao Zhifei glanced at Qi Yi and decided it was more practical to go deal with his own breakfast issue first.
Qi Yi was normally very good at making conversation, but today, throughout the entire breakfast, aside from ordering a cup of coffee when the waiter came to ask what he wanted to drink, he had not opened his mouth again.
When Yan Ling and Bao Bao asked him questions, Qi Yi would answer, but his replies were never more than four words.
His words were brief and to the point, as if he had become a different person.
Qi Yi stared at the entrance of the restaurant the whole time.
Until almost everyone had finished their breakfast, Yan Yan’s figure still hadn’t appeared.
Finally, Qi Yi couldn’t help but ask Bao Bao, "Is Yan Yan not having breakfast today?"
"Mm, Xiao Yan wasn’t in a good mood last night, didn’t sleep much and ended up dragging me into talking all night.
But I have jet lag now, so I don’t feel anything, but for her, I don’t know until when she will sleep.
When she wakes up, it’ll probably be my time to sleep," Bao Bao answered Qi Yi, offering some information he would definitely be concerned about.
"My sister is in a bad mood?
Brother-in-law, it couldn’t be that after I left, you and my sister haven’t won a single game of cards, right?
What’s there to be angry about?
My sister, you know, has skills but no humanity.
When she’s playing cards, it’s like she becomes a different person.
She’s not usually so petty.
Don’t be so hard on my sister," Jiao Zhifei projected the reason he had stormed off yesterday onto Qi Yi.
And the more he thought about it, the more he felt his explanation made sense.
Bao Bao knew why Yan Yan was in a bad mood, but she didn’t plan to reveal it.
Yan Ling didn’t know why his cousin was unhappy and planned to ask Yan Yan directly later on.
Bao Bao and Yan Ling had no intention of joining Jiao Zhifei’s conversation, and Qi Yi didn’t know how to respond to Jiao Zhifei’s question.
What should have been a pleasant breakfast ended in an awkward silence.
Some issues Qi Yi had never considered to be problems, while Yan Yan had always been reluctant to think about.
However, the problem was right there, it wouldn’t disappear just by ignoring it.
Last night, as Bao Bao lectured Yan Yan, she advised her to think things through.
Not to stand there dumbly, thinking everything is as it should be.
Some happiness is fleeting, some pain lingers like a shadow.
(End of Volume Four)
