Accidental Love

In the enclosed space, their emotions were squeezed so tightly that it was difficult for them to move.

Zheng Shuyi didn't know how to answer Shi Yan.

Shi Yan didn't speak either and just looked at Zheng Shuyi.

It was obviously him who acted first, but it was also him who insisted on waiting for an answer.

Her silence became more and more difficult to maintain under Shi Yan's gaze.

Although there was absolute silence, as even the breathing sounds seemed to have disappeared, the heartbeat ringing in Zheng Shuyi's ears was slowly being amplified, each timebeating louder than the last.

It seemed to be beating so fast that it couldn't supply her body with blood anymore, and oxygen started to deplete from her lungs. Her whole body felt light.

Zheng Shuyi's throat itched.

She really wanted to reach into her chest and tell her heart to stop beating, so that she had time to think of a reasonable answer to reply to Shi Yan.

But nothing was in her control.

She even began to worry whether Shi Yan could hear her deafening heartbeat.

In the endless silence, the elevator rang suddenly.

Zheng Shuyi didn't hear it, nor did she notice that the light feeling disappeared.

The elevator door opened, two foreigners with blond hair and blue eyes stood outside. Seeing this scene, they froze for a moment, and then said, "Hello? Excuse me?"

She slowly returned to her senses. After catching a glimpse of the people outside, Zheng Shuyi instantly pulled her hand back and stepped out.

There was still some warmth from Shi Yan on her hands. They hung beside her skirt and were being roasted by the warmth, letting the heat slowly spread to the rest of her body.

Shi Yan followed her without any hurry.

The woman in front walked very fast. She had her head looking down and didn't say anything.

A few seconds later, Shi Yan stopped walking. He crossed his arms in front of her chest and just looked at her.

"Zheng Shuyi, don't you know where your room is?"

She went too far.

Sure enough, Zheng Shuyi paused, then turned around to walk back.

He still kept her head down. By looking at her, it seemed as if the person in front of her didn't exist.

She stayed like that until she almost passed by.

Shi Yan calmly watched her pass beside him as if he wasn't there, then finally reached out his hand to stop her.

"What are you doing?"

They stood beside each other shoulder-to-shoulder, one facing north and the other facing south.

"I'm thinking about something."

Zheng Shuyi looked at the wide-open window at the end of the corridor in front of her and said blankly.

"Oh?"

Zheng Shuyi rolled her eyes and then slowly walked in front of Shi Yan.

"I'm thinking, did you just kiss me?"

Sh Yan: "…"

He raised his eyebrows.

"Am I dreaming? That seemed so unreal!"

Shi Yan: "…"

Zheng Shuyi stood on her toes, "Can you do it again?"

"…"

A gust of wind blew in. It was cold, but it also woke someone a bit from the wine.

Sure enough.

This uncontrollable woman, who not only can bug a man but also can make a poem, never thought through events the way a normal person would.

Seeing that he wasn't speaking, she pulled on and shook his sleeves.

"I didn't feel it just now, can you do it again?"

"Even exams have make-up opportunities."

"I'm requesting a make-up exam."

A second later, Shi Yan grabbed her sleeves, pulled her hand away from him, and then pushed her shoulder to make her turn left.

"Go sleep."

Being in front of the door, Shi Yan had already taken out the room key from her bag and opened the door. Everything happened so quickly that Zheng Shuyi didn't even get any chance to insist.

Well, she did get one.

When Shi Yan was about to close the door from the outside, Zheng Shuyi held the door and asked pitifully, "We really can't do that again? I really didn't feel anything."

Shi Yan didn't show any expression as he took her fingers off the door one by one and then closed the door without any hesitation.

After a crisp click.

The atmosphere inside the room became completely different from outside the door.

Zheng Shuyi felt exhausted as the expression on her face disappeared. She stood with her back leaning against the door and stared blankly at the wall on the opposite end.

Outside the door, Shi Yan stared at the door for quite a while before leaving.

That night, Zheng Shuyi soaked herself in the hotel bathtub for a long time, trying to completely dilute all the panic in her heart.

Don't panic. If I panic right now, all my hard work would be in vain.

She should be the person leading everything.

But for some reason, why did it feel like she was the one being controlled…

It wasn't until the water became cold did Zheng Shuyi slowly get up and walk out with a towel on her, leaving a trail of water stains on the ground.

——

There were two meetings on the first morning of Kelunche Forum. One from 9 to 10 about "Financial Risks from the Stock Market", and another from 10:30 to 11:30 about "New Vision of Industrial Cooperation".

In the morning, Zheng Shuyi's alarm clock and the hotels' wake-up service rang at the same time.

She sat up on the bed. Her head was hurting, and she went to the bathroom to glance at her face.

As expected, the dark circles under her eyes made her look like a panda.

Fortunately, she brought a full set of cosmetics on this trip.

But in the end, she still came out a few minutes later than the agreed time.

Shi Yan stood at the door of her room, glanced at his watch, then knocked on the door helplessly.

This helplessness was not because Zheng Shuyi was late for a while, but because he faintly felt that if this continued, who knew what new tricks Zheng Shuyi would play in these two days.

The Zheng family's Shuyi might not have many talents, but in terms of pulling tricks, her tricks were definitely not something an ordinary person could withstand.

The person inside did not respond, so Shi Yan could only call her.

But just after dialing, the door opened.

The person in front of him is wearing a white shirt, a beige pencil skirt, a jacket in her hand, and her hair pinned behind her ears. She carefully made sure she looked perfect.

The makeup was decent and her face looked natural.

Shi Yan was even a little unused to this when remembering how she pleaded for another kiss last night.

It even felt like she was ready to unleash some new tricks.

However, even after the two of them got in the car, Zheng Shuyi was still sitting peacefully on the side, so dignified that she looked like a strict female host you'll find in a book.

She looked normal, but also abnormal at the same time.

"Have you eaten breakfast yet?" asked Shi Yan.

Zheng Shuyi nodded, "Yes, what about you?"

Shi Yan glanced at her, "Yes."

She smiled and continued to look straight ahead.

Then quietly did a pep talk to herself:

Yes, just like this. I can do this, I am the one in control.

The car drove smoothly toward the venue.

A few minutes later, Zheng Shuyi's phone vibrated, someone just @ her in a group chat.

This group was called the "Jiang City Financial Journalists". The chat wasn't for work purposes and was just a group of reporters who added people they knew to promote exchanges and help each other.

There were journalists from magazine publishers like Zheng Shuyi, as well as journalists from TV stations and other media platforms.

Jiang City Finance Channel – Shi Hang: @Finance Weekly – Zheng Shuyi are you in Fu City? Did I see you just now? At the entrance of Oxley Hotel, are you the one wearing a camel coat?

Jiang City FInance Channel – Shi Hang: You came to the forum too?

Zheng Shuyi took a look and didn't plan to reply, so she just pretended that she didn't see the message. Either way, the message soon got pushed up by other messages and disappeared from the screen.

But Kong Nan was also in this group chat. After seeing the message, she immediately sent a voice message to Zheng Shuyi privately.

Zheng Shuyi took a peek at Shi Yan and saw that he wasn't paying attention to her side. So she placed her phone beside her ear and clicked "play".

The next second, Kong Nan's recognizable voice suddenly appeared on the car's radio.

"Why are you in Fu City? Forum? Didn't you say you were with your dad?"

Zheng Shuyi: "…"

This sentence popped out word by word, which sounded extremely clear in the quiet car.

Zheng Shuyi's hand holding the phone froze beside her ear.

For a second, she even doubted if she heard it wrong.

How, is it possible, that it played, in the car, out loud?

But Shi Yan's reaction made her feel more dead than ever.

He turned his head and his eyes turned into crescents.

"With your dad?"

Zheng Shuyi was silent.

The driver in the front row coughed, and she remembered that when she came last night, she thought the driver's music wasn't good so she connected her phone to the car's Bluetooth.

So as soon as she got in the car, the Bluetooth was automatically connected.

Zheng Shuyi: "…"

Shi Yan raised his hand and pressed it on the chair behind her.

“Is it very shameful to come out with me?"

Zheng Shuyi tried really hard not to panic, "No it's…"

"Oh, I see…" Shi Yan seemed to understand and nodded, "I didn't know you had this kind of hobby."

Zheng Shuyi turned her head, "What hobby?"

Shi Yan looked straight ahead and uttered a few words gently.

"So you like to call people dad."

He also nodded, seeming to accept this "hobby" of hers.

Zheng Shuyi: "…"

All the way thereafter, Zheng Shuyi was silent even if she didn't want to.

Otherwise, she suspected that Shi Yan might actually hold her down and make her call him "dad".

——

The benefits of participating in the Kelunche Forum with Shi Yan were obvious.

As partners who transferred hundreds of thousands of Euros a year, they got a lot better treatment than ordinary members who just paid tens of thousands of Euros.

Sitting in the first row, the host and four guests talked freely, topic after topic, which aroused applause from the audience from time to time.

The first meeting itself already raised the atmosphere to the climax.

However, Zheng Shuyi was very quiet. She focused on the people on the stage and looked like had some complicated thoughts, every once in a while. She didn't even notice that Shi Yan looked at her a few times.

Shi Yan didn't know if she was uncomfortable or just unused to the environment at the moment.

After that incident last night, he felt that Zheng Shuyi's exaggerated appearance today would be normal.

But it definitely shouldn't look like this.

What is she thinking every day?

Until towards the end of the first meeting, the person beside him finally started to move around.

These kinds of subtle movements did not attract the attention of others, but from the corner of Shi Yan's eyes, he noticed everything that she did.

She arranged her skirt, tucked her clothes, switched the position of her legs, and looked around everywhere with her eyes.

Her fingers were also digging gently into the armrest as if she really wanted to say something but was also trying to hold back.

Shi Yan suddenly grabbed her hand and pressed it on the armrest, and then whispered, "What do you want now?"

Zheng Shuyi struggled a little but didn't pull her hand back. She said vaguely, "I want to go back to the hotel after this meeting."

The two whispered.

"What happened?"

"Nothing…"

Shi Yan glanced at her again with some deep thoughts in mind.

The next meeting started.

She seemed to grow even more impatient.

She didn't say anything, but her cheeks were bright red already. Shi Yan didn't really know how to help her either.

"Let me know after you get back."

Zheng Shuyi nodded.

At the end of the meeting, she quietly left immediately.

Fortunately, the meeting venue was not far from the hotel. Within twenty minutes, she had already returned to her room and called the front desk for something.

She quickly went to the bathroom to change her underwear and tampon. The moment lied motionless on the bed, she felt the sky spinning and her abdomen felt like an erupting volcano.

She kicked off her shoes, hugged the pillow tightly, and slowly curled up to the corner of the bed.

——

At 11:30, the second meeting ended on time.

When Shi Yan just got up, before he even left the venue, he was stopped by the host of this meeting.

This was the host of a finance TV station. He had several encounters with Shi Yan before, and at this moment, he was inviting Shi Yan to lunch together.

Shi Yan responded to him, and the host looked around before asking, "Did you come with the lady beside you?"

In fact, just on stage, he saw Shi Yan and Zheng Shuyi whispering. They seemed really close, most likely that kind of relationship.

But then he thought again, what if they weren't, then that would be embarrassing.

"She felt a little sick and went back to the hotel. She's really squeamish, she probably won't come again."

Seeing Shi Yan’s tone and demeanor when he said this, the host understood and said with a nod, "Okay, maybe next time then. She seemed to be really interested in today's topic."

Shi Yan replied with a simple "Mm".

Then, he and Chen Sheng went out together. He glanced at the phone, nothing from Zheng Shuyi.

He made a call, but no one answered.

"Go check with the hotel," Shi Yan told Chen Sheng, "What's the matter with her?"

Without Shi Yan having to specify who this "her" was referring to, Chen Sheng already knew exactly what to do.

A few minutes later, Chen Sheng said, "She got back to the hotel already and asked the front desk for a box of painkillers."

"Painkillers?"

Shi Yan glanced at his watch and said, "Go attend lunch for me."

Chen Sheng nodded.

But he was a little speechless in his head.

Why is it me again?

I want to go back to the hotel and rest…

——

When Shi Yan stood at the door of Zheng Shuyi's room, he was about to raise his hand to knock on the door, but his hand paused midair.

The distance from the venue to the hotel was so close that he didn't realize he was back already. Why did I just leave there without even thinking?

After freezing for a moment, Shi Yan lowered his hand and took out his phone instead.

The phone rang for a long time and only stopped after it hung up automatically. Only then did Shi Yan raise his hand again to ring the doorbell.

Like the phone, no one responded even after pressing it three times.

Shi Yan frowned, turned, and walked towards the elevator.

——

The noon sun sparsely spilled onto the bed through the curtains, printing mottled shadows on the pure white sheets.

Zheng Shuyi was in a cold sweat. Her clothes were soaked and sticking to her body. When she woke up in a daze, she was in a really bad mood.

At the same time, there was a ringtone in her ear. "Tsk," she mumbled as she pushed the pillow aside and went to reach for her phone.

She didn't touch her phone, but instead, felt something warm.

Zheng Shuyi slowly opened her eyes and turned her eyes. Shi Yan's face appeared beside her bed.

And, her hand is touching his wrist.

"You… why are you back?"

Shi Yan looked down at her hand, and then picked it up to put it back in the blanket.

"If I haven't come back, are you just planning to figure everything out yourself?"

Maybe it was because she just ate some medicine and was still feeling a little dizzy. She was confused for a long time before she understood what was going on.

Although he didn't sound very polite, it seemed that he came here to check on her because he knew she was sick.

Zheng Shuyi didn't speak. There was no trace of life on her pale face and her eyes looked foggy too. She stared at him like that blankly, and her eyes lost the usual livelihood that she had.

Shi Yan's heart inexplicably skipped a beat, then he sighed and asked, "What happened?"

People were always weak when sick, this would never change.

When she was in so much pain and hitting the pillow while clenching her teeth, no one was by her side.

That kind of feeling could be infinitely amplified, making one feel like they have been abandoned by the world.

Now that he appeared, Zheng Shuyi really didn't want this sense of security to disappear.

She had no extra space to think about anything else.

Except——

"It hurts…"

Zheng Shuyi grabbed tight onto the blanket, and only after she finished speaking did she realize that her voice had changed.

In fact, it didn't hurt that much.

But her appearance made it look like she got an incurable disease.

"Where does it hurt?” asked Shi Yan.

Zheng Shuyi said with a numb voice, "Everywhere."

Shi Yan: "…"

Shi Yan slowly stood up and pursed the corners of his mouth.

It seemed that he had already identified her acting.

Zheng Shuyi felt a little embarrassed, and quickly said, "It actually doesn't hurt that much, just help me feel better."

Shi Yan lowered his eyes and looked at her.

"How?"

"Just say…" Zheng Shuyi thought for a moment, "Just say, how are you seeing an angel without even being in heaven?

"…"

Shi Yan's expression was ineffable.

Then, he walked away from the bed and took off his suit.

Then he sat on the sofa, and when he looked up again, he said in a helpless tone,

"Go to sleep, I'll be right here,…"

"Angel."

Author's note: Shi Yan, why not come here and check me out, I'm a Disney princess at large~~