Please Be More Serious

Ch 59-60

Daddy's Girl:

Yin Ting’s phone rang a long time before she picked up. Her voice was cheerful and energetic as she said, ‘Please be more serious, are you finished with work?’

‘Yes,’ he replied, he found himself chocked with unshed tears. He had to clear his throat twice.

‘Have you just finished entertaining your clients?’ Yin Ting asked, ‘Did you drink? If you drank, get a taxi.’

‘I didn’t drink,’ he replied. He suddenly felt like he wasn’t ready to tell her, he hadn’t calmed down. His heart was still beating fast, his thoughts were chaotic. He did not even know how he would tell her.

‘It’s alright if you did not drink, did you just finish or are you home already?’

‘Just finished. I’m in the parking lot.’

‘Go home. When you get home call me.’

‘Ah Xiaoting,’ he called, afraid she would hang up.

‘What’s up?’ she asked

‘Um…tomorrow’s Saturday.’

‘Yes ah. We can meet up tomorrow.’ She said happily, ‘Today you were socialising, not working crazy overtime, so no points are deducted, therefore, we can have a date tomorrow.’

Zhengqing closed his eyes as Guohao’s words came back to him. Did they really have problems getting along? Was he and Yin Ting’s approach to love completely different?

‘Tomorrow,’ he said, ‘let’s go to the movies.’

‘Really?’ Yin Ting’s voice rose an octave; she was very surprised. Zhengqing was suddenly distressed, it was just going to the movies and he didn’t think of going with her. (Zuben: Well you are dense in living life)

‘You actually decided to go to the movies by yourself? So surprising!’ Yin Ting was very happy, ‘So we should go out for lunch, then go to the cinema after. You go to the gym on Saturdays, don’t you? My dad hasn’t come back; I will ask him what he wants to do tomorrow. If there isn’t anything, I’ll have lunch with him while you are at the gym. Then we can meet up afterwards for dinner and the cinema!’

‘I met your dad – had a meal with him.’ He said, grasping the chance. ‘He’s on his way home now.’

‘You saw my dad? How clever. Where did you meet? Did everyone know who he was?’

‘No…truthfully…’Zhengqing paused while he thought of the words to tell her, ‘Truthfully, your dad asked me to dinner tonight but he asked me not to tell you, so I told you I was entertaining customers.’

After a little silence she asked, ‘What happened?’

‘Well, he…talked about the difference in our personalities and the emotional risk we are taking by being together.’

Yin Ting was quiet, then she said, ‘Please rephrase that again, in simple terms.’

‘That is, he has no confidence that we can go the distance.’

Yin Ting could not believe it, there had been no warning at all.

‘So what did this mean?’