One Life, One Incarnation, Beautiful Bones

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Chapter 1.2- The Unfathomable Past (2)

Hong Xiaoyu also sighed, "Truly, such a coincidence," and cast a rather meaningful glance at Shi Yi.

In terms of appearance, Shi Yi was most certainly amongst the finest. Her facial features and outline seemed as if they had been painstakingly drawn with a pen. Her beauty was not the least bit intimidating, but it was different from the man's ordinariness. In particular, when she looked at you, her eyes were very bright. After you had truly been out in society and had viewed countless beauties, you would realize that a true beauty's eyes will always be bright and not clouded over.

The most important point was, Shi Yi was very conservative. She would never wear anything that would reveal her shoulders.

A very traditional, yet beautiful girl was simply a rare treasure.

Hong Xiaoyu turned her gaze back to this man.

Ah, just let it be. As long as her good friend liked him, a man's face was not that important.

"Such a coincidence indeed." As the man spoke, he picked up a pair of disposable chopsticks, pulled them apart, and began rubbing one chopstick against the other to remove any wood slivers that might be protruding. "You are here in Xi'an on vacation?"

"Xiaoyu is here to do an interview," she replied. "We are planning on taking advantage of this business trip to have fun here for a few days as well."

Their videographer who had been eating away with his head lowered the whole time smacked his lips, put down his chopsticks, and very amiably handed him his business card.

The man took the card, then felt around with one hand in his pant pocket, but after searching for a while, he still was not able to find anything to give in return. "My apologies. I am not used to carrying such things on me all the time." He gave a brief introduction of himself. "Zhousheng Chen. Associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, College of Chemistry. Currently, I am at the Xi'an branch of the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in the polymer research laboratory doing a knowledge exchange project."

The string of what seemed to be specialized and complex nouns caused the videographer to have a whole new level of respect for this man.

"Shengchen [birthday][1]? Nice name," he commented with a chuckle. "Call me Xiao Shuai [Little Handsome]. I'm Hong Xiaoyu's co-worker."

Zhousheng Chen smiled politely, "It is actually the two-character surname of Zhousheng and single character name of Chen."

Xiao Shuai replied, "Oh, oh. Mr. Zhousheng."

Shi Yi could not help laughing. This surname was truly uncommon, and it was not surprising that someone would find it peculiar.

Xiao Shuai seemed to feel that it was extremely improper of him to have gotten someone's surname wrong, so in a very serious tone, he tried to find himself a way out of this awkward situation. He commented to Zhousheng Chen, "In my opinion, that sentence Shi Yi just said is really quite good."

Hong Xiaoyu did not wait for Zhousheng Chen to answer and instead, jumped in to mock him. "Do you know what it means?"

Xiao Shuai had no way to back out now[2], so he could only continue to argue, "Of course I know, but it is definitely a concept that you can only grasp mentally and is hard to explain."

"Don't try to grasp it mentally. I'll tell you where this sentence came from." Xiaoyu asked him amusedly, "Have you heard of Lasting Words to Awaken the World[3]?"

Xiao Shuai gave her a blank look.

"You know what the Three 'Yan' and Two 'Pai'[4] are?"