Book 3: Glory on the Other Side

Chapter 29

The news of Solo’s vacation was distributed by email to SP Asia’s upper

management the next afternoon.

She had just arrived at Shanghai airport when she received the email.

She returned to Shanghai several hours behind the team. ?At Hongqiao

Airport, she pushed her luggage out to the lobby and immediately saw Dt

in the midst of the crowd.....His hat was too conspicuous.

She passed through the crowd and walked up to him.

Dt stretched out his hand to take her luggage naturally. ?“Grunt is using my

car. ?He will be here in a minute.”

“Grunt?” ?Ai Qing was stunned, ?“Damn. ?I already arranged to eat dinner

with my sister.”

The eyes underneath the hat brim didn’t show any surprise at all. ?“I know.”

“You know?” ?Ai Qing was more surprised than him, ?“How did you know?”

“Grunt told me.”

....

She could already predict the atmosphere of dinner tonight.

It would be very awkward.

It turned out to be exactly as she had expected. ?After the four of them sat

down in the private room, Dt acted, as usual, as if it had nothing to do with

him at all. ??But Ai Qing was unhappy and glared at Grunt from time to time.

Grunt was turning the menu, but didn’t ask the other three what they were

going to order since nobody would answer him seriously.

They were eating western-style food, which included several courses. ?The

waitress, with a winsome smile, kept serving various dishes one after another.

Finally, Grunt had enough. ?“We are already eating our main course now,

just bring all the remaining dishes here at the same time. ?Please leave us,

we have some private things to talk about.”

The waitress left and closed the door as asked.

The conversation in the room now began.....it was immediately confrontational.

Ai Jing placed her napkin on the table. ?“Talk. ?Then I’ll leave after you finish.”

Grunt took off his glasses. ?“There’s nothing to talk about.”

“If there’s nothing to talk about. ?Then why are you looking for me?” ?Though

“I miss you.” ?Grunt gave her this answer.

....

Ai Qing gulped down some milk and checked to see what kind of cutlery was

in her sister’s hand.

Hrm, it was a spoon, it wouldn’t cause too much damage.

Still, she took the initiative to move her chair closer to Dt a little bit. ?Dt looked

like he understood her concern. ?He changed his position to place his hand on

the back of Ai Qing’s chair to protect her.

“What’s the point?” ?Ai Jing put down the spoon.

“There’s no point.” ?Grunt was not joking. ?“I really miss you.”

It was a long and embarrassing silence.

Ai Qing was a little bit depressed and placed her fork down.

As she was trying to find an excuse to leave, her sister stood up abruptly and

Then-- --

Ai Qing then witnessed how the two really interacted with each other.

One was wrestling and struggling to escape, the other one was pressing her

down regardless. ?Finally he firmly pushed her into the chair....

Ai Qing’s first reaction was to turn her head around.

The second reaction was to look at Dt.

The man behind her had either turned his head away after he saw it or already

expected to see this scene and had turned his head around beforehand. ?Anyway

he was looking at the oil painting on the wall calmly at this moment.

Dt and Ai Qing shortly left the room.

She learned from the conversation between Grunt and her sister that Grunt

had a showdown with his former girlfriend after he came back to Shanghai. ?It

seemed the situation had improved. ?“What has Grunt done?” ?She stood beside

Dt and watched him swipe his credit card.

“Looks like he bought a bunch of pills after he came back, then he locked

himself with that girl inside the room....” ?Dt said in a low voice but he was

Dt glanced at her and concluded briefly, “It’s just-- --”

Ai Qing stared at him.

He.....he still couldn’t say it.

“Did he threaten the girl that he would eat as much pills as her? ?If she kept

pushing him, then they would together.....uhm.” ?Ai Qing gave up asking him

and began to guess according to Grunt’s character, ?“It sounds like something

Grunt would do.”

Dt sort of admitting it by lightly answering, “Un.”

Dt paid the bill and drove her home. ?When he drove into her community, she

found that Dt seemed to know the roads quite well. ?He found a parking

space very quickly.

“It can’t be that you’ve sneaked out here to get familiar with the area?” ?She

asked lightly.

“Uhm.” ?He gave a simple answer.

....

She turned her head to look outside of the window and couldn’t help smiling.

It’s so cute, he even sneaked out here to check out the location and practice

his parking.