Chapter 11.2 - The Eleventh Sentence Part 2

Translator: tarararawr

PR: soi bean

The Eleventh Sentence Part 2

When Pu Tao arrived at the company, she sat down at her desk and began to nibble on her croissant—which she bought with the red envelope from Cloud Dweller.

She slowly chewed and swallowed with great care. During that time, she became distracted and remembered what Xin Tian had said to her earlier.

She went through the details of her chat with Cloud Dweller and found a lot of important words in there.

Freelancer.

Has a car. Has a cat.

Has a good DSLR.

Sent 200 yuan in the red envelope.

Is he a photographer?

It was easy to be fake on the internet. But a person’s every detailed behavior between their messages could not be created out of thin air and be falsified.

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When she thought of this, she took her cell phone and opened her photo album. Then, she found the picture of what she had drawn.

There was only one man there: Lu Baizhou. That was what she visualized him to be.

But a drawing was just a drawing.

Pu Tao frowned and decided to stop being delusional. It was important to seize the moment.

Anyway… at the end of the day… they would not be seeing each other face to face for a while, so she could still be brazen and even more assertive with him.

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By the time Cheng Su arrived at the shop, there were already a lot of people lined up by the door.

Today, there was a book signing for an unconventional writer. The fans of the book came early in the morning to grab seats and wait.

He locked the car and walked in.

He was going to walk around the crowd, but they swam away like little fishes and automatically made way for him. They felt pressured to do so, since the man’s height was a rare sight in the area.

Cheng Su nodded and thanked them.

As he walked by, the girls whispered and talked about his appearance.

A boy at the front counter was preparing coffee. As soon as he saw Cheng Su come in, he put down the pitcher and said, “Sister Shu told me you would come today, but I didn’t believe it. You really came.”

Cheng Su smiled: “Why can’t I come?”

“You can—why wouldn’t you—”

Cheng Su sat down on a high stool with his long thin legs resting on the crossbar.

The boy made an Americano and pushed it in front of him.

Just when Cheng Su was about to pick it up, his cell phone vibrated.

He opened it and it was a message from Pu Tao.

The girl took a picture of today’s breakfast, which showed bread and a receipt. In addition to that, there was an attachment from a serious bookkeeping app. In the middle of the expenses and balance, was an entry.

She even typed out four sentences:

“Done eating.

The cat is full.

It’s good.

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Meow meow meow.”

She added an explanation: “Please read it as ‘liao’ in the first sentence, so that it rhymes.” 1

Cheng Su chuckled and made a soft sigh that was inaudible.

The boy behind the counter leaned back and was so surprised that he showed a double chin. “Brother, what are you laughing at? It’s so horrifying.”

His eyebrows creased tightly and he guessed, “Are you playing with your friends?”

“Do your job properly.” Cheng Su looked at him sternly and sipped his coffee.

He immediately looked back at the rainbow fart 2 . The four carefully rhymed sentences were similar to a nursery rhyme when read out loud.

Cheng Su’s lips rose again. The insincere and solemn expression he deliberately made became useless.

He looked up again, and the employee’s face still had a look of disgust, confusion and disbelief.

“What are you looking at?” He shot this question.

The boy quickly looked away and lowered his head to continue pouring from the pitcher.

Cheng Su looked at him for a while and called out to him, “Xiao Cong.”

The boy looked up. “Yeah?”

Cheng Su was silent for a few seconds and then asked, “Would you like a girl you’ve never seen before?”

The boy showed a face of shock again. “Ha?” He thought for a moment and shook his head. “Probably not. People are visual animals.”

Cheng Su smiled.

Then what was he?

A feeling animal?

In the evening, when he got home, he played with his cat for a while. Afterwards, Cheng Su opened up Wechat to see his “foster cat” again. She didn’t speak to him all day, so he didn’t feel at ease.

At the same time, Pu Tao was still working overtime in the company. She was soon overwhelmed by the picture in front of her.

She needed to find her stimulants and replenish her energy.

Pu Tao picked up her cell phone, clicked on Wechat and started to type.

She was surprised as soon as she sent the message.

Cloud Dweller: “Are you done with work?”

Pu Tao: “Have you gone home yet?

They sent a message pretty much at the same time, and even the contents of the message were quite similar.

At this moment, the smile was genuine and there was also a silent understanding between them.

Pu Tao rushed to answer: “No.”

As soon as she answered, the other side suddenly asked: “Are you a visual animal?”

Pu Tao suddenly perked up, and her alarm bells were ringing. How many meanings did the question Cloud Dweller suddenly throw out, have? It was countless.

She couldn’t help but think of Xin Tian’s remarks that deliberately smashed her enthusiasm in the morning. At the same time, she didn’t understand what the man’s intentions were. She was slightly scared and could only pretend to be stupid.

She did not dare to think about it too deeply and replied: “Huh?”

Cloud Dweller probably thought she didn’t understand. “It’s not clear?”

Cloud Dweller: “Then let me put it in another way.”

He asked the question in an unusually direct manner. “Have you ever visualized me?”

The author has something to say:

I want to leave a message, too!

I want stimulants, too!

Footnotes

In the raws, Pu Tao made her message rhyme. Below is the pinyin and the rhyming at the end of the sentence. In the first line, the liao is also pronounced as le, so she makes it a point to say it’s liao.

Wèi wán liǎo.

Māo hěn bǎo.

Kuā nǐ hǎo.

Miāo miāo miāo. 彩虹屁 (cǎihóngpì) – slang for over the top praise