Chapter 63.2: “Bai Duanduan, I like you.”

Just as she was thinking to herself, Yang Fan’s cry of surprise came from not far away,, “Partner Ji? Partner Ji? What’s wrong with you, Partner Ji?”

Almost instantly, Bai DuanDuan’s body reacted before her rational mind could catch up. Without waiting to hear Chen Xun’s words, she quickly ran towards Ji Lin, who was on a garden lounge chair.

What happened to him?

Bai DuanDuan forgot about her anger and impatience from earlier, and was now only filled with nervousness and unease.

When she arrived, she found Ji Lin lying on the lounge chair with his eyes closed and his lips pursed slightly. Bai DuanDuan’s worried voice almost blurted out without any attempt to hide her concern, “What’s wrong with Ji Lin?”

Yang Fan explained, “Just now, after taking a picture with Li Min and the others, Partner Ji suddenly asked me to help him over to this lounge chair. After he sat down, he closed his eyes like this. Does he look tired?”

Bai DuanDuan instinctively reached out to check Ji Lin’s temperature, but just as her hand was about to touch his face, he opened his eyes slightly and grabbed her hand, looking at her and saying, “Be good, don’t make a fuss.”

The man whispered softly, ‘I’m a bit sleepy and want to sleep for a while.'”

While Ji Lin had his eyes closed, Yang Fan and Wang Fangfang were not. They both immediately trained their searchlight-like gazes on Bai DuanDuan as soon as he spoke in this affectionate tone. Bai DuanDuan blushed and almost immediately explained, “I don’t know who he wants to say this to, but he’s definitely confused and not talking to me…”

“Bai DuanDuan, I’m talking to you. Be good.”

As if to thwart her, Ji Lin opened his eyes again slightly as soon as Bai DuanDuan finished speaking. He glanced at her and then closed his eyes again.

“…”

This was so awkward…

Fortunately, this awkward atmosphere was ultimately saved by Rong Sheng.

At this very moment, Rong Sheng, who had been drinking nearby, also heard the commotion and hurried over. He was very calm and shook his head when he saw Ji Lin’s condition.

“You guys can disperse now.”

Yang Fan was a bit uneasy, “What’s wrong with Partner Ji? Did he overwork himself from all the overtime before? How could he fall asleep like this? Although Ji par is still young, many young people are getting diseases at a young age these days, such as sudden cardiac death. Should we take him to the hospital for a check-up?”

However, Rong Sheng was very certain, “No need.” He glanced at Ji Lin and said, “He just drank too much.”

He chuckled, “When Ji par drinks too much, he won’t go crazy. He looks very calm. If you discuss a case with him now, he can debate with you logically for an hour. He is a very formidable man. However, after two hours, he won’t be able to hold on any longer and will start feeling sleepy. Then he will fall asleep and wake up refreshed.”

Rong Sheng reassured everyone not to worry and then helped Ji Lin up, “Okay, I don’t know how he ended up drinking so much. If he didn’t have anything on his mind, Ji par wouldn’t drink this much. I’ll take him home now. We can’t just leave him here alone…”

With a place to settle Ji Lin, everyone obviously felt relieved. Rongsheng led Ji Lin towards the direction of the garage, and everyone dispersed and returned to chatting and conversing.

Afterwards, everything went smoothly without any danger or surprises. However, Bai Duanduan’s heart was pounding all the way, feeling restless and unable to describe her discomfort.

Fortunately, the party finally ended at ten o’clock in the evening, and Yang Fan gave her a ride back home.

Originally, she went to this party to change her mood and relax, but the result not only didn’t relax her, but made Bai DuanDuan feel even more tense. After washing up, she lay quietly in bed for a long time, but still couldn’t figure out why. So she decided to play ostrich, pretending to be asleep first. If even the instigator of the drunken behavior, Ji Lin, wasn’t worried, then why should she, as a “victim,” worry so much?

With the mindset of “when the enemy comes, meet them; when the water comes, cover the soil”, she adjusted her attitude and decided to ignore it. At the designated time, she decided to go to bed on time.

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Just as Bai Duanduan fell into sleep, in the room next door, Ji Lin gradually woke up from his drunkenness. He looked around and realized that he had already returned home, but he had no memory of how he got there. His last memory before losing consciousness was of kissing Bai Duanduan.

He kissed her.

Although he couldn’t remember why or how they kissed, he knew that he initiated it.

Bai Duanduan didn’t refuse.

This made Ji Lin a little happy, but also a little unhappy.

Of course she shouldn’t reject himself, but what does it mean she doesn’t reject himself? She had already reconciled with Lin Hui! They even took time off work to go hiking and admire the autumn leaves together. But if she didn’t refuse him, did she want to be in two boats?

And the most unacceptable thing for Ji Lin is that even if Bai Duanduan wants to have two boats, the other boat cannot be Lin Hui! What is he? Why is he? He also deserves to be compared with himself?

What Ji Lin couldn’t accept the most was that even if Bai Duanduan wanted to be on two boats, Lin Hui couldn’t be the other person on the other boat. Who was he? What right did he have? How could he compare to Ji Lin?

Although he had slept for a short while due to the effects of alcohol, tonight Ji Lin had drunk too much. Even at this moment when he woke up in the middle of the night, his mind had not regained its calmness. Alcohol still held his rationality captive and magnified all his negative emotions.

For the first time in his life, he thought of Lin Hui, but surprisingly he didn’t feel any hatred towards him. Instead, he was filled with another feeling.

Jealousy.

Ji Lin was going crazy with jealousy.

Alcohol and jealousy made his logical thinking become simple and rough, like an unreasonable primary school student —

He had kissed Bai Duanduan, and now she belonged to him. He wouldn’t allow her to be with Lin Hui anymore. If she wanted to be with him, she couldn’t be with Lin Hui. It would be best if she cut ties with Lin Hui completely and never interacted with him again. Otherwise, she wouldn’t really be with him…..

However, when he thought about this problem, Ji Lin became restless and depressed because although he had kissed Bai Duanduan, she had never expressed or promised to be with him. All of these ideas of being with him and cutting off ties with Lin Hui were entirely his own wishful thinking.

On this late night, drunk Ji Lin became angrier and angrier. Since he had registered on Weibo because of the incident where Bai Duanduan was doxxed, he occasionally went online to look at popular phrases, afraid that he would become disconnected from his younger colleagues like Wang Fangfang and Yang Fan because he didn’t understand the slang. Now Ji Lin has also learned many internet slang terms.

He angrily thought that if he had to describe himself in one sentence, it would be, “Jealousy makes him unrecognizable.”

Jealousy is unattractive in women, and probably even uglier in men, but Ji Lin couldn’t help it.

He was so aggrieved that his mind was fuzzy with alcohol. Before he even realized it, he had angrily picked up his phone and impulsively did something irreparable…

He clicked on Bai DuanDuan’s WeChat profile picture, and then started typing.

He wrote for half an hour, and when he finally finished sending the message, it seemed like he had vented all of his resentment and discontent. Finally feeling tired, he threw his phone aside, feeling a splitting headache. He lay down on the sofa and fell asleep.

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It was destined to be an unrestful night. After following her usual biological clock and going to bed, although Bai DuanDuan eventually fell asleep after tossing and turning, she didn’t sleep well. In the middle of the night, the sound of a stray cat’s mournful meowing outside the building woke her up from her light sleep.

Once she woke up, Bai DuanDuan felt a bit hungry. Because of what happened with Ji Lin at the wedding party, she lost her appetite and didn’t eat much. Now that she was awake and feeling uncomfortable, she decided to make herself a bowl of instant noodles.

However, even after the noodles were ready, Bai DuanDuan still didn’t feel satisfied. She thought about it and felt that she had suffered a great loss.

Ji Lin’s behavior was too despicable – he kissed her for no reason, but he didn’t even like her! This was simply irresponsible and shameless!

And that was her first kiss!

The more Bai DuanDuan thought about it, the angrier she became. Why should she suffer just because Ji Lin got drunk? As a lawyer, what was her mission and responsibility? Wasn’t it to fight against unjust social phenomena and use legal weapons to defend her rights? Why should Ji Lin get all the benefits and good things?

This matter couldn’t just end like this.