Setelah itu, dia tertidur karena kelelahan.
Dia pikir He Jichen hanya menggodanya semalam dan topik itu akan berlalu setelah mereka berhubungan intim. Dia tidak pernah membayangkan pria itu benar-benar mengingatnya...
“Apa kamu lupa lagi?” tanya He Jichen. Melihat Ji Yi tidak menjawab cukup lama, dia mengambil buah anggur dan menyuapkannya ke mulut Ji Yi.
Ji Yi mengunyah anggur itu beberapa kali. “Kalau begitu, kita harus mengulang posisi-posisi itu lagi nanti malam. Hanya setelah kamu menjawab pertanyaan itu dengan tuntas, aku akan membantumu bermain Kings,” ujar He Jichen dengan nada santai.
Ji Yi sangat terkejut hingga dia menelan anggur yang bahkan belum selesai dikunyah, lalu mencengkeram dadanya sambil terbatuk kecil. Dia menoleh dan memelototi He Jichen. “He Jichen, kenapa kamu memikirkan hal ini setiap hari?”
Berbanding terbalik dengan kemarahan dan rasa malu Ji Yi, nada suara He Jichen tetap tenang seperti biasanya. “Karena aku ingin menebus waktu kita yang hilang.”
Waktu yang hilang... Dua kata itu terasa seperti jarum tipis yang menusuk hati Ji Yi dan membuat dadanya terasa nyeri.
Namun, sebelum rasa sakit itu mereda, suara He Jichen kembali menusuk telinganya. “Sudah hampir tujuh tahun sejak kali pertama kita. Ada lima puluh dua minggu dalam setahun, jadi itu berarti tiga ratus enam puluh empat minggu dalam tujuh tahun. Pasangan suami istri normal berhubungan intim dua sampai tiga kali seminggu. Jika kita hitung dua kali seminggu selama tiga ratus enam puluh empat minggu, itu lebih dari tujuh ratus kali...”
Jadi, inilah waktu yang hilang yang dia maksud?
Ji Yi benar-benar tercengang; hatinya justru terasa sakit saat pria itu mengucapkan dua kata “waktu yang hilang”.
Ji Yi tidak menunggu He Jichen selesai bicara, dia langsung bangkit dan berjalan keluar kamar.
He Jichen meletakkan garpunya, lalu perlahan bangkit dan menyusul Ji Yi. “...Tapi coba pikirkan. Stamina-ku luar biasa bagus. Kalau cuma sekali seminggu itu terlalu sedikit, dan dua kali seminggu berarti meremehkan kemampuanku, jadi mari kita buat tiga kali seminggu. Tiga ratus enam puluh empat minggu setara dengan seribu sembilan puluh dua kali. Aku beri diskon, jadi seribu kali saja...”
Setelah berganti pakaian, Ji Yi asal mengambil beberapa baju dari ruang ganti dan melemparkannya ke wajah He Jichen. “Terima kasih atas diskonnya. Cepat ganti baju, lalu temani aku ke supermarket untuk mengecek diskon-diskon itu.”
He Jichen menarik atasan melewati kepalanya sambil berkata, “Sama-sama. ...Coba pikirkan. Seribu kali! Kalau aku tidak bekerja keras sekarang, aku tidak akan pernah bisa menebus waktu yang hilang itu. Kurasa seumur hidup pun kita tidak akan pernah bisa menebusnya...”
Ji Yi tidak menunggu He Jichen selesai bicara, dia menyambar tasnya dan berjalan keluar kamar, lalu keluar melalui pintu depan.
...
Hari itu hari Kamis, jadi kebanyakan orang sedang bekerja. Tidak banyak orang di supermarket, yang membuat mereka lebih mudah berbelanja.
Saat melewati bagian makanan beku, Ji Yi pergi mengambil yogurt sementara He Jichen pergi melihat buah-buahan.
Ketika He Jichen memilih buah dan hendak mencari Ji Yi, dia tidak sengaja mendengar dua gadis berbisik saat berdiri di sebelahnya sambil memilih buah.
“Lihat berita utama ini. Aku tidak bisa berkata-kata!”
“Berita apa?”
“Seorang wanita benar-benar tidur dengan seseorang demi menjadi King. Semua orang mengejek mereka; sekali genjot langsung jadi raja...”
He Jichen memperlambat langkahnya sejenak, lalu perlahan mempercepatnya kembali.
Dia mengambil yogurt yang disodorkan Ji Yi dan memasukkannya ke dalam keranjang. Saat mereka berjalan menuju bagian sayuran, dengan malas dia berkata, “Xiao Yi, kamu tidak perlu menjawab pertanyaanku. Janjikan hal lain padaku dan aku akan membantumu dengan Kings.”
“Apa syaratnya?” Ji Yi berhenti di bagian makanan beku dan mengambil sekotak udang putih Ji mob.
He Jichen ingin mengatakan “sekali genjot langsung jadi raja”, tapi dia merasa itu tidak terlalu berkelas. Dia ragu selama dua detik lalu berkata, “Seribu mil menuju Jiangling.”
“Apa?” tanya Ji Yi. “Apa maksudmu seribu mil menuju Jiangling? Seribu mil menuju Jiangling...”
Ji Yi secara naluriah ingin mengatakan “apa maksudmu dengan ‘seribu mil menuju Jiangling’?” Namun, saat dia mengatakannya, dia tiba-tiba teringat peribahasa Tiongkok “seribu mil menuju Jiangling terbayar dalam sehari”. Kata-kata itu pun tertahan di mulutnya.
“Tapi apa arti seribu mil itu? Pikirkan waktu kita yang hilang. Seribu kali akan membawa kita setidaknya sepuluh ribu mil menuju Jiangling...”
Seribu mil menuju Jiangling terbayar dalam sehari berarti butuh sepuluh ribu mil dan sepuluh hari untuk terbayar... Ji Yi mengangkat kakinya dan menendang keras keranjang yang didorong He Jichen. Dia mengatupkan giginya dan berseru, “Mimpi saja sana!” Kemudian dia meninggalkan He Jichen, mempercepat langkahnya, dan menuju bagian sayuran.
Ji Yi memilih sayuran selama beberapa saat lalu berbalik untuk melihat apakah He Jichen sudah menyusulnya.
Dia melihat ke sekeliling tapi tidak bisa menemukan bayangan He Jichen dan mengerutkan keningnya. Dia meletakkan sayuran di tangannya dan hendak mengeluarkan ponsel untuk menelepon He Jichen. Tiba-tiba, dia mendengar suara ragu-ragu seorang wanita. “Ji Yi?”
Chapter 860: He Jichen, Let’s Have a Baby (10)
Translator: Paperplane Editor: Caron_
Thereafter, she fell asleep in exhaustion.
She thought he was just flirting with her last night and that the topic would be dropped after they had sex. She never imagined he actually remembered it...
“Have you forgotten again?” asked He Jichen. Seeing that Ji Yi didn’t reply for so long, he picked up a grape and fed it to Ji Yi.
Ji Yi chewed on the grape a few times. “Then we’ll have to revisit those positions again tonight. Only when you’ve fully answered the question will I help you play Kings,” said He Jichen in a casual tone.
Ji Yi was so surprised that she gulped down the grape she hadn’t even finished chewing then clutched her chest as she coughed a little. She turned and glared at He Jichen. “He Jichen, why do you think about this every day?”
In contrast to Ji Yi’s anger and embarrassment, He Jichen’s tone of voice was as calm as always. “Because I want to make up for our lost time.”
Lost time... Those two words felt like a thin needle stabbing Ji Yi’s heart and painfully pricking her chest.
But before that pain could subside, He Jichen’s voice bore into her ears. “It’s been almost seven years since our first time. There are fifty-two weeks in a year, so that’s three hundred and sixty-four weeks in seven years. A normal married couple has sex two to three times a week. If we calculate using two times a week over three hundred and sixty-four weeks, that’s over seven hundred times...”
So, this is the lost time he was referring to?
She was really mindblown; her heart actually ached when he said the two words “lost time.”
Ji Yi didn’t wait for He Jichen to finish as she bolted up and walked out of the bedroom.
He Jichen put his fork down then slowly got up and caught up to Ji Yi. “...But think about it. I have unusually good stamina. It’s too little to push you once a week and twice a week would be looking down on my abilities, so let’s go for three times a week. Three hundred and sixty-four weeks equates to one thousand and ninety-two times. I’ll give you a discount, which means one thousand times...”
After getting changed, Ji Yi randomly picked out some clothes from the changing room and chucked them at He Jichen’s face. “Thank you for your discount. Hurry up and get changed then come with me to the supermarket to check out those discounts.”
He Jichen pulled a top over his head while he said, “You’re welcome. ...Think about it. A thousand times! If I don’t work hard now, I’ll never make up for the lost time. I reckon that in this lifetime, we’ll never make up for it...”
Ji Yi didn’t wait for He Jichen to finish speaking as she grabbed her purse and walked out of the bedroom then out the front door.
...
It was Thursday so most people were at work. There weren’t many people at the supermarket, which made it easier to shop around.
When she passed the frozen foods section, Ji Yi went to pick up some yogurt while He Jichen went to look at the fruit.
When He Jichen picked out some fruit and was about to go find Ji Yi, he incidentally overheard two girls murmuring as they stood next to him picking fruit.
“Look at this headline. I’m speechless!”
“What headline?”
“A woman actually slept with someone to become the King. Everyone’s teasing them; one bang to become the king...”
He Jichen slowed down his footsteps for a moment then slowly sped up.
He took the yogurt Ji Yi handed him and put it into the cart. As they walked over to the vegetable section, he sluggishly said, “Xiao Yi, you don’t have to answer my question. Promise me something else and I’ll help you with Kings.”
“What’s the catch?” Ji Yi stopped at the frozen foods section and picked up a box of white Ji mob shrimps.
He Jichen wanted to say “one bang to become the King,” but he figured that wasn’t so classy. He hesitated for two seconds then said, “A thousand miles to Jiangling.”
“What?” Ji Yi asked. “What do you mean by a thousand miles to Jiangling? A thousand miles to Jiangling...”
Ji Yi instinctively wanted to say “what the hell do you mean by ‘a thousand miles to Jiangling’?” But as she said this, she suddenly thought back to the Chinese idiom “a thousand miles to Jiangling repaid in a day.” Then the words in her mouth suddenly stopped there.
“But what are a thousand miles anyway? Think about our lost time. A thousand times will take us at least ten thousand miles to Jiangling...”
A thousand miles to Jiangling repaid in a day would mean it’d take ten thousand miles and ten days to be repaid... Ji Yi raised her foot and fiercely kicked the cart He Jichen was pushing around. She gritted her teeth and cried “In your dreams!” Then she left He Jichen, sped up, and headed for the vegetable section.
Ji Yi picked out some vegetables for a while then turned around to see if He Jichen had caught up to her.
She looked all around but couldn’t find He Jichen’s silhouette and furrowed her brows. She put down the vegetables in her hands and was about to pull out her phone to call He Jichen. Then she suddenly heard the hesitant voice of a woman. “Ji Yi?”Chapter 860: He Jichen, Let’s Have a Baby (10)
Translator: Paperplane Editor: Caron_
Thereafter, she fell asleep in exhaustion.
She thought he was just flirting with her last night and that the topic would be dropped after they had sex. She never imagined he actually remembered it...
“Have you forgotten again?” asked He Jichen. Seeing that Ji Yi didn’t reply for so long, he picked up a grape and fed it to Ji Yi.
Ji Yi chewed on the grape a few times. “Then we’ll have to revisit those positions again tonight. Only when you’ve fully answered the question will I help you play Kings,” said He Jichen in a casual tone.
Ji Yi was so surprised that she gulped down the grape she hadn’t even finished chewing then clutched her chest as she coughed a little. She turned and glared at He Jichen. “He Jichen, why do you think about this every day?”
In contrast to Ji Yi’s anger and embarrassment, He Jichen’s tone of voice was as calm as always. “Because I want to make up for our lost time.”
Lost time... Those two words felt like a thin needle stabbing Ji Yi’s heart and painfully pricking her chest.
But before that pain could subside, He Jichen’s voice bore into her ears. “It’s been almost seven years since our first time. There are fifty-two weeks in a year, so that’s three hundred and sixty-four weeks in seven years. A normal married couple has sex two to three times a week. If we calculate using two times a week over three hundred and sixty-four weeks, that’s over seven hundred times...”
So, this is the lost time he was referring to?
She was really mindblown; her heart actually ached when he said the two words “lost time.”
Ji Yi didn’t wait for He Jichen to finish as she bolted up and walked out of the bedroom.
He Jichen put his fork down then slowly got up and caught up to Ji Yi. “...But think about it. I have unusually good stamina. It’s too little to push you once a week and twice a week would be looking down on my abilities, so let’s go for three times a week. Three hundred and sixty-four weeks equates to one thousand and ninety-two times. I’ll give you a discount, which means one thousand times...”
After getting changed, Ji Yi randomly picked out some clothes from the changing room and chucked them at He Jichen’s face. “Thank you for your discount. Hurry up and get changed then come with me to the supermarket to check out those discounts.”
He Jichen pulled a top over his head while he said, “You’re welcome. ...Think about it. A thousand times! If I don’t work hard now, I’ll never make up for the lost time. I reckon that in this lifetime, we’ll never make up for it...”
Ji Yi didn’t wait for He Jichen to finish speaking as she grabbed her purse and walked out of the bedroom then out the front door.
...
It was Thursday so most people were at work. There weren’t many people at the supermarket, which made it easier to shop around.
When she passed the frozen foods section, Ji Yi went to pick up some yogurt while He Jichen went to look at the fruit.
When He Jichen picked out some fruit and was about to go find Ji Yi, he incidentally overheard two girls murmuring as they stood next to him picking fruit.
“Look at this headline. I’m speechless!”
“What headline?”
“A woman actually slept with someone to become the King. Everyone’s teasing them; one bang to become the king...”
He Jichen slowed down his footsteps for a moment then slowly sped up.
He took the yogurt Ji Yi handed him and put it into the cart. As they walked over to the vegetable section, he sluggishly said, “Xiao Yi, you don’t have to answer my question. Promise me something else and I’ll help you with Kings.”
“What’s the catch?” Ji Yi stopped at the frozen foods section and picked up a box of white Ji mob shrimps.
He Jichen wanted to say “one bang to become the King,” but he figured that wasn’t so classy. He hesitated for two seconds then said, “A thousand miles to Jiangling.”
“What?” Ji Yi asked. “What do you mean by a thousand miles to Jiangling? A thousand miles to Jiangling...”
Ji Yi instinctively wanted to say “what the hell do you mean by ‘a thousand miles to Jiangling’?” But as she said this, she suddenly thought back to the Chinese idiom “a thousand miles to Jiangling repaid in a day.” Then the words in her mouth suddenly stopped there.
“But what are a thousand miles anyway? Think about our lost time. A thousand times will take us at least ten thousand miles to Jiangling...”
A thousand miles to Jiangling repaid in a day would mean it’d take ten thousand miles and ten days to be repaid... Ji Yi raised her foot and fiercely kicked the cart He Jichen was pushing around. She gritted her teeth and cried “In your dreams!” Then she left He Jichen, sped up, and headed for the vegetable section.
Ji Yi picked out some vegetables for a while then turned around to see if He Jichen had caught up to her.
She looked all around but couldn’t find He Jichen’s silhouette and furrowed her brows. She put down the vegetables in her hands and was about to pull out her phone to call He Jichen. Then she suddenly heard the hesitant voice of a woman. “Ji Yi?”
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