Cheng Liu, who stayed up until after 2 am, wasn’t awakened by her biological alarm clock the next day: she had been woken up by the heat.

The weather in April was very changeable. She had had to wear a thin coat for the past two days. However, the temperature this morning suddenly increased, as if it was already the height of summer.

Cheng Liu sat up and there was a sheen of sweat on her forehead. She lifted the quilt, intending to wash up. She glanced at the time: it was only 5:45 am.

It was exactly six o’clock when she came out of the guest room.

She looked at the master bedroom next door—its door was closed, and she made a point of lightening her footsteps.

It was still early, so Cheng Liu sneaked back to her villa and packed a bag of clothes, took it to the guest room of Villa No. 5, and then went out to buy two sets of breakfast.

When she returned, Ji Chaozhou had just come out of the master bedroom on the first floor.

He had probably just woken up, and his reaction to the outside world was understandably a little slow; he was not fully awake.

Ji Chaozhou was frowning, standing at the corner of the passage, one hand holding himself steady on the wall. There was a fine layer of sweat on his forehead, his lips were a particularly reddish shade this morning, his collar was slightly loosened, and the hot and ambiguous heat had rushed to his face.

Cheng Liu, who was about to say ‘hello’, fell silent for some reason and stood quietly in the living room with the forgotten breakfast in her hand.

Ji Chaozhou vaguely became aware of another person’s gaze. He looked up, and his amber eyes looked at Cheng Liu quietly for a long time. Then he suddenly raised his lips and smiled at her.

The arc was so shallow that Cheng Liu even suspected that she had hallucinated it for a moment.

However, that extremely slight smile contained a thrilling temptation that she couldn’t ignore.

Cheng Liu stood in the living room blankly, staring at Ji Chaozhou, and something flashed in her mind.

This smile also seemed to make the young man wake up completely, and his figure that was originally lazy due to the heat suddenly turned stiff.

Ji Chaozhou had been in a state of natural confusion from having just woken up. When he woke up, he had forgotten that Cheng Liu was currently living in the guest room next door, and all his emotions were laid bare.

“I bought breakfast.” Cheng Liu turned around first and put the two breakfasts in her hands on the dining table. She didn’t ask anything him and just said, “You go and wash up first.”

She… probably didn’t notice.

Ji Chaozhou turned around and went back to his room. When he came out again, he was once again the young man who looked like a lone cedar atop a snowy mountain, with all his emotions restrained, leaving no trace on the surface.

The two of them sat facing each other at the wide dining table, a certain distance between, but both of them felt that they were too close, so close that they seemed to be able to detect the other’s breathing.

Ji Chaozhou suddenly stood up and turned on the air conditioner.

“The stairs won’t be repaired for a long time, it will take up to seven or eight days.” Cheng Liu raised her head and said to him, “I can go back then.”

Ji Chaozhou paused, then sat back at the dining table as if nothing had happened, “It’s up to you.”

“Okay,” Cheng Liu agreed and calmly withdrew her gaze.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Half an hour later, Cheng Liu picked up the black backpack and said to Ji Chaozhou before leaving, “I’m heading to work.”

Ji Chaozhou nodded in response at the dining table.

The sound of footsteps gradually disappeared. He lowered his eyes and looked at the breakfast in front of him that was almost finished. The food that was originally quite appetizing became utterly dispensable. 

Finally, he put down the spoon in his hand.

… …

Cheng Liu drove to the company to go to work. Everything was as usual. She held the meeting as usual and discussed project issues as usual. No one could tell that she herself was not normal.

It wasn’t until Cheng Liu returned to her own office and sat behind her desk that she began spinning a pen in trance.

He smiled at her!

Cheng Liu has always had a good memory, and she could still recall all the scenes in the morning as clear as watching a movie.

The pen spinning in Cheng Liu’s hand suddenly stopped, and she began to poke the table with the pen clicker, listening to the clear ‘click, click, click’ sound, trying to clarify her thoughts.

This morning, Ji Chaozhou smiled when he saw her!

He smiled!

Young President Cheng felt that there must be a reason for this occurence.

Was it possible that he… liked her just a little bit?

Cheng Liu thought for a long time but still couldn’t figure it out.

By chance, He Bai knocked on the door and came in at this time.

Cheng Liu came back to her senses and looked at He Bai seriously. “Chief Assistant, I want to ask you something.” 

He Bai put the document in his hand on her desk, “What is it?”

“What do you think it means when a person suddenly smiles at you?” Cheng Liu clicked the pen in her hand, trying to relieve the tension of waiting for an answer.

“Suddenly smiles at you?” The look in He Bai’s eyes darkened; he thought for a while and said, “It probably means they’re being polite.”

A smile to be polite?

Cheng Liu didn’t believe it.

She put down the pen in her hand, stood up, and headed to the door. “Put the documents there, I’ll deal with them later.”

“President Cheng, are you going out?” He Bai asked, following Cheng Liu.

“Not going out, I’ll go for a walk on the roofdeck.” Cheng Liu stopped He Bai from following him, “I want to be alone.”

He Bai stayed in the office, his eyes darkening: Was the person who smiled at her Ji Chaozhou?

… …

Cheng Liu reached the rooftop of the building and felt the hot winds buffet her. She squatted on the ground and took out her mobile phone to call Wang Hongyang.

“What do you think Ji Chaozhou meant when he suddenly smiled at me?”

Wang Hongyang was sprawled in an air-conditioned room, lying there half in a daze. When he heard Cheng Liu’s voice, he subconsciously said with resentment, “I think you’re being ridiculous.”

Cheng Liu asked, “Who is ridiculous?”

Wang Hongyang instantly remembered his gold plaque. “No, I didn’t hear it clearly just now. I think this smile must be friendly, symbolizing the progress of your relationship.”

“Only being friendly? Don’t you think there should be other meanings?” Cheng Liu thought seriously for a long time and felt vaguely something in her heart, “Does he maybe like me a little bit?”

Wang Hongyang on the other end of the phone couldn’t help complaining in his heart: the guy just smiled at her and now she’s saying he probably likes her. Cheng Liu really had such confidence! Nevertheless, Wang Hongyang agreed on the surface, “It’s possible.”

Cheng Liu had barely gotten the answer she wanted and immediately hung up the phone.

Wang Hongyang: “…”

… …

On the rooftop, Cheng Liu went on to make the next call.

“Young President Cheng?” Li Dong felt a little uneasy when he received the call, “I really didn’t spread your emoticon everywhere.”

Cheng Liu: “… I have something to ask Director Li.”

Li Dong breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said, “You ask.”

“If someone suddenly smiles at another person, is it possible that he likes that person?” Cheng Liu asked in a half-hinting way.

Li Dong pondered for a while and asked, “Suddenly? Was that person very cold before?”

“No, not really…” Cheng Liu changed her words, “Yes, you can say so.”

Li Dong slapped his thigh and said excitedly, “I have something to say about this. Yunan, my wife, she ignored me at first, but then one day she suddenly smiled at me, and we got together not long after.” 

“I understand,” Cheng Liu hung up the phone.

As a result, Li Dong, who was just about to recall and talk about his love experience, now had  no one to talk to and had to hold it back.

… …

Young President Cheng asked three people in succession, and finally got the answer she wanted to hear, so she stood up energetically and concluded:

He smiled at her. Rounding it up, it’s just like his heart was moved!

If It’s Wrong, Then It’s Wrong translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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