Chapter 419: An Increasingly Bewildering Behavior (1)

Didnt we already agree on this long ago? Is he reminding me lest I forget about it?

Thinking nothing much about it, s.h.i.+ Yao tapped on her screen and replied: [I wont. Its still fresh in my head]

Perhaps it was because Lin Jiage was still holding onto his phone, barely a second after she put down her phone, her screen lit up.

Lin Jiage: [Un]

He is responding to me as an acknowledgment that he has received my message, so I shouldnt have to respond to him, right?

With such thoughts in mind, s.h.i.+ Yao put down her phone and started on her skincare routine, starting with applying some moisturizer on her face.

By the time she was picking up her cotton swab to apply some toner, her phone screen lit up once more.

It was yet another message from Lin Jiage: [Thats good]

Thats good Something feels really weird about these two words.

s.h.i.+ Yao stared at her phone intently as she pondered for a long while, but she was unable to pinpoint just what that feeling of incongruency she felt inside was. Thinking about how Lin Jiage had sent two consecutive messages to her, she decided to reply to him, saying: [See you tomorrow.]

Then, she put down her phone and proceeded to apply her toner.

Her phone screen lit up once more.

s.h.i.+ Yao knew that it was likely from Lin Jiage, and she thought that he was responding with a See you tomorrow, so she didnt bother to check it right away. She took her time to finish her skincare routine before she sprawled over her bed and began checking her messages.

It was then that she realized that her previous thought was very wrong.

Lin Jiage: [I just checked the route. Since were meeting at 11 oclock tomorrow, youll have to head out at around 9:20]

Its not as if Im dumb. This is pretty much common sense. Why are you telling me this?

Even though s.h.i.+ Yao was really getting bewildered by his responses, she felt that he might have just been reminding her out of goodwill, so she replied as amicably as she could: [Thanks! Ill take note of the timing]

s.h.i.+ Yao thought that the conversation would have ended here like that, but barely a minute later, she received yet another response: [Will you be able to wake up tomorrow? Do you need me to give you a call?]

??????

Its 9 in the morning, not 5 at dawn! Why would I be unable to wake up?

Is there something wrong with Lin Jiages sense of time?

s.h.i.+ Yao blinked her eyes a few times before looking at the message intently once more, thinking that her eyes might have been playing tricks on her. But at this moment, yet another new message arrived on her phone.

[Forget it, Ill just pick you up tomorrow morning. I can wake you up if youre still asleep then]

Huh? Its just a trip outdoors, is there a need for him to go to such an extent?

This isnt Lin Jiages style at all!

The more s.h.i.+ Yao stared at her phone, the more unnatural she found Lin Jiages responses to be. She bit on her finger as she thought hard about all the messages he had sent her, and voila!

It suddenly struck her.

Her eyes lit up as she quickly typed on the phone and sent a message over: [I get it now! You arent Lin Jiage but Sis Jiayi, right?]

Only Sis Jiayi would treat her like a child and worry about everything regarding her!

Without waiting for the other side to respond, the very certain s.h.i.+ Yao began to construct yet another message.

As time ticked closer to the decisive moment, Lin Jiage was starting to feel more and more jittery on the inside. Afraid that he wouldnt wake up on time tomorrow, he set up ten consecutive alarms at a minute interval away from one another.

And his worry soon spilled over onto s.h.i.+ Yao too. It was to the point where he began convincing himself that it was a good idea for him to simply fetch s.h.i.+ Yao himself, so after sending her the message that he would fetch her tomorrow, he began typing out another message, saying Its settled then. Ill be waiting for you at your place at 9AM tomorrow.