Chapter 12 - Hard To Fathom A Person’s Mind (1/2)

Hard To Fathom A Person’s Mind

In order to avoid disturbing a patient’s rest, Xiu Changyu took Xiao Jiashu away very soon after, and the other big shots also took their leave one after the other. Fang Kun sent the people off at the elevator and started complaining after he came back. “Who exactly is this Xiao Jiashu? He sees Lan-jie, Guo-ge and the others and doesn’t even bother to greet them. He even kept his sunglasses on the entire time, having even bigger airs than Chief Xiu. Just then when he was sitting beside your bed, he didn’t even say even a word of consolation, also had such a stinky look on his face, I really wanted to thrash him. Don’t come if you don’t want come, why come and act so insufferable? The manners of youngsters these days are getting worse and worse!”

Ji Mian took out his phone to have a look, and then said with a sigh, “There are some people who aren’t how they look on the surface. Perhaps the reason he wore sunglasses is because his eyes were swollen from crying, perhaps the reason he didn’t greet people and didn’t speak is because he was in a gloomy mood. Don’t use your own conjecture to carelessly make your judgement about a person. It’s unfair and inaccurate.”

Fang Kun was very surprised. “Yo, why are you speaking up for him? Didn’t you hate this brat?”

Ji Mian wiped his face, and said in a helpless tone, “A’Kun, I’ve gotten old, sometimes I make mistakes.”

“What are you calling old? You’re only thirty two, you still have plenty of time to waste. You’re not a young fresh idol who relies on their age and youth to survive, you survive on your genuine strength and ability, you gain more flavour the older you get. Why do you want to retire from acting so early? With your acting skills, you could still act in movies for ten, twenty more years, no problem at all.” Fang Kun lamented.

“I want settle down, and build a family I can call my own.” After saying those words, Ji Mian expression changed, “You haven’t told Leyang about my car accident, have you?”

Tch, who would tell him? What the fart use would he be coming here? The only he’ll to do is ask a bullload of questions and panic like hell, and make me even more annoyed. If he’s not careful and a reporter catches him on camera, it’s not gonna be a laughing matter. Fang Kun felt extreme contempt in his heart, but he didn’t show it on his face. He said indifferently, “I didn’t tell him, he’s still on a field trip in Sichuan.”

Ji Mian thoughtfully looked at him. He said with a nod, “Good, don’t let him know about this, I don’t want him to worry. A’kun, why don’t you like Leyang?”

“When did I not like him? You think too much.” Fang Kun flatly denied. However, in his head he recalled a past incident. When Lin Leyang was still working at the studio, he once carelessly left the financial seal on the table and forgot to lock it back, and the seal ended up being stolen and used. Fang Kun investigated a whole circle of people, but because of Lin Leyang’s relationship with Ji Mian, no one dared to report him. Fang Kun had no choice but to fire the financial chief. It was only afterwards that a female employee, who was quitting, secretly told Fang Kun the truth. Even though there was no proof, and Fang Kun didn’t know whether or was true or not, but from then on Fang Kun developed a bad feeling about Lin Leyang, and kept feeling that Lin Leyang had no sense of responsibility, was a person who doesn’t take responsibility for his actions, and wasn’t a good person for a partner.

He was very afraid that Lin Leyang would implicate Ji Mian one day, and would always unconsciously block the two from being together. Nevertheless, whether or not a relationship will last for long was after all a couple’s personal matter; an outsider shouldn’t stick their mouth in. Thus, he restrained himself from bringing it up, to avoid Ji Mian blaming him in the future, saying that he’s trying to drive a wedge between them.

Ji Mian tilted his head, and stared a Fang Kun with an odd expression on his face for a long while. In the end, he sighed, “A’kun, we’ve been friends for so many years, there are some things that you can directly tell me, don’t shut it up inside. Leyang is still young, the way he handles matters is still immature, he’ll grow up in the future. I’ll teach him well.”

“What are you saying? What things are there that we can’t openly discuss with each other?” Fang Kun joked laughingly but inside he thought otherwise. While it was true that friends needed to be honest with each other, when the matter was related to the other person’s lover, it was a different story. He was allowed to not like Lin Leyang, but he absolutely will not criticise the Lin Leyang in front of his good friend. Thinking up to that point, his hostility towards the Young Master Xiao diminished quite a bit. Lin Leyang was twenty four but he was still going to university, Young Master Xiao was only twenty and had already graduated with a Master’s degree, and it was also at a reputed overseas university. You really couldn’t compare the two.

Ji Mian brows knitted slightly. He pretended to inadvertently say, “Leyang’s family circumstances weren’t good, he had to drop out of school to work before graduating from high school. Afterwards, he returned to study at university relying on his own effort and hard work. He is actually not inferior to other people, he just wasn’t given the right environment. He and I have a lot of similar life experiences, so our souls resonate with each other. I’m most relaxed and happy when I’m with him. A’kun, in a person’s lifetime, it’s extremely difficult to find a companion who can make you relax and be at ease. I hope that you can support us.”

Fang Kun smiled awkwardly, and forced himself to joke, “I’ve been supporting you guys all along. Ji’ge, the crash really must have broken your brain, you’re starting act all sentimental now.” After he finished speaking, he started to reflect and wonder if his feelings had been too obvious which let Ji’ge make out something.

Upon timely ending this topic, Ji Mian was silent for a moment and then suddenly spoke, “A’kun, what’s the name of this song?” He immediately started to hum.

“You haven’t heard this song before? It’s 《Still River Bridge》, all people who have a story in their life love listening to it. Fang Kun sighed, “To be honest with you, the first time I heard this song, it made me think of this girl friend of mine who was my first love. My tears ran down like a stream, I practically cried into a dog, I couldn’t stop.”

“Really?” As Ji Mian turned on his phone to download the song, he teased, “I never imagined that you would also have a melancholy and moody moment, I even thought that it was only Xiao Jiashu would cry like that.”