Easily Set Aflame

Chapter 10 - The Ex and the Ex

Chapter 10.1 — The Ex and the Ex (1)

The car headed north the entire way. Jia He arbitrarily turned on the radio. Someone had just requested Jay Chou's "Heading Straight North All the Way." Really, so... comical.

When they arrived at the gate of her community compound, the security guard, an older man, stretched out his arm to halt them and then came up to their car. Yi Wenze was about to lower his window to speak, but Jia He had already thrown herself at him and was holding down his arm. "Let me do the talking." This was the era where everyone in the whole country was on Weibo. It was safer if Idol's face was kept hidden.

With those words, she did not wait for Yi Wenze's reaction, and getting out of the car, she gave her greetings to the security guard.

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"Jia He." The uncle-like older man had a rather swaggering grin. "Your household is already occupying two parking spots today. Why are you still bringing in another car?"

Jia He gave a dry, little laugh. "Today's my birthday..."

"If that's the case..." The older man let out an "Oh!" and slapped a hand to his forehead. "Just wait a sec. I happen to have a bag of wife cakes here in the gatehouse. Someone brought it back from Guangzhou."

Falling silent, Jia He could only wait for this enthusiastically friendly uncle to bring out the wife cakes. During that time, she shot a couple looks at the car window, and after confirming that Yi Wenze's face could not be seen, she relaxed somewhat.

When she was back in the car, Yi Wenze glanced at what she was holding. "What did he give you?"

"Wife cakes," Jia He reported honestly. "Do you like them?"

Yi Wenze's eyes slid from her face to the wife cakes in her arms. "I'm okay with them. If you like them, in the future, I'll bring you back to Hong Kong with me to have some."

Jia He answered him with an "okay," feeling only that the word "back" was very profound.

"Where do we go from here?"

Only now did Jia He's mind catch up. Pointing to the left side, she instructed, "Follow that road on the left, take it all the way to the end, then take a right. It's the third building after that." After stating all this, she suddenly clued in to a very important question. "How do you know my home address?"

Even if Qiao Qiao were an even bigger busybody, she still should not be getting down to that level of detail, right? ...

"I asked Qiao Qiao ahead of time." Yi Wenze nonchalantly told her, "I'm not very familiar with Beijing's roads and was worried that if I needed to come at the last minute, I wouldn't be able to find it."

Jia He gave an "oh," her heart seeming as if it was rocking continuously in her chest. She only felt that she was going to be intoxicated by him.

With a turn of the steering wheel, the car drove along the road on the left. There were not many street lamps in the community, so they could only see the things in the immediate surroundings of the vehicle. They had just passed two or three buildings when a car came driving towards them. Since the street was very narrow, Yi Wenze pulled their car over slightly to make room for it. As that other vehicle drove past, Jia He finally made out that inside it was Gu Yu.

He seemed to notice Jia He as well, and very quickly he stopped the car.

Jia He's heart dropped with a thunk. Just as she was about to say something, their vehicle was already coming to a steady stop.