After Setting Me Up With My Ex, The Aloof Alpha Regrets It - Chapter 28

Chapter 28: Although It Was Unintentional, They Seemed to be a Little Ambiguous.

During the lunch break, there weren’t many people on the road.

Zhu Yunqi and Shi Li walked slowly, about an arm’s length apart.

Zhu Yunqi was afraid that Shi Li would take what Lan Yang said seriously. Shi Li was already busy, and now she had to go to the training program on weekends. If she were to also get distracted by being a matchmaker, she might not have the energy to handle it all.

“Just take what Lan Yang said with a grain of salt. There’s not much she takes seriously. You should prioritize your own work and rest time first.”

“It’s good to keep an eye out for her, and it can be a pastime outside of work.” Shi Li’s palms were slightly sweaty. She secretly wiped them on her clothes. “Besides, she’s your colleague and friend.”

Zhu Yunqi suddenly realized something. “Did you agree to help her because of me?”

“Mostly.” There was also the reason that Lan Yang had saved her at the bar. But more than that, it was because of Zhu Yunqi.

Shi Li took a deep breath, gathered her courage, and finally spoke her mind. “You’ve helped me so much. I really want to find a way to repay you, but I don’t know where I can help you besides the Wen Yue situation. So now that I have a chance to help someone close to you, I’m very happy.”

They were walking along the side of the road when a car suddenly sped by, driving in the wrong direction.

Shi Li subconsciously moved to the side to avoid it. But her arm was suddenly pulled, and she lost her balance, stumbling into a broader embrace.

It was summer, and their skin touched. Zhu Yunqi’s embrace was a little too warm, with a high temperature that made her feel inexplicably hot.

Shi Li subconsciously looked up to get out of the embrace, and her head hit something hard. It was Zhu Yunqi’s nose.

Tears immediately welled up in Zhu Yunqi’s eyes. The tears floated on her gray pupils, making her eyes look like a mist.

When she realized what position she was in, resting against Zhu Yunqi’s chest, Shi Li quickly regained her balance and stood straight again. She looked at Zhu Yunqi’s nose apologetically. “Does your nose hurt?”

As she said this, she subconsciously reached out to rub Zhu Yunqi’s nose. Before, when she and Wen Yue kissed, their noses would sometimes bump, and she would gently rub Wen Yue’s nose with her palm.

Her hand was in mid-air when it met Zhu Yunqi’s mesmerizing gray eyes. She suddenly realized that the person in front of her wasn’t Wen Yue.

It was Zhu Yunqi.

While she was in Zhu Yunqi’s arms, she seemed to have accidentally touched a soft lump of flesh, which seemed to be Zhu Yunqi’s chest…

Although it was unintentional, they seemed to be a little ambiguous.

Realizing this, she abruptly changed the direction of her hand in mid-air. Shi Li pretended to grab something in the air and then patted it. “There was a bug.”

Zhu Yunqi rubbed her nose herself.

“It doesn’t hurt. It’s just a little sore. You could have dodged it yourself. I didn’t react in time and accidentally pulled you.”

She smelled Shi Li’s faint lime perfume again.

And Shi Li was afraid that such intimate contact would happen again. If someone misunderstood, there could be bad consequences. She cautiously took a step back.

Zhu Yunqi’s heart sank for a moment as she watched her step back.

Shi Li was indeed very resistant to physical contact with her. Even if they were friends, the occasional unintentional touch wouldn’t be a big deal, would it? But Shi Li didn’t even seem to see her as a friend, just a regular client or a disgusting Alpha on her “dislike list”?

But just now, she clearly said that she agreed to Lan Yang’s request because of her. So did she hold a little bit of a different place in Shi Li’s heart?

Was it dislike, or not so much dislike…

What was she thinking about? Why did she care about her position in Shi Li’s heart? What did it matter if Shi Li saw her as a disliked person or a different kind of friend? Did it even matter?

It seemed that she, like Lan Yang, had too much free time after finishing the temporary space pirate mission. She was so idle that her mind had turned into a race track.

Zhu Yunqi pondered. Her brows unconsciously furrowed.

Shi Li saw everything.

A furrowed brow meant unhappiness. She had touched Zhu Yunqi, and Zhu Yunqi was unhappy.

Her hands clenched into fists.

Zhu Yunqi was a very good person, and she was exceptionally tolerant of her. She said that she didn’t care how Shi Li handled her progress with Wen Yue, but in reality, she must have cared. She probably didn’t want Shi Li to get distracted by others and wanted her to focus on Wen Yue and maintain a proper distance from everyone else.

Their actions just now had crossed the line, and she had even touched Zhu Yunqi’s chest. Zhu Yunqi was unhappy that she hadn’t kept her distance, and the momentary frown was a direct reaction to physiological disgust. She didn’t say anything because of her upbringing, which made her suppress her disgust.

And it was the same in the restaurant just now. When Zhu Yunqi saw her lending her jacket to Lan Yang, she would rather spend tens of thousands of Star Coins than let Lan Yang wear her jacket. She was probably unhappy that she wasn’t keeping her distance from Lan Yang.

She was so foolish that it only dawned on her now.

Zhu Yunqi had been too nice to her, which had made her relax and forget what a client’s professional duties truly were.

Shi Li, you shouldn’t have done that.

Shi Li told herself in her heart.

Perhaps because she had only ever had her mother, Shi Yu, and Shi Yu’s mental state was unstable, Shi Li hadn’t felt much love during her childhood. She knew she had always been a person who craved love. Because of this, as long as someone was a little nice to her, she would take it to heart, mistakenly assume their relationship was close, and then feel impatient to do something in return, even if it was beyond what she could handle.

Shi Li lowered her head, hiding the disappointment in her eyes.

She quietly closed the picture-sharing function on her light brain.

After leaving the restaurant, she had been thinking about what to talk to Zhu Yunqi about on the walk. Their lives were too far apart, and their social circles were completely different. The only topic they could talk about, Wen Yue, had already been exhausted.

She thought of the little plant that was growing so hard on her bedside table every day. Before she left home this morning, she had taken a new set of photos and was pleasantly surprised to find that one of the plants was growing differently from the others. It was curved, like a slender bean sprout, trying to find its own space among the other straight plants.

She had the pictures ready to share with Zhu Yunqi.

But now, Shi Li only felt that the cracks on the bald little dog were so ugly.

She also deleted the growth record of the little plant that she had prepared to upload to the StarNet community.

Composing herself, she looked up and smiled apologetically at Zhu Yunqi. “I’m sorry, I bumped into you.”

She wanted to find something to ease the current atmosphere. There was an ice cream shop nearby.

“Would you like some ice cream? I’ll buy you some. What flavor do you like?”

Zhu Yunqi shook her head, saying it was okay. There was nothing to apologize for in such a small matter.

But after Shi Li mentioned it, she suddenly wanted some ice cream, too.

“I’ll have the same flavor as you.”

Shi Li quickly went to buy two ice creams. They were a purplish-pink sweet cherry flavor.

It was a good time to eat the cool ice cream in the summer, which dispersed some of the heat.

Shi Li ate slowly, and the melted ice cream ran onto her hands, making them sticky. Zhu Yunqi took out a tissue and wanted to wipe her hands, but remembering Shi Li’s rejection from a moment ago, she just silently handed her the tissue.

In the exhibition hall on the first floor for robot products, there were only a few customers. Shi Li led Zhu Yunqi to the household robot section and gave her a brief introduction to the various products. The household robots were designed by her Group Two. Shi Li was very familiar with every model. Some were designed when she was a group member, and others were revised and approved by her after she became a team leader.

Zhu Yunqi didn’t know what she wanted to buy, and she was instantly overwhelmed by choices. She habitually asked Shi Li, wanting to buy the same model. “What kind of robot do you have at home?”

“I don’t have a robot at home. I just have a mechanical arm that came with my kitchen cabinet for cooking.”

Robots were not cheap. The most ordinary one here started at 80,000 Star Coins. The new multifunctional models sold for as much as 200,000, and the limited edition and special collaboration models were even more expensive. Besides, the apartment Shi Li rented wasn’t very big, so it was easy to clean. Buying a robot would only take up space.

Zhu Yunqi pointed at one randomly.

“I’ll take this one.”

It was a lifelike humanoid robot. It had long hair and was a fictional female figure, smiling and pretending to be sweeping the floor. It had a small tear mole at the corner of its eye, just like Shi Li.

Shi Li glanced at the price tag. 170,000 Star Coins.

“Zhu Yunqi, I’ll buy it for you,” she said. She was rich now. The interest she earned from her one billion dollars every day was more than she could spend.

“No need. I don’t need you to buy things for me.”

Zhu Yunqi knew that Shi Li was a secret rich person now. But that money was the compensation she had paid Shi Li. If Shi Li used that money to buy things for her, it felt like she was getting a kickback.

Zhu Yunqi looked at the product number and walked straight to the payment area. The robot cashier scanned her ID and prepared to deduct the money from Zhu Jingxian’s family card. Shi Li followed and scanned her employee code.

“Internal employees get a 20% discount,” Shi Li said, believing in the principle of saving money whenever possible. Even with money, you shouldn’t waste it. This time, Zhu Yunqi agreed.

Before long, a brand new robot was brought out. Zhu Yunqi filled in her address, and a special delivery service would deliver it to her home later.

At the elevator. Shi Li pointed upstairs. “Well, I’m going up now.”

Zhu Yunqi waved to her. “Goodbye.”

“Goodbye.”

The elevator doors slowly closed in front of Shi Li.

Zhu Yunqi’s figure was squeezed into a blurry line, which was then replaced by the cold, silver-gray light of the elevator doors.

Just like the thick wall that would always exist between her and Zhu Yunqi.

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